Thread 712813427

>>712813427 (OP)
clunky action, finally!

>>712813427 (OP)
>same slow jogging and shooting from the first one
fucking awful

>>712813427 (OP)
I thought killing triggered voidouts? Or are those magic pee/blood/poop bullets that don't kill?

>>712813427 (OP)
yea I'd take the walking sim over this any day

>adding more guns to keep obese mutts happy
What a hack

>Constant random Snyder slowmotion
I'm sure kids from 10 years ago would love it.

I hate the story and dialogue of death stranding so much bros. the gameplay is also endless tutorials full of jargon. kojimbo is a fart sniffing hack.

I hope you can equip skateboards to your shoulder and thigh attachment points to do max payne styled dodge jumps, then slide across the floor.
Death stranding has that kind of potential

>>712813670
The game is set in Australia, where worse this than void outs (being Australian) happens every day.

>>712813773
slowmo is cool

>>712813427 (OP)
It's no more a walking sim than breath of the wild, all open world games are walking sims honestly

>>712813427 (OP)
americans really got kojima upset, lol

>>712813949
kojibros, our response?

SO FUCKIN SICK BROOOOO I'M GONNA TOTALLY FRAG THOSE NOOBS WITH MY CAR LIKE GTA LMAOOOOO DEATH STRANDING 2 DUDE MY BUDDY TANNER AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT EPIC SHIZ THAT KOJIMA MITSUBISHI GUY IS DOOOOPE

You can tell how no one ITT played the first game because you could do 90% of this except for throwing spears, diving and shooting from vehicles.

>>712813427 (OP)
The problem with the 1st one WAS the combat, so if the 2nd was has even more, count me out.

>>712814021
Who cares? I enjoy no matter what reductive label other people think fit on it.

>>712813427 (OP)
imagine MGS 5 with budget and tech..

just shoot me in the head because we aren't getting bully 2 either

>>712814023
>kojima really wanted this audience for the sequel
what a hack

>>712813427 (OP)
>walking simulator
>has actually good walking mechanics
>is a good game as a result
it's that easy

Combat was barely OK in the first game.

>>712814069
I kept coming back for the deliveries not the combat. I don't now want more combat.

>>712813427 (OP)
Walking IS the most interesting part of DS and you already lost by ceding ground to people using "walking simulator" as an insult. Your video is just some solid TPS action, but we've seen this before many many times. Walking makes up a lion's share of this game.
Death Stranding is the only game that really tried to *simulate* walking, travelling on foot.
Something like Dear Esther should just be considered an adventure game or an exploration game. DS is doing somethning completely different.

>>712813514
I wanna see you aim with a gun with 100s of KG on your back, it is intentional, btw. you can remove your backpack for smoother control

kozima is really a genius for making snowrunner on foot

>>712814493
I wish the game was just traversing the world, overcoming natural hazards, timefall and sneaking away from BTs. Combat doesn't hurt the game but it didn't add to it either, though there were some fun things to experiment with. I'm also not a fan of the heap of deliveries and rank system either though but I get why they included them.

>>712814634
The combat is fun as fuck. Removing MULE brawls would genuinely drop the game from 10/10 to 8/10.

How many people even know that you can side-step, tackle, parry and taunt enemies?

>Just one more week.
Can't fucking wait any longer. I've been waiting for 5 and a half years already.

>>712815224
I literally didn't figure out any of that shit until fighting higgs, blew my brains all over the room

>>712813427 (OP)
>if you're too long in the sun Sam will get sunburned
this game will destroy my dick

>>712813949
>>712814021
The walking simulator is the best part of it
>planning a trip
>plotting a route
>selecting equipment
>journeying
>navigating
>getting over or around obstacles
This is all great
What's shit is everything else
>you like walking? Have some CARS and ROADS and ZIPLINES
>and how about some GHOSTS and ENEMIES and OILY WHALE MONSTERS
If it had just been a hiking simulator, it would have been great
But kojima gonna kojima

>>712814483
>I don't want gameplay
Lol.
>>712814493
>walking is the most interesting part of DS
Yes, it blows and is only carried by a mix of celebrity worship and balding millenials who want gaming to be a "serious and mature medium for adults".

>>712816553
My opinion, Kojimbo should either go 100% into hiking sim or 100% into infrastructure construction sim.
The idea of building up a road network to trivialize deliveries is very appealing to me, but its so basic that it feels half assed.

How people still don't get that Death Stranding is an action game is beyond me. Even the traversal part of the game lets you do so many wacky things. The game was NEVER about walking slowly from A to B.

It's about a variety of mechanics in an open world sandbox. Anyone who says otherwise failed to engage with the game.

>>712813427 (OP)
you did all of this in DS1, most people dont even know this because they quit in the first area.

>>712813427 (OP)
its like in development game where everything is just white blocks

Kojima is an idea guy. With no one to hold him back, he's just puts it any idea that he has, regardless it's fun or not. Anyone expecting the combat to be amazing in the sequel is in for a rude awakening.

>>712816776
No it absolutely needs to be both. The whole point of Death Stranding is that it’s a surrealist take on America’s pioneering mythology, whereby rugged individuals carved an arduous path through hostile landscapes and then conquered that landscape via their ingenuity and connection (railroad networks, trading routes, etc.). It’s why the gameplay loop is so compelling.

>>712817012
>action game
No. It's the same shit as TLOU, Dad of Boy, Hellblade 2 or Alan Woke 2. Crap for balding millenials who don't like videogames and just want a interactive movie.

>>712817141
I see this claim made all the time, is there any evidence that anyone ever “held him back”? By all accounts Konami was extremely hands-off with him, they’ve always essentially trusted him to do what he felt was best. This of course is why he was ultimately ousted from the company but still.

>>712813427 (OP)
More like running away simulator

>>712813427 (OP)
How do you make something like MGSV and then turn around and put out this absolute slop?

>>712817156
I suppose I want the mechanics to be far more autistic, like I want to have to put more thought into how I pack Norman Reedus instead of just pressing auto sort and be on my way.
Same with building roads, it should be more than just dumping resources into a box.

>>712817238
The combat in DS1 is pretty satisfying. Throwing packages to knock out enemies, ramming them with your truck, tying them up and then kicking them into submission. It's great and it'd be nice to see more of it in the sequel with a little extra polish.

>>712817418
>The combat in DS1 is pretty satisfying
Play more videogames.

>>712817308
Yeah I get that. This becomes especially emblazoned with the zip-lines; building a network of them is great fun, having to actually use them is pretty dull, you’re just pressing the A button now and then.

>>712817516
>Play more videogames.
No. I hate video games.

>>712813427 (OP)
nah it door dash simulator.

>>712816760
>>walking is the most interesting part of DS
>Yes, it blows
So you agree it's interesting but also think it "blows"? Please learn to write coherent replies.
>balding millenials who want gaming to be a "serious and mature medium for adults"
You seem extremely insecure about not understanind the game.

Average dialogue in this game/movie:
>Sam, it's FIGHTLIKEHELLDUDE, the ATs are attacking the base. You need to use the KKP to defend us
>Why me?
>Because the AI of BS is using you to expand the Shartium network along the coast of UCBA
>UCBA? You mean United Cucks of Black America?
>Yes, contact FARTMAN for more information

>>712814023
You're low IQ and cannot into introspection. If you would, you would come to the understanding that your problem isn't action per se, but badly done action-slop and over the top cinematic that dulls the senses and in a way, also diminishes the impact of action itself. It's why everyone with taste hates Transformers, but loves Tom Hardy's Mad Max.

Its looks like MGSV WHICH WAS BORING AS FUCK AND EXTREMELY TEDIOUS. MGS1,2 and 3 are the only good games Kojima worked on.

>more violenceslop
yawn, make something original for once.

>>712817779
MGS4 is actually the greatest game ever made.

>>712817771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcy7d2mNODw

I'm glad that Kojima didn't cave in to all the retards who got filtered by the combat and we're getting more Clifford combat zone kino

>>712813427 (OP)
the combat was by far the worst part of 1. just give me good walking simulation instead of more combat.
it would have been cool if they went in the direction of something like Spintires/Mudrunner, where you have large vehicles in horrible terrain with actual physics (not like DS1's shitty vehicles).

>>712817814
Life is violent. Get used to it.

>>712813670
the webm doesn't show anyone being killed, just robots being destroyed. we see humans can shot with non lethal weapons (electric spear) or punched.

>>712813427 (OP)
$70 to add gameplay
neato

I remember Kojima complained about Americans and shooters in response the DS’s mixed reception. But now it seems he’s trying to cater to those people living in his head rent free. I, like many other Americans, really liked Death Stranding though. I’m hoping this bigger emphasis on combat won’t take away what made the first game so special

>>712813949
that's like saying MGS is not a stealth series and complaining it also having action when you're found out or if you just want it to play like it

>>712813427 (OP)
>kill someone
>SLOW MOTION
I hate this shit.

>>712818237
This. Absolute garbage. Its like watching the fucking Matrix but nothing interesting is happening.

>>712818154
It's the same mechanics as DS1, he's not catering to anyone except people who liked the first game.

>>712814483
making a Director's cut of his own game by his own studio named after himself must be the most delusional pretentious thing in gaming to date.

>>712814069
Combat is fine. I actually found the combat in DS kinda fun despite how braindead it is. I just don’t like Kojima using it as a selling point, makes me worry that DS2 will be much more casualized to appeal to the retards that got filtered by the first game

>>712818237
It's to alert you that you killed somebody and now have to deal with the body.

>>712818293
Yeah, and it's missing the most important part of his original vision, so how is it a Director's Cut?

>>712815224
I knew about the parry, but how do you sidestep?

>>712818297
You know what really got people hooked on DS1? The trailers with Clifford. Combat was always one of the selling points, so why suddenly pretend that it's not part of the game?

>>712813427 (OP)
Game for literal brainlets. This is why gaming is dying because casual NPC's faggot troglodytes want to play games for "le story".

>>712818635
This. Death Stranding killed the games industry. In the future it will be likened to ET.

>>712818543
the only cut content

>>712813427 (OP)
Filtered

>>712815224
One of my favorite things to do is just bull charge MULEs and shove them. And when I’m on a good mood I’ll jump and body splash or knee kick

>>712818543
Monster was so pissed at Kojima for making such a shitty game, they banned him from ever using their products in his games again. He didn't want to remove it, but was forced to by Monster's lawyers.

>>712817012
Hi Kojima

>>712817750
No, I didn't, retard. I said that if you think WALKING is the most interesting part of a videogame, then it fucking sucks. Keep jacking off to "cinematic" normalfag garbage.

>>712813427 (OP)
What happened to the death stranding? It stopped people don't blow up anymore in the sequel?

>>712818293
Director's Cut is a meaningless term. Kojima even said he didn't like the term, but Sony insisted upon it.

>>712818543
This is my only real complaint about Death Stranding. Being an Xbox player, I missed out on the original version and could only play the inferior DX version with the “Bridges Energy” or whatever it’s called. No idea how Kojima could get a hold of so many actors and songs but couldn’t hold on to the cheap whore of an IP that is Monster Energy

>>712818582
No one is saying "that it's not part of the game" you idiot. Just not a very prominent one and something that takes a back seat for majority of the game.

>>712816553
>planning a trip
>plotting a route
>selecting equipment
>journeying
>navigating
>getting over or around obstacles
this sounds like nightreign, except that asset flip is actually fun, unlike shart stranding

>>712813427 (OP)
Reminder that this game is literally metal gear, as in exactly the same game with the same cutscenes, but whales and exploding people instead of metal gears and nukes. People who dislike metal gear are free to shit on it. My point is more that people who say this game is bad and like metal gear are weird.

>>712819238
MGS1-4 are masterpieces of the highest caliber.
Kojima lost his touch after MGS4 and has been unable to regain it.

>>712814069
I gave Death Stranding two hours of my life. And in those two hours all I did was walk slowly trying to balance 10 crates on my back while sad music played on the background. How many hours in before you get to the shooting and driving?

>>712819121
Real Death Stranding fans didn't run away from the combat and engaged with all the mechanics of the game. Don't get mad cuz you're a fake fan.

>>712818582
I didn’t say it’s not part of the game, I’m just worried DS2 will be “dumbed down” to reach a wider audience than the first game

>>712819398
What wider audience? The people who liked the mechanics from the first game? Are you stupid?

>[insert game people like here] is bad because it has [insert mechanic/function here that you believe to be insulting] and if you like it then you're [insert word that is generally deemed an insult by many here]
>but i like [insert mechanic/function being targeted here] that's why i like this game
This is every single Death Stranding thread, every single one. Will schizos ever learn? Will retards ever understand? Will shitposters ever get it? Trying to make people feel bad for enjoying something you don't like does not work, ever
What do you hope to achieve when your end goal is unachievable?

>>712813427 (OP)
you think they will invent e-bikes in this far fetched future?
you know, like every delivery driver uses

>>712819108
The Director's Cut cover and title screen are really ugly too. Who thought making the sky piss yellow was a good idea?

>>712813427 (OP)
even if it had fun gameplay it would be ruined by the shitty aesthetics

>>712819556
Literally the first vehicle you use. Yes it's a tricycle, but it's an electric all-terrain bike.

>>712819367
As soon as you finish the tutorial? The first hour is cutscenes (classic kojimbo) and then there is the tutorial area that has no real roads and is kinda cut off from the rest of the map by a mountain. This tutorial area takes as long as you want, because you can go full retard and get stuck delivering other player's packages if you are autistic or have OCD.

>>712818965
You are very bad at communicating what you mean.
>if you think WALKING is the most interesting part of a videogame, then it fucking sucks
Why?
>Keep jacking off to "cinematic" normalfag garbage.
Take it easy sóyjak. It's just a game.

>>712819550
>he cries THIS because people are saying mean things about his favourite moviegame
You belong on Reddit. Why did you leave that cuddly internet daycare for pathetic specimen like you?

>>712813427 (OP)
Never played the strand-type game.
What are you supposed to do in it actually? I thought all you would do is deliver packages and shit through rough terrain, but all I'm seeing is a spiritual sequel to MGS5 Phantom Pain

>>712819870
Strand type games have nothing to do with delivering or combat. It's about the asynchronous multiplayer world.

>>712813427 (OP)
It's not A walking simulator.
It is THE walking simulator.
Because there's simulation in the walking.

Everything else is a "cylinder hovering simulator".

low iq: walking simulator

high iq: cuhrazy action game

>>712819793
Oh god, you're genuinely braindead. Or just fishing for (You)s.
Ignoring.

>>712819397
Your webm is showing someone who went there to shoot at baddies because he wanted to, he isn't even carrying anything. Evasion is also a 'mechanic' in the game and something that's there for a reason. What's even your point?

>>712816553
I genuinely don’t mind it.
>>you like walking? Have some CARS and ROADS and ZIPLINES
You control the buttons you press but unironically. One thing I like to do is build roads but never drive off them. When I need to reach an objective, I’ll drive down the road and stop at the closest paver to the objective, then continue the rest of the way on foot. Yes, it’s autistic, but it’s a Kojima game after all, you’re supposed to get autistic with it.
>>and how about some GHOSTS and ENEMIES and OILY WHALE MONSTERS
The MULEs screeching at you every time you pass them is a little bit annoying but the BTs aren’t that bad. You can usually avoid them anyway. Besides, I like that the game keeps you on your toes. If I wanted a hiking simulator, I’d play Firewatch or something

>>712813427 (OP)
Tried the first one, I really did. It's just boring shit and the writing is ghastly.

>>712820093
You just can't actually explain any of the retarded positions you decided to take.

>>712820178
Firewatch is a better game by every single metric. At least it has a good story and aesthetic.

>>712813427 (OP)
guns? In my strand type game? whatever happened to clowning on americans

>>712813427 (OP)
>me when I filter zoomer trash and other low IQ scum and only people with high IQ get to enjoy my games

>>712820037
>press X to EXTREME

>>712820394
>guns? In my strand type game?
you didn't play the first game.

>>712820394
are we pretending that DS1 had no guns now?

>>712819460
The main "criticism" of DS1 in america was that it's a diddy ahh game with not enough shootan.
Hence wider audience by making combat more of a focus.

>>712820394
Always has been. You can even shoot the whale ghost things that are supposed to be stealth sections (using special guns/bullets)

>>712820306
filtered.

>>712820651
More of focus how? It looks the same as DS1. You have the monster bosses, the combat zones with Neil, enemy camps and BT zones.

>>712813427 (OP)
But I just want a comfy UPS simulator...

>>712813427 (OP)
HOLY KINO

>>712820819
Then pick another franchise

>>712813427 (OP)
Hideo Kojima invented this thing called "shooting".

>>712819460
A lot of the mechanics shown in OP’s webm weren’t in the first game. It’s clear Kojima is going for a more action packed tone to appeal to normalfags who were put off by the first game. There was certainly combat in the first game but nowhere near at the level shown in that webm. This isn’t a complicated argument, anon, no need to project stupidity onto others

>>712820753
The marketing campaign has been going HARD on "look look there is more combat gun fisticuffs pew pew in the game you'll be shootin guys a lot we promise"
It's about how much you'll be doing it. And the fact it doesn't actually look much different to first game doesn't make me optimistic.

>>712819367
Unironically the game gets much better after 4 hours.

>>712813427 (OP)
DOA. I hope Kojima kills himself when he can't blame anyone else for DS2 flopping.

>>712820998
Throwing spears, diving, being able to take off backpack and shooting from vehicles are all welcome additions. According to your logic they should have made the combat worse lol.

>>712813427 (OP)
Why does the whole game look like it was made by dragging washed up Hollywood actors into a mocap studio and having them awkwardly stumble around the.... OH

>>712814023
>industry stops appealing to dudebros
>everything turns gay and lame
I miss these fuckwads like you wouldn't believe.

>>712820651
You eurocucks always find a way to project your own bitching on to Americans. Sad.

>>712820819
>comfy
maybe if you are only picking up other player's packages or something. Game is stressful to fuck. I remember one of the mail centers had an incinerator and an enemy camp on the main fucking road. Just to tempt you into murdering the bastards.

I was actually disappointed when I found out my comfy delivery boy sim was ruined by uncomfy monsters. I would have preferred no combat but extremely difficult terrain that needed more gear and more plotting and even runs where you can't deliver but can only carry enough gear to set up the route for delivery the next time.

>>712821093
Kojima's words, not mine.

>>712821156
There's an indie game where you play as a strong independent woman coming out that's actually a comfy hiking/climbing sim.

>>712821010
It looks the same amount as DS1, you're just hyper-focused on it now because you have your own idea of what you think the franchise should be. (it's wrong)

>>712820819
Try Elite Dangerous, all i did was deliver shit to distant star systems.

>>712816553
Do you walk even after setting up the infrastructure?

>>712813773
It's literally MGS5, before you trigger alert you have a few seconds of slowmotion to tranquilize the enemy.

>>712821281
What "looks" are you talking about? Neither of us played it yet, but Kojima and the marketing explicitly stated the game is a lot more combat heavy, as did the testers.

>>712821404
>before you trigger alert you have a few seconds of slowmotion to tranquilize the enemy.
Only if you played on easy mode.

>>712813427 (OP)
>cant play the game to have fun because of all the walking and cutscenes
>cant play it to relax because of all the clunky action

>>712821468
Because it's longer than DS1 so there's more shooting to do, but delivering as well.

>erm akshually Death Stranding is too high IQ and you’re just too stupid to enjoy it
>erm akshually Death Stranding is pretentious garbage, Kojima is a hack, and you’re a cultist
I hate every fucking single thread about Death Stranding. It’s a fucking brilliant game that appealed to me on a deep and emotional level while also being fun to play. And whenever I want to discuss it on /v/ I’m met with either retards who unironically don’t get it and refuse to understand it or retards who can’t verbalize why exactly they enjoyed the game and just call everyone stupid. The only posters in these threads I like are the boomers who just played it for the comfy FedEx simulator, but to me Death Stranding was that and so much more. But God fucking forbid I discuss it with anybody or else I’ll be met by the retard itt shilling DS2 and deflecting every concern with “erm akshually DS(1) was always a Michael Bay movie and you’re just not a true fan” and the other retards who just go “erm Kojima is le bad because my beloved prophet on youtube said so”. Death Stranding is one of my favorite videogames ever but, holy shit, fuck every single one of you except for the FedEx boomers

>>712821576
>Because it's longer than DS1
Better not be. I'm nearly 150 hours into DS1 and still not done. Game has too much content.

>>712821404
that's not a thing in DS, slowdowns happen when you kill/knock out someone

>>712821653
You're not a real fan if you hate mechanics of the game.

>>712821653
>nobody understands it the way I did

>>712814021
I firmly press the right button.

>>712821468
I dunno what they are talking about. All I remember of the first game is constantly fighting the evil cargo cult, having to sneak through fucked zones and cthulhu monsters. Oh, and the fucking weather eating my packages. The only time I wasn't stressed to fuck was when I had roads set up and was grindan on a truck. But, by then, the area was technically cleared and I had to start another level with no roads.

>>712821657
Buddy, at the preview event journos got to play 4 full days up to 30 hours and Kojima said they played about 40% of the story. This game will be MUCH bigger than the first one

>>712813949
kek true

>>712821657
DS2 is massive
This is just a part of the tutorial zone alone

>>712821018
I don’t get this argument. I liked the game right from the start. The freaky and abstract setting immediately caught my attention and by the time I stopped caring about it I was already hooked on the deliveries and melancholic tone of the game

>>712821657
DS1 is only about 40 hours long unless you're super autistic about doing all the deliveries and finding every collectable.

>>712821864
why is he suck a retarded, pretentious cunt and why do people just let him get away with it?

>>712813427 (OP)
Death Stranding really didn't need MORE combat

>>712821653
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Kojima's work. The rhetoric is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of advanced philosophy most of the arguments will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Kojima's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these arguments, to realize that they're not just inspiring- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Death Stranding truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the claims in Kojima's existencial catchphrase "The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Kojima's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a DIRECTED BY HIDEO KOJIMA tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

>>712821653
>or retards who can’t verbalize why exactly they enjoyed the game and just call everyone stupid
can you?

>>712821894
The intro got me hooked before the game even started properly. I feel the same with DS2.

https://youtu.be/NA0xyTVjubU

>>712821931
>unless you're super autistic about doing all the deliveries and finding every collectable
But I am. I hit 5 stars everywhere about 80 hours ago and am now at 409 LLLs and counting. I will not consider the game to be complete until I do all 540.

jesus christ this looks like the failed saint's row revival which killed the studio

>>712822002
This is unironically true

Only on /v/ could people make fun of a game and call it a walking simulator then get upset that it has combat

>>712813427 (OP)
>you only hold W for 99% of time, 1% is pure gameplay!11!1
wow, whole 1% of shooting and fighting, this gameplay is fire

>>712821576
I don't think thats what they ment, it's supposed to be proportionately more of a focus. But it could also be marketing bullshit/placebo so we'll see.
>>712821808
Well if DS1 had a lot of that for you then 2 is supposedly even more focused on it.

>>712821894
I really do think people have a dopamine problem and that’s the principle reason they find the opening hours “so abrasive” compared to the remainder, when really it’s not radically different from what you’re doing for the rest of the game.

>>712819550
this website has become filled with people who think one-dimensionally with the cookie cutter mentality of "insulting = funny"
it's not good for your mental health to be here, whether you're one of those retards or just a regular anon trying to talk about video games
and those people will laugh at this post because again, they think that acting like a retard is funny

>>712822170
The nice thing about Death Stranding is you can't just hold W. It actually ruins all other open world games by making the act of just holding W toward your destination very boring.

>>712821062
I don’t remember anyone caring much for the combat in the first game, expanding on it hardly sounds like a solution. You also keep ignoring my main point. I’m worried that DS2 will be more casualized, but if you prefer a more casualized experience yourself then more power to you I guess

>>712819841
take a long hard look in the mirror anon
start being mindful

>>712822219
I unironically blame tiktok for that, why the hell do you think kojima isn't on tiktok but pretty much on ever other social media platform? cause he knows tiktok is literally the cancer destroying people's brain and overall society in total. That's why DS filteres so many people, if there isn't a gunshot or explosion every few minutes they immediately get bored, this is a huge problem. These people need help

>>712821762
AINT NO POINT TO THE GAME

>>712822219
>when really it’s not radically different
It's actually radically different. Game opening is 9/10 kino but then you get vehicle, learn that mules and rain are irrelevant. Game turn into mindless grind of delivering sperm, eggs and porn magazines from one not city to another.

You're basically forced into combat in the first game constantly or have to stealth directly through. There's no real going around possible which I didn't like. I think I made the trip to the incinerator once because its a pain in the ass to actually kill people and need to spend time burning them.

I want a lot more structures other than zip line spam which was OP. Once you made zip lines using anything else was pointless and you could almost zip everywhere door to door.

>>712822580
Exactly. And this is part of what makes death stranding so great, it’s designed as a palliative for this in every respect. It’s an exclusively constructive social media experience that deemphasizes quick and easy and mindless pleasures.

>>712813427 (OP)
Taking off the back pack type deal on the fly is a game changer

>>712820352
Holy mother of onions

>>712822580
Kojima's adding Subway Surfer in DS2?!!

>>712813427 (OP)
well I mean you do a lot of walking

>>712822727
Yep!

>>712822727
He is ancient fossil, tiktok is beyond his old bones.

>>712820539
Kojima games are for retards who want to feel inteligent.

>all these normalfags crying at the idea of a game having gameplay in it
Fucking lol

>>712823259
>Kojima games are for retards who want to feel inteligent
So a game for /v/?

>>712823213
Bullshit, he is also on the new platforms like bluesky, the only reason he isn't on tiktok is because he knows how brain damaging this shit is, he could have millions and millions of followers there but he chose the right way, to stay the hell away from this brainrotting shithole. Based Kojima as always

>>712818635
you just described E33

>>712819309
V is a masterpiece though
3 is slop tho

>>712820539
>implying low IQ millenidroids weren't the ones getting filtered going by the statistics

>>712821653
the first area is a shitty intro to the game, kojima shot himself in the foot by not making the second region where you start

>>712821653
pretty much applies to almost every game here

>>712822826
You wouldn't understand true hiking kino, being a kojima fan.

>>712813949
walking simulator is a derogatory term for barely interactive games in which you only press wasd while walking through scripted sequences. by that definition, death stranding is not a walking simulator. but it's obvious that discussion about a game would fail at such a fundamental level. people are retarded. and words have lost their inherent meaning and have just become noise to screech.

>>712824186
DS2 starts way faster to get going and the pacing is much better

>>712823912
>bluesky
It's the same good old twitter.

>>712824186
>kojima shot himself in the foot by not making the second region where you start
Yeah, you completely forget about the East once you get to the Central region. It was jarring to go back to to do the new Director's Cut stuff and finding there's actually more deliveries to do there. It feels like such a tutorial area.

I just want to take pictures of Elle Fanning.

>no PC port day one
fuck you Kojimbofag

>kojima 2019: lowly americans don't understand my games because they're not about shooting someone
>kojima 2025: I added more shooting because people seemed to want it
fucking pussy pussied out when he was supposed to double down

>>712824484
It is a walking simulator for the first 20 hours. Afterwards, you get vehicles and ziplines to skip the walking. You used them because walking is tedious. You went through the chore of walking so you can skip it.

Stranding genre

>>712825203
>thirdie thinks guns = muttmerica
lol lmao

>>712825203
Death Stranding had tons of shooting. And in the Director's Cut he added even more shooting with the MGS homage area and a whole bunch of shooting challenge VR missions.

Sons of Kojimasisters....we lost....

Koji saw the mgs3 remake and realized he couldn't get away with another walking sim.

The Cliff fights in DS1 on hardest difficulty require more skill and patience than any delivery in the game

>>712819192
rollslop

>>712825203
I think if there’s more action in this sequel, it’s decision driven by themes more than anything else. The first one was a pioneering sim so violence wasn’t the focus. This sequel, from what I’ve gleaned, focuses heavily on America’s colonial past/present as a central theme; hence more of a combat-focus.

>>712825096
based

>>712817949
This shit sucked on Very Hard, Sam died in like 2 shots and aiming with a controller is harder than aiming a gun in real life.

>>712825958
Yes it utterly blew. It’s a shame because otherwise very hard is the best difficulty to play DS, really let’s you luxuriate in all the mechanics on offer.

>>712825958
Git gud

>>712825958
>aiming with a controller is harder than aiming a gun in real life
Yeah, I switched to keyboard and mouse just for these parts.

>>712825923
sounds bad ngl
but then again no context as to in what part of the game it plays so maybe it will be better in the final game.

>>712827229
>mom i'm being a contrarian asshole again

>>712825205
why are you lying?

>>712813427 (OP)
I assume you still get a game over if you don't incinerate corpses on time? what is the point of all of this then

>>712828591
>he doesn't just bring a truck to load up with corpses and drive into the lake

>>712827915
contrarian? whats there to be contrarian about?
you're the one seething at Kojimbo

>>712828676
what was the point of that when you could keep enemies alive to steal free shit from them instead of wiping them permanently?

>>712828759
ah my bad, I thought you was talking about OP posting that webm again

>>712828547
I'm not, Kojima.

I met Hideo Kojima yesterday.
I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Elden ring meme

I met Hideo Kojima yesterday.
I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “OHOOHO RAIKU U AR DOINGUH NOW??”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “NANI? NANI NANI NANI NANI” which kept the cashier waiting. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him say "ambagah des!" as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen DVD copies of Escape From New York in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to stare silently at the horizon while looking back and adjusting his glasses, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the dvds and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “BECOS AM JERFF KEERY BESTU FRENDU” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s true. After she scanned each dvd and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept receiving texts where the phone reads the sender really loudly "NEW TEXT FROM.... BOYFUREND SCHAFER"

>>712813949
The walking is fine, is the shitty story that's the problem

Death Stranding is more than just a walking simulator. There is so much pre-planning: managing resources and planning routes.
For example:
Put my mission cargo on my back, add some ropes, ladders, bridges and whatnot. Then hit auto arrange lmao.
Planning a route? See this river? Bring a BRIDGE. Mountains? Bring ladders and ropes. It takes a bit of practice, but it'll become second nature.
I am brought to tears as I work with my fellow porters to reunite Stranded America. I will use their ziplines and they will use my anus.
It brings me so much joy when I complete a delivery by riding a few ziplines to Ubisoft hub #69 and seeing my favourite Hollywood C-lister thank me and give me stars for my workbook.

>>712813427 (OP)
I actually dropped the game the first time I played in the first 5 hours because everything was so convoluted story and gameplay wise, and I was not in the mood at that time.
Tried again a month ago and its one of the best games of all time for me.
I loved planning and going from point A to point B, walking, even when there were ziplines available.
Also, I think the greatest problem of this game is the slow as fuck start where you dont understand a single fuck of whats happening and you have to skip sidequests or you will never leave the first area. As soon as I stopped doing sidequests, the game clicked for me.

>>712832027
To be fair, you need to have a high degree of autism to understand Death Stranding.

>>712816553
i'm pretty sure they reused a lot of assets (and maybe story) from the cancelled Silent Hill game they were working on. the enemies were likely going to be in that game somehow. obviously the baby was, since there was a baby in PT

>>712832938
>from the cancelled Silent Hill game they were working on
Kojima Productions was never working on a Silent Hill game. Everything Kojima made for PT is property of Konami. He cannot reuse any assets from it as that would be stealing and Konami would definitely sue his ass.

>>712813427 (OP)
>unique, experimental, polarizing experience, something never been done before

>>712832579
Thanks for reminding me.
Death Stranding is much more than a walking simulator.
You get to.
You get to fuckin shower as Sam Porter Bridges. And look in the mirror. TAKE A DUMP. Maybe I'll throw this nugget at a beached thing later.

>>712813427 (OP)
I mean more options for combat gameplay are welcome, i often avoided the combat in DS1 just because how limiting and kinda of meh it was.

>loved the walking parts of DS1
>hated the combat
I'm worried bros

>>712834409
there is nothing to worry about at all, Kojima said so many times it is still a delivery game, all he does in DS2 is give you more options

>>712814575
I'm a former gorilla fighter learn2shoot scrub.

>>712835108
Kojima also said Death Stranding would be fun

>>712820037
>comparing a simple navigational feature to the sequel suddenly being all about Sam going in guns blazing and shooting people from his bike

>>712835583
Well good thing it IS fun, your ADHD zoomer ass just got filtered, try again in a few years when you're a bit older maybe then you will get it

TEN
MORE
DAYS

I have nothing to live for after this. It's sudoku time once I've finished this materpiece.

>>712814023
This but unironically

>>712835716
Nigga Sam had a fucking rocket launcher in the first game

>>712835907
No it's not cause in 5-6 years is Physint time, the Metal Gear like stealth action game not named Metal Gear. At least no sudoku before Kojima dies, frendo

>>712836701
I don't trust Kojima to capture the same magic of Metal Gear with some legally distinct Metal Gear. Death Stranding 2 will be his final good game.

>>712835840
From my perspective (correct one), it is boring.

>>712836921
Uninstall tiktok and never look back, your life will change for the better

>>712836783
>good
>game

>>712836998
Yes.

>>712813427 (OP)
>is that some generic third person shooting and a turret suection?!
>KOJUMBO DID IT AGAIN

>>712836983
Thanks for the concern but I'm not a zoomer

Kuckjima has never made a game with good combat. Millennials are truly the most retarded people on Earth. Literally no other group of gamers would settle for AI that stands around shooting at you or runs at you in a straight line, lmao.

Can't wait for all you brain dead millennials with your atrophied fingers to just die already.

>>712837129
>Literally no other group of gamers would settle for AI that stands around shooting at you or runs at you in a straight line, lmao.
yeah true sister just like .. uh.. DOOM .. uuh.. Half Life .. Call of Duty ..FEAR,, uuh yeah.. no one

>>712837129
Dude zoomer /v/ only plays games with barely any gameplay at all, hell, you play the kind of crap 13 year old emo girls do like Deltatroon, The Coffin of Andy and Leley, Life is Strange, gacha slop and FNAF.
And lets not forget you spent half a decade crying because Doom Eternal was too fast.