>>738003709
Your GPU is burning

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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.

fucked myself this second playthrough by doing no standard orders
got up to building the level 2 roads and i was so sure because from the beginning i had been setting aside materials into the magellan i wouldnt have to do a lot of back and fourth
turns out despite mining from fully upgraded mine i can only complete half the roads i could my first run, and now i have no chiral crystals
fucked it m8

>>738003709
The problem causing the shitty performance and GPU shortage has been the Unreal Engine 5, all along.

Anything NOT made in Pajeet-Engine 5 instantly runs NORMAL, as in easy native 4K on RTX 5000 cards, and good modest 1080p on old GTX cards.

>>738004237
and I am MELTING for you

>>738004335
If Kojima ever makes a movie critics would rape his ass so hard he would need to use diapers for the rest of his life.
So he sticks to games where journos still huff his farts