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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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regardless of the game
The production on the Follow God and On God tracks alone though
Sounds like I'll love it.
Easy Allies seem to love it.
It's polarizing.
I'm open minded.
I think anyone who goes into this game with stubborn expectations will be predictably disappointed. The controversy seems a bit No Man's Sky honestly, and I'm just fine with that.
Easy Allies seem to love it.
It's polarizing.
I'm open minded.
I think anyone who goes into this game with stubborn expectations will be predictably disappointed. The controversy seems a bit No Man's Sky honestly, and I'm just fine with that.
I hope GOTY this year will be FFXIV Shadowbringers. Out of fucking nowhere too.
What on earth... can't watch for a while but isn't he positive on the game? That line sounds like actual, legitimate torture.
Either way, it's a great line, lol.
The only other major contender still to release is Jedi: Fallen Order which has been getting glowing previews. Hard to know if that's a ~90+ game of course. If it does poorly / averagely, then I expect the year to be split between RE2r and Sekiro with a few outlets giving an award to Disco Elysium (but nowhere near enough to get the "consensus win").
Imagine any of those things taking upwards of 30+ hours of active tedium. If it has failed that much as a game, then that's a black mark against it. A review is meant to reflect that person's experience playing to better inform audiences of what they're getting into. Standard players quit games that bore them all the time, so his opinion of it is that it's not worth picking up because it's too boring to play.
Imagine trying to call Edge unprofessional because they don't want to smell Kojima's farts for another 10+ hours of their life.
Sekiro is at 90 and RE2R is at 91. Not sure if that'll translate to more GOTY win likelihood though.
At the same time though, roasted brussel sprouts and asparagus with a squeeze of lemon juice? Hell yes, sign me up.
For better or worse, ever since Peace Walker, Kojima like the idea of having his game mission based where they can easily adjust mission parameter and present is as new mission.
In context of Death Stranding, they can make infinite amount of side mission by just making you deliver item to different locations.
not enough people in the media have played it so little chance. Just know you have the true GOTY in your heart.
Kojimas sah his bro's Nicolas Winding Refn making a TV show and thought "I can do that!" "I can get the same reviews!"
Regardless of how the game is maybe if we want gaming to be taken seriously as a artform we should dial back the smelling farts discourse?
I don't understand the line of thinking that someone can't form an opinion on something unless they've experienced it all. As if what they've experienced isn't part of the product to begin with, you must force yourself to slog through it all!
Gears 5 - 6 10s
The outer worlds - 6 10s
DS - 13 10s
RE 2 - 13 10s
Sekiro - 4 10s
Edit: added both ps4 and xbox for outer worlds
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I'm a bit surprised it's that high but as I've been saying it looks great graphically, narratively, and art direction wise but that's all? Looks like a technical achievement but not enough to be worth playing.
Seems complaints of repetitive missions reflects that.
Seems complaints of repetitive missions reflects that.
And that's all i had to read, that does not sound fun for $60, maybe at a discount at ps5 release
Fucking hell, I didn't even intend to pick this up Day 1 or anything but yet I'm still incredibly torn and invested in this review drama this morning somehow haha
SkillUp sold me 100%, then all the shit scores and reasons for said shit scores unsold me, then the next sold me again...and the more I read this thread the more I flip-flop even harder. Stop this madness!
PS: I've never, that I know of, read or viewed a Tim Rogers review before. I don't get it. Is he sarcastically mocking the game and hates it? Is the whole thing ironic? I don't know, the description says he thinks it's great and "some kind of masterpiece" but I have no idea if that's part of the joke...?
PPS: I'm not a big review reader in general whatsoever, hence my ignorance of even Tim Rogers in case ya wonder.
SkillUp sold me 100%, then all the shit scores and reasons for said shit scores unsold me, then the next sold me again...and the more I read this thread the more I flip-flop even harder. Stop this madness!
PS: I've never, that I know of, read or viewed a Tim Rogers review before. I don't get it. Is he sarcastically mocking the game and hates it? Is the whole thing ironic? I don't know, the description says he thinks it's great and "some kind of masterpiece" but I have no idea if that's part of the joke...?
PPS: I'm not a big review reader in general whatsoever, hence my ignorance of even Tim Rogers in case ya wonder.
I mean this almost has to be better than Too Old to Die Young.
Lol @ this. Im a gameplay whore so something tells me I should pass but, i wont say im not curious
That's gotta be hard considering the divide in opinions this game has.
imo waiting for it on it to go on sale might be a better move if you're still unsure but interested. Playstation games tend to go on sale pretty quickly.
We might even get a better picture on the game once more people get their hands on it.
This is where I'm at, although I'm not going to cancel my preorder.
MGSV is, for me, the epitome of "busywork" done right; I loved doing stuff in that game that sounds positively dreary on paper, and I spent somewhere between 150 and 200 hours in the game, despite there being no real story to speak of. I get the feeling that a lot of people didn't enjoy the busywork and base building, though, and mostly like that game for its amazing controls and emergent stealth gameplay - the latter of which Death Stranding doesn't seem to have.
I'm pretty sure I'll love Death Stranding if the delivery and traversal gameplay can replicate that moreish, fidget-cube feeling that MGSV had. And I suspect that the people who are praising the gameplay are really praising that. But I did also really like the emergent stealth stuff in Phantom Pain, and I don't know how keenly I'm going to feel its absence here.
I need to find out for myself, basically.
Forgot to mention earlier - Apex Legends is also a possible contender for some outlets (like Giant Bomb). On average GOTY awards tend not to go to MP games though
That's actually really interesting analysis. So more people absolutely loved Death Stranding, but the polarising nature in some of it's harsher reviews brought the average down in a bigger way.
Offttt... preorder cancelled until sale. Havent got the the time or money to roll the dice on this atm.
Between AC, SMM2, Fire Emblem Three Houses, LM3 and presumably SwSh, Nintendo really batted a high average in a year that didn't see many ~90 MC games but I kinda doubt any of them would win any awards since they're not exactly built to be displayed for "prestige". I think RE2 is gonna sweep, or an indie.
Agree with all of this.
Remarkable result overall given some of the lower scores and the kind of game it is throughout. Sometimes innovation has a cost - glad to see people appreciating this for what it does new and what that signifies going forwards.
Whelp, the Game Awards just got REAL interesting. If Death Stranding gets a GOTY nom, the calls of nepotism are going to be IMMENSE.
These 3 are absolutely head and shoulders over everything else this year. Sekiro/Shadowbringers are the choice for me.
That's what I just said? Wait until people get their hands on it, don't roll the dice at 60 dollars. when a game is divisive you're literally saying some like it some don't. If I spend 60 dollars on something and don't like it what a waste... that same game will be 20-30 dollars within the next year,or I can simply rent or borrow it if I'm unsure. Unfortunately people DO have budgets, and a million other games coming out over the next few months.