Death Stranding 2 comfy thread continued GET IN HERE PORTERS before a voidout

8 hours to go. I should have spent the extra 10 bucks

>>713639072
Hang in there porter

Chapter 7 now, just going to go back and do a bunch of side jobs to rank people up. Getting a suppressed sniper was worth it.

Kinda mixed on how vehicle-centric the world design is, plus how early it seems ziplines are online. Less than halfway into the game you get them.

>>713639303
The vehicles do handle so much better now

>>713639802
his son being taken is allegory for meta, gear solid being taken from kojima

>>713639957
Metal.... Gear?

Why the FUCK did they get rid off deadman in like the first 3 hours of the game? It felt really rushed and weird

PEKORA

>>713640775
yeah it was kinda weird. felt like he just didn't write him into the story and then later realized he needed to explain why

Why the fuck does Kojimbo keep trying to shove CHVRCHES down my throat?

>>713638470 (OP)
Is this still a delivery walking sim or is it a real game now?

>>713642571
because it's a good band

>>713642728
>I fucking hated the first game should I buy the sequel????
least retarded /v/ poster

>>713642728
bait or mental retardation
call it

>>713642571
>Why the fuck does Kojimbo keep trying to shove CHVRCHES down my throat?

Because Japan is entertaining Christianity currently.

>>713642794
>>713643016
Just ignore them or you give ammunition to shit up the thread

>>713642571
https://youtu.be/bv2yNre7saU?list=RDbv2yNre7saU

>>713642571
he has extreme shit taste in music. some of the tracks he chooses work ok in the context of the game but they just as often completely ruin moments for me.
first game soundtrack was much more cohesive

>>713638470 (OP)
SNAKEEEEEEEEEEEEE

So do you guys like the game?

>>713638470 (OP)
Why didnt he use a gun when protecting the baby in the opening cutscene?

>>713643923
he isn't even there you dumbfuck shitposting fag. do you have nothing better to do than ask insane questions about a game you have not and will not ever play?

>>713644132
bro you good

KOJIMA REMOVE THE FUCKING VTUBER FROM YOUR GAME

>>713644256
kill yourself freak. he doesn't defend a baby in the opening cutscene. you are mentally ill.

>>713642794
>>713643016
>>713643084
I was being genuine.
I saw another anon post about gun upgrades or something

>>713644673
There's fully fleshed out combat now, yeah. Not quite MGSV levels though, but it's close. The traversal system is still foundational though so if you don't like the walking simulator aspects then I doubt you'd want to buy.

I love Sam

>>713644673
There are guns in the first game too and yes you can use them if you do so accordingly by their variants

>>713645339
I truly love his acting. Literally 60% of my laugh is contributed by Sam

Like the story but it feels like is just here to connect to a Death stranding 3.

>>713645557
He really feels so much more alive in DS2 which makes sense now that he has a reason to live

>>713645603
Unironically yes. Kojima will continue the series to V and hop off

very minor spoiler but near the beginning when the guy said he doesn't have a BB for Sam to use and he is like
It's fine I leveled up my DOOMS bro
it absolutely slayed me. I guess it's better for gameplay but what an unbelievably shitty and lazy excuse and line

>discuss how we walked forwards for 2 hours and then watched 40 minute cutscene with C list actors appearing bcs Kojima cant actually get any high profile actors to sign up for his slop
do snoygroids really?

>>713645749
Is there anything in the lore that says you can't level up your DOOMs?

>>713638470 (OP)
>Loose the baby besides being a chance she is stranded
>Get suicidal again with le gun

Cant really like Sam given how much of a faggot he is and how he saved the world by baby crying in first game

>>713645971
He's like a 40 year old Shinji give him a break for gods sake

>>713645970
it was certainly implied in the first game but that's not really the issue. its just glossed over so quickly, did he do something to increase his DOOMS? is it a side effect of using a BB for so long? just seems like Kojima didn't want to deal with the BB shit anymore and then STILL found a reason to give you a BB for the entire game

>>713645971
I don’t want to spoil you but there is a reason anon…

>>713645971
if I couldn't die I would kill myself like that every day for fun

>>713646179
DOOMs is basically just the level of a connection that you have with the other side. So interacting with the afterlife in any way could increase it. Sam definitely did plenty of that. I was honestly surprised that his DOOMs is so low in DS1.

The afterlife in Death Stranding is absolutely horrifying

>>713646584
nobody has gone past the Beach right? so we know there's a shitty ass purgatory that smells like rotting fish but what happens when you leave the beach and cross to the other side? maybe it kicks ass

>>713646669
>>713646584
tsh that's why you bring coins to the after life for the boat man

>>713638470 (OP)
Is this just more of the first game? I thought it was boring.

Is it possible to play DS2 on ps4 using premium sub? Is it available for streaming yet?

>>713646869
>tsh that's why you bring coins to the after life for the boat man

yes, to cross the sanzu river you need 6 mon. It's very japanese.

>>713646669
maybe you just get reborn again

Does this game still have the surreal horror elements of the first one?

Uh oh /v/

>>713639420
The physics is still weird though. Sometimes they are too heavy to catch any air and other things you can pop a wheelie with ease.

i just heard a youtuber say kojima put a bunch of leftist shit in the game and there is a bunch of gay sex shit in the game too is that true? because lmfao if so

>>713648395
No, the game is pro-natalism, anti government surveillance and anti covid restrictions, so it's hardly leftist.

>>713648523
>the sole webm in the thread
Power of the PS5?

>>713647565
japs stole that from the greeks

>>713648523
Kojima is so based

>>713648954
>>the sole webm
Are you retard by any chance?

>>713648523
This is animal abuse

>>713643393
They all look happy and healthy to me. Well, most of them anyway.

>>713643393
How are people still surprised Kojima is a kneejerking westaboo?

>>713649363
They all look happy and healthy to me. Well, most of them anyway.

Anons that are already playing, how is the photo mode there exactly with the girls? Is it that one time thing when they ask you to take a photo of them or you can actually customize the girls and take photos of them any time you're in the DHV Mangellan?

>>713638470 (OP)
is mamoru oshii somewhat involved in this? the barefoot girl reminds me of his movies a lot

>already played over 10 hours in two days
>having to go to work is suffering when all I'm thinking of is finishing fucking work and going back home to play ds2
Growing up fucking sucks. I wish I was a kid playing this game during my summer break.

>>713649753
Kojima put him in the game

VGH SOVL

>>713649452
>>713649560
I hate, you, Kojima, so much.Your game sucks and is a piece of shit. Making people pay up 70 bucks to fucking work. Why?

>>713648484
ok good is the gay sex shit true?

>>713649882
the fuck
don't tell me i need a fucking ps5 to play this please

>>713650032
dude there is literally a guy complaining about having to work instead of playing DS2 few posts above you

>>713650082
No

>>713650139
Then he should fucking change jobs and get a better one? It doesn't matter, playing Death Stranding is a tedious fucking shitty job.

>>713650082
Yes. Sam and Higgs have gay sweaty sex on the beach.

>>713649831
>physicalfag
>game doesn't come out until tomorrow
>booked the day off on Friday but still need to wait
Shit sucks

>>713645557
He like simultaneously feels really stiff and forced and incredibly organic like Sam the character just has low functioning autism and it makes him way more endearing.

>>713648523
>>713649452
>>713649560
Sam's cute wife and her two girlfriends

Lea with a beret is cute.

>>713650229
>>713650245
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3a9znWqmdE

6:12

im personally waiting for a pc port im just wondering desu

>>713650480
She's french tho

So are Neil and Lucy Fragile's parents?

>>713650847
You mean Tomorrow/Lou?
The answer is no.

Gimme a QRD of the first game, at that time I was young, zoomerlike and had no interest in a walking sim. Now im old, my bones are cracking and brittle and im looking to settle down for calmer games

>DOOD IT'S THAT CELEB FROM [random slop]
God Kojima is such a fucking hack.

>>713650991
DS1 was full of this so it's a bit late to sperg out

>>713650968
Walking such a thin line, Idira... My manslut can gut you before you can blink, and I wouldn't either. X.C. and Heinken boi would really like you in their cage too. Brave or stupid is the question?

>>713650968
There is a well-done ds1 summary at the beginning of ds2

>>713650991
Who?

>>713651130
The band that made the ending song for the first game

>>713650968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58vDF0sw2U

Can I chuck the baby off a cliff and play the game properly or is it still a forced shit stain that ruins the entire experience? I know nothing about this game and have not seen anything other than the spammed OP shill images

>>713650991
imagine recognizing these people holy shit

So did kojimbo add himself in this game too?

>>713651228
>I know nothing about the game
>but I'm angry about something for some reason
anon what the fuck are you even talking about? the baby isn't a forced shit stain and it doesn't ruin anything lmao fuck off

>>713651261
He appeared in his last 2 games so probably. I haven't seen it yet

>>713649780
Did Kojima seriously watch the Sam Lake funny dance at the Game Awards and thought "You know what? I want one in my game too!"?

>>713651228
Given that this is at the very minimum, the 2nd time you've asked this question I'm going to take it that you don't actually know nothing about this game. You mentally ill tranny freak. Kill yourself.

Man Higgs went out like a bitch.
AGAIN.
Kojima really gonna make me jam out with him at the end of existence then have him get eaten by a giant baby.

>>713651345
Did you forget death stranding 1 (the first game, that this one is a sequel to) existed? Nigger fucking retard never reply to me again

>>713651381
He's coming back for DS3 I'm sure. It will be like a running joke.

I'm waiting for tomorrow. Redpill me on Peko being in it

>>713651437
I really don't want him to. He's kind of lame. It's really weird. Like everything about him should be awesome but he just kind says cryptic shit, whines, then dies. Make a new villain.

>>713651381
they took an edgelord character and turned him fagcore. kojima can insist it's hair metal all he wants, it fucking ain't. Troy Baker is annoying as fuck so it's kinda fun to see him getting so thoroughly embarrassed but it's still weird as hell and should have just been a new character entirely

>>713651420

>>713651525
She's in it. Consider yourself repilled

is lou really dead? please tell me if you find him alive later on without spoiling anything else

>>713651538
>>713651381
Everything about him was just a huge repeat of 1. Probably the weakest part of the game.

>Make the same game again and again
Konami should have fired Kojima after MGS2.
I'll put him in the hack bag alongside Mikami, Kamiya and Suda.

>>713651635
bitch half the characters are "dead" it's completely meaningless in this world

>>713643706
Yes. It's DS1 but better in every way. Can't imagine anyone that played and liked the first one being disappointed with DS2.

>>713651635
>him
yes, you'll find HER again later

>>713651538
Higgs is the best part of both games

>>713651721
Quite literally the only thing I'm somewhat disappointed with so far is how traversal feels a fair bit easier in this compared to the 1st due to how quickly you unlock broken tools but I don't know if the game introduces new environmental challenges later on so I'll hold off on saying this is criticism for now. Outside of that yeah literally better in every single way.

>>713651437
>he thinks we're getting a third game

when is later?
also >her

>>713651884
We are probably getting way more than that considering that Kojima talked about visiting other continents through the plate gate and handing off the series to other directors

>>713648484
>>713650082
Kojima hates chuds and I love watching you cope about it.

>>713651950
did you even play the first game? yes, >her and later as in further into the game than you are now, Mr please don't spoil it

>>713651964
Anon, the real world is collapsing and the videogame industry is doing that even faster. If it ever happens, it won't have any grandiose scope like all the fancy mocapped cutscenes Kojimbo loves so much.

>>713651420
the one you didn't play, faggot?

>>713652093
Yeah okay weirdo

>>713642202

I thought he was going to be Alan Wake but he's literally who arab actor.

>>713651884
DS1 had little action. DS2 had more action. Considering the mid credits cutscene, he could make DS3 way more action oriented with Tomorrow as the protag.
I know he said he won't make DS3, but it's Kojima.

>>713651884
People said the same thing about getting a sequel.

>>713652015
im not reading all that faggot

>>713649705
Have-sex man

>>713649705
>Buck Brokeman

>>713652054
I played the first game 5 years ago and >she looked like a boy in the sequel so I assumed

>>713652160
Fucking kek

I'm Fragile!

I already like this game better than DS1 because it doesn't have Amelie in it

>>713649705
This is as cringe as Yasuke smugly looking at the camera before having sex with a dude in AssCreed Shadows.

>>713650126
You don't. Kojima owns the rights its coming to everything after a sony exclusivity period, just like the first.

We really need an option to skip the delivery dialogue.
FUCK YOU HACKOJIMA I'M NOT WASTING 5 MINUTES LISTENING TO SHITTY WRITTEN DIALOGUE AND EXPOSITION AFTER EVERY FUCKING DELIVERY.

>>713652524
It does but she's pretty based at the end

Sony should start licensing this engine to other devs. It's so much better than Unrealslop. They would make so much money if they started commercializing it.

>>713652687
you can you mongoloid fuck

>>713652982
Threadly reminder that this is what they took from you.
nuKojima is such a spineless buckbroken hack.

>>713653062
ill fuckin kill you bitch

>>713653062
Holding x is still too slow. I want the option to skip it altogether not fastforward it, you dingus.

What do we think of the pregnant asian

>>713653209
Fragile is for men. Quiet is boys.

>>713653293
press fucking circle or the pause button and choose the fucking SKIP option then holy fucking brainless good lord help me why must I interact with these "people"

>>713653390
extremely creepy smile

>>713645954
>thinking that higher level of profesionality of the actors can save the dogshit cringejima writing
do catposters really?

>>713653436
Did you even play the game? That's literally not possible in the delivery dialogue.

>>713653427
DS2's Fragile looks like your typical feminist dyke.

>>713653447
Why do you say that?

What are the odds this game is a financial success

>>713653567
ever heard of buttons?

>>713648523
>I hate women, unless they are cute!

Bravo Kojima! I clapped.

Eagerly awaiting steam release

>>713650968
play it, its actually kino

Barefoot girl?

>>713654004
Yeah.

PC release when

>>713638914
Where's Willneverbeawomanman?

>>713654112
In your mirror

Thoughts on Cucked Snake?

>>713654061
2026

>>713638470 (OP)
I literally just bought the game on the ps store and Im already regretting it...

>>713654408
He finally reached Neil Vana.

>>713654408
unironically would have been a kino choice for solid snake

i somewhat understood 1. i have yet no idea what is happening in 2.

>>713654606
Game is fun. Just skip the cutscenes and dialogue.

>>713638470 (OP)
mgsv is kojimas last good game

>>713648523
3 for 3?
is he taking each every night or is he swapping every day? is it his domain?

>>713654820
yes a clone of a yank (brit) would look like a greaseball pizza eater

>>713652015
i wish we could ban his game

>>713654906
I like the overall story, the pace is the real problem in that sense. Im still going to enjoy it, but yeah, the dialogue dumps and exposition are what make me kinda regret it for not waiting for a sale, so I'll skip a lot I guess

Is DS1 unironically worth playing?

>>713655281
No, just play ds2 in the current state

>>713655281
DS1 is in my top 10 favourite video games of all time and that is almost entirely due to how good the gameplay is.

>Sam also tries kicking his shoe off his feet after watching Rainy and Tomorrow play the shoe game
cute awkward autismo man

>>713655281
yeah. just be warned that the tutorial is way too long and has too much talking. but after that (and even during it but less so) the game is fantastic

>>713655516
Men can't be autistic

>>713643196
he's trying but he will never succeed. he will never be white
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQKZ5cgybU
Gladiator • Now We Are Free • Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard HD Film Tributes 2.79M subscribers 27M views 1 year ago

>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ykw2y8b60lA

>>713654912
no keith sutherland Metal Gear Solid is good

>>713651771
when the basedboy is the best part of your game, anon... i think...

>>713642571
He's in his white girl spotify playlist phase.

I heckin LOVE amazon fulfillment!

>it's another Z-list actor + shitty indie rock + walking sim game

Why does this game have 100x more cringe JAPANESEHUMOR than the first one?

There's literally no way we can beat E33 for GOTY now with all the pathetic gooner weeb shit in the game.

>>713654047
Ugly ass bitch

>>713657131
>pathetic gooner weeb shit
he says as he posts on 4chan

>>713643706
I'd have such sympathy for this guy if he just had slightly more motive to be so nihilistic.

in the first game he supposedly went from a good man to how he was in that game because Amelie told him it was his grand purpose to cause the Final Stranding.

now it turns out she backed out of this entire thing, so his reasoning for wanting the Final Stranding shouldn't really exist.

its very clear though in this game, him hamming up the big super evil villian is a facade, he's in incredible amount of pain and only shows it in this scene in the entire two games.

>>713649705
this is fuckin hilarious.

>>713657131
kojima is anti irony, everything he does in his games is pure sincerity, for better or worse

>>713651771
he is, especially when you realize his actual motives and thoughts on things.

he's playing an act.

>>713655962
and you think this is better lol

>>713649705
Bravo, Kojima

>>713657406
it hurts people who cannot be sincere and enjoy things earnestly, if you feel like you can't enjoy MGS or this game, you are forever scarred by post-irony faggotry and need to ship off to Lefty-town where they cringe at making their own products as well.

Is Kojima autistic?

>>713657617
med time. seem to be wearing off

>>713657406
It's an instant midwit identifier to see anyone call Kojima pretentious. Kojima is the opposite of pretentious.

>>713657683
>Is Kojima autistic?

Japan is different from the West. ANY japanese man would seem autistic and cringe to you, simply because the East is not the West

>>713657920
>opposite of pretentious
insists that his game be translated literally into other languages
sure

>>713657790
>tranny meds mention
ywnbaw

>>713658336
People really need to stop using words they don't know the meaning of.

>>713657920
Agreed. Everything he makes is so goofy and stupid, and entirely earnest. Sure he tries to do emotional moments and serious subject matter too, but the guys games are so batshit retarded I don't know how anyone can look at it and think that Kojima thinks it's serious business

Can't understand shit

>>713657258
He's just too far gone. Can't have his redemption, can't win, can't rest in the afterlife. I cannot think of a more tragic Kojima character.

>You of all people should understand.
>The loneliness.
>Tens of thousand of years of just... wandering. Without you... Fragile... Amelie... anyone. I couldn't fucking take it. And just... when I finally embraced oblivion... these dead folks right here... up and called me back.
>Four thousand poor bastards joined with APAS in convergence. To them I was another ghost. Just another lingering soul.

>>713658483
its a deeply fucked up fate to put on someone, even someone like him.

he should have had complete ego death spending that long on the beach as a physical being, the way he makes it sound is like he would have done anything to see any of the people, even the ones he hated.

why are anons so willing to admit they bought a console?

>>713657790
>>713658483
Anon, he got betrayed by Amelie so he is doing everything he can to screw with her choice to keep the Death Stranding at bay.

It's not like there's anything else for him to do anyway, he is dead and he doesn't have a body.

>>713642787
lol
Lmao

>>713649705
Kek

>>713658881
>You remember that day on the beach? My guiding light betrayed me.
>That girl was meant to be mine...

*strums sadly*

I love how he hams it up but also genuinely feels pain over his fucked up life

>>713638470 (OP)
not gonna spoil big time, just finished it.

basically there is no happy ending for Sam although he is obviously alive, part 3 is happening with another main character in witcher like spinoff.

lame and gay, deleted it instantly, will apply for refund cuz fuck making us suffer endlessly. In case of happy ending I would replay 100%.

>>713658913
gaymer detected

>>713659898
>plays a melancholy game
>feels sad
>demands refund
are you a woman?

>>713650021
do men really live like this?

>>713658403
you fucking moron shit.
he insists that his product be translated literally from japanese because he thinks his words are that important. how in the holy of fuck is that not pretentious.
>his dialogue end up being the most word salad there is due to his stubbornness
>>not pretentious
>like to shmooze with Hollywood degeneracy
>>not pretentious
what is happening today? who forgot to distribute the medication

let me help you. literally = verbatim

>>713659663
its fucked because before Amelie he was a normal guy, and she royally used him, for nothing in the end.

gave him this grand mission from a being that to him, is GOD, and then discarded him, used him to make a fake villain to give Sam a reason to act.

imagine if your entire existence was turned into the pain he went through stuck on the beach for 10k years, all for nothing.

Just passing by this thread quick, is it true that its more action heavy than the first?

>>713658881
I mean he has a robo body, he can technically do w/e he wants now.

he just has suffered too many years of pain to give it up.

he is the literal embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy.

what was the deal with Sam's fear of being touched in the first game? Didnt he literally gave a pregnant wife who died in a void out? Must not have been that scared of touching
and now in the second game he gives his friends hugs and shit. Was it just that kojimbo wanted some kind of "character progression" where he touches people again despite it being kinda forced?

Don't care what people say about MUH FUKUSHIMA MUIH TARD WRANGLERS MUH KOJIMA HASN'T MADE A GOOD GAME IN DECADES

This is fucking kino

>>713660347
He got that fear after his wife died. Then overcame it after beating Higgs, which he points out.

>>713660000
>wasted digits
fuck off, this game is pure suffering and you know it, only good ending would make it all worth it, or atleast let Sam die and start with you bs femitwat spinoff. Don't care, bye.

>choose brutal difficulty
>only death so far is the first boss fight

Like, how fucking easy it is on normal???

>>713660387

>>713648954
the game isn't even officially out yet

>>713660494
slugging Higgs in the fucking mouth over and over in slow motion was such a kino highlight of the first game. I'm excited to do something similar in this game
and no, I haven't been watching the higgs Webms because I want to really enjoy kicking his teeth in

>>713660612
You're gonna love DS2 then

>>713660520
the first boss fight is weird, made me wonder if I was doing it wrong because it's such a bullet sponge. the second boss has very clear weak spots and a more reasonable time to beat, but holy shit that first one is wack. And yes I was still getting the slow motion weakspot hits, it just didn't do shit for damage

And normal is literally the same game I think hard just does 150% damage to you. So if you aren't dying on medium, you probably won't die in hard

>>713660513
bro I'm fucking your ass hardcore

>>713660761
the boss fights have weird mechanics that feel familiar if you played the early Metal Gear games

Im playing the game on youtube and still feel ripped off. Kojima is so full of himself, probably think hes an amazing writer. atrocious dialogue and """"gameplay""""" this shit make nu gow looks like a masterpiece.

>>713660897
I was kinda expecting that, like pissing on the boss would be insanely effective or something but at that early stage in the game you just don't have many options. If there is a gimmick to that first fight and it's not just a dodging tutorial, then it's a fairly unintuitive one that most people will never find

>>713660961
Kojimas genius is he made a game that is enjoyable to play but utterly brain numbing to watch. it's not for your generation I'm sorry

>>713660387

>>713660531
absolute genius
he cracked the code

>>713661095
god this game sucked but i don't think there is a single person who didn't smile at this shit

There are people who bought the digital deluxe version so they can have two days early access....

>>713661196
kek you must be really shit at gaming sister

>>713660387
>>713661095
Too much F-bombs for this scene, did Kojima let Norman and Troy write this scene?

He’s literally us, /v/

>>713661748
The whole world is at stake what do you expect? Gotta blow off some steam.

> amazon didn't ship my game
> it won't arrive on release day

Dammit amazon... I should have bought it from Best Buy instead.

>>713661828
i like his hair

>>713661828
/v/ will cry and shitpost about kekkolding but I genuinely like that the Lucy part of the story was more fleshed out
In DS1 it barely plays a role despite being important to Sam.

literally onions-faced in real life when i saw they improved the ladder

>>713662176
Some things are best left simple though, DS1 was enough to have your Therapy wife and unborn child die.
DS2 made it a complicated love triangle and retcon Sam's child to be Lou. I can accept the baby being a special chosen one but Lou being the biological child of Sam is just contrived.

Is Sam even aware of Neil's affair anyway?

>>713638914
Is that refn?

>>713660531
>you discovered the hidden theme of death stranding!
>derivative 1 to 1 rip-offs of what came before in 2d games but now mish mashed in your 3D disasterpiece

literally a hack.

Why did they include a detailed map of the Magellan when you can't even leave your room when you're on the ship?

>>713662009
give them a break he has to cross a ladder over a river and piss on a ghost to get it to you

>>713662359
damn I wish I hadn't read this post

Just got to chapter 6, i dunno man Neil isn't Mads he looks kinda goofy. I'm surprised by the combat, there's so many cool things now, the holographic granade is my fav, it's like the MGS box.

>no building interiors
>cities are just backdrops
>your ship is just another private room with no free roam or ability to walk around or explore
>Sam still only interacts with other characters and NPCs through cutscenes
>porters are the only other characters visible during gameplay again
>entire plot is just boring backstory filler about Lou
What were they doing for 6 years?

>>713638914
Wow look at all those characters that only appear in cutscenes and never in-game and don't even have in-game models

>>713642728
It's basically DLC for the first game

>>713662684
Feels like cut content

>>713662784
The combat is literally exactly the same they just added some new gadgets to use at the enemy camps

I'm about 10 hours in. Game sucks. It's the same exact shit minus the novelty of the original and with Kojima gently caressing your ears with his specially curated Spotify playlist. Should have listened to my gut. Ah well.

>>713663012
it's not, you're not even playing.

>>713662805
>your ship is just another private room with no free roam or ability to walk around or explore
Are you fucking SERIOUS?

>>713662359
>Some things are best left simple though, DS1 was enough to have your Therapy wife and unborn child die.
I agree 100%, adding all this on top makes it seem like Kojima is just making it up as he goes along, like he knew DS was just gonna be one game until he realized he could make a sequel.

>>713662805
Kojima Productions only has 200 employees and at least 50 of them are probably dedicated just to the extensive mocap and cutscenes. There aren't that many people actually involved in working on the game part

SAY SOMETHING I'M GIVING UP ON YOU

>>713638470 (OP)
what streamer should I watch play this game?

>>713661341
get a job shitlicker

>higgs is evil because... he hates living forever just like sam
bravo hideo, bravo kojima

Why was Kojima so worried about spoilers leaking? The whole game is a fucking nothingburger and just a retread of the first one's plot.
Anons on /v/ actually thought this game was gonna be full on RUSECRUISE with Tomorrow or Neil being playable in the 2nd half but there weren't any interesting twists at all.

Why is there a DS2 if, at the end of DS1, the world is kind of saved?

>>713663709
Money

>>713638730
Against all sense, I really wish he had been redeemed even if he couldn't be.

>>713663440
>There aren't that many people actually involved in working on the game part
Wow seems like a major oversight for a video game project, even if it is an overly cinematic game.

$50 says Kojima has pissed on a girl's feet before without consent

How much bribe money did kojima get for making the launch a timed sony exclusive?

>>713663745
It'd be better if he just wasn't in the game and we got an actual new villain

>>713663829
Probably several million. It's a good deal for him because they got to focus on a single console stable launch and now will have 6-8 months to really make the OC port not shit

>>713663829
vice versa actually, kojima gets full access to the decima engine with all the tech improvements of guerillas work on it and playstation gets a timed exclusive.

also sony got the movie publishing rights

I like how everyone was speculating why Sam's hair was gray in the trailer aboard the Magellan and the truth is he just dyes his hair. I actually laughed out loud when that happened since so many people were theorizing about it.

This game could've been an email

>>713663829
A part of the budget and the decima engine

>>713639802
Even the field font is right out of MGSV. God, I could not have asked for a better successor.

>>713653641
>short hair = feminist dyke
twitter brainrot

>>713663670
>Why was Kojima so worried about spoilers leaking? The whole game is a fucking nothingburger and just a retread of the first one's plot
…has it occurred to you this is probably why? Kojima wants to cover up how he’s more obsessed with movie shots than any story of actual substance

So was lucy originally some blonde bitch or are there two

>>713662805
>>no building interiors
>>cities are just backdrops
>>your ship is just another private room with no free roam or ability to walk around or explore
>>Sam still only interacts with other characters and NPCs through cutscenes
>>porters are the only other characters visible during gameplay again
oh yeah, sure. Lets make sure the game is stuck in dev hell forever.

>>713664472
Maybe she dyes her hair too, like her husband…

>>713642571
Chvrches first two albums are pure soul

>>713664472
They turned her into a hag.

>>713665119
wut

>>713663940
I thought that was a weird scene. Like less about "haha it was just hair dye, gotcha!" and more like, "let's do the same thing again. Same goal, same BB, same hair"

>>713664330
The cutscenes in Death Stranding arent even interesting or impressive, its just people standing in (mocap) rooms and talking. MGS3 actually had kino cutscenes with tons of shit happening in them

They took this from you.

>>713661095
>god this game sucked

Insane how Death Stranding is a movie game, a walking simulator, and still has some of the best gameplay out there.

>>713665294
hasn't it been awhile since then?

>>713660340
anon...

>>713665276
>let's do the same thing again. Same goal, same BB, same hair
Yeah i got a bad feeling there. This game really is just identical to the first all the way down to Neil literally being a copy-paste of Cliff

>>713663940
I thought the implication was that Sam was trying to kill himself using timefall, and that turned his hair gray

>>713665332
No. She is pregnant in that photo, so she should look the same.
They suddenly turned her into a hag for no reason.

>>713665389
It loops back around to being kino since literally every character says “hey Sam, go do the thing again, with your BB, again.

>>713665524
Kojima is the master of cringekino.

>>713665119
retcons are a kojima staple

>>713665119
Omg it's elliot page

SAM! you have to buy this game for AMERICA

we have to rebuild the gaming industry and you're the only one who can do that SAM

SAM

FOR AMERICA SAM

>>713665518
Wait, so Sam got cucked by her and discount Italian Solid Snake?

>>713666163
No, game hammers over your head that the kid is definitely Sam's. She faked an affair to buy time to get out of Bridges because they were after Sam's baby of a repatriate.

Which makes you wonder wtf Amelie is doing if she is going that far for her adopted unborn grandchild earmarked as the Sacrificial BB.

>>713652015
cope what? I'm just not gonna buy his next game which has a tranny

>>713665389
>>713665524
Yeah I guess he really did have it as a one-gane vision, and then people actually bought the fucking thing and he was like
"hory shit they acuarry like it" and just decided to do it again but bigger.
I appreciate that because I like the gameplay but the story can't really compete with the first game. It will never be as mysterious and compelling

>>713666308
>hammers over your head
Not when the affair is first revealed. They let you think for two chapters that it is Neil's.

>>713666341
The first game story wasn't good either, it was just less boring as a lore dump on new stuff about the Death Stranding as it was the first game in the setting.
Second game skipped the fluff and goes into a yarn ball tangle of cheap plot and drama. Easier to digest for mainstream but basically nothing new on the lore itself.

>>713666308
Amelie is really more fucked up than Higgs, who is just someone desperate for meaning (which she gave him).

such a.. thing.. should never have sentience, that's really the crux of the game, sure it means she was finally cajoled to spare humanity, but through her actions she caused the Death Stranding (which is wholely seperate from the Extinction Events, which are natural) which fundamentally broke the physics of this universe, likely forever.

Is Fragile's shit acting intentional or is she like Gal Gadot?

>>713665524
>IT LOOPS BACK AROUND TO BEING KINO XDDDD
It doesn't.

I don't get the appeal, I tried playing DS since its on sale now but it's literally just walking, lore dumps and NPCs that never fucking shut up. Got to the point where I'm skipping dialog just so I can go somewhere instead of listening to their nonsense.

>>713656886
It's more like DHL or FedEx chud.

>>713667287
Delivering stuff in DS is fun and kinda therapeutic.

>>713654882
Why is mackle blurred out?

2019
>It's not a walking simulator! Kojima-san wouldn't do that.
>Okay it's a walking simulator. And that's a good thing. Americans are great fans of first-person shooters and Death Stranding isn't one, it flies higher.
2025
>Prease buy my shooting game
Early reviews in
>I made it bad on purpose
It comes out
>Pretend to win

Without spoiling and no bullshit: is it better or worse than DS1? I'll buy if it's even just the same game with more content.

>>713666960
No, I think you misunderstood her choice in DS1. She was born a human but earmarked to kill off humanity from the start as an EE. She's been fighting the doom visions with her Humanity that she gets from the start of BRIDGES, the first voidout wasn't caused by her even if the power was coming from her Beach.

If she just followed her pre-destined path like the 5 other animals etc. Humanity would basically be instant nuked by multiple voidouts and overwhelmed by all the BTs of people who died everywhere.

What she did in the first game was to build enough connection with Sam to voluntary exile herself from the rest of humanity and basically suffered the same fate as Higgs until all of humanity has died out after a few thousand years more. Or not if Humanity managed to adapt to the death stranding.

>>713650139
He should change jobs to be a delivery man, then he can pretend to play DS2 already

>>713667920
so i could find the fine folk like yourself.
>ten steps ahead
little ol mackle
game's woke. certified
>https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/The_America_of_the_Past

>>713668312
Better gameplay (shooting, delivery QoL) than the first game but worse story because everything about the setting was mostly explained in DS1 and it's a clumsy cluster fuck of plots in DS2.

>>713667471
This. I've put over 200 hours into DS1. I just like delivering packages to my bros.

>>713667070
She's acting as an awkward weird person, unironically.

Too often people think that other people being awkward or weird in movies or games is just bad writing Mario and Princess Beach but that's the point, people are awkward and weird sometimes. Writing that never acknowledges that never feels real

>>713639420
>>713648242
do vehicles feel any good now?
i dont mind the vehicle physics themselves being inconsistent but the vehicles brake and turn so weirdly in the first game, even while on a road they feel awful

Higgs looks like Kurt Cobain

>>713668598
The reviews I've seen say that the vehicles feel better now

>>713668391
He probably got $666k in ESG bucks for adding that entry no one will read. In return he could afford Elle Fanning's feet for us. I think that's a win.

>>713648523
Apparently women behaving like women triggered a Gamespot tranny so much he gave the game a 7

>>713668315
she absolutely caused the Death Stranding by reviving baby Sam, which broke physics, Voidouts were not a thing before her, the past EE's just caused mass dieoffs in a more naturalistic way.

her saving Sam caused the Death Stranding, which let BT's in, which meant mass voidouts and timefall.

>>713668598
Keyboard control is different than controller control.

>>713668728
thank god, i dont know how games where you're actually using vehicles for hour can release in that state it feels so unpolished

i played through days gone a while ago and despite the bike being central to the game, to the point that theres a fuel mechanic and a bunch of bike customization, theres zero feedback in the controls i fucking hate it. all terrain gives zero vibration, i cant put into words how much that details disconnects me from the game even if the bike handles well

>>713668967
i mean that is a bunch of valid criticism, and summarizing kojima's style as "questionable use of tropes' is actually spot on.

>>713668976
Incorrect. Because in one of the flashbacks of DS1, Die Hardman talks to Cliff about a voidout in Manhattan

>>713668967
>Boss fights are unimaginative
Imagine being this wrong

>>713650968
You can't lose.
You can only work harder to win, because you get better things to win that way.

>>713665558
Kojima is in the sweetspot of unhinged fucking retard-ness, where he's skilled rnough to actually get things done, but stupid enough to do bizarre shitpost shit like "literal fedex simulator with antimatter ghosts and you kill ghosts with blood grenades and ride motorcycles and use fetuses to see ghosts"
it's extremely hit or miss but when he hits it's unadulterated one of a kind ludokino
and when he misses it's entertainingly retarded like a child standing up under a table over and over again and getting angry and confused why his head keeps getting hurt

>>713669251
caused by experiments done by Amelie more than the Death Stranding, which officially kicked off when Sam was brought back to life.

>>713668967
When you look at his review and he gets all vague about the alleged questionable tropes, saying shit like "you can just tell", you know he's full of shit. Also worth noting the faggot changed his name because he's half spic and wanted to cut ties to his "slave owner" heritage. Really tells you everything about this retard's mentality.

Is there a way to see a stat screen with all of your community placed icons and structures and how many likes each individual thing has for players? I can only see total likes, and if I hunt for things I've done manually on the map which is really unintuitive, which is weird since when you log-in it says quickly on the side what things has likes yet I can't find a page that lets you see as such in detail

>>713669347
I wish they had permanent autosave and punished you some way when losing cargo
when i first played the game it kept me on the edge constantly while traversing terrain but when you realize you can just reload it loses a lot of tension
im guessing the average player would quit and uninstall if during their first missions they had to walk all the way back to the delivery central

>>713669314
>confusing imaginative visuals with mechanics

COME TO XBOX ALREADY AAAAAAA KOJIMA YOU FUCK

>>713648523

>>713668967
Further proof that Gamespot don't actually play games.

>>713669723
>He bought the Halo box.

>I make deliveries

When pc

kojima is like tarantino, any slop he makes will get praised

>>713669642
You literally cannot die, and even if you did from a BT then it was up to your choice to accept the consequences. I don't know what happens after a void out happens, with permanent terrain changes or that the landscape returns over time. If it's story related like a mission then it's just a game over. Sure you don't lose anything but you neither progress from the previous shelter if you don't accept to continue.

how do people remotely respect game reviewers when they are all shills and liars?

>>713667287
Go a bit further. Planning routes and then trying to successfully complete them despite surprises and complications is what makes it fun. Deciding what supplies to bring and how much, because you can only carry so much. It continues getting more and more interesting and difficult until you unlock ziplines, which trivialize everything.

>>713669687
It's both. The mechanics generally work well but they're weird as fuck

What does this red light mean? Babby is fine and not mad, I slept and took a shower and it persisted.

>>713670631
anyone posting reviews here is being ironic or just baiting for views. nobody gives a fuck what game journalists think, everyone knows they're all either paid for scores or doing favors for favors

>>713670914
Are you using any exoskeleton, anon?

Is Heartman the director of Drive?
Is Diehardman someone famous too? Why did they leave him out of the likeness cameos they should have got fuckinn Bruce Willis

>>713671037
I am.

>>713671134
Bruce Willis hasn’t been sentient for a long time now

>>713668967
They don't even let you turn around in the photo mode and look at Ellie's butt.....what an overreaction

PC version when? I need the playable tomorrow mod her design in the ending is way too cool to just exist in a cutscene

>>713668391
So that note talks about everything related to 2019, which was when the game released.
The problem about Kojimbo writing is it tries to mirror current events at game release date.
But an elderly German man would never say that, because they were better treated than the Japanese after WW2.

>>713638470 (OP)
Is it out
I'm not playing but I want to watch

>>713672105
I can't play it because I don't have the Death Stranding Player 5.

>>713671725
Death stranding came out on pc 8 months later so early next year could be a plausible

If you like Death Stranding, you should play Alters. I pirated it recently but it's pretty good. Obviously pretty heavily inspired by Death Stranding but with a totally different story and general idea, which is more about how much different of a person you might be if you had made different decisions in life, sometimes even ones that didn't seem important at all. A mix of Death Stranding style gameplay with base building and resource management, and well as basic population management and control.

>>713671134
>Is Diehardman someone famous too?
He was in Cats, the musical.

>>713670914
The infinity symbol on the battery should also change if you are no longer on a power grid surface

>>713639802
Miller…

>>713648523
I want to lick their feet

>>713650245
You mean Saam and Heegs?

>>713652160
lmao

I love this lil nigga like you wouldn’t believe

>>713648523
Why are the wojacking?

Okay so they added more shit to stealth and combat, but what about the walking? Do you still have to hold L2 R2 god forbid you want to carry more than half your weight limit?

How much of the beach became his semen after tens of thousands of years?

>>713649780
Z E S T Y

>>713649780
there's no fucking way

>>713673656
fetal alcohol syndrome

>>713674184
FAS has no lip dimple at all

MILF

>>713671534
you don't need to be sentient to be face scanned and voiced by a different actor

It’s supposed to be a 10/10 game if Kojima didn’t put a vtuber whore in it

post the MGS 1 fight against liquid direct reference

>>713638470 (OP)
Huh so what the fuck were the reviews talking about, you can literally finish the game in less than 24 hours and that includes doing a few side missions. They were saying stuff like "30 hours and we are only at halfway" or "you need 50/75 hours for the main story"

I didn't even know this game came out. Did they not release a launch trailer or any ads for this shit?

>>713676078
It's not out yet. Only people who paid extra to play early have it right now.

>>713676078
Launch trailer will be up in like 5 hours

I'm going to be controversial
the game is a clear upgrade to the original in term of gameplay, even if it's way too easy. but in term of story and presentation I'm really disappointed, it has some good moments yes, but some are just weird for the sake of it, it's wacky for the sake of wacky, it almost betray the original game, the ending feels like some Marvel movie and is completely rushed (when I saw the part with Lou I thought it was going to continue here but no.. The president AI basically goes nowhere and feels like a bad version of the Patriot AI, Die-Hardman just is a funny guy now when he gave the best performance of the original? Speaking of performance, quite a few characters feels worse than the original, including Sam and Fragile. Thank god Troy Baker was here to actual give his best as Higgs. Kojima said he made Neil to be better than Cliff but in the end I felt nothing with him compared to Cliff. Also he basically had no reason to look like Solid Snake, it was just some empty memberberry, same for all Metal Gear in the game. I loved the first death stranding a lot more than this one.
Higgs boss fight was kino as hell though even if it was goofy it was just too kino.
But yeah I would not trust Current Kojima to work on Metal Gear if he wanted to do with with the franchise, I hope Physint won't be like this. Death Stranding 2 is still a good game but probably my least liked Kojima game.

The preorder bonus unlocks a golden machine gun early so I took a chance on it.

>>713676654
Whoops. Not preorder bonus. Digital deluxe edition.

Why were reviewer saying the game was extra long when you can finish it in less than 30 hours? I think the first game was longer.
Seriously I'm starting to wonder if the reviewers just did not play the first game.

Porterbros..I think best buy fucked up my preorder even though I did it a month ago. It’s stuck in “we’ll ship it tomorrow” for 2 days now and even worse I can’t cancel it to do in store pick up instead. I am seething.

Neil really died to protect a girl who cheated on him and it did not even save her or him, or the child (Sam was the one who saved her). Cliff death was a tragedy, Neil felt pathetic to me. Which is weird considering he was made to look like Solid Snake. I also don't understand why he has his own soldiers when he was not even a soldier like Cliff, he was a porter.

This game was already peak and then Kojima let me listen to Pekorandombrain in the music player

I cringed a little when I saw Peko

>>713649780
is this actually in the game?

>>713638470 (OP)
leaked pic of Death Stranding 2 for the switch 2

>>713677281
He is a human trafficer and those are his Mexican cartel gangs. And he did save Lou between when Higgs attacks and her becoming Tomorrow.

>>713678042
ah true I wasn't sure if it was all symbolic or not since the ending is rushed as hell
I thought the ending of the first game was fast but this game felt even more rushed, I haven't felt an empty feeling like this since the end of MGSV. Was it done on purpose?

The reveal scene for the Red Samurai's identity genuinely made me laugh for a solid minute, in a good way.

Imagine going to the voice actor and telling them that now they're about to drop the most fire line they've had in their whole role in the gagr4ysme

Kino

>>713676559
you just don't remember how wacky DS1 was
i don't know how anyone took the first game seriously. it was pure kojimbo kino, wackiness and all

>>713678145
I don't get how Higgs then got in the samurai body thought, that last chapter was way too fast

I don't know if it's because he worked on many games before but Troy Baker genuinely mogged every single other actors from the game, the others were between fine and actually pretty bad.

>>713678338
there's an alternate universe where troy didn't do VA stuff and became an actor, could've gotten an oscar.

>>713678445
I think him being a VA is why he shinned so much actually, he was able to go all out, the others were pretty stiff, for the real actors at least.

I DEMAND SHIOLI TO BE MY WIFE

>>713678445
no he couldn't have. he could have maybe been in a couple decent movies and if he was cast right, might have one Oscar nominated role ever.
The alternate reality Baker is his shitty band getting to play SXSW and SNL or some shit.

He's not a bad actor but he's not a great one either. He's got a good vocal range and a serviceable performance most of the time, and it's very telling that the famous voice actor chose to literally use his normal speaking voice for the role because he wanted to really focus on the acting this time and he's still the weakest performance of the main cast

So what's up with the president AI? I thought it was going to be revealed he's the big bad, then he pretty much fuck off from the game after his monologue. Is he a failed attempt at replicating the MGS2 Colonel?

>>713678338
Nah, the rest of the cast just does these fucking weird long scenes where they awkwardly stand around and wait to say a couple of lines.
Ironically the only actors to do any were Lucy's, Neil's and Higgs' actors. The rest just exist to be there and talk exposition sometime.

>>713678680
was he thought?
Fragile was extremely monotone. Sam beside for a few scenes was inferior to the first game, same for all returning characters. Tarman was bland, Rainy was between pretty good and meh, Tomorrow was pretty good. Neil and Lucy were good.

>>713678704
Yes, that entire story beat was just a retread of the MGS2 AI theme.
The entire game is like a Kojima greatest hits compilation, down to the final boss fight

>>713678830
It's like a greatest hit but none of the hits "hits" as good. Some stuff felt like a parody if not an insult. I genuinely don't know if it's done to mock people who wanted DS to be closer to MG, or if Kojima lost his touch, but in the end it felt inferior to both his MG work and the original DS.

>>713678787
Fragile acting that way is deliberate though, once that whole plot comes to a head

>>713678963
I guess you can turn it that way thought I honestly don't know if it's on purpose or coping

>>713678787
Tarman, Heartman, and all the people played by an actor but digitally felahsuited into another person's likeness get a pass from me because that shits weird.
Fragile and sam only feel like weak performances because there is so much of them. 90% of their boring shitty scenes are basic exposition in a blank room with no props and no direction. Of course it feels shitty, but their actual standout scenes are really good (fragile escaping with Lou in the intro)
Similarly, we don't get a lot of Higgs in the game except for his big scenes where he actually gets to interact with other characters and shit happens. That's why it feels comparatively so much better.
But the truth is, Leah Seudeaux or whatever her name is acts fucking circles around him in their shared scenes. He's trying so fucking hard and it's to his detriment. He's intimidated by his costars and it shows in the performance.

Neil and Lucy similarly are much better because their scenes have a fucking point and direction. Reedus is understated in his performance throughout but that's kinda his thing.

>>713678338
Kojima is like, "Unleash it Troy", and Troy became unbound on the stage.

Is sam’s ear bitten/missing chunks in ds2? Was a cool detail in the first game

>>713678929
>none of the hits "hits" as good
Yeah, I agree. DS1 had none of the weird copied-from-MGS scene, and even the Director's Cut DLC made fun of the idea that Sam would sneak around in a box. Then comes DS2 and you get a game that feels like it's made by a fan of Kojima, where he just includes random references to MGS for no particular reason

>>713679113
He repatriated since then or something idk

>>713649780
I'm glad they ruined that nice lullaby by attaching this to it.

>>713679179
They abuse that song so much in this game, for no particular reason too it kind of puts you off of it

>>713679009
It's clearly a different toned performance from how she was in the first game, and makes sense when you find out she's ended up a Ha without a Ka

So where is the shot of Sam walking to the moon in the final game? was this cut or it's part of a side mission?

>>713679231
For Higgs it made sense since he was stranded on Amelie's beach and kinda got crazy (well, even more crazy), but for the others it's just weird

How the hell did reviewers said the game was 75 hours? You can complete it without rushing in less than 30. Did they just bullshited stuff due to Kojima's "presence" or what?

>>713679248
>final
Yes please

>Die Hardman in the original game
>Utterly tragic man with probably the best performance of the entire game

>Die-Hardman in the second game
>Ah ah wacky man ah ah

>>713669391
tell us more about your boyfriend, please

>>713679362
It's because they took twice as long taking the scenic route in this interactive movie.

>>713679459
Oh so they are the ones who walked during songs? For me most of these ended just as the started because I actually was trying to deliver my packages fast to not damage them

I actually liked most of it, but that ending was terrible. everything so rushed. Plot that goes nowhere. Horribly bad taste to end things even if not all of it was bad.

>>713679608
kojima intentionally rewrote the ending after people like the first half
so what you're feeling is all part of the plan

>>713679698
Well this is stupid as hell, just as stupid as what he did with MGS5 and it feeling unfinished, which pretty much ruined that game reputation.

>>713679524
Yup. Kojima does not make video games. He makes movies. Pretend you won is a symptom of this problem. The game in video game is optional. The cutscenes is all that matters.

>>713679698
>I made it bad on purpose

I don't get how reviewers rated this game so high, especially as the first game had lower rating.
Sure it plays a bit better but it pretty much lost most of the substance of the original, is that what people want Kojima to do? Stuff that are just wacky and references to old games with none of the original meanings?

>>713679926
>Stuff that are just wacky and references to old games with none of the original meanings?
They want le wacky man and I think Kojima wants to be that now too, unless he's just trying to be what he thinks the west wants.

>>713680112
Honestly I'm worried about Physint, perhaps I'll wait for an actual new Metal Gear on the Konami side instead because I think Kojima might have changed too much.

Intro sequence looks cool above the mountain, but the presentation feels flatter? The first one has that scene with Fragile and the BTs in the cave, then in the first hour you see the necrotization of a dead body, Higgs, BTs and a voidout. This one has some wholesome moments with Lou which are ok, but then Fragile explains the state of things for this game, gives you some weak ass reasons to fo to Mexico. You walk into the Rio Grande amid a sand storm which has some cool effects but whatever and then you reach the first location and sleep, with Lou and kaiju sister gf ominous sequence being the most noteworthy moment I think

Man why are the BT fight so damn annoying? While fights against humans are pretty fun, BTs basically had none of their issues resolved, actually no they might be even worse because you have less platforms to use.
the only good thing is the capture thing but it's introduced fairly late in the game.

>>713680449
Just pretend you beat them and move on

>>713680449
They're a hazard. You don't have to beat them any more than you beat the timefall or difficult terrain. You find a good way to deal with them and move on.

>>713679698
I think he believes that when a series ends, it needs to be burned to the ground. That's how metal gear ended, that's how DS ends

>>713661341
What? I bought the standard edition and I got acsess 16 hours ago. How do you not have acsess?

>>713680590
But he literally said he hope staff without him will do a third game (like he said for MG ironically before issues with mainline projects)
and there's also an animated movie and a live action movie

>>713679926
the critic reviews make no fucking sense to me, like the only ones who reviewed it are kojima cultists

>>713680590
He never wanted Metal Gear to end, he wanted it to continue without his involvement, fans however refused this concept as they worship him like a king, even if he wanted others to work, fans would not let him.

>>713678136
Yes, there's a reason why the mid-credit teaser already has Elle ready for Death Stranding 3.

My guess was that this was a cash grab or more accurately a ztar-grab by Kojima to get his Hollywood buddies in a sequel as fast as possible to generate as much budget for DS3 before they get commited to other projects.
DS2 is more like 'Elden Ring' type of work where they throw in their best execution while the first game is fresh in people's mind to use as a standard for spinoffs that his creative buddies can use before taking a 5-10y break to make DS3.

Ask yourself, would you seriously consider playing DS2 with a better plot if Norman Reedus and Troy Baker was not in it?

>>713680721
He also spent literally years saying he really wanted a full remake of MGS1 to happen done by someone else

>>713680739
Obviously yeah, if they brought good stuff.
if there's a third game it won't be until 2035 at best, OD is still in development and Physint was said to be for 2030 if we are lucky.

>>713680782
It did happened one time with Twin Snakes, but yeah I believe he also wanted a second remake of MGS1.
Which probably will happen after the MGS3 remake if it does well enough. Unless the guys behind it goes fucking insane and make a brand new game instead (it be pretty bold)

>>713679852
The problem about videogames with stories is that you can't finish the story if you can't beat the game.
That is why successful games barely had story context or were based off existing stories. It was unheard of of a videogame to ever make a good story just because the gameplay limited the telling of that story. That is why everyone only knows about Detroit: Become Human instead of The Nomad Soul, or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt instead of, The Witcher.

>>713680739
>Ask yourself, would you seriously consider playing DS2 with a better plot if Norman Reedus and Troy Baker was not in it?
Yeah absolutely. I loved DS1 because it was a great game, the people in it didn't mean anything to me, aside from the great performances they did. But mostly I liked the game because it was a good game. Whatever big names were involved mean nothing to me.

>>713681308
Celebrities and cameos are a curious addition at best, in the end only Kojima cares about this shit,

>>713680449
>enter voidout
>deliver damaged cargo
amazing kojima

>>713681576
Kojima, as a westaboo, is trying to appeal to a Western audience that only exists in his mind. He thinks we're all into Hollywood and money and celebrities and such things, but those of us who are don't really play video games. Definitely not games like Death Stranding or anything similar.

>>713681576
But the writing is pretty shit.
The gameplay isn't anything special (and in DS1, wasn't even polished).

So I'm forced to conclude that the curious addition is the only reason the game exists. So Kojima can get off on imagining Americans and Euros care about him.

>>713681576
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>>713681779
Kojima is probably a bit delusional about how gamers view his star obsession but he is still friends with those guys first and foremost AND he made enough money off DS to fund DS2 and his studio's 200 employee unlike other hacks like Keji.

He is like Wes Anderson where he is able to give average to good exposure to his Hollywood buddies while taking up minimal of their time and paying a decent paycheck. His 200 game dev employees are probably slave drivered or geniuses in their own field to be this productive compared to other studios.

>>713680449
>He thinks fighting the BT's is hard.

How did you manage to ever play the first game before you had real weapons? I think the first story boss had you only using the grenade. The new game has you already locked and loaded with an assault rifle with the first mission boss fight.

>>713681779
>The gameplay isn't anything special (and in DS1, wasn't even polished).
while you can argue it's not polished in spots, it's undeniably special. no other game is doing this asynchronous infrastructure and hiking sim

>>713680721
>fans
Publishers aren't fans.

>>713683061
I guess I'd call DS1 uneven?
The traversal and delivery mechanics etc are basically immaculate, but vehicle feel isn't great and gunplay is a bit half baked - with that you can tell it's a second priority narratively but that bites you when you hit the mandatory encounters.
Probably an argument for the UI being a bit hit and miss as well.

>>713649780
ZASED

>>713638470 (OP)
Death Stranding 2 has the same problem the first game had where its impossible to care about or feel connected to the characters because they don't exist outside of cutscenes. It also makes the game world feel utterly lifeless and sterile despite the fact that you're supposedly surrounded by fledgling civilization everywhere you go.

Getting Villa Libre to 5 stars is such a fucking slog

Shinkawa's designs carry Kojima's mid writing so fucking hard

>>713683670
Shinkawa still owes me $50 for tricking me into buying Left Alive

There seems to be some symbiotic relationship between Kojima's obsession with getting major actors into his games, and actually making good games.

The actors do a good job, but that's not what makes the games so good. I suspect that people who have experience in story telling help him refine his ideas and express them in a better way.

>>713638470 (OP)
How shit is it compared tVDX40o the first one?

The new MAN STANDING update is hilarious

>>713683461
First time?

can I play this without playing the first one?

>>713684313
No, anon. The console searches for a save of a completed playthrough when you start the second game and shuts down if doesn't find one.

>>713684313
Yeah. But you'll understand less which is saying something

>>713684313
If you care about the story, almost no. There's a recap for DS1 but the story is a mediocre direct sequel to the first so you will be lost without playing DS1.

>>713684313
Yeah but you won't get the character memes.

End of thread and I just heard this song in game and it's the only one of 29+ so far that is special. I couldn't even find it on youtube for some reason. Give it a listen if you don't consider that a spoiler.
https://magnolian.bandcamp.com/track/rome

>>713684313
There's a built in recap, extensive logs to read that explain past events, and the entire first act is basically an accelerated replay of what you do in DS1, so yes, you can

However, it will unavoidably hit you with an intimidating amount of lore, and pre-established character relationships count for a lot.

Fuck Elle Fanning

Look just someone tell me, how many XL containers does the truck hold. In DS1 trucks could hold 28 fucking XL containers. I've got 1028 hours on DS1 and I couldn't give a shit about the story. I'm here to deliver packages. So how much cargo can they hold.
Also how much cargo can you load at once on the monorail?
ALSO DS1 had an order limit of 30; you couldn't take more than 30 at once without completing previous orders, which was shit. Has this been increased. No faggot here has actually answered any questions for us autists. Just nonstop story faggotry.

>>713685373
I respect you so much and I wish I could give a solid answer
On the plus side, if you have a bunch of random mats amounts across a bunch of containers, Auto Sort on your back will consolidate them into single packs
maybe that was a thing in the directors cut idk I didn't play that

>>713685373
Why would you take 30 orders at once? Not even the truck can hold that much stuff.

I wish the automatic request perk didn't exist, it makes player request circles really easy to ignore because you don't know if they're intentional or not, nearly 90% of the time with that perk active it'll put a request down that I do not fucking care about or need so it'll just make players ignore them more inherently whether you personally use it or not

>>713685373
Play the fucking game and find out. If you have up to 30 active orders then you aren't playing the game.

>>713685832
Very true. I have already tuned them out because they are absolute dogshit retardation 99% of the time, but sometimes there's one for upgrade material next to a road paver I haven't found and I just wish it wasn't so cluttered because that's useful

>>713685717
I actually like doing the logistics porn. Literally what the endgame was made for. Trust me its very easy to take 30 orders. Just think about it, select around 5 premium orders in 4 or 5 facilities and already you're at 25 orders. Dump them in trucks or private lockers and you're on your way.
Also picking up and delivering thousands of lost cargo to increase bridge link rank at the same time. Fucking sNoy storyfags will pick up this game once, play it for 30 hours and never touch it again. Retards.

>>713650126
Just bite the bullet and get one. There is kino there.

>>713649780
Kojimbo riked Alan Wake 2

>>713685901
I've finished the game and gotten 540LLL seven separate times and have become very efficient at what works and what doesn't. Its all logistics. I am playing the game don't worry kek.

>>713684571
bravo kojimbo
>>713684583
>>713684606

aight, fair

>>713685717
He's a retard who don't plan his deliveries.

>>713684712
that scene was so funny lol

>>713686268
Then you should already know that ziplines are faster than the truck.

>>713686410
Hartmann's gimmick is that he gives loads of likes.

>>713686425
Lmao you have no idea. Ziplines travel at 55kph and half that if carry a floating carrier and can carry up to 10XL containers at most. Truck still wins if you are taking multiple orders at once and know how to drive through the snow mountains

is there anything stopping you from just loading up on deliverable cargo and skipping the point of the game by fast traveling around on the magellan or does something stop you?

How does the auto drive in the skill tree work? It never activates on roads.
>>713686612
Get way less likes, thus harder to upgrade bases for new gadgets.

>>713665119
I thought my brain was playing tricks on me

>>713686604
I know, I played the first game, that's why this scene was even funnier if you played the first game too

>>713668312
better gameplay and graphics

less mystery

>>713668312
Buddy, have you seen the over 100 positive reviews on metacritic? buy the fucking game.

>>713668967
which is so funny cause if you play the game you would see there are some really strong women in this game... what a stupid fuck

>>713660190
Higgs never listened to the holy words of Dr. Dre and suffered for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-Pl9tJjaE

Lucy really needed to have her psychiatrist license revoked.
Woman layed her hands on TWO patients of her now

Someone post dollmans hot spring song before the thread dies

Honestly brilliant of Kojima to make such a boring and unfun first game that the only reviewers willing to play the sequel were those that love sucking his cock, leaving no one to criticize how boring and unfun 99% of death stranding's gameplay is

>>713687615
Sam deserved a better wife. What a fucking cunt. Never get with a shrink

>>713687615
Isn't there like some kind of guideline that you are taught during your psychology studies. Understand your patients, but never empathize with them. Something along those line?

>>713649780
>doesn't even use novel dance moves just local moms dance class gym moves
why don't they at least try to wow us with something by hiring a dance troupe to choreograph a few dances for this kind of shit? it's just so moronic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRsfrNsA1Y starting in 25 minutes