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Guardian's Light
Member
Higgs would have been a perfect candidate for x - factor : cobra unit edition or for dead cell, the fucker has mgs awesome villain all written over it
imsosleepy
Member
seriously... Did the reviewers play a different game or did they just wanted to hate on the new kojima game? I dont get it. My favorite reviewers all loved it.. Skil up loved it. My favorite dutch website does reviews with 2 people. one of them loves the soul series, he was really skeptic about this game, was never really interessted but he saw the code first on the redaction and took it lol. He put in 50 hours and loved it. He thought story was actually really good, pacing is well because u keep unlocking new things and things get easier.
And then there are reviews like giantbomb, ign, easy allies and its almost like they did not even play alot of the game?
I love the long distance traversals but there is also plenty of breaks of that when you can do alot with a vehicle. Now that I get to play it msyelf and know how the path is like towards the 3rd chapter. Its really not the slug that they made it out to be? alot of things happend in the beginning. Most cut scenes happend in the first hour to get the story going a little. Loved that, really well done to get you immersed.
I'm not almost at chapter 3 but I cant stop collecting resources and just build bridges to make the side quests easy in chapter 2 lol
Professional critics in the traditional media have never mattered less than they do right now. That goes for film too, not just video games. Game reviewers tend to play on the lowest difficulty setting and have the IQ of dead goldfish. Best to ignore them and go by word of mouth and GAF impressions.
nowhat
Gold Member
Just complete speculation, but while apparently the reviewers (well, some of them anyway) had a long time with the game, there may have not been that many players concurrently. The "shared" experience makes all the difference, I can't imagine the game being nearly as fun just by yourself.
Edit: there was a "legendary" Journey review by Ben Kuchera while he was still at Ars Tecnica. He basically trashed the game. Mentioned that it also had an online mode, which he didn't have a chance to try.
Edit: there was a "legendary" Journey review by Ben Kuchera while he was still at Ars Tecnica. He basically trashed the game. Mentioned that it also had an online mode, which he didn't have a chance to try.
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Mista
Banned
I just finished 7 and I’m standing from all that happened. Fucking hell and I almost lost it yesterday after episode 4! Just to figure out what episode 7 held for me. My brain will explode, the events build up in this game is BRILLIANT! I don’t want to finish the game so after this I’ll go strengthen my connection with the fam that are around 3 stars
Nah, the whole world of reviewers played it. Even better for them, sometimes they would find structures from people they actually knew as well. Gamespot's After Dark podcast about DS had a lot of talk how much they enjoyed it. Some people are just not made for figuring out new concepts, they just want their job to be easy, play the latest in a line of things they already understand, slap a number on it no one will get mad about and call it a day. Something as new and challenging to figure out how to play well like this is simply too much for them. It's far from what I'd call professional, that's for sure, but I think most of us knew that there's little actual critical thinking involved working in enthusiast media. Which didn't prevent the majority of people who reviewed it to tell us that it's a good to masterful game. Let's not forget that.
ComputerBlue
Member
Just unlocked the ability to craft/print bikes. Fuck yes.
HotPocket69
Banned
I really don’t to go back to work tomorrow.
Fuck. A game hasn’t had me by the balls this hard since god knows when.
Fuck. A game hasn’t had me by the balls this hard since god knows when.
John Day
Member
Working right now, have played very little, but its not just... a walking simulator for me. There is a grace to finding the optimim route, to navigating.
It has been a breath of fresh for me to “action”, to “exploring” and questing.
I cannot affirm that maybe going 30 hrs deep i may feel the same, of course.
But so far so good, and so far reading other people’s experiences has been cool and fullfilling.
For me, cutscenes have some stutter sometimes, but i bet it’s not the game per se. Other games do that for me, like Spiderman as the biggest offender. That maybhave to do with my hdd and my ps4 though, can’t blame the games for certain.
I can, however, see clearly the idea behind the game, its aim. This game is something. Will we remember it down the road? Who knows. Pedigree might shadow it after all. But i feel Sony put its bet on something, and that something turned out fucking good!
TL
R: This game is fucking awesome, i’m so glad i haven’t trusted reviewers from the “big” sites in years, pussy motherfuckers, this shit is DOPE!
It has been a breath of fresh for me to “action”, to “exploring” and questing.
I cannot affirm that maybe going 30 hrs deep i may feel the same, of course.
But so far so good, and so far reading other people’s experiences has been cool and fullfilling.
For me, cutscenes have some stutter sometimes, but i bet it’s not the game per se. Other games do that for me, like Spiderman as the biggest offender. That maybhave to do with my hdd and my ps4 though, can’t blame the games for certain.
I can, however, see clearly the idea behind the game, its aim. This game is something. Will we remember it down the road? Who knows. Pedigree might shadow it after all. But i feel Sony put its bet on something, and that something turned out fucking good!
TL
R: This game is fucking awesome, i’m so glad i haven’t trusted reviewers from the “big” sites in years, pussy motherfuckers, this shit is DOPE!
Plague Doctor
Member
Second question, if I hated how slow RDR2 traversal was by foot but liked MGS's combat, would I like this or hate this? I can deal with cut scenes.
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KiNeMz
Banned
I think the servers were tweaked for the review period. It makes sense. They were given the game for 3 weeks prior to embargo dates. Then before launch the servers were taken off line. Probably to set the general population settings and a couple of patches were issued. I watched the giant bomb coverage which showed alot of road already built.
That is far too little information to go on to make an honest recommendation. The traversal might be even slower than RDR2, but it's way more engaging since you need to take more things into account, not just walk towards a waypoint. The combat for the first 20 hours at least is not like MGS, in fact the game really doesn't care about combat much at all. Truly, this thread isn't gigantic, you should go back a few pages and read what people here have to say and see if it resonates with you.
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KiNeMz
Banned
I think the reason we hate traversal in games like rdr2 is because the travel is the wall you need to get through to get to the next gameplay section. In this game the travel is the gameplay. It's brilliant how it makes travelling engaging. I can't stop thinking about it. Kojima has outdone himself here. He flipped traditional gaming on its head and made the mundane part of open world games the actual game.
LostDonkey
Member
Fuck you wind farm. Fuck you buddy.
Now I have to go all the way back round.
Now I have to go all the way back round.
Psykodad
Banned
Lol wanted to take a shortcut past the crematorium?
Strider Highwind
Banned
My wife comment after she saw I was carrying a baby.
"How that fuck a man going around building roads on a bike and now is rocking a baby in the middle of the desert? This shit makes no sense"
My wife said the same thing whe she watched me play earlier. To be exact she said "So wait.....its tons of guys around the world carrying a baby around and rocking it to sleep whenever it gets upset?? Amazing!"
We had a good laugh
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
So I take it in Chapter 2 when you got to the first waypoint station and you get the 6 packages of precious metals for the next waypoint station, and the area where the MULEs ping you, then instantly run due to the Timefall, you can’t wait out the rain in the BT section under an overhang?
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Komatsu
Member
For those who pay attention to the US map whenever you expand the chiral network, West Waystation is supposed to be somewhere near Indianapolis. Besides the fact that, you know, most of humanity perished and there are dead-spirit-thingies floating around, the Death Stranding can't be all that bad if it made southern Indiana look like the Hellisfjörður in Iceland.
Bryank75
Banned
I had organized to take the week off, I assumed it would be a 90+ game and it is for me anyway. Glad I stopped putting too much faith in reviews.
Mista
Banned
Ah yes. My most hated place by far
Mista
Banned
You need a Timefall shelter to do that.
Bryank75
Banned
Well actually, there is a place in Chapter 3.... where you have to get over these fissures in the ground and there were a couple of attempts at jumping them on the bike that I just missed and fell in one...... I had to reset. I actually slapped my forehead! haha
FranXico
Member
Women appreciate Kojima's sense of humor.
LostDonkey
Member
I think i rode the bike for literally 10 seconds and ditched it. Walked everywhere since even got a warning the bike was critical or something. Hated the way it handles.
Arachnid
Member
Yes. I recognized him instantly. He sounded exactly like he does in Deus Ex. I wish he had a bigger role.
LMAO I refused to take those jumps. Waaay too risky.
Until a certain mission that threw a timer on me anyways. Then I belined it straight over the fissures in my truck with a bunch Mules honking and raving after me. That was one of the tensest gameplay experiences I've had in this game yet. Never felt so much relief as I did when I finished that mission.
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Mista
Banned
YES! This took over the farm for me...
HotPocket69
Banned
Nice walking simulator
Bryank75
Banned
It's funny, I was playing MGSV before I started Death Stranding and from a gameplay and design perspective (it should be no surprise) they are both so similar.
Human enemies with vehicles, based around outposts, a supernatural enemy.... in this case the BT's taking the place of the Skulls.
In MGSV Quiet had the powers of the Skulls and in DS, Fragile has these kind of 'other worldly' powers.
Then there are sparse but quite easy boss battles, much like in MGSV with the easy Metal Gears fight at the end.
So it is really confusing to me that some complaints center on gameplay and pacing, which I found much better than MGSV. The way you get weapons and gear is far more measured and the landscape and map design is a million times better and more interesting.
Just a few thoughts before I get to hop on again and hopefully start Chapter 4.
Human enemies with vehicles, based around outposts, a supernatural enemy.... in this case the BT's taking the place of the Skulls.
In MGSV Quiet had the powers of the Skulls and in DS, Fragile has these kind of 'other worldly' powers.
Then there are sparse but quite easy boss battles, much like in MGSV with the easy Metal Gears fight at the end.
So it is really confusing to me that some complaints center on gameplay and pacing, which I found much better than MGSV. The way you get weapons and gear is far more measured and the landscape and map design is a million times better and more interesting.
Just a few thoughts before I get to hop on again and hopefully start Chapter 4.
Tiamat2san
Member
edit: I quoted wrong ^^
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imsosleepy
Member
Haha i walked mostly on the edge of that mountain. Was not that hard. And a small part with bt's. Just save right before the bt starts and u can reload if u need to
Mista
Banned
Copy the link to tweet and paste it that’s all mate
hollowcupra
Member
Tiamat2san
Member
It’s for stable geniuses only.
Seriously I know dumb people who loves it and very intelligent ones who hates it.
It has nothing to do with IQ.
kojima games are special and you can say pretentious.
Like any form of art and philosophy,
You can admire the work and the thinking but find it deeply flawed and stupid.
if your post is a joke , it’s funny.
If you think only people with IQ can love the game, you are overestimate your own intelligence.
Bryank75
Banned
I thought you said there was none as far as you could see on your playthrough...There is punishment for killing him.
Mista
Banned
Open Cufflinks and click R3 twice. You'll be able to see the forecast for the next 30 minutes
hollowcupra
Member
Well in the long run there is none, short term maybe (don't really want to spoil it) but i like the fact that people enjoy the game and i just tease him.
HotPocket69
Banned
There is punishment for killing him.
He only got knocked out. I went back and checked
Mista
Banned
If you think of it well, every kill = one punishment. Let sink in your brain and you'll get it
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Holy shit, when you try to press Start while resting in your room, Sam shakes his head while looking at the camera and points at the terminal like, "it's over there, you dummy." Love these little details.
Guardian's Light
Member
I'm into episode 4
Guys, do not drop the game before at least completing chapter 3, do it for yourself, You'l see
This game is friggin' incredible
Guys, do not drop the game before at least completing chapter 3, do it for yourself, You'l see
This game is friggin' incredible