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Death Stranding launches on November 8, 2019 (Release date trailer) [New Footage in Japanese Trailer]
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I'm pretty sure that dilapidated building level is where Sam retrieves Mama. There's a scene with her in the latest trailer where she's covered in rubble (?) in what seems to be that building. I'm assuming that's an early game mission where you:
1. Travel to the building
2. Retriever her
3. Travel back and run into the Homodemon from the TGS trailer.
1. Travel to the building
2. Retriever her
3. Travel back and run into the Homodemon from the TGS trailer.
Okay so i've been looking into something. I still think Joosten is in this because of the removal of her name in a motion capture session for death stranding among other things. You just dont make that mistake. Some posters here think Margaret Qualley (Mama) is now the girl in the man with the golden mask trailer on Sam's back. They say the glasses look the same and arguably the face too. That might be true it's her. Until we get confirmation from Kojima though we wont be sure. However, Kojima said he revealed his main cast members but I still think Joosten might be in this.. maybe as a more minor role or maybe her character is being kept in secret. She's visited Guerilla games before and also there's evidence she might have a role.
1. Has neither denied or confirmed she's in except once
2. She said she wasn't involved once but then her manager gave the character on Sam's back a thumbs up via twitter saying thumbs up and Netherlands flag
3. She was deleted as a mention in a mo cap session instagram post by Tommy Earl Jenkins. He later reuploaded the post without her name
4. Kojima wore a Stef Joosten cap once while he was talking about death stranding.
5. Joosten has visited Guerilla games and we know they are the devs of the engine Decima
The only two things possible against her inclusion right now is that she's working on multiple smaller games atm such as Spacelords and Lost Labyrinth. There's also the fact she's not a big name like these actors are even though she's rather big so having her as a main cast member might not be possible. I feel like people would remember her Quiet performance as lackluster among other things even though I disagree with that.
So what do you guys think? Is she an unrevealed character? I feel there's just too much evidence that she might be in as I listed above.
Solid (pun) detective work. I guess we'll see.
Personally I'd love her to be included.
Totally. Kojima also did a great job on sound design, level design, testing, marketing and catering.It's amazing how much Kojima has improved on his character models from his last cross gen game. (technically last gen since it started dev on the ps360.)
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Probably Guerilla's project
Everyone confused her for Mama's character which is played by someone else.
I wonder if she has a cameo here though
the character models in this game are the best i have ever seen in a game, by far. especially mads.It's amazing how much Kojima has improved on his character models from his last cross gen game. (technically last gen since it started dev on the ps360.)
he basically pulled a "see that mountain you can climb it" lol.
It's interesting that while this is an entirely new title, Kojima's interests and directorial style can be seen throughout. Systemically it appears to be an evolution of concepts introduces and explored in Metal Gear Solid V, namely the openly landmass and freeform traversal alongside stealth elements. Only this time instead of being crippled in play space scope and complexity by X360/PS3 tier hardware, the openness appears to be more expansive as per a higher rendering ceiling, and various game systems have been developed to exploit these factors.
Survival elements and stealth with some shooting are obviously drawn from Kojima's history with Metal Gear Solid. This isn't a hard break from his inherent focus of game design, where a new title is an unprecedented shift in genre. I doubt the stealth or action is as focused as Metal Gear Solid (MGSV and MGS4 are particularly robust in stealth details, and the series as a whole is precious for gun porn), but these elements are obviously there and a lot of what he's directed and helped refine over the decades will probably shine through.
And of course narratively this is quintessential Kojima. Already laughable character names and some of the dialogue in the latest trailer is melodramatically hammy as fuck. But that's how he rolls. Life, death, finding purpose in both, recognising and learning from the past, corruption and criminality of military, governments, and corporations. We can see it in the trailer and we know that's Kojima to a tee.
It's just interesting to think about. Expected, I guess. But Death Stranding does very much seem like an alternate future Metal Gear horror spin-off of sort, based on Kojima's own experience directing titles. I wonder how much of Death Stranding is a hold over from ideas originally pitched for Silent Hills?
Survival elements and stealth with some shooting are obviously drawn from Kojima's history with Metal Gear Solid. This isn't a hard break from his inherent focus of game design, where a new title is an unprecedented shift in genre. I doubt the stealth or action is as focused as Metal Gear Solid (MGSV and MGS4 are particularly robust in stealth details, and the series as a whole is precious for gun porn), but these elements are obviously there and a lot of what he's directed and helped refine over the decades will probably shine through.
And of course narratively this is quintessential Kojima. Already laughable character names and some of the dialogue in the latest trailer is melodramatically hammy as fuck. But that's how he rolls. Life, death, finding purpose in both, recognising and learning from the past, corruption and criminality of military, governments, and corporations. We can see it in the trailer and we know that's Kojima to a tee.
It's just interesting to think about. Expected, I guess. But Death Stranding does very much seem like an alternate future Metal Gear horror spin-off of sort, based on Kojima's own experience directing titles. I wonder how much of Death Stranding is a hold over from ideas originally pitched for Silent Hills?
Well, considering Kojima has been shoehorning his ideas into the MGS universe for years, it makes sense that his first post MGS game would have a lot of overlap. You have to remember, Kojima himself has said he didn't want to make MGS games anymore, so he'd take his ideas and just push them into MGS so he could make a big budget game that featured them. ideally, we would have had several new IPs over the last 20 years with this natural progression
Yes that's Kojima's handprint allright. He's good at thinking up connections to a concept, though. Like the whole thing is about Death and Life and coming back to Life from Death. One of the bad factions seems to have a very strong Ancient Egyptian theme to it, with lots of gold and pharao masks, which also resembles the afterlife or eternal life.
To me it also borders a theme of natural disaster and global warming, with the black goo being present and looking a lot like oil (the Black Gold) and how it destroys life and the future of our babies. Together with the beached wales and raising water.
That's what this game screams more to me than the whole 'social connection' he keeps on about.
I read once that he understands it quite well and speaks it more or less but he's shy to use it in public. I would say he does write his own tweets.
The trailer is very interesting, but i just don't understand what is going on. I know that's what alot of people are saying, but man it really is confusing. I still don't fully comprehend the gameplay elements and the combat portion looked a little rough. I wonder if it's only defensive stealth based combat like the trailer showed or if there's hopefully more to it.
It's okay you aren't suppose to know what's going on. You could try make assumptions but it's a lot of stuff for Kojima fans to theorise what the game might be about. To me it looks heavily weird fiction inspired but without the lovecraft (or at least a few steps removed).
Wouldn't it be likely he writes on his own Japanese Twitter account and his assistant translates to the English account?
Here's to hoping this means we're going to get more varied locales other than just what looks like iceland.
I'd ignore the comparison, honestly. I've seen people in reaction videos yell about BotW when he pulls the ladder out. It's weird to me.
Trailer showed both melee and ranged combat. Both will be a possibility in the game.
I'm assuming this. Sorry for the tiny text it's the only pic I could find of such an example.
its mostly the freedom of movement and thinking of how to traverse the natural environment. however, death stranding seems to take a much more realistic take (and IMO looks to pull it off much more interesting ways).
The notion of the world being a mechanical challenge to traverse rather than just a space where stuff is placed. Exploration and traversal becomes a systems-driven puzzle where your tools and item management matter
It looks reminiscent of BOTW in that way
i would love if sony would offer this to more developers:
"hey do you want to make an exclusive title quickly? we can fully fund your game and give you a fully featured high performance first party engine" they also gave decima to supermassive for until dawn iirc. that could be a good way to increase the output of games while saving on the time and cost of the devs spending a few years on an engine.
you are right, it is reaching. because the execution of the ideas is so different that the comparison is useless. anyway, i am excited to see how these mechanics play out in the final game.
MGS games have always felt great to play when they were released. And they still feel pretty dang good, especially the HD Remasters of MGS2 and MGS3.
MGSV blows RE4 (and any Gears game) out of the water as far as gameplay mechanics go, what the fuck. It doesn't have tank controls, to begin with.
You know what, I don't give a flying fuck what you or anyone with that opinion claims. You have never played a Metal Gear game.
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