See you on the beach - the thread for Hideo Kojima's DEATH STRANDING

there were at least an equal number of gushingly positive reviews that didn't get factored into that narrative

small spoiler: Heartman, when you meet him, just keeps talking

And that's what I'm trying to figure out! Which experience most closely aligns to my tastes?

i haven't played it yet but reading threads about it reminds me most of the breath of the wild release with how people are excitedly relaying anecdotes of things they found or things that happened to them and are just generally mindboggled at the game existing as it is

I’ve read a few things drawing parallels to breath of the wild! It makes me want to check it out if I delve back into Nintendo’s ecosystem

I'm no gamer at all but I've been following jacksepticeye's playthrough on youtube (I hate reaction videos but watching gamers game is different & he's a nice dude) and it's been addictive and fascinating (almost done, another 5 hours to go I think). Gorgeous Icelandic-type scenery and mysterious sci fi type stuff = me sold

P.S.A. if you're going to check out his channel: he shouts a lot :-)

lol at me finally cracking, buying and downloading this, finding some precious time to play while my daughter has an unusually long nap, and then spending the better part of two hours watching cutscenes and about 15 minutes actually playing

kojima-san you’ve done it again

right there with you; waiting for this to get fun/interesting is taking a while

it is pretty amazing to look at tbf

i thought it was fun/interesting from the beginning, i just haven't had any time to play

i love how it applies these quite familiar gaming tropes of ultra tactical military tech / terrain AR sensing / task loops / skill upgrade paths etc to like, hiking

i’m pretty fascinated by it so far, i just wish i’d been able to, y’know, play it a bit more during the time i had available

This ain’t gaming, this is genocide

so did Kojima come up with the plot after hearing a Chili’s commercial

Are there airport ribs in this game?

spent another couple hours with this tonight and i'm into the rhythm of it now. some nicely tense stealth action at the MULE camp where i was supposed to get the printer, straight out of MGS. i was so wigged and pumped afterwards that i didn't hang around to pick up whatever other loot there might have been besides some of the other stuff that was in the postbox. even just the stuff in the postbox though, i only took a couple of things. i like how the game quickly disabuses you of the long-standing videogame urge to 'pick up everything'. you can't pick up everything. well, maybe you could, but you certainly can't walk with it.

i have questions though. what's up with these distribution points, incredibly hi-tech outposts in a fallen world? who are the MULES? i can't help thinking i want to switch sides. i like their little ramshackle tents. i want to run onto a BRIDGES base, get scanned, somehow shield my weapon from being deactivated, fuck up die hardman. and deadman. i don't like either of them.

“Get the printer” sounds pretty mgs

it is very mgs. the tagging, for instance. it's like the 'no weapons' missions in mgs as the core of a new game.

you haven’t heard the description of who the MULEs are? they’re... a literal cargo cult.

SIGN ME UP

lmao

my experience with death stranding so far pic.twitter.com/4qZUWP3SlE

— PJ (@kickthepj) November 10, 2019

also lmao

Been having a blast with Death Stranding pic.twitter.com/gzxmbc8dmp

— Fast Food Chain (@Braith_Miller) November 10, 2019

:)

also confirms one aspect of the TR1 vibes - it's the only other videogame i can remember where people imitated the main character's walk for weeks

never forget QWOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHCUM_OBCc

casting Mads as a multi-faceted character was a great choice

he's just so cool

here's two hours of Bennet Foddy playing Death Stranding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uScuM6T3Dq8

spent a lot of time last night building out and connecting roads. then put up ziplines out in the mountains where they're desperately needed.

it was a fun change of pace, got kind of addicted to it. looking forward to jacking up some MULE camps for road materials later on.

Has anyone had to do a run to the incinerator? I've read that killing someone means you need to move the body in a hurry to avoid a voidout.

isn't that the first mission? with your momz?

Yeah. Apparently you can trigger an ad hoc mission if you kill someone, though. Watch out when raiding those MULEs, guys!

god i love stranding fools MULEs

I mostly run from them or avoid them! I'm to the point where resources are plentiful at the different supply centers/cities and I just load up a truck instead of raiding MULEs.

Some of the new toys I've received in the late game could make the encounters more interesting, though

and let me just say that Timefall Porter is much better than Monster

i built some ziplines up in the mountains last night too, very satisfying.

i love the bizarre vehicle handling over rocks, reminds me of mass effect 1 kinda

i've been messing around in chapter 5 for way too long, gotta move the story along tonight hopefully.

is that a second incinerator in the mountains between the mountain knot waystation and distro center? i wanted to go check it out but it looked like serious BT country and my playing time was severely limited.

Yeah, there's one up there. I was through there recently, although I ran out of road materials. If you're driving in, the most accessible route is from the southwest corner to the northeast.

iirc there's a building that's not a waypoint straight east, between that area and the nearest craftsman (forget which one) that is a hotbed of BT activity

I'm a little more cautious now because "hotbed of BT activity" gets a little sketchier in the later part of the game

if you like the northern lights, you'll enjoy this part of the game :)

i'm not crazy about the vehicle handling in this tbh. floaty and wonky. minor gripe though.

i've enjoyed this from the outset, but it is a game that seems to get progressively more fun. feels cool having the wilderness slowly tamed as you (and mysterious others) hack out routes.

god i love stranding fools MULEs

Turn back you poxy MULEs?

I'm struck by the balance between the beauty of the landscape, the solidarity of uniting people, and the absolutely fucking depressing backstory every major character has

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqZ5VOoK5s

minor spoiler: in one of the later plot advancing scenes -- one of the few where failing gives you a "continue" screen -- there is totally some MGS-style stealth assassination action

I haven't finished it yet, but was pleasantly surprised when my last attempt made it 3/4ths of the way through using nothing but the handcuff-like strand thing

i am not enjoying this i think

I heard it really gets going after the first 45 hours.

Judging by the totally chill debates nerds are having online about it, it’s evident Kojima did a great job with this game about bringing people together

Downvoting that comment

truly mystified by the haters

just got a "like" from a BT when cutting its strand haha

Why do some people worship Kojima? I've never played Metal Gear and really don't know anything about them, but they seems more or less like a ninja guy sneaking around and shooting people. Was that radical at the time? Are they clever in some other way? Because this game does not seem like those games, and even if someone was really into those games, this game doesn't seem a logical progression.

Someone else should take this one since I never played much beyond the first Metal Gear Solid, but I've gathered that they're extremely idiosyncratic compared to most games that involve shooting people, lots of long cut-scenes involving weird characters and an identifiable voice for dialogue, fourth wall breaking elements, and generally a sense that he was trying to question and push against the boundaries of the game he was being paid to make.

i mean you have read this thread and presumably watched at least part of at least one of the videos that have been posted. surely you have gotten some inkling of an impression of an idea that there's something going on in this game beyond package delivery, and that the metal gear games have something going on besides ninja shooting.