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So the communist "parody" is not even close to what a whacky member would be let alone communism itself. This goes so far that I saw was a "mad man" and tbf that text could be funny considering how crazy it is if it wasn't clearly trying to dismiss something by just doing a gigantic straw man that look really like the cold war propaganda representation if it. The joke is on the writer there. Sorry.
@@TrueAryador the devs themselves are some degree of libertarian socialist so it makes sense that they would mock statist communism with all the gulags and such.
@@RaunienTheFirst Doesn't change the fact that the joke is on the writer there. When someone's understanding of something can be compared to a propaganda's parody of that something he would be so far off he would only shows his own ignorance and stupidity while thinking he is being witty.
Also I'd like to disagree about Kim is devoid of emotions: a decision after decision on your part gives a lot of insight in his reclusive and professional personality - Kim is an authority with sympathies for a common man, bound by his service to the world, which is indifferent to his struggle for it. He doesn't necessarily want it, but he still tries to do the right thing, overcoming any adversaries and putting up with Harry's excesses, Claire's manipulations and so on and so forth. One of the greatest examples of his overwhelming determination to do what's need to be done is source of his nickname Kimball, when he, being in his 30's, pretended to be a deliquent and "juvie", which he hates with passion now (even passing an amnesiac drunkard every opportunity to converse with teenagers such as Cuno or Anodic Kids). And he has a suprisingly dry and gadfly-ish sense of humor, if your Esprit and Empathy are high enough to notice such things. His most challenging problem with the world are not people such as a lorry driver or Hardy boys, who despise or outright dismiss him, but his inability to express himself out of his job ( just like Harry or Sisyphus) and especially outside of his notebook - he stops your attempts at knowing his personal life and often focuses on task at hand (but almost in every conversation, which isn't directed at solving the crime, he gives you as a character initiative to speak), even needing an excuse to play a board game or keeping his smoking habit at bay with "ritual" at the end of the day to check his notes. He almost never relaxes in our modern meaning of this word, because he only functions properly in the flow of detective work (just like you, mercenaries or even Dros) and, while he doesn't really wants to do it, he bears up this responsibility, because for him to just stop pushing the boulder up a hill is surreal, because even his hobbies, quirks or preferences are focused on work (except maybe his orientation, which he quickly cuts off because of the laws and, again, inability to converse about anything except work)
I agree, and also I love how much time people spend on thinking about Kim. He is compelling in a very specific way which I’ve never really encountered anywhere else. Or can you think of similar characters in other media? I’ve also seen a lot of interesting stuff written about how his ethnicity and cultural background fits into the fictional history of the game.
I think this is a game that you cant understand truly if you didnt went through some shit in your life. The game also teaches you that many times you feel like a loser, thinking everyone laughs at you, but as it turns out the people actually respect you. You just dont realize it because in the adult world everyone tries shine in the best light, thus nobody will tell you how they really feel about you, or how they think you might be much better at certain aspects in life. Our protagonist is a mess in presence and the way he lives, but at the same time he is a genius cop, so Kutsaragi is actually trying so hard to stay professional, out of respect. I felt at the end of the game that he actually felt like an amateur compared to DuBoir, while at the begin it seemed like he isnt certainly happy about the mess our hero is. Truly a genius game imo.
Nope. But also yes. If you play in that way. Let's assume you wanna be happy and hopeful every now and then. Play the game that way and you can take a different message away from it. Harry is in this godforsaken state of body and mind cause of his way of dealing with the hardships life throws at us. Instead of accepting the pain he ran away and drank. Instead of accepting change he clang on to his wife, who moved on and found a new man after one year. Hope and the willingness to push on won't make the pain go away. But they'll save you from spoiling like a salad in the sun by not letting you rest in your own depressed state of mind for too long.
You won't be disappointed. Maybe you'd even have to beat it the second time right after with different skills (as passive skill checks with different stats would give you a different dialogue - including the one with the skills themselves).
@@logan9679 Absolutely, very unique game. Never really know where it's going. I ended up having to walk back and forth for a while because I missed a simple thing to find and that was the only negative thing I experienced.
One of the things I enjoyed about the game is a certain cultural European-centrism (as opposed to American-centrism) with a lot of the important entities of the world being analogs of European cultures (French Revachol - kinda like Paris - and Sur-la-Clef, Dutch Oranje, Spanish Mesque, Balkan/Slavic Graad etc.). Today, when (arguably) most of entertainment comes from the US and Asia, this is a nice and original thing.
What really got to me in this game, it managed to get under my skin. This was almost like a spiritual journey. And I love how different skills have a literal personality and bicker with each other, that is a very cool conceptualization of a human psyche.
I point to the book of Ecclesiastes. Its opening paragraph: The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south, and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To place the streams come from, they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. He tries living a virtuous life. He felt empty. He tries living a hedonistic life. He felt empty. He tried living a productive life. He felt empty. He tried living a lazy life. He felt empty. Thus we see the struggle of finding meaning in living in this world, not just through a single religions lens like Buddhism or a single philosopher like Niche. Humanity struggles to find his purpose, and if he has a purpose. The fight involves emotions and enduring past actions, which paint us towards one thing or another. Ultimately, mankind holds two powers unique to him. The power of the naming, and the power of choice. We shall choose something, and name it, or name it, and then choose it. It won't satisfy us completely, nor is its duty to fill us completely, for that desire to be content, shall drive us forward to do other things. So, we shall choose something, and name it, or name it, then choose it again, and again, till we return from which we came.
@@Csilaverte Depends on how you name success. I name it as teaching someone else the path forward and him grasping onto faith, hope, and love. I reach just one, and it is a success. For the Teacher describes wisdom crying out in the street. She offers her life giving water to all who come to her. She warns them of the consequences of ignoring her, and thus focuses on those who heed her. Her duty to the world is giving a warning. Her duty to those who approach is to the teach. Her duty to those who obey, is to love them. Therefore, I live in line with this. Niche, I believe, sought to challenge the whole and defined success as conquering his society's zeitgeist. Thus he went insane. Not even the strongest of rules managed to change society entirely, so how could an outlier do it? Thus I differ from Niche. I'm not Him, the creator, so I can only save a few. I can give warning to all, and nothing more.
@@youngthinker1 If you are not directing your action towards Logos, towards Truth, then yes. Even living a virtuous life will find you empty. Here in Ecclesiastes, this is written. To toil for the sake of the world will leave you nothing. This world is not our true destination, it is not the end, and from dust to dust to ashes to ashes. We must seek the purpose we are here, and we are here to pursue Truth and to cling to it with a death-hold. For what does this world's toils do for us if we lose our soul? Humanity struggles to find purpose because Humanity denies her purpose. Our purpose is written on our hearts. "The meaning of life," is not a complicated question, nor is "what is our purpose?" Niche's insanity was brought upon him because he already knew the purpose for our existence, yet he was attempting to find an alternate, secular solution to the modern world's zeitgeist/spirit. God is not dead, we have not killed Him, and Niche knew this. In fact...we all know this. The question is do we align ourselves with the Logos or do we hide ourselves away out of our own fears and pride? You cannot serve two masters.
@@youngthinker1 sadly, the general populous nowadays is living a dream, carefully curated by a host of inept industries and hordes of men and women who not making and bringing forth any value whatsoever - they just lay about and their willfull ignorance helps constituting the simulation that have become reality. you can not turn the modern man away from their dream with preaching - you have to shatter the inane preconceptions first: Nietzsche did this for his time, but alas, today it is lacking.
I always thought that over-emphasizing how realistic a game looks isn't a very good approach to graphics. Art style trumps that and can make a game hold up many years later much better. 2 examples that spring to my mind are Dishonored and Dead Space 2. I think they look gorgeous.
@@dudeguybro why because he's not as edgy in this for you? Do you only enjoy things that are really dark and edgy and you hate when someone enjoys something?
I had a doctor's appointment during this. Video of course. Time to watch. I have cardiomyopathy by the way so you're a man after my own *heart* ... get it.
He might have overskilled electrochemistry since his last video. Jokes aside, I don't get it either. I really like this channel but the constant yelling makes it hard to enjoy this video.
@@Dipanim same here man, I was listening to it while on my way to work and it was very hard to get through because of this. I heard him do this kind of voice in other videos, but it made a point when emphasizing something, but in this case its very annoying IMO. Appart from that the content is very enjoyable, but this yelling.. uhh..
One of the greatest games I've ever played. The moment that absolutely killed me was when you're interrogating that woman on the roof of that hostel and your self-conscious says all your personalities have been compromised by her charms.
I would love to see the conversation charts for this game. The sheer amount of dialogu and skill check dialogues blew me away. Loved this game, its something really unique.
07:41 Yeah, that was me too. Then I decided to go with the last remark since I was explicitly playing a burned out idiot with no capacity for self-reflection whatsoever. Superstar Hobocop died of a heart attack while speaking to the Union leader. :p God I love this game.
Upon you saying that Encyclopedia was useless I was reminded of the boxer Contact Mike, who despite getting knocked down by others bigger and better than him he never gave up
One of my favorite parts of the game is that you can in fact start building communism by recruiting some coked-out Eurotrash DJ to the cause, though his contribution to the proletariat is limited to saying "woo communism" while he spins tunes and snorts lines But that means Harry finishes the game by substantially increasing the number of communists in Revachol
Lol you're talking about Egghead right? I think you can convince him of whichever political idealogy your character has. I did one as an ultraliberal and he belted out a "EAT THE POOR! HARDCORE!" Almost died laughing from that.
Damn man, I knew Disco Elysium was my favorite game ever since I first heard the soundtrack, and I was not wrong to think that, every aspect of this game really resonates with me. Really glad that you decided to make a vid on this one, it really deserves more attention than it got. I'm a very happy boi right now!
@@AlbeitBasilisk I mean I don't think its a cope lol. Marxist ideology just seems to me to stand in direct conflict with most classical and longstanding ethical formulations and is based of a decidedly modernist understanding of the human condition. One which I regard as both flawed and dangerously naive. - such an understanding and regard for something doesn't meaningfully meet the definition of cope.
That "50's announcer segment" was pretty exhausting to listen to, not gonna lie. I feel like it's nice for dramatic effect or for highlighting a particular point, but using it for such a long segment made it overbearing for me. Outside of that though, the video is good. I enjoyed learning more about this game that I heard good things about but skipped over entirely.
Oh, so it wasn't just me. It felt like at some point in the video I started feeling like it was a little high energy and then I wasn't certain if it wasn't that way the whole time. I feel like it's just at an 8 and it'd be fine if it was brought back to a 6 it'd be fine.
Bro I love the 50s announcer voice thing. All your content is quality fucking content and though you may not know why you make the choices you do, to me I thoroughly enjoy them. "ThAnKs ToDd"
I highly disagree: encylopedia gives a hole bunch of the larger context about the world, which enriches one's playthrough quite a bit. Not to mention the pop quiz when you are reading the book about the innocents: Best laugh I had in a while
@@Csilaverte Well, the whole pop quiz is pretty much a joke about how useless Encyclopedia is: it gives you tons of information...except when you want it to.
I love this game and despite the fact that I am Russian, I was able to pass it in some way. Oh, i still remember karoeke song. After Enderal I will immediately sit down for a replay. Cool video by the way.
The game hits hard. It perfectly hits the nail on the head of my fears. And my loves. I feel scared about the world slowly deteriorating. Of a lost past and glory. Of being lost in my own thoughts, disconnected from others. But I can still laugh at the silliness of politics. I can enjoy a small moment of joy amid the chaos. I can dream and take on ambitious projects. I can enjoy feeling small in a cold world finding beautiful brief moments in the small nooks, briefly connecting with others and briefly impacting their lives. I can live with failure as it brings growth and other opportunities as well. I constantly agonize over if what I say makes any sense or if I'm just too lost and incomprehensibly pretentious due to mania. But the game resonates with me with Harry's imagination, self dialogue, and imagination fueled anxieties. The story is sad but overall very open and honest and I strive to capture that same feeling with my own creative projects.
I actually liked Encyclopedia. I had a thought bubble that allowed me to gain exp. with every single Encyclopedia check so it was by far my main source of exp. during the play through as a high Encyclopedia skill let me gain experience pretty much every other conversation.
I will have to buy this game. This definitely was made by and for people like me that sometimes feel trapped in their own head. It kinda gives me motivation to work on some of my projects.
I was going to make a comment about the ALGORITHM or existentialism or something stupid like you asked but decided that just telling you that this was possibly your best video yet would suffice. I hope we get more and I hope you had fun doing it.
Your description of the phasmid encounter almost made me cry just like I did when I played it myself (I also finished the game twice with different builds).
I’ve been binging all your videos and so far this is a very beautiful video and I’ve never felt this way before about other videos but listening to your life experiences genuinely makes me feel better, thanks man
breh b4 i finish this vid had to kop the game and start playin so i wouldnt get spoiled so im watching this as I continue to play da game lovin this vid tho forreal keep it up man I know ur gonna blow up i know it in my heart lol a year from now u finna have like 200k subscribers. edit: WHOAHH ur already at 100k nvm bro like 300k from now
Just wanted to let you know your review/discount code couldn't have came at a better time. I had surgery on my right hand last week and can't really play anything that requires more than one hand right now and Disco Elysium has been the only thing I have to entertain me besides RUclips lately.
I have been wanting to play this since it came out. Glad I waited, because now I can use your GOG code. Now, I just have to beat the game so I can finish watching your video!
More content! Honestly I almost don't care what your talking about I just really enjoy your style and the fact that whenever I listen closely it always seems like there's good background music.
Based on a number of other reviews I had decided not to buy Disco Elysium. However, this review changed my mind. It was unexpectedly entertaining, informative and complete. Thanks... I'll be back.
Damn. You had me in the first half. I was wondering about the tone and wtf happened. But then you nailed it. It`s so a midlife crisis game. I had a shroom trip not long before playing. It took me like no other game ever did.
This is the best game ever made. Made me learn a shit ton about my own deperession. Its bizarre. Never seen a game so freaking deep. I want to relive my first playthrough
Fuck the algorithm, I loved your take on the game and can't wait until you get around doing Arcanum, whenever that may be. Keep rocking, Strat, you're the man!
Gotta agree. Usually love the videos he makes but I can't make it through this one with the voice he's doing. I know he's probably just trying to do new things to see what works and help his channel grow, so I get that, but I'm gonna toss my 2 cents in the bucket that says don't do the voice. The over the top youtuber voice is okay in small doses, but its hard for me to make it through a 40 minute video of it.
From my pov,from around @30:00 till the end, in contrast with the opening, you'll get the reason why ^^ (I would highly doubt, regarding the context, this voice change for this video is meaningless)
I was utterly wrong about this game. I thought it was a wordy RPG that tried to appeal to the whole "communism" angle, just as you stated but watching this video fully made me appreciate the game and reconsider how foolish I was to disregard it. I'm glad my compatriots now are doing well with this game.
That's what listening to others gets you my dude. See this shit for yourself. That's the biggest criticism I hear about this game is it's just lefty propaganda and I ask them "Do you know you can agree with a race realist like 20 minutes in?" So many people just saw a headline and instantly decided to disregard the game entirely.
@@XxMeatShakexX I agree. I was fortunate enough to play on release before too many articles were written. I got to see for myself that it was a game that tried explore and try to appeal to people from all manner of social and political ideologies. It sortve annoyed me that a lot of games journos only liked it because you could be a hardcore commie and beat up fascists and I saw loads of cringeworth guides on how to RP the perfect communist and how to avoid right wing conversation choices.
My problem with the game is that my money would go towards a bunch of commies who "made" the game. That, and the "facist" ending is apparently everyone getting nuked because how dare you not pick commies.
There is a little detail, which I noticed on a second playthrough: if your hp or morale is damaged (by drinking or smoking for example), it gives you a penalty for Endurance and Volition respectively, making each check related to that skill harder the more damage you have. For example, dealing with tribunal gets tougher the less hp you have (and your different skills correspond with each other, giving penalties to such skills as hand-eye coordination)
Loved this game, but I kind of struggle to do a replay for some reason... I guess it was such a journey to read all the little details I found, it just wont feel the same a second go. I know I missed certain story bits, though. It's the kind of game a have to a wait a couple of years to forget stuff, then go back into.
I've heard mixed things on this game from friends. It seems like it would be right up my alley, but I've been wary of purchasing. I appreciate your perspective on this game!
Dude all of the skills are totally useful for getting information from different people and different spots. Its crazy, and how you said some skills are effectively useless is just untrue
My only real problem with the game is how hard it is to find the Phasmid. It's probably why so many people hated the ending, they never found the thing that puts it all together.
I'm pretty sure I'll be completing this game tonighta nd I look forward to watching this full video tomorrow. It's so damn good. and I already realize as I'm going a long that I need to go play again to reread a bunch of shit I didn't understand fully.
I used to just consume content and go about my day working etc. Now I stop to comment on everything because I’ve been home since mid March and I’m losing my mind.
oh my, I think you sold me this game dude I am so hyped I wanted something like this for a long time. If it's half as good I am gonna lose so many hours.
King. Thanks for discount on DE, been dying to play it. The GoG news is amazing though and its fucking awesome you can make these videos. Can't wait for more streams
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So the communist "parody" is not even close to what a whacky member would be let alone communism itself. This goes so far that I saw was a "mad man" and tbf that text could be funny considering how crazy it is if it wasn't clearly trying to dismiss something by just doing a gigantic straw man that look really like the cold war propaganda representation if it. The joke is on the writer there. Sorry.
@@TrueAryador the devs themselves are some degree of libertarian socialist so it makes sense that they would mock statist communism with all the gulags and such.
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Doesn't change the fact that the joke is on the writer there. When someone's understanding of something can be compared to a propaganda's parody of that something he would be so far off he would only shows his own ignorance and stupidity while thinking he is being witty.
@@TrueAryador wasn't it hyperbolic enough that it could be considered tongue-in-cheek?
Also I'd like to disagree about Kim is devoid of emotions: a decision after decision on your part gives a lot of insight in his reclusive and professional personality - Kim is an authority with sympathies for a common man, bound by his service to the world, which is indifferent to his struggle for it. He doesn't necessarily want it, but he still tries to do the right thing, overcoming any adversaries and putting up with Harry's excesses, Claire's manipulations and so on and so forth. One of the greatest examples of his overwhelming determination to do what's need to be done is source of his nickname Kimball, when he, being in his 30's, pretended to be a deliquent and "juvie", which he hates with passion now (even passing an amnesiac drunkard every opportunity to converse with teenagers such as Cuno or Anodic Kids). And he has a suprisingly dry and gadfly-ish sense of humor, if your Esprit and Empathy are high enough to notice such things. His most challenging problem with the world are not people such as a lorry driver or Hardy boys, who despise or outright dismiss him, but his inability to express himself out of his job ( just like Harry or Sisyphus) and especially outside of his notebook - he stops your attempts at knowing his personal life and often focuses on task at hand (but almost in every conversation, which isn't directed at solving the crime, he gives you as a character initiative to speak), even needing an excuse to play a board game or keeping his smoking habit at bay with "ritual" at the end of the day to check his notes. He almost never relaxes in our modern meaning of this word, because he only functions properly in the flow of detective work (just like you, mercenaries or even Dros) and, while he doesn't really wants to do it, he bears up this responsibility, because for him to just stop pushing the boulder up a hill is surreal, because even his hobbies, quirks or preferences are focused on work (except maybe his orientation, which he quickly cuts off because of the laws and, again, inability to converse about anything except work)
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He is also part of the Homosexual Underground
Nicely articulated and insightful. Cheers!
I agree, and also I love how much time people spend on thinking about Kim. He is compelling in a very specific way which I’ve never really encountered anywhere else. Or can you think of similar characters in other media?
I’ve also seen a lot of interesting stuff written about how his ethnicity and cultural background fits into the fictional history of the game.
Disco Elysium: The Game of Getting Old and Realizing It All Meant Nothing
I had the opposite take away of: disco elysium, doesn't matter how long you fucked up or how hard, you can change for the better
I think this is a game that you cant understand truly if you didnt went through some shit in your life. The game also teaches you that many times you feel like a loser, thinking everyone laughs at you, but as it turns out the people actually respect you. You just dont realize it because in the adult world everyone tries shine in the best light, thus nobody will tell you how they really feel about you, or how they think you might be much better at certain aspects in life. Our protagonist is a mess in presence and the way he lives, but at the same time he is a genius cop, so Kutsaragi is actually trying so hard to stay professional, out of respect. I felt at the end of the game that he actually felt like an amateur compared to DuBoir, while at the begin it seemed like he isnt certainly happy about the mess our hero is.
Truly a genius game imo.
Congrats on not getting it
Nope. But also yes. If you play in that way.
Let's assume you wanna be happy and hopeful every now and then. Play the game that way and you can take a different message away from it.
Harry is in this godforsaken state of body and mind cause of his way of dealing with the hardships life throws at us.
Instead of accepting the pain he ran away and drank.
Instead of accepting change he clang on to his wife, who moved on and found a new man after one year.
Hope and the willingness to push on won't make the pain go away.
But they'll save you from spoiling like a salad in the sun by not letting you rest in your own depressed state of mind for too long.
loved this game. ran into a pretty big bug at the end tho
Heh.
I see what you did there.
Man, i hope they fix it then, had a couple bugs too that needed me to restart a save and lose progress😭
@@janikut_not sure if you eventually picked up on it but he’s making a joke about the end of the game lol
@@nobodythisisstupid4888 that was the joke all along
They also voiced-over EVERY CHARACTER in the recent update, quite impressive.
Bought it because of this video, can't wait to play it.
You won't be disappointed. Maybe you'd even have to beat it the second time right after with different skills (as passive skill checks with different stats would give you a different dialogue - including the one with the skills themselves).
Did you enjoy it?
@@logan9679 Absolutely, very unique game. Never really know where it's going. I ended up having to walk back and forth for a while because I missed a simple thing to find and that was the only negative thing I experienced.
One of the things I enjoyed about the game is a certain cultural European-centrism (as opposed to American-centrism) with a lot of the important entities of the world being analogs of European cultures (French Revachol - kinda like Paris - and Sur-la-Clef, Dutch Oranje, Spanish Mesque, Balkan/Slavic Graad etc.). Today, when (arguably) most of entertainment comes from the US and Asia, this is a nice and original thing.
What really got to me in this game, it managed to get under my skin.
This was almost like a spiritual journey. And I love how different skills have a literal personality and bicker with each other, that is a very cool conceptualization of a human psyche.
Cuno is one of the game's most surprising successes.
fuck does cuno care
The duck Cuno cares
I point to the book of Ecclesiastes. Its opening paragraph:
The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south, and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To place the streams come from, they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
He tries living a virtuous life. He felt empty.
He tries living a hedonistic life. He felt empty.
He tried living a productive life. He felt empty.
He tried living a lazy life. He felt empty.
Thus we see the struggle of finding meaning in living in this world, not just through a single religions lens like Buddhism or a single philosopher like Niche. Humanity struggles to find his purpose, and if he has a purpose. The fight involves emotions and enduring past actions, which paint us towards one thing or another.
Ultimately, mankind holds two powers unique to him. The power of the naming, and the power of choice. We shall choose something, and name it, or name it, and then choose it. It won't satisfy us completely, nor is its duty to fill us completely, for that desire to be content, shall drive us forward to do other things. So, we shall choose something, and name it, or name it, then choose it again, and again, till we return from which we came.
I like that.
You have read too much Nietzsche, my man. Do not try preaching like Zarathustra - it is thankless and useless :)
@@Csilaverte Depends on how you name success.
I name it as teaching someone else the path forward and him grasping onto faith, hope, and love. I reach just one, and it is a success. For the Teacher describes wisdom crying out in the street. She offers her life giving water to all who come to her. She warns them of the consequences of ignoring her, and thus focuses on those who heed her.
Her duty to the world is giving a warning.
Her duty to those who approach is to the teach.
Her duty to those who obey, is to love them.
Therefore, I live in line with this.
Niche, I believe, sought to challenge the whole and defined success as conquering his society's zeitgeist. Thus he went insane. Not even the strongest of rules managed to change society entirely, so how could an outlier do it? Thus I differ from Niche. I'm not Him, the creator, so I can only save a few. I can give warning to all, and nothing more.
@@youngthinker1 If you are not directing your action towards Logos, towards Truth, then yes. Even living a virtuous life will find you empty. Here in Ecclesiastes, this is written. To toil for the sake of the world will leave you nothing. This world is not our true destination, it is not the end, and from dust to dust to ashes to ashes. We must seek the purpose we are here, and we are here to pursue Truth and to cling to it with a death-hold. For what does this world's toils do for us if we lose our soul? Humanity struggles to find purpose because Humanity denies her purpose. Our purpose is written on our hearts. "The meaning of life," is not a complicated question, nor is "what is our purpose?" Niche's insanity was brought upon him because he already knew the purpose for our existence, yet he was attempting to find an alternate, secular solution to the modern world's zeitgeist/spirit.
God is not dead, we have not killed Him, and Niche knew this. In fact...we all know this. The question is do we align ourselves with the Logos or do we hide ourselves away out of our own fears and pride? You cannot serve two masters.
@@youngthinker1 sadly, the general populous nowadays is living a dream, carefully curated by a host of inept industries and hordes of men and women who not making and bringing forth any value whatsoever - they just lay about and their willfull ignorance helps constituting the simulation that have become reality. you can not turn the modern man away from their dream with preaching - you have to shatter the inane preconceptions first: Nietzsche did this for his time, but alas, today it is lacking.
I always thought that over-emphasizing how realistic a game looks isn't a very good approach to graphics. Art style trumps that and can make a game hold up many years later much better.
2 examples that spring to my mind are Dishonored and Dead Space 2. I think they look gorgeous.
realtalk SMB3 is still one of the prettiest games of all time.
@@xucthclu MARIO
A better example is Windwaker or BOTW
Good lighting and fog are the actual best way to make a game age well
@@beezusHrist yeah, I looked it up right after, that's why I deleted my question.
This game really stuck with me. Actual real life shivers at times. I love it.
@Dem Lem's Nah, it was Rhetoric, he's trying to sell something. You can trust me, Drama told me this. [Drama Easy: Failure]
as an estonian, it took me about 5 minutes to realise that yep, this was written by estonians
How so?
How so?
do tell, I know nothing about Estonia
It appears Estonia will remain a mystery
Yeah besides, I heard Lithuania and Latvia are much more interesting places! *nudge nudge*
Dude the energy in this video is infectious I can tell the passion you have for this game
Ikr? I'm so used to deadpan and our guy has gone full giddy child at Christmas
It's pretty annoying. I had to stop watching the video. Shame - probably a good one. Strat is probably losing his mind in quarantine or something.
@@dudeguybro why because he's not as edgy in this for you? Do you only enjoy things that are really dark and edgy and you hate when someone enjoys something?
I had a doctor's appointment during this. Video of course. Time to watch.
I have cardiomyopathy by the way so you're a man after my own *heart* ... get it.
Yikes. Good luck. I can tell you from experience that surgery is scary, but it is worth it. I feel like I'm 10 years younger.
@@StratEdgyProductions Thanks man
why do you talk like a carnival ride operator in this one?
He might have overskilled electrochemistry since his last video.
Jokes aside, I don't get it either. I really like this channel but the constant yelling makes it hard to enjoy this video.
@@Dipanim same here man, I was listening to it while on my way to work and it was very hard to get through because of this. I heard him do this kind of voice in other videos, but it made a point when emphasizing something, but in this case its very annoying IMO. Appart from that the content is very enjoyable, but this yelling.. uhh..
I love it. Haha. So there’s that I guess.
@@edluthe1591 I love it too.
he's in character.... an annoying crack head. Love the video still lol
One of the greatest games I've ever played. The moment that absolutely killed me was when you're interrogating that woman on the roof of that hostel and your self-conscious says all your personalities have been compromised by her charms.
I still can’t believe I missed that
*Look at my name my pfp and I miss that!!*
@@Ooffoop Volition, you are the one and only thing we can truly trust.
@@Kimbie I’m the G.O.A.T
That moment convinced me to do a playthrough where I only listed to volition and it was amazing
If Stalin was making omelets with the eggs he broke, there would be no world hunger
Especially since there would be less mouths to feed.
@@EugenethePhilostopher BURN
@@EugenethePhilostopher Yowza
I would love to see the conversation charts for this game. The sheer amount of dialogu and skill check dialogues blew me away. Loved this game, its something really unique.
If you haven't played this game or are on the fence, BUY IT. It's one of the best games I have played in such a long time.
Overrating it
no
07:41 Yeah, that was me too. Then I decided to go with the last remark since I was explicitly playing a burned out idiot with no capacity for self-reflection whatsoever. Superstar Hobocop died of a heart attack while speaking to the Union leader. :p
God I love this game.
Upon you saying that
Encyclopedia was useless I was reminded of the boxer Contact Mike, who despite getting knocked down by others bigger and better than him he never gave up
When you get all excited you sound like Dr. Orpheus from the Venture Brothers. Shit kills me😂
Insulted by the Rhetoric degree joke :P The game portrayed Rhetoric quite well.
One of my favorite parts of the game is that you can in fact start building communism by recruiting some coked-out Eurotrash DJ to the cause, though his contribution to the proletariat is limited to saying "woo communism" while he spins tunes and snorts lines
But that means Harry finishes the game by substantially increasing the number of communists in Revachol
HARDCORE
Lol you're talking about Egghead right? I think you can convince him of whichever political idealogy your character has. I did one as an ultraliberal and he belted out a "EAT THE POOR! HARDCORE!" Almost died laughing from that.
It's because it's INTERNALLY COHERENT!
Commies. The only good commie is a dead commie.
@@Denkart egghead is hilarious. Especially when you start predicting his text and he goes deep 4thwall on you.
I am once again reminded that my patreon sub is well worth it
Damn man, I knew Disco Elysium was my favorite game ever since I first heard the soundtrack, and I was not wrong to think that, every aspect of this game really resonates with me. Really glad that you decided to make a vid on this one, it really deserves more attention than it got.
I'm a very happy boi right now!
ZA/UM did shout out Marx and Engels in their award acceptance speech. So that probably explains the communism complaints.
based
@@AlbeitBasilisk Literally the opposite of based.
@@cyphermasq7870 in the word of god
cope
@@AlbeitBasilisk I mean I don't think its a cope lol.
Marxist ideology just seems to me to stand in direct conflict with most classical and longstanding ethical formulations and is based of a decidedly modernist understanding of the human condition. One which I regard as both flawed and dangerously naive. - such an understanding and regard for something doesn't meaningfully meet the definition of cope.
@@cyphermasq7870 nah that's cope
That "50's announcer segment" was pretty exhausting to listen to, not gonna lie. I feel like it's nice for dramatic effect or for highlighting a particular point, but using it for such a long segment made it overbearing for me. Outside of that though, the video is good. I enjoyed learning more about this game that I heard good things about but skipped over entirely.
does it really end at some point? i just can't get through it, i need to skip this crap.
Oh, so it wasn't just me. It felt like at some point in the video I started feeling like it was a little high energy and then I wasn't certain if it wasn't that way the whole time.
I feel like it's just at an 8 and it'd be fine if it was brought back to a 6 it'd be fine.
Yeah same... I did this video in 3 sessions aha, the points are good but the voice was giving me a headache 😂
Bro I love the 50s announcer voice thing. All your content is quality fucking content and though you may not know why you make the choices you do, to me I thoroughly enjoy them. "ThAnKs ToDd"
Encyclopedia generally isn't very useful, _unless_ you get the Wompty-Dompty Dom Centre thought, in which case it's the best skill in the game.
I highly disagree: encylopedia gives a hole bunch of the larger context about the world, which enriches one's playthrough quite a bit. Not to mention the pop quiz when you are reading the book about the innocents: Best laugh I had in a while
@@Csilaverte Well, the whole pop quiz is pretty much a joke about how useless Encyclopedia is: it gives you tons of information...except when you want it to.
@@Csilaverte You clearly didn't understand the fact that every answer is Dolores Dei, except maybe the last one.
@@TheEnmineer in my playthrough dolores was only the last answer
@@bogmanhimself4656 Clearly you don't have much of an inland empire. Otherwise you'd understand my answer.
A Stat-Edgy video and a salt factory video drop a day apart, awww yeah, its a great week!
Europe is a real place! I have slayed three dragons and bedded two damsels today alone and it's only midday.
I love this game and despite the fact that I am Russian, I was able to pass it in some way. Oh, i still remember karoeke song. After Enderal I will immediately sit down for a replay. Cool video by the way.
@Dem Lem's No, i haven't. I watched a couple of reviews and game not very interested me.
The game hits hard. It perfectly hits the nail on the head of my fears. And my loves. I feel scared about the world slowly deteriorating. Of a lost past and glory. Of being lost in my own thoughts, disconnected from others. But I can still laugh at the silliness of politics. I can enjoy a small moment of joy amid the chaos. I can dream and take on ambitious projects. I can enjoy feeling small in a cold world finding beautiful brief moments in the small nooks, briefly connecting with others and briefly impacting their lives. I can live with failure as it brings growth and other opportunities as well.
I constantly agonize over if what I say makes any sense or if I'm just too lost and incomprehensibly pretentious due to mania. But the game resonates with me with Harry's imagination, self dialogue, and imagination fueled anxieties.
The story is sad but overall very open and honest and I strive to capture that same feeling with my own creative projects.
I actually liked Encyclopedia. I had a thought bubble that allowed me to gain exp. with every single Encyclopedia check so it was by far my main source of exp. during the play through as a high Encyclopedia skill let me gain experience pretty much every other conversation.
I feel like with every video he makes he grows in sarcasm to the point where it probably just bleeds into everyone he talks to
How dare a piece of art try to make me think!!! Can you believe the audacity ??
Haha, the joke's on you, in regards of spoilers I have memory of a goldfish so I'll just play this gsme after a month totally unspoiled!
I will have to buy this game. This definitely was made by and for people like me that sometimes feel trapped in their own head. It kinda gives me motivation to work on some of my projects.
I was going to make a comment about the ALGORITHM or existentialism or something stupid like you asked but decided that just telling you that this was possibly your best video yet would suffice. I hope we get more and I hope you had fun doing it.
Saving this for later, still gotta play through myself. Gonna support my boi though.
Thank you for not stopping with youtube. Your content is amazing ♥
Your description of the phasmid encounter almost made me cry just like I did when I played it myself (I also finished the game twice with different builds).
I cried so much when Henry understood who "apricot chewing gum" was
I’ve been binging all your videos and so far this is a very beautiful video and I’ve never felt this way before about other videos but listening to your life experiences genuinely makes me feel better, thanks man
One must assume Sisyphus happy or what Gene Roddenberry said the effort itself yields its own reward
Literally one of the best games I've ever played, and I've played games since '96
It's a great day when a new Strat-Edgy video comes out. Loved the game, and loved your critique. Can't wait to see more.
One of my favorite channels playing one of my most recent favorite games. Fuck yess.
Nice Jim sterling impression.
@@HeavyWeapons52 That's just how strat usually talks though. I'm talking his "nerd boner" voice
breh b4 i finish this vid had to kop the game and start playin so i wouldnt get spoiled so im watching this as I continue to play da game lovin this vid tho forreal keep it up man I know ur gonna blow up i know it in my heart lol a year from now u finna have like 200k subscribers.
edit: WHOAHH ur already at 100k nvm bro like 300k from now
Fuck Nihlism
All my homies reconize the absurdity of life and give it meaning
Just wanted to let you know your review/discount code couldn't have came at a better time. I had surgery on my right hand last week and can't really play anything that requires more than one hand right now and Disco Elysium has been the only thing I have to entertain me besides RUclips lately.
“encyclopedia skill can fuck off”
spoken like someone whos never experienced the glory of wompty dompty dom center
I have been wanting to play this since it came out. Glad I waited, because now I can use your GOG code. Now, I just have to beat the game so I can finish watching your video!
This game is by far the gem of the decade, it's a game that grips you and truly speaks to you on many different levels.
More content! Honestly I almost don't care what your talking about I just really enjoy your style and the fact that whenever I listen closely it always seems like there's good background music.
I liked the fucking voice, you sounded like you were having fun there.
It was fun, but apparently, fun is a no no.
Based on a number of other reviews I had decided not to buy Disco Elysium. However, this review changed my mind. It was unexpectedly entertaining, informative and complete. Thanks... I'll be back.
looking forward to your next video man. Big fan since discovering you
Damn. You had me in the first half. I was wondering about the tone and wtf happened. But then you nailed it. It`s so a midlife crisis game. I had a shroom trip not long before playing. It took me like no other game ever did.
Rewatched this review like three times. I love this game. And your personality bro
Volition is best skill
You can't trust the others
Why are you talking like Dr. Borous from that Fallout:NV DLC?
This is the best game ever made. Made me learn a shit ton about my own deperession. Its bizarre. Never seen a game so freaking deep. I want to relive my first playthrough
Beautifully analyzed. Your conceptualization of the end resonated with me like Shivers with the Harry I chose to play as.
So youtube is there a reason I only now found out this video was uploaded?
realistic looking video is kinda like realism drawing, like its cool but we wanna see some trippy shit
Why were you doing that annoying voice for half the video?
Fantastic video, great start to my patronage
Fuck the algorithm, I loved your take on the game and can't wait until you get around doing Arcanum, whenever that may be. Keep rocking, Strat, you're the man!
I really enjoy your content but the snake oil salesman voice gets grating quite quickly, you have a great voice for narration without it
Gotta agree. Usually love the videos he makes but I can't make it through this one with the voice he's doing. I know he's probably just trying to do new things to see what works and help his channel grow, so I get that, but I'm gonna toss my 2 cents in the bucket that says don't do the voice. The over the top youtuber voice is okay in small doses, but its hard for me to make it through a 40 minute video of it.
Agreed. It's fine for emphasis but an entire video of it is just too much
From my pov,from around @30:00 till the end, in contrast with the opening, you'll get the reason why ^^ (I would highly doubt, regarding the context, this voice change for this video is meaningless)
It isn't. I did it on purpose, though I barely understand at times why I make the choices I make. I just go with it and see where it takes me.
Ditto. It was exhausting.
In some moments you sound like the *Horrific Necktie*
"Turn your suffering into a masterpiece."
I was utterly wrong about this game. I thought it was a wordy RPG that tried to appeal to the whole "communism" angle, just as you stated but watching this video fully made me appreciate the game and reconsider how foolish I was to disregard it. I'm glad my compatriots now are doing well with this game.
It's everything man. Political philosophies, personal philosophies, existentialism. And it laughs at all of it.
That's what listening to others gets you my dude. See this shit for yourself. That's the biggest criticism I hear about this game is it's just lefty propaganda and I ask them "Do you know you can agree with a race realist like 20 minutes in?" So many people just saw a headline and instantly decided to disregard the game entirely.
@@XxMeatShakexX I agree. I was fortunate enough to play on release before too many articles were written. I got to see for myself that it was a game that tried explore and try to appeal to people from all manner of social and political ideologies. It sortve annoyed me that a lot of games journos only liked it because you could be a hardcore commie and beat up fascists and I saw loads of cringeworth guides on how to RP the perfect communist and how to avoid right wing conversation choices.
This game allows you to be a communist as much as it allows you to have thoughts about ethno-nationalism and fascism.
My problem with the game is that my money would go towards a bunch of commies who "made" the game. That, and the "facist" ending is apparently everyone getting nuked because how dare you not pick commies.
I don't know why the finale of this review made me tear up but it did.
I freakin' love this game! Bought it as soon as it came out.
Great stuff, man. Immensely enjoying these reviews. Keep up the good work, cheers!
There is a little detail, which I noticed on a second playthrough: if your hp or morale is damaged (by drinking or smoking for example), it gives you a penalty for Endurance and Volition respectively, making each check related to that skill harder the more damage you have. For example, dealing with tribunal gets tougher the less hp you have (and your different skills correspond with each other, giving penalties to such skills as hand-eye coordination)
Loved this game, but I kind of struggle to do a replay for some reason... I guess it was such a journey to read all the little details I found, it just wont feel the same a second go. I know I missed certain story bits, though. It's the kind of game a have to a wait a couple of years to forget stuff, then go back into.
I was really waiting for a reason to buy this game.
Now
I do. Thanks for another awesome video.
Keep up the good work
If no one has read The Stranger, pls do. It's not that long, but beautiful.
Also "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier. Its not about absurbism, but i feel like if u enjoy Camus' work, this book is nice.
My favourite was when my stomach told me to become a "traditionalist".
I've heard mixed things on this game from friends. It seems like it would be right up my alley, but I've been wary of purchasing. I appreciate your perspective on this game!
Dude all of the skills are totally useful for getting information from different people and different spots. Its crazy, and how you said some skills are effectively useless is just untrue
Is this why you stopped streaming on Monday? 😞
I needed to finish the video so I couldn't stream this week. Making up for it tomorrow though :)
Your audio got better love it
Keep doing the voice in future videos to annoy the people nitpicking that they didn't like it.
Great video, dude. I'm picking this game up.
My only real problem with the game is how hard it is to find the Phasmid. It's probably why so many people hated the ending, they never found the thing that puts it all together.
Ah, the twitch streams with you playing it were fun :D
the character models convey everything you need to know?! what?!
LOL
I'm pretty sure I'll be completing this game tonighta nd I look forward to watching this full video tomorrow.
It's so damn good. and I already realize as I'm going a long that I need to go play again to reread a bunch of shit I didn't understand fully.
Disco Elysium - probably the only game that lets me be _myself_ , at least as close to myself as possible
”Make failure something fun”
that’s what I tell my parents, that I’m at least “fun” if anything but a failure.
Great video mate!
I used to just consume content and go about my day working etc. Now I stop to comment on everything because I’ve been home since mid March and I’m losing my mind.
oh my, I think you sold me this game dude I am so hyped I wanted something like this for a long time. If it's half as good I am gonna lose so many hours.
I felt old and ugly with my 20s behind me.
And then I played as Harry.
Now I feel handsome.
Ive been looking forward to this one
King.
Thanks for discount on DE, been dying to play it. The GoG news is amazing though and its fucking awesome you can make these videos.
Can't wait for more streams