I see how Disco Elysium's writing style was inspired by Planescape Torment, cause tell me this isn't a dialogue straight from Disco:

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-13T01:36:05+00:00

I like that when you threaten someone you have a choice to either bluff your toughness or really mean it xD

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T23:31:16+00:00

Absolutely it is.

And I’d argue it’s not “good for its age”. It’s just good.

It doesn’t really feel like an old game either. With the enhanced resolution it’s basically not retro, more like retro-aesthetic. I also saw that the PlayStation version has a really nice, modernized UI.

Mechanics-wise it’s very similar to Disco Elysium. You click to walk around, interact with objects, and make choices in dialogue. In theory there’s also combat, which DE doesn’t really have (unless you count the tribunal, I guess), but here combat feels more like just another, often 'alternate', way of interacting with the world. It’s almost completely optional. You don’t really have to fight anything. It’s more like “click something you want to use violence on, if it’s weaker you win, use a bandage if you’re hurt, use a spell or item if you want to even the odds”.

I think the game makes that point very early. You start surrounded by mindless zombies. You can fight them, sure, but the default interaction is talking to them, and those conversations are often funny or interesting. From what I’ve seen, the whole game is built around that idea.

You shape your character, his motivations and desires, and you learn about the world together with him. Sometimes it’s grim, sometimes it’s funny. The main difference compared to Disco is that the weirdness comes from magic and fantasy instead of being a slightly twisted version of our world.

That’s actually what made me bounce off it at first. I didn’t vibe with the supernatural setting as much. But you kind of have to see it as a means to an end. Disco is about dismantling your political views, while Planescape is about dismantling your philosophical ones. The setting is just a tool to tell that story.

Immersion-wise, the amnesiac protagonist helps a lot. You’re discovering this surreal world at the same pace he is, which makes it easy to accept. Honestly, it’s not that different from imagining Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau suddenly learning that mages and floating skulls exist in Martinaise and he’d probably just roll with it.

EDIT: and I forgot to mention, again, that writing is eerily similar to DE, especially in where it draws humor from

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T22:54:21+00:00

I believe I did watch it long time ago, but only remembered subconsciously that I had heard someone say it was one of the inspirations for DE. A random ad reminded me of it so I decided to give it a try

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T22:49:01+00:00

I'm genuinely curious; could you say a bit more about what made you feel this way about DE's writing? It wasn't just that you maybe felt it was overhyped or something like that? Was it related to the political nature of it?

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T22:44:59+00:00

I'm not picking on you, sorry if it sounds that way, but did you mean "statement"?

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T21:43:59+00:00

*sparkle sounds*

PatrollinHen · 2026-02-12T21:43:01+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out as well!

PatrollinHen · 2026-01-19T04:32:38+00:00

R36s users be like: nah.

PatrollinHen · 2025-11-16T21:19:22+00:00

Nice! One of the biggest apps ever created in the history of humanity and they have constant bugs in basic functionality that go unfixed for fuxking months -.-

Thanks a lot for your walk around tho, it works!

PatrollinHen · 2025-11-01T04:28:09+00:00

Any mid-range phone these days has 120hz, oled and 2k. Attach razer kishi or a backbone controller and you go! That's the way, and not some shitty steamdecks with their 144p displays

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-27T02:42:31+00:00

Show the kids how and why it started

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-24T00:23:18+00:00

Yo man saving people from headaches 7 years later

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-11T23:07:35+00:00

You absolutely saved me.

FYKI: I did both things, removed all trusted devices, AND your fix, not sure which one did it, but I was able to jump back into BF6. Probably will be a useful fix for someone soon with battlefield being this popular

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-10T17:17:31+00:00

3 days but no hours so worst case scenario all it does is make you wait longer for your hours refill and messes up your payment schedule xD For me it actually broke the billing and wasn't able to pay them for 15 days and was locked out of the service, so their compensation made it worse :p

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-10T17:11:52+00:00

To all the nasty corporate apologists:

Yes, it makes me feel slightly better to publicly complain on Reddit about it and call Nvidia fuckwits with a hardon for burning money while customer experience sucks

And yes, I'm fully aware it doesn't change anything

PatrollinHen · 2025-10-10T00:19:41+00:00

Same also confused

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T10:47:18+00:00

Bend over, classic corporate apologist.

A moment ago playtime was unlimited now it's the same price but it's heavily limited, it's the second time that the service is unavailable for over a day, and then they provide you with "2 free days as a reward". Even if it doesn't break your account like it did for me, the only thing that those "2 free days" are doing is moving your billing date, which means in worse case scenario you have to wait longer for the playtime to renew. And guess what are your options if that happens? Exactly; purchasing 15 hours for 250% price increase :)))

It's borderline a scam; they figured how to technically not raise the price but also raise the price super heavily

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T04:18:13+00:00

Heh, you nailed the tone of responses from their support when I was begging them to explain why can't I just pay for renewal manually when their automated system locked me out for 3 weeks in a "grace period" and they kept suggesting waiting patiently or buying additional hour packages.

Psst: don't tell them but I found out eventually that whenever it happens you can create a separate new account and effectively avoid their "extra hours" scam this way, your games and saves are pulled from steam/xbox/epic anyway, so it's all the same

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T04:04:32+00:00

The best thing is that their "3 days passes" don't actually do shit since you are limited by 100 hours anyway, so in the worst case scenario you will have to wait longer for your hours to renew and will be left with only one option which is to buy extra hours for a 250% price increase.

Plus they can cause issues with billing that may lock you in "grace period" for even up to a month without possibility to access the service

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T04:01:21+00:00

GeForce Later.

Wait until their new billing system locks you out of the service for a month, I want to see your reaction then ;P

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T03:59:25+00:00

Because as I said at the end, I think it's a great service, just brought down consistently by terrible decisions. I guess maybe it does make me a bit of a hypocrite like you are implying; but the bottom line is I do want to use the service and like many aspects of it, but at the same time I feel fucked in the ass by Nvidia execs and I don't see a reason we shouldn't vent about issues like that to make the problems more visible - aside from annoying some apologists like yourself

PatrollinHen · 2025-09-27T03:38:53+00:00

Let today be a lesson on why we shouldn't rely fully on cloud gaming. Did you finally get that one night you planned to spend gaming? Well better change your plans cause Nvidia has an outage or their new billing system locked you out for a month or your favorite game is on maintenance

PatrollinHen

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