Why Disco Elysium Hurts...

nothing hits the same way after you play Disco Elysium. also, thank you to @miacole for being the intrusive voice in my head.
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00:00 - a violent, irrepressible miracle
03:05 - disco elysium ruins everything
06:19 - total retrograde amnesia
10:55 - oxygen supply
13:28 - absolutely raging feminism
26:58 - the hauntology of [FAILURE]
31:57 - should the stars also go out?

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  • @NgaMarsters
    @NgaMarsters Жыл бұрын

    "During the darkest times, should the stars also go out?" This is the first game that taught me how to have hope in hell.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    well said.

  • @NgaMarsters

    @NgaMarsters

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@chriswaves It always makes me chuckle when KZreadrs (mostly gamers) say their not into politics... while complaining about politics in a video game they don't agree with despite them not being into politics. But I usually just chop it down to "Hey, they just don't know much, and it's up to them to decide if they want to."

  • @ejynk

    @ejynk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NgaMarsters when these people say they don't care about politics what they actually mean is that they label everything they dislike as "politics" in order to dismiss them. They want to say "I don't care about poverty and racism and bigotry and oppression" without making it immediately obvious how stupid that viewpoint is.

  • @NgaMarsters

    @NgaMarsters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ejynk Don't worry I'm aware of that it's still funny and sad as hell. And I love how this game pokes fun at it.

  • @ejynk

    @ejynk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NgaMarsters the satire is so good. harry's written to be such a ridiculous and unserious character by default and all of his dialogue options are obviously satirical and shallow interpretations of each ideology, except when you get to fascism, where it sounds like legitimate fascism. the whole point is that fascism and moralism/centrism are so fucking ridiculous already they don't even need to be satirized. it's genius, and somehow people still get shocked when they're called out as fascists after being given like 5 chances to STOP being fascists haha

  • @simonhansen5038
    @simonhansen50387 ай бұрын

    Games these days shower us with corpses and we don't bat an eye. Disco Elysium reteaches us that a corpse is something terrible. There are only two corpses in Disco Elysium.

  • @wizylaakc4294

    @wizylaakc4294

    21 күн бұрын

    i agree and actually adore it. it shows you that a corpse was a person with family with memories and with love. it hurts to see a corpse, in a way that other games gloss over

  • @FishSticker

    @FishSticker

    20 күн бұрын

    ​@@wizylaakc4294both of you put this perfectly

  • @Dreamfillah
    @Dreamfillah Жыл бұрын

    "Are you the miracle?" "No. You are the miracle."

  • @terrestrialgmusic
    @terrestrialgmusic4 ай бұрын

    During the stick insect dialogue, I cried like a child.

  • @fishstyx5028

    @fishstyx5028

    16 күн бұрын

    the writing has such an ability to reach that inner child, in the vivid felt-experience sort of way, it's brilliant

  • @yennikarual
    @yennikarual Жыл бұрын

    Shivers is one of my favourite videogame characters, ever. thanks for talking about this game, I have a lot to say on it but, a whole year on from finishing my first playthrough, I'm still reeling at what it made me feel.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    a fellow shivers fan! that's what I mean when I say it ruins everything. it hits you so hard you have this kind of emotional hangover that just lasts and lasts... I hardly covered 10% of what I had to say.

  • @packman2321
    @packman232111 ай бұрын

    One thing I only realised yesterday was how complex the philosophies in Disco Elysium actually are. I've been batting around a theory that the way to make characters sound clever in fiction is less pulling on a specific set of knowledge, rather it's treating them as people who can speak a particular language repertoire and then speaking it (whether that repertoire is physics, philosophy, theology, fandom, medicine. Knowin the words and being able to follow the etiquette and presentation rules is what makes a person feel credibly smart and it's why shows like Star Trek can get away with 'Insert science here' and have another script writer come in and write the science, without worrying about how it will interface with the characters other voices. Because expertise are languages of their own). The thing is that while Star Trek, Doctor Who, Rick and Morty etc are very good at giving those repertoires language objects (technical terms, key words etc) Disco Elysium's the first thing I've seen to really give them language cultures and language histories. When we dive into communism we don't just have Mazov, we have neo-mazovians, counter mazovians, infra-materialists and Hsin-Yao communes giving an entire other communism separate (I think) from Mazov. We don't just go back to one thinker and the people who speak 'Communist' do so with this history of terms and thinkers behind them, but also within ongoing real world disputes (so Evart Claire speaks communist, but does so to increase his own power and with an eye to the current situation in Revachol). Similarly we can track the fascists and see these language evolutions between Rene's nostalgia, Gary's dog-whistles and Measurehead's nonsense, we can also see that they've mostly internalised this from radio and books and that Measurehead has actually flipped the framing of fascism to make an alternate theory of racism, but one still consistent with and borrowing the language of the previous one. Like this is kind of incredible. The fact that we can see the repertoires internal conflicts and tensions and see characters like Evart Claire who speak both Communist and Ultraliberal and all these characters are doing it intentionally. I'm by no means a sociolinguist, but this sort of stuff is just awesome. I really sort of want to plug your observation about Harry's extremism into it and see if I can get anything out of that, but Disco has proved a really hard game for me to replay (the first playthrough I did remains kind of special to me after succeeding a >10% chance to save Kim and I'm always sort of worried I'll mess it up the next time and not be able to go dancing in the Church on the last day. Also I'm admittedly a little awkward around the Finished Cut, since I had very set mental voices for the skills pre-voice acting).

  • @formerly_human
    @formerly_human11 ай бұрын

    7:54 "And... you will come to love this man." Absolute punch in the gut, total fucking annihilation.

  • @ghostofbabel
    @ghostofbabel Жыл бұрын

    "There is a radio in the distance. A radio of the world. Playing sounds: Good morning, Elysium. Soon you will return to the world." Easily the best rpg I've ever played and belive me a played a few, literal art.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    makes my heart hurt every time I play it.

  • @izzyknight871
    @izzyknight871 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve watched every disco elysium video essay this platform has, so take my word for it when I say this is one of the best. Incredibly well put together and a bunch of fresh insights I had never considered!! It’s such a treat to find out that I still have more to learn from my favourite game. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you so much!!

  • @chcknpie04

    @chcknpie04

    5 ай бұрын

    Did you watch Kay and Skittles’ essay?

  • @ejynk
    @ejynk Жыл бұрын

    first time i finished it i just sat there mouth agape (figuratively) watching the credits roll. you're totally right, DE snapped something inside of me and i don't even really know what that is, but it changed me.

  • @tetra654
    @tetra654 Жыл бұрын

    I've always conceived of the Pale less as an analogy for climate change and more as the reification of the "End of History". As you note near the end a core message of the game is that we have to keep moving forward, keep hoping. The Pale represents the total systemic failure to do that. To become so stuck in the past, as the Paledriver is, that we forget to live. The theorized way of fighting the Pale is pretty much its exact opposite: Basically trying to blast passion at it until it shrivels up. In contrast the Moralist quest involves you telling the Powers That Be about the Pale being somewhere it shouldn't. They are, to put it lightly, unsympathetic. In a sense you could say that the Moralists, aiming for full control and no change, are aligned with the Pale itself in this reading of the text.

  • @kvm6

    @kvm6

    10 ай бұрын

    They aren't unsympathetic? They can hire Harry to work for them in entroponetics which has been his childhood dream. Anyways, them doing things slowly actually helps Elysium. In the book 'Sacred and Terrible Air', Mesque wants Pale to be everywhere, and so they start wars so that it spreads. One casuality of this is Revachol which Harry can be warned about in the game.

  • @jijiwiggu982

    @jijiwiggu982

    7 ай бұрын

    Honestly thought the Pale was like the Force.

  • @99baking

    @99baking

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@kvm6sorry, they dont hire him to do anything. They kill him

  • @kvm6

    @kvm6

    7 ай бұрын

    @@99baking No it's left vague and Moralintern won't kill someone as skilled as Harry.

  • @99baking

    @99baking

    7 ай бұрын

    @@kvm6 have you heard of the term "being disappeared"? That is what is happening here. The moralintern is clearly just trying to cover up the existence of a new pale source

  • @NadeTheFun
    @NadeTheFun Жыл бұрын

    Love how the game explains the tiniest of details and how everything makes sense at the end. Even as obscure moment as the grating noise you hear waking up is explained by the game. True video game achievement

  • @Ana_Fern
    @Ana_Fern Жыл бұрын

    Oh Chris I see you are here finding out the hard way that you can't feed discussion of fascism into YT algorithm :D I didn't even get notified. Great video as always!

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    thanks Ana! the masochistic drive to make more videos about fascism *intensifies*.

  • @vitaliitomas8121
    @vitaliitomas81219 ай бұрын

    To answer the question in the name: "it is a good pain. Follow it"

  • @kubadudek1423
    @kubadudek1423 Жыл бұрын

    I think that the nostalgia of "greater times" killed The hanged man. revechol's incapibilty to move on wich is shown with characters like Iosef and Rene, two sides of the same coin, the hatred they Have for anyone who tries to change themselves or the city for better or for worse, that is among other things one of the main themes of disco elysium change vs nostalgia and the cause of death

  • @chrematisai
    @chrematisai Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, as always! Several other lefty youtubers that I follow have talked about this game before, but your approach to the topic is the one that has convinced me that I NEED to actually play this game!

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad! I'll do you one better; set your stats at 4413, or 4422, and thank me later :)

  • @herrhardi
    @herrhardi Жыл бұрын

    it hurt indeed, the break up dream for sure

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    that kiss is brutal.

  • @namonamc
    @namonamc Жыл бұрын

    This is such a wonderful analysis of the game. The point of stress testing one's political belief is so well-articulated! And the last bit of the writing is very touching T_T thank you for your presentation!

  • @kingcyclops4079
    @kingcyclops4079 Жыл бұрын

    I recently finished my first playthrough of Disco Elysium. My version of Henry was deemed “the world’s sorriest centrist” and an “ultra liberal” by Kim. Harry is constantly apologizing for his past but ironically ends up idolizing it. He hears stories about his time when he was the best cop in the city and he starts to live up to his past reputation. Harry shaves his face, gets sober, and takes literally any case he find. Helping anyone he comes across. He actively makes it effort to please everyone. The only person Harry outright hated was Evart. My favorite pettiest moment was when Evart says “every man-“ expecting Harry to say “a member of the board”. And Harry just says, “every man for himself”, which just takes the piss out of him. The story ended on a hopeful note. Harry convinces Kim to join the RCM, he gets his job back, becomes completely sober and moves on from his ex wife. There’s even hope that Harry and Kim will clean up the city and boost the RCM’s reputation.

  • @goblinoidguy
    @goblinoidguy Жыл бұрын

    GOD DAMN WAS THAT GOOD!!!!! Holy shit that was an amazing analysis of one of my favorite games, thank you dearly for your time and effort making this amazing piece of art!

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    thanks so much! I really wanted to replicate in a small way how it feels to play the game.

  • @cstar3880
    @cstar3880 Жыл бұрын

    ive been dying for more video essays on disco elysium, so glad i found this 💛

  • @Hankrecords
    @Hankrecords7 ай бұрын

    This game impacted me so much that not only do I cry every time I play through certain parts of the game, even videos talking about the game's themes and messages make me cry.

  • @TPHimbo
    @TPHimbo6 ай бұрын

    Emotionally traumatizing me with your mass effect video pointed me toward your channel, but THIS one scored you a sub boss. Good stuff.

  • @rogerith7905
    @rogerith79056 ай бұрын

    Truly it is a impossible task to focus on such important matters in the world when such small yet grossing problems exist, yet we still do so, we get up every morning, we go to work, yet the seas rise to drown all our woes away every second of every minute, it is impossible but to never thrash against the impossible is to choose to never live at all.

  • @usernamesrtoostupid
    @usernamesrtoostupid Жыл бұрын

    I guess I will have to play this game now.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    you must.

  • @ShyGuy47
    @ShyGuy47 Жыл бұрын

    There's a part where Evrart the union boss is talking about some of the violent and intimidating tactics his members carry out and one of your voices scoffs, "That sounds like organized crime." But it also sounded exactly like what the police do. When the Moralists use fear and intimidation to control the population it's 'keeping law and order', but when a labor group does the same thing it's 'organized crime'. This made me realize that laws are just the opinions of the people with the most guns.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    yes! definitely a moment that's underscored later when you can tell Titus he would be a good cop and he goes, "don't you get it? I already am."

  • @a.n.8844
    @a.n.8844 Жыл бұрын

    Mia cole?? She is some sort of folkloric entity of video essay voiceovers and I kneel at her altar.

  • @bisboptheclown
    @bisboptheclown16 күн бұрын

    this might be the video that finally makes me play it

  • @gabriela8818
    @gabriela88185 ай бұрын

    ONE OF THE BEST VIDEO ESSAYS ON DISCO ELYSIUM I HAVE EVER SEEN (and i’ve seen a lot) such a great work, i’m honestly surprised that you dont have more subsribers. your video truly moved me, thank you for that. ❤

  • @TheFarinsqarin
    @TheFarinsqarin2 ай бұрын

    Your not just building your thoughts, you’re building Harry’s thoughts

  • @SenoritaAwesome101
    @SenoritaAwesome10111 ай бұрын

    I MISSED THIS!???? I was asking for this vid forever and I got zero notification?!??

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    11 ай бұрын

    glad you found it!! sometimes you gotta hit all the buttons on youtube AND turn on notifications on the app. it's this fun game we play. I make a video, youtube is like lol I'll never tell.

  • @juliagoetia
    @juliagoetia8 ай бұрын

    I think out of all the Disco Elysium video essays I've watched, this is my favorite. You're very talented, educated, personable and you have great insights. I hope you have fun going forward from here, and that I get to see more of your work in the days to come :3

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    8 ай бұрын

    thank you- I'm currently losing my mind working on "why mass effect hurts..." and comments like this give me fuel!

  • @juliagoetia

    @juliagoetia

    8 ай бұрын

    @@chriswaves Oooh! Mass Effect! I adore that series. Looking forward to it :3

  • @zelestial1681
    @zelestial16817 ай бұрын

    You only have 1.8k subs!? This is criminal. This is a great, GREAT video. Absolute quality. The intro was god tier. Never stop in achieving your dream sir. You have my support. 🎉

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    7 ай бұрын

    thank you so much! I'm working on a similar video about the Mass Effect trilogy so keep your eyes peeled for that 👀

  • @zelestial1681

    @zelestial1681

    7 ай бұрын

    @@chriswaves oh my lord. I only wish I was a semi-talented youtuber so I could join you for that discussion. I love games. Just lack the talent needed to create the videos lol Ive always wanted to write an intro for a game-centric video.

  • @brunoverasferreira6263
    @brunoverasferreira626319 күн бұрын

    And just like that Godwin's law still remains as strong as ever.

  • @DanMC4270
    @DanMC42708 ай бұрын

    This video essay is awesome. Just subbed

  • @OskarPacelt
    @OskarPacelt2 ай бұрын

    Amazing work on an amazing piece of art.

  • @ladyobsidianblack
    @ladyobsidianblack8 ай бұрын

    One thing that messed me up from playing this game, is how much of realisation I had when I look at my own thought process and how it works. I am person who spend s a lot of time having dialog with myself in my thoughts, and I noticed that is a rare thing for people to have that sort thought process, most people don't have it and that most both be amazing but also scary from the perspective of someone who is so use to talk to themselv. Regardless, another thing that also interesting is that due my mental health always having been funky at best, a lot of my inner dialog with myself is super hateful at times, and after finished disco elysium I try to be more self aware with how my thought process is always semi trying to make my day shit for myself. Depression and anxiety is a beast to battle and even worse when you have deep inner dialog with yourself all the time your brain is switched on. But this is game is an experience I will only be found of, and I love going back and playing the game again and trying out new skill sets and seeing how the whole game changes depending on how I use my skill point. My current playthrough is HOBO COP and I AM THE LAW COP.

  • @thedarknightnicht
    @thedarknightnicht8 ай бұрын

    Than intro alone was shiver inducing!

  • @FoggyWall
    @FoggyWall10 ай бұрын

    Okay, okay, I'll get this game. Also, interesting way to intro. Great video essay.

  • @Quantum_Cowboy
    @Quantum_Cowboy7 ай бұрын

    Every time I try to voice my thoughts on the game I never do it justice. All I can say is that I love it and it taught me so much.

  • @hannahs.7297
    @hannahs.72975 ай бұрын

    amazing video. keep it up!

  • @ukaszgrzesik7231
    @ukaszgrzesik7231 Жыл бұрын

    Communism. But love did him in.

  • @AnRel
    @AnRel Жыл бұрын

    Oh fuck I am so excited to watch this

  • @hecklinghecker4971
    @hecklinghecker49714 ай бұрын

    I particularly love the skill shivers as i believe its the only skill that isnt Harry, shivers IS Revachol be that literally or figuratively

  • @DavetheTurnip
    @DavetheTurnip6 ай бұрын

    Wonderful video. It never clicked that the ideologies are so extreme because Harry can't do anything by half-measure.

  • @leftlocke
    @leftlocke7 ай бұрын

    Just found this video after playing DE for the first time. One of the rare times i was emotionally moved not by an event that happens in the game but reflecting on the thematic messaging of the world of Revachol. DE to me is the great leftist hopeful artwork that does not stew in doomer thought without ignoring failure or toxic positivity as you said so eliquoently. Great video am eager to look at some of your other stuff

  • @rubenhoelz1464
    @rubenhoelz14646 ай бұрын

    This might just be the best review of Disco Elysium I've seen, well done!

  • @madsravnnielsen6271
    @madsravnnielsen6271 Жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic openning, I dont usually comment on videos. But props to you man, you get a like and subscribe from me for that alone

  • @jandelion404
    @jandelion4042 ай бұрын

    oh my god, i feel like i need to buy you flowers or something. I've been desperate to read and hear discussion of this game because it's FASCINATING, but there's a lot of "ah, this writer didn't understand the game here; this person didn't get either..." So, thank you so much for an interesting, clearly presented, and insightful discussion. I have had the delightful experience of disagreeing with you only in fun interpretive and nitpicky ways rather than "holy shit did this person even play the game" ways. If you haven't already, may I reccommend you read (the fan translation of) the novel set in Elysium in the '70s: "Sacred and Terrible Air" by Robert Kurvitz? I suspect you'll enjoy it! Also, damn, I haven't played moralist yet and "God is in his heaven, everything is normal on earth" is so hard hitting and ominous.

  • @dude101lolol
    @dude101lolol Жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @mugstanmuggy7041
    @mugstanmuggy70419 ай бұрын

    Un jour je serai de retour près de toi

  • @wizzlefizz
    @wizzlefizz Жыл бұрын

    this is my new favourite video.. lifechanging, just like the game

  • @EloquentTroll
    @EloquentTroll10 ай бұрын

    Let me kiss Kim Kitsurugi you absolute cowards! Also Joyce is one of the best conversational NPCs I've ever met as a gamer

  • @ifsugarman
    @ifsugarman27 күн бұрын

    Inner Empire is Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, and Pink. and Lady Gaga. and MIKA. and One Republic. and all the other singers who sang their lyrics. like Thriving Ivory. Gnarls Barkley. and countless others. also a little bit of Evanescence and Eminem. and of course the greatest hits of Sia. ESPECIALLY "Loved Me Back To Life". ah... so sad youtube no longer has "The King Is Dead But The Queen Is Alive" video. even though she's dead now, but hey, it's a great video. love every second of it. and every time i just hear "the queen is a liar". that song of John Oszajca from 1999 called "I Hate You (My Friend)" is interesting enough. never liked loud rock like early Evanescence, but 2003 Evanescence is especially interesting too. impressed by her "Imperfection" and "Wasted On You" songs. oh oh! and "Everybody" by Backstreet Boys (that Casper vibe), and Rihanna's 2008 hits. Gaga was at her best in 2008. "I want... the future" from her "Fame Ball Tour Opening Intro" was like "I want my life back! give me back my time!". and when the guy asks her "What did the Pop say?" and Gaga goes "He wanted a new face", in "The Face [Lady Starlight] (The Fame Interlude)". now, i think she's just trying to repeat that. even "Telephone" demo was written back in 2008. anyway... i wish i didn't have inner empire. it's not helpful.

  • @matuzaato
    @matuzaato3 ай бұрын

    Great video

  • @Hagen-HenrikKowalski
    @Hagen-HenrikKowalski26 күн бұрын

    the point about the boring cop is quite interesting. I would argue that it is akin to for example a histerionic disorder. People who are suffering from it often don't seek help since they see their behavior as special and people who urge them to get help as the problem as if they did not understand that this is good. For them the normal option would be the boring one they also tend to be extrem and often also suffer from substance abuse. the fact that the game, so more or less youself, calls it the boring option exemplifies how such a person would see it. in essence the game isnt calling you boring at all you yourself are. And in fact it labels it as extremly boring also the juxtaposition between crazy and boring is importan.

  • @maatlq
    @maatlq7 ай бұрын

    More often than not I drink myself into a hazy stupor and gracelessly descend into comment sections in order to take a clumsy, yet layered verbal shit from some inane point of view I don't even follow in real life. I am, sadly, forced to restrain myself this time because, my dear man, I praise and envy your narrative skills.

  • @jimmyc42x
    @jimmyc42x9 ай бұрын

    I've watched this intro a dozen times, it also caused me to play the game

  • @colemccord587
    @colemccord587 Жыл бұрын

    I never knew what having a parasocial relationship meant until I started watching you and Mia Cole. Now it all makes sense to me.

  • @2moreminutes
    @2moreminutes8 ай бұрын

    What an intro. Subbed

  • @KarmaticBuggAdventures
    @KarmaticBuggAdventures Жыл бұрын

    This was great! I'll still play this once I forget all the spoilery bits. 😂

  • @ryanmurphy1662
    @ryanmurphy16626 ай бұрын

    My god, Just finished my 1st playthough and as someone who lived this to a degree, fuck. In my early 20's I gave into alcohol to cope. I remember my first summer job at IBM after freshman year, coming to grips with the realities of capitalism. Working for peanuts, spending 2 weeks wage to visit my girlfriend for a weekend and bring her a stuffed bear and then fly back across the country for the 4th time in 10 days and sit in an office building counting beans, arranging beans, methodologizing beans, and most importantly stealing beans. I remember the dinner out with my "mentor", the manager of our team telling me how he didn't like George and he was gonna send him to Colombus Ohio as punishment for ratting them out on expenses. I remember how we lied brazenly to the client about things they couldn't measure. When I came to grips with the beast I was too far down the road, there's no way to go back and live small once they get you indebted. The next 10 years were a blur until I realized I was a Hippie, and being broke is better than being broken.

  • @uniqueflowsnake
    @uniqueflowsnake8 ай бұрын

    great video.

  • @dimitriiambrosina9020
    @dimitriiambrosina9020 Жыл бұрын

    I''ve played it and I want more. I want to see the perspectives of other countries and characters. I honestly tried to stay neutral in politics and do good for the sake of good. However, I ultimately became a moralist. I'm not a moralist in real life, I think. The way the game made it sound it made me think if I choose this side then I can do more good than harm. I've never heard of moralism before this game. Or I did but never paid attention. After watching this video I realized I''m no better than the other parties trying to do good themselves. We do things differently and will have different results. Some good and some bad. Somethings not everyone can benefit from.

  • @kvm6

    @kvm6

    10 ай бұрын

    Moralism is by Moralist International, and they are combined Centre Left and Centre Right. This is for Europe.

  • @jebbbungo7873
    @jebbbungo78737 ай бұрын

    great video! i love disco elysium and its one of the best games I've ever played. I really think it should have won GOTY but I must admit, the appeal of RDR2 as a video game is a bit stronger somehow, but as a piece of media and taking everything into account between RDR2 and Disco Elysium, it is clear as day that Disco Elysium outclasses RDR2

  • @Democrities
    @Democrities3 ай бұрын

    It was love what did him in.

  • @izzyknight871
    @izzyknight871 Жыл бұрын

    Oh this is incredibly well done and Im only 6 minutes in

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you!!

  • @neostephenism
    @neostephenism Жыл бұрын

    About halfway through, wondering why tf theres only 400 views

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    the uphill battle of youtube

  • @TickleMeSenpai
    @TickleMeSenpai4 ай бұрын

    I got Sorry Cop and Moralist the first go around, and honestly they got me pretty good

  • @beefyboi64
    @beefyboi646 ай бұрын

    But my game told me I was a fascist, a communist, AND a boring cop. WHAT AM I?!?!?!?!?😭😭😭😭 For real, though, this is one of the best games I've ever played. An absolute 10/10. As soon as the phasmid appeared it all hit home in such a way that I couldn't stop myself from tearing up. Your conversation with the deserter is so very brutal, but when the phasmid appears it all suddenly...stops. All the pain that your character has endured, the reality of this grim world that you've taken in falls into the background and, for a moment, you just wanna stay there and have it all go on just a little bit longer; you're curious, you have questions, you're fascinated. The ending of Disco Elysium is brilliant; no matter what choices you made throughout your playthrough, for that moment you are right there with Harry and it is EVERYTHING.

  • @ifsugarman
    @ifsugarman27 күн бұрын

    are you a writer or what

  • @TeagueChrystie
    @TeagueChrystie Жыл бұрын

    Mia sighting

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    Жыл бұрын

    a wild Mia appears!

  • @mattgenaro
    @mattgenaro6 ай бұрын

    Workers of the world, unite!

  • @pantherbaz379
    @pantherbaz3797 ай бұрын

    Love the vid - commenting for algo

  • @caad5258
    @caad5258 Жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @Lexyvil
    @Lexyvil Жыл бұрын

    "Savoir Faire" I can say is French, where "Savoir" = "Know" and "Faire" = "Do". "Savoir Faire" literally translates to "Know how to do" something. i.e: "Il faut savoir faire ça" = "You must know how to do that". What is interesting to me is how they decided to go with French for that skill name. I love how original of a design choice that is.

  • @nephatrine

    @nephatrine

    5 ай бұрын

    It's a term relatively commonly used in English as well for suaveness or social grace. It's not just that they decided to throw random French into the game. Another skill "esprit de corps" is also a phrase English borrowed from French, though much less commonly used/heard at least where I live.

  • @Lexyvil

    @Lexyvil

    5 ай бұрын

    @@nephatrine That explains a lot, thanks!

  • @heartfulcry
    @heartfulcry6 ай бұрын

    3:06

  • @venepskeuten9206
    @venepskeuten92068 ай бұрын

    I always find ideology a hard thing to process. Like all things wherever you stand, someone somewhere can and will deconstruct all you believe and prove you wrong. The idea that an ideology with flaws exists to me means that no ideology is valid, because i am the type of person who needs a clear and unquestionable "justice" in order to act with confidende. I am still somewhat afraid of embracing the chaos that is ingrained in life.

  • @mexicanhalloween
    @mexicanhalloween9 ай бұрын

    it is september 9th and Stalin saved the world from fascism

  • @balticwater
    @balticwater5 ай бұрын

    I wish centrism was a boring as the game suggests. That it was about having no opinions and taking no stance. Yet I've never met a fellow centrist like that. Instead centrists have strong opinions, some of them left-leaning and some of them right-leaning, which makes the average center. Centrists are hated by both extremes. Not because they have no opinions, but because those opinions do not line up with either side. Rather than taking being seen as neutral, you're the enemy of both.

  • @820krose
    @820krose3 ай бұрын

    Wait was that Mia Cole? 😂 can't be

  • @820krose

    @820krose

    3 ай бұрын

    Check the description and I answered my own question

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    3 ай бұрын

    go digging on her channel or mine and you'll find some lore!

  • @aaro1268
    @aaro12687 ай бұрын

    16:40 You can play a non-extremist detective, and you get to meet some character foils to it.

  • @Loquacious_Jackson
    @Loquacious_Jackson6 ай бұрын

    You look like sideshow bob's brother

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    6 ай бұрын

    doxxed

  • @moytta122
    @moytta122 Жыл бұрын

    good 🅱️ideo

  • @PunishedGayMelGibson
    @PunishedGayMelGibson7 ай бұрын

    I am pretty gay

  • @danmyers2759
    @danmyers27595 ай бұрын

    The irony is that as computer game characters, neither Harry nor the Phasmid really do exist.

  • @matthulme2388
    @matthulme23884 ай бұрын

    Communism, but love did him in

  • @ComradeRachel
    @ComradeRachel4 ай бұрын

    Communism killed him but love did him in. I think the killer is one of the least important parts of the game.

  • @Matyunkin
    @Matyunkin Жыл бұрын

    You actually could be nice person and friends with Kim, even if you are fascist, you just need to stay in "traditionalist" route. Game portray fascism (as i saw in my playthrough) as a sorrow about the past, and be sorry for not being strong and manly enough for whatever reason (Measurhead has daddy issues, racist driver is some sort of an incel, Rene lost his war, his country and his love as well), and final thing you do in fascist quest is become some sort of "stoic last warior". As cringe as it sounds, it's not completely "evil" choise like it seems from video.

  • @zefft.f4010

    @zefft.f4010

    11 ай бұрын

    It is still evil. Evil isn't done so much by evil people, as it is by sad, insecure and broken people, which this game demonstrates excellently.

  • @Matyunkin

    @Matyunkin

    11 ай бұрын

    @@zefft.f4010 how it is "evil" besides name (again, we are not talking about being rude racist, game would call you fascist just for being isolationist or monarchist)?

  • @museforthedarkness
    @museforthedarknessАй бұрын

    communism, baby

  • @groopledouche101
    @groopledouche1012 ай бұрын

    20:00 I disagree with the idea that the setting's a self-aware critique of politics. Everything is clearly through a dem-soc/post-communist lens, which makes sense given the context of the creator. Disco Elysium not really above it's own criticism, and I find the 'politics' of it the smallest important aspect compared to the world building. I think too many English speakers aren't really aware of their brand of 'left-winged' thought vs. American leftist talking points either which makes this obnoxious to hear at times. I actually love this game, but for very different reasons.

  • @baulzzzzzzz2278
    @baulzzzzzzz22785 ай бұрын

    Soy alert Jesus Christ

  • @Dare5358
    @Dare53588 ай бұрын

    ok ok. this seems like maybe an okay book or tv show, but this was an awful video game. The gameplay loop of click on a person and hear a speech about politics, repeat, is not fun.

  • @NgaMarsters

    @NgaMarsters

    8 ай бұрын

    Not fun to you maybe, and to some others but to everyone else who doesn't crave overstimlation it is thankfully.

  • @BrittaKenulla
    @BrittaKenulla10 ай бұрын

    Cw? Lmao man up

  • @barghest94

    @barghest94

    10 ай бұрын

    Takes as little as a content warning to offend you, huh?

  • @BrittaKenulla

    @BrittaKenulla

    10 ай бұрын

    @@barghest94 lol. Not offended, I think labeling cw everywhere is ridiculous. Don't play de if you're sensitive

  • @barghest94

    @barghest94

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BrittaKenulla Is this really that important, though? You sound easily upset.

  • @BrittaKenulla

    @BrittaKenulla

    10 ай бұрын

    @@barghest94 daddy, don't be so rough with me. Be gentle.

  • @milanstefanovic3130
    @milanstefanovic31309 ай бұрын

    This whole video is totaly delusional. Disco Elysium is phenomenal game, which worst part isn't something in the game, but leftist comentary about her around the internet. Please, please, please stop destroing this work of art.

  • @chriswaves

    @chriswaves

    9 ай бұрын

    the creators of the game are communists, my friend.

  • @maxlap7855

    @maxlap7855

    9 ай бұрын

    STOP PUTING POLITICS IN MY COMMUNIST GAME

  • @thefrostbee4182

    @thefrostbee4182

    8 ай бұрын

    How can u play this game, and be against political discussion of it? it has political points.

  • @milanstefanovic3130

    @milanstefanovic3130

    8 ай бұрын

    @@thefrostbee4182 What? Are you joking? Firstly, there are no serious political points in this game. It is all put in some kind of caricature, or use as a narrative to make some human points. Game developers, even though they are total communist, know better than to enter in serious kind of political discussions and points in the game; which they are trying to make and sell in the real world, where communism has destroyed bilions of lifes over the course of 100 years, including in their own country. Game has some political narratives and discussion, just to make more deeper, both emotional, and rational, human life points. If you think point of Disco Elysium is- moralists (UN/USA/EU) are bad because they violantly shut down communism 43 years ago, and they destroyed hope for the world, you are some delusional leftist kid probably. It is like saying Les Miserables is great work of art because it has leftist points. Newsflash- leftist ideas are not what makes Les Miserables and Disco Elysium works of art. It is like sayng The Godfather is work of art because it describes how crimnals live their lifes, so you have to love criminals to love Godfather. You leftist kids are just...Totaly delusional.

  • @ashleydavis3318

    @ashleydavis3318

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@milanstefanovic3130bruh moment