Thread 717218567

Just finished beta testing this for you PC fags. 2027 game of the year on your way. Some things about it
>Pros
The things I liked about the first game that made it fun are still there
Quality of life improvements for example portable music player
New gadgets, weapons, items etc for example you get that lightning guitar from the trailer
New gameplay mechanics for example capturing and summoning giant BTs
Gameworld is more fleshed and immersive for example day/night cycles and wildlife
Lot of cutscenes are shuffled to the side, for example "Do you want to see backstory to X? Yes show me a 3 hour cutscene. No I'll go back to playing the game"
Substantial side content besides routine deliveries like Side Bosses and missions etc.
>Cons
Console game usuals
Monorails too slow
Still too easy but maybe PC will get a new difficulty like last time
2 pajeet characters. You even meet one of this shit jeets twice
I said in Pros that many cutscenes are moved to the side but there's still a lot of cutscenes. Don't get too excited.
Roads are mad expensive to build them all
>Could go either way
Some songs for example Pop Virus return but mostly new music
The many cameos aren't recognizable like Max Payne but later you look them up and see oh it was some dev from Stray or one of the soundtrack singers
There is a good bit of Pekora content like unique items and cosmetics. I don't feel strongly about it besides thinking it's goofy but there is a fair amount if you do
The story gets crazy at the end

>>717218567 (OP)
>You even meet one of this shit jeets twice
you didn't play much lol, the adventurer has a handful of annoying orders

Who the fuck asked for more of this garbage?

>>717218631
In the main storyline. At minimum twice I should have said. But you're right

was a very fun game, sadly there will be no real discussion here til it comes out for everyone else. i'm still playing in the postgame as well, its very comfy now that all the story based tension is gone

>>717218567 (OP)
Forgot to add it's easily over 100 hours connecting every area and getting stars up. I beat the story at around 80 then had more to do post game

>>717219202
I expected. Are you playing post game with Qpid on or off?

>>717218567 (OP)

things i thought sucked and ruined the game

cost of roads so expensive you make two trips for the same road typically instead of one trip for like 2 or 3 sections of road

stupid magellan warping everywhere you go forcing you to watch cutscenes every stop

no point in building hot springs you already have beach travel

>>717219481
depends on what i'm doing, i usually dont feel like fighting the red robots when i'm trucking hundreds of things somewhere, but you can't do some missions with it turned off so i've been toggling

>>717219509
I agree about roads and completely forgot about hot springs. There's about 3 means of fast travel I usually ignored.
The hot springs Easter egg song was amusing though

The headless rider was the best side delivery.

>>717218567 (OP)
I'm near the end now and I just lost all interest in finishing it. Same thing happened to me with the first game. I'm glad I finished it eventually but I'm saving the very end until I have a whole weekend to take it in

>>717219996
What point are you at?

>>717220065
I don't remember the order number, it's where you have to take down two camps before linking the last QPID. I just stopped after the first camp. Only chapter 10 I think but feels near the long kojima-ass ending push

>>717218567 (OP)
It's a 7/10 at best if you remove the
>it's kojima so it's a masterpiece
just like the first game.

>>717220181
Yeah you'll want a weekend or at least a Saturday

I don't play walking simulators regardless of what platform they're on.

>/v/ being remotely positive about a ps5 exclusive
hell froze over today

>>717220704
>ps5 exclusive
*Later on PC

>>717218567 (OP)
Cons:
It is fucking impossible to get max contract level in bridge links without friends. No, I don't mean preppers, I mean real human porters that are suppose to reciprocate the likes you afford them and instead don't. The game has had people logged off for weeks now and they're still handing me 100 ish likes a day from them, so they're stored up in a bank of activity and metered out over many many play sessions rather than all at once. So every time I do a suicide run and dump 10k likes on some Sam's head, that person probably won't notice unless they play for a week solid and notice my name keep popping up as the server connection refreshes.

Is there anyone out there on PS5 that can help me get the max link cheevo? I'm so fucking sick of working my ass off the "natural organic way" and getting fucking stiffed by people that give 4 likes to a guidepost or my footprints, even though I'm at 4.5 star rating with them they just won't go the extra mile to finish it out.

>>717219937
couldn't agree more, I was fucking thrilled when I got it and replayed it many times until I got the S. I was so pumped for more encounters like that, but from that moment forward towards the final acts of the game... You just have 3 bikers pop out at you while on the northern side of Australia. That's it. Never more, never a random assortment of them, never frequently enough that you really have to be on your toes, just a random chance encounter once a week while driving around up there. What a let down.

>>717221007
90% of my Likes came from roads

>>717221129
That asshole miniboss on the bridge to the final connection kept summoning them on me.

>>717221175
Mine is more like 75% but yes, roads are kind of a part of the problem. Let me explain.

When someone likes a structure, and you're actively on that map, you can see the location they liked your structure. It's helpful for locating what part of the story that porter might be at, and you can ride your happy ass over there and hunt for something of theirs. If it's a road, the payout is fucking anonymous. No information is handed out on which road is liked more than others, how many people used it, nothing. So if you get someone that takes the time to dump 5k likes on your road, it's next to fucking impossible to hunt them down and thank them. Then a week goes by, you can't find them, and they sever you contract and forget about you. Then the next Sam like dumps your road... but what road? They won't tell you!!

I sincerely wish they gave a little bit more TLC to the Bridge Links system. It's so barebones and devoid of actually being useful it isn't even funny. Slightly improved from DS1, but not by very much at all.

>>717221289
I forgot about that because the fight didn't last very long for me. That's true, but not a real course you could engage them with. I pretty much just fought the thing on one end of the bridge and it died promptly. Still, really fucking neat enemy type, criminally underutilized.

>>717218567 (OP)
The fact that you played this just proves you don't have the IQ to recommend anything.

>>717221643
spoken like a true cynical asshole that hates video games

>>717221550
I remember them because I was on foot and fighting them on foot played different without my own vehicle to smash them with

>>717221643
Watch this fuckstake basedface when it's announced on Shitch Too

>>717222140
That reminds me. Why was Nintendo in the credits?

is kojimbo going to do a dc with the second game?? the dc for the first game had some pretty nice qol additions.

>>717218567 (OP)
I was making good progress on this until Bananza came out. I had just finished building up the second monorail station and almost all the roads up to that point. Then I didn't play for like 2 weeks and now I've lost all motivation

>you will never have your prostate massaged and your balls cupped at the same time that Fragile is giving you head
Why live?

>>717222492
yes i will

>>717218567 (OP)
please tell me they added a futuristic 18 wheeler what I can stuff to the brim with packages and deliver and entire year's worth of xanax to some old boomer in the middle of the desert somewhere in a single go.

>>717222668
The monorails let you cram huge amounts of cargo but they are on rails. No trucks like that

>>717222668
A real man of taste. No. They exist in the world, and they even planned it in concept work, but they won't let you drive a big mother trucker yet. I'm very sad to admit this, but I will say they added a lot of vehicle customization to this title and trucking is the superior mode of transportation in the game, apart from loading it on board a monorail.

>>717223508
>trucking is the superior mode of transportation in the game, apart from loading it on board a monorail.
The big brain move is to load your truck onto the monorail

Give me some easter eggs to look for post game. I've found the dancing doll and the hotspring musical number.

>>717222641
based optimist. keep on keeping on

Kojima in 2008:
>Epic final battle between brothers
Kojima in 2025:
>Dood, guitars are so cool, am I right???

What happened?

>>717222641
Not before me you will

Is there a version of this for Neil?

>>717223629
I do do that. I do that a lot. I love my ride, I haven't left it since I first fabricated it. I'm missing out on so many likes by over producing cars and whoring them out to others. This one's mine, all mine.

Why do people call Death Stranding a movie game? I have like 150 hours of playtime in it and apparently the game only has like 20 hours of cutscenes. Fucking Call of Duty has a higher cutscene/gameplay ratio

>>717221643
>erm you akshually have to have a high IQ to [have my shit opinion no one asked for]
retard

>>717223508
I remember seeing the huge semi-trucks in that western distro center in the first game and going blind with rage when I realized you couldn't drive them. If there ever is a DS3 I pray to God they give us semi-trucks

>>717224310
I have a still with the same energy if someone wants to use it.

>>717224702
I felt exactly the same. I would find my way up on top of those for pictures and just fume that they're undriveable. Not so much as a runaway semi truck you have to bring to heel or anything. What a shame that Kojima didn't make it happen yet.

>>717224865
this image has three things I wish were in DS2

>big rig, sexy gekko legs and armor plates

Please make the next game have huge highway systems over monorails. I need these motha truckas to be useful.

>>717224702
>2026 DS2 on PC
>2027 Director's Cut
>2028 the OD game
>2029 Physint game
>2030 Physint PC
>2031 Physint Producer's Cut
>2032 OD Cameraman's Cut
>2033 DS3
>2034 DS3 PC
>2035 DS3 Executive Producer Cut with big rig trucks

>>717224721
>get cucked
>die simping
>brought back as ghost to raise other man's daughter
Neil had a hard life. And death

>>717225364
I felt for him, I really did. Neil being held captive by his undead co-workers and dragged into endless conflicts really struck a cord with me. The man just can't get a break.

>>717225559
What was the deal with the being held captive then escaping and his captures then working for him?

>>717225823
It's symbolic of his profession and his predicament being trapped there, he was a porter traveling with mercs doing border hopping and carting around illicit cargo. Those soldiers where there to protect them AND to make sure Neil stayed in line with what Bridges wanted him to do. He wanted out, they kept pulling him back in. Even in the afterlife he tried to get away, but his co-workers would tie him up and drag him along all across "nirvana."

>denied his one-it-is
>can't even keep a single photo of her on his phone or the wrong people will use it against them
>forced to traffic humans for experimentation (and ultimately sacrifice)
>deep down is a traumatized little boy that still relives the day he met his fated love
>also on that same day, mexico city is attacked by Gigas BTs and is laid to waste, causing Boy Vana to flee in terror
>gets dumped and then dragged back into baby mama drama where he has to assume responsibility for a child he knows isn't his
>gets shot to death by his boss and cohorts, ones who could easily have printed non-lethal rounds instead of real bullets

Neil had a hard life...

>they went so hard down this concept rabbit hole and we don't get to take the helm of a big rig
Crazy. Dastardly even.

>>717227876
you know, I see a bit of the Magellan here now that I look at it. As much as I love the DHV, I would not mind a land based variant in 3.

>>717227480
He kept a photo I think. It was quick but you very briefly see he took two and only showed deleting one

>>717227480
>fire battle is his childhood trauma
>water battle is the hospital he went to the beach at
I don't know what the earthquake subway is from. I must have missed that.

Why was Mama/Lockne randomly part of the happy friend teleporting circle?

>>717228426
Oh yeah, I see that now. Probably my favorite segments from the game, and they were so understated. I could've honestly used actual stealth missions set in "nirvana" with Neil hunting after me.

>>717228224
I wondered if that was what I saw. I know he did tap around, it wasn't a deliberate definitive delete.

>>717229019
Why didn't Die-Hardman just nut up and pretend to be Mama for the entire time instead? I would've liked to have seen his take on Deadman as well.

Why not just take a helicopter

>>717218567 (OP)
Why did no one buy it? Ps fags finally get a game and it came and went in less than a day.

>>717229687
I swear that Kojima must be happy with that outcome, silently. It means he isn't mainstream like he feared.

>Ps fags finally get a game
I bought it digitally to play early and I am getting a physical copy as well. Then when it comes out on steam I'll get it third time. Hopefully there's a director's cut along the line, I'd buy the physical copy, gladly.

>>717229687
Didn't it sell like a million and a half its opening weekend?

Got to fucking Pizza Chef and this game gives me such fucking whiplash. On the one hand, the games solid and can play full autism mode or complete free-form. But Reedus just cant fucking act/Kojima is still learning what proper human interaction is. It literally feels like they made Carl from Aqua Teen star in a fucking Scorsese film that was put through multiple translation programs. Theres maybe 3 people so far who are actually acting (Higgs, Tarman, Dollman) in a way appropriate to their roles. Same trying to sing with Elle was cringy as fuck, Fragile is all around trash with her 'smoking' shit. But the game itself is great.
Also, could not stop laughing at Rainy getting absolutely s,ashed in the gut and that baby popping back like a balloon.

>>717230598
>Pizza Chef
You're going to get special sub orders for him. Make sure to do them all. And get his star rank high fast. Trust me

>>717230598
>>717230708
listen to that anon, max out the pizza man as quick as you can. i think theres a piece of missing cargo you find somewhere out in the wild, believe it was called "Pizza Chef's Misanga" - bring that to him and you unlock the rest of his missions. The rewards you get from him are amazing.
And yes, the game is full of tonal whiplash but I'm used to Kojima's pants on head retardation. But you are right, Sam comes off as a real emotionally stunted idiot in this game compared to the first and for good reason, keep playing

>>717229397
That was when I realized the choices in the game did not matter at all.

What are the best mods for the first game if I'm not playing online? I'm not paying for this

>>717230862
>the game is full of tonal whiplash
>tfw serious dramatic scene but I forgot to unequip the Peko Hat

>>717230978
Maybe a graphics mod. If it has something to simulate other players giving you items and buildings then that will help offset the offline aspect

>>717231053
I spent most of the game with the word BOOOB on my pack for exactly that reason.
Not exactly related, but I started playing E33 this week because its the other GOTY contender and I like JRPG's, and i didn't realize it had alt costumes. I'm in the middle of incredibly serious cutscenes wearing the absolute dumbest shit possible, c'est magnifique

>>717230862
Battlelegs are the only aesthetic legs in this. Too bad Boost is the most useful one. I miss my gekko exo so bloody much.

I liked the pizza man. I practiced Pizza Do all over Australia after that day.

>>717231053
>I forgot to unequip the Peko Ha
I had a big bloody pack on. I loved that scene.

>>717231263
The backpack was too small for everything I wanted. Barely any room for patches when anything useful took up half the space

I played it for about 30 hours and thought it kinda sucked so wuit playing. Lacks the focus of the first game and adds nothing beyond a bunch of bullshit guns. I wanted more cool traversal tools.

>>717232369
>I wanted more cool traversal tools.
>and adds nothing beyond a bunch of bullshit guns.
You quit way too soon. I'm sorry you didn't like it, but the game's problem isn't the controls or the transportation. I think you can beat it if all you did is rob the share lockers everywhere you go and hammer nothing but the main orders down, bit by bit. It would take you four days of playing if you knuckled down.

>>717232369
It does give a bunch of new traversal tools that I ignored for my truck. But I didn't play the director cut of the first so maybe some of those were there

>>717233669
Put snow tires and at least two jump packs on it and you're done. The weapons don't matter and you'd be better off with a single sticky on one side so you could steer clear of something you don't want to pick up. Your other two mod slots are to taste. My personal setup was 1 battery, 2 barrier and 3 jump packs. Also fun fact it maneuvers easier without the bloody bonnet armor.

P.s. never go full jump pack unless you want to pulverize your cargo

I didn't read, but fuck you

>>717234334
Eat my ass

>There's no Yamato mission where you have to beat them to a destination before they do
I am disappointed.

>>717233386
It's not bad, just felt pointless. I'll probably pick it up in the future. I just stopped caring. First game made me want to keep playing and this is just wholly uninteresting, from the pacing to the characters to the premise to the cutscenes. Just my two cents.

Can you pick up chiral crystals in a truck now?

I played the director's cut for the first time a month before DS2 dropped. The trike trailer hitch is literally perfect. It carries the same amount of cargo, just leaves it open to the air. Thankfully you can tie it down to prevent spills, but the bike otherwise functions the exact same and is incredibly nimble. If they add this to the new tri cruiser I'd be very happy.

>>717234961
If you have the special gloves

>>717234961
You need the rebranded half life gloves, now called climbing gloves, but yes then you can pick up cargo while driving and get crystals.

playing DS1 for the first time
kina like it kina dont
Tommie Earl Jenkins really nails the kojima voice acting where its kina flat/script ready but has a certain charm

I WILL HOLD YOU

>>717234404
This game had so many literally cameos that I didn't recognize and only knew after looking them up. Why were 4 devs from Stray there? And like 3 Sony executives. And Refns entire family. Although all the 21 minute people being Refn family in real life was funny.

>>717235583
>literally cameos
*literally who cameos

>>717235556
>tfw took a bunch of photos at the finale but THOSE ones would get me in trouble if I posted them

>that entire climax

My dad enjoyed watching me beat it a second time. He kept commenting on how I was crap at the samurai part but he did enjoy it. "What a creative imagination this guy has." - Dad (76)

>>717236091
You did capture the crab right?

>>717236186
Of course. I recognized the effect dripping from the maw as the capture state, and caught it first cast.

It's late. I'm out like Vana. Peace (V)

>>717222207
Nintendo Pictures collaborated with them for Mocap.

>>717236686
The movie studio that made the Mario movie?

obligatory

>>717236091
DIOS MIO
LA CREATIVIDAD

>>717230953
.......the purpose of this is to remind you of old characters and to foreshadow that charlie is die hardman. its not a 'make choices' game, there's only like other other choice you can even make and that's just a decision of whether you want to hear exposition or not

>>717230491
Post it. I can't find anywhere citing those numbers outside of iconera and some firm thrown around by ign

>>717221007
>No, I don't mean preppers, I mean real human porters that are suppose to reciprocate the likes you afford them and instead don't.

lol. Just build the roads and people will easily give you a shitload of likes just for using your roads. They don't even actively press like, the game automatically forces you to like a road you go through that someone else built.

I really do hope Kojima Productions is working on some new content for DS2 or atleast a higher difficulty option. Better enemy A.I. (just copy MGS5), more Low Roar songs for the music player, more unique deliveries, more vehicles, more tools.

The director's cut of DS1 actually improved the original's gameplay in meaningful ways.