anyone playing this shit yet
I thought I would fucking hate this game from the initial reviews but I'm actually enjoying it quite a bit
don't get me wrong its fucking batshit and there's a lot of weird stuff but its also strangely relaxing? idk lol
plz spoil tag story beats thanks
Boring so far lol
Idk, we'll see. Some interesting stuff that I wanna learn about, but... idk. Maybe the story will carry me
lol
imo the game carries the same kind of essence that BOTW did, where you wander around and are like "cool mountain, i'm gonna climb that shit". there's lots of open ended exploration and activities to do, but it comes at the consequence of feeling unfocused and BIG.
idk it's not a game for everyone, but i would say if you hated the sort of vibe BOTW had, you probably won't like this lol. but i loved just wandering around and lookin at rocks so this is kinda my jam, so far anyway lol.
Quote from: C.Mongler on November 18, 2019, 09:33:18 AMlol
imo the game carries the same kind of essence that BOTW did, where you wander around and are like "cool mountain, i'm gonna climb that shit". there's lots of open ended exploration and activities to do, but it comes at the consequence of feeling unfocused and BIG.
idk it's not a game for everyone, but i would say if you hated the sort of vibe BOTW had, you probably won't like this lol. but i loved just wandering around and lookin at rocks so this is kinda my jam, so far anyway lol.
are the rocks all unique or do they just copy and paste the stuff all over
i'll have to analyze the 674 rocks i've seen so far and get back to you
rented this and i'm at the second big area. everything up to port knot city was fine if a little (a lot) boring, but this second area sucks dick. i'm teetering on dropping it now.
Going to pick up this on sale, hoping to become a big fan of the stranding genre. It's been awhile since there's been a new video game genre (NO SOULS-LIKE IS NOT A GENRE. it's a LAZY JOURNALIST TERM.) Will be purchasing more future Stranding games for documentation purposes. This could be like 3d platformers but for the 2020s. Happy gaming days ahead.
this is the dark souls of "strand" games
Quote from: Nyerp on November 24, 2019, 03:17:15 PMthis is the dark souls of "strand" games
the baby is a metaphor for the birth of the genre- except it's not a metaphor. It's literally birthing the genre of stranding! It's amazing!
I honestly hope this doesnt become the new hip thing to imitate like Souls did.
strand-like
im still havin a blast i built a bridge and fuckin EVERYONE liked that!!
yeah building the roads and stuff is really satisfying. i'm constantly flipping between liking and hating this game lol
yeah its like a bad game but its so soothing and positive that i dont care???
i really don't like how equipment upgrades are locked behind doing these shitty infinite Skyrim radiant quests
blasted through the rest of this. didn't love it and didn't hate it, but i was strangely addicted. peak of the game is figuring out how to break the traversal with ziplines and finding tons of helpful stuff from other players while on long journeys. however the story is really nothing special and it tries to hide this with good cutscene direction and by drowning you in endless exposition and technobabble keywords. also the boss fights literally feel like they're ripped from an entirely different game, in a bad way. overall: meh.
wtf i just realized this game steals a couple major story ideas from Ys VIII of all things. HACKojima probably thought he was being sly and tried to cover it up with pro-life overtones and exploration of his intense mommy issues
Is Journey the first stranding game?
yeah probably
Quote from: Nyerp on December 01, 2019, 09:38:12 AMwtf i just realized this game steals a couple major story ideas from Ys VIII of all things. HACKojima probably thought he was being sly and tried to cover it up with pro-life overtones and exploration of his intense mommy issues
Elaborate?
it's spoilers
play the game and you'll understand
you will regret your words and deeds
ok fine
MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILERS, READING THIS WILL RUIN THE ENTIRE GAME
the villain of both games is the concept of extinction itself. in ys VIII, this is tied to the cycle of evolution being ruled by an uncaring 'god'. in death stranding, it's presented as the universe trying to 'correct' the big gang, and evolution is an unintended positive result of the struggle to survive after each death stranding. in both, the real life reasons for extinction/evolution (environmental factors/gene selection/etc.) are ignored in favor of having a god or a vague concept of the universe randomly deciding that it's time for the dominant species to go extinct.
in each game, a random individual of the dominant species is chosen to become an immortal being and watch as the extinction happens. in ys, this is so they can explain to the next chosen individual what their role is. in death stranding, the person chosen is both an observer AND the source of the extinction event itself. in both games, one of these chosen people is a woman that the protagonist spends a lot of time trying to 'save' in some way. oh and they're both able to see into the future, either through premonitions (ds) or literal time travel (ys). also the one in death stranding is presented as an evil, literally two-faced bitch who loves aborting babies because hideo kojima hates women.
basically the story of death stranding is not much different from some random dumb jrpg
Wow, spoilers
Quote from: Nyerp on December 02, 2019, 10:18:43 AMplay the game and you'll understand
I would play the game, if it didn't suck lol. That's why I asked
We need more abortion debates in video games
Sims 5 pls
every japanese role play game has the same story
good lord chapter 3 is fucking LONG
yeah it's the longest chapter in the game. especially if you try to build all the roads but i only built them to the midway distribution center and gave up because the shore of the river south of that point is pretty flat
lol that's literally what i've been doing. wasted probably like 3-4 hours makin roads, and now im like naw imma vroom vroom across the land baby!!
What engine does this game use?
Decima, as seen in other titles such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Until Dawn
Dawn Stranding
I just got this so far I'm more interested in actually doing stuff than I was in MGSV even if it's just deliver x to y so far
i got this game for christmas time to put it off for ages
Finally completed chapter 3 lol I was on that shit for over 15 hours
Also holy shit the chiral artist voice acting was nuts lmao I thought I was having a fever dream
Why did my peaceful walking simulator turn into shooting Mads with a c-section scar
Fuck m*m* she should just walk her own lazy ass to her sister
I just got to Dr Heartman. The game is pretty repetitive but at least it makes most missions straight forward and uncomplicated lol
Still haven't used the cord cutters yet though
ziplines are fucking awesome, shoulda called this game zipline stranding
k I beat it
I think I loved it? I don't know. I thought I understood what was going on up until the last few chapters, and I'm still confused after reading explanations.
Quote from: C.Mongler on December 31, 2019, 07:47:53 AMAlso holy shit the chiral artist voice acting was nuts lmao I thought I was having a fever dream
This plot confused the hell out of me because
1) I thought that the Junk Dealer was her father because he kept calling her "my girl"
2) Because of this and meeting her mother, I couldn't figure out why the hell she had an accent
3) I don't really understand why anyone would have an accent in this world given how cut off it is from other nations
Quote from: SloppyJimbo on March 08, 2020, 01:14:07 PMQuote from: C.Mongler on December 31, 2019, 07:47:53 AMAlso holy shit the chiral artist voice acting was nuts lmao I thought I was having a fever dream
This plot confused the hell out of me because
1) I thought that the Junk Dealer was her father because he kept calling her "my girl"
2) Because of this and meeting her mother, I couldn't figure out why the hell she had an accent
3) I don't really understand why anyone would have an accent in this world given how cut off it is from other nations
Lol yeah the entire thing was fucking bizarre and momentarily ruined
muh immersion but towards the end i just found it kind of hilarious, idk
Apparently Kojima was adamant that everyone voice act their own characters. i guess chiral artist was some japanese model who kind of spoke some english so kojima went with it???
i initially had the same though; i thought she was like some 12 year old girl. first i thought she was the junk dealer daughter and then it felt weirdly pedophilic? but then i guess she was a grown ass woman after all lmao idk
why the fuck did you both think she was his daughter i'm so confused, 'my girl' isn't even that uncommon of a phrase. is english you guys' third language??
I think it may have had to do with the hologram video of her acting really childlike. She didn't look like an adult.
she was acting like a cutesy anime waifu. remember that this is a japanese game and it makes more sense
she was acting like she had a mental/developmental disability until i realized that she just could not voice act in english for shit lol
Quote from: C.Mongler on March 09, 2020, 05:23:11 AMshe was acting like she had a mental/developmental disability until i realized that she just could not voice act in english for shit lol
How do you think cutesy anime waifus act?
i mean if this was an anime waifu game sure but this is a STRAND game
Life is a STRAND game now
kojumbo truly a visionary
cant wait til sam porter bridges brings me and my wife 5 new 2player board games to play
i want otter hood
Quote from: SloppyJimbo on March 08, 2020, 01:12:57 PMk I beat it
I think I loved it? I don't know. I thought I understood what was going on up until the last few chapters, and I'm still confused after reading explanations.
yea i beat it last night too. a flawed as shit game but i still kinda loved it idk lol
i honestly didn't use ziplines that much but it might explain why i always sucked at making progress in it
i beat it about two/three weeks ago tho truly game of the generation seeing as everything else is just ports
I had a gigantic zip line network and spent way too much time getting more chiral whatevers so I could build more lol