It finally happened! After wowing PC players and critics last year, Disco Elysium comes to both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in March 2021. It'll feature new quests as part of a Final Cut edition. Announced as part of The Game Awards 2020 following a tease earlier this week, developer ZA/UM has taken its sweet time over the course of 2020 to deliver a worthy console port after originally revealing it would happen in November 2019. Of course, PlayStation 5 players will be able to experience the isometric RPG through backwards compatibility.
The reason we're so excited to finally check out Disco Elysium for ourselves is largely down to the critical praise it received on PC. Sitting on a Metacritic rating of 91, there must be something special to this tale told entirely across just a couple of streets. "You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being." 24 different skills govern speech checks while clothing items and tools help to shape the character you want to be. Player choice really is at the heart of this one.
Death, sex, taxes and disco – nothing is off the table. Revachol is a real place with real challenges. Solve a massive murder investigation, or relax and kick back with sprawling side-cases. The detective decides, the citizens abide.
Again, we'll be able to play Disco Elysium in March 2021. What sort of character will you role play as? Pass the speech check in the comments below.
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This is absolutely up there with the best games of the 2010s. Extremely deep mechanics, a great art style and soundtrack and one of the most engrossing scripts in a video game period. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s ever played an RPG.
Looking forward to experiencing this highly-acclaimed game.
I've been meaning to check this out. It will be the perfect whisky chaser to 2077's pint.
this was the best announcement of the show
Excited to finally get to become an absolute disaster of a human being!
To be fair it's pretty irrelevant whether you wow the critics or not - they aren't gamers. 🤷🏻♂️
@InsertGoodName I’m sure Liam, Sammy, Robert and the many other contributors to reviews on this site over the years would disagree with you. By definition, critics love the media they review to the point that they expose themselves to enough to be able to somewhat objectively judge based on its merits. They play more games than your average consumer by quite a margin. This horrid and downright wrong attitude wouldn’t be making the rounds if Ghost of Tsushima won at TGA, it just wouldn’t. If you’re such a ‘gamer’ compared to critics who do this for a living, why don’t you write reviews? Why don’t you tell the critics how to do their job?
By that theory, all car reviewers are rally drivers, all washing machine reviews are Bosch engineers, all food reviewers would be chefs.....I could go on but you get the point. Maybe.
Is this game suitable for console? the text is too small to watch on TV
@Melankolis This is my main worry for the port.
Have to say had no idea about this before but looks absolutely my kind of game and without doubt will be on my purchase list. 2021 is going to be a difficult year to play everything I want. A great problem to have really.
This is brilliant news, been wanting to play this for a while. Plus I've just found out British Sea Power did the soundtrack, who were one of my favourite bands back in the day. Great stuff.
Been waiting on this info. Personal most anticipated of 2021 right here.
@InsertGoodName Straw man argument - the analogous example to what you said would be all game reviewers are pro-esports players.
The reality is most car reviewers are car enthusiasts, most food reviewers are gourmands, most washing machine reviewers are... dull. /jk
Most game reviewers are gaming enthusiasts aka gamers.
I could go on but you get the point. Maybe
@nessisonett Agreed.
@Melankolis I can only assume (hope) that this will be one of several changes, madness not to. Particularly in this ever more accessible gaming world
@themightyant I agree with you regarding text size, these devs seem to know what they're doing and it's not as if text size hasn't been an issue with games ported from PC before so I'd be surprised if they haven't rectified it for the console release.
Looks good. Can characters die during investigation or such? How many consequences are there?
@riccyb0y Or on second thought maybe this is why they added full voice acting (hope not)
Also just noticed this is likely another PS paid timed exclusive. Odd that it's not announced for Xbox too as it's been on PC. (boo. Inclusivity over exclusivity)
@themightyant I did think that too but I think voice acting is just something that you'd expect in a AAA game and they probably didn't have the resources when they developed the game initially.
Summer 2021 for Xbox.
@riccyb0y Summer 2021 for Xbox
(sorry Xbox friends... but could be worse... Project Athia 2 years... whelp)
My kind of game I'll buy it for sure!
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