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Sam Gowing
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Breaking down videogame stories and the decisions development teams take to tell them.
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Disco Elysium | Story Explained
#discoelysium #storyexplained #discoelysiumstory
The Disco Elysium Story Explained video is HERE and it is LARGE. A game as deep as this one deserves nothing less. Even though this story explainer is the length of a feature-length film, there is still so much of Disco Elysium's lore and characters and world that I am yet to discuss. Do not fear, we will reach those dizzying heights in good time.
As for this video -- expect a complete breakdown of Disco Elysium's core storyline: a murder mystery, retrograde amnesia, lost loves, stick insects, and the end of the world. As well as some finer explaining of the politics, geography, and history of Disco Elysium. There might even be some jokes in there too.
Thank you to all those that joined me while I streamed this game. Honestly, I can't believe this video has been three months in the making. I need a lie down.
Enjoy!
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Hi! Welcome to my channel. I do videos about video games, breaking down stories and analysing their narratives to discuss the ways games can tell stories other mediums can't. If you like deep dives into videogame narratives, please check out the channel! The videos are at least above average, I can promise you that; of a quality somewhere between mukbangs and hot tub streams (no one can compete with a good hot tub stream).
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0:00 - No Truce With the Furies
1:28 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 1)
16:48 - Modern-Day Martinaise
23:22 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 2)
36:47 - Inter-isolary Discovery & Conflict
45:18 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3)
52:07 - Ancient History of Elysium
1:01:51 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3.5)
1:05:04 - Retroactive Analysis of the Pale
1:13:06 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 4)
1:24:01 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 6)
1:38:50 - Disco Elysium Explained
The Disco Elysium Story Explained video is HERE and it is LARGE. A game as deep as this one deserves nothing less. Even though this story explainer is the length of a feature-length film, there is still so much of Disco Elysium's lore and characters and world that I am yet to discuss. Do not fear, we will reach those dizzying heights in good time.
As for this video -- expect a complete breakdown of Disco Elysium's core storyline: a murder mystery, retrograde amnesia, lost loves, stick insects, and the end of the world. As well as some finer explaining of the politics, geography, and history of Disco Elysium. There might even be some jokes in there too.
Thank you to all those that joined me while I streamed this game. Honestly, I can't believe this video has been three months in the making. I need a lie down.
Enjoy!
//
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Hi! Welcome to my channel. I do videos about video games, breaking down stories and analysing their narratives to discuss the ways games can tell stories other mediums can't. If you like deep dives into videogame narratives, please check out the channel! The videos are at least above average, I can promise you that; of a quality somewhere between mukbangs and hot tub streams (no one can compete with a good hot tub stream).
Subscribe --- ua-cam.com/channels/5GN_x4GOlaUBRcBPabxJKg.html
Twitter --- samgo00
Instagram --- samgo000
TikTok --- vm.tiktok.com/ZMN29XLcs/
0:00 - No Truce With the Furies
1:28 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 1)
16:48 - Modern-Day Martinaise
23:22 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 2)
36:47 - Inter-isolary Discovery & Conflict
45:18 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3)
52:07 - Ancient History of Elysium
1:01:51 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3.5)
1:05:04 - Retroactive Analysis of the Pale
1:13:06 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 4)
1:24:01 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 6)
1:38:50 - Disco Elysium Explained
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Best part about the nomi statue is it basically makes none of what you did happen at all. Other than your last run, since the statue quantum stores memories of a person so if you're connected to it you basically know everything you can Will and have done from when you first bonded to it till the end of time. So when the statue activated really your character was just flooded with a bunch of information telling them exactly what to do. I don't get how scaling it down to a child's diorama of a solar system gets rid of the existential crisis if anything that part of the game freaked me out more than anything, especially when you're on the smaller planets in the horizon curves so fast that you can jump off the planet
4:22 woah woah hold on man, the tie talking is totally normal
Id made ramen and a cup of soda insteed of tea or coffee reason 1 were out of creamer reason 2 we have tea but i grab a cup of soda first
chioh tan wasn't being held by a Chinese topman
it was nathan peters who decided to leave. samuel was already dead by then
what an evocative narrative you've given
I wanted to play this game on ps plus but man it was just too much to dive into, I was so interested in but I just didn’t know how to go about playing. Think I’ll give it another try
Actually hated this game it was boring af
This is absolutely fantastic. Bravo. You're a masterful storyteller.
If the universe is truly infinitely expanding it means there will be and always will be an infinite number of exact copies of our experience. There would be infinite earths, that infinitely live the same exact experience we have, and it means we are likely a direct copy directly reflecting another time and place.
Thank you so much for this AMAZING video! I teared up at the end :')
Just finished my 1st playthrough of the game and I'm astonished with the ending. Hell, I think it even surpassed the twist from Bioshock 1 and that was just amazing to me
Gonna be honest, this is some serious love put into this project.
7:41 you mean 1891...
How do you get the scene at 8:43?
incredible montage at the end, very illuminating but also just beautiful
I saw 19:35 as more playful, and not serious indication that carl and john "end up" together. but it does make sense I guess, given the context that the tone changes dramatically after that clip, I guess?
What absolutely gutted me was when i realised the super nova wasn't caused by the Nomai... i realised no matter what, my people would die
And just like that, by the end of the video, I gasped.
I misread that there is no truce with the furries, and I thought a furry killed the man.
Thank you for the words at the end. What an amazing video
I refunded this game, so now I can watch the ending safely.
Yeah I'm glad I refunded it. That is an underwhelming ending. Anyone who has studied space has already explored these philosophical ideas.
space, Space! SPAAACCCCEEEE
This is a masterpiece of a video.
After watching a few of these, the second world is the result of the first. That, stuff, I'm not saying it, changed and "impregnated" the living matter to create the world the second sees. Yes, the parasite is the mutated first, and I believe one is doing what it was in the beginning, fusing. It just chose the second instead of its journey to get to where the second did and its final form is basically a combination of the three, the stuff, which mutated the first and the world and the second who's new body didn't do what it was supposed to. If it didn't take its body, the parasite couldn't have gotten to it
Whoah! Perfect interpretation, congrats ❤
This is easily once of the best video essay type video thing Ive seen. Slay
The last words you said made me cry 😢. Thank you for this intelligent and heartwarming video ❤
Great video.
man really straight up rebooted the universe
10min in And nothing still makes any sense.
The reason Lamb doesn't kill you after severing your connection is the Vita-Chambers. If you die by a violent death, the Vita-Chambers will resurrect you elsewhere, and then you're free to meddle in her plans. If she restrains you until you die of link-severage stopping your heart, you'll stay dead. (The Vita-Chambers are also why you're back from the dead in the first place. Eleanor used the Little Sisters to input your genetic code into the Vita-Chambers to bring you back.)
"jack saved the little sisters after the first game, so idk why there's still little sisters here." you clearly didn't listen to tenembaum's audiologs, which is literally the first stage of the game. Fine video I guess but I think the reason why you felt like Bioshock 2 was somewhat of an incoherent story is because you didn't listen. Well fyi, tenembaum returned to rapture because some kids has been going missing in beaches, she suspected that it was rapture who's behind these, and she was right. They're turning surface kids into little sisters because rapture needed them. It just felt disappointing after like 30+mins into the video, you seem to missed a detail in the story that's told in the first level.
Brilliant video! I played Disco Elysium half a year ago, recommended it to my friends as a must play. When they start playing for the first time, I'll start my second playthrough simultaneously. Can't wait
What a masterpiece. I just finished my first playthrough and this is such a nice way to tie to together, I wish it was at the end of the game! Your storytelling is top tier, some of the lines you wrote gave me such chills down my spine. Thank you for telling this tale so wonderfully.
Prime Elizabeth sent a pinky-having, no powers, erased timeline Liz in her place in BaS 2 & coached her thru it as the Booker hallucinations
most overrated game ever... but still good work on the video
The only quality of life improvement i would sugeest is to be able to access the ship logs outside the ship. As someone with bad memory i think it would help players who may feel frustration when trying to conplete entries or solve puzzlee etc. But maybe thats too much?
Outro song is "Without the fever - Martin Hall"
That's some crazy good work you dit here, give this man a netflix video game cover series.
*>StOrY ExPlAieD!* directly from the artbook: We abandoned the notion that we are going to understand everything we see in the game; It’s not just the player who is going to experience this; it’s us also, and we made it. Scorn’s genesis isn’t one of meticulously mapped out plans, then, but of themes that Peklar wanted to express and experiment with. “There wasn’t a well-defined story,” says Acovic.
I love your glasses btw! 11:50 so cool how you are "inside" the bathysphere lol 13:31 LMAO and 16:28 😆😆😆
11:06 OMG I didn't realize Chen Lin's wife being white had anything to do with him being alive 😳 12:18 how did i not realize Fink was at the raffle? Lol 27:08 what voxophone recording is this, and where is it found??? And 27:30 ? My first introduction to Infinite was watching my ex play through it (she had played it before we met too) and then she explained everything... So i never had to be confused lol - sad but also saved my brain from exploding ☺️❤ 32:47 my third playthrough i was encouraged to find all of the voxophones (tho i failed at that) because i had the piece of gear that gave you a bunch of money each time you picked up a new voxophone 😊 34:43 LOL and then i looooove your inclusion of Waltz of the Flowers from Tschaikovsky 35:09 LOL "cool" 😆 39:20 yes Kingdome Hearts 😊 i really love 2.8 the Final Chapter Prologue for how deep it is
I just finished Bioshock 2 for the first time and my first thought when finishing is everything about it felt half-baked. The first game was an iconic 1 for the amazing setting and had a political message behind it but without it being shoved down your thoat. If made today Atlas would be constantly telling you how "This is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked." or something like that, instead it lets the crumbling city and gene splicing crackheads do the speaking for it. This game has no such smart message, there is a sort of idea of a psuedo-communism theme when Lamb speaks of a "utopia", but it's kinda vague and not really laid out well nor do we see the downsides of a ideology like we see with Ryan. The connection between Eleanor and Delta also seems odd, there were points were it sounds like Delta was her actual father but is never really clear but if that was the intent they should have made it clear cause otherwise it feels like she just cares about Delta because that is what the little sister program sought to do. Which isn't very good emotional connection. I do like sinclair somewhat, I appreciate that they didn't just make him another Atlas that betrayed you in the end but at the same time they never gave him a reason to be helping delta in the first place. At times he need Deltas help but that was along the journey as roadblocks came up he didn't need him at the start so he kinda allies him for no reason. The ideas they had were good start but they only really got half way there for most of them. Half-Baked.
A lot of the story was put into the Audio logs in Bioshock 2 in a way the first game didn't. The first game did a lot more showing and not telling while at the same time being able to convey a more passive story in the Audio Logs. That being said, I think they did a bang up job for a sequel. They didn't step on the toes of the first game and still managed to tell a fairly engaging plot at least IMO. Sure lamb isn't as strong of an antagonist as Ryan or Fontaine were, but she does fit nicely into the world of rapture. a good foil to that of both Ryan and Fontaine. Ryan and Fontaine are two sides of the same coin. They both wanted power and for nobody else to be able to get in between their power. all spoils to the victor mentality for both of them. Lamb was actually a completely different Ideology much like you pointed out a communist type, her goal wasn't just power for the sake of wielding power. She genuinely believed in denial of the self for the benefit of the whole of society. Equally as bat shit as both Ryan and Fontaine but in a very different way. A different ideal for how to make Utopia a reality. While it isn't explored or articulated nearly as captivatingly as the first game did with its dissection of individualism and free market extremism run a muck, I still think its a solid title and better than Bioshock Infinite and that games train wreck of a story.
@@bigiron1990 Quick note in the future break up the wall of text into paragraphs. Makes it much easier to read. But I don't disagree with most of what you said but its mostly undeveloped. The basic premise and characters were solid but everything about it felt like it was missing key points. Sinclair never gave me a reason on why he was helping me or why I should really care about him at the end. Eleanor is attached to you because of the Big Daddy/Little Sister bonding program, so that connection feels artificial and shallow. Lamb ideology and beliefs are decently fleshed out but I don't really get what her ultimate goal of it all is. Like she wants to create a Utopian and thinks Utopia will follow but that's pretty much it. Makes me think of the Underpants Gnomes Plan from southpark. Step 1: Steal Underwear Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit All of these could be fixed but they kinda were just left that way makes me think the game might have been rushed out near the end but hard to say for sure.
@@DivusMagus Sinclair wanted out of rapture and saw delta as a means to an end, or at least that is how I interpreted his character. While I agree the relationship between eleanor and delta is shallow… that’s is just how big daddy’s and little sisters work ya know? Neither of them choose that for themselves. The relationship is just a byproduct of the nightmare rapture was/is. As for Lambs end goal, I’m not sure what else there is other than for her to fully realize her ideal utopian collectivist society. I mean what was Ryans “goal” in creating rapture in the first place. To live out his ideals, that was it. He wasn’t planning world domination or anything. He tried to manifest his ideal vision of society and it utterly failed. Lamb is no different, all thought with the amount of infrastructural damage rapture had already sustained I don’t see why you would try and build a utopia in that dead carcass of a city other than the fact it is still mostly hidden from the world at that point and you wouldn’t have to worry about outside influences on your ideal society. I think the weakest part of the narrative is that tennebaum comes back to rapture to put and end to the creation of more little sisters and the hand of lamb and then just kinda disappears when Sinclair shows up. You literally never hear a peep from her again. It drives me crazy.
This is the most boring ass story breakdown I've ever witnessed . more like watching a lecture
i never like Burial at Sea's stories sadly 😞
Good video thanks for explaining. Tried to play the game but got a sore head (pov camera) and frustrated at the repetitiveness. I’ve seen people really hype this up and gatekeep the ending but I didn’t enjoy the gameplay but wanted to know the ending
Brilliant breakdown!!