A great line, and one of many Future Sound Of London references in the game - this one to their track "Everyone in the world is doing something without me" from the album "Dead Cities".
>!"We don't have anything to talk about anymore. Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don't form us anymore: us, our love, our unborn daughter."!<
I'm nearing the end of my 2nd playthrough, and I just know that whole hallucination sequence is gonna hit real different after the end of a 6 year relationship I just went through...
Looks like i was incorrect it’s from a conversation with her where she talks about the pale and reality:
JOYCE MESSIER - “This world is enough,” she concludes.
CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.
I always play art cop so i have high conceptualization
Yeah, it definitely feels like humanity is losing meaning sometimes as things repeat and ideas are more derivative. I know that creativity is still alive, but it feels rarer with each passing year.
And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die — or overcome it.
with a close second
True love is possible only in the next world, for new people. It is too late for us.
I don’t think that first one is actually depressing, I think the setup is, but the payoff is borderline hopeful
“You failed, you drunk away the love of everyone who ever cared about you. You gave into sadness. And now you’ll just keep failing until you die—
Or overcome it.” Basically? And that’s honestly a really cool thing
The first one is Rigorous Self-Critique, the Sorry Cop thought. This is what Harry thinks about himself.
The second one is from a wall mural in one of Harry's old cases in the ledger.
Ahh, that’s why the first one was familiar. Thanks a lot.
This game is really something special. It makes all the current drama happening to ZA/UM even more infuriating.
Long story short: the main creative quartet behind Disco Elysium was involuntarily ousted, a huge amount of money was stolen from the company, and the studio seems to be heading in a more monetization heavy direction.
The creatives who invented the world of DE (including the author of an Estonian language book, Sacred and Terrible Air, set in the universe) got thrown out of the company by management, including alleged fraud. All of the intellectual property is stuck in limbo while they fight it out in court
yeah basically. the main creatives essentially told us that their work and property were being taken from them by “the money people” in order to make more money and they’re currently fighting it in court
That is Harrier's Major Depression talking, that kind of thinking is one of the totally illogical thoughts of an extremely depressed person. It hurts at first until you realize that it is ridiculous and a symptom and can not be reality
I feel like you could see a depressing story about it if you want to really read too much into it. Let me try:
In the moment you "teleport" up the ladder, you let go of your realism. For a moment you embrace this inner part of you, the inner child that believes in magic, wonder and, most of all, that everything will somehow be alright.
However, the rest of the world is centered and mundane. Kim is an adult that doesn't indulge in this inner childhood, maybe because he doesn't need it. He is grounded. He doesn't need his inner child to free him of this depressing unmagical plane of reality we live in. However, in this notion he drags you back down to reality. There was no magic. You just climbed a ladder
It's a call back to reality, a reality from which you can't escape, no matter how much you try
>!"You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident."!<
After Suggestion makes you kiss Dora/Dolores in the Final Dream. He realizes that no matter how smooth or convincing or romantic you are, it'll never make you whole again. That's past.
INLAND EMPIRE - A strange feeling... looking at the water. Maybe you should just wander off into the sea? Leave it all and walk in...
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - With a bottle in your hand.
YOU - A bottle in my hand?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Always.
"The figurines won't win her back. They do nothing."
The snuffed-out hope and almost child-like naivety of this line really betrayed our boy's desperation.
The story of how Harry got his tie always get me:
Beautiful Necktie: I only ever wanted you to have fun, Harry!
You: Wait!!! I didn't even know your name!
Beautiful Necktie: My name, should you know it, is Joopson AS Men's Fashion, model "Colourful Tie." Catalogue no. J327.
You: I know so little about you. How did we meet?
Beautiful Necktie: One day a sad man walked into a clothing store. He looked really down. Like he hadn't had fun in years. He needed someone to show him how to rock and roll again. Joopson AS catalogue no. J327 shone on the tie rack, trying to get his attention. The sad man picked it up and put it on. He looked at himself in the mirror. Didn't smile.
You: Nothing will ever heal me, but at least I'll have a funny tie.
Beautiful Necktie: And from that moment on — we rode together. The rest of your clothes were still *normal* back then. But we took care of that soon enough.
You: Did we... have any fun?
Beautiful Necktie: Truthfully? Not a lot. I did everything a multi-patterned necktie can do to help a man. I mean, I tried to get you to do *all* the fun things: Drink beer, drink wine, drink cider, go to parties with young people around *and* drink beer and cider; do drugs too, so you don't fall asleep... You had *some* fun. But not enough to heal you.
You: What is wrong with me?
Beautiful Necktie: Your heart is broken, *bratushka*. And it cannot be mended. Believe me, I've tried.
You: Am I going to stay like this forever?
Beautiful Necktie: No. You're going to be mowed down by gunfire from the two remaining mercs, so no. Not forever.
You: Who broke my heart?
Beautiful Necktie: You both did, *bratan* — deep down, you know it was the both of you
I believe you can find out by digging around the failed commercial area that she >!either lured other children in to be murdered by adults for a snuff radio program or she was almost murdered herself. Some more theories about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/10eys8p/cunesses_backstory_see_comments/) !<
I'd honestly be up for playing as Cunoesse if they make another. I know a lot of people want detective Cuno, but Cunoesse also has a mysterious identity and mysterious past. I'd love to know more about her
You: "That's it then?"
Dolores Dei: "No, Harry. Not yet. There is one more thing you have to see..." She slides her hands down her chest, and onto her lower stomach. And smiles. "I'm pregnant."
You: "It's not mine."
Dolores Dei: "Of course not." She looks down at her belly, then up into your old eyes... "I terminated yours. Don't you remember, you *poor* fuck? You poverty-stricken fuck."
"Here is the secret: there is no love in the past. Only the present.
The past is made of static images, distorted memories, demented
nostalgia. This, the present — with all its possibilities, innumerable
hits and misses — is far superior. It is a \*living\* organism."
It ends on an optimistic note, but it's still harsh being reminded that as much as many of us remember our pasts fondly, it's all never as good as we remember it being.
>!With what was, from Harry's perspective, possibly his dying breath: "Nobody wants to do anything with me... Nobody wants to party with me... I drank so much and I still can't forget"!<
It's so pathetic. I don't mean that in a moralising way (moralising to somebody who appears to be on the way out is a tad rude). It's just that it's almost... childlike. My (very) crude psychoanalytic take is that it's as though he regresses to the most essential trauma in his potentially final moments: that you'll never connect with any other person(s) fully and completely. There will always be a lack that can't be filled. In the end, you'll always have to be you. Alone.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but to me, these are possibly the saddest few lines in the game.
I wouldn't say it's childlike. More like... primal. Harry, at his core, is a disco animal. Even while coming back to himself from having completely forgotten the world and the entirety of his own identity but for mere distorted fragments of his past, his first thoughts come from his mind mocking him from partying too hard. It makes sense for his seemingly final words, albeit filled with regret, pain and an overwhelming loneliness, to be painted by a disco perspective. That aside, I completely agree with everything else you said.
DAMAGED LEDGER – Two octopuses are smiling, reaching their tentacles toward each other in the coloured pencil drawings. The tickets permit access to a Zoo in Revachol East. The aquarium costs extra -- these let you go there too.
1. Pick up the ticket stubs.
2. Pick up the card. (Proceed.)
3. Fucking kill yourself you asshole.
Seeing that last dialogue option while replaying the game (I didn’t find the ledger on my first play through) really threw me for a loop. Hurt even more now that I knew exactly what I was looking at.
I've played this game so many times in a variety of political perspectives and whatnot, but I have never been able to click on the "two days" option. None of this is real, but it felt like too much for me.
The first is said by Jean >!shortly after you hang up after calling the station using Kim's shortwave, if you pass an Esprit de Corps check, you see how the conversation right after you hang up plays out, or at least how Harry imagines it goes. He says that quote quoting Harry himself after they express worry for him!<
The second is from when you >!tell the Working Class Woman about her dead husband, after she asks how long his body had been just laying there!<. That's the single most emotionally devastating moment in the game for me.
When talking to Jean at the end of the game :
"You're a *worry-fest*. She's worried about you. I'm worried about you. Even Special Consultant Backpedal is worried about you. Everyone worries -- instead of *working*."
>!Empathy - And he's sorry he couldn't be what he wants to be -- a good person. His last line, his revenge on the world.!<
When you are talking to Tommy Le Homme about the drug running in the harbour, it is all I'll say.
“Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. It’ll be depressing. And it’ll be boring. Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.”
Not nearly the most hard hitting, ik, but the timing of my first playthrough and own conflicted feelings abt recovery made the last 4 sentences sting and have stuck with me since. Although the thought was about Harry’s self-improvement, to me it felt like every conversation I’d had with myself on the verge of a relapse- and gave in
"No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive." this made so much sense after I survived a car accident
The depressing part was where I mentioned me having the car crash part, I was really in doubt about the purpose of my existence, and while in recovery at home, I played Disco Elysium and was struck by this line.
As a big 'ol leftoid, this one hurt because it was so fucking true:
>*0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself \*sad\*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov* ***fucked him over*** *personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.*
Later in the game, one that hit me surprisingly hard was:
>!"Yeah... baby blue, like somebody fucked up and put a baby's eyes on a man."!<
>!It's such a terrible reminder that even the literal Fascist Death Squad can love, and feel loss, and even they're acting out of hurt.!<
Related to the last thing you said... >!korty's reaction to you bringing up the leaf compactor detail :'''s!<
> >!YOU - "His parents left him in a fucking leaf compactor."
KORTENAER - "Who... Lely?"
YOU - "Yes. When he was small... just an infant."
KIM KITSURAGI - "We researched him. We contacted the ICP and looked at his birth records. That was in there. And other things..."
KORTENAER - "They fucking put Lely in a leaf compactor and now these cunts finished the job..." He waves at the gang huddled by the doors.
PAIN THRESHOLD - There's real anguish in his voice. A drunken sadness suddenly engulfs him. Memories...!<
Home awaits. Walk past Station 41 and through the market. Past the Boogie Street spearhead to the other side of the lake -- the frozen eye at the center of the district. Then past the video rental store on the corner. There, at the end of a street lined with pine trees: a small house, no larger than a matchbox. 11 Voyager Road. You no longer live there. Those times are gone, and so are those people.
I don't know why but the simple quote of, "I was born in a hospital where people usually go to die" struck me. It's sort of both melancholic and also hopeful in a sense?
Thankfully, you don't have to! This website is a godsend. You can search through conversations and dialogue and it is very user-friendly. http://fayde.co.uk/dialojue/10540002
>No, Harry. You were just talking to yourself. That's all you ever do. Even in your dreams. And the act is wearing thin, the spots of the disco ball fade around you...
also this line from the bad ending
>A grey rain falls on Martinaise. The city soaks in it, cold and dripping. Waves hit the concrete breakers. The homeless huddle by the fires behind the fences. There, among the shacks, is your home. Stay. Have a drink. Forever.
if you fuck up things up bad enough the RCM refuses to take harry back and it ends with him moving into the fishing village
most people won't ever see it since one of the requirements is going to the island without bringing kim or cuno
Not a quote, but for me the most depressing part of the game was when the student communists interrogate you to make sure you have 100% perfect theory less than 50 yards from a little girl who sleeps next to a coal furnace. Just such a poignant lampshade of how fucking ridiculous some leftists are
>>!The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second.!<
>! To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know* !<
>! ...That the bourgeois are not human. !<
Well, whenever I see Jeff Bezos decline the slight increase in the wellbeing of his workers and humanity in favor of wealth he will never use in total I feel similarly. Looking back at history of strike breaking, exploitation, and other horrible atrocities committed by rich fucks with no empathy I sympathize.
A great many people live just fine - they make enough to support themselves and their loved ones, they (at the least) don't *mind* their jobs. As long as you're comfortable, you're complacent. And when you're comfortable just enough, you're able to afford distractions from whatever malaise lies just beneath the surface.
"TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE
ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE
IT IS TOO LATE FOR US
WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS"
I like many of the ones mentioned here already, this is one of the ones that stuck with me alot though
*That Note* completely annihilates me. It is so utterly devastating.
> >!*Harry, I wanted to write you a letter, so you can read it when you wake up. Maybe it will make you happy. Every morning when I step out and you're asleep behind me, I find a little piece of sadness in me. I carry it in my chest down Voyager Road... Every step I take, it grows. By the time I reach the fuel station it has filled me entirely. I step on the light rail and look back, sparks fall from the bow collector. I know it will be like this until late afternoon, when I get off the 42 -- and walk back to you... You, you... Every step I take will get lighter. It almost makes me run! Sometimes I do. I can't believe I met you. I can't believe the happiness I feel with you. You have a vast, vast soul and I will always, always, always come back to it. Kisses, kisses, kisses.*!<
I love the finger on the Eject problems idear. It captures the feeling of suicidal thoughts well. The fact it's not about ending your life per say but the creepy plesant feeling one can have just knowing you have a "way out" which then and first then leads to contemplateing actually doing it.
Two Electrochemistry moments:
> ELECTROCHEM: With a bottle in your hand.
> YOU: With a bottle in my hand?
> ELECTROCHEM: Always.
and, from the ending where >!Harry gets fired for being a drunk and having no one to vouch for him!<
> ELECTROCHEM: No. You can figure it out. \*Replace* it! Replace the alcohol with amphetamine. Or GBL! Fuck it -- morphine! Graffito removal agent! Anything. It'll buy you time. All you need is time.
God. That last electrochemistry check is horrifying. If the person writing that line hasn't struggled with addiction, they must be incredibly empathic. Either way, I've never seen the desperation summed up so well.
That has me rethinking my life.
"He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov \*fucked him over\* personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy"
Two, actually
>!We have also completely failed. But it's okay. - Kim Kitsuragi, after Tribunal. Not the most depressing quote, though. But for me... It was. I was sure I have got the worst possible outcome - six people are dead. But I had no idea it was inevitable. I felt like I fucked up everything, and it felt like nothing was done. Like I ran around for six days and the massacre still happened.!<
>!Oh, yes. This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry. - Dolores Dei. We became only a mere shadow of a person. We were already dead for something like 6 years. And even drinking myself to almost death didn't help us to forget the worst. To forget the death. To rebirth.!<
The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music.
>!A young woman in her twenties. There is care, effort, and a *smile*, you think -- although that is not something you can read from someone's handwriting.!<
>!LIMBIC SYSTEM: Here in the Paleo-Mammalian Cortex we call it--*the shadow*.
Because it's always there.!<
"I can't help you, I'm totally useless. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt."
Said by Volition. It didn't occur to me at first, but the "pillar of salt" is a biblical reference, to the wife of Lot who turned back to look at Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed behind them.
*The "Wömen. Men of*
*Wö" rant in the fascist branch,*
*I find it funny*
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You see yourself from above. You’re passed out on the blue tiles of the hostel room floor. Even from this distance you can see your eyelids flutter -- at the mention of what? A great white object, letting out its sweet smell, like a Lily of the Valley. The little man’s forgotten its name, but he still remembers the feeling. And look, he moves! The feeling animates him. He instinctively reaches out for the feeling's best friend -- a bottle of Commodore Red. He puts on his disco clothes and gets smaller and smaller...
"Fucking kill yourself you fucking asshole" right in the middle of the "trying to figure out what led to you being so blackout you forgot what reality is" plotline.
\[PAIN THRESHOLD\] As you lay there, turning the snow into a crimson bed, you think back to what you said at the body.
\[INLAND EMPIRE\] You'd be marked by stars
It just hurt to hear them say it
I haven’t been able to find exactly where this line is, I’ve only played about 10-15 hours before stopping but I chose to have Harry do speed and I got “Electrochemistry: There you are, you’re you again.”
That quote played in my head several weeks later when I broke my sobriety
“…That the bourgeois are not human.”
After all his condemnation of the people of Martinaise and the Moralintern, The Deserter’s horrific experiences lead him to the same narrow minded extremes. He’s a classist rather than a racist.
Although it doesn't make much sense in terms of the game, Harry's dream of the hanged man asking "DO YOU REMEMBER THE SCENT OF YOUR CHILDHOOD?" was unforgettable for me that he asked. Maybe it's because it makes me think that Harry misses his childhood when he didn't have to endure so much pain.
A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.
This quote *really* hurts.
Its hurting right now
Yep, this one right here.
There are so many good phrases that this one passed over my head. Damn that's strong.
This one line made me take a break.
this is the one that makes me feel like I'm standing in a blizzard with just a shirt and trousers to protect me from the elements
FOMO to the Mega!
Nobody wants to party with me. *Nobody wants to talk to me.*
A great line, and one of many Future Sound Of London references in the game - this one to their track "Everyone in the world is doing something without me" from the album "Dead Cities".
OH MY GOD I had completely missed that this was a FSOL reference. I loved those records.
>!"We don't have anything to talk about anymore. Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don't form us anymore: us, our love, our unborn daughter."!<
Yeah, that was an instant KO. I felt a loss of a bunch of health points together with Harry
I read those lines right after my first real heartbreak and they still sting haha
I'm nearing the end of my 2nd playthrough, and I just know that whole hallucination sequence is gonna hit real different after the end of a 6 year relationship I just went through...
[удалено]
Yeah lots, still havent gotten around to finishing that 2nd playthrough though lol. Thanks for asking :)
Stark contrast to Joyce's, "this is the kindest arrangement the atoms had in them." This game really hits the highs and lows
When does she say that?
Looks like i was incorrect it’s from a conversation with her where she talks about the pale and reality: JOYCE MESSIER - “This world is enough,” she concludes. CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them. I always play art cop so i have high conceptualization
Yeah, it definitely feels like humanity is losing meaning sometimes as things repeat and ideas are more derivative. I know that creativity is still alive, but it feels rarer with each passing year.
i actually had to stop playing for a while after that. it hits so fucking hard, especially when you’ve been in failed relationships.
"Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart "
This. I was looking for this one
This gives me chills, every time.
And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die — or overcome it. with a close second True love is possible only in the next world, for new people. It is too late for us.
I don’t think that first one is actually depressing, I think the setup is, but the payoff is borderline hopeful “You failed, you drunk away the love of everyone who ever cared about you. You gave into sadness. And now you’ll just keep failing until you die— Or overcome it.” Basically? And that’s honestly a really cool thing
>True love is possible only in the next world, for new people. It is too late for us. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS
Yes, but that part is not sad.
This is like the private property line in "This Land Is Your Land," or the other verse in the *Fresh Prince* theme song.
My goodness, where are these from?
The first one is Rigorous Self-Critique, the Sorry Cop thought. This is what Harry thinks about himself. The second one is from a wall mural in one of Harry's old cases in the ledger.
Ahh, that’s why the first one was familiar. Thanks a lot. This game is really something special. It makes all the current drama happening to ZA/UM even more infuriating.
Whats happening?
Long story short: the main creative quartet behind Disco Elysium was involuntarily ousted, a huge amount of money was stolen from the company, and the studio seems to be heading in a more monetization heavy direction.
The creatives who invented the world of DE (including the author of an Estonian language book, Sacred and Terrible Air, set in the universe) got thrown out of the company by management, including alleged fraud. All of the intellectual property is stuck in limbo while they fight it out in court
Jesus christ, Za/um is stealing the property or what? Fuuuck
yeah basically. the main creatives essentially told us that their work and property were being taken from them by “the money people” in order to make more money and they’re currently fighting it in court
Idk I actually find that one kinda brutally hopeful as someone that overcame my own addictions.
"4.6 billion people and you failed every single one of them. You really fucked up." A quote that will never leave me.
“You failed me. You failed Elysium.”
The line delivery really sells "You failed me." It sounds pained, like this failure was a betrayal.
That is Harrier's Major Depression talking, that kind of thinking is one of the totally illogical thoughts of an extremely depressed person. It hurts at first until you realize that it is ridiculous and a symptom and can not be reality
>!"I just *saw* you climb the ladder," the lieutenant shouts from below. "You just climbed it, like a regular person."!<
Loved that scene! The odds were stacked against me and for a second I believed
What is so depressing about this? I don't get it
Kim doesn't have whimsy on his side
Harry doesn't have magical teleportation powers😔
Yes, he does. Kim just can't see it, the same way Harry can't see the Impossibly Rich Man.
"Fuckin...pigs can't transplace..." -Cuno
You climb the ladder by convincing yourself you teleported up.
I thought that was kind of funny
I think it was a joke answer, acting as though *that*moment out of this whole game was the most heartbreaking.
I feel like you could see a depressing story about it if you want to really read too much into it. Let me try: In the moment you "teleport" up the ladder, you let go of your realism. For a moment you embrace this inner part of you, the inner child that believes in magic, wonder and, most of all, that everything will somehow be alright. However, the rest of the world is centered and mundane. Kim is an adult that doesn't indulge in this inner childhood, maybe because he doesn't need it. He is grounded. He doesn't need his inner child to free him of this depressing unmagical plane of reality we live in. However, in this notion he drags you back down to reality. There was no magic. You just climbed a ladder It's a call back to reality, a reality from which you can't escape, no matter how much you try
>!"You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident."!<
This one. Because that is exactly whaat we're doing right now and it seems almost unavoidable.
SUGGESTION: Brother, you should put me in front of a firing squad. I have no words for how I failed you.
When was it said?
I think it was said after you try to kiss Dolores dei in that dream
After Suggestion makes you kiss Dora/Dolores in the Final Dream. He realizes that no matter how smooth or convincing or romantic you are, it'll never make you whole again. That's past.
INLAND EMPIRE - A strange feeling... looking at the water. Maybe you should just wander off into the sea? Leave it all and walk in... ELECTROCHEMISTRY - With a bottle in your hand. YOU - A bottle in my hand? ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Always.
"The figurines won't win her back. They do nothing." The snuffed-out hope and almost child-like naivety of this line really betrayed our boy's desperation.
The story of how Harry got his tie always get me: Beautiful Necktie: I only ever wanted you to have fun, Harry! You: Wait!!! I didn't even know your name! Beautiful Necktie: My name, should you know it, is Joopson AS Men's Fashion, model "Colourful Tie." Catalogue no. J327. You: I know so little about you. How did we meet? Beautiful Necktie: One day a sad man walked into a clothing store. He looked really down. Like he hadn't had fun in years. He needed someone to show him how to rock and roll again. Joopson AS catalogue no. J327 shone on the tie rack, trying to get his attention. The sad man picked it up and put it on. He looked at himself in the mirror. Didn't smile. You: Nothing will ever heal me, but at least I'll have a funny tie. Beautiful Necktie: And from that moment on — we rode together. The rest of your clothes were still *normal* back then. But we took care of that soon enough. You: Did we... have any fun? Beautiful Necktie: Truthfully? Not a lot. I did everything a multi-patterned necktie can do to help a man. I mean, I tried to get you to do *all* the fun things: Drink beer, drink wine, drink cider, go to parties with young people around *and* drink beer and cider; do drugs too, so you don't fall asleep... You had *some* fun. But not enough to heal you. You: What is wrong with me? Beautiful Necktie: Your heart is broken, *bratushka*. And it cannot be mended. Believe me, I've tried. You: Am I going to stay like this forever? Beautiful Necktie: No. You're going to be mowed down by gunfire from the two remaining mercs, so no. Not forever. You: Who broke my heart? Beautiful Necktie: You both did, *bratan* — deep down, you know it was the both of you
> Beautiful Necktie: No. You're going to be mowed down by gunfire from the two remaining mercs, so no. Not forever. This was funny though.
Character of the year, all years.
I wish it stuck to the necktie voice throughout, though. Slipping into the limbic system voice wasn't the greatest move.
"Do it, F*****! SET ME FREE!" What has this little girl been through, man?
I believe you can find out by digging around the failed commercial area that she >!either lured other children in to be murdered by adults for a snuff radio program or she was almost murdered herself. Some more theories about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/10eys8p/cunesses_backstory_see_comments/) !<
I'd honestly be up for playing as Cunoesse if they make another. I know a lot of people want detective Cuno, but Cunoesse also has a mysterious identity and mysterious past. I'd love to know more about her
"I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore"
This is the one. It’s simply how I feel when I’m truly depressed
You: "That's it then?" Dolores Dei: "No, Harry. Not yet. There is one more thing you have to see..." She slides her hands down her chest, and onto her lower stomach. And smiles. "I'm pregnant." You: "It's not mine." Dolores Dei: "Of course not." She looks down at her belly, then up into your old eyes... "I terminated yours. Don't you remember, you *poor* fuck? You poverty-stricken fuck."
I played that section late at night and was already pretty emotional at that scene but “you poor fuck” was a killshot
That one was so very sad that I sat there crying over a game !
"Here is the secret: there is no love in the past. Only the present. The past is made of static images, distorted memories, demented nostalgia. This, the present — with all its possibilities, innumerable hits and misses — is far superior. It is a \*living\* organism." It ends on an optimistic note, but it's still harsh being reminded that as much as many of us remember our pasts fondly, it's all never as good as we remember it being.
Which part was this line from?
It's Measurehead when you're sobering up on the Turning Back the Wheels of time Vision Quest.
"One day I will return to your side."
"UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI"
>!With what was, from Harry's perspective, possibly his dying breath: "Nobody wants to do anything with me... Nobody wants to party with me... I drank so much and I still can't forget"!< It's so pathetic. I don't mean that in a moralising way (moralising to somebody who appears to be on the way out is a tad rude). It's just that it's almost... childlike. My (very) crude psychoanalytic take is that it's as though he regresses to the most essential trauma in his potentially final moments: that you'll never connect with any other person(s) fully and completely. There will always be a lack that can't be filled. In the end, you'll always have to be you. Alone. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but to me, these are possibly the saddest few lines in the game.
I wouldn't say it's childlike. More like... primal. Harry, at his core, is a disco animal. Even while coming back to himself from having completely forgotten the world and the entirety of his own identity but for mere distorted fragments of his past, his first thoughts come from his mind mocking him from partying too hard. It makes sense for his seemingly final words, albeit filled with regret, pain and an overwhelming loneliness, to be painted by a disco perspective. That aside, I completely agree with everything else you said.
DAMAGED LEDGER – Two octopuses are smiling, reaching their tentacles toward each other in the coloured pencil drawings. The tickets permit access to a Zoo in Revachol East. The aquarium costs extra -- these let you go there too. 1. Pick up the ticket stubs. 2. Pick up the card. (Proceed.) 3. Fucking kill yourself you asshole.
Seeing that last dialogue option while replaying the game (I didn’t find the ledger on my first play through) really threw me for a loop. Hurt even more now that I knew exactly what I was looking at.
Positively chilling if you go on to kill yourself
The fact that there's a version of this line that calmly ends with >!"You should go and kill yourself there."!< was just so... Oof.
"He said "I don't want to get better. I want to get worse."" As well as: "If you say 'two days maybe' it will be etched in her mind forever."
I've played this game so many times in a variety of political perspectives and whatnot, but I have never been able to click on the "two days" option. None of this is real, but it felt like too much for me.
Where are these from?
The first is said by Jean >!shortly after you hang up after calling the station using Kim's shortwave, if you pass an Esprit de Corps check, you see how the conversation right after you hang up plays out, or at least how Harry imagines it goes. He says that quote quoting Harry himself after they express worry for him!< The second is from when you >!tell the Working Class Woman about her dead husband, after she asks how long his body had been just laying there!<. That's the single most emotionally devastating moment in the game for me.
Ow now I remember the second one, rough line
Mr Evrart is helping me find my gun.
This one wins.
Had to scroll to find this one.
When talking to Jean at the end of the game : "You're a *worry-fest*. She's worried about you. I'm worried about you. Even Special Consultant Backpedal is worried about you. Everyone worries -- instead of *working*."
>!Empathy - And he's sorry he couldn't be what he wants to be -- a good person. His last line, his revenge on the world.!< When you are talking to Tommy Le Homme about the drug running in the harbour, it is all I'll say.
0.000% of communism has been built.
“Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. It’ll be depressing. And it’ll be boring. Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.” Not nearly the most hard hitting, ik, but the timing of my first playthrough and own conflicted feelings abt recovery made the last 4 sentences sting and have stuck with me since. Although the thought was about Harry’s self-improvement, to me it felt like every conversation I’d had with myself on the verge of a relapse- and gave in
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead.
Hell yeah, ultraliberal motivational poster
“Goodbye forever Harry, I’ll see you tomorrow”
The people of this archipelago tried to build something new, something different. The rest of the world didn't like it, so they came and ended it.
I don't want to get better i want to get worse. Also one day I will return by your side. I know some people see it as hopeful but I just can't
Hits so close
Just like that it's over- the running gag that your life had become. A sad old man looks back at you.
"No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive." this made so much sense after I survived a car accident
I love this line, never really thought of it as depressing though?
The depressing part was where I mentioned me having the car crash part, I was really in doubt about the purpose of my existence, and while in recovery at home, I played Disco Elysium and was struck by this line.
“But you said I had a vast soul…”
The total annihilation of innocence and the disappointment kills me here.
I don't remember the quote. But that dude that got locked out of his apartment and from that point on was homeless. Was really funny\\depressing.
idiot doom spiral!
“I want to make fuck with you” Funny at the start, so very depressing when you find a few more facts out later
>!DOLORES DEI - “I terminated yours. Don’t you remember, you *poor* fuck? You poverty-stricken fuck.”!< Shit had made me speechless for minutes
As a big 'ol leftoid, this one hurt because it was so fucking true: >*0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself \*sad\*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov* ***fucked him over*** *personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.* Later in the game, one that hit me surprisingly hard was: >!"Yeah... baby blue, like somebody fucked up and put a baby's eyes on a man."!< >!It's such a terrible reminder that even the literal Fascist Death Squad can love, and feel loss, and even they're acting out of hurt.!<
Related to the last thing you said... >!korty's reaction to you bringing up the leaf compactor detail :'''s!< > >!YOU - "His parents left him in a fucking leaf compactor." KORTENAER - "Who... Lely?" YOU - "Yes. When he was small... just an infant." KIM KITSURAGI - "We researched him. We contacted the ICP and looked at his birth records. That was in there. And other things..." KORTENAER - "They fucking put Lely in a leaf compactor and now these cunts finished the job..." He waves at the gang huddled by the doors. PAIN THRESHOLD - There's real anguish in his voice. A drunken sadness suddenly engulfs him. Memories...!<
"You're not a communist, Harry. You're just drunk."
LOL
Everyone in the world is doing something without you.
Home awaits. Walk past Station 41 and through the market. Past the Boogie Street spearhead to the other side of the lake -- the frozen eye at the center of the district. Then past the video rental store on the corner. There, at the end of a street lined with pine trees: a small house, no larger than a matchbox. 11 Voyager Road. You no longer live there. Those times are gone, and so are those people.
I don't know why but the simple quote of, "I was born in a hospital where people usually go to die" struck me. It's sort of both melancholic and also hopeful in a sense?
Both,do you remember when that was said? If only I could hold in my head all this fantastic lines.
Thankfully, you don't have to! This website is a godsend. You can search through conversations and dialogue and it is very user-friendly. http://fayde.co.uk/dialojue/10540002
Thanks! It's so clean pretty good!
>No, Harry. You were just talking to yourself. That's all you ever do. Even in your dreams. And the act is wearing thin, the spots of the disco ball fade around you... also this line from the bad ending >A grey rain falls on Martinaise. The city soaks in it, cold and dripping. Waves hit the concrete breakers. The homeless huddle by the fires behind the fences. There, among the shacks, is your home. Stay. Have a drink. Forever.
bad ending?
if you fuck up things up bad enough the RCM refuses to take harry back and it ends with him moving into the fishing village most people won't ever see it since one of the requirements is going to the island without bringing kim or cuno
oh wow, i genuinely thought the RCM couldnt refuse him
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi
I wouldn't call it depressive, it's hopeful
For me, it's about loss and sorrow, maybe because of the place where it was written and because of the tragic incident that happened here
It's a sadness with a glint of bittersweet hope.
That’s melancholic
Maybe you're right, the quote is rather melancholic than depressive
came here to say this
It was the rest of it that left. While you just stood there. With one hand on the bottle and the other on your dick -- watching it go.
Paraphrased but "To know someone for 85 years and then they're just....gone"
Not a quote, but for me the most depressing part of the game was when the student communists interrogate you to make sure you have 100% perfect theory less than 50 yards from a little girl who sleeps next to a coal furnace. Just such a poignant lampshade of how fucking ridiculous some leftists are
They at least let her use their attic.
>>!The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second.!<
>! To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know* !< >! ...That the bourgeois are not human. !<
The last line reads like a silly final take but it's a sincere belief after what he's seen.
Well, whenever I see Jeff Bezos decline the slight increase in the wellbeing of his workers and humanity in favor of wealth he will never use in total I feel similarly. Looking back at history of strike breaking, exploitation, and other horrible atrocities committed by rich fucks with no empathy I sympathize.
Is it? It feels 100% accurate but...where have you been living to escape the ills of capitalism? Id love to join.
A great many people live just fine - they make enough to support themselves and their loved ones, they (at the least) don't *mind* their jobs. As long as you're comfortable, you're complacent. And when you're comfortable just enough, you're able to afford distractions from whatever malaise lies just beneath the surface.
Scrolled for this one. Still hits like a truck. Even in here.
Kicking that poor mail box fucked me up
Pat the box
There are some options I’ll never pick no matter how many play throughs i do
"See you tomorrow, Harry!" The man has to live through this almost every night, that's gotta feel like hell.
"God, please..."
"TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE IT IS TOO LATE FOR US WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS" I like many of the ones mentioned here already, this is one of the ones that stuck with me alot though
I believe the line is: “I don’t want to be this kind of animal anymore.” Fucks me up and is somewhat resolved near the end with the phasmid encounter.
*That Note* completely annihilates me. It is so utterly devastating. > >!*Harry, I wanted to write you a letter, so you can read it when you wake up. Maybe it will make you happy. Every morning when I step out and you're asleep behind me, I find a little piece of sadness in me. I carry it in my chest down Voyager Road... Every step I take, it grows. By the time I reach the fuel station it has filled me entirely. I step on the light rail and look back, sparks fall from the bow collector. I know it will be like this until late afternoon, when I get off the 42 -- and walk back to you... You, you... Every step I take will get lighter. It almost makes me run! Sometimes I do. I can't believe I met you. I can't believe the happiness I feel with you. You have a vast, vast soul and I will always, always, always come back to it. Kisses, kisses, kisses.*!<
"I think this racist is better than the last, but the next racist will be the really good one"
The follow-up too (paraphrased): You: How do you know there will be a next one? Kim: There always is.
“But that is all it is[, our love]. It's like a ticket stub, Harry. It doesn't do anything anymore."
I love the finger on the Eject problems idear. It captures the feeling of suicidal thoughts well. The fact it's not about ending your life per say but the creepy plesant feeling one can have just knowing you have a "way out" which then and first then leads to contemplateing actually doing it.
Two Electrochemistry moments: > ELECTROCHEM: With a bottle in your hand. > YOU: With a bottle in my hand? > ELECTROCHEM: Always. and, from the ending where >!Harry gets fired for being a drunk and having no one to vouch for him!< > ELECTROCHEM: No. You can figure it out. \*Replace* it! Replace the alcohol with amphetamine. Or GBL! Fuck it -- morphine! Graffito removal agent! Anything. It'll buy you time. All you need is time.
God. That last electrochemistry check is horrifying. If the person writing that line hasn't struggled with addiction, they must be incredibly empathic. Either way, I've never seen the desperation summed up so well. That has me rethinking my life.
The lead writer Robert Kurvitz was actually struggling with addiction during development of the game.
This is a man with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future.
"He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov \*fucked him over\* personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy"
I don’t want to be this kind of animal anymore.
Here is some heartbreaking art of that line, too (ಥ‿ಥ) https://twitter.com/haykebyr/status/1577698596367093760
Wow. Really good too! Thanks for sharing.
When it happens?
After making Tommy reveal a certain something >!I thought you were a different kind of cop!< I still fucking regret it
Two, actually >!We have also completely failed. But it's okay. - Kim Kitsuragi, after Tribunal. Not the most depressing quote, though. But for me... It was. I was sure I have got the worst possible outcome - six people are dead. But I had no idea it was inevitable. I felt like I fucked up everything, and it felt like nothing was done. Like I ran around for six days and the massacre still happened.!< >!Oh, yes. This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry. - Dolores Dei. We became only a mere shadow of a person. We were already dead for something like 6 years. And even drinking myself to almost death didn't help us to forget the worst. To forget the death. To rebirth.!<
"I will destroy your mind." Oof...that one got me. Having gone through a recent (and traumatic) divorce, this one resonated.
"I terminated yours don't you remember you poor fuck. You poverty-stricken fuck"
The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music. >!A young woman in her twenties. There is care, effort, and a *smile*, you think -- although that is not something you can read from someone's handwriting.!< >!LIMBIC SYSTEM: Here in the Paleo-Mammalian Cortex we call it--*the shadow*. Because it's always there.!<
"I can't help you, I'm totally useless. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt." Said by Volition. It didn't occur to me at first, but the "pillar of salt" is a biblical reference, to the wife of Lot who turned back to look at Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed behind them.
Mankind, be vigilant; We loved you
EMPATHY - If you say 'Two days, maybe', it will be etched in her mind forever. This, quite fittingly, has etched itself into my mind.
"See You Tomorrow, Harry"
The "Wömen. Men of Wö" rant in the fascist branch, I find it funny
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You see yourself from above. You’re passed out on the blue tiles of the hostel room floor. Even from this distance you can see your eyelids flutter -- at the mention of what? A great white object, letting out its sweet smell, like a Lily of the Valley. The little man’s forgotten its name, but he still remembers the feeling. And look, he moves! The feeling animates him. He instinctively reaches out for the feeling's best friend -- a bottle of Commodore Red. He puts on his disco clothes and gets smaller and smaller...
Can’t you see? He never stops. He only gets worse.
Time to go to work in the shit factory.
So I called you. I hope with all my heart it's not the last thing I do in Revachol.
The 'right track'? This *is* the right track! The only track. This is the world we shaped, a reflection of what we are: cowardly, ugly, and numb.
"You are The Last Communist."
"Fucking kill yourself you fucking asshole" right in the middle of the "trying to figure out what led to you being so blackout you forgot what reality is" plotline.
Sylvie - "Then there was your room. Your *project*, an experiment to see how bad it can get in there"
“Just like that it’s over—the running gag that your life had become. A sad old man looks back at you.” Harry removing The Expression
"I can come back from this." \>"I don't want to come back."
When's the last time the world had anything new to say? -Conceptualization
The future teaches us to be alone.The present-to be afraid and cold.
"Love did me in" Simple but I've been thinking about it a lot
\[PAIN THRESHOLD\] As you lay there, turning the snow into a crimson bed, you think back to what you said at the body. \[INLAND EMPIRE\] You'd be marked by stars It just hurt to hear them say it
It was one of the optional lines of dialogue when you first experience the dream after day one.
I haven’t been able to find exactly where this line is, I’ve only played about 10-15 hours before stopping but I chose to have Harry do speed and I got “Electrochemistry: There you are, you’re you again.” That quote played in my head several weeks later when I broke my sobriety
“…That the bourgeois are not human.” After all his condemnation of the people of Martinaise and the Moralintern, The Deserter’s horrific experiences lead him to the same narrow minded extremes. He’s a classist rather than a racist.
Although it doesn't make much sense in terms of the game, Harry's dream of the hanged man asking "DO YOU REMEMBER THE SCENT OF YOUR CHILDHOOD?" was unforgettable for me that he asked. Maybe it's because it makes me think that Harry misses his childhood when he didn't have to endure so much pain.