Dont know answers about the review score myself. But I would agree exactly with those things they pointed out.
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Disco Elysium (Dialogue Focused CRPG) Releasing on October 15th + New Trailer
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this looks like my kind of game because I love dialogue in rpgs when you can influence the story and the world with it and rarely enjoy the combat. But I do think a good balance of combat and dialogue makes for enjoyable motivating pacing so I am not entirely sure about this.
Ya thats one thing about this. it doesn't have combat separate at all. Its checks in the narrative. I had to make that clear in my video cause I can see people thinking it has like turn based battle which it doesnt.
There is "combat" but it's done through the same interface as the dialogue: skill checks and actions based on items, stats, etc
I usually end up turning voice acting off completely in 90% of games, so the lack of full voice is meaningless to me.
That quote surprised me, I didn't follow in detail the game to avoid spoilers / because it seemed totally be my thing, but I thought it was going to be a 'serious' RPG.
I normally do this (and music) as well so I can play while I have something like a movie or TV streaming while I play, but with so much reading to be done I won't be able to with this one, I'm thinking. Plus the voice work I've heard has been pretty good.
That said, I don't want full voice work - give me enough to get the gist of how the character sounds so I can skip through the dialog as fast as I can read it, rather than how fast it's being read to me. It's one of my favorite things about Pillars of Eternity 1. I can "hear" the rest of the dialog in that voice if you just give me a little bit to start.
Ten years ago this would have been the greatest thing ever but ever since then I have lost all of my tolerance for satire.
I'm going to make a boring character who tries his best to kill every joke in the room and see how far you can go like that.
I'm going to make a boring character who tries his best to kill every joke in the room and see how far you can go like that.
Same, I was under the impression this was sort of an isometric KOTOR but with a hard boiled neo-noir detective story?
Oh it can be VERY serious. Insanely dark. Some of its how you play it, some of its how you react to the situations.
That's good to hear. Given all the weird possibilities and the glimpses of the writing, I was thinking the whole game would be comedic
No. Basically its a freakishly dire world and how you interact with it also levels out how much humour you get from it. You can play it straight. Strange shit will STILL happen for sure. But it will be less. With the skills basically being alive and talking to you its hard to play it down the line. Cause after awhile it just becomes so interesting to dive in.
Exactly.
Dinging this sort of text-heavy game for not being "fully voiced" is a bit like complaining that your gold-leafed chocolate dessert didn't come with a 20g gold bar.
If you want art critic stuff, obviously pick Conceptualisation.
I've had Disco Elysium on the back burner of my brain for years. I've always wondered how a game can be an RPG with "battles" but not battles lol. I watched a 10 minute review and I am sold!
is it only on Steam at release? I'm gonna prepurchase today if possible so it can be ready to go as soon as it goes live (assuming tomorrow sometime not like a midnight release).
This looks like a possible GOTY to me! And the name Disco Elysium is just too fuckin cool.
is it only on Steam at release? I'm gonna prepurchase today if possible so it can be ready to go as soon as it goes live (assuming tomorrow sometime not like a midnight release).
This looks like a possible GOTY to me! And the name Disco Elysium is just too fuckin cool.
It's also available on GOG. I'll probably be picking it up there.
I can't wait; I already bought some Steam cards at the supermarket to add to my Wallet for this game. I've read that RPS article and watched the trailer on Steam, but have otherwise been on a media blackout for this game. I'm tempted to look at that character build guide posted earlier, but I want to go in blind.
Oh perfect! Love me some DRM Freeness. I'll be getting it there thanks
I agree with you, I don't like it when games mix large text boxes with fully-voiced dialogue. Pillars of Eternity 2 voiced every single line, and while it was well-acted eventually it became an annoyance, as I always read the dialogue much faster than it was spoken.
But is it? Because the resources used to pay for voice actors could have gone to more in-game content, which I would prefer.
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