Death Stranding - Hideous Kojumbo does it again

[Zero0]

I hope the game's story is as shit as the first one so I can laugh while i watch someone else play it.

The game was gorgeous though and ran very well, the engineers who work for kojima must be very good because mgs5 was the same.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Can anyone please help me with these questions
What is the talking puppet?
Why does the puppet have lower fps than everyone else?
Why does that lady doctor have robot arms on her shoulders?
Why does that one woman have strings?
Is that guy fighting with a lighting guitar ax?
Who is that guy that looks like the bastard son of the Joker and the Crow that I will call the Croker?
What are those robots with the Croker?
The fuck is going on?

 

[Zero0]

Why does the puppet have lower fps than everyone else?

Imitating stop motion I guess

 

[Miller]

The game was gorgeous though and ran very well, the engineers who work for kojima must be very good because mgs5 was the same.

To be honest it runs well because all you do in the game is walk and pick up parcels dropped by other FedEx employees.

What is the talking puppet?
Why does the puppet have lower fps than everyone else?

Because Kojimbo is style over substance. He probably saw Wallace and Gromit a few months ago and decided that he can do that too.

 

[FieldPiece]

I personally can't wait for DS2 if not just to see Kojima further expose himself as a massive hack and watch his ball washers do the same, again. This is a guy who made a game replete with Moby Dick references but didn't successfully exploit a single one of the themes present in one of the greatest novels of all time. He spent his energy referencing it in a shallow manner. Probably because he's illiterate and hasn't actually read it. Only to then reference a shitty novel written by a pedophile in a section of the game that never got finished because he spent all his budget on garbage (both the band licensing for trailers and the Hollywood actors).

In all honesty, Kojima is much like FFVII. Something that has done irreparable harm to vidya and set it on it's current course to hell.

 

[Niggs Monaghan]

I'm still so mad about Kojima taking an interesting and cool character concept like Higgs and then just making him a pseudo Ocelot stand in for some reason at the end of 1 and then a fucking clown Raiden in 2.
What is this guy's problem

Princess fucking Beach

 

[Mega Black]

It might have an overall better story than 1 if it refocuses on the characters and leaves a lot of the Death Stranding mystery and metaphysics behind.

 

[Bullet Club]

https://x.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1825443327455723644

 

[Tablet County]

Can anyone please help me with these questions
What is the talking puppet?
Why does the puppet have lower fps than everyone else?
Why does that lady doctor have robot arms on her shoulders?
Why does that one woman have strings?
Is that guy fighting with a lighting guitar ax?
Who is that guy that looks like the bastard son of the Joker and the Crow that I will call the Croker?
What are those robots with the Croker?
The fuck is going on?

I think at this point Kojima has become sort of like Suda51 where people expect batshit overstylized nonsense from him so he's decided to embrace it.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

 

[Shao Khan]

i may be officially old but those dinamic poses for ds2 photomode look like absolute dogshit

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

i may be officially old but those dinamic poses for ds2 photomode look like absolute dogshit

you better take them cringe photos or else...

And according to Kojima, the Photo Mode will actually somehow affect the story. While he didn’t elaborate, the auteur explained it “would be better to take good pictures”.

Source

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

here is some of the female face models in ds2, and every ds2 clip i have seen so far looks great. it looks like the developers actually respect the true beauty of the actor. unlike some other developers making female face models look ugly.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

I personally can't wait for DS2 if not just to see Kojima further expose himself as a massive hack and watch his ball washers do the same, again. This is a guy who made a game replete with Moby Dick references but didn't successfully exploit a single one of the themes present in one of the greatest novels of all time. He spent his energy referencing it in a shallow manner. Probably because he's illiterate and hasn't actually read it. Only to then reference a shitty novel written by a pedophile in a section of the game that never got finished because he spent all his budget on garbage (both the band licensing for trailers and the Hollywood actors).

In all honesty, Kojima is much like FFVII. Something that has done irreparable harm to vidya and set it on it's current course to hell.

It's no coincidence that after MGS3 and losing his main writer (who helped unfuck MGS2's military jargon and kept MGS3 semi-historically consistent) the "quality" of Koji's stories immediately went into the gutter. I dig MGS4's gameplay but the story was terrible, same goes for Peace Walker. Then we got full price DLC ground zeroes and a half-finished MGSV... I was out of goodwill for Koji before DS1 even released. Then it came out and was indeed the post-apocalyptic delivery boy simulator some joked it would be, with a hilarious mess of a story to boot. Add to all that a decade of utterly shameless pandering to Hollyjew in a sad and blatant attempt to ingratiate himself in the industry to make his own filmic slop one day (like he always dreamed of)... and I have little to no desire to see DS2 succeed or even release for that matter.

 

[Shao Khan]

here is some of the female face models in ds2

kojima is legit a sex creep

 

[FieldPiece]

It's no coincidence that after MGS3 and losing his main writer (who helped unfuck MGS2's military jargon and kept MGS3 semi-historically consistent) the "quality" of Koji's stories immediately went into the gutter. I dig MGS4's gameplay but the story was terrible, same goes for Peace Walker. Then we got full price DLC ground zeroes and a half-finished MGSV... I was out of goodwill for Koji before DS1 even released. Then it came out and was indeed the post-apocalyptic delivery boy simulator some joked it would be, with a hilarious mess of a story to boot. Add to all that a decade of utterly shameless pandering to Hollyjew in a sad and blatant attempt to ingratiate himself in the industry to make his own filmic slop one day (like he always dreamed of)... and I have little to no desire to see DS2 succeed or even release for that matter.

Kojima is like if Swery65 injected some stupid political shit in his game and then honestly thought it was deep. Which is funny because Swery has done that before and it still was less pretentious than Kojimas slop post MGS3 (Though I am in the minority in thinking MGS3s plot fucking sucks). The Missing was about some tranny that dies from inverting their dick and it still didn't take itself as seriously as Death Stranding did despite goofy shit like princess beach (fuck borders and nations an sheet).

 

[WeedFaggot024]

kojima is legit a sex creep

He's japanese. Its like the default for those people.

 

[Xev]

So Kojima got the IP from Sony and Death Stranding has shadow dropped on Xbox today, on sale for 20 gringo greens.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

So Kojima got the IP from Sony and Death Stranding has shadow dropped on Xbox today, on sale for 20 gringo greens.

Came here to say this. Directors Cut too.

What a wonderful fucking surprise. Time to autistically build all my ziplines again.

 

[bango skank]

Maybe a stupid question, but does anyone know if the xbox version of the Director’s Cut has all the added content from the PS5 release? I assume it does but the store page doesn’t mention it and I wouldn’t put it past them to claim that as PS5 is exclusive still.

edit: it was only twenty bucks so I bought it and yeah, it looks like it’s got all the DC content.