Disco Elysium (The Final Cut)

They are improved from PS4 to PS5 but still think they are excessively long considering. Absolute demoralising when you realise you forgot to do something in the whirling rags and have to go straight back through the door. Still, it's a premier game. My GF think it's weird how much I sit and laugh at it.

It's a great game, incidentally. I laughed a hell of a lot from what I played

I've been sitting on this one for over a year, really need to pull the finger out and start it.

Really looking forward to getting the Switch version of this when it eventually comes out, I've heard so many good things about it

Started it, binned it, really wasn't in the mood at the time. Hopefully the PS5 update will run much better, the load times were a killer. Please tell me I get to beat on that little bastard child that keeps gobbing off at the in the first area?

Do the side quest with the church ravers, it's fucking amazing.

But no, it's very hard (if not impossible) to permanently screw yourself. You ostensibly have a time limit to solve the murder, but it's very, very generous; you can talk to everyone in the world and still have plenty of time left over. And there's multiple ways to solve each problem (well, the important ones at least)

Even death/terminal depression is avoidable if you quickly down a healing item when your health goes to zero.

Heart attack from trying to get your tie back?

Who doesn't?

I just did the Pentangue bit. The whole build up, the step by step testing the wind, weighing the ball, learning the rules and then the result may well be my favourite moment in a game in years. I had actual tears of laughter and was giggling the whole way through the aftermath.

What a game.

I succeeded. That is why it was even more hilarious to me. So out of the blue. I may have to youtube what happens if you fail.

No, that's the genius of it. When you succeed in the roll, you're basically succeeding in a strength test for a game that is not about strength! That's why learning the rules gives you a penalty to the check.

It's a game where your senses and impulses are profoundly untrustworthy, and that is such an interesting idea.

That's what I would suggest to anyone playing the game is to just roll with the punches the game gives you. As bad as failing a red check sounds like, the results are often so fantastic to see and it never hard locks you out of progress, it's just another branch in the story. Some of the best interactions or moments in the game comes from failure.

Also be mindful of your inventory. Some checks can be made easier to pass if you wear an item of clothing that has the related stat. So if you have an empathy check, you could wear your hat that gives +1 empathy that gives a stat bonus and greater percentage to pass

There are two threads, which should I bump ? Almost seems too apt for this game.

Is it a game ? Or a downward spiral into a psyche, familiar but forgotten, pieces of fragmented memory cascading towards a collusion, a rememberance of sorts. Jesus, why did I even start this ?

So, yeah, first few hours tonight after it's sat on the HDD for however long, and it's been a trip. The constant narration is perfect for console, no squinting at text, but the control scheme is a little awkward to begin with, to the point I'd almost have preferred a little cursor instead, however inaccurate.

Cuno is being a little cun*, can't quite muster up the sobriety to get the body down, so another night won't matter, right ? And I'm still convinced that collapsed game dev office is still a front for some intel-ops capers, no matter what Kim says. And only realising I had to sort out the hotel payment at 11:30pm after skipping out, which led me to stumbling upon other clues as to what happened when was great.

Love it.