A friend of mine who is really into TTRPGs said this one's ending hit them harder then Disco. Since they utterly love disco, i can only assume it's good. I for one am waiting for some voice acting to be added to the game before I play it. It seems to be having decent success so hopefully that will happen.
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I happened to put it in my wishlist last night, I doubt the politics are based like DE but it looks like a really cool game regardless
It makes me wish I liked D&D more. I've done three campaigns, but the part I liked about Disco Elysium was the setting, the worldbuilding and the contextual framing for the politics. From the two hours I've played of EE, it feels very much like a run of the mill D&D campaign with an actual user interface, which is kind of what RPG video games have been solving for 30 years.
This is totally personal preference, but what takes me out of a game is the use of magic in a fantastical world. In Skyrim, I always played as a stealth archer. In D&D, I've almost always played a magic-free ranger. Different races with minor stat differences have always seemed slightly off to me, so seeing a new RPG like EE that's still using all of the same rules as D&D doesn't immediately strike me as a step forwards. I'm really hoping the story makes it stand out.
I guess I don't get the drama over dice rolls. I also really miss the voice acting for different stats. Reading is fine, but the VA for DE was just so good.
I implore you to play other TTRPGs if you like rolepaying games but think D&D is bad/generic/boring.
It's almost like corporate slop product is bad, like it is some lowest common denominator of product. The McDonalds hamburger of games.
There is limitless other and better games then D&D out there. The bar of entry might be slightly higher for finding a group, but with tons of play happening online these days anyway.
The creator showed off the game in the Disco Elysium subreddit when it was in its early stages of development, and 
people really liked it!
I feel like I'm going a little bit crazy with how much praise it's getting. I think it suffers from trying to hard to be Disco Elysium without understanding the conditions that game was made under. A single person trying to emulate the collaborative works of a dozen plus artists. The politics of the game are "what if DE was written by a single Nordic soc dem" and it shows, given that most of it revolves around voting 
. The setting feels completely disconnected from the world too, DE walked the line between idealist fantasy world and direct allegory. Shoving a bastardised version of it into a generic DnD setting with literal magic and whatnot is just so alienating and, again, a total failure to understand what made DE great.
i haven't played esoteric ebb so i don't want to cast judgement, but i think it's so telling how the endings differ.
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having casting a ballot be the last thing your character ever does is such a western idea. and then saying "it doesn't matter how you vote as long as you have fun!" (which is kind of true i guess. i certainly had fun seeing all the write-ins in this past us election.) but the tribunal and the stuff harry does after is such a good ending and way more interesting than stuffing a paper in a box.
really the problem with these disco elysium clones is that it's the sort of thing that could only have been written by a communist from a post-soviet country. it bleeds through everything in elysium. you can only get that flavor by watching the world crumble around you and feeling the sky fall on your head. you can't get that from books.
Yes, I've said it before but in my mind a true "Disco Elysium Successor" would probably not resemble DE in anyway. What really made DE unique was that a bunch of talented artists where given an insane budget (for artists) and basically no oversight to create whatever they wanted. It was a deeply personal work to the people and place it was made in and any true Successor would have to be also.
I haven't played it but that sounds really interesting, I only know of the hype because it's a "Disco-like" (I hate that term lol) and because people on the disco sub liked it
It's inspired by DE and the reason I think it really manages to capture the same essence is that like DE it's born out of like one guy (and probably some friends') homebrew DnD Setting. It really has that feel that this is a world that exists beyond this game. Also otherwise pretty well written and competent and with so many changes it's not just a carbon copy but its own thing. Would highly recommend if you liked DE.
Nice to see people enjoying it! I met the devs and played an early build a year and a half or so ago and was quite impressed back then. They could probably really use the sales based on what i know about the insustry here.
i'm enjoying my time with it. it's bigger in some ways, and more stripped down in others. the sound design is really nice. games like this live and die on the writing, and the writing in esoteric ebb is very good.
it's not depression quest the way DE was, but it doesn't want or need to be
it's not depression quest the way DE was, but it doesn't want or need to be
I'm a little burnt out on existentialism in media at the moment so honestly that's a plus.
I've heard some Disco devs have commented on it to the effect that it's cool and good
Argo Tuulik has!
It's worth checking out. Fitgirl has a repack. Solo dev who was inspired by Disco (and other narrative RPGs), no relation at all.
E flat flat, isn’t that just D
Double flats and double sharps can sometimes be used for describing the functional roles of notes for various reasons, just like we may say Fb instead of E.