Death Stranding - Hideous Kojumbo does it again

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Sinners Sandwich said:
Kojima trolled everyone with his galaxy brain!1 He is such a genius! :roll:
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No it's just that Gaming Journalists are lower lifeforms and I refuse to think of them as people.

Replace animal testing with testing things on Game Journalists, animals can at least work or perform a service.
 
Given the reviews I'm seeing this game is pickled beets. The people who love it, love it. And the who don't like it bitch like they've been tricked.

I watched a few cut scenes, and they are bloated af, but they are also well acted and the story is compelling to me.

I'll probably want to get this Daryl Mpreg fanfiction fever dream when it comes to PC.
 
GnomeofDoc said:
Think of the mods.... My god this might be quite epic as a famous man from the Tribe once said.
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It would be great if they made the same mistake that Beyond: Two Worlds made with Ellen Page, and they mo-capped and animated Norman Reedus' entire dick and balls and you just need a camera angle mod to see it. He'd probably be okay with it though.
 
The building aspect is honestly enticing, unlike the rest of the story. It seemed great from streams, I just have no interest in it myself.

Sucks that buildings crumble slowly though. A streamer saved ~100 mins of walking through ziplines. Imagine playing it 6 years from now; literal triple-up on time investment.
 
It's a pretty slow crumble, I think the ropes I built Friday fucked off last night, buildings and stuff look like they last much longer then that even if no one repairs them or upgrades them to level 3 where they get even more timefall resist. I wonder if the game adjusts material costs for offline players though.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
It's a pretty slow crumble, I think the ropes I built Friday fucked off last night, buildings and stuff look like they last much longer then that even if no one repairs them or upgrades them to level 3 where they get even more timefall resist. I wonder if the game adjusts material costs for offline players though.
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I think they are the same price. So.... Good luck on those road resource grind in five years offline people.
 
I have a few hours into the game so far. I like the story, characters and environment. I'm not really digging all the micro management that's required. The menus all seem to be overly complex, and the font is too small. I'm still going to try and finish it. Don't really have hours a day to devote to it so I have a feeling it's going to take awhile.
 
Death stranding's protagonist is a metaphor for The Artist. The Artist builds bridges, and in a sense Sam Porter is Kojima's self insert. He wants to bring people together again, and he does that via his art. Bringing us closer to one another through shared experience is the Artist's highest calling.

This game is incredible, but it's not gonna be for everyone.

Notice how there are 'Knot Cities'? Sounds like 'not cities', right?
They're not cities, they're people brought together, strands that form a knot.
The Mayans told time and stories with knots. Knot calendars. Individual strands forming stories, knots.

The black goo that drags you down is all metaphor for losing faith in your creative convictions, for allowing yourself as an artist to swallow the proverbial black pill and give up. The baby is the artist's inner child and must be guarded & nurtured. The proverbial inner child is the source of innocence and earnestness that fuels the artist. In the game, that child allows Sam to see his path and avoid the darkness.

Kojima's clever af but some of his metaphors do get hamfisted. It's his earnestness that allows for the leeway his on-the-nose characterizations require in order to work the way they do.
 
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Recoil said:
Death stranding's protagonist is a metaphor for The Artist. The Artist builds bridges, and in a sense Sam Porter is Kojima's self insert. He wants to bring people together again, and he does that via his art. Bringing us closer to one another through shared experience is the Artist's highest calling.

This game is incredible, but it's not gonna be for everyone.

EDIT to add: Notice how there are 'Knot Cities'? Sounds like 'not cities', right?
They're not cities, they're people brought together, strands that form a knot.
The Mayans told time and stories with knots. Knot calendars. Individual strands forming stories, knots.
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I think I already want to kill myself seeing this "the game is awesome, people just don't get it" shit. Not to target you specifically, dude, but I remember this horseshit defense getting trotted out after MGSV's joke of a story was getting picked apart.
 
HeyYou said:
I think I already want to kill myself seeing this "the game is awesome, people just don't get it" shit. Not to target you specifically, dude, but I remember this horseshit defense getting trotted out after MGSV's joke of a story was getting picked apart.
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I feel you dude, no offense taken, but this game is what happens when you give autism (and legit talent) unlimited creative leeway. I myself enjoy it, but is it appealing in the way a COD title is?

Fuck no.

If you approach it with cynicism it falls apart. That's kind of the point. Your choice to approach it with earnestness is your choice to build a bridge between you and it and others. It's meta in a different dimension than I've seen before.
 
Recoil said:
If you approach it with cynicism it falls apart. That's kind of the point. Your choice to approach it with earnestness is your choice to build a bridge between you and it and others. It's meta in a different dimension than I've seen before.
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I will admit though. Seeing everyone come together to build 3D printed roads in order to make your journey that much smoother is a brilliant design choice. I hauled a shit ton of materials around Lake Knot just so i could repay strangers for their time. It ironically adds a degree of life to the game world and incentivizes others to do the same.
 
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Commander X said:
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I too enjoy my Monster and watching Ride with Norman Reedus on AMC while doing my job to rebuild America.

It was jarring when those very obvious product placements came up, but I really enjoyed FF15 and that was swimming with some good old advertising.
 
GnomeofDoc said:
I too enjoy my Monster and watching Ride with Norman Reedus on AMC while doing my job to rebuild America.

It was jarring when those very obvious product placements came up, but I really enjoyed FF15 and that was swimming with some good old advertising.
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Yeah, but the stuff FF15 was advertising won't kill my gallbladder.
 
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