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I really hope so.
And I'd put it less down to Kojima trolling and more just bad game design. Not everything's deliberately bad lol, and there are many things in this game that have literally no reason to be as bad as they do (this system, the mass amount of repeatable cutscenes, the UI, etc).
Trolling and bad game design aren't mutually exclusive though. It's obvious what Kojima's intent here is - to make a player feel a connection to these people and when it becomes impossible to increase your connection to them just by completing the mundane quests itself, you are supposed to read the emails later and "feel" that they are "real" characters who have emotions and motivations beyond just giving you instant rewards for doing a game task. He wants to simulate the narrative theme that getting people to connect can be a struggle sometimes.
How he chose to implement that and communicate it is absolutely bad game design though, and instead of feeling "oooooh so emotional and real!" the player probably just gets annoyed and frustrated.
Interesting. I suppose its cool that the experience is so different for everybody. I think I've only encountered one or two roads built by others, did the rest myself. Still have a few gaps in the road to Mountain Knot.
I just got there the other day and don't recall a song coming up. The game is so minimalistic and random when it comes to music, it's honestly hard to tell. I think there's a song another time you have to go to the city, but I don't want to give anything away.
You mean if a song is played when you travel to mountain knot city for the first time? I don't think so.
If you press the touchpad during this sequence, he says some pretty funny lines. Massive troll indeed lol.
Didn't play for a few days and now I find it reallllly hard to get back into the groove. Damn it
No neither of the two. I still suspect one of the Distribution centre dudes is a highly edited Keanu Reeves. His beard....
But that's just tinfoil hat me
I ask this because i received music from the terminal when arrived at the destination, previous times that music have played on the journey. So i guess this things are unrelated?
If you unlock a song after a mission, it was supposed to play during that mission. The music won't always play when you're on a vehicle or near enemy territory, though. Missed lots of songs because of that.
WHAT? NOOOO.
Altough i was not at a vehicle and you HAVE to pass through a mule camp on the wsy to MKC 🤔
That´s movies director Edgar WrightNo neither of the two. I still suspect one of the Distribution centre dudes is a highly edited Keanu Reeves. His beard....
But that's just tinfoil hat me
The ones that drag you there cannot kill you.
Well shit, I forgot he was in this I thought he had longer hair. That's cool to see, I still haven't found the other Sam yet he should have been the one at Lake Knot City instead.
The grabbing BTs will take you to the boss unless you escape, that's their function.
You can also reconfigure your controller at a system level if you want to, along with other accessibility features.
Is there any way to know where i have any ''Orders for Sam'' left to complete after have finished the story? From the map it says just total orders available.
Have you done any strand contracts (from pause menu - bridge links)? Pick players with good stats and your map should be packed shortly after that. Last night other players structures and signs started to affect game's performance on my base ps4 and i did dismantled a lot of them.
Have you done any strand contracts (from pause menu - bridge links)? Pick players with good stats and your map should be packed shortly after that. Last night other players structures and signs started to affect game's performance on my base ps4 and i did dismantled a lot of them.
My friends I'm not going to lie. I think DS may have rewired my brain. I'm trying to play Judgment right now and I LOVE the Yakuza games and their formula but it is just not clicking rn.
Traversal in most every open world game is going to seem rather trite after DS.
Have been seeing others with this problem and it seems that the music only triggers if you go on a very specific route
That's part of it and also the insane amount of enemy encounters contrived to add combat. These kinds of things already sort of grated me before but DS might have compounded it.
Honestly this is my biggest problem with the game lol
I liked it, but agreed that it was too much. All the hundreds if not thousands of indie artists in the world, giving one band the lion's share feels over-indulgent.
MGSV's OST was perfect.
Why can't I add a deep fried filter over Sam punching the camera
IIRC most of shit was just random outtakes while he was rigged up in Mocap gear lol. Like he would wipe his face on his sleeve and Kojima in a spontaneous moment of inspiration would ask him to do it again.
I kinda dont like at all how everything feels like its made out of plastic, even rocks. It really really doesn't feel good at all, didn't have that issue in Horizon
Also I got roads appearing out of nowhere, guess something got taken in account when I stopped playing
Also I got roads appearing out of nowhere, guess something got taken in account when I stopped playing
Last night I spent two and a half hours completing the road to South Knot City, so now I can drive unobstructed from Lake Knot to South Knot and back. Feels good.
I'm right up against my chiral bandwidth though. Is there a way for you to only ha e your structures appear on the map so you can deconstruct them? I've forgotten where all I've placed things. But I also don't want to deconstruct anything with a lot of likes since that's useful to people.
Is that why I'm not getting any progress on some deliveries? I delivered a shit ton of stuff to Lake Knot and The Elder, and neither of them had their stars go up at all.
I'm right up against my chiral bandwidth though. Is there a way for you to only ha e your structures appear on the map so you can deconstruct them? I've forgotten where all I've placed things. But I also don't want to deconstruct anything with a lot of likes since that's useful to people.
Is that why I'm not getting any progress on some deliveries? I delivered a shit ton of stuff to Lake Knot and The Elder, and neither of them had their stars go up at all.
Your own structures are a slightly different colour on the map (green compared to blue, I think) but I'm not sure whether there's anything else.
Though the game's UI is missing a whole bunch of stuff that should have really been there. That you can't even do simple stuf flike know your vehicle's durability/weight limit is ridiculous.
Yep, but I do think that the progress gets 'banked' for when it's actually ready to progress. Just delivered something to the Film Director and he went up by two stars as once. So it's still shit game design but at least those hours aren't wasted.
Yeah. I feel like the UI has a lot of great stuff, but is missing several QOL things that either need to be patched in or must be included in a sequel. The map is huge and cluttered with all sorts of icons, there needs to be a way to sort stuff.
Ok, great, thanks. Good to know I'm not wasting my time, especially since there's a lot of stuff in this game that already wastes it.
And an MP3 player.
It's ridiculous that MGS4, one of the least gameplay-heavy Kojima games, has a music player but Death Stranding where you're literally just walking for the majority of your playtime doesn't.
Personally I think the UI and things like invenetory management are pretty damn well done especially in comparison to what a clunky mess it is in other games with less actual inventory management and menu navigation than DS. There are certainly some issues like some weird sorting issues like how blood bags automatically get put into your utility pouch when sorting but armor plates don't automatically attach to your suit using the same function. Also the text is tiny and that sucks.
Deleting other peoples stuff only removes them from your game world. It would be a mess otherwise.
Gotta save something for Death Stranding 2 when you can cause void outs in other people's worlds
That will will lesson the impact of the moments where they chose the music to play.
Ok now that I noticed it, the music is not playing for me either. I guess it comes down to adaptive music where game algorithm just can't find a quite enough time to trigger a song? Just finished Chapter 8 and the music has played just 3-4 times.
Also where is the music Player option? It was supposed to be in the cuff-links menu but its not there anymore.
Also where is the music Player option? It was supposed to be in the cuff-links menu but its not there anymore.
It being optional would've still been nice, as it would've helped a lot with the tedium of traveling everywhere.
Finally finished. Just under 46 hours. Was considering staying up last night as I thought I was nearly done. Yeah...no. Thats one long ending sequence.
I really liked the game. Yeah, theres some annoying stuff in it and some UI stuff that should have been included, but I dig what Kojima was going for.
Now I can finally watch the launch trailer, read the reviews and catch up on the ton of DS threads.
I really liked the game. Yeah, theres some annoying stuff in it and some UI stuff that should have been included, but I dig what Kojima was going for.
Now I can finally watch the launch trailer, read the reviews and catch up on the ton of DS threads.
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If you're finding the traveling tedious you aren't gonna go far anyways unless you hate yourself.
