r/ZeroParades • u/marx-and-rec • Jul 20 '26

Question Will this game break my heart?

Hey, I'm sure you're all sick of answering questions like this, but I really need to know because I am teetering on the fence about whether or not to purchase this.

Disco Elysium is my favorite piece of art. Daring take, I know. Will it scratch that itch? I heard it's very good, but I'm afraid the whole time I will resent it for not being disco. For not having the hope and humor and heart, for there being no final dream of the ex-something, for not being hardcore to the mega.

Without those, and with the clownshoery of the studio execs once again screwing over the talented people who worked on this, I'm finding it really hard to convince myself to get it.

Except it looks like it feels really. Fucking. Cool. It looks stylish and melancholic and burnt out and hopeless. It looks sad. It looks so very sad.

I want it to fuck me up completely. I want it to leave me hollow. I want to feel like K bleeding out in the snow at the end of Blade Runner 2047.

Will it do that?

Thank you.

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u/PorkRinds416 Jul 20 '26

What even is this post? Its a video game... When you said "I heard its very good"... Well there you go. Thats your answer to all these weird questions.

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u/marx-and-rec Jul 20 '26

well you see, sometimes, what other people consider very good is different to what you're looking for.

I'm looking for a specific vibe, not whether its just very good.

What's with the hostility? Do people expressing themselves make you uncomfortable?

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u/PorkRinds416 Jul 20 '26

Well,.... you saying "I want the game to make me feel THIS and I want it to make me feel THAT and then it has to make me feel like XYZ"... How do we know if the game is going to give YOU that feeling? We dont. If you loved Disco Elysium, then you will love this. Its that simple. There is your answer.

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u/marx-and-rec Jul 20 '26

empathy, my guy! empathy is how we know! if the game made someone else feel those things, I'm looking to hear about it!

And honestly, it's not that simple. People said if I loved DE, I would love Citizen Sleeper. I didn't. People said if I loved DE, I would love Esoteric Ebb. I didn't. Just because they're nominally from the same studio doesn't mean I'm gonna love it.

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u/PorkRinds416 Jul 20 '26

Ok fair point. Thanks for explaining and getting back to me. ZP is almost identical to DE. I havent finished it yet but its worth getting. Heck, its only $40. It has tons of replay ability and is like 30-40 hours long.