I clapped

is that george miller

Incredible

>>713941845 (OP)
Why did Kojima called him Tardman?? Is he jealous that George is a real movie director with his own legacy unlike him?

I crapped

when I first got to the ship and was like oh cool this is george miller and then the game introduces you to a talking doll and you go ok this is kind of wacky but I'll deal with it and then immediately after there's a mannequin with a face drawn on it that looks like it was done by a 5 year old.

It's amazing how simultaneously he manages to produce equal kino and cringe

>>713941845 (OP)
I got the clap

>>713944270
The doll isnt as wacky as I thought it would be

>>713944270
During that the game also spends like 5 solid minutes explaining how the government that isn't actually a government but an independent corporation elects the "president" and I have no idea why it has to be this complicated or whether or not it being this complicated means it's ever going to matter and I should even bother trying to understand what the fuck he's saying.

Would you guys mind not posting anything else related to DS2 until it comes to Steam? So far I've had George Miller and some VTube shit ruined for me. Please understand.

I'm stunned that there are still people who, somehow, buy and play Kojima games without knowing what they're in for. Either that or you somehow manage to convince yourselves that "no no no, THIS time it'll be the grounded, epic story I've been waiting for." Don't know which is more embarrassing

>>713941845 (OP)
>hires jimmy saville
based kojima

>>713944270
This is Kojima to a T; unironically. Equal parts weird and cringe vs serious and grounded.

>>713941845 (OP)
Bravo Kojambles, I see what you did there. Real clever. A true tour de force!

>>713941845 (OP)
Im 20% into australia, went on /v/ and someone told me sam got cucked by his wife. Now i don't feel like playing anymore

>>713952169
Why would you believe /v/ about anything?

Narratively, I don’t really get what the game is trying to say.
I don’t understand why Niel is in the game.

Stop coping with this shitty Beatles album of a game.

>>713953254
Yeah I mean, say what you want about all the wacky shit in DS1 but the message/themes of connection were so straightforward they were basically beating you over the head with it.

2 Feels a bit... aimless?

I mean this with respect, it should have just been an 8 episode Netflix series.

Do I really have to wait until the final hour for any of these characters to develop some sort of personality? I just can't listen to Dollman recap yet another cutscene I just watched in hopes that he'll say something interesting for once.

Final boss spoilers. I laughed with joy so hard at this. Fucking great

>>713950449
The fact that it released and it doesn't even have inorganic shills like Nightreign or E33 is funny. It and its predecessor are nothing games, budgets large enough to rival an entire third-world nation for plots and characters nobody would care to remember. Its like Avatar only with none of the success.

>>713956167
The concepts are too bizzare. There’s nothing to latch onto except for the emotional component.

Things like the Beach are too conceptual in nature to get a narrative foothold on.

>>713957025
I find it in reverse. It's the ridiculously high emphasis on solely the characters that really ruins most of the setting. You could easily do with less exposition, dialogue and focus more on the world building and it would fix a lot of issues with the setting. Instead of going with what worked in the original game (to a degree) Kojima just decided to double down on the things that held the writing back in the original.

>>713941845 (OP)
>>713955769
Is this game just "he did le ebin reference"?

>>713959291
The amount of MGS references is nauseating.

>>713959318
>nauseating
Surely you mean 'extremely entertaining'?

>peak kino in first 1 hour of the game
>rest of the game is openworld slog, every dialogue is overexplaining retarded technobabble over and over
at least mgs5 had cool stealth gameplay. I feel like this whole trend started around mgs4, the bright idea of huge open worlds just didn't occur to kojima back then, as he admitted mgs5 was openworld because he was so impressed by GTA5
>>713959291
yeah. overall story arch is very similar to ds1, but with some new characters taking similar roles and million pointless mgs references

>>713942009
Yes.

>>713944270
After spending the last 20 years playing his games, it's all just cringe to me now.

>>713953254
Nobody gets it. Nobody got the first game either. Even the actors who star in these games have no fucking clue what's going on.
>>713955351
Every AAA game since Uncharted in 2007 should have just been a netflix series.

Based old man

>>713941845 (OP)
Tarman has the best voice actor in the game. All his lines are kino

>>713955769
Why this game has so many mgs callbacks?

>>713947402
Dollman is actually really boring

>>713941845 (OP)
>game gives you a ship
>game gives you a map of the ship
>game doesnt let you leave your bedroom on the ship
What a troll job

im kinda interested in ds2 but, i never even played the first one
should i or nah?

>>713953254
>Niel is in the game.
Neil is in the game because Kojima decided to just remake Death Stranding 1 and Mads wasn't available

>>713960464
They are both very good

>>713948029
This seems to be a Japanese thing. Why is that?

>>713960387
Kojima probably misses working on a franchise people actually give a shit about

Kojima should've just made Physint instead of this pointless redundant sequel

>>713948029
>needlessly detailed background settings without actual meanings or narrative purposes
many such cases in animanga

>>713960464
You should definitely play DS1 before playing DS2. You really need to play an entire game with BB-28 (Lou) strapped on to your chest to understand Sam's connection to her.

It's on sale on Steam, so take the dip. You won't regret it.