I got the sorry cop achievement just by sayign what I felt like I'd normally say. Which considering I apologize at least twice per conversation I have irl, no big surprise.
Man, I started off with high points on empathy, perception and logic so I could talk to everyone, understand shit and play how I'd act as if I were a detective in real life. Man, it goes to some dark sad places but the catharsis and copotypes eventually made me feel like I was growing alongside Harry. Embracing the Tequila Sunset, then waking up the next day from it. Going from sorry(s) to fuck yeah(s). Man, this game is a concentrated work of art and genius manifest. Thank you, devs.
Describes my own experience with the game too. Went from sorry cop to actually wanting our Harry to grow a bit of a spine and actually decide that actually, he could get a grip on his life without becoming a self-flagellating wreck. He could still be disco and cool and have fun without the constant self-destruction.
I started out with high logic and perception, but even with a starting ONE in psyche, managed to get empathy all the way up to 8 by the end, without substance abuse! it really felt like I had managed to grow, like Harry had grown to be a kinder person throughout my playthrough. It. Felt. Good. When I was over. I looked at my skill tree - with like, eight skill points left over - and I was satisfied. Authority... I lost spoilers Kim but that's because my authority was -5 when the time finally came, dear lord.
My first play through was a morally-loose, drug-addled, party hobo cop. Now, with the Final Cut, I’m playing as a real detective. Tired of disappointing Kim.
Right now I'm playing the game as junky cop with maxed out 'inland empire' and 'electrochemistry' and I'm suddenly playing a high fantasy David lynch game (but only in my characters head), poor Kim that has to put up with this..
I feel like you get better synergy having a deranged superstar Harry dubois to contrast with Kim’s straightedge demeanor. Makes for hilarious buddy cop moments
Superstarcop is easy. Try Superstar-Facist/Racist-Cop... Honestly, i played this several times: High Inland Empire/general Spirit stats and Elechtrochemistry make for the by far best playthru.
I played as a high moralist hyper-insane superstar apocalypse cop, and Kim still really trusted me. I think I was so over the top, Kim couldn't help but like me.
I love that this game isn't about role-playing as evil or good, but instead as miserable human being, or someone that remains strong through all the hardships
Just started another playthrough with High Empathy and all of the Psyche skills but low int and Physique and rn I'm loving it. Just being a detective that has reached such a low point in their life that they can empathise with others. Seems fitting.
You should! I held off on playing it without it and I'm glad I did. Just finished it and honestly, their voices will stick with me for a long time. Especially the phasmid's!
There are four detective archetypes builds I like to play with. I call them Sherlock, Columbo, Poirot, and Hopper. If you know which characters I’m talking about then you also know which builds I go with for them and their play style. As you can guess, “Hopper” actually fits best in the world of Disco Elysium tonally speaking.
Columbo playthrough would be so sick. I think i was a little goofy in my second one, i was called dumb on many occasions. But Columbo isn't dumb tho compared to my build lol
I think the game gives you one free pass when you die trying to grab the horrific necktie; screen goes black and then you bounce back to one health saying something like: "you feel you should have died".
My mate bought this for me a week back; both of us are worried that the original version was on it's way to be pulled from the Steam page soon. Thank you to the devs for skirting that issue :) . Anyway I'm about 15 hours in and loving it. I never knew I wanted a game where the fragmented mind of the main character is manifesting in a way that 'Authority', 'Compassion' and 'Empathy' are all talking to each other all the while being berated by a ugly necktie and talking to a corpse.
The thing with this masterpiece of a game is it has two playthroughs in it for everyone. One with two stats high and two other low and then the second time those stats mirrored. This way you experience all the failures and all the highlights while still not being repetitive. Such a well designed system!
I would really recommend everyone to read the wikipedia article about this game. The story about the development is really incredible - almost like the game itself :-)
I kind of was uninterested in the first few hours of the game, but got more immersed as it went on. Resulting in this story of a deranged cop who slowly regained his consciousness and sanity while solving the case. I liked it.
I managed to get a "good" ending in my first playthrough but the detective was also showing up to every majour encounter off his face on alcahol, speed, nicatine and pheradon XD
Setting all your attributes to one is actually the best thing for harry, these are not skills but the fractured psyche of harry. If you have all on one, he will have less voices in his head.
If you decide to play through Disco Elysium with all stats set to 1 as shown here in the video, I wish the best of luck...because you're gonna need it as more often than not, unless you are extremely lucky or have some boosts available and even that is pushing it, most of the dice rolls will fail because your stats are THAT low...
@@Kingcole6 Overall I'd recommend that anyone who wants a good experience to play the game with the recommended number of stat points for your first playthrough, maybe even your first few playthroughs, but then obviously you can mess around with absurdly weak or absurdly brokenly OP character builds and reloading saves as much as you'd like. Enjoy it the intended way, then mess around and push it to unintended limits. For most people, that's definitely going to result in the best time playing this wonderful game.
As of this comment, I am approx 15hrs in and I managed to skill-out my character in such a way that I am currently an alcoholic, slightly-schizophrenic communist, with fascist tendencies.... 10/10 Would drink myself to encephalitis-amnesia again
My first (ish) attempt went so well, including the extra stuff at the end which I won't spoil here, that I couldn't imagine ending it any other way X'DD So instead I've searched others playing it badly :D
Not sure what GOG is, is that a PC thing? It’s not available on consoles is what I meant (although I don’t think it’s meant to be sold at all even if it’s still available on steam etc). The Aussie Government needs to change its old ass laws!
I've played through the game multiple times and have gotten every single achievement. I'm still a little hesitant of being awful, partly because of Kim
The opposite of a good guy is not a bad guy. It's an utterly failing loser. Disco got this part so right and that's why playing it as not the good guy is so much fun. With the exception of racism perhaps. That stuff is so bad, I really never can go through with it, because Kim just simply deserves better.
I've not played this , but instead watched a playthrough on TH-cam. If you'd prefer to check out that sort of thing first, I'd recommend CohhCarnage's playthrough.
Its simultaneously intensely cerebral and philosophical, existentially depressing yet hopeful, mysterious, relatable, fantastical, extremely political, with hilarious situations, inner dialogue and wit. The voice acting for the different parts of your mind in the game are excellent and its hilarious when they start arguing with each other. If you like dark comedy and thinking, this game is for you
Weird that you show Skyrim when taking about games that force you to be a good guy when you can literally be a supervillain in that game Should've showed Fallout 4
So, some dialog options have a Check to make. the check is a simulated dice roll of two six-sided die. without any modifiers, that means you can roll 2-12. Most checks will have a certain threshold number you need to roll higher than, with the note that rolling a 2 always fails, and rolling a 12 always succeeds. Your ability score and equipment attributes are added to the roll's total to hopefuilly improve your odds, and certain events can also have an affect on the total roll.
Basically you don't have to worry about the dice, all the calculations are done for you and you're presented with a chance to succeed, which is modified by your skills and possibly other hidden factors that will make the check easier or harder. Red checks give you one chance, white checks can be repeated after leveling the appropriate skill. The biggest problem is that sometimes progression is locked behind white checks, and you can't get enough experience to level up again, so you just have to save scum to continue.
I wanted to play like that the second time around but I just couldn’t live with Kim being dissapointed at me.
Me too, WTF?
@@At0m1c_At0m Can't tell, it has mixed reviews. Maybe it is legit, but it is very new too be sure.
@@WhiteHawk77 I already found two more "accounts" having an almost same conversation in a different channel, too.
@@WhiteHawk77 P.S. They're all accounts created the last 30-40 days.
I'm playing a fascist character right now and being racist in front of Kim (and in some cases being racist to him) is just heartbreaking
I got the sorry cop achievement just by sayign what I felt like I'd normally say. Which considering I apologize at least twice per conversation I have irl, no big surprise.
Same, I just wanted to be polite lol
I felt so called out when I got that achievement
SAME
Ah, you must be a Canadian
Dito, i felt personally adressed after the game pointed out how often i apologized
disco elysium really makes you FEEL like a fuckup
*it has a little something for everyone*
I didn't need Disco Elysium to make me feel how I already feel.
Man, I started off with high points on empathy, perception and logic so I could talk to everyone, understand shit and play how I'd act as if I were a detective in real life. Man, it goes to some dark sad places but the catharsis and copotypes eventually made me feel like I was growing alongside Harry. Embracing the Tequila Sunset, then waking up the next day from it. Going from sorry(s) to fuck yeah(s). Man, this game is a concentrated work of art and genius manifest. Thank you, devs.
Describes my own experience with the game too. Went from sorry cop to actually wanting our Harry to grow a bit of a spine and actually decide that actually, he could get a grip on his life without becoming a self-flagellating wreck. He could still be disco and cool and have fun without the constant self-destruction.
I started out with high logic and perception, but even with a starting ONE in psyche, managed to get empathy all the way up to 8 by the end, without substance abuse! it really felt like I had managed to grow, like Harry had grown to be a kinder person throughout my playthrough.
It. Felt. Good. When I was over. I looked at my skill tree - with like, eight skill points left over - and I was satisfied. Authority... I lost spoilers
Kim
but that's because my authority was -5 when the time finally came, dear lord.
My first play through was a morally-loose, drug-addled, party hobo cop. Now, with the Final Cut, I’m playing as a real detective. Tired of disappointing Kim.
Right now I'm playing the game as junky cop with maxed out 'inland empire' and 'electrochemistry' and I'm suddenly playing a high fantasy David lynch game (but only in my characters head), poor Kim that has to put up with this..
Sigmund Freud as a detective lol
Doing basically the same thing but instead of maxing electrochemistry im maxing shivers. My cop basically has psychic powers lol
Lol drunk Dale Cooper
I’m doing a High Empathy and Shivers play-through, my coppo understands nothing except the world and it’s people, and it’s very fun!
I feel like you get better synergy having a deranged superstar Harry dubois to contrast with Kim’s straightedge demeanor. Makes for hilarious buddy cop moments
The desire to fully complete DE and get all the achievements, vs the physical need to make Kim proud of me
God everybody needs to play this game. It's a once in a generation thing.
It's the new Silent Hill 2
I tried to be a Superstar Cop but in the end I just couldn't deal with letting Kim down.
Superstarcop is easy.
Try Superstar-Facist/Racist-Cop...
Honestly, i played this several times:
High Inland Empire/general Spirit stats and Elechtrochemistry make for the by far best playthru.
I played as a high moralist hyper-insane superstar apocalypse cop, and Kim still really trusted me. I think I was so over the top, Kim couldn't help but like me.
@@AstralBelt Kim just likes good people, else he dies.
You've already let your parents down, no need to worry about a digital character 👌🏻
i played as a superstar fascist but i was pretty cool with kim still
I'm basically just a cop who is sorry for himself while also randomly babbling about The Bloodletting, also I'm violent. This game is great
I love that this game isn't about role-playing as evil or good, but instead as miserable human being, or someone that remains strong through all the hardships
Just started another playthrough with High Empathy and all of the Psyche skills but low int and Physique and rn I'm loving it. Just being a detective that has reached such a low point in their life that they can empathise with others. Seems fitting.
You can be mean to Kim. This is basically a capital punishment level crime
This game is gonna be hailed as a classic in 10-20 years (though its status already is p legendary!)
Man, this game... I wish I waited to play it till fully voiced, but maybe just gives me an excuse to replay it.
Do it!
Doing just that right now
You should! I held off on playing it without it and I'm glad I did. Just finished it and honestly, their voices will stick with me for a long time. Especially the phasmid's!
The Final Cut expansion also added new content as well as the voice acting.
you can also mod the datafiles with some fiddling and max out your stats so you can see everything
best game ive played in a long long time
Me too, I like to comment it on CP2077 threads, just to annoy the fanboys/girls.
F*CK DOES CUNO CARE!
There are four detective archetypes builds I like to play with. I call them Sherlock, Columbo, Poirot, and Hopper. If you know which characters I’m talking about then you also know which builds I go with for them and their play style.
As you can guess, “Hopper” actually fits best in the world of Disco Elysium tonally speaking.
sounds like intellect, psyche, motorics and physique in order?
@@zephyratkins-mitra8223Poirot is motorics?
i suppose! i cant think of who else would fit, and the others slot into the other attributes pretty easily. @@Kulascus
Columbo playthrough would be so sick. I think i was a little goofy in my second one, i was called dumb on many occasions. But Columbo isn't dumb tho compared to my build lol
You can be so awful that you instantly die in one of the first main checks in the game before even leaving your room lol
I think the game gives you one free pass when you die trying to grab the horrific necktie; screen goes black and then you bounce back to one health saying something like: "you feel you should have died".
@@n0xure didn't happen to me, that is where my first playthrough ended.
I def died on my first play in 2020 by grabbing the tie lol
@@n0xurenoooo it does not :3
edit OH WAIT NO! idk about the tie but i def died from turning on the lights
My mate bought this for me a week back; both of us are worried that the original version was on it's way to be pulled from the Steam page soon. Thank you to the devs for skirting that issue :) . Anyway I'm about 15 hours in and loving it. I never knew I wanted a game where the fragmented mind of the main character is manifesting in a way that 'Authority', 'Compassion' and 'Empathy' are all talking to each other all the while being berated by a ugly necktie and talking to a corpse.
You summed it up masterfully
A horrible necktie.
@@JarredPearman A horrific necktie
@@EZXB Indeed I considered changing the post. Ended up leaving it for someone to correct. 😃
I thought everyone had to vomit and die a few times before they can continue. But serves me right for giving my character 1 for psyche I guess. 😂😂
The thing with this masterpiece of a game is it has two playthroughs in it for everyone. One with two stats high and two other low and then the second time those stats mirrored. This way you experience all the failures and all the highlights while still not being repetitive. Such a well designed system!
I would really recommend everyone to read the wikipedia article about this game. The story about the development is really incredible - almost like the game itself :-)
I kind of was uninterested in the first few hours of the game, but got more immersed as it went on. Resulting in this story of a deranged cop who slowly regained his consciousness and sanity while solving the case. I liked it.
Just did a high psyche run. Had 16 authority and 15 empathy at one point.
Next run will be full physique. Pure muscle man
most of the clips you showed happen on normal runs, ie the vomiting at the corpse or being insulted for losing the badge.
i restarted the game as a physical just so i could punch cuno in the face
I love that it literally makes it easier to help him out later, as he respects you more.
Just because you told me not to do drugs, I'm gonna do them harder than ever!
Electro-Chemistry rules
My first playthrough I made a 5 int 5 psyche guy and got killed 5 minutes in after trying to take the tie from the fan
Same
Same same. It's like the game punishes us for trying to be nerds
This game was one of the best RPGs ive ever played
Set everything to 1 but never even once mentions difficulty setting.
Wait till you fail the authority check at the dance club "thats the really good one"
This is 2000's comedy gold. Some adult swim shit.
After seeing those fateful 5 words I invested everything into motorics and psyche. I just had to "Go on" and "Set her free"
If kim dies during THE LATEGAME THING after you wake up Cuno takes his place and let me tell you hes not a great cop
who died pulling the necktie within seconds of starting the game
Thanks for making this so that I don't have to be mean to Kim :)
What a game. Just finished it last night…. Great video ❤
6:18 - This made me laugh out loud. I feel you.
I didn't even have a bad build, I just went with the basic Sensistive build, and it still took me 2 days to stop vomiting at the corpse 😭
I'm going to give this game a try today!
Let me know if its good.
@@fernicusmaximus9282 it's good
@@fernicusmaximus9282 play it bruh, it´s amazing
almost an year later after this comment was made and playing the final cut edition, I too can confirm that its a work of art.
I do sometimes choose the unhinged options, but not if they’re mean to Kim or racist, and I try to be a sober cop so that Kim can be proud of me
i tried playing like this on a second playthough but letting my wife Kim down was hard
I managed to get a "good" ending in my first playthrough but the detective was also showing up to every majour encounter off his face on alcahol, speed, nicatine and pheradon XD
Best written game ever made
Setting all your attributes to one is actually the best thing for harry, these are not skills but the fractured psyche of harry. If you have all on one, he will have less voices in his head.
Playing max Phys and Sensory is like playing as a terminator
thanks for not having any spoilers...well exept for Kuno but i had seen that one coming
If you decide to play through Disco Elysium with all stats set to 1 as shown here in the video, I wish the best of luck...because you're gonna need it as more often than not, unless you are extremely lucky or have some boosts available and even that is pushing it, most of the dice rolls will fail because your stats are THAT low...
You can also mod your save file to give yourself all very high stats
@@cleverman383 If you do that, congratulations; you've caused your character to become absolutely broken in terms of difficulty.
@@Kingcole6 I've known some people who quicksave before every conversation and reload every time they fail a dice roll
@@cleverman383 True.
@@Kingcole6 Overall I'd recommend that anyone who wants a good experience to play the game with the recommended number of stat points for your first playthrough, maybe even your first few playthroughs, but then obviously you can mess around with absurdly weak or absurdly brokenly OP character builds and reloading saves as much as you'd like.
Enjoy it the intended way, then mess around and push it to unintended limits.
For most people, that's definitely going to result in the best time playing this wonderful game.
Life gets haaaaaaaard,
but we go ooooooooon.
Great video, but lost me at: don't do drugs. How else are you gonna be a really COOL detective then??
As of this comment, I am approx 15hrs in and I managed to skill-out my character in such a way that I am currently an alcoholic, slightly-schizophrenic communist, with fascist tendencies....
10/10
Would drink myself to encephalitis-amnesia again
That's just playing as Stalin.
My first (ish) attempt went so well, including the extra stuff at the end which I won't spoil here, that I couldn't imagine ending it any other way X'DD So instead I've searched others playing it badly :D
I just learned about this game but this is definitely going in my top favorite games of all time.
I would love to play this game......Unfortunately I live in Australia where it’s the latest game to be banned as it wasn’t given classification.
Could yoou use a VPN as a work around.
It's still available on steam!
What are you on about mate?? It's on gog...
Not sure what GOG is, is that a PC thing? It’s not available on consoles is what I meant (although I don’t think it’s meant to be sold at all even if it’s still available on steam etc). The Aussie Government needs to change its old ass laws!
@@adamcoventry3064 They changed it! Congratulations.
I’m a drug using, alcoholic, chain-smoking and violent sorry cop who is unable to triumph over his demons.
my first playthrough i started with 1 psyche so as soon as i got bribe from Evrart i spend that beech on almost 30 bottles of mag
I make the skill set as realistic as i can based on my own skill in real life, so i can feel like I'm actually inside the game
I can’t disappoint Kim :(((
Disco Elsyium deserves to be mentioned in the greatest games ever conversation
Yeah they added 50000000000 dialogues, top tier game.
@@kyleward7417 illiterate
This game is a very rare gem
Gamespot with the hard moralist perspective
Dont forget about the softlocks!
Lol i also punched cunno and wasn’t trying to be a bad cop, he was really really asking for it :)
I'd say dying to a light bulb within the first minute of the game is pretty awful
Maybe 1/2/2/1 would have been better. Wait, You only went communist superstar hobo? Not racist, fascist, doomsayer, liberal arts, communist, hobo?
Failed a check, and got a froggy hat. 10/10
Game is amazing.
This was a great way to present a game.
I always play the worst person I can in any choice game.
Intellectual path FTW
It's soooooo satisfying hitting Cuno. Worth the sideways glance from Kim
Hitting Cuno actually earns you his respect and makes it easier to help him.
I've played through the game multiple times and have gotten every single achievement. I'm still a little hesitant of being awful, partly because of Kim
Literally dying of embarrassment after awkwardly hitting on Klassje
Very buggy on ps4. Have to double click to interact with things and some of the voice overs aren't working
I've found this sadly. You need to position yourself perfectly to interact with stuff... Frustrating at times!!
It's not fully voiced over. They're working on it. Pc version is fine.
Seems to be fixed now on PS4. I’ve seen 2 updates since I began playing a week ago.
Its finally fixed
In trying to play like a good honest cop for now lol
Now that one bottle = 1 Real, the game should become easier.
Mixing uppers and downers is bad, man!
Bur Harry probably knows that.
Best game ever made
"Don't do drugs?" How could you be so irresponsible and inconsequencial?
the pale will get us all in the end
Sir, could tell me: was all footage from this video taken from the game on ps4/5 ? Or some unseen-in-game stuff?
"don't do drugs" lol
The opposite of a good guy is not a bad guy. It's an utterly failing loser. Disco got this part so right and that's why playing it as not the good guy is so much fun.
With the exception of racism perhaps. That stuff is so bad, I really never can go through with it, because Kim just simply deserves better.
I shot Cunoette in the head. Pretty bad.
love that soundtrack
I mean I never played this game but is this game really that good?
Absolutely!
I've not played this , but instead watched a playthrough on TH-cam. If you'd prefer to check out that sort of thing first, I'd recommend CohhCarnage's playthrough.
I'd been putting it off for a long time. It's great. Perfect game
Its simultaneously intensely cerebral and philosophical, existentially depressing yet hopeful, mysterious, relatable, fantastical, extremely political, with hilarious situations, inner dialogue and wit. The voice acting for the different parts of your mind in the game are excellent and its hilarious when they start arguing with each other. If you like dark comedy and thinking, this game is for you
Weird that you show Skyrim when taking about games that force you to be a good guy when you can literally be a supervillain in that game
Should've showed Fallout 4
He was talking about his own tendencies, the choices he always ends up gravitating towards
wait is this a reupload... i swear this is the same script from when this game originally came out on PC
Can anyone explain the dice to me please? Thinking about getting this game but not seen that mechanic explained anywhere...
So you know in dnd where you gotta do a check to do certain actions? It's like that
So, some dialog options have a Check to make. the check is a simulated dice roll of two six-sided die. without any modifiers, that means you can roll 2-12. Most checks will have a certain threshold number you need to roll higher than, with the note that rolling a 2 always fails, and rolling a 12 always succeeds. Your ability score and equipment attributes are added to the roll's total to hopefuilly improve your odds, and certain events can also have an affect on the total roll.
Basically you don't have to worry about the dice, all the calculations are done for you and you're presented with a chance to succeed, which is modified by your skills and possibly other hidden factors that will make the check easier or harder. Red checks give you one chance, white checks can be repeated after leveling the appropriate skill. The biggest problem is that sometimes progression is locked behind white checks, and you can't get enough experience to level up again, so you just have to save scum to continue.
Imagine a game with this type of extensive dialogue coupled with triple A shooting gameplay, minecraft-like building and Witcher-level RPG. One day...
6th Attempt
Video Idea: Firearm Expert reacts to Cursed Gun Images
He needs to see the Ｋａｌａｓｈｎｉｂｒｅｎ
How can you die with the mirror?
I only wanted to see what youre ending was like..disappointed.
ZA/UM
"Zaaam"
liked bu then unliked when you said 'don't do drugs'
Long live Dirty Arty!
What he said, but do drugs (in moderation)
I'm already a fuck-up in real life, why would I want to play as one in a video game? I play video games to escape reality.
Hjemdall