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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 86 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

4 splits? And redditors will tell you the de devs aren’t leftists

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 63 points 5 days ago

The only one I care about is the one with the core writers.

Will be interesting to see what the others end up making in terms of gameplay but the core writers are the reason that DE is on par with actual literature where every other game in existence is a toy by comparison.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 24 points 5 days ago

DE is on par with actual literature where every other game in existence is a toy by comparison.

Ahhhh no but this is so real bocchi-cry Why can't other games have real writing...

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

@Awoo@hexbear.net

Pathologic (and Pathologic 2) also have real writing! They're easily on par with Disco Elysium in terms of writing quality! (I don't disagree with the general point, I'm just out here shilling for Pathologic 2. Because it's great and Pathologic 3 is coming out next year with any luck and I'm so excited!)

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Summer Eternal are my pick

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Kurvitz and Rostov have their own company, Red Info ltd. that is funded by Netease and is apparently working on something, but we probably won't get more news until the legal trouble with Disco Elysium itself is resolved

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 65 points 5 days ago

Imagine if all 4 of them make games of roughly equivalent quality to Disco Elysium success

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 60 points 5 days ago

They spend 90 percent of the time dunking on each other with increasingly arcane allusions to history

[-] context@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago

yes, "the writing process"

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

Each game has a plot but it's just to keep the Fortress Accident Sidequest moving along

[-] miz@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago

I'll allow it

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 5 days ago

I knew it, DE make people into trotskyists

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago
[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago

Splitters! We're the People's Front of ZA//UM!

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

I'm just going to call you ZA/UM-Ndonga.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

PFZA/UM (ML) (MZT)

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

In true leftist fashion, there are multiple fractures within the DE2 movement.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

At this point i'd be happy with just a Revachol TTRPG campaign sourcebook as long as it has the same writing quality as the game. Doesn't even have to have stat blocks or anything, i'll just run it with Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I actually thought the same thing. Would absolutely love a source book detailing a TTRPG. Feels like something Summer Eternal should consider for funding.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

I just learned that Robert Kurvitz apparently signed a 7 year non compete clause as a writer. I didn't even know that was legal with a duration like this. But both Summer Eternal and xXx Nightshift sound very promising, even though i expect both of them to not take place in the world of Elysium.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

There are now as many ZA/UM successors as there are Workers' Internationals, appropriately enough.

[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

Cant wait for the games to start writing takedowns of the other games and the reponses to those takedowns and the responses to those responses etc

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

Za/um has made a silly game, we shall neither play it nor respond

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago
[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago
[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

I bet 1 of them is going to come out super liberal and anti-communist and the devs will be like "actually it's anti-authoritarian"

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

Feels on brand

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago
[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

War of the ZA/UM Succession

[-] Sausage@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

What are the studio names?

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Summer eternal, red info, ~~nightshift~~ dark math, and longdue

[-] Sausage@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Cool thanks

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

XXX Nightshift is the name of the game being made by Dark Math Games

At time of this article's publishing the companies were: ZA/UM itself, Red Info (Kurvitz and Rostov's company), Long Due and Dark Math Games.

Now there's another co-op Summer Eternal, bringing the total to 5

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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