Gamesradar: 'I have seen Death Stranding at Gamescom and I finally understand what's going on'
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Yeah, tbh i'm not sure where he's getting the pilgrimage sim from, once it's revealed that all he saw was a cutscene and the same gameplay snippet we all saw.
That's the premise, but where would all the stuff we've seen in previous trailers fit in the walking simulator scenario ?
Not that I would mind it being just that, since it looks like HK made sure to include some "gameplay" in the walking aspect.
That's the premise, but where would all the stuff we've seen in previous trailers fit in the walking simulator scenario ?
Not that I would mind it being just that, since it looks like HK made sure to include some "gameplay" in the walking aspect.
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on topic ive def got botw vibes since the e3 trailer and im excited to try it
It was horrifying to conclude such a series like that. I'll never forgive Konami, Kojima, their pets and anyone else involved.
There's a lot to hate about MGSV. VOCAL CHORD PARASITES ad nauseum, Quiet's entire existence, the weird, weird shit with Paz, Skull Face being casually disposed of like halfway through the game, the complete and utter lack of a second half...
The gameplay is just so damn good it kind of bridges over most of my hatred. I've never had a game like that before where I hate the narrative so much but enjoyed the core gameplay to such an absurd degree. I miss those mechanics, and I'm so mad we're never going to see a successor to them.
I'm more curious than hyped.
Can't be hyped for a game we know nothing about. So far it's more like a $60 movie ticket.
Can't be hyped for a game we know nothing about. So far it's more like a $60 movie ticket.
You are constantly hyperbolic. If you're out, you're out, and maybe stay out? But chances are you'll probably realize you jumped the gun in judging this game Without enough knowledge.
I actually agree with many who say that Kojima has been too slow to reveal the gameplay loop. It is mostly to blame for hyperbolic hottakes like Planetsmasher's. But he said clearly during gamescom that he's just showing "a little bit of gameplay" at gamescom and more to come in TGS. Plus, enough people who have seen it were impressed enough by it to praise it. So I'm gonna hold off on being too critical until I know what is going on on this game.
Again, not justifying kojima's mysteriousness, but also not appreciating these jumpy hottakes.
The vocal chord parasites were meh, but the whole "language connect us" thing was interesting. If i am not mistaken, the parasites where not mentioned in the trailers but the importance of language was. I liked the idea that the villain was going to use language to achieve his goal.
Quiet sucked hard and she had no place at all in the game.
That weird Paz sequences were good. It added to the story and it all made sense in the end when you learn that you are not BB, your brain is all fucked up thanks to Zero, Ocelot and the pieces of her body that are embedded within you.
I liked that a lot.
I believe that if we had the complete game it would make sense for skullface to die so early in the game.
The Phantom Pain is not just about the limbs that they lost but the pain they still feel even after having killed the enemy.
During the second half of the game the enemy is you and i believe we were supposed to see how BB became a demon.
MGSV was never finished, just like peace day never came...
I agree to a degree, but I was so mad about the story and the voice acting and the "ending" and the 2nd half, and the fact that you are venom™ that I played it once and never came back to it. First MGS game I've ever done that with.
It was a character spotlight trailer made specifically for Gamescom and Mr Keighley. Kojima confirmed that we'll see a lengthy gameplay video at TGS this year. Over half of this 6 minute video was not about walking or climbing. There was a POI on the mountain in the Ludens Fan container.
Sure you can climb MT. Doom in BotW but don't you remember the preparation involved for taking on such a task? That's also where the fun lies. I believe Death Stranding will have similar challenges.
Do note that Death Stranding also has what appears to be a motorbike of sort, I'm sure players will be able to travel great distances on this vehicle.
We have seen what seems like an enemy camp, dilapidated building, underworld, underwater, etc. Every single combat shrine in BotW looks and plays the same, afaik.
Death Stranding has BTs (other world creatures), Mules and Homo Demens (militant separatist). Death Stranding's landscape changes in real-time. Grass and plants die and grow around the player.
Glider, and shield boarding should not be considered on foot traversal mechanics. I'm not sure why you bought these up. Death Stranding has balancing mechanics on terrain, in wind, climbing, running down, crossing rivers, etc.
We currently don't know if there's additional equipment for traversing in DS. But I highly doubt we've seen everything it has to offer as far as traversal is concerned.
You are incessantly stating how boring it might be for one to traverse in this game but all of this is based on nothing but a short character spotlight. I find your opinion rather rediculous - why not stay neutral until you've seen something substantial?
Kojima's female treatment is disappointing, there's no doubt about this. But we weren't even discussing this aspect. Did you bring it up to score a point or something?
E3 2018 trailer was also a showcase of different environments and delivery tools. You probably failed to recognise this, and are stuck on just one aspect which is part of almost every open world game; walking.
The third part of your post choke is full of assumptions. And all of it is negative.
BotW first showcase was link riding on a horse in the woods. Imagine if I based my critique on that one segments, and assumed the rest. That's what you're doing. Let kojima show his game at TGS, if you don't like the gameplay loop then that's fine. But try to stay neutral on this game until then.
What was silly about MC dodging and running away from the mules?
The way you are reducing some of these gameplay and explorative elements found in Death Stranding is simply baffling, all things considered.
You'll see more soon enough.
No i liked it too. It just felt short and unfinished. More like rushed near the end. Something previous MGS games did much better.
From the initial Impressions I got when the game was first revealed and especially now after reading the OP; the game sounds like a more Sci-Fi version of this movie:
Yo, DS sounds exactly like Kojima's tale 9n this movie, in video game form. I'm excited.
It's not bad; the whole language/identity theme is a clever premise and there are many interesting references to literature, cinema and music.
It's the small devices that don't really work imho; the parasite killing anyone who speaks english is a bit too far fetched for my tastes, for example.
The problem, though, is how most of the story is told; it's hard to even piece a summary together because of how it's presented and i'm pretty sure a lot of people don't really know the actual story being told here and just picked up the final twist and the lack of a satisfying conclusion.
Previous games were very good at presenting their incredibly (and sometimes unnecessarily) convoluted stories in bits simple enough to digest and, above all, in entertaining ways. Even if you missed the intricacies and the numerous sub-plots, there was still a lot to chew.
Sounds 100% up my alley. I like exploration and foot travel in games, I like the themes of Death Stranding, and I like spontaneous injections of sci-fi weirdness and heightened style. This game looks so awesome.
I dunno about narrowing all of what we have seen down to that.
One can say that BOTW is a Ubisoft "comm tower"-fest, while partly true, that would just make you look bad.
edit: wtf don't know how i ended up in this thread quoting that post btw. Thought this was the gameplay thread
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