Convince me to play through multiple times

[Blind]

I beat the game and did start-over a few times to try different threads... there are some pretty good obscure ones.

But as good as the story/writing/atmosphere is... it's still an adventure game; awesome the first time and doldrums every following play.

And much like Undertale, it feels like playing again is a betrayal.

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ELECTROCHEMISTRY: But those juicy achievement points

[Du-Vu]

It changes a lot more than most adventure games. Despite the very limited number of locations, it's less linear in terms of dialogue branching -- that's where the CRPG comparisons come in.

The different skills are basically your party members. Take a different set and it's going to be a much different game. The main plot remains the same, but people's reactions to you can be very different based on your previous choices and actions and 'alignment'.

Give it a shot. If you don't like it, you can always walk away.

[Ikezawa]

I enjoy replaying it for all the colourful expressions -- it's a great way to enrich my English (and French) vocabulary. Then there's the sounds, music and voices alike. They are almost therapeutic for me.

In addition, this game is very complex, featuring many branches one is unlikely to explore even on a third or fourth playthrough. I would not really focus on the main case in your subsequent runs -- I, for example, am in it for the side stories and seemingly insignificant discoveries.

[Archmoderator Ethan]

There is a lot more content than you think. Currently on my third playthrough and still finding a lot of new stuff. It's definitely worth doing a playthrough with a build or tack completely different to the one you did previously. Even a lot of the dialogue you've already been through before will be refreshing to you because the story is so dense you only take so much in, so your brain focuses on different stuff each time. This is my third playthrough back-to-back, too. I have taken no breaks.

E: Oh, and this time around, use Google.

[Blind]

How do I get Measurehead to offer his Fascist timetravel opinion? I read it's a suggestion check and I dosed my Suggies up to 11 (literal 11) and he still doesn't offer an opinion on time travel

[RJM]

Originally posted by Blind:

How do I get Measurehead to offer his Fascist timetravel opinion? I read it's a suggestion check and I dosed my Suggies up to 11 (literal 11) and he still doesn't offer an opinion on time travel

You must be following the "Turn back the wheels of time" quest and have reached the appropriate step.

[Blind]

ya, i did it last night... what I was missing was 'basics of reality', which I had only 1 missing from Joyce

[Space is the Place]

For me the biggest issue about replaying it´s the second day and the final confrontation.

Both always play out pretty much the same, on day 2 the whole Hardy boys/Katjye just happens and there really isn´t that many paths withing it; and the final confrontation it´s always the same. Honestly, that kid of broke me.

My first run was a communist+paranormal run, so the end fitted perfectly, it made me think the game was challenging me, changing the story to fit my run, the world was being created by Harry´s though as much my actions, my mind was blown away.

Then on my second run I was moralist+bored and I was so excited to see what the end would be, would it be a government conspiracy in order to mock my choice as a moralist? what would there be instead of the creature now that I had not done that quest and avoided all paranormal stuff?... but alas, it was the same ending. Perhaps I was giving too much credit to the game.

That being said, for me at least, the political side quests from the Final Cut alone are worth replaying, and since there are four of them, four mayor archetypes and four main stats... to me it made sense to replay despite not being as different as I would expect. With the skills particularly, since with a stat of 4 the skills of that stat will provide passive checks on dialogue, I wanted to see them all, and it was really fun.

I wish there were more side quests though, or that day 2, final confrontation and the tribunal shoot out could play differently. But still, I don´t regret my 130 hours in the game (probably 25% of that was afk) and I even started a 1-1-1-1 run, which would be my 9th run, but didn´t advanced much, it´s a weird run where you fail constantly and your brain is very silent, lots of save scumming and becomes tedious.

EDIT: For the political day 4 quests, I assume OP got them by now, but anyone struggling, really, look online for the requieremnts. Do communist for your first run since that one is the hardest to fail and the one with the least requierements and then look for the rest now that you know the game, because the others have very specific requierements on stats and side quests done and you may do an entire run only to find out you can´t trigger the end questline.

[Space is the Place]

Originally posted by Karhrandras:

I kinda wanna play it again, but I don't want to see them add yet another 5 achievements in a year so I dont.

Those achievements are the political sidequests added on the Final Cut. Considering it´s called Final Cut and all the legal problems with the IP currently, I hardly think they will update this game or that Disco Elysium 2 will ever happen.

[pevadi88]

I am now replaying after a couple of years, enjoying it. The first playthrough was before the Director's Cut, so to experience this new version is adding to the pleasure you could say.

It's like watching a really good movie again, but it feels a little weirdly different this time, and I naturally make some different choices this time around.

Right after another playthrough is too soon for my personal taste.

Maybe this goes for you or maybe not.

Either way I feel the game is still more than worth it with only 1 playthrough tbh.

So, maybe wait 2, 3 years and try again and let me know if this time you enjoy it?