It's shit. The plot (the main aspect of the game that sold most people on it) is nonsensical and written using the "and then" method. Characters are awful and one dimensional. Outside of cutscenes, Norman Reedus barely talks and even when he does he comes off as having no personality. The gameplay loop is mediocre. Even the main mechanic, walking, is janky and Norman will randomly start picking up speed while running into a rock. RDR2 does walking way better. Getting all of your quest from an exposition dumping hologram in a building identical to the last one got boring really quick. I knew exactly what to expect at the end of each delivery, exposition dump and a new waypoint. The game just fails on both fronts, story and gameplay and for a game with over $150 million dollars that's sad. Look, I like Kojima's other games too, but let's not pretend like Death Stranding was good just because of that.
It's shit...
Death Stranding was basically another MGSV where the trailers make it seem much more grand than it is and only show the interesting bits, but once you see the trailer you saw everything the game has to offer. Kojima should just direct trailers and make short gameplay demos that other more competent people can expand upon and make great games. Kojima does not know how to make games or write without any help. Peace Walker, MGS4, MGSV and Death Stranding are the evidence of that.
I kinda imagine you mouth breathers 15 years ago complaining how MGS2 and 3 have non-sense plots that you can`t take seriously enough.
I will stop even considering people that start any criticism of a game with the plot, I bet you nigger brain think capeshit and other videogames have good histories
Death Stranding was not only the GOTY of 2019, but one of the greatest video-game experiences of the past 10 years. It'll sat in the hall of fame together with other mega-classics like Silent Hill, MGS, Ico, SotC and the Niers.
>Kojima does not know how to make games or write without any help.
>Peace Walker, MGS4
Were superb games and experiences.
>MGSV
was forced out prematurely and butchered before birth by Konami. GZ is a prime example of what we could have gotten.
not an argument
>The gameplay loop is mediocre.
Like pottery.
MGS2 and 3 have good plots because Kojima was on the leash and didnt get to blow all of the budget on celebrities that clearly dont give a shit about giving a good performance. He also had another writer to filter his bullshit. The moment Fukushima left his writing became shit, that is not a coincidence. How do you go from something like MGS3 to MGS4? How do you explain that?
This is what sunk cost fallacy looks like, when you invest so much time and money into one hacks piece of shit that you have to defend it no matter how badly written and designed it is.
Mads gave a great performance tho.
Correct. He was making an observation, a valid one at that.
He gave okay performance and he was barely in the game. There are 8 other characters that didnt give a good performance.
>How do you go from something like MGS3 to MGS4? How do you explain that?
by struggling to come up with things to add to a story that didn't need to add anything. kojima didn't even want to make anymore MGS games after 2.
Tommie Earl Jenkens also gave a great performance, and Reedus wasn't bad.
He could have given it to someone else or refuse to do it, he has no integrity.
man's gotta eat.
Not really, he was just exposition dump that got 5 minutes of acting at the end. Reedus was terrible, looked like he didnt even know where he was.
Kojima is a just a hack, simple as. MGS4 could have about anything but he decided to make a complete mess that was barely a videogame.
MGS4 was a step down in writing quality, but a major step up in direction and cinematography.
user, i know you have a hate boner for kojima, but the answer is really somewhere in the middle.
Means absolutely nothing when its a badly written mess that has almost no gameplay
>Means absolutely nothing
no, it means that it had good direction and cinematography.
And who wants that in a videogame? No one.
Did Kojima fuck your mom or something? Look at how angry you are at some Japanese game maker.
why wouldn't they? metal gear solid 3 had a ton of cutscenes and none of them looked even close to as cool as MGS4. i would've loved if they were on that level.
Im disappointed that there are legitimately good ideas in Kojimas games that will never have good execution because of his ego and yes men surrounding him. Do you not want his games to have the same quality as the MGS trilogy?
then don't play his games. getting riled up about it isn't improving your life.
Yeah you posted this in the other thread.
Why are you so desperate to fish for (You)s? Why drag RDR2 into this? At the very least you could cite BotW for batter bait material, or is that game too sacred to you?
Don't tell me you're that anti-Kojima schizo, user.
>RDR2 does walking way better
I dunno I never fell on my ass from a 2 inch tall rock in Death Stranding
>many people enjoy his games, but i don't
>he should cater to me instead of them
Narcissism is a bitch.
having played the game, it's simply okay. It's not great and has visible flaws that definitely show as you play it, but it's not absolute garbage either. It's clear what it wants to go for, but just doesn't reach it quite as one would expect.
You know I'm right. I really doubt that you were not disappointed by how Death Stranding turned out.
celebrities are definitely a massive waste of budget but Kojima is obviously obsessed with Hollywood. Conan Obrien was a good dumb cameo
Kojima games didn't use to be just okay, they used to be great. He only got to where he is by taking credit from other people who made his games great, now that he doesn't need them he can do whatever he wants and the drop in quality really shows.
>Kojima games didn't use to be just okay, they used to be great.
people on this board shit on mgs2 and 3 all the time.
>written using the "and then" method
not at all, did you play the game? plenty of plot lines are revealed throughout the past as the story progresses
>outside of cutscenes norman reedus barely talks
i don't know what you expect in the setting of a game that's so dangerous to people traversing the area. did you want him to go full schizo and have complete monologues with himself during deliveries? what did you honestly expect?
People on this board shit on everything, but MGS and Kojima fans can agree that MGS3 was the last truly great game that he made.
No, I'm pretty sure you're just some other user who stumbled upon and thought "hehe time for some epic You farming" and decided to make this thread with a 1:1 copy paste of that post.
You're not right because you added nothing to the discussion, your only "argument" is "nu uh you're disappointed", and it more or less boils down to an opinion. A worthless one at that because it's not even your own, you blatantly copied it from someone else to parrot it.