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

[DJOGamer PT]

There are a lot of “game adaptation films" out there

But few "movie-game movie adaptations", eh Kojimbo?

 

[911 Jumper]

Why is he using the term “users” as if Death Stranding is some kind of productivity app? Why no sales figure, Hideo?

The recent Sony Marvel Factory leaks revealed how many units DS moved on PS4 and PS5

 

[cvv]

Ok that's fucking amazing.

So Kojima's pretentious turd made 14 million lifetime sales, that about right? Ha. Haha.

Also holy shit, is Spiderman the most lucrative IP rn or what.

Also the DeS remake doing very well, for a niche PS5 exclusive. And BB made quarter a billion of lifetime sales, noice.

 

[Modron]

So Kojima's pretentious turd made 14 million lifetime sales, that about right? Ha. Haha.

14 million on people buying the game another time, 178 million on the barely changed oc at the bottom there. PS5/PS4 totals only of course.

 

[cvv]

So Kojima's pretentious turd made 14 million lifetime sales, that about right? Ha. Haha.

14 million on people buying the game another time, 178 million on the barely changed oc at the bottom there. PS5/PS4 totals only of course.

Oh yeah I was wondering what the "1.5" thing is about. So about 200 mil. in total. That's actually not bad for a retarded, pretentious, poseur turd like that.

 

[Terenty]

So Kojima's pretentious turd made 14 million lifetime sales, that about right? Ha. Haha.

14 million on people buying the game another time, 178 million on the barely changed oc at the bottom there. PS5/PS4 totals only of course.

That's actually a very good result, considering the game was made very efficiently in around 3 years with a number of devs fluctuating between 10 to 100 ppl.

No wonder they green lit part 2.

 

[cvv]

No wonder they green lit part 2.

It's gonna flop so hard, a lot of ppl bought the first game based on hype and mystery. Literal thousands will buy the second.

 

[Terenty]

Hope it sells well too, Kojima is one of the few who deserves it nowadays

 

[Johnny Biggums]

There should be mule hookers you beat up with an energy bat before driving down a steep rocky field in a stolen lexus loaded with 8000 resins.

 

[Talby]

I just beat this recently for the second time, this time the DC on PC. I wonder what they're going to do mechanically for the sequel, given that

Spoiler

Timefall should no longer be a thing, nor should BTs.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I gave DS a chance a week ago.

I'm buying a courier simulator. I buying unnecessary mechanics. I'm buying unnecessarily complicated lore. I'm buy unnecessarily complicated plot. I'm buying worms. I'm buying "beach terrorists". I'm buying Nicolas Winding Refn who tells me it's good to shit. I tolerate Lea Seydoux's face close-ups. I tolerate pretentious music. I even tolerate characters having names like "Die-Hardman."

However, I cannot stand how inhumanly stupid this is. How can I take seriously a character who is being explained who his mother is? I understand that he's withdrawn and "because it's all about connection", but this is a level of Vamp plot taken with deadly seriousness.

At least Mama Margaret Qualley has nice tits.

 

[Jason Liang]

Isn't that just the same as the plot though?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Isn't that just the same as the plot though?

I haven't gotten this far to evaluate it as a whole, but the DS style seems...sterile. It reminds me of Blade Runner 2049 a.k.a. OMG ITS SO DEEP BECAUSE IT HAS STATIC SHOT IN CENTRAL COMPOSITION AND PEOPLE LIVE IN TOMBS 10/10

 

[Jason Liang]

It feels very Japanese sci-fi to me. It's got bikes (Akira, FFVII, Advent's Children), this depopulated, post-apocalyptic world (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Advent's Children again, a lot of more obscure anime), Angel-like monsters, bunker bases, secret science experiments on embryos (again Akira), a bit of Japanese ghost horror, etc... Even Fragile is an evolution of the moe Rei/ Tifa-type that Japanese fiction prefers to Western femme fatales, complete with a kawaii umbrella motif

Anyway, I enjoyed the setting, as well as its technology, quite a lot. Plot and dialogue could have been better.

 

[cvv]

Plot and dialogue could have been better.

It's like saying my excruciating cancer of the penis bulb could've been better.

 

[Jason Liang]

Plot and dialogue could have been better.

It's like saying my excruciating cancer of the penis bulb could've been better.

I mean, Japanese language is just very hard to appreciate in Western languages and vice versa, so that excuses the dialogue if you want it to.

 

[cvv]

I mean, Japanese language is just very hard to appreciate in Western languages and vice versa, so that excuses the dialogue if you want it to.

I had absolutely no problem appreciating Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood is one of my all time favs.

Kojima can't make excuses about translation at all. He's just a hilariously bad writer.

Just another proof if you're so bad it's actually surreal you'll short-circuit people's brains and they'll start hailing you as a deep artist.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

It feels very Japanese sci-fi to me. It's got bikes (Akira, FFVII, Advent's Children), this depopulated, post-apocalyptic world (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Advent's Children again, a lot of more obscure anime), Angel-like monsters, bunker bases, secret science experiments on embryos (again Akira), a bit of Japanese ghost horror, etc... Even Fragile is an evolution of the moe Rei/ Tifa-type that Japanese fiction prefers to Western femme fatales, complete with a kawaii umbrella motif

Anyway, I enjoyed the setting, as well as its technology, quite a lot. Plot and dialogue could have been better.

Of course. But American inspirations have always been stronger in him. After all, Snatcher is even more rip-off than Metal Gear.

I mean, Japanese language is just very hard to appreciate in Western languages and vice versa, so that excuses the dialogue if you want it to.

I had absolutely no problem appreciating Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood is one of my all time favs.

Kojima can't make excuses about translation at all. He's just a hilariously bad writer.

Just another proof if you're so bad it's actually surreal you'll short-circuit people's brains and they'll start hailing you as a deep artist.

I've heard similar opinions, as well as the accusation, as if everything that was best came from the co-writer. Personally, I see it differently.

Kijima is a good writer and (game) director. His early games - Metal Gear, Snatcher, Policenauts, even Metal Gear Solid - break barriers. Kojima also successively pushed the boundaries of detail and the possibilities of the medium.

Metal Gear Solid 2 was a breakthrough, because from this point on, his attempts to surpass himself would become increasingly impossible, while simultaneously forming a cult of his personality. What's worse, he started hanging around in Hollywood circles, and that's always bad for a creative personality. DS is an expression of his aspiration to enter the world of film and a preview of why it will be so terrible.

And he doesn't see it.

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[Ezekiel]

Making another stealth game after this. I would assume with guns. Depressing career, if you ask me.

 

[Jason Liang]

well... of course it'll have some interactive game parts... but... it's a MOVIE at the same time!!!!!!

Makes me re-evaluate Kojima... perhaps he was born a decade or two too late to fulfill his calling/ destiny as the ultimate savior of Dynamix?

 

[DesolationStone]

well... of course it'll have some interactive game parts... but... it's a MOVIE at the same time!!!!!!

Kojima hired Del Toro as an actor!1! It's a fuckin' genius making games seems art1!1 No one has did this before!

Chris Roberts who in the 90' had for the same game Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell and Chris fucking Mulkey

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Eh...Glued hands instead of a surgical mask...I know it has an explanation in the lore, but it's hard to call it anything other than contrived.

Like all of Death Stranding.

well... of course it'll have some interactive game parts... but... it's a MOVIE at the same time!!!!!!

Makes me re-evaluate Kojima... perhaps he was born a decade or two too late to fulfill his calling/ destiny as the ultimate savior of Dynamix?

He did. Best game from Kojima:

 

[cvv]

Eh...Glued hands instead of a surgical mask...I know it has an explanation in the lore, but it's hard to call it anything other than contrived.

Like all of Death Stranding.

This.

What's next, characters wearing buckets for shoes? Stretched out labia for umbrellas?

Kojima is such an artist, truly.

 

[Alienman]

Oh lord, Troy Baker again, but now as an emo clown with a guitar that shoots lightning. Is he the only voice actor in the industry? And fighting robots instead of humans. Much decline.