one-armed dwarf Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 In the time since Blakey has made that comment that Nicolas Windy bloke has died at least once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Fucking Geoff Keighley is in Death Stranding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I couldn't watch the part where they showed the game. The hero worship of Kojima turned my stomach even tho he is one of my favourite game creators Talk about putting a creator on a pedestal and hot boxing his farts for a live audience streamed around the world. Games are so much more than one man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 'I have seen Death Stranding at Gamescom and I finally understand what's going on' Quote To understand Death Stranding – the intent behind its narrative and the type of game that it is trying to be – you need to forget about the BBs, BTs, and strangely captivating urination systems. Hideo Kojima has long attempted (somewhat unsuccessfully) to explain that Death Stranding was a game about connection, and it has taken a new behind-closed-doors demonstration finally gave me a clear idea of the intent behind his laboured explanations. The thing that really stood out to me was just how simple this game is at its core. Death Stranding is a game about walking. As Sam Porter Bridges (or as you probably know him, Normal Reedus trapped in the uncanny valley), you are tasked with walking from the East coast of America to the West, reactivating various communication nodes along the way in an effort to spread a message of hope to a nation that has become fragmented and disconnected, taking the idea of unity to pockets of an isolated populous that trades in ambivalence rather than love. That is Death Stranding. And so you will walk. You will retrace the steps of Amelie, daughter of the President of the United Cities of America, who embarked on her own East to West journey with a convoy sometime before the game kicks into gear. She did this in an attempt to establish a network of communication relays across the country, a network that could deliver a message of unity from her mother, Bridget, who also happens to be on death’s door. That message is that every problem in the world needn't be solved by force; instead, it is hope that can bring us all together. This is necessary after Central Knot City was destroyed in a terrorist attack – through the use of irresponsible 'Void Outs', the act of coming back from the 'Other Side', from the game's central antagonists. This has pushed pockets of civilisation to disconnect themselves from the government and from each other in fear, choosing to instead go it alone in the wildlands. Off on the edge of the Pacific is Edge Knot City, home to a group being painted as a decentralised force – separatists and terrorists, the Homo Demens – who are intent on ensuring their own independence. It's on the road to Edge Knot City – on the road to building a bond with the most dangerous and disconnected portion of this vision of a fractured America – where Amelie was captured; she appears to Sam as a hologram projection in everything that we have seen so far, never ageing, looking to him as she did on "back on that beach". She's safe, she tells Sam, and she's free to talk to him and use the facilities as much as she likes – she isn't in a prison, she is keen to note – she just isn't able to leave the confines of Edge Knot City. Connect the country up to the communication network, see if you can rescue Amelie from the Homo Damens and their leader, Higgs – the 'Man in the Golden Mask' played by Troy Baker – and spread the message of a dying president to halt the otherwise irreversible fracture of society. There's your story in Death Stranding; it's no more confusing than that. It's the drive to get you moving through the world and the core tenant to the gameplay. The rest of it is all noise – a collection of gamification and esoteric sci-fi concepts to introduce conflict. Death Stranding is a game about a pilgrimage, about activating communication relays, and about delivering parcels to isolated corners of America in an attempt to establish social strands – building bonds with your fellow man in an effort to inspire hope in a dying society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 If this game turns out to be like RDR2, which based off Blakeys post seems like it will, then it is going to be fun to listen to Dan at Giantbomb realise he hates a Kojima game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 RDR2 is one of only 6 truly incredible games the entire generation so more please 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Maf is fronting that he likes RDR2, else he would have beaten that shit by now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 14 minutes ago, Nag said: Come on then @Maf, I fancy a laugh... what are the other 5? I can’t remember off the top but if you put them in front of me I would be able to tell you 8 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said: Maf is fronting that he likes RDR2, else he would have beaten that shit by now But most of my games are unfinished, in some cases not even started, so this is not a real KPI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 I came up with 7 Breath of the Wild Ori Astrobot Outerwilds RDR2 Witcher 3 Mario Kart 8 ... I can’t think of another game that deserves to sit on this list. Not that games have been bad this gen but nearly none of them are this good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Bloodborne ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Bloodbourne is great but it’s hurt too much by Dark Souls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 That’s mostly what the story is and what “the game is about” than gameplay. No where did it strike me as rdr2. I hope it’s good. I think at this stage it’s easy to mock but it’s at least something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeRKN Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 13 hours ago, Maf said: I came up with 7 Breath of the Wild Ori Astrobot Outerwilds RDR2 Witcher 3 Mario Kart 8 ... I can’t think of another game that deserves to sit on this list. Not that games have been bad this gen but nearly none of them are this good. Reported for not including Celeste or Hollow Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 The 50 minute gameplay demo is happening at TGS tomorrow at 8am BST tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 What an arrogant tweet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DisturbedSwan Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 Nothing wrong with a girly wee @one-armed dwarf ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 The obsession with mundane stuff like weeing and pooing and statements like "oh man nobody has done a game like this" makes me think Kojima thinks he's making the video game version of Ulysses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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