She didn't break him, he was already broken. She just stopped holding him together

"Brother you should put me in front of a firing squad. I have no words for how I failed you." This is the quote that gets me, not the most emotionally, but damn

After you get through it you realize that the best option was "Go. Good bye." And maybe this is a lesson worth remembering

The way she just shoots down each and every one of your skills until they’re all just begging for this to be over, man this game is life-changing.

"But i succeeded..." "This was not about failure or success" God i love that

"The worst she can say is 'no,' right?" Harry: 😂🔫

The fact that even in the middle of a dream, your brain realizes there is nothing you can say to make her want to stay. The way this same old conversation replays endlessly in your mind, right next to a literal video rental store, that you would replay old movie tapes from with her. This game is truly a masterpiece. I can't believe human beings made this.

In a game full of memorable moments, this is the one that did it for me. Your own mind apologizing for the decision and you beeing told that this could have never ended well, even if you did pass that skillcheck...

"But you said I have a vast soul and you will always come back to it." I don't know why that quote hits me so hard, but it's a line that's stuck with me. It's the encapsulation of how happy they were during their best of times. The love that Dora held for Harry ran so deep at one point. And then years later... nothing. She thinks less and less about him every day, and one day he'll barely be a thought in her mind every few years as she lives her life. I hope Harry finds happiness after the events of the game.

"Who broke my heart?" "You both did, bratan - deep down, you know it was the both of you."

So many people would quote so much from this moment, but mine was always the very last sentence in this conversation "See you tomorrow" THIS is what drove Harry into what he was: a suicidal sorry man at the end of his rope. All he wanted was to be free from this nightmare that was plaguing him for... probably years

"I think of you less and less every year, weeks go by without me remembering you... Months already. Soon it will be years. Every season that passes the lights get less clear." This one phrase is one of the most painful things I've ever read. This game is a masterpiece

"I can never think you're cool again. I can only think that way about *new* people" is the line that broke me.

"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."

“I dont want to call you. I dont want to hear from you. I think of you less and less every year, weeks go by without me remembering you..” i miss her

I've never seen a game do such an amazing job of capturing the pointless, exhausting, repetitive nature of end of relationship arguments. You understand both that this conversation is harmful, pointless, and should even be embarrassing for him but also why he feels the need to ask these questions. As someone who has been Harry in this situation I loved this scene, even if it was a bit painful. (though the phasmid scene is still #1)

The worst part about this is he is reliving a moment that happened. This is a trauma dream- 3 + times a week. Reliving the worst heartbreak you could imagine. Also, note, Dora is Dolores Dei to him. This is like Jesus breaking up with you in your dreams for 6 years. No wonder our guy was so messed up. I like to think he gets to heal after this though.

one of the most deepest lines ever in pc games :""" this is real darkness, its not death, or war or child molestation, real darkness has love for a face. the first deah is in the heart,Harry""" - it touches you if you've ever felt that love

To the writer of this scene: I'm so sorry man...

This recurring dream is the reason why Harry woke up with no memory. He had spent the last 6 years drinking to stop it, to destroy who he was to end the torment... and when he finally achieves his amnesia, he just stumbles upon it once more. The dream knew he'd be back, no matter who he thinks he is.

The dialogue that got me is when she mentions she's pregnant from the man she's with and then tells Harry that she 'terminated yours' while calling him a 'poor' f*ck. A Poverty-stricken f* ck. That hit me quite hard.

All the loyal companions, these sub-personalities, are just crumbling down one after another. That's exactly how it goes.

Never has another game been so incredibly funny and so achingly heartbreaking and sad.

Dolores has it's meaning rooted in sorrows from the Spanish word. Delores Dei's name could almost literally be translated as "God of Sorrows".

This is probably one of the most agonizingly cruel things that came out of this game. It really puts into perspective why Harry wants to off himself

You know that the author of this dialogue was there. In Harry's place. I am too now. And I hope that I can do it. But it's just horryfying to let her go. Too difficult, but necessary. I wish it would be possible. I'm trying. And memories of her are too numerous. It's like losing half of your body, your mind desperate to understand how to bring it back, how to live without it and what can it logically do to change it. Four years of relationship. A lot of everything. And it's just too much. If someone reads it, overcome it. It would be better later. Don't let it get to you. Because I will do my all. And I hope you can to

Just before disco Elysium came out I came out of jail. I had a terrible breakup and i had nearly same feelings with harry after I finished this game I filled up with nihilism I wanted to drink and kill my self and then after I met with disco elysium it made me crippled emotionally but at the end of it I found the power from harry. I’m trying to be sober as I played him through. This is a masterpiece that touched my heart

This scene hit too close to home

This scene destroyed me, I emphasized with Harry so much it felt almost like i was the one being dismantled by her words. This all being in Harry’s head is an amazing way of representing his self loathing and refusal to move on. We never actually get to see what the real Dora is like, all we have is this version of her in Harry’s head, he makes her almost cruel and her words tear him apart, but she’s still angelic and almost kind in a way, in his head she’s basically a goddess despite the fact that the love they had is gone.

a couple years ago i was (and still is) in hard depression, laying in bed all days, processing my break-up that happened ages before. i tried to cheer myself and playing some games, choose Disco Elysium. dont sleep several days to finish game and THAT moment happened... i didnt cry like that in my life, it was fucking insane, i think that im fucking dying of heart attack. every little part of that dialogue was relatable from calculate choices of lines to begging on my knees for him to stay with me. and voices in my head, and auto-aggression, and pain, and insanity. i didnt relate to character so much ever in my life. that was beautiful and truly deep. what a masterpiece

This is the sad counterbalance to the “Detective. Arriving. On the Scene” moment. When it’s shown that Harry is truly brilliant at what he does and in general, with his yefreitor rank, refusing promotion to stay in the field with little else to hang on to. But he is a damn good detective, and nothing can rub that out, not booze or drugs or lost love. He is the human can opener.

The pinnacle of writing in any game ever. It was at this moment I knew, I'm not playing a game but I'm experiencing a masterpiece of psychological novel, maybe in the level of Dostoevsky's greatests works. Everytime I watch this scene, something in me awakes and aches. ZA/UM made history with this game. Also with the Final Cut's voiced dialogues, everything became vastly dramatic. Congratulations and many thanks to everyone who had worked on this game.

This game is so unbelievably good at putting you in Harry's headspace. I've never gone through a breakup but this scene just broke me. I had to take a break and lie down, feeling like I'd been run over by a truck.

I could not play this part with dry eyes, this is torture if you feel even slightly related to Harry or had something similar happen, Dolores saying it will take him 20 years to heal and how the first death comes from the heart are probably the most soul crushing lines in the whole game and they are back to back. Understanding Harry here is something i do not wish to anyone, i had a horrible time after finishing this part despite being almost 2 years after the fact for me, and even then i still had my mind on it after a couple days, even rewatching this now makes me absolutely depressed and sad, yet i would still call this one of my favorite games of all time, what an achievement not only for the gaming media but a piece of art as a whole, it deserves to be preserved in a museum Edit: i came back to watch this again thinking it would be ok now, i was wrong

My wife left a year ago. She left all of a sudden. I was out shopping for half an hour, I returned and she had her bags packed and a friend coming to pick her up. It completely and utterly broke me. In the year since I've been fighting for us, trying to work through it and maybe find a path forward. I keep convincing myself that I must be insane, that my emotional reaction to the pain she caused has ruined everything. Two weeks ago I had a conversation with her that was very much like this one, only her coldness and heartlessness wasn't something that I had projected onto her. It broke me AGAIN, which led to relapsing on meth and abusing myself from the pain, the sadness, the heartbreak, the hopelessness. She never gave me a reason for why she didn't want to try to fix our marriage, and because of that I feel like it might take years and years for me to move on and heal. She's not the same person that I married any more. She moved away and thought less and less about me every day, while I drowned in sorrow holding onto the memory of a woman who no longer exists. I finished Disco Elysium for the first time last week, at the tail end of the relapse, after the final nail was driven into the coffin of our marriage. This scene literally caused me to fall off my chair and cry and scream on the floor for half an hour. To have everything that happened between us summarised so poignantly and profoundly is something that I never thought I'd find. It hurts more than anything, although it gave me a new perspective on my situation too. For that reason, as well as Harry's character and traits being astonishingly similar to my own, Disco Elysium is the most important and sacred game to me, a work of art that speaks to me on a level that few other works of art could ever hope to. "Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart." Those words are so fitting, so emotionally devastating, so incredibly crushing, that I could never in a million years forget them.

"A thousand times, you beaten animal. A thousand times you've raised that fabric. What is underneath has always calmed you, centred you. Made you sane." Fuck, man...

'real darkness has love for a face' WHYYY IS THIS GAME SO CRUEL

I don't think I'd be alive today if this particular sequence didn't play out in front of my eyes when I needed it more than anything. "It's a ticket stub... it doesn't do anything anymore." This game, because of this moment, is one of the most profoundly important and significant experiences in my entire life. Thank you.

I haven't experienced something like this in real life but i cried at the scene! is it weird? this character grown so much on me that it felt like it was my own life. and why nobody mentions how epic the music of this scene is? the music makes it 10x times sadder.

*Encyclopedia* here to help you commenters understanding what is actually happening here. I see lots of comments about experiencing same thing, not being able to move on etc. For you, it is not love you are feeling it is limerence. You basically create a version of your previous-loved one and projecting on that imaginary version of them. Just like Harry does in here. He puts Dora on a pedestal, only remembering the good things about her and have terrible view about himself. Aside from limerence, you may also learn about attachment theory. Hopefully, this will help you deal with pain coming from heartbreaks.

i thought i was obsessed with this became because i had recently finished it ... 1 year later and i still keep thinking about it .... what a masterpiece

I spent a long long time feeling like Harry about my ex. Constantly breaking my own heart for them over and over again. Until one day you realize that being in the mindset of Dolores is a choice. You don't have to be miserable forever. You can be the person who moved on and not the one who needs to drink themselves into oblivion. And yes, you can do it for the working class.

goddamn man, the cringe, the pain, the exasperated struggle of desperation, it piles up as a lump in my throat and a pit in my stomach, even as half remembered metaphors buried deep down, you can tell this cuts deep. the emotional equivalent of thrashing about as he sinks into the heartless sea, instincts telling him to move and fight for his life even as his higher brain function knows with absolute certainty theres no getting out of this one. fighting for just a few more merciful seconds of life's tender embrace

I'm not sure if it was me that outgrew her or her outgrew me, but that's what it is. Maybe we both grew, diverged into different people that no longer recognize each other. Disco Elysium helped me realize that. It put into words a pain I could never express.

"Real death has love for a face... the first death is in the heart" It certainly is true. I had an incredibly horrible break up many years ago, when I played this Harrier seemed like I was then -- lost, directionless and unable to let love go. If you feel this way and it keeps repeating, help yourself and those who love you - go speak to a therapist, put it into perspective, and slowly move on with your life. There are wonderful people awaiting you who won't abuse you or make you feel sad; who will elevate you, and who will love you for who you are. In the end it's all just random, we might not be here tomorrow - so dare to love again, don't do what I did, or Harrier did, and waste half a decade of your life in over-romanticised regret over someone who just wasn't right for you.

Disco Elysium cuts for me so hard because Harry is so relatable to me, from how his inner thoughts talk to him, to how he constantly crave drugs in order to "boost stats" and party, and to how he feels about past relationships. I had a friend that I was deeply in love with for the entirety of my teen years, we even dated for a time. But she eventually moved away and moved on, while me and my feelings stayed behind. We met again as adults, but I couldn't stay friends with her because my love for her was still too fresh, too much. And I ruined any potential platonic friendships we could have because of it. This in-game conversation feels so cathartic to me because it almost feels like it's me moving on from the vision of her that I made in my head and moving on with my life, just as she was able to. It hurts but it needs to happen in order for me to move on and forgive myself for screwing things up.

"It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry." 19:43 😢

I’ve never been in love or had my heart broken so this scene didn’t affect me the way it affected others but it reminded me of my dad who passed away and I never really knew him. He was so much like Harry, struggling with trauma and addiction, because of this he would never find love and even though he was abusive and monstrous I can’t help but feel bad for him. “In conclusion - you’re ill. You’re an old, insane man and you have to be in hell until the end of your life.” and he was. Some people will never get better

this is my daily self harm video

Think about it like this: In Dora's side of the story she's a sweet, innocent and loving lady who comes from wealthy family and got involved with an older guy she thought was the coolest person ever. Then slowly she realized he is completely unstable to the point he gets abusive when pushed too far and creates misery to everyone around him. In a regular story we would be seeing all this from Dora's POV and rooting for her because that's all we are seeing, her pain and struggle to get better (which is completely fine). But this is not the case, we're seeing the side of the story from Harry's perspective. So for the whole game we're playing on the POV of the unstable abusive boyfriend of the relationship and seeing how he interprets not only that whole scenario, but everything in general on a different/kind of abstract way and it's done not to justify his actions but to understand his logic for how things ended up that way. On a personal level, I love this story more than I can explain with words because I like to see things from all perspectives and analyze how every person involved reasons it in order to understand their logic and find the best solution to a problem for everyone involved so it's very nice to see other people looking at cases like this one with that way of thinking. Disco Elysium shows us Harry's troubled relationship with his ex both from his eyes (all his skills and body parts telling him that she was "hell on earth" amongst other things) and in a more objective way near the end, where it shows us that he's been messed up his entire life (due to being bipolar) and joining the RCM was the spark that started this chain of events that'll eventually lead to his downfall, the lowest point he's ever been (because of the huge stress of police work he became more and more unstable, eventually taking it out on Dora, getting drunk, getting high and by breaking stuff around him, she endured it and tried to do her best for years until she abandoned ship before sinking into that misery pit with Harry). We all have our problems inside and we all make mistakes, but by escaping/ignoring the problems and consecuences of our actions generated by them we'll just be piling it up until that pile starts to crumble and fall on top of us. Harrier Du Bois did just that and if it wasn't for all that happened in the game (losing his memory and meeting a lot of good people) he never would've recovered. If you really took your time to read all of this, thank you and I hope you find something useful for your life in what I wrote here

i keep replaying this dialogue from time to time. i can't believe that it hits so close. "you get sad. too sad. people don't get that sad". and i've heard these words so many times. i am so sorry for my beloved ones. i know it hurts so much when the one you care about is always sad, at some point you just stop caring because it's so exhausting, and you too have to live happily. i am so sorry. i am so ashamed of myself, it's like i'm draining all the life energy from the ones that i actually love. that's why i can't really blame harry for anything - i know he hates himself for this. he keeps being a dork, he keeps hurting people. it's endless. and it is truly hell, a neverending one.

This gives me chills. I can remember feeling like this when I was young, and how the pain felt like it would never really go away..but it does. Damn though, The dialogue in the whole game but especially this scene feels so...lived in.

This game is something else...

This made me ugly cry. Her job is to move on and be happy and forget about Harry. And Harry's job is to be in hell, forever. Thats my job, too. To be in hell forever.

This scene being optional is so masterful and yet somehow even more heartbreaking than it being compulsory

Ok, I cried at this part honestly. I just went through my first breakup. It was atrocious, but this part made me feel something so unbelievable the first time, it’s my favorite moment in gaming, ever.

That woman -- turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the working class.

This scene made me sick to my stomach to play. What phenomenal writing

I DON'T WANT TO BE THIS KIND OF ANIMAL ANYMORE

even volition fails to let Harry move on. if you try to say goodbye at the start of the scene, volition stops you and calls itself a fraud for wanting the same pain as Harry

Dolores means “pains” in Spanish

I remember sobbing through this whole scene. It’s so wonderfully moving

When she said "Whew" when talking about how long it would take to breakup I was like damn what a way to say that 😂😂😂😂 she seemed so exhausted but glad it's over like "glad I ain't feeling like that haha"

I never saw this scene before. Im not sure whats worse, having to go through this kind of heartache after having had something like this, or never having had anything at all because of your own disconnect from other humans.

This is the most heartbreaking moment in video game history.

Seriously, good luck to any games trying to top the breakup theme after this.

Now that I think about it her terminating a baby and saying it to you like that is GRIM and cold. Like for a moment her arrogance of being middle class broke through potentially, a mixture of hatred and regret, better to let go all the more.

This scene broke my mentality and my heart so much cause i was the harrier in that story. I lose someone who i can gave my full love my everything but i loss him with my bullshit i wanna hate him but he is so soft he rejected me so beautifully just the way he is. All i can do is respect him and stay away from him even i wanna gave my life and protect him all costs im in crazily in love with him but he dont wants me anymore i lose him i dont want to let go of him. But i need to let go and respect his desicion im living with heart with his place as hole in my heart. Its so hurts but you cant do nothing

Why am I watching this at 2:31 am? Why would I do this to myself?!

“I was……cool?”-Harry Dubois. This made me laugh so hard but also made me so sad

zayum im glad i let harry forget the memory that haunted him lol

this is the encounter that replays in my head over and over. man.

This scene hits completely different for me. My first true love and I parted after I got stuck on a narcotic prescription for pain, quit cold turkey when the pain stopped but I was already processing the breakup by then. 6 years later, and many, many long nights, and personal struggles, alcoholism...and digging myself out of *_that_* hole, we're not only on good terms, we're officially back together. The...the time I spent in my head like this was agonizing, but it was necessary to fix myself. His voice in my head, disconnected from his name or who he was, is what stopped me from killing myself. I need to finish this game.

I fucking bawled like a pissbaby

I come here once in a while just to feel something

'we all have an obligation to be happy' oh dear...

So many sad saps I see here, and I, one of then. This conveys the truest layer of sadness I know, no matter how much you love each other, its nothing but a snapshot of your momentary feelings

Really, really, really can't remember being affected so much in recent memory. Closest things that come to mind is when Michel and Annabelle finally get together in Atomised, or the Elementary Particles in America. A fleeting contemplation of love in the better years of your life and an atonement with the dark, downward slide that the future holds.

This part was the peak of Disco Elysium. Years later, it feels the same.

I know everyone is talking about how some certain line made them said but I'm not gonna lie when she started talking about dialogue trees I was dying on the floor laughing

They say you can’t break what is already broken, now I can say they are wrong. I cried a little inside after this scene and then replayed just to comprehend all the melancholic statements exchanged between Harry and Dora and then cried more.

never have i felt so miserable in a video game

"See you tomorrow" Excellent writing!

Fantastic writing, relatable too, everyone goes through tough breakups in their life, amazing game

You don't even think of her, you think of what she represented. Anything more raw and there's no way possible of having this conversation.

And you have to be alone… in hell.. That hits deep

When I played disco elysium for the first time I was going through a real tough time in my life in the fallout of a breakup I had almost two years prior at that point and due to the circumstances I couldn't just make amends or get closure, I just had to live with the pain. This lead to alcoholism among other things, which really put me in the same mindset as Harry. And when I got to this part I just had to stop for a week or so. It felt *too* real, too painful. Honestly it's the main thing holding me back from doing a second playthrough.

This part was incredibly depressive. İ felt extreme pitty for Harry i felt his goddamn despair. İ literally expreinced this goddmann thing in my life, i tried her for gain back for 3 years. İn my dreams over and over i saw her and everytime i couldnt be with her. İn every scenerio he leaves. This scene was incredibly depressive for me. Reminds me of my old self. And that woman get married with someone else and and i m just like Harry still try to put things together. World is shit...

Didn't know this scene existed after my 2nd playthrough. It caught me off guard that it broke me.

Feels like I got beaten to the ground by this scene. This game is another level.

How sickeningly relatable for so many of us…

this scene makes me physically ill

there are many soul-crushing moments in this scene, but your entire psyche giving up and contradicting your attempt at authority at 17:32 gets me every time: AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - You have sworn a holy oath Harry. She herself begged you not to let you go. All you can hear is: “I was wrong, you don’t have power over her anymore. You shouldn’t have said that. I am wrong about everything. You should go on without me.”

8:33 This dialogue has killed me; that’s what she said to me when I confronted her about how much our relationship had dwindled. That’s what she said, literally, not even vaguely hinted or metaphorically stated; that’s what she said to me while I’ve been thinking about her all the time. I really, really do not wish for anyone to understand what Harry is feeling in this scene. Not even my worst enemies.

I actualy fucked up with my first playtry of this game. I stayed playing for too long and was too tired to compleatly enjoy this part. By the time i got to the Plazmoid I was falling asleap in front of PC. So people please be carefull and never play more than 2 hours in one go, so you can take in everything and enjoy it in full.

I don't think i ever felt so much PAIN in the game. Not just this scene, but overall.

I initially skipped this scene by being a tough guy with an aversion for naps, but ended up backtracking after the credits rolled to see what I missed. This cathartic dream provided true closure for my playthrough and, as somber as it was, is how the game should have ended.

It's so weird even in context that Harry hallucinates his ex girlfriend as social democratic girl Jesus pope.

"Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry." Brutal, and true

See you tomorrow