Disco Elysium

We need more games like this. Games that don't use combat as a gameplay loop/hook and touch interesting mature topics with depth.

My main issues are that level design and path implementation have some issues and some dialogue bugs that should have been solved on this Final Cut version.

Aside from those issues what an incredible game. So well written, be it in its prose, characters or world. The way as your attributes shape your perception of the world is a brilliant mechanic I want this team to expand upon in future projects. It's the kind of game that by the end I wish I could still continue playing it. No seriously, I need more!

Beautiful art and music too.

9/10

I'm fine with any year, just maybe publish a top15 or 10 to avoid the popular uproar.

Wait, what? It's all happening so fast! Oh my!

I get annoyed when along with criticism comes the judgement of those who enjoy it.

Stuff like, this game is bad because "you can't even shoot lamps" or "women can have muscles" I honestly live for that. It's hilariously dumb.

The nostalgia thing is annoying, but whatever. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Kind of irrelevant. It does annoy me when it's like a 2003 game I've just played for the first time and the person still insists is nostalgia.

People who never played a game, say that game is trash, then use its metacritic/open critic score as an argument and then, on top of that, the score is actually a 70 or an 80 as if anything under a 90 isn't even worth existing.

btw Dishonored's Death of the Outsider connects both universes. It's good on its own but Prey fans will take a bit more out of it.

@ringedwithtile If anything the BioShock series is an over simplification and derivative of the immersive sim genre, genre which Prey fully embraces.

I honestly see no significant contact point between both but I would like to know why you have that opinion.

@DIPSET Oh lord, do play it!!! Just make sure you do it on PC or Series X.

@mbun I just played sunshine for the first time when All Stars came out. Was definitely worst then what I expecting and I went for it with low expectations.

It's fine but it's the only Mario game I don't love. Some truly bad designed levels and sub par controls makes it impossible for me to put it above any 3D Mario. That's not to say that there isn't anything good about it, I still enjoyed it and it says a lot about a series when what I consider the worst game is still better than most in the genre.

It's a great game to get high and just enjoy how creative it is. Looks, controls and sounds great. Don't have any real complaints about it. The worst 3D Mario for me is Sunshine and this is significantly better.

I love it, it's on my GOAT list. Phenomenal level design and world building. Kinda kills me seeing games like Prey and Dishonored failing commercially.

@jdincinerator My issue, I think, don't deliver anything that moves me.

For instance, RDR2 is a game with many issues but the realisation of the world is just unmatched. It pushes the medium in was I find captivating.

Spiderman did a great thing with movement but the city has no substance and the focus on story is just the repetition from the same Spiderman tropes we been seeing for decades across all mediums.

I'm kinda dumb... so every time I see a game being super hyped I go for with with great hopes of being surprised. Might be an age thing too, I feel a similar way towards Marvel although with Marvel I find it so terrible I don't even bother anymore.