The game's got me in an iron grip as of recently and all I think about is the game: the concepts, the gameplay, the narration. I literally dream of the game every other night and I've caught myself on numerous occasion explaining certain things I say with checks I've rolled and passed or failed. It's kinda nuts.
Unfortunately, I don't have too much time to play because I've got school for way too long and have to commute around 2h a day. Getting the game for Switch would be an option, but it's not really worth it to whip out the Switch for that short a commute. A mobile port would be amazing for me because I've always got my phone on me and the gameplay lends itself to short play sessions, I imagine. It's absolutely also a game you can sink several hours at a time into, but half hour bursts of gameplay also would work well, I imagine.
I've seen that the reception to the announcement was rather negative, however. How come? What do you guys think of it?
From what I could gather in gameplay trailers, the game features a different first-person-ish (?) perspective compared to the isometric top-down perspective in the original that accommodates issues you'd get with size of items and interactions. I haven't looked into it too thoroughly so it might still be hard to play compared to a PC or console version, but I'm sure that they're at least aware of this.
I just hope it's playable, doesn't cost too much, and is as feature-complete as the OG game
Reading this I can add another rather irrational point to the list: When people like something, they don't want to change it. A different user perspective may be a good and necessary change to accommodate smartphone users but my first reaction was like: ರ_ರ
But it's stupid because the game I'm playing won't change it will be just another option which could be cool (given they fulfill the requirements you already mentioned) and make the game available to a broader audience. And still it stings because they don't do it the right way ... Is this how backwards bigots feel about people living non heteronormative lives? ;D
I get what you mean. It's like the debate people have over difficulty settings in soulslikes ( !soulslike@lemmy.zip :P) over the fear of losing their accolades in the face of fellow players, "pride and accomplishment" over overcoming a huge challenge and things like that. It's a stupid issue at heart because, as you've said, your experience is your own and isn't taken away from by having more options available to you. But I do get your worry and would probably react in a similar if it were happening in a franchise more dear to my heart than Disco Elysium (although it's getting there).
Imagine if by adding a mobile port all other versions of the game were taken offline in favour of the mobile port. Now that would suck :D thankfully, that's not happening, so I'd argue in a similar way as you that having more options is good, objectively speaking. The implications of what this port means, how it's done, the price, the gameplay all remains to be seen, of course.
Just.. never play without audio, please? :D
Absolutely - pinky promise 🤙🏻✨