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Death Stranding or Jedi: Fallen Order?

Which game do you prefer?

  • Death Stranding

    Votes: 59 36.6%

  • Jedi: Fallen Order

    Votes: 78 48.4%

  • Neither, save your money

    Votes: 24 14.9%
  • Total voters
    161
Both were games I loved.

I loved Death Stranding more because I felt like it was much more unique but I know it's divisive with some people so I'd say do your research on that one (Maybe watch some reviews, the Easy Allies one nails the pros and cons of it best I thought), Jedi: Fallen Order is more unanimously celebrated and a "safer" choice. If you're a big Star Wars / Dark Souls fan, that one may be the winner.
 
Choose wisely, OP.


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I feel both games are definitely great and offer entirely different experiences from each other. Death Stranding more unique if you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary.
 
Death Stranding for me.

I loved Fallen Order, but got bored about halfway through. I really need to finish that game. I was originally very excited for DS when those trailers came out. Then when I saw actual gameplay, it looked incredibly dumb and boring to me. However, I finally bought the game a few weeks ago since it was cheap on Amazon. Due to this quarantine, I've had a lot of free time at home, and I can't stop playing DS. I beat the game already, and have close to 90 hours in the game, and still can't stop playing it. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
 
Hans Bubby said:
Death Stranding for me.

I loved Fallen Order, but got bored about halfway through. I really need to finish that game. I was originally very excited for DS when those trailers came out. Then when I saw actual gameplay, it looked incredibly dumb and boring to me. However, I finally bought the game a few weeks ago since it was cheap on Amazon. Due to this quarantine, I've had a lot of free time at home, and I can't stop playing DS. I beat the game already, and have close to 90 hours in the game, and still can't stop playing it. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
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Hans Bubby said:
Death Stranding for me.

I loved Fallen Order, but got bored about halfway through. I really need to finish that game. I was originally very excited for DS when those trailers came out. Then when I saw actual gameplay, it looked incredibly dumb and boring to me. However, I finally bought the game a few weeks ago since it was cheap on Amazon. Due to this quarantine, I've had a lot of free time at home, and I can't stop playing DS. I beat the game already, and have close to 90 hours in the game, and still can't stop playing it. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
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I can see how SW fans or people rather new to games would love Fallen Order and be bored with Death Stranding.
But for experienced, old grandpa(31) gamers like me, DS is a breath of cold, fresh, flawed air which I needed!
 
It's a tough choice to be honest. I also bought the two at launch and finish them.

Fallen Order is the best star wars game since KOTOR, but not without it's flaws. Story has it's moments, but it's not amazing. Gameplay is good but not darksouls/sekiro good, it's not that precise.

If you're a Star Wars fan it's a plus. If you're only a Sekiro/darksouls fan, you may find the game is not refined enough. Higher difficulty levels are punishable and frustrating and it's not because a player may lack skill, they just tweaked the game the wrong way. Don't know if they corrected it since the time I played.

Death Stranding is not your typical game.

It's basically a game that you will fall in love in the first few hours but when you reach a certain point you start to see that you're not going to get much more from that, so that love may or not fade away.

Story is pretty good, the game has a very cinematic feeling (just look at the cast).

Since we're currently living a scenario in which Death Stranding fits amazingly well, I would go for that.
 
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Death stranding is my personal game of the year last year, Went in blind and absolutely loved it. Got the platinum on jedi order to, there's to many things done better in other games that it borrowed from, a sequel could be fantastic though. Nioh 2 is the best soulsborne clone.
 
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Kamehameha said:
Since we're currently living a scenario in which Death Stranding fits amazingly well, I would go for that.
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yes it has been very surreal to play through DS and now months later be living in a world very much like it. once again Kojima has done a bit of fortune telling in his works.
 
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People calling JFO an uninspired corridor fest are dead wrong. It's got some fun metroidvania elements, a rather large world to explore, the combat is decent, and the story isn't half bad. The visuals are fantastic and the game is long enough and paced well enough to hold your attention. Granted, DS is more original, but the game itself becomes very derivative and loses track of the plot near the end. JFO keeps it together all the way through.
 
Tetraeon said:
People calling JFO an uninspired corridor fest are dead wrong. It's got some fun metroidvania elements, a rather large world to explore, the combat is decent, and the story isn't half bad. The visuals are fantastic and the game is long enough and paced well enough to hold your attention. Granted, DS is more original, but the game itself becomes very derivative and loses track of the plot near the end. JFO keeps it together all the way through.
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Horrible mini map and no fast travel in order to artificially pad the game length are legit criticisms, though.
 
I'll go with Jedi: Fallen Order, but I preferred Death Stranding. That might sound contradictory, but Death Stranding is more divisive among players (though I do feel some complaints are only relevant to the first two chapters; Chapter 3 and beyond fix some gameplay issues) whereas Jedi: Fallen Order was more widely liked.

It's like comparing Neon Genesis Evangelion to Fullmetal Alchemist. Now, a lot of people love Evangelion including me, but there's quite a few who don't like it. Whereas FMA is well-liked by virtually everyone who saw it. So the latter is the safer bet as a recommendation. After all, a recommendation isn't based on what you personally like, but what you think will most likely will make the other person happy. If someone doesn't like platformers at all but wants Switch recommendations, I'm not saying Mario Odyssey even if it's my personally favorite Switch game so far because I know the other person most likely won't enjoy it.
 
The Bloody-Nine said:
Horrible mini map and no fast travel in order to artificially pad the game length are legit criticisms, though.
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What's wrong with the mini-map? it's super easy to find anything with it. All unaccessable doors/traversal objects are clearly marked red, then green once you can use them. Doors or openings into new areas you haven't been to are all marked with yellow markers. There is no fast travel because once you finish an area the first time you typically open a shortcut to the starting area of the map. It's very much like Metroid Prime's map. Nothing takes more than a few minutes to reach once you open up the shortcuts making fast travel mostly pointless.
 
The Bloody-Nine said:
Horrible mini map and no fast travel in order to artificially pad the game length are legit criticisms, though.
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yes some of the level design is atrocious. that first planet is just a pain to navigate through. some of the later areas as well, after you've explored, it becomes very confusing how to get from point A to point B. quite a few times after beating a boss and being confronted with the long journey back to the start of the level i just quit and come back to it later. some of those areas are a real hassle to navigate.

with DS you never have that problem, or if you do, it is literally the point of the mission.

the mini map, i kept running into a bug where if i was indoors the map was getting blocked by the scenery. weird bug to have months after release. the map was literally unusable in many areas.
 
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Death Stranding if you want to play something fresh and interesting, but slow. Jedi if you wan't instant action and cheap fun. DS is the perfect quarantine game imo, and it was my 2019 GOTY, but don't buy it unless you're absolutely sure you have the patience to play it.
 
A fun but very derivative Star Wars game or a 70 hours long FedEx simulator?.

I'd go for star wars!


Haven't played Death Stranding. But everything I've read and seen about it looks boring as hell IMO
 
Death Stranding is just side missions, and it's slow as hell

Go with Star Wars. It's a fine game
 
They're both good games, but I enjoyed death stranding more. That being said, it may not be your cup of tea, while fallen order is more of a traditional type of game.
 
Fallen Order is the worst Souls-like game I've played, further by the fact that it's suppose to be a high budget romp that turned out to be a mediocre discount matinee. The game just ends when things about to get good and it was all EA's ploy to bait you to buy a sequel whenever that happens.

Death Stranding is one whole story that ends perfectly. You can tell the team that made it knows what they story they wanna tell and how content they are in the end.

Both games ran out of their replay value around the same time for me, but I had more fun building ziplines for myself and the community than grinding for all the Force powers to get that Platinum trophy.
 
Cult of FartNoise said:
I voted JFO. Really enjoyed it. If you can snag it for 30ish bucks then perfect

DS is a good game too but I never got around to finishing it
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Same here. Jedi: Fallen Order was more "bang for your buck", time-wise. It was an interesting and enjoyable game and never once did I think "This is a fucking grind". I was always excited to play it. They're wildly different games but for my time investment, Jedi was superior.
 
Death Stranding is amazingly suited for this historical period, with all the narrative about social isolation, absence of contact between people and so on.
It's really interesting.
 
Do you want to play a game or want to experience a journey? That's the best way to differentiate the two.

Star Wars was good. But it's a typical game that pulls inspiration from many other games. You'll beat it, say it was good, and move along.

You finish Death Stranding and you feel like you actually went on a journey. No other game creates a feeling like it. It means something more since you took every step of the story with Sam. It's not perfect, but if you want to feel something, Death Stranding is the choice. The game is a slow burn and builds over the entire game. As soon as you think you figured it out, the game turns a a corner. Keep turning those corners and you'll look back and smile.

I don't like the word fun for explaining a game. It's a loaded word. I prefer to ask what game did I enjoy more? By far, Death Stranding.
 
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I liked Death Stranding better overall but Jedi Fallen Order is the "safer" recommendation.

DS is a pretty polarizing game, some people hated it, those who didn't loved it.
JFO is a game where emotions don't run high at all. Not a lot of hate or love.

Since I don't know you OP, I recommend JFO.
If you played and liked any AssCree, Uncharted, Souls or God of War games this gen... you will feel right at home.
If you like Star Wars on top of that... it's a no brainer to get JFO anyways.

Stranding OTH is a game that either clicks with you or it doesn't. So spending money on that is risky.
 
Death Stranding is the better game in terms of quality, gameplay and story.
Jedi: Fallen order is a rework of an existing formula, with the star wars logo plastered over it!

Death Stranding's flaw is that it's not for everyone. You have to swallow a lot of hard pills that would baffle a modern gamers.
  • You are not a secret agent, a super soldier or a mystic warrior! You are a postman/wayfarer, in a world that will die a slow death without one, and you have to work as one!
  • The game isn't about pressing the stick forward from A to B to get to a destination, but rather you have to plan your route, watch the terrain, plan your carried resources, build the land so the subsequent runs will be easier, establish relations and appreciate what other players have left for you.
  • Loneliness is the name of the game here. You connect a world with barely any people that live spread apart and you bring life to it.
 
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BusierDonkey said:
What's wrong with the mini-map? it's super easy to find anything with it. All unaccessable doors/traversal objects are clearly marked red, then green once you can use them. Doors or openings into new areas you haven't been to are all marked with yellow markers. There is no fast travel because once you finish an area the first time you typically open a shortcut to the starting area of the map. It's very much like Metroid Prime's map. Nothing takes more than a few minutes to reach once you open up the shortcuts making fast travel mostly pointless.
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Because I didn't find it easy at all to navigate with. And on some of the planets the back tracking slog after beating the boss is a pain in the ass. These are common criticisms so it isn't just me. Check the OT.
 
royox said:
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You cant use gifs to compare the games. SW is nothing more than flashy effects, zero substance with a generic story for simpletons.

If anything, the gifs of SW show everything wrong with gaming today, pretty gfx and button mashing. How original.


One has attempted to be original, the other is simply a SciFi reskin of games that have been around since the PS2 days.

The people who hate on DS are the same people wholl do checklist in Ubisoft games and fetch quests in Bethesda games and defend the new Star Wars movies as if they dont deserve the criticisms they get.


Weve all played the Fallen Order 20x before it even released.
 
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fallen order extremely overrated. I know respawn is everyones darling, but that game wasnt worth the reviews,
 
Im getting Fallen Order soon. From what I watched of my friends its not at all polished to a way that sometimes effects the gameplay.

I loved Death Stranding. Its different, slow paced, but th world, music and game is worth it for me. I love it mostly. Stopped so I can finish on PS5 lol
 
LemmingWithaParachute said:
You cant use gifs to compare the games. SW is nothing more than flashy effects, zero substance with a generic story for simpletons.

If anything, the gifs of SW show everything wrong with gaming today, pretty gfx and button mashing. How original.


One has attempted to be original, the other is simply a SciFi reskin of games that have been around since the PS2 days.

The people who hate on DS are the same people wholl do checklist in Ubisoft games and fetch quests in Bethesda games and defend the new Star Wars movies as if they dont deserve the criticisms they get.
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Amazon Prime simulator vs Lightsaber combat is a no brainer for me :)
 
I enjoyed both thoroughly but I could see myself replaying Jedi Fallen Order sooner. Smackin' stormtroopers with a glowy wiffle ball bat is plenty of fun.
 
royox said:
Amazon Prime simulator vs Lightsaber combat is a no brainer for me :)
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Fallen order doesnt have combat. It has what amounts to

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Fallen Order is every game released ever. Its as generic and hollow as they come.

This article sums it up perfectly.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars fans could count on video game adaptions that lived up to the pedigree of the tentpole franchise.

Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, for example, were both critical and commercial successes upon release.

Since then, the franchise has seen diminishing returns, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order seems to be succumbing to the same culture of mediocrity.

Just look at its absolutely forgettable hero, Cal Kestis.


The unveiling of the bland and emotionless void known as Cal Kestis triggered an immediate backlash from fans.

Character design plays a significant role in this. Judging from marketing materials, Kestis doesn't bring much to the table in terms of looks, humor, or even personality.

Take away the lightsaber, and many gamers would be forgiven for thinking that he's from another franchise.

And the worst part is that this could have been much different, according to game director Stig Asmussen.
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's Ridiculous Explanation for Forgettable Hero

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's director gave a ridiculous explanation about the game's utterly forgettable white, male protagonist.
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Captain original.

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Hostile_18 said:
Just a bit if a daft one GAF. Both games I missed out on and both games are on sale at the moment.

So now time has passed which one do you prefer? (Despite them been very different games). I'll get the one that gets the most votes :D
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Jedi: Fallen Order, no contest. It has its bugs and inconsistencies, but a really amazing game overall, considering it's a first of its kind in Respawn.

I've never enjoyed the Star Wars universe. To me it's a bland and flat series. I've only seen a handful of movies and this is my first game that I've tried.

And somehow the game was so good that it showed me what Star Wars was all about. Considering now watching all of the movies from start to finish with a new set of eyes, just because of the game.

And it helps if you're a dark souls fan. Takes a little bit of time to adjust to its own quirks (to me it took around half of the game to really click...), But once you get there it becomes second nature.

Oh, and switch square with R1 and up with down directional on the gamepad, just before you start the game. Thank me later.
 
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Oh, and switch square with R1 and up with down directional on the gamepad, just before you start the game. Thank me later.
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THIS. Don't understand why they put the attack button on Square if the gameplay screams "SOULS" as crazy.
 
LemmingWithaParachute said:
You cant use gifs to compare the games. SW is nothing more than flashy effects, zero substance with a generic story for simpletons.

If anything, the gifs of SW show everything wrong with gaming today, pretty gfx and button mashing. How original.


One has attempted to be original, the other is simply a SciFi reskin of games that have been around since the PS2 days.

The people who hate on DS are the same people wholl do checklist in Ubisoft games and fetch quests in Bethesda games and defend the new Star Wars movies as if they dont deserve the criticisms they get.


Weve all played the Fallen Order 20x before it even released.
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world is less nbinary and more complex....liking koijima last 10 years games is not being smart (far from it)
on my end, i'm glad his empty game with adulescent staging is not liked enought to become a template over jedi order one.
 
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