hey comrades. anyone here played last year’s disco elysium? it’s a phenomenal story-heavy cRPG made by marxists. takes place in a fictional city recovering from a failed communist revolution that was crushed by international capitalist powers decades prior. main protagonist is an absolutely batshit insane amnesiac cop that’s been sent to investigate a murder mystery. it’s one of my favorite games of all time, i think pretty much any marxist would thoroughly enjoy it.
I gotta give it a try, I’ll see if maybe my Thinkpad can run it.
Tonight We Riot is also a pretty fun crowd brawler. You get to beat the shit outta pigs and torch them with molotovs, great release :P
it’s an incredible game, i really do recommend you give it a try. even for non-marxists the game is a really enjoyable and well written RPG but there’s so much stuff here for marxists to enjoy, from in-jokes to poetic and beautiful scenes, ruminations on the relentless marching of history to funny passages shitting on centrists and fascists. it’s very well optimized as well, even extremely low-end systems should be able to play it fairly smoothly.
tonight we riot has been on my radar since it came out, i’m gonna have to give that one a try sometime. love how there seems to be an influx of explicitly anti-capitalist games and developers recently.
Absolutely. I honestly laughed out loud when I chose the the option to give the double middle fingers. And to second what you said, I played the game on bootcamp on a MacBook air. Most games don’t work on this glorified typewriter, but Disco did.
What a fantastic game. Someone bought me it for my birthday last year and I got around to it near the start of this year and in my opinion it has the best dialogue/dialogue system out of any RPG I’ve ever played.
The world feels lived in, the characters feel like they have hopes and dreams you can easily understand and sympathize with. Probably by GOTY for 2019 and I hope they make more games within that universe!
I really wanna play it but my craptop cannot run it so I am waiting for the PS4 release. They said it would be this year.
just to inform you, the development team patched the game this year with their ‘Working Class Update’; essentially their goal is to make the game run well on the lowest specs possible to increase accessibility. i dont know what your specs are but the minimum required specs to run disco elysium now are extremely low, and they’re still working to optimize it further:
Working Class Update!
We’ve been working hard on optimizing Disco Elysium so that it runs on as many hardworking machines as possible. No matter how old or low-tech they may be!
If you found that your computer struggled to run Disco Elysium before then this update will hopefully remedy that. Many more people can play for the first time, or have a much better and smoother experience than before. This one’s for all our bratan keeping it real by booting up games on their ancient potato machines.
With this latest update, Disco Elysium’s minimum specs have been dropped down to Mariana Trench levels. That goes for both the Windows PC and Mac versions.
New PC minimum:
- Windows 7 and DirectX 11 compatible video card (integrated or dedicated with min 512MB memory). 2GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo, 20GB hard disk space.
New Mac minimum:
- MacBook Pro: from mid 2009
- MacBook Air: from mid 2012
- iMac: from late 2009
- Mac Pro: from late 2008
- Mac mini: from 2009
- An OpenGL capable system
- The higher fan speeds are normal effect, fans run faster when 20% or more of CPU capacity is used.
- These are the oldest tested machines, we cannot guarantee all different specs run but we tried to push specs as low as possible without sacrificing gaming experience.
We’re determined to take it further too. We’re going to try to keep optimizing so low that we break through the crust on the other side of the planet. Show us your scrapheap calculators and rusty adding machines and we’ll give it a go. Disco Elysium for all!
jesus christ that is so cool. i am on linux so there is the Wine overhead too but this looks good.
right? the devs are fucking awesome. i hope you get to try it out, whether that’s on pc or ps4, it’s a great experience.
Tried wine years ago, and as a layperson it was a headache. I eventually did bootcamp, and my only complaint was disk space. I played Disco Elysium on the bootcamp and it worked great. I ended up having to delete it for disk space, but i hope to get back to it eventually
