Guy923

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now this is the critical anime analysis that this forum was built upon

Whoever does not miss old subSPUF has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

yes, this is entirely just an excuse to spooge about one of the best games i've ever played, fight me
So recently, I finished Disco Elysium, and came to the conclusion that it's one of the best games i've ever played and likely ever will play. Which is quite frankly baffling, because I don't even really like CRPGs that much.
For those of you out of the loop, I'll get you up to speed real quick: Disco Elysium is an isometric top-down, cop-drama-thriller based in a fictitious world with DnD-esque skill checks that can go hilariously wrong. Recently, in the small coastal town of Martinaise, there's been a murder. Due to jurisdiction issues, this is a joint operation between two separate precincts. Precinct 57 sent Lt. Kim Kitsuragi, a straight-laced, by-the-numbers officer who despite being the voice of reason at all times, is 100% looking for any opportunity to break from that.
Precinct 41 sent...You. You're a good cop, but a bad person, and this is further proven within the first 10 minutes when you discover just a fraction of the damages you caused before you drank so much you completely forgot everything, including the concepts of money, capitalism, the antimatter fog surrounding the world, and your own name.
In terms of story, I think it provides quite well, taking elements from the murder mystery genre and retrofitting them into something unique, even if the finale 
That being said, it does come out of left field in a genre where you're trying to solve a case you don't have all the clues to yet. I know the consensus is that this was a poor move, but I think it plays well as a one-off rug pull, although I would certainly not be impressed if they did it again. For me, though, the place this game really shines in is...
The characters. God, the writing and thought put into each worldview that each character has is breathtaking and really sells you on the world that you live in, compounded by the use of politics without necessarily going overboard by forcing ideology much, even humanizing obvious racists like Measurehead, who despite retaining a racial superiority complex, is also a victim of domestic abuse. Learning all the stances that are carefully constructed and bounce off each other is fantastic, and I can only imagine the amount of time and effort that went into making this all happen.
I mentioned  before that DE is political, and while the devs are communist, they aren't afraid to launch a scathing critique on communism itself. The only two real supporters of communism are a pair of students who are so desperate for leftist book club members that they'll let you and Kim, two cops, into it. Lines like "but real communism has never been tried!" will come up in dialogue, and overall the idea of exploring an ideology rather than forcing it takes center stage, much like Bioshock before it. That being said, I personally didn't like the fact that the four political stances you can take are Communist, Left-of-Center, Anarcho-Capitalist, and Just Straight Fascism. It's not a big gripe because your political bearing in-game doesn't really do much to solve the case[if anything it puts you further away from it], but it certainly comes across as surprisingly close-minded for a development team that is fully willing to smack-talk their own ideology.
That being said though, I think that my personal favorite character actually has to be The Deserter. Although his inclusion breaks a lot of story issues, he makes sense from an ideological perspective. In a sense, Disco Elysium is about waking up to your past mistakes[Literally, in detective costeau's case] and deciding how to accept and move on from them. The Deserter represents the end of the road, both politically and mentally. A bitter, furious shell of a man held together by pure hatred and morphine. There is nothing you can tell him that won't make him hate you, no political alignment that will make him respect you, no dialogue options. To him, all you are is another fascist bourgeois stepping on his grave. This is who you were, still are, could be. It's like the story shows him to you and says, "is this who you want to be?". It's fantastic, and completely nullifies the issues with revealing him late into the story.

 Talk about DE and why it's a great game.

I think a couple of us have talked about it in our GOTY/Favorite Game Mosiac posts and reviews are universally positive. Definitely the best writing of any game I've played.
 
Luv Kim, luv Shivers, luv communism, 'ate the Moralintern. Simple as.

In general, people who often have unnecessary uses of adverbs have a probable chance of being trustworthy.

wow... it's them....
 

 
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@Raze and I got a new comm

I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.
 
At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

nickelodeon all star has me super excited about a game I doubt I'll ever touch, what a beautiful punchline
 
The entire FGC has been on their knees crying, begging Japanese devs to put decent netcode into their games for over a decade, and now the slap city devs make what should have been a grandma-found-it-in-the-bargain-bin game into something that not only looks like a solid smash clone, but also has rollback netcode

Tried, but ended up never leaving house due to doubled porn selection

I'm like 2½ weeks late to this response, but E8S is probably the hardest Savage boss fight in the game since Midas/Gordias back in Heavensward, which were actually overtuned and later nerfed. I cleared Refulgence with a static and that was difficult enough, so I can only imagine your struggle if you tried doing it with PF. Light Rampant fun mechanic smile.

New raid tier seems easier but I haven't progged E12S yet, only seen E11S enrage so far, so maybe I'll have to eat my words when I get around to E12S.

I played Hades, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds this year and I'd consider them all 10/10s and potential encroachers on the 3x3. I've been playing Noita since early access and it's clearly the Baba is You of this year for the sheer innovation and scale of it. I even think Among Us deserves a mention despite the memes as a new staple party game to play when everyone is here, as my friend group hadn't found an accessible social deduction type game beforehand.
 
One game I played for kinda this first time this year that took me by surprise was Rain World. @Rhombo installed a co-op mod and convinced me to do a playthrough and it was such a unique experience of a game that it went from something I was initially put off by to something I quickly became obsessed with. The AI, and the fact that it's equivalent to animation, makes the game world feel more like a real place than any other. I just wanted to fucking explore the shit out of it. I'd definitely describe it as a flawed masterpiece in that it relies on you to want to push through the unintuitive design choices (which didn't work for me the first time I played it!), but it almost felt like co-op was how it was meant to be played. To the point where if I were to have someone over and we were looking for a co-op game to play it'd be my first choice.

Can't wait for Below Zero.

fuck bears

So is subspuf going to revive by feeding off the rotting corpse of bigspuf
 
Also hi I am actually not dead

Started playing my half-orc gourmet chef barbarian last night. 
 
I love him

congress won't ever impeach trump
 

I've been running through Tarantino movies with a buddy of mine, we're almost done. Just need to watch the hateful 8 next week and boom, that's all of Tarantino. Note that I had never actually seen a Tarantino movie before embarking on this journey.
 
So thoughts so far:
 
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
Kill Bill Volume 2:
Inglorious Basterds
Django Unchained


 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered-and-coaxed-trump-on-policies-key-to-the-alt-right/2016/11/15/53c66362-ab69-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html
 
like, this shit writes itself.

And here we are back to square one. Just because they overlook racism and sexism, and keep company with racists and sexists, and have been praised by other racists and sexists, doesn't make them racist or sexist.
 
He's racist.
 
"You have an individual, Mr Bannon, who’s basically creating the ideological aspects of where we’re going." - The former Imperial Wizard of the KKK.
 
It's really not that hard.