Disco Elysium - Insane Drunken Cop Simulator RPG GotY 2019

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Nick Obre said:
Life, actually, but yes.

Clearly not enough magnesium in his diet.
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That seems unlikely.
 
Its funny to see a smattering of disco elysium themed avatars again since null streamed it, reminds me of when the game first came out
 
Nick Obre said:
Also did Josh really ragequit DE permanently? I've been out all day so I don't know if he streamed today but yesterday's stream end was quite... declarative.
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I skipped to the last minutes of it. Bro actually ragequit over a game that's basically just reading a book and rolling dice lol.
 
regalterry said:
As for the kvetching about the DE developers, why are they complaining? They got to experience the true communist experience of them eating each other.
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it will forever be so deeply ironic to me that the devs of the best project ever put together by commies… lost their project by being commies. getting kicked off your own company because you didn’t put in any checks and balances whatsoever to protect Your Art, Your Assets? tragically hilarious. i do still wish the main author could’ve continued with the world building though. the prose in disco elysium is something i can’t find in modern books, much less games. god i love pretentious prose
 
queens of the stone age said:
it will forever be so deeply ironic to me that the devs of the best project ever put together by commies… lost their project by being commies. getting kicked off your own company because you didn’t put in any checks and balances whatsoever to protect Your Art, Your Assets? tragically hilarious. i do still wish the main author could’ve continued with the world building though. the prose in disco elysium is something i can’t find in modern books, much less games. god i love pretentious prose
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The issue with this and a big part of the reason why DE had such great worldbuilding is that the creators were all old friends going back to their teenage years, if not before. There is a creative energy that can only really ever grow organically between friends who do it purely out of passion; this just doesn't happen in a studio or apartment by professionals who are only there because they are being paid to be there. Kurvitz and co. made a tabletop game in the DE world long before the video game and never released it, it was literally just for them to have fun.

Fact is, creative geniuses get dicked over from their work all the time, regardless of their political affiliation. (think people like Nikola Tesla or Gordon Gould) Creative types tend to not be the most versed in legal terms/contracts but regardless, this was pure ratfuckery on the Haavel and Kompus's side. The fact is, they fired the goose that lays the golden eggs and now that they're creatively bankrupt and shamelessly squeezing what they still can from DE with bullshit like their gay "luxury" clothing store.

DE's creatives are now split between like 5 studios, most of them have dodging financial backing. (Kaur Kender's Dark Math is making a fucking coomer game lol) Only two that show any promise are Kurvitz and Rostov's Red Info, and Tuulik's Summer Eternal. The latter is interesting because its supposedly a worker/player owned co-operative which in principle would prevent corporate ratfuckery, but Tuulik likes to be an attention whore and e-beg and their very edgy website and "manifesto"makes me wonder if its going to end up being a "no refunds" grift. Red Info has been very quiet but Rostov and Kurvitz were probably the most important to DE creatively so we'll see.

tl;dr
They got fucked, which means we got fucked too. Muh gommunism had nothing to do with it. We're never going to get a sequel to DE and nothing from the successor studios is probably even going to come close to it. I ain't laughing.
 
We will never see a DE 2, but DE likes are popping up. I played esoteric ebb, some great scenes but the throughline of asking people who they are voting for in a election wasn't funny enough to drive me forward.

No DE 2 though. Hammock Hobo has a whole bunch of videos, interesting dives into DE'S portraits and a recently released two hour iceberg.
 
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