Current Events > Played a little bit of Disco Elysium.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I kind of get the feeling I need a notebook to keep track of things and I've barely started. It has a quest log, but it doesn't really mention the details. Is that an accurate feeling?

For instance, I played a tiny bit a week ago and a little more tonight. I was meant to talk to a Sylvie, but I don't actually remember how she's connected to the case beyond working at the hotel.

Yeah, it helps delving into it a bit as opposed to playing an hour or so each week. It's been compared to reading a novel and I don't think that is far off, in that to get most out of it you need to have some sense of the different characters and where they fit in the investigation. Worthwhile experience though.

Also, as for Sylvie if you are curious from what I remember you have to talk to her because (no spoilers) she worked at the Whirling-in-Rags as a bartender before she quit her job around the time you first start playing and she may know something about the murder.

Yeah, I may restart just to get a better refresher on things.

kirbyy posted...

Also, as for Sylvie if you are curious from what I remember you have to talk to her because (no spoilers) she worked at the Whirling-in-Rags as a bartender before she quit her job around the time you first start playing and she may know something about the murder.

That was the impression I had, but they kept talking about who made the call reporting it, so I thought she had something to do with that.

Is there actual gameplay, or is it just an obfuscated VN?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Is there actual gameplay, or is it just an obfuscated VN?

You walk around the world, you build your character and do skill checks and stuff like that, but the overwhelming amount of gameplay is focused on your personal interactions with the people of the town as you discover how the world works and who your character is. In that sense, the game is mostly played out through dialogue options.

no number-porn huh?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Is there actual gameplay, or is it just an obfuscated VN?

The gameplay is choosing what funny dialogue you want your cop to say and what kind of psychotic coping mechanisms he uses.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/7/4/AAcZIZAADfBC.jpg

Disco Elysium is my top 1 video games of all time

If I want to murder things and make the numbers get bigger, should I care about this game?

Questionmarktarius posted...

no number-porn huh?

there are many skill checks that your build makes more/less likely to pass.

the good thing is that you can play throughout the game despite having failed them, for the most part, from what I've seen.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Is there actual gameplay, or is it just an obfuscated VN?

it's a RPG without combat

teep_ posted...

it's a RPG without combat

Can I, uh, "grind" the dialogue options?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Can I, uh, "grind" the dialogue options?

kinda.

I forget what you can them, but there are certain mindstates you can pick up during your playthrough, which can improve your understanding of something while maybe detracting on something else.

you click on it, then it might take a few in-game hours until you internalize it.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If I want to murder things and make the numbers get bigger, should I care about this game?

There are stats that help you out with dialogue options. There is a tree for physical activities like shooting, but I don't know that there'll be actual gunplay involved.

It's basically played like D&D, at least in the hour and a half I've played. You go through dialogue and you'll get a skill check. Some of them are automatic, some of them are dialogue options. One of the skills, for example, is Encyclopedia which is just how knowledgeable you are about the world. So at the beginning of the game, you hear an engine outside. There's an automatic skill check of 8. The game rolls 2D6 and adds your Encyclopedia skill. If it meets that check, your character knows the specific model of car that the engine belongs to.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If I want to murder things and make the numbers get bigger, should I care about this game?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/8/1/AAcZIZAADfBJ.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/8/2/AAcZIZAADfBK.jpg

I'm coming from a Disgaea mindset, where failure can be overcome by grinding, and the story doesn't really matter.

My favorite RPG of the ever is Brave Dungeon, where the entire plot is "busty bluehair wants an undefined macguffin" and the dialogue is maybe eight paragraphs.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'm coming from a Disgaea mindset, where failure can be overcome by grinding, and the story doesn't really matter.

My favorite RPG of the ever is Brave Dungeon, where the entire plot is "busty bluehair wants an undefined macguffin" and the dialogue is maybe eight paragraphs.

This game's a point and click adventure it's not actually an RPG from a gameplay perspective.

Doe posted...

This game's a point and click adventure it's not actually an RPG from a gameplay perspective.

Shadowgate with stats?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Shadowgate with stats?

Pillars of Eternity without combat.

Its way better world building and writing than pillars of eternity though like it makes up for not having combat gameplay with everything else being 11/10

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/1/AAcZIZAADfBT.jpg

Anyone who says Disco doesn't have combat doesn't understand "combat" outside of physical violence.

You have several combat encounters in this game.

CyricZ posted...

Anyone who says Disco doesn't have combat doesn't understand "combat" outside of physical violence.

You have several combat encounters in this game.

When people talk about combat in the context of videogames they're asking about battle systems. The dude above was trying to compare this game to Disgaea of all things. Disco Elysium is filled with conflict and confrontations, but there's no battle system or any mechanical difference between a conversation with the bookshop lady or with the union boss.

Doe posted...

When people talk about combat in the context of videogames they're asking about battle systems.

I know what those people mean.

Doe posted...

When people talk about combat in the context of videogames they're asking about battle systems.

I want to murder piles of pixels and absorb their xp.

Does this game give me that?

I turned on a light and died.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

RPGS need to be number porn
I'm not trolling. I'm definitely drunk, tho.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

That's all I needed to know.
Thanks, and maybe goodbye.

Doe posted...

Its way better world building and writing than pillars of eternity though like it makes up for not having combat gameplay with everything else being 11/10

Disagree that it's way better. They're both awesome for world building. I would say that Disco Elysium does have a better atmosphere though.

CyricZ posted...

Anyone who says Disco doesn't have combat doesn't understand "combat" outside of physical violence.

You have several combat encounters in this game.

1. Your post is dangerously close to spoiler territory spoilers

2. The "combat" uses the exact same system as the dialogue. For me and I'd wager most people, combat doesn't count as combat unless it has its own system

teep_ posted...

1. Your post is dangerously close to spoiler territory spoilers

I respect that you believe that, but I feel I've been vague enough.

2. The "combat" uses the exact same system as the dialogue. For me and I'd wager most people, combat doesn't count as combat unless it has its own system

Plenty of games have the combat and exploration use the same system and no one seems to have trouble differentiating.

It's a matter of perspective.

Now if you were to say there is no separate set of game mechanics for combat, then I'd agree with you.

Another one of em overrated indies game journalists slobbered over

CyricZ posted...

Plenty of games have the combat and exploration use the same system and no one seems to have trouble differentiating.

It's a matter of perspective.

Now if you were to say there is no separate set of game mechanics for combat, then I'd agree with you.

What's the difference between what I was saying and your last sentence?

It's the violence we want

I kinda stopped when it was clear you had to wait to meet a guy in his apartment at a certain time that was literally 1+ hours away IRL. **** that BS design.

sabin017 posted...

I kinda stopped when it was clear you had to wait to meet a guy in his apartment at a certain time that was literally 1+ hours away IRL. **** that BS design.

the game gives you multiple ways to kill time, and time is important to the game for multiple reasons.

sabin017 posted...

I kinda stopped when it was clear you had to wait to meet a guy in his apartment at a certain time that was literally 1+ hours away IRL. **** that BS design.

I'm note sure what you are saying, but in game time is not tied to real life time. Anytime you new dialogue occurs time advances. Time really advances more if you are reading new dialogue in books.