Incline Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - a hardboiled cop show isometric RPG

[Merry Christmas!]

fuck off idiot you should have been ip banned

And the weirdos immediately tell on themselves every time. Nice to hear your convictions behind those enlightening opinions.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

Not to win awards and be on the cover of Time magazine, though. Also, I don't think it has sold so many copies.

Ten times more than Pathologic 2

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[Prime Junta]

The Codex: Disco is pretentious hipster shit and also a commercial flop

(Disco wins all the awards and goes up two categories on steamspy)

The Codex: Disco is commercial mainstream normie bait

Don’t ever change, Codex

 

[Darth Roxor]

But pretentious hipster stuff is precisely normie bait. It pulls all the right strings - "deep rpg with no combat" (aka soccer dads won't have to do anything other than read), "deep komplex writung" (aka I don't understand some of the vocab and the syntax is confusing which must mean it's sublime), "incredible nonlinearity" (i get different skillchecks that ultimately matter little but the smokes and mirrors is what counts), "politicool content" (i can post pics of my agenda-based character on twitter!!!), etc. It's like being surprised about the popularity/criticool acclaim of The Walking Dead.

 

[Popiel]

You're surprisingly irritated by a pinko game, rat. As if normies matter.

 

[Darth Roxor]

i'm not irritated at all, just pointing out true facts

 

[Merry Christmas!]

The Codex: Disco is pretentious hipster shit and also a commercial flop

(Disco wins all the awards and goes up two categories on steamspy)

The Codex: Disco is commercial mainstream normie bait

Don’t ever change, Codex

And one soothsayer saw all of this success coming. The Codex is really a barrel of laughs sometimes.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

The Codex: Disco is pretentious hipster shit and also a commercial flop

(Disco wins all the awards and goes up two categories on steamspy)

The Codex: Disco is commercial mainstream normie bait

Don’t ever change, Codex

And one soothsayer saw all of this success coming. The Codex is really a barrel of laughs sometimes.

Did they forgive you or what?

 

[Merry Christmas!]

Did they forgive you or what?

No, I'm here illegally. You never saw me bro.

 

[Harthwain]

i'm not irritated at all, just pointing out true facts

More like stating an opinion. I mean, that's fine and all, but not really the same as "pointing out true facts".

You say it's "pretentious", but for a lot of people the theme and the writing is striking really close home. Mainly because they are during their own midlife crisis. At the same time it allows you to do some hilarious things to take the edge off, so it's not all bleak. Then you make a claim that "soccer dads don't like anything other than read", which is exactly a reverse of what I heard and keep hearing still: that people don't like to read and readership keeps plummeting. Then you make a claim that people like something they can't understand. And that "politicool content" even matters to people (as in: the general public taking it seriously), when the only people it seems to really matter to are people who feel offended by any inclusion of communism or mention of feminism.

If any one the above were true, then Tides of Numenera should've been a hit. It wasn't.

 

[Merry Christmas!]

More like stating an opinion. I mean, that's fine and all, but not really the same as "pointing out true facts".

You say it's "pretentious", but for a lot of people the theme and the writing is striking really close home. Mainly because they are during their own midlife crisis. At the same time it allows you to do some hilarious things to take the edge off, so it's not all bleak. Then you make a claim that "soccer dads don't like anything other than read", which is exactly a reverse of what I heard and keep hearing still: that people don't like to read and readership keeps plummeting. Then you make a claim that people like something they can't understand. And that "politicool content" even matters to people (as in: the general public taking it seriously), when the only people it seems to really matter to are people who feel offended by any inclusion of communism or mention of feminism.

If any one the above were true, then Tides of Numenera should've been a hit. It wasn't.

I don't think he thought too hard about those opinions. Just being biased against anything successful imo. You see that a lot with people, like when a band goes from underground cult following to blowing up with success, some are going to suddenly feel jaded and antagonistic towards the band for becoming successful. It's the human condition, bro.

 

[Lacrymas]

What a bunch of bullshit, lol. DE doesn't win awards or appear on Time magazine because it's a great niche game that mainstreamites love, it's due to marketing and perhaps bribery or other ulterior motives. Minecraft is more of a niche success story than DE. Like buffalo bill said, there are a lot of other better games which deserve these accolades, but they don't win because it's not about quality or even mainstream appeal.

 

[Merry Christmas!]

What a bunch of bullshit, lol. DE doesn't win awards or appear on Time magazine because it's a great niche game that mainstreamites love, it's due to marketing and perhaps bribery or other ulterior motives. Minecraft is more of a niche success story than DE.

So a couple of dirt poor Estonians bribed Time freaking Magazine? Makes sense. Pass me that pipe, bro.

 

[Lacrymas]

You don't make a game like Disco Elysium with no budget, that's hilariously out of touch.

 

[Merry Christmas!]

They certainly didn't have Time Magazine bribe money. And did they bribe the awards shows, too? Bribes for everyone from those deep Estonian pockets!

 

[Verylittlefishes]

it's due to marketing and perhaps bribery or other ulterior motives.

No, it also happened because this game is fucking awesome.

 

[Atchodas]

If Disco is so good and awesome why you cucks get so butthurt when someone criticise it?

Spoiler

because deep inside you know it aint proper RPG

 

[Harthwain]

What a bunch of bullshit, lol. DE doesn't win awards or appear on Time magazine because it's a great niche game that mainstreamites love, it's due to marketing and perhaps bribery or other ulterior motives. Minecraft is more of a niche success story than DE. Like buffalo bill said, there are a lot of other better games which deserve these accolades, but they don't win because it's not about quality or even mainstream appeal.

Any list is going to be subjective. TIME or no TIME. But to me the reason for all the nominations isn't "bribery or other ulterior motives", but something very basic and simple: the game is really good. Or at least good enough for the majority of people to think so. Even here, on the Codex.

Edit: Unless you really believe in some sort of conspiracy, but we had Jenkem's retarded thread for that.

 

[Prime Junta]

DE doesn't win awards or appear on Time magazine because it's a great niche game that mainstreamites love, it's due to marketing and perhaps bribery or other ulterior motives

Bruh, see your shrink cuz that’s a paranoid fantasy.

 

[Lacrymas]

Bruh, see your shrink cuz that’s a paranoid fantasy.

This is like saying films which win Oscars do so because of their quality. You should know better than that.

 

[Prime Junta]

Bruh, see your shrink cuz that’s a paranoid fantasy.

This is like saying films which win Oscars do so because of their quality. You should know better than that.

Dude. Put down the crack pipe and think for a moment. ZA/UM have no publisher. They’re newcomers to the whole game industry scene. They barely had the budget to make the game. They’re doing their own marketing. How in the name of fuck would they have gotten the kind of resources to buy four game awards from under the noses of industry giants and get lauded by the likes of TIME, Le Monde, Washington Post, NY Times, never even mind game media? It’s a dirty business for sure but they’re minnows in a shark tank.

Critics love the game. Nobody says you have to agree with them. But the kind of universal acclaim Disco is getting cannot be bought, at least not with the kind of budget a bunch of Estonian commies can rustle up. Deal with it.

 

[Lacrymas]

Except I gave other reasons for it to be popular and not only bribery. My main point is that it doesn't win because of its quality. It's a circus of pretentiousness.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

If Disco is so good and awesome why you cucks get so butthurt when someone criticise it?

Spoiler

because deep inside you know it aint proper RPG

Because we carry the love and light of Truth.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Even China is involved in marketing Disco Elysium:

 

[fantadomat]

fuck off idiot you should have been ip banned