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

[RNGsus]

I can believe a game is a 0. I can even believe this game is a 0.

That's very embarrassing.

 

[Sentinel]

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.


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This isn't uncommon on Metacritic. Astral Chain also saw thousands of user reviews suddenly removed. Very likely bot accounts that get purged from time to time.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I still don't know what this game is about and I never have seen gameplay. Is this a walking sim? Can you shoot people? More or less cutscenes than MGS4?

 

[Zanzoken]

I haven't played it either but out of curiosity just watched the first hour of a silent LP on Youtube. I'd say it's about 50% cut scenes so far.

I am intrigued by the story (despite a seeming overabundance of plot hooks) but the gameplay thus far is quite literally a walking simulator.

 

[Sentinel]

I still don't know what this game is about and I never have seen gameplay. Is this a walking sim? Can you shoot people? More or less cutscenes than MGS4?

Kinda. You make deliveries from point A to B. The walking has a balancing system mechanic and the terrain is your obstacle. You have vehicles, ladders (can be placed vertically or horizontally), shelters, ropes, different exo skeletons, loading carriers that you can skate down hills...
Yes you can shoot people. Grenade launchers, rocket launchers, assault rifles, shotguns, pistols, cargo magnetic rifles...
Less cutscenes than MGS4. Chapter 1 and 2 are overloaded with cutscenes, then Chapter 3~9 are pretty much cutscene free save for a short introductory cutscene at the start of the chapter.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Don't forget the baby shaking.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Boleskine]

The next masterpiece from Hideko Kojimba...

 

[Sentinel]

 

[Bigg Boss]

They sure did choose one of the shitty songs to sing at the awards though. Either that or she just did bad.

 

[Sentinel]

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "she", but CHVRCHES was the band performing at TGA. Jenny Plant isn't part of it, she just sings the B.B. Theme.

 

[Bigg Boss]

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "she", but CHVRCHES was the band performing at TGA. Jenny Plant isn't part of it, she just sings the B.B. Theme.

I couldn't tell who it was. It could have been a man for all I know with how things are. Those awards sucked worse than I remembered.

 

[Sentinel]

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/12/19/game-of-the-year-2019-the-winners/
User votes.

Categories won:

• Best Narrative
• Best Graphical Showcase
• Best Soundtrack
• Best Playstation Console Exclusive
• Best Performance (Norman Reedus)
• Best PS4 game
• Studio of the year (Kojima Productions)

 

[Viata]

I fail to understand how a studio that has released only a single game is good enough to be "Studio of the year".

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

I fail to understand how a studio that has released only a single game is good enough to be "Studio of the year".

Would you say that to Id Soft in '93?

 

[Viata]

I fail to understand how a studio that has released only a single game is good enough to be "Studio of the year".

Would you say that to Id Soft in '93?

In '93, Id Soft had already released 13 games. What is your point?

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

They released only a single game in 1993, it's called Doom.

 

[Viata]

Not even my point. Kojima Productions, the independent studio, has released a single game so far. Not "a single game this year".

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Ok, so some other example - Valve, Half-Life, 1998.

 

[Viata]

My opinion would still be the same. Still, if you are trying to say Death Stranding is at the same level of Half-Life, then I pray for your soul.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

My opinion would still be the same. Still, if you are trying to say Death Stranding is at the same level of Half-Life, then I pray for your soul.

Propably not ever gonna touch DS or any other cinematic but my post was about how your rule was wrong.

If some young company release 10/10 game then it deserves title of studio of the year moar that one that released 5x8/10 games easily.

 

[Viata]

True, but neither DS nor Half life are 10/10 game.

 

[Ivan]

now I'm intrigued and will check it out once it hits steam (at a discount of course)

 

[Sentinel]

Kojima Productions isn't a new studio, they just went independent after the split with Konami. Just like IO-Interactive went independent after the split with Square Enix.

 

[Venser]

When I first started playing Death Stranding I thought terrain and balance mechanics were annoying. I thought hiking around natural environments should be relaxing but they made it stressful instead. I changed my mind completely. Once you figure everything out and especially once you get an exoskeleton, traversing terrain becomes very satisfying and I can already tell I'm going to miss this mechanic in other games. I watched someone play Shadow of the Tomb Raider and I thought that game could really make use of it.