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Countblanc posted:i know we all had a good chortle at the dude who posted their novella about the best way to spoil DE for a new player, but a friend of mine who has no more video game experience the last 20 years than random phone games and zero PC experience got gifted a copy for her birthday and wants to try it out. does anyone have any recommendations for like, the most barebones useful tips? strictly stuff like shortcut keys or UI things that would have been useful to know, like "you can press B to open your inventory" or whatever. i dont remember the game having particularly good tutorialization for that sort of thing but maybe I'm not remembering, it's been like 2 years since I've played. I think even the beforeIplay spoils too much of the game. I found this post very useful: InequalityGodzilla posted:After a great deal of coaxing I managed to get my sister-in-law, who I really like but who has never played any video game aside from Tetris, to play this game. I gave her some information before she starts as follows
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The post that countblanc refers to? The novella? I think telling them save often, there's no wrong way to play, and that they can take healing items even after they've taken damage about covers it.
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The only important thing is to set physical to 1 and immediately reach for the necktie
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The only important thing is to set physical to 1 and immediately reach for the necktie After setting motorics to 1 as well.
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sebmojo posted:The post that countblanc refers to? The novella? I wonder if his sister-in-law ended up actually playing the game, that was his second-last post ever so we’ll probably never know
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assassinated by the moralintern no doubt
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Countblanc posted:i know we all had a good chortle at the dude who posted their novella about the best way to spoil DE for a new player, but a friend of mine who has no more video game experience the last 20 years than random phone games and zero PC experience got gifted a copy for her birthday and wants to try it out. does anyone have any recommendations for like, the most barebones useful tips? strictly stuff like shortcut keys or UI things that would have been useful to know, like "you can press B to open your inventory" or whatever. i dont remember the game having particularly good tutorialization for that sort of thing but maybe I'm not remembering, it's been like 2 years since I've played. I would mention that you can run by double clicking, I don't remember if the game tells you that and if you've never played any similar click to move games that may not be obvious.
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Basic mechanical stuff? Right clicking will highlight nearby things you can pick up / interact with. Sometimes whether something is highlighted is affected by your perception stat, or by held equipment. A coloured blob appearing above your head means that one of your skills has something to say - the colour just tells you whether it's a physical, psyche, intellect or motorics skill. Click it if you want to hear from them. Time only advances when you talk to people. Don't worry too much about the clock.
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I would also recommend doing a once-over on how the thought cabinet works - that you can have more than one at a time being percolated on, etc. I've seen a few LPs where people just don't get it.
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sebmojo posted:You should record an episode if your buds are up for it, it sounds extremely entertaining I don't think I'm going to record it, but it has been fun so far. I can post out-of-context highlights from what the players are saying, like: "Can we finish this game without ever talking to that kid ever again?" "My wife can overhear the stream and is looking pretty mad about how racist this man is." "Kim might be willing to take a bullet for us, but we are willing to take a bullet for our best friend, a necktie."
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Poor Things was mentioned previously in the thread, and I finally got around to watching it- it's weird. I can definitely see how people saw Disco Elysium in it, but the setting also has a smattering of Dishonored! Highly recommended!
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Railing Kill posted:"Can we finish this game without ever talking to that kid ever again?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoGlE4G8DyE
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panko posted:I think even the beforeIplay spoils too much of the game. I found this post very useful: this post. what a great, beautiful post.
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People are saying, many people are saying, that I have a giant bottle of blue alcohol sitting in my inventory and that a magical talking tie tells me what to do. It's not True, folks, it's simply not True.
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They are merely trusted advisors
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Trusted advisor rapes infinite children. I know, he doesn't want you to know. But I know. He rapes.
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https://x.com/kuvosa/status/1775935601117941821?s=61&t=-vp9P7i8Kl2W3uKiLPEWrA
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Regalingualius posted:https://x.com/kuvosa/status/1775935601117941821?s=61&t=-vp9P7i8Kl2W3uKiLPEWrA
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Despite owning this game for years I'm just now getting around to actually playing it. Holy poo poo is it engrossing from the beginning. Love how it's decisions on how you think and feel about what's going on around you rather than purely external decisions like most RPGs. I'm playing 4/4/2/2 and empathy is my signature skill. It kills me that I failed to poo poo on that rich woman for being rich.
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To be fair, that’s one of the funnier failed red checks.
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https://twitter.com/RobotLeBlanc/status/1777699986253234504 https://www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe41_story3.html Latest issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye has a story about a Pale incursion.
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Also some pretty good sandwich descriptions.
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My teen kid is playing and I'm enjoying the way she approaches it. I told her she should play it after she was smitten with another game called "slay the princess" based in part on its internal greek chorus. She can't put it down. Somehow she seems preoccupied with getting gear and money, but still ended up with the Sorry and Communist Coptypes so far on Day 2. I'm providing parental guidance, but I remember the kind of poo poo I was playing at her age which was just as weird violent and troubling but had absolutely nothing to teach except "shoot demon man get red key card" and I turned out.... wait poo poo. Most troubling is that she doesn't seem to regard Kim Kitsurugee's advice or esteem very highly. 
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Kim is supposedly incredibly bad with teens, so that checks out.
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in fairness sorry cop is the most evidence supported copotype
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Goatse James Bond posted:in fairness sorry cop is the most evidence supported copotype I can't remember what moment it was where it really clicked to just be silly and enjoy being awesome, but I think it was either Cuno or possibly the moment when you find the car. I got way too far into seeing it as a tragic redemption arc. I didn't wear the tie either.
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I'm pleased to report about the first thing she did was die getting the tie.
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Odysseus S. Grant posted:Kim is supposedly incredibly bad with teens, so that checks out. I thought it was the opposite, that he was in the Juvie division for over a decade because he was able to at least appear young
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Mr. Lobe posted:I thought it was the opposite, that he was in the Juvie division for over a decade because he was able to at least appear young I always thought it was because his superiors being racist.
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Sorry Cop makes a lot of sense given you spend most of the game discovering layer after layer of your incredible inexcusable fuckups, and a lot of the apologies are absolutely warranted. Kind of a theme is trying to figure out how to deal with your own bullshit without drowning in self-pity. I think Superstar Cop can sometimes be a bit of an act put on to cope with it, with some implication that you've been doing poo poo so ridiculous you can't take it seriously anymore, and encourage others to feel the same.Szarrukin posted:I always thought it was because his superiors being racist. A bit of both, probably. And Revachol being racist in general. Like how there's a whole reveal that Kim and the detective are only a single year apart in age, when they look like they could be a decade or two apart. In general I think it's more Kim has so aggressively wanted to put that part of his life behind him that he's lost the skills he used to have there- not to mention, being undercover is a very different role from being a uniformed officer, especially socially.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sorry Cop makes a lot of sense given you spend most of the game discovering layer after layer of your incredible inexcusable fuckups, and a lot of the apologies are absolutely warranted. Kind of a theme is trying to figure out how to deal with your own bullshit without drowning in self-pity. I think Superstar Cop can sometimes be a bit of an act put on to cope with it, with some implication that you've been doing poo poo so ridiculous you can't take it seriously anymore, and encourage others to feel the same. And then it transpires in later dialogue like the 'human can opener' that this is exactly what you're supposed to be like. Electrochemistry was wrong - it was never the drink and drugs that made you awesome, it was you all along. The fact that you can switch styles and forget thoughts in the cabinet meant I went through a sorry cop phase at first, and then became a sober legend for the rest of the playthrough. Everything about this game should be crushingly depressing, but it just has an incredible way of showing you that even in the bleakest situations there can be moments of hope, laughter, love and joy.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Everything about this game should be crushingly depressing, but it just has an incredible way of showing you that even in the bleakest situations there can be moments of hope, laughter, love and joy. In dark times, should the stars also go out?
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should we stop building Love too?
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In idiot doom spirals, should we also lose our cool jacket?
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Is a man not entitled to punch a stuffed bird?
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Superstar commie cop in Actually Existing Socialism.
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