wth this has me intrigued now:
Its most recurring visual motif is a not-so-subtle gesture towards Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Friday, 1 November 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
"Everything past page 100 of the manual is printed blank"
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
since constructs that can help other players are shared between contacts, do we need an ilx ps4 contact list?
― mh, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
I ask only because I haven’t added any ps4 friends at all and should get on it — I have only one local friend on my pa4 contacts and he plays all older games
― mh, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
From Kotaku:
As I understand it, the game sort of culls the potential objects you see. It prioritizes friends and “stand connections” that you make (which is basically like, the in game version of a friend) and then kinda pulls from a mixture of what is highest rated and what also happens to be around your general vicinity.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
50 hours might be much for me (I still haven't even beaten Link's Awakening!) but eh, maybe i'm in on this
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
i'm not gonna play it for a while sorry you'll have to do without my poorly placed ladders
― ciderpress, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
Death Stranding is a game that demands to be argued over and analyzed for years. It starts rough, and then gets better and better as it goes along, culminating in an ending that is both hugely important to its universe, and also very small and personal to Sam. It has big ideas for things it wants to say, and then it layers them in with heavy-handed messages about togetherness and bonding with your fellow man. It’s also a story about the reconstruction of America that takes place in a world that bears absolutely no physical resemblance to the real America, lending it all an allegorical tone that allows some of its metaphors and weird imagery to breathe in a way they might not if this were a more “normal” or “realistic” game. It’s hard to say if it’s fun, and it’s hard to say if it’s a good game, but it is undeniably interesting in a way that not enough games try to be. If you buy in to what it’s trying to do—if you allow it to make that connection—Death Stranding will stick with you, one way or another.
https://games.avclub.com/death-stranding-is-an-allegory-for-a-broken-america-an-1839481823?utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_content=Main
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
oh no!!
paging sic ;_;
https://games.avclub.com/death-stranding-is-an-allegory-for-a-broken-america-an-1839481823
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
If you buy in to what it’s trying to do—if you allow it to make that connection—
so cheesy in the context of the review (which is otherwise pretty good), which criticizes the game's heavyhanded message about the importance of making connections
but anyway, this certainly does sound...interesting. a lot of the gameplay seems to revolve around navigating the terrain.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
I survived Killer7 and loved it despite its flaws, somebody needs to tell me if it's worse than that
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
I love the fact that you’re supposed to be traversing America but the landscape is essentially Iceland.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
I’m sort of a masochist when it comes to video games so if I literally have to miserably crawl through mud and rocks at the get-go if I sense a grander ~vision~ at play, I’m more intrigued than turned off.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
The ~vision~ will undoubtedly be mostly nonsensical and ridiculous knowing Kojima, but an expensive AAA prestige project like this that seems deliberately anti-fun is kinda rad and likely never to be seen again so I feel like I have to give some time and money to it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
yeah, i'm thinking the same, but i will probably wait for a price drop all the same
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 November 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
will pick it up once they’ve patched in some gameplay
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Saturday, 2 November 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
planning on spending my thanksgiving showing how I’m thankful for Hideo Kojima
― mh, Saturday, 2 November 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
Lol I’ve spent some time watching video reviews and I’m maybe less gung-ho. Might be a “buy at $30” person as well.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
sounds tedious as fuck
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
i watched the entire tim rogers review and bought a ps4 pro
― adam, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
lol nice
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
sony should give him a raise for sure
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
thanks for the review mention, adam. a couple minutes in and it’s already pretty great
― mh, Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
oh god he's going to reuse the pissing and toenail clips every two minutes throughout, isn't he?
― mh, Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
i don't consider myself to be overly squeamish but i had to turn it off early because of that
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
lol i had to look away every time for the toenail, it was at least a dozen times
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 November 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
stop being taking the abuse by that charlatan
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
jesus, this review is towering and makes me want to both preorder it and start an online letter writing campaign against it at the same time
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
deliberately anti-fun seems accurate; it's amazing how much money kojima gets to make these things he's a glitch in the machine and no wonder that's what he makes.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
similar situation to twin peaks s3 but for games and probably not as good
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
tim's complaint that, while the game gives you the option to take a shit for full character immersion, when he makes the character eat nonstop for a month but never take a shit yet there's never any repercussions or in game results is at the heart of why i don't like RDR2. You can do anything but nothing matters. It's astonishingly complex but then a horse appears in midair for no reason. Kojima takes his shit less seriously, less macho focused and more gonzo than rockstar and that somehow works better for me. Anyway, i'm sure i will pay for this and will probably hate it but so fascinating that it exists.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
i mean he's calling it a Seamless delivery person RPG set in the Stalker universe and fuck i guess that's what i'll be doing for the christmas holiday
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
"Death Stranding is basically 'Andrei Tarkovsky's Super Mario Brothers the Movie: the Videogame'"i mean are you in my head right now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
love Tim Rogers but you'd have to pay me to play that game lol, like it's Journey's 90 minutes stretched out over 50 monotonous hours
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
so you're saying you ARE in my head right now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
msotly i want to support the monster energy brand family
― adam, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Good post forks
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Ha, in the Tim Rogers review he estimates it took him about 20 *hours* to get into the swing of things, then quotes Kojima saying it only gets fun at about the *halfway point.* If Rogers says the game took him about 80 hours, that puts it around *40 hours* until it gets "fun." Or, you know, somewhere between 20 and 40 hours. Which is a heck of a curve!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't assume the game is 80 hours, tim is a slowgamer. he said DQXI was 100 hours and i finished that in 50-60
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
60 hours is a number I've seen a lot of, so that is probably more accurate at a good pace. But then we're still talking a couple of dozen hours to get into the swing of things, and/or "fun."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Which lol is probably my usually pace for all games!
Why does Tim Rogers sound like a permanently-sarcastic Nolan-Batman?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
that's the "american explaining art/culture" voice imo
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Close cousin of the 'American podcast' voice, eh? It's quite annoying. Even when he's being sincere it's hard to take him seriously
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I'm likely never playing this game but I also watched that entire video review.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
good combination imo
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Tim Rogers is the worst version of whatever you think he is
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
who's the best version of american game critic with experience in the japanese game industry
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
it's all a coooonnnnnnnnnn
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link