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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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That's ridiculous to read. No way I'm buying this game, I've read the combat and boss fights are not well done either. I guess it's just Fallen Order for me in November.
If you visit Eva Lavante she will turn your yikes in mispent youth token's for some glimmer and platetary materials
I am very positive about the gameplay. So read more reviews :)
From what I have read, the game shines when you connect to the Internet. While I prefer playing alone, this could be the first real game that I engage in online interactions. I did it a bit with Bloodborne but I enjoyed the game much more offline.
DS could be different. I see myself playing online a lot.
DS could be different. I see myself playing online a lot.
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Why would he do that when he's responsible for creating some of the best gameplay And level design in the industry though?
Whats there too imagine?
As a long time MGS fan, Kojima has been nothing but disappointing since MGS3.
MGS4-Terrible boss battles with somehow even less story relevance than 3's. Half assed "stealth on a battlefield" concept the game drops halfway for a terrible and tedious chapter 3, a whatever "just run through it chapter 4, and a lazy "eh 2 rooms of stealth chapter 5". An embarrassing story that chooses to over explain, retcon, and just shit on plots and characters from the previous game.
PW-A stealth game for babies where you can just go in the corner and snipe every enemy, made even easier to do on the console versions. Yet also one of the most tedious and somehow grindy game. Oh you liked MGS games that kept coming up with cool senerios? Well fuck that repeat the same missions to grind for weapons so you can make the boss battles less tedious. They aren't hard, just not all balanced. Also enjoy a story that shits further on MGS3. You thought The Boss was a noble character and her sacrifice was of her own agency? Nope, heres Hot Coldman to take away that nice thought.
MGS5-Boss battles? Dude we stopped having an imagination with those like 3 games ago. Characters? We got a half naked lady you can oggle and further taking away the teeth of Ocelots character. Story? Whats that? Gameplay? Well it feels good to play, but its surrounded by boring mission design and a tedious open world you have to wallow through to get to them.
It's no surprise Death Stranding has come out the way it sounds like it has. The man has not been able to tell a coherent or worthwhile story in over a decade. Hell his attempts have only shat on the crown jewel of the series. His games have been tedious and overblown since the focused days of MGS3 and MGS2.
He's been a hack. This game looked like nonsense and his own ego stroking since it was revealed.
Just highlighting reasonable takes that will get buried in minutes.
absolutely nailed it! i loved death stranding too, and i find my taste in games usually lines up with yours so it was really nice reading this. i can't blame people for not liking it, but i really loved it.
I really am shocked to find out the stealth and combat is poor. Even an unfinished game like MGS5 had GREAT combat and stealth. Kojima already had a blueprint!
Good boss battles would be great to break up the monotony of GTA side questing in a barren world.
Not the same thing.
The issue seems to be that some critics don't find the gameplay fun at a certain point. Destiny has plenty of fetch quests but they're almost always short and the core gameplay never stops being fantastic. It's also not a story-heavy game like Death Stranding is. Expectations are different and context is important.
IGN gives an example of a fetch mission that took 50 minutes and was frustrating the whole time. There is nothing like that in Destiny. It's a different kind of game.
I absolutely loved the mountain area but, also, you don't need to do that. There are other ways. That's the beauty of it.
I think this is against the thread rules because it posts info of the writer.
However I do agree he's a piece of shit who knew if he wrote a controversial review, he'd bring clicks to his site I had never heard of before.
Great post. your tech analysis is great but I really enjoy when you get into game criticism and analysis as well
Fallen order?
Why do people keep saying this?
Game could be interesting without the walking
I never really understood the franchise potential of monosodium glutamate, but that's just me.
The lol thing here is that people are surprised by some of the low scores.
But a score of 4 always meant a bottom of the barrel shit. 5 never meant a middling, serviceable game. And below 5 are just variing degrees of awful. Doesnt really matter if its 4 or 2. Game scores can only be compared in the same genre was what i was saying. You cant compare death stranding's score to that of a sports game
This sounds great. I really like the idea of flipping the open world loop, making the journey the star, not the destination.
Never had a post about this game excite me more than this one.
That IGN video review got me thinking that it's not for me either, for now. But the online component and how you can see and use other players constructions to get up mountains etc made me think it might be for me at a later date. I'm definitely keeping my eye on how it evolves. Might be a whole other game if you jump in next year on PC.
Oh please. Based on the reviews, it's not divisive, it's mediocre.
And let me be clear, I'm talking about reviews, not whether the game is good or not. But for any other game, these reviews would not be read as 'divisive' but as 'average'.
With that said, it kinda looks fun to me, and I'll most likely decide to get it and play it soon. And maybe I love it, maybe it ends up being awesome for me - but the reviews are what they are and paint a different picture: an interesting, flawed game. Not divisive.
Thank you for this message. I'm sure it will help some people to better understand what's the emphasis here and why's a different take to most other games.
A score I expected, would probably be a bit lower if not for the brand name of Sir Kojima Sensei. I saw trouble the moment he needed a 50 minute demo to show what the game is about and still fail, and traveling all the way to Germany just to announce his buddy Keighley in the game, and that you can piss in the game.
People expected His Higness Kojima Sensei to deliver the definitive game of this generation, with a score at least in the mid 90s.
It's funny, because that moment in the bottom MGS4 gif was actually one of my favorites of the entire game. Maybe I'm a masochist but I find it very compelling when games try to make you feel the suffering or the struggle of the game character. It's one of the things I loved the most about The Last Guardian and Red Dead Redemption 2. That build up and struggle often makes the catharsis of payoff that much more powerful.Death Stranding as seen by its detractors:
they don't exist....
because those who hate Kojima have made it very clear in every single thread that they do
I get your point but can we not engage in lazy dev rhetoric.
Jedi Fallen Order is totally going to Shadow of Mordor it's way to GOTY.