A lot of the details do unsurprisingly sound rather derivative, and it will be very, very difficult to reach the bar of writing set by writers who are no longer around. But the absolute worst part of this is that some of their ideas do sound interesting. A more elaborate thought cabinet is something I assume most Disco fans have wished for at some point, especially knowing the initial concepts floated around that had to be cut.
Also I didn’t know Anton Vill still worked there.
Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere are working together for a company called Red Info, but there has been no further info at this time. I think rumours are they might be ready to announce something this year.
Argo Tuulik is heading up Summer Eternal, so that is another one to keep an eye on. Sadly his work got halted by a legal injunction made by the people at Longdue.
Longdue themselves though have managed to recruit Martin Luiga. Whether he will actually contribute much or is there to lend credence to the project by virtue of his name remains unclear.
Even less abridged, but the 41st Precinct channel has a 16 hour ZA/UM - The Inside Story interview with Argo and Dora.
His interview with Martin Luiga is also great.
No. This is not a Disco Elysium dev, and especially not a writer. Everyone who worked on Disco Elysium has left the studio by now as far as I know and ZA/UM is nothing but an empty husk trying to exploit the reputation and name of the genius of others.
That C4 trailer was completely shameless. “We brought you Disco Elysium”… No you fucking didn’t. Now give the IP back to its creators you evil, soulless capitalistic pieces of trash. Fuck all the way off.
Don’t hold your breath. Any hope of getting the true sequel died with the firing of Brian Mitsoda I think. Doesn’t even look like Rik Schaffer is involved in the project anymore either.
I’ve never really thought of it as one, but I guess Disco Elysium could technically qualify as a point and click adventure. It just doesn’t have the object combination based puzzles I normally associate with the genre.
I plowed a solid month into Stalker 2 when it came out and loved my time with it, but it has it’s fair share of problems. Not having proper A-life alone makes me very reluctant to nominate it for GOTY.
I really hope they come back eventually and do a full remake for the sequel as well. But maybe the SS1 remake didn’t sell enough that another similar effort would be profitable?
Reminiscent of the Bill Hicks prankster god bit. The God of Christianity - at least the old testament - is kind of unhinged, it needs to be said.
Yeah if you come from modded Anomaly S2 will feel downright casual, but it’s not even necessarily the challenge that would turn off mainstream players though I think but the pace. Stalker has always been a very slow game (and we love it for it!), but that’s a tough product to sell in today’s attention economy.
On a side note, if you’re into GAMMA etc and truly hate yourself you can check out Stalker A.R.E.A… I was playing around with it a bit just before the release of S2. Disgusting stuff.
The nature of the game is also not necessarily mainstream friendly at it’s core. Fans of the series love the lack of fast travel and the long, tense walks between locations for literally 20 minutes at a time with nothing much happening (I am one of those fans). But I can’t pretend that’s not an acquired taste at the very least.
I’m going to be a little left-field with this one. Yes you could pick some boring obvious answer like Pong, Doom or Minecraft and that’s perfectly valid. I’m not saying those are incorrect.
I’m going to go with FarmVille though. It’s really hard to overstate the impact it has had on the gaming landscape (for the worst, if it needed spelling out). It popularised an all new approach to monetisation and retention systems in games, it heralded the proliferation of microtransactions, Games-As-A-Service models and manipulative skinner boxes designed to extract the most money and attention out of you. It opened the door - by being a “social game not just for gamers” - to an entirely new market whose wallets were previously unavailable. It created this malicious new insight that the best way to make money is not to just make a good game and sell it - it is to create an addiction through psychologically manipulative means, then slowly leech their users’ wallets over time.
FarmVille really fucked us over.
Relevant Basically Homeless video.