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Death Stranding Director's Cut - Kojima's post-apocalyptic deliveryman simulator

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I think the game systems and mechanics are more cohesive than MGSV, and it's a better designed game. But as much as I like the game, I don't think I can find myself going back to it occasionally the same way I go back to MGSV. For all its flaws, and how bloated parts of it are, MGSV has a lot going for it. I don't think its far-fetched to say that DS has less replayability than MGSV.
 
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Kojima Productions veteran Ken Imaizumi ‘departs’ following Death Stranding
FOUNDING MEMBER WAS A KEY FIGURE BEHIND METAL GEAR SOLID SERIES

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Veteran Metal Gear Solid producer and Kojima Productions founding member Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi has left the company, VGC understands.

Imaizumi, who has been a well-known figure at Kojima Productions for almost 20 years, was a founding member of the new independent Kojima Productions. As corporate director, he oversaw all production on Death Stranding.

During the studio’s previous incarnation at Konami, Imaizumi worked on every Metal Gear Solid title since 2001’s Sons of Liberty. Most recently, he was producer for Guns of the Patriots, The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Rising.

The reason for the veteran’s departure remains unclear, but one source claimed it was due to a disagreement with Kojima Productions’ other directors.

Significantly, Imaizumi – usually a common face at Kojima Productions’ public events and on social media – was absent from Hideo Kojima’s recent promotional world tour for Death Stranding.

Neither Kojima Productions nor Imaizumi responded to requests for comment on this story.

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Ken Imaizumi (left) during a visit by Conan O’Brien in September.
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https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ken-imaizumi-departs-kojima/
 
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Yesterday I had the most intense experience. I was on a mountain in yet unexplored area and got caught by BTs. Sam was bleeding out with no stamina left, BB was in a critical condition, lost most of the cargo, everywhere around me lethal fall and the black goo whale was chasing after me. The thing even caught me at some point and I have no idea how I managed to get away. At that point I was halfway to my destination so I wasn't sure whether to go back or keep marching into unknown with limited supplies, busted BB and no Chiral Network. By some miracle I still had the one package that I needed to deliver for the quest. I decided to go forward and had just enough rope left to scale down the mountain without dying.

10/10 GOTY
 

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Venser said:
Yesterday I had the most intense experience. I was on a mountain in yet unexplored area and got caught by BTs. Sam was bleeding out with no stamina left, BB was in a critical condition, lost most of the cargo, everywhere around me lethal fall and the black goo whale was chasing after me. The thing even caught me at some point and I have no idea how I managed to get away. At that point I was halfway to my destination so I wasn't sure whether to go back or keep marching into unknown with limited supplies, busted BB and no Chiral Network. By some miracle I still had the one package that I needed to deliver for the quest. I decided to go forward and had just enough rope left to scale down the mountain without dying.

10/10 GOTY
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Pretty sure I read shit like this in Oblivion threads on /v/.
 
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Gerrard said:
Pretty sure I read shit like this in Oblivion threads on /v/.
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Bold move to admit you read Oblivion threads on /v/ :D

But seriously tho, it's that kind of stories that will stay with you after playing the game, not some scripted events games throw at you. Haven't played Oblivion yet but I have my own stories from Morrowind and I'll never forget how upgrading swimming skill in Deus Ex saved my whole first playthrough.
 
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After 80 hours finally finished the main story. Gonna make 5 stars with all preppers and build the roads before wrapping up for good.

What can i say, kudos to Kojima for not contracting brain rot like all the other old farts in the industry. Still going strong, still great game designer, still have passion for unique game mechanics and crazy plots even if the writing is oftentimes anime cringe.

Boss battles are complete shit though (Cliff sections were alright, but didn't fit the premise), not sure how they ended up in the game at all. Have a suspicion higher ups imposed it on Kojipro and with the lack of time and resources we got what we got.

Also, how they managed to produce the game of such magnitude and without a single bug, with a small team in 3 years is mighty impressive
 
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Venser said:
Yesterday I had the most intense experience. I was on a mountain in yet unexplored area and got caught by BTs. Sam was bleeding out with no stamina left, BB was in a critical condition, lost most of the cargo, everywhere around me lethal fall and the black goo whale was chasing after me. The thing even caught me at some point and I have no idea how I managed to get away. At that point I was halfway to my destination so I wasn't sure whether to go back or keep marching into unknown with limited supplies, busted BB and no Chiral Network. By some miracle I still had the one package that I needed to deliver for the quest. I decided to go forward and had just enough rope left to scale down the mountain without dying.

10/10 GOTY
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So intense experiences in this game come from taking a hike in the mountain high on drugs seeing flying whales and risking fall on a precipice.

Oookay.
 
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LoL it seems somebody have a butthurt ego.......or the game doesn't sell well.

Metacritic Removes Over 6,000 Negative Death Stranding User Ratings
Samuel GuglielmoFriday, December 06, 2019
Death Stranding. The user score, which was at a 5.1 yesterday with 9,355 negative reviews, is today at a 7.4 with only 2,958 negative reviews, as discovered by Reddit user “argande.” While we can assume Metacritic was taking action against “review bombs” that impacted Death Stranding, the aggregate reviews site has not announced anything about the removals or why they felt the need to do it. There’s also no real indication as to why they removed those specific ratings compared to the other negative reviews that still remain. They have also not adjusted any other games (that we know of) that are victims of suspected review bombs recently.

Review bombing has become a particularly heated topic in the games industry in the past few years. The practice involves users gathering together to dump negative reviews on games in protest of something, oftentimes without actually playing the game themselves. Review bombing is traditionally tied to an agenda more than the content of the actual game (users aren’t wasting their time rating games that are actually bad), as users seek to send a message of protest against publishers, developers, and content or practices that they don’t agree with. The legitimacy of user reviews has often been called into question thanks to the lack of nuance and verification if the user even played the game. Users often use a score of 1 for “didn’t like it” and 10 for “loved it” which defeats the entire scale and tips the balance of the averages.

Several places have begun to put in measures against review bombing. Popular PC storefront Steam allows users to only see reviews between certain time periods and will put up warnings and not count reviews towards a total if they believe a game is being review bombed. For example, they discovered that Borderlands 2 was being review bombed after the announcement that Borderlands 3 would be an Epic Games Store exclusive, so they negated all reviews from a certain time period following that announcement from the total user score.

Metacritic recently put out their list of the top 50 games of the decade, according to critic reviews. They also released the list of the top games of this year, with both Resident Evil 2 and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice leading the pack in ratings.


Read more at https://www.playstationlifestyle.ne...ews-from-death-stranding/#X10UlbhWirIgdmsf.99
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Who cares about that kind of user ratings? They're trash. People give ten and zeros mindlessly, pure fanboysm. Even Steam reviews are plagued by this, when they're not used as a way to blame the devs for doing X thing.
 
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