Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has formally thrown its hat into the kinda DE successor maelstrom, asserting an upcoming spy RPG codenamed Venture C4, which its builders explicitly say is not a Disco sequel.
As a substitute, it is a gritty sounding recreation that is extra Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy than James Bond. Within the first a part of a presentation asserting it with a teaser, C4’s writers had been launched as Siim ‘Kosmos’ Sinamäe and Jim Ashilevi, who labored on the unique Disco Elysium as a producer/author (citing Fool Doom Spiral as a personality he had a hand in) and lead voice over director respectively.
The pair said that over the previous 5 years, amongst different issues, ZA/UM has been “settling in a wider, expanded staff, with many new faces bringing of their abilities and recent views”, including that these devs have “discovered the right way to work collectively and iterate, so we’re capable of make video games for the long run”.
It is price pausing right here to notice that, as chances are you’ll effectively know, lots of former authentic DE devs have departed ZA/UM in several and generally acrimonous methods since that recreation got here out, together with the likes of key writers Robert Kurvitz, Aleksander Rostov, and Helen Hindpere.
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As for this new recreation, it seems to be and sounds fairly Disco Elysiumy. “As an Operant serving a questionable world energy, the participant finds themselves locked in a vicious, clandestine wrestle for reality and affect,” the plot abstract reads, “But it’s the thoughts that takes centre stage in Venture C4. Extra weak and extra highly effective than the bodily world, it may be erased, modified, reordered, and naturally considerably altered via common use of psychoactive substances amongst different means.” Gameplay-wise, amid all they spying, C4 “blends participant introspection, deep character-driven dialogue, and high-stakes encounters steered by cube rolls”.
Nonetheless, Sinamäe and Ashilevi mentioned the sport is explicitly “not Disco Elysium 2”. “We’ve discovered loads,” Ashilevi defined, “Most significantly, we have found what we did not wish to be or do as a studio. We wish to construct on what we have completed earlier than, however not just by repeating it, or rehashing it.”
When it comes to the sport, Ashilevi later outlined that Venture C4 is “all about spy video games, allegiances, and betrayals, including: “It’s not 007, along with his hero advanced, the Bond women, and the devices. It it extra like Sluggish Horses – doing the work you’re keen on, even when it doesn’t get you any fame or parades. No heroes, solely the stench of failure”.
Extra particulars concerning the recreation will seemingly be shared at GDC, so we’ll should see what they seem like. For now, tell us how you’re feeling about Venture C4 under. Are you intrigued by it, or have the messy and controversial occasions that’ve adopted the unique Disco’s launch turn into arduous to look previous?
