u/LateIntroduction9005

I am a spanish man working in a scandinavian resort in Spain and naturally I have many swedish coworkers at the front desk with me and the animation team as well as at the bar. Been working with them for 4/5 years, they're around the same age as me but never joined us going out to drink, party or just having a meal if it's not mandatory. They prefer to hang out among themselves. We don't speak swedish but can speak english fluently but I noticed the swedish people barely say hello to you when meeting them at work, they eat all together not mixing with the spaniards and basically do not want to have nothing to do with non swedish/scandinavian people. Is this a thing? why coming to work to a foreign country if you're still gonna live in your own swedish bubble

I've played Esoteric Ebb for 4 hours and I'm not sold.

What bothers me most is how blatantly it copies Disco Elysium. They call it "inspired," but copying part of the interface and sticking with the Thought Cabinet is incredibly obvious. Unlike Disco Elysium, the dialogues feel vague and sometimes overly chaotic, like they're trying too hard to be funny, and the conflict between the various attributes is superfluous and just a waste of time.

For example, Strength and Charisma start fighting because you answered a knight incorrectly. They don't contribute to the plot and just give the impression that it's a cheap imitation of DE.

They try to push this politics agenda into the game which I didn't fully get nor I think it fits in a fantastic medieval world. But I get Terry Pratchett would love the game.

The lore is far too extensive. If you're the type to click on everything, you'll read regurgitated information in industrial quantities about the world's lore, but without any context.

In the end, the game is like a giant book where you can roll dice according to your attributes, Baldur's Gate-style, and your thoughts fight each other depending on how much you've leveled them up.

In short, the game is a TLDR point-and-click adventure.

If disco Elysium would never existed the game would be a banger but I think I'm biased and I didn't manage to care about any of the characters.

There will never be a game like Disco Elysium. I've tried playing similar isometric games that claim to be Disco Elysium's successors or "DiscoLike" games, such as Rue Valley, Esoteric Ebb, and ZP. Even Pentiment could be considered somewhat "Discolike."

They all feel empty in comparison. They don't feel natural, with forced lore, poorly written plots, and nonsensical dialogue... not to mention that none of them have added worthwhile voice acting or music. I've reached a point in my life where I no longer expect any game to even come close to Disco Elysium, because I know that's impossible without the original writers.

I'm writing this after having played ZP for a few hours and having finished Esoteric Ebb.

To fill that void, I always have to go back to Revachol.

I have seen an old Neverwinter nights guide being sold out and I was wondering if it's gonna be useful as a Nintendo's Switch version holder.