How do you top a great game? How do you undo the process of catharsis that occurs at the end of the game so you are challenged once more into becoming a fragmented Art Cop sorry cop Communnard.
They would have been told to expand the appeal, dumb down the rhetoric, and trick the masses into buying-in. They would have ultimately sold out no matter what.
Kinda glad to have played the best game and it stays the best.
My hunch is that people were fired precisely because of this. The direction a person wanting to make Disco Elysium 2 as artistically good as possible would take it is very different from the direction a person wanting to make money would.
The only good artistically good direction is to dump Harry and Kim, and to dump the psyche system. Just have the story take place in the universe, maybe not even as a detective story. But those are all things people love about the first one, so a suit would obviously want them in the next game.
I think the Psyche system would have been the only thing worth keeping. You have so much potential with a stat system focused on ideas and aspects of a person's psychology and body. But the problem is that people would not be able to let go of HBD and Kim (with good reason, they are awesome characters) but the pressure was there to taint the entire creative endeavor from the very beginning by appealing to your average nerd.
Idk, man. That's like saying you can't release another FF game after VI, because it won't contain Kefka.
i think keeping a version of the psyche system could have been good, but obviously it would have to be significantly different from hdb's mind
Completely agree with this. I’d keep the psyche system though and just have them be different personalities. Depending on the main character’s life experiences, you could have one that’s a child, obsessed with tinkering, etc.
Second game could have kim and harry as NPCs that you meet/interact with. The psyche system was one of my fave parts.
What I've heard was a sequel was gonna be a pregnant woman and the psyches were gonna be replaced by versions of her fetus.