Death Stranding

Penn · 30-05-2019 2:49pm

SolvableKnave wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1133883529312460801

I pretty much swore off getting Collector's Editions of games that come with a bunch of tat and I mostly just buy digital now... but if they release a collectors edition with one of those I'm putting that damn Bridge Baby right in the centre of the mantlepiece

SolvableKnave · 30-05-2019 2:50pm

Penn wrote: »

I pretty much swore off getting Collector's Editions of games that come with a bunch of tat and I mostly just buy digital now... but if they release a collectors edition with one of those I'm putting that damn Bridge Baby right in the centre of the mantlepiece

Get your wallet ready. They are.

gizmo · 30-05-2019 5:26pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah fox engine is now konami.

Would not be surprised if ex Kojima studios tech team helped out guerrilla though.

https://twitter.com/GameAnim/status/1133766769229754369

And the first reply in the thread...

Mr Crispy · 31-05-2019 3:56pm

Another tidbit.

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1134377052524515329

Mr Crispy · 03-06-2019 8:32pm

Technical analysis of the trailer from DF, for anyone into that kinda thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZy5tRactw

fixXxer · 04-06-2019 10:31am

Against my better judgment, Preordered this at the weekend

EoinMcLovin · 27-07-2019 5:35pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q00f0STI6z4

Robert ninja · 27-07-2019 7:20pm

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Another tidbit.

Oh god he actually went for the Todd Howard mountain technique.

gimli2112 · 27-07-2019 9:51pm

fixxxer wrote: »

Against my better judgment, Preordered this at the weekend

I've nothing against pre-ordering but I've been following this and still don't know what this is.

dreamers75 · 27-07-2019 10:52pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

I've nothing against pre-ordering but I've been following this and still don't know what this is.

I have no idea what this piece of software is.

Is it a game? Is a movie?

SomeSayKos · 30-07-2019 9:31am

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q00f0STI6z4

Anyone see Hideo Kojima's cameo in Nicholas Winding Refn's new TV show 'Too Old To Die Young'?

Pretty good

Potential-Monke · 30-07-2019 6:47pm

Yeah, I was hoping the trailer would at least give me an indication as to what it is, but I'm still in the dark. No idea if I should be getting excited or not. From what I've seen so far, meh. Looks pretty, good actors, but still no idea what kind of game this is.

Robert ninja · 30-07-2019 6:50pm

Stealth action with some walking sim.

B.A._Baracus · 31-07-2019 8:42am

I was excited for this game. Now here we are a few months away and all the gameplay seems to be is just hiking. Hiking miles and miles and miles.

Maybe someone should tell Kojima that open world games need a lot to do in them to be enjoyable. MGS5's location become boring after a while. Once you climbed up one rock it doesn't have the same effect the 50th time :pac:

Retr0gamer · 31-07-2019 9:14am

Well Breath of the Wild was mostly hiking and exploring and is far and away the best open world game in years. I'm remaining open minded about it.

Kojima is a disaster when it comes to story and dialogue but with the exception of MGS4 him and his team have always delivered unique and compelling gameplay.

B.A._Baracus · 31-07-2019 9:35am

I dunno. I'm still a bit skeptical about this. Kojima has wanted to always go open world since MGS3.
I remember reading an interview in 2002 saying how MGS3 was going to be a big open world like GTA3 (hence the "this isn't gta... this is a jungle line" in the e3 trailer for MGS3. Obviously he couldn't do it cause of technical limitations back then.

He tried to do it for MGS4 but for some reason only one level kinda felt open world. Then... he finally did it for MGS5 and while the gameplay was great the open world setting got boring after a while. I dunno maybe i am suffereing from open-world fatigue :pac:

Would be nice if more was shown tho!

Penn · 31-07-2019 9:40am

They probably showed off too much in the gameplay trailers for MGSV, but I think they definitely need to start showing some for this game as no-one really knows what the hell it is. I expect we'll start seeing some towards the end of August.

EoinMcLovin · 19-08-2019 8:55pm

Geoff Keighley has a cameo in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAomOQDMoPg

20-08-2019 8:04am

The game looks ****e, had to be said

heebusjeebus · 20-08-2019 8:18am

Ya, I don't see anything interesting in this game.

Arcadeheroes · 20-08-2019 10:36am

5 years in development with multiple trailers and 2 in-game videos and I still have no idea what kind of game this is

What was exactly the point of Kojima flying half way across the world just to showcase and talk about the peeing mechanic in his game ?

I face-palmed when I heard someone clap in the audience when Norman Reedus character started urinating. I just...I cant! XD

SomeSayKos · 20-08-2019 10:37am

Weird gameplay demo that they showed last night as all it really did was provide the Keighley cameo. I'm really into this game though in terms of its weird Kojima tone and sci-fi craziness but hopefully the forthcoming demo at Tokyo game show shows off what the gameplay actually is besides walking around. I'm optimistic there's a suckerpunch coming.

Retr0gamer · 20-08-2019 11:35am

I heard Kojima is hiding a spoiler where after the first hour set on a small research installation and surrounding area Norman Reedus takes off his mask and reveals he is Solid Snake and is voiced by Nicholas Cage.

Zero-Cool · 20-08-2019 11:38am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard Kojima is hiding a spoiler where after the first hour set on a small research installation and surrounding area Norman Reedus takes off his mask and reveals he is Solid Snake and is voiced by Nicholas Cage.

I would buy the **** out of that.

J. Marston · 20-08-2019 12:45pm

All the inky monsters, weird babies and Hollywood names seem to be distraction from a gameplay loop of wandering aimlessly around what looks like Irish hillsides on an overcast day.

I reckon this will slaughtered in reviews. By that I mean everywhere will give it 8's instead of 9's and 10's.

hellsing101 · 20-08-2019 1:03pm

There must be more to the game play loop that what has been shown so far, Kojima has some out there ideas but he cant seriously have made a game where you just wonder about some hills with a baby.

Rob2D · 20-08-2019 1:43pm

And what's wrong with a nice walking simulator? Doesn't matter what kind of game it is in the end. KojiPro made it, so it'll play great.

Retr0gamer · 20-08-2019 2:17pm

Rob2D wrote: »

And what's wrong with a nice walking simulator? Doesn't matter what kind of game it is in the end. KojiPro made it, so it'll play great.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is proof he can make some utter garbage as well.

I'm willing to believe however he isn't showing everything with this games and anyway, sometimes just basic exploration can be fun.

ERG89 · 20-08-2019 2:24pm

Arcadeheroes wrote: »

5 years in development with multiple trailers and 2 in-game videos and I still have no idea what kind of game this is

Phantom Pain released 4 years ago & he had to split from Konami, form the new studio, choose the Decima engine and announced the game in 2016 so how do you deduce that its been 5 years??

HorrorScope · 20-08-2019 2:29pm

The more I see of this the more I think it's going to be an absolute train wreck. There's only so "out there" a game can get and Death Stranding is already well past that point.

hellsing101 · 20-08-2019 3:46pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Metal Gear Solid 4 is proof he can make some utter garbage as well.

I'm willing to believe however he isn't showing everything with this games and anyway, sometimes just basic exploration can be fun.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was a great movie :pac:

Basic exploration can be fun in an interesting environment, from what the trailers show it just looks like a large sandbox with not much in it.

nix · 20-08-2019 4:18pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard Kojima is hiding a spoiler where after the first hour set on a small research installation and surrounding area Norman Reedus takes off his mask and reveals he is Solid Snake and is voiced by Nicholas Cage.

I said, put the baby back in the pod..

AbusesToilets · 21-08-2019 11:51pm

These empty environs remind me of the worst aspects of MSGV. Pretty at a glance but the lifelessness becomes pretty jarring in short order.

Zero-Cool · 11-09-2019 10:55pm

I have a feeling we'll still be confused as **** tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1171739723783499776?s=19

EoinMcLovin · 12-09-2019 2:29am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9ZWltOGK8

Gunmonkey · 12-09-2019 11:30am

Almost 50 minute gameplay vid.

I still dont know if I am interested in this game or not. It looks both intriguing; the aspect of gearing up for an expedition, making sure to have gear for all eventualities, navigating the world and using ladders/ropes and pitons to scale cliffs....and terrible; huge open world, very pretty, but glaringly devoid of.....anything. Even the likes of Skyrim or BoTW will have something, a camp or a cave or a shrine within easy reach to always feel like the world is alive with possibilities, gameplay here sees to largely be a mix bag of fetch quests and I-cant-believe-its-not-Ubisoft-towers.

I will probably get this but with the more I see I think I'm going to be waiting for all the 2nd hand copies to show up in Gamestop/CEX in January.

PaddyBomb · 12-09-2019 12:44pm

The combat actually looks good in that video but I'm not sure about that empty open world though. Who knows what the story is about, it just seems too strange.

B.A._Baracus · 12-09-2019 1:31pm

MGSV enviroment got boring after a while and this looks exactly the same. Boo Kojima!

J. Marston · 12-09-2019 1:35pm

Kojima sniffing his own farts. Reedus' voice acting in the Briefing video above is absolutely dreadful.

I think this is going to be bomb hard.

16-10-2019 4:19pm

How I feel about Death Stranding in a nutshell...

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Kiith · 16-10-2019 4:48pm

It's looks awful and interesting at the same time. But not fun at all.

B.A._Baracus · 17-10-2019 9:16am

Am thinking this is starting to look sh*te ....
During the last couple of the years it looked more and more interesting as we were just getting little snippets here and there. Now that i'm seeing gameplay it really does remind me of the boring aspects of MGSV.

I'd be interesting to hear what reviews say about this.

17-10-2019 9:42am

I've a feeling this might have been better realised as a movie rather than a game. What I saw of the story intrigued me but as soon as I saw the gameplay thought ffs Kojima.

It really does look like the character controls and handles just like MGS in a lot of ways. This was a new project for him but he looks to have stuck to what was familiar.

Retr0gamer · 17-10-2019 9:51am

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Kojima's non-Metal Gear games I've enjoyed immensely. And I don't mind if this is a very exploration focused game as BotW has proved that exploring can be immensely enjoyable.

SomeSayKos · 18-10-2019 11:51am

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Such an early embargo feels me with hope that Sony are at least super confident. God of War had a similar embargo.

I feel the same way. A couple of journos have hinted that they are loving it so far.

Potential-Monke · 19-10-2019 6:04am

I still don't know what to make of this, and I don't care any more. Gonna wait for player reviews, because I think this will be one of those more artistic games which just don't click with me.

Saying that, hearing the Japanese voice acting would nearly make me get it. Everything is better with a Japanese VO!

EoinMcLovin · 24-10-2019 12:29pm

Conan O Brien is an npc in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVRziqHevA

24-10-2019 12:31pm

It gets weirder by the day

B.A._Baracus · 24-10-2019 12:37pm

Maybe Kojima is winding people up again.
He did it with MGS2 years ago. He did it recent enough with MGS5. Maybe what we are seeing isn't the full game. I expect some sort of troll outta him however big or small.

martyos121 · 25-10-2019 2:04am

Spent the last couple of hours catching up on everything released about this so far.

Really admire the idea he’s going for with this and turning a game into a sort of social network, but the actual gameplay and exploration just looks very.....stressful, I suppose? Having to watch your every step and keep control of your balance, manage your cargo load and keep the baby happy, not getting too wet...I could go on. Fighting the Catchers looks interesting but a tad clunky at the same time.

I get the feeling it all clicks into place once you play it for a few hours and get the hang of the mechanics, but I fear many would give up on it pretty early and I could see that happening to myself too. Been seriously burned out on gaming for a little while now bar some light multiplayer stuff to pass the evenings, so I’m not sure about investing a lot of time into what appears to be a very fleshed out courier simulator.

But then again, it has Mads Mikkelsen as the fully mo-capped and voice acted antagonist. How could it not be amazing based on just that alone? You literally couldn’t cast a better villain than him, the story should be pretty special if anyone can make sense of it. :pac:

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