Thread 714510281

So it's GOTY right?

>>714510281 (OP)
Lmao

Yup

Expedition 33 = Reddit
Death Stranding 2 = 4chan

>>714510281 (OP)
Afraid so

>>714510281 (OP)
still haven't finished it, but i find if funny, how that retard whined how he doesn't want to make metal gear games, but he seems to be incapable of making anything different. Also the stupid songs that play in some absolute stupid random moments with zero impact are laughable, i remember the first one having only like 2-3 and were placed in either emotional or cool moments/places, this is just " hey we had in the first game, lets do it again, but lets put 100 all over the place"

>>714510281 (OP)
Yeah it's definitely Garbage of the Year

>>714511682
>but he seems to be incapable of making anything different
He said people literally keep asking him to make MGS games. DS1 already was the farthest thing from MGS as you could possibly get.

>>714511682
Death Stranding has Metal Gear DNA but its definitely its own thing too, it's much more surreal. Metal Gear is more high concept military fiction while DS is straight up supernatural sci-fi.

It's like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta to me, yes you can tell they were made by the same person and they have similarites, but they still feel distinct from eachother

Please sir, when is Kojislop coming to Microsoft?
Unironically, I want to see what crazy shit he added this time.

>>714510281 (OP)
Nah. Our crispy wife's got this.

I love 1 but I don't think it deserves it.

I started playing the first one like two days ago and I have to say, I like the fucking thing. I thought I'd hate it like I hated RDR2, but it feels different.

What I do hate are all the mocapped Holywood actors. They even show their names when they're introduced.

But what annoys me most is the amount of cutscenes. There's so much cutscenes. I think I actually played like 30 minutes in the first 4 hours.

When I do play it's pretty fun, but I wish the game would let me play more.

>>714512543
It opens up when you leave the first area

>>714512754
I stopped playing yesterday just after incinerating my mom (?) and spending 10 minutes strapping ladders to myself, just before leaving for the first station or whatever. I hope I'll get to play more than 20 minutes before the next non interactive video.

>>714512543
90% of Death Strandings story and cutscenes are in its opening and final hours, there's a huge middle section on the second map where its mostly just gameplay like MGSV

>>714512543
>But what annoys me most is the amount of cutscenes.
Oh, wait till you get to the ending. The ending is pure Kojima without filter and without any editor that has the balls to tell him to shut the fuck up already. The game literally keeps explaining the very same thing you've already figured out hours ago five times in a row just in case you are retarded, to the point you are starting to believe Kojima is just taking the piss.

>>714510281 (OP)
how often do you have to kiss the baby and is being cringe a game mechanic here?

>>714513149
I think Kojima did this because he was really afraid that people wouldn't "get" Death Stranding, even though the story and setting really isn't that complex. DS2 is much better about this shit.

>>714513278
Actually you don’t spend enough time with the baby.

>shadow cabinet
I can't tell if this was meant to be cool or funny but either way, it's retarded

>>714510281 (OP)
>look at how many cheap hollywood stars we can fit in and make it weird: the game
Lol

I'm glad he just copied the witcher 3. Tomorrow= Ciri

>>714513914
He wanted to parody MGS2 just to fuck with people

>>714510281 (OP)
Walking simulator

>>714512543
Attention: this is a shill

>>714510572
>Kojima slop
>not reddit

>>714514112
It honestly felt like it was trying to have the epic moments that happened in MGS4 like straight up ripping off the ocelot fight but i don't feel like the series earned those moments. Also, shit like when the DHV mecha has to stop and explain that it's deadman and heartman, it literally STOPS to explain what's happening. Fuck me man, he thinks his audience is retarded.

>>714510281 (OP)
It's either this or E33 for me. Not quite sure yet.
I am also looking forward to Ninja Gaiden 4.

No one’s going to play this game lol

>>714512301
I love her so much.

>>714514332
>Fuck me man, he thinks his audience is retarded.
What, DS1 with Amelie/Briget spelling out the whole plot for you over and over and over again just in case you didn't get it the first time didn't tip you off?

Cant finish/continue the Mainstory because i am constant busy with murdering Mules, recycling their weapons and stealing their ressources for Streets & Railways

>>714512301
what is that face she's making though?

>>714510281 (OP)
Nope, it will be MGS3 remake.

>>714513149
You didn't get it. This section specifically drags on to show the player that time passes extremely slowly on the beach compared tot he real world.
Sam was gone for like over a month, maybe even several months in the real world.
When Sam asks Deadman says "you don't want to know"
He potentially spent an entire lifetime or more. Many years went by for him just doing nothing
A single second in the real world could be days or more on the beach.
That's why Sam puts the gun to his head later here. He has been there for a very very very long time and just wants to fucking die.

>>714514812
Sounds like a (You) problem.
t. too fast for mole mines

Hello Sam. I am Utz Ligman.

>>714514801
No, I did get that. I just have a feeling that there was a more elegant way to show this than some bitch running in circles around you explaining the entire plot to you even though she already explained it to me an hour ago. Twice.

>>714513149
>>714514801
I quit the game for good at this point - it was 3 AM and I had completely run out of patience.
Say what you want about Kojima but he has no respect for people's time. He fancies himself as a filmmaker but he only knows how to frame shots - he's got no idea how to cut or edit a story.

Anyone who says this hasn’t played E33. That game is genuinely unbelievable.

>get stranded on the beach
>never make a sand castle to live in
>never make a sand waifu
>never fuck said sand waifu
>never shouting gamer words
>never getting really good at being really bad at math
>you just sit on your ass or walk

>>714516118
I bet Higgs did all that

I caught porter syndrome again

>>714513149
kept falling asleep and waking up every couple minutes during this point of the game. can't remember how long this section was but it sucked donkey dick and achieved what it wanted to do I suppose

>>714516015
It's also gets interesting when you compare the narratives of both games and see that they are almost complete opposites of each other in terms of style.
Kojima is so afraid the player is going to miss his "artistry" he keeps overexplaining shit at nauseam, Clair Obscur is the opposite. The game doesn't explain shit, it just leaves breadcrumbs for the players to figure out. The only exposition-heavy moment is between Clea and Alicia, and even then the game has fun with it, by having Alicia be annoyed because Clea is telling her the things she already knows.

>>714510281 (OP)
Kojima won't ever make a GOTY-worthy game again after MGS3.

>>714514526
You aren't wrong but it felt like at least that was convoluted whereas stopping a fight to explain something is just another level.

>>714516907
Yeah, E33 has much more subtle writing that you typically find in literature rather than gaming. Kojima just likes to tell you everything the same way JRPGs do.

This is why MGSV is the most compelling and interestingly written Kojima game. It's an extremely layered game where 90% of the writing is between the lines and what is left unsaid, full of rich subtext and visual motifs.
It's the most show don't tell Kojima game in my opinion.
It feels like the most artisanal project he has ever done.
Kojima presents Death Stranding as the most artisanal avant garde, but does not reflect his in the writing.
Of course maybe that is because he didn't like that MGSV was so experimental so he went back to something he is more used to. He seems to really like being both super lowbrow while also trying to be really highbrow.
Maybe MGSV was too highbrow and was missing too much of the B movie writing that he enjoys so much.

>>714516907
E33 has the unmitgated balls to never show you the most critical moment to the story, namely verso and Alicia's burning.

nor do they explain or show the Writers in any capacity, very good shit, you simply have to assume and guess.

>>714517606
And the one guy who knows what the fuck is going on it actually working AGAINST you and deliberately keeps misleading you by feeding you the wrong info. Which spits in the face of the old storytelling rule of "the exposition dumping NPC will nevr lie to you"

the pc port is going to be announced at the game awards by geoff i can already fucking tell

>>714517363
>game that gave us vocal cord parasites and SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE, WHOOOOOOOO
>High brow

It's shit, you just have Zanzibart forgive me headcanon

>>714514149
VGH

SOVL

>>714518781
>i have shit tastes, the confession, the post

>>714512301
She has a real cute face and top tier lips but her hair is a huge turnoff.

>>714519103
>not liking short hair
FAG

I loved DS1, do you think this game is worth getting a PS5 for? I can't think of anything else I'd play on it aside from GTA6 when it comes out next year.
I don't really wanna wait a year for a PC release but seems dumb to spend so much just to play one game

>>714510281 (OP)
onions of the year

>>714519938
No, just wait for a PC release. PS5 is literally nearing its expiration date anyway, so it's not worth it investing in it NOW.

>>714519938
Depends on how much you love the first one, it really is a pretty straight forward sequel, not worth getting an entire system for imo, this is the first game since Spider-Man 2 that I dusted off my PS5 for, thankfully this is way way better at least

>>714519938
>I don't really wanna wait a year for a PC release
Death Stranding 1 got a PC release after only a little over half a year from the console release, like around 7 or 8 months I think, so if they follow this same pattern then I would say it's worth it to wait for the PC release.
Of course we don't know when that is so it could easily be a much longer window this time around.
Frankly I don't think it's that worthwhile getting a PS5. This has been arguably the most pointless and inconsequential console generation.
We are nearing the end of the generation and there are STILL big AAA games coming out on the PS4.

>HEY REMEMBER HOW I MADE METAL GEAR SOLID GAMES
>HEY REMEMBER HOW I LOVE TO BREAK THE 4TH WALL
>HEY REMEMBER HOW I PUT WEIRD SHIT INTO MY GAMES FOR THE SAKE OF BEING WEIRD
kojima is a hack fraud

>>714510281 (OP)
I don't think anybody played it.

>>714510281 (OP)
Yeah. It's got
Game
Only
Tards
enjoY

>>714510281 (OP)
it's an amazing example of how good AAA games could be. the story is kind of iffy and there are so many conveniences for the plot, but it still works as a whole. the beach finale was, for the lack of a better word, epic. Kojima actually fucking did it lol.

E33 has the better story
Blue Prince is more original and maybe edges DS2in gameplay
but DS2 has unparalleled graphics and animations. music can be weird sometimes but it has some really good highs like the different versions of the BB theme. I love how it doesn't take itself too seriously and isn't afraid to be absurd. It also has I think arguably the best third act in recent gaming memory, maybe even longer.

Some anon said you can get the classic Low Roar songs from DS1 to use for your music player in 2. Could someone point me in the direction of where to get them? I'd rather get them early to add to my playlist.

>>714516945
I don't take it too seriously, it's not a drama. it's a stupid absurd fight, enjoy it.

>>714520997
You get them near the end of the main story lol

>>714521401
Fuck

>>714511935
jesus. I'm not downloading this shit

>>714521475
nice

>>714516015
Get some standards zoomer and no, me saying this does not mean I think ds2 is worthy of high praise.

what do you think of your new Snake?

>>714520908
Couldn't have said it better, it's been years since a video game blew me away in terms of polish and production like Death Stranding 2. It's not just the graphics (probably the best looking game ever honestly) but the craftmanship and attention to detail. I've unironically soifaced at the beautiful views several times. It's Rockstar Games tier stuff, but arguably even better because its not constrained by trying to appeal to a huge mainstream audience.

Legit gives Lawrence of Arabia style vibes with how it just makes you say "I can't believe somebody funded and made something of this scope." Like you said, for lack of a better word, it's epic.

>>714522573
same. no game made me use the screenshot button as much as DS2 - it's beautiful in both cutscenes and in-game.
the camera system is stupidly indepth and the game has I think one of the best if not the best lighting which it utilizes really well.

>>714520997
level up the Adventurer. He gives you Low Roar songs whenever you need to rescue him

>>714510572
spbp

>>714513754
No, that's indicative of the way Japanese narrate their stories in general - over-explaining everything to the point of tedium, making sure to get their specific point across at the cost of everything else.

I've even heard a Japanese explain that interpreting a piece of art by yourself, outside of the author's own views, is seen as disrespectful.

They're just as much bugmen as the Chinese.

>>714523758
that's mostly shonen manga and anime
a ton of books and movies are not like that

DS2 is great, fuck you permanegative tortanic cunts

>>714523506
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks anon

>>714510281 (OP)
DS2 will get best visuals, but Expedition 33 will get GOTY.

I cant wait either, it will be a massive fuck you to squarenix after they said nobody wants turnbased games.

>>714524061
>that's mostly shonen manga and anime

And video games. And most Japanese television.

>>714524283
Dark Souls 2 is the worst in the series.

>>714524283
It's literally 1 but better in every single way. Only people who haven't played it that are just lying and giga contrarians actually pretend it's worse

>>714510281 (OP)
>dorito pope walks onto TGA stage
>tears on his face
>you just know his butt buddy kojima didn't win GOTY
>E33 fans starts celebrating
>even though kojima doesn't know geoff is his friend
>"A-A-And the winner... *sobs* the winner is..."
>E33 game director gets his speech ready
>"T-The winner for GOTY is... Assassin's creed: Shadows"

>>714510281 (OP)
>GOTY
>barely a game
No.

>>714524846
>those facial animations
It's a fake, right ?

>>714524846
kino
I'm gonna be watching the Death Stranding movie opening night.

>>714524846
I love how strumming severs no purpose there and Sam still joins him

>>714525409
serves*
fuck

>>714524846
E33 could never

I jizzed in my shorts when the meteor shower started as I was rescuing the kangaroo

>constant 4th wall breaks
>guitar battles
>BT + DHV giga mech
This is princess beach tier shit. I don't know why Kojima thinks he's somehow above storytelling tropes and must do this ridiculous shit to distance his "la creatividad" hipster persona to distance himself from his own fucking story. What's wrong with straight up telling the fucking story you hack? What's wrong with a straight up villain? I loved Higgs as a tortured soul who was in isolation for millennia but all the stupid shit undermines that. It's a good story if told earnestly, all this unhinged Kojima shit just took me out of it and made it worse.

Best HDR implementation in any game ever by a fucking mile.

>>714510281 (OP)
For me it is.
It still has flaws. Mainly that the vehicles and online features are a net negative.
The game is fantastic when you're doing deliveries on foot. Unfortunately that is not optimal and you're a fool for not optimizing your gameplay loop.
Also the game is way too easy even on Brutal difficulty.

>>714510281 (OP)
kino poster

>>714524462
E33 is better visually

>>714525870
>walking out of a dark shelter at noon

Playing DS2 makes me sad Kojima never got to make a proper MGSV sequel, DS2 really feels like he got to do everything he didn't in DS1, hopefully Physint delivers

I'M INDIGO AND VIOLET AND BLUE

Just got the coffin board
Holy kino

>>714526739
Really high expectations for Physint. But oh well, we're at minimum half a decade away

Biggest gripe is the fucking supply requests. Its visual litter and just so fucking annoying.

>>714526739
It would be nice to see a more linear game like MGS1-4 again. Open worlds are fun but they fuck up the pacing of stories and feel so formulaic.

Genuinely

Higgs guitar fight is on the same level as the MGS4 fight. And it is better than the MGS1 fight that it pays homage to.

better spectacle, more earned after Higgs fucking with Sam for two games straight, higher stakes and absolutely killer 3 stage song

https://youtu.be/_bhEa2hF6Y4?list=RD_bhEa2hF6Y4

>>714526780
>To the Wilder
>To the Wilder
>To the Wilder
>(you)

>>714526739
i'm hoping Overdose is a real game and not some Until Dawn moviegame, i feel the same way about PT and the promise of Silent Hills.

DS2 to me at least proves he still has it, he mismanaged MGSV and DS1 was a borderline indie title in terms of how quickly he had to produce it, but the guy who made the MGS games is still there.

>>714525752
IT IS earnest and completely in line with DS1

Does getting caught by the Watcher BTs not trigger a regular Catcher boss fight? I'm by the government base but whatever popped out of the tar when I got grabbed on purpose seemed like it was just going to trigger a void out so I just fucked off instead. Bit lame desu.

>>714527974
>When the music swells while you are telling Higgs to fuck off and die
Simple but effective

>>714527363
>It would be nice to see a more linear game like MGS1-4 again. Open worlds are fun but they fuck up the pacing of stories and feel so formulaic.

Kojima has gotten so much better at open world since MGSV though, both DS1 and DS2 absolutely mog MGSV's maps and are so much more interesting in layout and enviromental design. It also feels like he's gotten better at cutscenes and storytelling with the open world concept.

I really want to see him give the MGSV formula another go, especially since the tech in DS2 is fucking amazing and feels like Fox Engine on steroids

>>714512543
my biggest issue is just polish. changing weapons is janky, there's so many situational things that lock you out of the weapon wheel and instead it loads the headgear/footgear menu instead which just wastes more time. the constant slowdown/FOV changes when you enter timefall, come near a BT area, the battery of your vehicle stalling out, etc. are all obnoxious. the amount of fucking menuing is absurd, especially because each menu is its own entity so you have to wait for it to load. all this should be done on one screen.

DS2 seems to address a lot of this, looking forward to the PC port.

>>714528736
Theres multiple different BT bosses that you can fight (and capture). It all depends on what area of the map you are in

>>714517363
i think it's more that DS was the flagship franchise of his new studio, it had to be accessible or it would fail. it didn't need to be a knockout hit, it was good enough that Sony greenlit a second one which improved massively on the original.

>>714518732
it was a 9 month wait for the port of 1 but there was a tighter deal with Sony, i'm hoping we don't have to wait that long

>>714527974
shame the gameplay is abysmal

The MGSV chapter 3 hopes are still alive bros...

What's up with his Moby Dick obsession? It's a great book but he really put it in two different games

>>714510281 (OP)
its hillary clinton voters favorite game of the decade, that is for sure

>>714524283
i don't think it's even that, MGSV mindbroke this board because the plot of TPP didn't conform to whatever gay fan theory they came up with/invested in so they always have this hateboner for Kojima no matter what

>>714510281 (OP)
Death Stranding fans would just be better of watching movies or tv shows

>>714530913
>quiet isn't a tranny? FUCK KOJIMA!
2015 was weird

>>714524846
E33shits will look at this and still have you believe their TB-parry gameplay and low effort platforming that you do nothing but for the whole game is somehow the better game and have the TGA in the bag.

>>714531121
jokes aside, e33 is far too low quality in too many ways. It would be flat out insulting if it managed the award.

>>714530913
What are you on about? I was disappointed that the fan theory about MGSV was correct.

>>714530913
>because the plot of TPP didn't conform to whatever gay fan theory they came up with/invested in so they always have this hateboner for Kojima no matter what

Venom Snake not being Big Boss was predicted as far back as the 2013 Red Band trailer, if anything the story turned out to be way less crazy than fans speculated. (Farewell sausage)

>>714531397
everyone thought that Venom Snake was Frank Jaeger/Solidus/Chico/whatever, no one thought he was just a random medic

I am riding with Norman Sneedus on this one

>>714531662
yes everyone knew Venom wasn't the real Big Boss but the contention was over his identity, everyone was pissed off he wasn't a previous character from the franchise and also mad that the game lacked callbacks to previous entries with lots of cameos from past characters like Frank Jaeger, Sniper Wolf, etc.

>>714531682
>no one thought he was just a random medic

Everyone knew it was medic after GZ dropped and Medic's voice actor was literally just Kiefer Sutherlands but at a lower pitch and how the camera goes to great length to not show his face.

>>714531885
>Everyone knew
revisionism from a zoomer who wasn't even there. no one definitively knew what it meant.

>>714531769
>and also mad that the game lacked callbacks to previous entries with lots of cameos from past characters like Frank Jaeger, Sniper Wolf, etc.
Half the fucking game is devoted to pointless call backs, what do you mean?
>DUDE LOOK IT'S HAL
>DUDE LOOK IT'S OCELOT
>DUDE LOOK IT'S LIQUID
>DUDE LOOK IT'S MANTIS
>HERE'S HOW THE COBRA UNIT GOT ALL THEIR POWERS
>HERE'S HOW ZERO BECAME A VEGETABLE SHITTING IN A WHEELCHAIR
>HERE'S WHY MILLER TURNED ON BIG BOSS
>HERE'S HOW BIG BOSS SURVIVED MG1 (no one actually needed an answer to this question)

>>714530913
MGSV is just unfinished with an anticlimactic ending. It's that simple.

jesus christ

>>714531759
Do the ads show up again in 2?

>>714532312
tell that to everyone who was pissed off those characters didn't appear or the game didn't directly lead into MG1, those were common complaints when the game came out.

>>714532557
Haven't seen one yet.

>>714532007
>revisionism from a zoomer who wasn't even there. no one definitively knew what it meant.

Just because you were too young to remember the theory threads doesn't mean everyone was, before GZ people thought Venom Snake was Gray Fox or Decoy Octopus, after Ground Zeroes and people saw Medic and heard his voice people knew it was him. In the Garbage trailer Kaz literally says "what about him?" in the hospital after the helicopter crash. Literally the only thing that threw some people off is that Big Boss was edited to look like Venom Snake on the motorcycle as misdirection

>>714532559
I'm pretty sure these people you're talking about only exist in your head. The game literally starts and ends during MG1. Any dissatisfaction with the amount of memberberries is dwarfed by the dissatisfaction with the sloppy unfinished story Kojima told.

>>714510572
spbp

>>714532712
shut the fuck up retard, i was there, i actively theorized in those threads, the discovery of the pitched down medic audio didn't instantly discredit every other fan theory, no one knew what it definitively meant because the game wasn't out

>>714532828
you too faggot, go back to twitter or tiktok whatever shithole you found this website at

>>714510281 (OP)
Yup. E33 had a good run, but they simply cannot compete with La Creatividad.

>>714517260
If DS was simple then /v/ (and really the rest of the internet) wouldn't be so consistently confused by this game. You are too stupid to see anything so you just decide it's all void.

>>714532545
Mountain kino.

>>714533037
zoomer who's first MGS was V gets outed, oof.

>>714532946
>decrepit old man with sneakers and a guitar

>>714512301
She put on a little weight and honestly looks really scrumptious and cuddly. Really cute girl. <3 <3 <3

snoyjeet trannoid marketer thread

>>714533294
It will happen to you too one day.

>>714510281 (OP)
>GOTY?
Well, it is the highest rated game of all time on the Playstation store, which is honestly a very good indication.

DS1 was kind of boring but i still finished it, will wait for the pc launch to pirate the second game too.

>>714514198
reddit can't hold two buttons to save their cargo

>>714533189
i accept your concession :)

>>714533294
I'm 45 and have been dressing in the same casual way for the same for the past 30 years. You will understand some day, zoomer.

>>714533428
This tweet is honestly funnier after DS1 and 2 revealed Kojima really does just have the musical tastes of a teenage girl.

>>714512301
okay but when can we get interactive scenes like this where we can control evertyhing in the scene in high detail

In the middle of chapter 7 now, it just became better than 1.

>>714533585
It's more like West Coast hipster music

>>714533574
Pathetic

I hope Kojima doesn't stop creating vidya after Physint, I hope he pulls a Miyazaki and just keep making games even though he constantly says he is retiring and "this is the LAST game" and then a couple years later the next one is announced.

>>714532557
Of all things there is an ad for a japanese shipping conglomerate built into the social media thingy

>>714533585
>mfw I really like Kojimas music taste

>>714532557
No.

There is some product placement of a Swiss watch company. The logo and jingle of a Japanese transportation company is also in the game. You probably wouldn't even notice it if you weren't specifically looking for it though.

you all fuckign NORMALNIGGER PIECE OF SHIT UNVIRIGIN SWINE AND KOJIMA DICKSUCKERS.

>>714533585
the sad thing is after having to work in a place with zoomers who blast their extruded noise product all day I've gone back and appreciated all those shit 90s/early 00s bands for at least making something that can be described as music
it's not that we didn't know how good we had it, we just didn't realize how shit it would become

>>714533889
He won't, but I think he might take a step back after directing Physint. I assume he will only act as a producer for numerous projects instead of also as director, because he has already stated that he will not be directing Death Stranding 3.

>>714533889
Kojima said he wants to keep creating games until the day he dies. He had some problem with his eyes that needed surgery a few years ago, so hopefully he won't have anymore health problems for a while.

>>714534204
go home neil you're drunk

>>714533585
I honestly have to play some Death Stranding 2 music for my daughter. I don't think it is the kind of thing she would really listen to. Some tracks perhaps.

>>714510281 (OP)
Looks like shit.
Is that a Metal Gear?

>>714534204
>playing Death Stranding, which has the most original and unique gameplay we've seen in AAA vidya in the past 20 years, means you're a normalnigger

>>714534607
No. It is a submarine.

>>714534768
>kojimadrones really believe this

>>714533513
Neither can /v/. I remember the endless crying when the fist one released.

>>714534972
That's because /v/ is reddit.

>>714533780
Not as pathetic as being zoomer, who wastes his life away playing vidya instead of smashing pussy and getting a good education. Somebody like (you).

I wanna fuck __Sam

>>714533585
Joy Division is his favorite band, he probably just likes goth/rock music in general

>>714535085
/v/ has been reddit since 2014, anon. We just pretend we aren't so we can scream about Kojima's cinematic walking sims while simultaneously pre-ordering every Limited Edition he drops.

>>714534927
original and unique doesn't mean good
A AAA fedex simulator with antimatter ghosts is pretty original compared to everything else coming out

elle fanning is ugly

>>714534204
uh oh, melty alert

>>714534524
>>714535306
>>714534768
you're people aren't real, 3dpdniggers

>>714524846
jeet game

>>714533592
if you listen to certain songs with dollman you get private dance routines where you control the spotlights

>coffin boarding along the coastline to the music player
Soul.

>>714519103
chud filter
Also has the tattoo she only exposes when chuds are detected.

>>714535298
>elle fanning is hot
Yes.

It does a lot of things right and add a lot of cool things the first game did but the story at times drops of a cliff. Expedition 33 is still my GOTY.

>>714510281 (OP)
I'd bet your life on it, OP
>>714510572
Yours too

>>714536701
Indeed.

>>714536701
Much hotter than Hunter and she also knows what men (chasers) want by shaking that breedable bussy

>>714537967
>>714537767
>johncenaareyousureaboutthat.gif

>>714537113
I like DS2 and didn't enjoy E33 at all and I still think E33 deserves goty, it's a beautiful game and despite my own opinions on the gameplay a lot of people clearly enjoyed blending turn based with QTE stuff, hopefully it shows other western devs there are genres other than trans hero shooters that players would like to buy

>>714511935
Woah! Why are they gaye?

>>714538798
>this amateur piece of garbage deserves awards because it just does

>>714523304
>>714522573
Okay, okay, I'm interested. I will download for free from Epic in a year or so just like with DS1.

>>714539094
Did the french hurt you or what

You guys all five-starred her, right???

>>714538798
Dumbest shit I've ever heard.

E33 looks like total amateur garbage and isn't beautiful at all and the story is also retarded AI slop or something.

>>714538523
You are officially gay.

>>714510281 (OP)
This has to be the worst ``game`` Ive ever played, i decided to give the story a chance to redeem itself from 1 but i was too fucking naive this is the trashiest, most disgusting piece of dogshit story, writing, gameplay Ive ever seen and if it wasnt for the name Kojima EVERYWHERE everyone would be fucking laughing at it nonstop but NO! no matter how dogshit this is they will praise it with zero valid arguments only with bunch of bullshit and mental gymnastics as if they were trying to explain why is a fucking banana taped to a wall ``art``. Absolute garbage

>>714539241
Is he still buying and giving away free AAA games?

Imagine being such a Cuckjimbo cocksmoker that you want this copy-pasted trash to win because it's your favorite cock-flavored vanity project. LOL

>>714510281 (OP)
Kojima fucked pekora and she liked it

>>714541150
slowed down but there's usually something significant a couple times a year

>There's actually different types of boots now instead of just being a weird meaningless resource you have to refill every odd hour

Im liking almost all the additions and refinements so far, DS2 really makes DS1 kind of feel like a rough early draft by comparison.

>>714541295
He only put her in the game so that could meet her for real.

>>714527974
>main theme plays during the final boss trope
>(you) play the main theme against the final boss

>>714525870
Its pretty incredible but i think Elden Ring has it beat IMO

I didnt bring a capture grenade

>get to big factory where I have to fight big mech
>he drop big gun
>can't fold it up and put it on backpack
>have to leave my bike in order to lug it all the way up to the knot
ITS MY GUN MINE!

>>714542408
there's almost always one of those white Sams who throws a box of capture grenades at you during BT fights

>>714510281 (OP)
Expedition 33 clears this movie game

>Feel like I've played an entire game's worth of content
>Search online for total chapters
>I'm literally only halfway through
So are the final chapters insanely short or is this game legit insanely long by AAA game standards?

>>714542408
fuck me, same. there has to be another way to fight this thing, right?? Kojima pls

>>714542908
I think it was 10 to the end I finished in ~5 hours

>>714542821
i walked around for a few minutes and didnt see one drop. oh well

>>714542908
they start chugging along pretty quick

>>714542710
>can't put the heavy machine gun into storage

>>714542908
its about 30-35 hours if you beeline the main story, but you'll be screwing yourself by not unlocking some of the prepper rewards while you play

I got about 10 hours in when it hit me like a brick wall that the game just sucks. There are no interesting new mechanics, the story isn't any good, and the new characters are nothing. You're either delusional or outright stupid to think this is GOTY. What a giant fucking pile of nothing for a sequel. Troy Baker is entertaining as Higgs at least.

>>714510281 (OP)
Why did he turn this into a mgs clone?

>>714543224
must be nice being a no taste pleb

>>714543328
People with taste appreciate DS1 for what it tried and recognize 2 as the mound of hollow shit that it is.

>>714543224
The worst part is that the gameplay has been dumbed down and streamlined compared to the original. Terrain literally doesn't matter at all and vehicles are made even more useful. He was doing this shit as early as the director's cut so the signs were there
>inb4 DS1 was already easy
Not the point

>>714543462
The terrain didn't matter in the first game either. You obviously played like a retard if you thought that was the case.

>>714525870
>Best HDR implementation in any game ever by a fucking mile.
Yeah, it looks fucking fantastic on my OLED TV. I actually prefer doing missions at night, because it just looks so damn good.

I truly pity the poor fags on /v/ that will never be able to enjoy this game in all of its technical glory.

>>714543536
based on what people say about the terrain traversal, it sounds like everyone just used the bike/truck for 90% of the deliveries instead of hiking it like the game intends. The game feels the best when you do most of the deliveries with the floating carrier and a boost skeleton

the game where kojima finally went too far with his retarded bullshit. the 1st game was right on the edge of this but still ended up being kino. he went over the line here though. someone needs to start telling him no

>Bro they RUINED Death Stranding by making it too wacky

Ah yes the "Previous Kojima games was serious and mature but this one is DUMB" headcanon. How many times have we gone through this I wonder

>>714543845
People have been bitching about his goofy 4th wall breaks and magical realism shtick literally since 1998

>>714543536
It mattered in the first half which is when you didn't have much roads. There were also a few forced BT encounters. DS2 had none of that and made an easy game even easier. No wonder journo previews liked the game so much

>>714543813
you obviously haven't played MGS4, THAT is Kojima going too far. DS2 is Kojima's tamest game, objectively more accessible and tame than DS1 that actively wanted the player to suffer.

>>714544008
>DS2 is Kojima's tamest game
come the fuck on man i know you don't believe this

>>714544143
Vtubers are literally doing promo events with the MLB, they're objectively mainstream now.

>>714544008
From the ones I played, Kojima's tamest games are MGS1 and MGS3. Everything else has either too much sequel baggage or bizarre concepts and narratives.

Does having a lot of likes affect anything or is it just for the dopamine?

>>714544143
NTA but DS2 is definitely one of Kojima's more straightforward games. It's rare for him to make sequels that really just feel like...sequels. Like DS2 is very much DS1++, there's no crazy table flip like Raiden in MGS2, so yeah by Kojima's own standards DS2 is pretty tame

>>714544392
MGS1 was pretty revolutionary for its time, full in-game cutscenes with movie'like cinematography was something totally new. MGS3 was pretty tame though, but that's also because Konami gave him a slap on the fingers for going absolutely bonkers with MGS2.

>>714544143
Having a vtuber cameo is pretty tame dude. Have you played the metal gear solid series?

>>714544706
MGS3 is definitely the tamest Metal Gear Solid game, but its still super fucking weird in subtle ways

If DS2 wasn't tame compared to Kojima's past sequels, he would have bait and switched us after the prologue and had us play Tomorrow for the rest of the game

>>714530807
MADAM PRESIDENT

>>714530807
Hilary in the game is a manipulative child sacrificing bitch (same as in reality)

>>714544706
I have yet play Snatcher/Policenauts or the Zone of the Ender games so for all I know those could be even more bonkers than Metal Gear.

>>714544885
he said he re-wrote it multiple times, once due to the COVID scamdemic and again due to too positive reception. so it's interesting it wasn't remotely as subversive as MGS2, some people feared that and he was self-sabotaging. i hope he divulges the older versions of the story in the future. i'd also love to hear about some of the early drafts of MGSV's story where Diamond Dogs were more explicitly at war with America and not just "CIPHER" as a vague placeholder for American imperialism.

>APAC
>A private organization essentially serving as a shadow goverment for the UCA (America)
>APAC sounds dangerously close to AIPAC

What did Kojima mean by this?

>>714545527
APAS seems to be a parallel to covid quarantine authoritarianism as well

>>714510281 (OP)
>GotY
Most likely, it pushes all the right leftoid agendas, it has an entire cast of washed up celebs voicing and mocapping and let's not forget Kojimbo and Geoff are butt buddies
But honestly, E33 is a better game

>>714545750
At most it pushes a few minutes of manhate via the Pregniggas but its lacking:
>communism good
>trannies
>faggots
>half the roster being black
>preaching
>anti-american sentiment

>>714546038
It also pushes the idea that in a post apocalyptic scenario women would actually be expected to nurture and have children instead of being girlbosses which pissed off Gamespot

>>714545750
I know you're trying to be hateful, but that image is cute

>>714544773
>in subtle ways
A whole level dedicated to walking forward while the ghosts of every enemy and animal you killed haunt you and where you need to commit fake-suicide to get past isnt exactly subtle-weird.

>>714510281 (OP)
I don't know about GOTY but it definitely left its mark on gaming history. Not even implying it's because of Pekora's addition, as vtubers have been in tons of games already, but because the rest of the cast also succeeded in drawing interest from both people who played it and people who didn't alike. For a game that sold solidly, it has the mindshare of something 10x its size.

>>714547115
Even if it has mid launch sales it will have strong legs like the first game simply because there's nothing else like it

>>714547791
1.4 million physical sales in the first week, plus however many digital sales, plus the inevitable PC and Xbox release in a year or so. Definitely not a commercial flop.

>>714547115
>mindshare
The game dropped like a plop in the ocean. Outside of /v/ and some subreddits the game hasn't made any traction. Even KCD2 gained more conversation than this and that passed like a fart in the wind after a week.

Mind you I'm not saying the game is bad. It just isn't relevant. No one cares.

>>714527974
true
that fight was setup so well whole game long
>different uses of the BB theme
>Sam literally barbecued alive nigh perpetually by Higgs
>10 minute scene of Fragile and Sam torture killing Higgs, that scene was extra weird and dwelled so much on how unhinged Higgs has become

>>714521641
This game is such a fucking shitpost

>>714522205
Te ha hecho esperar, ¿eh?

>>714531330
that's my snake

>>714532545
now pee

>>714533849
have some pizza.
really great camera system, this just clears everything else esp with how you can manipulate the lighting.
also searching for the Polaroid photo you took all game in the DHV and then... you have to play it anons damn still in awe of this game. that reveal really ties in a neat ribbon the connection theme of the game.

>>714534607
the story isn't it's strongest suit - but the DHV really felt like home and a tight knit group more than what I felt about the "Expedition" in e33. E33 still has the better storytelling true, but DS2 clears it graphically and in aesthetic. The difference is mostly in budget, I think. The UE5 look is really obvious in E33 and makes the game look generic despite it's ambitious visuals. It's visually stunning in combat though and in some cutscenes but the general exploration and overworld looks very trite.

>>714547909
DS2 is already doing much better than DS1, of which 5 million copies were sold in 2 years. Kojima will take in more than enough cash and good will to make Physint his best game ever.

>>714541652
yup
if anons here are actually interested in the game I'd even go as far to saying just watch the DS1 cutscenes, then play 2. It's just a straight up upgrade in every department. you will definitely lose some attachment and grounding in the world if you do this, but the gameplay is just "more of the same" for a 50 hour game that you might burn out before playing 2.
that said DS1/2 is also a good game to play through slowly, it's quite chill and easy.

LOOKING CLEAN AS A WHISTLE!

>>714542908
the final few chapters are mostly cutscenes.

>>714545750
E33 has the better narrative and story. but as an overall game? hard to say. the budget diff is a night and day obvious difference if you play them.

>>714547974
people are still playing it, it's a long game.
also, the exclusivity is restricting access. would be interesting to see the wider reaction once PC releases.

>>714550585
DS2 wins out for its art direction alone IMO, but I have a general distaste for the steampunk-fantasy look.

>>714510281 (OP)
>I'M NOT ABOUT TO LET THAT HAPPEN
Kojima, I KNEEL

>>714550967
the landscape is empty as fuck though

>>714549371
>delivery only
>now open with huge arrow
What?

>>714551051
Thats part of the appeal.

>>714551009
>Good God!
This scene was kino and /v/ can't convince me otherwise.

HOLY FUCK ADVENTURER STOP DYING

It’s just an awful game. I’m going to go return it today.

It’s everything wrong with modern game design except Kojima is behind it so we all give it a pass because we like Metal Gear.
It’s like if Miyamoto made a game about cardboard boxes after making Ocarina.

The combat is watered down MGSV, the story is junk, the graphics are incredible, but at that point who cares.

>>714510281 (OP)
Not even fotm

>new shelter
>orders and lost cargo are scarce
>shelter has 5 stars
>only ever see orders and lost cargo for shelter
Uh, idk how all those bullet holes got there/they ended up in the ocean/rolled all the way down the mountain into a BT area. :^)

>>714551649
Why did you buy the game if you already knew what DS1 was and that it was made by Kojima?
And how do you plan on returning a game you opened and played?

i tried playing Death Stranding 1 and got bored after 2 hours, will I like Death Stranding 2?

Lea is perfect

>>714553304
No.

>>714553304
likely no, but it's worth a try because of how good it is.

>>714510572
But what's twitter's choice? it's the only thing that matters in that slop awards.

>>714549032
One of the more memorable one liners.

>>714531330
It's funny how later he was introduced as an abductee, but then flips the script in being the squad lead once the hood becomes his bandanna.

A reminder that the UCA basically blew up while Sam was gone.
They never brought this up to Sam in the story when it mattered, but gaslit Sam in saying the UCA don't need porters like him in North America anymore.

>>714510281 (OP)
Played it for 40 hours, enjoyed it a lot, I like how gameplay feels better, I dont like that Australia feels a bit "flat". Played offline cause otherwise it trivalizes the game too much. Story was fine, some cool moments, but wasted potential as well. I think its one of the best games this year. I DS2 will win GOTY at Geoffs', E33 will win for journos and hipsters. But ee all know the real GOTY is Bananza

>>714551638
no please keep dying so I can unlock more low roar songs

>>714533294
And pretending to play the guitar with play back

>if you don't give him medicine in DS1 he dies
>canonically lived thanks to Sam's help
>dies in a fucking voidout
poor fella

>>714553304
Nope.

>>714553304
the tutorial zone in DS1 infamously filters people because of how little freedom and lack of tools you have

>>714532557
There's the Yamato transport thing and Neil's gang drives Yamaha bikes but that's it

>>714554442
what's the wasted potential?
I think as far as the type of game DS is trying to be goes, DS2 hit the mark.

i am surprised by how many people say it feels like DLC and story feeling less "whole" than the first one
i thought this was going to be kojima's trve vision after establishing the strand genre

>>714555197
it is the true vision of a Strand game (I hate using that term)

>>714555867
I actually really like this form of indirect multiplayer, as an incompetent retard it's nice to be able to interact with other players but only ever be able to help them rather than fucking things up for them

>>714556484
yeah same. I gave out millions of likes using the apas upgrade, some of the structures by players were life saving.

I can't believe diehardman came out of the closet both figuratively and literally.

>>714555197
Cory you hypocrite, ToTK is literally DLC and you played hundreds of hours.

>>714557375
yeah but it's fun and i like zelda

>>714555867
>it is the true vision
that's grim
delivering shit to vtubers and shooting shitty takedowns at mules

>>714557776
don't forget totally hetero half naked guitar riff off anon :)

>>714557913
ik it's kojima's game he can do whatever he wants and he's infinitely more talented then i am but
I would've preferred a much more serious and depressive tone in both MGS and death stranding
MGS 5 shined when you were in cuba without balloons and support in a base full of soldiers or infiltrating skullface without raising the alarm
i wish they treated super natural was closer to something like metro instead of giving portal opening devices

DS shined when you were carrying your mother while music played

>>714556484
streamer culture just ruined online gaming. everyone wants to be the next ninja or whatever, if you aren't always 100% "on" and haven't watched all the meta youtube videos you're literally hitler

>>714558147
i understand what he was trying to do with building bridges and helping other players out
i would've preferred just you against the terrain and anomalies that incomprehensible to you
literally delivering hope in this hopeless world

https://youtu.be/fhL_P4tqsxk?si=cFnPWBwGokXns58D
this captures it well

>>714558147
I enjoy my grounded games too, but wishing DS is less off the rails is a disservice to the type of game it is trying to be. It's quirky and very on-the-nose, but it has very real self-serious themes and drama (served by the best photorealistic graphics currently) and that's just how it is. The tone is thus very unique since it sometimes whiplashes from slapstick to philosophical musings to relationship melodrama - which I think can be very jarring but I enjoyed it personally.

I like judging games from the apparent game they are trying to be, rather than what I want a game to be.

>>714558507
fair but
i wanted some weird fucked up people in bunkers similar to npcs in darkwood not hollywood fags
none of that mario and peach shit

it's just like those animes were they try to be super serious then have quirky moments out of nowhere but with face scanned actors

>>714533129
It's less about DS being complex and more about "wait, how in the fuck did you made that leap" kind of a situation. Some explanations only make sense in Kojima's head, so he has to explain it to you over and over again so that you "get it".
>you see, Amelie doesn't exist, so Ami is soul in French, and Lie is a lie in English, so by combining this you get Amelie, someone who's existance is a lie, you got that? Here, let me draw it for you.
Kojima, you are not as smart as you think you are.

Wagie simulator

>>714558147
I hope Physint is nothing like MGSV. I really did not like that game and eventually got bored of killing niggers in Africa and quit.

>leave ladders in places that will only work if you know the route to use them
>put a ramp at a very high place nobody will ever climb to
>jump off of it
>have fun
I hate that I'm like this

>>714558359
I welcome you (maybe once more?) to the feeling of "what if".
What if Death Stranding took more creative liberties and was less Metal Gear Solid / Kojima game.
What if it was more STALKER or Blame!.
How much more interesting and unique could it have been?
Instead of being a "safe investment".

Art is dead my friend and we kill it everytime we buy products.

>>714510572
/thread

>>714510281 (OP)
Yes, it is really good.

>>714523506
>>714520997
can you actually use music player on the open world is it still on story beats only?

>>714566591
>can you actually use music player on the open world
Yes.

>>714566639
good to know. the fuck were they thinking with DS1?

>>714566591
Yeah. you''ll have to get to The Musician in this game which is in the Australia part of the game.
Really catchy song tunes and some from the DS

>>714530663
Microwave hallway

>>714530354
>What's up with his Moby Dick obsession?

He once made a fake studio for E3 to show off Phantom Pain trailer. It was called Moby Dick studio. And he called himself Joakim Mogren.

>>714564671
i guess you guess the sense it
making everything make sense and you being at the center of it kinda robs it of it's beauty and art


time and time again i think about true detective and works of junji ito and how a lot of think just left unexplained and you only get to see a small part of it
>why is an entire village turning into a spiral in different ways and opening a portal to hell not to mention all this being a cycle
>who knows enjoy the horror

>>714518732
>>714530037
october 10 it was already leaked months ago

>>714561013
i never got bored but i hope if it's like mgs it's tone of ground zero not phantom pain

I feel like Miyazaki, with his enviromental storytelling, short lore info and show-don't-tell approach would have actually nailed Death Stranding story

>>714510281 (OP)
I love this game bros.

>>714510281 (OP)
no

>>714568202
dunno about that but DS suffers heavily from kojimafication

>>714510572
based

this game is woke trash how can anyone legit defend this shit?

>>714568718
What's woke about it? The spooky ghosts? kek

>>714568845
ugly feminist nigger they use in all these woke games. really anon?

>>714510281 (OP)
Posted this in another thread and can't find any answer anywhere. Has anyone noticed in your private room in the Magellan the corpses/coffins that keep adding up over time on the wall to the right of your sink? I'm not really sure what it's supposed to be tallying, I haven't really killed anyone so I can't imagine that's what it was.

>>714568975
>you stumble into the single nigger in the game after 40 hours
>has 3 minutes of screen time
>oh no no no the game is woke
You're trying to hard.

>>714569032
It's fine. She already made two German babies.

>>714569117
your standards are too low anon. 15 years ago this game would have been laughed out of this board. we will never get triple A games again without at least 1 thing like this. your gosling wanna be incel coded MC surrounded by strong independent women with super powers is so shit, how far have we fallen?

>>714569409
My standards are very high. Very, very high.

I liek artsy shit but Kojima is overrated. Nothing about his games interest me. He peaked with MGS 1

>>714569525
we must fight against this shit, call it out every time, and mercilessly make fun of anyone who tries to say "w-well shes only in the game for 5 seconds who cares?". this is the only way to get normies to shift back to any semblance of normality where hot women are hot and ugly women are ignored and not in games or tv or any media. ugly nigger and tranny shit is intolerable even at a glance fuck anyone who says otherwise.

>>714510281 (OP)
Yes

>>714569720
>we must fight against this shit
But then we ignore this woke shit, am I right?

>>714570341
uhh no dude. ive been a fan of larian since divine divinity, so decades, and i have not played and never will play baldurs gate 3. it hurts like you wouldnt believe. it should be my favorite game of all time. but i wont do it, ever. fuck tranny ugly nigger gay shit i hate it with a passion and i hate how we just accept things like this.

>>714512301
Does she still have the gap or the fuckers took it out in the ingame model.
Asking for a friend.

>>714512301
Does she still have the gap or the fuckers took it out in the ingame model?
Asking for a friend.

>>714569117
"women and children and the weak have always been easy targets. in every conflict, were always the first to suffer" hillary clinton literally said this same fucking thing. are you retarded? the game is fucking woke.

>>714541074
you're officially an animal

>>714567910
I am sorry, but that reeks of pic related.
Not ever art piece needs to be explained entirely.
But having Nolan tell me that entropy can be reversed, to show bullets flying back into guns and explosions play in reverse,
without explaining how do those bullet holes come to be, what happens to the inverted soldiers at the end who died and what would happen if i put a non inverted claymore, next to an inverted corpse.

Thats the point Kojimbo is at, with his "art".
Throwing things at a wall and hoping some stuff sticks.
Even NGE went to those extremes with its religious themes, but at the core the story was about the hedgehog paradox.

>>714546038
You missed the feminist, globalist, wageslaving shit because it's water to your inner fish

>>714569073
It's the number of zones you hooked up, it will be really obvious when you get to the end and have only a few empty spaces left. Remember that the new drawbridge Qpid has that coffin shape.

Is it DS1 but bigger? Really that's all I care about. That and waiting for a PC release.

>>714546165
did you miss all the girl bosses running the world? They even made a "pregnant" woman larp like she's a single mother hero without the burden of actually having a child. The game is extremely subversive

>>714572259
Yes

>>714510572
/thread ended here

all these fucking celebrity actors as the game main characters really put me off from the game

>>714572326
Now to wait a painful 6+ months

>>714572475
Good thing the only one I know is Norman so everyone just looks like regular people to me

>>714572520
Praying for you brother. Hope it comes even sooner

>>714570341
It's insane how not long after the coomer, no fap november and all that redpill manosphere stuff mocking weak males addicted to masturbation became mainstream, this literal pornography/zoophilia simulator masquerading as a fantasy game came out and npc cattle just swallowed it whole. It shows the npc has no values, it will laugh at whatever is popular and then do the exact same thing tenfold without a single sentient realization.

>>714572259
>Is it DS1 but bigger?
Yeah, the map is at least twice as large. You can also create treaded paths with other players which is just really cool.

>>714572739
those were in the first game as well but yes they're indeed very cool

>>714572739
That was in the first game. It definitely feels more pronounced here, but I also think half of it is because the Magellan will flatten out huge chunks of terrain when it first spawns in next to a shelter.

>Sam, here's some routes you can take for this long delivery
>pick one
>song that was meant to play during the walk doesn't pop up
t-thanks George Miller

>>714572793
Yeah, but it was very basic in DS1. This mechanic has been greatly improved in DS2 and is much more prominent now. The paths even show up on your map.

>>714533574
>t. zoomer

>press forward for 20 minutes while kojima spams his gay playlist at you

absolute kinography

>>714573385
never ever heard of Magnolian before but man those immediately became my favorite tracks in ds2

>>714573385
This but unironically.
Kojima made walking sims fun for once

wish the game was about neil and his braindead women smugling shenanigans instead desu

>>714573385
>>714573520
I really wish he started the tracks sooner
It always feels cucked missing half the song if you used a vehicle or even the ending just from walking normally

>>714573385
Game’s better if you listen to the MGSV cassette playlist

>>714573385
This is the entire reason I refunded DS1. The fucking awful music that would play with no way of turning it off. Shame because I was enjoying the game otherwise.

>>714573883
I wanted to have his bandana as a wearable so badly. I was expecting to be able to wear it after the final encounter with him.

>>714573883
Kino DLC idea.

>>714574218
The music is mostly good though. Especially the final track. You quite literally threw one of best gaming experiences of all time straight in the trash. Shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghk1RFr51xo

>>714567948
fucking where? prove it!

>>714575431
It's bullshit. Nobody knows when the game is coming to PC.

you should be able to solve this

>>714575587
the french nepo dyke looks much hotter in the game than real life

I'm glad Kojimbo has made a good game that got critical acclaim, but he won't be beating Clair Obscur this year. That game is truly something special.

hes gonna do a directors cut with tons of new features again isnt he

>>714576037
I hope not, because the game is already perfect. I just want a DLC.

>>714569715
I think he has a specific brand of gaming which turns off some people. MGS was the most revolutionary true, but 2 beats it in narrative and 3 clears it in gameplay.

>>714572259
not just bigger, but pretty much every aspect of the gameplay is better and the UI/UX is way smoother with a fuck ton of qol improvements. It feels like a polished AAA game which is a rarity nowadays.

>Finally get out of the fucking snow which was ruining all my shit
>Asylums for the Feeling starts playing
KIIIIIIIIIIIINOOOOOO
I unironically sòy faced

>new Kojima stealth-action game in the upgraded DS2 Decima engine

Physint is gonna be so goddamn banging its fucking insane

>>714512301
She's adourable

I just ran past everything and beat it in like 25 hours. The game put up no resistance compared to 1 but the story was better paced (still retarded though)

>>714511935
Now imagine that going up your ass

>>714576792
Yeah, we already got a small taste of it in DS2. :)

>>714522573
Based
It really is stunning, I just wish the enemy AI was more challenging.

>>714577029
Enemy AI needs work for Physint. It can be outright stupid at time.

>>714530663
This and the higgs final fight are just ripped straight out of mgs4 and don't feel anywhere near as deserved. Very lame kojimbo, very lame.

>>714577145
MGS4 did fuckall to deserve it and I'm tired of the glazing

>>714573883
The Physint waiting game begins.
I think Neil stole the show and was a really nice character - persistent aura farming aside.

>>714577437
I hope they cast Luca if the MG movie ever happens

>>714575587
easily

>>714577775
IT AIN'T OVER YET

>>714577145
That Higgs boss fight was 2 games (and an eternity) in the making. Imo it was very deserved and was built up well. Hell the last time you saw Higgs before he went samurai was him getting tortured to death for a laborious 10 mins by Sam and Fragile

So let me get this straight because I only just started the epilogue freeroam and saw the SSS post. Was too late to play more.
Ghost Hunter wasn't real and was a chiralgram of one of the 4000 projected from the APAS beach?
Are there other preppers that disappear like this or is he the only example?

>>714510572
Kys tendie falseflagger

>>714578058
Yeah I have no idea what do people say when they mean these fights do not feel earned. Even in DS1 it felt cathartic and poignant.

Sam and Higgs cause each other so much pain over the course of two games that it completely blows whatever Liquid/Ocelot did to Snake out of the water.

And DS2 especially called for something more than just a fist fight.

>>714577775
For someone who supposedly hated making MGS sequels, he sure likes referencing the series over and over and over again.

>>714578386
Checkout the Pekora sub order for Pizza Chef if you haven't done it yet.

>>714578574
he's just a memer. Did he really hate making the mgs sequels?

>>714578604
Yeah I did that already, I meant like in the context of the ending and with the prepper I was talking about where they apparently just disappear.

Has anyone seen the backpack thief? After getting the second post about it I realize it's some sort of Easter egg haven't tried it yet.

>>714577486
Retard

>>714577437
that's my snake

>>714512301
>bunch of incels jerk their hearts off to a filtered image of a french nepo baby dyke
faggots

>>714577437
>aura farming

fucking zoomer. Also the SAME FUCKING FIGHT 3 times for nothing and a character with zero relevance

>>714578663
>memer

you mean retard

>>714579480
imagine using the same stale vocabulary for your whole life, couldn't be me. Im likely older than half this board anon.

>>714579480
the three fights were all visually distinct with different gimmicks. they all look graphically beautiful and had some of the coolest scenes in the game.

>>714580108
Nigger

>>714510281 (OP)
I don't get the praise this game is getting,
gameplay wise it's just a worse mgs5.
The game does have some cool moments ( the end in particular) but this doesn't alleviate the "half the game is pressing forward" problem for me.

>>714580909
it's made by kojima that's that otherwise it would've gotten 7/10 for having interesting ideas and decent mechanics

just like starfield would've gotten 5/10 if it wasn't made befesda

>>714510281 (OP)
unironically yes. Best game of 2025 and 2024

>>714510281 (OP)
>This game im playing is going to get extra advert time at a commercial venue that exists solely for the whole industry to suck itself off right?
Why are people looking forward to this?

>>714511935
>>714514149
>>714524846
Looks trainned af

Shan't play

Remember wasting bandwidth downloading the first one.

Great soundtrack

Tldr It embodies the true essence of a trophy-chasing title. Bravo Kojimbo strikes again, nuff said.

>>714582739
Fwiw if you like the first game's sound track this one is even better, you should check it out the ost at least.

>>714578571
Fucking zoomers

>>714510281 (OP)
>So it's GOTY right?
Yeah, and it isn't even close.

>>714510572
spbp

>>714510572
>Not even 3 post in
>Expedition 33 already mentioned
This game seems to be living rent free in Kojima's slop eater for some reason. Is it because it will be game of the year?

>>714535680
>tattoo
That'd definitively get me filtered yup

>>714553304
It's the same game so no

>>714577214
MGS4 may be a retarded game and all, but those moments are absolutely earned in their own way. That's 10 years spent with these characters across 3 games that lead to that moment.

WE WANT PC
WE WANT IT NOWWWW

>>714510281 (OP)
This is the resetera thread :)

Havent finished yet but thoughts so far
>music is overall worse and not as good or fitting as 1 (which wasnt that great either)
>george miller cant act or isnt even remotely trying
>the jap girl who couldnt speak english was the worst part of ds1, then they got another ugly idol like girl who can barely speak let alone act in a major role
>said girl is generic immune cure person which is boring and stupid writing
>dollman feels like he was added just because kojima, in typical jap fashion, caught on very late to the trend of sidekicks that never shut up, rather than out of necessity
>not changing roads to be freely build anywhere and keeping them in set spota is lame
>woodkid song was good until the idol like jap girls started chanting rand numbers
>translation feels very japanese, like they didnt try to localize at all
>when norman reedus had to say more than like 3 words, his bad acting becomes apparent (ive never seen him in anything but DS but boy hes not very good when he has to speak at length)
>oh good the bald black monkey lady again
>they chose mexico and australia just to appease del toro and miller didnt they

>>714585801
what did you like about it anon?

>>714586146
like the firsr, all the other elements like story and gameplay are just "fine", nothinf really amazing enough to be identified ans praised really. its an ok game, which in this era of gaming makes it a relative masterpiece when you see all the other shit game devs are putting out.

i think the writing and story of both is kind of dumb. its kins of like assasaina creed for me. the story is skippable, the acting downright bad at times, but i just enjoying running through the environments while enjoying the amvience or listeninf to podcasts or other things. not high praise but has ira place

>>714554707
Well he lived a long life so its fine.

>>714554707
>spends all of DS1 making me lug bulk orders of sleeping pills up his mountain
>uses sleeping pills too much so he also needs a constant supply of bulk order energy drinks
>drinks so many energy drinks that he needs a new pacemaker every week
>finally dies
>his fucking ghost joins 3999 others in trying to ruin humanity
Fuck the elder.

Is there a Lore Reason why i cant find Norman Reedus X Pekora Porn on Pixiv?

>>714510281 (OP)
Correct, even with the unfortunate black eye it got for not having content warnings about the depictions of infant death and attempted suicide in the first chapter it's still head and shoulders above all the other slop that came out this year.
>>714510572
/thread

>>714510281 (OP)
where's debra?

it will probably lose GOTY

>>714586857
agreed on the story. the way it's presented though is amazing both in-game and in cutscenes and as usual Kojima frames shots extremely well. let us know once you are finished with the game the third act is pretty good imo.

Scuse me /v/ do you know why my battery slowly recharges on its own without any equipment or skill that would do that? Do we have a bit of solar power by default? Need to know because of autism.

>>714525301
>Death Stranding movie
wasn't it confirmed to be a spinoff without Norman or any of the regular cast?

Doing endgame deliveries now and some of these routes are insufferable. The ones where you have to climb the snowy mountain, get something, and then bring over to the other side of the mountain are so annoying. FUCK the adventurer.

>>714553293
There's no letter T in schizophrenia, you schizo.

>>714589543
We did in the first game this one doesn't mention it but it definitely carries over and the backpack accessories just increase the rate.
Honestly I stopped giving a fuck once I realized electrobiotes fill the entire meter

>>714590608
Need to check if it works at night. If so it means it's derived from Sam's muscles movements.

>>714589757
ziplines

>>714510281 (OP)
Do Kojimadrones still somehow try to deny that Kojima is far left?
Or did they just become far left themselves?
The WEF itself couldn't have made a better slopvertisement for their world view than this game.

>>714591340
I've run out of bandwidth at 23000 covering the rest of the map. I'll have to 5 star the earlier ones, delete those ziplines and focus on the mountain and surrounding area.

>>714591367
yeah sure anon. can we play our games now?

>>714591501
I admire the zipline autism. The mountains is priority #1 for zipline routes imo

>>714511935
How do kojima cocksuckers defend this?

>>714591586
You can consume your slop all you want anon, as you always will

>>714511935
what the fuck how did I miss this cutscene? When is this?

>>714591367
>Do Kojimadrones still somehow try to deny that Kojima is far left?
I remember Kojima posing with JJ Abrams a long time ago with some woke buzzwords on screen and people were like "Kojjima just doesn't know what it means" etc and now we have this garbage. Kojima will do anything to become a honorary Californian.

>>714591860
You have to sleep next to a coffin, then sam has this homoerotic dream where Higgs climbs out of it.
Not sure what other parameters there are because I didn't get this easter egg when I tried.

>>714591501
build the monorails then redo your ziplines to just run perpendicularly off them and you can cover the whole map for way less

>>714592069
I thought about do this but I like having ziplines right outside a facility entrance. Most of my lines end and start at them.

how the fuck do I do that big Pizza Chef delivery to that one big facility in 4 minutes?

>>714591367
it's an eva ripoff. it's not about current day politics sweaty.

>>714592308
I haven't actually tried this yet
I assumed simply having the road and a truck would work? It's a straight shot even if you gotta go through a camp.

>>714592226
you need 4 ziplines around each facility that's on the monorail (in a diamond) anyway since you can't zipline through the building in any case.

>>714510281 (OP)
yes
>>714510572
based and true

>>714510281 (OP)
goyslop of the year for sure

>>714510281 (OP)
bump

>>714544196
The MLB isn't mainstream anymore, people stopped watching baseball in the 80s. Now its just the discount sport for people who can't afford NFL tickets and slowly shilling away whatever is left of its dignity into oblivion.

>>714596168
Uma Musume co-sponsored this years Kentucky Derby. Some of you oldtroons need to get with the times, its not 2004 anymore, weebshit is mainstream with everyone under the age of 30

>>714544196
>>714596168
>The MLB
>The
MLB has grown over the past few years and is the second most popular sport in the US. Baseball is mainstream, just like anything else on TV. It's produced by billion dollar organizations sponsored by other billion dollar corporations from a wide variety of industries and broadcast across multiple mainstream networks.

>>714510281 (OP)
Finally finished all 540 premium orders in DS1 DC today. My body is ready for DS2. PC port when?

>>714510281 (OP)
>Neil I know you have PTSD after commiting crimes against humanity, and that you feel guilty about leaving me behind when we were kids, but if you love me you have to lick Sam's cum out of my pussy
What did Lucy mean by this?

>>714510572
SPBPB

100%.
However, it not being multiplatform hurts its chances.
Even that fucking retard Penguinz0 liked it

>>714599251
>it not being multiplatform hurts its chances
exclusives often win GOTY though It adds to the prestige.

>4000 spoopy ghosts built a server farm in limbo and will now remote work steer all of humanity in a machiavellian plan

im tired boss

>>714577145
Boss fight on top of something since MGS1
AI from MGS2
Betrayed by nation like MGS3
Microwave thing in MGS4
Higgs does have some Revengeance Sam mannerisms in his movement.

>>714597795
>PC port when?
Never ever.

i finished the game and i dont know if my server sucks shit or what but most auto pavers are still stuck in the thousands as far as resource requirement goes. barely anyone bought the game huh

>>714599492
Not only humanity, but all life. Please be kind with corpos

>>714599796
Most of the roads will not be finished automatically. You have to contribute something. Once you do you might quickly see "[other player] contributed to [road]" and it'll be finished, but if you do nothing it will stay unfinished forever.

>>714599932
So it's all faked huh? Bravo, Kojima.

>>714510281 (OP)
Geoff literally gets on his knees and polish Kojima's knob every Game Awards for the world to see so of course.

>>714510572
Le epik contrarian faec

>>714600464
Then how come MGSV or Death Stranding 1 didn't win GOTY?

>>714600259
No, some roads and some monorails get made by players but usually they are in bumfuck nowhere, that's how you know it was made by another player, because instead of making the road next to one you already made, they do random ones around the map

>>714600617
>Dragon Age Inquisition
>Overwatch
>God of Bore
>The Last of Us Part II
Holy fuck, these awards are garbage.

>>714600617
7/11 of these are fantasy, Hidden Kojimbo sneers to make something with swords and elves

>>714592407
If you actually believe that then I wish could be as clueless as you