A male protagonist should always look like he either just fucked a bear, or got fucked by a bear. The one on the left meets both of these criteria and is passable.
Wait, this isn’t lemmy shiitpost?
Time to go to work at the shit factory!
I bet the people who do this aren’t very attractive. So weird…
The funny thing is that conventionally its the left one that was attractive. Todays standards for men are actually more traditionally feminine. I dont really care but its funny to find gaping holes in logic like this.
Todays standards for men are actually more traditionally feminine
*giggles in baroque and rococo*
Do you mean like men liking blue, instead of pink? As traditionally blue is a gentle colour, meant for girls, whereas pink is strong and vibrant, and meant for boys.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1650–1700_in_Western_fashion
Unironically didn’t like this game because I couldn’t customise my character. Like ffs a skill check for a tie? Really?
Harry is someone that already exists and has relationships in the world, usually those sorts or RPGs don’t let you customize much. It’s like Geralt or Link. But you do get to develop your personality more through dialogue.
As for the tie skill check, the rest of the game is better about saving skill checks for more difficult tasks. It’s just there at the start to reinforce how much of a mess your character is. You can come back later when the negative modifiers clear and it’s easier.
What the fuck are you talking about you can’t customize your character?
You can customize your starting stats. You can customize your outfit. You can even customize your Police style by saying enough things about communism, or apologizing a lot.
Not enough, I expect the Dark Souls character creator to be in every game I play. If my character has a nose and it doesn’t look like a fucking battleaxe - is the game even worth playing?
(Yes, it is. I love Disco Elysium, I just love making horrific monstrosities too.)
To be fair,
HarryRaphaël Ambrosius Costeau already does have a huge honker. :P
Get up now, grab one from the dresser and tie a full Windsor, one try, no YouTube tutorials.
See why the skill check?
Ok, but I’m pretty sure I won’t die of a heart attack if I fail attempting to put on a tie, even if I am hungover and out of shape.
I tied one every day for my high school uniform.
You’d probably pass the check then. I wouldn’t.
My first death in this game came from succumbing to a massive heart attack while trying to acquire/equip said tie.
Actually would’ve given me an aneurysm and caused me to die irl
Based
god, thanks to these meme, iihate all people equally again
This is my favorite internet gag lately.
i still haven’t finished this game because i don’t want it to be over. even though i haven’t played it in months, i can take comfort in knowing im not truly done with it
I still haven’t finished this game because the variety of choices and behavior gives me paralyzing FOMO
I wish i took my time with my first playthrough more. I enjoyed it too much that i rushed through.
yeah i have been having that problem too. i kept making new characters and reloading saves to see what would happen. i know it ends up making the experience worse but i just can’t help myself. i need to know. i also need to have all the fun stat boosting items and then i find myself optimizing the fun out of the game.
You can replay it, you know.
There’s more to see if you go through it as a different “character”
my problem goes deeper than you might initially expect. i have made many many characters for this game. however, none of them have finished it
Have you ever thought about finishing them off at the same time?
I’ve seen some documentaries about this.
I sympathise with you here, and I won’t urge you to finish it (because I know it’s not that simple), but I do hope that you are able to some day, because the ending of the game is one of the things that is dear to my heart in the game (I am curious at what the furthest you’ve gotten in it is). It’s not even that the ending is good — the reason I love it is because of how it hurts: it hurts because it means the game is finally over, and it also hurts because the characters in the game don’t get the closure of an ending. Disco Elysium actually feels tremendously hopeful to me, but it’s a weary, desperate kind of hope, because Revachol is sick and struggling; Martinaise, depressing shit hole that it is, reminds me of home — I say this with equal parts bitterness and affection. You would probably take away something different from the ending than I did, which is why I hope that you are able to experience it some day.
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi
OG joel looks better. Only reason the new guy at the top looks better is because hes vaguely reminiscent of luigi
Good call!
I didnt see shit
I’m glad I’m not the only one with that thought!
There’s no forcing. I actually didn’t look in the mirror my first playthrough and I stand by that choice
Wait a minute, he looks different if you don’t look in the mirror in his apartment? I think it’s time I replay this game…
Original portrait:
After looking at the mirror (don’t):
Shaved:
If you manage to get rid of the Expression:
Shaved, no Expression:
For some reason you also get a custom portrait if you go fascist enough:
And shaved fascist:
Neat!
I don’t know why but the blurry portrait creeps me tf out
Not different, it’s just fuzzy and you can’t make out the face, I did the same thing in one of my playthroughs
🤯
Games are fantasy and I fully support whatever you like to see. Want to see skimpy women? Excellent! Want to see Giga Chad dudes? You go girl! Want to see beat down dirty protagonist? That’s a-ok!
This whole fighting and shaming for fantasy role-play needs to stop.
Yes, Harry. It is an expression of pain
In my game I got him to stop grinning…
Shaven, Expression-free Harry gives me some early Sam Vimes¹, (and by extension Harry Callahan²) vibes:
There might actually be a good cop under all that pain and damage.
1 — From Sir pTerry Pratchett’s Discworld books. 2 — From the Dirty Harry film series.
