Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't be surprise if him and Shinkawa got high as frick together and bounced ideas off of each other while recording the whole thing to use as inspiration for later when they come down from it.
Depends on the focal length of the lens they are emulating. If you are say 25 miles from a city skyline for example and take a picture of the moon setting or rising next to one of the buildings in your composition with say a 2000m telephoto lens or equivalent, the moon will look huge.
How does he keep getting away with it man. I felt more watching this trailer than a proper film or a full game playthrough. As someone who platinum'd DS1 I am in fricking awe.
it's the Kojima magic that only this man can do. There is a reason all his trailers are always so goddamn good. I can't tell you how many times i've watched his trailers over and over again. Nobody does it like him, nobody. A real gem in this otherwise lazy ass garbage woke devs shithole of an industry
He seemed to have listen to some criticism, which is good, but I hope it doesn't deviate from the cargo delivery man gimmick. More action should be optional.
>He seemed to have listen to some criticism, which is good
what criticism? the frick are you talking about? the only valid criticism against DS1 is that mule camps suck and shouldn't exist. All DS1 needed was an elaboration on its core ideas, basically more of the same principles of environmental hazards and BT shit. Which is what we seem to be getting. Which isn't the same as "listening to criticism". That's the natural conclusion of a sequel.
Are you crazy? DS1 bigger criticism was the lack of action. This was everywhere. Still is if you pay attention to these threads. Kojima is clearly trying to appeal to these people now, but I hope he's also saying: I made my point clear, you know what to expect, but here's another bone so you don't run away screaming.
>is that mule camps suck and shouldn't exist
You are stupid, you traversed through the same exact fricking BT area 10 times over and fun combat is the thing that is the only valid criticism to you? God, Kojimatards are insane.
Based, god damn I got conned so hard.
Made out Shadowbringers to be the height of the entire Final Fantasy franchise, a masterpiece of masterpieces and it was the exact same shit as all the previous expansions and the base game, the quests were just as bad, awful, just awful zones and the dungeon design is still identical to all the other dungeons in the game. Just the same fricking shit.
>the first game ends on a postive note, Higgs is dead, death stranding is stopped and Louise becomes a normal child. The story is properly finished >nevermind, Louise dead, Higgs is alive, death stranding wasn't stopped after all
Frick, it's MGS curse all over again
Time travel within death stranding doesn't feel like a remotely far-fetched idea. Hell, we already had Fragiles instantaneous beach teleportation + the same time cutting stuff on the chiral network.
lou is a god level psychic that can do anything. the ending scene is pretty confusing but basically Lou travels back in time and possesses baby sam while also projecting future sam into the past along with her. then she
freezes time and teleports baby sam outside of the bb pod. the 28 in bb28 is a reference to akira.
lou is also the camera. she's using remote viewing to see from behind sam. that's why the camera blinks whenever sam hooks up to the bb pod.
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?t=5727 >sam hooks up to lou for the last time and lou is sent into the past. we know it's lou swimming around because sam shows up later as a projection but also because you can't use the talk button
?t=5782 >lou possesses baby sam
?t=5992 >sam is being projected into the past along with lou
?t=6294 >lou teleports sam outside of the pod or sam teleported himself outside the pod, either way it's clear the hatch was never actually opened so how did sam get outside?
?t=6340 >lou freezes time so cliff can speak to sam we know that time being frozen actually happened because cliff is standing up when he gets shot. bridget can probably move in stopped time which is why she's the one who shoots cliff.
+ first game acknowledges DS wasn't finished. First game clearly states DS was going to happen one way or another. Not sure how they are going to stop this one though.
I fricking HATE it. It's a straight ripoff from a handful of popular sources stuffed into a setting where it doesn't fit in any sense imaginable. Tonally, aesthetically, etc. Sure, it's not wrong to reference things that you enjoy here and there here, but there is a time and place for these things. I swear bug devs are simply incapable of comprehending the importance of subtlety.
>but there is a time and place for these things
This is unironically the core of the soulless modern western creative mindset and why so many lack imagination.
You guys fundamentally cannot escape "muh realism" to create something truly surreal and nonsensical.
>coherency
How is it not coherent? Everything in the trailer follows it's world rules. Higgs is a psycho terrorist who lived in a stalker bunker and is obsessed with Egypt and rock music
This is cool but Higgs is genuinely one of the worst characters in media and I'm sorry to say that if you like this character you are incredibly reddit.
Gonna be honest, I don't remember anything about this character at all
I really liked higgs because he was a huge cutie with his pizza deliveries and his bullshit and in the end he gives you the best possible weapons in the game.
>people shit on DD2 for just being DD again >DS2 shows that you are exactly doing the same shit as in DS1 and people love it
stop worshipping this hack already
Yeah looks like the time effect of the rain isn't there. Maybe they found a way to fix that.
I hope this kind of events will be dynamic and not pre determined like BT areas in the first game
100%. I just imagine some shit like planning a route to cross a shallow part that's dry only for rain to come in and flood it making you need to change your plans. If it's dynamic it will take DS's already great gameplay to the next level.
It seems to me that Kojima has the best programmers and designers in the industry while everyone else is chaining morons worse than me to chairs and whipping them into production to get something. It can't be just vision, it simply can't.
I get the feeling that they're trying to fix what DS1 couldn't do by including it in the next game >day/night cycle >possibly dynamic environmental events >structures not being immovable pillars anymore
Also probably more combat as the trailer basically starts with fragile showing sam the weapon room. Hope it doesn't become a central thing of the game, I enjoyed how it was in DS1, all I want is for the combat to be improved, not more of it
Yeah personally I'd much prefer they just move away from combat. Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules.
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>Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules.
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>Welcome to the Stranding son
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Because you used the bolas gun i bet. That weapon just wrecks the MULE encounters in the ass. Without guns they can be freakishly efficient at surrounding the player.
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I enjoy bodyslamming MULEs and gassing terrorists. It's a little janky but the combat can be fun. It became slightly less fun in the DC due to the turrets added to every camp, MULEs/terrorists will just run to a turret even if you're right next to them
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no but for real, the mules were clunky and tripped over the terrain, fell into rivers, it was really funny fighting them. I hated the boss fights and Cliff fights, but fighting mules was fun. Though the execution was lacking, I felt like they had some personality. It was very different from fighting npcs from other games, reminded me of mgsV in that sense. My ideal sequel would actually be get rid of guns, both Sam the enemies. You gotta use your traversal tools to fight, they use those electric harpoons, it should be focused on movement, both when attacking and when escaping. Then when you fight these new robot enemies, there's a tone sfhit from comedy to something that actually feels dangerous
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They are also different in the way that they don't want to kill you, just steal your shit. It really adds to their charm.
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true. That thing where you wake up without shoes when you lose to them is so funny
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>Yeah personally I'd much prefer they just move away from combat. Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules
I did. I thought it was fun especially if you werent prepared for them. In death stranding if you are prepared for a challenge it cant really beat you or hinder you though. If you walked into a mule camp with a level 2 bola gun or the dlc weapon or something they wont stand a chance, but having to use that strand and parcels and your hands is pretty fun.
>the trailer basically starts with fragile showing sam the weapon room
And rooms for other crew you will likely gather through the game.
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>instead of connecting people you invite them to the ship
I can already see it happening and I'm not sure I'll enjoy it.
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It's basically a mobile mother base sounds kino to me
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I enjoyed lonelykino of DS1 but having a base to spend time with the boys also sounds fun. Like you'll still be doing deliveries solo so having a home to go back to sounds fine to me.
I wanted a desert, I am getting a desert. Sand dunes are kino and Kojimbo will undoubtedly make it work in DS2. Maybe there will be another mechanic that will make you wish for a timefall.
I'm scared that boss fights are still gonna be all over the place but boy is this look like an improvement as a whole with some fresh la creatividad quirks on top. Just incredible.
>It's gonna be the different member's of Higg's band, each with their own gimmick and moronic name
More metal gear shit?
Possibly. Id like that though. Would be much better than what we have.
i shudder with disgust when i see "people" praising this fricking moron
this is so fricking stupid and pretentious im getting douche chills
frick you for having such a shit taste in entertainment media
yeah kojima dickriders are so cringe.
circlejerk never ends.
metal gear solid is overrated af
death stranding sucks
p.t is abysmal
i dont get why they drool over this man
i give him credit, kojima is a good director but thats where it ends, as a writer he is a hack, as a gameplay designer he is below average.
I devoured the game on PC. Got all achievements in about 55 hours and dicked around for 20+ hours more because it was just a great vibe during a rainy summer season.
Its the definition of style over substance. It has big name talent behind it, acting-wise. Looks great graphically. Definitely creative and compelling at first glance.
Just a shame that none of it makes any fricking sense and is just Kojima smelling his own farts.
>none of it makes any fricking sense
It's crazy that anons come into a thread about a sequel and act like Kojima wrote in hieroglyphics. The concept of BTs, the beach, the death stranding, the babies, that shit was explained and over-explained in the first game. You literally can go read the wiki for a question about anything. This trailer had new stuff that will make sense in the game once it's out. Or have you never seen a game trailer before?
Well the ship dives into the tar and travels through the beach or whatever, the rift was that it? It's why they're blue dabadidabada.
It's like hyperspace to go places faster. BT shit's going to happen in and around that underworld-fairing vessel.
The hands flick their fingers and makes a spark that turns into flames, more like plasma since it ignites the cigarette in less than a second.
How does it do it? What does it means?
>Its a autistic jap tries to copy western devs because his nation is trapped in the early 90s
I mean...its funny for a while but then you kinda feel sad for the guy.
Can't believe I'm going to suffer this entire year and the next one plus whatever Sony pulls to derail launch on PC to play this game, but alas, at least I'll play eventually in almost 2027.
I'm playing DS1 now for the first time Thanks, Timmy. and I still get astonished by how beautiful the environment is. If DS2 improves at least that it's already an interesting buy for me.
First game had 2 maps, this game has you traveling on a massive ship between locations. I wonder if this is like 4 different maps or 2 with a lot of variety in terrain.
By that logic you could say the same of Elden Ring. No, I'm not defending Starflop. In fact, I hope Bethesda suffers much more so they get their shit together for ES6. Cypher must send them to hell.
You know when you say it like that... how the frick are the Japanese better at doing alien environments then the West? No seriously, does anything in Starfield look nearly as fricked up and hostile as Caelid?
Dude the fricking graphics look insane. Im not a graphics guy or anything but Holy shit theswe fricking ds2 graphics. If this game doesnt go on pc on LAUNCH day. Ill fricking buy the PS5 just for this game.
just how shit looks within the weird dead strand world. I assumed in the first game that it was meant to show the spirits of the dead/near dead, but I suppose in this case, they're probably using that same strand world to travel easier/faster or something.
The theming around birth, babies, umbilical cords, and wombs means it's referencing cyanosis or when babies are born blue due to being dead and oxygen deprived
The theming around birth, babies, umbilical cords, and wombs means it's referencing cyanosis or when babies are born blue due to being dead and oxygen deprived
It also happens to Heartman when he dies the first time, but his body is being kept barely alive in the hospital on the other side. Its when youre halfway between dead and alive on the beach
I considered that too after the presentation, but fricking hell, for one game really? Better suffer in silence and wait a year. It's too fricking fancy.
I'm kind of disappointed, the maps looked emptier and the story seems like wacky bullshit. >bad guy brought back from the dead fights a samurai with a guitar
I'm too old for this shit and so is Kojima.
Imagine seeing something like that and being disappointed that the game isn't "adult" enough. Have some fricking fun you old log. Fun is legal for older people as well.
Rrrrrmmmh Desert sandsss.
But seriously i can already see the caveats, we've played the first game.We know where it failed.
Flash floods? My ass, remember the rolling rocks. Mountain crumbling, a cinematic obviously. Vehicles? Do you expect physics improvements? Survival difficulty? Not a chance. Giant world? The map's not going to be as big as it seems. BTs, static zones you know it, we'll never be ambushed by them. Talking sidekick? Better not be annoying.
Baby samurai: cool as frick
2025: good don't rush it
Hey maybe we'll be able to unequip him but then again, he's in a cinematic. Get ready for some funny quips with Sam Porter a real comedian this man. I'm glad he's not an old fogey but i'm ready to get MG2-tricked somehow.
Boss fights? The movement system isn't made for them, the best they can do is give variety to the boss' shapes.
Robot enemies means that the lethal weapons can finally be put to good use since these wouldn't be sensible to pain from rubber bullets. It's all about the equipment and loadouts so every item needs to be useful, making choices just for fun didn't cut it in the first game. I don't want that again, i want to actually be able to hurt Sam's feet, i want to need to bring extra shoes.
I've spend some time thinking about how to fix DS1's shortcomings and i know exactly how to do it. It's a very simple tweak and i fear i won't be getting that.
>herro Kojima-chan can i take picture withyou in the illuminati room purisu arigato
Shit i forgot to tell him about how to fix the game now DS2's gonna suck. Sorry everyone.
I fricking love launch/sortie/deployment sequences. You better get to deploy out of the Magellan like that shot in the trailer every fricking time. I want the wind buffeting Sam's face, NPC technicians scrambling and yelling over all the noise, and some military comms nonsense going off in my ear.
why do so many people adore this plagiarizing frick? can I call myself a genius with a creative gene by mixing a bunch of stuff made by a bunch of people?
My point was the little BTs in teh smoke probably don't mean anything but Sam saying he's coming back from another world does. People emerging from the tar and their DNA is different.
Yeah that seems to be the general theme of the game. Building our bridges using the Death Stranding but coming out of it a little different than what we came in. Last game talked about the importance of building connections so I could fully see this time being an elaborate metaphor for the dangers of building connections.
Okay, just confirming she wasn't the b***h from the first game who had me carry her to that guy she then divorced. Maybe shes the samurai? Thats racist enough to work, Kojima gives no shits, and Olga was bigger in the Cyber Ninja suit as well
>she wasn't the b***h from the first game who had me carry her to that guy she then divorced.
When I received the email titled "Marriage Sucks" I lost my shit. All that effort for naught. That was fricking great. lol
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Turns out they get back together again in the post game, though. At least I didnt have to carry her a second time, she woulda went right into the tar pit
How are people this stupid? Ever heard of Olga or Gray Fox? This is a reskin of a scene he's done several times. The guy is fricking cooked, and can't put together a single project without shitting it up full of references.
Man this is exactly what I wanted. Just an expanded version of the first game, bigger, more varied and refined. Please let there be a weather or day and night system
I want a day and night system and for night to be fully pitch fricking black beyond artificial light from constructs. Imagine trudging through the dark, lights off to save battery for your exo skeleton with just the light of a bridge you put down in the distance guiding your way while spooky sounds murmur in the dark. When you actually think about it there's so much cool shit you can do with DS's simple traversal and delivery gameplay.
Gta6 is going to be the mutt and niglet pacifier, I hope rockstar never stops making them so we can put them in gtavr for good and farm their training data
No static BT zones please, i was promised ghost homies dropping on top of my head at inappropriate times.
It's not the size of the BT area that counts, it's not the numbers. Make the player the center of the spawn point and make it random when it rains.
I don't think the rains works the same now. It's already weird that the death stranding isn't actually over even though the ending..having BTs in the rain would be a retcon. I'm so confused.
what's this one about vros? Kojimbles is damned near a clairvoyant savant with his vidya kinos and their main aspects pretty much coming to pass irl. I'm nervous.
It's a clever illusion they use to make the landscape appear more distant than it actually is but i still looks great. Doesn't look great on a youtube video.
I liked DS1 so I am looking forwards to this, seems like there's more MULE variety and new terrain. The snowy mountains made me wish there was a desert option and my wishes have been answer. I just hope Sam isn't separated from Lou for too long or else what's the point
Bro thats almost definitely lou. Lou can do absolutely everything in this game. Glad we get more lou because its the most heartfelt part of death stranding.
I would appreciate it if we got another Tanker/Plant where you play as Lou past a certain point. And if the hotspring mechanic from the first game was still firmly in place yes that was deliberate word choice
I heard the BB sounds when he was fighting, and the face works like the machine attached to it, maybe thats Lou in there? This trailer was clearly all over the place chronologically, so trying to piece it all together is pretty futile
What I got from it that all of those red enemies are robots being controlled by someone in the chiral network, but when Sam was in danger Lou (forma de chiral network) took control of them to save him
Beings from the other side, stuck in our world because of the Death Stranding. In the same you go to the beach when you die, theyre stuck here - or something. I could be entirely wrong, all I did was beat the game, as you know that doesn't mean you understand anything
Just watch the movie Pulse (the Japanese version) except instead of disappearing you, you explode in a matter anti-matter reaction instead. Christ you fricking philistines, he's a huge movie nut how did you not catch that?
Did you miss Deadman explaining that Lou was incinerated before DS1 started? It's because Lou was never Lou, it was baby Fragile and that's why Fragile is raising Lou-Fragile in the first trailer, now adult Fragile is Lou and Fragile is dead which is why Lou has died.
Honestly Death Stranding was some of Kojima's most clear and concise writing; I'm not really sure how people misinterpret the plot because the game hands you everything (literally).
I love how both this and the last game make it painfully clear the other devs deliberately modify their characters to be uglier than the person they're scanned from.
Everyone in these 2 games looks fricking IDENTICAL to the person they were scanned from.
I dunno how to feel about higgs being back, I really liked his character but it felt like his character/conflict with sam and fragile was dealt with satisfyingly in the first game, and bringing him back just seems like it'll be a re-tread.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
>I dunno how to feel about higgs being back, I really liked his character but it felt like his character/conflict with sam and fragile was dealt with satisfyingly in the first game, and bringing him back just seems like it'll be a re-tread.
I felt like in death stranding everything seemed to be resolved perfectly and that it didnt need a sequel. That said im fine with whatever this is as long as we get more gameplay.
I was kind of scared they would remove the delivery gameplay since Kojima said that if he were to make DS2, he'd rethink the whole thing from the ground up. And also that he wanted to make DS2 more "fun" than the first game. Guess he changed his mind on those things.
It actually looks pretty close to what I was really hoping for from DS2, which is just DS1 but bigger and better. I was hoping they'd just flat out remove combat, but I guess that's a bit much to ask for with Kojima.
I really hope the game will have multiple maps, having numerous smaller maps instead of one big map is the way to go with a game like this, and I don't know how you'd fit a barren desert and rocky hillsides into one map without it just being jarring.
Story seems fun at the very least. Higgs going through his Joker arc, shooting lightning at a samurai with a guitar, it'll be a ride. Also is it just me or does Reedus's acting seem a bit better now?
The plot now is connecting other countries instead of just new america, so delivery is still the main gameplay loop. You also have a flying ship now. >I don't know how you'd fit a barren desert and rocky hillsides into one map without it just being jarring.
North America is frickhueg and vertical, there's tundras, deserts, forests, mountains, coastlines, jungles.
Do I really see an entire board creaming themselve over the sequel for a literal walking simulator moviegame, which had awful dialogue and story in general and left no cultural impact. Until now I only saw people calling out Kojima the hack he is, now it feels like I just entered a cult.
Caring about something making a cultural impact is an estrogen brained thought process. I feel sorry you can only enjoy things enjoyed by the drugged masses.
>fan
Again, another estrogen addled thought process. I'm not surprised, due to the amount of gacha threads on here and an infiltration from /vt/, but only mentally ill people buy into cults like fandoms.
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Nobody talked about gacha games, I don't remember ever bringing in what I do enjoy. I know kojima is a big fricking weeb so that wouldn't be the approach I would take.
Not if you have to be sarcastic about it. If you don't have the ability to appreciate tone and setting and motivation and you want more guns and explosions, you can go play fricking Overwatch and turn your brain entirely off. Go watch marvel movies and eat burger king you fricking hog.
But they were ass, at least it's consistent with MGS V they had this in common but I had some gameplay then.I Don't care for guns and explosions in my stories, I just want a good one.
tone- immaculate. The desolation, the loneliness, the sense of omnipresent hostility
setting - fascinating. A silent hill apocalypse. A completely new concept.
motivation - at least good. You understand who people are and why they are doing what they're doing, this is probably the most criticizable, in that hideous kojim-bob is an autistic homosexual who doesn't understand people and doesn't really like women in general, so if anybody was going to have a complaint that one would be the most obvious, but it works and it's not too obtrusive when people say some dumb or weird shit occasionally.
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>doesn't really like women in general,
He has homosexual tendencies but I find his vidya women to be nice
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There are absolutely other, more human people who are capable of writing a female human in the story. When one of these "fe-males" opens their hole, Hideo has to look away and let someone else write dialog for "her". Women are an afterthought to him, necessary for reproduction and little else. He understands, on an intellectual level, that they do in fact have things to do and that some people like them, but he's basically color blind to women. Like Nice Pete from Achewood.
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I guess I find them more palatable because the men he writes are equally as vapid, sometimes.
DS1 took eight months between console and PC release, so I'd say one year, more or less, guaranteed. Kojima said that he has "affection" for PC players, so as much as I'd like to believe that we will get a really close release date, I'm sure Sony has other ideas.
>When I first started in this industry, I worked on PC games,” Kojima said in a newly published video interview promoting the PC version of the game, which is currently on sale, for publisher 505 Games. >“It was quite a while before I started to make games for consoles, so I feel a lot of affection and affinity towards the PC. Games are developed on PCs, after all.” >Kojima said Death Stranding was released for PC in a bid to attract a new audience—”PlayStation gamers and core PC users are a different market”—so the game would be played by as many people as possible. >He said he was “most proud” of the fact that Kojima Productions developed the PC version itself rather than outsourcing the game, which he said is something that’s “usually” done. >“There are a lot of core PC users, so we tried to include features and gimmicks that would make PC fans happy,” he explained.
a treacherous feeling of euphoria is looming over me. last time MGSV did that and that didnt end too well. i do feel like this could be it, he has free reign now and it pays off in the best way possible. i still wonder what V couldve been if they wouldve let him do what he wants
Been ages since I've played DS. What the frick is Higgs' problem? Why does he want BTs everywhere and for people to not bother trying to make things better? Is he moronic?
He's a nihilist, a cultist who believes that mankind's time has ended and that a future can only come from embracing infinity. He's basically a Word Bearer.
Eh, you could say the same thing about a whole lot of bad guys. People whose primary motivation is faith are often difficult, from a motivation standpoint, because so much of their motive weight comes from self-delusion. Realistic, but prone to seeming artificial. Saddler in RE4 was always to me a similar issue, he wants "power", but he genuinely is just a religious zealot. Higgs isn't so overtly faithful, no prayer or anything, but he's basically a zealot for oblivion.
Long answer: got abused as a kid, had an inferiority complex, one day Amelie appeared to him and told him she chose him to bring about the end of the world which finally gave him a purpose. So he devoted his life to it.
He was raised isolated by his uncle who beat the shit out of him as a kid. He killed the uncle but what he didn't know is this gave hin DOOMs as he carried the body which is the same power Sam has. He got involved in some convoluted plot where Amelie told him to target Bridges or some shit, but he got pissed off eventually as she was using him and made his own gang called homosexual Demens. Also he stalks Sam and his house is full of stalker photos he took
Diagnosis: blackpilled and maybe gay
>have either straight up not liked or been mildly turned off by anything Kojima has made in the past 20 years >still tear up with joy and get weak at the knees for his trailers
Any one have any hopes / fears / wishes for 2? I'm hoping a couple things get fixed
>Bike physics
I cannot be the only one who noticed when you hit brake you slide forward about 50 feet before you stop but if you're going moderately fast and you press get off the bike you immediately stop in place.
Also sometimes when you bump into rocks the bike would jump straight up and down, hope they give them proper suspension or at least have devoted better off-road vehicles / upgrades
>New Game plus
Really hoping they don't make us 'do deliveries after the story again, i mean at least give some options or something 'new game but keep all your constructs? Keep your equipment but make all constructs all over again? Just something
Also with the ship looking like part metal gear maybe we can have wormhole travel from mgs5 but sam can use it?
>I cannot be the only one who noticed when you hit brake you slide forward about 50 feet before you stop
kek
Almost died because of this, but yeah. Although the bike is miles better to drive than the truck, imo, but some adjustments are necessary, absolutely.
I like how you can see the stranding in this image.
WE ARE BACK
WE ARE SO FRICKING BACK
We never left
>the Kiss band frontman fighting a giant robot babby with his guitar
I don't even know what kind of drugs kojimbo takes man.
The visuals actually look very LSD esque.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't be surprise if him and Shinkawa got high as frick together and bounced ideas off of each other while recording the whole thing to use as inspiration for later when they come down from it.
Him and Refn do obviously, Refn has been making movies meant to be watched on acid since at least Neon Demon.
Meanwhile...
>The 5fps Pinocchio Keychain talking shit and telling him to get a real band
Can't wait for the webms of Sam's structures and deliveries being fricked over by floods.
The flood looks great. I hope there will be more of these types of disasters.
Kino is back, bros. Can't wait to make more deliveries.
KINOKINOKINOKINO
la creatividad I kneel
yup creatividad won
The moon isn't that big what the frick
normally yes, but you can clearly see it has begun stranding
Kojima invented the Big Moon™
The moon's even bigger than that, actually, it's just usually further away
Who is going to tell you about the real size of the sun....
Depends on the focal length of the lens they are emulating. If you are say 25 miles from a city skyline for example and take a picture of the moon setting or rising next to one of the buildings in your composition with say a 2000m telephoto lens or equivalent, the moon will look huge.
>randomly ends up mogging starfield
The mythical Bloodborne 2
Nike the Moon
How does he keep getting away with it man. I felt more watching this trailer than a proper film or a full game playthrough. As someone who platinum'd DS1 I am in fricking awe.
Because you're a pathetic gay?
it's the Kojima magic that only this man can do. There is a reason all his trailers are always so goddamn good. I can't tell you how many times i've watched his trailers over and over again. Nobody does it like him, nobody. A real gem in this otherwise lazy ass garbage woke devs shithole of an industry
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
KINO
Stolen Soul
>it’s okay when Japan does it though!
>Elden Ring invented the moon
that wasn't the real moon, that was a fake moon, a shameless rip off of touhou 8
Rennala of the fool MU!
I kneel Kojima
*Stumbles*
*Falls near crevice*
*Cargo plummets into the abyss*
"Great, just my luck."
k...kino...
Keep on keeping on
Thank you, kindly!
He seemed to have listen to some criticism, which is good, but I hope it doesn't deviate from the cargo delivery man gimmick. More action should be optional.
Yeah I hated the forced action in 1. I just wanted to.climb mountains and shit man, not shoot a Danish guy
>He seemed to have listen to some criticism, which is good
what criticism? the frick are you talking about? the only valid criticism against DS1 is that mule camps suck and shouldn't exist. All DS1 needed was an elaboration on its core ideas, basically more of the same principles of environmental hazards and BT shit. Which is what we seem to be getting. Which isn't the same as "listening to criticism". That's the natural conclusion of a sequel.
Are you crazy? DS1 bigger criticism was the lack of action. This was everywhere. Still is if you pay attention to these threads. Kojima is clearly trying to appeal to these people now, but I hope he's also saying: I made my point clear, you know what to expect, but here's another bone so you don't run away screaming.
>is that mule camps suck and shouldn't exist
You are stupid, you traversed through the same exact fricking BT area 10 times over and fun combat is the thing that is the only valid criticism to you? God, Kojimatards are insane.
Judging by the small glimpses of gameplay it looks like DS1 except with more biomes.
>Kojima copies FFXIV
I hate you XIVgays so much, you are dumbest posters in the entire website somehow
Based, god damn I got conned so hard.
Made out Shadowbringers to be the height of the entire Final Fantasy franchise, a masterpiece of masterpieces and it was the exact same shit as all the previous expansions and the base game, the quests were just as bad, awful, just awful zones and the dungeon design is still identical to all the other dungeons in the game. Just the same fricking shit.
Except that image for XIV the WoL is walking on the Moon and that's the Sun behind him.
>the first game ends on a postive note, Higgs is dead, death stranding is stopped and Louise becomes a normal child. The story is properly finished
>nevermind, Louise dead, Higgs is alive, death stranding wasn't stopped after all
Frick, it's MGS curse all over again
>Louise dead
Elle Fanning is Lou
How come she shows up as an adult while Sam still has his youth?
could you imagine if kojima made child version of her based on her early movies, hahaha
imagine a 3dcg child elle fanning, hahahah
Time works differently on the beach
They held her in the time rain.
But Sam was old? He had white hair and was much more wrinkled in that scene.
Time travel within death stranding doesn't feel like a remotely far-fetched idea. Hell, we already had Fragiles instantaneous beach teleportation + the same time cutting stuff on the chiral network.
lou is a god level psychic that can do anything. the ending scene is pretty confusing but basically Lou travels back in time and possesses baby sam while also projecting future sam into the past along with her. then she
freezes time and teleports baby sam outside of the bb pod. the 28 in bb28 is a reference to akira.
Wha-what?
lou is also the camera. she's using remote viewing to see from behind sam. that's why the camera blinks whenever sam hooks up to the bb pod.
?t=5727
>sam hooks up to lou for the last time and lou is sent into the past. we know it's lou swimming around because sam shows up later as a projection but also because you can't use the talk button
?t=5782
>lou possesses baby sam
?t=5992
>sam is being projected into the past along with lou
?t=6294
>lou teleports sam outside of the pod or sam teleported himself outside the pod, either way it's clear the hatch was never actually opened so how did sam get outside?
?t=6340
>lou freezes time so cliff can speak to sam we know that time being frozen actually happened because cliff is standing up when he gets shot. bridget can probably move in stopped time which is why she's the one who shoots cliff.
the ending to this game is dumb as hell
Kojima has good White Women taste
+ first game acknowledges DS wasn't finished. First game clearly states DS was going to happen one way or another. Not sure how they are going to stop this one though.
you're moronic and insane if you thought a DS2 was never planned or going to happen. There is still so much we never understood about everything
DS2 wasn't planned initially imo. Sony most likely greenlit it after PC reception.
Higgs wasn't dead
then what was gunshot?
A bait to make you think he was dead. Fragile tells sam later that she didn't kill higgs
>Louise dead
Who's the baby at the end then? I thought Lou being dead was a bait to trigger Sam into working again
What is he smoking?
People may love or hate this, but I have no fricking clue how he comes up with this shit.
I know a lot of it is referential to obscure movies but still.
it's a DMC3 reference
>Posts anime picture
>Doesn't understand the anime trope of using a guitar as a weapon
Please watch FLCL, god why the frick am I. (a normie) educating a fricking weeb on anime
That doesn't come from FLCL
he wrote a book about how he comes up with this shit
he reads a lot of books and watches a lot of movies and just goes with what connects with him
is Suda working with Kojima now?
that reference was easy
I saw this homie in God Hand a few years ago...
That’s who I thought of too.
REDOH
HOTOH
CHILI PEPAH
ripping off other media as always.
Higgs has jokers personality, Gene simons look and Nevan guitar.
The cutscene director of DMC3, 4 and 5 is literally the action director of Death Stranding 2
He's been watching Mad Max Fury Road at least once per day for the past 8 years.
Then why doesn't the dude look like a mummy?
I fricking HATE it. It's a straight ripoff from a handful of popular sources stuffed into a setting where it doesn't fit in any sense imaginable. Tonally, aesthetically, etc. Sure, it's not wrong to reference things that you enjoy here and there here, but there is a time and place for these things. I swear bug devs are simply incapable of comprehending the importance of subtlety.
Umm maybe you should go read the Bible or something if you want something super serious dude
Yeah, those are the only two options you fricking moron.
What's the reference? A serious question because i'm not a film addict like yourself
>but there is a time and place for these things
This is unironically the core of the soulless modern western creative mindset and why so many lack imagination.
You guys fundamentally cannot escape "muh realism" to create something truly surreal and nonsensical.
Dumbfrick completely missed the point. It has nothing to do with "muh realism", and everything to do with coherency.
>coherency
How is it not coherent? Everything in the trailer follows it's world rules. Higgs is a psycho terrorist who lived in a stalker bunker and is obsessed with Egypt and rock music
The way the samurai robot moves reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Sam from MGRR
Yuji Shimomura is the action designer and he worked on DMC and some other shit
This is cool but Higgs is genuinely one of the worst characters in media and I'm sorry to say that if you like this character you are incredibly reddit.
Gonna be honest, I don't remember anything about this character at all
>OMG HE MADE A TALKING HEADS REFERENCE AND A KISS REFERENCE
Jesus Christ man shut the frick up, this is his entire character.
Meant for
I'm so lost. What did that have to do eith reddit?
he's largely a red herring. I agree that he's incredibly forgettable, but I appreciate him for what he was.
Saying things are reddit is pretty reddit, bruh. Stfu.
I really liked higgs because he was a huge cutie with his pizza deliveries and his bullshit and in the end he gives you the best possible weapons in the game.
based, can't wait to see how far he takes his egypt schizo bullshit now. he's being carted around in a sarcophagus in the trailer
DANCE WATER DANCE
>looks like Bowie
>Drops a Talking Heads bar
WTF??
>looks like Bowie
get your eyes checked zoomer
Absolute Kino. Chinks mad they are rehashing Journey to the West for the 1000th time while la creatividad is living in the lightining guitar age.
Knowing Hideous Kojimbob it's probably pole that he's smoking
KINO IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
(HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!)
>(Absolute) State of Play
My knees just gave in when I saw it.
death stranding and the other kojima game are the most cringe thing that I ever seen
Oh Kojima, you so wild. I'm disappointed that this is all video games can ever be.
We fricking won
My prayers have been answered.
>people shit on DD2 for just being DD again
>DS2 shows that you are exactly doing the same shit as in DS1 and people love it
stop worshipping this hack already
shit on DD2 for just being DD again
Stop falling for discord bait
Oh look, discordtroon found himself another shitposting target. So cute.
Goddamn... I hope I can transport these BBC-marked frozen sperm samples safely across South America... The world depends on this...
Do you remember yourself just before seeing the new trailer? I'm living that moment and i'll savor it for you.
This looks exciting.
Hey vegetation.
Yeah looks like the time effect of the rain isn't there. Maybe they found a way to fix that.
100%. I just imagine some shit like planning a route to cross a shallow part that's dry only for rain to come in and flood it making you need to change your plans. If it's dynamic it will take DS's already great gameplay to the next level.
But if the rain falls on the seeds it makes the trees grow.
It seems to me that Kojima has the best programmers and designers in the industry while everyone else is chaining morons worse than me to chairs and whipping them into production to get something. It can't be just vision, it simply can't.
I get the feeling that they're trying to fix what DS1 couldn't do by including it in the next game
>day/night cycle
>possibly dynamic environmental events
>structures not being immovable pillars anymore
Also probably more combat as the trailer basically starts with fragile showing sam the weapon room. Hope it doesn't become a central thing of the game, I enjoyed how it was in DS1, all I want is for the combat to be improved, not more of it
Yeah personally I'd much prefer they just move away from combat. Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules.
>Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules.
>Welcome to the Stranding son
Because you used the bolas gun i bet. That weapon just wrecks the MULE encounters in the ass. Without guns they can be freakishly efficient at surrounding the player.
I enjoy bodyslamming MULEs and gassing terrorists. It's a little janky but the combat can be fun. It became slightly less fun in the DC due to the turrets added to every camp, MULEs/terrorists will just run to a turret even if you're right next to them
no but for real, the mules were clunky and tripped over the terrain, fell into rivers, it was really funny fighting them. I hated the boss fights and Cliff fights, but fighting mules was fun. Though the execution was lacking, I felt like they had some personality. It was very different from fighting npcs from other games, reminded me of mgsV in that sense. My ideal sequel would actually be get rid of guns, both Sam the enemies. You gotta use your traversal tools to fight, they use those electric harpoons, it should be focused on movement, both when attacking and when escaping. Then when you fight these new robot enemies, there's a tone sfhit from comedy to something that actually feels dangerous
They are also different in the way that they don't want to kill you, just steal your shit. It really adds to their charm.
true. That thing where you wake up without shoes when you lose to them is so funny
>Yeah personally I'd much prefer they just move away from combat. Nobody enjoyed fighting Mules
I did. I thought it was fun especially if you werent prepared for them. In death stranding if you are prepared for a challenge it cant really beat you or hinder you though. If you walked into a mule camp with a level 2 bola gun or the dlc weapon or something they wont stand a chance, but having to use that strand and parcels and your hands is pretty fun.
>the trailer basically starts with fragile showing sam the weapon room
And rooms for other crew you will likely gather through the game.
>instead of connecting people you invite them to the ship
I can already see it happening and I'm not sure I'll enjoy it.
It's basically a mobile mother base sounds kino to me
I enjoyed lonelykino of DS1 but having a base to spend time with the boys also sounds fun. Like you'll still be doing deliveries solo so having a home to go back to sounds fine to me.
I hope this kind of events will be dynamic and not pre determined like BT areas in the first game
My likacin from the bridge, no…
im looking forward to dodging avalanches and floods t b h
These different biomes looked so cool
might have to build a gayman computer for this if it doesn't come out for ps4
I wanted a desert, I am getting a desert. Sand dunes are kino and Kojimbo will undoubtedly make it work in DS2. Maybe there will be another mechanic that will make you wish for a timefall.
>Strand world instead of boring USA
KINO
I'm scared that boss fights are still gonna be all over the place but boy is this look like an improvement as a whole with some fresh la creatividad quirks on top. Just incredible.
>boss fights
It's gonna be the different member's of Higg's band, each with their own gimmick and moronic name
>It's gonna be the different member's of Higg's band, each with their own gimmick and moronic name
More metal gear shit?
Possibly. Id like that though. Would be much better than what we have.
>mogs Stargay spaceshit “gameplay” without even trying
He fricking won
Starfield is becoming the troony of vidya: gays just can't stop talking about it
Huh?
Bro, this might blow your mind, but look out the window tonight for some kino.
i shudder with disgust when i see "people" praising this fricking moron
this is so fricking stupid and pretentious im getting douche chills
frick you for having such a shit taste in entertainment media
Holy filtered
i hope you're baiting or joking
i swear to god
yeah kojima dickriders are so cringe.
circlejerk never ends.
metal gear solid is overrated af
death stranding sucks
p.t is abysmal
i dont get why they drool over this man
i give him credit, kojima is a good director but thats where it ends, as a writer he is a hack, as a gameplay designer he is below average.
We are simply able to see and appreciate things you are unable to, and that is ultimately what makes you angry.
lmfao you dont see shit, you just praise it like you are told to by the e-celeb.
you're not a Kojima Cuckhold, you wouldn't understand.
stick to your dogshit games and move on you're not welcome
we're so fricking back boys
I devoured the game on PC. Got all achievements in about 55 hours and dicked around for 20+ hours more because it was just a great vibe during a rainy summer season.
I took my time and my first run was like 90 hours.
First Kojimbo game btw. I get it now.
That was the most braindead random holds up spork ex dee shit i've ever seen and onions baker is literally in the game
Bringing him back was a mistake. No one liked him in the first game
It really is. We've gone full circle where zoomers like this shit again.
Its the definition of style over substance. It has big name talent behind it, acting-wise. Looks great graphically. Definitely creative and compelling at first glance.
Just a shame that none of it makes any fricking sense and is just Kojima smelling his own farts.
>none of it makes any fricking sense
It's crazy that anons come into a thread about a sequel and act like Kojima wrote in hieroglyphics. The concept of BTs, the beach, the death stranding, the babies, that shit was explained and over-explained in the first game. You literally can go read the wiki for a question about anything. This trailer had new stuff that will make sense in the game once it's out. Or have you never seen a game trailer before?
so we gonna have day and night cycle
>That trailer
he really likes her face huh
i do too
Oh frick there are BTs when she blows the smoke
There's a BT in her suit operating the gloves
holy shit you're right
Damn, good catch
Well the ship dives into the tar and travels through the beach or whatever, the rift was that it? It's why they're blue dabadidabada.
It's like hyperspace to go places faster. BT shit's going to happen in and around that underworld-fairing vessel.
what?
as soon as she blows the smoke, tears come down her eyes.
The hands flick their fingers and makes a spark that turns into flames, more like plasma since it ignites the cigarette in less than a second.
How does it do it? What does it means?
Starfield is on Xbox actually, guys. 2025? Mine was 25 years in the making and it's been out.
This looks incredible and probably the most exciting game trailer I've watched in years
STRAND GAMERS
We are so back.
>Why yes, I do cry when my chiral allergies act up, why do you ask?
I'm gonna do it bros
I'm gonna buy a gaystation 5 just to play kino stranding 2
>tar has proteins in it or some shit
You vill eat ze tar
I for one hope flying Black personman is in the game a lot.
It's more subversive slop. Kojima got so israelited by Hollywood.
>Its a autistic jap tries to copy western devs because his nation is trapped in the early 90s
I mean...its funny for a while but then you kinda feel sad for the guy.
I tried playing it twice and it was just boring.
You didnt like token black man, tsundre chink, sex pest frenchie and cynical brit?
I don't remember anything from the game other than shooting robot limbs and trying to control ai squad members.
>it's bloodborne 2
LUDO
how can something be kino 2 when it was shit when 1
the jetstream sam robot what the frick
KIIIIIIINOOOOOOOOOOO
Yes i am thinking we are back.
It's everything I wanted bros
It's almost too good to be true for me.
>not putting the shot with the two hoverboards on the dunes
You're right, lemme fix that
fricking KINO
I can't believe how fricking excited I am for this. Kojima has done it again, he keeps pulling me in
Can't believe I'm going to suffer this entire year and the next one plus whatever Sony pulls to derail launch on PC to play this game, but alas, at least I'll play eventually in almost 2027.
Man the map looks fricking massive I wonder how much bigger it's going to be.
Fricking beautiful environments, I’ll play it for that alone
I'm playing DS1 now for the first time Thanks, Timmy. and I still get astonished by how beautiful the environment is. If DS2 improves at least that it's already an interesting buy for me.
First game had 2 maps, this game has you traveling on a massive ship between locations. I wonder if this is like 4 different maps or 2 with a lot of variety in terrain.
Who knows, the locations looks too different to tell if they're different maps or if some of them aren't that far from each other.
METAL GEAR CRANE?!
Open world is OUT
HUB spaceship base in IN
>DS2 is a better space exploration game than starfield and you don't even go into space, it just has varied and realistic biomes
lmao
By that logic you could say the same of Elden Ring. No, I'm not defending Starflop. In fact, I hope Bethesda suffers much more so they get their shit together for ES6. Cypher must send them to hell.
Most AAA games mog starslop. Bethesda is a fricking joke
You know when you say it like that... how the frick are the Japanese better at doing alien environments then the West? No seriously, does anything in Starfield look nearly as fricked up and hostile as Caelid?
Frick yeaaaah, getting my sombrero ready.
>Kojima-KINO coming soon
We Won
Dude the fricking graphics look insane. Im not a graphics guy or anything but Holy shit theswe fricking ds2 graphics. If this game doesnt go on pc on LAUNCH day. Ill fricking buy the PS5 just for this game.
probably a limited time exclusive, like the first one
Why the frick do people turn blue/grey again?
vaxxed
They're "stillborn"
just how shit looks within the weird dead strand world. I assumed in the first game that it was meant to show the spirits of the dead/near dead, but I suppose in this case, they're probably using that same strand world to travel easier/faster or something.
Theres some theming to being blue but i cant remember it. Its what happens when sam is sad on the beach.
Maybe they are sad idk.
The theming around birth, babies, umbilical cords, and wombs means it's referencing cyanosis or when babies are born blue due to being dead and oxygen deprived
>Mfw I don't have a ps5.
Its over...
don't blue your brains out hehe
You’ve got a whole year to save up, especially since GTA6 also doesn’t come out til next year too
It also happens to Heartman when he dies the first time, but his body is being kept barely alive in the hospital on the other side. Its when youre halfway between dead and alive on the beach
REBUILD BRAZIL
No, Mexico is first and has better food.
I actually consider buying PS5 for this shit (Also GTA VI)
This moronic console has some games after all
It's coming to PC just like the last one.
I considered that too after the presentation, but fricking hell, for one game really? Better suffer in silence and wait a year. It's too fricking fancy.
Higgs compared to trailer 1
What causes this? Whats it mean?
The character model has most likely just been touched up and edited slightly over the course of development.
Looks like they changed the lighting in that scene. Happens a lot in the fine tuning stage of development for an AAA game.
Thats what I thought but that person was acting like it was something. I thought it was a graphics downgrade I couldn't see or something.
Guys it’s HIGGS i was focusing on. His suit being more worn and beaten down
Not a graphical downgrade. Just some changes to the higgs model, more grimed up. Looks better
If we are going to multiple countries, does that mean open world is out and HUB system is in?
THE PS5 FINALLY HAS A GAME
WE ARE SO BACK BLOODBORNE BROS!!!!
METARU GIA?!
Why is no one talking about the fact that that is obviously a mildly edited Metal Gear Rex
Because we talked about it after the first trailer
I'm kind of disappointed, the maps looked emptier and the story seems like wacky bullshit.
>bad guy brought back from the dead fights a samurai with a guitar
I'm too old for this shit and so is Kojima.
Imagine seeing something like that and being disappointed that the game isn't "adult" enough. Have some fricking fun you old log. Fun is legal for older people as well.
I’ve unironically come to like Kojima more because v seethes about him so much
My biggest disappointment in DS1 was not getting to go to the moon despite Cliff's promise.
We'll do it this time right bros?
To the fricking moon on floating carriers lv2. You heard it first here.
Rrrrrmmmh Desert sandsss.
But seriously i can already see the caveats, we've played the first game.We know where it failed.
Flash floods? My ass, remember the rolling rocks. Mountain crumbling, a cinematic obviously. Vehicles? Do you expect physics improvements? Survival difficulty? Not a chance. Giant world? The map's not going to be as big as it seems. BTs, static zones you know it, we'll never be ambushed by them. Talking sidekick? Better not be annoying.
Baby samurai: cool as frick
2025: good don't rush it
>Talking sidekick
I don't even want to think about it.
Hey maybe we'll be able to unequip him but then again, he's in a cinematic. Get ready for some funny quips with Sam Porter a real comedian this man. I'm glad he's not an old fogey but i'm ready to get MG2-tricked somehow.
Boss fights? The movement system isn't made for them, the best they can do is give variety to the boss' shapes.
Robot enemies means that the lethal weapons can finally be put to good use since these wouldn't be sensible to pain from rubber bullets. It's all about the equipment and loadouts so every item needs to be useful, making choices just for fun didn't cut it in the first game. I don't want that again, i want to actually be able to hurt Sam's feet, i want to need to bring extra shoes.
I've spend some time thinking about how to fix DS1's shortcomings and i know exactly how to do it. It's a very simple tweak and i fear i won't be getting that.
You should mail Kojima a letter.
>herro Kojima-chan can i take picture withyou in the illuminati room purisu arigato
Shit i forgot to tell him about how to fix the game now DS2's gonna suck. Sorry everyone.
>i'm ready to get MG2-tricked somehow.
We'll play as Elle Fanning 3/4 of the game.
I love the tanker/plant shit and at least this time it would be confined to one game (that's actually finished this time hopefully)
I fricking love launch/sortie/deployment sequences. You better get to deploy out of the Magellan like that shot in the trailer every fricking time. I want the wind buffeting Sam's face, NPC technicians scrambling and yelling over all the noise, and some military comms nonsense going off in my ear.
STRANDING
ON THE GOON
Why does he taunt us so much? Not cool, man.
HERE
OF THE VOIDOUT CRATER
Shitting on the industryyyyyyyyyyyy
Kojima literally made a walking simulator and it was pure KINO
can he deliver again?
>can he deliver again?
From the looks of it, seems so, yeah. I feel this is going to be it, though. No more Death Stranding after this one.
I highly doubt that it will be worse than the first game but we all want it to be better which will the point of contention.
Yeah. This
sold me on it.
why do so many people adore this plagiarizing frick? can I call myself a genius with a creative gene by mixing a bunch of stuff made by a bunch of people?
That is how it usually works in real life. Nothing is original.
When is Timmy giving the first game again? I want my Gankerbros to enjoy it too.
kojima is just straight up ripping off everything now. he hasn't had an inspired idea in his life.
He can rip my pants off.
My point was the little BTs in teh smoke probably don't mean anything but Sam saying he's coming back from another world does. People emerging from the tar and their DNA is different.
Yeah that seems to be the general theme of the game. Building our bridges using the Death Stranding but coming out of it a little different than what we came in. Last game talked about the importance of building connections so I could fully see this time being an elaborate metaphor for the dangers of building connections.
I already like that pirate captain. he's going to be cool character.
His cat's name is Ishmael.
>Shioli Kutsuna
Who is she supposed to be?
Nobody knows.
Okay, just confirming she wasn't the b***h from the first game who had me carry her to that guy she then divorced. Maybe shes the samurai? Thats racist enough to work, Kojima gives no shits, and Olga was bigger in the Cyber Ninja suit as well
>she wasn't the b***h from the first game who had me carry her to that guy she then divorced.
When I received the email titled "Marriage Sucks" I lost my shit. All that effort for naught. That was fricking great. lol
Turns out they get back together again in the post game, though. At least I didnt have to carry her a second time, she woulda went right into the tar pit
DeEuUGh gET IT??? iSS jUSs lIkE Da mAiN cHArActeR frUm mOBy DIcK!
Damn, thats a sick Last Guardian reference, this truly is a Sony masterpiece in the making
Who's the actor playing this guy?
Filmmamer George Miller. Yes, from Mad Max and Happy Feet.
>Filmmaker
Huh, I just realized that despite having seen most of his movies, I didn't know what George Miller actually looked like.
How are people this stupid? Ever heard of Olga or Gray Fox? This is a reskin of a scene he's done several times. The guy is fricking cooked, and can't put together a single project without shitting it up full of references.
Man this is exactly what I wanted. Just an expanded version of the first game, bigger, more varied and refined. Please let there be a weather or day and night system
I want a day and night system and for night to be fully pitch fricking black beyond artificial light from constructs. Imagine trudging through the dark, lights off to save battery for your exo skeleton with just the light of a bridge you put down in the distance guiding your way while spooky sounds murmur in the dark. When you actually think about it there's so much cool shit you can do with DS's simple traversal and delivery gameplay.
>look at live chat during the trailer
>just a cascade of 'zzzz' 'bruh' 'L' 'next' '???' 'where is GTA'
I can just tell they're all niglets too. Let them eat slop.
Gta6 is going to be the mutt and niglet pacifier, I hope rockstar never stops making them so we can put them in gtavr for good and farm their training data
wear the slave cuffs, deliver the boxes.
No static BT zones please, i was promised ghost homies dropping on top of my head at inappropriate times.
It's not the size of the BT area that counts, it's not the numbers. Make the player the center of the spawn point and make it random when it rains.
I don't think the rains works the same now. It's already weird that the death stranding isn't actually over even though the ending..having BTs in the rain would be a retcon. I'm so confused.
what's this one about vros? Kojimbles is damned near a clairvoyant savant with his vidya kinos and their main aspects pretty much coming to pass irl. I'm nervous.
It's a clever illusion they use to make the landscape appear more distant than it actually is but i still looks great. Doesn't look great on a youtube video.
I hope there's sandworms
Gameplay looks empty still
I liked DS1 so I am looking forwards to this, seems like there's more MULE variety and new terrain. The snowy mountains made me wish there was a desert option and my wishes have been answer. I just hope Sam isn't separated from Lou for too long or else what's the point
We need a marriage mechanic ASAP with lots of handholding in the Drawbridge ship!
That's your daughter you sicko.
Oh frick is she Lou? Color me surprised I have no idea what's on Kojima's mind anymore
Squeezable nose
Her nose is so damn cute, isn't it?
That girl's got strings on her.
Bro thats almost definitely lou. Lou can do absolutely everything in this game. Glad we get more lou because its the most heartfelt part of death stranding.
I would appreciate it if we got another Tanker/Plant where you play as Lou past a certain point. And if the hotspring mechanic from the first game was still firmly in place yes that was deliberate word choice
Is the first one good?
The only shit I saw was some anons calling it a Uber eats simulator
After all this time is that all you saw. Yea s'good, it's a game in which you take it easy.
He is a big guy, isn't he? He dwarfed Higgs like a fricking mountain
I heard the BB sounds when he was fighting, and the face works like the machine attached to it, maybe thats Lou in there? This trailer was clearly all over the place chronologically, so trying to piece it all together is pretty futile
What I got from it that all of those red enemies are robots being controlled by someone in the chiral network, but when Sam was in danger Lou (forma de chiral network) took control of them to save him
baby operated cyber samurai.
If that's actually Lou piloting a mech samurai I'll unironically kneel.
Good. Now we can fight as warriors. Hand-to-hand, it is the basis of all combat. Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.
To this day I still don't know what BTs are, even after 100 emails and codec calls explaining them
Beings from the other side, stuck in our world because of the Death Stranding. In the same you go to the beach when you die, theyre stuck here - or something. I could be entirely wrong, all I did was beat the game, as you know that doesn't mean you understand anything
Just watch the movie Pulse (the Japanese version) except instead of disappearing you, you explode in a matter anti-matter reaction instead. Christ you fricking philistines, he's a huge movie nut how did you not catch that?
We are so back.
>minimal crew on set for the Deadman reunion scene!
>camera, lights
>set!
>i'll show him why they call me del toro
I love that man. Both, really.
Did you miss Deadman explaining that Lou was incinerated before DS1 started? It's because Lou was never Lou, it was baby Fragile and that's why Fragile is raising Lou-Fragile in the first trailer, now adult Fragile is Lou and Fragile is dead which is why Lou has died.
wat
I think Lou is just ghost now and/or always has been.
this is what I thought
it was literally all just a ghost prank
Those files are always inaccurate, why would I believe them now?
>he thinks Kojima has the story thought out
>40 years
>we only have ONE kojimbo human doing sincere cringeworth experiences
It's not fair. We should have more by now.
Technological singularity, I suspect.
Honestly Death Stranding was some of Kojima's most clear and concise writing; I'm not really sure how people misinterpret the plot because the game hands you everything (literally).
And I think he had help to write this one, so it could be even more clear.
Oh no the return of the brogays. The lovers, polar opposite of the haters and just as vicious. They're going to be insufferable.
>the ship is a mobile mother base but not just a shitty speadsheet simulator this time
please kojima make mother base good for once
I love how both this and the last game make it painfully clear the other devs deliberately modify their characters to be uglier than the person they're scanned from.
Everyone in these 2 games looks fricking IDENTICAL to the person they were scanned from.
It is interesting, I think you're right anon
So are we gonna actually go to the moon this time or will Kojima wienertease us again?
>don't act like you don't see it
>the death stranding
>oooOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Holy shit, I love that little italian puppet. What film has he watched this time? It's so foreign yet whimsical
Del Toro's Pinochio, probably.
Is it any good?
I like how there's nothing to interact with in this picture. Soul.
Yeah why aren't there 900 golden turds strewn about everywhere? Kojima is a hack!
Uh, the terrain? The BT? Play the first game before speaking
Holy Kino we're going to the moon bros
looking forward to it but
1070 ti... 🙁
It's not coming out till next year just save up a dollar a day and buy a new gpu.
>2025 rolls around
>i have about 400 dollars
>can afford a 2060 now at this point which is slower
Well it's not coming to pc till 2026 so you'll be fine
It's a Kojima game, you know that shit will be well enough optimized to play on a 1070
I feel you, brother. My RTX 3050 Laptop Pleb Edition struggles with the first game sometimes, depending on the scene.
FSR, bro. We are all going to make it. Plus it will release on PC probably close to 2026, so there's plenty of time.
I fricking burst out laughing when higgs started firing electricity from a guitar
not remotely a new concept
Killjoy.
Joy is temporary killing is forever.
Custom player driven deliveries, Kojima, use that system. Use it.
I'm such a fricking moron, I thought he was walking on the moon in the trailer
>kojima just puts all his favorite movies things in a game
>produces kino
they don't call him a genius for nothing
What if Kojima invented the moon?
Am I excited for another delivery sim? Frick yeah I am.
so where does old sam fit into this
He got hit by the BT That Makes You Old.
sOLiD sam
when i saw the fricking low-framerate doll I shouted out loud WHAT THE FRICK
How is Dunkey handling the news?
Looks like kojima finally watched the rebuild evas
I dunno how to feel about higgs being back, I really liked his character but it felt like his character/conflict with sam and fragile was dealt with satisfyingly in the first game, and bringing him back just seems like it'll be a re-tread.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
>I dunno how to feel about higgs being back, I really liked his character but it felt like his character/conflict with sam and fragile was dealt with satisfyingly in the first game, and bringing him back just seems like it'll be a re-tread.
I felt like in death stranding everything seemed to be resolved perfectly and that it didnt need a sequel. That said im fine with whatever this is as long as we get more gameplay.
That's pretty much how I feel. I didn't even want a sequel until I saw this trailer but frick it looks good.
Are the doll voiced by Otacon VA?
So what music will we listen to now that Low Roar won't keep coming?
pantera
idk but I hope it introduces me to more good music
LA creativity does it again. This is the birth of a new medium, Strand.
I was kind of scared they would remove the delivery gameplay since Kojima said that if he were to make DS2, he'd rethink the whole thing from the ground up. And also that he wanted to make DS2 more "fun" than the first game. Guess he changed his mind on those things.
It actually looks pretty close to what I was really hoping for from DS2, which is just DS1 but bigger and better. I was hoping they'd just flat out remove combat, but I guess that's a bit much to ask for with Kojima.
I really hope the game will have multiple maps, having numerous smaller maps instead of one big map is the way to go with a game like this, and I don't know how you'd fit a barren desert and rocky hillsides into one map without it just being jarring.
Story seems fun at the very least. Higgs going through his Joker arc, shooting lightning at a samurai with a guitar, it'll be a ride. Also is it just me or does Reedus's acting seem a bit better now?
The plot now is connecting other countries instead of just new america, so delivery is still the main gameplay loop. You also have a flying ship now.
>I don't know how you'd fit a barren desert and rocky hillsides into one map without it just being jarring.
North America is frickhueg and vertical, there's tundras, deserts, forests, mountains, coastlines, jungles.
I'm glad they showed a lot of walking gameplay. I was afraid Kojima would do a hard shift to boat/naval stuff
Indeed
The puppet should've been a cute girl
The puppet should've been a cute girl played by Hunter
>he moves in stop motion
she is so beautiful oh my days
If the game is in mexico, then why isn't everything yellow?
fun fact, in japan mexico is depicted as blue
As a woman, Kojima's work arouses me.
Kojima, get off of 4ch
;_;
Do I really see an entire board creaming themselve over the sequel for a literal walking simulator moviegame, which had awful dialogue and story in general and left no cultural impact. Until now I only saw people calling out Kojima the hack he is, now it feels like I just entered a cult.
>left no cultural impact
Estrogen brained thought process.
I'm sorry it did not
Caring about something making a cultural impact is an estrogen brained thought process. I feel sorry you can only enjoy things enjoyed by the drugged masses.
I find it a very strange opinion coming from an hideo kojima fan, unless you're looking for anything to deflect and defend this game
No that would be you, I'm not trying to pretend that a walking simulator was anything more than a waste of time
>fan
Again, another estrogen addled thought process. I'm not surprised, due to the amount of gacha threads on here and an infiltration from /vt/, but only mentally ill people buy into cults like fandoms.
Nobody talked about gacha games, I don't remember ever bringing in what I do enjoy. I know kojima is a big fricking weeb so that wouldn't be the approach I would take.
my condolonces for your mental moronation
There's no cure for your poor taste, anon
Ok I love walkingslop simulator, are my tastes good now ?
Not if you have to be sarcastic about it. If you don't have the ability to appreciate tone and setting and motivation and you want more guns and explosions, you can go play fricking Overwatch and turn your brain entirely off. Go watch marvel movies and eat burger king you fricking hog.
But they were ass, at least it's consistent with MGS V they had this in common but I had some gameplay then.I Don't care for guns and explosions in my stories, I just want a good one.
tone- immaculate. The desolation, the loneliness, the sense of omnipresent hostility
setting - fascinating. A silent hill apocalypse. A completely new concept.
motivation - at least good. You understand who people are and why they are doing what they're doing, this is probably the most criticizable, in that hideous kojim-bob is an autistic homosexual who doesn't understand people and doesn't really like women in general, so if anybody was going to have a complaint that one would be the most obvious, but it works and it's not too obtrusive when people say some dumb or weird shit occasionally.
>doesn't really like women in general,
He has homosexual tendencies but I find his vidya women to be nice
There are absolutely other, more human people who are capable of writing a female human in the story. When one of these "fe-males" opens their hole, Hideo has to look away and let someone else write dialog for "her". Women are an afterthought to him, necessary for reproduction and little else. He understands, on an intellectual level, that they do in fact have things to do and that some people like them, but he's basically color blind to women. Like Nice Pete from Achewood.
I guess I find them more palatable because the men he writes are equally as vapid, sometimes.
no, if you dont like it, move on, go back to wherever. no one is forcing you to like this.
Fair, I was the one who came and shat on the parade
strand gamers rise up
should we have connected?
How long before it's on PC? I bought the first one twice but no way am I buying a ps5.
DS1 took eight months between console and PC release, so I'd say one year, more or less, guaranteed. Kojima said that he has "affection" for PC players, so as much as I'd like to believe that we will get a really close release date, I'm sure Sony has other ideas.
>When I first started in this industry, I worked on PC games,” Kojima said in a newly published video interview promoting the PC version of the game, which is currently on sale, for publisher 505 Games.
>“It was quite a while before I started to make games for consoles, so I feel a lot of affection and affinity towards the PC. Games are developed on PCs, after all.”
>Kojima said Death Stranding was released for PC in a bid to attract a new audience—”PlayStation gamers and core PC users are a different market”—so the game would be played by as many people as possible.
>He said he was “most proud” of the fact that Kojima Productions developed the PC version itself rather than outsourcing the game, which he said is something that’s “usually” done.
>“There are a lot of core PC users, so we tried to include features and gimmicks that would make PC fans happy,” he explained.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/kojima-says-he-has-a-lot-of-affection-for-pc-and-thinks-death-stranding-satisfied-opinionated-pc-players/
I can't tell if you guys are trolling or actually excited to play a walking simulator with random trippy shit pasted all over.
I am not trolling. Mad?
I'm playing right now.
I don't really understand why you would have to be intelligent to enjoy robot samurais and eletric guitar swords but apparently you do
Found a nice ride, lads.
>those colors on bikes
T-thanks, Doc.
a treacherous feeling of euphoria is looming over me. last time MGSV did that and that didnt end too well. i do feel like this could be it, he has free reign now and it pays off in the best way possible. i still wonder what V couldve been if they wouldve let him do what he wants
>Fragile has a young body again
I like where this is going
how am I getting to late 2025 without going insane?
Why did graphics stop making progress?
Shit looks like plastic doll for the last 6-7 years.
This is a disaster.
Is Death Stranding good compared to MGS games? Because those are fricking bad
Been ages since I've played DS. What the frick is Higgs' problem? Why does he want BTs everywhere and for people to not bother trying to make things better? Is he moronic?
He's a nihilist, a cultist who believes that mankind's time has ended and that a future can only come from embracing infinity. He's basically a Word Bearer.
Oh he's stupid.
Eh, you could say the same thing about a whole lot of bad guys. People whose primary motivation is faith are often difficult, from a motivation standpoint, because so much of their motive weight comes from self-delusion. Realistic, but prone to seeming artificial. Saddler in RE4 was always to me a similar issue, he wants "power", but he genuinely is just a religious zealot. Higgs isn't so overtly faithful, no prayer or anything, but he's basically a zealot for oblivion.
Short answer: He's crazy
Long answer: got abused as a kid, had an inferiority complex, one day Amelie appeared to him and told him she chose him to bring about the end of the world which finally gave him a purpose. So he devoted his life to it.
He was raised isolated by his uncle who beat the shit out of him as a kid. He killed the uncle but what he didn't know is this gave hin DOOMs as he carried the body which is the same power Sam has. He got involved in some convoluted plot where Amelie told him to target Bridges or some shit, but he got pissed off eventually as she was using him and made his own gang called homosexual Demens. Also he stalks Sam and his house is full of stalker photos he took
Diagnosis: blackpilled and maybe gay
looks so fricking kino boys I might even note pirate this one
I don't buy a lot of videogames anymore, I tend to pirate most things, but this is one I'm going to buy day one. Kojima earned my money.
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Cautiously optimistic for this, just one more year.
>have either straight up not liked or been mildly turned off by anything Kojima has made in the past 20 years
>still tear up with joy and get weak at the knees for his trailers
How DOES he do it??
Love it or hate it, this looks like a proper current-gen game worth its money
Finally gaming will be saved.
Does anyone have those old fake leaks from DS1 where the final boss fight was in space. I just want to compare something
Any one have any hopes / fears / wishes for 2? I'm hoping a couple things get fixed
>Bike physics
I cannot be the only one who noticed when you hit brake you slide forward about 50 feet before you stop but if you're going moderately fast and you press get off the bike you immediately stop in place.
Also sometimes when you bump into rocks the bike would jump straight up and down, hope they give them proper suspension or at least have devoted better off-road vehicles / upgrades
>New Game plus
Really hoping they don't make us 'do deliveries after the story again, i mean at least give some options or something 'new game but keep all your constructs? Keep your equipment but make all constructs all over again? Just something
Also with the ship looking like part metal gear maybe we can have wormhole travel from mgs5 but sam can use it?
walkman
>I cannot be the only one who noticed when you hit brake you slide forward about 50 feet before you stop
kek
Almost died because of this, but yeah. Although the bike is miles better to drive than the truck, imo, but some adjustments are necessary, absolutely.
I can't wait for this model to be extracted, so I can have VR sex with Elle Fanning.