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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#76: Dec 10th 2020 at 6:05:38 PM

I bought the game a year ago and made it through the first day (and really enjoyed it) before getting blindsided by life, and haven't gotten back around to it yet, but all the updates since then - and now this - seem to have made holding off worth it.

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#77: Dec 11th 2020 at 6:01:13 AM

I haven't heard anything about there being an expansion in first place so having free "oh hey we did well, let's update content a bit" editions is nice [lol]

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#78: Dec 11th 2020 at 6:06:38 AM

Let's be clear: everyone is begging for a sequel and/or expansion, but I don't think the developers have committed to either yet. I'm a little leery of fans trying to turn this into a franchise by sheer will. It's an amazing game, but you can't force creativity.

Edited by Fighteer on Dec 11th 2020 at 9:07:26 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#79: Dec 11th 2020 at 6:33:46 AM

They've books and allegedly are working on a TV series. They certainly have the background for more.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#80: Dec 11th 2020 at 6:38:06 AM

Like as far as I know, the ending of the game does have weird foreshadowing to "something" going to happen in the future, but devs haven't said anything about sequel just said ideas for what kind of game they might do next (iirc one of ideas was playing as pregnant woman)

Loureed45 from The Green Chapel Since: Feb, 2017
#81: Dec 11th 2020 at 6:39:41 AM

I hope they bring Matt Christman back to voice all of Titus's lines, he's my favorite chapo and the one who did the best in voice acting

Well, him and Felix doing that RIGHT TO WORK guy

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Unsung it's a living from a tenement of clay Since: Jun, 2016
it's a living
#82: Dec 11th 2020 at 7:15:09 AM

The devs have mentioned working on, or wanting to work on, some kind of sequel/expansion in a few interviews/devposts/tweets and so on. Might have turned into this, but it might have been something more. Something featuring a pregnant woman as your main character has come up a few times (not in the game itself, but in conversations with ZA/UM elsewhere), and then there's that Delta Logistics Company truck and the conversation about the Cocaine Skull, which at least throws a lampshade on the devs wanting to add some DLC, whether or not they'll actually do it.

I don't necessarily want this to turn into a conventional franchise, or anything. Just eager for whatever ZA/UM does next, whether that's more of Harry's story, the story of someone else set in this same universe, or something else entirely.

Edited by Unsung on Dec 11th 2020 at 8:58:18 AM

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#83: Dec 11th 2020 at 7:22:34 AM

I can definitely get behind more of [ZA/UM] regardles of whether they continue [HDB]'s story or not, but the setting so far is fascinating and I doubt they'd stray far from it.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
TheAmazingBlachman Since: Dec, 2011
#84: Mar 18th 2021 at 6:07:01 AM

It is official: The Final Cut version is going to arrive on March 30. With extra quests, new areas and NPCs, and every line voiced.

We're all still aliens.
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#85: Mar 18th 2021 at 6:37:51 AM

So sweet. I can't wait.

They must have punched it up: I don't recognize a lot of those animations even in scenes that are in the original.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 18th 2021 at 9:38:18 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Unsung it's a living from a tenement of clay Since: Jun, 2016
it's a living
#86: Mar 18th 2021 at 7:48:04 AM

Very curious to know what exactly that new content is going to be. Bated breath.

TheAmazingBlachman Since: Dec, 2011
#87: Mar 19th 2021 at 9:35:56 AM

Addendum: It would seem that new quests, areas, and characters aren't the only new things in the Final Cut. ZA/UM just released a couple of new soundtrack pieces from British Sea Power. They are really going all in on this.

We're all still aliens.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#88: Mar 19th 2021 at 11:38:05 AM

[up]DISCO ELYSIUM GOLDEN

Edited by kkhohoho on Mar 19th 2021 at 1:38:30 PM

Unsung it's a living from a tenement of clay Since: Jun, 2016
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#89: Mar 30th 2021 at 12:51:21 PM

Final Cut came out a few hours ago, just a heads-up in case anyone forgot like me. Liking the new narrator, and more Kim's gonna be great, I can just tell. Shame they couldn't have gotten the same actors back for Garte and Lena, but scheduling is what it is. The new Klaasje is pretty close. Little bit of British slipping through, but pretty close.

Wabbawabbajack Margrave of the Marshes from Elbows out Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
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#90: Mar 30th 2021 at 4:19:01 PM

So if I already purchased this game, do I just download an update or do I have to pay for it?

Edited by Wabbawabbajack on Mar 30th 2021 at 7:19:11 AM

lrrose Since: Jul, 2009
#91: Mar 30th 2021 at 4:23:55 PM

It’s a free update, so as long as you have the game you’ll be set once the patch is installed.

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#92: Mar 30th 2021 at 4:32:07 PM

[up][up]The download was automatically set up a la a patch for me

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#94: Mar 31st 2021 at 7:33:22 AM

I got myself started yesterday. I went with a sensitive and average intelligence, and im spending all my points on motorics.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#95: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:06:18 AM

I was all into this game until finding out that the world they're in is going to be sucked into an insanity blackhole, now I just to be done with the game. I don't know why anyone would even add that to the story, it doesn't have anything to do with the investigation, it just makes the whole thing feel futile.

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#96: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:09:13 AM

You mean the Pale? You have to understand that Disco Elysium is set in an RPG universe that the developers have been building for years. To us it's a single story (well, a ton of stories crammed together into a single product), but within its own setting it's just a tiny fraction of the whole.

While everything appears bleak and a certain amount of nihilism is certainly justified, it is not a foregone conclusion that everything is going to end in nonexistence. Even if it is, the Warhammer 40K universe lives on that and people still enjoy it.

Worth noting: You are broadly correct that the murder mystery is not the main story; the main story is the quest for identity. It is entirely reasonable and intended for that to feel bleak and hopeless.

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 14th 2021 at 12:10:42 PM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Yumil Mad Archivist Since: Mar, 2016
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#97: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:11:27 AM

[up][up]I'm pretty sure that's not even what the game is saying, though ?

like, I'm pretty sure that one of the same conversations that goes on in details about what the Pale actually is mentions it does recede, over time. After the world, the Pale, after the Pale, the world again.

I'm also not too sure I'd call the story of the game all that hopeless either. Bleak certainly, but depending how things play out, it definitely hits a "light at the end of the tunnel, things can get better" feel.

Edited by Yumil on Apr 14th 2021 at 6:12:55 PM

"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."
Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#98: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:22:55 AM

I was hoping the hole in the church is a sign that the effect can be reversed, that the experiments with the music show it can be manipulated.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#99: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:23:48 AM

I took it as a metaphor (which may just be my own theorizing, or I may have read it somewhere else) for climate change - a massive problem that’s gradually getting worse and worse, but one that everyone just appears to be ignoring. Not a perfect metaphor, mind you, but that’s how the way Joyce described it struck me.

It certainly struck a chord of existential horror in me, but nothing that I felt was out of step with the game itself. It’s an element that likely be expanded on in any future works set in this universe, and as long as that’s a possibility, I’d hesitate it inevitable, even if it looks like that on the surface. And even if it is...well, death is inevitable too, but that doesn’t mean that everything we do on this Earth is futile.

Oh God! Natural light!
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#100: Apr 14th 2021 at 9:24:37 AM

I mean. By that logic, never get out of bed because of the looming heat death of the universe. I suggest you get to the end. Maybe as I have, you will get to see it as a strangely uplifting story of discovery in a world where there is so much failure.

But yes, just cuz there's some bleak subjects being touched, doesn't mean it's a crapsack world - and even if it is a crapsack world (or a crapsack city, or a crapsack situation), it does little to detract from the story and world at large.

Edited by Aszur on Apr 14th 2021 at 10:25:09 AM

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

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