>small scale detective story about a schizo cop trying to solve a murder case in a post commie revolution city
>spend most of the game reading completely irrelevant lore infodumps instead of investigating
Why did they write the equivalent of Dune's lore for such an intimate detective story?
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Because you touch yourself at night. Disco Elysium is set in the same world as the writer's earlier novel.
>Disco Elysium is set in the same world as the writer's earlier novel.
Ok so what? Doesn't change the fact there's a huge discrepancy between the game's plot and it's setting, the game could have been set in real world Russia and it wouldn't have changed anything about the story
It's like if And Then There Were None was set in middle earth and you had wall of texts on the world's history disseminated through the book
So it's a detective story set in a preexisting universe that serves to further expand on it. Also, doing random meaningless shit is the player's choice.
What does it matter? It doesn't get in the way of anything. If you want to skim it, you can, if you want to read it, you can. The game still plays smooth and the lore is never boring or gets in the way of the plot. It can be a little artifical feeling where it intersects with the copotypes (the "not Karl Marx" Karl Marx guy doesn't feel as real as the goddess lady because he's too contrived), but that's only really visible in retrospect and neat little lore details give you something to look forward to as you go along.
Yeah because the game name dropping 10 different countries, historical figures and fictional terms in every dialogue isn't detrimental to the story
The game is too unfocused, you basically have 2 stories tacked on to each others (the murder mystery and Harry's personal story) in an overwritten setting
Compare it to planescape torment where everything in the game, from the side quests to the setting itself are used in favor of TNO's personal journey
>Yeah because the game name dropping 10 different countries, historical figures and fictional terms in every dialogue isn't detrimental to the story
It isn't, it's literally all connected.
>muh planescape
Grognards should be banned on sight
>Compare it to planescape torment
Which is a shit game with bad writing and awful gameplay. DE did what PST was trying to do and did it much better.
oh frick off kurwitz
It's a game about overcompensation which does the same.
Game is C-tier Socialist propaganda.
Will never play another game by these devs in my life.
>Game is C-tier Socialist propaganda
>Socialist
have you... played the game?
I disagree I think it's at least B-tier socialist propaganda, because it's subtle enough to fool quite a few midwits into believing it isn't despite the creators outright praising Marx. The game's defenders aren't lying either, they believe it.
Marx is pretty based, I think more devs should take inspiration from his works.
>implying small capitalists are representing the labour movement with their fanfiction level garbage
I think he's based too but for the completely wrong reasons. I'm going to be so disappointed though if it turns out his quote about Ferdinand Lassalle being a "israeli Black person" is fake.
To consider the game to be just propaganda is to be blind. I don't expect people outside of Eastern Europe to fully appreciate the writing though.
Incompetence, pretentiousness...yeah I'm gonna say mainly those two things.
lol @ materialists, permanently stuck in abstractions