Kojima talked about this, members of his team thought the game will be boring due to the same reasons you listed yet they really liked it after playing the game, what would have been boring in a game like is having traversing being like every other game but thankfully Kojima went a different route, with not much focus on combat just the act of walking from one point to another will keep people engaged.
Hold up, here's where you lost me.
Well I don't know if there's an option to turn that off, but it sounds like this possibly will not be a game you're interested in.
Should have known you're not here with a good intent but just the usual shitty pretentious posts like the others, carry on.
What criticism? you insist that you just walk in this game from one point to another but it is just not true.
Sure, if you reduce the traversal gameplay shown to just "walking" as if all you're doing is holding forward for an hour, then yeah I wouldn't get the hype either
Because the therm Walking Simulator is used to downplay games that dont have any kind of gameplay other than walking around gathering clues to unlock story segments, like Firewatch, Gone Home, Gone To Raptor and many other story focused games. And Death Stranding has as much gameplay as the next action game, is just not action focused but thers alot of gameplay mechanics in place just from the traversing part of the game. In top of that thers also segments of shooting action, melee combat, stealth, boss fights, etc in it as well.
I imagine they mean gross in the "blatant/glaring" sense, not the "disgusting" definition
Death Stranding is not a Walking Simulator. You dont have to like what you saw from the gameplay though.
Thers more than enough gameplay videos showing many of the gameplay mechanics. Once again, you and others, dont have to like it or find it fun. I dont find Battle Royale games and Dota games any fun, yet they are 2 of the most popular types of games.
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Ppl usually started using the tern to games where the gameplay was pretty much just walking around gathering clues and items to progress trough the story. They are narrative focused games, Like Firewatch, Gone to Rapture, What Remain of Edith Finch. They are all great games.. Ppl just used the term Walking simulator as a way to dismiss a game lack of gameplay.
I don't think anyone's disputing that some find "walking sims" boring
Yeah that is what I am referring to. Like how can someone look at Death Stranding and think it is anywhere near similar to games like Firewatch, Edith Finch, Gone Home and so on?
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I agree with the spirit of your comment, but not with its wording. A game can have all the things you mention, and still feel like it's a walking simulator if you spend >50% of the time just walking, rather than interacting with any of the things that would make it not a walking simulator. When people call Death Stranding a walking simulator, they're obviously not talking about the parts where you don't walk; they're talking about the fact that, no matter what else is in the game, you sure seem to spend a lot of time just walking. And that sure sounds boring!
You already made your opinion about the game. I could post you here a bunch of gifs showing gameplay like gun fighting, mellee combat, boss fights, stealth, riding bike, the treversal mechanics... but im not here to sell u the game.
What other genres or games are like this? The only thing that seems remotely similar in terms of planning routes, managing weight and cargo, considering terrain as a puzzle-like obstacle is Spintires, and that's off-road driving rather than on-foot traversal
Considering how many times that has been done in these threads, I doubt it's effective as you think
You must have understand his words wrong then. He said ppl at start is confused when starting the game because is not a normal shooter or an action game where you start the game already knowing what to expect. Since his doing something diferent some ppl might get confused, but once they start playing slowly they will start getting the game.
