Disco Elysium Breaks the Rules of Roleplaying

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Disco Elysium
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Disco Elysium (2019)
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Disco Elysium doesn’t let you roleplay—it hijacks your brain. Instead of asking what you’d do, it shouts suggestions from fractured voices in your head. This video explores how it rewrites the rules of player choice and reinvents the RPG experience.



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