what's so difficult to understand about it?

>>714925997 (OP)
Americans cannot fathom the metric system.

>>714925997 (OP)
He got mad because a few reviewers from the States (IGN being the main one) gave Death Stranding mediocre reviews and he then had to damage control because people took his remarks as "American audiences are a bunch of tards".

He's done similar shit before, he was bitching about CoD4's success in the leadup to MGS4.

It’s just Amerimutts aren’t smart. They’re fat brown ugly goblins

Too much walking

>>714925997 (OP)
>write some stupid gibberish
>ahhh perhaps it is too hard for you to understand
Dude should have been a scult leader.

imagine how many gas chambers could be built with the amount of fart-fumes he huffs

>it's a le mobie game - t. /v/
>look inside
>highly dynamic systems driven gameplay just like the best of the MGS games
I will NEVER doubt Kojima-san ever again.

Not even this hack understands the shit he directs. You can ask him to explain it and he'll go around in circles just mentioning what you see and not why you see it.

he's just mad that people don't care

Walking sim, poor incomprehensible story, intrusive ads, not fun but its the Americans who are wrong. Not the leading great Hideo Kojima who is wrong.

>>714925997 (OP)
It's difficult to understand why anyone gives a shit about this slop game made by a fucking schizo that hates his own fans and dreams of the days in middle school when he used to jork it to playboy fold outs inside his locker while he texts his autustic best friend.

There are studies coming out saying 50% of Americans read at a 6th grade level. They're fucking retarded.

>>714925997 (OP)
Personally I still don't get the gay/trans stuff - yes, still, in 2025 - but I guess this reflects on modern Japan or something?

>>714925997 (OP)
Kojima hasn't made a good game in more than a decade, all his recent success is just his own name carrying him.

>>714925997 (OP)
>can't make any kind of a coherent narrative that makes sense

>its the fans fault! they're too dumb!

what a joke. He has deserved the peter molyneaux treatment for quite a long time now

>>714926154
>>714926217
your country is irrelevant btw

>>714926217
I share this opinion, but I do so in manner that is not ironic.

>>714926167
>He's done similar shit before, he was bitching about CoD4's success in the leadup to MGS4.

He wasn't alone, a lot of older devs seemed rattled by CoD blowing up in the mid-late 2000s. My question is, why did the legacy guys take CoD specifically so badly?

>>714925997 (OP)
Americans are braindead, full of microplastics and corn syrup

>>714925997 (OP)
YU DONTA SEEM TO UNDERSTANDU
WRAITING TOO COMPREX FOR U.

>>714926581
There was a Twitter screenshot floating around here of a guy posting about the decrease in maths scores over time among the French youth, so if it’s happening in America, it’s happening in Western Europe.

Do Aussies understand Death Stranding 2?

Does story telling even fucking matter to zoomers? Games like this seem to cater almost exclusively to boomers.

>>714927264
What the fuck is happening in that video?

>>714927702
Norman Reedus living out the Australian experience

I actually don’t think it’s all that hard to understand l. But I do agree it’s too hard for Americans. Lol

>>714927702
A fastball pitch of pizza dough to knock a cat out of a tree so he can box it for the shelter

>>714926941
Modern Warfare marked a genuine paradigm shift in the gaming industry. It was tons of fun while also introducing a whole generation of console teens to online multiplayer. The seething from Kojima and others was over not being able to make games as good and popular as COD (no matter how much people call it slop or whatever).

>>714925997 (OP)
They will understand after their e-celebs explain everything to them, just you wait.

>>714925997 (OP)
It's less that it's difficult to understand and more that the lowest common denominator refuses to engage with the game on a level beyond the surface. It's rough, in some ways intentional and other ways not but it's clear you'd have to be actively rejecting the game's narrative to pretend that it's nothing but nonsense. Hell, you basically get held hostage before the final chapter so everything can get explained bluntly and more linearly in case it wasn't already clear

>>714928042
I watched some longass video on Eat Standing and there was a bunch of interesting imagery and ideas (dead people eventually turning into antimatter nukes is a horrifying idea) but the actual plot and the way things were tied together was a bunch of absolute wank.

I also don't like how retarded Kojumbo got with the names either. Die Hardman was bad enough but after an emotional moment he tells Sam his real name is John McClain and like what am I supposed to be feeling in this scene?

>>714928393
I think it's interesting that Sam's DOOMS power may not even be something he notices. I think that his power allows him to connect with other versions of himself, which is how we get to see each other's creations when hooked into the Chiral Network and why during boss fights statuelike Sam clones with other player names will throw you stuff to help you with. His existence in part due to being a repatriate seems to have a ripple effect if we assume the multiplayer aspects to be canon

>>714925997 (OP)
I thought it was pretty straight forward. In fact I thought things were over explained which compromised the sense of mystery, but then I see posts like >>714926523 and realize he was on to something

fucking stupid people are the ones who will never admit or even question if they themselves are wrong

>>714926581
>There are studies coming out saying 50% of Americans read at a 6th grade level
Yes, because only those that can read about the 6th grade level will be able to understand this crap
Kojima would come across much more of misunderstood genius if he didn't act so pathetically insecure about people not digging his work

>>714926154
Why does a game that takes place in America use the metric system anyway? Kojima didn't localize the game to Japanese, why did he localize the system of measurement?

>>714925997 (OP)
It's Kojima. It's surface level and easy to understand. At the end of it all, if it looks cool or he finds it cool, he puts it in. Swords, Operator shit, Alien horror. He likes it all, so it goes in. Plot to Kojima is an excuse to do cool shit. Always has been. If the plot ends up deep and invoking after that's all done, then wonderful. It doesn't have to be, though. Sometimes, you just want a ninja cyborg to fight a bunch of stripper assassins that jump everywhere while break dance fighting against a giant meat mech that moos like a cow.

>>714925997 (OP)
It's fun, Americans hate fun.

>>714925997 (OP)
He says Americans cannot understand it because it isn't an FPS.

>>714926420
>develop a system that takes walking simulator literally and manages to make traversal engaging
>you spend 90% of the game in a shitty van

Why is anti-American racism tolerated by the left?

>>714929953
>you spend 90% of the game in a shitty van
Wait until you play DS2 where the walking has been dumbed down, the terrain is mostly flat, and vehicles are used even more!

>>714929712
Because it isn't set in modern America. Why wouldn't it use the metric system?

Do Americans really?

I wish he kept on making silent hill games instead of doing metal gear and death stranding. Silent hill was actually good. When they announced the E.T sequel on PS4 that was so hype, too bad they fired him... They don't know why they're doing. Now they remade silent hill and it was success.

Kojima, if you're reading this, please make silent hill 3

>>714930381
The Elder namedrops Trump in an email, it takes place in the near enough future that there's no way they would be using the metric system. America started to switch to Metric in the 70s and 50 years later has switched about 100 signs

>>714925997 (OP)
Breathing is difficult for Americans to understand

>>714925997 (OP)
Their entire government just got confirmed as pedophiles, Americans are pathetic

>>714930537
I think OD will be similar to the Silent Hills PT. But he's collaborating with Jordan Peele and Hunter Schafer so it will probably be shit.

>>714925997 (OP)
>>714929946
I'm a bit disappointed we haven't gotten any kojima cope yet despite the game very obviously underperforming. my only remaining hope is he is being silent because he will kill himself soon but I'm doubtful his ego will ever allow that.

>>714931115
>despite the game very obviously underperforming
What makes you say that? DS2's sold over 1.4 million copies in under 2 weeks.
DS1 didn't reach those numbers for months.

>>714925997 (OP)
well for one its in japanese

>>714930617
All the survivalists are scientists and such. Switch to metric was easy after all the rednecks killed themselves.

>>714929712
Why does a game set in Australia have a bunch of Japanese people?

>>714931471
>its in japanese
No it isn't. Kojima writes his games with English as the intended language.
>>714931609
Because Australia has a lot of Japanese people IRL (much more than America)?

>>714925997 (OP)
>what's so difficult to understand about it?
it's a super borinf game but it gets praised

>>714931404
show me even a scrap of proof that doesn't have the glaring caveat about "assumed number of digital downloads" or some shit

>>714931848
>assumed number of digital downloads
If you only go by physical copies, then every single modern game is a flop. 99.9% of sales are now digital. Consoles are now for most intents and purposes, digital only since even games on discs and carts require downloads and even the fucking disc drives require Internet to function.

>>714930537
kojimbo has nothing to do with a single sh game retardo san

>>714925997 (OP)
He's just coping. He thinks he's deep, but honestly respect to him for just doing whatever shit he wants all his life.

>>714933081
What do you mean ? He made silent hill 2 and 2 and then the E.T demo that they cancelled... I wish they would make silent hill 3 at last. I wanna see what happens to the guy next.

>>714931708
>Because Australia has a lot of Japanese people IRL (much more than America)?
There are more Koreans than Japs in Australia.
There are more every other ethnicity than Japs in Australia.

And because it's flown over your head, question was rhetorical, Australia isn't the native home of Japan, America uses the imperial system, so I'll ask another rhetorical question to see if this one goes sailing over your head, why would a game series by a Japanese developer feature Japs and the metric system despite being set abroad?

>>714925997 (OP)
Americans can't comprehend walking

>>714925997 (OP)
>game about walking
>difficult for fatass americans to understand

>>714931957
I should have further specified 'assumed' is the part I don't want to see. it is 2025 and I refuse to believe any company doesn't know exactly how many digital copies have been purchased through legitimate marketplaces at full price. I don't want to see what experts guess the sales are, I want to see the hard figure for exactly how many sales there are.

>>714925997 (OP)
Not surprising. Mario is a Japanese IP.

>>714934523
I can just imagine the vomiting cat noises

>>714925997 (OP)
is... is he wrong? are we siding with amerimutts now?

>>714925997 (OP)
if i was in charge of death stranding i would have made the entire game in a snowy mountain region added pickaxes to climb various other things its just so much more fun in that region compared to everywhere else, if its a flat region you need pure action thats DS1s problem

This just in. In a recent interview Hideo Kojima mentions that Americans would find it difficult to understand his newest game Death Stranding on account of them being, quote, "fucking retarded".

>>714925997 (OP)
Kojima gets way too much credit for leaning on tropes that are everywhere in Japanese media. He just presents them in a vaguely Ameriboo way which makes them more approachable to Western audiences.

>>714926941
I wasn't really pop culturally aware back then, but I'ma guess it had to do with CoD4 leaning into the whole "modern warfare is cool" angle during the height of the Iraq War backlash. The Japanese especially were fierce critics of the Iraq War (and are just kind of anti-war pacifists in general).

>>714925997 (OP)
>pseudo intellectual blames players
It's a goddamn walking simulator. Konami was right to cut ties with this retard.

>>714926581
Its because we have mexicans and blacks.

>>714936545
>defending konami

>>714925997 (OP)
>Whats so difficult to understand
>Sam please be careful with those BTs in the AMP zone please take this BB with a YMU for the UMP and the UNYM of the MCU, also the MVP wants to talk about your UPS of DOOMs....... and finally the UWU is a very important part of this OWO mission, thank you Sam

>>714929525
wow that's a harsh comment for kojima

>>714925997 (OP)
As an eropean, I understand it's a shitty ass game, simole as.

>>714925997 (OP)
very difficult to understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GL-MacKbqg

>>714925997 (OP)
Americans are stuck in an ADHD stream of consciousness hedonistic threadmill. When something doesn't bring immediate, easy gratification, they simply drop it and move onto the next new thing.

Death Stranding is ungratifying in many ways, both intentional and unintentional.

>>714926167
didnt he get mad before that because they liked it too much, so he made the game less likable?

>>714926581
Is this why they prefer local dub in everything

>>714936893
>defending kojima

>>714930135
It's kind of obvious now Kojima doesn't how to make an traversal game with depth. He should consult some extreme sportsmen.

>>714925997 (OP)
It's a shitty walking sim and Americans don't do walking.

>>714939598
I can only imagine it sounds even more unnecessarily convoluted in Japanese for Japan players.

>>714925997 (OP)
Based. Kojima understands that trans women are women.

>>714927264
I understand that they don't understand Australian geography and land features at all

>>714933531
lmao

>>714925997 (OP)
We really like baby killing aka abortion and don't understand the love one can have for a child before and after it is birthed.

>>714925997 (OP)
it was a game about reconnecting to one another in times of trouble, and americans are the most selfish and individualistic people to ever walk the face of the earth

>>714925997 (OP)
Japanese Pretentious Arrogance (JPA)
Tired of these fuckers. What's so hard about udnerstanding that the game is corny and cringe as fuck?

>>714926154
I'm american and only have metric tools, even ford uses metric now. I've only used japanese motorcycles which are all metric. In aviation we use celcius but also use feet and miles.
Kind of fuckin stupid.

>>714925997 (OP)
it's about building roads instead of walls

>>714927264
fuckin drop bears, gettem nolan!

>>714926941
it broke into the actual mainstream, it achieved blockbuster-like popularity among real normies, not just people already in the gaming niche. companies desperately wanted those numbers, hacks wanted that acclaim, and it came at a time when the reputation of "japanese" games (meaning 4 niggas in a row) was seen as, right or wrong, being on the downswing in the mainstream gaming press.

>bitches about how Americans hated Raiden and seethes about it not only in MGS3 with Raikov but MGS4 where he make Raiden the cool cyborg ninja in the hope that people will finally like him
>was so mindbroken by seeing GTAV that he made MGSV as "victory against the west" insisting that he was going to create the perfect open world game (he failed)
>complains that DS's poor reception was because Americans "couldn't understand it" and not because it's a game with a hamfisted main theme told via a schizophrenic narrative that was clearly just whatever spectacle or scientific concept Kojima read about recently and thought was cool combined with his usual fetishposting
He's just a massive tsuntsun because despite all of this he'll sell his left nut to get a B-list Hollywood celeb in his games.

>>714929620
>Yes, because only those that can read about the 6th grade level will be able to understand this crap
sis...

>>714927702
pizza's here

>>714925997 (OP)
I understand that it sucks

>>714929946
Americans don't have a low IQ so their brain needs stimuli. A game where you do fucking nothing for 10 hours at a time isn't for them.

>>714926658
He was a fag, Norman Reedus?

>>714945359
>Americans don't have a low IQ so their brain needs stimuli
isn't needing stimuli a facet of underdeveloped intelligence and that's why jingling keys are appealing to literal babies?

american here. i didnt understand this game.

>>714925997 (OP)
That one japanese model in the first game is difficult to understand because she can't speak fucking english and yet Kojimbo decided to give her a 10 minute long monologue.

>>714945459
No. Craving novelty is a sign of a higher IQ. Your brain naturally seeks stimulus. It's why a retard can sit around and watch a garbage TV show, or play a game where you just walk in straight lines for 10 hours and be content and a higher IQ person is far more likely to avoid activities like these all together.

ludo

>kojima thinks it’s Americans that got filtered by Death Stranding
>meanwhile this entire thread is just third worlders seething at both Kojima and Americans
I’m American and I think Death Stranding was GOTD. Not Kojima’s fault you third worlders are emotionless subhumans devoid of soul who can’t understand true art. Stick to your shitty outdated comedies and eurojank games that crash all the time

>>714945746
I'm American and Death Stranding was garbage. If you think a game single player game that was trying to be deep but had Monster Energy product placements and tried to get you to watch a shitty AMC show every 20 minutes was GOTD you have brain damage.

>>714925997 (OP)
Instead of open borders slop,
make it xenophobic kino.

>>714945829
>If you think a game single player game
low IQ ESL post

>>714945829
American here and I agree. No idea what people see in these games to suck them off so much. 50 hours of DS and nothing remotely interesting happening was definitely not what I was expecting when I went into it.

>>714945746
>true art
>majority of the game is low-brow references

>>714945870
>This is Points Out Grammar Mistake Man. He once pointed out a grammar mistake on 4chan, and it lead to his entire asshole experiencing a voidout.

>>714945865
I want a game based off this, where you play as the whale.

americans dont walk

Kojima's game actually sold better on PC than on consoles. It's console players who don't understand any game that isn't a rooty tooty shooty or a sport game.

>>714925997 (OP)
you walk in your wagie job to just be a cuckold of the democrats in the end

>>714929620
>Yes, because only those that can read about the 6th grade level will be able to understand this crap
So you can only read at 5th grade level?

>>714926941
>played cod4 as my first online game
>became a gold cross
>never played another online fps again
honestly, I think I made the right choice

>>714945605
That fucking character alone brought this game down to a 9/10. I can forgive the janky driving and the songs getting cutoff constantly, but that entire fucking sequence with the jap was just irredeemable

>>714945605
funny enough she’s a happa

>>714930049
Because many leftoids occupy comfy do-nothing niches which keep them from having to exist in the same spaces as the non-whites they claim to love so much. Once Indians start taking their desk jobs they'll very quickly change their minds.

>>714925997 (OP)
Instant gratification. The same reason niggers ask why White people enjoy hiking. """American""" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Observing reality and feeling in tune with reality is in the soul.

>>714947314
If you think hiking is the same thing as playing Death Stranding your fat ass has never actually went outside and hiked.

>>714947376
It provides the same nourishment of the soul for me as a White man so it's the same thing. If you don't get it then you don't get it, it's in my genes.

>>714925997 (OP)
probably because you spend so much time on the weird side tangent stories that by the time it loops back to the main plot you forgot how you got there.

>>714925997 (OP)
they lack the cultural baggage to fully appreciate the strand type games

>>714925997 (OP)
I don't think the average Americans today can even function without google and smartphone

>>714947681
You're correct since the average American today is not White.

>>714925997 (OP)
>"I'll insult an entire nation before I admit to my own nonsense!"
Did you expect any less?

>>714947463
This is your brain on racism. Keep holding that joystick gamer.

>>714947817
Race is real and you're going to see its reality bare an ugly head as you watch America shrink into a giant version of Rhodesia or South Africa before Whites collectivize and genocide everyone else deceiving them.

>>714925997 (OP)
I can't comprehend why it's so gay

>>714942070
As an American, I understand that your English is shit. Simple as

>>714925997 (OP)
Btw wtf do you even do in this game, i have never played it, but i do have it.

>>714925997 (OP)
This hack probably thinks Nolan's films deep.

>>714948223
You carry packages while looking around at the environment. Does that sound enjoyable to you? Then you will enjoy this game.

>>714947789
you forgot the gigachad image.

>11/11/19
dates are difficult to understand for /v/ users

>>714947897
Whatever you say kid. The height of irony here is you are the retard defending Death Stranding, yet apparently you have no clue what it's actually about and think the point is literally walking or something.

>>714948506
You're some kind of retarded woman or troon and you will die all the same as everyone else but at least I will die telling the truth. Hector had that honor before dying. That makes him greater than whatever filth I'm talking to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Ze3KEhKnM

>>714948702
Damn it's a bot. Well don't I feel dumb

>>714948740
>have 160 IQ
>get called a bot
kek, read the illiad

>>714925997 (OP)
>what's so difficult to understand about it?
You wouldnt get it

>>714944393
Next you're going to tell me the center of Australia isn't a gigantic, snow-covered mountain range.

>>714926167
>He got mad because a few reviewers from the States (IGN being the main one) gave Death Stranding mediocre reviews and he then had to damage control because people took his remarks as "American audiences are a bunch of tards".
>Mr. can't put more asians into my game because they're hard to facescan
Yeah I really care what "la creativitard" has to say.

>>714933280
p.t. demo

>>714942205
That was preemptive damage control in case there were people that wouldn't like it.

>>714925997 (OP)
what's kojima's exact quote?

>>714926581
My job involves dealing with average people every day and can confirm that my fellow Americans are batshit retarded and so many of them show signs of actual learning/comprehension disabilities.

>>714925997 (OP)
it is difficult to understand for most people because people can't into the more esoteric elements of the story that are very nail on the head and very obvious if you are aware. anyone who calls it "dad simulator" or "dad standing" is an absolute retard who missed the point.

>>714925997 (OP)
It's because Kojimbo writes in the style of Evangelion.
It's not meant to actually make sense and have deep lore that all connects to form a complex and coherent story.
It's just supposed to have cool themes and symbolic imagery.

>>714926154
Why do Americans prefer imperial over metric? Why do we need 2 different systems of measurements? Why can't we reach a consensus?

>>714951534
no. they both use gnostic imagery, but anno had a very surface level understanding of the iconography/symbolism of the gnostics while kojima is a thelemite (or at least has a deep understanding of thelema and has injected that deep into the DNA of death stranding).

>>714925997 (OP)
I've seen an interview with that main actor in kojima's movie, can't be arsed to remember his name, and he said himself that the doesn't fucking understand what the game is about.
If your fucking ACTORS don't know what the fuck they're doing, it's not a sign of brilliance of the writer, it's a sign that he shouldn't be writing.

metal gear rising was good enough for me to respect him

>>714951984
They were not warned that the depths of Kojimbles' genius was actually just the amount of head he could stuff up his own ass.

>>714925997 (OP)
I don't understand how people like it

>>714925997 (OP)
>woman becomes president
>entire world explodes
is that it

>>714951746
I could take or leave the rest of the metric units, but Celsius is objectively the worst system of measurement for every real use case.

>>714952695
bet you can't come up with a good argument against it

>>714926581
There's probably less than 10,000 white people that stupid who aren't literally retarded

>>714951749
stop sucking his dick

never played a single kojima game but from everything i know about his games he seems like the midwit messiah
his understanding of the world is that of an angsty teenager, he thinks he has deep insight while having identical "knowledge" with american boomers raised by television
he goes "war is bad" and thinks hes got something there
the rest is anime cringe

>>714952808
Too coarsely graded and with 0 and 100 both pegged too high to be useful for biology and the weather, and flatly outclassed by kelvin for materials science.

>>714953190
>0 and 100 is bad
>better use 32 and 212
fucking retard

>>714925997 (OP)
it wasn't that the game was difficult to understand it's that the first death stranding was padded out & didn't introduce new gameplay mechanics fast enough
basically it did not respect the player's time or intelligence

>>714954215
Fahrenheit uses 0 and 100 too, retard. The secret is that nobody needs to know what temperature water boils at because it's not relevant for weather or biology. We don't live in the water.

>>714954567
>nobody needs to be educated
>water boiling temperature? that's for them scientists to know
fucking lmao, how is america even real

>>714954682
Here's our scale:
>0 is really goddamn cold
>100 is really goddamn hot

Here's your scale:
>0 is cold
>100 you're dead

Which one's more useful for telling the temperature of the air outside? I'll take the more granular Fahrenheit where I don't need to use decimals and seldom have to even go into negatives.

>>714927702
The pizza flatness represents Nun, the primordial abyss in ancient Egyptian mythology. See how the "cat" is climbing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, symbolizing the Gnostian divine souls trying to reach the Realm of the Aeons. But Nun, the primordial chaos, knocks out the paltry attempt of mankind without fail.

You'd get it if you were half as clever as Kojima.

>>714954809
I do hope I'm just falling for bait, otherwise this is getting more sad than funny

>>714926167
Call of Duty 4 was a great game too. He's just mad everyone aped it.

>>714954912
I hope you were just pretending to be a retarded euroid and don't actually use celsius like a cucked faggot

>>714954682
americans learn and use both temperature systems depending on the circumstances. if you're going to pretend some other shithole is superior at least pick a good reason

>>714952163
he did not work on rising, that was platinum

Burgers are right for once, Kojima is a fucking hack and this game is self-indulgent garbage.

>>714951746
America doesn't use Imperial. During the Treaty of the Metre, of which the USA was one of the first to adopt, America tweaked its customary measurement system to convert between old British Units and Metric smoothly. The US was in the middle of the expansion to the western frontier, so getting everyone to adjust at that point was impossible, and the US was being considerate of all of the other countries that had yet to adopt Metric.
After waiting decades for everyone else to catch up, America stuck with its unique combined system of both measurements.

The Base 10 of Metric, as clean and useful for scientific precision it may be, is less efficient compared to the highly composite, fraction-based measurements that use things like Base 12 and Base 60 for everyday things.

>>714954978
It was, great campaign & fun multiplayer, anyone who says otherwise is coping.