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

[Zombra]

Looking at that fanart makes me feel like the victim of a hate crime.

 

[ColCol]

Looking at that fanart makes me feel like the victim of a hate crime.

Once the National Socialist furrries take over the world, paintings like this will adorn our most esteemed art galleries. Luckily, most of us will have already been executed.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Once the National Socialist furrries take over the world, paintings like this will adorn or most esteemed art galleries. Luckily, most of us will have already been execute.

Kras Mazov is turning in his grave.

 

[Xamenos]

Is this supposed to be a white rectangle?

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.shacknews.com/article/1...-react-to-winning-big-at-the-dice-2020-awards

Disco Elysium devs react to winning big at the DICE 2020 Awards
When it came to the DICE 2020 Awards, the team at ZA/UM took home a prestigious honor for Disco Elysium itself.

Disco Elysium won big at the DICE 2020 Awards, and Shacknews was there to chat with the team at ZA/UM about their latest accomplishment.

The team bagged the Outstanding Achievement in Storytelling award for their exceptional work on Disco Elysium, and we spoke with them at length about the hard work that went into bringing the game to life - and how many iterations it went through before the writing and the rest of its various aspects were perfected ahead of launch. Protip: If you've ever played Disco Elysium, you'll have an idea of just how much work it took to bring all the dialogue and branching story choices to life. There's a lot of it.

"It took five years to make, and that five years was mostly just writing it over and over," one member of the team shared. It certainly seems as though all of that time paid off, especially since the game has now taken home the prestigious DICE 2020 award.

"I think it was Christmas 2017 that we were saying we'd have the final version of the game ready for Christmas vacation," another dev joked during our interview about the lengthy creation time it took to bring the game to life.

If you've yet to try out Disco Elysium, be sure to refer to our own Sam Chandler's review. He awarded the game a 9 out of 10. Here's what he had to say about it:

"It’s not very often that a game of this calibre comes along. Disco Elysium is mad with psychedelic energy, unabashedly dramatic, and dangerously well-written. I wish, like the detective, I could forget all about Disco Elysium, if only to experience it again as if for the first time. It’s truly one of the greatest RPGs ever released."

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[Verylittlefishes]

ZA/UM please stop receiving awards, it hurts combatfags retardoes

 

[Sad He-Man]

This game continues to confuse.
Screenshot from GOG's current spring sale.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

Kras Mazov is turning in his grave.

fun fact of the day: kras mazov fucked animals.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Kras Mazov is turning in his grave.

fun fact of the day: kras mazov fucked animals.

Slanderous propaganda by the Coalition, comrade.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

well, he is a sexual deviant of some kind. harrier would not lie.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Our main man is a confused individual.

 

[jebsmoker]

disco elysium still has the best absurdist or dark comedy i've seen in a game

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

disco elysium still has the best absurdist or dark comedy i've seen in a game

 

[Infinitron]

Disco Elysium wins Best Debut and Best Narrative GDC Awards: https://www.gamechoiceawards.com/winners/

 

[HoboForEternity]

Disco haters seething while the rightful king still sitting strong on the CRPG throne.

 

[toro]

Disco haters seething while the rightful king still sitting strong on the CRPG throne.

Yes, I'm sitting here seething in my own farts ...

 

[fantadomat]

disco elysium still has the best absurdist or dark comedy i've seen in a game

Here,in eastern Evropa we call it life.

 

[jackofshadows]

disco elysium still has the best absurdist or dark comedy i've seen in a game

Here,in eastern Evropa we call it life.

Fuck, I wish I could brofist that.

 

[c2007]

Hahahahaha!

So, I just died before even accomplishing the first objective. I think I opened something I wasn't *ready* for, and it apparently killed me dead right in the middle of the Whirling Rag. 14hrs invested down the drain, guess I can load a save but that takes some of the fun away I think.

10/10 Did I just die lol? moment.
10/10 I did just fucking die, that's hilarious!
8/10 Do I have to start over? Well, I did make a lot of dumb choices, including my intro with Klaasje, ha! Wasted a lot of time walking-simulator style, will not have to repeat as much but eh traversing the map could be better.

It is what it is, a good game with plenty of opportunity to be an ass, a loser, a thug, and plenty more I suppose depending on build. Not for everybody for sure, a little random but it fits some of my eccentricities enough to be entertaining.

8/10 overall, money well spent and I will replay it at least to one completion, perhaps more. That's a big ask for me anymore unless there is more action involved - yes I like to shoot things on the video screen, so no guarantees.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Hahahahaha!

So, I just died before even accomplishing the first objective. I think I opened something I wasn't *ready* for, and it apparently killed me dead right in the middle of the Whirling Rag. 14hrs invested down the drain, guess I can load a save but that takes some of the fun away I think.

10/10 Did I just die lol? moment.
10/10 I did just fucking die, that's hilarious!
8/10 Do I have to start over? Well, I did make a lot of dumb choices, including my intro with Klaasje, ha! Wasted a lot of time walking-simulator style, will not have to repeat as much but eh traversing the map could be better.

It is what it is, a good game with plenty of opportunity to be an ass, a loser, a thug, and plenty more I suppose depending on build. Not for everybody for sure, a little random but it fits some of my eccentricities enough to be entertaining.

8/10 overall, money well spent and I will replay it at least to one completion, perhaps more. That's a big ask for me anymore unless there is more action involved - yes I like to shoot things on the video screen, so no guarantees.

If you opened *the letter* from your clipboard, then you don't really die, but it very much looks like you did. Kim will slap you back into consciousness.

 

[c2007]

Hahahahaha!

So, I just died before even accomplishing the first objective. I think I opened something I wasn't *ready* for, and it apparently killed me dead right in the middle of the Whirling Rag. 14hrs invested down the drain, guess I can load a save but that takes some of the fun away I think.

10/10 Did I just die lol? moment.
10/10 I did just fucking die, that's hilarious!
8/10 Do I have to start over? Well, I did make a lot of dumb choices, including my intro with Klaasje, ha! Wasted a lot of time walking-simulator style, will not have to repeat as much but eh traversing the map could be better.

It is what it is, a good game with plenty of opportunity to be an ass, a loser, a thug, and plenty more I suppose depending on build. Not for everybody for sure, a little random but it fits some of my eccentricities enough to be entertaining.

8/10 overall, money well spent and I will replay it at least to one completion, perhaps more. That's a big ask for me anymore unless there is more action involved - yes I like to shoot things on the video screen, so no guarantees.

If you opened *the letter* from your clipboard, then you don't really die, but it very much looks like you did. Kim will slap you back into consciousness.

That didn't happen. I did read the letter and apparently died of a broken heart. Maybe I failed a check?

I passed out, as that was the only dialog option left, and then I heard music and the Disco Elysium title screen came up, and it was lizard brain time again from the first sequence in the game.

Did I actually not die, and the game played tricks on me?

 

[Darth Roxor]

haha i opened a letter and died hoho revolushunary

 

[Latro]

i made a post on rpgcodex and rolled a 0 so I died randomly xDDD *holds up sp0rk*

 

[lobsterfrogman]

Hahahahaha!

So, I just died before even accomplishing the first objective. I think I opened something I wasn't *ready* for, and it apparently killed me dead right in the middle of the Whirling Rag. 14hrs invested down the drain, guess I can load a save but that takes some of the fun away I think.

10/10 Did I just die lol? moment.
10/10 I did just fucking die, that's hilarious!
8/10 Do I have to start over? Well, I did make a lot of dumb choices, including my intro with Klaasje, ha! Wasted a lot of time walking-simulator style, will not have to repeat as much but eh traversing the map could be better.

It is what it is, a good game with plenty of opportunity to be an ass, a loser, a thug, and plenty more I suppose depending on build. Not for everybody for sure, a little random but it fits some of my eccentricities enough to be entertaining.

8/10 overall, money well spent and I will replay it at least to one completion, perhaps more. That's a big ask for me anymore unless there is more action involved - yes I like to shoot things on the video screen, so no guarantees.

If you opened *the letter* from your clipboard, then you don't really die, but it very much looks like you did. Kim will slap you back into consciousness.

That didn't happen. I did read the letter and apparently died of a broken heart. Maybe I failed a check?

I passed out, as that was the only dialog option left, and then I heard music and the Disco Elysium title screen came up, and it was lizard brain time again from the first sequence in the game.

Did I actually not die, and the game played tricks on me?

You did not die. You passed out and had conversation with your subconsciusness again. It would have been interrupted by Kim pouring water on you and calling you back to life.

 

[c2007]

Complete with title splash screen?

I'll reload the latest save tomorrow and see what happens, maybe I bugged out. If everyone sees the splash screen in this instance, I will revise my review as that is a strange place to break the 4th wall.

Not sure that I said anything was revolutionary about the game, but I did enjoy dying by surprise, games don't let you do that too often anymore and I also enjoyed the idea that I was being punished rather harshly for doing something wrong with zero warning. It was refreshing, I think.

Edit: Well, you were right of course. I did not die.

The splash screen is a dumb move, could be modded out I suppose. Breaks immersion, for whatever that means, but it dun broket.

Just woke up on day 3, still have a swinging corpse in a tree. If the game is keeping a score on me, it has to be in the terrible/kill yourself range.