A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'
www.pcgamer.com
It was supposed to be the "110% authentic, most hardcore Disco since Disco."
  • Rayspekt@lemmy.world
    411·
    6 months ago

    That this shit had to happen to Disco Elysium is equally poetic and tragic. This went to be my instant favourite game of all time.

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 months ago

      That game is a work of art. I haven’t finished it, I stopped and moved on, yet it hold a very special place in my mind. That a game I want to go back to when I’ll have time for a quiet binge.

      • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone
        6·
        6 months ago

        Same, I need too much mental space for it, it’s so engaging that I want to actually have the room to enjoy it. When I do I love it, but when I don’t I kind of don’t want to disrespect it and my enjoyment of it with a half attentive state.

      • 2deck@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, the first boss fight. Give it another shot and fall for the wonderful game forever.

  • therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip
    564·
    6 months ago

    Don’t you ever think that the reason this games get canceled is because they aren’t good? When stuff doesn’t get canceled we get Redfall likes

      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
        15·
        6 months ago

        ZA/UM leadership can eat donkey dicks, and if I had Musk/Bezos money I would hire every single dev that got laid off from there and just let them make games till the heat death of the universe.

        But I’m a povo removed, so best I can offer is a free drink at the bar and a handjob in the back alley.

      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        You’d think the same would have happened to the E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy devs, but they’re all still coolsies with each other.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
      28·
      6 months ago

      If you are not familiar with the history of this game, it’s understandable to be skeptical. Obviously in most cases that would be a reasonable assumption. But in this specific case, it being cancelled out of spite actually makes way more sense than it being cancelled because it wouldn’t have been financially viable.

    • Chuymatt@beehaw.org
      7·
      6 months ago

      Well, in this case there is a ALOT of background saying that this probably not the case. It is messed up.