Disco Elysium

This timeline sucks. Just goes to make you appreciate Disco a little bit more

Dear Larian, please buy the rights to Disco. Thanks.

Rubbish news but I think any sequel would really have struggled to live up to the first. Would love to be proved wrong some day.

Yeah, I'm not sure Larian would be able to get the tone of it. It's melancholy and adult and dense in a way that is very different to what they normally bring out.

I think they would be best placed to have a stab at it though. The writing in BG3 is consistently excellent. The bits show they can have fun with the weird. With the brief of going full Disco bonkers, I'd be up for seeing what they could manage. Heck, even recruit some of the old writers who left under a cloud (assuming they aren't impossible to work with).

Must admit I've never _really_ been hooked by Obsidian's writing, but agree they have more experience of less conventional games writing.

Totally agree. I love BG3, but Disco Elysium is a very different style of game. I laughed so much playing, but it also was a deeply sad game. The character you play is such a broken man. I can't see Larian getting that balance between humour, often slapstick, and melancholy.

Obsidian would probably be better, but even them I could see getting political angle more than the human angle of it.

Sad to see the studio go like this, but I'm ok with Disco Elysium being a one off thing. It's a special game and I'm not sure lightning would have struck twice.

The fuck does Cuno care (he definitely cares 😔)?

That said, lightning in a bottle is right. It would have been almost impossible to have bettered DE, funnier than all the other games I've ever played combined and also so miserable. Just total magic. Must play it again.

;_;

Opened the thread wishfully hoping there would be a link to a news article saying ZA/UM employees bury hatchet, Disco 2 announced.

Reading about it looks like this made loads of money. 3.3 million sold just on steam. So it wasn’t money issues that have ruined the possibility of a sequel or other titles in a similar style.

As if by magic.

Fingers crossed

That is fucking weird. Those reports emerged like two hours ago. pierre, you must've literally invoked them.

They should all drink some Disco Releasium, right? Haha, right, guys?

Ok, nevermind...

Just finished it.
Great experience for sure but was a little disappointed. Had huge expectations after all the awards but also after how much I loved the first day of the game. In the end I just got really bored. So much fetch work and every character had some deep lengthy conversation to debate. I loved that on day one but by day three I was wanting to just do the detective work/discover what happens.
I mostly messed up a major but because I didn’t do just one little thing I missed but managed to scrape a satisfying ending via a bit of luck.
Very glad I invested everything in the top brainy area and also in perception etc.
maybe a 7 as I really was genuinely so bored for the whole middle chunk after loving the beginning and really enjoying the final section.