An Analysis of Disco Elysium's Protagonist
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2021
- Disco Elysium is an astounding video game that has lived in my mind since the day I finished my first playthrough. It's also an incomparably dense video game, filled to the brim with discoveries, ideas, and personal explorations. No single video could contain everything I want to say about this game, nor would I even make the attempt.
However, if asked to interpret the many narratives present in Disco Elysium, I think the best place to start is with the amnesiac disco detective. The sad, self-destructive alcoholic with a frayed mind, an immense soul, and basically nothing else. Who he was and who he can be is something players find along the way. Dance, baby, dance! - Ігри
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my quest will not stop until i have found every video about disco elysium on this god forsaken site
Same. One more for a pile of Disco content that should be bigger
Haha you have perfectly articulated my own thoughts! Whenever i stumble across a quality disco elysium video. There are some real gems on here, can you recommend any others i may not have seen?
God bless you you crazy bastard
Please, share your treasure ,wise man
One more door, baby, one more door!
-I think he calmed down a bit
-No he didn't - he's about to open fire
-So which one is it, who's right?
-He is. I was wrong
So much incredible prose, and depending on your build, you might never get to see it.
Bro, I somehow had Logic, Encyclopedia, Visual Calculus, Conceptualization, and Perception conversing with each other (the stats I put points into), and all of a sudden, Electrochemistry says "Did someone say Cocaine?"
Me:👁👄👁 whut????
Electrochemistry ready to party, whether you like it or not!! Now lick up that spilled drink 🍸
Me doing what my brain tells me: 🤪
wow. I actually hadn't considered the fact he's a late stage alcoholic and that going sober makes the game harder
The realization hit me like an apricot scented hammer! It was such a subtle writing choice conveyed through the mechanics; we got to experience how alcohol helps him cope with his stressful job.
@@nevercurrentgames90at least it wasn't totally bad, I took that raise in PSY with pride, I had fixed a little part or myself
@@nevercurrentgames90also, awesome video!
This is probably the best DE video essay I've found here. Criminally underrated channel - liked and subbed
Wow, thanks a bunch and welcome aboard!
Watching Harry's expression and beard changing as you talk is hypnotic, I approve.
Disco Elysium was the first game to make me cry, seeing all the love you gave it in this video was so touching. Thank you for making this!
That last "dream" sequence at the end was just heartbreaking, and I'm glad I was able to capture some of my own feelings in my video! Thank you for watching!
One of my favorite things about Disco Elysium, is thinking about the impact this game's gonna have *on people who make games.* This is going to inspire the fuck out of a lot of people, and we're gonna end up with some fucking fantastic video games because of it.
When you realise they build a thing of the past (the church) around the encroaching future (the pale) to cancel it out
Imma keep it real, throughout my entire two playthroughs I never noticed the point counter thing on the right for the ideologies and cop types
waste land of reality increases your PSY by 1 (which thus increases all your PSY skills and their learning caps by 1), so besides from the -1 physical instrument and no positive effects from alcohol it's a pretty big buff, not really the debuff you saw it as in the video.
My theory about why Harry is so persistent in talking to the Working Class Woman about her husband is that some deep part of his brain remembers seeing her husband on the boardwalk the first night he was in town. His subconscious put the pieces together somehow--maybe he searched the body that first night and found a photo of her in his wallet, or maybe he found the library card and saw her reading a book and that tenuous connection was enough. So much in the game is explained if you assume that we was all over that area across the waterlock on his first night. Especially if you assume he went to the church.
The alternative title works really well to also describe how my life and my Harrier du Bois was: No truce with the furies.
Bojack! Yes!
I knew something felt vaguely familiar.
Identity, relationships, your inner world, discovery, substance.
I am so glad i stumbled across your video. Great writing and great take on what is without a doubt ny favourite game of all time. I am at almost 200hours on disco elysium and still discovering new dialogue and thoughts. I genuinely feel sorry for people who haven't experienced this game, in almost 30 years of PC gsming this is a true stand out.
Thank you for your excellent contribution sir 👍
I always found it interesting, when you shoot Cunoesse, the paper specifically labels the RCM as a "paramilitary outfit" which really hammers home how little the RCM is respected in Martinase.
Finding out you're *barely* a cop, only propped up by the foreign influence of the Moralintern, and is cracking at the seams with the RCM itself planning revolution is wild.
I never did any drugs or alcohol on my playthrough. I didn't even know there was a thought that made you sober
This is a great video man I was glad UA-cam recommended it to me on a fluke
Praise the Fluke! \o/
Glad you liked the video |
@@nevercurrentgames90 Amazing video analysis man. I couldn't help but get choked up when you started explaining substance addiction/dependency and the horrible withdrawal that comes along with it. You are 100% right, late stage opioid addicts (That is what I am, have been for over 10 years.) and late stage alcoholics, you don't take the pills or drink the alcohol to get high anymore, you need it to even feel some semblance of normalcy. Disco Elysium and Harry's character forced me to *really* take a closer look at myself, something I honestly have avoided out of fear. Anyway, sorry for the rant, thanks for the video, I subbed.
@@grndmst9 Rants are absolutely welcome here! I'm humbled by this message and that my video captured a part of the game you really resonated with. I know recovery is a hard road, but I wish for you to have the compassion and support you need to get there!
@@nevercurrentgames90 Thank you Steve, you have no idea how much your reply helped me out today.
Great video, love your analysis!
Thanks! I liked making this video. So I'm glad you enjoyed it too!
Fantastic analysis, subscribed!
Superb video. You write very well, and have the cadence to match. Can't wait to check out your other stuff now.
I'm ruined for other games after this one lmao, everything else just seems lacking after Disco Elysium.
I started playing Planescape: Torment around July. Incredibly well written game, but I couldn't help but ask myself, "why can't I have a conversation with my Shivers. I want my hangover senses back!"
UA-cam just bonked me with this, great work mate.
Appreciate it, glad bonks are good for more than just horny-jail.
Nice content, love it.
К этой игре я возвращаюсь время от времени когда всё плохо и отхожу от собственного сознания..
Fantastic video
Awesome video!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic game! Fantastic video!
Fantastic comment! Thanks for coming aboard
I notice that he has the glitch here where you can raise your stats to ungodly levels. I've already played through a number of times and im looking for one final experience that ties together all the dialogue. Is it still possible to do the glitch where you have these stats? I have tried and I get an error message from the game when I try to boot from my altered save game. Any insight would be helpful. Great video btw
great video, liked it.
Thank you!!
Omg this game is Quality, Loving every minute...
It really is VERY good!
Great essay.
nice vid, very fresh
thank you!
In a world without good games
Post this on the disco elysium subreddit!
Thanks for the suggestion!
I loved disco elysium it was a beautiful experience and I always recommend it to any of my friends
It really is a wonderful game!
I'm not sure most of the people in Martinese would think badly of you for punching Cuno. (It's incredible what the game does with that, btw. Most games simply wouldn't let you hit a kid. Disco says, go ahead. Hit him. You get maybe two seconds of satisfaction from shutting his mouth, followed by him saying you remind him of his dad, which makes you feel sick for the rest of the game. THAT'S how you teach people something and make it stick.)
I just finished the game and aside of a missing epilouge maybe (kinda felt a last wrap up was missing) i thought it a master piece
I can see that, the Final Cut did give a lot of players more closure re: politics. But yeah, a phenomenal game on the whole!
Impressive, very nice.
Thank you!
Aeneid is pronounced "eye"+"knee"+"id". Loved the video! I'm now subscribed; the bell's set for all notifications. Sorry for the pedantry.
As my 100th subscriber, I'll allow it!
Sounds like every Monday morning… edit: talking about the beginning of the game
Let he who hasn't annihilated their memory on an booze, drug, and apricot fueled bender cast the first stone... right through the hostel window!
Why the hell does this guy only have 27 subs?
I know, right?! Haha, it could be a bunch of things. Irregular video output, the games I chose to talk about, the lack of a "Steve Bahn brand." Still, I'm glad you think I should be more famous!
good video 👍
Thanks, glad you liked it!
This rules! Underrated as fuck channel!
The Great Boy has great opinions too! Haha, thanks, I appreciate it :)
Please make more disco elysium videos
I have at least one more video about this game on the docket! It'll probably be a while in the future though. My output is slow.
Thanks for making a video about me
Don't give up on your channel, sooner or later one of your videos will blow up and you will be recognized. Keep going, I love you
Best. Video Game. EVAAAAAR! I've never felt so empty and hopeful after playing a game.
It really is, and I'm kind of mad at myself for creating a hole in my soul that most games can't fill
Fingerpistol-banging video
Reminds me slightly of Noah's essays. Nice video, man
Woah, thank you so much! I love his videos.
YOU CANT NERF CUNO
Because, and Cuno can't stress this enough, Cuno doesn't give a fuck!!
i'm sorry but CUNO HAS BEEN NERFED
His rotten little soul was just too immense, so they cut him down... through the microphone.
How ?
Algorithm
Praise! For we are blessed in its gaze 🙌
6:00 this joke aged well
got alot of this youtuber's police rhetoric in this video...
If you think my opinions are intense, just wait until you hear ZA/UM's. They made a game about a cop who gets black out drunk and harasses a town for quests while they die of starvation and systemic neglect.
L
An L on my most viewed, most well liked video. I don't know. If any video of mine deserved an L, it's probably the one where I say Ghost of Tsushima is kinda medicore.
I don't even disagree with your political messaging but the way you hamfistedly stuffed it into this video makes me not want to finish or ever watch your work again.
I don't know, I think it makes sense to be ham-fisted when talking about the pigs.
@@nevercurrentgames90 ...alright you son of a bitch you got yourself a sub
@@nevercurrentgames90nice
Bullshit, you totally disagree.