Topic: Disco Elysium

I figured this award-winning rpg would make its way to Switch eventually. Until today it hadn't been confirmed yet. But now one of the devs for the game finally confirmed that a Switch port was in the works. It probably won't arrive for a while considering everything that's going on in the world, but it's nice to know it's coming.
https://nintendosoup.com/award-winning-rpg-disco-elysium-is-h...

Figured last year's most award-grabbing indie would only come out on Switch after the award-grabbing is done. Smh

I didn’t let myself read up on it much before it was confirmed for Switch.

Yesterday I binged reviews etc of it and it sounds great. I’ll try and avoid reading too much on it now to not spoil it for myself when it comes out on Switch.

Very happy to hear this! Love the look of this game, and the British Sea Power soundtrack is lush. I was hoping we might get it on Switch.

very much looking forward to playing this on Switch.

@babyhands ooh that sounds cool too. I caught British Sea Power around the time of their first album.

They were really good but I’ve not followed them since - which I may regret!

@JoeDiddley aah . I was a massive fan around 2008 - 2016, once saw them 5 times in a week, including the Tan Hill festival. I've kindof lost track after the last album didn't really do it for me. But the Disco Elysium soundtrack is lovely (and BAFTA winning).

Assuming this is a competent port when undocked, I'll probably be picking this up at full price. I could have played this on my PC at any time, but unless a game is a FPS, I like having that hybrid freedom.

@babyhands excellent, I’m sure when the game comes out it will inspire me to investigate further

I was waiting for this one on Switch. It’s a very text heavy game from what I’ve heard, so it’ll be nice to relax and pick it up anywhere, like a good book.

I think this game debuted for 40 bucks on PC, so I wouldn’t expect to pay 60 for it. A general 40 dollar physical edition would be nice, but we might be looking at a LRG physical release like Divinity: Original Sin II.

Either way, it’ll be good. The game is less demanding on PC hardware than Divinity and Pillars of Eternity, so it should be a fairly solid port.

It looks amazing, I am really happy it will come to my switch. Any word on the eventuality for a physical version ?

So here was are, now into Q3 of 2021. I wonder how the Switch port of Disco Elysium is coming along? I know the boutique publisher iam8bit delisted the preorder for the $250 collector edition shortly after it opened. Will Disco Elysium ultimately be a streamed game on Switch? No clue, just speculating. All I do know is that I'm still very eager to play it.

I picked it up on PS4 but found it really hard going, it's very verbose and slow. I wasn't really in the correct frame of mind either in fairness. I'll try again in winter.

I played it to death a while back on the PC (it actually came out in 2019) and it's great; there is genuinely nothing like it. The closest thing I'd liken it to is Undertale, in that they're both RPGs on the surface, but constantly undermining the genre's established tropes. Still, they look and play nothing like each other, so can be considered equally out there.

The only other point of reference I'd have is if you really liked the detective parts of Astral Chain and thought that they could make for a great game if the story was more engaging. It's absolutely not like the rest of that game though. There's no combat as such, just a heck of a lot of conflict that you'll either have to resolve by dialogue choices or skills.

So far as the Switch being able to do justice to a port of it, I'd think there's a decent chance. It runs pretty well on potato PCs with only 4GB RAM and integrated graphics. The only thing is that it tends to chug a bit on slow CPUs, and the Switch isn't overly blessed in that department so a few optimizations will probably be required. I'd be very surprised if a streaming solution is deemed necessary though. Oh, and it's a pretty big game too; 32GB cart (so forget about a $40 release) or download, I'd guess.

Well that sold me on this pretty quickly. Though this is literally the first time I've bothered to read anything on what this game is like.

I don't think you are. There just hasn't been any news yet (unless I have missed it too). I'm guessing we'll soon hear the port is delayed until 2022...

Steam(Cloud) games on Switch is a disaster and should be burned to the ground.

@Rambler Things with the Cloud games so far you need constant internet to connect to play it-that's the issue here. People can't afford internet that cost $$ in NA to keep it constant going and when you leave your wifi paid internet you can't just hop onto other internet to keep playing Cloud game. They make it sounds like you fireUP the Switch and go. But that is so far from the truth.

I'm not sure why the discussion has gone to streaming when there's been no indication so far that Disco Elysium is going down that route. I know that it's out on Stadia, but so are a lot of other games that'll run natively on the Switch and there's really nothing about it that suggests that it'd be too demanding.

I'd suspect that the reason for the delay is most likely to be that the Final Cut releases that came out earlier in the year turned out to be rather buggy, and they've had to spend a lot of time patching them. Hopefully that'll mean that when the Switch version arrives it won't be needing any.

We've finally got a date: October 12.

There's also a physical release confirmed for next year. The kicker is that it'll be $250, although you do get a box of goodies including an art book and fabric map.

https://www.iam8bit.com/collections/disco-elysium/products/di...