The sino-soviet split of the modern age.
The sino-soviet split of the modern age.
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They're definitely doing a bit.
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I hope so. It'd be very disapointing if they were at odds and didn't at least somewhat support each other's efforts. A fire divided, provided it has fuel, does not diminish but rather brings life and warmth to more and more people.
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Disco Elysium 2: Harry becomes the jonkler
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I think I'd play any such variation if only to see how much of a trainwreck it is
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Disco Trap House
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I can think of no more fitting a fate for a game made by Marxists than having various spliter factions emerge after the studio's death, each claiming to be the true heir to its lost legacy.
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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
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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.
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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
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Oh god no. I'd be fine with something in the same setting but is prefer nonshared characters
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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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Fifth ZA/UM (posadist)
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This is the 12th type of ZA/UM
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Y'all be cautious about XXX Nightshift, the current director is Heiti Kender, Kaur Kender's brother (kaur kender himself used to be the director until he resigned last year), he was involved in the deeply shady shareholder-scheme fraud that stole the studio, the IP and got the original devs fired
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Hey so I’m thinking of starting a gaming company
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TBH if all of em can make a decent spiritual successor to Disco Elyisum I'll be happy. Even if only like 3/5 manage. And I think we have good odds that at least ONE out of five will scratch the same DE itch
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Goes to Gamejolt/Itch dot Io and creates a ZA/UM (REAL!) account :troll:
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which studio did the writer(s?) go with?
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the core team? none, Kurvitz and Rostov, inseparable bunch, have founded their own company, ''Red Info'' with backing from NetEase, yet to this day have released absolutely no further information; zero, nada, zilch.
however, there were more people involved in the making of Disco Elysium other than them, Argo Tuulik, another estonian artists to have worked on DE, has grabbed as many of these other former devs, and started a new studio, SUMMER ETERNAL, the most promising of the bunch solely because Tuulik has a very noticeable passion about making games as art (that and also the fact that they are the only studio that can reasonably claim being the ''successor'' to ZA/UM due to sheer volume of ex-DE devs they have) and their manifesto doesn't sound like some sad corporate piece trying to sound * hip * and * cool * and ''disco''
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The original (mostly) estonian team that used to work out of a re-converted house/wharehouse building, there were a bunch of them, so it depends on what you measure ''original'' as; Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere are notoriously touted as THE original core team (understandably so, Disco Elysium was born out of a setting they had come up with for a TTRPG campaign almost 15 years prior).
They were apparently fired after they had discovered a scheme by Toni Haavel and Ilmar Kompus (allegedly with help of Kaur Kender) to pipeline money out of the funds for a side-project and straight into buying up a majority of shares in the company, effectively wrestling out the ownership of both the IP and the ZA/UM corporation (not to be confused with the ZA/UM artist collective, founded by Martin Luiga, which was disbanded for semi-unrelated reasons after his apparent internment in a psychiatric facility).
But Kurvitz's core team weren't the only ones that contributed to bringing Disco Elysium to life; Argo Tuulik, Dora Klindzic and Justin Keenan, by example, remained in the company for quite some time after the ownership legal fiasco had happened, with Argo himself even being interviewed in the infamously biased People Make Games docu-report, this would later lead to a ''humiliation campaign'' by the managers in ZA/UM targetting Tuulik, resulting in his demotion and subsequent firing from the company.
the last bunch of original developers that had contributed to Disco Elysium were either fired along with Tuulik during company re-structuring events or had already left the company beforehand. If im correct, Summer Eternal seems to be made up of this last wave of original devs, since it does not include any of the aforementioned Core Writers. SE also seems to be the only ''successor company'' to actually proudly announce the amount of original devs it actually has, unlike Longdue and Dark Math who constantly parade two or three graphics and environment designers as proof of their legitimacy as ZA/UM successors or something
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Anti-materialist take. This is obviously a Dragon Break, not a Sino-Soviet Split.
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Please tell me that's their official twitter!
on a quick glance, it would seem it is, unless its some highly dedicated fan that really likes posing as the official twitter of a company that has existed for double digit hours and constantly shares the official links to their site, which, yknow, could be entirely possible!