Triple Click cover image

What Even Is a 'Role-Playing Game'?

Triple Click

00:00

Disco Elysium: A Game That Expands the Horizon of Role Playing

Disco Elysium is a game where you probably inhabit the role that you're playing the most deeply of any game that I've ever played. That's one along with Divinity Original Sin 2 probably Baldur's Gate 3. Those games all feel like they're doing something new and they're expanding the horizon of what's possible in role playing to get even further. Some actual technological breakthrough would be required, not just throw yet another game at you but that's the other one.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app