One of the closest things to a modern fairy tale, a fictional world created not from the medieval or ancient, but from the world of today, it’s politics, its history, its clashing cultures, its nightmares and fever dreams. A tale not of kingdoms, gods, and romance, but of nationhood, class conflict, capitalism, and the power of identity within an alienated industrial society. A fractured mirror in which we see our innermost demons and angels, our “Furies.” A true masterpiece.
You forgot one thing. The ghosts and their home in the entropic desert known as the pale. Of all the things you describe they will eventually be eaten by the never ceasing all consuming haunting from a past that cannot be forgotten. A rarified mark, like a mold, left behind by the gods you would so quickly try to paint over with your petty quick to rot substitute for real meaning... "ideology." All of it pales in comparison to a love that refuses to die even in its rasping scraping death. To a love that eats away at the heart, turning the already fermented misery of the world into a potent ambrosia of suffering. A man, struggling not with what he believes, but how to live in a world utterly destroyed by belief, possessed by its spirit in the most metaphysical and phantological ways. A world always on the brink of apocalypse but seemingly never fading, only shrinking smaller and smaller into itself as the quiet creeps in after the bloodshed. And yet... even in this world, stinking with the glorified poison of impassioned arguments and misbegotten intents there are still small pockets of wonder to be found, if only one looks closely. If you think the point of the game was the ideology then you were too busy playing commissar to see the real depth of its wonder. There is still magick in this world, still reason to be hopeful, to have fun, to laugh even. There is still room for beauty and mystery in this dying existence. Even maybe for the divine. If thats not the ending you got, all power to you, but you're doing it wrong. I dont just mean the game in this sense.
Kim is probably the best companion in gaming for me- I actually felt a deep bond (that scene on the balcony will always stick with me; just sharing a quiet moment with someone you just met, yet feel as if they were an old friend ) and sought his approval/mindful of his perception of me… which made the ending so satisfying - and that’s coming from someone who never played a point-and-click back when the game didn’t really have voice-overs… his characterization was so well done. Really made me appreciate my IRL friends all the more. You gotta have friends in this world, I’ve always said that.
I had heard Disco Elysium was a great game, but it wasn't until I played it that I learned just how much it would affect me. The writing, the characters, the music--what a truly special game.
I immediately fell in love with the menu art. The melancholic music combined with the image of the rising sun warming a dreary city like a great flash about to overwhelm it left no other choice. After that one Shivers scene I now understand it to be a representation of something dreadful.
God what a masterpiece. Just booting up the game and looking at the title screen - a beautiful sunrise that, at second glance, might also be a meteor hitting Revachol.
When it clicked for me that the main me that the main menu shows you the perspective of the old revolutionary on the island at the end, it blew my smooth, goblin brain into the stratosphere.
@Erikkolai I always felt that DE's world was melancholic but not exactly hopeful. Like going through a painful breakup but waking up the next day knowing that life goes on. Bad and good things have happened but that is in the past now, there is only forward.
@@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope steamcommunity.com/games/632470/announcements/detail/1602643489936624136 Disco Elysium's devblog. The Pale will essentially consume the world in about 28 years unless The Detective changes things somehow. And regardless of whether by somehow he *does* or not, Shivers implies that instead Revachol will just be swallowed up by an atomic blast further into the future.
Harrys presence in the world is what causes its destruction, its implied the "creation" of him jumpstarted the pale, or maybe even created it. And the 2mm hole in the world (7 key locations of churches in the name of Dolores Dei ) will expand and consume the world with nothing aka Pale.
Idk why But this ost is so haunting for me... Listening it in the actual twilight closing my eyes... I can see myself everywhere... In a rotted old house sitting on an old couch On a large grassfield In the clouds By the Sun ...Everywhere
*If you haven't completed the game yet than I'd advice against looking at the rest of this comment* I like that the title screen shows you the city from the perspective of the Deserter sitting at his perch in the sea fortress. It's a weird and unexpected bit of foreshadowing given that the significance of what you're seeing (or the fact that it has any significance to the story to begin with) doesn't become apparent until the very end of the game.
definitely really late, but i think it's also interesting due to the fact that there are a lot of parallels between Harry and the Deserter. They're both desperate men, being destroyed slowly from the inside out by their inability to leave the past behind. It's no mistake that Harry's nap is placed right before this guy. The deserter shows about, and the game basically says "If you keep letting the past define who you are you are going to end up like this man, rotting from the inside out. For the sake of yourself and others you need to keep moving forward in life."
I had such a weird dream about this game once. an alternate ending where you, cuno, and his dad are in a bunker, trying to prevent a nuke from destroying revachol. The ultimate decision to stop it or let it free boil down to what skills presented themselves the most, and you as a player must hear what each of them has to say before making your final decision. In my dream, Physical instrument explained this would be the great filter, as only the strongest men who survive the apocalypse will be worthy of rebuilding society. Empath tried to talk the player out of it, telling you that the innocent people of revachol are only trying to get by, and it would not be fair to abruptly end their day-to-day simply based on the "what if?" of politics. Conceptualization didnt mention the people at all, but instead pondered how the streets of the war torn city would look in flames, buildings crumbled more than they already are, the mix of ash and blood highlighting the nuclear shadows of people who never knew today would be their last. Perception tuned into the mechanics of the abandoned bunker you reside in, hearing the sirens go off, the rusted doors of the missles silo slowly opening to reveal the world ending instrument. It reminded you that whatever decision you make, it must be quick, otherwise, it will be made for you. Too bad it was just a dream...
I will rebuild Elysium, even if I have to wait 90+ for it to enter the public domain. And if I die, I will do my best to make sure that the younger generation carry this dream. The dream of a better world, of a better Revachol. Or until the company goes bankrupt and the IP goes back to the original creators and/or the proletariat (at the hands of the working class where it belongs).
@@micahsarm I didn't find BG3 to be even close. It's more of the same shit. I thought Dragon Age Origins was better than it for a traditional CRPG. Disco Elysium still had revolutionary mechanical ideas for a very tired genre. Don't even get me started on the writing quality compared to BG3.
I have about 800 hours of this game clocked into my ps4. Other than of course playing it, ive spent countless nights just stoned out of my mind and zoned out into the main menu screen. Hours just remembering her smile. Her warmth as the morning sun shined on her skin, glowing like some kind of goddess. Some nights her memory felt real and time would just stop. If i was high enough i could feel her again. Gaze into those hazel eyes where i lost myself. Im better now. Its been years since i felt alive but at least i didnt pull the trigger years ago. Ill get better, I knows this. Its just so hard. Still, i love this game. I love life even if it feels almost impossible at times. Im a zombie now, but i know someday ill be alright.
If you told me this was a Fallout New Vegas wasteland track I'd believe you. Hits the same melancholic loneliness vibes right on the nose. British Sea Power was the best choice for scoring this milestone of a game. I don't know if anything will fit and feel as right as every component that made it such a memorable experience.
I usually dont like these types of games, but this one blew me away, i didnt except the ending because i wanted way more of the game, the music and the whole shebang
Доброго времени суток qazw 33 . Я с полной поддержкой для тебя . Моя благодарность за твои труды . Большой палец вверх к просмотру . Хочу пожелать много хороших игр в полной доступности . Жму руку не прощаясь . Самое главное береги себя и своих близких .
SPOILER: The perspective of the title screen is from the island where the deserter is observing everyone through his scope. When I first learned this, my goddamn mind was blown.
Ending with thr phasmid was cool but the ending with the cops felt lackluster tho. That's my only gripe with the game. I hope they either make a sequel or another game in this universe at is very well crafted and interesting
There will definitely be another game set in this world. ZAUM mentioned that they aren't done with it yet. Plus, Kim mentions in the final debrief if you try to recruit him that Harry's precinct would be the best place to work in order to be ready for what's to come to Revachol.
It wasn't really an ending. The real ending was the discussion with the Deserter and the Phasmid, the part with the other cops was more of a recap and a setup for another game.
@@TheButterMinecart1 It felt like an ending to me but that's because of my choices in the game. Jean helps Harrier to find himself *fully* and even provides some closure to him and Dora. It ended with a solved case. Kim, the friend of your new birth, and Jean, the friend of your old life, and you walk to the car arm in arm.
The track almost sound as if its bleeding out, it is hurting, howling and anguish dripping out of his own sounds... You hear it as a last scream of help, nad you can do nothing more than be with it for the rest of its short melody, understanding why its hurtful. I dont know how, but this music encapsulate dread, pain, sadness, melancholy and the most pure, distilled solitude of a dying world.
![เป็นไปได้ไหม - WanMai [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6lZ6b3_7Vo/mqdefault.jpg)
If you're here and haven't played the game yet, do yourself a favour and don't read the other comments. There's spoilers afoot.
Thank you for your service you saved many lives including mine x)
thank you
thank you good sir
Thank you.
Question:
I've already heard a few spoilers. Is the game still worth getting if I know how it's going to end?
"I'm the bad day, Harry. The worst day of all time. She will hear about it on the phone."
One of the closest things to a modern fairy tale, a fictional world created not from the medieval or ancient, but from the world of today, it’s politics, its history, its clashing cultures, its nightmares and fever dreams. A tale not of kingdoms, gods, and romance, but of nationhood, class conflict, capitalism, and the power of identity within an alienated industrial society. A fractured mirror in which we see our innermost demons and angels, our “Furies.”
A true masterpiece.
oh stop it with that
I wonder what it's going to be 50 years from now.
@@_greenrunner_ do you disagree?
Very well said
You forgot one thing. The ghosts and their home in the entropic desert known as the pale. Of all the things you describe they will eventually be eaten by the never ceasing all consuming haunting from a past that cannot be forgotten. A rarified mark, like a mold, left behind by the gods you would so quickly try to paint over with your petty quick to rot substitute for real meaning... "ideology."
All of it pales in comparison to a love that refuses to die even in its rasping scraping death. To a love that eats away at the heart, turning the already fermented misery of the world into a potent ambrosia of suffering. A man, struggling not with what he believes, but how to live in a world utterly destroyed by belief, possessed by its spirit in the most metaphysical and phantological ways. A world always on the brink of apocalypse but seemingly never fading, only shrinking smaller and smaller into itself as the quiet creeps in after the bloodshed.
And yet... even in this world, stinking with the glorified poison of impassioned arguments and misbegotten intents there are still small pockets of wonder to be found, if only one looks closely. If you think the point of the game was the ideology then you were too busy playing commissar to see the real depth of its wonder. There is still magick in this world, still reason to be hopeful, to have fun, to laugh even. There is still room for beauty and mystery in this dying existence. Even maybe for the divine.
If thats not the ending you got, all power to you, but you're doing it wrong. I dont just mean the game in this sense.
"Every school of thought and government has failed in this city, but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you."
GOAT quote
Ha, the very first thought I had after seeing Kim's dissatisfied face was the "Welcome to Revachol" encounter :)
её
Kim is probably the best companion in gaming for me- I actually felt a deep bond (that scene on the balcony will always stick with me; just sharing a quiet moment with someone you just met, yet feel as if they were an old friend ) and sought his approval/mindful of his perception of me… which made the ending so satisfying - and that’s coming from someone who never played a point-and-click back when the game didn’t really have voice-overs… his characterization was so well done. Really made me appreciate my IRL friends all the more. You gotta have friends in this world, I’ve always said that.
Everyone should give the composers, British Sea Power a listen.
I just started on ps4 . Didn't know it was them but I already love it and them
@@drake128 how do you like the game so far?
I had heard Disco Elysium was a great game, but it wasn't until I played it that I learned just how much it would affect me. The writing, the characters, the music--what a truly special game.
"Sorry." -Sorry Cop
haunting, beautiful, other-worldly. almost apocaliptic. this game makes me speechless. atemporal art.
Beautifully haunting. Thought exactly the same thing
just say timeless man
post-revolution. ruins of hope
Me after reading Sacred & Terrible Air 😬
Buzzwords buzzwords
Hearing this after dying for the first time almost made me tear up.
"But I before he ever had a heart attack, his heart was broken."
I immediately fell in love with the menu art. The melancholic music combined with the image of the rising sun warming a dreary city like a great flash about to overwhelm it left no other choice.
After that one Shivers scene I now understand it to be a representation of something dreadful.
This music touches the soul, just like the game.
Punpun 😭
God what a masterpiece. Just booting up the game and looking at the title screen - a beautiful sunrise that, at second glance, might also be a meteor hitting Revachol.
When it clicked for me that the main me that the main menu shows you the perspective of the old revolutionary on the island at the end, it blew my smooth, goblin brain into the stratosphere.
You might even call it a... Tequila Sunset?
The wisps drifting into the sky in the background always made me think of the pale.
Or a nuclear bomb.
@@Hank_JW could also be the nuke that shivers hints is going to hit Revachol in around 22 years
This track encapsulates the world Kurvitz has created so well. Poignant and regretful for what's lost-but also beautiful and hopeful for the future.
@Erikkolai I always felt that DE's world was melancholic but not exactly hopeful. Like going through a painful breakup but waking up the next day knowing that life goes on. Bad and good things have happened but that is in the past now, there is only forward.
@Erikkolai In 28 years, the world of Disco Elysium will suffer a world-ending event. Creators said so themselves.
@@LanceDragonov Source on that?
@@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope steamcommunity.com/games/632470/announcements/detail/1602643489936624136
Disco Elysium's devblog. The Pale will essentially consume the world in about 28 years unless The Detective changes things somehow. And regardless of whether by somehow he *does* or not, Shivers implies that instead Revachol will just be swallowed up by an atomic blast further into the future.
Harrys presence in the world is what causes its destruction, its implied the "creation" of him jumpstarted the pale, or maybe even created it. And the 2mm hole in the world (7 key locations of churches in the name of Dolores Dei ) will expand and consume the world with nothing aka Pale.
I AM THE LAW.
You sure are!
Law jaw lol
The dislikes are from Cuno's sock accounts
I feel like crying listening to this
i am crying to this
Don’t hold yourself. Releasing emotions could be a beautiful thing and often makes you feel better afterwards. Especially after crying.
One of the best OST ever made for a videogame
For one of the best games ever made my dude.
Idk why
But this ost is so haunting for me...
Listening it in the actual twilight closing my eyes...
I can see myself everywhere...
In a rotted old house sitting on an old couch
On a large grassfield
In the clouds
By the Sun
...Everywhere
2:55 i love this part
*If you haven't completed the game yet than I'd advice against looking at the rest of this comment*
I like that the title screen shows you the city from the perspective of the Deserter sitting at his perch in the sea fortress. It's a weird and unexpected bit of foreshadowing given that the significance of what you're seeing (or the fact that it has any significance to the story to begin with) doesn't become apparent until the very end of the game.
spoiler?
Not really
Actually I never realized that
definitely really late, but i think it's also interesting due to the fact that there are a lot of parallels between Harry and the Deserter. They're both desperate men, being destroyed slowly from the inside out by their inability to leave the past behind. It's no mistake that Harry's nap is placed right before this guy. The deserter shows about, and the game basically says "If you keep letting the past define who you are you are going to end up like this man, rotting from the inside out. For the sake of yourself and others you need to keep moving forward in life."
I had such a weird dream about this game once. an alternate ending where you, cuno, and his dad are in a bunker, trying to prevent a nuke from destroying revachol. The ultimate decision to stop it or let it free boil down to what skills presented themselves the most, and you as a player must hear what each of them has to say before making your final decision. In my dream, Physical instrument explained this would be the great filter, as only the strongest men who survive the apocalypse will be worthy of rebuilding society. Empath tried to talk the player out of it, telling you that the innocent people of revachol are only trying to get by, and it would not be fair to abruptly end their day-to-day simply based on the "what if?" of politics. Conceptualization didnt mention the people at all, but instead pondered how the streets of the war torn city would look in flames, buildings crumbled more than they already are, the mix of ash and blood highlighting the nuclear shadows of people who never knew today would be their last. Perception tuned into the mechanics of the abandoned bunker you reside in, hearing the sirens go off, the rusted doors of the missles silo slowly opening to reveal the world ending instrument. It reminded you that whatever decision you make, it must be quick, otherwise, it will be made for you. Too bad it was just a dream...
Sir, I admire that dream, greetings from Egypt, Revachol of the middle east lol
I will rebuild Elysium, even if I have to wait 90+ for it to enter the public domain. And if I die, I will do my best to make sure that the younger generation carry this dream. The dream of a better world, of a better Revachol.
Or until the company goes bankrupt and the IP goes back to the original creators and/or the proletariat (at the hands of the working class where it belongs).
@@hollowman9410 wdym?
This makes me feel things I didn't know I could feel.
Admittedly I'm a bit drunk, and although I don't drink often, this song makes me want to drink until i get amnesia.
THINKER · SENSITIVE · PHYSICAL
• CREATE YOUR OWN
There has been no better CRPG in the last 20 years
Tyranny came very, very close imo
@@sirVhailor I agree that Tyranny was very good, 2nd among the new RPGs, only behind Disco Elysium
Are you still here after BG3?
@@micahsarm I didn't find BG3 to be even close. It's more of the same shit. I thought Dragon Age Origins was better than it for a traditional CRPG.
Disco Elysium still had revolutionary mechanical ideas for a very tired genre. Don't even get me started on the writing quality compared to BG3.
this amazing soundtrack made the game even better
3:19 where it descends, and it sounds like a kind of happy resignation. Gorgeously bruised music.
songs that make you scream and cry and vomit and foam at the mouth
So here we are.
Music to contemplate your depression to
This track kept me in the main menu for several minutes, in some kind of trance, with teary eyes, and I hadn't even started playing 😭
Starting this game for the first time tonight, on my series x. Omg that title screen music atmosphere already got me floating away
It's a masterpiece of a game, imho.
@@MrOuestabsolutely, can 100% confirm
Finding the hooligans car, sitting on the swing with Kim and this music, the best moment in CRPG gaming 100%
The moodiest, most wistful music ever
genuinely the most haunting piece of video game menu music i've ever heard. i think about this track so often.
This game is flawless
- Harry, is that you?
- I want to die.
- You’re not a revolutionary, Harry. You’re drunk.
There is nothing, only warm, primordial blackness...
The older I get the most I appreciate this game
I have about 800 hours of this game clocked into my ps4. Other than of course playing it, ive spent countless nights just stoned out of my mind and zoned out into the main menu screen. Hours just remembering her smile. Her warmth as the morning sun shined on her skin, glowing like some kind of goddess. Some nights her memory felt real and time would just stop. If i was high enough i could feel her again. Gaze into those hazel eyes where i lost myself.
Im better now. Its been years since i felt alive but at least i didnt pull the trigger years ago. Ill get better, I knows this. Its just so hard. Still, i love this game. I love life even if it feels almost impossible at times. Im a zombie now, but i know someday ill be alright.
I understand you and its the only reason I care because I've been in this kind of situation. How old are you and where are you from? Im just intersted
ost to this game is the best post-rock album ever made
The Pale...
If you told me this was a Fallout New Vegas wasteland track I'd believe you. Hits the same melancholic loneliness vibes right on the nose.
British Sea Power was the best choice for scoring this milestone of a game. I don't know if anything will fit and feel as right as every component that made it such a memorable experience.
Nah, after spending 100 hours in both games, I can surely say that NV sound hits not as hard as DE one
I agree, especially the freeside theme in new vegas. The industrial ambience combined with a world lost. Sad shit
If you’re hear listening to British Sea Power and you haven’t played Disco Elysium, stop now and go do that.
I usually dont like these types of games, but this one blew me away, i didnt except the ending because i wanted way more of the game, the music and the whole shebang
i love this game more than i love my kids
Good bye, Revachol.
Fun fact. The title screen is the view from the sniper's nest
Holy shit dude, thanks for pointing that out. That's a crazy detail.
what effin' SNIPER NEST!?
(Please dont actually answer im playing blind RN)
@@slimepixel how did you like the game?
I cried the moment phasmid revealed itself to Harry and Kim. It was such an epic moment in the game!
keep walking keep walking
until you find Elysium
those who not played this game yet missed a lot
Super stoked to start streaming my first playthrough of this game tomorrow, hype is real.
Too bad the band is issuing DMCA takedowns on Twitch :(
@@adaptorperish1322 yeesh
Tequila sunset...
beautiful soundtrack of my alcoholism and addiction
HARDCORE! HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!
"Postnut Clarity - The OST"
this game will never not mean everything to me
this music really makes me feel like I'm a forgotten old soldier being psionically tortured by a giant bug for 20 years
God i love this game so much gonna do replay soon
Beautiful
This is otherwordly and euphoric
it got dat fable vibe
Доброго времени суток qazw 33 . Я с полной поддержкой для тебя . Моя благодарность за твои труды . Большой палец вверх к просмотру . Хочу пожелать много хороших игр в полной доступности . Жму руку не прощаясь .
Самое главное береги себя и своих близких .
allahım çok iyi
I BEND THE UNIVERSE. I AM THE LAW.
هنا عرفت انه هاذي اللعبة رح تكون تجربة غير عن اي لعبة لعبتها بحياتي
Fuck, this music.
Sublime
SPOILER: The perspective of the title screen is from the island where the deserter is observing everyone through his scope. When I first learned this, my goddamn mind was blown.
"I AM A DETECTIVE GOD!"
Ending with thr phasmid was cool but the ending with the cops felt lackluster tho. That's my only gripe with the game. I hope they either make a sequel or another game in this universe at is very well crafted and interesting
there has to be another, to wrap up alll the feelings and ideas.
There will definitely be another game set in this world. ZAUM mentioned that they aren't done with it yet. Plus, Kim mentions in the final debrief if you try to recruit him that Harry's precinct would be the best place to work in order to be ready for what's to come to Revachol.
It wasn't really an ending. The real ending was the discussion with the Deserter and the Phasmid, the part with the other cops was more of a recap and a setup for another game.
@@TheButterMinecart1 It felt like an ending to me but that's because of my choices in the game. Jean helps Harrier to find himself *fully* and even provides some closure to him and Dora. It ended with a solved case. Kim, the friend of your new birth, and Jean, the friend of your old life, and you walk to the car arm in arm.
5:31
O quanto esse jogo é foda não tá escrito man
"Burying the Dead" OST season 7 star wars clone wars
Bro why is Chester Bennington in this game
@qazw33 man pin this upvoted comment about spoilers so it will never fade away please
Rain World's better.
Rain World is a completely different genre tho
If it's so much better than why can't the devs make it work on mac?
The track almost sound as if its bleeding out, it is hurting, howling and anguish dripping out of his own sounds... You hear it as a last scream of help, nad you can do nothing more than be with it for the rest of its short melody, understanding why its hurtful.
I dont know how, but this music encapsulate dread, pain, sadness, melancholy and the most pure, distilled solitude of a dying world.
is the music of the whirling in rags just slowed? it have that feeling of loneliness but at the same time that feeling that everything will be ok