Thread 712529872

This game does something to my monkey brain.
I dont even care about the 2deep4you story, i just want to deliver packages.

>>712529872 (OP)
you might be autistic, consider working at your post office anon

>>712529872 (OP)
Need DS2 on PC soon. Nobody got time to waste on a PS5

>>712529943
This anon has never played a video game in his entire life.

>>712529872 (OP)
its nice and relaxing. setting up ziplines and moving through the map at light speed is pretty cathartic to me

>>712529872 (OP)
I'm on the fence, are the cutscenes really that bad?

>>712529872 (OP)
>is that.... en empty field...!?
>oh my heckin wowzer!!!
>i love playing walking simulator!! it's heckin FUN!

>>712533013
the cutscenes are good, the setting and story is just weird so people pretend to be above it so they dont have to try and justify it.

>>712529872 (OP)
Who would have thought if they made a good walking simulator, people would actually rike it?
>>712529943
>>712533013
>>712533123
Filtered by the education Americans unironically go into debt for.

>>712529872 (OP)
Based.

>>712533013
>I'm on the fence, are the cutscenes really that bad?
No. Kojima's cinematics have always been top-notch, but DS literally front- and rear-loads majority of its cutscenes.

Afterwards, you can literally PLAY the game for DAYS at once, without ever seeing a single cutscene.
It's unironically the addicting gameplay that makes DS so beloved.

>death stranding is hyped to oblivion by fanboys and gaming media as Kojima finnaly free from the shackles of konami
>it releases and it's a 2deep4u walking simulator movie games with boomer references and Hollywood actors that is prompty forgotten about
>sequel coming out pretty soon
>all of a sudden there's blatant shill threads posting screenshot and memes every 20 minutes
It would be pathetic if the Cult of Kojima wasn't so obnoxious.

>>712533863
There's a few grammatical/spelling errors there, but whatever. It's early and I'm tired.

>>712529872 (OP)
when DS2 on PC?

>>712533927
you should be apologizing for the content not the grammar.

>>712533863
fuck off

>>712529943
I have worked as package delivery and let me tell you it is not a job meant for people. The colleagues were angry and bitter and the higher-ups acted like they hate you, even being malicious at times.
Rather be a poor neet than work there.

>>712529872 (OP)
I still have no idea what the fuck this game actually is

>>712533013
The plot is bizarre and silly. The writing is hit or miss. The acting is top notch, as is the technical quality. You can also skip most of them now. Like other anons have said, there's a shitload at the start and end but very few in the middle, it's mostly just for setting up the world and ending the plot, 99% of your time will be walking/biking around and roping feral mr UPS men.

>>712533863
Anon it sold 20 million copies and won GOTY. You can argue about quality all you want, but claiming it was a flop that no one played is just stupid.

>>712534712
Literal walking simulator and also you throw blood and piss grenades at ghosts and sing lullabies to a fetus and drink monster.

>>712534554
I hope that video becomes so big that even Kojima sees it and then sues that clickbaiting fucker for defamation, this would be so fucking funny

>>712529872 (OP)
Unironically because no game simulates walking as good as it does.

>>712534712
it's basically a dad game, game concept based around some kind of real world activity rather than a hero fantasy. you hike and use a bunch of practical tools to get around challenging terrain.

This game is really special to me. I don’t know if I’m just massively autistic or not but I feel like Kojima made this game specifically for people like me. There’s a lot of games that people either like or don’t. Everyone has their own taste and that’s fine. But I feel like if there’s one game that truly targets a particular demographic it’s this one. This is why people either fucking hates this game and the fact that people like it or love this game and understand why it’s. There’s literally no in between.

Based. You are not alone. DS is almost therapy for me. So comfy.

>>712535783
When you think about it the appeal of the game is so simple, but only few people really get it.

>>712533013
You can skip them all

>>712536567
I love how varied DS2 is looking to be. I really look forward to the big mountainous region and the forests

>>712529872 (OP)
Its like a mandala. A perfect conduit for contemplation.

>>712529872 (OP)
My biggest pet peeve with posts like this (from people who enjoy the game too) is that they say the story is "2deep".

Leddit is full of posts of
>"I have no idea whats going on but I love it!!!"

If you literally pay attention it's not difficult to follow. If anything Kojima fucking over explains things - especially in that final Amelie monologue.

Fucking retards. Pay attention.

>>712534712
>I still have no idea what the fuck this game actually is
Open-world survival world builder (terraforming), with an indirect community co-op aspects.

>>712535783
If you watch his recent interview Kojima actually wants to make something controversial. He wants to push boundaries. That didn't work for me in a few MGS, but it fucking clicked massively on DS.

>>712540670
>Kojima actually wants to make something controversial. He wants to push boundaries
...and both Konami and Sony always cockblocked his craziest ideas in the end. Even in case of DS, the initial "blank check" promises turned into "Whoa whoa! Let's not get ahead of ourselves, and ship a bit more family friendly game pls!!"

>unlock floating carrier
>go from delivery man to garbage collector

>>712541030
or Tony Hawk

Can't wait for the full OST

>>712541159
This is rad, Kojimo better give us snowboards

>>712529872 (OP)
wouldn't even call it a game. walking is not gameplay

>>712540787
Not sure about that.
Here's an interview:
>"With Sony, of course I explained to them my approach, but they immediately said: 'Go ahead, do what you gotta do.' They offer me their trust. All the energy you need to put in the preparation of a project, I was able to focus on creating. This makes a real difference," he said.
>Earlier this week, Sony told VG247 it has no desire to pull the reins in on Kojima’s creative vision with Death Stranding.
https://www.vg247.com/kojima-chose-sony-for-death-stranding-because-it-afforded-him-a-lot-of-freedom

>Chech the weather forecast to plot the route around timefall
>grab the longest delivery mission available
>grab all deliveries to shelters along the way
>plot a nice course all around the region, remembering where you have bridges, ziplines, roads and other infrastructure, taking passable and impassable terrain into account
>manually place your cargo on your back, placing most fragile boxes lower in the stack, covered by more sturdy and durable packages to protect other boxes from potential timefall and impact
>slap some equipment boxes all around your main stack because those are expendable
>along the way grab any other mission related to whatever course you plotted
>score SSS Legend whatever rank for every delivery
It's peak autism, I love it.

>>712536240
>>712535783
This. So much tsmt. This game somehow feels like a therapy session to me. The way the characters speak to Sam, the way Sam himself randomly says things like “you’ve walked up worse” or “you’ve got this”, the way he constantly winks at you in the private room, the way characters often praise you for your hard work and encourage you to take on harder and harder challenges, the way the game will suddenly and randomly interrupt the comfiness with horror elements like the nightmare scenes and the BT encounters, the plot about how Sam is unwilling to connect with others at first but is slowly talked into it by everyone. This game just feels like a therapy session encouraging the player to do his best, be proud of his achievements, strive to achieve more, and power through and shrug off dangerous and scary situations. But that’s obviously not something that everyone will understand. That’s why I can’t help but feel like a snob when I praise this game, knowing other people will unironically just “not get it”

>>712540670
Well, he fucking did. A lot of games call themselves controversial and subversive, but most of them are just generic games that just have some inoffensive character or story that attaches itself to contemporary sociopolitical hot topics or just downright bad. You take that “controversial thing” out and it’s essentially just a generic shooter or RPG. Death Stranding on the other hand is groundbreaking and subversive not just in plot, characters, and themes, but in gameplay as well. Every single game I’ve played, going from point A to B is a menial chore. But here, it’s the fun part of the game. The fact Kojima managed to take the part of every game that every dev fails at, and make it actually entertaining, proves to me that Kojima is more than just a meme

>>712529872 (OP)
same but i can't put up with dealing with BTs

>>712541159
So here I am

>>712543076
>let them catch you
>get dragged into a miniboss fight
>run away from the very small arena
>miniboss disappears
>rain stops

>>712534656
Is there even a workplace that's not just that?

>>712542637
Kojima said that after the connections with his fans literally saved his career (one of his fans helped him get a loan at a bank, another secure office building) he wanted to make a game celebrating connections.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/hideo-kojima-owes-death-stranding-success-bank-manager-fan-10897774/

>>712529872 (OP)
I've tried to finish this game 3 different times now and just can't. The base gameplay is alright and all, but it's the constant fucking dialogue and tutorial interruptions every 15 seconds. The game is horrified that you might just decide what to do yourself of your own free will. I can't deliver a package without 3 rows of dialogue for the pickup, delivery, and then a voice call after it's all done to update me on the work. Shut the fuck up. Stop interrupting gameplay. Just get out of my way and let me play the fucking game.

Kojima is a hack

>>712544170
Sounds like you never left the tutorial area.

>>712544379
I made it to the 2nd act. It doesn't stop. It just keeps happening and keeps happening and keeps happening.

>>712544170
It's part of the charm
>SAM

>>712544526
As someone who prefers games with little to no tutorials or handholding, it is literal torture for me. I'd rather have someone hold a lighter under balls.

>>712544450
That's still in the tutorial area. Chapter 3 is when the game opens up.
If you can't even get through the first few hours of the game there's probably no point continuing though.

>>712544170
I may be crazy in reading too much, but I think you may be ADHDing your gameplay experience.
>3 rows of dialogue for the pickup, delivery, and then a voice call after it's all done to update me on the work.
This happens at vastly different moments: in the beginning, of course, and the end of the delivery. What are you doing in between? That's where the bulk of the gameplay kicks in. I find the moments you described as a crucial part of settings things up: first, choose the mission, select your gear, organize your inventory and go on your journey. The delivery is essentially "getting paid".
I just think DS is not for you, and tbqh is not for the majority of people, and that's fine. The game has clearly a fair shared of weird stuff in it.

>>712544919
If the game is still shoving tutorials and 6 cutscenes b2b 12 hours in, yeah. I'm out. Dogshit game. Dogshit designer. On the level of Kingdom Hearts tier handholdy, over-tutorialized, convoluted horseshit

I really loved the first game but I'm pissed that sony is holding the sequel hostage when it comes out.
I'm not buying your fucking console just for one game. Guess I just gotta avoid spoilers for a year until it comes to pc

>>712545168
Even in the moments during the mission/delivery there's dialogue interrupting the atmosphere & that's not even bringing up the 7 hours of cutscenes.

I know what the mission is. I just read about it. I don't need another dude regurgitating what I just read again to me. The game is genuinely insulting to anyone with a brain, which is sad because it absolutely oozes atmosphere.

>>712545314
It's definitely part of some deal because ever since TPP Kojima is very favorable towards the PC audience. Probably 6 months of being exclusive again.

>muffled sounds of Pop Virus in the distance
Yep, it's delivering time

>>712545180
Getting to chapter 5 takes like 4-5 hours at most unless you were trying to five star everyone for some reason, but if you were doing that you wouldn't even be seeing cutscenes or tutorials as it's not story related.

>>712545460
I don't really know what you are still saying about the interruptions, but the thing about the cutscenes is infuriating, yes, I agree completely. Having said that, I still love the game and again, it's obviously not for most people. Maybe the sequel will appeal more to people like you, we'll see.

>>712545703
>>712545180
Chapter 3 even.

>>712545546
Soul...
https://youtu.be/dQFQKgSPn74

>>712545314
>Guess I just gotta avoid spoilers for a year until it comes to pc
Yeah, me too, I'll try, but that will be fucking impossible, especially if you visit this place with some regularity. During the first day /v/ will be full of stuff like Higgs die, or Tomorrow is the villain (two things speculated to be happening in this game) with pics and videos, probably. I already made some piece that some big things will be spoiled. We have no saying in that.
I'll probably check the first hour of a few playthroughs just to check the new gameplay stuff, which I have huge hopes for, especially the delivery sections, atmosphere, locations etc.

>>712543505
And all your cargo is lost

>>712546240
And damaged.

>>712533013
The good parts of the game all happen when the NPCs aren't talking, which is less often than I would have liked

>>712534961
And yet the only impact it left is people mockingly using "strand genre" to label other pretentious walking simulators

>Releases a game about delivering parcels in a world where everyone is locked down in their bunker following a natural disaster
>A few months before Covid hits and lockdowns occur IRL
>Ryan, the frontman of Low Roar, whose melancholy music about connection, loneliness, love, depression, and perseverance in the face of adversity inspired much of the game's development, dies of Covid just a few months after the game releases
>At age 40, having lived just long enough to see his music gain worldwide recognition
How does he do it? You could not imagine a more kino series of events.

>>712546484
>covid invented social media and isolation

>>712541876
>pick delivery that can't be made without a truck
>timed
>mountains
>only way to make it in time for LLL is to go through BT zone
>try but lol lmao truck in BT zone
>end up getting giga nigga BT to clear zone for safe travel
>autistically speed to shelter
>pick delivery
>rush with truck in snow before BTs come back
>make it in time
>LLL

>>712546284
>>712546240
That's why you put up a postbox and store your cargo in it before yeeting BTs

So how long until postmen carry guns? Or is that a thing already?

>>712546992
I'm sure it's already a thing in burgerland

>>712534656
I've worked as package deliver goon as well and I loved the job. Get to drive around and deliver packages is great. Sadly I had to become a codemonkey which pays better but is soulless as fuck.

>>712546992
Its illegal but yes many already do

I used to be a mailman

>>712541876
>>712546703
This is exactly what I loved too. The game didn't even begin for me until I finished the main story and began trying to beat every standard order with LLL rank on very hard. I just absolutely loved stacking the deliveries, checking them off, completing my route.

Some of those deliveries had absolutely ridiculous requirements on very hard as well, requiring your sole attention. Many of those required a lot of trial and error, and combinations of different techniques, where standard methods would not work. There were a couple where I had to temporarily redesign my zipline network and used tools I'd never used. There was one in the mountains where I had to place a zipline perfectly in a mini peak in between the two stations, catapult my shit over there, zip over with a carrier, catapult my shit over again to the next stop, repeat, as there seemed to be no other way of getting there with that amount of cargo in time.

>>712547404
I hope there's even more deliveries like this in 2

For me it was walking through a door and knocking my pristine twelve foot stack which I had lovingly babied for the last 30 minutes over right before the delivery terminal.

>>712548705
out fucking played

>>712548705
>that one fallen tree at the wind farm
>think nothing of it, not used to taking stuff like this into account
>it knocks the whole tower over

>>712529872 (OP)
iktfb

Just working towards a goal feels good.

>>712548705
I remember building a zipline next to the doctor's house and holy shit that one downhill made me lost so many perfect delivery ranks because I would rush and hit myself in the zipline

>>712551235
This hurts me

>>712551235
Kojima made that whole animation of the packages literally exploding in the air just so it can be more goofy. He's a bastard and makes a mockery out of us.

>>712552282
I can feel the pain

>>712552342
Death Stranding was a humiliation ritual... all along

>>712552375
>that odradek going NANI?!
lmao

>>712551235
>>712552375
I love this game, it's the ultimate zoomer filter.

>>712553502
This was probably the single most posted webm on release. Just the sheer unfairness of it, but when you actually play the game it could have been easily prevented.

OUTSKILLED

>>712554346
SAM YOU JUST WASTED GALLONS OF PRECIOUS CUM CARGO

Okay so if there is a guy living alone in a bunker in the middle bumfuck nowhere and you set events in motion that make it even easier for him to live alone in a bunker in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, how exactly does that help with bringing people together?

>>712554624
>gun isn't THE gun
Picture ruined

>>712554709
Yo, listen up here's a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world

The game's biggest crime was not giving you this suit.

>>712554709
Bunker schizos only got invited into the network because Higgs nuked one of the major cities, so they needed to use the bunkers as jumpers to extend the networks reach.
They were never gonna be part of the plan originally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9e91hEi0Dc&list=OLAK5uy_kwlw7KVLaf362zTT8OkM1230RehKppZoU&index=2
This song speaks to me

God I hope you get some kind of walkman I'd DS2 so you can listen to music when you want.

>>712556020
i hope the lore isnt text walls this time around and they do it like in MGSV where it was mostly audiologs you could listen to while playing.

>>712556020
There is, it also has battery. You'll be able to listen to unlocked songs in connected areas

>walk through lush greenery with a couple boulders here and there
>even a small river over there
>nature is fucking beautiful man
>arrive at destination and make delivery
>go back to where you came from
>some asshole drove a mower through nature
>huge swath of grass just gone
>pick up new delivery
>go outside
>there is now an ugly ass brown path of nothingness snaking through the countryside
I hate footpaths so much.

>>712554709
Because at the same time you are connecting everyone in an internet-like network.

>>712556618
>fucking nigger built a massive bridge in the middle of my zipline network
>can't zip around because of it
>had to remove it every time I launched the game
FUCK YOU

>>712556679
Facebook friends aren't real friends.

>>712556980
When you can't even go out because black rain is aging your 50 years in the span of a few seconds while monster roam around and your only means of connecting with people is through FB, yes it kind of is, anon.