It's a whole new type of Kojima. I call it Strand Kojima.
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Death Stranding: A Hideo Kojima Game Strand
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And he hasn't finished it and reached the twist yet either. Sigh.
From the other leaker/reviewer Jox who's finished the game and posted the end-game spoilers, he admitted though that he's tough on games.
I don't think its worth trusting these "scores", they are clearly rushing through the game without taking it in like reviewers will. Besides, I find these early reviewers are deliberately cynical and negative, remember the God of War early impressions?
Ah, OK. I think though that even with expectations well-designed base gameplay that overall game design can still become an issue. Even *insert game you think is amazing* would have faltered if it was built around doing the same repetitive actions for little justification (such as having to deliver things from and to places you've already been)
don't think that's what they are saying but y'all are also hinging everything on the opinions of like 3 people. Even the person who ripped it says so far it's an 8 as his lowest score.
it's clear this game won't be for everyone at all. The main concept it walking/traversal.
I think it's definitely going to review well, a couple mixed impressions shouldn't mean much
Yeah I see absolutely no point in putting this much faith in some leakers just because they got their hands on it first. A lot of leakers usually just get these games for the ability to be first to upload youtube videos and analysis, covering their bases for their revenue streams such as youtube and patreon (especially with how saturated gaming content has been for 10 years).
Play the game. Process the game. THEN and only THEN can you let an experience really sit with you and get its genuine emotions out of you.
Dipped without adding more. There was another (alleged) leaker that said it was 🔥, so it's all balancing out—just like cargo on Sam's back!!!!
Here it's actually gameplay over narrative, but that involves a lot of traversal, exploration and walking. As far as we know, action (understood as shooting and killing) is a secondary part of the game, so it's not probably what you're looking for.
Medievil on the other hand releases next week and has lots and lots of action. ;)
Every impression now, good or bad, is the byproduct of rushing through. Every single one.
Please spoiler tag this stuff, even if these are light.
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Yeah, I'm gonna do the same. It's just hate and leaks up in here. Peace out for the next two weeks, DS threads.
Oh god I just hate how every other SP game this gen is either a walking simulator or boring as hell bland open world RPG
that's hyperbole...i mean we have had Control fairly recently, Gears also, we are getting Jedi Order soon...we had DMCV and Sekiro early in the year...that is only action stuff. We also had judgement, etc,
uhh holy shit. my prediction was right on that but there is even more icing on the cake
the divisiveness is also becoming clearer if this is true.
i can see reviewers and people complaining hard about this. to have such a crazy consequence to killing is going to bring the whine
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Thers no need of PS+ to use the online functions in Death Stranding (already confirmed in the label of the PS4+ DS bundle box). Asynchronous online dont require a PS+ sub.
Think they would have delayed it if they were uncertain about it's quality. Days Gone isn't as big a IP for Sony and this and they still delayed that multiple times due to quality control.
You still have many choices: Devil May Cry V, Sekiro, Control, Ace Combat (that's action-heavy like nothing else), Monster Hunter and its incredible expansion, all of these games were released during this year and have no other quality (for good or bad) that moving around while killing things.
You can't fix a game vision delaying it. DS could be the most polished game in the world and still have a "conception problem"-
I'm talking generally, I literally didn't went ahead and counted each and every game which has released so far, AAA games ate being produced at a much slower rate especially when compared to last gen and when a hyped 1st party exclusive ends up being something like this it's slightly irritating
Yeah you can. IF a game (maybe this game) is filled will long stretches of "boring" gameplay then that could easily be fixed by having a delay where you decrease/cut the amount of "padding" and increase "action" related situation ie combat. Content being cut and content being added very much can happen late stage and lead to delays.
People honestly think Sony gave Kojima and multimillion dollar blank cheque to develop any game regardless of "conceptional problems" without them dictating anything? What planet are people living on where they think businesses operate like this.
Let them take their time. I'd rather no crunch and long gestation than otherwise.
Some more impressions from that 900k sub YouTuber dude
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- Pacing is way off. The story is interesting but there's too many gaps in-between. If you don't play this game often you'll forget what happened before the next cutscene happens. Death Stranding is basically 1 hour of cool shit but 4 hours of delivering packages to NPCs
- Open-world is more interesting than MGSV but it has the same drawbacks
- It's fun when you explore new land but when the game asks you to drive back 5km just to deliver a package to a place you've been to before you're like "fuck off"
- All the safe houses look exactly the same, they have the same exact building you enter to connect and all the resting spots are 100% copy and pasted, they're all the same
- The start of the game is a bit of a chore at some times
- The game is not as good as RDR2 or God of War, but it's different. The focus is cooperation and exploration. If you're expecting a third person stealth action game then you're gonna want to refund.
- Open-world is more interesting than MGSV but it has the same drawbacks
- It's fun when you explore new land but when the game asks you to drive back 5km just to deliver a package to a place you've been to before you're like "fuck off"
- All the safe houses look exactly the same, they have the same exact building you enter to connect and all the resting spots are 100% copy and pasted, they're all the same
- The start of the game is a bit of a chore at some times
- The game is not as good as RDR2 or God of War, but it's different. The focus is cooperation and exploration. If you're expecting a third person stealth action game then you're gonna want to refund.
It's no really a repeat if you have to find new paths. I personnally don't understand the complaint here.
It's been said that if you think it's going to a spiritual successor to the MGS games, you're going to be disappointed.
Think the whole crew did. Game will likely be what it has been shown to be and is Kojimas vision.
the core loop won't change nor will any twists really change the gameplay. Story may be crazy but the gameplay loop seems to be well known
Yeah, that's where I'm at too--and you either like it or you don't.
I won't be, the game seems to be exactly what I expected. There's a lot of MGSV (My favourite MGS btw) in this, but I was talking specifically about the ratio between cutscenes/story and gameplay that people seem to agree on so far.
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