All posts tagged Disco Elysium

Having A Disco Ball

Martin · 2 years

I've been spending most of my game time the last week working on Disco Elysium - which has opened up and turned into a much bigger game than I expected it to be.

On top of all the crazy, interesting, and funny stuff this game has to offer, it's also quite beautiful. Each area is painted with a smattering of colors, in a rough stroke that fits nicely with the grittiness of the game's world.

There's a fair amount of washed out browns and grays in the main areas, but they are accented by dashes of color here and there that help make the more important points of interest stand out.

I've been admiring these massive paintings as I play. It's just really nice.

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Disco Elysium Is Weird

Martin · 2 years

I mentioned this the other day: I've been playing through Disco Elysium on Xbox, and really enjoying it. With the added narration of The Final Cut edition, it's almost like listening to an audiobook. A really strange audiobook.

That's the thing about this game, though... it's so weird! It reminds me of books like Neuromancer or other William Gibson novels. It draws you in with its foreignness. The world is there, and it definitely exists - whether or not you understand it.

Oftentimes in games like this, I get turned off by too much world-building. I want to see the game through, and not live in its world for a moment.

Disco Elysium is not that, though. It's just all very interesting and connected, and so far, I love it.

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Disco Fever

Martin · 2 years

I finished Mass Effect: Andromeda last night, so now I'm putting in some time with Disco Elysium, a game I've been meaning to play for a while, and which I was excited to see make its way to Xbox recently. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing in this game, but it's fun nonetheless. And the full narration/dialog is excellent.

I still need to finish up The Artful Escape, which I started a few weeks ago, when it came out.

My game backlog is ridiculous, and Game Pass isn't helping.

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