Thread 717137119

MISTER DU BOIS

This game has been one of the most pleasant narrative experiences I have had in a game in years.

>>717137119 (OP)
qrd on this game? why do people like it?

>>717137119 (OP)
what the fuck was his problem?

>>717137119 (OP)
>Don't be a retard Harry!
What did he mean by this?

>thought Revachol getting nuked was going to be a big part of the book
>it just happened unceremoniously in the background

>>717140168
you're a cop who got so drunk and high he forgot that and everything else in the week he's supposed to have been investigating a murder, and then the game is you pretending to be a cop from there.

>>717140168
it's communist propaganda disguised as a game

>>717140168
its a very well written rpg, dont listen to retards calling it commie propaganda. its a game that makes fun of literally all major ideologies in various ways

>>717140839
But communism is depicted as a noble failure whereas fascism and capitalism are depicted as jokes.

>>717141225
You have to be a special kind of retard to not consider fascism, an ideology grounded in explicit encouragement of violence and war as "cleansing the nation" to not be a complete joke of a political system.

>>717141293
It's no more of a joke than communism.

>>717140839
>too retarded to recognize obvious propaganda as propaganda
>calls others retards
many such cases!

>>717141225
Communism's followers are depicted as naive at best and violently extremist at worst. They only good-hearted communists in the game are the ones too simple minded to realize they're getting played by the union.
The whole communists propaganda aspect really feels played up by the lead devs, alon with people like you who are too busy arguing online to look past the most surface level of the thing they're upset over.

>>717141813
Let me guess, you are one of those "homeschooled" kids, right?

>>717140024
holy shit this looks so boring...

ERRRRMMM YOU MUST BE MISTAKEN I AM NOT GAY

AHHHHHHHHHH IM BECOMING A COMMUNIST ANON DONT PLAY THIS GAME ITS PROPAGANDA AAAAAAAAAA

What is "half light" anyway?

>>717141225
it is rather described as "noble ideals" that get tainted and the game makes sure to show that.

Hell even Kraz Mazov was portrayed as a fucking tyrant that would often make people disappear

>>717142861
>Hell even Kraz Mazov was portrayed as a fucking tyrant that would often make people disappear

Is he? I'm genuinely asking, I don't remember that at all. Do you remember what part of the game this is said?

>>717142818
It's the vibe. Those things your brain tells you that you're sure of, but you don't know why.

>>717143062
It's in the book

Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun.

>>717137119 (OP)
I need to bu-
>staff gets fired over gay corporate shit
pirate this game at some point

>>717143192
Then I'm sorry to say but you're wrong.
Kraz didn't disappear people, the moralintern did. They tried to disappear his buddy Ignus Nilsen and it was one of their failures.
Chapter 3, non-entity.

>>717140441
>>717140839
Say one of these fascist or communist things or fuck off.

I played through the game first as a burly empathetic boring cop (with a twinge towards the fascist ideology for the lulz), is insane rockstar book-smart commie cop different enough to warrant another playthrough?

>>717143431
was he now? huh. Guess I'll give the book another go

I wish there was an official translation

>>717137119 (OP)
WHATS GOOD NIGGA?

>>717140441
You have to be brain damaged from consuming social media to assume that everything in the world is trying to push some kind of political agenda.

>>717143480
The only major differences are the 4 political vision quests and whether you go to the final island with Cuno or Kim.

>>717143728
Yes, read the Ibex translation. It's the better one.

>>717143858
>Ibex translation
I'll check it out thanks

Another cool excerpt about the government disappearing people

ENOUGH

>>717140168
You are a schizophrenic cop who got so drunk you got amnesia, and have to solve a murder that you should have worked on days ago. However, you can also do a lot of different things around.
Also, the voices in your head are both your own skills and they themselves are technically characters talking to you and between themselves. Some voices offer great advice, others are insane. And then you got shit like Shivers talking about supernatural shit you aren't supposed to know and yet you do.

>>717144443
I like how Esprit de Corps is basically useless compared to Shivers but serves the exact same purpose except it's with cops instead

>>717143480
the dialogue changes a ton depending on which stats you're leveling since other skills begin to chime in during conversations not to mention a lot of the thoughts you internalize can also unlock different prompts

>>717140168
well written, decent plot, you play a failure that drank himself to half death and tries to use his extremist political stances to dodge personal reasonability like beating the homeless because their avant-garde lifestyle is truly inherent commie bullshit wrapped in a fascist sandwich with a side of centrist faggotry and you're quite literally saving the city- no the world, by beating them half to death. that classic "can you spare a dollar" dogwhistle was their tell, idiots showed their true face, the mask slipped and you; the super cop, caught it before it shattered on the floor, shoving it down their throat much like their capitalist bosses would do to each other in the golden ivory towers backdrop clearly seen from this cardboard box camp.

>>717143858
reading this again now and man I really did read the whole thing backwards. Guess this is what happens when you read books at work

>>717142075
>communists
>the union
retard

>>717145250
At least you read it. Most people who try to argue book lore go by vague things they've read people say several threads ago.

>>717145515
Anyways thanks for the correction, bröther. I'll check the other translation when I get some free time. Have a good one

>>717140168
They don't It's Tranny communist propaganda.
You aren't allowed to play it, /v/ forbids you from playing it.

>>717142818
It's what /v/ maxed out

>>717142818
fight or flight I guess?

>>717140441
based

>>717140024
Yeah but literally nothing matters since their world gets destroyed 27 years later.

>>717140024
This feels like reading a Whomp comic. One of Ronnie's internal dialogues.

>>717140441
left wing economic policy is better then corporate cock sucking sorry lolbert pedo

>>717149152
Everything ends, doesn't mean it wasn't good while it happened.
Also, that's not necessarily canon. The only canon thing is that Revachol gets nuked, and that's because Shivers refers to it in a check.
The book has enough inconsistencies that it might as well be a different canon. For example, Revachol wasn't a part of the antecentennial revolution in the book, Dolores Dei wasn't nearly as relevant and the next Innocence was already prominent in the fifties.

>>717148969
yes
>Cool for: High-Strung Investigators, Shoot-Now-Ask-Questions-Later Cops, Surprise Haters
>Half Light is your fight-or-flight response. It enables you to sense the way situations are about to turn. It injects palpable fear into your heart – fear that urges you act before it’s too late to act ever again; fear that makes you frighten others. It is the aggression that lets you squeeze every last drop of information out of a witness.

>>717142818
your primal desire to kill and maim

i've tried to play this three times and cannot follow it, or get engaged.

>Hello! Welcome!
>WOW, YOU GENOCIDAL NEONAZI FASCIST!
>All he did was say hello.
>FUCK YOU, AGREE WITH ME OR YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THE GAME.

Ching Chong Chang really couldn't make it any less subtle if he tried. Great narrative dev xirs.

>>717149768
Yeah, its pacing is awful. It took me months to finish it, because there wasn't enough hooks or intrique to drive me forwards. I had to force myself thru it.

>>717137119 (OP)
I HATE YOU

>>717143264
>a perfect shot by the lieutenant

>>717149776
>FUCK YOU, AGREE WITH ME OR YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THE GAME.
You don't have to agree with Kim to continue the game. You can side with the other guy.

>>717140024
>Are women bourgeois
Well, women are often greatly relishing in the production, and the work, of the male proletariat. Ever time a woman is given a pension, every time she screeches at random stuff while living like queens on the back of the proletariat, yes, women are bourgeois. Or bourgeois adjacent.

>>717149776
>If you become a communist YOU'LL MURDER AND GENOCIDE LITERALLY ALL OF HUMANITY, YOU FUCKING MONSTER
Anon: this game is communist propaganda

>>717140441
People try to pretend the devs didn't wear red and hail Marx at an award ceremony once

>>717141293
You just described how communism works

>>717151102
The devs can resurrect Marx and suck the shit out of his ass for all I care, what matters is the content of the game.

>>717151671
It's one of those rolls where I don't know if winning or losing is the best outcome.

>Game about making fun of people who crawl to politics because of their personal shortcoming
>"IT'S COMMUNIST!!"
>"IT'S FASCIST!!!"

>>717140168
Excellent writing, excellent art style, excellent replayability.

>>717144443
Really love this part - where Volition is the only part of yourself to recognize simp tendencies. Felt so real.

>>717151671
I also really like the og version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngBjEZ-uUDU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqf-92FNGv4

i listen to this when i contemplate suicide.

>>717144443
GLORY. TRUTH. SOFTNESS. PROTECT HER. SHE WANTS YOU

The character that broke /v/

Prove me wrong

>>717152437
what a kind bloke welcoming me to revachol like that

>>717152437
is this your mug?

>>717152360
>Someone's been walking around in your dreams lately, looking for something. Tidying up, rearranging. Storing away all the unrealized dreams, putting old pains in boxes. The worst nightmares have settled down for a while. A spot of light on the bedroom door after the dark. The fluttering of eyelids in the spring sun. A thought that arises, only to disappear again. And yet there's a pattern emerging...
>What if you didn't lose your memory? What if something in Martinaise came and stored it all away. For you to slowly open one box at a time. So you can *choose* which parts to keep. Keep almost none of it. Only the flowers on the windowsill. Only the distant sound of a radio. Lose all the actors, the dark shadows, leave only the still lifes, the blissful distant wash of waves. If everybody knew -- you never did. She'll be coming soon. That's all.

kino...

>>717149152
Only Revachol though. The book is kind of weird anyway and was never finished, so I don't know how much you can draw from it.

>>717140346
Could you repeat that in English?

>>717142385
All Shartyniggers must fucking hang.

>>717145515
Case in point: >>717152907

>>717153042
Case in point, what? I've read the book last year, faggot. The ending is deliberately vague and open to interpretation.

yo kim can i bum a cigarette?

>>717137119 (OP)
>tumblr nose
yikes

>>717153127
Revachol was definitely not the only place that was destroyed, so no, you haven't read it.

>>717137119 (OP)
>To Hell with it, every worker is white!

>>717153241
What else was destroyed? The underage model that the artiste MC is banging heard or radio/saw that it got nuked, then they went on some road trip, cop eventually got shot by other cops and put into jail. Book ends with the fat guy seeing something in the toilet, don't remember what. Is that proof enough for you that I didn't skim some "other thread" or are you still self-fagging?

>>717153152
Don't detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau blowjob, it's gross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjco86ekIlQ

>>717153393
Almost everything got either consumed by the Pale or nuked by Ambrosius Saint-Miro, Anon. Yes, it does sound like you just skimmed it.

>>717137119 (OP)
>>717140256
>>717145515
>>717148272
>>717152437
why does everyone have a pink nose
looks retarded

>>717153558
Heavy drinking/nose beers

>>717153615
everyone? that's retarded

>>717153558
it's set in winter

>>717153557
>almost everything either got consumed by the Pale
That's just your literalist interpretation.

>>717153668
Shut up, faggot. No one cares about your subhuman opinion. Pathetic.

>>717153717
>>717153696
>>717153615
so this is the power of communism
go back to tumblr

>>717153668
Only 2 of the pictures that you quoted are not fanart.

>>717153701
>muh metaphor
Ok.

>>717153557
>sound like you just skimmed it

>>717153768
It doesn't matter where he's getting erroneous information from. But yes, if that is so important to you, I did imply at first that he got that information second hand and it sounds like he didn't.

>>717142818
Half Light is the one on top, Volition is the one on the bottom.

>>717137303
autism

>>717154116
Good on you for being honest, anon. That's rare. Just chill though. It's a work of fiction and a bit of a weird one at that. People have other shit going on and may misremember things, though with a book like that I think it's really is open to interpretation what did happen.
AFAIK, this was supposed to be book 1/3 or so, but the author never got to writing the other ones, which is why it ended as abruptly as it did.

>>717149152
I don’t give a fuck what happens in the book, and I don’t consider it canon. Anyway, my man Tequila Sunset isn’t going to be alive in 27 years, and after Harry, the deluge.

>>717154483
With Mesurehead? Lmao

>>717154324
I'm not being "honest", I'm being sarcastic. That point is utterly relevant to the discussion.
How can you not understand that I was simply stating that he is wrong with >>717153042 and nothing else?

>>717149776
You didn’t play the game. You can also get “down with racism” or refuse to pick a side or engage with it.

>>717154324
I'm not being "honest", I'm being sarcastic. That point is utterly irrelevant to the discussion.
How can you not understand that I was simply stating that he is wrong with >>717153042 (You) and nothing else?

>>717151097
Oh yeah! Get the firing squads and the animal wagons ready!

Hello dear, if it's not too much would you be willing to help me with something?

>>717152556
Yellow man!

>>717154575
Pretty sure you were just using a metaphor there. I get it, all good.

>>717154776
If you don't think there's a difference between assuming a huge plot point for a book is a metaphor and using a hyperbole in an imageboard to say someone is wrong I can't help you.

>>717154634
Only if you tell me about the kind green ape.

>>717154891
Interpretation only misaligns when the hinge between inference and intent rotates past the angle of implicit recursion. If you had read the book, as you are claiming, you'd know that to be true.

>>717153558
It's cold and everyone drinks heavily because it's a shit existence.

>>717154994
So what do you think the author meant by the Pale consuming matter, then?
When he wrote about it destroying a forest right before the cast's eyes?

>>717155127
I don't remember enough to have a strong opinion, but the Pale felt a lot like it was a metaphor (at least to some degree) for people forgetting and getting apathetic. I think it's pretty obvious, considering that the last survivor is a hedonist.

>>717155502
That doesn't answer my question. How does that fit into text saying that the pale is consuming matter?
Why do people have to evacuate entire countries because of apathy if the landmass is just fine?

>final boss is a commie cuck

Great game you have there

>>717156732
>the point of the villain is that holding on to hate for no reason and living your life vicariously through people you have no physical interaction with poisons your mind and makes you pathetic
>/v/ doesn't get it

poetry

>>717140441
Shut up you retarded midwit

To everyone else who hasn't played, if you have an inner monologue, like to read,like to think about thinking and have a melancholic disposition this game is a masterpiece

>>717140168
I liked it because it was RPG without the annyoing RPG combat and party management

i like how a large portion of the playerbase never did the kino fascist route, it makes it more impactful in a meta way. and its only gotten more correct as the world has fallen even further in quality under leftoid leadership since its release.

>>717157446
Guess I should try that

>>717157446
>mandatory brown reporting in to save the white race

>>717152252
>the decline of british sea power
>by the band that virtue signalled by removing British from their name

>>717137119 (OP)
Kras Mazov = Adolf Hitler
>Leader of his Nation
>Man of the People
>Was right about everything besides warfare tactics
>Destroyed by a coalition of all the worlds' governments coming together to obliterate his nation
>Died by gunshot suicide in his bunker as other countries were besieging his capital
Kras Mazov is Hitler, the Disco Elysium devolopers are Nazi Hitler lovers.

>>717158160
Troon rope

>>717158280
>immediately reverts to talking about gay shit
Every time.

>>717158261
>Destroyed by a coalition of all the worlds' governments coming together to obliterate his nation
Quick, what was Kras Mazov's nation?

i dont get this game

>>717158376
>tripfag
I'm guessing you don't get a lot of things.

>>717158280
>>717158334
>>717158373
>>717158376
>>717158457
Heil Adolf Hitler, the Leader of Mankind and the Hero of the White Race.
Sieg Heil! Hail Victory!

>>717149152
>he doesn't take each artistic work as its own standalone thing with its own standalone message
The more years go by the less I tend to care about 'muh canon' and 'muh sequels'

>>717137119 (OP)
Heil Hitler the hero of humankind against the goblin Jew Neanderthals

>>717157070
Tbf this """villain""" is also about communism, Revachol is very obviously a mirror of soviet republics post-USSR fall and the deserter's nostalgic hate and his love for the revolution are the same as the ones some people hold for USSR and the October revolution. The game is all about letting go of past and moving forward and rebuilding, but this idea is expressed in numerous ways and not only historically and politically.

>>717158219
I mean who gives a shit about Britain at this point

>>717158654
>the less I tend to care about 'muh canon' and 'muh sequels'
Based. Being strictly beholden to some greater sense of lore or continuity can strip the enjoyment out of just about anything. Enjoy whatever it is you're consuming at face value and don't miss the forest for the trees.

>>717158654
>>717159008
The world building of Disco Elysium is genuinely one of the best parts about the game though. I would've loved to see it continued properly.

>>717157070
Commies in the game are portrayed accurately as bitter losers, college retards and degenerate criminals though.

>>717158505
Don't cut yourself on that edge kid

Best art style I've seen in game in a long while.

>>717159720
>TF2
>DE
>Dishonored
I need more games with visible brushstrokes and that kind of unified palette to the art. No, not Okami, not that kind of brush.

>>717153406

This video will never get old

>>717153558
Alcohol intake makes your blood vessels dilated.
The nose has a lot of blood vessels.
If you drink chronically, the vessels get "remodeled" in a way that they will stay dilated most of the time.
This means they have chronically more blood supplied.
This makes the nose red.

(There are a bit more details but this is the general mechanism.)

>>717140168
It's well written; the dialogues are all entertaining, the characters are sympathetic and the world building is fantastic.
Add to that a great artstyle and soundtrack, and you've got an incredibly pleasant experience all around.

>>717140168
Do you like extremely dark stories with the smallest glimmer of hope?

>>717161042
If the internet is going to be such an important part of our lives then how can it remain uncontrolled? Freedom of movement, unrestricted thought sharing on the internet wasn't a problem when it was an external space that didn't matter to our world.
I stop myself for following bad ideas like: "i don't want to exercise today". It is bondage, i suffer, it is discipline.

>>717161042
I want to kill all neolibs

>>717150325
The ONLY thing that makes him leave is doubling down on the disco church interaction

You can do literally every single other racist thing in the game and he'll say you're the best cop ever

>>717140168
>right of center beliefs bad

>>717149776
>Deliberately leaving out the full quote so you can misrepresent what was an obvious dogwhistle
Retard.

>>717161013
It also happens around the cheeks. Pic related, a man on the final stages of alcoholism.

>>717161042
*inhales* GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

>>717162320
Can't i be a stealth alcoholic?

>haha nothing matters, humanity is cruel, and we are all mindless bugmen serving our rulers, so let me be an annoying, smug faggot about it
>lol yeah, I'm incredibly self-destructive and self-loathing, so pity me as a tragic figure, but also laugh at me! The cosmic irony! The dissonance!
>my version of patriotism is highlighting the unique things about my country, people and race and how much I HATE them, pretty ironic and insightful I know lmao

Why is all Eastern European literature like this

>>717143730
WHATS REALLY GOOD

>>717162958
They love to wallow in their self-caused misery in order to cape their failures as some sort of noble act

>>717162958
Because Eastern Europe is a terrible place to live.

>>717162958
When you really internalize that atheism.

>>717153558
It was draw by a 2010s Tumblr artist

>>717162958
The American mind cannot comprehend not serving the regime.

The only workable system is a form of neo-feudalism where we are all lorded over by a class of megarich tech elites who keep us happy with consoomerism. Change my mind.

>>717162958
They live there.

>>717159894
The Void

>>717164317
Hello Rajeesh

>>717154634
i went through the phasmid questline just because i didn't want to make lena sad, holy shit the payoff was incredible.

>>717164317
with all this ai shit happening, i'm banking on an ai hivemind system like in the end of deus ex invisible war. the fact is that humans are too retarded to govern themselves and we need someone smarter to look after us, kind of like how human beings take care of dogs.

>>717154634
*body slams the old lady in the wheelchair*

>>717162113
centrism is depicted as the most despicable ideology in the game fucking retard

>>717155502
>I don't remember enough to have a strong opinion so please don't make fun of me but I'm going to ignorantly blather on regardless.

Fat faggot trying to have his cake and eat it too.

>>717169240
NTA but his absolutely correct. Read the book.

>>717140441
>it's communist propagand'ACK

>>717164317
According to Slavoj Zizek, you're about to get your wish soon

>>717162958
literature doesnt get better than this so maybe you're just a gay lil faggot

which character is the most fun to talk to?

>>717144443
electrochemistry my beloved

>>717171012
I always loved Mr. Evrart. He's a slimy bastard, but he's always funny.

>>717169327
You still haven't answered >>717155637
Believe it's a metaphor all you want, I don't care about your shitty interpretations, but how does that mean the Pale doesn't affect matter in universe (as said here >>717153701) when the book says it does?

>>717148805
game doesn't mention trannies at all, thankfully

>>717154179
The one on the bottom is inland empire

playing this game while high is a blast

>>717171012
Cuno
he doesn't fucking care.

>>717171012
Egghead

>>717171610
dude...

>>717140168
It's not a game it's a choose your own adventure book. Don't let people oversell it as an in depth RPG experience.

>>717143264
>>717143264
i'm so glad i can actually buy this song on itune now. It was one of the main reason i got to play this game. I already got quite intrigue from /v/ review but this song sold it. Didn't now it was a fan made at the time but i wish it were officially in the game.

>>717172835
how come? it has everything an RPG needs to have. but it's more of an historical setting than a fantasy one. and there's no combat

>"Mr. Du Bois, every worker..." He looks around, searching for something in his room. "To hell with it... Every worker is white! Now, what can I do for you today?"

The moment I fell in love with him

>>717173383
he didn't say that

>>717162795
No, people will notice, trust me.

>>717166632
>>717168676
These 2 posts here are why I so love this game: absurd humor mixed with surpising & geniue emotional provoking scenes. The art style is incredible too.

I'm so glad I trust /v/ with this game

>>717173478
He actually did, that's a real quote from the game.

Here's another.

>I'm not feeling a whole lot of Revachol here. Not enough flags or kings.
Harry, the future I have in store for Martinaise will have all the *macho* aesthetics you love so much. The crowns, the guns... I will even slip in a skull and bones for you, my friend."
>Conceptualization [Easy: Success] - Oh yeah, skull and bones! Skull and bones on the Revacholian flag. The Revacholian Death Squad. Oh yeah! The visual image has completely bedazzled you. You're 100% with Evrart now.

>>717140168
communism

>>717171012
I liked talking to Joyce about pale

is there a mod to remove the tumblr noses

>>717150954
>>717140024
Absolutely. Go to your local shopping mall and take a count on how many stores cater to women vs to men. I guarantee like 90% will be clothing stores for women.

>>717137119 (OP)
Game is great but you can tell author is nonce you wouldnt want to have anything common with.

10/10 masterpiece.

>>717173568
kek, he really will say anything to get you to do his dirty work

what's a good way to do a second playthrough?

>>717177847
edit all your stats to 20. Full schizo playthrough.

>>717140441
>communist propaganda
>the in-game commies literally legalised paedophilia

>>717177952
even then you're still missing 1/36 of stat checks, no?

>”haha, where is your husband, off on his escapades again?”
>a few days later

>>717149152
the game was created after the book, so the cannon could well have changed, as another anon said there is a shivers check that warns harry about the nukes, things could change, they also allude to a revolution at the end of the game

>>717149776
>Someone finally makes a game that doesn't morraly brow beat you for being a fascist, a racist or even a full blown race science supremacist
>Retarded anons still cry about it

>>717159894
Life is Strange

Why don't chuds just make their own games instead bitching of about lefty games?

>>717140024
technically women drive so much of hardcore consumerism, so I'd say yes

>>717179505
why don't retards keep to gcj or resetera instead of coming here abd complain about pol

>>717180231
1. Nobody is complaining about /pol/.
2. This board is not /pol/. It's /v/, for video games.
3. People with all kinds of political views have used this website for longer than you have been alive.

>>717180474
>3. People with all kinds of political views have used this website for longer than you have been alive.
Nobody has any political views and politics aren't real.

>>717149776
that’s not what happens thoughbeit

>>717180879
Well, yes, but his is the video games board and we take fiction very seriously here.