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Death Stranding May Have Reached Polishing Phase
- Thread starter patapon
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They did show the first Fox Engine tech demo at E3 2011 and it did look amazing back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Engine
Peace Walker was released April 2010, it's impossible that barely in a year they already had that engine build from scratch in that stage. Make sure their engine team started to work on it way before the Peace Walker release, I think it's more likely they started to work on it after MGS4 (released in 2008) as Wikipedia says.
MGSV Phantom Pain was released in September 2015. So MGSV took around 5 years and a half plus almost a couple of extra years working on the engine. It's a lot but not something very rare, many AAA games needed 5-7 years of development even if not publicly mentioned for most of them.
Maybe it's a short, small game compared to MGS games. Think also that they already had the engine ready and that maybe they have a year or a year an a half from now until the release.
As I remember back in 2016 or so Kojima said the game was going to be released before the Akira movie Olympics (so 2019, and olympics are in summer so we may get it for May 2019 or so if he means they past Beta instead of Alpha when saying "polishing state"). This would be around 3 years of development, something ok considering Kojima already had the concept ready at the beggining and didn't need to make a new engine. And who knows, maybe the game is way simpler and smaller, and Sony may have provided them an army of outsourcing studios.
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Maybe he means the game has a huge map. A huge, empty map with just a few players walking with backpacks and some enemies and loot distributed randomly across the map.
Or maybe he means that the game is huge artistically instead of meaning game length or map size.
You just described the best game of the generation.
Are you really expecting Kojima and Sony to release a game like you described in your post?
And the quote from Troy Baker is "the scope of the game is huge".
That doesn't seem to me as a huge empty map game.
That seems like a weird description for Bloodborne, The Last Guardian, or Undertale, but sure, I guess.
Well I thought that it was pretty clear from the rest of my post that I was being sarcastic.
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You don't know that. They might have used decima from the start,but Horizon hadn't even released so it would be weird to announce this before Horizon's release
Not really. Witcher 3 which is a game of huge scope was built on a newly created engine and with some huge production setbacks it was released in a 3-4 year window.
Death Stranding already is using Decima from the get go and production is going smooth,so this game is definitely 2019
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Not only do I think it's possible it'll release next year, I also think Kojima is laying down the groundwork for his next game. Kojima has mentioned liking Junji Ito's work so it could be a collaboration with him, though he might also be wanting to collaborate with Peter Tieryas, who he's been praising lately.
Yes we do, they announced they've chosen the Decima engine for the game well after E3, I don't see how it matters if Horizon wasn't out.
I don't think a Kojima game has ever been delayed more than a few months? I think that was MGS4.
Sounds like its hit the fully playable milestone, it can take another 12-18 months before its shipped, looks like it's coming out Q4 2019/1H 2020.
He probably meant gameplay as in interaction with the world, and combat. Not just walking around, no one's seriously expecting this game to be a walking simulator.
You don't think they spent the rest of 2016 in pre-production and design phase? The E3 trailer wasn't even in the Decima engine and 6 months later they got a trailer running in it. By the time this game is out, it's had +4 year in total development, with an engine in place, and support from Sony and GG, that should be enough to release a big game.
He probably meant gameplay as in interaction with the world, and combat. Not just walking around, no one's seriously expecting this game to be a walking simulator.
Do too have any idea what Death Stranding is a a game?
No one does
I wouldn't be surprised if it's some sort of interactive film.
Edit: I removed my comment since it was misinterpreted - I have zero information about the release date (and I said so in a later post).
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I hope it is just to see people getting bent out of shape over it while it sails through to win GOTY.
That's because they already have a an allocated engine from Guerrilla, they are only doing small changes to it according to their game basically.
Plus just look at all the technical people behind this.. Especially with Mark Cerny and the folks at Guerrilla giving a hand on the technical side.
It's looking good indeed
In English or everywhere?
Death Stranding definitely is 2019. last year sony already said "They've never seen development process at such a fast pace like death stranding".
https://www.dualshockers.com/hideo-...eed-development-teases-new-announcement-2018/
https://www.dualshockers.com/hideo-...eed-development-teases-new-announcement-2018/
damn so holiday 2019 or september 2019 is not out of question for this game . should i play this on PS4 or wait for PS5 patch enhanced version .
This will be my main question for many big titles coming in 2019. ps4 version or wait for PS5 patched version
I'm expecting most of the game to comprise of what was shown - making deliveries (sometimes while having to figure out how to traverse undesirable terrain), exploration, and stealth/avoiding enemies.
It won't be, as we saw him prepare a gun, but if you think of how much MGS is comprised just of traversal, especially in some of the non-lethal ways you can play it, I wouldn't be against something that was mainly focused on movement lol. I know walking simulator is a meme but a lot of my MGS series playthroughs could be seen as crawling, crouch walking, and wall huggin, and walking simulators. Good feeling traversal can still be good!
I think I'll like it, but I'm sure it won't be everyone's thing.
There IS combat in the game, but I really don't expect it to be a major focus.
What a weird thing to want lol
I just want t9 see if Kojima is a Kem to make a game without serious flaws.