The church questline was the greatest most HARD CORE thing I have ever seen in a video g*me.

Also communism, lots of communism. Unfortunately also fascism, moralism, humanism and liberalism :ooooooooooooooh:

It's definitely a 10/10 masterpiece, though I wouldn't include it in my personal GOAT like New Vegas or Dragon Age Origins because it got too realistically depressing at times.

NO NATION BUT TRANCE NATION - NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Disco Elysium is the only game I've ever played where the writing is actually comparable to a good book. The only one. It's my favorite game of all time, no question. The ending still tugs at my heart strings, somehow so depressing and desolate and realist while also being hopeful and admiring the beauty that is life itself. Un jour je serai de retour près de toi

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Uh actually have you played [embarrassing anime game]?

      Disco Elysium really puts every other "well written" game to shame. The ones whose writing is widely celebrated are revealed to only be about as good as a high tier Marvel movie, and the genre of games that focuses really hard on the writing is dominated by low-budget softcore porn.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There are strikingly few games with good writing and I've noticed nearly all of them are beloved by leftists

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah the only thing that comes close to the quality of writing that I've played is Planescape: Torment, and even that's not quite at the literary quality of Disco Elysium.

    • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It was going to be a book but the writer's mentor said it wouldn't sell well, so they made it into a game together.

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        That makes sense, although I for sure would read this as a book! I know the creator of this universe also has a book in Estonian that I am salivating for an English translation of!

      • ItsPequod [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh man, I've heard that Disco Elysium is either a prequel or sequel to another book that has yet to be translated to english, which sounds dope

        • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I was just going over the wikipedia article. Yeah, they had first wrote a book in the universe that only sold like 1000 copies.

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Really interested in a translation. Could be a fan fic translation for all I care.

    • farter [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      its been a long time since i played it, but i loved Grim Fandango for similar reasons