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Death Stranding: A Hideo Kojima Game Strand
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Sure it's not, however I would have really liked discovering that I get to ride Zeke ingame in the actual game and not in an ESRB descrpition :(
It's not really unsafe either, but it describes 2 things that happen in the game without naming characters, but normally if you followed the game a little, you're already expecting these 2 things to happen. Well maybe not the Zeke riding, but still, it's ok
The fruits of Kojima's Russia visit are starting to pop up on the internet in the form of interviews. Here's a few of 'em
Posting some good bits from the various different interviews:
It's nice that we have proper confirmation that Timefall will slowly wash away stuff built between players. It makes sense for stuff like packages and cargo but knowing this is the case for player-built structures like bridges and highways too is interesting. Makes the world feel like a really dangerous place. Nothing is forever (outside of void outs lol).
Posting some good bits from the various different interviews:
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It's nice that we have proper confirmation that Timefall will slowly wash away stuff built between players. It makes sense for stuff like packages and cargo but knowing this is the case for player-built structures like bridges and highways too is interesting. Makes the world feel like a really dangerous place. Nothing is forever (outside of void outs lol).
She also tries to stop him when he leaves by getting between him and the door ^^
She seems desperate in that moment or maybe she wants to show him that she really want to do this.
That handshake is still weird, maybe it was meant to be symbolic because Cliff said in one of the trailers "How can you forge connections when you can't shake hands." But on second thought, it doesn't make sense lol.
Yeah I was mostly joking, actually I didnt notice the handshake attempt in the cutscene, it's indeed really weird
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Hm... :/ Does kinda kill off any ambition I had to contribute to something bigger. Like the examples Kojima mentioned during the TGS demo, of many players contributing to build a bridge or a highway. Knowing everything will nullified anyway...
Maybe some stuff can stand the test of time(falls) if enough people keep contributing, maybe that's one of the points :)
I'm sure persistence will be implemented in a good way. I'm kinda relieved to know I won't be having a mapped out path. It's been touted as a new genre, so I'm fairly confident that aspect of the game is balanced. I can see some structures degrading over time because of the rain, without being "swept" away after a first shower, and players stumbling upon them being given the choice to repair/maintain them.
The multiplayer aspects to me sound like flavor, thematic and whatnot. I like that it's mostly a single player game. It just seems to fit. But I'm open to new things, especially if Hideo is trying them.
PSA: Metacritic Review scores will go out November 1 12:01 AM Pacific Time
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I think it's more about maintaining the stuff you've built with players. You have to first establish the connection, and from there maintain it. What's the point if all that was already done for you, ya know? It also secures longevity for the game so you can jump in a year down the line without having missed out on anything.
The OT is >50% done, and I have been working on it all day. Not really going with any GIFs on this one to save those with slower connections. It's also designed to fit both light and dark themes. Looks fire. Definitely one of my proudest works. Anything I should add to it that I might not have considered? I was gonna add in a section for all the media such as trailers, song play lists, avatars, and reviews.
Great to hear man, happy for you.
I've no idea if you could fit this in and if you can't that's perfectly fine, but this message from Kojima is really poignant and sums up what he's trying to do with the game. I feel it deserves a place in the actual OT as we'll probably run into a few people that are mad this isn't the shootbang game they were expecting coming off of MGSV. Could probably drop it near the end.
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I wonder how long reviewers will have to play and complete their review, seems like a pretty long game to rush
So Kojima feels that only international authors are like him, huh. Lol, this guy.
I am really hoping for a whacky, crazy story but with a clear structure. It doesn't seem to be any time travel element on the story so far, which I am glad. And since he already said the game might need sequels, I hope that at least Sam arc is complete.
I am really hoping for a whacky, crazy story but with a clear structure. It doesn't seem to be any time travel element on the story so far, which I am glad. And since he already said the game might need sequels, I hope that at least Sam arc is complete.
I don't get it, didn't he say before the trailer was already submitted to Sony?
He basically turned over a rough edit for their legal to approve that's all. They just announced the world tour starting October 30th so the trailer will likely drop that week.
There's a recent famitsu interview that's pretty interesting. Talks about the feedback from various playtesting and how the US looks the way it does in the game because Time Fall has basically reverted the land back to it's primal state.
Also the void out craters you might make in the game will eventually erode way per Time Fall.
Yeah I just saw the thread for the Tour, starts in my hometown actually , big hype :)
Just checked this out and this is huge lol, must be an exclusive. Some really interesting info here. Especially the fact that "Likes" don't pertain to anything aside from showing your appreciation to other players (tho I have a feeling we already knew this).
If I put this page through the translation tool in Chrome, will it be readable? ^^
Edit : yeah I'm gonna have to interpret a lot of it lol : " Famitsu was the only domestic game media that could be interviewed, so let's deliver that pattern "
That's what I'm doing right now lol, seems to work fine. Also this Famitsu feature has direct feed screenshots from the TGS demo, these haven't been uploaded to the PS site yet. These are in English too. Makes me think they're gonna drop the translated direct feed TGS gameplay soon.
So much cleaner than the youtube video :)That's what I'm doing right now lol, seems to work fine. Also this Famitsu feature has direct feed screenshots from the TGS demo, these haven't been uploaded to the PS site yet.
Yeah the Famitsu interview isn't looking good through Chrome translation tool. I mean you can understand what is said, but the sentences are just so goofy ^^
He straight up confirms that you can directly fight mules and homodemens upfront, "if you"re good at shooters"
He straight up confirms that you can directly fight mules and homodemens upfront, "if you"re good at shooters"
Youtube takes a real dump on game fidelity. I miss when we got direct feeds of MGSV from gamersyde.
Straight from the mouth of the dragon. So much of Death Stranding's thematic significance is hindered on this 'Social Strand System' and connecting with one another. I feel playing offline just misses the point of all of this.
The "letter from a soldier to his wife" analogy is back in the Famitsu interview !
He really insists with this one, I think I understand what he means with that, and that could actually be a very effective storytelling device like once you connect a city, the people living there get access to the UCA network, and can finally see what other people they might know from other cities are up to , or finally receiving communications they were sent in the past and never received because they were not connected to the network. It could be a good ground for tearjerking stories for sure
The Beach is the place beyond the Knot... very interesting. So the Knot is where people stuck in between worlds are stranded. The Beach is a spot beyond that Knot, and from what we saw, Sam and Samantha met there in the past. It's also the place where Heartman goes to when he "dies" to look for his family. In a trailer, we see him being dragged from the people on the beach (I suppose because he is waking up in the real world). The people on the beach are all looking in the same direction, the horizon. what are they looking/waiting for?...
Stuff start to make more and more sense, hype !
He really insists with this one, I think I understand what he means with that, and that could actually be a very effective storytelling device like once you connect a city, the people living there get access to the UCA network, and can finally see what other people they might know from other cities are up to , or finally receiving communications they were sent in the past and never received because they were not connected to the network. It could be a good ground for tearjerking stories for sure
The Beach is the place beyond the Knot... very interesting. So the Knot is where people stuck in between worlds are stranded. The Beach is a spot beyond that Knot, and from what we saw, Sam and Samantha met there in the past. It's also the place where Heartman goes to when he "dies" to look for his family. In a trailer, we see him being dragged from the people on the beach (I suppose because he is waking up in the real world). The people on the beach are all looking in the same direction, the horizon. what are they looking/waiting for?...
Stuff start to make more and more sense, hype !
Yeah I agree wholeheartedly. This 'letter' analogy extends to the actual gameplay itself. You leave stuff out in the environment and a few hours or even a day later, someone who you'll never meet can discover this lone ladder or cargo or whatever and then react by using it (and thereby leaving a Like so you know someone was there) or deliver your lost cargo for you. It's the 'letter' theory in action. You'll never know if leaving stuff out in the open for other players will even help them until it does, just like how soldiers who send letters off to their wives will never know if it'll make it to them. You're engaging with each other, but it isn't instant. There's still some level of 'uncertainty'.
Even though leaving tools out in the environment could be detrimental to your own journey, you know that doing such a thing will mean that someone else on their own journey will find things a little easier. You're connecting with them, and that's really cool.
I remember earlier this year Kojima was talking about how when he left Konami, he felt like he lost everything, but then he slowly realized that he had a lot of connections with many different people. These 'strands' so to speak. Like Sony people, like Norman, Geoff, Mads, Del Toro etc and that he wanted to reconnect with all these people he thought were important to him. It really sheds some light on the kind of game Death Stranding is and where the inspiration for it came from. It's a really simple concept, but something dear to Kojima's heart.
Going back to the gameplay though, I'm the kind of player that wants to connect with everyone so you can be damn well sure I'll be leaving out my RIDE® WITH™ NORMAN REEDUS™ bike out for you all when I can.
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