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[SlimySnake]

lmao. poor kojima. hes feeling the heat for the first time in his career. i think he needs to trust his game and stop talking. hes not doing himself any favors.

The trailers have all been masterful. most people will buy the game based on that alone.

the few stranglers on the internet needed to see the game at TGS, thats people like me. i wasnt wholly convinced but what i saw was interesting enough. Just stop talking now. dont listen to everyone on the internet. especially the outrage squad. there will be some who will like your games, some wont.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I'm cool with a slow burn game.

 

[Guardian's Light]

Source: here.

Kojima, are you getting anxious? Talk to us. Half way through seems too much.

Does repeating " Hi Gaf, I'm Batman " convince you I really Am Batman?

No? Well...

Why saying a game is fun without even showing WHY it is, should convince us it really is?

Kojima is managing to get worse to me everyday lol
I was much more hyped before all the latest info, then my hype dropped badly, and reading him continuosly repeating phrases about the game being a totally new genre ( spoiler: it's not, at least for what we've seen so far) and the game not being boring, actually MAKE me think it is boring, and not a new genre at all

 

[Petrae]

Nah. I’ve already wasted enough time on games that “get good after xx hours” in my lifetime. If a game can’t deliver fun in relatively short order (an hour for less), it’s a hard pass.

 

[JORMBO]

The more he talks the worse his game sounds.

 

[Northeastmonk]

We are Homo Ludens. We can handle 50% easily.

 

[semiconscious]

The more he talks the worse his game sounds.

what's weird is: it's turned out that the only thing worse than kojima not really saying anything about death stranding? kojima finally saying something...

i'm completely in the 'let the game speak for itself' camp. more video, less hideo...

 

[Lupin3]

Sounds like a typical JRPG today.

No need for those pitchforks. I'm slightly exaggerating here.

 

[bigol]

Unless there is some really secret element to the game everything they showed looks well made, detailed but ultimately boring. And it's absolutely far from groundbreaking, or "you are not ready" level all those actors were talking about.

If the groundbreaking new feature is the asynchronous multiplayer, sorry, Kojima but Miyazaki did it in 2008.

 

[captainraincoat]

Please shut up kojima......the more you talk the worse it gets

 

[DESTROYA]

Starting to sound like a wait until it’s on sale game.
I want a game to be good right off the bat and not have slog through the first half to be better.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Good things come to those who wait.

 

[Ikutachi]

I don't like it when a creator is constantly in their game's marketing.

 

[Arachnid]

LMAO Kojima always shoots himself in the foot with his statements and phrasing. He said shit like this for every Metal Gear too. He's not a PR man.

Spoiler

The game will still be fantastic and lmao @ the people here taking it as "the first 50 percent is terrible!".

 

[Jigsaah]

Why would you make a game that is slow from the beginning? No less admit this is the case. I mean I guess I appreciate the candor, but this is not a selling point.

 

[brian0057]

The "It gets good after 20 hours" meme has gained sentience.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

The first half is a cut scene!

 

[mortal]

I understood him for the most part. Ideally, by the half way point players will have adapted to the gameplay loops well enough, and will be emotionally invested in the narrative. Makes sense to me

I imagine it won't be "fun" in the most conventional sense where we hit the ground running, as we would in games with more bombastic introductions. It'll be s slow burn, and I'm all for it.

 

[The Cartographer]

It's not that shocking if you look at his twitter profile description and who he signs for his games, to be fair.

I wasn't surprised by his words, it's just that his snobbish attitude towards video games is so puerile I can't really handle it anymore.

 

[mekes]

I’m so hyped!

To read reviews

 

[Clear]

Please shut up kojima......the more you talk the worse it gets

Crazy thought: If what he says bothers you, stop listening. Noone is forcing you to react to everything that he tweets or is quoted as saying.

 

[A.Romero]

I don't get why people get mad at him talking about his game. The launch is less than 2 months away, this is marketing.

I'm in day 1, no matter what. I liked his previous games so much that even if I get burned I wouldn't get mad. I'd see it as funding for the next game.

 

[Shagger]

Kojima's such an eccentric, isn't he?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

The first half is a cut scene!

MGSV was "trash" because not enough cutscenes, this one is "trash" because it has too many.

you really can't please everyone. least of all people that hate your games (?). luckily Kojima doesn't care. they won't be buying them, just helping fuel the online promotion of them.

he and his team was getting death threats 10+ years ago over MGS4. by now he knows he can't please everyone. please need to stfu about it.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Kojima's such an eccentric, isn't he?

Nice avatar!!! =D



I only waiting theyoutube funny bugs compilation of the game

 

[#Phonepunk#]

players shouldn't need to get that far into a game before they start enjoying it – a debate that was also raised around Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

lol i played that game. you play a Roman centurion murdering enemies in a brutally violent spear fight with dozens of dudes like 5 minutes into starting a new game. that was pretty fun.

the auteur likened Death Stranding to the Alien movie, revealing that things only start to get truly enjoyable in the latter half of the game - after a long and slow intro

"oh, yeah, Alien, that movie is awful, only starts getting interesting 50% through the movie." wait, what the actual fuck? sounds like a mistranslated interview TBH. Alien is still enjoyable during the slower intro, in fact it's essential to the atmosphere. what is with this paraphrasing? what did Kojima say about "the Alien movie"? why would you even call it that? has the interview ever seen Alien?

lol like who are these ADHD meth addicts who are so hollowed out and bored they turn into stone faced shells unless you tickle their pineal gland with a giant robot exploding ever 5 minutes?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Some people say it's almost like the movie Alien, where you are gradually finding out what the whole world is about, what you can do and not do. Maybe it gets really fun when you have completed 50 percent of the game.

Death Stranding will be 'really fun', says Kojima – once you're halfway through

But will we get that far?

www.techradar.com

quote from the original interview. sounds like he is talking about tone and exploration. Alien is mostly a film about slow discovery, culminating halfway through into an action horror thriller about killing & escaping xenomorphs, leading to a stunning climax. it's like 45 minutes before you see a full alien, but it's all really cool and worth the build up. hardly seems like a bad way to structure a game.

if he means you just finish unlocking everything in the game gameplay wise halfway through, then that seems pretty normal.

 

[DeepEnigma]

My fun strands are ready!

 

[alabtrosMyster]

he and his team was getting death threats 10+ years ago over MGS4. by now he knows he can't please everyone. please need to stfu about it.

Take a deep breath now please, it's very possible to think that the cut scenes in MGS 4 were too much and not have sent Kojima death threats! I just didn't play the game because
I'm not a big fan of the MGS games in general, but I also appreciate how the guy is messing with everyone's mind.

Seriously, that was a joke (but it seems it hit too close to home for some, and I am not sorry about it).

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Are we gonna have to make a shitload of pointless Kojima threads to make this fad get old quicker?

MiyazakiHatesKojima already you to it.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

MiyazakiHatesKojima already you to it.

Speak engrish, prease.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Speak engrish, prease.

I am speaking English. Since I'm apparantly from the UK I just kinda talk fast and type every other word?

 

[Shagger]

That's not speaking, it's typing... I'll go sit in the corner...

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I speak a mixture of made up French

Ok Kat.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Ok Kat.

You're a Brit who lived in Germany and moved to different places, correct?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

You're a Brit who lived in Germany and moved to different places, correct?

You are confusing me to another member. :/

 

[888]

This dude is basically saying don’t buy my shit.

because every time he talks that’s what I hear.

 

[CyberPanda]

Good things come to those who wait.

It's like masturbating. You have to wait for the good stuff to happen.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

It's like masturbating. You have to wait for the good stuff to happen.

 

[CyberPanda]

Imagine the smell.

 

[Moses85]

This Game will even more suck then MGS V (for me personal) but I know I will buy and regret it.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

That's what I tell my wife everytime we have sex. She's as unimpressed with the argument as I am with Kojima's. I understand him now.

Kojima-dono I understand!

 

[Silent Viper]

So first half will be bunch of busy work with lot of micromanagement and 2nd half will be more action packed

 

[Kenpachii]

This game is going to bomb so hard lol

 

[New Yorks Finest]

This dude Kojima is somethin else..adorable confidence.."it gets really fun midway through" I mean you can't script this if you tried

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Start game - Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, really fun, really fun, really fun, really fun, really fun - completed

Calm your tits

 

[Explosive Zombie]

It's probably plenty fun from the get-go but he's playing 4D chess realizing anyone saying "i quit 5 hours in" can be told IT GETS BEST HALFWAY, YOU FOOL. Also it makes me think of this...

Hour 117 of RPG Reportedly Where Things Really Get Going

BERKELEY, Calif. — The latest big- budget role-playing game “Yuri: Stars of the Fathers” apparently hits its stride at the 117 hour mark, according to…

thehardtimes.net

 

[Mista]

At this point I'm convinced he's just saying shit to rile up the trolls.

That’s what I’m thinking too. He loves trolling

 

[Virex]

 

[KOMANI]