PieFedDisco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h
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MattBetter than buying it!
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Oh boy I can’t wait to put the epic games store on my computer
BjörnThat’s why I like Linux gaming. You can easily isolate that shit from the rest of the system. And if it’s a DRM free game you don’t have to run it at all.
Awesome game, but I wouldn’t even give ZA/UM the satisfaction of counting my download. If you don’t own this game already, you should pirate it, as that’s what the actual developers have requested.
Fuck Epic
apotheotic (she/her)Fuck ZA/UM
egretsIt’s currently £3.49 on Steam or £8.79 on GOG. Don’t inflict Epic games upon yourself.
Shouldn’t be spending money on this game anyways. The original creatives behind the game got screwed by some suit that currently runs ZA/UM. The creators have actively encouraged people to pirate the game as to deny the thieves running the company any ill-gotten profits.
I can get behind that. Don’t give money to ZA/UM, get it for free, and don’t use Epic games. Win win win.
Time to finally try this. Also bought Pathfinder since it’s been talked about a lot
Hell yeah, which one?
Bought both pathfinder games. Cheap enough. Going to play through both
Hell yeah, enjoy. If they don’t click for you, don’t let it turn you off from later Owlcat games. Rogue Trader really saw them nail the tone and writing that could sometimes be weak in moments in those previous games. They’ve come a long way as a studio. I liked them both a lot
I’m pretty sure I saw that they are real time with pause. I like those more than turn based crpgs because once you get used to the gameplay systems, turn based becomes a chore to me compared to rtwp. Especially on a replay. Happy to buy a rtwp game when they seem out of fashion for crpgs these days in favor of turn based
Indeed. They implemented turn base by popular demand later on by real time has always stayed available at the press of a button. I like having it for later playthroughs too. Rogue Trader never got it, though. Also there’s a bunch of really for mods for adding in tabletop content but they don’t work if you are playing on console or Kingmaker with a controller
I was just going to post this, as more people need to learn about this excellent game. Best giveaway on Epic ever.
I’ll just buy it on a real store.
Please don’t buy it and let the thieves at ZA/UM profit off the game they stole from the original creators. Pirate it instead as the creators have encouraged.
Ip was stolen by corporate suits
Pirating the game is the most moral thing you can do
Wow, can you say in brief what happened?
They made the IP and game, their parent company had a full change in leadership, they questioned what qas happening, and the new guys said “yoink” before kicking them out
That’s a bit of a different presentation than “stole” just saying.
It was initially an artist-owned company, which had a hostile takeover against the wishes of said artists
Not sure how you’d define it as anything other than stole
Because it sounds like they were employees not IP owners
That’s not what this was about?
They made an IP, a minor share holder used company funds to buy majority states in said company, then forced the guys who made the game out of the company. I’m not able to do investigative journalism in a comment, but there is still an ongoing legal case on this
Reminder that the original creators kinda don’t want you to pay for the game anymore, since all of the profits go to the shitty rights-holder. If you miss this claim, simply *redacted* the game.
Just say it: preserve.
It’s a combined disability discount: people with hook hands, peg legs, and eyepatches may be entitled to a price as low as 0%.
The good ol’ zero finger discount.
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The op webshite required lot’s of logins; and less said about the date format for the age verification …
redacted seems way less bother.
Outstanding game. Easy recommend if you haven’t played it
It’s a great game, but not the masterpiece everyone told me.
No game can ever satisfy everyone. But just because it wasn’t for you doesn’t mean it’s not one of the greatest RPGs ever. I didn’t enjoy clair obscur like I thought I would, but I’m not gonna pretend it’s not an amazing game.
Oh yeah I fully agree that no game can satisfy everyone.
It’s just that, before playing it myself, I never heard a bad thing about it so I might have expected too much out of it.
Still I enjoyed it, even if it’s not a game I’ll recommend to everyone.
He literally said that it was a great game.
Chill out he said it was great. And I also agree with him, its not a masterpiece like everyone is making it out to be.
I’m quite chill.. just pointing out the difference between fact and opinion. And besides, who gets to decide what is a masterpiece and what isn’t one if not “everyone”?
Not you for starters.
Same.
The writing wastes a LOT of time. Yes, I get it, that’s the vibe they want to set, but the vibe was set like 5 minutes ago, and all you’ve done since is print synonyms for “drunk asshole.”
It’s also paraded as pro-communist media, and it really isn’t at all. People are so capitalist-brained, that any game which places communism and capitalism on equal footing, pointing out the faults in both and mocking them relentlessly, is somehow “pro-communist.” In particular, the games plot-relevant example of a die-hard communist is not someone to aspire to. Neither are the capitalists or fascists, but that’s kind of the point: it’s hard to say it supports any political viewpoint when it shits on everyone fairly equally.
Honestly, I wanted and expected a lot more out of it. Particularly in the ending.
Though it was absolutely worth the playthrough. It’s a fantastic game, just not this pinnacle of writing the way the internet plays it off to be.
The writing is the reason for playing the game. If that’s wasted time, maybe this kind of RPG isn’t your thing.
100% dependant on your play style. If you go down Socialist Cop route, it’s pro communism. If you go down the Crypto Fascist route, the game is pro-racism.
*That*’s why it is one of the best RPGs of all time; You have so much choice and agency that you get like 16 different versions of the same story, based entirely on what you choose to do, and those stories are written as well as any book.
The game was made by communists, and they do make fun of themselves and other communists a lot and try to be even handed with the satire. That being said, if you’ve completed all four political vision quests you do notice how pro-communist the authors are. I always recommend people do the communist path on their first playthrough, because it is the political quest that injects a necessary piece of hope into the game. It feels almost like the “canon” choice considering how well it balances out certain other elements of the story.
Communist vision quest spoilers
Not only do you have some gorgeous lines in the book club about their motivations, like:
But then the scene also ends with irrefutable proof that infra-materialism works. Ideas can change the world if you believe in them.
I think it’s more than that. The way the game criticizes legal institutions, religion and the union is clearly informed by a revolutionary perspective. I don’t think Disco Elysium is subtle or coy about its politics, it just doesn’t pretend like achieving these goals will be easy.
No thanks I’d rather pirate it
I’m looking forward to more people experiencing this game.
I own it on Steam. It supports the Mac on Steam. I wonder if Epic offers the Mac version. (Epic is at war with Apple over iPhone stuff. The Mac has always allowed their stuff, but they stopped supporting it as protest.) Claimed either way. Doesn’t hurt anything.
Thanks, been waiting to play this one.
Though, epic Games licks ass. I’d rather buy it on steam right now for less than $5.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/
*kicks ass?
Nope. Licks. Hate epic Games launcher and all that BS.
Ahh, got it - it sucks ass
See what ass-eating culture hath wrought?
If it’s only the launcher, maybe take a look at Legendary, a command line tool to download and lauch games from the epic store. If you don’t want to bother with the command line, heroic launcher uses it and theres also a plugin for Playnite.