Microsoft is trying to lock Kojima up to be XboX exclusive

[Scustin Bieburr]

In b4 everyone (that didn’t play the game) says death stranding was trash and this doesn’t matter.

I own it and I'm 20hrs in and I had to tap out today(I'm at the timefall farm delivery mission).

It's a bad game. It has good ideas, but it's a bad game. The menus are crowded and overdesigned, the way the story is told is bad, the physics are somehow worse than MGS4, a game from 12 YEARS AGO. As an MGS fan, I'm pissed off that he released this. MGSV was a disappointment narratively, but at least the game mechanics were elite and it was actually fun to play.

The thing that angers me the most about the way the story is told, is that he can't commit between "you're playing as sam bridges, someone who already knows what BTs, beaches, voidouts, chiralium, chiral networks, cryptobiotes, timefall, death stranding, Bridge Babies, etc. are. He doesn't need these things explained to him so you can find out the context through audiotapes and other means"

and

"Someone will explain things to you as though you just woke up from a coma and don't know what these things are" like during the truck ride around the beginning.

It just comes across as extremely pretentious, like he and the writing team sitting in the back like "they ain't ready for this deep shyt we about to drop. Explain it? nah we off that "

The story is basically a question of what would happen if the boundary between life and death became blurred. An INTERESTING PREMISE, but he completely fukks it up.

 

[High quality poster]

Sony is Blockbuster and Microsoft is Netflix.. I have gamepass on PC and it's pretty good. The Xbox version has more games but the Pc version of games just play better. Nintendo needs to step in and be Disney +

Ok breh

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I own it and I'm 20hrs in and I had to tap out today(I'm at the timefall farm delivery mission).

It's a bad game. It has good ideas, but it's a bad game. The menus are crowded and overdesigned, the way the story is told is bad, the physics are somehow worse than MGS4, a game from 12 YEARS AGO. As an MGS fan, I'm pissed off that he released this. MGSV was a disappointment narratively, but at least the game mechanics were elite and it was actually fun to play.

The thing that angers me the most about the way the story is told, is that he can't commit between "you're playing as sam bridges, someone who already knows what BTs, beaches, voidouts, chiralium, chiral networks, cryptobiotes, timefall, death stranding, Bridge Babies, etc. are. He doesn't need these things explained to him so you can find out the context through audiotapes and other means"

and

"Someone will explain things to you as though you just woke up from a coma and don't know what these things are" like during the truck ride around the beginning.

It just comes across as extremely pretentious, like he and the writing team sitting in the back like "they ain't ready for this deep shyt we about to drop. Explain it? nah we off that "

The story is basically a question of what would happen if the boundary between life and death became blurred. An INTERESTING PREMISE, but he completely fukks it up.

I enjoyed the game but I think i love the idea of it more than the actual game itself? I love the art direction (yoji shinkawa is a master designer) the graphics (thanks decima engine) and the musical score. The overall production value and the concepts were great, i even like the typical Kojima political commentary mixed with the quirky existential philosophical stuff.

The system of connecting people and having other players build shyt is more genius. shyt, even love he idea of a AAA game being an actual walking sim. I loved the tactical feel of climbing through terrain and the light survival mechanics.

But I also kind of get why it’s so decisive. It’s not an all out action game even though it has a lot of action int it. I think the game generally suffers from lack of focus. They spoke so much about the strand genre being a thing but the different gameplay elements don’t work in great harmony with each other. You got stealth, driving, big boss fights, deliveries, building, exploration, and then these huuuuge exposition heavy cutscenes that are so randomly placed. It feels like 5 different games spliced together. You get the long cutscenes in the beginning, a couple shorter ones in the middle (including that weird japanese girl delivery that went on forever), a weird Conan O’Brien cameo, and then the ending...which is like a two hour movie trying to explain the entire game you just played but in a very kojima way.

Honestly i love everything kojima does even if it’s half baked. MGSV was a mess and i still enjoyed it for the most part. I just like this dudes style.

I think maybe i would have preferred if the horror/BT stuff wasn’t in the game, and it was just a straight up trek across the country with the rebel factions and maybe some other obstacles. The most fun I had with the game was just exploration. I honestly didn’t care for a lot of the battles

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It’s also very possible that Kojima productions has multiple games in production. They had a “big game” and a cloud based game he was shopping around and fell through with google. He could very well be making his cloud game with microsoft with Xcloud and making a game with sony.

Kojima Productions Plan on Working on Multiple Projects

 

[-DMP-]

I own it and I'm 20hrs in and I had to tap out today(I'm at the timefall farm delivery mission).

It's a bad game. It has good ideas, but it's a bad game. The menus are crowded and overdesigned, the way the story is told is bad, the physics are somehow worse than MGS4, a game from 12 YEARS AGO. As an MGS fan, I'm pissed off that he released this. MGSV was a disappointment narratively, but at least the game mechanics were elite and it was actually fun to play.

The thing that angers me the most about the way the story is told, is that he can't commit between "you're playing as sam bridges, someone who already knows what BTs, beaches, voidouts, chiralium, chiral networks, cryptobiotes, timefall, death stranding, Bridge Babies, etc. are. He doesn't need these things explained to him so you can find out the context through audiotapes and other means"

and

"Someone will explain things to you as though you just woke up from a coma and don't know what these things are" like during the truck ride around the beginning.

It just comes across as extremely pretentious, like he and the writing team sitting in the back like "they ain't ready for this deep shyt we about to drop. Explain it? nah we off that "

The story is basically a question of what would happen if the boundary between life and death became blurred. An INTERESTING PREMISE, but he completely fukks it up.

I can respect your take on the game and admit I didn’t like it as much as my goat mgsv. But I still felt the gameplay itself was fun and had some what of an mgs v playground feel to it though obviously not as in depth as it’s predecessor.

I liked robbing camps, I liked the different ways to travel across different terrain, the vehicles felt good and the human connection elements were a cool idea but somewhat novel. Loved the plethora of free upgrades for weapons gear etc.

story was definitely sloppy and bosses were what ever.

and I think the games budget definitely reared it’s head compared to something like Tlou2.

 

[Red Shield]

This is a get for microsoft. Wonder how successful death stranding was...

 

[Redguard]

What if this leads to a new Metal Gear game being an Xbox Exclusive

 

[HiiiPower]

Between Bethesda & Kojima Microsoft really about to make me buy an xbox huh

 

[Loose]

Peter wyse putting in work, that's an under-rated hire by Microsoft

 

[Deezay]

Either it's Death Stranding or something entirely new and multiplatform.

I can't see him revisiting MGS or P.T.
You get other studios to do those at this point.
Either way I can't wait to see what's brewing.



Imagine a Death Stranding Battleroyale type joint?
Tipping other players over on purpose and slappin boxes out of their hands.
Pull out the Bola and jack their weight.
All the while BTs are closing in and you have to make your delivery to the middle of the map as the safe zone gets smaller and smaller.

Spoiler

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

no death stranding type bullshyt please

Y’all didn’t like mgs4, mgs 5, pt, or death stranding. Stop pretending this news is exciting for you.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

Don't give one fukk about Kojima , just happy to see the times are changing

 

[Diunx]

I wonder how many millions Kojigod gets for these exclusives?

Kojima bless.

 

[kaldurahm]

If it's anything like death stranding, they should save their money and try to rope in Eiji Aunoma for the next Fable game. fukk Kojima, overrated dev, these dudes need to get Miyazaki instead.

 

[Auger]

Either it's Death Stranding or something entirely new and multiplatform.

I can't see him revisiting MGS or P.T.
You get other studios to do those at this point.
Either way I can't wait to see what's brewing.



Imagine a Death Stranding Battleroyale type joint?
Tipping other players over on purpose and slappin boxes out of their hands.
Pull out the Bola and jack their weight.
All the while BTs are closing in and you have to make your delivery to the middle of the map as the safe zone gets smaller and smaller.

Spoiler

It can't be death stranding, Sony owns the IP