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  • nala [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I wish the game would just leave you the fuck alone sometimes.

    Like I'm just enjoying walking around some of the cooler locations taking in the mood, but my fucking cell phone keeps ringing with shit I don't care about.

    • Amorphous [any]
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      4 years ago

      It's especially bad when you're literally right in the middle of a serious story-related conversation and then your phone rings, and since you can't refuse to answer your phone, you get dragged into a completely unrelated conversation while the conversation you were trying to listen to continues on. I've had as many as 4 people (including V) all talking at once before about completely unrelated things.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    is there a disco elysium mod to play as a woman

  • ADamnedFool [any]
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    4 years ago

    Its very good. It will be great when they fix on it

    I'm not going to spoil anything about it but I kind of what to talk about the themes of it though. So its cyberpunk, vicious corporations and capitalism in particular is the enemy obviously, intrinsically but I think there's a little more to it than that.

    I threw in some extra thoughts about it that go into hard spoilers. There are minor spoilers before that but nothing you won't have been confronted it with by the start of the middle and main part of the game. Its clearly stated where the hard spoilers start. They are about an ending. So you were warned.

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    ___The game is about death though as much as it is about capitalism. Specifically your death and your relationship to it. You meet Keanu Reeves and he does the legwork of being angry about the corporations for you and what they steal from everyone. You don't have to discover it, he says it in a way that makes it banal. The question here is what are you going to do about it. You are a finite being , the game is very concerned with making you feel that. You are probably going to die at the end of the game, there is no eternal summer your character is going off to. Prolonging your life is damnation and permanent isolation from the human species. What the game suggests matters about you is your connections to other people and what you will do for them and your time with them is absolutely limited. So what will you do for people who will outlive you.

    Or do you believe the world ends with you so you should do everything possible to prolong that? For the corporation that is absolutely the answer and it makes them beings of infinite evil, unbounded by death, whose only joys are the observations of fear and subservience. If you think the world exists pasts you and you are in a peculiar way belonging to other people what do you think is right thing to do in the face of your demise. It doesn't really answer that, how the fuck could it, but that's what its trying to confront you with.

    edit decided to expand on this a little. We are into hard spoilers here though

    The evil ending is you side with the main antagonist corporation to stabilise it and they will help you with your terminal brain problem. You might live a 'normal' and healthy life! The current instability has happened because the CEO killed his father in order to become the CEO, you were a witness to this and your testimony (and gunplay) helps bring the corporation to the control of his sister. She will run it better because he's been making some goofs. Apart from dear sister no one really gives a shit about the patricide, its a handy reason to get rid of him though. A cynic might take the view the corporation isn't going away and they have the best chance to help me and what do I give a shit who runs it. Wrong.

    Its revealed in backstory throughout the game that the fail son at one point turned his back on the corporation and started his own gang. Then he returns to the fold and its kind of shocking to people that he did this but no one really knows why. When you finally defeat the fail son he reveals why he did everything. He says his dad only cared that people fear him because that is is why they will obey him. Dad is a tyrant who terrorises millions of people for his own amusement, that's the fun part of business. Fail son did not care for that perspective so he left. Then was moved by Keanu when he literally nuked the corporation even though it had no long term effect. When he killed Dad and took the corporation it wasn't for personal benefit it was in order to destroy it. He literally says Keanu showed a nuke didn't work so I decided to become a better kind of bomb to free people from fear. Fail son isn't a good guy but he recognises genuine evil and has done everything in his power to weaken and then dismantle it.

    Anyway dear sister has formed her plan with her undead dad using the same technology that gives you Keanu in your head. Evil Dad takes over his son's body and is reborn and becomes the libertarian god king. You get six months to live or you go to digital soul prison forever. So that's the cynic and the coward's way of responding to the imminence of their death.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It is about what I expected it to be. A fine open world game with a pretty environment and horrendous UI. The writing is ok, but I didn't expect anything groundbreaking (it is fairly similar to Witcher in quality imo).

    Would advice most to wait until they get most of the bugs fixed though. And hopefully the UI will get an overhaul.

  • weirddodgestratus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I didn't buy into the hype surrounding it but I played the shit out of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and was expecting it to be a more modern version of that, which it pretty much is. I've got 50 hours into it so far and I'm enjoying it. I think once it gets properly sorted out it has the potential to be great, especially if they put out decent modding tools. I think my biggest gripe with it right now is that contrived cutscene at the beginning establishing your relationship with Jackie/Misty/Viktor. They're all good enough characters but the game just sort of briefly shows a montage of you meeting them and getting to know them instead of actually developing those relationships in-game. Wtf is that about? The Judy/Panam/River/etc. relationships feel like they develop pretty naturally but then the guy who's supposed to be your best friend just gets a cutscene.

  • irocktoo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Panam's storyline is so wonderful, and the characters are all pretty memorable. It's a shame the stuff sounding it is such a mess.

      • irocktoo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That ending was pitch perfect Noir melancholy. Riding off into the sunset, unsure of the future, but at least you have someone you care about by your side. I found it very affecting, and a really solid ending.

    • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I'll just wait for Brian David Gilbert to do an unraveled where he reads all of them and has some hot take about who's the sexiest war criminal from that universe.

  • Amorphous [any]
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    4 years ago

    It's a complete mess in a lot of ways, but overall I enjoyed it.

      • TheJoker [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I haven’t quite finished it yet myself, but I could see myself spending a decent chunk of time in the openworld, just vibing and and doing small gigs every now and again. It is a really neat world to inhabit!

  • PartyforSocialismand [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I pirated it and enjoy it off and on. I work a ton and have a bunch of other things I'm busy with rn so I haven't played through super far but it's pretty fun.