The funniest part is that according to his post he still bought the game day 1.
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Jim Sterling's Death Stranding "Jimpressions"
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Funny enough the user impressions I've been reading across the web are generally quite positive even if there are criticisms.
I think many people have already echoed this, but I feel that ever since Kojima founded his new studio, there was no one there who said no to Kojima's ideas. Some sort of editor who looks at the idea and evaluates if it's good to include in the game. Kojima has an amazing resume, but we also have to understand that his games were also made by hundreds of people. His greatest games were not all his.
crazy the PC port is priced at $60 for a release 8 months from now. $20 tops, for me. Oh well, I still put it on my wishlist.
Death Stranding is turning out exactly as I imagined it would. Kojima overdesigning things and never willing to subject his stuff to an editor who'll tell him to cut stuff for brevity. He wants to be in Hollywood but he'd never make it there because he could never be concise to save his damn life. It's like the Frank Miller and whores jokes, overdesign and aggressive wasting of player time are intrinsic to Kojima's very being.
DS is the sort of game I can definitely get into and enjoy, but at the same time I can see clearly why people would not like it. It's the sort of creative risk you don't see a lot of nowadays, but you do wonder if some of the stuff they do was really necessary for the game or what they wanted to achieve.
Some games are supposed to appeal to everyone, and they always turn out bland, limp, and soulless.
I have different tastes then Jim but I always respect his opinion on games. That said, we both agree on inventory management and boring systems. I'm now a little concerned about rdr 2. I loved the first one and I was planning to pick rdr 2 up on black Friday.
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That's a fair point actually
Still, it's extremely difficult to pull off and usually not a great idea
hideo kojima: 'i could make a 40-50 hour game that revolved mostly around encumbrance management & package delivery, &, if i added in enough of my weird bullshit, & a number of celebrity-studded cutscenes, it would still get praised as a masterpiece...'
I agree with Jim I have reached the mountain area and I feel this game is a test of patience with very little reward.
I almost stopped playing until Mads Mikkelsens character showed up named Cliff and that's all I know about him so far suddenly showed up 20 hours in I have no clue to who he is or what his deal is.
I almost stopped playing until Mads Mikkelsens character showed up named Cliff and that's all I know about him so far suddenly showed up 20 hours in I have no clue to who he is or what his deal is.
The thing that I don't get is, how is this game 50+ hours? The gameplay seems so basic and repetitive. Is it true there's a 2 hour cut scene near the end of the game? If this game was like 10 hours I'd try it out of curiosity, but that time commitment is insane.
The game will most probably earn way more that whatever money has been "piled into Kojima's random impulses of excess". His games have been guaranteed money makers for over two decades, yet people find it hard to believe they get funded.
To me, that is the sign of a good critic; even if you don't personally agree with their final viewpoint, they still assess the product in such a way that you're able to determine if it's for you or not.
That's him taking the piss out of people still salty over him rating BoTW a 7/10.
His games also cost a shit load to make, which is probably why Konami was getting tired of him. I don't think anyone has ever seriously accused Kojima of making games that lose money, and gamers really shouldn't care if his games only have a tiny profit margin for their cost. That's on a publisher to decide if whatever profit margin his games make is worth it.
I already have my copy since I was able to preorder it on Amazon for 60 CAD. Also that's the thing. I loved RDR 1 but stopped RDR 2 after hitting twenty hours because everything felt a lot like busywork.
I don't know if I changed or it was Rockstar. Most probably me 🤷♂️
yeah he doesn't score reviews at all anymore normally. That was 100% BOTW trolling
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Loving it so far...but nice impressions...
I really loved BotW and it also took me 2 hours in to click. Death Stranding has just wowed me more with presentation so far, not sure if I'll love it as much as BotW yet. Also, don't get the ppl stumbling all over the place lol, the controls are pretty easy to get accustomed to.
I really loved BotW and it also took me 2 hours in to click. Death Stranding has just wowed me more with presentation so far, not sure if I'll love it as much as BotW yet. Also, don't get the ppl stumbling all over the place lol, the controls are pretty easy to get accustomed to.
I don't always agree with Jim's assessments, but I always enjoy hearing them. I think that's how this type of thing is supposed to work. Still running by Best Buy to pick up the game here in a bit though.
But the gameplay in the MGS games was really good... Especially MGS V.
I don't think that's true. For example, dan from gb loved botw and hated this game. The praise for botw was much more universal.
Tiny profit margin? lmao the MGS IP has been the primary money maker for Konami's gaming division for years until MG Survive bombed. DS is also made by a studio of just 80 people with help from GG and a borrowed engine, I wouldn't be surprised if it was also made on a tight budget despite having a star cast. People really seem to overestimate how much KojiPro spends developing their games.
That of course applies to every game ever made - we're all different with highly variable tastes. :)
I didn't like rdr2 at all but loving death stranding so far.
Exactly. I like how he presents this calmly and as his opinion instead of raging that this kind of game exists like some other YouTubers would do. Great video.
Insomniac devs and Bend devs also worked on Death Stranding.
MGS V ended up costing up to 80 million USD (this figure includes FOX Engine as well iirc), Death Stranding didn't cost 80 million, but i don't see it costing less than 40-50 million USD at best. It's not about overstimating how much KojiPro spends, games are expensive to make in 2019, open world titles are also more expensive and having a bunch of well known public figures is not cheap by any means.
Konami bailed out from AAA game development because production cost started to increase dramatically in the years.
MGS 4 was also an expensive game.
Haha ya I don't know why this game pulled me in so quick yet RDR2 I couldn't stand after 2 hours. Mabey I wasn't in the right mindset and should try it out again. After this and Jedi fallen order tho
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Thank God for Jim.
I NEED the Commentocracy with Gamers(tm) explaining how everyone "just doesn't understand ART!!"
