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evlogii ,

Disco Elysium: Final Cut resembles more of an immersive audiobook experience, featuring exceptional narrators. As someone with ADHD, focusing on text can be challenging for me, but the audio format greatly enhances my engagement and comprehension.

abbenm ,

I love the implication that reading books is bad

bruhduh ,
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That'll make your brain wrinkle, wrinkles ain't beautiful duh /s

BluJay320 ,
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Great game, don’t buy it.

Original devs won’t get any of the money cause they got pushed out. Pirate it instead like me

CephalonFaye ,

In a way it's kinda poetic that Disco Elysium was destroyed by corporate greed. That being said, it's a great shame that the original creators were robbed of the beautiful world they created. Fuck ZA/UM.

CaptainMinnette ,

A couple of the original writers were pushed out, including the lead writer, early on. The rest of the original writers were fired just recently. I don't know how many of the original developers of Disco are still left at the company, but they were already paid for their work on the game. Regardless of who owns it, they weren't going to see extra money (unless the firm has become a co-op, which it should have always been).

Trollception ,

That's like you buying a car and when you try to sell it the next person tells you they won't pay anything for it, in fact they are going to straight up steal it like some criminal.

Mobilityfuture ,

Downloading it for free now on PS5 to try and understand the meme…

Smokeydope ,
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Man I really want to play disco but I really don't want to pirate it either. Everyone's always saying dont pay for it so I havent but is keeping 10$ out of a publishers hands and holding off on experiencing an awesome game just to 'own the corpos' really worth it? feels dumber every year I hold off on it.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
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If you want to pay for it and can afford to do so, buy it and pay for it. Otherwise, pirate it and pay for it when you can afford to do so. Easy peasy. Publisher gets paid in either case.

Guntrigger ,

I think the point is: this publisher in particular is a piece of shit. Pushed out the original creators and stole the IP effectively.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Oh whoops I didn't know. Yeah then just pirate that shit.

Tbird83ii ,

And then donate to the devs directly?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
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Yeah, it would be nice if they are accepting donations.

yogthos ,
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That game is a work of art, everyone should play it at least once.

threeduck ,

I don't know why, but I really didn't enjoy it. I like pretty much every single critically acclaimed game there is, but Disco Elysium bored the hell out of me. It was basically a visual novel with this clunky split personality disorder thing going on. The humour was pretty "so THAT just happened" which explains why it got so popular with Redditors.

Idk, I played it until I got to some group of union workers arguing on some big wall before I just couldn't stomach any more.

yogthos ,
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🤷

Alsephina OP ,

Ig you probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if you're not familiar with political speak.

My favourite part of the game was the worldbuilding and history. Enhanced by the amazing artwork and voice acting.

summerof69 ,

It's okay mate. There are plenty of games for people with low intellect, keep playing them.

yamanii ,
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Shame the company and creator was destroyed by exactly what they criticized, People Make Games should feel bad for having done that stupid vídeo.

Donkter ,

This reminds me, I keep searching for the short story written by one of the creators set in the same universe. The only source I can find for an English copy of it is from a shady download link that my antivirus program doesn't want me to open. Does anyone know where I can get a copy?

Fish ,

If you are planning on getting into this game, just don't pay for it. I'm not saying don't play it, just don't pay for it. The original devs were all stolen from and pushed out of their organization (ZA/UM).

ICastFist ,
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Got a link for the story? Sounds like something I want to read in depth. I have bought DE on my GOG account but have yet to play it

Olgratin_Magmatoe ,

Gross ass reddit link, but seems to explain it well enough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/xujjrd/whats_going_on_with_disco_elysium/

Tl;DR: Group of friends made a RPG setting & book, and then decided they wanted to turn it into a game. All with heavy anti-capitalist, leftist themes. But they needed money to make game, so they brought in some investors who later fucked them over and forced the original creators out so they could make even more money.

redcalcium ,

It's ironic that game about communism being destroyed by capitalism, get destroyed by capitalism itself.

gAlienLifeform ,
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I have never felt so seen by a piece of media as I did when I got the solution to this thought

flamingos ,
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Nerd at computer: I wonder who killed this person. Disco Elysium: a bunch of unreadable text. Nerd at computer: you are absolutly correct it is now my life mission to destroy the Moralintern.

Trollivier ,

That's a pretty awesome game, if you didn't try it.

runjun ,

Genuinely a brilliant and moving game. Kim Kitsuragi is also my most loved character I’ve ever encountered in any media and it’s not even close.

nature_man ,

Yeah but its great! Best book game ive ever read!

exocrinous ,

Go play Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. You get to use a ninja sword to turn fascists into human confetti. Also the final boss is a US senator who wants to make America great again.

AdamBomb ,

One of my favorite games once I learned how to block reliably. Anyone playing this for the first time: go find a video tutorial on how to block because the game does a bad job explaining this. Otherwise it’s absolutely brilliant.

exocrinous ,

It's a game with zero political subtlety and that's what makes it awesome.

Most of the bad guys are non-americans who've been turned body and soul into bloodthirsty weapons by the American war machine.

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