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[4Players interview]: Kojima Q&A on Death Stranding
- Thread starter vestan
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"the player has the greatest possible freedom in an open world. Therefore, you are never really sure what the player will do. In this context, storytelling in an open-world game is the biggest challenge. As there is more and more freedom, it means that the story sometimes gets in the way of a distraction."
Sounds like to me he put the story in the back seat because he didn't want to hurt the player's enjoyment and freedom of playing his game. That's always the impression I've gotten from playing TPP. The game was designed to get you back into the action as fast as possible, and so that's why the cutscenes are sparse and half the story is in tapes. I don't think Kojima wanted that phantom pain feel to come through with the story. He simply put it in the background instead of making it the star like the rest of his games.
Genuinely still have no idea what to expect outta this game, other than I'll be playing it Day 1.
That's what I like about Kojima, just cool games and no politics. He worked his apolitical magic with Metal Gear and he's gonna repeat with death stranding
I want to be MGS2'd.
Hard in this day and age, but I would like that.
This is really great to hear. I was worried that the story structure would be similar to phantom pain
That being said he still wasn't able to finish his game.
The game was going great until you hit chapter 2 and Konami started having you replaying previous missions to unlock cutscenes.
For all the talk of being full of himself, I have yet to read an interview where Kojima puts blame on others for MGS5's short comings.
Why can't "full of himself" just be intelligent.
He's earned the spot light, and should show be allowed to show some swagger for being in it for 30 years.
If he was flipping tables and banning twitter followers or even taking funding to make an Aliens game only to produce a shitty version while using the money taken to make his own IP, then I could understand the ill will
Horizon has also sci fi elements mixed with older cultures.
Yep, even BotW is kind of sci-fi. I think I had something else in mind.
The discourse around this game is becoming facinating......I could do without quite so much snark.....but it's getting people talking,which is great.
Good interview. I was most stoked about this part:
"So in Phantom Pain I started with a kind of experiment by starting linear. And once the world opens, the story fades in one way. Some Hideo Kojima fans were not happy that the story takes a back seat. But this was done very consciously. This time was the biggest challenge and the biggest obstacle: It's an open world, but at the same time we do not want to reduce the importance of the story, so fans of Hideo Kojima games will not be disappointed."
His growing pains of making his 1st openworld games are gone. He can now safely balance story with other elements.
"So in Phantom Pain I started with a kind of experiment by starting linear. And once the world opens, the story fades in one way. Some Hideo Kojima fans were not happy that the story takes a back seat. But this was done very consciously. This time was the biggest challenge and the biggest obstacle: It's an open world, but at the same time we do not want to reduce the importance of the story, so fans of Hideo Kojima games will not be disappointed."
His growing pains of making his 1st openworld games are gone. He can now safely balance story with other elements.
I wouldn't go that far, story-telling in an open world game is still a massive challenge with a very low success rate. Hopefully he can pull it off.
Well, MGSV really went to the extremes with almost silent protagonist and very segmented mission/chapter approach. In this game, Sam is willing to talk, to learn new things by meeting interesting characters, and we have a big mystery with this supernatural DS force, post-apocalyptic world, crazy antagonist, etc.
I'm hoping that we will get good final package, that mixes well story, exploration and combat [or stealth].
I'm hoping that we will get good final package, that mixes well story, exploration and combat [or stealth].
The part of combining the freedom of the open world gameplay with a kind of story we expect from Kojima games makes me happy. This was a nice Q&A, shows his mind is on the right path.
Kojima also did a constructive critique on Trump before he even ran for office.
Poor Raiden, getting confused with Olga by POTUS
Randy Pitchford / Gearbox. They took money meant for Alien Colonial Marines, outsourced it cheaply, and pumped the money into Borderlands 2. Allegedly.
Thank you base Kojima for giving me back my Anime esque story. Honestly, MGS isn't what it is when his writing takes a back seat, and Death Stranding seems the luckily be a spiritual successor to that.
People keep saying DS is weird, but I mean if you watch popular animes they have insane concepts like this all the time. If anything, I'm just happy we can somehow live in this world where a weird Japan/USA film production hybrid that's also a videogame can exist.
Wondering if this is like a translation thing?
if not what in the heck is this game going to be lol
I'm honestly super stoked about the story for this one because there was only so much canon space you could shoe horn shit in. This new IP is a whole fresh start.
My man Hideo on some big brain 200 IQ level of development here. Genuinely excited for what he has going on even though much of it is in the dark detail wise.
My man Hideo on some big brain 200 IQ level of development here. Genuinely excited for what he has going on even though much of it is in the dark detail wise.
Imagine catching a ban in 2019 because you're feelings got hurt that a game got too political in a Kojima thread where the guy has been making games with political messages for like 30 years
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Its just a way to make sure ppl understand that this game is not going to be a normal action game based on shooting or stealth. Even if thers elements of gameplay that use stealth and shooting, that will not be the main focus of the game. He call it Strand Game because the idea is to connect ppl, thats the main objective in the game, is to connect this pockets of isolated civilisation with eachother.
The strand system might extend to the online portion of the game that we still dont know everething about it.
Kinda like Yu Suzuki also said Shenmue would be a new genre that he called F.R.E.E. (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment)
Thank you Kojima-san. For blessing us with this and showing us that games can be so much more than mindless kill-em-ups. Day one.
As a person who has never played a Kojima game in his life, I cant help but feel compelled to play this game. Im sold
Ahh gotcha. Makes sense.
Intrigue and curiosity have me at full hype. All the people who have seen the game have said in interviews how new, different, and ambitious the game is attempting to be
I still have this feeling the game is going to be some kind of survival game at its core.
Kojima fingerprint in still definitely in there too.. Stealth, Shooting, Horror, Action, etc.
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I really wonder why so many of you dislike this man and this game. He's making a brand new IP, based on a brand new genre. We don't get this often in the AAA business anymore. Like it or not I think we should appreciate how much this game confuses us, because a lot of the shit we see these days is familiar territory. I'm for sure gonna avoid the launch trailers and reviews because this is a mystery I'm very interested in uncovering myself!
Well spoken :)
Last time I was so curious for a game like for DS is long ago...
Yup, same.
I'll check the scores but I ain't reading any reviews, it's gonna be a special one for sure^^
