Death Stranding (A Hideo Kojima Game)

Oh, that little headcrab hat is ridiculous in the best possible way.

I'm liking the improved frame rate!

(though whether I can actually benefit from it or not due to hardware limitations is another story entirely...)

Edited by SgtRicko on Mar 3rd 2020 at 4:51:46 AM

Seems Hideo Kojima is Hooked on◊ Made in Abyss.

The creator of Made in Abyss thanked him in return with this.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Mar 3rd 2020 at 11:30:08 AM

He's so Hooked, he even bought every Manga volume.

"Rumble of Scientific Triumph intensifies."

Let's hope he doesn't fill his next game with loli-spilling noises.

That be too easy. Remember he's the type to surprise you.

Norman Reedus and Conan O'Brien discuss their roles in the game. Apparently a lot of the idle animations on Sam were Throw It In! examples of Norman goofing off or acting antsy between mo-cap takes, and Hideo deciding to have him do it again on camera for authenticity.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Mar 14th 2020 at 9:57:53 AM

Looking at current events right now;

Social distancing.

A world wide condition leading to ongoing voluntary isolation and telework/communications.

People Doomsday prepping.

Relying on delivery services to survive . . .

. . .

. . .

Kojima was right!

God this really is just like MGS2. Everyone shits on it at launch, rightfully so in some respects, but then the story goes on to predict the fucking future with stunning accuracy, lol

I won't believe it until I see huge nuclear explosions, Lovecraftian mutations, and the inability to die normally as symptoms of the coronavirus.

You fool! You've doomed us all!

More on topic, I wonder how well the PC version of the game will run? Still hard to believe that the port is happening so soon.

Kojima's team did a great job porting MGSV onto the PC, and that was for a game engine made in-house. So while the Decima engine is typically used for PS 4 games I suspect it'll run just fine on PC.

Would you believe it if a father in China built a crazy familiar thingamajig for his baby son?

Context: Sure enough, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Cao Junjie, a man in China, built what he calls a safety pod for his baby son can breathe so the latter can breathe clean filtered air and be comforted without being at risk of catching the coronavirus. And yes, he was explicitly inspired by Death Stranding.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 24th 2020 at 5:36:48 AM

Repatriate time!

So half a year after originally planned I finally got the game and just finished after playing through over the last week and a half or so.

Goddamn everything from the instant I realized Mama & Heartman were looking for Sam on the Beach hit hard and had me in tears.

Was confused for a great deal of the game what the actual official (as in public official) relationship between Sam, Bridget, and Amelie was supposed to be. Like, it’s said very early that Bridget raised Sam, and some of the scenes with kid Sam and Amelie did give off sibling dynamic vibes, but some of them also gave off more motherly vibes from Amelie - at one point I was starting to suspect that Sam was Amelie’s kid and Bridget raised them as siblings.

At the same time it seemed fairly clear from the beginning that there was a lot of fucky things going on where Amelie is concerned. So obviously I was right to pick me up on the motherly vibes, though not in quite the exact way I was thinking. Also put together after the Higgs fight that Bridget and Amelie were the somehow actually the same person.

Guess what I’m saying is that the game just took too damn long to actually say Sam was Bridget’s adopted kid and it was kind of unclear what we were supposed to think the family dynamic was?

Aside from that, a few questions in no particular order that I’m unclear on (but I suspect at least some of are explained in interviews I’ve yet to unlock):

When or where is it actually stated that BT stands for Beached Things? It took way too damn long for the game to say what BB stands for (I spent most of the thing thinking it was Beach Baby instead of Bridge Baby)

What actually triggered the Death Stranding in the first place? EE splitting into Bridget and Amelie after the surgery led to them realizing what they are, but the story itself doesn’t say what triggered the first voidout or how the Stranding actually began

Speaking of EE (this might be a bit rambly here): So she believed that humanity couldn’t survive the Stranding, and thus decided to build the Chiral Network to gun it for the Last Stranding to make the apocalypse as quick and painless as possible right? Tie all the beaches together and glass them in one go. Makes sense. Except the ending seems to indicate that the Death Stranding is over: Sam and Louise walking unprotected in regular-ass rain, with a regular-ass rainbow. So EE wanted to kill everyone quick because they couldn’t survive the apocalypse, and she chastises Sam for not reaching her in time to stop it (even though she forced him back after he finished the quest she gave him), but she also had the power to stop the apocalypse at any time? So she wanted to commit omnicide because humanity would eventually go extinct one day anyways, even if millions of years down the line? I understand the point about the Beach being timeless so she had no reference on how to order out the visions she was having, so is it basically just that she wanted to put everyone out of her misery because she crossed a Despair Event Horizon?

And the thing that’s actually still mindfucking me: What the hell just happened at the end there when Sam unlocked the full memory of Cliff’s escape attempt? Specifically the bit where it’s been playing out all cinematic like, then suddenly adult Sam is in the room, the scene pauses and Cliff interacts with him. Also, after the Vietnam fight Cliff seems to have put together the truth of who Sam is, but who told Cliff Sam’s name in the first place? And what was EE actually trying to accomplish by putting Cliff and Sam in contact?

Gods I missed the feeling of utter confusion after playing a new Kojima game for the first time

Edited by TheAirman on Aug 6th 2020 at 10:35:18 AM

Death Stranding: Director's Cut is coming to PS5!

CARDBOARD BOX?

BUMP.

DEATH STRANDING 2 JUST GOT ANNOUNCED @ THE GAME AWARDS 2022!

Kojima had it written down already, but then COVID happened and he decided to write it again from scratch. Also, he's done predicting the future.

Looks like “Death Stranding 2” is only the working title for now.

Also Higgs is “back”

So... gray-haired Norman Reedus?

Edited by FOFD on Dec 13th 2022 at 1:35:56 PM

I'm kinda impressed. Kojima literally just do what he want to do. DS 1 was quite unique experience ngl.

A Death Stranding movie is in production.

Timing could not have been better.

I don't like movie adaptions of most video games, especially video games that are already highly cinematic. It could be good... but Kojima already goes the extra length to basically make 6-10 hour films with his games. Just look at the trailers for Death Stranding.

So the only thing a film could "improve" on is truncating the story to make it accessible to a general audience in a feature length timespan. Of course having Norman Reedus would be a funny Casting Gag.

Edited by FOFD on Dec 15th 2022 at 8:53:24 AM

A nice interview with Kojima from IGN. He pretty much confirms that the DS movie is not an adaptation of the game and a new story set in the game’s universe.

I feel like that's the best way to go about doing a movie set in this universe.

A24 is apparently doing the Death Stranding movie. They announced with a t-shirt on their store website of all things:

https://shop.a24films.com/products/a24-x-kojima-productions-death-stranding-logo-tee

This is practically a match made in heaven, I can't imagine any other studio making a movie about this game.