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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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Is there any other 84,85 game on Metacritic in these years with this amount of 9s and 10s score?
Also it's interesting to see that some people get angry with each great review. It seems they just want to see awful reviews and can't believe more than half of reviewer are enjoying this game and giving it 9s and 10s.
Also it's interesting to see that some people get angry with each great review. It seems they just want to see awful reviews and can't believe more than half of reviewer are enjoying this game and giving it 9s and 10s.
i Can't wait to play this game now....I'm going to sit down in my boxer shorts....
say to myself
"this is art
this is hideo Kojimas death stranding."
genuinely the last few reviews are making it hard for me to not buy this day one....I must hold out For the pc version.
im going to save up for some tweed suits, grow an amazing beard...buy some moustache oil...round bifocal glasses....and observe this "art" in action.
I will be elevated by the end..
by Hideo Kojimas death stranding.
the body of this is a harmless joke...but I'm genuinely finding it hard to not buy this now. I feel I need to experience this madness.
say to myself
"this is art
this is hideo Kojimas death stranding."
genuinely the last few reviews are making it hard for me to not buy this day one....I must hold out For the pc version.
im going to save up for some tweed suits, grow an amazing beard...buy some moustache oil...round bifocal glasses....and observe this "art" in action.
I will be elevated by the end..
by Hideo Kojimas death stranding.
the body of this is a harmless joke...but I'm genuinely finding it hard to not buy this now. I feel I need to experience this madness.
oh didn't you hear, all those reviews with 9s and 10s, if you actually read every single one of them, and then read them again, you will see that they all lied about their scores because they don't want to upset Kojima, also they were all injected with FoxDie. It's all a big conspiracy, the game is really a 3/10, irredeemable piece of garbage.
Damn, the game isn't out yet and people are already calling it overrated without playing it.
At least with games like GTAIV people had the decency to wait a few month after seeing it for themselves before trashing it.
For anyone who has reviewed it / played it. How often do the stealth sections appear?. Are they limited to certain parts of the map, do they randomly appear during timefall ? Its one of the more interesting aspects of the hiking to me.
Would love to know how often they occur.
Would love to know how often they occur.
this is genuinely a great post and very true.
I hope it does, even if one person thinks like that...and sticks too it for life. The world will be a slightly better place.
Yep. Fanboys go both way. They tend to be very defensive and try to ridicule those who tend to have different opinions and view the game in a different way they do.
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Jeff should pay him a bonus to finish and review it.
[Tin Foil Hat Time] I wonder if the distribution of review scores isn't showing the divisiveness that apparently (I haven't been paying too much attention) exists in the discourse, because some people actively dislike it so much they refuse to finish the game; therefore can't publish a review.
im with you. Even if I only make a few hours I should almost get my money back trading it in....hmmm decisions.
The majority of big sites have already reviewed it aside from Edge so not really.
Yeah, I know I'm going to play this for sure, but I had to cancel my preorder because of that PC announcement. I figured I did alright waiting out for Red Dead on PC, I can do the same here, however I feel like this is going to be get way harder when user impressions hit.
User Banned (3 days): Platform warring, prior related infractions
Ah. The console wars. I see your motivation now.
"Young Americans" as if old americans arent the penny pinchers that refuse to tip if a waitress doesnt get to their table 3 seconds faster
Oh I agree with you there however given what I have heard about Death Stranding so far the complicated inventory management and that it starts of really REALLY slow may turn a lot of people off.
I spoke to a friend who played it he told me the game won't stop introducing mechanics for a long LONG time and there is way to much to pay attention too, not sure how that will fly with mainstream audience.
That's what the tin foil hat was for, the reviews can only be written by people who can bring themselves to finish the game. E.g. A hypothetical score from Edge would come from a freelancer, or someone who likes the game better than the staff consensus in their 4 page unscored 'Preview'.
I said young Americans because I believe they're the most likely to use the delivery apps. I could be wrong.
I like the setting of the game but it looks very repetitive and could get boring after awhile.
I'll pass.
I'll pass.
According to the reviews, you need to spend at least 10 hours to get to the good parts (chapter 4 onward?).
Same. I can understand why people Last Guardian didn't resonate with people, but it really clicked with me emotionally.
I think way better than if Kojima wasn't involved. I'm sure even people who aren't into the gameplay will stick with it to finish the story at least, I know a couple myself who I suspect that from. I'm sure it's not pretty, but you can probably get away with a lot in this game even if you don't master its mechanics. It's not necessarily stopping you from progressing when you play it badly. It's just a shitty experience then. Still, a good amount of people will stick with it just to decipher the weirdness of the story and world to be able to talk about it.
What? I own a PS4 and like 20 games for it, what are you on about lol. How did you go from that post to console wars?
"This game made me realize how glad I am to not be an actual UPS delivery person in real life, to not have such a mundane and boring job. I shall now spend my finite time on this earth playing a game whose concept is stretched thin over 40+ hours, and has 45 minute long cutscenes."
I think the finite time on this Earth is something lots of gamers think about unconsciously a lot, given how many don't complete games lmao
In all seriousness it's the most grating thing for decades worth of games exploring complex subject matter, including time and it's finality, to be constantly ignored to prop up this game as a singular majestic work of art within this medium, a one of a kind thing only Kojima-san can bless upon us.
Hey here's a game that released near two decades ago that deals with how people choose to spend what little time they have left to live, on top of themes of age, race and the masks we choose to show the world. It's just a little known title from a small series:
This is super cynical and a fucked up way of looking at someone's positive experience with art. We've all been looking here on ERA for people to move the medium forward in new and creative ways and now that lots of people seem to have resonated with DS in ways they haven't with other games, we shit on them?
I mean, are we going to call this a "hot mess sermon" too? I nearly cried reading this one.
No one is saying this is the singularly worthy piece of videogame entertainment to be called art and exploring concepts. In fact most who argue for the power of art have underscored that they have been affected by artful videogames all the time which is why they choose to believe those reviewers who had a strong reaction to this particular game, which the conversation is on at the moment because it is new and the thing to talk about. You're just as silly as the people you try to make fun of who actually worship Kojima like he's the only one capable of expressing something meaningful.
And that's all fine. If you wrote "This is something most gamers probably haven't thought about when playing a game, but I guarantee you're going to have these thoughts as you progress through Majoras Mask." instead though, I would call your take ridiculous and hyperbolic, too."This game made me realize how glad I am to not be an actual UPS delivery person in real life, to not have such a mundane and boring job. I shall now spend my finite time on this earth playing a game whose concept is stretched thin over 40+ hours, and has 45 minute long cutscenes."
I think the finite time on this Earth is something lots of gamers think about unconsciously a lot, given how many don't complete games lmao
In all seriousness it's the most grating thing for decades worth of games exploring complex subject matter, including time and it's finality, to be constantly ignored to prop up this game as a singular majestic work of art within this medium, a one of a kind thing only Kojima-san can bless upon us.
Hey here's a game that released near two decades ago that deals with how people choose to spend what little time they have left to live, on top of themes of age, race and the masks we choose to show the world. It's just a little known title from a small series:
Did that reviewer talk about how nobody ever thought of what he thought of while palying the game, and that finally people will get it if they start playing it? I don't really care for his new way of life thanks to Death Stranding, good for him. It's that last part that shines that light of pretentiousness and ridiculousness on the rest of the quote.
I'd really prefer if y'all contact me in DMs instead though. Like seriously, I appreaciate normal dicussions, and with some of y'all I like to have them, so I'd rather respond. If I do that I'll just continue what went on for several pages already though, and I think that's already too much.
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I'm not pre ordering but it user reviews are decent I'll be getting it week 1.
Is it true that the difficulty levels really only affect combat? Sounds kind of... Stupid, considering that the traversal is the biggest part of the game. I'm considering getting the game only because I know it has a very easy difficulty level that should reduce the potential tedium, but if it doesn't, well, I guess I'll just Youtube it or something. I'm really only interested in the story and the world right now.
It definitely is unintentionally condescending, especially as it assumes that gamers A) don't engage with other works of art intellectually and B) if they do they don't do so when playing video games.
Nah, those who don't like it and not finishing it will say their opinion loud and clear even without review score at the end, giant bomb and Edge is easy example, Edge will still have multi pages article about Death Stranding, they just label it as previews with no score, but, really it's no different than reviews without score like Kotaku and some other sites.
Easier difficulty supposedly make traversal easier, making you less likely to lose your balance, I assume harder difficulty will affect your balance too, but I don't know. I avoid reading too much in depth reviews
I've been told it also makes timefall damage on cargo more severe. Can't vouch for that though.
This thread is turning out to be probably better than the game itself.
We've had you can't judge a game unless you finish it, even if the gameplay until the end isn't your thing. Do you need to finish superman 64 to review?
Now I see the art arguments and hilarious comparisons to taking DMT and people going on a journey of discovery.
What makes this game 'art' exactly? Seems just like another Kojima ego inspired wacky story.
We've had you can't judge a game unless you finish it, even if the gameplay until the end isn't your thing. Do you need to finish superman 64 to review?
Now I see the art arguments and hilarious comparisons to taking DMT and people going on a journey of discovery.
What makes this game 'art' exactly? Seems just like another Kojima ego inspired wacky story.
Gotcha, sounds like it's very likely the difficulty levels do affect the traversal too, then. I'm sure we'll get more concrete answers as soon as Friday. Playing the game on a "story mode" difficulty honestly sounds very appealing to me. Take relaxing strolls in a beautiful albeit barren world in between the story cutscenes.
Ive never agreed that games are art. They're consumer entertainment products made by hundreds or thousands of people for mass consumption.
A sculpture or a painting is the singular, fixed vision of a single artist that exists forever as it was made.