Game of the Year: #9 - Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Shame that so many haven't played it. It's a superb game that really deserves more appreciation! Top 10 worthiness for sure.

I have not played this yet, but got it on sale recently and am very excited to play it. Glad to see some devs changing things up in the crpg world.

Got this on my PC but it was just too much text upon text upon text upon text even Persona doesn't come close so I gave up. And after meeting those 2 annoying kids under the tree...that was it for me. I'll have to try again to see if it clicks.

Will get back to it, I struggled to read a word of the text even via a phablet mounted on Dualsense. Somebody release an oled compact tablet already

This is on the Christmas list so if Santa thinks I have been a good boy (I haven't) then I should be playing this over the festive break and can not wait.

Anybody who sticks with it will know that it’s the best adventure game of all time. Nothing even comes close.

@Camlambelot I'm actually a slow-paced type of gamer but this is on another level of slow, it's too much standing around. Plus, I think it would've been more enjoyable if most of the text was voiced.

@TheArt Almost all of the text is voiced. Like I couldn’t even name parts that weren’t voiced off the top of my head. Every character speaks all their lines and the narrator voices everything inside your head.

@SystemAddict They have. A gakaxy fold 2 or 3. I use the 2. Still a great phone which still turns heads.

Honestly, this was my favourite game this year, took a minute to get into it but once I did, I couldn't put it down.

Great art style, story and pacing and some genuinely fun ways to build your character.

Might have to go back to it over the holidays.

@TheArt it's a hell of a lot better with the voice acting

40 hrs for my playthrough and I highly enjoyed it!! Fantastic game.

@ColdHandGee considered it, but losing too much screen real estate may need the custom mount for it somebody made however.

Hard to say if we would rate it higher or not when we don't know yet the site's other coming top choices.

But im glad and would put it high as can just so more intelligent games are valued high over many shallow action games.

Does this get samey after a playthrough? Is it one fun blast and done?

@Skratm @nessisonett For real...maybe it's PC problems or I just forgot, I'll just get it on PS4 then if possible.

@TheArt It was added in Final Cut which you’ll have for free added to the PC version!

@redcorpuscle While you’ll know ‘who did it’ after the first playthrough, the real fun is seeing how differently you can work it out. Plus you can play as an absolute drug addled nutter. You can even get a different partner. The trophies are good too as there’s ones to solve the case without even inspecting the body and such.

I'm disappointed no right shtter was listed like Balans Wonderworld.

@HMazzy111 My guess is the lack of a physical release is a major contributing factor. I know personally this was on my list to keep an eye on since it was announced; but without a physical copy it was a no-buy. Thankfully iam8bit made a limited physical run.

Hmmm it was OK, the initial bugs didn't help (considering on release for PS it wasn't a new game, pretty bad really). The load times, whilst not shabby, are the longest I've experienced on ps5 and annoying when you are constantly going from one area to the next.

Love the music and art style, a lot of the humour is great, but still feels a little pretentious and highbrow for me. The whole measurehead race theory thing bored me.

@smallbrownbike That’s the point. It’s not a murder mystery. The whole game painfully illustrates just how meaningless your character is. And besides, the murder is just a tiny tiny part of the overall conflict. Perhaps it’s not the game that’s overrated, perhaps you just didn’t pay attention to the many other subplots running throughout it.

@nessisonett well a murder mystery is what I thought I was getting myself into! I took those boots and thought here we go this will cause trouble! But it just didn’t. Yea there are lots of sub plots but none of them matter

@smallbrownbike Of course the subplots matter. The entire church plot feeds into the idea that the pale is swallowing the world and it’s speeding up, resembling global warming on a much larger scale. The war between the unions and the company is just a smaller conflict indicative of an eventual revolution in the area which is hinted at by several characters. And then the whole deal with your detective’s past is explored throughout. Did you not get the scene at the payphone where you call your ex? It feeds wonderfully into the final dream sequence, which I genuinely don’t know how you couldn’t be impacted by. The voice acting in that scene in particular is very very good.

Yeah I got the pay phone scene. I do think it was well written but Obviously the story resonated much more with you than it did with me. From reading reviews at the time I assumed playing the drug crazed lunatic would give me a far different experience from playing it straight but from reloading previous saves after I finished, aside from a few lines of dialogue it was exactly the same.
I know you said it’s not a murder mystery but the reveal in the third act made me annoyed I was excited to find out who did it! Maybe I just missed the whole point of the game…..

So for me I loved the game, however I was so relieved once I had completed it and the credits started rolling.

I enjoyed the characters and the story however it was a slog at times to go over and over the voice overs, trying to figure out where I was going wrong.

I eventually used a guide to try and figure out what I was doing wrong and I am sure many people would have given up, but I was so stubborn that I thought the game had glitched or I was doing something wrong.

If you like your action and explosions this isn’t the game for you.I am just glad the ps5 version had all the recorded voice overs, if it was the original pc version and I had to read all the wall of text I may have given up.

@Camlambelot At least I will know who it was

I really enjoyed Disco until I was soft locked

To preface, this is unarguably my most researched game since Streets of Rage 4. I read a copious amount of reviews. Binged watched YouTube videos (all spoiler free) and couldn't wait to jump in.

The opening 15 hours blew me away. I wanted to play the game as a morally correct recovering alcoholic. The writing is phenomenal, like if @get2sammyb drank 6 red bulls and decided to make a game. As I wanted to read as much as possible my skills mostly sat on the top two lines. I dismissed authority early doors as I wanted to have a kind of self reflecting beta cop in comparison to the narcissistic drunk you inherit.

Needless to say I got soft locked as my authority was at -2 due to my thought cabinet and there's a point you can't get passed if you fail the roll. I was devastated. And still am.

@thedevilsjester was released on PS4 physical "FINAL CUT" about a month or so ago, so you have no excuse now not to play it..

@MakersMark iam8bit (a limited run company) is making a physical copy (pre-orders went live a month or so ago); but these are still a couple months out from shipping.

For me, personally, I follow companies like iam8bit and LRG for this reason and have pre-ordered it; but your average gamer does not and will likely miss out on these limited runs (in fact its already sold out, unless you want the $250 deluxe edition) and will likely never be printed again.

Edit:
Interestingly, iam8bit no longer lists the PS4 version (deluxe or standard) on their site and you can indeed find it at classic retailers, available now. I already have a pre-order in for iam8bit; so I will just wait until mine ships; but its great to see that its available via classic retailers as well. Maybe we will see an up-tick in players with this change.