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Kojima talks about Death Stranding's 'Social Strand System'
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People are only reacting the way they are because of the marketing. If the game had been advertised as an action/adventure we wouldn't be having these conversations, but instead we've been told it's a 'new genre' for years. People are naturally both curious and skeptical
Reading those theories and descriptions
holy shit this game is going to be nuts
Yes lots of players and posters here are definitely bridge babies 😉
holy shit this game is going to be nuts
Yes lots of players and posters here are definitely bridge babies 😉
"You can enjoy First Person View but not a First Person Shooter game".
My guess is it'll be like BotW, eg you can use tools or abilities to get into first person mode, but mostly for scouting or other gameplay elements, not for actual shooting.
Yep. I think that last footage with the crying child is the answer to our questions.
It's hard to judge those tweets when he literally was not allowed inside his own building floor for nearly the entire final year of development. So, we don't know if it was all bullshit or not.
Damn Good point.
Funny that people here are trying to throw around the lack of gameplay argument or "new genre omg so pretentious" thing.
Like every major game these days are now what he labeled as "Tactical Stealth Action" decades ago.
Can't wait to see what the fuck is in store for this now from a gameplay standpoint.
I really don't know why Kojima is considered a genius.
Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is 2deep4u.
"You will be ashamed of your words and deeds."
Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is 2deep4u.
"You will be ashamed of your words and deeds."
His game design and creative spearheading are some of the best in the biz.
It's just SOMETIMES he then says stuff like this *throws tweet at face*:
Honestly that makes me laugh. One moment he's extremely philosophical and pretentious, the next he's Doug Remer from Baseketball. Deep down I think Kojima is an easily-amused dork. He just also happens to have a huge brain.
Because nonsense that we sprout in interviews, on social media, or in presentations can be laughed at or mocked in the moment, but the things we actually do in life and our accomplishments are what remains after all the noise. Kojima is a shittalker and uses way more words than he needs to most of the time, but when it comes to making amazing games that are fun and engaging, he's one of the best in the business.
It's known that this game is built around a social component (i.e. involving other players in some way). I'm not sure how someone came up with the idea of it being about 4th wall breaking first person cutscenes...
I don't know why you people are confused.
It's a Social Strand game, you know, like a bottle of Whiskey in a Midsummer Nights Dream mixed with a bit of Rye and avocado. Animation isn't a genre either, it's an artform, that's why I like Pepperoni Pizza.
Bottom's up. And thanks for all the fish.
It's a Social Strand game, you know, like a bottle of Whiskey in a Midsummer Nights Dream mixed with a bit of Rye and avocado. Animation isn't a genre either, it's an artform, that's why I like Pepperoni Pizza.
Bottom's up. And thanks for all the fish.
Once again when people can't think a bit further than what's already existing and has been done a billion times already, it must mean the game is "pretentious" rather than just innovative.
I thought the term "strand" stood for something that has been stranden, like on a beach. That's why the first trailer showed Norman on a beach with lots of dead animals, right?
But now it seems like "stranded" means something like a string that connects... things? So it's some kind of death link that connects people and what not? And the baby might be what keeps it all together?
I'm confused...
But now it seems like "stranded" means something like a string that connects... things? So it's some kind of death link that connects people and what not? And the baby might be what keeps it all together?
I'm confused...
Surely is one the most hated by the gamers which don't like him, that's for sure. It's part of his PR put the things in such perspective, we have to see how it will translate such philosophy in the concrete gameplay. But I don't get all this intolerance around him.
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I checked the tweet's date twice, because I was sure I already read this.
I am tired that he seems tired to still having to explain what the game is about.
Margaret Qualley is incredibly pretty.
...thats my contribution. I have less to say about this game the more I see.
...thats my contribution. I have less to say about this game the more I see.
I think it's used for 2 different things :
This aspect imo is about the BTs, the dead people that are "stranded" between worlds, they're not part of the real world anymore, but still roam it in the form of BTs, and they all have that string connecting them to something in the form of their ombilical chord. We also see in the Heartman trailer a quick shot where he's on the beach getting dragged away from people that are on the same shore showed in the reveal trailer, they seem to be just standing there. I think they are the actual dead people in the underworld, staying motionless on that beach and being "connected" to their BT counterpart on the real world through the ombilical chord we see on the BTs (akin to the link between the stillmothers stranded in the underworld and the BBs in the real world)
Quick edit : writing this gave me an idea about the scars Sam and Cliff have on their stomach: could they have been "cut off" from their underworld(Sam)/real world(Cliff) counterpart?
This aspect is about Sam's mission of reconnecting people and society. The death stranding event that happened 10 years ago fractured society, and now it seems most people live in isolation either alone or in small groups, they are stranded from the the rest of the world. The UCA wants to recreate a chiral network to reconnect everyone and reform society, so they want to create links between the stranded people.
I can't shake the feeling that he's making a metaphor for internet and how it changed society, like internet connected everyone in the world, but at the same time "stranded" people by actually isolating them metaphoricaly speaking. Sam's line "Covering the world in wires isn't gonna rid us of the BTs/stop the war" goes very much in that sense imo, like "putting cables throughout the world to get internet working isn't gonna connect people in the way you think, it's not gonna stop people from being mentally "stranded" by themselves.
Well the metaphor around the game is quite intriguing and not surely product of an idiot. I get it people has not interest to such stuff when we are talking of vgame, but that doesn't means everything by him is useless pretentious.
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Yeah the second tweet is from June. Nothing really new here, and we knew there was a FPView from the gameplay trailer.