• Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    this game was so fucking depressing and bleak and full of downer characters and sub stories i stopped playing after 4 hours.

    drama can be good. hardships make adventures exciting. but when the entire world is a hardship, I’d rather play something with more realistic variety.

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      7 months ago

      Maybe you should have kept on playing and you’d have noticed that the game is also funny as fuck…

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        7 months ago

        If they didn’t notice for 4 whole hours the game is funny as fuck I don’t think it’s for them anyway. Kinda weird they picked up only the nostalgic and sad tones, but nothing else, in a game that basically allows you to react to its world in a myriad different ways.

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        7 months ago

        i have 4 hours on my steam account. not a single chuckle. that’s enough time for a laugh. you may jokes about bleak existences and situations but dark humor isn’t exactly mainstream and imo is pretty hard to pull off without feeling gross, which Disco Elysium did to me.

        also, i have seen more of the game via youtube than i have played. the game is not a comedy, just stop it.

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          7 months ago

          Hey, it’s cool if you didn’t like it. I just think there’s tons of hilarious things going on. The whole setting appears very bleak and surreal, but there’s some really funny things in the game. I think it’s a good balance to be honest.

          4 hours really doesn’t get you far. You don’t even get a feeling for the world in that little time. But you’ve watched YouTube videos on the game, so I guess it’s just not for you.

          I grew up with British humor, so it’s kind of weird to hear that dark humor isn’t mainstream, lol.

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            7 months ago

            dude. i am 36 years old. i have experienced and enjoyed tons of dark humo. johnny the homicidal maniac was my bread and butter when i was 16. please don’t assume just because a stranger doesn’t like something you do it’s because they are uncultured or have narrow horizons. it comes across incredibly pretentiously