#Disco elysium communism how to

You have to take the rooms the game offers you. If you decide to be a hobo cop, you are still not permitted to actually live homeless. Apparently the situation only allowed for one outcome, with a slight difference in the cosmetics of it. But if you succeed at the skillcheck? You still basically fail. Hit on the first girl you see? Okay, if you fail, your fuck-up makes sense. Most choices pretend to be of more consequence than they actually are. You cannot meaningfully chart your own path through the game or take a different road. There is a bunch of totally optional content, and you might be able to cut through a part of the plot (iirc there's a Shivers check for that?) but on the whole of it, the narrative is predetermined for you. This brings on another major problem with Disco Elysium: It is a very linear tale in the end. The real culprit is simply concealed from you, so the detective work is almost narrative busywork rather than any genuine investigation that can deliver results. Therefore, most of the detective work you do is totally useless and any attempt at saying 'This is our culprit!' before the ending is an automatic failure. In detective stories, the reader (or player, in this case) is supposed to be able to puzzle out the culprit on their own (This is part of the appeal of the genre: Trying to puzzle out who the culprit is as you read the story, which only appeals if puzzling out the culprit ahead of time is actually possible.), but here that constitutes a problem since the narrative cannot allow for you to discover the culprit early and resolve the game early. The detective aspect is at most used as a vehicle to get the protagonist through the story beats, but actual detective-work is pretty much unnecessary and it doesn't follow the rules of fair detective stories either. First, it pretends to be a detective story, but it isn't, not really. Which is to say, in reality, that Disco Elysium is just a slightly dressed up Visual Novel pretending to be an RPG.īut the narrative of Disco Elysium also has its issues. It is, start-to-finish, a storytelling enterprise. Without the presence of gameplay, without the presence of challenge, it is not really a game at all, and indeed Disco: Elysium is not a game.

#Disco elysium communism how to

There is no hard 'game over' state in many Adventures, but there are puzzles, problem-solving segments, and the like and if you fail to figure out how to move past your current predicament you are stuck there, so the challenge is there and your failure state is an inability to progress.

Some people assert that DE is more appropriate as an Adventure game, but it fails to be part of the Adventure game genre also, because Adventure games have problem-solving challenges. Games require gameplay challenges, but in Disco: Elysium there is no real form of challenge. I can go one step further and say that as a game it is also a failure. The character development system of Disco: Elysium is simply cosmetic, pretending at much greater depth and consequence than it actually possesses. So in the first case, as a RPG it is a failure. They affect the flavor of dialogues you get along the way, but there are no obstacles to progression that demand player or character skill to progress. Moreover, all the skills are pretty much cosmetic. While it nominally flirts with things like stats, gear, skills, thought cabinet, etcetera, in reality all of it just boils down to skill modifiers with one or two minute divergences. The basic problem with Disco Elysium is that it fails to be a RPG. Disco Elysium gets pretty harshly criticized around here and Planescape: Torment is a rather well-respected game, so anyone familiar with the Codex would expect a strongly negative response to your take.

Whoever told you this knew that you would get shat on massively for your take and was looking forward to it.