[Megathread] Death Stranding.

[Breccia]

What the hell did I just read lmao.

Ah, yes, Sony threatened to withhold advertising for a different poor review.

Which means I can now agree and disagree for four reasons. Two of them are Kane and Lynch 2, and the other two are Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.

[Edge-]

Ah, yes, Sony threatened to withhold advertising for a different poor review.

Which means I can now agree and disagree for four reasons. Two of them are Kane and Lynch 2, and the other two are Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.

That was Square Enix, not Sony. That was also like a decade ago, and the only confirmed instance of that kind of behavior I can think of off the top of my head.

And that was GameSpot, not Kotaku where that happened. Amusingly enough, Giant Bomb, which Gerstman went on to create, is now owned by...CBS Interactive. Who are also the owners of...you guessed it, GameSpot. They work in the same building.

Threats of pulling advertising over a bad review are grossly overblown, especially considering at sites like GameSpot and the like, especially nowadays, editorial and ad sales are two different departments that have little interaction. It's designed to function as "church and state", so while there's some grey area ("Hey, we dropped $40K on an ad campaign on the site, the least you can do is run our bloody trailer on your video page that nobody checks!") reviewers generally have no idea what's going on with the ad side of things. Especially since more often than not the review is farmed out to some freelancer getting paid $100 for a 10+ hour playthrough and 500+ words of review.

[Tech614]

Ah, yes, Sony threatened to withhold advertising for a different poor review.

Which means I can now agree and disagree for four reasons. Two of them are Kane and Lynch 2, and the other two are Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.

When you can't even get the details right, on your own examples and they're almost 10 years old to boot maybe just don't bother.

There is literally no credibility in anything you posted as it concerns to modern day.

[dope_danny]

Finally finished the game. 5 starred everyone bar the first prepper, found all but 4 of the memory sticks and just have a few things left to platinum it.


Overall i like it but i wouldn't say the overall story or tone specifically is worth putting in the time for. The characters and infrastructure porn are what will make or break the game for someone. The death strandings explanation was lame as shit and ripping off a lot of anime and there were much better fan theories going around about quantum physics and 'bridges' being an organisation tunneling wormholes/strands into other dimensions till they accidentally found one where the BT's exist and the organic tanks and ww1 stuff would be alternate worlds or something. That would have been interesting. Instead its another take on the 'human instrumentality' thing and its not very well written or a big shock reveal.
Meanwhile stuff like Deadman and Heartman in particular were very interesting even if they were just two sides of Otacon when you think about it. I gave far more of a shit about Sam growing attached to Lou and these people, cliche as it was, because it felt natural and sincere.

Personally i think it would have been better if we never got an explanation for the Death Stranding and it was about bridget and higgs trying to control it with different ideologies for why. Was it an experiment gone wrong? aliens? the rapture? it doesn't matter and explaining it just robs it of the mystique of it.

Overall i enjoyed more of my time with it than i didn't and i certainly think the game as a whole is better than MGSV but clearly more limited due to its budget but if you asked me would i rather replay it or MGS1 a year from now? i'd probably go with MGS. Its good just not his best.

That said i would not mind a sequel. Maybe Sam and Louise on a journey to go to Canada or something, see whats outside america and focus a bit more on the stealth horror the trailers teased?

[dope_danny]

131 hours and i'm done. Got the Platinum, found every secret and i'm safe saying the game is a good time, but i probably wont play it for a very long time again.

and you know the really screwed up thing i realised at the end? The BT's are really just a shittier version of the enemies from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within in retrospect.

[Enjeh]

the helmet at the end lol