>title isn't "I recommend Death Stranding 2"
Oh nononono, Kojimadrones...

>>715348010 (OP)
The cover of the game is fucking cringe

>>715348010 (OP)
>It's a good game, but it's not a good Death Stranding game
lol you can't make this up.

>>715348010 (OP)
>literally who said a thing
k. formulate your own opinion instead of letting others think for you.

Literally who?

>>715348010 (OP)
>11 minutes ago
Grim state of affairs there Shillup

>>715348010 (OP)
Vinny Vinesauce!?

>>715348010 (OP)
It's FF16 of Death Stranding games

>>715348469
More like FF mobile game

>>715348010 (OP)
I mean it's not that good, feels more like a DLC
Without kojima's name it would've gotten 7/10 across the board

This is Zelda TOTK all over again

Lemme guess he didn't like it because it was a straightforward sequel and not some schizo mess?

>>715348010 (OP)
>BTs aren't in the game anymore
So he either didn't play the game or rushed through it in the easiest mode.
Dumb faggot.

>>715349024
>gameplay too easy and mind-numbing
>more of a focus on the shitty story cause the lore is established now
>Kojima is dogshit at actually making stories

>>715348010 (OP)
This dude has a BlueSky account so I doubt his opinions are worth much

>>715348010 (OP)
DAMN I just made a thread too
I'm honestly not surprised he didn't like it, because he liked the first one for the same reasons I liked it
and he dislikes the second one for the same reasons I do
Kojimbo sold out to the normalfags with the sequel

>>715348010 (OP)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THAT YOUTUBE MAN? HOLY FUCK GUIZ LOOK ITS YOUTUBE MAN.

>>715349271
>I'm honestly not surprised after all I'm addicted to ecelebs and spend my entire life discussing them
Why?

>>715348010 (OP)
I only watch shillup vids for the ads. What's he selling in this one? Anything exciting? Or just Raycons again?

>>715348010 (OP)
Shillup always goes against the popular opinion which is not wrong but just and observation

>>715349208
Dude became an access-shill insider when his Warframe review hit it big. There's a reason his brother ditched him.

>>715349417
Does the brother have a yt account

>>715349459
The brother is a singer-songwriter pianoman rather than a vidya guy.

>>715349356
it's not weird to be talking about video game reviews, on a video game board, anon

>>715348010 (OP)
>no name channel with barely any views
Imagine being so pathetic you try to generate drama from this. Kill yourself.

>>715349408
Tables

>>715348713
Would anyone other than Kojima make a game like DS? I don't think so. Shit like Nightreign is far more deserving of that criticism.

Having said that, I don't think DS2 shouldn't have even existed, I felt that way since it was announced (exactly like TLOU2, but that was even worse).

The wonky story and concept was realized well enough in the first game. There's no need for a sequel to reiterate on something that is so incredibly niche to begin with, it just dilutes it.

>>715349775
>but what about fromsoftware
Rent free

>>715348010 (OP)
Instead of building upon what made DS1 great, DS2 goes in the opposite direction in an attempt to attract a wider audience. And it does... at the cost of DS1 fans.
DS2 is everything Kojima SAYS he doesn't want his games to be - but is.

>>715349907
Wasn't there an interview before release where he said he purposely made the game harder and more obscure to keep it interesting? I always suspected that was just marketing lies

>>715349775
>Would anyone other than Kojima make a game like DS?
No
But it has too much kojima, they should've told him "that's gay and we are not scanning every single hollywood faggot"

This game SUCKS. No interesting story, absolutely abysmal cutscenes, boring actors. What was Kojima smoking? This is like the first one, but without any juice.

which metal gears are worth playing?

>>715350137
all of them

>>715348010 (OP)
>Shillup
Legit one of the most spineless, talentless channels out there.
Sage goes in all fields

>>715349963
yeah he said the early feedback from testers was TOO positive so he had to make changes, because "something that is truly good will never be universally liked."

>>715350137
Ground cero

>>715349113
https://youtu.be/UxMJ5WAp1gY?t=2148
You got BTFO

>>715350268
Lol. What did you disagreed with that made you so upset?

>>715348010 (OP)
>Skill Up has the based take on a new game as usual

>>715349113
His point on BTs in DS1 being these tense environmental obstacles you have to slowly sneak around also only applies to like two encounters. Then you unlock hematic grenades.

I'm playing it and I largely agree, though I can't judge the entire thing yet.
It's just more of a chore to play this game than DS1. The story is badly paced. First game did a whole dump in the first 3 or so hours, which wasn't ideal, but at least it gave you context and then it peppered story segments in throughout.
This one basically tells you nothing and begins with the pepper. I don't know why I'm doing things. I'm sure that's part of the point, because sometimes it gets hinted at, but it keeps me in a bad mood in my playthrough so far.

>>715352275
I found the cutscenes and story infinitely more entertaining in this game compared to the first one, honestly I think the only downside DS2 has over DS1 is that it's way less challenging to move around and there's no downside to just using a bike or truck the whole game, in DS1 I recall always having to bring ropes and ladders with me just in case, when I went out in a bike I always did it thinking I'll probably have to abandon it halfway through the trip, which was often true, and in this game that's just not the case, cliffs and ravines and rocky terrains are less of a problem now, even if the game is visually amazing.


Also Cliff was cooler than Neil, like, why tf are we even going into this Neil dream realm and shit, and why does he have Cliff's military platoon alongside him? Neil is literally just a covert porter and our relation to him is that Sam and him both got cucked by Lucy, at least Cliff was our actual fathr and we had a connecting to him through the BB.

>>715350653
BT encounters were only cool for like the first 3 times in the first game, they become trivial real quick once you find out how they work and you bring your bloody piss rifle.


I agree Death Stranding 2 didn't do a good job at improving BTs though.

I still remember how unique and scary the cutscene in Death Stranding 1 in which BTs attack you during the corpse disposal was. It did a hell of a job to build them up but the gameplay when you contend with them is just not that good.

https://youtu.be/mLqVMF9s1Qc?t=179

>>715348010 (OP)
Not even the Sony fanboy shillup likes it? Grim.
I think sales for Playstation is gonna plummet like a rock, especially for ps6.

>>715353236
>rain on the "camera lens"
Shit game

>>715353236
I still remember how the cool cryptic cutscenes used to promote the game hyped it up so much only for the game to be amazon simulator with a stilted story with terrible pacing and how strangely dissapointed so many people felt.

It's not like the trailers lied, they cutscenes are in the game, but they seem to sell you a different game than what it turns out to be, this is a curious phenomenon that I only see in games. More than once I have seen trailers for games that show things that are in fact in the game but I still feel like the trailer is a lie after playing the game, the prime example of this would be Zelda Tears of The Kingdom IMO, that last trailer was so good, it really tricks you into thinking it's not just a BOTW shitty DLC, it uses footage from the game and never lies, but the way it's presented feels like yiou're bring tricked, because is just not as cool as the trailers, just ain't.

>>715353568
You're a sillyhead for trusting trailers but in the specific case of Death Stranding, it's more like the cutscenes themselves are lying to you about how interesting the game is

>>715353568
>it really tricks you into thinking it's not just a BOTW shitty DLC
We're still gonna have retards saying this shit for the next 2-3 decades just like Sony fanboys are still obsessed about oot aren't we

>>715353979
He's right though, ToTK shouldn't have taken so long to make. It's basically DLC

>>715348010 (OP)
>Youtuber reviews
I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK WHAT THE CUNTS ON YOUTUBE ARE SAYING!.jpg

>>715351487
Hell, once you unlock cars you can pretty much speed past them.

>OH NO OIL!
>*Zooms past*

>>715353869
Oh I get that trusting trailer is retarded, learnt my leson long ago with AC Unity when I was a 14 year old.

But every once in a while you still feel it too right? You see a trailer that, let's be honest, looks really cool and interesting, and even though it technically may not be misleading it can still feel that way once you actually play it.

I've played games before that I have enjoyed and I am not mad that I spent money on them but still thought to myself "damn the trailer made this look more cool and interesting than it actually is" even if at the end of the day I still liked the game. I enjoyed Death Stranding, but the marketing is REALLY good at making you feel the game is cooler than it actually is.

I'ts such a weird feeling because I don't think this happens outside of gaming, this has never been the case for me with movie trailers or TV show advertisements or anything of the sort.

Also, gaming has straigt up actual misleading advertising too on top of everything I have just said lmao, actual direct shameless lies.

If BTs are so easy to kill, how did they cause an apocalypse?

>>715353979
I have a nintendo switch and PS5 in my family's home, I have played and loved nintendo and playstation games in the past, I have no bias positive or negative toward them, and I criticised both a playstation game and a nintendo game on my post.

I loved Breath Of The Wild and I didn't mind making excuses for that game's shortcomings, but TotK... bruh that game is not worth 5 year of waiting, 70 fucking euros... if you enjoyed it I don't want to take that away from you but I strongly believe it just wasn't worth a shit and nintendo could have done way better than they did, I found it very dissapointing.

>>715348010 (OP)
Not even Shill Up can shill this game... kojimbros in shambles...

>>715354036
Sony fanboys always post one-liners because they don't have any games and they're obsessed about Nintendo. Their obsession is hard to understand because if they truly think Nintendo games are so bad they wouldn't post about them which proves they're obsessed for another reason. Although lately they've started admitting Nintendo is better so whatevs

Sorry, won't give clicks to your garbage channel. Dilate.

>>715354237
They are invisible for most people, the technology and knowledge to deal with them was not developed, every time someone dies by normal means they turn into a BT if they are not disposed of properly so there's a nigh-infinite suply of them, Sam can literally revive so if he dies it's no big deal (which is why he's so instrumental in connecting America and Australia, he can't fail as long as he keeps trying), and also if a BT's main body makes direct contact with a human there's a huge anti-matter explosion that will kill everyone on the surrouding area and may even be able to level a city, killing thousands of people.

Also, timefall is a huge danger and problem to contend with.

>>715354237
Well for starters it’s not the BTs that caused the apocalypse but voidouts from dead bodies that weren’t disposed of. One melanin-enriched fellow overdoses in your building and two days later the city gets nuked.
Then BTs aren’t easy to kill, or killable at all afaik, if you aren’t using blood from a repatriate like Sam. Apocalypse happened before people even figured that out, much less were able to distribute the knowledge and equipment.

Just in case there is a tiny bit of rationality left inside your mind that's obsessed with console warring: You are victim to a very common type of circular logic on 4chainz
Where did anybody mention Sony? You assume somebody who calls TOTK a glorified DLC is a Sony fanboy. How do you know that? Well, only Sony fanboys would attack Nintendo, right? And how do you know that? Well, this guy is attacking Nintendo, therefore he must be a Sony Fanboy.
It's brainrot

>>715348181
>a parent showing affection for his child is cringe
Damn that's sad anon are you alright? :(

>>715353382
Yes, Kojima loves the "make it look like an actual camera is there" type of shit.

>>715354615
>and also if a BT's main body makes direct contact with a human there's a huge anti-matter explosion
Why didn't this guy explode then >>715353236

>>715354196
>>715353869
Maybe this is a Kojima game problem because that shit happened to me with MGSV lmao, the game wasn't bad and the trailers did show the agme but they really made it feel like the game would be way cooler than it was to actually play, I was so fucked off when playing the game and Venom Snake says like 3 words every 5 hours.

>>715354854
Living human.

>>715348010 (OP)
I love the first game and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
The second game is more of the same so same applies.

The main issue of both the first and second game is vehicles and roads. They trivialize the challenge and are boring as fuck to use.

>>715355171
Walking isn't a challenge.

>ShartUp
I do not know why people care so much about this plebbitor

>>715354854
The explosion happens when Igor reaches the head of that giant BT at the end, the explosion does't happen when an invisible hand touches you or when the tar arms drag you away, the explosion happens when the "main body" makes contact with you, the main body in this case was that giant humanoid thing, but there are BTs of many shapes and sizes, like the lions, or the squids, or mantarrays, or the weird head thing picrel.

>>715355301
Yet it's the most engaging way to get from point A to point B.

>>715348010 (OP)
it's unironically too easy to drive everywhere

>>715355438
So why would you use vehicles then?

>>715355512
Because vehicles are the optimal way to get from point A to point B.

It's literally more of the same. Same gameplay, same characters, same plot, same atmosphere, same vibe. This is like the DS1 they got on an alternate dimension

>>715349160
>Kojima is dogshit at actually making stories
we've known this since tomokazu fukushima left konami. he was the co-writer of metal gear

>>715355512
You know that quote about how players will optimize the fun out of a game if you let them? Well in this case, the game designer has graciously decided to pre-optimize all the fun out so players don't have to do it themselves

>>715355383
This. You can even trigger voidouts in game by getting swallowed by the BTs.

>>715355383
Thanks you, didn't realize the hands and mud weren't the main body

Kojima getting obsessed with pet hollywood celebs was the beginning of the end. Quiet ruined everything

>>715348010 (OP)
>Skill Up
Didn't this guy hate Lost Judgement because you get to beat the shit out of high school kids?

>>715355575
>walking isn't more challenging than driving
>but walking is more engaging
I don't see how they are.

>>715355349
The Australian accent makes people sound cooler than they actually are, its like a natural +10 to charisma.

This game spits in the face of everyone who enbraced and loved the walking simulator

Normies ridicule every niche and complain about fifa and call of duty

>>715355512
To get 1000KG+ of supplies across the map in 5 minutes for the LoLoL rank.

>>715355816
Was Joost even in any Hollywood movies

>not for normalfags
>not for DS1 dickriders
Who is this game for?

>>715355657
Kojima's freedom to do whatever the fuck he wants with his games is both the most positive thing and the worst thing about them, he0's like that autistic friend with brilliant super fun traits but then he turns around and has the most annoying and cringe ass character flaws ever, like the most cool and fun guy at a party but then you find out he needs to eat dinosaur shaped nuggets every day for dinner and he's a sonic fan

>>715355968
For Kojima, getting his dick sucked by actresses

>>715355904
No, but she was his first taste of what he could do with the face scan and motion capture stuff and it clearly went straight to his ego.

>>715355895
Just use your monorail.

>>715355816
This and open world shit. God V was such shit

>>715355968
>Ds1 dickrider
I'm one of them

Fighting your dad, getting mama to her sister, onsen bathing with that chink who leaves her husband again kek, fighting a whale with a fucking rocket launcher and more

10/10

They somehow made the same story but worse
Everything else is a straight up improvement

>>715355816
Seydoux and Reedus can probably get easier much better paying roles in filmsand shows if they wanted to but they seem to choose to work with Kojima anyway so he must at least be fun to work with probably, he's a fanboy so he must pamper them a lot.

>>715356202
The story was always the weakest point of DS anyways

>>715355968
Kojima giving himself more excuses to hang out with the Hollywood actors he's obsessed with. He'll never go back to making real games, whatever he makes next will just be another excuse to motion capture actresses he wants to fuck while hanging out with Norman Reedus.

>>715356347
Never understood his obsession with that hobo

>>715356246
>The story was always the weakest point of DS anyways
I mean sure i agree but literally making the same story is lazy as fuck

>>715356403
They both love motorcycles. Seems like whatever friendship they are able to have through language barriers is genuine.

>>715356416
No no it is, but if they had to wing one element of the game, the story was the right call

>>715348181
You will never be a woman.

>>715356491
I literally lost all motivation to keep playing after that miserable ending
Why can't Kojima let Sam be happy?

I have not played this game and didn't care for DS1 (or at the very least i didn't understand it) but since enough people here are shitposting and assuming he gave this a negative review without even watching it, these are literally the first words in this review:

>Is Death Stranding 2 a good video game? Yes, of course it is, absolutely.

>>715349208
Damn, I used to respect his opinions

>>715356692
The game didn't give Sam and Tomorrow enough closure, Tomorrow literally just says "I'm your Lou" and then he's like "yes" and then we get the ending cutscene and credits and we're done.

We see Sam cry and grieve and cope so much, we should have had a scene where he's happy, have a hug with her, start boding with her in some way, I dn't fucking know, anything to make it feel like Sam can now have some happiness again, the ending of the game makes it feel like Tomorrow just fucking leaves Australia through a plate gate and now Sam is mindlessly wandering Australia alone again on his own.

If they make a director's cut I seriously hope this gets adressed, I'm pretty sure Kojima himself said on an intervier that he'd want to keep making changes on the game and he's not fully satisfied with how it has launched still (which is bs cause he had 300 years to develop it but oh well).

>>715356863
>>715349208
Is X really a much better place to use? Having to use a twitter-type social media is already annoying enough but I'd rather go to the leftoid libtard twitter than the Elon Musk one, seems less bad to me.

>actually one of the few people who enjoyed the first one
>everyone in this thread is saying it's not made for fans of DS1
did I fuck up by buying this? Only just really got to the part where I assume the real game begins after going through the first plate gate

>>715356991
Most subtle leftist shill

>>715356991
No lmao, people are just butthurt that someone would dare to turn their back on Daddy Musky

>>715357013
Depends, did you enjoy the first one for the cool walking mechanics and insane lore? Cause the former is gone (you just drive past everything now) and there is no new content for the latter

>>715356991
Saar you must use the based and redpilled bharat xitter.
If only Asian artists had gotten the memo and fucked off from that website so I could stop lurking entirely.

>>715356856
I'ts the classic "it's a good game but not a good x series game" type argument, which may sound stupid, but it's an argument worth having, now, it cans eem retarded because the "strand type" genre has like two games as a whole but you can still be dissapointed that a series is not turning out how you'd hoped.

I think MHWilds is a good game but it's a terrible Monster Hunter game and I can't shake off my dissapointment with that.

>>715349208
His opinions and politics are so fucking weird. I could always tell he's super leftist, yet he still shit on The Last of Us 2, Saints Row reboot, Suicide Squad, and Veilguard. Inconsistent motherfucker.

>>715357135
Because those are shit games you quadruple nigger, get the amerilard directionbrain obsession out of your skull and don't treat nuanced people like imaginary strawmen.

>>715356991
Reducing your reach by 99% to shout in your leftist echo chamber is definitely the mark of a deranged leftist.

>>715357215
ShillUp has absolutely no nuance. Bizarre post.

>>715357108
>>715357072
>>715357024
We need a porn social media that's not a twitter analog, that place is so fucking annoying to lurk, I fucking hate the twitter format, I also fucking hate pixiv lurking experience, there's literally no good nicely put together place to browse that shit, probably never will.

>>715356919
That plus killing Fragile made everything feel so hollow afterwards. Why did Sam even go on this journey? He lost what little he had.

>>715357262
Have you tried not gooning every single second of your life

>>715357092
>you just drive past everything now
>now

>>715357232
>99% less pajeets and @grok xitter blue verified spam
I wish. We need firewalls back on the internet.

>>715357135
People can have leftist opinions and still hate games with woke shit in them, people's ideals and politics are usually more complicated than "he's a rightoid so he must be a nazi" or "he's a leftoid so he must simp for people with xe/xer pronouns".
And a shit game is a shit game no way around it.

>>715357330
There's genuinely zero reason to use xitter other than stalking the posts of asiatic artists that refuse to upload anywhere else, while using the worst possible UI and UX known to mankind.

>>715357330
my testosterone levels are too high to avoid it

>>715357232
90% of that 99% you're talking about is AI obsessed indians and porn bots and onlyfans whores and Musktards with verified accounts and ragebait bots and gore posting bots and unfunny meme accounts, and more bots.

>>715356856
If you know anything about this faggot's reviews, that's something he always says when he's about to spend the next 30 minutes telling you why he doesn't like it and convince you not to as well.

>It's totally a good game... if a good game was shit and boring

Also, he lost all credibility with his negative review for STALKER 2 last year when it was simply too hard for him.

>>715357215
you can't tell him that, anon. the worst thing he can assume is that there actually is no culture war, just a bunch of retards with a victim complex. god forbid he actually comes to grips with reality.

>>715356546
??? what the fuck does your post have to do with his
Do you spout this every chance you get like a tourette's tic?

>>715357631
he should have just said it was too shit for him

>>715357638
I am happy that ive seen more people waking up to that fact lately, maybe there is a light at the end of this long fucking tunnel

>>715357251
Every real person is nuanced, online boogeymen aren't.

>>715357612
Doesn't matter. Engagement is engagement.

>>715357638
>>715357215
The way USA culture war politics have poisoned the discourse all over he internet is insanely annoying.
I can't say "retarded" without being banned from 90% of social media due to using "le slurs" and if I have the balls to say I am actually not homophobic I will get called a cuck and accused of being brainwashed by Joe Biden.
There's no middle ground anywhere, there's no place safe from the insanity, it's all a bunch of whiny sensitive babies who cry if you say a slightly edgy word but if you go hang out with people who can tolerate edgy words they'll usually tell you to kill yourself if you're not racist enough.

>>715358010
Maybe the real answer is to log off and go outside.

>>715358010
>There's no middle ground anywhere, there's no place safe from the insanity

there is and always has been. that's just what happens when you're afraid of looking like a hypocrite for some reason.

>>715348010 (OP)
if your pc can't run death stranding
https://youtu.be/0UXiy6Ma8Ks?t=1543

>>715358248
Is this the third game in the strand genre?

>>715358149
I have recently aquired a "life" as they say, but I still like the use the internet sometimes and wish it was less annoying

>>715358195
I know there's sane people out there but the point is that brainwashed retards will always appear to ruin shit and be annoying, I know the solution is just leave lol but I don't like leaving, I wish the brainwashed retards just weren't there, I don't like that any internet content I watch now has every 3rd word be censored and saying "kill yourself" or "retard" or "nigga" is offensive enough to cause bans, but if I come here to hang out on 4chan I will find the opposite side of the problem where crazy motherfuckers will be annoying in the other side of the coin.

>>715348269
Not wrong. All the things that made Death Stranding unique was removed. Granted, it was all the shit that people were saying as boring or horrible in the original, so adding a lot of QoL stuff and basically copying stuff other games had revealed all the praising of the boring stuff from the first game is bullshit. Instead of a Kojima game, it's just a game now.

>>715349160
>gameplay too easy and mind-numbing
It was easy in DS1 too, only difference is DS2 gives you stuff earlier.
>more of a focus on the shitty story cause the lore is established now
What? DS1 had just as story heavy and it was paced much worse
>Kojima is dogshit at actually making stories
True, but I'd take 1 retarded Kojimbo plot over a million wannabe TV dramas like TLOU

>>715359856
Shillup is definitely weirdly exaggerating the good of DS1 and downplaying DS2 and I don't know why, he doesn't have a motive or agenda or anything, at least that's what he seems, he just feels this way now apparently.

BTs weren't muchy better in DS1, the story wasn't better or more entertaining neither, like at all, only thing I can give him is that the terrain is now easier to navigate, that's true, and I get that if you're not discouraged from using vehicles then the game can feel too samey and lose uniqueness, but everything else... I don't see it.

>>715360165
Dude has weird takes. I remember when Cyberpunk came out one of his biggest complaints was that the game didn't have enough deep philosophical themes like GiTS or Bladerunner, ignoring all the Alt/Johnny/Relic stuff.

>>715360561
lmao instead of complaining about the dysfunctional game and the insane amount of lying and misleading marketing he had beef with that of all things.

>>715360841
He also complained about the itemisation being trash, which is fair.

Anyway dude think Nier Automata is a masterpiece so he's one of those games are art fags that'll praise janky messes and criticise safe, but compently made games.

Loved the first game. Love this one too. This is a midwit bad faith take. You can't recapture what made the first game great so the sequel was taken in a different direction tonally and is much more fun as a gameplay sandbox. La creative dad could make a 2.5 that is more "serious" but no one would play it.

>>715360561
Cyberpunk is superficial slop though

>>715360165
He loves to exaggerate and be hyperbolic. He should re-read his overly long script and think "is that statement really accurate?". But overall his reviews are worth it.

>>715355171
>vehicles
Pain in the ass to use 99% of the time because any tiny rock brings you to a full stop and for some reason this complete disregard for physics is never complained about by anyone but boy do I fucking hate it
>roads
Takes a shitload of grinding to actually build them up, genuinely not worth the time investment at all

Now if you had said zip-lines instead, you would've been 100% correct. Just bring a bunch with you anytime you go somewhere for the first time and you beeline through every mission afterwards.

>>715348010 (OP)
Someone tell me what's the deal with Stranded Viper

>>715348010 (OP)
the game isnt goty anymore and its selling worse than the first one

>>715354826
It's cringe because it reeks of Kojimbo's daddy issues, but poorly veiled so the whole game feels like a blogpost on Tumblr

>>715363985
I have a life outside of video game gossip and tumblr blogs so I didnt see anything of what you are talking about anon. Maybe you should try getting into a new hobby

>>715364909
This is what the actual term "media illiteracy" means, outside of memes

>>715354826
It is cringe it's not his kid

Most of you males would vanish instantly if you found out a paternity test said that child isn't yours.

>>715365739
No its called not being able to only think in 4chan memes

>>715348010 (OP)
Watched the review. His expectations of what he wanted of DS2 and what he liked about DS1 really resonated with my own.
I will not be buying DS2 after this review.

The sequel to a garbage game is also garbage?

Oh woe me.

Expedition 33 won.

video game journalists have such colorful lives, it's insane.

>>715349160
DS1 is far easier and gives you the ability to trivialize BTs at a much earlier point with the cuff cutter. Yea you can't drive everywhere in DS1 like you can in 2, but the tinier map, auto delivery bots, and weaker enemies mean you're not exactly struggling. Plus once you get the blood pistol lv 2 im DS1 you don't need any other weapon ever because of the mechanics with that game's weapons, just a ton of blood bags

>>715356991
>I'd rather go to the leftist circlejerk that will ban people for making the most milquetoast joke possible that happens to be anti left than the social media site with the second most free speech after 4chan itself
Not sure if shitposting or you're a deranged retard

>>715360165
The massive simplifying of terrain completly killed the game.

I havnt quite finished game yet, but so far there has been litterally 0 locations that you can’t just effortlessly drive up to in a truck. DS1 there was a ton of locations that were just completely off limits to vechiles, the entire mountain region was not worth driving in, so instead you did other things. DS2 adds way more cool stuff, but you will never ever use it, because just getting in truck and driving is 10x more efficient.

It’s no longer a walking Sim, it’s sitting a truck sim.

>>715365840
It is his kid though
There is a period of like a few weeks in the story where he thinks BB-28 / Louise is his wife and Neil's daughter until he gets the reveal that his wife lied and Louise is actually his daughter.
Before that he just thought Lou was some random BB with a random dead stillmother and no father, which to him helped him cope about his dead unborn baby

>>715368472
I havent played the game but cant you just like, you know, not use the truck?

>>715368737
The game is designed for using the truck.
Not using the truck is intentionally gimping yourself. There isn't even a normal sticky launcher anymore, it's now a feature of vehicles which is somewhat insane.

>>715355968
hollywood socialites (who don't even play the game)

>>715368472
In DS2's defense at the very least it makes the monorail worth building.
There was nothing WORTH building on 1 besides the very occasional generator, ladder, or bridge. The roads in 1 were just a dumb resource dump, and still are in 2, but the monorail provides an efficient means of travel for long deliveries.

>>715368737
Sure, but then the game would take 10x longer to finish.

And it’s not like walking would make the traversal any more interesting. You can effortlessly walk everywhere too, it’s even easier than driving. But it would take exponentially longer to do anything.

>>715350137
Rising, skip the rest

>>715369221
Ziplines in ds1?

>>715348010 (OP)
It's over...

>>715369448
Not a real Metal Gear game

>>715354826
it is cringe,thats a female role,not a man's role,this game is woke garbage anyway if you dodn't notice.

>>715348010 (OP)
Death Stranding was a good but kind of niche game that didn't need a sequel.
I'm not surprised people have been lukewarm on this one, from what I hear it's almost like a collection of unused ideas from the first game being released as a sequel, with an annoying bait and switch "shocking reveal" of Neil looking like Snake when it's absolutely nothing to do with MGS, and Neil himself isn't a patch on Cliff from the last game.

>>715357135
>propping up e-waste just because your tribe made them on government time
Pathetic

>>715357135
It's possible to have a political stance and not agree with literally everything your side does. Modern games are shit, and I know several leftists in real life who find the pandering and soapboxing retarded and even harmful to their side. Get off the internet for a bit, people are more varied than you think.

>>715348010 (OP)
>shill up making a good review

It's been 3 years since I last watched a video of his.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKA9jvxbuE

>>715368970
>There isn't even a normal sticky launcher anymore
But there is. You unlock it in Mexico.

>>715348010 (OP)
Didn't this guy do an overwhelmingly positive preview critic of the game?

>>715355657
People love saying this thing, the dumb retard from the mgs forums that started that meme must be proud of himself. In reality Fukushima never really contributed that much, what has he done since he left mgs ?

I'm confused, his review is positive. I know that youtube reviewers tend to do some clickbait shit, but still

Just started playing DS1 for the first time. What am I supposed to do about the rain? it's been raining nonstop and I don't know how I'm expected to transport a moderate distance without container damage going through the rough

Does anyone have idea why some million subs channel like skillup, with guaranteed hundreds of thousands of views doesnt use chapter markers?

It's bizarre isnt it? Its such a useful feature to highlight topics of discussion so the viewer can skip ahead if they dont care about a part. It cant be that much work compared to producing rest of the video.

>>715371881
Some areas always rain. Just go through it and bring container repair spray. Container damage only matters once it hits 0%, then you can just use container repair spray to repair it. Your equipment will get damage by the timefall though, but you can recycle it for the resources.

>>715371881
Container damage does not matter. Timefall will never damage things inside containers.

>>715348010 (OP)
Question: has this "reviewer" ever given a very well liked game a negative review? On the other hand, has this "reviewer" ever given a widely disliked game a positive review? And how often? This will determine whether or not this guy is a shill. If he ALWAYS or almost always just follows the most popular opinion, his "reviews" are fucking worthless.

>>715371539
Yeah it turns out when you make your dogshit game never evolve its formula, it becomes dogshit

>>715372793
He said Dragon Age Failguard is shit and is clearly still a bit panicked about it because all his fellow reviewers were bought off, so he has to pretend he is the crazy one

>tfw post game
>driving around with the soundtrack blaring
>upgrading all roads to lvl 2
>optimizing mountain ziplines
>trying to catch 'em all
Bliss.

>>715373116
No, he did a preview of DS2, he played 30 hours of the game and he loved it

Synthcel was right.

>>715371704
why would it matter that he hasn't done anything since mgs? lots of the best written games are by someone who fucks off never to be seen again

Wait the games out? LMAO HAHAHAHA i thought it was in early access, i was wondering why theres barely any posts about it, IT BOMBED HARD in that case.

>>715348010 (OP)
>Sorry, niggas, unlike Ubisoft, Kojima didn't pay me to shill.
What did Shill Up mean with this, bros?

>>715349775
Nightreign doesn't even feel like DLC it feels like an Elden Ring mod some fan would make

>>715374076
Because Kojima still kept doing good mgs games that sold well and got good reviews. He has been doing it since the 80s. He has the track record, he is not someone riding on the coat-tail of another person.

The concern troll campaign against this game is insane. Where were all these die-hard DS1 fans when the game was being dragged through the mud for years? The first game only reached a cult classic status after the PC audience got their hands on it.

No one played DS2. How many people own PS5 and bought a Death Stranding sequel of all things? Until it releases on PC I will disregard all fake opinions.

>>715376074
the guy in the OP was basically the only journo who strongly liked DS1 at launch, now he's the only journo who isn't glazing DS2. say what you want about him but he isn't on the bandwagon.

either way you're right to wait for PC

>>715376074
DS2 is basically 1 but better in every single way and you cannot convince me that anyone saying otherwise is anything but a shitposter who has never actually played it.

>>715376074
>I don't trust these fake opinions, I will wait for third-world port beggars to tell me what they think!

>>715377953
Shill up do you think you got the name SHILL UP for nothing? Nigger you are is the biggest corprate shill around.

I lost all respect for Shill Up when he treated God of War Ragnarok like it was the best game ever

>>715348713
>feels more like a DLC
It's hilariously easy to spot people that haven't actually played the game. DS2 is basically the perfect sequel for how it evolves and escelates DS1's formula.

>>715356919
I dunno how stupid you are to not realize the ending with Tomorrow is literally supposed to take place years later.
The rusted DHV magellan in the water, the photo Tomorrow holds up of Rainy with her child.
When you actually get to post-credits, Rainy sends a message saying "I'm going back to the motherhood for another check-up, taking Tomorrow with me!"
the ending if anything, sets up the next game with Elle Fanning as the main character instead of Sam.

>>715348713
>feels like a DLC
>has a map that is 5 times larger than the first game, adding a ton of new mechanics, weapons, etc. that build upon the first game
people are getting too comfortable with the recent trend of sequels releasing many years later or are completely and utterly different.
DS2 is a perfect sequel

>>715369579
ESL

>Charlie asks me what voice to pick
>Pick Die-Hardman because Charlie seems like he fills the same role this game
>also because deadman is already in the game and I know heartman is and hearing lockne's voice from a male mannequin is jarring
>reach the end of the game
>He's literally Die-Hardman the whole time

>>715380396
Everything about DS2 feels different. Even the things that are the same on surface. Neil is almost an opposite of Cliff, Higgs feels like a proper main antagonist as opposed to his secondary role in DS1, the PTSD Louise changes the tone of the game massively compared to how you connect with it in DS1. Stuff like motorcycle race bossfight, pizza karate, coffin hoverboard, guitar weapon and other batshit crazy additions. You have a crew of weirdos instead of being alone. The soundtrack by Woodkid and main theme by Caroline feels so much more experimental.

It's just like how MGS2 used the same plot points from the first game but when you think about it they were nothing like MGS1 in the context.

>>715357301
it's the sign of a good character realising how much more empty it feels once it's gone. that reveal really got me down a little

>>715363883
Who is review bombing it

>>715348010 (OP)
Why do Kojimadrones pretend that Death Stranding is a good game?

>>715382007
>it's the sign of a good character realising how much more empty it feels once it's gone. that reveal really got me down a little
I miss her

>>715378227
story, game world, atmosphere are all arguably worse.

doesn't help that the entire way the story is told is identical to the first game (begin with loss, move to new map, have to connect everyone, three intermissions with identical boss fights [fight ads, shoot boss, move to new map area, rinse and repeat x4, get cutscene], big showdown at final location, travel back all the way to the beginning of the map, multi-stage beach boss fight, retarded "they're both exhausted from fighting each other!" section against the sun, exposition, exposition, exposition (but this time with more perspective of the character from your three intermission fights).

it's the exact same formular.

>>715357301
It's like Phantom Pain. Revenge, loss and PTSD are themes in DS2. This is what Kojima meant when he said that he made changes to the game. This is a guy that denied people a bossfight with the antagonist just to ruin any feeling of catharsis. He could have easily written a wholesome journey for Sam which he deserves but Kojima always puts his protags through insane amount of suffering.

>>715348010 (OP)
He said its a good game though but it was too Metal Gear and not Death Stranding enough.

>>715348010 (OP)
Why does he look like the Mega 64 version of Snake

I haven't beaten the game yet but I just got the point where Lucy, Sam's pregnant wife, was carrying Solid Snake's kid.

Why did Kojima make a cuckold simulator?

>>715382705
keep playing

I hate all the slowdown that happens in combat

Finished it yesterday and its the best game I've played this year.

Didn’t this guy release a day one review where he said it was better than the original in every single way?

>>715380184
I know bro but we never get to SEE Sam and Tomorrow connect properly and form some kind of bond again or anything, Sam just goes back to strolling around Australia after the credits.

>>715383665
weirdly the new Doom game also had that and it’s awful

>>715383665
in the first game the slow motion doesn't even slow down the timer for timed deliveries, I fucking hate it too.

Just got to chapter 4. Enjoying it for the most part, but the QoL improvements have made the game a bit too easy. Feels like they tried to streamline the game to make it more accessible (and obviously it worked), but for me it’s just made the game less engaging. Still decent though, just a step down.

>>715368390
I'd rather go wit h the overly sensitive faggots than pajeet bot AI bro onlyfans model marketing land.

do you get robot buddies in 2?

>>715380846
you can also occasionally spot diehardman in the background when taking photos of the girls.

>>715381636
the fucking Die hardman dance number as he dabbed on the president and cutting short his attempted MGS2 ass plan.

>>715348010 (OP)
Wut? DS2 is literally more of the same, just with everything vastly improved.

It seems strange to me how someone can love DS1, but be disappointed with DS2.

>>715349160
DS1 was already easy as shit.

The writing is also definitely better in DS2. I almost fell asleep whenever Die-Hardnigger or Amelie started talking, because they really had nothing to say.

>>715348010 (OP)
Isn't this guy who said cyberpunk was the greatest game of all time ON RELEASE?

What's everyone's favorite strand type game? Any recommendations?

>>715357135
He sounds like a right-winger trying super hard to portray himself as a lefty. I wouldn't be surprised if comes to /v/ every night and spams "nigger" to let off some steam.

>>715360165
DS1's story wasn't groundbreaking but it had a lot more things going for it (the Sam coping in his loss through BB, Cliff being the emotional throughline of the story) whereas DS2 feels like an uninspired retread of the same story beats, same repeated moments and the same soundtrack, but lesser. And that's all while being riddled with retcons that undermine DS1 some way.

>>715371881
It takes a while for the rain to substantially damage anything, so I wouldn't worry about it.

>>715386070
Yep, just went back and watched it. Guy acts like DS2 is one of the best games he’s ever played and none of his criticisms in this video come up. Blatant shill who obviously waited until the hype died down before giving his true thoughts.

>>715368472
>The massive simplifying of terrain completley killed the game.
???

Terrain wasn't a problem in DS1 either. It was the BTs blocking your path. There are just much less BT infestations in DS2, at least at the beginning of the game.

>>715388539
Considering this guy absolutely shit all over Veilguard and said FF16 wasn't that good I don't see how you can call him a shill

>>715388641
Go and watch his day one review of DS2. He has almost nothing but good things to say about it, meanwhile this new review is basically saying it’s a dumbed down version of the original.

>>715348010 (OP)
Video games, faggot, VIDEO GAMES!

>>715388790
>dumbed down
Did he say this? lol

It is literally more of the same, not to mention that DS1 never was a challenging game either. Dude should honestly replay DS1, because he is imagining things.

>DS2 is much easier than DS1
>n-no you are misremembering! DS1 was piss easy too!! DS2 is more of the same, trust me, not your own experiences!!!
Why are Kojima dickriders so defensive about this? DS2 has clearly massively streamlined the gameplay and it’s resulted in a much easier game overall. I have no clue why pointing that out ruffles so many people’s feathers. And yes, I know DS1 was pretty easy, but DS2 is noticeably easier, it offers no challenge whatsoever.

>>715389283
Read between the lines. He says the first is a puzzlebox that needs to be solved, and the second in a sandbox with a bunch of fun gadgets to play with.

>>715389317
It's not that DS2 is easier. It's that we learned to fucking optimize our deliveries from the first game so we're just riding our truck or bikes everywhere instead of walking.

Skill Up isn't the first person I've heard say this, and I agree with everyone saying it. DS2 is fantastic but it's not DS1 level.

>>715386772
wait WHAT

>>715389390
>He says the first is a puzzlebox that needs to be solved, and the second in a sandbox with a bunch of fun gadgets to play with.
Makes zero sense to me as someone who has played DS1 twice and just recently finished DS2.

>>715348181
Based

>>715380846
you actually cant choose any voice other than die-hardman's
He makes up an excuse for the others if you try to pick them
>heartman
he's already gonna be joining so it would be confusing
>deadman
he's dead, let him stay dead
>lockne
a third person would be confusing

>>715389826
oh disappointing but understandable. It was a lot of dialog they'd have to record. Illusion of choice worked on me.

My only real gripe with the game is because you always go back to the DHV magellan for everything, you end up using private quarters way less and the outpost construction is meaningless
the magellan room is also way less customizeable, doesnt have the boss/BT figures like in the private quarters
The transponders are also kinda useless because of the magellan. You can take cargo aboard the magellan.

>>715348010 (OP)
Dude is being rebutted for all of the errors in his video, like him claiming that "piss grenades" (EX grenades) are not in the game, although they literally are.

It almost seems like he is looking for reasons to not like the game (seems weird, because I thought he liked Kojima) or he simply didn't bother to play the game properly.

>>715389490
It blatantly is easier. I fired up DS1 a couple days ago and tried driving a trike through a BT zone, it’s significantly harder in the first, virtually impossible unless you know the route. The terrain is significantly more treacherous too. Plus facilities are much more spaced out. Plus the default share setting gives you far less useful infrastructure. Not to mention you can’t just use a machine gun to dispatch every enemy that dares get in your way.

Then add on the fact that we all already know how to optimise deliveries, and you have a game that is trivially easy to sleepwalk through. It’s a shame because technically it’s a big improvement, but even playing on Brutal, with limited sharing enabled, and severely limiting guns and vehicles, it’s easy to the point of tedium.

>>715389490
>>715390048
Also pretty sure vehicles were made available way earlier in DS2.

>>715390405
You do, and Mexico is as flat as a pancake

I still don't like that Lou ended up being Sam's daughter for realsies. As if having bonded with her in the first game after coping with his loss wasn't enough already.

>>715390048
You can't just drive through a BT zone in DS2, you will definitely run into one and get sucked up by tar.

BT areas are not easier or harder in DS2, there are just a lot less of them. In DS1 you were constantly running into them, into DS2 they are quite rare, at least until you near the end game.

where's mads mikkelsen?!

>>715390554
Nothing in DS1 BT wise was as scary as the fucking Eclipse red sky shit in DS2, at least the first time it happens

>>715390405
Not really. You get the trike after about an hour into DS1.

>>715390554
once you learn to deal with BTs in 1 you definitely can drive right through BT territory and I have done it many times in DS1, particularly with the trike
the main reason why vehicles are better in 2 is the terrain overall is much more even, and the treaded path system is way more aggressive in leveling terrain
when you get to the mountain in DS2 it is much harder to use vehicles, but then after you finish the mountain area you get the truck wheels from south fort knot for climbing up mountain terrain easier

>>715390029
Lots of words to say fuck all. The reviewer said right at the start that he doesn’t like sandbox style games, and that’s why he doesn’t like DS2. You can’t refute that position, even if you personally like sandbox games. Lots of people hated MGSV for exactly the same reason, some people don’t enjoy dicking about in a big open world just for the hell of it, and instead want some kind of challenge to overcome. DS1 offered that, and DS2 doesn’t.

>>715390029
>wall of text
tl:dr?
just because some tard on youtube waterboards you with his opinions, doesnt make him right.
Goes for comments, same as videos.

>>715387329
>ywn have her suck your balls while you play ds2

So what does the ending mean? What happened to the roads, monorail and the magellan? People stopped using them since the bots were introduced? Or is this a post-timefall era? But even then the monorails and roads would have been useful (unless there's no more chiral crystals)

>>715390029
>You can still have live rounds to kill enemies, when you meet the Pizza Chef in Ep 6, he sends you a code via SSS to use which overrides your MP guns and switches them to live rounds if you wish to use them and you can switch them back to Non-Lethal by inputting said code
You can also use the swords that the red samurai robots drop. They are always lethal.

The game literally also tells you that you can stuff (dead) bodies into a coffin board to discard them in tar. Literally how the fuck did Skillup he miss all of this shit?

>>715391392
The point isn't whether lethal rounds exist, it's that non-lethal ones exist which make the actual mechanics you mentioned entirely obsolete

>>715391392
see>>715391521
since MGS introduced easy non lethal weapons the question for using lethal ones has always been picrel
>cant fulton a corpse
and
>dont have to dipose of KO's

stupid setup, same outcome
only the 4chan nutjob brigade ends up killing in these games.
Its just so easy not to.

>>715391521
This seems to be what people can’t wrap their heads around. It’s like when you built a zipline network in DS1, you wouldn’t bother trekking through the mountains anymore - it was a waste of time. Lots of DS2’s mechanics have the same problem, they completely trivialise the challenge. The only difference is the zipline networks took effort and planning, it was earned. DS2 just hands you game breaking gear on a platter.

Yes, you can arbitrarily limit yourself by not using certain items, but that’s inherently less satisfying because you’re acutely aware you’re doing things inefficiently.

>>715391521
Hoo boy.

Bro, even DS1 had non-lethal rounds that you could use to knock out Mules.

I'm 60+ hours in. Just got to the Phantom Smith. I now skip all the cutscenes. I literally don't care. I just wanna deliver and build roads and upgrade mines.
This game doesnt hit as hard as the first. Still gonna platinum it though.

>>715392293
That would be a mistake DS2 because has a great ending.

Are there any cringe-inducing moments in DS2 like the princess beach scene from DS1?

fkn reddit agrees that they made this game too ez.
And yet the shills and fanboys here wont aknowledge it...
This site should have died and not come back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/comments/1lsuvcr/i_love_death_stranding_2_but_hate_how_they_make/

why is kojima so afraid of real time day-night cycles

>>715393821
DS1 was already an easy game you dumb nigger. Why are you suddenly pretending that DS1 is Dark Souls or some shit?

>>715394147
>ITS ALREADY SO EASY
>MAKE IT EASIER

>>715393821
Read the comments of that post, bro.

>>715394147
Nobody is pretending that you dumb fuck. DS1 was easy. DS2 is braindead easy. There’s a difference.

>>715394269
Significant-Lemon759
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Imagine making this amazing robust system of dynamic weather and traversing cliffs and rivers where u need to plan routes out with equipment too just drive over the whole lot in a bike

aspartameenjoyer
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After getting the plat I agree with you almost 100%.

People will just say to play offline or not use vehicles and force that difficulty back on yourself but that doesn't make any sense to me. There were still multiple different options for traversal in the first Death Stranding but as you progressed through each area of the map there would be a new wrench thrown into your plans to make it that much harder to traverse and I really enjoyed overcoming that struggle.

I think a lot of those changes were made because of peoples critiques with the first game and it ended up getting over tuned to be a little too friendly.

By the end of my playthrough I had fallen maybe 3 times and didn't die at all. I still had an incredible time and love this series but I did miss that feeling of the environment fighting against my progress every step of the way

Ragnaroknight
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vor 8 Tagen
The comments are going to tell you to ignore half the game's features just to make it not easy, when that shouldn't be the case.

>>715394434
Warum denn nicht die Top-Kommentare? Du Affe.

>>715392796
The dance sequence was a little zesty for some. Couldn't help but feel like Kojima saw the Alan Wake 2 presentation in TGA and wanted a piece of that pie.

>>715394886
>Du hast das erste spiel gespielt, deswegen ist das 2, leichter.
Der Souls cope.
Dark Souls 3 ist einfacher weil man dodge spammen kann.
DS2 ist einfacher weil man mit der Karre überall hin kann

>Top Kommentar
Ich hatte 3, du hast einen, dass sollte das ausgleichen.