there's quite a lot to read up on out there, to be fair.
EDIT: wait hold on, you know little about this game but if it had a character creator you'd have bought it?
Disco Elysium review thread
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EDIT: wait hold on, you know little about this game but if it had a character creator you'd have bought it?
Far be it from me to tell you how to spend your money, but I will say if you liked Age of Decadence then this might be right up your alley.
This community and every other major site that covers PC gaming
Also this probably falls in the same category of Age of Decadence in terms of dedicated roleplay, but without the traditional combat
I did. If you search for games around their release window everyone says its the best thing since Fallout 2. If you search again 15 days later most are saying the game was not all that/was trash e.g that latest H.P Lovecraft RPG.
Just discovered this gem but its too fucking bad that i don't have an option to play with WASD and have to click to do freaking everything and on top of it, there's no voice acting. Despite how outstanding it looks and probably is, i can't get immersed in a world where there's no voice acting and where iam not allowed to play without mouse clicks.
There is a ton of voice acting. It's just not fully voice acted
Barely with these sort of RPGs.. i believe last time i played a game like this was... way back in the early 2000s, a game called Sanity: Aiken's Artifact. I don't really remember if it had any RPG elements but it was the most similar game to this i have played aside from uhh starcraft 2: wings of liberty single player campaign which is a strategy based point and click game but yeah.
This looked intriguing and interesting enough to try but a no WASD control system is a killer for me.
It is the best French site.
The Google-translated conclusion of the review is:
You might want to update the OP with it rather than the introduction of the review.
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I guess chalk one up for the people who hate WASD and like mouse clicks then, lol. Not everyone gets to win for every game. At least if it comes to console you'll be able to use a joystick to navigate around.
Or at least among the bests with Gamekult, and i just saw that GK gave the game a 9/10.
As always, mainstream sites can't be bothered with PC exclusive games such as this. If it becomes a mega hit though, then they might be inclined to review it.
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If the game is successful (it will), they'll probably add controller support for PC down the road. They already have plans for console versions anyway.
This game would've taken forever to make if it was fully voiced.
Safe to say if you don't like reading in games then stay away from this game.
Kinda silly to pass on the game because it doesn't have WASD. Watch some previews, you spend a majority of your time in dialogue trees. It's not like Diablo where you click around to move like a madman
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Doesn't the game have more than a million words? Imagine voice acting all of it.
From what I've heard, there's already plenty of voiced lines. Probably 25% of total words.
From what I've heard, there's already plenty of voiced lines. Probably 25% of total words.
9/10 + Reviewer's choice (Gamekult's official policy is to never hand out 10s so it's their maximum score) is a joke when the game isn't even available in French. Same goes with Canard PC.
I think I saw both Gamespot and IGN reviewers tweeting about it as well. It is a long game and some folks dont work weekends at all.
IGN UK was singing their praises of this in their recent podcast, Kotaku also had early hour impressions, and writers from other large sites have tweeted impressions. You can expect reviews from big sites
Also unless I am mistaken, just looking at IGN's First 10. They have Outer Worlds. Might be busy with that lol
thomas pynchon wrote inherent vice which probably inspired this game.
Why does the title Disco Elysium sound like those novels? I don't understand
There are quite a few games that don't get translated to French, Spanish, Italian or other European languages. It's somewhat understandable specially for lower budget games, and specially for one with as much text as this I'd imagine the costs would not be negligible. Sucks for the people who don't speak English but that's the way things are.
Yeah, well, Disco got IGN's First 26
To add to this, I believe I read somewhere that they would love to translate it into more languages. Imagine it's just a matter of time and resources.
How bloody annoying. On long ass games I need controller support as my pc is up in the loft and sometimes I just don't have energy or chance to relocate there so I usually stream it via steamlink
Buy a steam controller, what I'm using to play on a tv and works perfectly for a game like this
Can't you just use the controller mapping that lets PS4/XBone controllers work like a Steam controller?
I'm reading a lot of previews suggesting it's the new King of the Castle in Torment's unique storytelling lane.
Kinda hard to imagine but I want to believe.
If gaming was never able to surpass something made twenty years ago, that would be pretty depressing.
i think it just envokes that style, like a book he would write.
I've already seen critics from IGN and Gamespot raving about the game on twitter, they're presumably still working their way through it. Unless you'd rather them rush out a review to hit a non-existent embargo deadline.
oh nice, won't take long at all. going all out tonight with some trash food and nothing but this game.
RPS have their review out (no score, since it's RPS, and no Bestest Best badge either):
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/15/disco-elysium-review/
Positive, but a bit more restrained than some of the other reviews.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/15/disco-elysium-review/
Positive, but a bit more restrained than some of the other reviews.