/v/ refuses to talk about it

It wasn't good.

It's a great DLC. As for being a full priced game and sequel, it's good, but not worth the wait or price.

It's not on PC

>>715558873 (OP)

>>715559697
he's playing the game wrong

There's a reason /v/ is a PC-first board, OP. Most of these fags live in a third world country where you can't use PSN so anything PS5 exclusive might as well not even exist to them.

>>715559697
that section looks sick tho

>>715558873 (OP)
I “refuse” to talk about it because it hasn’t come to Xbox yet so I can’t really say anything about it

>>715559874
>this is the best the game has to offer

and that's why no one is talking about it.

>>715558873 (OP)
>Mads and Reedus both have no idea what the stuff the were mocapping for was even about
Kojima wants to be with Hollywood so bad but not even that pedo shithole takes him seriously

>>715559640
Even when it is, it won't run on the 1060 shitboxes the majority of /v/ is using.

>>715560510
I could run this glorified interactive globohomo ad on my PC but you can stick it up your ass Tbh

Kojima is out there making AAA budget autism sims where you make deliveries for 100h before you actually get into the meat of the game.

Bless him, the hero gamers need but don’t deserve.

>>715559782
3rdies don’t game on PC
It’s phones and then PS5 if they have some money (or go to a gaming cafe)

Its the thinking man's mario game

>>715561323
This.

I liked it a lot, had more fun with it than with 1 in the gameplay department but it also feels undercooked/unfinished. Felt like a big DLC instead of a new game.
There's a constant sense of something missing. Maybe that's point, considering what happens throughout the story.
Wait a minute.... This feels familiar somehow...

>>715561323
Like Mario... and Princess Beach

>>715560501
Do any of the actors even acknowledge DS?

>>715560510
Maybe
Horizon Forbidden West runs decently on a 1070 and Death Stranding 2 is fundamentally the same tech

>>715561419
DS2 is definitely a thematic sequel to MGSV

This game is awesome, did not want it to end. Still gotta go and clean up the rest of my roads, get my LLL up. Still just shy of 900,000 likes, there are folks online with over 4 million. Don't know how, and I payed for early access and was unemployed.

>>715561454
Forbidden West was a PS4 game. DS2 will probably be like most PS5 exclusive ports and not even launch on non-RTX cards. It'll also require an SSD, a luxury that very few /v/ users can afford.

>>715558873 (OP)
That age gap is pretty yikes

>>715561595
It doesn't use raytracing or any special tech. It's entirely GI probes and screen space reflections. It uses normal LODs and not virtual geometry. It's technology wise a last gen game but with current gen polycounts.

>>715560192
Yeah needs some coins to pick up every 3 feet

>>715561698
That's why he puts her in a time beach to age her up.

the ending is utter nonsense

>>715558873 (OP)
Waiting for the PC port, my man.

>>715558873 (OP)
>/v/ refuses to talk about it
That mean it's solid game.

>>715558873 (OP)
I'm playing it (forced) right now. It is simply a worse the first one.
The only joy I've felt is meme handicapping myself to take a kangaroo through the main story. That and pekora.

>>715559697
Vine ruined an entire generation

>>715559697
to be fair this gaylord probably plays every other game like this

>>715559697
>look I'm a gaymer too felow gaymer
Just don't play if you not enjoying games anymore.

>>715559697
same energy

>thread dying again
its over

do you get a cool sports car in DS2?

>>715565179
Maybe in the DC version again
For now you have to do with a coffin hoverboard that also burns corpses

What is there to say? It's a movie game for balding millenials who think celebrity worship is cool.

>>715565885
the balding millenials... are they in the room with us now?

i finished the first one like a week before this one came out.
i just reached the northern part of aussie land.
game is pretty fun so far but part of me feels like the game is just some sort of weird reimagining of the first game.
story shit happens and you get transported to some weird place and fight military people pretty much exactly like the Cliff fights from the first game.
its like kojima was so obsessed with that part he decided to just redo it again in the second game. unless they explain this later or something but man, kojima could have done something different here.

other than story gripes so far, gameplay is fun. still trying to 5 star everything ive unlocked so far and trying to farm likes like some clout chasing social media faggot.

It's my GOTY so far. I'm sure they'll give it to E33. But that game is 80% form 20% function.

This game hits on every level.

>>715558873 (OP)
Wish we could play as Fragile or Tomorrow instead of "laconic grunting guy #327"

>>715566894
im sure kojima was pissed that the first one got mixed reception and wanted a redo where everyone agreed it was good

>>715558873 (OP)
>console exclusive
no wonder

>>715558873 (OP)
Talk about what? The only cool thing is the photomode with the girls having fun. It's the same gameplay, some of the missions are literally copy-pasted, the cringe is everywhere when it's not Kojimbo sniffing his own farts by constantly referencing himself

Finished it a about week ago and had some time to stew on it. Whenever someone says "it's worse than DS1" it still means that it is more Death Stranding but with objectively better mechanics.

My thoughts are that the gameplay (the thing why you're playing a vidya in the first place) is better, more streamlined, snappier. The addition of a proper day/night cycle and a music player will make going back to DS1 tough. Those who complain about a lack of challenge/difficulty have forgotten DS1's experience. Once you have unlocked Ziplines the true Death stranding begins.

If there is one thing to complain about is the lack of Low Roar in DS2.

>>715558873 (OP)
I'd love to but I don't have a PS5 and I wouldn't buy one just for this game
Now I am leaving the thread so you don't spoil me

>>715568968
astro bot is still exclusive too, its worth it

I liked the part with the guitars and giant baby. What fucking drugs is Kojima on?

>>715569513
The guitars, I have absolutely no idea, but it ruled.
The giant baby, I guess he wanted Lou to do something cool and copy the 2001 space baby.

Can't get invested in a story/universe where nothing makes sense. Everything can happen, the rules are bullshit because Kojima can make you fight a giant Gozdilla plushie using a baseball bat for no other reason than "lol it's fun".
My suspension of disbelief has its limits and the second Higgs 2.0 appears on screen, it's over. This shit is less coherent than Mortal Kombat, a franchise were wizards and cyborgs fight chinese ninjas

>>715558873 (OP)
Now show me the gameplay

>>715570617

>>715561180
hey retard first off you are wrong but, what do they use at a gaming cafe???

>>715571390
Ok now show me your cock

>>715571390
>your walking ximulator xir

We're just ignoring these threads until it actually releases on PC.

remember during DS1 /v/ was shiting on the game but those who actually played it praised the gameplay and post tons of webms?
that's the point, DS1 WAS THE GAMEPLAY
DS2 is more a visual novel

>>715558873 (OP)
I dont have a ps5

>>715558873 (OP)
its kind of surprising considering how many DS1 threads flooded the board when it came out. maybe DS1 had dedicated shills, idk

>>715573150
The game would be a hit with a PC release what were they thinking

>>715558873 (OP)
It's a 7/10 for people who think they're playing 10/10s only.

>>715570402
The baby gave more Akira vibes to me, it also does look inspired by 2001 Spacy Odyssey.

>>715558873 (OP)
It's fucking shit. Nobody asked for a package delivery simulator with skippable bossfights except maybe some demented hollyjew buddies of kojimbo.

>>715558873 (OP)
Neo /v/ would rather talk about gachashit than video games

>>715558873 (OP)
when is it coming out on pc? i desperately need to see elle railed by some _ _ _

>>715567331
>they
you mean intelligent people?
at least you understand you are not one of us, but still kill yourself my man

>>715573958
It was a new Kojima game so everyone was excited

>>715573958
new kojima, first release after leaving konami, the mystery of what the fuck it even was, etc.
ds2 is a known quantity

>>715558873 (OP)
DS was the biggest "these niggas ain't played this game," game I've ever seen on this site after launch so I'm just skipping the threads for this one. Dunno why other anons aren't partaking in them.

Why was he trying to kill Sam?

>>715571526
PS5

Its way too easy

>>715558873 (OP)
to busy playing the better game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214280/Walking_Simulator/

/v/ should have a hardware tag like how /int/ has a country tag

>>715573324
Unironically my feelings after just going through the main quest VS replaying and doing the side content

>>715575483
Because he took Lou

It was awful. They're both awful games, just like how MGSIV and V were awful, except those two had good underlying gameplay.

>>715558873 (OP)
I see threads about it daily. I'll be playing when it comes out on PC. Been replaying DS1 and loving it in the meantime.

>>715577784
>except those two had good underlying gameplay.
So they are good games then

>>715578563
No they're not, because the gameplay is meant to facilitate the narrative. It gives player actions and motivation context.

i love railways

>>715582185
I wish they were all connected

>>715575483
fuck-me eyes

>>715559697
>/v/ claimed this shit is GOTY for a week
>Not even vtumors can save this hack's movie
Just... LMAO.

its shit ON PURPOSE you retards

I just hit credits
The ending sequence was really cool but I think the entirety of the middle of the game was dull. The combat was way better but deliveries feel more brainless until you get stuff like the cannon and have to deal with the mountain area.
A lot of the story felt directionless for the purpose of cramming in more epic plot twists whereas the first one felt way more focused with its themes, I guess part of that is just a consequence of being a sequel.
Overall I liked the game but it overstays its welcome.
Also its a warcrime that there's nowhere to use the big crab in the story after you catch him.

>>715558873 (OP)
i still gotta beat 1
and yea 2 isnt on pc yet so

>>715583112
Ziplines connect to rails if you line them up right.

>>715558873 (OP)
I haven't finished it yet

Sam Liberal Bridges vs Higgs Incel Chud Humanity Must Fallen wah amelie picked you over me i cant breed

All in all, masterpiece

>>715585650
I want to ride the monorail not ziplines

still taking my time working through it, not reading the threads til i'm done

I feel like there was a huge missed opportunity in having the APAS beach being as simple of an explanation as it was.
I also feel like there's still multiple games worth of story that can be explored. It always frustrates me how little kojima decides to explain in a 50 hour game with so much time wasting. So much time for so little story developments. The first game did well setting up the world, the second games story can be condensed into a quick 20 minute explainer, but for what reason? What caused the death stranding, I really really want to know more about UCA and bridges, there has to be more chess pieces on this chess board and it feels like you get shown a handful of pawns in a much wider and more interesting world.

>>715587480
I've been avoiding info as well, so this screenshot is surprisingly radical.

The director's cut isn't out on PC so it's not officially available so there's nothing to talk about.

>>715558873 (OP)
Still playing through it. At chapter 14 where I have to go back to Sam's Shelter. Don't want to get spoiled.
I like the game but it's way too easy even on brutal. I don't even have to plan ahead when doing deliveries because 99% of the time I could just put everything into a truck and just drive to my destination.

>>715558873 (OP)
Almost no one has played/finished it yet. Even a no lifer like me only managed to beat it today after 70+ hours. Anyways it's pretty good. I liked it. Better than the first. Mostly. The madman Kojumbo decided to make a sequel to MGS2, 4, 5, and DS1 at the same time.

>on tri-cruiser
>go slightly above average speed because hill
>the road has a slight, ever so steady rise to it
>trike lifts 1 pixel off the ground
>60% damage to fragile items
Gettin real tired of this shit, along with the shrub of truck destruction.

>>715591741
Sure it's better than the first but it's too similar for my liking. Feels like a DLC expansion for the first game.

>>715558873 (OP)
Playstation has no games.
Death Stranding is exclusive to Playstation.
Therefor, Death Stranding 2 is not a game.
/v/ is for discussing games.
Death stranding 2 is not a game.
Therefor, Death Stranding 2 does not belong on /v/.

>>715558873 (OP)
Apparently, Kojimbo also refuses to talk about sales reports KEK

>>715561419
It's a sequel made for the sake of game mechanics rather than plot. The new mechanics are great, but the plot is complete half-baked shit to justify making DS1 again with improved mechanics.

>>715592261
It sold 1.3 million in the first week and they'll release the next end-of-month sales at the end of the month.

>>715558873 (OP)
>songs can be missed if you take certain routes
DS1 had the exact same issue. Why is this still a thing when it has the easiest solution in the world by making them trigger based on distance?

>>715559697
>DS2
>walks

lol retard

>>715558873 (OP)
I'm on chapter... 5, I think? It's okay. Not great, not bad. There's nothing compelling in the story or gameplay that makes you want to see the next mission or scene. First DS felt fresh and this just feels redundant. But it's nice to look at and I enjoy Kojima's shit taste in millennial music. Woodkid fucking sucks.

>>715561180
Every metric studied shows that people with higher incomes game on console. PCs are the de facto poor person platform.

lorelet here
Why is the timefall still a thing in DS2 when it was gone at the end of the first game? Do they ever mention anything about it?

>>715592679
I could predict most of the story by just watching the first two trailers for the game. I don't know what the fuck Kojimbo was smoking when he wrote Tomorrow. Her deal is so fucking obvious.
Higgs and die hard man are the highlight of the game.

>>715561091
>starts making thinly veiled allegories for "GLOBALISM GOOD" and "We need to deliver the immigrant cum at all costs, for genetic diversity" the second he gets access to hollywood

Vain, vapid, spineless sack of shit.

>>715561391
>no good porn of her

>>715591882
Yeah that bothered me a bit during the first 20 hours but I got over it eventually. I just learned to love the similar aspects and look forward to it now due to overexposure. Japs love that whole mirror sequel/remake thing. Everyone does this over there.

>>715592830
>Do they ever mention anything about it?
I don't think so. Sam never stopped the death stranding permanently he just delayed it. It's inevitable as it is a natural part of cosmic cycle so timefall is back. Maybe? IDK that's how I view it.

>Fighting the ghost mechs
>On a highway in the sky
>While riding the tricruiser
Ultra kino

>>715593526

>>715593526
Does that happen more than once? I pretty much stopped doing side content shortly after the first (maybe only?) trike battle sequence.

>>715580207
mogs me

>>715593659
Don't know but that ghost rider guy just gave me another sub order. I went to do other stuff though

>>715593659
it can randomly happen it happened one other time to me while i was coffin boarding but i had a fragile delivery so i just noped out.

it doesnt spawn a ghost road when it randomly happens

>>715558873 (OP)
Can someone give me a QRD on the game lore? What caused america to become a post apocalyptic hellscape and what happened to the rest of the world?

>>715592214
This seems correct. Mods?

Did they really make Tomorrow and Rainy gay for each other? I thought they were pushing for a mother/daughter or older sister/younger sister dynamic. Their interactions from the beginning has just been Rainy teaching Tormorrow about the world like a new born baby.

>>715558873 (OP)
aint nobody got a ps5 nigga damn

>>715580207
George Lucas transformation almost complete

>>715595864
>Can someone give me a QRD on the game lore? What caused america to become a post apocalyptic hellscape

The Death Stranding

>what happened to the rest of the world?

The Death Stranding

>>715596891
You don't hold hands with your sister?

>>715591741
I platinumed the game a few days ago and I only have an 8 hour window to play each day because I don't have my own ps5. If I was able to no life I would have done it in a week.

Because it's a shitty walking simulator with Hollywood wannabe cutscenes. It's everything wrong about modern gaming.

>>715598140
Bitch it's a driving game.

>>715559474
>It's a great DLC. As for being a full priced game and sequel, it's good, but not worth the wait or price.
This but for Tears of the Kingdom

>>715598140
I wish modern gaming was as weird and sincere as Death Stranding instead of DEI filled slop like most games are these days

This game really had no impact beyond being the FOTM thing to talk about.

>>715573958
DS1 was legit great and even though DS2 has far better gameplay the story just doesn't hit the same

>>715592314
I preferred the plot of DS2 to DS1. Mainly because it was more low stakes and I really disliked Amelie

>>715558873 (OP)
Death stranding is a walking simulator that only gets praise because Kojima is involved. That's it.

DS1 and DS2 are boring as FUCK. Story is not interesting at all.

>>715591837
you gotta learn the art of the bike cheese, soon you'll never damage anything while on it

>>715598336
>Death Stranding
>not DEI
They literally been working with Hunter Schafer and colored woman of big eyes

>>715558873 (OP)
it's not on pc

>>715593659
it can happen on other roads that have been hacked by Higgs from that point onward, but you don't ride in the sky
had it happen twice after the event

There is literally zero reason to walk in this game

Kino?

>>715598692
yep

>>715598692
>Tomorrow is in your hands
>can't grope Elle Fanning

>>715598692
Insane how obvious Kojima was with that twist. It was so obvious I thought he was just trying to misdirect from the actual twist. But nope here it is.

/v/ is way too poor for a ps5

>>715558873 (OP)
I finished the story yesterday. Only missing two regions, I gonna do that.
How much fun is it to get to platinum? I know there is some bigger optional stuff like the big tar fish thing.

>>715600824
It's alright. It's definitely more fun than 1's platinum.

>>715600898
Do I have to mantain my roads? Some are nearly under 50 % now. iirc in DS1 DC you get more stuff from others as soon your roads are marked as critical.
Maybe having to repair that stuff is the one big thing which would turn me off.

He's a genius.

>>715601119
I didn't maintain them. Mine were like 30% when I finished and did everything. I did upgrade some of the roads at the latter areas to level 2 just because I had so much materials and I didn't want to make more ziplines for lazy deliveries.

>>715601526
The fact that i have to work hard every day of my life while this puny little shit earns millions by stamping his faggy name onto some pretentious garbage he didn't even make makes me absolutely fuming. And the worst part is, it's you fucking losers that enabled it, it's you that gave him money in the first place. I hope both of you die in pain.

>>715601748
I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?

>>715601552
Thanks, I guess I do nothing until something hits 20 %. Should be alot of hours left.

>>715602174
Just don't think about them and have fun

>>715596891
I thought the same thing but i think that's just how women are if they actually like each other and develop a sister like bond.

>>715596891
>Tomorrow has become confident enough in her ability to control her powers to actually touch other people
>Rainy is showing her support and trust
>"dey gae naow???"

>>715603910
Tomorrow is young aunt and Fragile is wine aunt to Rainy's child.
These people never met women.

>>715567331
you're such a retarded goy

>>715558873 (OP)
It's a 70 dollars DLC

>>715562219
the video is obviously staged

>>715558873 (OP)
>/v/ refuses to play playstation 5
/v/ seems pretty prudent.

>>715558873 (OP)
I'll play if the game let me create my character

>>715559697

>>715611562
drive by coffin kino

Was I suppose to instantly figure out the deal with Sams BB and who Tomorrow is? Or am I too high IQ for this game?

Kojimbo betrayed me

>>715613547
It literally told you early on via the camera work. and the comments about the bb pod

>>715613764
Well yeah I was expecting a misdirect or something but it was just cut and dry like that. Like Kojima wasn't even trying to be subtle.

>>715613871
it was subtle. subtle mean you're supposed to notice before the reveal to the character. if it wasn't meant to be understood by the player it would't have been subtle and wouldn't have had any hints.

>>715613547
If you didn't figure it out the microsecond that the character with the same hair and eye color as the baby who conveniently wears an arm band where the baby's birth mark should be starts kicking off her shoes like a baby, sucking her thumb, and curling up in the fetal position is actually the baby but grown up then you'd be an idiot.
I genuinely don't get what Kojima was going for with this, he treats it like a big twist when it finally comes up but its the most signposted thing in the world. During the game I thought maybe it was bait/a misdirect and Kojima is trying to get me into Sam's headspace of deluding himself into believing Lou could still be alive when she isn't, but then it just gets played straight.

>tomorrow is in your hands
>you have Lou in your hands
>Tomorrow is called Tomorrow
>turns out Tomorrow is Lou
woah...

>>715614898
I actually thought he was gonna go with the "Lou is actually your wife's daughter" route. Instead of making Sam a cuck, he just turned poor Neil into one.

>>715615068
Neil was a true man.

>>715558873 (OP)
It's a game for the "this obviously sucks balls, so if I pretend to like it people will think I'm smart" crowd.

>>715558873 (OP)
PERSONALLY I'M NOT POSTING BECAUSE I HAVN'T BEATEN IT YET AND KNOW THERE WILL BE SPOLIERS IN EVERYTHREAD

>>715558873 (OP)
I just finished it yesterday, had a blast. Probably the best 8 bucks I have spent on yt premium.

>PS5

>>715616148
that's what salty contrarians who can't think for themselves believe.