Game Informer is rolling out some coverage including an interview with Kojima.
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Death Stranding: A Hideo Kojima Game Strand
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It's funny how he brings up trying to design and come up with something new and then everyone boils it down to "oh it's just a walking simulator" lol
I laughed so hard at that. Yes Hideo, they have, they are, they will.
Great quote from Game Informer. Even his staff shared concerns about the game's concept being boring, and they ended up liking it.
I need it. I was literally sitting down watching the timer countdown until my digital copy unlocked for like a minute last night.
I need it. I was literally sitting down watching the timer countdown until my digital copy unlocked for like a minute last night.
This was a good interview!!
"I have not said if the mission to connect America is correct yet..."
There was a possibility and IGN was going to translate the private room one themselves but nothing so far.
Game Watch had a interesting article where Kojima was a little worried the attendance for the 50 minute demo on business day was smaller than expected. However when they showcased the private room demo with general admission the area was filled to capacity and some were turned away.
This was the most interesting part in the whole interview for me:
UCA are the bad guys and fully connecting America to the chiral Network is bad ending confirmed. You were so close to not spoil anyhting Kojima ^^
I'll wait then a little bit although I know the gist of the private room stuff. Cheers!
Yea
Yeah, goes to show how REAL innovation struggles in this uniform world....
AND how original the critics are lol
Yeah, goes to show how REAL innovation struggles in this uniform world....
AND how original the critics are lol
Just a prepper side character. The Japanese voice actor for Kaz is basically dubbing another US celebrity who has a cameo as a prepper.
Apparently a new Japanese VA was introduced in the QA session, he has a secret role ( so probably voicing a celebrity cameo) but I think I read somewhere he is voicing a prepper, so really a cameo a la Geoff or the Musician
Ah ok.
Do we think we've seen all the significant characters in the game?
You mean like characters that are not guest preppers? I think so yeah. I think that because almost every main character is still mainly a big mistery story wise, beside their main thing/gimmick, we now nothing about Deadman, Die Hard Man, Heart Man, Mama etc. even Sam has a foggy backstory for the moment.
The character we now the more about is Amelie, and it is so obvious that there is a twist coming with this character. So with all these characters already presented but still a mistery to us, I think if there was another celebrity with a main role a la Reedus, Mikkelsen etc, they would have been announced already. I think all celebrities left are gonna be preppers
That's true yeah, major characters don't typically come in in the middle of Kojima games. They're usually all introduced at the beginning.
I wonder if we'll get some boss characters/villains that are unseen yet? With all the cities you're going to would it really just be Cliff and Gold Mask Man?
It's the "Walking Norman Tipping Simulator". Kojima truly did create a new genre.
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Nah there's gonna be more for sure. In my crazy head, more is either :
-Amelie was evil the hole time / Amelie was dead the all time
-Die Heard Man has hidden ulterior motives
-Aliens/cosmic stuff responsible for the Death Stranding
-BB becmes eventually older and plays a major part in either side
Or even more crazy stuff ^^
This whole Chiral network /crystals/allergies etc sounds whack. It's going to be some Neon Genesis Evangelion shit where humanity discovered the first B.T and created the Chiral Network from it to spread across America and when they flipped the switch it caused the Death Stranding and the cataclysmic event summoning more Ange...B.Ts...
Maybe. lol
Gamespot spoke to Kojima too and the idea of sequels.
Damn how did forget about the chiral crystals and especially the fact that Giant BT has a living giant chiral crystal instead of a head. What's up with that lol
Great interviews.
What a mindfuck of a game this already is. lol
Really interesting hearing the developer/staff side of things.
What a mindfuck of a game this already is. lol
Really interesting hearing the developer/staff side of things.
Either that or they say he's pretentious/pompous for attempting to make something different. :P
Do we have some physicists here?
Quantum entanglement sounds particularly interesting. It takes the whole connection stuff to a whole new level.
Quantum entanglement sounds particularly interesting. It takes the whole connection stuff to a whole new level.
That Higgs field necklace is really interesting. Higgs (the character) has part of the electromagnetic tensor equation tattooed onto his eyebrow.
This whole business with the Higgs Boson (or God Particle) will play a large part in the game tbh. You can tell Kojima has had this idea in his mind for a while. If you go back to July 4, 2012, the Higgs Boson was discovered. Kojima tweeted this three days later.
Death Stranding has many supernatural elements, but I think the plot will lean more towards how science and the US' research allowed them to interact with different realities and dimensions but also being able to bend their own, bringing about the BTs as a result of their actions. We see Higgs possess the ability to teleport, maybe this is more of a physics/science thing than anything supernatural.
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Some of the cargo includes Chiralaeum or whatever too that stops the progress of time like the cargo Sam takes with sperm and eggs. There's the theory that Amelie's necklace is made of the same material so that's why she's not aging.
I thought she didn't age, because she is in the other realm or something, and chiralium is weaved into the clothes that Sam wears (and sometimes covering packages) in order to prevent it from being affected by timefall?
Not too sure on that but in the reddit theory image shows a cap of the aid cargo.
Not too sure on that but in the reddit theory image shows a cap of the aid cargo.
I'm not sure about this considering Sam goes around and picks up Chiralium when he comes across it, you'd figure he also doesn't age, but that isn't the case.
Makes me wonder what the hell the void outs are and if/how they are related to people being "stuck" in places.
Not really. Either I need to work on my sarcasm, or you guys on your sarcasm detection :)
As far as I understood the Higgs Boson describes the reasons for a particle to have mass. Then we have the Schwarzschild radius on Sam's necklace, which defines the radius of black holes. Black holes are characterized by having a lot of concentrated mass with heavy gravitation, leading to deformation of spacetime.
Black holes must be caused when Homo Demons create these void outs. Amelie is stuck "on the beach", which means her body was swallowed by such a black hole and that's why she hasn't aged. This is also why Higgs can teleport and Amelie can communicate with Sam and the others, because spacetime has no meaning in the place where they are and Higgs isn't able to restrict these abilities once you are on the beach.
Higgs goal is not separation, but unification of humanity. It's just that unification doesn't take place in the world of the living. He probably plans to create a giant black hole with him being in the center of it, that's why he is named after the Higgs Boson. Note that I'm not a physicists, but this is what I get from these formulas and I could be entirely wrong.
I don't know what the other formulas mean, but this could potentially be the Interstellar of video games.
Electromagnetism seems to play a big part in Death Stranding. Obviously you've got things like Higgs' mask and him being able to control electricity and summon the Hunter through the electricity in his mask but even Fragile's suit and umbrella seem to generate a magnetic field, with the skewers on her suit signifying when the field is enabled or disabled. There's also that scene in the TGA 2016 trailer where Mads' compass goes haywire indicating there's a magnetic field around him.
When two entangled particles interact, they annihilate each other or 'void out'. Maybe this could symbolise the relationship between the BTs and Humans.
I like the theory that the US tried to create a sort of second 'Chiral' Earth by coupling the Higgs field to virtual antiparticles and then tried to send people over to this 'second Earth' only for them to be killed and 'stranded' there (that would be Hades/the other side), causing their souls (BTs) to bleed onto our Earth who are conversely stranded in our world. Just like how BTs in our world would be unnatural, Humans being on the other side is unnatural too and when the two collide, Voidouts happen.
Maybe the US government were experimenting with black holes or antimatter and caused the fourth explosion which brings about the Death Stranding. The Qpid and the equations on it play a significant role, but my question is what's their importance? What's Mads' importance to the overall plot? Kojima has stated before that Mads isn't a villain so maybe he's trying to prevent the events of Death Stranding from ever happening?
This point especially is really interesting, as while they may be the 'villainous' faction, it's all for the greater good (in their eyes anyways). They aren't just the mindless thugs the UCA is portraying them as (going by the BRIEFING trailer anyway and Die-Hardman's dialogue).
In the Game Informer interview, Kojima talks about how not everyone views the UCA as the good guys' and also somewhat compares them to the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell's 1984. From his words, there's that idea of networking and rejecting but it's up to the player to come up with their own opinion. I really like this shades of gray angle Kojima is pushing. There are no clear-cut 'good' and 'bad' guys.
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Not clear on how holding packages in your hands work yet, prompts show you can pick them up to hold in your left or right hand with the appropriate shoulder button, another prompt shows you can release L2 or R2 to place a package on the hoverboard, so would you have to keep the shoulder button held to carry things in your hand?
Reading this and can't stop laughing/crying while browsing other DS threads with that in mind.
I think the unaging of Amelie is a trick, after all she's just a projection, I'm sure we will be surprised when we meet her in edge knot city ;)
And it still doesnt help with the giant living chiral crystal head ^^
Seems like if we create a void out in our game it doesn't affect other player's game worlds. Originally that was the plan to do so but didn't want player's mistakes to affect others, it felt too negative.
Also the beach and Sam are explained...
Info comes from a extensive Danish interview from TGS that's on the subreddit.
Also the beach and Sam are explained...
in that Sam has a special connection where he cannot die. When he "does" he goes to the beach located between the living and the Hades world and you need to body to return back to the living world. This is where the original teaser took place.
Info comes from a extensive Danish interview from TGS that's on the subreddit.
Honestly, when it comes to Kojima, gameplay is literally the last thing I would be worried about.
Despite his movie obsession and focus on cutscenes, his writing can be hit or miss-- but in the gameplay department he know's what he's doing as a designer and director.
Eh I'm glad it's not. Imagine losing out on visiting a location because of the actions of other players failing or intentionally griefing.
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