Elysium Next
"I think this industry is finished. But fortunately for everyone, videogames are not."
It’s a great pull quote but considering what we’re supposed to be buying into from the blog posts and PR so far from one of the many Disco Elysium successor studios, it’s (and I’m being polite here) a wee bit back of a beermat. It’s also clearly nonsense, which doesn’t really give me much hope for much of anything at all from them really.
Despite the headline, PC Gamer gently prod at how their declarations in a recent interview are … well, not all that.
For me, so far, everything has lurched between an “uh oh” at best (lots of grandstanding but accompanied with a few variations on “but I am too busy to think about that” wave of the hands type hot air when it comes to anything that actually needs thinking about) and red flagageddon (their proposed strudio structure is kinda wtf are you doing, have you missed the past decade in videogames stuff).
Rather than the deep thinkers and left wing radicals that the PR blitz is aiming for, they just keep landing on politics no deeper than a dodgy student attempt at a Young Ones sequence but without the Alexei Sayle jokes and… it’s not very promising. I don’t expect anyone to meander in with fully formed politics, solutions or whatever, I do expect better than this though.
It is perhaps a little unfair to judge them so harshly on the basis of a couple of blog posts and interviews but if this is their best foot forward, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for much from them and I get the feeling I’m going to be spending the next few years reading their guff with a mixture of eye rolls and hoping they just stop.