A New Fandom And A (Sort Of) New Bingo Card

[astrogirl2]

Welcome, folks, to my newest fannish obsession! I just recently finished playing the video game Disco Elysium (despite, overall, not being very much of a video-gamer), and it's been kind of eating my brain in that way that, perhaps, can only be excised by the catharsis of writing fic. So here we are.

Anybody out there played this one? It's a very

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[sallymn]

A new fandom is a lot of fun, yes :) I'm not ready to write for mine yet (I'm a little daunted by the way a lot of fans study up and use and discuss the cultural aspects of Chinese writing, Chinese history, Chinese nomenclature Chinese... then I remind myself, the original author included potatoes in ancient magical China).

Sounds like a good game, even though I am hopeless at all video games harder than, ummm.... solitaire.

[astrogirl2]

Ha! What is it about potatoes? Once you start noticing those showing up where they shouldn't be, you can't stop noticing them everywhere, cruelly challenging your suspension of disbelief

[sallymn]

When I had to study a video game for one of my genre fiction subjects, they suggested we all simply go to youtube as there were full runthoughs uploaded there. So I did. I don't think I could've played the game (and it wasn't really my stylke) but it was oddly interesting watching someone else play it.

[astrogirl2]

Yeah, people playing video games on YouTube is a whole big thing! And once you start watching them, they can become oddly compelling, for some reason. It's also very handy if you're writing fic for a game. Want to review the details of something that happens halfway through the game, or maybe see what an alternate ending looks like? You don't actually have to replay the whole thing yourself, hooray!

I confess, after I finished this particular game, I also went and found someone who did a playthrough of it, and have been watching that -- slowly, in bits and pieces, because it's a long game -- and it's been really interesting to see some of the ways things can play out differently, even if you're taking mostly the same approach. (Like, holy crap, that's what happens if you succeed at that thing I failed at? I had no idea

[sallymn]

What's the music like? I have gotten into game music after Classics FM started a weekly show on it... :)

[astrogirl2]

Well, I liked it enough that after I finished playing the game, I went and bought the soundtrack. :) It's all done by a band called British Sea Power. I don't know that it's typical video game music -- I don't even play enough video games to know if there is such a thing, really -- but it's wonderfully atmospheric.

Although, apparently for some kind of rights reasons, the soundtrack doesn't feature the most memorable musical moment in the game, in which your character takes a break from police work to sing some sad karaoke. You have to make a skill check for it, but whether you pass or fail, it's amazing. :)