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On topic - this game looks like shit tbh. Do you really just walk around with boxes and bad mechanics and no matter what, the game ends the same way?
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Death Stranding Dunkey review
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ftfy
On topic - this game looks like shit tbh. Do you really just walk around with boxes and bad mechanics and no matter what, the game ends the same way?
It's nominated in the action-adventure category at The Game Awards (traversal?) and I haven't read about Kojima correcting them.
It's interesting how subjective good gameplay is with a lot of modern critical darlings. Sekiro is divisive. Red Dead 2 is divisive. BotW is divisive. Death Stranding is divisive. All well reviewed games, with people on polar opposites on how good or bad they are to play.
Obviously it should be nominated in the Strand category.
STRAND GAME OF THE YEAR
Yeah well, Icerbone is in RPG, and go play Sekiro as a Devil May Cry game and see what happens.
I dunno, I completed the game, and bad writing, bad animations while walking, terrain clipping, "skyrim" climbing mountains with a bike, lots of repetitive cutscenes ... all of this was in the game. I think the game has some really good things too, mostly the interesting online component, but this review feels far more sincere to me than a "10/10 life-changing experience".
No, you walk around with boxes and good mechanics. The game also has traditional combat though it is mainly focused on the traversal aspect and is built around you putting down tools to collaboratively help other players get around easier with the theme of rebuilding the country.
Oh it's not to be taken seriously. It's his honest opinion but it's played up for laughs
Bad examples. These games are not divisive. Death stranding very obviously is.
I don't know what you're getting at. It's a super expensive video game. Nobody just forgets to remove a line and why do you think it should have been removed?
Both those games fit better into those categories than this one does into action/adventure. It's a janky delivery sim with a big budget and a crowd-pleasing name attached, isn't it?
Good fun!
Still on the fence about this game, I dont really think it looks fun but the soundtrack's amazing and I do want to know about the story.. maybe in the future :>
For real? :S
Still on the fence about this game, I dont really think it looks fun but the soundtrack's amazing and I do want to know about the story.. maybe in the future :>
For real? :S
It felt a bit overenthusiastic to me. The whole everything I learned with game and DS being a culmination of it. I feel that at least to some extend, DS might have been an excuse for this video rather than the cause. The important part was it to be a well crafted video with a positive note about videogames. And Death Stranding offered the perfect plataform to build it on.
But then, you could say I'm been overly cynic here. And you'd probably be right.
The answer is console warriors, same shit for any exclusive worth a damn.
The entire thread.
this post would make for a great pasta, but it's also a great post, if a little aggressively blunt in many areas
much like death stranding is a great game, if a little aggressively blunt in many areas
Also, as a player that has completed the game and found it really weak (I'm not saying it's crap like Dunkey, mostly a 6/10 with some really good things but lots of bad things too), I'm quite tired of the new "the people who doesn't love it, never played it" fallacy. It's dumb, it's cheap and serves as a weak defense tbh.
It doesn't? As far as I've seen, the people who have played it and enjoyed it far outweigh those who have played it and disliked it.
I even know multiple at work who are playing right now and are all obsessed with it, and some of them arent even Kojima fans.
Red Dead 2 is super divisive. There's been a lot of argument over Sekiro's lack of difficulty options. BotW is probably the least divisive, but even that has had a lot of people complaining about game systems such as weapon durability, lack of dungeons, etc.
Exactly
No? Even the perfect scored reviews call it divisive lol. Ive never seen a game this big during embargo drop have reviewers flat out saying they refused to review it because they hated it so much and would be completing it in time for their review drop.
Convince me that Kojima fans and Rick & Morty fans don't operate on the same wavelength.
.... oh.
Who is trying to paint the game as a super deep artistic achievment? Most people in the DS thread say the game isnt for everyone because its a slow paced game with focus in transversal and, of course, the kojimaness of the story. People that refer to DS as a deep artistic game are the one trying to downplay it and say that in a ironic manner.
There is no hidden deep meaning in death stranding. Its in your face kojima and i and a lot of people love this.
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I'm not going to go into depth about the game etc or try to say it's some huge thinking mans game. I will say that the game will always *look* boring, playing it's a different matter. You still might think it's boring, but I'd be surprised if anyone just looking at the game would think it's fun. If the mechanics click with you, it gets addictive fast.
I thought I was totally going to hate the game through and through.
Maybe we should take a photo of our screens and attach it to every post
Are people unironically calling it a strand game now? I didn't even think his fans were doing that with a straight face.
What critical thinking does DS actually require? The story has all the subtlety of an ice pick straight to the prefrontal cortex. If you're on board with the meditative aspect of the gameplay, I can respect that but let's not pretend that the game requires a significant degree of puzzle solving or lateral thinking to transport boxes from A to B.
In certain situations hyperbole/exaggeration can drive points of contention home. Especially if one has strong feelings about said topic in question. It doesn't invalid his opinion/review in the scheme of things.
Are you trolling? You know games don't often have multiple endings and they dont need to right?
I mean....a big gaming publication didn't review it at all because they hated it too much.
It's not the most divisive game ever, but it's clearly not a game that is absolutely love and is polarizing then what some were expecting.
I can't agree or disagree because I haven't played it.
But it definitely fails my eye test. It doesn't look like something I'd enjoy at all. Given that even a few of the reviews that gave the game a 9/10 say it's kinda boring and not overly "fun", can't say I'm interested in giving it a go.
But it definitely fails my eye test. It doesn't look like something I'd enjoy at all. Given that even a few of the reviews that gave the game a 9/10 say it's kinda boring and not overly "fun", can't say I'm interested in giving it a go.
It's an adventure game. It fits well the genre but if you want to go running around full speed with 250kg on your back and not stumble, you're going to have a bad time. Not the games fault, you just don't care about the game's mechanic.
If you try to do 100hits combo in Sekiro it won't work, you can come back here and say is the wrong genre if you want as well.
Why do people hop on the accusation train instantly?
In the review, he states that no matter what, it ends the same way and the gameplay in between means absolutely nothing. That doesn't mean it needs to have multiple endings, but if it ends the same way no matter what you do, that seems weird.
DS gameplay is anything but shitty. The gameplay loop, and game design is actually one of the strongest points of Death Stranding.
Game is not only fun, is also super addictive. You might like it or not, but saying its not fun, is a lie.
Someone seriously posted that a few pages before this, but instead of joker its about the game. It's incredible.
But most games end the same way no matter how you play them. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?
Era opinions are not indicative of overall opinions. Death stranding has far more mixed to negative reviews than all of those games combined and a significantly lower user score as well. Evn the most glowing reviews call the game divisive. Ive never seen so much offense taken to the idea a game is divisive with the reviews and receptions its gotten than this game. To try to suggest any of those games are anywhere near being as divisive as DS is so ridiculous.
so the game doesn't need to have multiple endings, but it needs to be able to end in multiple ways in order to not be weird? i'm struggling to understand what you're asking.
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