WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.919 We are a weekly podcast, soul of a gamer. Hey, 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.500 I'm smart this time. I did this time. Let's not 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:12.859 go that far. I will fuck it up again. I love 00:00:12.859 --> 00:00:14.859 pressing that button. That was my favorite part. 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:21.039 This game gets really fucking weird. Yeah, so 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:22.739 you do acid and then you go into the hamster 00:00:22.739 --> 00:00:27.239 suit. And this week is Night Trap. Night Trap. 00:00:27.579 --> 00:00:31.120 They're right behind you, Night Trap. Ten -year 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.399 -old birthday party. Next scene, kill the kid. 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:42.219 You got to kill the kid. Sha -la -la -la -la 00:00:42.219 --> 00:00:45.840 -la, car is coming. Throw your body into the 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.420 car and die. All I could do every time I was 00:00:49.420 --> 00:00:52.020 playing Ethan was just start walking around and 00:00:52.020 --> 00:01:01.240 go, Jason! Oh, God. I mean, yaller. Yaller? Yaller. 00:01:01.619 --> 00:01:04.799 Have you ever seen South Park? I mean, I've seen 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:06.680 South Park. I don't know if I've seen that South 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.819 Park. It's an episode with Tyler Perry. Oh, I 00:01:10.819 --> 00:01:12.159 don't know if I've seen that one. It's like the 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:13.900 only people who bothered to show up to the comedy 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:16.760 awards were Tyler Perry and me, a fourth grader. 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.299 Okay. They were shitting on Tyler Perry and they 00:01:22.299 --> 00:01:24.099 put him in like a steel box at the end of the 00:01:24.099 --> 00:01:26.989 episode. They saved the world from him. fair 00:01:26.989 --> 00:01:29.950 i mean it's so funny tyler perry's just done 00:01:29.950 --> 00:01:32.310 a lot of shit like some of it's okay some of 00:01:32.310 --> 00:01:34.969 it's meh some of it's really bad i think he's 00:01:34.969 --> 00:01:37.329 done so much that there's probably five percent 00:01:37.329 --> 00:01:40.109 that works really well and then the rest of it's 00:01:40.109 --> 00:01:42.390 complete garbage and i feel like somewhere in 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:44.989 the middle he started off really strong and then 00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:49.069 it just went whoa medea went to prison came out 00:01:49.069 --> 00:01:53.989 you're just like okay come on come on guy I just 00:01:53.989 --> 00:01:55.810 couldn't believe how far he went with Madea and 00:01:55.810 --> 00:01:57.930 how many Madea movies and TV shows and stuff 00:01:57.930 --> 00:01:59.390 he made. I was like, what in the world? I like 00:01:59.390 --> 00:02:01.870 to call it the Adam Sandler effect. It's just 00:02:01.870 --> 00:02:04.269 that they take their comedy to such a point where 00:02:04.269 --> 00:02:06.049 you know it's not going to be funny, but they 00:02:06.049 --> 00:02:09.409 still try. I mean, it's somehow still successful 00:02:09.409 --> 00:02:11.669 in a lot of those times, though, too. Well, remember 00:02:11.669 --> 00:02:15.699 Jack and Jill? Yeah. Yeah. See, that wasn't successful. 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:18.360 That's around the time that Medea was huge when 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:20.939 like everyone was doing that. Like, well, you 00:02:20.939 --> 00:02:22.539 know, Eddie Murphy kind of started this whole 00:02:22.539 --> 00:02:24.840 thing with the Nutty Professor, I feel like, 00:02:24.860 --> 00:02:26.840 where he played every role in the family. Yeah. 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:29.159 Yeah. Everyone's like, well, we can do that, 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.639 too. And then it does not work out well. No, 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.860 it doesn't really. I don't. Also, it just doesn't 00:02:35.860 --> 00:02:38.169 bring a lot of variety to it. Even if you're 00:02:38.169 --> 00:02:39.669 acting a bunch of different ways, it's still 00:02:39.669 --> 00:02:42.250 you every time. It's still aesthetically you. 00:02:42.409 --> 00:02:44.889 You have to be a fucking phenomenal actor to 00:02:44.889 --> 00:02:47.389 really bring that out. And Adam Sandler is not 00:02:47.389 --> 00:02:49.990 a phenomenal actor. He has phenomenal roles, 00:02:50.210 --> 00:02:55.129 but he's not a phenomenal actor. I guess I agree 00:02:55.129 --> 00:02:59.349 with that. He's definitely shown up. at times 00:02:59.349 --> 00:03:02.370 to be really great. Yeah. Like there's select 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:04.330 movies where you're like, Holy shit. Is he, how 00:03:04.330 --> 00:03:06.969 is he not a fucking professional actor? Yeah. 00:03:07.050 --> 00:03:08.650 Like you watch him in uncut gyms and you're like, 00:03:08.750 --> 00:03:11.949 um, wait, you couldn't do serious shit. Like, 00:03:11.949 --> 00:03:14.430 but I think that's a lot of direction. I think 00:03:14.430 --> 00:03:16.710 it's like the director really matters for those. 00:03:16.810 --> 00:03:18.550 Cause he's not an actor who can take it. It's 00:03:18.550 --> 00:03:21.289 like, uh, you know, you cast Emily Blunt in a 00:03:21.289 --> 00:03:22.509 movie and you know, you're going to get this 00:03:22.509 --> 00:03:25.610 like really strong woman who is also like very 00:03:25.610 --> 00:03:28.169 powerful. And she doesn't like, deviate from 00:03:28.169 --> 00:03:30.370 that role too often unless she does a comedy. 00:03:30.849 --> 00:03:34.110 True. And when she does that, you could tell, 00:03:34.129 --> 00:03:37.009 oh, you're not a good actress. You don't change 00:03:37.009 --> 00:03:41.050 the type of roles you do at all. Yeah, I mean, 00:03:41.090 --> 00:03:43.530 besides I think Devil Wears Prada, she's a little 00:03:43.530 --> 00:03:45.050 bitchy in that, and she does that pretty well. 00:03:45.449 --> 00:03:48.169 But even like if you watch all the cuts and like 00:03:48.169 --> 00:03:50.150 takes of that, like all the behind the scenes, 00:03:50.289 --> 00:03:52.610 she's laughing throughout every take. She's like, 00:03:52.650 --> 00:03:54.990 I can't actually like say this. I feel so bad 00:03:54.990 --> 00:03:57.189 being so mean. Like it feels so disingenuine. 00:03:57.629 --> 00:04:00.370 It's not like and he gets a lot of flack, but 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:03.250 I will throw fucking. Oh, what's his name from? 00:04:04.490 --> 00:04:08.830 Ah, shit. Well, what's the. Yes, the person. 00:04:08.949 --> 00:04:10.789 God damn it. He's an actor. He's a musician. 00:04:12.330 --> 00:04:16.529 Jared Leto. Yeah, Jared Leto. Wow, okay. Yeah, 00:04:16.589 --> 00:04:18.970 well, he's the only one who's really famous for 00:04:18.970 --> 00:04:23.970 both, you know? Yeah. He's an incredible actor. 00:04:24.069 --> 00:04:27.910 He gets really into his fucking roles, but often 00:04:27.910 --> 00:04:29.670 he goes, like, a step too far, and that's why 00:04:29.670 --> 00:04:32.750 they're bad. Yes, yes, yeah, I can agree with 00:04:32.750 --> 00:04:35.410 that, definitely. But he, like, if you ever read 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:37.550 the Suicide Squad story, guys, sorry, I know 00:04:37.550 --> 00:04:39.810 I don't know a lot about the game yet, but the 00:04:39.810 --> 00:04:42.629 Suicide Squad story where he's, like, he's coming 00:04:42.629 --> 00:04:45.100 out, no matter what time of day it is, dressed 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:47.779 in the full Joker apparel and then putting his 00:04:47.779 --> 00:04:49.939 balls in people's cereal while they're eating. 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.920 I heard he delivered a dead rat to somebody outside 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.720 of someone's trailer. Because he was selling 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.899 the roll he doesn't want to get out of it. And 00:04:58.899 --> 00:05:01.100 I'm just like, that's fucking sweet. That's cool. 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:05.829 But you take it a step too far. I mean, I'm all 00:05:05.829 --> 00:05:08.709 for staying in character to a certain degree, 00:05:08.930 --> 00:05:12.350 but also you need to have separation. You're 00:05:12.350 --> 00:05:14.829 right. That's that step too far. He's very serious, 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:17.870 but it doesn't translate well on screen, I think, 00:05:17.889 --> 00:05:21.370 is the problem. Yeah, that's fair. All right. 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:24.110 Well, that was our little ditty about Tyler Perry 00:05:24.110 --> 00:05:28.310 and Jared Leto and Adam Sandler. So here we are, 00:05:28.329 --> 00:05:30.779 our source soul of a gamer. Where we talk about 00:05:30.779 --> 00:05:33.980 games, not movies. And sometimes movies. And 00:05:33.980 --> 00:05:35.620 sometimes. And they don't even have to be game 00:05:35.620 --> 00:05:39.259 related. Yeah. I'm Scott. And I'm Steven. And 00:05:39.259 --> 00:05:40.800 every week we play a game, we tell you about 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.360 it. So this week we're going to be playing what, 00:05:43.459 --> 00:05:47.540 Steven? This week we were playing Disco Elysium. 00:05:47.939 --> 00:05:50.240 Yes. And we do hope you enjoyed our last week's 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.120 episode, which I believe was another Hot Takes. 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:54.079 Yes, it was. And our previous episode before 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.079 that was the Space Marine. Yes. Space Marine 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.220 2. Space Marine 2. We hope you enjoyed that one. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.399 We're coming at you with Disco Elysium, an RPG 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.240 adventure game. We'll talk about that right in 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:07.899 a second after we talk about what we've been 00:06:07.899 --> 00:06:12.279 playing this month. Essentially, it's a month 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:17.620 thing now. Pretty much, yeah. Last time I told 00:06:17.620 --> 00:06:20.040 you guys, I was playing South of Midnight, and 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.879 I beat that. It was really, really fantastically 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.769 good. And I've actually been playing two games. 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:30.470 I just actually even started playing Smite 2 00:06:30.470 --> 00:06:33.350 with my wife recently. I played a little bit 00:06:33.350 --> 00:06:35.250 of that and it was a lot of fun. It's just I 00:06:35.250 --> 00:06:37.029 don't understand the difference between that 00:06:37.029 --> 00:06:41.269 and Smite. So it looks exactly the same. It feels 00:06:41.269 --> 00:06:43.250 exactly the same. The characters essentially 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:45.970 do the same thing outside of several select characters 00:06:45.970 --> 00:06:48.529 that do a little bit different abilities. Yeah, 00:06:48.589 --> 00:06:51.790 it's a lot more. You can play anything in any 00:06:51.790 --> 00:06:56.000 role. Without it being magic and physical, being 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.120 strength and intelligence this time. I think 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.040 that was a good move by them. Yeah, it really 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.360 was. And then them also making different aspects. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:08.699 So you can actually change the character's abilities 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:12.980 in the game, which is interesting. Like one of 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:14.680 the characters that's a ranged character, you 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:15.779 can actually, if you want to play him in the 00:07:15.779 --> 00:07:17.680 jungle, it's actually better to have a cleaves 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.240 attacks. So you can change his basics to cleaves. 00:07:21.170 --> 00:07:22.870 That's cool. But then it takes away its range. 00:07:23.230 --> 00:07:25.470 I mean, that's kind of like Uler back in the 00:07:25.470 --> 00:07:28.750 day, right? Yeah, but this isn't like a switch 00:07:28.750 --> 00:07:30.930 stance that you do throughout the game. This 00:07:30.930 --> 00:07:33.230 is a one -time decision at the start of the game, 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:35.769 and that's how you play the rest of the game. 00:07:36.550 --> 00:07:39.509 Interesting. Yeah, so it's very different, very 00:07:39.509 --> 00:07:43.209 unique. The only problem I'm having right now 00:07:43.209 --> 00:07:46.050 is just the caliber of players in the game right 00:07:46.050 --> 00:07:51.240 now. Yeah. I played... Six games today, and of 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.959 those six games, someone on my team, every one 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:00.720 of the six games, went out, died a bunch of times, 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.259 complained about it, and then left. Yeah. yeah 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:08.120 and it was always on only my team every time 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:10.420 and i'm like why is this happening like why is 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:13.259 it always on my team like this is so stupid like 00:08:13.259 --> 00:08:15.920 it's so ridiculous i can't believe how bad these 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.579 guys my teammates are bad that's why i've died 00:08:18.579 --> 00:08:22.259 25 oh my god like this this one guy uh kept on 00:08:22.259 --> 00:08:25.240 getting ganked by the jungler which just happened 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:29.620 to be a poseidon yeah but he the solo laner kept 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:31.839 on saying the middle laner was missing because 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.580 he thinks poseidon can only be played in the 00:08:33.580 --> 00:08:36.269 mid lane So he's yelling at me the entire time, 00:08:36.330 --> 00:08:37.669 like, your middle laner's missing. I'm like, 00:08:37.710 --> 00:08:40.429 no, I'm fighting mine. He's right here. Never 00:08:40.429 --> 00:08:41.929 left the lane. He's in front of me. He loves 00:08:41.929 --> 00:08:45.169 me, actually. You're getting that at the jungler, 00:08:45.169 --> 00:08:48.970 not me. But, yeah, he, like, just did a bunch 00:08:48.970 --> 00:08:50.690 of shit, said a bunch of shit, and then just 00:08:50.690 --> 00:08:52.470 left the game. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. 00:08:53.529 --> 00:08:55.929 Just because there was a Poseidon that was attacking 00:08:55.929 --> 00:08:59.610 you. Yeah, that's stupid. Well, I've been playing. 00:08:59.929 --> 00:09:04.470 I'm back on Dragon Age Origins. So I tried, I 00:09:04.470 --> 00:09:07.309 tried, and I tried the rogue build that everyone 00:09:07.309 --> 00:09:10.309 told me to try, and it's just complete garbage. 00:09:10.450 --> 00:09:13.610 I cannot believe that. I don't know. I think 00:09:13.610 --> 00:09:15.590 it's just the way I build my companion characters. 00:09:16.110 --> 00:09:18.710 I don't think I built them well enough to be 00:09:18.710 --> 00:09:22.009 able to deal with the... Oh, okay, because you 00:09:22.009 --> 00:09:23.929 have to make them more frontliners or healing 00:09:23.929 --> 00:09:25.649 or something. Yeah, so the rogue... the point 00:09:25.649 --> 00:09:27.509 in the rogue that I wanted to build was just 00:09:27.509 --> 00:09:30.529 like a constant hit rogue. So you sacrifice like 00:09:30.529 --> 00:09:33.450 damage for just constantly hitting. So your DPS 00:09:33.450 --> 00:09:36.590 is really high. Okay. But there's no stun blocks. 00:09:36.610 --> 00:09:38.590 There's no resistance. There's no good armors. 00:09:38.590 --> 00:09:41.970 Like dragon age really does not sell a good DPS. 00:09:42.529 --> 00:09:45.210 And the two best characters that I've ever played 00:09:45.210 --> 00:09:47.350 in dragon age were a mage, which was really fucking 00:09:47.350 --> 00:09:50.090 hard. Cause then you have to like surround yourself 00:09:50.090 --> 00:09:55.019 with tanks and a, uh, a warrior which is like 00:09:55.019 --> 00:09:58.379 easy mode it's basically fucking easy mode because 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:01.360 okay whenever i play a warrior i do fantastic 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.279 okay because they really built the game to be 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.659 more warrior friendly so i'm back at i'm i wanted 00:10:07.659 --> 00:10:10.299 to play the because i played on xbox and i played 00:10:10.299 --> 00:10:12.080 a warrior and it was fun but i never finished 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.940 because they didn't have the dlca open to use 00:10:14.940 --> 00:10:20.080 okay um and instead now i'm gonna play a warrior 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.259 on the computer where i have all my dlc that 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:26.539 i need Nice. And that includes DLC for that and 00:10:26.539 --> 00:10:29.500 every single Dragon Age game. Oh, nice. Okay. 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.279 Yeah. Cool. So yeah, that's what I'm playing. 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:37.120 Nice. Cool, cool, cool. You want to jump into 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.960 the game? Yeah, tell us about the game. Okay, 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.279 so the story of Elysium, you play as Detective 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:47.100 Harrier. Sorry, I didn't write down the story 00:10:47.100 --> 00:10:50.120 this time because I forgot. Harrier something 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.700 something. Dubois or whatever Dubois yeah Harry 00:10:54.700 --> 00:10:58.659 or Dubois Harry or something Dubois and you are 00:10:58.659 --> 00:11:01.820 a detective in an action RPG where you are trying 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:03.879 to solve a murder case with the help of your 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.700 partner Kim as well as a slew of other characters 00:11:06.700 --> 00:11:10.220 who are there to support that's basically it 00:11:10.220 --> 00:11:11.980 that's all I want to give away because holy shit 00:11:11.980 --> 00:11:15.460 that game is fucking This game is fucking awesome, 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.500 and we'll get more into that in the review, but 00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:19.799 holy, I love this game. This was so much fun 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.659 to play. The story of Disco Elysium begins in 00:11:22.659 --> 00:11:26.220 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia. If you don't know where 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:28.320 that is, I had to look it up. It is in Russia. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.360 Oh, okay. That year, Robert Kervitz and a group 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.259 of his friends spent much of their time drinking 00:11:34.259 --> 00:11:36.200 together and discussing art, culture, and creative 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.840 work they wanted to pursue. Out of these conversations, 00:11:39.059 --> 00:11:41.690 they formed a collective known as Zaum. Now, 00:11:41.710 --> 00:11:43.789 this was not the official company. This is just 00:11:43.789 --> 00:11:46.889 a collective. They've just known as Zalm. Over 00:11:46.889 --> 00:11:50.490 the next decade, the group collaborated on a 00:11:50.490 --> 00:11:52.669 wide range of artistic projects, including writing, 00:11:52.750 --> 00:11:55.230 music, and exhibitions. But despite their ambitions, 00:11:55.450 --> 00:11:57.009 they did not create a video game during this 00:11:57.009 --> 00:12:00.230 period. one of their major early efforts was 00:12:00.230 --> 00:12:02.090 the creation of original tabletop role -playing 00:12:02.090 --> 00:12:04.629 game heavily inspired by the systems like dungeons 00:12:04.629 --> 00:12:07.330 and dragons they designed their own expansive 00:12:07.330 --> 00:12:09.669 fictional setting laying the foundation for what 00:12:09.669 --> 00:12:11.529 would later become the world of disco elysium 00:12:11.529 --> 00:12:14.210 so and when they explain this like it's crazy 00:12:14.210 --> 00:12:19.309 they start in like before middle ages time and 00:12:19.309 --> 00:12:22.129 then they like kind of soon realize well it'd 00:12:22.129 --> 00:12:23.730 be more fun in the middle ages and they tried 00:12:23.730 --> 00:12:26.909 that and they're like uh let's go with 1970s 00:12:26.909 --> 00:12:33.129 cop drama you know yeah they wanted to do a more 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:35.809 modern age rpg so they had a lot of fun with 00:12:35.809 --> 00:12:38.429 that and guys i say it's like dnd because that's 00:12:38.429 --> 00:12:41.350 like what they gave but honestly it sounds more 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:45.570 like uh uh what's the one in the future i always 00:12:45.570 --> 00:12:48.230 forget this for some reason cyberpunk or yeah 00:12:48.230 --> 00:12:52.360 well no it's not cyberpunk it's called um Whatever 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.179 it is, they use two D6s for all of their rolls 00:12:55.179 --> 00:12:58.000 or D6s for every single roll, and this game is 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.059 similar. They only use D6s. They do not use anything 00:13:01.059 --> 00:13:05.299 else. There is a D100 you can get in the game, 00:13:05.379 --> 00:13:09.500 but other than that, it's all D6 rolls. During 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:11.740 this time, Robert Kervitz wrote a novel set in 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:13.980 the same universe. The novel, however, was not 00:13:13.980 --> 00:13:16.539 a commercial success. Its failure had a major 00:13:16.539 --> 00:13:18.740 impact on Kervitz, leading him into a period 00:13:18.740 --> 00:13:21.350 of heavy alcoholism. It was around this time 00:13:21.350 --> 00:13:25.190 that Cowerkender's children suggested a new direction. 00:13:27.129 --> 00:13:29.730 They encouraged Kervitz to stop writing books 00:13:29.730 --> 00:13:32.009 and make a video game instead. Initially, Kervitz 00:13:32.009 --> 00:13:34.269 resisted the idea. He believed the game project 00:13:34.269 --> 00:13:36.190 would fail just as the novel had, and he was 00:13:36.190 --> 00:13:39.570 reluctant to begin again. Nonetheless, by 2014, 00:13:39.789 --> 00:13:41.429 the team committed to making a video game based 00:13:41.429 --> 00:13:44.950 on their shared creative world. There was a great 00:13:44.950 --> 00:13:49.059 quote in there where they talk about... There's 00:13:49.059 --> 00:13:51.019 a guy on the team called Coward. I mentioned 00:13:51.019 --> 00:13:53.179 that there. And Coward is the creative director. 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.000 And Coward's kids, they're trying to write books 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.240 and stories based on the tabletop game they wrote. 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.320 And Coward's kids are like, why are you writing 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.659 books? Books are stupid. You should do video 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:06.799 games instead. It's just like the funniest quote 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.940 you've ever heard. Books are stupid. Books are 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:12.649 stupid. From the start, the development process 00:14:12.649 --> 00:14:15.169 faced major financial challenges. Estonia had 00:14:15.169 --> 00:14:16.990 a small gaming industry at the time with only 00:14:16.990 --> 00:14:19.330 one other notable game studio in the country, 00:14:19.470 --> 00:14:22.649 making experienced developers hard to find. Funding 00:14:22.649 --> 00:14:24.909 was scarce to help finance the project. And I 00:14:24.909 --> 00:14:28.490 don't understand this part at all. They didn't 00:14:28.490 --> 00:14:31.149 go into why this happened or how he got this. 00:14:31.740 --> 00:14:35.100 He's a poor dude who can't pay his rent. That's 00:14:35.100 --> 00:14:38.639 what the story is. Everything I found about him 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.960 was he's poor. He can't pay his rent. He's barely 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.620 living, scraping by, getting donations from friends. 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.799 To help finance the project, Kervitz sold his 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:54.759 Ferrari. I'm like, how did you have a Ferrari? 00:14:55.980 --> 00:14:59.379 Some people keep that one possession. But where 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:01.860 did he get it in the first place? Maybe it was 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:06.080 the heirloom. It had to be. Based on everything, 00:15:06.259 --> 00:15:09.580 he was homeless, essentially. I don't know where 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:10.720 the fuck he got this from. I've seen people who 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:15.259 were kind of successful or their parents were 00:15:15.259 --> 00:15:18.120 successful and they had a car and they kept that 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.700 car even when they went to shit afterwards. yeah 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:23.000 it's just it's it's so interesting i just can't 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:27.179 it's very interesting uh but i mean oh go ahead 00:15:27.179 --> 00:15:29.840 i was gonna say i mean that's cool of him though 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.899 like i guess i'll just sell my ferrari to pay 00:15:31.899 --> 00:15:34.360 for this right he probably bought a shit ton 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.220 more after the game exploded uh his personal 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:39.559 investment signaled the seriousness of the project 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:41.440 and soon after investors began to show interest 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.559 to minimize costs zelm based their operations 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.740 in an abandoned art gallery in talon where they 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:51.480 did not have to pay rent It's rare. I don't know, 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.360 and it didn't explain where they got the electricity 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.659 or anything from, but I'm very curious where 00:15:55.659 --> 00:15:58.320 they got it from. Maybe just generators. Maybe, 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.139 like just oil. Because again, it's Russia, and 00:16:01.139 --> 00:16:03.620 it's a very poor area in Russia. Estonia is not 00:16:03.620 --> 00:16:07.700 a rich area at all. Kervitz and his lead artist 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:10.379 shared a workspace, allowing them to collaborate 00:16:10.379 --> 00:16:13.059 closely. All the game's art was hand -painted, 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.399 a decision driven by Kervitz's admiration for 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.759 the artist's style. So you'll see while playing 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:21.019 the game, the overlay art it's all hand painted 00:16:21.019 --> 00:16:23.559 art none of it's computer generated none of it's 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:28.379 like used from I believe is it is it Unity the 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:30.879 Unity engine that has all those like presets 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.559 for set I think so I think so so none of that 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.220 shit it's all hand painted art scenes which I 00:16:37.220 --> 00:16:38.919 mean you can kind of definitely tell especially 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:40.960 in a lot of the different like artworks and stuff 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.360 that you see it looks painted Very much so. Kervitz's 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:47.240 vision for the game was heavily influenced by 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.320 his love of investigative role -playing missions 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:51.899 and titles like The Witcher series and Baldur's 00:16:51.899 --> 00:16:55.559 Gate 2. He also drew from literary realism, especially 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.899 with the works of Emil Zola, which emphasize 00:16:57.899 --> 00:16:59.700 human suffering and the struggles of everyday 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:02.259 life. Additionally, the political spirit of the 00:17:02.259 --> 00:17:04.819 1990s Estonian punk bands helped shape the game's 00:17:04.819 --> 00:17:06.500 tone and themes, which I thought was really funny. 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.440 All the punk bands were political. I'm like, 00:17:09.500 --> 00:17:11.960 aren't all punk bands political? Like, isn't 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.160 that just punk? That's just kind of what punk 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.339 is a lot of times. So one of the most ambitious 00:17:18.339 --> 00:17:20.599 features the team created was the thought cabinet, 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:22.640 which allowed players to collect and internalize 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.319 philosophical ideas rather than looting items 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.599 from defeated enemies. Developing this system 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:30.640 almost exhausted the project's finances. Literally, 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:34.160 they said this was the one thing they wanted 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.039 to keep. If it took all of the money, they would 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.920 do this one thing. And it was really cool. And 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:42.380 I am 100 % on board because I thought this was 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:45.319 so much cooler than looting enemies. Yeah, for 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.539 sure. Reading and dialogue were central to the 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:51.059 experience they wanted to deliver. The team designed 00:17:51.059 --> 00:17:54.200 the game's text boxes to resemble Twitter's format, 00:17:54.380 --> 00:17:56.220 believing this would make reading large amounts 00:17:56.220 --> 00:17:58.920 of text feel more natural to modern audiences. 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:03.880 It's fair. It's fair. Literally, they said they 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.200 spent like 50 or 60 hours researching how to 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.160 present text to players because they were so 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:15.740 worried that the game would... feel so overburdened 00:18:15.740 --> 00:18:17.880 that they're like, okay, how can we get people 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:25.680 with no extension... What am I... Attention span. 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:31.259 To read what we want them to read. True. That 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:34.119 and just the amount that you're reading not having 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.259 it affect your eyes or be painful in the eyes. 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:39.460 You need to have differences. Twitter's one of 00:18:39.460 --> 00:18:40.920 those things that people would just scroll through 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.099 for fucking hours reading. True. essentially 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:47.240 horse shit so yeah at least sometimes you're 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.460 going through the list of 80 000 comments reading 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:51.759 all 80 000 i'm like oh my god these people are 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.039 awful They worked carefully to strike a balance 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.000 between providing deep information and avoiding 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.680 player overload. The game was built using the 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.619 Unity engine and incorporated motion capture 00:19:01.619 --> 00:19:04.059 for its character animations, allowing for more 00:19:04.059 --> 00:19:07.000 realistic movement without excessive cost. So 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.019 they didn't do motion capture for like the faces 00:19:09.019 --> 00:19:11.599 or anything. They just did it for the tiny movements 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.839 that you'll do. So there was a part in the game 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.779 where you can dance in the church. The dancing's 00:19:16.779 --> 00:19:19.019 really funny. And all of that is like based on 00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:22.799 what they danced in real life. Nice. It's pretty 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.220 fucking funny. Yeah. In 2016, Zalm officially 00:19:26.220 --> 00:19:28.420 incorporated as a company and secured its first 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:30.920 round of venture capital funding. With this funding, 00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:33.400 they hired the British band British Sea Power 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:35.880 to compose the game's soundtrack. After meeting 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:38.299 the band in Birmingham, England, the Zalm team 00:19:38.299 --> 00:19:40.359 found the environment welcoming and they decided 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.420 to relocate their headquarters there. So if they 00:19:43.420 --> 00:19:45.319 never hired this team, they would have never 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.059 moved to England and this game probably never 00:19:47.059 --> 00:19:48.599 would have been successful, by the way. That's 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:53.019 crazy. Yeah. It is fucking crazy. In 2017, they 00:19:53.019 --> 00:19:54.700 announced their game under the working title 00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:58.519 No Truce with the Furies. And so this one video 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.019 I listened to on it. Yeah. He does not say Furies, 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.960 right? He says Furries. Nice. So luckily I double 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:07.779 checked the smelling because I'm like, why the 00:20:07.779 --> 00:20:10.579 fuck would they name it No Truce for the Furries? 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.759 Because. I did not get that at all playing the 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:17.779 game. Right. The Furries come to play. You know. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.119 It was good. It was funny. I thought it was a 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.079 pretty good little thing. He had a very, I'm 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:23.900 guessing he was Russian. He had a very deep accent. 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:26.640 Yeah, that's fair. Initially, the project had 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:28.460 a smaller scope, but with additional investment, 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:30.279 they expanded the world, writing and technical 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:32.500 ambitions. As a result, the release date was 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:34.740 pushed back. To manage the complexity of the 00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:37.019 game's branching dialogue system, the team used, 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:38.859 and I didn't know this was a thing, by the way, 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.579 because when we talked about the Gods game, they 00:20:42.579 --> 00:20:46.460 wrote out all of their dialogue shit. They didn't 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:50.380 use a system for it. Yeah. So they're branching 00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:51.960 dialogue, whatever, where they said they had 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:53.880 like a million choices. It took them hours on 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:57.440 end. This team used a specialized tool called 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:02.740 Articy, which essentially helps you keep track 00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:05.839 of branching dialogue. Oh, well, that's cool. 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.819 And I was like, why didn't the god people use 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:10.519 this? I don't quite understand. Maybe they didn't 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.119 know about it, or maybe they didn't have, I don't 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.650 know. As soon as I heard that, I was like, that's 00:21:17.650 --> 00:21:19.430 weird that other people don't use this if they 00:21:19.430 --> 00:21:22.829 have a shit ton of branching dialogue. Maybe 00:21:22.829 --> 00:21:24.809 some people think they can keep track of it all 00:21:24.809 --> 00:21:27.769 on their own. Maybe. You probably can. It's just 00:21:27.769 --> 00:21:30.490 fucking harder. And this way, all the branching 00:21:30.490 --> 00:21:33.289 dialogue is written in a single piece of programming 00:21:33.289 --> 00:21:35.450 that anyone can access. So they can be like, 00:21:35.509 --> 00:21:37.130 okay, so this branch is here. But what if we 00:21:37.130 --> 00:21:39.250 add this now, too? And you can put notes in there. 00:21:39.609 --> 00:21:42.789 It just seems like a much better idea. Oh, yeah, 00:21:42.829 --> 00:21:45.930 for sure. That's why it works so well. Despite 00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:48.029 feedback from others suggesting that the game's 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:49.910 darker themes, such as addiction, existential 00:21:49.910 --> 00:21:52.470 despair, and mental illness, might limit its 00:21:52.470 --> 00:21:54.930 audience, Kervitz refused to remove or censor 00:21:54.930 --> 00:21:57.529 these elements. He remained committed to portraying 00:21:57.529 --> 00:22:00.309 the world in full without compromise. Which I 00:22:00.309 --> 00:22:03.250 appreciate a lot. Yes, I do too. Because honestly, 00:22:03.410 --> 00:22:05.869 that added a whole layer of like, oh my god, 00:22:05.890 --> 00:22:08.329 this is so real into the game. Yeah, it really 00:22:08.329 --> 00:22:12.049 did. In 2018, the project was renamed Disco Elysium. 00:22:12.490 --> 00:22:14.390 The game was in, I didn't put this in here, but 00:22:14.390 --> 00:22:21.309 they, so Disco means, God, it's Latin. Is it 00:22:21.309 --> 00:22:25.869 new? I can't remember. I can't remember if Disco 00:22:25.869 --> 00:22:28.450 means new, but essentially Elysium is like the, 00:22:28.569 --> 00:22:32.490 you know what Elysium is, right? I know the term, 00:22:32.529 --> 00:22:34.230 but I don't honestly know the exact. It's the 00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:38.519 ideal world. okay so it's like that is perfection 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:41.099 beyond perfection everyone is happy there's no 00:22:41.099 --> 00:22:43.920 unhappiness at all elysium is the perfect world 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.039 it's paradise essentially okay um and then i 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:49.339 think disco means new so it's new paradise or 00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:54.099 something like that uh someone says disco elysium 00:22:54.099 --> 00:22:58.319 means disco world yeah so elysium is again paradise 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:02.440 world but disco and disco to them both meant 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:04.539 the fact that they were very inspired by the 00:23:04.539 --> 00:23:08.099 disco of the 70s, but they also stated that disco 00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:11.539 in Latin means either new or something. I can't 00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:15.579 remember exactly. I learn. I learn. Oh, learn? 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.619 Was that it? I don't remember. I don't know. 00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:20.079 I just saw something that said disco in Latin. 00:23:20.099 --> 00:23:24.019 I learn. Yeah. they, they definitely really liked 00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:26.319 it. Like the idea of the Latin influence from 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.099 it. And also the fact that disco is like 70. 00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:31.859 So they really love wordplay in the game. Clearly. 00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:34.940 Yeah. And I mean, I learned the world makes sense 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:38.019 for this game though, too. Yeah, true. The game 00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:41.000 was released on October 15, 2019. It received 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.099 immediate critical acclaim with praise for its 00:23:44.099 --> 00:23:46.200 innovative narrative design, detailed world building, 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:48.839 and unique approach to role -playing mechanics. 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:53.339 At the Game Awards 2019, Disco Elysium won four 00:23:53.339 --> 00:23:55.259 major awards, Best Narrative, Best Independent 00:23:55.259 --> 00:23:58.880 Game, Best Role -Playing Game, and I don't understand 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:02.779 how this is an award, but Fresh Indie Game Award. 00:24:04.500 --> 00:24:06.869 It's just... It's for the studio, less for the 00:24:06.869 --> 00:24:08.130 game. Because it's like a brand new, it's not 00:24:08.130 --> 00:24:13.130 like an already there IP. It's a full, fresh 00:24:13.130 --> 00:24:15.269 idea, like, I guess. I think you're probably 00:24:15.269 --> 00:24:17.609 right. It's just a weird fucking name for a word. 00:24:17.609 --> 00:24:20.789 Yeah, it just sounds weird, yeah. Yeah. The game 00:24:20.789 --> 00:24:22.990 became a top seller on Steam and surpassed one 00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:25.509 million copies within its first year. The original 00:24:25.509 --> 00:24:27.589 version of the game did not feature full voice 00:24:27.589 --> 00:24:30.400 acting, which I did not know. Yeah, I know. I 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.140 thought I heard that, too. And I was like, what 00:24:32.140 --> 00:24:35.059 the hell? No. Yeah. However, in Disco Elysium, 00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:37.119 the final cut voice acting was added for every 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:40.299 line of dialogue. Steven, take a guess how many 00:24:40.299 --> 00:24:43.460 words are in the game. It's ridiculous. It's 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:49.440 got to be like. Five million. It's probably way 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:53.299 low, actually. OK, so recording the game's over 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:57.619 1 .2 million words that. that uh of text took 00:24:57.619 --> 00:25:01.660 approximately 14 months to complete fair that's 00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:04.019 crazy though still isn't that a crazy amount 00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:06.920 of fucking words in a game yes i mean i don't 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:09.160 know the average amount of words in a game but 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.799 not be 1 million there's so many branching dialogues 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:13.740 though i think that that's what it had to be 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:17.390 oh definitely The game faced some controversy 00:25:17.390 --> 00:25:20.049 internationally. In Australia, it was initially 00:25:20.049 --> 00:25:22.789 refused a classification rating due to its depiction 00:25:22.789 --> 00:25:25.349 of sex, drug use, and alcohol abuse, effectively 00:25:25.349 --> 00:25:28.710 banning it from sale. However, after an appeal, 00:25:28.890 --> 00:25:31.049 the game was granted an 18 -plus rating and became 00:25:31.049 --> 00:25:34.430 legally available. Good. And on the appeal, they 00:25:34.430 --> 00:25:36.730 talk all about that in this cool video I watched 00:25:36.730 --> 00:25:38.529 where they're like, yeah, you know, what we told 00:25:38.529 --> 00:25:42.210 them is, yes, you can do drugs. Yes, you can 00:25:42.210 --> 00:25:44.650 drink, just like in real life. You have to make 00:25:44.650 --> 00:25:47.150 the choice to do these things. You have to actively 00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:49.849 look for these things. It doesn't just stumble 00:25:49.849 --> 00:25:52.309 upon in your lap and you do it. There's nothing 00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:55.410 forcing you. At any point, you can say no. We're 00:25:55.410 --> 00:25:57.609 not saying be addicted to shit. We're saying 00:25:57.609 --> 00:25:59.990 this is what the world looks like at any given 00:25:59.990 --> 00:26:02.630 moment in time. And you will have a guy following 00:26:02.630 --> 00:26:05.250 you the entire time judging every decision you 00:26:05.250 --> 00:26:10.039 ever make. Today, Disco Elysium is regarded as 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:11.960 one of the most important narrative RPGs of its 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.079 generation. Its development story reflects years 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:16.619 of persistence, risk -taking, and strong commitment 00:26:16.619 --> 00:26:18.920 to creative vision, transforming a small group's 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:24.339 idea into a globally celebrated work. Boom. Mic 00:26:24.339 --> 00:26:27.519 drop. Yeah, it was a cool story. They did a lot 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.039 of cool things with this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:32.640 I guess let's go ahead and get into the best 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.759 and the worst, and let's talk about the good 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.880 things and the bad things they did. Well, let's 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:37.829 hear it. What's your good things on this? um 00:26:37.829 --> 00:26:43.230 obviously for me um dialogue is incredible uh 00:26:43.230 --> 00:26:46.470 there's a lot of times where it's just like there's 00:26:46.470 --> 00:26:50.069 times where the dialogue goes right over my head 00:26:50.069 --> 00:26:53.190 like i'm like what the fuck is being said there's 00:26:53.190 --> 00:26:55.730 other times the dialogue is like really cool 00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:58.009 quick witty There's other times the dialogue 00:26:58.009 --> 00:27:00.269 is downright hilarious. There's other times that 00:27:00.269 --> 00:27:02.109 I'm like, oh, my God, is this referencing Fast 00:27:02.109 --> 00:27:04.349 and the Furious right now? Yeah. There's other 00:27:04.349 --> 00:27:08.170 times where I'm like, yeah, I would. I would 00:27:08.170 --> 00:27:11.849 ride till I die, bitch. Like, there's just some 00:27:11.849 --> 00:27:13.309 lines in this game that you're just like, what 00:27:13.309 --> 00:27:15.869 the fuck? Like, yeah, I just laugh reading them. 00:27:15.890 --> 00:27:17.549 And I like I have to say I'm to Jen. I'm like. 00:27:18.090 --> 00:27:21.730 Look what I can say in this game. The dialogue 00:27:21.730 --> 00:27:23.990 in this game kills it. Also the voice acting 00:27:23.990 --> 00:27:26.309 on fucking point. I didn't have a problem with 00:27:26.309 --> 00:27:28.650 a single person's voice acting performance in 00:27:28.650 --> 00:27:30.509 this game. I didn't bother writing them down 00:27:30.509 --> 00:27:32.309 because I'm kind of tired of writing down all 00:27:32.309 --> 00:27:33.730 the names and giving you guys all the names. 00:27:33.930 --> 00:27:35.769 I think from now on I'm probably not going to 00:27:35.769 --> 00:27:37.650 do that because it's just a lot of work to push 00:27:37.650 --> 00:27:38.950 them all. We'll probably just point out the ones 00:27:38.950 --> 00:27:41.230 that stand out the most if there is a standout 00:27:41.230 --> 00:27:43.920 performer. Even if that, who knows? You never 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.700 know. But they did a really good job. Everyone 00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:48.960 who is in the voice acting cast did a fucking 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.339 phenomenal job doing it. Honestly, this was a 00:27:51.339 --> 00:27:53.200 lot of fun just listening to all the different 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:57.000 voices. Yeah, I definitely would prefer to have 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:59.160 the voices in it. So I definitely say Definitive 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:01.940 Cut's the best way to play this. I agree 100%. 00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:05.220 And it really did show, although the themes are 00:28:05.220 --> 00:28:11.039 very Eastern European in like... I guess in practice, 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.079 it's easier to see that with the voice acting 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:15.900 because a lot of people have very select accents. 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.299 True. true and it was really cool to see that 00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:22.099 um one of the bad things about this game that 00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:24.680 i will say the movement is kind of shitty oh 00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:27.619 it's so slow and it's very it's slow and it's 00:28:27.619 --> 00:28:31.019 blocky and yes i know they put in a little shortcut 00:28:31.019 --> 00:28:33.000 here to kind of make it easier where you can 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:34.680 interact with items if you didn't know how to 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:36.519 get to those items it would essentially take 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.460 you to those items extremely slowly but it would 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:42.680 so then you'd know how to get to them but a lot 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:44.779 of the things it's like What do you mean I can't 00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:47.579 go through? How can I climb this box, but I can't 00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:50.180 walk on this fucking part of the sidewalk? What 00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:53.559 are you talking about? Yeah, no, there's like 00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:55.319 weird things with the map where I was like, why 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:58.500 can't I go there? Going around the map is confusing 00:28:58.500 --> 00:29:00.740 and you'll go to so many doors. You're like, 00:29:00.779 --> 00:29:05.150 yeah, a door. You can't go this way. fuck every 00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:08.549 time a lot of dialogue options to get past a 00:29:08.549 --> 00:29:11.150 lot of doors and yes another thing is they do 00:29:11.150 --> 00:29:13.309 have a fast travel system but it's kind of fucking 00:29:13.309 --> 00:29:16.579 dumb like yeah well you can only fast travel 00:29:16.579 --> 00:29:18.380 to three areas which is fine because they're 00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:20.700 kind of all like centralized anyway it's not 00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:23.539 a very big map yeah but then you can only fast 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:25.460 travel if you're standing in front of one of 00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:28.240 those areas yep which i was like why would they 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.359 do that why not just have it so you could fast 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.160 travel from anywhere like why do i have to walk 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.559 back to the front of this fucking building and 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.500 i mean it might be so you could appreciate the 00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:39.940 art it might be so you like if you go back, maybe 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.420 you missed to talk to someone and you're like, 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:43.200 oh, did I talk to that person? And then you decide 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:45.559 no and you talk to them, I guess. But either 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:47.039 way, I think it would have been more beneficial 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.400 to have a little bit more fast travel. Yeah, 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:52.160 no, that's fair. I agree with that. Like for 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.559 me, because this game essentially boils down 00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:59.119 to a point and click adventure mixed with an 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.759 RPG, like the RPG elements are great. For me, 00:30:02.779 --> 00:30:04.319 it's the point and click adventure that I still 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.880 fall victim to. It still has the same kind of 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:09.650 weird puzzles. really slow traveling, lots of 00:30:09.650 --> 00:30:12.109 retracing your steps over and over again. Lots 00:30:12.109 --> 00:30:14.410 of re -dialogue with people you've already talked 00:30:14.410 --> 00:30:17.849 to. It is a lot, and it's called an isometric, 00:30:18.069 --> 00:30:22.210 I believe, RPG. Okay. So it's a lot. There's 00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:24.210 no combat in here, which I think was actually 00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:30.309 a plus. You can have some combat. Some, but there's 00:30:30.309 --> 00:30:33.109 no real combat. There's no, like, you have to 00:30:33.109 --> 00:30:37.400 kill this guard in order to... No, but you can 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.980 like grab a key. All combat is done through dialogue, 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.519 essentially. You'd have to take the combat option 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.319 in dialogue in order to fulfill it. There's a 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:51.420 bunch of checks in this game. There are so many 00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:53.519 fucking different checks. It's crazy. It's actually 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:55.599 really cool how many checks there really are. 00:30:55.700 --> 00:30:57.160 I was going to say, that's another best for me, 00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:02.799 is that the dialogue and how it threads, and 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.119 sometimes you'll be in the middle of a conversation, 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:07.500 But then all of a sudden you'll start arguing 00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:10.940 with a certain personality trait of yours. Yeah. 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:13.660 And you're like, wait, what the fuck? Is it 15 00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:16.279 or 20 personality traits? Yeah. Something like 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.960 that. Yeah. Something like that. And it's just, 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:20.799 it's ridiculous because you'll start arguing 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:24.420 with like the logic part of your brain. Or you'll 00:31:24.420 --> 00:31:28.119 start like, or like even talking to inanimate 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:31.099 objects, you can argue with a tie or you can 00:31:31.099 --> 00:31:35.180 like. like yell at a chair or you can well even 00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:37.500 further on that like this is like the coolest 00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:40.700 thing so they have these checks right and not 00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:42.779 only do you have to pass a dice roll you also 00:31:42.779 --> 00:31:45.740 get bonuses from what you have but also you get 00:31:45.740 --> 00:31:48.099 bonuses based on world events that you've done 00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:51.700 yes so there's gear that you're wearing too yeah 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:53.380 and gear that you're wearing like it's actually 00:31:53.380 --> 00:31:56.220 really fucking cool how like intricate the rpg 00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:58.859 system in this game is for a completely text 00:31:58.859 --> 00:32:04.049 -based rpg yes For sure. It's crazy for a text 00:32:04.049 --> 00:32:06.930 -based RPG, I would go as far to say. Yeah. A 00:32:06.930 --> 00:32:09.170 lot of times, Scott is always talking about in 00:32:09.170 --> 00:32:12.390 a lot of these story -based games or these dating 00:32:12.390 --> 00:32:14.869 simulators or point -and -click adventures that 00:32:14.869 --> 00:32:17.329 there's not enough involved in this, but this 00:32:17.329 --> 00:32:20.849 has so much. It does. Almost too much sometimes. 00:32:21.009 --> 00:32:23.329 It's a lot. Almost too much, but I appreciated 00:32:23.329 --> 00:32:25.450 every second of this. And I think this is just 00:32:25.450 --> 00:32:28.349 my RPG bias coming out because I really do like 00:32:28.349 --> 00:32:31.609 RPGs a lot. But this one was just fucking incredible 00:32:31.609 --> 00:32:35.049 in the way it did its shit. Its RPG system was 00:32:35.049 --> 00:32:37.210 actually a lot of fun and it made sense. It does 00:32:37.210 --> 00:32:39.930 take a while to get used to it, I will say. Yes. 00:32:40.150 --> 00:32:43.529 It was very confusing for the first 30 minutes 00:32:43.529 --> 00:32:45.450 of playing and then after that it got a lot easier. 00:32:45.670 --> 00:32:49.710 Yeah. But it is very... blunt with what it's 00:32:49.710 --> 00:32:52.289 asking you to do right away. It's making you 00:32:52.289 --> 00:32:54.150 experience failure right away. It's actually 00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:57.789 really funny. I was even kind of saying more 00:32:57.789 --> 00:32:59.269 along the lines of what you were saying, how 00:32:59.269 --> 00:33:01.430 it just kind of vibes with you. This game is 00:33:01.430 --> 00:33:04.069 really great for the natural explorer types. 00:33:04.490 --> 00:33:06.970 People who just go into a game and just want 00:33:06.970 --> 00:33:09.789 to read every dialogue, see every option, click 00:33:09.789 --> 00:33:12.490 every button, turn every stone. And not just 00:33:12.490 --> 00:33:15.509 that. So they made this game purposely so every 00:33:15.509 --> 00:33:18.279 replay is a different play. I know. it's crazy 00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:21.640 it's insane because you don't you can make communist 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.500 ideas you can make democratic ideas you can make 00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:26.440 liberal ideas you can make conservative ideas 00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:28.880 and they all affect what kind of like bonuses 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.819 you get and what kind of dialogues you get from 00:33:30.819 --> 00:33:32.920 people it's actually really fucking interesting 00:33:33.549 --> 00:33:36.950 Yeah, it's a one -of -a -kind, very unique game. 00:33:37.049 --> 00:33:38.849 You're not going to get a game like this. A lot 00:33:38.849 --> 00:33:40.109 of people are saying, I want something fresh, 00:33:40.230 --> 00:33:42.309 I want something new. Scott was joking about 00:33:42.309 --> 00:33:45.990 it getting a fresh award, but it really is a 00:33:45.990 --> 00:33:48.230 fresh breath of air in a video game. It's something 00:33:48.230 --> 00:33:51.230 we've never seen before. And honestly, they did 00:33:51.230 --> 00:33:54.289 it perfectly. This game studio, Realm, they're 00:33:54.289 --> 00:33:56.869 fucking amazing. When they release their next 00:33:56.869 --> 00:33:59.089 game, holy shit, I've been in training 20 times 00:33:59.089 --> 00:34:02.289 together. All right, you want to jump into the 00:34:02.289 --> 00:34:06.150 first few hours? Yeah, let's do it. Oh, go ahead. 00:34:06.549 --> 00:34:09.369 I'm going to give it a pass. The first 30 minutes 00:34:09.369 --> 00:34:12.050 is hard. But as soon as you get out of that hotel 00:34:12.050 --> 00:34:13.889 room and you start talking to people, it starts 00:34:13.889 --> 00:34:17.769 becoming obvious what you need to do. Yeah. I 00:34:17.769 --> 00:34:19.719 mean, that's fair. I'll give it a pass. For me, 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:21.860 I think it's a little boring and it's hard to 00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:24.480 know where to go or how much you should talk. 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:30.119 I'm a really big overthinker. And for me, this 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:33.559 game is not for overthinkers. I am like, how 00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:35.840 much should I talk to these people? How much 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:37.320 should I not talk to people? Am I talking too 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.139 much? Should I be clicking every single item 00:34:40.139 --> 00:34:46.460 in here? The answer is yes. So like there's but 00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:49.179 I do say like once you start to find your way 00:34:49.179 --> 00:34:51.280 and you do find that interesting story point 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.539 that starts pulling you in, like those are the 00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:55.739 times where I'm like, I'll start going on a line 00:34:55.739 --> 00:34:57.739 of dialogue. And I'm like, wait, now we're talking 00:34:57.739 --> 00:35:00.119 about ghosts at the bookstore. What the fuck? 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.300 And I'm like, I want to go behind this curtain. 00:35:02.670 --> 00:35:04.190 Don't go behind the curtain. I want to go behind 00:35:04.190 --> 00:35:05.949 the fucking curtain. You can't go, but I'm a 00:35:05.949 --> 00:35:07.809 fucking cop. Let me go behind the fucking curtain. 00:35:07.869 --> 00:35:10.110 No, there's a ghost. Well, I have to see the 00:35:10.110 --> 00:35:13.750 ghost. And it's funny. It's even funnier because 00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:15.789 your partner's with you at all times. I mean, 00:35:15.809 --> 00:35:17.710 are you fucking kidding me right now? You want 00:35:17.710 --> 00:35:19.210 to see the fucking ghost? Are you out of your 00:35:19.210 --> 00:35:23.469 fucking mind? It's just like, are you still hung 00:35:23.469 --> 00:35:26.739 over? Like, why are you? Yeah, you are an alcoholic 00:35:26.739 --> 00:35:30.039 cop, by the way. Yes, you wake up hungover in 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.800 your tighty -whities and shoes out the window. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.539 And you've completely forgotten your entire life, 00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:36.239 and everyone who knows you is just like, are 00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.460 you fucking serious? And you owe people money, 00:35:39.579 --> 00:35:42.019 and everyone's pissed at you, and no one cares. 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:44.219 You destroyed a hotel room, and then you can 00:35:44.219 --> 00:35:48.840 sing karaoke, and that was really fun. Did you 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:51.650 sing the karaoke? uh i didn't get that far now 00:35:51.650 --> 00:35:54.949 oh my god it's so you so if you fail and i failed 00:35:54.949 --> 00:35:57.570 he sings a song and it's a beautiful song mind 00:35:57.570 --> 00:36:01.889 you and he just sings it so bad nice people are 00:36:01.889 --> 00:36:03.929 just like i don't they're like clapping very 00:36:03.929 --> 00:36:08.929 like uh good job buddy you did it you did a thing 00:36:08.929 --> 00:36:13.510 you did it it is so funny nice all right so i 00:36:13.510 --> 00:36:16.190 guess let's get into uh steve achieves next let's 00:36:16.190 --> 00:36:18.650 hear it There's a bunch of cool ones in here 00:36:18.650 --> 00:36:21.929 I saw that I got. If you're a main story kind 00:36:21.929 --> 00:36:23.730 of player, you can expect this game to take about 00:36:23.730 --> 00:36:27.750 20 to 25 hours. But Disco Elysium isn't about 00:36:27.750 --> 00:36:30.710 speed. It's about soaking in the weird. That's 00:36:30.710 --> 00:36:33.869 not true. There's speed in the game. What? There's 00:36:33.869 --> 00:36:37.769 speed in the game. If you are taking your time, 00:36:37.889 --> 00:36:40.730 you're looking at 40 to 50 hours easily in this 00:36:40.730 --> 00:36:43.639 game. And that's not even counting a second playthrough 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:45.579 with a completely different build, which trust 00:36:45.579 --> 00:36:49.840 us, it is worth it. So some of the achievements 00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:53.059 in the game, the weird, the hard and the hilarious. 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:58.960 The Disco Elysium has achievements, but they're 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:01.980 not your typical kill 100 rats kind of deal achievements. 00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:04.340 These are clear, clever, often bizarre, and sometimes 00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:07.159 wildly funny. It just goes over. I'll just go 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:09.619 over a few select ones. So first one I'm going 00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:11.659 to go over is the world's most laughable centrist. 00:37:12.940 --> 00:37:15.440 You have to become a centrist, a true one. You'll 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:18.659 need to constantly avoid taking a stand on anything. 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.699 Not left, not right, just beige. It's like playing 00:37:21.699 --> 00:37:24.739 the whole game as the shrug emoji. It's surprisingly 00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:27.320 hard to do, but everyone around you just has 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:33.400 an opinion and a Molotov cocktail. Recruit Kim 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:37.420 Kisaragi. I think that's how you say his name. 00:37:38.179 --> 00:37:42.579 Sounds easy. Technically, you get him as a companion 00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:45.900 early on in the game, but unless you completely 00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:48.139 botched the intro and managed to alienate the 00:37:48.139 --> 00:37:52.059 most patient man in the game, it's like failing 00:37:52.059 --> 00:37:55.019 the tutorial, but funnier. You can actually just 00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:58.320 not recruit him if you don't get him on your 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.920 side. Well, you can be racist in the game and 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.400 he's of Asian descent of some kind. They make 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.579 up their whole area. You're not really sure. 00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:11.079 It sounds huge. Everything sounds huge in the 00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:13.659 game, how big everywhere is. True. But he's from 00:38:13.659 --> 00:38:17.519 a different country, essentially. Yeah. There's 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:20.579 Baddest of the Bad Cops. You have to max out 00:38:20.579 --> 00:38:25.030 your... capo type as an absolute bastard okay 00:38:25.030 --> 00:38:28.570 this involves being rude reckless and generally 00:38:28.570 --> 00:38:32.710 terrible but that's what's um that's in a way 00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:34.690 almost endearing like a raccoon in a leather 00:38:34.690 --> 00:38:38.150 jacket who yells in an inanimate objects yep 00:38:38.150 --> 00:38:42.530 yep i believe it uh dance you fool this is a 00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:44.929 secret nightclub uh there's an opportunity to 00:38:44.929 --> 00:38:48.289 dance and if you truly commit it'll let the rhythm 00:38:48.289 --> 00:38:51.150 take you. You can earn this achievement for doing 00:38:51.150 --> 00:38:53.250 that. It's one of the most joyful moments in 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:56.030 the game and balances tragedy with the absurdity 00:38:56.030 --> 00:38:58.949 better than it has any right to do. At the end 00:38:58.949 --> 00:39:00.809 of dancing, you pass out because you dance so 00:39:00.809 --> 00:39:03.869 hard. Oh, really? Yeah. It's nice. It's funny. 00:39:05.469 --> 00:39:08.369 Palebringer. This one is for the deep lore nerds. 00:39:08.469 --> 00:39:11.610 You'll have to dive into some of the game's most 00:39:11.610 --> 00:39:15.199 metaphysical and abstract. abstract content think 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.599 eldrick cosmic horror wrapped in political satire 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.420 it's not easy but it is incredible incredibly 00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:24.059 rewarding sorry i cannot speak today nobody can 00:39:24.059 --> 00:39:28.659 no one can speak but yeah that's what i got for 00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:31.500 the achievements um trying a different kind of 00:39:31.500 --> 00:39:34.500 style of reading the achievements and talking 00:39:34.500 --> 00:39:37.219 about them so i will go with the hunt for the 00:39:37.219 --> 00:39:40.320 eggs next let's hear it all right easter eggs 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.619 in this game um they are weird secrets and glorious 00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:48.119 nonsense hidden stuff all over the game i am 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.219 not going to even come close to saying them all 00:39:50.219 --> 00:39:55.219 because there is so much and i read a ton that 00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:57.099 a lot of people were saying and i don't know 00:39:57.099 --> 00:39:58.920 how much of all of them are true but there's 00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.900 a lot that are pretty crazy uh first one i'm 00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:03.420 going to bring up is the carl jung connection 00:40:03.420 --> 00:40:07.219 your inner thoughts and skills um like inland 00:40:07.219 --> 00:40:10.530 empire and authority often reference psychology 00:40:10.530 --> 00:40:15.710 and physiology. Philosophical. Wow. Philosophy, 00:40:15.849 --> 00:40:18.829 I cannot. Yeah. If you dive into the names and 00:40:18.829 --> 00:40:20.769 behaviors of these voices, they closely align 00:40:20.769 --> 00:40:23.789 with Carl Jung's archetypes and concept of the 00:40:23.789 --> 00:40:26.929 collective unconscious. Inland Empire especially 00:40:26.929 --> 00:40:30.510 acts like Jung's idea for the shadow or intuition. 00:40:31.030 --> 00:40:34.170 It might be Carl Jung, actually. Or Jung. Yeah, 00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:35.510 I think you're right. I think it is. I think 00:40:35.510 --> 00:40:37.849 it's Jung. Yeah, so sorry I mispronounced that. 00:40:39.909 --> 00:40:43.369 Another Easter egg, the Kim Kasaragi dance -off. 00:40:43.550 --> 00:40:46.969 If you manage to pass a high enough electrochemistry... 00:40:46.969 --> 00:40:51.610 I got him to dance. Nice. Yeah. I heard about 00:40:51.610 --> 00:40:52.989 this and was like, oh, that sounds like cool. 00:40:53.449 --> 00:40:55.230 But yeah, if you manage to pass a high enough 00:40:55.230 --> 00:40:57.889 electrochemistry or reaction speed check during 00:40:57.889 --> 00:41:01.269 the party near the church, you can get Kim to 00:41:01.269 --> 00:41:03.719 dance. It's one of the most beloved... hidden 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.119 moments in the game and add some rare levity 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:10.800 to this unusually composed character. So is this 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:13.159 dancing better than your dancing? No, actually, 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.099 it was not very good, but it was fair. Fair. 00:41:16.780 --> 00:41:20.980 All right. Next one, I will talk about Planescape 00:41:20.980 --> 00:41:24.139 Torment Tribute. This game's design is heavily 00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:28.079 influenced by Planescape Torment. And there's 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.500 a direct nods to it. And one of the examples 00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:33.800 is when the thought cabinet gives you the option 00:41:33.800 --> 00:41:36.780 to ponder what can change the nature of a man. 00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:40.579 This is an iconic line from that tabletop RPG. 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:45.619 Nice. Disco Elysium's answer, by the way, probably 00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:52.360 doing drugs and communism. The hidden fourth 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:55.519 music track in the church. Once you've repaired 00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:01.639 the church's audio setup and set up Suna speakers, 00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:04.619 or Sonas? I don't remember how to say it. Suna, 00:42:04.619 --> 00:42:07.320 I think. Yeah. Waiting around in the silence 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.659 triggers a secret fourth track from the British 00:42:09.659 --> 00:42:12.699 sea power that only plays once. It's ethereal 00:42:12.699 --> 00:42:15.059 and rarely heard unless players are patient. 00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:17.300 So you just have to sit there and wait for all 00:42:17.300 --> 00:42:19.320 the tracks to play, and then there's a pause, 00:42:19.539 --> 00:42:23.360 and then there's another track. Oh, cool. Yeah. 00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:28.139 The next one I'll talk about is the pale's philosophical 00:42:28.139 --> 00:42:32.039 depth. The pale is talked about as a physical 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:34.000 and metaphysical phenomenon, but if you read 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.659 between the lines, it is also a commentary on 00:42:36.659 --> 00:42:41.139 entropy, existential nihilism, and information 00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:44.800 decay. One Easter egg asks Joy Messer every possible 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:48.440 question about the pale, and she'll eventually 00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:51.780 mention how it might be eating reality itself. 00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:56.920 I thought that was very interesting. It brings 00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:01.880 a really dark undertone to everything. That's 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:06.360 very, very interesting. That's what I got for 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.079 the Easter eggs so far. Like I said, there's 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.500 a ton. I didn't want to do too much, but those 00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:14.840 are the ones I saw a lot of people pointing out. 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.619 The ones people were talking about, ones that 00:43:16.619 --> 00:43:20.380 I found particularly interesting. All right. 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.460 Sounds good. Let's jump into our final, what 00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:26.019 our rating is. Yes. You want to go first? Yeah, 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:28.619 I'm going to give this a top five. Honestly, 00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:31.280 this game fucking killed it. They did such a 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:35.159 cool job. It's so unlike any other RPG you've 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.980 ever played. It's interesting. The lore of the 00:43:37.980 --> 00:43:41.039 world is vast and cool, and you don't really 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:43.239 have to get into it if you don't want to. You 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:44.960 could be a streamlined player and just get through 00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:46.599 it fine, but if you wanted to hear the lore, 00:43:46.739 --> 00:43:49.400 it's there for you to hear, which that's something 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.130 I complain about all the time. Like, put it as 00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:54.829 a side thing. You don't have to shove it in people's 00:43:54.829 --> 00:43:56.889 faces, but have it available so you know what 00:43:56.889 --> 00:43:59.170 you're getting yourself into. True. And they 00:43:59.170 --> 00:44:01.250 did exactly that. Like, these are guys after 00:44:01.250 --> 00:44:03.289 my own heart. It sounds like they made a game 00:44:03.289 --> 00:44:07.119 just for me. Yep. It really did sound like that. 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.820 I was like, that's one of it. It's it's such 00:44:09.820 --> 00:44:12.239 a cool concept and the themes are really interesting. 00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:14.719 It does get really dark and foreboding, but can 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:18.079 be really lighthearted, too. And like the weirdness 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:20.619 of disco being such a big deal in here where 00:44:20.619 --> 00:44:23.360 like music does actually play a giant role. And 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.840 it's just such an interesting world to build 00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:30.519 and to live in because the level of an like the 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:33.619 level of detail in this world is fucking incredible. 00:44:34.500 --> 00:44:37.579 There is so much of it. Like, I don't think I 00:44:37.579 --> 00:44:40.159 could play this game once and get even 10 % of 00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:42.679 it. Dang. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty crazy. 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.539 It's got a lot of shit. It's a lot of shit, but 00:44:45.539 --> 00:44:48.119 it's like cool shit. You can do this as a tabletop 00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:49.820 game and have a lot of fun with it, you know? 00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:52.599 Yeah, that would be crazy as a tabletop game. 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:56.739 Honestly, you'd have to. Yeah, it's very heady. 00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:58.820 I'm glad it's in a video game format because 00:44:58.820 --> 00:45:01.630 I think it would. sometimes be a little hard 00:45:01.630 --> 00:45:03.650 to follow, depending on how it was done on a 00:45:03.650 --> 00:45:06.869 tabletop game. Yeah. It's even hard to follow 00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:08.409 in the video game for me sometimes. I'm like, 00:45:08.449 --> 00:45:10.710 oh, it's just a lot of lore. You'd have to learn 00:45:10.710 --> 00:45:14.690 all the lore. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. For me, 00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:18.250 I think I I'm a little bit lower. I'm probably 00:45:18.250 --> 00:45:21.289 out of four. I do think this is very unique. 00:45:21.369 --> 00:45:23.650 It's a very fresh game. It's very inventive and 00:45:23.650 --> 00:45:26.090 something we've never seen before. And I do think 00:45:26.090 --> 00:45:27.989 the dialogue and the things that you can do in 00:45:27.989 --> 00:45:32.059 this game are incredible. I do personally hate 00:45:32.059 --> 00:45:34.360 a lot of the point and click adventure kind of 00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.340 style things it has. And that does pull me down. 00:45:39.300 --> 00:45:44.380 This is a. I mean, it's a glorious, chaotic descent 00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:46.639 into the mind of the world's most broken, yet 00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.480 somehow charming detective. But if you've ever 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:51.699 wondered what it's like to interrogate your own 00:45:51.699 --> 00:45:54.000 limbic system while debating communism with your 00:45:54.000 --> 00:46:00.079 necktie, well, welcome home. OK, OK. I mean, 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:03.519 yeah, I mean, this is just very it's just so 00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:05.860 unique that I have to give it a high rating because 00:46:05.860 --> 00:46:10.019 I think most people will vibe with it for some 00:46:10.019 --> 00:46:13.239 reason. I think I do need a little bit more guidance 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.300 in the game. But besides that, yeah, I think 00:46:16.300 --> 00:46:19.019 for non RPG players, this game can be a little 00:46:19.019 --> 00:46:21.900 bit harder. Like if you're more game style is 00:46:21.900 --> 00:46:26.989 like. You enjoy playing. more straightforward 00:46:26.989 --> 00:46:29.170 games or games that have a lot of guidance with 00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:31.150 their rpg then this is not going to be the game 00:46:31.150 --> 00:46:33.349 for you but again you just have to spend hours 00:46:33.349 --> 00:46:35.329 playing it and you'd probably get it down eventually 00:46:36.429 --> 00:46:37.949 I think that's the other thing, too, is I just 00:46:37.949 --> 00:46:40.289 need more time and I haven't had enough time 00:46:40.289 --> 00:46:42.550 to like fully grasp everything that's going on. 00:46:42.630 --> 00:46:44.750 And once I get more into it, like this is the 00:46:44.750 --> 00:46:46.510 thing with this game. I think the more you dive 00:46:46.510 --> 00:46:48.289 into it, it's kind of like Dungeons and Dragons. 00:46:48.369 --> 00:46:50.469 The better it gets. Yeah. Yeah. The more you 00:46:50.469 --> 00:46:52.889 dive in, the more you are like experience the 00:46:52.889 --> 00:46:55.469 world and absorb everything, the better everything 00:46:55.469 --> 00:46:57.789 gets. And this is one of those games that just 00:46:57.789 --> 00:47:00.670 fully encapsulates how much love you put into 00:47:00.670 --> 00:47:04.070 it. Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. So that 00:47:04.070 --> 00:47:08.179 was it. That was Disco Elysium. Yes. Our next 00:47:08.179 --> 00:47:13.119 game is going to be... It Takes Two. It Takes 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.420 Two, cooperative play game, good for couples. 00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:19.059 Yes. Yes, we've talked about it on our old version 00:47:19.059 --> 00:47:21.219 of our podcast. We're bringing it back. And I 00:47:21.219 --> 00:47:23.800 know Split Fiction's out, but we haven't... We'll 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:25.679 do that one eventually. We'll do that one eventually. 00:47:25.739 --> 00:47:27.800 We wanted to go back to It Takes Two, though, 00:47:27.820 --> 00:47:29.820 because that's the one that really made them 00:47:29.820 --> 00:47:32.320 popular. Yeah, I mean, they did have the prison 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.039 game before that, right? A Way Out, yeah. Yeah. 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:36.980 That might be a fun one to do at some point, 00:47:36.980 --> 00:47:39.719 too. Oh, I'm down for it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. 00:47:39.780 --> 00:47:41.639 All right, guys. Well, thanks for listening. 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.280 Remember, contact us, Toll of the Gamer podcast 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:48.179 at gmail .com. Shoot us any questions you have, 00:47:48.260 --> 00:47:51.139 any concerns, anything you want to say. Yes. 00:47:51.340 --> 00:47:54.019 And we love you. Bye. Bye.