Anon, it's been a while since you've taken a shower. Why don't you try freshening up a bit?

Death Stranding thread

Snoyjeet trannoid marketer thread

>>714766637
Eric won btw

>>714766587 (OP)
I swear in DS and DS2 I feel like I'm the only one making roads. Or at least finishing them off after ages.

>>714766637
Fpbp

SAM YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF

>>714766715
other people contribute up to a certain amount, but in your own world you have to at least finish them

>>714766715
Who asked?

>>714766637
Smash players seething at Shower Stranding 2

still not reading any of the threads, i've gotten pretty damn far already without being spoiled.

Dead game

>>714766842
Ah, that's fair. I wasn't sure if that was deliberate or not.

Stranded game

>>714766715
DS sort of fudges the online connectivity a bit, everyone obviously isn't on the same server as well since it would mean the world would be absolutely overfull of shit

>>714766587 (OP)
Not a fan of this guy, he pisses me off and I don't know why.

>>714766587 (OP)
my dumbass thinking 'huh why is there a goosebumps thread on /v/'

Make more ziplines near facilities faggots.

>>714766912
There's honestly not that much worth spoiling honestly, other than some cool set pieces and unlocks

>>714767127
It feels very much like a "Sony really liked Mimir in god of war so we need one of those" even poking fun at when Sam initially tries to put him on the back of his pants.
He just comes across as kind of forced without adding much as he isn't very talkative outside of a few lines here and there in story missions. He needed to have more voice work sprinkled throughout doing random missions or whatever

Shit game flopped keeekkk

Beat it yesterday.

I WILL rebuy it for PC, AND buy DS2 directors cut when it drops.

I took a shower like three minutes ago

>>714766587 (OP)
I'm never playing this because I don't have a PS5 and hear even fans of the original hated this one.
What's the story on Dollman? Why is he a doll? How does this make any sense?

nigga did someone shit?

>>714766842
That’s bullshit because I’ve seen a lot of people saying they get a bunch of roads fully built after they link up a region. If I get one section of a road done I’m lucky.

>>714767348
Not releasing DS2 day one on PC as well was a mistake imo, its very much an autism sim for the PC audience. DS1 was much better recieved on PC than PS4

>>714767389
Guy was a spirit medium when he was alive, he and his daughter were killed by ghosts while trying to communicate with his dead wife, he felt his kids soul was trying to hold on to life and fixating on the doll she had with her so he forcibly willed himself into it to push her soul away and allow it to pass beyond the Beach (the Beach is basically the games name for something roughly equivalent to Limbo, the place between life and death)

He's stuck with his soul bound to it, forever

Why did the conjoined 4000 souls and APAS suddenly want to become a god and oversee humanity?

>>714766715
What’s funny is I put off building roads for a couple hours just to play through the main missions around Mountain Knot and some dickheads finished building a couple roads. I like building them myself, I’m one of the few autists that actually enjoys building roads. Sometimes I wish I could disable the Strand stuff. Could always play offline I guess

>>714767917
That wasn’t Ps4 vs PC thing, that was “game eventually got accepted for what it was, rather than what people convinced themselves it was going to be based off trailers”.

>>714766792
Just a little longer

>>714768180
They wanted to stop what happened to them happening to anybody else and avert the Death Stranding forever
Like it's literally called "The Zero Voidout Policy"

Walking simulator

Kojima-san, oneigai, porutu tu ekusubokusu prease

>game 1
>some random fag just so happened to off himself on a specific day
>a certain specific corpse disposal dude just so happened to be working that day
>this guy just so happened to have a super special bb on him
>the most special unique repatriate bb in existence
>sam just so happened to finish and order and be near to help corpse disposal
>higgs just so happened to be near and meme some bts to sabotage the coprse disposal
>just so the guy carying the bb would drop it and sam would just so happen to pick it up
>sam would later just so happen to refuse to dispose of the bb after explicitly being ordered to
>the bb just so happened to not only be super ultra special rare bb but also sams biological daughter

god the first game is so cheapened now

>>714768439
I unironically miss these parts they're barely in DS2 anymore, seeing the shelter in the distance as your exhausted but keep pushing and then finally getting their was a kino feeling

>>714768478
DS1's story was always slop and DS2 did the right thing by making it slopkino

>playing Death Stranding (1)
>get to the part where Mama gives you the weird cuff blade to kill BTs with
>kill a couple BTs with it
>they give me likes
This fucking game, man

>>714768545
was thinking this too. there’s something fun about being retarded and not being able to carry out a mission smoothly but seeing it through to the end anyway. figuring shit out on the go is where the game is peak. shame that’s lost on the midwits getting filtered by this game

>>714768545
I can understand feeling a sense of relief when finding the next Dark Souls bonfire at very low HP and no estus. Death Stranding stuck in the mud is zero fun. Kojima derangement syndrome.
>Fetch quest
:(
>Fetch quest (Japan)
:o

>>714768478
Yeah, DS2's story is insanely contrived and silly but I'm willing to forgive all of it with how utterly sincere it is in it's insanity toward the end

>>714766637
>still seething to this extent
lel
pathetic even for a /v/tard

Did Lindsay Wagner have some legal thing about her likeness speaking. It was pretty weird how Amelie never said a word at the end

>>714768843
Whoops, looks like you attached some unrelated superfluous images to your meme, that do not contribute to the punchline or meaning! I took the liberty of fixing it for you. No need to thank me.

>>714768478
The godlike being of extinction putting all the pieces conveniently in place is pretty much the same thing as the first game, where that is also the case

DS2 has failed to justify its existence for me. I really wonder why Kojima felt like he needed to make a sequel. There's literally a single thematic addition (which you could've possibly already gleaned from the first game), and the story is just a sequence of events that's just about the in the moment excitement of something finally happening after 10 2 minute cutscenes of Rainy or Fragile having short talks with Tomorrow
>that moment when Tomorrow sends Sam a message thanking him for always supporting her when all he did was grunt at her and leave a couple times

>>714769218
Yea but there would be no reason for Amelie to not have included that in her end of DS1 exposition dump. (Btw Lou's your child lol)

>>714766587 (OP)
I like this little guy. He is a good sidekick. He gives good insight during missions and otherwise he only talks when I want him to.

>>714769304
DS2 doesn't have to justify shit to anyone. In fact it goes out of its way not to.

>>714769304
Kojima wanted to refine the gameplay of DS1, that's why he made DS2. Contrary to popular belief he actually isn't that obsessed with making movies, he likes game mechanics and systems and always have. DS2 is clearly the team getting more familiar with the Decima engine and the PS5 and doing stuff they couldn't with the first game.

>>714767361
Why are you gay?

>>714769086
Probably, or Kojima didn't want another actor to play her, but I can't imagine a famous hollywood actor being too happy about the idea of somebody else voicing their body

>>714766587 (OP)

>>714767389
fans of the original love DS2 though, except for those who were expecting a MGS2 level subversion.

>>714768381
It's actually a truck driving simulator.

>>714766842
Most roads will eventually be built no matter what, you just get a lot of likes for delivering materials yourself.

Okay... I'll admit it.
That was kino

>>714769517
>Kojima wanted to refine the gameplay of DS1, that's why he made DS2.
ok so where is the refined gameplay? trivialising walking and making the whole game vehicle centric (with vehicle controls that feel just as scuffed as the first time around) = refinement?

>>714768843
That’s now how the “X derangement syndrome” meme works, retard

>>714769732
that pizza has a bad undercarriage

GOOD GOD

>>714766587 (OP)
Why does it show an exclamation mark on him, implying he has something important to say, and then he just tells me I'm stinky.

>>714769749
>ok so where is the refined gameplay?

time of day
Dynamic weather
Better stealth
Better combat
More vehicles
More gadgets
Better controls
Just less jank overall

DS2 makes DS1 feel like a rough draft

>>714766587 (OP)
DS2 is a downgrade in every way. The maps were made so that there are. No bottlenecks into difficult areas. Transporting packages is trivial, even before the truck is available.
The clients are worse with fewer item variants for some reason.
Combat is easier
The game literally plays itself
Combat was made easier to the point it's trivial.
Dynamic weather is a useless feature.

I thought he would expand the interesting parts of DS1 and use what he learned to create meaningful maps that challenge you and have various but meaningful and difficult route options that you have to plan for.

Instead he just made the same game but easier. Such a shame.

>>714769749
how is walking trivialized? it's almost exactly the same but now you can unlock short range alyx gloves. oh and you can add one floating carrier to the zipline.
The loading times are way snappier, and the UX has way less downtime (THE UCA THANKS U!!;;) and confirmations - so more porting and less fighting menus.
>whole game is vehicle centric
that's bullshit hyperbole - though I agree you can cheese a lot of main quest deliveries with vehicles. calling it "centric" when you have tons of options at your disposal for traversal is just stupid.
have you actually played the game?

>>714769749
kojidrines are retarded slop enjoyers who spend more time justifying why their shit is actually super duper good and awesome than they spend "playing" his "games"

>>714770163
>clients
>fewer item variants
have you actually played the game?

>>714769803
I don't understand why Kojima treats this lullaby that Cliff sang to Sam the way he does in this game

>>714770232
god forbid people enjoy a newly released game and discuss it in a video game board

I was getting 100% in DS1 cause I'm waiting for the PC release.

It's a great experience but the one thing I hate are these fucking bridges to nowhere. Look at this shit, it's right on top of the path. They are everywhere and have a million likes. I expand to a new area, set up some ziplines, and they pop out of nowhere to block the connection. When I delete one, another one appears in the exact same place. Holy fuck, I hope the sequel does it better.

>>714770163
i noticed a weird patern with sam as well. he barely talks or has any personality. in the first game he would actualy talk with preppers directly.
in this game most of the talking is done by dollman for some reason

>>714769591
Amelie already wasn't voiced by Lindsay Wagner, she only voiced Bridget
I think he being silent in 2 is just deliberate

>>714770397
you will find them and you will once again seethe that they have a million likes
they know how to game the system

>>714769492
>He gives good insight during missions
What does he say besides "Alright, Sam. We have all the cargo, let's go deliver it"?

>>714769679
>everyone expects an extremely deep deconstruction of the first game that recontextualizes everything and turns the whole story into some prescient poignant masterpiece bait and switch

>Kojima doubles NAY triples down on the silliness instead. Pizza karate, dancing and singing, guitar duel. The whole story is straightforward and you only play as based Sam.

Bless Kojimbo

ive never seen him seethe as much as this game

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

>>714770406
Sam has always been quiet, but he is in cope mode through 80% of DS2.

The game is at its best when you're transporting cargo on foot while playing offline so you don't see all the generators and bridges cocksmoker3000 has filled the game world with.

>>714770550
/v/ adopts their opinions from him

>>714770397
It's shelter to park your vehicle. To prevent timefall damage.
I came in here to shit post about walking simulator skiplines. Haven't played the first game beyond the second area and even I know this. Kojimadrone truly will eat up anything.

>>714770550
Didn't this faggot immediately betray his "ebin /v/core" audience as soon as he got a whiff of female attention and he started simping hard only for her to cockblock him kek

>>714770550
>17 seconds to "woke"
>close tab

>>714770156
>time of day
doesn't have gameplay impact
>Dynamic weather
I've encountered a sandstorm a total of two times in 80h playtime, and ds1 also already had moving timefall zones that would sometimes be there and other times not
>Better stealth
"better" doesn't say anything. better according to who? you just sit around in stealth, sneak up to mules and then press O behind them now instead of L2 and R2 with the strand, that's just horizon level stealth
>better combat
according to who? ds1 actually forced you to diversify because every single weapon wasn't magically non lethal, not to mention you didn't even get guns until later. I felt like I needed to throw cargo into a mule's face exactly zero times in ds2, and now you can just block any attack even without the strand equip. more shallow combat = better?
>more vehicles
yea more overpowered options to trivialise going on foot such as the insanely broken coffin board
>more gadgets
that have less individuality because now you can just use almost anything against everyone. no need to prep for mules or bts specifically because of magic bullets
>better controls
oh, you mean Sam barely ever loses balance anymore and that makes the game better because "it was so tedious to have to interact with the game's core system"?
>less Hank
trikes still get stuck on pebbles

>DS2 makes DS1 feel like a rough draft
yea because ds1 has rough terrain to navigate whereas ds2 is just mostly flat, vehicles friendly surfaces and slopes

people who say things are better always just say "umm it's better" like they're saying that purely on impulse without actually having any thoughts regarding it

>>714770702
That's literally not true, they put them there to try to force people to use them. I know several locations up the mountains where it's too steep.

>wokejima

>>714770550
I think I'm offended that you tricked me into opening a video where some fucking loser unironically invokes the Great Reset conspiracy theory

>>714766792
*Mhmm*

>antagonist's plan was to summon a giant baby to eat him
>succeeds...?
what was the point of anything?
I was seriously hoping that at the end after Fragile was revealed to be dead, Sam would just explode and lash out at everybody else's stupidity, like a kino emotional outburst and fuck off with his young adult daughter and vindicate my feelings.

>>714771565
Higgs did not expect the giant baby to kill him, he expected for it to break the seal to Amelie's Beach

>>714770954
What's forcing you to like it?

>>714768478
Classic Kojima writing

Did DS2 remove the piss and shit grenades?

>>714772273
yea now there's magic synthetic blood that also works as non lethal rubber bullets and anti mech bullets all at the same time. ds2 was made for journos

>>714766637
Of course tendie cries over shower thread

>>714766587 (OP)
I hate how this doll character was just a narrative device so that low IQ people could understand the plot. Literally yapping about every flashback and recapping even the first game. When way too late dollman's personality and backstory is explained it is just moderately interesting. The whole Ka/Ha stuff was just a cop-out to make things like Fragile's fate be possible to milk extra tears out. At least it was used once in a good way to give Deadman the closure he deserves.

4/10, annoying plot device

>>714772173

>>714772453
yea I absolutely hated dollman. what a fucking waste of a character.

>>714771984
if you cross a bridge you automatically 'like' the structure. you can give extra likes with the touch pad.

GOTY

>>714767348
>buy it for PC
yeah as discounted chinese key lmao, DS1 in retrospect had more mystery and better atmosphere
I couldn't care less about Kojima's massive cuckold fetishes he had to insert
also platypus semen, platypus egg, shut the fuck up

>>714770381
A cutscene collection is not a game and given it flopped massively no one is enjoying it

>>714772453
>average person knows not to get close to BTs
>the professional "spirit medium" character not only endangers himself but also his daughter and ultimately gets them killed for his retardation by trying to play family with a BT
name a more retarded backstory for a character in a Kojima game. actually was disgusted that this was supposed to be the grand reveal gatekept behind interacting with dollmans shallow garbage for 9 chapters

>>714766587 (OP)
Anon, you can use the right thumbstick to move.

Anon, remember to take regular breaks.

Anon, woah, got a rare doo dah right 'ere.

ITT: post riveting game mechanics

>>714767280
I feel like Dollman would have been great for a few specific missions, but he is kind of unecessary in the day-to-day deliveries. I guess at least it means Sam isn't on his own with his grief as a father who has lost his child.

>>714772660
nice meme

>>714772453
>hate how this doll character was just a narrative device so that low IQ people could understand the plot.
that doesn't happen, he is a councilor mainly and rarely narrates

>The whole Ka/Ha stuff was just a cop-out
they are the concepts which underlie the sci-fi logic of death stranding, including the first game. it sounds like you barely understand the mechanics behind it and it was heavily used and explained since the first game.

>>714772748
I can forgive it. people do retarded shit when in mourning and depressed (eg Sam seppukud again and again). That event is also why Dollman is extra qualified to be sam's councilor, he has been through a very similar experience and knows what it means and feels to be in mourning.

>>714772616
Why did you post footage of Mario Kart World?

>>714772660
Does it really infuriate you seeing people discuss a game this much? Sounds like a miserable life to lead

>>714770156
>DS2 makes DS1 feel like a rough draft
DS2 feels dumb for having the DHV Magellan everywhere. it's a discount motherbase without the accommodations and atmosphere of the motherbase. the whole tar ship is too small and the people on it have no personality, aside from Fragile and the captain.
My self build bunker in depopulated area near a mule camp had more soul in the first game. I feel all DS2 did was oversimplify aspects that made the first game fun. Combat is way to easy now.

>>714772273
I found a piss grenade during a bt boss, they're out there somewhere

>>714766905
I guarantee you that nobody is seething over this shit, we're just worried as to why you would (((play))) something as pointless as this, are you perhaps an NPC?

>>714769749
>making the whole game vehicle centric
Metacucks shouldn’t be allowed to have opinions

>>714773035
> it's a discount motherbase without the accommodations and atmosphere of the motherbase.
But MGSV's motherbase fucking sucked, literally just a big empty map with nothing on it. At least DHV isn't pretending to be more meaningful than it actually is

>>714772587
Well if it bothers you, dismantle it.
>I can't be bothered, it's tedious
Then just let people have likes, how does it affect you?

>>714772960
>mourning and depressed (eg Sam seppukud again and again). That event is also why Dollman is extra qualified to be sam's councilor
too bad he never actually councils except a the very very start when you first embark with him, and everything he says afterwards is just
>cutscene of tomorrow slowly getting the hang of her powers
>"Sam, it looks like Tomorrow is slowly getting the hang of her powers."

>>714772960
Thanks for not reading my post and jumping straight to the reply box! I can see English is not your first language.

>>714772960
Unfortunately he is somewhat right, Dollman does do a lot of what DS1 did a lot with Die Hardman, him immediately chiming in to talk about something you just watched in a cutscene 30 seconds earlier, and he's also often prone to being Tutorial Man, like "SAM, YOUR BULLETS DON'T SEEM TO BE DOING MUCH, MAYBE HE'S VULNERABLE TO MELEE?" shit

How do Likes actually work in this game?

For example. I am trying to build a road, I saw that to upgrade it, I need to give 1k+ Crystals, 3k+ Metals, and 4k+ Ceramics. I give tons of those materials only leaving let's say around 300 each for metals and ceramics. Then I come back the next day and I saw that still isn't upgraded or no one gave it anything. So I finish it. Then when the road gets made. It's not in my name. It's by someone else and you can suddenly see that so many people contributed. But from what I've been playing at, the materials I gave where almost the max. Even the game said I gave enormous amounts of materials.

>Sam please get a new vehicle, it's close to malfunctioning
>"Nuh uh"
>Play with the same beaten up off road jeep for 6 more hours
>Still works
????

>>714773174
unlike DS1 there's no meaningful interaction to be had with terrain in this game by going on foot because it's MOSTLY just flat surfaces with no real features so the only difference is that you hold the analog stick forward for longer. also "just don't use it" is such a retarded argument, it's the game designers responsibility to nudge people toward an enjoyable playstyle and make the experience one that isn't mindless. in ds2 the experience it mindless whether you go on foot or vehicle, and I did in fact use the coffin board as little as possible because of how disgustingly overpowered it was, and I have the right to critique the developer for putting such a braindead overpowered tool in the game

>>714773035
I personally loved the Magellan even though I rarely used it for deliveries (it's invaluable for materials transport though). I really like the camaraderie between the small crew, each felt like they serve an important role and I cherished each time I heard the DHV tune, especially towards the end.

Is the DHV the tune a version of the initial part of the BB theme whistle?

Is there a point restoring a road/monorail on a place that's not yet up in the chiral network? Yes you'll give all the materials needed. But when it goes up, you don't get the name for it. In fact, it seems like it's not going up to the actual network between players or whatever. Basically it's getting no likes.

>>714772960
when the fuck does he ever council?

>>714770397
For me, it’s the boost signs on the roads. I love just driving a truck in the first person “compass view” without boosting because it makes the game feel like Truck Simulator but then these fucking boost signs just fucking ruin the mood for me and when I delete one two more take its place. Then there’s the roads near MULE/terrorist camps that have those annoying screeches when they detect you when I’m just driving by them. Hearing that shit every time I drive past those areas gets old incredibly fast

>>714770406
I don’t remember Sam talking to the preppers much

>>714773221
NTA, I just answered your question, I don't mind liking structures, I give 1000 a lot of the time in fact

>>714773504
for 20 seconds at the very start of the game where he suggests going on the journey as a way of overcoming grief
also nice counselor whose first line of dialogue is to immediately blurt out that the pot is empty

>>714773579
revisionism from DS2 haters

>>714773486
>>714773215
Maybe it just filtered me, but on Motherbase I felt even a connection to the soldiers I fulton'ed out and they had small banter I could listen in on. Animated scene transitions and tokenizing movement into animation loops shouldn't happen anymore in a pro model console era with x86_64 PC guts inside and fully fleshed out NVME drives running oodle compressed game archives streaming at 2500MB/s.

I am an enthusiast and modern consoles can handle this shit now. Why am I unable to move freely around my base? Even cross-gen shit 2015 allowed me more movement freedom. Apart from the chopper in MGSV the base felt open with little loads once you dropped into Afghan/Africa it was the same. Blyat yes Afghan, not Afghan"istan".

>>714770612
this.
Online structures come in handy now and then but, fuck, they really trivialize building structures yourself which I feel is one of the core aspects of the game

>>714773678
So telling someone not to be sad and distract themselves qualifies as being a counsellor?
Cannot tell if you are the same anon or just jerking my chain.

>>714773482
>it's the game designers responsibility to nudge people toward an enjoyable playstyle and make the experience one that isn't mindless

no it isn't
you control the buttons you press

did you spend all of MGS5 sniping from mountains too?

>>714773579
He doesn't really. Been playing through the part with the Crasftman/Elder/etc and I think he speaks to them for a single sentence, if that.
Not even when they give him at a star.

>>714773262
yeah he does that a lot.
What I disagreed with was that he was a puppet which serves as a means to understand the plot, he never explains what is going on iirc.

I agree that he repeats some of the things that happens on screen.

>>714773504
mostly at the start and at the end when he gave Sam the talk. part of it is just being there for Sam too.

>>714773896
I always view the other structures (namely roads/ziplines) as a reward after getting to a certain point with the network. The game absolutely is it's best when you're having to traverse over hostile territory though, I agree. Not being quite sure what you'll find, whether BTs or MULEs, and having to manage the load you're carrying.

>>714773940
nta but that is a silly question when you have a three weapon loadout and yes mgs5 fucking forces you to leave the mountains, enter a base or tunnel and do cqc and tranq pistol gameplay in objective areas. i feel you are cherry picking at this point. of course a good dev forces you to adopt multiple play styles. want some pentazemin, noctocyanin, c4 and dummy in your loadout to have an easier mission? fine. but don't pretend there is one playstyle only.

>>714773949
*grunts*

>>714773338
Not sure how the player names work. But you still get likes regardless of whose name the road is under. I think that other player just has contributed more resources overall, from building it to repairing it, of all the players in the “server” you two were put together in. But, again, you still get likes for other players using the road anyway, so I don’t see why the game needs to assign gamertags to the roads in the first place

>>714773932
I'm obviously a different anon who also thinks that dollmans role as a supposed counselor was piss poor

>>714772173
>>714768478
It's the classic "story makes the protagonist, not the way around". Sure, Sam is a repatriate, but the point is that he lived all his life, he is probably on his late 40s, this was the first time he became the protagonist and it's because Amelie started the Last Stranding war, so she chose Sam as the champion of life and Higgs the champion of death. The "suicide" could have been triggered by Higgs. They would have known Sam0s location and also known that Igor was carrying the BB-28 which was actually BB-00

>>714773940
>you control the buttons you press
greatest dimwit argument ever conceived

People hate Dollman? I thought he was good. Not too snarky or quippy, yes he's obviously a tutorial/exposition character but that's quite literally what the game tells you he is, he's there to help and support Sam and that's what he does. He's a bro.

>exposition
>exposition
>convoluted bullshit
>exposition
>shitty japanese humor out of nowhere
>tonal mess
>convoluted bullshit

>>714774142
>mostly at the start and at the end when he gave Sam the talk. part of it is just being there for Sam too.
Everyone counsels sam if you haven't noticed, because he is a near mute Gordon Freeman character with no personality. Sam can only express himself to Lou. To everyone else he just grunts or "mmh", "yeah", "huh". He is literally a clean slate.
>stares silent at amelies trinket

>>714774387
PEKORA

>>714774257
Fair enough anon, I'm just never sure these days if people mock or agree.

>>714773726
Unrelated but I love how nice everyone is to Sam. Even the occasional dickhead or two has Die-Hardman chime in and apologize on their behalf. I miss when NPCs were nice to the player. I feel like games nowadays have this obsession with insulting the player constantly

>>714774353
>having zero personality and just regurgitating things you've already been told is good because umm the game tells you he's tutorial man therefore it's not in fact a wasted opportunity
ok bro. supporting someone is more than just reminding them that their sniper is in fact loud.

>>714774375
You are too fromsoftware brained if you think characters explaining plot elements is exposition. Plot should not be delivered by descriptions of items you find in the world and youtube essays made by VaatiVidya

>>714774353
Apart from hissing at faggots there were not too many kino moments with dollman.

>>714774165
That is true. I always try to make the most of the main deliveries, particularly when they send me to a new center/shelter. I’ll even walk to it because fuck driving in my comfy hiking/depression simulator. Then once I connect the new area I start placing down shit everywhere and driving back and forth in a truck loaded with ceramic and metals

>>714768273
>Sometimes I wish I could disable the Strand stuff. Could always play offline I guess
you actually can in DS2

>>714774257
I mean he's doesn't so much as counsel Sam as be there as a supportive figure for him and keep him from breaking down, as questionable as the whole "let a man believe a traumatic delusion rather than upset him by telling him the truth" thing is

I'm tired of every shitty youtube eceleb overusing the word "setpiece" in their monetized videos now, the adblockers stays on.
Did they infect themselves with director syndrome via Kojima as proxy?

>>714774224
What's that sonny? Thanks for travelling 200 miles with these extra strength boner pills and sleep medication. No, no I won't ever join the UCA, bunch of government stooges trying to take my freedom away.
Well.....okay. You pulled my leg with this cargo.
Guess I'll die in a voidout anyway, better than getting left to rot in my shelter.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MjlKwdy54fU?feature=share

>>714774529
DS2 not making the mistake of constantly having characters fucking remark on goddamn every pointless little thing during gameplay is good though. Dollman is mostly quiet and only speaks if its needed. It's ironic that Kojima shows more restraint than western AAA games in that sense

>>714774779
there were no expensive set pieces anyway. I don't remember any scene that would have cost a forture in DS2.

>>714774478
Meanwhile all other characters except Sam get bullied and murdered, it really shows that Sam was the adopted son of the president

ELDER JUMPSCARE

What is the best/fastest way to farm Chiral Crystals?
I know the creatures near the Architect but farming golden GDs near the GhostHunter is more fun.

>kojima made sam take a bunch of pervy photos of his own daughter

what the hell kind of stranding is this?

>>714774387
yes that is true. Though Dollman was expressly put in that position in order to help Sam process and grieve during the whole journey. Maybe he should have talked about the issue more during the middle part but then it could have been too annoying.
Never really minded his presence and thought it was well balanced, it was nowhere near Navi or that bracelet from Forspoken.

I really don't get why people think he is a narrative or exposition device, he did not have any special knowledge so he was not in a position or expertise to explain or advance the plot, and iirc he never did. Im open to be proven wrong though.

>>714774874
>there were no expensive set pieces anyway. I don't remember any scene that would have cost a forture in DS2.
Fucking what? The Neil fights are fucking amazing in DS2. Literally some of the most impressive shit I've ever seen in a video game in terms of spectacle

>>714775042
*snap*

>>714773579
in this game he doesnt talk at all was the point retard

>>714775090
The particle effects? Yeah pretty sweet, I guess the fights with Mads were boring then. If anyone needs me, I'll be reminiscing the OG false-villain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GOz-nvS7dw

>>714770550
>complains about the woke story
>fiinished it anyway and is not building DIE GROSSE AUTOBAHN

Yeah, he failed.

>>714775269
>Only one may you choose. Choose well.
Hatefuck Higgs' bussy, him tied up forever on a beach where he cannot escape Sam.

>>714768478
You think that's improbable? Of all your dad's swimmers, you made it to the one egg that accepted your retarded ass.

>>714775370
Based, I'm just like you and built every road in DS1 collector's edition.

Can you listen to music while making deliveries or can you still only do that in your room?

>>714775304
Cliff fights were cool visually but mechanically they were miserable due to DS1's clunky combat, Neil's are way more fun and unironically some of Kojima's best bosses

>>714774874
did you play till the end? I'm not sure how you can say that.

>>714775518
DS2 fixed it so you can play music during gameplay now like it was in MGSV

>>714768478
>>some random fag just so happened to off himself on a specific day
This is spelled out to not be a mere coincidence in one of the first emails you get.

>>714775525
I'm gunna say it too: I think Neil's plotline has better payoff too

>>714774235
I mean I would be fine if that person who got the name of the road actually contributed the majority. But me knowing that the max materials needed for the roads is 1600 crystals, 3800(?) metals, and 4500(?) ceramics, and then I contributed like 95% of it and still didn't get my name there seems to be not right at all. I'd rather have roads and monorails have no name really and just show rotations of contributors.

>>714775518
>Time: Night
>Cargo: Full of Ceramik & Metals
>Music: Pekora

Yep, its Road Building Time

>>714775605
Nice, now if only Low Roar was in the game
;_;

>>714775525
Fine, I will accept it, but I am still not being not mad(s) about all the plot in DS2 that invalidated the worth of DS1 to me by over-explaining and overexposing the character connections. So much of the mystery died and I don't need everyone to be blood related or be speshiul for me so I feel something when playing. This shit needs to stop.
I still have vomit aftertastes from when every game made you the dad character nannying a surrogate daughter. A whole decade of games sucked this trope dry. Not again. I am tired. Could have raised literally any BB and just feel a thing for it because I don't want it sacrificed to fucking molech as a Mountain node relay for the network.
Kojima is an idiot if he thinks people must have a real daughter to feel something.

>>714775838
(they are)

>>714773256
yes I speak several languages you are correct

>60 hours in
>unlocking now catching Pokemons

Yeah i think i need 200 hours for Platinum.

>>714775028
Kojima's horror game OD will be SOOO GOOD. I just hope microsoft doesn't fuck this up and just let him do his thing like sony does otherwise this was the last time he will never work with them again

>>714775884
>but I am still not being not mad(s) about all the plot in DS2 that invalidated the worth of DS1 to me by over-explaining and overexposing the character connections. So much of the mystery died and I don't need everyone to be blood related or be speshiul for me so I feel something when playing. This shit needs to stop.
Was DS1 your first Kojima game? He literally does this every single time, he has the brain of an autistic fan-fic writer

>heated fight
>run out of ammo
>need to change weapon
>start pressing wheel button
>still pressing wheel button
>5 thousand years later finaly weapon select comes up

absolute gaming kinography

Higgs DLC when?

>>714775586
>did you play till the end?
Yes, maybe I was just not impressed enough for you. Any other accusations you want to get out of your system because I'm not allowed to have an opinion you don't want to accept?

I feel like the guy that found Nier: Automata shit because all the philosophy and philosophers were known beforehand to me, because
A) I'm not a nip that doesn't know western philosophy
B) am older and had already contact to all of it through my education and free time

Some people are just not having this mind explosion as younger games. Don't hate me for it please. If by chance just cull me for being an oldfag.

>>714776104
Fuck DLC; Higgs needs his own Stylish Action spin-off

>>714776185
Higgs' story throughout it all but his fight with Sam is Guitar Hero with hearts all around the fretboard.

>>714776046
>Was DS1 your first Kojima game?
i played 90% of his games in release order, now what
>He literally does this every single time, he has the brain of an autistic fan-fic writer
If you think DS1/DS2 has better narration than MGS tapes and codecs you need to kys.

>>714776331
DS has better writing than anything Kojima has made since MGS3, which isn't a high bar but still

>>714776112
okay then. I play a lot of games, I am 33, and I was easily impressed with the production values of DS2, particularly the beach portion and the Neil fights. The cutscene fights against Higgs midgame were also choreographed and animated extremely well. What games impressed you recently?

Beware the climbing power gloves that can grab cargo from directions you're not even facing.

>>714776489
Is that a generally bigger issue in DS2? I've had that happen to me with the carriers and transporter bikes a few times in DS1.

>>714776424
And you come to this conclusion how exactly?

>>714776632
By having superior taste and dashingly good looks

>>714773005
fucks like you are why no one makes good games, you'll gulp down any slop and dickride wannabe hollywood retards so now gaming is nothing but cutscenes and QTEs
get fucked

>>714776470
Recently? I love to play old titles that passed the checks of time. If I'd tell you my last title I played 40 hours in, you'd find me as the top steam review with 30 thumbs up from 3 weeks ago, so I pass on the self-dox and have my account known to /v/.
You could say that the combat movements of Tomorrow were just Quiet 2.0 and a lot of it was just a rehash of MGS V. And Neil is a rehash for me too. Yes the flares and fireworks looked good, but sorry for me sounding so jaded, what was revolutionary?
Spell it out for me, maybe I really am dumb or burned out.
Tip: What was the ludo/ludens improvement of DS2 over its predecessor. Not just better gameplay. I am talking Homo Ludens. Where did it revolutionize the industry and the gamer as species. If he has the whole "Ludens" meme as his shtick, his shpiel, his planeven. Tell me why he deserves my shekels?

Assume I am dead serious. No pretty feet of Tomorrow don't count. Any new piss or scat based weapons that refill on toilet or shower use? Is Kojima ready for Hollywood or is he rocking the boat of the gaming industry until he capsizes?

>>714777068
DS2 is literally one of the most mechanically dense AAA games ever made though. I'm over 80 hours in and still seeing new stuff.

Finally a good game temporarily on PS5. The digital PS5 was a good move for me, I can enjoy timed exclusives until they launch on a proper platform.

I played the first one very late so this time I'm helping other porters a lot more, finishing up roads despite having to lug fucking gigatons of ceramic up rocky hills.

Worth changing content sharing to Only Some or will it make the game a massive slog?

>>714774609
Characters explaining the hamfisted metaphors and exposition dumps in the cutscene you just watched is indeed bad anon

>>714777241
that's not mechanics (how you do) but content (what you see)

Why is spamton in this game.

I WANNA HEAR YOU PLAY

SHRED IT

>>714777650
I agree with you that it's better to slowly explain things naturally through the actions and dialogue over time, rather than dump it all on the reader at once. It's boring and breaks the 4th wall when you understood it already yourself.
Every exposition dump made me want to kys. Cannot skip to not miss out on other things, don't want to hear it and get angry that I'm getting hand holding like a woman.
Have you noticed that women always ask about stuff that the movie will explain 5 minutes later? You see it a lot with streamers. If they'd just shut up and wait patiently.
I swear Half-Life 2 did it right, you could replay the game with director comments on and listen to the devs explain why something is there.
Can call it "journalist mode", might be more befitting these times.

SHOW DON'T TELL
which is why hollywood will never let him in, Kaufman brothers laughing about Jeemer, he will never be able to make something truly profound like Synecdoche, New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIizh6nYnTU

>>714777189
>What was the ludo/ludens improvement of DS2 over its predecessor. Not just better gameplay. I am talking Homo Ludens. Where did it revolutionize the industry and the gamer as species. If he has the whole "Ludens" meme as his shtick, his shpiel, his planeven. Tell me why he deserves my shekels?

I don't know. We were talking about the production of DS2 which you said had "no expensive set pieces", which I said was an unbelievable statement - to expound I think it is visually an amazing game and it's production values are really high (likely also very expensive, bankrolled by Sony after all).
I didn't respond to argue about the merits of the game as "revolutionary" or for "gamers". I also did not reply to support why Kojima deserves your money, only yourself can answer that.

I asked what games impressed you because you seem to have really high standards and I was genuinely curious what games deserve your stamp of approval.

>>714774478
>I miss when NPCs were nice to the player. I feel like games nowadays have this obsession with insulting the player constantly
Yeah I hate modern writing too.
Even badguys didn't insult you for playing the game in the 2000s.

>>714766842
Not true. Id say i built 70% of the roads in my game. The rest just popped up at some point.
The monoral however has been all me so far

>>714774854
No, the point is that the ONLY times Dollman ever opens his fucking mouth are when he remarks on pointless shit.

>>714774609
You're too Kojimabrained

>>714778227
In art, rules are made to be broken, this is why you'll never understand creative dad

>>714777974
>tfw I stunlocked him to death and didn't get this scene because of that

>>714778227
Kaufmann is way too over the fucking line with his cynicism nowadays, bro needs to find the light. Anomalisa was disgusting

>>714778695
>hey Sam, remember that cutscene we were just in?
It's like you're the rubber duck and he's the autist who's trying to work through how a human being should react to talking to someone.

>emotional music starts playing
this scene is meant to be 100% serious

https://youtu.be/Khegs4WD0L4?t=63

>>714778325
From all reports, both DS games are actually pretty well scoped and not money sinks with budgets around the 100m mark which isn't small but isn't outrageous like a lot of AAA junk

>>714778325
And then I replied to you about what I saw choreographed as just copies of his old titles when I tried to chime in with your arguments and commented on the fireworks even. I was not moving the goal posts, but can you name anything else other than Decima graphics effects or motion capture that will revolutionize the gaming industry and carry over?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6K_IVtGxA8
that was 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXNUgaRQ1ZE
this is 2025

Anything revolutionary?

>>714779182
even the more impressive that the quality is this high then.
seems like Decima is really magic.

>>714774609
Characters EXPLAINING plot elements is in fact exposition, retard. That is the definition of it.

Here, a guide.

Plot
>My name is . You killed my father. Prepare to die

Exposition
>My father was killed by a man who he had commissioned a sword from him.

Info dump garbage exposition
>My father was part of the group forgerons sans frontières. After the forgeron impactor collapse that occurred in 1918, the world quickly began to trend towards.....

>>714779182
High budget is okay as long as the game doesn't feel low budget, which DS2 definitely does not.

>>714779334

i don't see much other than better global illumination and face scans

>>714770442
And then you see Lou's birthmark on Higgs...

What does it mean?

>>714779092
>2h cutscene of us arriving at the beach to save Tomorrow from Higgs, strongly conveys what is happening and what you're about to be doing.
>Gameplay starts
>"Okay, Sam, we are now on the beach. While the DHV Magellan is distracting the BTs, we can get out of harm's way and hopefully find Tomorrow, who is probably waiting for us. Yes, Samy that's right, we came here for Tomorrow, as you might recall, she was kidnapped by Higgs. And speaking of Higgs, there's a chance that we'll encounter him too, since he is the one who kidnapped Tomorrow and brought her to this beach to trigger the Last Stranding, as you might recall. Anyways Sam, be prepared to potentially face off against Higgs, the person responsible for this situation, and settle your differences with him. Cause as you might recall, you and him are not in agreement about a lot of things."

>>714772831
whats that from? i dont remember that

>>714779334
Made me realize how bullshit the backstory is when Neil and Tomorrow (not writing her real name, lol. maybe some people will actually be impressed if they realize it.) are there but only Neil is rendered as BT following her, so you cannot figure out the shallow plot from the first second.

>>714779908
journalist difficulty setting

>>714778936
Same. Kinda sad, its a kino scene.

I do have massive issues with the story (mainly its predictability) though

>>714778325
You can download a map bigger than DS2's with more detail from Epic's website for free and run it in UE5. There is nothing impressive about an empty world with nothing in it. It's trivial to create with todays technology.

Everything in DS2 is better, bar the story.

It's just far too predictable, and didn't deliver on the "SHOULD WE HAVE CONNECTED?" theme at all. It was asked and answered in one cutscene

>>714779182
>From all reports, both DS games are actually pretty well scoped and not money sinks with budgets around the 100m mark which isn't small but isn't outrageous like a lot of AAA junk

That's the power of good management and not treating your employees like shit. Kojima not only works with the best talent in the industry, they actually stick around. Just look at how many of his coworkers followed him when he left Konami, legitmately unprecedented. People clearly love working for Kojima. Compare this to Naughty Dog, which is infamous for terrible management and burning through employees. Last of Us Part 2 had a budget of at least 220 million dollars, probably more. Naughty Dog's reputation is so terrible in the game industry that they actually had to hire CGI movie artists as animators, because industry talent literally avoid ND like the plague.

Basically if you hire talented individuals, you don't need to hire 100 retards to do the same job, which also costs more. But that also requires treating employees like human beings.

>>714779334
no, nothing is revolutionary for DS2, I never claimed anything it did was, not even for graphics even though I think it is the best looking AAA since RDR and TLOU2, both of which still trumps it in animation quality imo.
DS2 had better set pieces than both though, and it was more organically beautiful too.

I think the Battlefield clip looks good for its time, but I think it's obvious how much more detail there is in the DS2 clip, difference in lighting quality is also easily apparent. Not to mention the BF3 clips uses 2019 hardware so that's a bit unfair.

>>714766895
I asked. I care.
God forbid people talk about the game in a thread dedicated to talking about the game.
>>714766715
Some of the asynchronous multiplayer stuff is definitely faked, or you have to contribute stuff before other's contributions register. So many times I tried to upgrade somebody's structure from level 1 to 3 and I level it to 2, go back to get the materials for the next level and by the time I get back it's at level 3 despite being at level 1 and nearly destroyed for days.

How did Lou grow up on the beach considering time barely passes? Spent 2 million years there?
And how was Lou capable of learning speech at all, and especially as an adult, if she hasn't spoken to anyone in Millennia?
It's pretty much empirically proven, that children who grow up without language will be developmentally stunted for the rest of their lives, something Kojima even acknowledged in MGSV "language, the bedrock for any developing child"
This story barely goes anywhere but it's like he made sure that anywhere it does go, it's a massive plot hole.

>>714780385
>Not to mention the BF3 clips uses 2019 hardware so that's a bit unfair
You must be joking, just look up old 4k videos then.

>>714780473
Because Lou is a Mary Sue, ain't gotta explain shit

>>714774786
>this guy not dying in his own shelter and becoming a bt
>Heartman didn't give up searching for his family
What else did Kojima needlessly retcon? I lost track

>>714780125
It sounds so trivial yeah, I wonder why no one can release such a game every year.
oh yeah maybe a game is more than some random UE5 stock map that is apparently detailed.

>>714780078
>It's a kino scene

Stop using that word to describe everything. It's a retarded scene, made dumber by tentacles growing out their mouth. I bet you thought it was "kino" too when they sat in a circle and looked up for rain too. You fucking no taste retards are disgusting.

>>714780723
you're talking about an entirely different scene

>>714775643
It was delivered less clumsily. You saw the same Cliff cutscenes like 6 times each from different angles

>>714780537
the video uses a 2060 which was released in 2019 (or maybe 18)

>>714780473
Memories stored in the tar got sucked up as her mother's milk and I am pulling shit out of my ass. If I told you that was Kojima's explanation 90% would eat it up without second guesses.
It's only cool to them because it has the name Kojima on it.
Tell people AI wrote this game's plot and everyone would say "yeah I noticed it feels off".
People just believe what they want to be true.

>>714780334
TLOU2 looks amazing though

>>714780825
>>714780385

>the video uses a 2060 which was released in 2019 (or maybe 18)
Are you dumb or playing to be dumb? The shaders were programmed in 2011 and you could play 4k in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36_35Q2YCQ
i looked a video up from 13 years ago for you mouth breathing toddler

>>714780125
That's not even a bad thing. You could have tripled DS's budget and made it look even better, maybe had filled the world with fully simulated NPCs walking around the world, populated towns and random encounters, maybe done the whole void out crater thing dynamically, and what would it get you? Would it make a game that sold 5x as much to justify the money?

MGS5 was the same. That wasn't a radically powerful engine, hell it was created for PS3s, and had limitations accordingly - but concentrated efforts on a great lighting system and it feeling like a dream to control, so it didn't cost a gazillion dollars and earned back every cent it cost to make day one.

>>714780789
Do you know how to read?

>>714780720
There are, quite literally, hundreds of these super high fidelity graphical walking simulators released every year on steam. In fact that's what The Day Before was, but because Kojima didn't make it, people rightfully pointed out it was a fucking scam.

>>714780334
Yeah, Kojima doesn't get enough credit for how he's handling his studio, it's crazy to think that he's been doing this for only a few years now, KJP is such a well oilef machine and Kojima is THE reason why everything is going so well, such an unbelievable talented person, unironically the GOAT, anyone else would have struggled and not release their first game in only 3 years, so insane if you think about it, Naughty Shit hasn't released a new game in over a decade thanks to cuckmannn's HORRENDOUS management of the studio, this mf doesn't know wtf he's doing

>>714781142
Yea, do you?
>it's a retarded scene, made dumber by tentacles growing out of their mouths"
does not happen in the guitar duel scene that was being talked about, retard kun.

>>714781089
>Would it make a game that sold 5x as much to justify the money?

Are you fucking Sony's marketing division? Why do you care if it would make it sell better or not, it's about if it would be a better game. Also, considering Red Dead Redemption 2 does just that and sold over 10 times the amount of both Death Stranding put together, the answer is yes, it would have. People already thought the first game was shit, and now the second is selling poorly because fool me once.

>>714781029
that's why I said it's a bit unfair but I still said it looks good. chill papi

>>714781304
I mixed up which post that was replying to and am fulling willing to admit I was in fact the retard here, sorry.

>>714780947
It does, but at what cost? Is it so good looking it was worth disintegrating the studios talent and blowing out the studios production line?
They used to be able to produce an Uncharted game every two years, now they're on part for one game every seven years

>>714773221
The whole conversation is about how those structures are purposefully in the way, if you get rid of them another one appears

>>714781247
seems like the kther games are literally scams or not that good then idk why I should care about them instead of enjoying what is actually good

>>714781426
Bro like half the worst examples of budget insanity are Sony AAA

>>714781498
>it's unfair if it is on 2019 hardware
>is proven on 2011 hardware this was possible even in a fucking triple screen setup
>"I said i, this is what I said, i'm just saying"
holy fuck you are dim as a 5W bulb
it was always possible you console brained idiot, back then in 4k on 3 PC screens before ultrawide, before your meme card from 2019
eat a rock, it might raise your IQ, maybe some minerals seep off it and boost your neural conductivity
are you that sclerotic already in your wetware?

.>>714781905
nice crashout on a strawman you yourself created.

>>714773145
>nobody is seething over this shit
I agree that you are a nobody.

>>714781759
And Death Stranding is one of them, in which all the budget was spent on Kojima hiring famous people and forgetting to make a game to accompany it. He then made said famous people use their talent to say the dumbest shit to each other for a few hours while trying desperately to be deep.

>>714767548
I only got the original big section from Lake Knot until around the engineer and a single section north of the mountain knot city. Everything else had random amounts of stuff on them already OR completely emptied out.

>>714782206

>>714766587 (OP)
Jesus christ those kind of puppets are scary to me, like pic related from the Goosebumps show.

>>714772616
Where's the one where he goes to Mountain Knot City instead?

GUITAR GOBLIN

>>714782390
>No I swear walking around with packages is actually peak gameplay, you just have to "get it" bro. I can't help you "get it" if you don't understand how deep and good literal fetch quest as the main game mechanic are. >>714768439
See this? Kino. >>714768381 This is so fucking good bro oh my god I'm almost there. >>714769732 SHIT WHACKY KUNG FU PIZZA MAN who is actually a director with so much more talent than Kojima it's absurd he's even in this game but I have no clue who he is because I only consume the worst of the worst garbage in existence. That's it. I came, it's kino.

>>714774478
Well, it makes sense in the context that they know Sam is doing a fucking hard job and just walking around by yourself is pretty much a deadly undertaking anyways. It's a survival situation and everybody that was a dickhead probably already died or became a terrorist/MULE at this point and only the reasonable enough people are left behind in the shelters.

HIT OR MISS
I GUESS THEY NEVER MISS HUH

>>714782968

>>714783136
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH MY HEART

>>714782968
short haired women are so hot

>>714782438
Goddamn man i fucking HATED that episode. I'm fine with dollman, but marionettes creep me out nonetheless

>>714779617
Higs is gonna be revealed to be Sams secret twin in the third game

>>714766792
PEKO

>>714766715
It feela like nukes from MGSV - it takes a percentage of everyone building roads across the game and adds a portion of the materials, depending on your own story progression. Basically, it's coded like a RPG vendor whose goods get cheaper as you finish more missions.

>>714783663
KONPEKO

I'm playing through DS1 now. I'm confused. Is Higgs both a homo and a demon?

>spend 10 hours completing cargo from other players
>listening to baseball in the background as I traverse Australia
>stop in some locations to get a quick snack and enjoy the scenery

oddly comforting
I finally get those truck sims

>>714782968
kek

I just got to the part where The big ghost mech attacks the DHV magellan on the mountain
How much more do I have left? Dollman said something about "you should do shit now" but I assumed I could just wait until I needed to accept the next order but OOPS resting in the magellan triggered it I guess

>>714783663

>>714783136
They look so bizarre and sometimes uncanny. How much did Kojima dump into his mocap just to get unflattering results?

>>714783838

>>714780334
>40 years of experience in the industry
>Built a new studio, adopted a new engine and released an AAA game in less than 5 years (Sony has never seen a game made faster)
>Goes toe to toe with Rockstar in terms of production and attention to detail at only a fraction of their budget
>Saved Metal Gear Rising from cancellation and gave it to Platinum Games when his own studio couldn't make it work
>Made KJP go back and fixed ZOE HD Collection after he saw how terrible the port was by the outsourced studio
>Worked extra hard to make sure MGSV released day one on PC with consoles despite terrible working conditions at Konami
>Has an "idea box" where he encourages employees to leave notes if they're too afraid to speak up and be heard
>Was basically the only high ranking Konami employee giving a shit about making video games

Yet people insists he's a hack because his dialogue is a bit wack. It will be a sad day when Kojima is no longer making games.

>>714784131
only zoomer scum who know nothing about this man talk shit about him, everyone else highly respects him and think he's the best there ever was in this industry

>>714784131
He also treats half his voice actors like shit unless they’re a celebrity

https://youtu.be/ZGoLl88YA7U?list=RDZGoLl88YA7U

>>714784131
Yeah say what you want about his weirdness this game looks like it'd be something a whole AAA studio would need a gagillion pajeets to make, but Kojima did it with less then 50

>>714781286
He founded his independent Kojima Productions studio ten years ago, was in a management role at Konami before that working as producer on games outside of his KojiPro unit, and has been directing big games for 30 years

>>714784428
>Doesn't call you back after you've done your job and been piad
>WTF how could you do this to me

Hayter is a failed Hollywood writer who was only hired to work on X-men and Watchmen because he read comic books btw.

Steam when?

>>714786076
what do chiral crystals taste like?

>>714786613
Next year probably, might release close to GTA6 since there's probably a lot of PC players looking to play something else

>>714783928
That's probably the best point to stop and get your stars from everyone.

Margaret Qualley definitely ghosted Kojima and I think that's hilarious

So if I trigger a voidout is my map just permanently fucked forever? No warning? No second chance?

gonna peko ur shit up

>>714772453
He's also a confirmed retard.

https://youtu.be/3blLyQZNaio?list=RD3blLyQZNaio&t=79

>>714787691
Voitouts aren't dynamic, they destroy preset areas of the map
Other times it will just get you a game over scene

HORIZON DREAMER

>>714787691
You're usually initially dragged to a spot when downed by the BTs where the major cities/distribution hubs aren't so those should be fine. You'll still have the crater, though.

>>714787781
To be fair that seemed to be going okay until the music fucked things up

>>714787691
You gotta live with your mistakes. Or just load a previous save.

>>714787691
The Voidout Area is only temporary

Anyone got an answer as to why Higgs has the same birthmark as Lou?

>>714787809
When it had this - and the chants - on that "final" combat mission on the bridge.

It hit hard

>>714788130
nope, its odd and seems sus.

the cope in me makes me think maybe the story isnt as simple as it appears

>>714788130
No but that made me realize the big red cloaked mystery enemy back from the dead is a reuse of the Chico concept from Phantom Pain

>>714788373
Yeah, although I feel like the design in DS1 was closer, with the skull mask

>>714788130
Tomorrow will transition in DS3 and go back in time. Please look forward to it.

This song is nuts. You would never hear anything like this in DS1 and I like that.

https://youtu.be/dEmOf8Lo4RY?list=RDdEmOf8Lo4RY

I genuinely think the only worthwhile part of death stranding 2 was the headless rider mini game.

>>714789047
Yeah I love it, pretty wild production

what other games have a photo mode with the ability to change the lens, exposure, aperture etc. and add multiple lighting sources jn the scene? (like in DS2)

>>714789165
great ost
https://youtu.be/kBP3CddiVTk?list=RDkBP3CddiVTk

>>714789776
Stellar Blade has all of those things. Cyberpunk has most of them.

>>714779143
I felt like this was always obvious. He's Ocelot 2.0 because he was Ocelot in MGSV.

MINUS SIXTY ONE
HAVE I EVER REALLY LOVED SOMEONE

>>714790710
Ocelot always had a coherent if convoluted plan and motivation, his theatrics were as much a misdirection as him doing it for fun.

>>714792364
And Higgs still has that element too. It's just his plans suck in comparison.

>>714784131
>his dialogue is a bit wack
What was wack about it? Did the easy shallow plot filter you because you mistook confusion for depth?

>>714768478
>god the first game is so cheapened now
This entire post and your greentext summary are spot on. I cannot wait until the actual reviews are not algorithmically drowned out anymore by the early access drones that rated it all 9/10 so they keep getting journo and streamer promo codes so they can be first to play for viewcount.

Any game that gives shills early access is bad news. It reeks of this tactic.

>>714791754
Venom Snake would be proud

>>714790996
I preferred the soundtrack of DS1 but that DS2 intro cinematic was KINO, also was that shit live action or pre-rendered CGI? Legitmately looks so good I can't tell

>>714780473
if you look at the corpus all the phenomenon of the game are also full of unexplained plotholes.
its an asspull just like the vast sea of made up nomenclature meant to only sound cool and that youre supposed to just roll with.

>>714770397
I've made it a habit to spend the 10 seconds it takes to delete the next 500m of signs and every lol bridge I find. And I have become incredibly proficient at it.

>>714774609
>kojima haters are retarded fromdrones
lol
LMAO

>>714788373
i've never seen this art. tpp really just has so much wasted potential.

>>714793359
>>714770397
>making strand connections to asian spammers
your own fault, I check players first before allowing their stuff in my game

>>714774786
>>714775028
What if he was just so old senility made him forget he was a BT.

>>714775042
I mean, if my daughter was hot I'd snap pictures too just to brag to everyone.
>my genes are superior, faggots

>>714770702
there are literal timefall shelters made using the exact same material you dumb faggot

>>714793840
I only have 7 strand connections and they have all given me thousands of likes prior to selection.

>>714776489
this is such a simple issue to fix, all they had to do is have First-Person actually let you AIM and GRAB specific objects

>>714776049
Yeah this game desperately needs PC mods to fix the combat, theres an actual calculated shill effort to pretend like 2's combat is somehow MILES better than the first, its not, its quite literally fundamentally the exact same

boku no peko

>>714766587 (OP)
Synthcel was right.
Dollman could not shut the fuck up for a minute in a game that is supposed to be a relaxing man versus hostile environment walking simulator.

boughted DS1 a couple years ago but never got around to playing it. Anything I should look out for on my first playthrough? Recommended mods, settings to avoid etc

>>714766587 (OP)
PC when?

>>714795515
Don't waste time doing standard orders (generic deliveries) early on, there's a ton of them and as you progress through the story and get to the second map you'll unlock a ton of gadgets that makes it so that you can make bigger and quicker deliveries.

>>714794061
This is work place harassment. How can Fragile allow this to happen inside the Magellan?

>>714788130
I believe that higgs might be sam son
He had twins(lou and higgs) but amelie took higgs

>>714795574
early 2026 before end of fiscal maybe

>people ITT complaining about Dollman talking to much
Do these guys all suck? I only ever heard him speak outside the saferoom when we'd grab all the items needed for a recovery order.

Disappointed he never said anything when Sam takes a piss

>>714766715
I had to make most of my roads in DS1 but my server or whatever in 2 has been great for me.

>>714770884
>urgh, he used a word that encapsulates the main problem of modern gaming, can he even use a less fitting one for once???

>>714766912
The Red Samurai is Deadman, but then Higgs takes the body.

>build one of the best bridges ever created
>suddenly it's just fucking gone
>what the fuck?
>drive to where it was
>turns out it got dismantled by Tomorrow during her running away mission when she put down a ladder
BITCH!!!

>>714772862
Finish Episode 9.

>still patiently waiting for DS1 PS5 to go on sale again
kojimbo...

>>714796135
what this anon?

>>714795826
The only annoying time was when you got the tranq sniper and he'd remind you that it's loud. I'm like halfway through now and he honestly doesn't talk enough. Even in the safe room I can't get him to say more than like three things anymore. It sucks because I actually like the character and VA

>>714796041
Just put it down again.

>>714795435
>Dollman could not shut the fuck up for a minute
he only talks when you fuck up, meaning you're bad at the game. He literally barely talks in-game

>>714766842
not true at all

>>714772616
I'd start playing it if the physics were like in Snowrunner.

>>714769086
Lockne didn't speak either.
But Amelie isn't voiced by Wagner anyway, so I guess it's weirder that she didn't speak here. Then again, Amelie doesn't need to speak in this game, and I think only exists as part of Sam's hallucinations from grief or whatever.

>>714796478
Yeah well I want to fuck up in peace without someone yapping my ear off, just like in real life.

>>714795798
Twins having the same birthmark would be weird. If anything it would be some separation of Ka and Ha or some bullshit like that.

At any rate it is not explained in the game which means Higgs will be back in DS3 and we will get all our questions answered by Dollman.

>game makes it too easy to use a truck for everything
>become weak and use a truck for everything before the big snowy mountain
>play the entire mountain on foot
>no ziplines either
>it's way more fun than the faggot fucking Rockies in DS1
GOTY

>>714773071
Wrong, that's a Pokeball. The only EX Grenades are for capturing BTs.

>>714796883
Ironic, since you can't shut the fuck up about it

>>714772616
>almost tilts over 15 seconds in while trying to show how 'easy' the game is
holy shit

>>714796135
Man the concept art for this game is so good.

>>714797256
>how dare you talk about vidya on a discussion board for vidya

>>714797230
No, it was literally a clear round container filled with yellow liquid

>>714797230
> piss on ghosts to assert dominance and make them your bitch

>>714797391
That literally can't happen, try playing the game you're trying to blindly defend next time.

Honest question, Do you ever find yourself obsessing over a character and wanting to speak like them?
I really love the way Higgs talks. Is there a way to learn how to speak like that, with that American twang?
"Same As it ever was"

>>714774353
Dollman told me how to use cryptobiotes too recover blood in the final boss fight. He's okay generally speaking, but he continues to give you shitty "advice" throughout the game for stuff you should know how to do.

>>714796354
I did, but thus also means it will disappear for everyone else when they get to that part of the story

>>714797537
Fine, I'll buy Death Stranding 2 since you're so persistent

>>714783982
>How much did Kojima dump into his mocap just to get unflattering results?
Billions. Unfortunately, it's impossible to make canny models. The technology simply isn't there and may never be. The closer you get, the more uncanny it'll get because humans have a natural instinct to dislike things that pretend to be human as a way to avoid skinwalkers.

>>714797643
Isn't it just Troy Bakers normal texas accent?

>>714797756
That's Death Stranding ONE you clown.

>>714796765
pretty much the only way I would've tolerated ds2 being as vehicle centric as it is. as it is, it's a major disappointment because of that.

>>714797391
The trucks cannot fall over, none of the vehicles can flip. It's a gripe with the the games because it means that the vehicles have every advantage over walking and no disadvantage. They can climb any terrain. If you could tumble down a steep hill in the truck and have it blow up (and kill you, not just throwing you from the truck), it'd be much more of a risk/reward thing.

YOU HOPE HATRED
MIGHT SOME DAY REPLACE THE PAIN
BUT IT NEVER GOES AWAY
IT MAKES A MAN HIDEOUS
INSIDE AND OUT

>>714798195
At least I'm not smashing into the ground and damaging the cargo as if I had 1" of ground clearance everytime I come off a bridge like 1

>>714798023
Fine, I'll buy Death Stranding 1 AND 2

>>714796156
Dude it's on PS+ all the fucking time

>>714798359
holy based, enjoy ludokino

>beat game
>get option to turn Drawbridge Qpid on to minimize Ghost Mechs and BTs
>turn it on to make grinding stars easier
>Local Porters give me an SSS tweet spoiling The Ghost Hunter
Fuck you, Kojima.

>>714797643
Higgs being a southerner cowboy adds so much to his charm. He says YALL like 50 times in DS2.

>>714797085
Higgs and Sam being actual brothers is something that Kojima would do. Especially since he said that Higgs is the Liquid of Death Stranding.
He even says the
>missed me brother?
Liquid line

>>714798410
I have PS poverty-spec.

beautiful smile

>>714799487
the smile of a man who spent thousands of years plotting his revenge

SUFFER FOR ME BABY

>>714798963
He's like if Ocelot from MGSV had a personality.

>>714799995
NOW GO SAM
LET THE LEGEND COME BACK TO LIFE

>>714799451
> Especially since he said that Higgs is the Liquid of Death Stranding.
He never said this

SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL

>>714800473
"You’re a legend in the eyes of those who make deliveries" doesn’t have the same ring it

>>714800721
It is true tho those lil porter niggas adore Sam

>>714799837
Did he have the drippy gold eyeshadow before he saw Tomorrow do it?

>>714800946
I really like the default freelance porter outfit, looks higher tech than the Bridges/Drawbridge one

>>714768843
>>714769117
I avoid that shit by actually building the roads and just driving everywhere.
By the time I need to climb mountains, I made zip lines everywhere. And that was the first game.

>>714800618
He said that he regretted killing Liquid in MGS1 so he avoided doing the same with Higgs. Makes me also think that Higgs will come back again from his baby prison.

>>714801215
There is a mod for DS1 that lets you keep it. Also the Security suit.

https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding/mods/69?tab=files

>nigga upgrading my shit without my input
>shit don't have any likes
wtf decima engine

SAM, SAM, HE'S OUR MAN

>>714800946
btw the porters have dooms?

Is it just me or Exp 33 cutscenes look janky in comparison to DS2? Going from DS2 to Exp 33 is pretty weird. The voice acting is good, but they look so plastic, so doll like.

What ost should they use for the game awards orchestra sequence?
Caroline Polachek On the Beach?
BB theme? (was already used in 2019)

The final boss theme?
https://youtu.be/ZGoLl88YA7U?si=dmfkrvNY3ATMMMe1&t=77

Just put in a dude shredding that segment?

theres some weird omissions in the sequel
>no memory chips
>no interviews (corpus is too dry)
>no e-mails (the snippets on corpus are too short)

feels like they completely gave up on world building this time around

>>714803316
They took out things that only people that platinum give a fuck.

Am I the only guy abusing the fuck out of curved ziplines? The only curved ziplines I find in my game were all made by me.

>>714802971
Perfect opportunity to let Troy dress up as Higgs and shred the guitar on stage. But Caroline would be great too.

>>714803736
Holy shit, can you imagine it? He plays the guitar but I don't think he can do a good van halen type solo

>>714795798
>Kojima pandering to fujos in DS2 and reposting yaoi art on his twitter
>only to turn around and make them related in DS3
would be fucking funny but wouldn't deter fujos anyway

>>714768439
Humiliation ritual

>>714800946
Imagine in 3 you get to make your own drawbridge unit and we get recruiting back.

>>714802321
No

>>714768439
>>714768545
Has nothing to do with it missing or not from the game.
The game makes a clear distinction between patient gamers and retards who try to speedrun it.
There's no reason for the guy in the clip to be walking with all that cargo.

>>714803843
I bet they could totally pull off a live show if they invite Norman as well

>>714803508
nigga everyone just drives everywhere

>>714802321
dooms is literally a nothingburger now, they were even like "oh yeah Lou doesn't do shit anymore, you can just see em now" One of the few problems I have with the game. Every step forward removes a unique thing about DS1. That and the corpse disposal are INSANE choices.

>>714803508
I imagine if it's like DS1, you have to make most of the zipline network

>>714804392
>>714803508
most people don't even know, they barely gloss over it

>>714803897
They are just too cute together

Kojima should make the games streamer friendly. Streamers have a big influence on the gaming ecosystem, word of mouth from streamers helped Clair Obscur alot.
DS2 is so gigantic that there's not enough cutscenes to fill in the parts, viewers just watch the streamer deliver things, sure, sometimes they get bothered by BTs or the Armed Survivalists but most of the time they are just watching something that is fun to play but not fun to watch.
The early MGS games are more streamer friendly because they are barely 10-20h games, you can finish it in one stream, maybe 2 if you are really bad.

>>714802748
Kojima is just on another level when it comes to face scans

>>714804392
Yeah but it's endgame stuff, to use on the mountains (even if it's not as useful as it was before because you can put things on the wheels of your truck that makes it go up the mountains really fast)

>>714804586
Worst post of the year award

Need a webm of all Neil vana scene when taken to the battlefield

>>714804586
I love how despite being memed on for having no gameplay, people who actually enjoy video games like Death Stranding and are reasonable people. It really says a lot

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

>>714803508
online ziplines don't curve unless you connect one that curves to them

>>714804498
Toxic, doomed yaoi gets the fujos going in this fandom.
That said, there's a sizeable number who ship Sam and Deadman.

>>714803508
Have you considered that shared ziplines default to straight lines?

>>714804586
He has other methods.

>>714804498
Based artist fr

What's your most updooted structure bros?
Mine is a generator near the metagenomicist with rainy dancing and chvrches death stranding playing. 5100 updoots

>>714805356
well that sucks

>>714805454
kek

80 hours into the game, I just unlocked east knot city

Now I'm going around getting all the roads to lv. 2 autistically after I just unlocked that after a delivery.

What's the best way to get a fuck ton of ceramics and chemicals around the map so I can just upgrade these roads fast? I got both mines that make them upgraded but getting the materials from point A to B seems like a PITA since some of them require thousands each.

>>714805645
mines a bridge next to the dowser to DHV

kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnXh03oZ_U&list=RDUMnXh03oZ_U&start_radio=1&ab_channel=CHVRCHES

had never even heard of this band before any other songs of theirs I should listen to outside of the death stranding one?

>>714766637
fpbp

>>714806278
death stranding is a better song by them desu

>>714806278
I'VE BEEN SINGING THAT SONG AGAIN
ANOTHER BALLAD THAT WON'T MAKE AMENDS
IT'S BEEN GIVING ME NIGHTMARES AGAIN
AND THEY WON'T END

>>714766587 (OP)
>People actually enjoy this movie bullshit because the ex-mgs man made it

>>714805573
He is me
and I am him

Why didn't the people that went through the plate gate first to set up all the bases just bring a q pid with them?

That's the one thing that makes no sense about these games, why does Sam have to do literally all the ground work with the q pid, why not just have the people that came through first bring one and do it themselves as they go?

>>714806515
DS2 is shamelessly a Metal Gear game

>>714769732

One moment I love this game and then I'm suddenly bored to death because it's so easy even on Brutal.

>>714806836
Anyone notice that there's no pee mushroom areas in the game anywhere?
I never see them, in the first death stranding they were all over the place as communal piss places. Honestly, I myself never even piss anyways, I guess other players just aren't pissing either.

just finished the game and I'm an emotional wreck. I really think this is goodbye for this IP since the ending pretty much summed everything up and if we ever do get a third one we won't be playing as sam anymore.

>>714806946
There's plenty for me.
Biggest I've seen are those piss mushroom trees. Not sure if that's the max size.

>>714806983
So far all Kojima said was potentially handing off the series to another director and exploring more continents through the plate gate

>>714806662
The Chiralium…

>>714807337
Yeah we’ve heard that before. That said, given how much a retread DS2 was, its more believable that he’s ran out of inspiration and interest in the series unlike MGS where each new entry was radically different

>>714807337
yeah I also don't see him helming the third one if it ever gets made since he already has two games he's working on right now and by the time those two ship out he'll be really too old. I also don't think the actors we got will be waiting that long for another entry either

>road goes through TWO bandit camps
waste of fucking resources

>>714804380
>That and the corpse disposal are INSANE choices.
How do you even wind up with a body when there are no lethal weapons?

>>714808217
I've driven over some MULEs before and killed them a few times.

Sugita Dollman is great

>>714808217
When you turn the safety off you can accidentally kill a nigga.

>>714803508
like in DS1, everyone's pool of shared buildings is different, so you will randomly see a zipline connecting to nothing because the person that made it connects to their network that they can see

>Kojima liked the bandana over head into lightning skull into so much he did it 3 time for the same character.

Would anyone else have the balls?

>>714800946
I give them 1k likes always. I carry more than them though.

>>714802748
Small indie studio

>>714802748
lower budget and UE5 look

>>714806515
ive been playing the game for 5 hours straight and havent seen a single cutscene.

>>714806110
Rob the Mexicans with the DHV.
Once you run out of mats from peppers and APAC sites, use the mines near Metagenomicist after fully upgrading it to create tons of Ceramics.

so i just got the ability to travel back to mexico.
should I 5 star everything there, take all the resources and bring them back to aussieland?
im assuming theres really no reason to go back to mexico.

>>714806662
The new q pid is special. my headcanon says it took time to create because the new versions of the APAC sites do not use BBs AND Deadman asked Lockne for the Drawbridge function.

>>714810248
yes, there are also nice upgrades/Gadgets from there

>>714808217
Ghost Blades and Quadruple Rocket Launcher are lethal

>>714803316
emails got replaced with the social media posting thing. i guess kojima figured that people dont like reading walls of text. gotta cater to the peanut brains.

personally i missed the emails too.

>>714810264
I WANT TO PUT A BABY IN RAINY

>>714810264
>GET OUT OF HERE WITCH
>holding fucking glowsticks

Pregnant Shioli really makes my testes boil. I need to breed an Australiasian.

>>714810825
GO ON GET YE WITCH
LEAVE US BE

>>714809205
yeah kojima overuses every good idea he has, ends up making it not so great...

here's a list of parallels I noticed:

>higs and sam final battle mirroring liquid and solid's in both games
>flamethrower death cycle mirroring microwave scene from mgs4
>le bandana intro 3 times
>body part transplant makes the receiver become the donor
>le samurai
>le president

>>714782730
(You)

>>714810825
>>714811247
>chases her out into the middle of fucking nowhere
WITCHIES GTFO REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>714811420
THERE SHE IS GET HER THE HELL OUT OF HERE
DON'T GIVE HER THE JACKET

If I go into a bandit camp, kill every single motherfucker there, load their corpses into a truck and then cremate them.

Do I permanently disable a bandit camp?

the fuckin angry mob with pitchforks kek
holy kino

>>714766587 (OP)
I just arrived at the black bald woman feminist lab. Is the story going to get better anytime soon? I loved the story in 1, one of my favorites in fact. This just feels like they didn't have a clue what to make a sequel about and its a nothingburger of a story.

Enjoying the gameplay inmensly though.

Is there a mine for metal? I ain't seen it. Got like 3 ceramic mines, some resins, and special alloys. No metal

>>714812724
Story? Anon, this game was just a vehicle for Kojima to have all the crazy bullshit he needed to cut into a crazy 10 minute trailer

>>714813102
Same as MGS V then, I see.
All the shit shown in a trailer are from underwelming flashback sequences that I dont give a fuck about, sad.

>>714804918
The first time I beat him, I snuck behind him and choked him to death with a strand. 2nd time, I just kept nuking him with a gernade launcher and a gernade hand gun.

What the fuck is the point of the road in north western area where it drives through TWO bandit camps who instantly chuck explosive spears at you which if it hits completly wrecks all cargo?

Like yeah you can easily save scum it and repeat until you don’t get hit. But that’s definitely not the intended way to play. Clearing the camps doesn’t seem worth it since they repopulate so quick. Is it just a massive troll? “Haha you built this road that’s completely unuseable without save scumming”. It’s easy enough to drive the long way around via northern coast, but that’s definitely defeats purpose of the road.

>>714813770
just get the vehicle upgrades bro

>>714779617
Higgs has a shitload of pretentious tattoos. He probably got a tattoo of Lou’s birthmark because he’s that obsessed with wanting to be Sam’s equivalent of Liquid Snake

Guys this game has a character called "Rainy" and I can't quite figure out why, it's very confusing, can someone explain?

>take a break from the game while sitting in the menu for the architect's shelter
>an hour or so passes before I get back to my room to play the game again
>outside the brand new truck I had is completely rusted and about to disintegrate
Had no idea that time passes by if you're just sitting around in the menus at a shelter

>>714813180
the trailers are literally 90% endgame cutscenes

>>714814295
Kojima had an idea for a character called "Rainman" with rain powers but then decided to make it a woman so he had to change the name and "Rainwoman" sounded too stupid even for him, hope that helps.

>>714814827

>>714815132
Hitlero Korea should make a character called Tom Cruiseman