Thread 714642609

Getting those (you)s anon?

>>714642609 (OP)
I completed a road before hooking up the chiral network in the area. At first the likes wouldn’t budge when I finally hooked it up but then ballooned to around 3k likes and hasn’t moved for the last day. How does this shit work?

Did this game flop?

>>714642763
>MUH SALES
who cares if it did or didn’t I’m having fun either way and it’s not like Kojima is going to make a sequel with that psy game in development,.

RAIN DROPS

Was it ever explained why Higgs and Lou have the same birthmark?

>get to the mountains
>see fuckall structures sept for like two ziplines
Is every faggot getting filtered by this mountain? There is a shitload of everything everywhere else sept the mountain and I am already half-way developing a zipline net around it.

>>714643947
Higgs is the living embodiment of attachment disorders.

I spent literally all day making monorails and roads

>>714644892
I did the same thing. I actually enjoyed the mountains way more than the rest of the game. I did most of the orders when the Magellan was down and set up ziplines everywhere.

Much better gameplay the menuing to very Magellan port.

im still playing through Death Stranding 1.

>>714644994
tfw we are MULES

>>714645467
Based enjoy it man. What part are you up to?

>>714643947
inb4 Higgs is somehow Sam's kid too
I genuinely cannot think of an actual lore reason why Higgs would have the birthmark also unless it's actually a tattoo he gave himself to connect himself to Lou/Sam?

>>714646110
I don't get Higgs' fucking problem at all. Just a psycho who probably gets up to all kinds of weird shit when he's alone

that said, this game did the higgs fight/mgs wank a lot better than the first one

NOBODY EVER FULFILLS REPAIR MATERIAL REQUEST. YOU FUCKING NIGGERS ARENT HOLDING UP YOUR END TO FINISH THESE ROADS

Higgs is the best character in these games and, from what I can tell, he’s better in DS1.

>>714646415
Die Hardman is the best character

>>714646473
He’s a close second, but I can’t in good conscience say a hero is better than a villain.

>>714646473
yes, though he's a lot more silly in this one

>>714646415
higgs is insufferable in 2 compared to 1 but I never thought he was a good or even tolerable character

>>714646473
In 1 Die Hardman had to do most of his scenes with Mads and he got mogged. In 2 he owns every scene he's in. Wish he was in more of it.

>>714646767
the Charlie reveal was pretty funny for me cuz I picked Die hardman as his voice and so Sam's non-responsiveness to everything just fit so well

>>714646997
you have to pick die hardman. its actually a fucking stupid choice to even ask since it forces you into picking him. I was actually really disappointed when I found out because that wouldve been a really neat feature to pick your own

>>714647097
oh that's lame, was wondering why I couldn't find a charlie dance video with lockne instead

>>714646997
You can't not pick him. He was the last person I picked but he game a joke excuse why you can't have the other options.

Him asking you is a meme.

>get dragged into the two flying BTs fight on brutal
>game refuses to spawn any weapons for me halfway through the fight, got so pissed off I finished off the last BT with the blood boomerang and my summons
that was awful and made me so mad I had to shut the game off for the night, why the hell did they change it so you barely get weapon drops anymore from Sams, especially as most catcher fights can now happen instantly, without warning, so you might not have a chance to prepare? Even with a large ammo pouch you'll still burn through weapons like mad on brutal simply because of the bloated HP pools.

I was almost positive expedition 33 would be game of the year until I played death stranding 2

>>714647203
this lady and her powers had me thinking the twist was that Lucy's baby had been put in her by someone with dooms and that's why it wasn't Sam's

this thread about Lou's parentage was a nutty ride for me
>oh cool Sam is taking care of this random kid
>wait what maybe Sam got cucked by italian snake?
>hm something doesn't add up, maybe the baby isn't either of theirs
>oh its Sam's

went from raising another man's child, to raising his wife's boyfriend's child, to raising his own child

>>714642609 (OP)
I'm struggling to get max connection because the game refuses to help me find stuff my contracted porters have made, and when I do find someone's things I abuse the shit out of the like button multiple times a day and then they refuse to hold up their end of the bargain and don't increase any of my likes (likely because they can't find my shit).

Any advice? It's fucking infuriating getting 2k likes and then it stalls out an they don't give you a single other (you) for some reason.

>see structure that has alot of likes
>get jealous
>delete that structure and replace it with my own
>barely gets any likes

>>714648870
I'll drive out of my way to avoid the 100k like structures
They already are eating good enough, they don't need usage tax likes on top

>>714648870
>Build a road somewhere very useful
>Everyone can now drive to the lone commander, thanks to me
>No one cares, no likes
>Build a road behind the Data Scientist
>it covers a surface that is already flat, it goes nowhere
>You HAVE to drive over it when you drive up the hill
>infinite likes

>>714642609 (OP)
> get sucked into the not-madds fight
> enemies just constantly respawn
> not-madds teleports behind you constantly if you try to shoot him
> blocks all melee attacks if you get close to him
> teleports behind you if you sneak up on him
> teleports behind you if you try to pick up cryptobiotes
> constantly taking fire damage no matter where you stand so there's a hard time limit
I'm missing something here. Is there a gimmick to this fight or am I just utterly retarded? I'm playing blind so I didn't stock up on anti-human weapons before heading out and my last manual save is like 2 hours ago at the kangaroo people. Should I just bail back and spend more time levelling up lone commander to get better weapons?

>>714649491
You just shot him bro. That's really all you have to do. Pick up the free guns the game gives you, then point it at him. You can respect the the auto-aim perk if you need to.

>>714649760
All the APAS stuff is disabled during the fight. And every time I shoot him he just flashes directly behind me and starts unloading into my head.

I got like 12 hours in and the story has grinded to an absolute halt, and any time I try to pick it back up feels do forced I play maybe 20 minutes before thinking I shouldn't be wasting my weekend with this.

There are so many aspects I love, the music, the presentation/production value, the animation work. And yet, it's all wasted on a fundamentally boring as fuck foundation.

It actually annoys me because I not only lament what DS2 is, but also what we never got instead because KJP was wasting precious time and talent on this fucking thing.

Was anybody else disappointed to realize Dollman was actually a retard the whole time.

>Sam, I want to see you again, Sam. Sam, I’m waiting for your delivery, Sam. Sam, I love you, Sam.

This is a message in the game from a fucking bird kek.

>>714650080
Sounds like u got filtered lil man

>>714650262
> le heckin quirky birds lmto (laughing my tushy off)!
people paid money for this shit then wonder why gaming is getting worse

>>714650635
I thought it was funny lighten up a bit champ

>>714650654
It was a pretty quirk chungus moment my good sir!

>>714646414
I finished every road. Stop asking for my materials you lazy retard

How did Fragile know where to find Niel, or who he was?

I can listen to him for hours

>46 replies
>thread has been up for hours

Damn you fags really don’t have ps5s do you? I hope pcbros get to enjoy the kino soon.

>>714642763
Sold billions

>>714642609 (OP)
Yep. One of my bridges has over 100K (you)s. kek :))))

I missed Lockne.

DO IT FOR HER

I just got up to chapter 5. This is one of the most visually impressive areas I’ve ever seen in a game. The design is amazing. Kojima needs to do a full on horror game.

Is the Rail Restorer trophy bugged?

What is the best chiral crystal farming place?

>>714657019
Usually wherever there are a lot of BTs. There is an area around East Fort Knot that is full of golden BTs. You can also just claim all of the chiral crystals from shelters.

>>714642609 (OP)
>Fragile was on the poster 3 times to signify her Ka and Ha splitting after the intro
kino

>>714651973
Lou ended up on Neil's war beach when Fragile jumped her because of how Neil and Lou are connected. Fragile is basically Amelie except backwards in DS2 and her separated Ka followed Lou. She basically didn't have a choice but to leave Lou with Neil and the other dead. Also remember, Higgs didn't kill Lou and he knows he didn't kill her, he's just talking shit because he wanted Sam to beat him up in his superior Skull Face death scene.

>finally get Adventurer to five stars
>reward is my all-time favorite Low Roar song
You're alright RRR man

>>714652693
There's been several long threads, all during non-SEA hours. I'll let you figure out the rest yourself

>>714656563
You need to restore an entire region. It popped for me when I connected the railroad that passes through the Desert Mine > East Fort Knot (F4) > Mine North of F6 > South Fort Knot F6

But if you did something similar and still hasn't popped out then I'm afraid it's over for you brother

Did this game trigger you?

>>714642609 (OP)
Kind of feel conflicted after finishing this game (~58 hours, 42/42). On the one hand DS2 is a clear improvement over DS1 (gameplay, pacing, QoL) but a major part of DS1's appeal was the novelty of Kojima doing something new. So him repeating the same kind of story structure and resolution felt quite dissapointing, not the mention the shallow commentary on A.I. and how it quickly got brushed aside in the end.

I also wonder how this game would've turned out if Low Roar didn't pass away. Kojima had 3-4 whole albums to choose from for DS1. The songs from Magnolian and "Field of Dreams" were quite beautiful but in terms of quantity, DS1 has DS2 beat.

For now, I'm looking forward to Physint but I do hope he restraints himself from constantly self-referencing his older work. At times, during the final boss some lines made me almost cringe instead of smile.

Goddamn this game and repeating the same fucking thing a billion times. First one was the same way. Ik it’s a kojima thing with the exposition or whatever but still. I don’t listen to the holograms anymore I just kinda glaze through them. 95% of it is like teetering on filler

>>714650262
MGS 2 reference, which this >>714650635 tard failed to get

>>714642609 (OP)
I have exactly 470,961 likes
I literally just build roads every time I come into an area. if I need crystals for mine materials I just fight bt's.

>>714659048
Do you wait to connect to the chiral network to build roads?

I love Hacking and Slashing random porters to death!

>>714659189
I wish the ghost blades held up for more than 2 seconds of swinging

>>714659048
>got a bazillion crystals just by farming the golden slimes on the prairie above the animal shelter since they respawn immediately.

It's also crazy how many likes you get by building roads

>>714642763
Don't think so, people are still buying this wageslave garbage and pretend it's good

>>714659278
cope e33shill

>>714659189
I wish they improved Porter interactions. Hell they even reused every single voice line Sam had from the first game.

Would also be cool to see them carrying stuff other players gift them

i wish
its way too hot to enjoy this game

>>714659251
Post more exploits please

>>714659298
Why do so many people bring up E33 when discussing this game? They are completely different.
Also this game is nowhere close to being GOTY so what is even going on

>>714642609 (OP)
I want them stars but there's no new deliveries to make so it feels like I can't max these preppers out before I progress the story.

>>714659491
Because E33 shillniggers are salty about this game's existence, which is also the best game released this year. Shillniggers like (you).

>>714642609 (OP)
In the end credits scene why is the DHV Magellan rotting in the ocean and Tomorrow is reminiscing with old photos? Is it implying everyone is dead or something?

>>714654685
I guess Margaret Qualley had better shit to do than be Kojima'a girl of the week.

>>714646473
Die Hardmans performance was kino

>>714659770
He is honestly a very good voice actor as well. He deserves to be in more vidya productions.

>>714659121
yes
>>714659251
I also found they spawn a lot by the architect

I’ve spent like 8 hours building up the roads and ziplines

okay... i'll admit it.
That was kino

I told my chiral headspider about 4chan and he told me to tell you:
LMAO your a gay homo lol

I don't know what that means.

>>714660335
For me it's the Rodent. He also gets angry during combat

>>714660331
It is hard to believe that the PS5 didn't burn up with all of those particle effects. Kojima has hired some extremely capable programmers.

>>714658750
> not the mention the shallow commentary on A.I. and how it quickly got brushed aside in the end.
It’s about Covid lockdowns, not AI ("Zero Voidout Policy")

Is it worth doing anything post credits?
Does anything happen in chapter 17?

>>714658750
Not only that, literally every "twist" is so predictable. Legitimately thought tomorrow being Lou was a red herring

>>714661157
The decima engine is excellent and it was probably even finer tuned by Kojima. Herman Hulst giving Kojima the entire engine to recruit him for Sony was the only good thing he’s done in his career. The guy gave him the entire source code.

>>714658604
Well, I finally got it after connecting the mine whose rails go through Mr. Impossible's territory down to Terminal Fort Knot. Incidentally it's the one I'm convinced I spent 2/3rds of total required materials on.

>>714660003
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too-Architect area is like bug central half the time. I was doing a chiral bandwidth run and literally couldn’t walk five feet without one of them glitching halfway into the rocks. Might be tied to weather cycles or the server instance, but who the hell knows with how jank the backend gets late game.

>>714661157
Rendering those particles is no more taxing than rendering rain, just looks more impressive

>>714659251
Am I the only one who dislikes the Like inflation they get from roads? My actual likes from structures I built amount to like 5k

>>714661808
> It’s about Covid lockdowns, not AI ("Zero Voidout Policy")
I think APAS' idea of
> for the safety of humankind, and other species, people need to stay at home/shelter
is a smaller part of the whole conversation between APAS and Die-Hardman about the relationship between humans and how to responsibly handle A.I.

Which in the end is nothing more insightful than: be careful not to lose what makes us human when using this powerful tool, specifically our bodily senses and our need to move around.

>>714662734
I have only 1 structure that managed to hit 5k everything else is pretty low. I think the high likes on some them favored early access and streamer/journalist scum that were in it early.

>>714662785
definitely. and also people who build useless structures in the middle of nowhere because that's where there's less competition

>>714662734
I have a lot of ziplines and bridges with like 15k each

>>714662923
Were you in early access?

I saw a guy near Terminal Fort Knot who did all 400 standard orders with an S rank.

They should've gotten an actual voice actor to play Tomorrow and just used Elle's face
She was abysmal in the little lines that she had

>>714663054
No

>>714646580
So this is the "genuine" non-irony poisoned game that Kojimafags praise so much?

Trophy rate percentages are pretty high. It’s around 50% for completing chapter 5.

>>714663152
You’re upset. You should put the hate aside and just play goty instead of crying because you don’t have a ps5.

>>714662226
some shelters have unique sub orders if you haven't gotten them all to five stars like the Fisherman, Terminal Knot, The Adventurer and some others

>>714658750
>>714662289
>>714662758
definitely a lot of puzzling things. i was really surprised how little thematic content there was in the game considering Kojima decided to make a whole sequel just for that. eg, "don't let automated systems overtake to the point where humanity stagnates, we need real connections and face to face relationships to meaningfully evolve."
for me personally, the music in this game also mostly fell flat. the game just doesn't have close to the same atmosphere of isolation and somber mindfulness that the first game had, especially with you going back to your crew on the DHV after every other main order, yet the soundtrack is basically unchanged in terms of mood, and pretty much every time something came on it felt out of place. also feels like instead of picking important parts of the journey for poignancy, he just put music whenever there was a guaranteed short stretch of nothing. not even synced with any special views or anything. I immediately recall the scene from DS1 where you descend from the mountain to the port city in the first area after getting out of the bt zone and the music really hit there. pretty much only the opening of ds2 hit me.
the entire rest of the game I felt like I was just going through the games motions and Kojima's, I think it was a poor decision to make the structure of the game exactly mirror ds1 down to when and how many not-clifford fights happen and so on. also the game is called on the beach but the beach was not meaningfully integrated. overall I just kept wondering when the game would finally justify its existence to me but it never did. I also just think in terms of traversal challenge (not saying ds1 was hard, but I at least had to be somewhat mindful) ds2'a Australia is VASTLY inferior.

like his writing or not, in the past games Kojima would usually have some core theme at the heart of the new game's narrative, DS2 just felt incredibly spread thin in that regard, Kojima had nothing to say.

>>714663107
yea idk if it's just Elle Fanning's voice's natural timbre or she's just a bad actress but her lines all felt super stilted. my exgf claimed she was great in The Great though

>>714663509
It feels like a lot of the characters and story beats from either game could’ve been swapped around and without changing the effect

I dislike how little interaction there is with bb, I miss seeing her all happy when I do stuff. doll man is cool but he's so quiet and only interjects during plot points. I also still really dislike the new control scheme, ds1 had better controls *seriously why the fuck is circle attack?*. it has a lot of cool new mechanics and improves on things but idk I feel like ds1 is way better.

>>714658058
I couldn't stand to listen to the pajeet so I didn't do his stuff

>>714663509
SHOULD WE HAVE CONNECTED?

(It's like 2 lines at the end of the game)

thanks kojimbo

>>714664341
bb in the pod was a stupid addition, especially with it being immediately apparent that Sam's just coping. as a result I pretty much barely interacted with bb this whole game, even when she was unhappy because I knew it wasn't real and let's be honest, the game pretty much doesn't even care to make it look like a relationship Sam has, he doesn't even acknowledge the pod in cutscenes until le reveal

>>714642609 (OP)
I didnt get into the first game much when it first came out, but I was playing it very wrong and didn't understand some things. i think I got as far as middle knot city the first attempt to play it.

But when death stranding 2 came out and people were really enjoying it, I tried death stranding 1 again from the start. Having better hardware helps because its nice to play at 144 fps on PC. But also, I approached the game differently. First, I simply started to fight the mules while not carrying any cargo. Next, I started to build all the roads and start to complete deliveries to max out each NPC's star rating. It became more like foxhole or euro truck simulator, a delivery game with roads instead of a walking sim.

I am looking forward to when death stranding 2 comes to PC, it seems like they added a bunch of goofy stuff and more fun combat.

>>714663246
>goty
There's no way this garbage beats Clair Obscur lol

>>714659189
Does KILLING the brigands stop them from respawning?

I just learned how to turn on lethal ammunition but I haven't found a crematorium yet. Is there one or is there another way to dispose of corpses?

>>714665547
you hurl them in the tar m8, the game explains it several times

>>714665596
The game has once alluded to throwing dead people in the tar and that supposedly spawns more BTs so I assumed there was a better way.

Did you fellas walk everywhere or drive everywhere?

It feels like driving is obviously so much faster but walking is better for vibes

>>714665815
drove everywhere because the game does not give you any meaningful terrain either way, only difference with going on foot is that it takes longer

>>714663509
Yeah the story feels too formulaic in how it's paced. That's an inherent problem with open world mission based game design though. Just look at MGSV.
Tomorrow needed more screentime bonding with Sam and learning from him as a daughter. If she became a companion who actually traveled with you and helped carry stuff that could have been amazing.
Neil just feels like a waste of a good actor and fantastic art/cutscene direction. The story really didn't need to redo Mads with a worse backstory about cuckoldry instead of fatherhood.

>>714663509
I think the criticism or divisiveness DS1 really got to Kojima and he played it (creatively) safe, or atleast spend more time trying to "fix" DS1. Now I really want to know what the original script was considering he mentioned multiple times he changed it during Covid. I remember him saying he made the story more optimistic.

> also feels like instead of picking important parts of the journey for poignancy, he just put music whenever there was a guaranteed short stretch of nothing. not even synced with any special views or anything.
I disagree, some songs were definitely misses (anything not Low Roar, Woodkid, Magnolian or Hania Rani) but DS2 still manages to recreate that melancholic yet hopeful mood when nearing your destination. The addition of the music player also enables players to recreate those moments for themselves which makes me wonder: why didn't Kojima include more Low Roar songs in DS2, he obviously isn't shy about reusing songs. If DS2 included all the albums of Low Roar the replay value of DS2 would skyrocket.

>>714665815
Drive everywhere except the snowy areas at least until you get the upgraded tires for your off-road.

>>714666149
unironically makes no sense that "nobody else" by low roar was never used in ds soundtrack

>Everyone lives happily ever after.
>Except for Tarman, his son is still missing.
>And Dollman, he's still trapped in the doll forever
>And Heartman, he will never find his family.
>No I will not make Death Stranding 3.

>>714666448
Heartman's search makes no fucking sense to begin with since he saw his family moving on from the beach

>>714666448
>all characters based on directors must suffer
Kojima? What did you mean by this?

Neil Vana > Clifford Unger

>>714666896
yeeaa I'm gonna go with nah unless you're just in it for pretty pictures

>>714666896
Better style but his character has less substance.

>>714660331
Reminded me of my old gtx 980 with the sparks flying everywhere.

>>714666521
He wants to find that same beach so he can follow them into the water

>Whoa what was that weird thing?
>Did you see that, Sam?
>That character sure is interesting huh?
>I think something important is going to happen soon.
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DISCOUNT MIMIR

>>714666896
>Better then Clifford.
Lets see.
>Clifford was a war veteran.
>Known for bringing his men back alive.
>Wife falls ill with child.
>Lied to by the government.
>Wife kept in coma while baby is removed and kept in pod.
>Baby is going to be used as a sacrifice for crazy government experiment.
>Dies trying to save his child.
>Is so angry with the bitch for what she did, he "allegedly" began the Death Stranding by refusing to go to the other side, watching, waiting.

Now lets look at Neil.
>Abandons a girl to die as a teenager.
>Becomes a smuggler who kidnaps and transports still mothers and babies.
>Is responsible for a majority of the problems that occurred due to this.
>Destroys a marriage. "he loved her."
>Is willing to sacrifice her baby "which she died to protect" if it meant she lived.
>Is betrayed in the process.
>Dies.
>Goes Necro.
>First act as BT is to try and kill Sam.
>Causes voidout.
>Kills millions.

Ya, no, Neil was a horrible person from the get go and the only redeeming quality he had, was nothing because of this.
>He was protecting Lou in the afterlife.
>Is literally nowhere near her.

>>714667361
>Better style.
Thanks for confirming Metal Gear Solid is a good game and that its nice to see Solid Snake again, but this isn't MGS.

FUCK THIS TROPHY

>>714666448
>>And Dollman, he's still trapped in the doll forever
Nah, you see the doll without his look on the shelter in the end credits scene.

So where is that Sam and Higgs tentical kiss webm I've seen getting posted from?
I've completed the game and still haven't seen that cutscene.

>>714668138
A dream Sam has when he sleeps next to the coffin

>>714668134
Got a pic?

>>714662785
I have a bridge with over 100K likes. Just put a bridge anywhere on a well treaded path you will rake in the likes.

>>714668940
I forgot to add that I started playing on the 26th (I'm still not finished though lol)

>>714668550
https://youtu.be/NL7u2vOICKw?si=JWFjHGPVbxwarE3w&t=1144

>>714669051
Neat. I wish Dollman had a bigger role. He didn't even get a final scene with Sam.

>>714659612
>Casually falls to 89

With what's coming for the rest of the year, there's a decent chance DS2 doesn't make GotY contender.

>>714669782
>nobody mentions GOTY but the turn troon E33 shillnigger
Salty much?

>>714642763
Yeah, the original game was a silly meme but becasue it came out during covid the idea of roaming around was very appealing. Covid isn't around now so the game is now just a silly meme alone, it's sold about 1m maybe at best.

Considering the game cost a shit load of money to make, you can pretty much guarantee it lost a lot of money.

Kojima is a fucking clown, that needs restrictions put upon him to make good games. The lack of them here shows that.

Why the fuck are there only two types of vehicles?
This game is such a downgrade.

Things that DS1 did better
>Cliff
>darker, lonelier atmosphere
>main theme of fatherhood was executed much better
>terrain was actually hard to navigate and you couldn't just drive or fast travel everywhere

>>714669782

How is Keep Driving?

>>714642763
If it sold well, they would be giving sales numbers. They aren't, it flopped.

>>714659491
>Why do so many people bring up E33 when discussing this game?
Gee I wonder >>714664896

>>714670667
They did give sales numbers. It sold 1.4 million copies in 5 days, which is more than DS1 sold in 6 months. Seethe more

>>714669782
Death Stranding is a unique experience, so it actually has higher chances of winning. E33 just has copy-pasted content from other games.

Even Split Fiction also has a better chance at winning GOTY than E33, because it tries to do something new and different rather than just borrowing gameplay concepts from other games.

>>714642609 (OP)
Haven't played 2. Are people still lazy selfish cunts who just leave automatic Like siphoning signs outside of base entrances?

>>714670667
DS2 is already selling much faster than DS1. Copy and seethe.

>>714671837
>Copy
Cope.

>>714671495
Yeah it's pretty bad.
Feels vaguely Indian

>>714642609 (OP)
GOTY!

>SIR PLEASE REDEEM MY FATHER DEAR SIR
God I hate these two Pajeets so fucking much. What the fuck did Kojima add these fucks?

>>714672284
Not to mention the indian accent, my got, it felt like a caricature

>>714670391
> it came out during covid
It came out in 2019

>>714662310
>The decima engine is excellent
It seems so.

I hope we see it in more games, because it just always runs flawlessly, is capable of rendering beautiful graphics and doesn't have any of the typical UE5 traversal stutter.

I will buy a ps5 and a huge reason for that is Death Stranding 2. I easily want 100 more hours of kojimakino

Will there be any more Death Stranding?
DS3 with a different director starring Tomorrow?
DS film continuing DS2 starring Tomorrow?
DS film which is just the first game retold starring Norman Reedus?
Nothing?

>>714672837
DS3: Beach Volleyball directed by Hideo Kojima

>>714666896
I was shocked by how hard they cucked Neil

>>714672837
Without Kojima, very unlikely. He's focused on Physint and OD. There's no need for a sequel even if I think that The Death Stranding/timefall still existing, is kind of a pyrrhic victory.You can even see in the ending that humanity kinda gived up on forming connections and just rely on the bots for delivery, I mean the bots already deliver in the UCA, only Lou keeps delivering

Watching some streamers reacting to this game is so fucking annoying, I cannot believe how retarded some of these people are, they do not realize that DS2 is not a streamer game, you can't force through the main quest all the time, there's backtracking, there's careful planning, all of that, too much to ask from streamers who want to entertain their audience 24/7. This game is meant to be played on your own pace without outside influence.
Penguinz0 even missed two missable cutscenes. If you miss the guitar duel cutscene you have to have ADHD or some form of that. He's doing a resident evil marathon now, which is funny because the tank controls and backtracking there is as bad as in Death Stranding, but you know he won't care about tank control movement

Charlies dance caught me so off guard I was in complete shock. Kojima is a mad man

the first game had so much more edge.
remember this dude trying to stab himself to death just to avoid geting taken alive by the bts

>no homo demons
>no edge nut city

its soulless desu

>>714675051
Sam being set on fire unable to die was far worse than a dude stabbing himself

>>714675535
id agree if theyd make his skin melt and flesh fall off as he burned but it looked lazy af and censored as it stands

I really didn't like how they made it so the player knew Lou was dead. It would have been far more enjoyable to find out when Sam did that it was all in his head.

>>714675770
shown in the first trailer unfortunately

idk why kojima spoiled so much

>>714675051
DS2 literally starts with baby murder and pussies are freaking out over the lack of trigger warnings

>>714675535
Hes immortal and has died hundreds of times already. There is no tension or edge here.

>>714676132
it doesnt count because its never actualy shown.

>>714674629
he saw the alan wake 2 love and needed to take a crack at the idea

>>714676461
Unironically it fits more here than in Alan Wake 2

>>714675770
Sam literally says "you're dead" when the "BT" first shows up, Dollman tells him the pod is empty and fragile covers his mouth. It's very obvious that the lou in the pod is not real.

>>714677943
That's what I mean. Its so super clear to everyone, including the player, that Lou is dead. It makes Sam realizing it later on feel silly. The game would have been way better if at least tried to hide that Lou died.

>>714677943
this is why I barely ever interacted with or tried to soothe "lou". Game felt much more lonely than DS1.

On a side note I would have liked an option to spend time with Tomorrow or some kind of callback in the postgame. The game ends with Sam just saying "yeah" to Tomorrow acknowledging she's Louise. I thought she would have called him dad or something,

>>714678038
We're supposed to be observers watching a man struggle with ptsd. It's not meant to be a twist or anything like that.

>true hero of the story is a woman who dies tragically
I'm starting to get sick of this trope, Kojima.

>>714673632
It's a metaphor for how Kojima was cucked out of the Metal Gear Solid franchise

>>714678352
Phantom Pain was so god damn kino

>>714678352
Bananas in Kojamas is delusional about real actors enabling better storytelling and characters, none of the DS women are as good as the Boss, you probably couldn’t make a larger than life character like that convincing if you cleaved too closely to a real actress and real physicality.

>>714678038
I thought it wasn't as bleak as DS1 mostly because I loved the camaraderie in the Magellan, and the Fragile twist at the end made it even more sweet.

I love the DHV Magellan so much bros

>>714678352
tfw ending isn't Fragile and Sam raising baby Lou together

There really needs to be a console board where we filter these towards

This is a Chud PC board for games

The enormous BT on the way back to Sam's shelter was absolutely awful. A giant damage sponge with only a few attacks where you'll either feel its doing nothing or get attacked by something you can't see because it takes up the whole damn screen. You pretty much need to just run around and hope you get free rocket launchers or the fight takes AGES with normal guns.

>>714678719
Why do they always say the DHV part?

>>714678719
The DHV tune at the end felt really cathartic whenever it shows up. It was slowly built out throughout the game and I think it was purposely juxtaposed against the BB Theme from which it was derived so you get this "aha" moment in the third act.

>>714678832
huh? I died once but it went pretty easy the 2nd time, just gotta shoot its knees and then when it falls shoot the giant orb things on the top of its body

I got plenty of rocket launchers/grenade launchers from my homies during the fight, but a regular assault rifle takes down its joints quickly all the same

>>714678860
You'll find out...

>>714678860
because it means something

>>714679034
It wasn't hard, it just was really not fun. Way to much HP and barely enough needing you to react. Only reason I died once is I didn't see its stupid insta death grab move.

>>714678286
This reminded me so much of the hallucination in TPP where you see your old face in the helicopter window. Love when Kojima does stuff like this.

>>714646298
He's basically just an edgelord obsessed with Sam and secretly wants Sam to beat him.

>>714678760
little faggot frog blasterd worm

>>714644994
>pic
why

>>714678352
Kojima pretending to be a feminist is so cringe.
Fragile and Deborah Wilson's speeches about women being the ultimate victims were painful.

>>714671014
>unique experience
it's a near complete retread of the first one

Okay but why the fuck was Deadman the samurai that was so dumb

>>714670391
>>714670667
The nintendomania drones are seething while their switch 2 got bricked by nintendo anti piracy & melted by the summer.
Lmao at them.

>>714679461
why was it making baby sounds
but also when I saw it was deadman it all clicked for me "oh that's why the samurai was so fat"

>>714679461
But Higgs says that he was the samurai all along?

>>714679461
Because Death is not End
And Death Can’t Tear Us Apart

>Talks to himself
>Grunts randomly
>Doesn't like being touched
>Is awkwardly silent when he should say something
>awkwardly interjects when he shouldn't say something
>Thinks it would be funny if he started singing but it just weirds everybody out

Sam is literally me

>>714680290
But people want to touch him, and he has a job

How did Lou survive the voidout from Neil's body, and if the answer is that Lou is a repatriate like Sam then wouldn't that make everything that happens earlier with Fragile jumping her away completely pointless/nonsensical? Maybe they loaded her into a cargo canon and shot her out of the city before it blew up.

>>714681541
Lou was moved out of the facility by then

>>714681541
Lou was gone by then

>Sam!, You gotta go and save Tomorrow!
Couldn't be any more on the nose then that.

>>714682106
Lou also survives the voidout at the start of DS1 which people in-game should've questioned. Maybe there are some weird rules for BBs, but the game never really bothered to deal with it. It would have to be something specific to Lou and Sam since they've made BBs in the past and incinerated them just fine, and clearly thought at the end of DS1 it would work. Lou was probably always unkillable based on where the game goes, and it's just that no one really knew that.

>>714642763
It sold bigly and everybody playing it loves it, Nintendo and Microsoft are currently panicking and Kojima haters are writing formal apology letters en masse

Not reading anything to avoid spoilers, just another porter passing through and dropping a photo.

So why did all the cryptobiote get wings?

>>714685142
enjoy anon. here is mine throwing away Lou

>>714684373
We do see Lou repatriate at the start of DS1, she ends up on the beach with Sam

>Lou grew up to be a smoker
oof ruined the ending for me

>>714685379
howd you do it?

>>714685379
howd you get lou with you on that mountain???

>>714658749
What the fuck in it would?

I think the criticism on DS2's terrain being too easy compared to 1 is mostly unfounded. Virtually everyone has played the first game so we already know efficient routing and tricks to overcome rivers or sudden elevation changes. We are just better DS players by now, so it might seem easier when it's actually the same. If anything standard routes have literal enemies in highways so it's not as straightforward.

>>714685851
it's okay, they're chiral cigarettes

>>714686263
Its not easier, its about the same really. A handful of somewhat tricky parts and the rest being cheesed with vehicles.

>>714684373
Lou IS a repatriate too, hes Sam's kid.
Thats literally the whole point of why his existence had to be a secret. But you're right, it should've been questioned now that you mention it. I can't remember if they do

>>714686263
There are absolutely things that have been casualized, not just the terrain. DS1 closes you off of vehicles much more often unless you build roads. You literally don't need to do corpse disposal anymore. Ammo is automatic, etc. You get upgrades far earlier than 1

>>714642609 (OP)
this game, just like the first one, killed my apathy and doomer mood. for now. idk how Kojima god does it. I need to go do something productive with my time. Keep on keeping on, porters.

>>714686263
The terrain is fine, the real problem is that the economy is waaay too forgiving, you have so many resources at all times, like what's even the point of the shared locker feature other than taking on more cargo? It's also annoying because it clutters up the game so much. The game desperately needs a very hard mode or something where its much more strict with resources.

So what was up with the huge fuck-off moon? Just a spook with no deeper mechanic or meaning?

because the spook worked, I was fucking terrified the first couple of times

>>714687060
They clearly balanced it around roads and monorails. The mid way onwards roads take fuck tons of resources and you're pretty much expected to use the mines and lug them around multiple times. Meaning if you don't care about roads you'll never run of of resources to do any normal stuff.

>>714687308
the monorail investment seemed so steep I never got into it

>>714686859
Opposite for me. It just leaves me wishing I could just wander out into the wilderness and hear a cool song start playing

Any links to the full OST?

I focused on developing the roads and whenever I got a delivery that was for a place I was going to pass by, I'd take it, I did not take huge detours, only the obligatory backtracks.
Honestly this is how it should be. People should not get tired doing side content before finishing the game. I'm going to platinum it and I know I will love the journey, but to finish the main quest you really need to focus on not wasting time with side content

>>714679689
No he doesn't.

>Bola Stun Gun
What where they thinking this completely trivializes all non ghost mec areas

>>714686263
I would say it's generally a little easier even before familiarity, but the biggest problem is that they couldn't really come up with much interesting to add to the terrain/environment. Weather seemed to be the idea, but none of it paid off. The rivers "flood" but are still shallow enough to just bike or wade through, wildfires show up like 3 times and you just drive around the individual patches of fire, whiteouts happen but you have a full 3d map and terrain scanner, etc. Like 50% of the map is different shades of desert, 40% is the one mountain, and 10% is Death Stranding 1 again. I know it's Australia, but it would've helped to have more visually interesting biomes or something.

It's a hard design problem to tackle, because making things strictly more difficult would just end up being annoying. "Oh great, the rivers flooded now I just have to spend an extra 10 minutes going to get the shit to make a bridge."

>>714679461
>>714679689
>>714688039
Couldn't it technically be multiple people?

Heartman and Deadman both inhabit Heartman's body at different times. Could it not be that Lou, Deadman, and Higgs all used the cryborg ninja at different times?

>>714688086
just trying to give stealth bros a carrot
because apparently stealth isn't allowed later when you link up the last area in the south

>>714688230
>because apparently stealth isn't allowed later when you link up the last area in the south
the last mission to link fort knot? you can stealth it but it still funnels you into a boss fight at the end. pretty sure you can sneak under the bridge

can someone explain the ending
I thought the Death Stranding was already prevented in the end of DS1
but its still a thing in DS2, and seemingly still at the end of it... despite EE giant Lou eating Higgs and effectively giving the finger to the last stranding

>>714679194
Given the world in DS my personal theory, even knowing the spoilers, is that the Lou Sam can see and that flies around him is slightly, not truly but still slightly, a real manifestation of her soul trying to comfort Sam. A residual bit of her soul tied up with his. I have no evidence to back this up but I prefer to think it's true.

>>714688395
I thought the bridge went over just water? I tried to coffin board it but it stops you because you need chiral connectivity to use the board. Does this game have boat vehicles I'm not aware of

>>714686220
>>714686102
you can customize poses for Lou, Sam and Dollman in the camera mode (which is legit amazing)

>>714688447
DS1 didn't end with reverting the stranding, Amalie just stopped trying to cause a full on extinction. Shit's still fucked snd degrading, just more slowly. The hope is that humanity can adapt.

>>714688935
interested to see where they take the story since apparently a new plate gate is opening for a new continent

>>714686739
agreed vehicles have been buffed, they seem to react less to smaller rocks so it's easier to path around with them.

>>714688447
It would make sense that you shut off Amelie to prevent extinction but that doesn't actually fix everything that's fucked up. That said, it's probably just a retcon regarding the rain and rainbows being normal at the end of DS1.

>Higgs turns around to look at Sam when he sings "I will hold you"
this game isn't even subtle about it anymore

>>714689158
they suffer more cargo damage from simple falls, but the traversal is far easier

>>714687646
you could anon, but you have to curate and play hour music by your own

I'LL TAKE THE DAMAGE AND THE GOODS I DON'T BREAK THAT EASY

>>714643947
the scene when he also holds Tomorrow's face in the DHV was also weird. It had a sense of familiarity to it.

I love this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>714690057
that scene was very uncomfortable, Fragile and Sam were just wailing on Higgs for 10 minutes straight while he was cackling and taunting them

>>714643947
>>714690143
what was his connection to Amelie? seems like he just worships EEs [/spoiler[

[Buy a fucking ad Kojima]

>>714690261
game is kinda full of torture porn

Is this series just an elaborate attempt by Kojima to condition his fans into freely accepting slavery? I'm sure you fags wouldn't mind cleaning his fridge.

>>714690576
mind expanding on your claim/premise?

>>714690289
Tbh I don't get him and what makes him tick, he has some sort of attachment complex with his superiors and gets absolutely butthurt when they fail him in some way. He also seems to treat his relationship with Sam as some sort of sibling rivalry, and is very unserious about it. He reminds me a lot of an extremely chaotic Joker.

>>714687895
Yeah I think I'm going to do this now. I'm only on chapter 7 and have been spending way too long trying to five star everyone in the west when I'm sure it will be a lot easier to just come back and finish later when I have more toys. I'm kind of burnt out just trucking everywhere on level one roads

>>714690945
Pretty sure he's just obsessed with Sam and being his opposite for the sake of it. Sam even calls him out on it saying "is this what you really want" and Higgs just brushes it off. I don't think he wants extinction THAT much, he just wants something to make a real cool fight with Sam.

>APAS was in control the entire time
>no actually Drawbridge was in control the entire time
>no actually Higgs was in control the entire time

that all happened in the span of like 10 minutes lol

>>714690945
>sibling rivalry
>confesses he loves Sam and wants to be with him together forever
bro...

I thought the whole scene near the beginning where Deadman revealed he was actually now a dead man and waddling on some beach somewhere was so out of place, especially with Sam just kinda staring at the screen not caring lol

>>714690751
>You do wageslave tier chores and you're supposed to be happy because you have a talking redditor puppet attached to your character's crotch
>Afterwards you're rewarded by Kojima's shitty sci-fi TV show
>You don't play as the hero, you don't have any cool powers, you just do chores
But the worst part of all is how fans of Death Stranding just accept all this because it has Kojima's name attached to it. Literally no other vidya developer, or company has such a dedicated and loving fanbase.

>>714692164
the gameplay is actually pretty fun - like just the core delivery and routing loop
if anything I think the game needs less BTs and ghost mechs

>>714691903
>DS1 Deadman
>Sam I'm so tortured because I don't have a beach and thus proves I really am a soulless monster made from the corpses of other people, but it doesn't matter because the connections I've made to my friends are real and through those connections I can access the beach
>DS2 Deadman
>sup Sam I'm deaderman now lol and btw I did have a beach and DOOMS all along, kthxbai for now im never REALLY gone ;) ttyl senpai byeeee xx

ffs Kojima

>>714690945
He used to be a good person
Then he met Amelie and spiraled into insanity. She made Sam his rival to decide if the world should end. At first Higgs feels like a chosen one but he's extremely insecure and jealous of Sam getting attention from Amelie. So he starts being extra mean to him to a point of obsession while stringing him along to connect the network and blow it up. But Amelie chooses Sam and betrays him.

By the end he is genuinely fond of Sam in a strange way. Sam is really the only one who can understand what Higgs went through. But he's still angry with Sam because he ruined everything for him and left him stranded on the beach for thousands of years.

It's just two guys who would otherwise be best friends caught in a cycle of fucking up each others lives

>>714692658
I thought it was just written that way cuz guillermo didn't have time ( and in the same way I think lea may have asked Kojima to kill off Fragile so she doesn't have to do this shit anymore ) but then he comes back and has so much screen time lmao

>>714642609 (OP)
Reminder that if you play this game and like it you're less than subhuman.

>>714657263
I farmed the ones near The Ghost Hunter which is what I believe you are referring to. I then captured the BT and got a white crystal. I also farmed the red BTs near the Chronobiologist. I tried catching the flying BT but I couldn't get it to work so I just killed it. I'm hoping the red and gold BTs respawn but even still you get tired and need to rest which decays structures. Not enough BT farming areas.

Que música maravilhosa, Obrigado Kojima

>>714688737
how do you access camera mode?

why did Lou instantly grow up when she went to Vana

>>714692941
Del Taco never did motion capture nor voice acting for DS. They just used his likeness.

>>714693448
She didn't, time is funky there so all the time there was a few months in the real world. She aged normally there. But all she did was follow the skell crew around for the entire time.

>>714693651
so was the scene where Fragile hands her over and she instantly becomes a woman in a white dress just symbolism?

>>714693808
It had to be right or I'd be asking the same thing

>>714693886
well I'm still asking because Kojima is kinda heavy handed so idk

Just finished thought it was a solid 3/10

>>714693147
What if I didn’t play it and liked it?

>>714642763
its not on steam
they fumbled hard

DS is a beautiful "art hoe" game. i dont really care about the lore or characters
I only enjoyed metal gear lore because it was pretty realistic

>>714694841
metal gear lore is only realistic if you accept that nanomachines are behind everything (and this still doesn't explain what happened in earlier games in the timeline like 3 and PW)

The game would be much better without roads, bridges and vehicles. Playing on Brutal is a cakewalk thanks to those. Also all the online constructs are way too much.
Still easy GOTY but it feels messier than the first game.

>>714694841
>>714695115
oh and Volgin coming back from the dead through pure rage in TPP only to give up and die when he realizes Venom isn't Naked

>>714660331
haven't played the game yet
how mexican is this game?

>>714694841
That's kind of like saying X-men is more realistic than Neon Genesis Evangelion

>>714695115
Parasites

>>714695215
Volgin was almost dead but kept on life support by Soviets to study his physiology. He was brought out of the vegetative state by proximity to young Mantis who forms a psychic symbiosis with Volgin’s lust for revenge

>>714695362
Not very, the opening is in Mexico but it’s post apocalyptic so it’s just a mountainous desert.

>>714666896
such wasted potential just like the rest of the game

>>714695773
such wasted potential...

Does it get better than this?

>mfw I'm optimizing the fun out of the game again
why do I keep doing this to myself?

>>714695362
The most mexican thing in DS2 is Villa Libre and Quesadillas.

>>714696470
no
this is the best iteration of this 1 on 1 thing Kojima has been trying to crack his entire career. The same fight in DS1 was dogshit. I also like how he kept the guitar gimmick going the entire game. I thought it was just going to be a silly meme but he stuck to it.

Question. I found these small golden creatures near tar pools and when I killed one it split but if you get them all they give a bunch of chiral crystals. There are lots of them so I usually move out and then come back to kill all of them. But I tried it after a while and rechecked, hoping they respawn, it doesn't happen. Are they one time kills?

>>714693350
touch pad, click on the left part (or right, I don't remember)
anon you should always check the controls of a game in the settings menu first if you have questions like this

>>714697691
I like how intimate and melancholic the DS1 fight feels. It's not very epic, just two guys beating the shit out of each other.

The Aid Request system feels so tacked on and pointless. It's not like the really needs more shit to do, it's just more shit clogging up the map for no good reason. It also just feels totally artifical because no actual player is sitting and waiting to have a ladder delivered or whatever

>>714699567
man am I glad Sam lost the ponytail in ds2

>>714672284
>What the fuck did Kojima add these fucks?
Ever heard of RRR? That shit is like a religion in Japan

>>714672284
>>714700272
RRR is genuinely a god-tier movie
captcha: N2GGA

>>714689096
One of the few series where I'd be ok with $15 expansion packs for small regions with their own little plots and gimmicks.

>>714690289
Amalie set him up thinking he was controlling/manipulating her then rugpulled him
He's a classic narcissist lashing out at not being in control

>>714690751
Kojima bad, game bad, fans bad, do not redeem sars

>>714700431
Best three hours I've ever spent watching a movie

>>714700642
I mean imagine growing up locked in a bunker with your uncle who beats you up, then discovering that you have powers and becoming a legendary porter. Then Amelie makes him feel like a chosen hero only to throw him away.

>>714693147
yes very true sirs kojima is of the dalit designers E33 is the true vaisyas game

>>714694598
It's selling faster than clair obscure despite being a ps5 exclusive lol

>>714685379
>>714688737
i dont remember seeing a lou option (outside the pod) in photo mode?

>>714700793
I'm actually surprised by how it didn't feel like a slog.

Cunts knocked me out and stole my bag so I turned the safety off and started blasting. Now I got 11 dead bodies. Should I just leave them? Never shot anyone in the first game so not sure what happens.

>>714659048
That’s nothin, I’ve got over 1.6 mil from building and upgrading every road

>>714701727
don't you need to dispose of the corpses? in the first game leaving dead bodies for too long triggers a voidout (and a game over)

>>714702537
Really? I've been intentionally getting caught by BTs so I can quickly remove the BT area with the crater that comes after. I assumed a dead body causing a void out would just make a crater as well.

>>714663509
Yeah it was such a retread of everything from the first game. DS1 felt so unique and 2 just kind of diluted the magic and added more combat options. I was really hoping for an MGS 2 kind of deconstruction of the first game but instead we got more of the same. Felt like bloated DLC. Also, that Die Hardman dancing scene was an embarrasment and the whole Elle Fanning Louise thing was... nothing. You basically know she's Lou the whole game and then, guess what? she's Lou!

>>714703232
>be cute BB in 1st game
>come back in 2nd game as a dummythicc actress that keeps doing things with her feet

what were they smoking

>>714703432
Kojima's just a starfucker. Always has been. Little perverted jap (tautology)

Why did they realease this in June? Its a winter game

>>714703647
>starfucker
It really is. In spite of the Straya setting it really feels like a Nov - Dec release

>>714703647
Kojima was scared of GTA 6.

>>714703647
so the literal children that play it have a few weeks off to boost player numbers so he can grift more money
same as it ever was

>>714703647
original plan was to release it in late september but due to being afraid of the GTA6 launch they pushed for an earlier release.

Had rockstar come out and announced the GTA delay back in january, the game would have come out later.

>>714703770
Isnt that coming next spring?

>>714703232
Because he's tired of being the MGS2 guy who has to subvert expectations, provide predictions and insightful commentary while deconstructing his work over and over. So he made a straightforward sequel. No bait and switches, no speeches, simply more of the first game.

I finally get why Kojima loves using "Hollywood" actors so much, Neil was able to convey so much emotion just with a look.

DS2 Higgs is filled with so much hatred and pain it's hard not to feel sorry for him

>>714703989
He didnt know at the time. He did say it was a reason he is releasing it earlier in the year

>>714704227
Having photorealistic faces is obviously incredible if you can actually pull it off, the problem is that human beings are incredibly good at noticing uncanny valley so you need the absolute best tech and animators in the industry to pull it off

>>714704103
i genuinely don't undestand why they added this. it's not even funny, just cringy. this game is just so much wasted potential.

>>714704227
Mads obviously has incredible screen presence, charisma and star power but I have to say that Luca is much more expressive and Neil seems to be more aware of himself than Cliff.

>>714698343
I am too busy building roads and making deliveries to afford divvying out attention to plebian things like reading.

>>714704737
Because it's fun

>>714704439
Cartoon character

>>714704227
What emotion is this meant to convey?

>kid kicked the bucket huh?
>so now what... you're just... lugging that coffin around?
>sorry, "pod"
>going on a walkabout?

jesus higgs...

>>714705660
despair

>>714707417
thanks for reminding me i gotta make an edit of this but with Higgs

>>714657913
randomly browsing DS2 threads after loving 1 and half way through your reply I realize it.
pic related
the story was always shit, but they dont even seem to have added anything interesting in the gameplay and just doubled down on the story.

>>714709460
tarman was a pretty good addition to the cast

You did unlock the street fighter moves, right?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f1kZ06dGswI

>>714709050
sorry that you're retarded anon

>>714709050
>>714711856
underaged phoneposter and brown

>>714712000
what is it with you fagboys always calling me brown?
also not a phone poster either...

>>714711856
I'm not in an expedition 33 thread tho

>>714709460
Kept you waiting, huh?

>>714713387
so?
how does looking up my gif invalidate my point?

Why did samurai deadman even come to our rescue when we are in Mexico? Did he know Higgs was on the move?

>>714714662
because death can't keep him and Sam apart

I'm fighting the Lord of the Lake
When can I throw the Pokegrenade?

>>714716524
when the hp is red and you also need to throw it at its mouth

Dead game

Stranded game

>>714716965
maybe, but I think a lot of people are avoiding the board while playing to avoid spoilers

It was good until the final boss, good lord

>>714717384
what didn't you like about the final boss?

>>714716864
I trickshotted it the two times I caught it in the red with its mouth open and it didn't do anything. But I ended up killing it with a final pokegrenade to the body and was surprised to get the crystal.

>>714717615
What part was good? The RPS cyber ninja fight? The whack-a-mole second phase or the quick time event filled finale? Garbage. We should have just killed Higgs on the bridge.

>>714718112
seething

>>714718112
Did you want Sam to do a double niggerflip or something? Perhaps a kamehameha out of his urethra?

>>714718679
He wanted the hammy dialogue to be taken very very seriously like in his expedition 33

>>714718576
>For England, James?
>No, for Brie

>>714717287
This shit flopped no one play this crap lmaool get fucked snoyjeet tranny

>>714718846
That anon is right. /v/irgin doesn't play games because they are too busy shitting on them on the internets.

>>714718846
why are SEAs so obsessed with India

Just beat it myself. Quite comfy personal GOTY so far.

it still hurts

Can you play songs in game as you deliver stuff like in MGSV?

>Get Higg's Guitar
>Don't get Samurai Sword


LAME

>>714720829
Yes

>>714720829
yep.

Bros I'm over 30 hours in and I just discovered you can use the monorail to zipline. This is a gamechanger.

If DS2 was soulless this would not be in the game simple as. This alone defeats any such allegations. Anyone who played DS1 and sang this song in springs knows.

https://youtu.be/CJ2_I6EH6VI?list=RDCJ2_I6EH6VI

Can't wait to rebuy this on PC, and then with Death Stranding 2 directors cut

>>714723447
based PC original DS and directors cut owner

>>714722047
I'm gonna miss schizo Sam

GOOD GOD

THANK YOU... KINDLY!

>>714703770
Reminder that the only game that had the balls not to run away from GTAV was Ghost of Yotei. GOTY kino incoming.

>>714725194
I WILL HOLD
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>714725953
AND PROTEEEEECT YOOOOU
tfw diehardman is now protecting cliff's son and grand daughter

>>714726326
Kino

I don't understand why the far right americans hate this game, I assume they are remnants of the console wars? When they owned xbox and nintendo, so they played Halo, Gears of War, all that nintendo slop. And they hated Playstation for being another console that they did not own, so they hated on MGS, which was the flagship of the PS2 with MGS2 and PS3 with MGS4.
This remnants never grew up and they still hold this hate.

>>714726675
Haven't you heard? The horseshoe theory turned out to be the circle theory. Same people, different brand.

>>714726675
it has nothing to do with that
DS2 has themes of climate change and women's rights. Kojima's writing is kinda clunky with it which doesn't help the perception. But the part that directly confronts you is such a small portion of the game you could blink and miss it

Thank you for the retrieving of yours truly. Here are some gloves that allow the redeeming of shit from a distance.
>So it can retrieve cargo from across small gaps and whatnot?
That too.

where 2 cop this fit

did Die Hardman somehow go back to the 90s

>>714727356
The fact that they aren't the most annoying peppers is honestly impressive. Those mr.impossible twins talk so fucking annoying. I hope a nigger causes a void out on their doorstep.

These are the lyrics to HORIZON DREAMER, from the Dollman dance, translated to English: https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/global/lyrics/daichi-miura/horizon-dreamer/english/

"to a faraway new land"

this is referencing the parallel dimension in DEATH STRANDING 2. i have no doubt in my mind the first also has it, but this is a direct reference to it that you can't ignore

We have only played HALF of Kojima's games. I like to believe Grey Fox is the parallel world for mgs1, since the VR missions teased it, but who knows what's really beyond that Gate?

>>714701292
there is, just scroll down in the tab where you can change Sam's pose

>>714727821
I mean, having to fetch the man multiple times while he is (not really) unconscious is annoying, but him pushing himself like that has enough charm in itself that I forgive him.

>>714727821
The twins are great. Rare case of preppers having some personality.

>>714729374
>Yooo dude you did the fucking impossible FUCKING EPIC did I forget to say FUCK

>>714642609 (OP)
no its not on PC

>>714693315
Okay so you can catch the flying BT you just have to shoot it out of the sky first and it gave 1900 crystals. In general I've been catching BTs and it gives way more crystals. The gold gazers respawned but the red ones didn't. Took a few hours but I got around 13k crystals.

>>714730619
Yes exactly. They are great because they are annoying. Bunch of retarded dudebros > yet another bland prepper with nothing to them.

>>714730775
>Took a few hours but I got around 13k crystals.
Before the last patch, there was a spot near the Architect that had a bunch of gold creatures clumped together. Usually I would wait until the three closest to the prepper got close enough that they'd all eat a single blood grenade and the lingering mist would kill the little offshoots it creates, leaving upwards of 800-1200 crystals each. Its still viable, but I have been just picking everything up as I see them with the yield boost. I also managed to get all my chiralium needs met.

>>714642763
It sold billions, Amazon couldn't even keep up with all the copies sold and had to give me a full refund cause they were so late

>>714727356
He gives you the Alyx gloves and the thermal pads not to mention all the songs that play when you rescue him

Most based shelter in Australia I'm afraid

Are cancelled Orders not re-tryable? I cancelled an order and it doesn't seem to be in Standby or anything.

WOOHOOHOO LOOKING CLEAN AS A WHISTLE

>>714733768
If you cancel an order, you have to wait 6 hours for a respawn.

>>714735184
Shouldn't they show up as in Standby during that time?

>>714727841
> only played half the game
TO THE DELAWARE CIRCUIT COURT

>>714735267
Nope. The game even tells you this when you first try to cancel an order.

>>714650103
I was sick of Dollman's constant stream of positivity and obvious information, so I was eating pretty good when I learned he got his daughter killed with k-pop in a plan he admits he knew would fail

>>714645467
Based me too.
>>714646051
NTA but I just finished the Deadman chapter where you fight Cliff a second time and get BB- no, Lou back. I missed that little fucker like you couldn’t believe. Now that the gang’s back together, I’m gonna go back to rebuilding roads because my autism demands it

>>714642609 (OP)
reminds me a lot of metal gear survive

>>714672284
>THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY FATHER'S LIFE FOR A FIFTH TIME, SAM!
>200 likes given, total goes up to 4/5 stars
FUCK YOOOOU
>>714672342
The father literally says "THANK YOU, COME AGAIN" when you leave sometimes

>>714649491
the boss fight arenas for italian snake always have some sort of 'puzzle' you have to figure out. positioning is key so keep moving, melee is broken as fuck especially after you get the kungfu moveset, and dont worry about the skellingtons they only respawn after solido serpento gets damaged enough that you force him to blink out.

or just throw nades, your call

>>714672440
>> it came out during covid
>It came out in 2019
i´m a PC Chad, thanks for beta testing

>>714693340
>Que música maravilhosa, Obrigado Kojima
uma delicia

>>714693147
It's true.... I'm already a demon

at 40 hours im tapping out
>story goes nowhere
>deliveries are repetitive

>>714737334
I just did the main missions desu

Remember that Niel's actor grew up playing MGS and really wanted to get in touch with Kojima. The bandanna and other similarities was probably his idea.

Take a shower Sam, you smell like shit

>Death Stranding 1 was pro life
>Death Stranding 2 exposes the true nature of women
When did Kojima get so based?

Some of you guys can't even do this delivery.

>>714739701
There were no abortions in Death Stranding 2.

>>714727640
>the 90s

>>714740852
There was at least one.

>>714736395
Coincidentally also a good game

>>714741165
No there wasn't.

>>714740852
yeah it was just mass ritualistic baby sacrifice

>>714741361
Did you also think State of Decay was also a good game?

>>714741610
You didn't play the first game to understand how Bridge Babies were made.
And
You have no proof of any of your claims happening in ether games.

>>714741647
Never heard of it.

>>714741601
Did you miss Doctor's tragic backstory somehow?

>>714741716
my understanding was that they needed around 7 month old "fetus" for each UCA site in order to jumpstart the chiral network connection?
That was Neil's job, to smuggle in pregnant women from Mexico.
Am I wrong?

>>714742249
It wasn't any pregnant women, it was braindead ones - they were keeping alive children who would have otherwise died, albeit with the motive of condemning them to basically be glorified internet routers

>>714741716
NTA but Deadman tells you that a bunch of bbs were sacrificed to set up the network. It literally was baby sacrifice to a weird undead tech god.

>>714741840
Her story was about the first prototype pod not able to support the undeveloped baby. It was not an abortion.

>open backpack customization.
>Letters available are BOA and AB
>okay I guess I'm writing BOOB
>feels to gay to change it so it takes up space the entire game

>>714742681
Bridge Babies weren't aborted fetuses.
They were always disposed of after their service.
This was in the first game.

>>714742907
What is it called again if you prematurely end a pregnancy by killing the fetus?

>the metagenomist has you moving 16 large cargo worth of squids
>you have 8 minutes to do this
>you can only carry 5-6 at a time
>ziplines don't work because even a direct route would take you 3 minutes at best, meaning a maximum of 9 minutes to get all of the cargo
>pickup is impossible because the fucking thing has no traction on snow
>can only take half of them with a bike, and even then you're looking at 4 minutes + using the magellan to warp back per trip
>can take all of them with a boost skeleton and carriers but your speed is completely fucked in snow
>can't use bokka because you're too slow baseline
>your only choices are deliver a fraction or use the magellan
>you get fucked either way
Is this the cheater trap order?

>>714742648
I actually questioned the validity of "braindead" pregnant women. Pregnant ladies are some of the most taken care of human beings, how common can you actually find a braindead one? and how do they make sure the unborn baby is being incubated enough while still in the oven? Just a nitpick but my headcanon says it's actually mostly women.

>>714742249
Instead of shifting abortion it would be murder. Those babies could only be created with brain death mothers. Medical science can brain dead a person.
This has nothing to do with abortion.

>>714743453
*mostly alive women

>>714743463
yeah that's why I said it was ritualistic baby sacrifice, not abortion.

>>714743356
Nevermind, you have to go up the slopes at angles to get the pickup up the mountain and it can get there in 4.5 minutes.

>>714743453
There's still a lack of information to know the full scale of the operation, BB-28 is the highest registry I think we've ever told but BB's being decommissioned after a year of use suggests it would need to be higher
The Death Stranding has been in progress for 20+ years so circumstances are plausibly fucked up enough to create more of that scenario than you'd think

>>714744047
The only one sacrificed is the mother. That was the whole point of that scene. They were actively looking for pregnant women as a resource.

>>714744047
None of it was ritualistic.

Do Gold Chiral Creatures respawn or not?

>>714744806
Yea

>>714745220
How long? I killed some like an hour ago.

>>714744603
I was being dramatic and creative with the wording since that is how babies are usually used in older tropes (eg human sacrifice) - but you can also view the DS schtick as ritual sacrifice for the future hyperstitional CyberHuman God and it's future in a more poetic lens.

>>714744443
In a certain view yes? You functionally sacrificed any future the baby was going to have, because of your heinous involvement (this goes to the pro-life argument eventually).

>>714745886
You have to leave the area. Like go do some more porter shit then come back.

>>714741647
state of decay 2 yes

YOU CAN UPGRADE THE ROADS TO LEVEL 2 HOLY SHIT

i literally can't even this absolute dogshit game, when does it end

>>714748962
5 hours after this scene with at least 30 minutes of you driving on the road to "decompress" from "pivotal plot moments"

>>714748962
>dogshit game
>posts an image from a kino scene

>>714749219
> kino scene
far gone

Nothing compares to the Minus Sixty One opening.
That thrill of going on a big adventure in a new place with your kid was so hype. To bad nothing else in the game reached that hype.

Hi, I watched some Death Stranding 2 shit on youtube just so I can make stupid posts about this game I never plan on playing because I mindlessly hate Kojima.

>>714703647
it's winter in australia.

>>714695202
play it offline.

>>714749928
There's a timeline were we got P.T. instead of Death Stranding. In that timeline geoff killed himself and sony went bankrupt.

I don't like it
too easy

>>714743161
>Bridge Babies weren't aborted fetuses.
The original bridge babies were 7 month old fetuses, which were removed from a stillmother and placed into a BB pod. They were subsequently sacrificed to build the original chiral network. The chiral network is the entire reason that BB-tech even exists.

>>714742648
>oh, another braindead woman here boss
>curious, it's literally every woman we've checked so far