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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone else not want a DE sequel? Everything being a franchise is something we always complain about with movies, don't see how that doesn't apply here. They nailed it, it's good. Make similar stuff but some stuff should be a one off

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

A tabletop sourcebook seems like a neat idea instead tbh.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not against the world being explored in different mediums at all. There was books first anyway, a tabletop seems pretty fitting.

[-] TXinTXe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

The setting was originally for an TRPG they were playing togheter.

[-] Candidate@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely not, it's very explicitly designed to be a prototype for a larger game and a lot of the plot is entirely set up for that game.

It can't even be a one-off, there was already a novel in the setting before the game was made.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I've clarified elsewhere but I mean as a video game and I'm happy to see the setting used but I don't wanna see Harry in anything else, much like the reast of the cast. And how is it explicitly a prototype for a different game?

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The original pitch for Disco Elysium, for Harry, for Martinaise, its people and the humiliated city-state of Revachol, was as a ''match-book world'', a short(lol) detective game, meant to be a small window at more to come, they had built Disco Elysium as an introduction to its massive universe, for future games and works to come.

It's abundantly clear that that's not happening anymore, but Elysium was always meant to become a franchise of some sort.

edit: i can't seem to find it right now but if i recall correctly, Kurvitz already had an idea for a DE sequel, it was going to be about a pregnant woman, but i don't remember the details.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Well I'm glad it didn't become a franchise.

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Harry or Kim were never going to show up again anyways, if that was your concern shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Candidate@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

I doubt they were never going to show up, the RCM was going to play a major role, they just wouldn't be the protagonists.

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't want a direct sequel with Harry and Kim. Not even a prequel. I kind of thought the fetus and pregnant mom version of DE was intriguing though

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oh god no. I'd be fine with something in the same setting but is prefer nonshared characters

[-] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

We aren't getting a sequel from any of these studios.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

none of them can, kinetically or psychically, because the IP is stuck in limbo. ZA/UM is the only one that could, technically, but they're too busy imploding while they strip the copper pipes from the walls

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

I might have if it was by ZA/UM as a whole, but the layoffs and split mean any attempt at a direct sequel is going to go horrible.

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