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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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Getting the PC version.
From reading the reviews, I do not agree with the scores at the end of the reviews. That is all.
Like Doritos weekly? Who is that and why are they reviewing the game
Betting on somewhere between 75 and 85. And I'm still not quite sure what the game is about, besides Reedus trying to reconnect a fragmented society by delivering packages?
A "boring movie" is also maybe only 2 hours? Sometimes 3?
This sounds like it's ranging from 40 to upwards of 80.
Do you believe those things about them? Would explain their attitude.
I've spent a lot of time with other professional reviewers and a lot of them tend to give that vibe tbh. It's kind of annoying, reminds me of the comic book guy from the Simpsons.
Hard disagree here, I think that 2019 has been amazing so far, some really good Nintendo exclusives and some great third party games, even some surpries like AI or Disco.
Geoff Keighley will hack his own awards to make it win just so he can rekindle his BFF with Kojima-chan.
I think he's actually jealous. He tweeted about the game and the only like I saw from those I follow was Naomi Kyle. He even tweeted at Kojima but no return, bwaaa!
This whole thread is just people making a fuss about the opinions of others. Find some humour in the silly numbers.
I find the term walking simulator to be disrespectful when a game is striving for something way more than just that. I think Death Stranding would be one of those games where people would change their negative perception of the game when they actually play it.
Yep, yep and yep. All the scenes I've watched looked terrible too, bad dialogue and mocap animation, like a cheesy anime.
Easy game for me to pass on. I'm curious to see how people look back on this game a few years later though.
On that note, I think DS is actually EXACTLY what I expected based on all the current hearesay.
Not surprised to see its divisive in certain ways
Like that the reception is positive overall!
Like that the reception is positive overall!
Because there a quite a few people who dislike Kojima and wanted this to be a failure from the very beginning on.
Anyway, the scores are amazing, especially for a game that tries to push the boundaries and provides a completely unique experience.
One thing we all knew was that the game would be incredibly divisive. And it also seems like all the gameplay we've seen is representative of the final product
Reviews as expected. Overall good but some hard outliners.
It was obvious that this isnt a game for everyone. Personally i cant wait. Sounds like my kind of game.
Sometimes i prefer a game that tries to be different and is not as safe as possible.
It was obvious that this isnt a game for everyone. Personally i cant wait. Sounds like my kind of game.
Sometimes i prefer a game that tries to be different and is not as safe as possible.
I can't but wonder, "if this game was made by another developer, and this was the result, would we have the same reactions?"
Cutscenes look impressive, characters look greatly detailed--especially seeing recognizable actors and Guillermo del Toro; environments look barren but beautifully presented and very interesting at times. The gameplay... well, there's some variations there by most reviews accounts... but in the biggest scale, is the game great?
Lately we - as a community, have become quick to judge and go really hard when smaller developers or big ones dont deliver a fun, perfectly expected product. We go on and on pointing out their every flaw and lack of innovation, or the opposite, changes to gameplay or style usually forgetting to recognize their efforts to do something different, or to bring something new.
I'm sure at some point I will play Death Stranding. Right now I'm just confused. I just kind of wish the same treatment we give Kojima was given to everyone.
Cutscenes look impressive, characters look greatly detailed--especially seeing recognizable actors and Guillermo del Toro; environments look barren but beautifully presented and very interesting at times. The gameplay... well, there's some variations there by most reviews accounts... but in the biggest scale, is the game great?
Lately we - as a community, have become quick to judge and go really hard when smaller developers or big ones dont deliver a fun, perfectly expected product. We go on and on pointing out their every flaw and lack of innovation, or the opposite, changes to gameplay or style usually forgetting to recognize their efforts to do something different, or to bring something new.
I'm sure at some point I will play Death Stranding. Right now I'm just confused. I just kind of wish the same treatment we give Kojima was given to everyone.
I'm 100% down for this. I read very little to avoid spoilers, or even avoid too much non-spoiler foreknowledge, but it sounds really interesting. I love "boredom" in games - long quiet periods, simple goals with complicated solutions, stuff like that. Plus I also love sort of weird feeling character controls, like Red Dead Redemption 2, where it's possible to slip and fall down a hill. Sounds like a game I'm going to love.
A bit higher than my 81 meta prediction. In other words, it's not a masterpiece but it's still solid. Either way, it's great for a first effort on an entirely new IP, working on a new engine, as a new studio. And with only 80 devs too.
Schindler's list is also a movie of a few hours length, and also a movie I would have to be in the right mindset to actually watch. Movie's are much shorter so I don't think the comprison is apt to this.
Well they have to be entertaining which means fun. I think there's kind of a fallacy that 'fun' means explosions and being colourful like a Nintendo game, all critics seem to have a game they like that doesn't fall into that category like Shenmue, Journey or Telltale's The Walking Dead. If Death Stranding isn't entertaning then it just isn't fun.
hah
I disliked Valhalla Rising to the point I didn't bother finishing it, so that's a failure in my eyes. Although to be honest the only Refn movie I've watched that I actually liked is Drive.
You got it boss, thats what the game is about in essence.
Some reviewer reactions are hilarious but not in the way they're intended to be. A few of them are bored out of their minds with their jobs and jaded with video games and an AAA one comes along challenging them (by being boring occasionally on the surface apparently) and they completely mock it.
yeh, people need to get of their high horse
'oh you must like cod', yes I do, what's the problem?
Very mixed impressions. I was sceptical and still am. Saw a video where you lose all your goods while traversing and fighting. I can see how having to manage all this can be an important concept but will I be pissed off by it quickly when my packages run down the river stream? Possibly. Still unsure whether the game tells a compelling story, I thought reconnecting cities in a fractured world sounded like a cool idea, but I'm not sure how much meat the game has in this aspect. Given it's Kojima, I thought it must be a strength of the game, but now I'm unsure. Also, I'm pretty busy with life so I might just jump in some time later.
Let me say one thing though: I'm glad Death Stranding exists. We need more ideas, more creativity and breaking outside the usual paths to advance gaming. I'm just not sure if this game really does it. And I never liked the term walking simulator, I've had great experiences with these type of games and they are definitely about much more than walking...
Let me say one thing though: I'm glad Death Stranding exists. We need more ideas, more creativity and breaking outside the usual paths to advance gaming. I'm just not sure if this game really does it. And I never liked the term walking simulator, I've had great experiences with these type of games and they are definitely about much more than walking...
There is DEFINITELY some of that going on
Some of the reviews fucking read like slanted hit pieces on Kojima and the games promotion and less about the game itself
Not saying there aren't plenty of criticisms but its looking like the game is less divisive on average than you would reasonably expect from a Kojima game
Is it just me or does this damning excerpt from IGN instead sound...awesome? Like I get that it might sound beyond tedious to some, but to someone like me who loves this kind of stuff it sounds cozy af. My favorite hours of breath of the wild were spent ignoring fast travel shortcuts and carving my own path through the world, making decisions about how to climb a certain mountain or how to reach a distant location and dealing with the weather along the way. Of course in BOTW that exploration was supplemental to the actual game, where in DS it seems like it IS the actual game so it probably weighs thin much much quicker.
I'm just glad that we're at a point where such an expensive specifically wild oddball game like this can exist, one that doesn't really give much of a shit about pleasing everyone.
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Nope, but sadly your comment and the ones I gave as a example are the typical stuff some say to discredit their opinions on games, and frankly I find it absurd.
Yo yo yo yo that IGN review has a score that's almost as bad as Alien: Isolation, and that game I loved. Maybe the same thing will apply here! lol
Yet this didn't keep Ico, a game where you fight as an untrained boy with a stick protecting a helpless girl, from getting a 90 metacritic and inspiring the gaming world. Not many would say Ico is exactly fun, but it is engrossing as an experience.
For those reviewers, Kojima failed to give them an engrossing experience.
About what I expected from Kojima. Seemingly the game has a lot of touches of brilliance, but hidden underneat dozens of hours of repetitive gameplay and overexposition cutscenes. Sums up my experience with latter MGS games. Not a game for me.
So the main game play loop is a delivery simulator with ridiculous inventory management. You traverse the world where you can interact with other user placed objects (Bridges, ropes, roads etc, whether these are useful items or people trolling you) which give you the ability to maintain, like, dislike (even set signs to say do not use if they are troll object ?) and you have upgrade abilities to increase the "like" window (where you can spam like as many times you want till the timer runs out).
So a game set for travel and traversal of delivery quests, a mass open environment giving a sense of solitude and then interacting with user objects with social media like qualities (liking, disliking etc). That sounds like a total conflict and impacting of the immersion that this game should have.
Not for me this one.
So a game set for travel and traversal of delivery quests, a mass open environment giving a sense of solitude and then interacting with user objects with social media like qualities (liking, disliking etc). That sounds like a total conflict and impacting of the immersion that this game should have.
Not for me this one.
Agreed. And attempting to lean on the support of "artistic expression" when you've adopted near universally loathed game mechanics of the modern era as a foundation of the core gameplay loop, well, you end up with a mediocre review score. And mediocre relative to expectations, investment and talent put into the title (for those questioning).