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Gamesradar: “Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding is a reaction to 'Trump and Brexit'” (Up: see threadmark for original BBC article)
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With how many responses that first post got, I'm pretty half this forum are straight up Sheldons. Bazorngo!
Yeah, I might have to lower my expectations even further lol
More politics in games? Oh come on now, MW was not enough apparently.
Kojima should go back to make apolitical games like Metal Gear Solid.
Kojima should go back to make apolitical games like Metal Gear Solid.
Another reason to love this game then?
I dunno, people really wanna hate this game for some reason. People hate new things.
We will never move on from that phase.
So which is it? Are people too dumb or too smart for this game?
I dunno, people really wanna hate this game for some reason. People hate new things.
On GB they basically just said that it's not that hard to understand and he overexplains ist about four times over.
You think? I've thought it was always clear that Trump/climate change/social division is what this game is trying to be about.
Beyond the ghosts and weird shit anyway
People hate new things, specially if they're exclusives to other platforms.
They also hate Kojima for whatever reason.
You add to that that the scores are much higher than they expected, specially after reading some of those reviews, and Death Stranding is like the perfect storm of vitriol
You gotta love when people dismiss criticism like this...
Also most people thought the game would score higher than it did so I'm not sure where you are getting that from.
What criticism, if you and I haven't played the game? And most of the people hammering the game over and over have no intention to!
They don't really have any valid criticisms, yet..
And we have people here saying Kojima is trying to get into the "Hating Trump and Brexit" bandwagons...like, really??
A game about "connecting people in the 21st Century", seems pretty clear to me.
But noo, Kojima can't do no good...
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Man, I wish we could just go back to the good old Amiga days where I could enjoy simple, apolitical games like Nuclear War and Cannon Fodder.
But we know well enough about the gameplay of the game and how it's gonna go for the majority of the game, and we saw well enough of how it's gonna work, of the gameplay loop, from people that DID play the full game. I'd say we're able to criticize with those information if we don't find it to fit what we like and what we don't.
Come on, you know as well as I do that's true on some cases, but it's not in many others.
And we have this very thread as an example...
....right on time, thanks for helping me make my point lol
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It's obvious he was inspired by the divisive political climate of the last few years, among other things.
I love this man, but I can't help but remember that he's somehow got a major in Film.
Doesn't seem like he deals with these things directly, just that they inspired the themes of the game.
Stephen Poole published an interesting perspective on Kojima's work back in 2015 (written for a general audience), and I think many folks here will find it interesting to consider, in this context (if it matters, I'll go ahead and note that Poole did make it past freshman year of college):
It will certainly be interesting to see how Death Stranding unfolds. I haven't read too many impressions of the story, but there was an interesting video review posted in the review thread: after a brief rundown of basic plot points starting at the 4-minute mark ("...It's important to talk about the interpretation of the game..."), the reviewer promises, at 5min18sec: "...That is just step one, you have just blown the snow off the iceberg... it gets headier than that, by far..."
Politics in a game Kojima produced or directed? Say it ain´t so chief!
Senator Armstrong played college ball you know? Vote for Armstrong in 2020. It´s what George Sears would have wanted!
PS: I learned about the Gulf War syndrome through MGS.
Senator Armstrong played college ball you know? Vote for Armstrong in 2020. It´s what George Sears would have wanted!
PS: I learned about the Gulf War syndrome through MGS.
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Yeah realised it after posting but didn't have time to edit it(was on my way to work)😁
AAA reply
Edit : I actually can't believe a lot of people didn't caught the obvious irony. I am losing faith here...
Kojima needs an editor. He beats you over the head with everything.
Really? I actually hadn't watched it to avoid seeing too much content. Somebody had told me he had made it red for the woman who was there because it was her fav color.
OP
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Armstrong is the ultimate politician. Nanomachines Son! would be his campaign slogan.
Astartes, remember when Kojima made a game about "The Sons of Liberty" and retained that title on the box only weeks after 9/11:
"No taxation without representation." George Sears - 2009
I have a divided opinion on Kojima, most old school fans have at this point (i finished all games he directed), but that rumored 2-hour cutscenes towards the end of DS is destined to be KINO. It´s worthy of 4 identical credit sequences after all. It´s a shame that DS is too long to be beaten in one sitting as I did that with MGS 4 back in 2008.
Edit: Forgot to post their flag. This is a game from 2001:
Nostrajima predicted some shit alright.
"No taxation without representation." George Sears - 2009
I have a divided opinion on Kojima, most old school fans have at this point (i finished all games he directed), but that rumored 2-hour cutscenes towards the end of DS is destined to be KINO. It´s worthy of 4 identical credit sequences after all. It´s a shame that DS is too long to be beaten in one sitting as I did that with MGS 4 back in 2008.
Edit: Forgot to post their flag. This is a game from 2001:
Nostrajima predicted some shit alright.
it's already in every thread that has any sort of chance of having an ounce of negativity in it. i thought this kind of meta shit was against the rules.
either way, regardless what death stranding is about, the game still doesn't come off as interesting to me. watching giant bomb rail on it was basically 1:1 my thoughts on what was happening. i really wanted to be hype for this and dig into it, but, nah.
I actually hope they sell a red Bridges hat eventually. Would buy. And of course this game deals with Western politics, it's Kojima.
With a critical mind and a willingness to separate fact from fiction, the MGS series is a fairly compelling 20th century Western history course. Just dont try and learn anything about genetics...
With a critical mind and a willingness to separate fact from fiction, the MGS series is a fairly compelling 20th century Western history course. Just dont try and learn anything about genetics...
It's an interesting allegory, all your divisions mean shit when us as a species is at risk, quite prescient at this time of (somewhat hidden) crisis; our world, our society is edging towards a collapse of sorts.
Very constructive. Glad to see you actually want to engage in a discussion.
