Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium on Metacritic for PC all time best: both #1 sitting with 97. Half Life (two) finally THIRD!
A half life game in 3rd??? I’m sure we all know what that confirms!
Half-Life 2 Episode 3!
I should get around to playing Disco Elysium one of these days
I should try to complete my current playthough. xD
I passed up the latest Humble Monthly because I know I'll never get around to playing it.
I didn't realize that Disco Elysium was up there, what a happy surprise. Absolute masterpiece.
I'm conflicted by this, I struggled to like Disco.
It's okay to dislike things other people like. And ultimately Metacritic ranking doesn't mean shit anyway.
My biggest problem with DE was that I was raised on adventure games like Monkey Island and Quest For Glory. Where you weren't really role playing, but instead clicking through every dialog option just to see what happens. DE isn't a game like that. Instead it felt like you're supposed to choose only the dialog that your character would say, and not necessarily go through every single option. The difference between the classic point and click adventure games just doesn't quite sit right with me for some reason, so I could never quite get into it.
From what I saw, it seems like a really cool game. It just wasn't 100% for me.
Yes, that's why it's called an RPG, which is closer to that.
Thank you. I never understood why DE felt so tedious to the point that I was happy and relieved the character got killed by the union workers' leader (which is very early in the game). But now reading your comment, I finally realise the issue.
I am used to Ace attorney style narratives where I can explore all dialogue options and move on. DE felt tedious because I couldn't go back after a choice and there are so many of them.
You nailed exactly how I feel 💯
DE is a great game, just don't be trapped by the genre. It's a combat-less RPG, basically. You still RP a character, which conveniently starts with amnesia so you can slot in and RP.
Having played though BG3 a total of 4 times now, it's way too highly rated. It's an 80 at best.
Planescape Torment is far better.
This is like seeing a negative steam review with 1.2k hours of playtime.
PS:T is good though, no guff there.
Well 58 hours and the game is 100% completed.
4 times?? Am I just slow? I am still on my first play through and I got the game release weekend…
A minute of silence for the DE designer, writer, artist and devs that were discarded after the game got popular. 😑
Yep...that entire situation is so crappy. The devs deserved better.
I mean yeah, I feel bad but he was kinda hard to work with and other devs didn’t like him but what the company did was scummy.
Thanks for saying it. I was going to bring it up, but I wasn't clear on all the details.
What is DE designer and what did I miss about them being discarded?
Classic gaming industry IP theft. Investors underhandedly forced the founders/developers out of their own company and stole the IP.
https://piped.video/watch?v=k7Xu4GvpN9U
https://piped.video/watch?v=NIGB0L0i2T4
Interview: https://piped.video/watch?v=TMo_th4lI7k
Ironic