To you completers- do you intend on playing through it again or are you putting it down now?
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Death Stranding |OT| Peace Walker
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Had this hilarious moment in Chapter 5
I was carrying Mama to Mountain Knot and right near the end she was in this exposition. I fell backwards off a rock and she took the whole blow. Sam was like "Oh my god, I'm so sorry" and she continued after affirming she was OK 😂
I feel like the main story missions and random cargo deliveries provide enough to get a good experience. Although i'm still on chapter 3 so maybe that will change.
You know, what I'm sorry. I'm misremembering. I planted zip lines to the edge of the chiral network and finished it off when he joined. With that said my total trip was still only about 10 minutes. Because of the way I set them up and my route planning.
As someone who did not like any Kojima's games except MGS2, I was on the fence buying it. I can say it was a good game after finishing it in 28 hours.
I appreciated my time with it.
Soundtrack and sound design are top notch, gameplay feels good (at least the walking part, bike can be a little janky but that's ok). I tried to avoid the multiplayer structures that were already here, especially
, because I felt it made the game way too easy. However I must admit that this asynchronous multiplayer is really ingenious.
My biggest complaints are the combats against the MULES (after one fight I decided to avoid them for all the rest of my playthrough, atleast when it was not mandatory to go retrieve an item in one of their camp).
BT's are not really menacing and the bossfights were...not good
The amount of little cutscenes was also way too much for my tastes (when you go to your room, take a shower and so on, after a certain point I skipped them).
Scenario did not appeal to me until the endgame and the last 2 chapters of the game, the last one especially was fantastic. (and I'm not that big of a fan of cutscenes in general but yeah, this chapter was something else. )
If I have to rate it, it would be a solid 7.5/10, the positives sides overcome the negatives ones and that's the main thing. I'm glad I bought the game and tried it.
I appreciated my time with it.
Soundtrack and sound design are top notch, gameplay feels good (at least the walking part, bike can be a little janky but that's ok). I tried to avoid the multiplayer structures that were already here, especially
the ziplines
My biggest complaints are the combats against the MULES (after one fight I decided to avoid them for all the rest of my playthrough, atleast when it was not mandatory to go retrieve an item in one of their camp).
BT's are not really menacing and the bossfights were...not good
The amount of little cutscenes was also way too much for my tastes (when you go to your room, take a shower and so on, after a certain point I skipped them).
Scenario did not appeal to me until the endgame and the last 2 chapters of the game, the last one especially was fantastic. (and I'm not that big of a fan of cutscenes in general but yeah, this chapter was something else. )
If I have to rate it, it would be a solid 7.5/10, the positives sides overcome the negatives ones and that's the main thing. I'm glad I bought the game and tried it.
There was a thread that popped up right around the same time as the initial reviews came out asking the question wether a reviewer should finish a game in order to review it.
I have the sneaking suspicion that was no coincidence.
I'm currently 45 hours in at the tail end of chapter 8 and I'm blown away by what this game does. It feels like next gen. The concepts of upgradable movement systems in this game are so far and beyond what anyone else has done it's incredible to me that people could give this game a 35-40/100
For all it's flaws, this game has moments that are 11/10 and I can't foresee how other games will compare. Any open-world developer that isn't looking at what's been done here will be left stranded on a beach. (Pun intended)
I just finished it and god damn this game.
I hope the people can just finish the game and don't give up middle in it cause it really does make it up.
I hope the people can just finish the game and don't give up middle in it cause it really does make it up.
For some reason speedrunning this game sounds fun. If they get the time down to about 4-6 hours and the tricks aren't too hard i might replay it like that. Not to submit a time, just to play it again quickly.
Otherwise I'm moving onto another game.
Hmm, I disagree. I think the world is pretty interesting and fleshed out. Campy and ridiculous? For sure, but knowing Kojima's past work, that's absolutely intentional. Perhaps on a beat for beat basis it might be a little weak, but I wouldn't call it "dog shit". You are probably coming at it from a different angle though.
Your in chapter 2 which is the tutorial. Get to chapter 3 and the gameplay opens up, don't be afraid to use what other people leave behind.
No I am on chapter 3. I went back to do some side stuff. Guess I should go forward, but still that is annoying.
On a fresh run without the multiplayer? That won't be possible.
Don't agree there; it also really, really opens up later.
It's too bad you didn't use the stuff other people left, that's the best part about the game.
Yeah the story's not dog shit, but it does have dog shit moments.
The game can be played completely offline, right? And they don't put undeletable data on your console, right?
If so, then it has to be possible.
Wish this game had a day/night cycle. I love a good skybox and looking at the same dull clouds gets old
Finally finished the campaign
I really, REALLY dislike the ending sequence. From the moment you defeat Higgs I felt it should have ended like 5 different times but it just kept dragging on and on.
It doesn't help that the bosses are all recycled or feel extremely similar and that half the cutscenes repeat the exact same information again and again. And then you have to watch the credits twice (and I'll Keep Coming has no impact in the scene it shows up).
Just all around an extremely bloated ending. Other than that I enjoyed the game for what it was, but damn I'd be lying if I said the ending didn't sour the rest of the experience.
It doesn't help that the bosses are all recycled or feel extremely similar and that half the cutscenes repeat the exact same information again and again. And then you have to watch the credits twice (and I'll Keep Coming has no impact in the scene it shows up).
Just all around an extremely bloated ending. Other than that I enjoyed the game for what it was, but damn I'd be lying if I said the ending didn't sour the rest of the experience.
I did a really good job setting them up around Mountain Knot City and the doctor. But apparently with my setup that didn't leave me with much available until I got the mountaineer to join up. I did manage to get something good setup after, though. I managed the mountaineer thing pretty well in the end. I snowboarded down the mountain on the cargo carrier and got to the doctor in 10 minutes. It only took me about 12 minutes to make it back. I drove a bike back down toward the terrorist camp and then hung a right and went up the mountain that way. It may have been a bit longer but I avoided all the BTs that way.
Still on chapter 2 just hauling stuff between the three points. It's addicting but I think I should move on now.
I also started carrying cargo for others if I have room, feels good to help someone out out there.
Nothing like walking through the gates with a big haul. Feels good. Val-haul-la
I also started carrying cargo for others if I have room, feels good to help someone out out there.
Nothing like walking through the gates with a big haul. Feels good. Val-haul-la
The distance is too large to beat in 6/7 hours without the online components. Shit I don't think it's possible even with them. This game is a speed runner's nightmare, which kind of makes it a speed runners dream game.
Oh, you meant the time to beat.
I suspect you could beat it that fast because the bikes are extremely fast if you rev them up. Zip lines also are very fast.
Nah, I havent done a single standard order before beating and it still took ~40 hours and I only really had trouble with two end game bosses, everything else was fine. Hell, even completed a few roads too. Game gives more than enough in the main story(especially considering a good chunk of main missions are basically just forced standard orders anyway)
I completely ditched making roads at all once it connected to the district center. Zip lines are way easier and more effective.
The bikes aren't worth shit in the mountains, and the zip-lines benefit the most from the multiplayer. Without it, getting back would be easy sure, but getting to the destination and hooking them up to the chiral network takes a lot of time.
Reved up, feels about as fast as Sam sprinting on flat pavement, maybe even a bit faster. I had to abandon using bikes in Chapter 8 because I couldn't find a path, but i'd bet it's possible to get a bike into that section.
Rain/BT ones cannot be skipped. I skip the delivery ones, but it sucks having to do it every time.
Anything's possible, and I would love to see someone driving them effectively in chapter 8. That would be amazing.
I really want Kojima to make a new game plus with this, where you keep all your gear but the difficulty of the B.T.'s and Mules get ramped up to Dark Souls levels and you can click a setting to skip all the cutscenes.
Cool, thank you! If I can do them again on Premium at some point then I'll just move on for now. Otherwise the completionist in me would want to reload.
It would make BTs so much more scary if it was hard to not trigger a void out, unlike the normal game where it's hard to trigger a void out even if you want to.
Yeah, honestly after the prologue, it started to wear real thin for a good 15 more hours.
Its not until, like, chapter 5 where shit gets somewhat better, then shit hits the fan and its imho amazing from chapter 8 onward.
Just finished the game, there is a lot to wrap my head around. First thing that came to mind though: I really, really expected Cliff to tell Sam that he was actually called Ben Bridges or any other Name with a BB acronym. Cliff calling his Son BB (an acronym for a "piece of hardware") makes little sense otherwise.
Its really not. lts easily the weakest thing in the entire game.
I do occasionally but if you go into the System menu (where you save/load) there should be an option to Log In. I do it right after disconnecting and it gets me right back in 100% of the time so far.
Only when I put my PS4 to rest mode.
But able to reconnect without any issue from the options menu afterward.