Death Stranding - Hideous Kojumbo does it again

[Deus Exica]

if you have to write 12341234235 words to explain why you liked this shit play better games

Okay senior faggot I will be sure not to talk about the game I am playing in the thread designated to that game. Thank you for taking a break from having a gigantic cock up your ass to police the thread so that nobody hurts your tiny brain with too many words.

systematically sneaking on them, urling random shit or dropkick them just for the fun of it or even steal their vehicles to run over them, I enjoyed it way too much, what I think didn't worked on that context is that you couldn't kill them without using specific deadly guns, which was kind of a double edged sword, making deadly weapons feel redundant and giving the player way too freeway on how much violence they coud apply on human targets, such as being able to run over them with a truck, despite lore implying that you don't want to get anyone killed.

I do not particularly care that you're basically not allowed to be lethal if you want to, though the punishments are minimal if you don't mind having to reload a save in the event of a voidout. The setting means running around and blowing heads off with a shotgun is a bad idea but why include lethal weapons at all then?

As for BTs, they were always kind of disappointing. The spectacle is cool, but they're that awkward mix of too easy for how imposing they're presented and too annoying because of how the terrain works. Being able to walk and run at full speed would make them more tolerable.

 

[Brain Power]

>The Debra Wilson (who, looks aside, supposedly is pretty chill IRL) character belongs to a group of stronk wombym man haters, but they still need the help of a man to accomplish their goals
What did Kojima mean by this?

Also, does the turkroach puppet ever shut up?

 

[Lord Nelson]

Yea that's actually a good question too. Every bunker has fabricators/matter replicators and as far as I know there are no limitations on what they can print.

There are some limitations with the printing. In the mission where you have to extract some weapon data and destroy the weapon fabricators Tarman gives you a Ring Terminal Expansion Device. He then warns you that it contains "unique components that can't be reproduced with a chiral printer".

 

[Strangolapreti]

I do not particularly care that you're basically not allowed to be lethal if you want to, though the punishments are minimal if you don't mind having to reload a save in the event of a voidout. The setting means running around and blowing heads off with a shotgun is a bad idea but why include lethal weapons at all then?

You see these weapons capable of killing people? these deadly weapons that we're allowing you to craft and use and are completely different to these other, nearly identical weapons, which have the same cost but don't kill people, well, if you use these weapon designed to kill people in order to kill people, then you will condemn the world to eternal suffering, you don't want to use said weapons, but we're maling tjem available to you anyway. By the way, have you instead considered running over people with a truck and then ride that truck over their unconcious bodies? Don't mind that *crunch* noise, I'll assure you they're still alive!

I never understood why including lethal weapon either, at this point I'd rather throw my shit grenade at people and pretend I'm a nigger.

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Actually I never understood the use of shit grenades either, why would I even carry them? they occupy space and doesn't males NPCs throw up whenever i fling one at them.

 

[Miller]

Actually I never understood the use of shit grenades either, why would I even carry them? they occupy space and doesn't males NPCs throw up whenever i fling one at them.

...and then there's the dumb rust mechanic that slowly destroys your weapons and anti-BT grenades (at least in the first game, I don't know about DS2). I don't understand that gimmick because printing them cost next to nothing. It just adds to that fake feeling of survival, in a place where there's no threat outside of the scripted story elements.

 

[Adidas Queen]

This game feels like shit to play. Walking around is fun if only because of the feeling of building momentum but everything else controls like shit. Combat is so bad I do that thing were you get suicidal in game because you're so bored.

 

[Deus Exica]

Actually I never understood the use of shit grenades either, why would I even carry them? they occupy space and doesn't males NPCs throw up whenever i fling one at them.

I have no idea what poop and pee grenades are for. In the first game they're the first unlocks but once you get hematic grenades you'll never ever opt for the stun when you have a weapon that stuns AND kills. In 2 you get hematic grenades FIRST, weird shit.

 

[Maker's Mark]

Ran headfirst into BT territory and killed the mini boss in 30 seconds with a Level 2 Shotgun. Nothing is more frustrating then having to swap weapons in this game. It just feels so fucking clunky. The amount of times I've accientally selected dollman (FUCK DOLLMAN) instead of water or a blood pack is stupid. I'm 25ish hours in and feel I've already reached the point where I just want to stick to the story and then go play something else. I don't understand why so many people are sucking off this game. It is not a sign of what a video game can be at its peak as a form of art. If I showed my boomer dad this, he'd look at me and ask ''What the fuck is this?'' There are dozens of games I'd rather show to a normie that shows gaming as an art over either Death Stranding games.

 

[Strangolapreti]

...and then there's the dumb rust mechanic that slowly destroys your weapons and anti-BT grenades (at least in the first game, I don't know about DS2). I don't understand that gimmick because printing them cost next to nothing. It just adds to that fake feeling of survival, in a place where there's no threat outside of the scripted story elements.

The rust mechanic makes sense for the game's core focus being delivering package and serving as hazard, but they don't serve anything in fighting BTs, aside of turning them into battles of attrition and its also the reason I despise facing BTs or entering BT infested areas when making deliveries.

 

[Miller]

its also the reason I despise facing BTs or entering BT infested areas when making deliveries.

Same. I just activate the boost on the bike and leave the area.

 

[Wesker]

This game feels like shit to play. Walking around is fun if only because of the feeling of building momentum but everything else controls like shit. Combat is so bad I do that thing were you get suicidal in game because you're so bored.

The traversal I liked in the original, but it's so heavily flawed. It's similar to MGSV in the way where it gets really tempramental with height of the terrain and not being able to simply step over it.

The little I saw of the streams of it, it looks exactly like the mechanics from the first one. Like they didn't even mocap new shit for Feetus to do and just copy and pasted it from the original from six fucking years ago.

Even MGS3 had a new movement animation for fucking Snake and it was three years apart.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Same. I just activate the boost on the bike and leave the area.

I like BT encounters both visually and and the idea behind them, I just think they don't work as much alongside the main gameplay loop of deliveries, and if you want to enjoy the fight against them while also maintaining packages on perfect condirtions, you need to drop them somewhere safe, then go fight the BT and backtrack to their spawn area. This is how I managed to get a perfect score on the final delivery in ds1 and fight the twin golden lions Higgs summons at hardest difficulty.

 

[Jace on ice]

There should be the regular inventory management screen for everything else but a weapon wheel specifically for swapping weapons, that would make shit so much easier and more fluid.

But much like fellow hack Neil Druckman Kojima "doesn't believe in fun" so here we are.

 

[Adidas Queen]

I think Kojima is just retarded. Every clip I see of photorealistic Norman Reedus doing the Chun Li super doesn't make me think otherwise.

 

[Wesker]

I think Kojima is just retarded.

He loves the sniff of his own farts, that's certain. And his faggot fanbase just reenforces that, when his """""writing""""" speaks volumes on his talent.

He's a good director, and that's where it begins and ends.

Wouldn't it be something of Konami dug up Fukushima and started making MSX remakes, and pretend Phantom Plot never happened?

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Wouldn't it be something of Konami dug up Fukushima and started making MSX remakes, and pretend Phantom Plot never happened?

Game Journos and Kojima Cultists would throw way too much of a shit fit if Phantom Pain was retconned, sadly.

I'd love it so much, but I don't think they'd want to hear the bitching and moaning again after Survive

 

[Jace on ice]

How come we can't play as this dude instead of the autistic package carrying dork?

 

[Miller]

How come we can't play as this dude instead of the autistic package carrying dork?
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It would be a different franchise.

 

[Jace on ice]

It would be a different franchise.

Yea but have you noticed that in modern games you're never allowed to play as the cool guys anymore?

In the new Yakuza games Instead of playing as Kazume Kiryu you play as Icchiban Kasuga

Instead of playing as Leon Kennedy or Chris Redfield you play as some bitch who's scared of everything in RE9

Instead of playing as Joel you play as Ellie and Joel dies

Why can't you play as the cool badass characters anymore?

 

[Strangolapreti]

Yea but have you noticed that in modern games you're never allowed to play as the cool guys anymore?

You are not bringing the best examples here.

In the new Yakuza games Instead of playing as Kazume Kiryu you play as Icchiban Kasuga

I like Icchiban, what's wrong with him?

Instead of playing as Leon Kennedy or Chris Redfield you play as some bitch who's scared of everything in RE9

Resident evil is an horror series that ranges from frail policewoman chased by a hulking monstruosity to a B-movie plot where you need to outrun the giant statue of a dwarf, its an easy trick but if you want to make your horror game scarier, what you want to do is make your protagonist more vulnerable.

Instead of playing as Joel you play as Ellie and Joel dies

Last of us is overrated garbage and you should genuinely consider killing yourself for even bringing it up.

Why can't you play as the cool badass characters anymore?

You can still play as the cool badass character in plenty of games, expedition 33 and elden ring nightreign has a good array of characters for example, and same can be said about Henry from kingdom come 2.
I don't fully disagree on you calling Sam a little bitch, but I think the guy does have his moments, like that time he punches the shit out of higgs or when raiding mule camps in general. Don't get me wrong, there are issues, but I find it hyperbolic to call it a complete pussyfication of game protagonist.