UrbicaMortis posted:

Oh, I didn't know that. Still, the story of loving up and crashing into the old lady's wheelchair is funny. I think they showed it in the trailer briefly.

Freaking Crumbum posted:

i read through the links in the OP for the skill and ability explanations on the developer website, and i gotta say i wish they were more direct and to-the-point. there's all this flowery, pseudo-intellectual prose woven into the description of everything, and it made trying to parse what they intend for each skill to do very difficult for me. I wish they had something like a mechanics section for each skill separate from the rambling pontifications on the nature of humanity so that you could at least get an unambiguous explanation for what we should expect the skill to do in-game.

i'm also not a fan of "your attributes and skills actually make you worse if they get too high. it's role-play not roll-play you philistine". it sounded like having a very high skill / attribute will force you to start doing certain things, but is it a situation where you're forced to make these poor choices, or is it like having a very high rank in something will give you the option of making poor choices, but not forcing you into it?

Hogama posted:

That did seem to be what the automatic checks were for. Like after a hesitant reply from someone, both Authority and Empathy chimed in successfully, and the followup response choices were to rake them over the coals a bit more, reassure them, or just do a follow-up question based on a keyword. So presumably, if you fail both those auto-checks, the only response option you have is the single question?

pedro0930 posted:

After failing the check to stare Kassje in the eye, I got really curious about what you'd see so I start to pump points into volition. After failing 3 white checks and now being forced to be the straightest cop, the result didn't disappoint.

Turtlicious posted:

What is your favorite line

Ruby are... you... A Lady Liker...?

Mister Bates posted:

I love how it manages to cram all that party banter into a party that as far as I can tell never has more than two actual flesh-and-blood people in it.

It feels a lot like they may have intended you to have an actual party at some point in development but it got cut. A lot of stuff feels like it got cut, come to think of it; this game is great but it feels like you're playing the first act of a three-act or five-act story.

Night10194 posted:

Jesus, The Tribunal was some tense poo poo

I love how this game can make just clicking through some dialogue, decisions, and a few die rolls exciting as hell.

Broken Cog posted:

Watch the sequel let you play as Joyce

The Little Kielbasa posted:

Unpopular take: this game is kind of a slog. It was crime to release it without modding tools or console commands. Just moving around the map is a drag: slow movement even with constant annoying double-clicks, no interactable map you can use to move like in the old IE games, etc.

The writing is a little purple, but the world is engaging enough that I'll dutifully slog on to see what happens. But it's incredible that I'm playing a game with more quality-of-life issues than PS:T, which came out 20 years ago.

Palpek posted:

The tag already got uploaded:

I'll just ring it up for anybody who quotes this post in the next day or so.

It being applied to an account depends on admin reaction time though (or you can buy an av with it added in img tags in the text field if you don't want to wait).

Songbearer posted:

The only true "bad guy" skill is probably Half Light, and even then it's something we all carry with us. Giving it more ranks just means you're more susceptible to it

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Failure Communist, rabid fascist, spineless moralist, and corrupt capitalist liberal are the only allowed choices.

Volte posted:

I won't bother quoting everyone individually but a lot of responses to my combat post seem to be missing the fact that "traditional RPG combat" and "combat" in general aren't necessarily the same thing. A fresh new take on RPG combat that steps away from the tropes of fantasy RPGs is what I would look for, not the same old poo poo shoehorned in, just like I don't want the very concept of RPG combat to be erased from our collective memories like a bad dream. I think DE's skills system would lend itself to a unique and fresh combat system that doesn't involve mass murdering the whole town for no reason or gating progression behind your combat stats. Some people say that DE does have combat, in the form of skill checks during dialogue, which is almost true, but it doesn't have the key ingredient: letting players come up with crafty ways to solve situations, which is one of my favourite things about RPGs and one thing that I think is hopeless without some form of combat. Really, combat is just a stand-in word for "unscripted freeform player-driven action/consequence loop". Dress it up however you want, but it's something that I would miss if it suddenly became outmoded.

Disco Elysium didn't really need this since the characters were so fleshed out and the narrative basically set in stone. The tribunal wouldn't have been quite as powerful if I could have just AoE stunned the mercs with my dancing for 6 turns and "teleported" everyone away to safety but I still think it would be fun to explore how a free-form system could complement a tree-based dialogue system without being overbearing.

Night10194 posted:

Espirit d'Corps pays off in how much fluff you get from it.

Megazver posted:

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Alec Meer does some good writing about the game: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/29/disco-elysium-offers-a-dark-mirror-to-my-mid-life-crisis/

The Date of Birth Generator thought, as it was recalled in the comments, is masterful. "You are 44. You still have some hope" after considering how much poo poo you have recalled and dealt with at this point in the game felt like the most thing in the world

Its Coke posted:

good song from the game's composer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8

NewMars posted:

Inland empire may be supernatural. Shivers, on the other hand, is 100% a psychic power. This is actually explicit: on the website, the devs describe it as the only explicitly supernatural power.

Espirit De Corps may also be supernatural.

Greaseman posted:

The next racist post will be the really good one.

Hwurmp posted:

Harry X Getting His poo poo Together OTP