The thing about Death Stranding I wanted to see more of had nothing to do with its core gameplay, but actually the side mechanic of being able to build things that other players could use. Like, we all love Dark Souls messages and how entertaining and sometimes helpful those can be. But there was something incredible about the design of being able to build a bridge that other players in other single-player games could also use. That was really special. The rest was kinda pretentious garbage and more-movie-than-game.
Anon worries about Kojima
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BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Batmancer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I loved being in a single player game and contributing to roads, bridges and stuff, and being able to yell out “My names Sam!” Or responding “Hey my names Sam too!”
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Count me out on that. The last thing I want in a single player game is another person or what I did in the game showing up in sb else’s
mrmule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Loved the scenery and music in this game, but you’re basically a porter (delivery guy) running the errands all round the place with varying levels of difficulty. OK, but not amazing gameplay
straightjorkin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Personally I really like it, in like a power washing simulator way.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
The game was really close to being amazing. A lot of aspects about the UI were annoying. Having so many cutscenes and progress screens for every delivery was insane. Having to skip each cutscene individually was also odd.
Luckily they patched that you only get the BT cutscene once after a while, because the roads that went through BT turf were such a pain.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the weird and interesting story that’s the main draw for me. The atmospheric emphasis is a nice touch too.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
that sounds really boring actually
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s the kinda gameplay mechanic that I don’t think can carry a game as long as Death Stranding, but I’d be very interested to see incorporated into something else. It’s definitely the most fun I’ve had walking from one place to another in a videogame, but that’s not really high praise.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Is karma even a thing on Lemmy? Anyone? No? Yes? Ok, it doesn’t matter, I’ll take the hit if I have to: the only good thing Kojima did is Silent Hill. He’s a hack.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not his fan, but that is too harsh. Metal Gear Solid series also has many strong entries, well received by critics and fans.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
His characters stood more out as really cool back during the oil rig revolver vampire era.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He has a massive following for a reason, but nothing he’s done has ever truly appealed to me, personally.
Spicy opinions incoming:
- His dialogue is absolutely atrocious; I’m not convinced he’s ever spoken with a real human.
- His plotting is cliche and convoluted, and there is literally no excuse for a 70+ minute cutscene in any game. I get the sense he’d much rather be making movies but found success in games so keeps making them instead.
- The only Kojima game I’ve genuinely enjoyed was the original MGS; a preference which made way more sense when I learned that it’s also the only game in the series where he didn’t have full control over the localisation and a third party took care to try and make Kojima’s nonsense actually intelligible.
iagomago@feddit.it 2 months ago
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Wasn’t he only involved with Silent Hills? Which was cancelled?
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Huh, I was sure he was behind the first game. Oh boy, that means nothing he made is good.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 months ago
Upvoted because controversial. I have only played Policenauts.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Is karma even a thing on Lemmy? Anyone? No? Yes? Ok, it doesn’t matter, I’ll take the hit if I have to
No, it is not. Upvotes and downvotes mainly just impact post and comment sorting. Karma on platforms like Reddit was good in theory but, was heavily gamed by bad actors to fake perceived authenticity.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Karma doesn’t seem to be a thing. Just number of posts and comments are displayed, no cumulative points from upvotes as far as I see.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
By design. Karma on Reddit, while good in theory, did not hold up against bad actors.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
…he didn’t even make a Silent Hill game.
I don’t think you actually know what Kojima has made…
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I gave up on this game because there’s a ton of reading, and the graphic/hierarchical design was atrocious. I think it actually gave me a headache.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Gesundheit
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Keep on keeping on 👍
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 months ago
The trailers looked so cool. Then I watched gameplay and I was like “hard pass.”
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It was weirdly addictive.
Walican132@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s the only game that has ever made traversing the world fun. I really enjoyed it!
suaroof@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lmao the gameplay was the good part. Everything else was ass.