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Disco Elysium Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 15:18:04 Id: c21e78 No. 1148336
Thread for the most Disco game around Talk about the game, it's successors, the way za/um is treating the IP, or the cancelled sequal/dlc game
>>1222288 Imagine a reality that exists with many intersecting parts, some running faster and higher energy states than others, allowing for desynchronized events to occur rather than considering the universe to be one solid cohesive object. Best visual analogy I can describe would be a web to some degree.
>>1148336 The game undeniably has a far-left slant, even though it will pay some lip service of criticism to communism. It's critiques of far-right authoritarianism are far more scathing. Strangely enough though, there are no actual fascists or fascist governments in the game, only monarchists which they seem to have totally conflated. However, I think the most damning indication of it being far-left is that, even more than the right, the game seems to hate center-left and moderates the most and the critique is simply that those groups are, through inaction, complicit in all the evils of the world. Communists, although brutal and murderous in their crusade, were at least trying to make the world a better place and are therefore mostly exonerated for their bloodshed. That being said, I still liked the game. It actually helped me a lot to see how communists view the world. But more than that, I just really liked the ever present weariness of the world in all of the characters. How life in general kicks people down and brings them to their breaking point, and there's a real humanity at the game's core that isn't just political shitflinging. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I hate all the "streamer disco elysium reaction" vids.
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>Devs went out and praised karl marx. >Anons ITT still claim it isn't a commie game. Lmao.
<<1353237 Anon nobody was even talking about the game anymore yours is the first post in almost three weeks
>>1148336 >play the game without knowing anything about it, because i want to roleplay as a detective >game let me play my own personality, which is a pathetic loser >neat >be nice to everyone and apologetic to everyone >including the nigger outside the restaurant >she turn out to be a commie who fucks me over out of spite >she works for a fat jew who LARP as a commie while milking the workers for his (and his brother) own gains Why is this game so real life lore accurate?
>>1148336 Isn't this game cuck shit? Is there a reason to play this over other fallout inspired rpgs?
>>1353480 >cuck shit The MC is divorced and you you have the option to keep simping after you ex. However thats the bad route, which could bacuse everal game over scenes. The game aggressively trying to teach you to let it go or step up for yourself.
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>>1353237 You deserve what you can tolerate >>1353483 And it's cuckshit too lol
>>1353495 I never said it isnt. Also sorry for my grammar, shit just got real in the office.
>it makes fun of every ideology lol in reality is a commie game that is lamenting the failure of communism and wishes it did better, on the other hand it really makes fun of ideologies like fascism by saying how is only for "misogynistic incels."
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>>1353472 Don't forget how she ends up having to be saved by the very police she fucked over out spite, caused largely because she thought intentionally messing with a murder investigation was a good idea. The mob boss socialist guy reminds me of a character from the Dorothy Thompson essay Who Goes Nazi?' >Mr. L has just come in. Mr. L is a lion these days. My hostess was all of a dither when she told me on the telephone, “ . . . and L is coming. You know it’s dreadfully hard to get him.” >L is a very powerful labor leader. “My dear, he is a man of the people, but really fascinating.“ L is a man of the people and just exactly as fascinating as my horsy, bank vice-president, on-the-make acquaintance over there, and for the same reasons and in the same way. >L makes speeches about the “third of the nation,” and L has made a darned good thing for himself out of championing the oppressed. He has the best car of anyone in this room; salary means nothing to him because he lives on an expense account. >He agrees with the very largest and most powerful industrialists in the country that it is the business of the strong to boss the weak, and he has made collective bargaining into a legal compulsion to appoint him or his henchmen as “labor’s” agents, with the power to tax pay envelopes and do what they please with the money. L is the strongest natural-born Nazi in this room. >Mr. B regards him with contempt tempered by hatred. Mr. B will use him. L is already parroting B’s speeches. He has the brains of Neanderthal man, but he has an infallible instinct for power. >In private conversation he denounces the Jews as “parasites.” No one has ever asked him what are the creative functions of a highly paid agent, who takes a percentage off the labor of millions of men, and distributes it where and as it may add to his own political power. Does that not dead on sound like Evrart? >>1353480 The main character's partner left him and later hooked up with some foreign guy in another continent, this psychologically damaged the MC so much he fell into a substance-fuelled depressive spiral, eventually going on a massive bender to erase his own memory. He isn't necessarily a cuck, she never cheated on him. She left six years ago and he never got over it. The game never explains fully why she left, but hints it was because he became a violent alcoholic rather than leaving him for Chad. The MC also might be repressed gay, the game doesn't explore it much but he finds another man immensely attractive and starts wondering about it >>1353519 DE loves doing this "Oh but communism killed so many people! (And thanks a good thing, teehee~ ;^) )" shit, that makes some less aware individuals mistakenly believe it's also critiquing le hungry hammer. It doesn't seriously criticize communism. On that note, it doesn't seriously criticize fascism either. As you said it boils fascism down into a cartoonish incel ideology honestly not inaccurate, it refuses to engage with it or its ideals. Libertarianism (confusingly called ultraliberalism) is treated even more like a cartoon, being by far the funniest and most based ideology in the whole game. You act like a living ancap picardia meme, the shit your character comes out with is wild. >Do you “grind” and “hustle?” Sure you do. You're a money engineer. A money scientist. You move money on a level inconceivable to the ordinary citizen. The game arguably undercuts its point by how hysterical a hypercapitalist playthrough is. Where DE really goes shithouse is "moralism", i.e. neoliberalism. The game feels like it hates centrists and moderate leftists more than it hates full blown blud bröther ethnonationalists, which is how you really know it was made by communists.
>>1353519 Tbf the devs wear their ideology on their sleeve in that they'll have a scathing review of liberalism but outright just flippantly conflates or amalgomates anything to the right of liberalism into the amophas blob of evil right wing thinking. Everything from fascism to traditionalism is labeled as facist and then a load of superficial identifiers are tagged on, so you know it's the wrong wrong option, like racism and misogyny.
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>>1353617 >knowing the lore well enough to explain it
>>1353640 >asks a question >gets answer <WOAH YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? FAGGOT based retard
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>>1353640 This response is killing me, it implies you bitch about games while intentionally not knowing anything about them and expect others do the same. Like you asked that solely to engage in ragebait shitposting, and are offended at getting a real reply. The man who saved /v/.
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Played this game for the first time in 2020, and thought it was just decent Then played it again in 2023 after a pretty gnarly breakup and it hit a lot closer to home - few games have put into words what being an absolute fuckup is like as well as Disco Elysium did. It also gave me a better appreciation for the music and art design in the game. Pretty much over the breakup now but I do look somewhat fondly back at my times of abject misery while replaying the game. I think playing the game at a low mental point may have been a good source of catharsis at the time. Volition best skill. >>1353480 It's more a VN than a Fallout-like CRPG. It's 99% dialogue and dice roll skill checks.
>>1353472 >Why is this game so real life lore accurate? Measurehead citing haplogroup differences and mocking white empathy as the reason for its genocide hit pretty close to home, yeah.
>>1156596 >source material written by a communist >all sympathetically written characters are communists >white genocide is openly acknowledged and mocked >only fascists (boogeyman to cover up national socialism or other forms of ideological traditionalism) are written as closeted homosexuals <not an endorsement of communism Hmm.
>>1353691 Volition especially hurts when you realize you also have that little voice in your head, but intentionally ignore it. >Stop posting, anon. You have spent 37 hours on the internet this week, do you know how many hours you spent cleaning, cooking, doing laundry? Zero. Does it even bring you happiness, this end-stage internet addiction? No. You're not sure it ever has. You do it because it is the easiest form of existing.
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>>1353763 >when you realize you also have that little voice in your head, but intentionally ignore it. Speaking of that, this line in particular really fucked me up the first time I saw it
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>>1353483 >which could bacuse everal game over scenes
>>1353237 I find it funny that the devs tried shitting on fascism when Karl Marx himself advocated for dictatorship of the proletariat. This either proves that they don't even know their own ideology or worse they are just bad actors (hypocrites) who don't care that they share common ground with them but criticize them for what they themselves do/believe. They in reality have no moral ground to stand on other than platitudes when arguing against fascism/nazism and the only real reason they do it is because the jews said so
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>>1353844 I think he meant "which could cause several game over scenes" You can game over in several ways, the two most common being a mental breakdown, or losing all your health. A lot of the stuff involving your ex can lead to you having a mental breakdown. The are a few unique, situation dependant game overs. Most famously the one where you shoot a child through the heart.
>>1357129 So called player choice huh?
>>1357245 The mental breakdowns are a secondary health bar, you need a high volition or healing items to prevent it. Losing volition on its own isn't game ending, and you'd have to be playing like shit to let it happen enough to game over.
>>1357389 I was referring to the spoiler
>>1357407 Yeah some people say that's a cop out, but I also can't see any way for the game to logically continue at that point. It would be interesting if the game at least continued for a scene beyond that before getting the game over.
>>1148336 When I played this game, I sent the body to the morgue, met two random punks and got one of their jacket that says "PISSFAGGOT" on the back, and was trying to contact some government blimp (?) with help of a programmer woman and crackhead kids, then I just lost interest in the game and quit playing it. How far was I in the story? First 30% or so, maybe?
>>1353617 >confusingly called ultraliberalism Ultraliberalism is a French term to describe abusive laissez faire politics. Libertarianism is an American movement with distinctly American roots. Checks out with Revachol being a stand in for post-war France. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralib%C3%A9ralisme >treated even more like a cartoon It is a cartoonish ideology in real life as well, lol.
>>1357545 Sounds like you were doing one of the side quests based on your character's political ideology Hard to say without knowing who you did or did not talk to, but you were probably closer to 60/70% through
>>1357458 I think it's more that Kim arrests you for doing that That or Harry wouldn't be able to make it out of Martinese without the Hardy boys trying to kill him Even if it did continue, there is no way characters would wanna talk to you or Kim to wanna stay as your companion
>>1358638 That's exactly what I meant, he'd arrest you on the spot, but mainly I'm curious what his response would actually be. Kim knows Harry is unstable but he still thinks of him a a good detective.
>>1358708 He'd probably call Harry a maniac and he's feel stupid for ever giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's be fit to take this case He may of seen harry as a good detective but he'd see him a horrible person
>>1353723 Don't know how Estonians can be pro commie seeing as the soviets were killing them up until the 11th hour, but retardation is universal, I guess.


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