i still haven’t finished this game because i don’t want it to be over. even though i haven’t played it in months, i can take comfort in knowing im not truly done with it
I sympathise with you here, and I won’t urge you to finish it (because I know it’s not that simple), but I do hope that you are able to some day, because the ending of the game is one of the things that is dear to my heart in the game (I am curious at what the furthest you’ve gotten in it is). It’s not even that the ending is good — the reason I love it is because of how it hurts: it hurts because it means the game is finally over, and it also hurts because the characters in the game don’t get the closure of an ending. Disco Elysium actually feels tremendously hopeful to me, but it’s a weary, desperate kind of hope, because Revachol is sick and struggling; Martinaise, depressing shit hole that it is, reminds me of home — I say this with equal parts bitterness and affection. You would probably take away something different from the ending than I did, which is why I hope that you are able to experience it some day.
I literally only finished the entire game recently because of that. I would go for 2 or 3 days then start over and do everything entirely differently. I have now pretty much seen every single way you can play through the game. Every success and failure, every cop-o-type, etc. This is how a narrative-driven RPG should be. Everything down to what you’re wearing can change things dramatically.
What really got me hooked was playing with a super high Encyclopedia skill so you get pages and pages of world building exposition with almost every action or dialogue option you do. The world the game is set in is gnarly!
yeah i have been having that problem too. i kept making new characters and reloading saves to see what would happen. i know it ends up making the experience worse but i just can’t help myself. i need to know. i also need to have all the fun stat boosting items and then i find myself optimizing the fun out of the game.
i still haven’t finished this game because i don’t want it to be over. even though i haven’t played it in months, i can take comfort in knowing im not truly done with it
There’s more to see if you go through it as a different “character”
my problem goes deeper than you might initially expect. i have made many many characters for this game. however, none of them have finished it
Have you ever thought about finishing them off at the same time?
I’ve seen some documentaries about this.
I sympathise with you here, and I won’t urge you to finish it (because I know it’s not that simple), but I do hope that you are able to some day, because the ending of the game is one of the things that is dear to my heart in the game (I am curious at what the furthest you’ve gotten in it is). It’s not even that the ending is good — the reason I love it is because of how it hurts: it hurts because it means the game is finally over, and it also hurts because the characters in the game don’t get the closure of an ending. Disco Elysium actually feels tremendously hopeful to me, but it’s a weary, desperate kind of hope, because Revachol is sick and struggling; Martinaise, depressing shit hole that it is, reminds me of home — I say this with equal parts bitterness and affection. You would probably take away something different from the ending than I did, which is why I hope that you are able to experience it some day.
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi
Hearing the first three notes of Instrument Of Surrender is still enough to send me into a melancholic episode.
I still haven’t finished this game because the variety of choices and behavior gives me paralyzing FOMO
I literally only finished the entire game recently because of that. I would go for 2 or 3 days then start over and do everything entirely differently. I have now pretty much seen every single way you can play through the game. Every success and failure, every cop-o-type, etc. This is how a narrative-driven RPG should be. Everything down to what you’re wearing can change things dramatically.
What really got me hooked was playing with a super high Encyclopedia skill so you get pages and pages of world building exposition with almost every action or dialogue option you do. The world the game is set in is gnarly!
I wish i took my time with my first playthrough more. I enjoyed it too much that i rushed through.
yeah i have been having that problem too. i kept making new characters and reloading saves to see what would happen. i know it ends up making the experience worse but i just can’t help myself. i need to know. i also need to have all the fun stat boosting items and then i find myself optimizing the fun out of the game.
You can replay it, you know.