im playing this game!!! im playing hardcore mode for my first time, is that ill-advised? i love the idea of failing rolls and seeing how the story goes from there and like, getting rewarded for it, but I don’t get most of the stats that pop up and am wondering if i need to? or will i figure it out with time?
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You will fail plenty on normal mode; hardcore mode is not necessary to experience the accretive failure that defines the player character. It read to me as a recreation of Sierra-style dead ends in an adventure game.
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they added the hardcore mode later specifically for people who played and finished the game, so normal mode might be best for first playthrough i think
these are the differences listed in the announcement post
so yeah its just everything ismore annoying
aw, okay. the stuff in the announcement sound tbh pretty interesting because i do want to be a complete disaster but if you fail enuff times in regular ol’ normal mode i might as well switch to that
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if youre having fun though don’t let anyone stop you
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I had no idea it was them but how appropriate!
Can I get a read on how good this game is for testing personal ideology? People have me questioning whether I’m centrist (I realise this may mean different things in different cultures) and I’ve also heard this game treats centrism pretty harshly. I’m probably just left-leaning but thought it might be good to thoroughly test my ideological apparatus.
Each ideology in the game is an extreme exaggeration of a real world counterpart so it may be a bit tricky to treat the game this way, but the game does a good job of challenging your views no matter what they are
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Yeah, the game is very invested at the start in placing you in your failure’s mindset by mocking you for believing in anything
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I also feel like its utility in that respect is limited. The ideologies you are able to align the detective with are very specific to the time and place in which they exist, but you definitely have the opportunity to explore the downsides of whichever ideologies best resemble your own beliefs–it’s just that it’s not always apparent why the choices you make might lead to a particular set of beliefs, and so the detective’s vocal support of the ideology you unwittingly chose can feel unearned if you’re not following the game’s logic.
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Part of it is that the detective is just kind of shallow and stupid, so when he aligns himself with an ideology full stop, he tends to spout a bunch of cartoonish talking points rather than understand the full scope of that ideology.
HOWEVER, centrism is not excepted from this process, and it is probably the most aggressively examined and criticized ideology (I am discounting fascism because that’s literally in there so that all but like 2 npcs in the game can hate the protagonist even more than they already do)
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I want to like this game but through Proton it keeps crashing so I can’t get very far into it.
https://internationale.zaumstudio.com/
Disco Elysium is being translated and localized into new languages, hot and fresh off the tongue. Even better: it’s being done by you — our wonderful community.
We’re working with hand-picked teams of dedicated fans to ensure they have everything they need to get you the game and its million words in your language. It’s properly happening. In full and with flair. Nothing can stop The Great Internationale.
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Sure would be nice if there was anything in there about paying their wonderful community.
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The general wisdom is to stay away from fan translations if you can afford it; generally they get treated too much like developer promises and the failures spill onto the devs who can’t manage it effectively or do quality control. But they’re in the oddest spot of being both very successful yet being one of the most expensive games possible to translate, and it’s probably not worthwhile.
I think success looks like keeping the fan community feeling like they’re engaged (a parody of an abusive relationship) and setting expectations that it will be like an early access program; they need to get feedback from native-language speakers as translations are delivered. ‘Hand-picked’ is incorporating responsibility into themselves which is probably safer for the fans doing the work, but I’d worry…
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what is the canon language for this, some sort of Eastern pidgin?
Booted up Disco Elysium and am running into pretty frequent crashes in the first area. Settings are relatively low and my PC is relatively high-spec and new. Seems like others have run into the same problem online. Is this is a well-known issue?
Digging the style so far but hard to really get into it when it chucks me out every 20 minutes.
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