you just have to be patient with BTs. crouch, hold your breath while moving, stop, catch your breath, repeat.not sure about the voidouts tbh.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 March 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
i think i heard that they eventually clear up? i luckily never had one.
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Monday, 23 March 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
I find some of the confrontation mechanics almost deliberately clunky. like, I'll be confronting a BT and trying to throw a grenade at it, but somehow and for a reason I can't work out, Sam decides to freeze. I'm also completely unsure how to use that decoy cargo on MULEs. With them I'm trying to use the Bola gun but mostly I just punch them and they go down fairly easily
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 2 April 2020 07:51 (four years ago) link
Every time I think I’m done making Death Stranding Real jokes, the universe throws me a bone pic.twitter.com/JvNoVYI0pN— Social “Distancing” Snake (@hyenasandgin) April 5, 2020
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
fuck
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q85k2aanvS1rh1xia.mp4
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
that is quite a trip
― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
I’ve seen that a few times and there are a couple tells but it’s still somehow anxiety fuel
― mh, Friday, 24 April 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
lol, you guys need to see the real life version of this that takes place in the first half hour of the 2019 film Aquarela; it will break your mind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDCmNx22AF8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
My wife wants to know where I’m going with all those suitcases on my back. “Just to the store, babe”
― calstars, Friday, 24 April 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
xp looks good
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 25 April 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
That Tracer Hand vid is dope
― circa1916, Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Also marking down that Ulysses rec
― circa1916, Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
I wrote a thing about Death Stranding https://thequietus.com/articles/28177-death-stranding-video-game-review
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
cool article, dl!in other news: death stranding real (and this is not good)
Straight out of a video game: China’s ubiquitous food-delivery app https://t.co/O6kOT9RrJG caught the Chinese internet’s attention this week after testing a powered exoskeleton for its couriers. The exoskeleton endows the wearer with the strength to carry up to 50 kg with ease. pic.twitter.com/4elmxRhLDU— Sixth Tone (@SixthTone) April 30, 2020
― mh, Friday, 1 May 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
Finally completed this last night. As expected, the ending is an increidble piece of exposition wrapped up in genius. Still not quite sure I completely understand everything, but maybe it would be worse if I did. Still need to do the Chapter 15 bonus episode. Looking forward to tracking down the hidden porters and generally bossing the rest of the map with zip-lines and whatnot.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
I've decided to put DS down for a while and go back to zip lining the map and completing the extra deliveries another day. that said, there's a DS shaped hole in my life now which I'm having trouble filling. Other, perfectly good, games seem facilities, Hollywood-ised and sophomoric by comparison. I don't want to get all 'You have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick & Morty' here. It is a game in which you piss grenades after all, but is there anything else on PS4 which comes close to the level of depth; games for grown-up if you will, which prize pacing and patience over pell mell shoot/slash thrills?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
I’m on the second WW2 shoot em up level, have tried and failed about ten times so far. Mads is one nimble fucker. Game slightly insulting when it tells me I can adjust the difficulty if I need to - but f that.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 June 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
i found those really difficult. make sure you’re using the blood rounds rather than normal bullets. i was never able to use the grenades effectively - it was all about the guns.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
they are definitely among the tougher and more stressful parts of the game. they come so unexpectedly and it's a completely different style of game play that it's intensely jarring, truly horrific in places. make sure to scan regularly and pick up ammo. each one took me several goes
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
haha yeah and otm about the patronising way it tells you to adjust your difficulty
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Passed it, now back to carrying bombs over mountains. All good brah
― calstars, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
you got to the (spoilers) heinous mountain bit?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
I miss this game :(Maybe not enough to start fresh again just yet, but it was an arduous journey that I think fondly back on. I made it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
The rest of my life is basically just killing time before the inauguration, is how I look at it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
hah. yeah i finished the game, five starred the first map and zip wired the place, got to the second map and started that but wow this game is at once a slog, a memorable 'arduous journey', a strange meditation on the meaning of everything and also an arcane duty. it has come to symbolise my life under lockdown and I could happily sink a hundred more hours into it. it's sad and hilarious and I love it. I hope it encourages game designers to continue to experiment in similar ways and make challenging games; not challenging as in 'this is really hard' Dark Souls type stuff, but conceptually challenging. the fact a lot of gamers were put off due to the lack of obvious shoot em up action says a lot about the way of the world, and in some ways a more tactful, passive, cerebral approach to entertainment feels like a way out of that
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
it's sad and hilarious and I love it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
if video games are going to continue to be seen as a progressive art-form, like cinema, then hopefully we can see a snowball. looks like DS has paved the way. I feel rather spoilt that this is the second modern video game I've played all the way through in my life and that there's nothing else that comes close to it
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
gamers were put off put off due to the lack of obvious shoot em up action
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
I do like how they were labeled 'nightmares' in the game. in no way were they a glorification of war/violence which is something I dislike about a lot of games
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
I defeated the giant and beat up gold mask face pretty good, which kicked off a massive cut scene which I left the room for...when I came back some time later, Mads was back, still looking for BB...then Amelie pushed me and I'm back in my private room...this game still isn't over???
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
Hahaha no.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
that’s the mid-game boss. how short did you think this thing was? :)
― solo scampito (mh), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
WHAT
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
yeah, you need to add canada to the uca now
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
Funny
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Back in the jungle with Mads—sigh
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
i hadn't played in a while and decided to play on my bday and was gifted with the Mads birthday winky easter egg scene and cake.
― Yerac, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Anyone watch the Winding Refn short? Found it on a data chip somewhere. But I can’t figure out how to watch it. Though my cufflink thing?
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Yes or in a private room, I think? You can get to it by looking at the map?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
i mean the map in the room
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
that's a thought. I've only found one of those data chips so far
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Ugh not going to continue. Fighting mads for a third time just gonna happen.
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
Just NOT
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Back to gta? Ugh
turn the difficulty way down!
it doesn't really matter, and I think the third one was the one I found easiest? if it's the one I am thinking of, I took out everyone but him with stealth
― solo scampito (mh), Thursday, 2 July 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
yeah the third one is the easiest and the last time. you're quite close to completing
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 2 July 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
I think a lot of people are taking the senseless player punishment of this game and somehow reading that as pleasure or innovation. It is neither
― calstars, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link