You Don't Have To Understand Death Stranding

You dont have to understand it, its not important, youre not smart enough to anyway, so just enjoy this game about the concept of omoiyari, is it? The Japanese cover story for sticking your nose in other peoples' business. I MEAN THE CONCEPT OF COMPASSION MY BAD HAHA BECAUSE COMPASSION IS A IDEA AND NOT A PRACTICE. B**** Please.

Omoiyari? Empathy/compassion? Sorry, but the second you stick a baby in a jar, I'm going to want to shake it like a fetus cocktail, empathy be damned.

I don't think that this time Kojima was using misinformation and deception here at all. It's a new formed team and their first game so they want to sell it to be able to get other project running, it make sense. He was asked by SONY to make a new concept game and this is what he get to.

At the begining they were showing some cool combat and dark atmosphere with weird baby caring feature but since they show more and more of the game and each time it got a lot of backlash from the gaming community and each time it get worst and worst.

Some sell them heart and mind to Kojima without second thought cause he had make such a unbelievable serie that is the MGS one, yes but others see what cool game Kojima made in the past? ZOE? definetly not for everyone even if you like MGS some are absolutly disgusted by ZOE.

So what to think of that? As time goes counted down to the release Kojima made numerous aparition here and there to try to sell his game and even him is not sure what to think of it and wasn't able to adequatly explained it and he acknowledge that.

The game show very cool graphics and some interesting gameplay mechanic but fail hard to show us combat, sneaking, interection with NPC other that some holographic stuff. The concept seem weird: transporting package across a devasted country that all. It show very little or nothing of a story or any kind of scenario.

In the end it will probably be a game to try but definitly not something to buy day one maybe even after all other great game coming by soon this one got the last spot on the list and by far and it's a huge fan of Kojima that is writing those lines (Can't believe I do that right now).

Kojima seem desperatly trying to promote an already doomed game that he know for himself that is not the standard we used to with him. When he is on something good he play with us and make us expect the unexpected but this really not what he is doing right now with Death Stranding.

Can't wait to see what metacritics will tell of this but before seeing those it's a no go for me.

I've been a fan of Kojima ever since MGS on PS1. What I've learned since then, is that he likes to spread misinformation and deception when promoting his games. What he decides to show during promotion leading up to release is meant to get the player to get a preconceived idea of what the game will be and then the player is surprised when the game is not what they expected.

He did this for MGS2 showing us only portions of Snake and the Tanker and then surprising us with Raiden (an unpleasant surpise though). He did that with MGS3 again making us think we would pay as Snake but then surprising us with Big Boss. With MGS4 he was more direct as there was little room for deception due to the story being a direct sequel of MGS2 but even then he managed surprises with the ending reveal. Lastly with MGS5 he went as far as creating a dummy gaming developing company and showing some bizarre trailer during the Video Game Awards. He then also managed to surprise us by making us think we were controlling Big Boss and pulling another fast one at the end.

I agree with many that what we have seen so far is a little bizarre and to some extent disappointing, but I have hope that this is another of his deceptive promotions and the game will throw us for a loop once is played. I'm still picking it up because I enjoy Kojima's wacky stories and the way he threads them.

" who I am I ? what is my name ? where am I !

Kojima comment next weak ,,,,,,,,

Gamespots reviewers are already making excuses for this game/Kojima already which means an instant 10 because it will give you the feelz lol.

I still won’t play it. Looks too stupid and weird.

I'll play it just because it's weird and will probably have lots of WTF moments. I like weird stuff that makes you go WTF.

High minded art has always had its critics. Especially for those who start to feel somehow triggered because it insults their level of intelligence. So in order to compensate for this feeling, they attack the art, the artist, and start to belittle it so they don't have to deal with the idea that perhaps they are lacking in any way shape or form.

Tale as old as time.

All these ppl making pretend we have to understand life to enjoy it lol

Apparently most of the ppl in this comment section arent enjoying life lol

So now we need Gamespot to explain what should and shouldn’t be understood . Now That is scary.

duh, kojima hasn't finished making the game yet. although, he does have access to a time machine that will allow retroactive game tweaking the moment the player actually starts playing the game - like those time wrinkles everybody uses now.. ::cricket cricket::

Then you don’t need my money.

Not buying it.

I always had a hard time digesting Kojima games after MGS. The games he makes are technical marvels but with incoherent and (silly) stories. If he likes to raise questions and grind our minds (as well as his own), he successfully does so.

But Kojima games are always a mixed bag to me. They are indeed something out of the norm. I have no excitement about Death Stranding at all, because i pretty much know what this game will turn out to be.

Random thoughts typed during the ads:

--I'm still curious how hard it is to get-supplies. If we're to be jazzed when we find a water bottle, what does it take to get these things?

--I've come around to the idea of traversing vast land without fighting...I just hope there's something puzzle-like, and not just....hmmm, yup---ladder.

--One thing that might curb trolling, is that the effect is never witnessed. What good is a troll-move if the troll can't see it play out? Online there's a vast stage to watch people lose their cool, but in a single player game not so much.

--The idea of not knowing what a product is, is rare enough these days. We may not know how it "games" but I'm still hopeful it will reveal itself gradually along the way.

Gaming Journalists decrying gamer's wanting details of the actual purpose of the game, that's a strange reversal. I don't think anyone is asking for exact story details. The easiest thing that could be done is show a mission. Show 15, no even 10 minutes of some non-important story mission. Some interaction with interesting story Characters and some combat. Something with some structure. That's what most people are asking for I think.

Imagine if Skyrim had just shown trailers of you running around and picking berries and mining, then going to the alchemy table, then showing you swimming and selling goods. When asked, Bethesda says, 'Well we just want you to feel like it's an open world you can do anything in.' I mean they kinda had that trouble with 76 right? Sure they show a dragon off in the distance and some magic enemies, but lets just focus on all the crazy deep armor crafting, alchemy and selling dynamic.

It's not the best marketing strategy in my opinion. I get Kojima wants to show his artistic expression, his vision, but it's always good to show people there is an overall objective to the game that will drive them to play further into it. Again, the game looks fascinating, but it looks like a sci-fi human cargo simulator. I'm sure it will do well, because Kojima was seen as the victim of Konami and everyone is excited for his new pure game, but I hope it has enough of a cohesive objective to keep people interested in the world and story, or his next game may not be received so well by the fans.

-Edit- Wait, Wait, is that the same Tamoor that wrote a whole article raging over the Sam Raimi Spider-Man suit being added to Spider-Man PS4 for free and here he's saying people shouldn't just snap at Death Stranding and tear it down because it's not well defined? That was a good chuckle there.

Like ... yeah, I don't need to understand what the game is, and it'll probably be a crazy spectacle that I want to experience at least some of ... but as, like, a 2 hour, Gone Home style game that I spent $10-20 on.

I watched Kojima narrate an hour and a half of game play from TGS, and never saw the actual game. I saw a bunch of wacky ancillary mechanics and systems that could flesh out a game and keep people engaged beyond whatever the core game play loop is ... but I didn't see anything that looked like a reason to actually PLAY Death Stranding. It was just tour of weird, slightly personal feeling little game systems this crazy man thinks would be cool to see in another game someone else will make.

I don't care too much about how original the game is. I just want it to be fun.

Dark souls boss battles, and multiplayer hints and mode metal gear 5 user interface, and ubisoft breakpoint injury system, and finally Ubisoft the crew world map.

Understood thanks Gone.

Now you all know.

but i want too. that way the campaign/story modes is.