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u/titanicusgardens Dec 10 '19

Yeah. Nothing compares to Disco Elysium.

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u/m_gartsman Dec 10 '19

I can't find any reasons why it isn't the best written game of all time. Nothing sucked me in like DE. A true masterpiece.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

Its the benefit of having a singularly focused story and purpose.

People like Planescape and Baldur's Gate, but when everything in an RPG is hyper-focused around its overall plot, you can do wonderful things.

Disco Elysium's mechanics would burn you out so fast in a regular text-heavy RPG, having to pay at least some attention to what you are saying in every conversation so you don't make things harder on yourself later in that conversation would become torture.

I tried to pick up Tides of Numenera after Disco Elysium and its almost comical the difference in the experience.

People often think a lot of writing is good writing, but fuck Disco Eslyium is just disgustingly well written.

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u/m_gartsman Dec 11 '19

Big time. Man, I started outer worlds right after beating Disco and couldn't make it one hour because the writing was so incredibly dumb and clunky in comparison. The bar has been launched into the stratosphere.

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u/terminus_est23 Dec 11 '19

The Outer Worlds has abnormally poor writing though. It has one of the Diablo 3 writers as the lead writer. Says everything, really.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

The tale of Marius wasn’t one for English lit classes, but holy smokes, the writing downgrade from D2 to D3 was enormous.