Kojima is the ONLY person in the video game industry who is able to do this
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is not a video game. It's Kojima's $100 million excuse to hang out with Hollywood celebrities while you hold the left stick forward for 40 hours. Almost every location has a flat path straight to it. You can make any delivery by holding forward or driving a truck. Congratulations, you just experienced "gameplay." The game throws numerous tools at you that you absolutely never need. It's like being handed a Swiss Army knife to eat soup — the equivalent of playing Doom where enemies fall down without you ever pulling the trigger.But the crown jewel — the absolute proof Kojima doesn't make games — is the "Pretend You Won" button. Die to a boss and the game literally asks if you want to skip it. Pick it and you get a SLIDESHOW of how the fight would have played out. The results screen reads "Imaginary Victory" with a drawing of Sam sleeping. Even the protagonist doesn't care. No game should let you skip core combat. That's not accessibility — that's a confession. That's Kojima saying "gameplay doesn't matter, just watch my movie." The single greatest evidence he's NOT a game developer — just a film director accidentally given a dev kit instead of a camera.Did this cinematic walking screensaver win GOTY? NO. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — an actual VIDEO GAME with actual GAMEPLAY — bodied Kojima's celebrity meet-and-greet simulator at The Game Awards, Golden Joysticks, DICE, and GDC, racking up 291 GOTY wins in 2025.But don't worry — his own game taught us the solution. He can just Pretend He Won. Skip the awards, read a little slideshow that says "Kojima won GOTY" with a picture of him sleeping. Imaginary Victory. Kojima — put down the controller. Pick up the camera. Stick to making movies. You clearly want to. You were never one of us.
>>737469395I liked it as Heartman's gimmick (constant thumbs up in the middle of conversations). It felt overdone when everyone was starting to do it.
>>737469472the Imagine You Won button is based. It is clearly stating that everyone who presses the button did not actually win the game, which is at least better than a simple "Story Mode" or "Easy Mode" which glosses over that fact. But I do agree that DS2 gameplay isn't designed well. The game is fully depended on environmental design and they didn't do a good job. The characters in Death Stranding aren't as memorable or likable as the characters from Metal Gear series, and the Hollywood actors are a distraction.
>>737469930The game could have used customizable difficulty with all sorts of toggles and sliders. The game's not particularly hard, even on TTW, and relies a lot on you to make your own fun. So let us. You should be able to turn up the frequency of all the weather effects and natural disasters but neuter combat difficulty if all you want to do is deliver cargo. Or keep combat hard as balls, but increase respawn time so the reward for clearing a camp is a safe route that lasts for a while.
>>737470176>multiple difficulty slidersbut you're complaining about slop gameplay? How about the devs design one well-designed game and people who suck at the game fuck off?
>>737469472Based
he really is like Mario
>>737469687I think he's the only one who consistently does it, right? It's the same as in the first game iirc>>737470176Isn't that what the APAS enhancements basically is?
>>737470451APAS makes it easier, but I also want a way to make it harder.
>>737469395crazy how that guy made that drive movie
>>737470427How the hell do you keep your floating carriers attached? Is it tied to the framerate or something? Every time I jump off one of those I lose all my cargo
DS2 is better than DS1 in every way possible. MGSV still beats both of them
>>737470853YOLO and hope it works? Tying down the carrier seems to help, sometimes. It also depends on the carrier's momentum, if you double jump too close to the ground, the carrier can still keep going down and crash before following you up.
>>737470710It's a pity Gosling is probably too big name an actor.
>>737470853equip your strand, approach your backpack and/or a floating carrier to tie it downlevel 3 Stabilizer seen >>737471231 is also super OP and helpful
You know, I would have actually delivered this one. Why can't you entrust delivery aid requests?
>>737471231>>737471416yeah no tying them down doesn't do shit, even putting the jump ramp aside the cargo spazzes out for something as minor as walking up a ledge or walking over some rocks
>>737471416It's not OP because it prevents you from equipping two large ammo pouches, which gives you endless ammo with the machine gun lvl 2.
>>737469472Cringe if a bot is behind this autistic pasta posting. Based if a real human bean is behind it.
>>737471379I wish we got the OG Death Stranding with Goose and Emma stone fighting whales on the moon
After 250 hours in DS2 on PC I went back to the first one, initially planning to only do the first area im now at 50 hours.It is really easy to ruin this game for yourself. If you arent optimally building roads, or have an optimal zip line route, or do too many single standard orders eventually the back and fourth for them grates.I feel like what you should focus on is when you meet a new person is always do their retrieval missions first, and if youve just unlocked a bunch of people near a mule camp, just take out the camp and get all their missions for that camp done at the one time.And dont bother with standard orders that are to people close by, its only really worth doing long range missions to get people to 5 stars.The sheer amount of orders some people have is fucking stupid though. I did like 12 deliveries for the Junk Dealer and the game is like 12/25! and some Distro Centers have 30 fucking missions The one thing I do love in this though is the fact that the mules are out patrolling huge sections of the map, and you feel pressured when you get caught in those first hours. DS2 confining them to bases just feels more like MGSV
>>737472046FYI the tranq rifles work on MGS rules. You can just body shot everyone and wait a minute for them to fall asleep in sequence. It's sometimes more useful to do this than go for headshots.
>>737472076>mules are out patrolling huge sections of the map, and you feel pressured when you get caught in those first hours. DS2 confining them to bases just feels more like MGSVI forgot about this part of DS1. It makes me think of the timefall farm. That location was cool, but made little sense. If half the farm is occupied by the terrorists, don't they fuck with the farm owners? For such a huge farm, why doesn't it have roads to the cities that it surely feeds? I can't fathom porters doing all the deliveries on foot.
>>737471887I wish you could save backpacks and swap between them. I feel so bad having to throw out one and make a new attachments when I want to change my loadout. It feels like there's an environmental message somewhere there.
>>737472046WHERE IS MY LETHAL SNIPER RIFLE KOJIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>737472336It's annoying to me that there always seems to be a bit of space at the top of the backpack, but we can never use it.
>>737472495we should at least be able to put patches there
>>737472540We should be able to put patches on any attachment that uses fabric really
>use bola stun gun on truck>stuns all the riders on itkino
>>737469395How many of the DS2 celebrity cameos are people that went to Epstein's Island?
One neat thing about going back to the first one was finding a good bridge, going to set a strand contract and the game actually tells you they last played the game in 2020 Then realizing my structures and zips from when I played it on launch ps4 might still be accumulating likes and helping people but ill never know.
>>737472648You should be playing offline to improve the sense of forging your own path, though.
I still cant believe the singer from Low Roar vaccinated hinself into a coffin.
>>737472721Good their music is shit and koshitma fell in love with it because they make music that speaks to his pretentious whale soulThe soundtrack in DS2 is leagues better because its not just that one band for the majority of the game
These guys need to work on their peripheral vision. They can spot you from a mile away, but not 2 feet to the side.
>>737469395That isn't impressive.I'd rather Asians were entirely defended against.
>>737472847A PORTER JUST FLEW ABOVE MY HEAD
>>737472887
>>737472798I really like the second half of this song but it feels like all the low roar tracks in DS2 just sound like the first half https://youtu.be/M_lyQ-OCIYs
>a month since we got the PC release>still runs like absolute assGoddamn it, I really like the first game, which ran buttery smooth, with DS2 it fucking struggles to run, no matter how much I lower the settings it still chugs at 35-45fps.Not sure what the fuck Nixxes is doing, wish they would get a hold of someone over at Guerilla Games to see if they can figure out a solution.
Songs are kinda pretentious nglJust give me normal video game music
>>737472721Should we have injected?
>>737472949What are you talking about? It ran fine for me. You must have a potato rig, or you're trying to run everything on Very High settings, as well as running at 1440p or higher.
>>737472949Works on my machine :^) only had to update windows>>737472956>implying there isn't normal video game musicAnon...
>>737472949the solution is you stop using a donkey dicks ass pc
>>737473063deserved for putting on that shit ass meme song
>>737472949I spent my 250 hours using DLSS only to find out yesterday that PICO is noticeably sharper Might just have to do it all over again once I finish 1 again
Why aren't you guys replaying DS1 with the Unlock Everything mod?
>>737473121Really? I tried PICO on release day and it looked kinda blurry compared to DLSS. Did they update it?
>>737473063The music player in this game is retarded. I just want it to play one song sometimes. But nooo. Gotta make a playlist and then play that.
>>737473165Digital Foundry's DS2 video dropped with visual evidence that PICO offers better clarity and averages 10fps higher than DLSS
>>737473051>>737473072>>737473076>>737473121Literally everything is at low or disabled and still having issues.>2080 Super>16GB RAM>intel 9700K (3.60GHz)>Win10And yes I'm at 1080p, I've read that people with 4080 are struggling to run the game.Even when I run the game at med-high, still get the same results.
>>737473063I freaked out here because I didnt think you could surf while attached and was soo stressed all my shit was gonna explode like thathttps://youtu.be/bwsMNDnetzA?t=2033&si=Y2Gr3JRy7xOb0ARr
>>737469395God I love japanese humor
>>737473167I recently learned you can quickly go to the next track by going into compass mode, but if it's not playing a song, you can't use it to start the playlist. It's really frustrating.
Name ONE thing he did wrong. Protip: you can't
>>737473264sir, you are using an 8 year old gpu in the year of our lord jesus christ MMXXVI. Ampere is the bare minimum now.
>>737473264Sounds like you didn't or couldn't update your GPU drivers. Or, maybe nvidia just doesn't care about optimising the 2080 anymore. I don't think the 2080 even supports DLSS.
>>737473264To be fair its not just youIm getting temps in the 90-95 range with just DS2
>>737473860he's really fucking cringe and lame and his return is one of the main reason I don't plan on ever playing the sequel.
>>737473860He has overpowered abilities but doesn't use them to achieve any of his goals, only to annoy the player. At least that was in DS1. In DS2 he shows up only to get owned by one of the other NPCs.
>>737474539Shame, you're missing out on a great game>>737474760The twins are such massive faggots it's unreal
>>737475147They would have redeemed themselves if they dropped a few "cunts" every now and then.
>>737474539Pretty kino if you ask me.
>>737474760>He has overpowered abilities but doesn't use them to achieve any of his goalsHiggs has one goal. He a reason to let Sam get to the end, because he wants Sam to connect everyone to facilitate his own goal. Everything up to the end is just him doing what you said, trolling for lols. Presumably that's all Amelie lets him do. When fighting Sam for real on the beach, Higgs is limited to just using his gun and teleportation, which isn't enough to stop Sam.The only actual threat to everyone's plans in DS1 was Cliff Unger. He could have trapped Sam on one of his beaches, killed Deadman and/or Die-Hardman, and possibly even killed Amelie (though I'm not sure if that's possible).
>>737476068I got halfway through the fight before I said "this is so stupid". From there on out, every cutscene with Higgs was just another humiliation ritual.
>>737476140How would you get revenge on someone who can't die?
>>737470451It's what APAS enhancements could be but they're not taken far enough. Since it's a genius system, they're going to drop it in future games.
>>737476228I'm surprised Higgs can even form coherent sentences if he spent "10s of thousands of years" alone on the beach. I don't know if I'd make him as full of bravado as he was. Maybe make him barely talk at all.
>>737476674>Since it's a genius systemIt's just an opt in skill tree. Much of what it gives you is stuff you already unlocked naturally in DS1, by increasing your porter grade.
>>737469472Redditpedos still haven't realized every good game kojima worked on was spearheaded by someone else, someone actually competent
>>737472956It's filled with game music but it gets drawn out by characters talking or flashy things happening so nobody notices that's it's really good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3tsThqzgghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4M4Onbnishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jovuMQXWn5ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Y_zE0z-Achttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H744YD6ATDwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_bzBxNx1hIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x1lD3sFkyQAnd there's more, bet you were dazzled into forgetting all this playing in the background.
>>737474471This explains everything.
>>737471231>Let's-a go!
>>737477061You're not seeing its potential. What if cargo content not getting damaged by rain could be turned off?What if many features you find too helpful were optional? With APAS enhancements the game could be made impossible to play and each player would activate the skills he wants to bring his experience to a comfortable level.Personally i don't activate all my APAS skills, just because they're there doesn't mean i have to fill in the skill tree.
>>737471943Nah, it uses em dashes too much to be a bot, and doesn't talk like one. It's just a journo, and a based one at that.
>alright kojimbo, you too hidemeo, get over here, we gotta choose whose gonna be the star of our slick, futuristic, clean, science fiction game, who do y->NORMAH REEDUS>...-w-what? he looks like the dude selling boner pills behind the gas station in the deep south, you want him as a professional, highly educ->NORMAAAAAAAAAAAAA REEEEEEEDUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS
Hopes for Physint and OD?
The purpose of this skill tree was not just to facilitate gameplay but also to sever the connection between our idea of a challenge and the dev's. >do this and you will never have beaten the gameTo forsake our sweat and our immersion is out of the question. So we'll seek out game mechanics which respect our gaming values, make up challenges, raise builds, tweak and customize. We would rather strive to achieve the impossible while remaining in control of our play experience. To struggle on in search of verisimilitude and perfect game balance.>you can't be your own game devCan't we? The APAS enhancement system allows us to tune the difficulty like never before. So the playerbase will continue to make use of APAS, and embrace the true potential of integrated modding. No one wants to go back to the dark days of difficulty settings.>it's true what you said about customizing. there are players who don't activate the auto cargo binding and use their rope insteadThe psychological sensation of playing the rules to achieve victory is something we all crave. That unity of restriction and creativity. The APAS enhancement system might still wind up an evolutionary dead end but even in this possibility, i see hope. And now, i'm going to deactivate the exo-skeleton balance assist skill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_bzBxNx1hI&t=233s
>>737469395Animate a thumbs up?
>>737472956All the music in the game is trash. I genuinely think Kojimbo has gone senile, he has lost his touch.
>>737480140only MGS1, 2 and 3 had good music, afterwards he pivoted way too hard into the hollywood styled soundtracks
>>737469395That is honestly impressive
>>737480259Actually I liked the score. It's nowhere near as good as MGS scores, specifically 1 and 2. But it sounded nice in places. I was talking about the needle drop sonds. Both Woodkid and Low Roar in particular sound like pretentious yet undifferentiated, sub-mediocre pop slop
Kojimbo is an absolute fucking hack
>>737480140I've been enjoying the soundtrack desu. It's annoying when the music player shorts out because of enemies or when off the chiral network but such is life.
>>737469472You are a fucking idiot and E33 is a shit game.
>>737469395Nah, plenty of developers are able to do low frame rates like that.
>>737469472does this only happen on the easier difficulties? I got slapped to death by the mech octopus a bunch of times but it never pops up
>>737481740It only happens if you die way too much. TTW might disable it entirely, though.
>>737480574>She's the protagonist of the next gameWelp.
>>737480574>Every white female actress portrayed in the game has an extensive aznude portfolioI wonder how Hideo-san decides who he wants to cast in his videogames
It's actually impressive how dogshit 2 is compared to 1.
>>737482968That's like posting DMC5 is a bad sequel, it's really not dogshit.
>>737469395Well not for very long considering how badly DS2 flopped.
>>737480574>>737482142>>737482841So I got spoiled about her.Why did he make arguably the most fuckable actress on the cast oil monster barefoot Quiet femme fatale powers and also make that character "her"? Isn't that a little weird? I'd argue that's weirder than anything having to do with Diana.
>>737476089I was surprised there wasn't even a single mention of Cliff in the sequel. Considering how important he was in the first game and how much Kojima liked Mads. Doesn't get mentioned or anything.
where is my BB
>>737469687I love how serious Fragile looks here lmao
>>737484996Hello faggot.
>>737483820Don't forget the scene where Sam body blocks Tomorrow when she's trying to leave and it looks like he's putting the moves on her.
>>737485569I haven't played it yet. If Kojima was a true la creatividad there would have been a Tomorrow romance option.
>>737483925Neil was such a Cliff ripoff it was insane. Neil wasn't even a military man; just a porter like Sam. It made no sense for Neil to be dressed like a soldier and have a squad for backup.I almost suspect that Cliff was supposed to come back in the original script, but got replaced by the Neil character. Maybe Mads either couldn't be afforded or didn't have the inclination to return, I guess. Same deal with Bionic Woman.
>>737482841Ellie Fanning has nudes?
>>737469395>vtubers:(>vtubers: japan:O
>>737485773
>>737471379Gosling told Kojima to fuck off and he's not interested lmao.https://x.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/329000989761871873>>737484996Here you go, that will be 300 caps, plus tax, plus gratuity, plus tip.
>main quest delivery to F5>3 bt fight>instant Alt+F4>haven't touched the game in weeksI fucking hate boss fights. Can you cheese them somehow?
>>737486041>he's not interestedThis is interesting. At some con panel Refn said he offered to get Keanu Reeves in the game but Kojima said no he wanted Mads.So now we have a hierarchy of rejecting Kojima to rejected by Kojima Gosling > Mads > Keanu
>>737486210>I fucking hate boss fights. Can you cheese them somehow?pretend you won
>>737486210Yeah use your PokeBall to capture and summon BTs. They don't even attack you during the summon. I never go into BT fights without them
>>737471231BingDouble bingTriple bingWAHOOOOOO
>>737486259If it's the F5 delivery then he just unlocked them and hadn't had a chance to capture anything so he should just run through the boss arena without fighting anything and come out the other side.
>>737469395Sam, Hack Fraudman here. So Miss Hunter Schafer doesn't seem to be cooperating with my vision here. She wants to jeep her penis. But for my new masterwork I need her to chop it off.Sam, you need to trek over here and convince her. You are the only one who can do it.We're all counting on you.
>>737469395He needs to stop doing this because all of his new games are worse for it
>>737486727Or just walk around the spawn zone by following the monorail pillars along the mountainside.
The level 3 Stabiliser is objectively the best backpack attachment.No you aren't going to convince me otherwise.
>>737486837I prefer it when Kojima isn't taking himself too seriously
>>737486210The squid and the three dogs? I think you can just run past them though I think it's in your best interest to catch the squid since it's the tutorial for the Pokeball grenade.I have no idea how the fuck to use that shit on the other bosses, the few times I actually fought them they just die instead of toppling over like the squid did
>>737486974Capturing BTs was poorly explained in the game. Fortunately it's entirely optional, just like completing the road network or getting 5 stars with survivors.
what's your backpack loadout?
>>737486974I must've missed the squid, only encountered dogs
>>737486974Raia's dangerous because its mouth only opens when it does its OVNI kill move.
>>737486895Sure I can. Watch this.>Jumping down cliffs while on foot is never useful because you drive everywhere>Having shitloads of ammo objectively is useful during any of the multiple mandatory BT and bandit fights on TTWThus, two large ammo pouches and 3 large grenade pouches are the best backpack loadout.
>>737487219Bringing 1 extra gun grants more ammo than any ammo pouches.The best equipment is the revive pad because fucking up one dodge is going to happen sooner or later.
>>737487412Messing up during a BT fight just gets you eaten while Sam acts slowly picks himself up because of anemia. The large ammo pouches give 5 reloads each, which is HUGE for a single machine gun lvl 2. I beat the whale BT mostly by surfing on a half durability hover board while mag dumping into it with a single MG lvl 2 that I brought. Those ammo pouches had my back not just then, but during many bandit camps where I came in with a tranq rifle and just kept sniping everyone with my ability to reload so much. A single climbing anchor pack is more than sufficient to replace the stabilizer for any on foot trip, which are relatively rare since I take the hover board for those.
>>737487412Absolutely Casual.
>>737469395I'm playing MGSV again after 100%-ing DS1 and DS2.
>>737490167Do you need psychological help?Self-Harm isn't a solution.
>>737490426Wha-Is MGSV that bad???
>>737469472>It's Kojima's $100 million excuse to hang out with Hollywood celebritieswe already know this
>>737469395I mean yeah, I think Kojima is a good director and has a very unique style that makes his games interesting. However, it is clear that with DS1/2 the guy either doesn't like gameplay or just wants to subvert it too much. He needs people who force him to make a VIDEO GAME like MGS. MGS was so good because it combined his great directing with people who were eager to make a great video game. Now it is just yes-men listening to Kojima because he is an 'auteur'.
>>737490426I'm already harmed..every year i feel my game..and my big boss..the prequel i've lost..
>>737490510I personally like it more than 4 but it is still nowhere near as good as 1-3.
>>737469395>this is tarmani'm not gonna play this but holy fuck are peple right about his names.
>>737490625You played DS and none of what you controlled registered as gameplay?
>>737490862>hurr he's named batman because he's a bat man
>>737490872I mean it is, but it is such minimal gameplay that it is not engaging or fun. It feels in service of the game's message/atmosphere because I think he placed priority on that for DS.
>that super important serious spooky plot twist that is explained for like 7-15m straight in both cutscenes and playable "cutscenes">instantly overridden and made pointless within 30s of it being explained, in the silliest way possible to bootWell that was pointless.
>>737491126Welcome to Knot ReWrite, Anonman.
>>737490862For me its Throw-it-backman
>>737491013It's none standard gameplay and it's detailed, involved. It's not difficult enough to reveal it in front of your insensitive gaming organ so you called it minimal. Maybe if it had levels with walls shaping a maze and used regular game conventions then your unperceptive eyes would have recognized the gameplay as maximally present.
Finished DS2 yesterday, here are my thoughts.I liked the map of the first game better. Theres too much forced combat in DS2.The story is much worseHiggs is shit.The vehicle physics didnt get improved at all. Driving a bike or offroader is still as janky and unfun just like in the first one. DS2 feels like a retarded addon rather then a full sequel. Honestly the thing you do most of the time, driving, feels like pure dogshit like cmon man. I stopped using the offroader as soon as I unlocked ziplines. Maybe that was La Creatividad's masterplan afterall. I regret purchasing this game.
fuck the first prepper
>>737492145>I liked the map of the first game better.Everyone does. Both Mexico and Australia are too flat and open, outside of areas that you go through once and make up a small part of the maps.>Theres too much forced combat in DS2.They basically traded BT areas for bandit camps. I prefered the frequency of BT areas to bandits in DS1.>The story is much worse. Higgs is shit.Kojima is good at setting up worlds and providing exposition. He's not so good at building on these worlds in ways that respect the original. Lots of retcons to how things worked and characters. Everything with Lou, and also even Fragile getting young skin again felt like it undermined the first game.>The vehicle physics didnt get improved at allIt got changed. The ground is smoother and you never get brought to a dead stop by driving over rocks anymore. I felt it made things a little too easy, to be honest.>I regret purchasing this game.I pirated. Don't really regret the experience, but I do think it was a worst experience than DS1.
>>737492197You know you can tie up your own backpack with the strand, right? It's weird how you don't even have the magnetic net upgrade from APAS.
>according to Kojima, if everyone likes your work it means it’s mainstream. it means it’s conventional. It means it’s already pre-digested for people to like it>i don’t want that, Kojima reportedly told Lemoine. i want people to end up liking things they didn’t like when they first encountered it, because that’s where you really end up loving somethingI don't love how true this ended up being and i don't want this kind of love in me anymore. Please make a DS game i fully love even if i love it less.
>>737493297He pulled a Joker 2. Made a shit sandwich sequel on purpose.
>>737490167Liquid stole metal gear! Don't worry, Big Boss defeated him and Mantis off screen!Here sit through this tutorial again with no changes or skips for the tutorial prompts.
>>737493032Look at it again, it's DS1. I didn't know you could tie up the cargo in DS1 and i'm freaking out.
>>737493482Oh, yeah, it is DS1. I should have notice from how the terrain has random jagged rocks and a level of unevenness, both of which would make using a vehicle more in that area difficult.
>>737491341I don't believe for a minute, that kojimbles rewrote anything. the story is just too bad for that. it's all retconns which make the OG worse. fuck him
>>737493638No it wouldn't prevent shit regarding vehicles. You noticed because the snowy slopes are more gentle than in DS2.
>>737492145>i skipped the game and now i'm mad i skipped the game how could this happen
>>737493839>No it wouldn't prevent shit regarding vehiclesYeah it would. The slopes in DS2 are also a joke compared to DS1, which not only had steeper gradients and large rocks, but also small rocks underneath the snow that would fuck your momentum up all the time. DS1 had a more foreboding snow area in general. DS2 had so many straight line paths that you could just drive straight up. Like Chronobiologist, lol.
>>737494105Sure it's why everyone complained about being able to drive vehicle up mountains in 2020, since it was so much harder.
DS2's trike looks like a wheelchair -.-
>>737494445Sure they did, bro.
>Everything you made crumbles>Lou becomes a smokerEhh... Not feeling this ending.
>>737469395kojima is so obsessed with goyslop he pays hollywood celebs to say nice things about him. he is a fucking loser.
>>737494105DS2 mountains are more foreboding with an altitude layer of clouds all around it instead of one area of whiteout. Blind navigation is a constant, seemingly navigable mountain passes leading to sheer cliffs on the other side, a low oxygen layer and if you slip it's all the way down without grip gear.
>>737494738You're a double nigger. Smoke a cig once your life.
>>737495002Low oxygen was kind of a joke. It's time limit is very forgiving. And much like with batteries, running out is completely mitigated by your stack of biotes.Cloud layer was cool as fuck. That said, it started to feel fake after a point. Like you always go from clear skies to sudden clouds, so you can never see the whole map from the top like in DS1. The white out mission in DS1 felt more intense to me, mostly because I wasn't driving a truck at the time.
>both games almost 40 hours longGod damn kojima why
>>737495350The low oxygen is a joke like every other mechanic in the game but it does fuck you over if you linger up there and that can realistically happen, it's not nothing. The mask eats a lot of battery. I got myself in a couple of high altitude binds on Brutal and on Wilder. Plus on foot mountain porting without gear or preparation in DS2 is genuine aids, which is a good thing.Biotes aren't an argument because they're the solution to everything, they negate all, i only stock chronos and necros.
>>737469395Kojima is a freemason
I have played this game for 80 hours so far and I've enjoyed it a lot. I just stopped by Black Video Game Lady's place for Rainy and I'm kinda of sad because I'll probably beat it this weekend.
>>737497532I got to that point a few days ago and I have 90 hours clocked in. I remember going to the Western Observatory from the plate gate at the beginning of the game thinking "man Australia kinda small" but boy I was either dead wrong or I'm just plain retarded with how long it took me to get where I am now.
>>737499419yeah, I 5 starred everyone early on, but not so much around Heartman on. Game is pretty meaty if you're not rushing story, but I do like that you can do that if you want.
>>737469472anon is cooking
>>737499853For anyone reading i recommend rushing the story without getting sidetracked, sounds crazy to do in an open world.
>>737478572It's very obviously an LLM that generated that text.
>>737502387>you should not enjoy the game and rush itweird recommendation
>>737472949modern day rendering practices my dude ;)
>>737502709Indeed weird but hear it out.Rushing DS2 is beneficial to the narrative, the plot, the story because the scenes are so short and deliver so little information that they need to work together to deliver their narrative payload. Try it and i bet you'll feel it too, the plot becomes more engaging, it's been constructed in a way that doesn't allow wandering off from the beat.
from what I understand DS2's australia is the equivalent of Africa in MGSV?
>>737469472>One button game>GameplayWhen the most notable creation of your country is Life is strange, anything can seem out of this world.
took me 151 hours to do all achievos. I got sad it was over, but at the same time I hated all the retcons & didn't enjoy the story. the cut scene were KINO though
>>737502709Let's say Tomorrow is currently learning to use her powers one scene at a time in a progression and i take multiple 5h long breaks to do side deliveries, i don't think about Tomorrow for 5 hours, i forget about Tomorrow so each time i come back i'm mentally cut off from the previous event. I broke the narrative because the scenes must mix and build a thread. The heartman plot, the apac plot, rainy, pod, gun, same thing.In DS1 it wasn't like this, the cutscenes were chunks justifying themselves from their own start to their end.
>>737490625>However, it is clear that with DS1/2 the guy either doesn't like gameplay or just wants to subvert it too much.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRDRIyEZM8cThe vast majority of these details involve GAMEPLAY. DS1/2 are far more mechanically dense than the average AAA sludge released these days. But that requires playing the game and most people who hate DS need jingling keys to be entertained.
>>737502387After 215 hours and 400TTW ranks all offline, I agree. This is going to be the better way to do it. Otherwise the game becomes a slog.Between each MAIN mission you only get a handful of standard orders. They are drip fed to you. Not just that but there's a lot of moving around from one place to another just to start orders. Not just that but they've also gone overboard with what was present in DS1; orders only appearing after certain other orders had been completed.Theres 40 or 50 orders in Mexico and they are the easiest ones. The other 350 in Australia felt very stngily handed out. Its like they REALLY REALLY want you to finish the story.
>want to do second playthrough on TTW again>also want to take a trillion screenshots and TTW would make that difficult mid fightsI am torn. Also asking again because I got no answer last time, can people in your friend list see the screenshots you take in the SSS ?
>>737506267I haven't been able to. I have a few friends and profiles stats seem to be the only thing thats shared?
>>737506231I'm at 117 TTW orders and looking at my available orders i can't believe 200 more orders are hidden.Where are my orders right now, it's nuts.
>>737506182>schizo ass shitwell I don't have a learning disability so this does not affect me and I can enjoy the story as it comes as I can for every single video game with gameplay in between. Good luck in the future.
>>737469472/v/ when game devs use AI as part of the process to build objectively better games>fuck off aijeets/v/ when some random idiot makes the lowest effort shitpost with one shot unrefined chatgpt prompt>wow basado
>>737506672I don't want to be schizophrenic.
>>737486210I get that it happens right after you get the pokeball grenade so that you capture all of them but that was so obnoxious. Not to mention it's not a mission only thing, these zones are permanent. Bless the coffin allowing me to zoom past them on the lake.
>>737507052Me doing the entirety of the Lord of the Tar Lake quest without taking even 1% damage. Fighting 4 BT bosses (i did use my Pokémon though).I just wanted to try and do it 0 damage.
>>737506692E33 is filled with everything that /v/ claims to hate>Extremely shallow gameplay>More concerned with being a movie than a game>Creatively bankruptSo it's ok when they do it.
>>737503826That is valid unless you play on wilder difficulty. You will want the better tools sooner than later because of all the fighting. It's important to 4 star places unless you want to be stuck with level 1 guns for the rest of your playthrough. This is the first time I see a difficulty setting is fucking with the story pacing in a game.
>>737506449Good to know. I'm going to litter strand twitter with screenshots.
>>737472336Yeah, and being able to store attachments instead of having to scrap and recreate them all the time. >>737472495>>737472540>>737472591Fucking this. Patches are absolutely useless if you use your backpack efficiently, and there's so much real estate you can put them on. Hell, if nothing else, a space on the suit for patches would be great, something dedicated for just that. Also, while we're bitching about small oversights, why the fuck can't the Bandana (a head item) be worn with any of the masks? You can wear the other hats with them, but the Yotei and DS1 Higgs masks should allow it.
>>737507374Thing is even on TTW you don't REALLY need to grenade launche/shotgun/sniper rifle. Theres a few other useful things for sure.I'm starting my second 400TTW ranks playthrough and this time I'm going to unlock as minimal stuff as possible and ser how it goes.Plus the game is way too generous in giving you tools for the situation. I kinda miss DS1 where you actually had to prepare beforehand.Even the fight on the bridge, the game spawns a Quad Rocket Launcher. So take out the two coffin mechs with it. Then casually pick up their heavy machine guns and absolutely demolish the boss in seconds.
>>737507752Did you S rank all three?I'm on the final one and people are saying don't try to stealth it, just charge Neil with melee and tie him up.
>>737507752Because both the bandana and the masks use the same slot so they can't be worn at the same time. That said they could easily fix it. By the way how do you get the bandana(s) ? Only did the first neil VR mission and didn't manage to S rank it so all I got was the suit. Didn't bother with the other two
>>737503826Agree with this, and the game does eventually have a mini "point of no return," where they intentionally hamstring one of your major functions to railroad you into the plot so you keep the momentum going. It doesn't stop you outright, but it heavily encourages getting on with it. A lot of the locations also have soft or hard progress locks until after the end of the story. >>737507921Fuck no. From what I understand, you get the items just from beating the missions (I did, anyway.) I don't know that the ranks do anything for any of them. Hope not, that shit seems rough. Actually, is there any reason to S rank any VR missions?
>>737508045That's what I'm saying though; the Bandana is in the "Head" category, which generally does NOT occupy the same slot as the "Face" category, yet it's acting like it's in the "Face" category. I don't know if maybe it's a bug and the Bandana is miscategorized in the code or what. You just need to beat each VR mission. No need to S rank. The third and last one gives you the Bandanas. Second gives you a cool suit.
>>737508079In terms of unlocks I don't think you have to S rank any VR mission stuff. B-b-but I couldn't leave them not S ranked kek
>>737506183Some of this shit is huge.>sticky gun can retrieve ropes>peeing on nests respawns cryptobiotes>considerate BTs revealed>bloody pee damages BTs and creates stronger grenades>weaponizes blood feet>santa hat virus400hours btw.
The VR missions are fun for some reason, i usually never play those types of things in games so i can't tell why they feels great.
>>737470427>YAH>WAH>YAHOO>YIPEEEEE
>>737508846>mfw found out about a lot of those through DS threads and videos because I can't let sam get physically hurt any more than the games story hurt him
>>737472378Open the weapons menu, then hold down RT+LT+B
>>737508846Considerate BTs could be seen in DS1 as well. Check YouTube vids.
>>737509782It doesn't work on tranq weapons, and the sniper rifles are only tranq
>>737472904Higgs should've included Heartman on his kill list after getting a thumbs down.
>>737471885My impression is that if you turn even a nanometer as you run down the ramp then you are fucked.If your carriers are not perfectly aligned as you start running, you are also fucked.Even then you run the risk of the second carrier escaping into the stratosphere.
>>737492145>the thing you do most of the time, driving, feels likeYea dude..
>>737506183>gas mask hides your breath from BT'sFUCK ME
>>737469472Based FPBP
I really do not like the new seating on the reverse trike. DS1's felt like upgraded motorcycles.God, I would kill to unlock the ghost rider soldier's motorcycles for regular gameplay use, or even a ghost mech motorcycle. Just make it so you can't attach cargo to them.I just really like motorcycles.
>>737510915Is delusion something that brings you gratification?
>>737511102The state of the trikes in DS2 symbolizes Sam's mental state, literally crippled, la creatividad
>good job on that order Sam, return to your private roomNope, building the roads>the magellan can't travel right nowDon't care, I have roads to build>Sam don't you think it's about time to take a brea- owBuilding the roads
roadster dlc when
>>737513992Soon along with armor pads
>>737469395DS2 sucked dick and those options are embarassing
DS3 leaked >>>/wsg/6127560
Whatever, man. The game is great for taking screenshots.
>>737514097>armor padsI never liked armor pads in 1, they don't make a lick of sense and don't even cover vital organs.
>>737515432Sure but they're very useful to take out demens without sneaking, just run in and start body slamming all of them while the armor pads absorb most bullet hits. I miss them so much. All this combat related stuff added in 2 and we don't even get an armored suit
danglook at all this gameplay.
>>737516224do you just accept every order and leave the related cargo in private lockers
>>737516630no, I'm delivering that shit in one run, the cargo is inside the truck behind me.
Was Higgs right about just ending the world? The porters keep making deliveries just for the sake of it while the world falls apart and stays the same.
>>737516745gotta keep on keeping on.
>>737516745He has the Amelie doomer brainworm but yes he was right. Recently I realized the ghost mechs main color is red because Amelie's dress is red, I may be fucking retarded
>>737469395>>737469687So why is his heart outside his body? That seems very unwise.
is there a high res screenshot gallery somewhere?
>>737469472Kojimacucks absolutely and irreparably BTFO
>>737469472I mean you are not wrong, I agree but still too much text anon, theres people here of all places who unironically would suck Kojima off on sight
what did kojima mean by this
>>737515126Not a flex.
>>737520070The Higg's Bosom might be bunged but Cliff Hung's still out there, Sam Porter Breaches, contact your friend Bedman and i'll show you both why they call me Die-Hardman.
>>737486226I'm glad he's got some sense. Reeves would have been terrible.
>>737473138I just finished DS1 so idkJust waiting for DS2 to go on sale
>>737485738That's kind of a shame. His intro sequences were some of the coolest parts of the first one.
>>737518321>>737518825 Having an IQ below 85 is not something to brag about.
>>737521808I wish more was done with Neil. His acting is really nice and I enjoyed every scene he's in>Neil DLC where you smuggle braindead pregnant women over the border
>>737520892Just gonna keep rebuilding roads alright.
>>737473063Guffawed.
>>737520073t. GPUlet
MGSV is closer to Death Stranding than it is to MGS Although it has much better storytelling because Death Stranding leaves absolutely fucking nothing to the imagination
>>737522915>I knew the entire story of Death Stranding from the second I saw the first promo poster!>But MGSV, dog?? You couldn't even IMAGINE what was going to happen even though it was a prequel!
