Anon, this is Tarman. The Death Stranding 2 Threads have become too unstable. You're not gonna be able to call the DHV Magellan until they've settled down.

>>715517067 (OP)
ok honestly what the fuck was the purpose of rainy? They didn't show her timefall reversing ability once past the reveal and since then she just acted like a fucking garden hose

I can't get over their goofy names
Once or twice sure but there are like 5 characters that have similar names, at this point I'm surprised Sam isn't called Deliverman and Higgs isn't Badman

>>715518210
she was there to put out the fire when Sam got cooked by Higgs and uhhh... yeah. Most characters deserved at least another 10-15 minutes of cutscenes

I can't believe that talking nutsack Dollman was actually Higgs all along. Genius.

I just brought the cannon pieces back over the mountain range to the DHV Metal Gear REX. Am I getting close to the end? I've enjoyed the game but 45 hours in and I feel like it's wearing its welcome out a bit

>thats scene with neil and lucy talking about running away because of what they want to do to her baby
damn if you remove all those whacky characters then the plot feels fucked up
also neil is a turbo cuck

>>715519310
yes, from the moment you get to the last place in AU you have to make one trip all the way back and then its pretty much on rails until the end

>charlie dance scene in the middle of an important moment
>final battle being fucking guitar battle
kojima leaned way too fucking much into the "goofy" here, it was pretty bad

>>715519348
Where was Sam in all of this? It's his wife and child they want to hurt but she has to ask her side fling for help?

>>715519673
he appeared right after and triggered the voidout so idk maybe he was out on some delivery? I know it doesn't take long in-game but I would imagine that it takes him a while to actually get it done

Why the fuck would George Miller be bothered with this shit?

>>715519348
>>715519575
Even moreso than latter-day Metal Gear, I feel like Death Stranding is a weird combination of brilliant and incoherent garbage. The sequel moreso, even.

I'm sort of hopeful for OD because some of the stuff in Kojima's games is legitimately really creepy (The Sorrow, P.T., XOF's hospital raid, Death Stranding's early game) so if he could distill that into a horror game we'd potentially have something special. Though the fact it's the recycled corpse of a Google Stadia game has me worried

Luca Marinelli is so far above Norman Reedus as an actor it's not even funny

>>715518210
She was there to teach you about contrasts (she's rainy but has a sunny disposition). This is never relevant in the main plot

>>715519850
He's got a lot of free time after Furiosa flopped

>>715519951
I admit I don't remember DS1 as well but holy fuck reedus was extremely udnerwhelming in DS2
Maybe Kojimbo just wanted to make him a silent protag type but he is barely acting like a human
Luca's acting was probably my favorite part of the game neil is still a cuck though

>>715519951
>Mogs your Walking Dead protag

>can't wear the cool jacket or the coat from the start
What's the point

>>715519951
>>715520092
>>715520285
He got totally mogged by Mads and Tommy Earl Jenkins in the first one too.

Also I'm amazed how well Marinelli's psycho eyes translated into the game.

but who was the 4000 souls

>>715518210
She was there to justify why the actors didn't look so old because Rainy de aged them a bit. Like why Fragile didn't sustain her aging from timefall from the last game.

ENTER

>>715520631
I stood up and clapped and cummed and shat my pance

>>715520631
cringe
japanese humor

>>715520631
>"Are you enjoying the MGS2 "AI is bad" twist?"
>Cue dance number
He got me again

What am I supposed to do now?

> People say first Death Stranding is boring and no action
> Kojima retaliates with "You Americans did grew on Call of Duty and know nothing else"
> Doubles the amount of action in the second game
Also
1. Janky movement on steep stones is not fixed
2. Dollman is Sony's sidekick
3. To add more, he can sense BT, yet you still carry Lou like in first game

I'm growing to think that while it plays like 7-8/10, it's design is faulty

>>715518350
And aeronautical engineer would be called Redeemman

Is it me, or is the atmosphere of 2 completely non-existent compared to one? I don't think it's the geography, it just feels like absolutely no one is intimidated by the world they live in anymore

>>715522447
Yeah I think that's a great way to put it. And the super powers of Rainy and Tomorrow make it further seem that way, like there's to many people just unphased by anything. Even the raiders seems so silly considering how OP you become later on and how every base has digital camoflague.
It really lost that feeling of walking into the unknown

>>715522447
Think this is honestly my biggest gripe with 2. A lot of what made 1 seem so unique and new is just kinda... Gone?

>>715522589
>like there's to many people just unphased by anything.
Is anybody? All the preppers seem upbeat and jovial.

>>715520631
The random dance number was probably because he watched RRR.

One point where I think it completely shat the bed compared to the first and it's kinda ruining the game for me is there is zero reason to go on foot anymore. There is no impassable terrain/hard zone. The tricycle can even climb the snow mountain just fine. Fucking hell, even the truck can with the spiked tires.

>>715518210
So Kojima could include an attractive Asian character with his new fetish for perpetually pregnant women.

>>715523816
I noticed this too. Every single ridge line or hill crest has a perfectly truck-sized gap in the rocks somewhere. I ruined so many of those music moments because the song started with 15 seconds left before my destination

>>715523816
honestly vehicles should be complete shit on all terrains other than roads
but they wanted to make some missions where you deliver large quantity of items so they had to make it work somehow

>>715523816
Yep its way to much. I got up to snow and thought that this must be the no vehicle place and found I was wrong. I even tried it without once and it was just far to empty and open. Sure it was easier to climb the rocks at the top of the mountains but the in-between was the same.
I think that what'd make for a great next game would be to be explorign beaches instead of the real world. That way you could have crazy weird blockers of stuff instead of just rocks. You could also make it like a bunch of floating islands where same just straight up don't allow vehicles.

>>715518350
>at this point I'm surprised Sam isn't called Deliverman and Higgs isn't Badman

Sam is the only normal part of his name. Porter as a middle man and he's a Porter, WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED? And both his last names are Stranding IN THE GAME DEATH STRANDING or Bridges and HE WORKS FOR BRIDGES?! What are the odds!

The fact there's so many -mans blasting you at the start. I'm playing 1 and Die-Hardman, Deadman, Heartman, Dying-Presidentwoman, Cliffman...

>>715524403
>Sam is the only normal part of his name. Porter as a middle man and he's a Porter
god I forgot about that part since I don't think anyone has called him anything other than "Sam" in the entirety of DS2
but yeah again having one or two names like that (Let's say Dollman and Deadman since they both have very special circumstances) but other names are just fucking retarded with like 4 other -mans
even the retarded women names like fragile, rainy, or tomorrow are better, tomorrow works since she didn't really have a name, Fragile was just the head of Fragile express so sure, "Rainy" as a name because she makes rain is a bit retarded but whatever

>>715524698
>Fragile was just the head of Fragile express

Daughter of the founder of Fragile Express. Did he name it after his daughter? Is she actually called Fragile? Or did she just take the name Fragile when she inherited it from her father? Was he called Fragileman?

>>715524698
Tomorrow is a dumb name when you realise Nomura only picked that name so he could say shit like "Tomorrow is in your hands" and "Sam you're the only one who can save Tomorrow!"

>>715520631
>humor, japan

>>715523983
The worst thing is in the first's mountain I was like let's build a zipline network carefully, here it's whatever, let's just drive there. The stealth/combat has seen a MASSIVE upgrade in 2 but at what cost? Delivering itself was better in 1. It wasn't even hard there and now it's even easier because there are a billion ways/gadgets/structures to simplify everything.

>>715525679
I'm going to be honest, I don't miss the ziplines being obligatory, and don't forget we didn't have roads in the mountain in the original DS release, you had to use the ziplines, for me it was just annoying, I much prefer the truck strat, if you want to use the ziplines, it's fine

I wonder how much cool shit I missed out on because I didn't go back and 5 star all the Mexican preppers

>>715525679
>Delivering itself was better
It was "harder" and not in an especially interesting way, and also pretty irrelevant when the zip line was the answer to everything in the game from the moment you got it to the end. The equivalent of the edge knot city run in DS2 is far and away much better as well
Having the roads take you right through an active enemy area in 2 already makes things more varied than they were by endgame of 1 tbqh

>>715519575
Na fuck you and cringe culture

>>715519673
It was stated in game that she never told him it was his. Did you play the game? Sam literally says this

>>715522106
>3. To add more, he can sense BT, yet you still carry Lou like in first game
I see you haven't finished the game and are talking shit

>>715526423
/v/ is like an 80 IQ board anon

>>715522447
To be honest. Something like the Death Stranding is no worse of a threat than an average monday in Australia

>>715523816
>The tricycle can even climb the snow mountain just fine.
Did you even play the first game?

>>715523816
>there is zero reason to go on foot anymore
It's more fun.
>The tricycle can even climb the snow mountain just fine. Fucking hell, even the truck can with the spiked tires.
I prefer this over ziplines.

>>715526240
it was not bad because it was "cringe", it was bad because it felt too out of place
the big bad is revealing you his masterplan and suddenly charlie/die hard-man starts fucking dancing and singing

Any one else feel like the Tarman flashback is Kojima talking about MGSV and Konami?

>>715527046
>there is zero reason to go on foot anymore
>It's more fun.
See I disagree with this. The game has so many routes and player buffs that you aren't getting a more engaging experience on foot. At very worse you use the occasional ladder and rope but for the most part you're just navigating the same was as before but now much much slower. That's why I think vehicles suck, carrying max cargo on foot is a real challenge and you do think about every bump you encounter because you can fall.

>>715528875
>The game has so many routes and player buffs that you aren't getting a more engaging experience on foot
>carrying max cargo on foot is a real challenge and you do think about every bump you encounter because you can fall
You are contradicting yourself.

>>715529105
Its fun to beat the games challenge, I shouldn't need to make my own. The lenghty routes are clearly balanced around vehicles and it would have been far more entertaining if they weren't there at all. Because now I'm just doing the same thing but max cargo is me trying to min max my metal and ceramics in the back of my truck for roads

>>715529398
What difficulty did you play on?

>>715529783
Brutal. All that felt like it did was make bosses tankier

>>715529919
Why did you make things more difficult for yourself? You should have played on story.

>>715529974
I like to beat games on the hardest difficulties they offer, how I do so should be up to me and not require any self gimping.

What the heck does DHV stand for?

>>715526423
ohmygod sorrysorrysorry

>>715530829
Dee Haich Vee

>>715530427
Well, then you are in luck. How you beat brutal is up to you and doesn't require any gimping. What you are doing however is picking a very boring playstyle for some reason.

Jesus fucking Christ I optimized the fun out of the game again. This happened with the first game as well.
I actually believe that these game are 9/10 if you play them on highest difficulty and only ever do the main orders. Maybe even play offline so that you don't have to see the ugly ass bridges and generators xXcocksmockerXx has littered the landscape with.

>>715522447
The world feels like a theme park. You have a desert, jungle and snowy mountain within a 2km radius. There's no way to make it not seem stupid.

>>715531273
>only ever do the main orders
This is the real filter right here. If you do everything on Brutal as you go you get given so much busted ass shit that its insane. Not just upgrades but guns like the Bola Stun Gun trivialize shit so hard.
>xXcocksmockerXx
I gotta admit seeing names like that feels super soulful to me.

To everyone using my trans-mountain zipline system, you are fucking welcome.

>>715531586
>Log in
>Get tense of thousands of likes
I think that the like system is probably the best comment on society that Nomura's made because those things really do make you do so much more friendly shit then you'd expect.

>>715518210
She exists as an excuse to stop fragile from looking like spoiled hamburger meat.

>>715530829
Dye Ham Violet