"The great irony is you wait hours for some action to happen and when it finally does happen, it's just never the right time for it." Sounds like my life in a nutshell.
remember when we were saying we wanted gameplay trailers not another trailer with cutscenes and gameplay of the character walking , it turned out they were showing us the gameplay all along
I, for one, appreciate Kojima bringing classic game Paperboy to a new generation of gamers and giving it the story that we all knew was in Paperboy but was restricted by the NES's low power.
Viewing this game as the spiritual successor to Paperboy has done more to make me want to play it than anything in its entire marketing campaign. Prior to that I only wanted to watch other people play it.
In Snake Eater you can throw rotten bat meat as bait for starving enemy soldiers which they will eat and cause them to vomit and die, I guess that's the closest thing to ebola...
@@ArifRWinandar I've played through the entire MGSV game and not once encountered any bats (that i can remember) let alone, come across any bat meat. Do you remember what part of the game it is (try and be specific)?
demizson576 oh yea, you’re right...I was skimming comments while listening to Jim, and he mentions MGSV-got mixed up. I definitely remember that from MGS3.
In this game, in the cutscenes, the story. Kojima carefully crafts a wonderful cake. Its an incredible cake made with the best ingerients. Kojima then proceeds to tell you all the ingredients of his cake and shows you how he put it together. Then at the end of it all, Kojima takes out a spoon and he sits in front of you, looks you in the eye and eats that fucking cake for you. Finally when you can stand it no more, kojima winks and tells you the cake tasted good.
We all knew in our heart of hearts that 1) We wanted Kojima to create the game of his dreams and 2) it would likely be insufferable, because it's Kojima You go buddy, you weird bird
This is it, this is the comment. I was really excited but I kind of knew in my hearts there was a fair chance it would be A Lot. Still, I’m glad it exists and that it was made!
@@jnoirj3124 This was my exact thought. This would be the FedEx dream. Workers who will slavishly deliver packages without asking for pay. Problem solved. Roll credits.
Remember when Kojima wanted a mgs boss fight to take several weeks of gameplay in real time and he needed one of his coworkers to tell him "yeah we can't do that."
Some people with artistic talent desperately need a No man. Someone who can objectively look at ideas and say "no" or "holy fuck no". Richard Williams is a man constantly portrayed in many animation schools as a man who's vision was never realized with Thief and the cobbler. Persistance of Vision is an eye opening documentary and I feel that while Kojima (hopefully) isn't as mean as Williams, I am sure there are similar. Kojima is still great but we Sony needs to hire that No person and we should be grateful for them.
@@RInger2875 I believe it was The End in MGS3. He originally wanted a super long drawn out sniper battle across multiple maps. We still got that, just much less.
HAHAHAAH but you see that's exactly what he did made a boss ! MGS 2 facility "Big Shell" was the boss Arsenal Gear GW. LOL he fooled them all what a pog champ.
snow politics yea because other games that have you just grind totally do...at least Kojimas world is so detailed just walking through it is more fun then any other open world game. I guess Kojima should have hired John Hopson to come in and make sure the game had easy dopamine hits every 10 seconds...
Devin Giltner I like wasting 5 hours creating a zip line all the way to the top of the mountain and then creating snowboard track all the way down complete with ramps and huge jumps onto timefall shelters. Takes me like a minute to zip line back to the top of the hill lol
cum cakes it destroy red dead lol. I got bored grooming my horse I’ll tell you that much. I never finish Rock star games though I always get bored. Death Stranding world feels real though, it’s far more detailed. You cant just run across a river or climb any way you want. Its harsh real and beautiful. Fuck Kojima should be paying me for this
@@VintageDestroyed That's why the online feature is nice, you don't have to do it all on your own. It's obviously totally okay to dislike the game, but not everyone will agree.
Real horses don't just plow head first into trees because you point them in that direction either. A lot of the tedium in Death Stranding and RDR2 isn't for the sake of realism, it's just tedium of the sake of tedium.
@@crowleyswhitehorse Actually your horse in RDR2 doesn't deliberately crash into trees unless you're steering it into one. It'll automatically avoid lots of trees that are close together.
Guys, guys. The 7/10 is a joke. It's a score Jim says sometimes after fans of Zelda: Breath of the Wild treated his 7/10 on the game as the lowest score possible for the game and it caused a big outcry against him.
SuperArppis Exactly. I’m very picky when it comes to giving out ratings, so to me a 7/10 on my scale (or Jim’s scale) is easily in the top 20% of games in existence.
Glad Kojima finally got to indulge in his game design fantasies. though I have to say, I work as a delivery driver for Amazon and this game gave me 'Nam flashbacks
So many times I have seen LP's and streamers say "Don't tell me this is the QWOP of AAA games" the first time a big cargo almost makes them trip over. Definitely it isn't (to not trip you just hold the trigger buttons), but it's always funny to hear the comparison.
Nah its like walking to the paint store. Sanding the wall. Prepping the wall. Painting with a tiny brush. Being all sweaty all tired and have a tiny amount of great satisfaction and then you have to paint the next wall.
@@SirEvilestDeath I just had the same experience as you, except i quit out frustration in the last hour. Then bought witcher 3 and said to myself "Why did I waste my time like that?"
lol, never thought I'd miss the expansiveness of a silent hill game about a single room while trekking across a ruined America essentially trying to do the same exorcism shtick as a delivery boy. At least Henry was an every man, I really feel what Jim is talking about how this game stars Norman Reedus, he feels too important to be doing this grunt work somehow...
Yes, because you best be Silent on those hills if they’re BT Territory, you best not even breathe because they are waiting to get you and pull you away if you aren’t careful.
@@MasterMS1123 Yeah! Most companies hide behind not "technically" entering into an agreement, just giving them free stuff while holding the *blacklist* hammer.
Proteus But who is saying that? I only played one Kojima game and though it was alright. But DF has be really interested on what it has to offer. It feels like the type of game that I would really enjoy play. And youtubers like Danny O’Dwyer really got me excited after watching there reviews. I hate that people have to call me a Kojima fan, or that I only like this game because of him.
Lucca216 Same, I enjoy games like this as well as more usual stuff such as Borderlands. This game is pure Kojima but I like his obsessive attention to detail. I’ve only played a few hours and who knows, maybe I’ll tire of it, it all depends upon what lies hidden in the wilderness, I’m assuming there are plenty of Easter eggs out there too.
I shat on the game when it came out. However, I finished it yesterday. The game made me rethink how I communicate and appreciate the people around me. So many do little things for each other to make the day better. After rebuilding UC 23 & 45, entire zip line networks from one end of the map to the other... just gotta say, I loved this game.
I was half an hour away from finishing it, and I still didn't because the frustration at that point made me delete the game. It's like Jim said, this game really is obsessed with itself, and no better point does that stand out then when all of your vehicles are completely useless and you have to spend hours going through the snow Terrain. Hours upon hours, not looking at a beautiful Lush environment, but going through snow storms and you can barely see anything. I actually stopped delivering packages because anything you do in the game has absolutely no connection with the story anyway. Cliff was interesting, everything about him should have been the game, not the boring delivery guy who trips over rocks even without any packages on him.
shindean If you were that frustrated with the game then you should have stopped playing it way before you got to the ending, also the mountains aren’t there to be looked at but to be conquered, which is feasible if you know how to place Zip Lines. In other words... no matter how frustrating the game gets, you’re given ways to make it easier, if you take the time to figure out how to. Also how many times are we gonna play a game which stars a person like Cliff? Cliff’s character represents the “dead end” that most games and franchises have reached, simply because developers and publishers are too focused on mass appeal to make games that are different. But Sam, the “boring delivery man,” represents the future of what kind of stories games should tell. We’re always playing as superheroes, and it was refreshing to literally be put in the shoes of a normal person who’s just as vulnerable as I, and everyone else is.
@@118halospartan not to look at? The game runs on the same engine as Horizon zero Dawn, and all of you that keep kissing the game's ass always bring up the number one reason are supposed to be the graphics. And now I'm not supposed to appreciate the graphics? You are a perfect encapsulation of why this game came out so stupid, you can't even tell me what to enjoy😆
@@HarryS77 I keep thinking about it when people say that games should always be "fun". The gameplay was repetitive, boring, and downright unpleasant, but overall it was one of the most immersive and powerful experiences I ever had with a game. I wonder if Death Stranding is somehow similar.
@@Derevirn I sort of agree. Looking at it as an immersive experience-rather than as a game-is probably the best way to think of it. Being a little boring must've been part of the point. It would be strange to make a "fun" game about being a bureaucrat. The game succeeds in making you, even momentarily, into a person who is forced to scrutinize people's age, gender presentation, life story-essentially, to view your fellow humans by default as liars, scoundrels, criminals, terrorists, which is exactly the mindset of the bureaucrat, someone who views every member of society as somehow suspicious, hostile and dishonest, and who must be made to conform to ever-changing, inscrutable rules that you have the power to enforce but not the discretion to rescind. The design of the game is pretty remarkable, I think, though again this may require appreciating the way the game intentionally fucks with you in order to put you in the mindset of this overworked, underpaid government employee. For instance, there are a bunch of upgrades you can buy that do basically nothing to help you. They're a waste of money, and if you purchase them, it's likely that you won't be able to afford heating, rent, medicine, transportation, etc. In other words, the best strategy is actually to not play the game like a game, in which you're expected to want to upgrade your character. In the fiction of the world, that means that being a "model employee," investing in your job, really does end up having negative repercussions for your life and the lives of your family. Or take the way that the tray for your stamps will slide out but never far enough to reach the document where it lands on your desk, which means that you have to take a few precious seconds to maneuver the passport or whatever underneath the stamp. Or how about the fact-it's been a while since I played-but I seem to remember that the tranq gun is right next to the lethal gun, so, in a moment of panic, it's easy to grab the wrong one and kill the nondescript silhouette whom you meant merely to incapacitate. Even the way that every character enters as a silhouette and leaves as a silhouette-as if already forgotten, featureless-informs your character as a bureaucrat. The "fun" of the game emerges not so much from the moment to moment experience-though the introduction of an underground revolutionary movement certainly helps to propel one from work day to work day-but in the examination of how these mechanics affect and effect the world. I tried watching some Death Stranding gameplay, and in the first hour there was maybe 10 minutes of actual gameplay. Papers, Please meets Shadow of the Colossus might've made for an excellent (Kojima) game, but I don't think this is it. I think Kojima is the sort of person who produces his best work (MGS1, Zone of Enders, MGS3, parts of MGS2) when he has conform to technical or storytelling limitations, e.g. the hardware of the PS1 negating 2 hour cutscenes or the fact that MGS3 riffs on and basically sticks to a pastiche of spy thrillers. Death Stranding LOOKS amazing though. I don't think I've seen facial capture/animation in a game look quite this good.
@@HarryS77 The dreadful routine in Papers, Please was obviously intentional, and contributed in the immersiveness of the game. I'm wondering whether Kojima tried something similar with the repetitive gameplay of DS, or it was simply the result of poor design choices. Regardless, I understand that some people dislike such games, and prefer something simple and fun to enjoy themselves. We should keep in mind though, that video games are a unique interactive storytelling medium, that should not be limited to providing disposable "digital toys". P.S. Thanks for taking the time to write such an elaborate and detailed comment.
Can't recommend it giving it a rating of 7 out of 10? This rating however clearly stands for a recommended game though. How so that you can't recommend it but still willing to give 7/10 for it? kek...
I said it before, and I'll say it again: The sign of a great reviewer is when they tell you about a game that they don't care for, and absolutely sell it to people who would love it! Thanks Jim, you're awesome!
Yeah, I like the idea of being the delivery boy that nothing goes right for. Maybe I'm a masochist? I don't know. Being that guy that says, "oh fuck, not this shit again." Like in the movies appeals to me.
@@Jesse__H Then you are an idiot and are one of those npc's that can only follow and consume, when clearly the review was saying it's not worth buying brand new.
I agree and disagree. A great reviewer is able to give good reasons for why he doesn't like a game, and is not just inventing stuff to try to give a better reason than saying that he had bad day when he was playing the game. A good reviewer manages to tell people who have the same taste in games, why they will or won't enjoy that specific game. I believe Jim did this but he also seemed a bit too lenient and fogiving, even if he said that Kojima is stuck so far up his own ass. Whatever, this game is pretty niche. If it were shorter I might've enjoyed it like I did with Abzû.
honestly the systems stopped bothering me when i finally let go of my gamer preconceptions. I never found anything particularly a hassle, especially when i realized that equipment is expendable and i should always swap stuff around to suit the current delivery. And as the game goes on it really tests your problem solving abilities and rewards creativity. It's the kind of game that's as bad as you want it to be.
Actually it never rewards you for being creative. You just figure out for yourself that the systems in place can be avoided. The game gives you a gun that you are never allowed to use on anyone, so what the f*** is the point?
Before 2010 games were made with some regard of passion even the "shitty AAA companies" made games like Mass Effect 2 and RDR, this is a new age brudda with monster energy and AMC's "Ride" placed in the game alongside semen and shit grenades and hours upon hours of walking.
Kojima with no restraints ends being up his own ass? Who saw that coming? He is one of the best examples of artists that need a collaborator to tell them ‘Maybe not’.
This is why I love Jim's reviews. He doesn't like it, but he explains exactly why, and knowing him and knowing that he doesn't like those types of mechanics helps me make an informed decision comparatively to my own preferences. Well done sir, A+ review.
I feel like Kojima is currently experiencing the "George Lucas" effect. People are praising him for his old works alone but forget he was not alone in making those games great and he had supervision from others to prevent him from going to off the rails.
Except when did that happen to Lucas? People just didn't like the squeals. His story telling was brilliant but the use of CGI and his acting choice wasn't great and people didn't like it. But it was no different from the original which he had total control over apart from a smaller budget for the first one. He brought in different directors for ESB and ROTJ but he harassed those directors and was so controlling they fell out and even had a break down. That is the way these people ARE they love their works. Kojima has produced many games even predating MG and MGS sometimes things work sometimes they don't. I think more the problem is people who follow this that have to be so absolute and dramatic. It was an idea maybe in the larger scheme of things it didn't work out or wants what people wanted. It doesn't mean these people or done ot have gone wrong rather that that particular idea or model just isn't as good. Who knows what they will make in the future. What annoys these producers and directors more than anything is that their works have to be joined together and they are judged on what they did before not on what the product is. Any actor artists hates this and sometimes it causes them to give up all together because people can't judge something on what it is. It always had to mean something more. It's just rediclous. Next game he makes might be amazing everyone has bad moments.
Yall are just fat white people with literally nothing wrong in your lives so you spend your whole life talking shit about fantasy worlds. While our planet is dying, you failures will be circle jerking eachother for the next game that comes out.
@@thomasjenkins7506 Here's an idea for the Mules. They are actually super paranoid people who are freaking and think the BTs are actually the government attempting population control. So they leave the cities and get by with robbing delivery people.
Life is suffering. Without suffering, joy's value and maybe even the concept of empathy would disappear. It's not meant to be a nihilistic or depressing thought. Suffering is a source of good as well as evil, it's just people's nature.
Yeah, it's kinda like one of those absurdist antigames like The Stanley Parable or Frog Fractions combined with Farming Simulator or something. It's just so weird from an outside perspective. On the other hand, Kojima might just be fucking with his cultists.
Corprate PatchnotesFixed ballance issues where it was too easy and not providing a sence of pride and acomplashment Added AutoBallast. Avalable for 500 StrandingPoints. Helps with balance. its jusy a optinal convences for those who dont have the time not be falling over all the time.
@@FallenStarGMV Your point being? Btw, this is nowhere near the systematic problems of lootboxes (that you apparantly don't see as a true problem.) Actually, i think your comment is the most nihilistic ones ive seen in while.
A game being slightly tidenous is no where near the problem that loot boxes cause. If a game has paid loot boxes no one should support that shit. If a game is tedious and some people don't like it then they're entitled to their opinion. Don't try and compare the two things
@@AugustTheStag For like 0.000005% of the earth's population, which is not bad. I am just saying that this game is for those people that enjoy boring themselves to death and that's just not what people are into in general.
@@schibleh531 Paradoxical. Nobody can enjoy "boring themselves to death" because they would be enjoying it. Boredom is a state where you're not enjoying anything. Also, a lot of people find the truck simulator's relaxing. Honestly, i feel like I would love this.
Kind of sounds like Kojima thought "what if I spent 100 Million dollars making the spiritual successor to Desert Bus?" and then did a lot of cocaine and did it.
Had a wonderful time with the game. Connecting to the Chiral network and seeing all the structures built by other players to help you is inspiring. Bless you, Zipline friends.
You probably didn't realize this because you were so obsessed with finding anything fun about this game, but those Ziplines actually made the game slower. All the mechanics of the game actually don't help, you just think it does because you imagine that anything else would be more efficient than walking. Not here.
So basically this will appeal to people who like Trucking/farming simulators. As someone who plays too much trucking/farming simulators this looks exiting. Can't wait to play it
Imagine your favorite truck/train/farm sim, I'll use Eurotruck for this example but you can extrapolate. Imagine not hitting, just nicking a car or something, as it is, you'll get a ticket and be on your merry way. Whereas if it was made ba Kojima, you'll have to stop, call insurance if you have it and police as well, wait for them to arrive in real-time while you deal with the stress and shenanigans of whatever mood the random NPC you hit has, deal with legalities after they arrive, and after three hours you can finally be going on your way with massive penalties on your driver's stats that you have to deal with on some hotel on the road that who knows what is going to throw at you so you spend even more resources from your business that you have to keep an eye on every minute, and is not until five hours later that you'll be completing that 20minute delivery job, with penalties for being late.
Just because he didn't like it, doesn't mean it's not competently made. It's just not for him. Or it could just be a jab at other online reviewers who give crappy games 7/10, and the gamers who think that's a bad score.
How about you "see" by playing the fucking game yourself. Bunch a sheeps in this goddamn world now that only base opinions on what other people say. Its sad.
@@Nathan-is7li Why would somebody buy a game they can quite obviously see has enormous flaws? Will holding the controller and watching the same game on my screen back home change the way I feel about a game? No. The reason these reviews exist, is because they can tell us something, objectively, about whether or not a game is worth spending money for. But sure, we're all a bunch of "sheep" that don't have our own opinions. Yep. Only people that blindly buy games and don't trust a single review, much less the majority of reviews (that proclaim this game to be boring) are super "woke" and capable of critical thought. It's not like you just don't understand how reviews work.
@@PenguinsAreColdish Probably because people are capable of forming an opinion with what they are given in terms of gameplay footage. I knew beforehand that fallout 76 was a shit game. I certainly saw no need to buy it and play it in order to confirm that knowledge, all the footage of that game was enough for me to be certain of it. And that was BEFORE I knew about the bugs. You know, every once in a while, it's a good thing to assume that people actually do know their own wishes for a game, and that they do know when they don't wish to play it. Or are you of the opinion that only people WITH a game are allowed to have an opinion ABOUT the game?
Did you know that Kojima wrote the Metal Gear story as complex political intrigue because he need to justify his game being about sneaking (as opposed to the more popular run & gun) because the platform on which the first Metal Gear game was released can only render a few projectiles at a time?
I'm really enjoying this game on my PC. I'm not playing it, of course. I'm watching someone else play it for me on TH-cam, and fast forwarding through the parcel dropping simulator bits.
Probably what I'll end up doing, too. Since I'm not a member of his cult, I don't really feel a need to worship "the totality of his vision" (lol) as somebody in this comments section put it. Not knocking him for HAVING a vision, but that doesn't mean I have to pay to experience it. As the Kotaku review stated, "Hideo Kojima has finally made a game that is like eating 60 pounds of vegetables at gunpoint."
In a nutshell, it's what I suggested to a friend. I'm playing it since this morning. I'm very interested by the story but for once I'd rather see the cinematics than play the game. I had to cut it with bits of Town of Salem, Vamypyr and Outer Worlds ... The first time I had to keep my balance I was "are you kidding me ?"
This game is so interesting to me for the launch of it alone, I've been playing it for about thirty hours and it's quickly becoming one of my favorites even though objectively I should hate the gameplay because it's fetch quests, but there's something about finding the best route and optimizing how I'll get there and etc. that draws me in. Recently unlocked zip lines and spent a few hours creating a system of zip lines that take me to every destination in the current area and I had fun doing it. This game is such a love it or hate it that it just baffles me how people could hate it but then in this video I somehow agree with everything Jim said while simultaneously disagreeing. It's a weird feeling I'll tell you that much
Nah it's the same with movies, everyone has a few movies that are objectively just terrible but they also love to watch over and over, there's nothing wrong with liking things for reasons that are for reasons that are just your own :)
because its genuinelty a good and different open world game lol ?besides the mindblown realistic graphics and performance that is easily a match for RDR2 lol
This game (and Red Dead II) seems like it's for the type of person that'll walk in a video game instead of running because they think it's a bit odd for someone to just constantly be running everywhere
I actually don’t like game combat it spikes my anxiety for some reason. But games like red dead 2 and this somehow fit my weird walking simulator taste. In RDR2 I’m that weirdo that takes the time to feed the horse and go fishing & do wildlife photography. So I guess there is a place for it. But yeah this is definitely not an action game
He's not even ripping it dude. He basically said how annoying and boring it is. It may sound that he's ripping it but that's him describing exactly what you will expect and that how bad it is.
@@shmekelfreckles8157 LoL what? It's like saying :" I went to that restaurant yesterday and the dish was bland, badly seasoned and simply dreadful " is not "criticism" .
I can't entirely disagree, but I find it utterly compelling, I am very much enjoying it and I'm looking forward to coming home and playing it (Despite going out to work and admittedly coming home to more bloody work!) the story has me heavily invested, the vehicle mechanics have made traversal much easier than it was, I have my Postman Pat truck now to make deliveries a doddle and I've built up my road network in my instance almost entirely. Lots of busywork, lots of fetching, but I find myself loving this where I hated RDR2 and maybe that's because I'm not forced into an inaccurate and unfun gunfight every five minutes. This is the best and worst of Kojima in one package and I hope this gets some of the more negative stuff out of his system.
Enrico Lauro just what I needed to read! After watching this video and hearing his comparisons to RDR2 (which I thought was just ok) you’ve inspired me to put this in my steam wishlist. Seems like a really interesting, polarizing game.
My buddy streamed his playthrough in its entirety. I stayed up all night anticipating the ending to the game, and it was literally blown out of the park when it was over. This game is beautiful, albeit niche, and I will make it a point to play every kojima game that follows.
Reminds me of that story where Monty Python was doing one Holy Grail scene over and over again all day long because their director kept trying to get smoke machine smoke lined up properly within one shot. Finally, John Cleese had had enough and stopped all that by simply asking: "Is smoke funny?" Their director realised smoke wasn't funny, so didn't matter, and so got on with things. Kojima's NES Metal Gears were fun, but for all his games after that he didn't have somebody asking him "Is that fun?" for every awful thing he wanted done.
I would argue that the "not fun" aspects of the MG games MGS1 through even MGSV all had at least SOMETHING regarding fun gameplay even if he crawled up his own his back in 2007 or so. But DS is just the opposite of fun. In this case I'd agree, someone should have told Kojima "Hey boss this is... really not fucking fun, like, at all". The most depressing thing about DS is that this was supposed to be Kojima Unchained, his passion project, and yet it is the least fun I've had playing a AAA game in about a decade.
@SEaOfTides his last game mgs5 is literally the most optimized and fun action game of this generation. Watch the video mgs5 gun eater on ytube and you will understand
@Heavy Metal Collector totally agree. Took my time and really tried to get everything I could from MGSV and I felt so empty when I was finished. Hundreds of hours that felt like WORK. It's a fun system and when you improvise and really put the engine to the test, it's the best action and stealth of any games in the series. And yet it's the worst in my opinion. By FAR.
‘You wait hours for some action and when it does happen you’re just not in the mood.’ Sounds like my job. As someone who was once obsessed with realism, people should realise that players are not their avatars; we can experience excitement while they are going through tough times; it’s called vicarious entertainment. We play games to have fun; if it gets tedious, people stop playing; we choose to play the game whenever we want, even though the avatars experience things they cannot opt out of.
I didn’t think I’d like this game. I bought it at about half price mostly to have the grounds to criticize it and stewed for a week about whether I should play the damn thing or return it to Best Buy while it’s still wrapped. On paper, it is very much making the most annoying aspects of games the focus and undercooking the parts everyone loves, but it isn’t boring, it isn’t meditative. On paper, it sounds like the gameplay loop is about taking an unbearable grind and making it tolerable, but it’s more comparable to conquering a wild frontier to expedite deliveries and minimize the risks to reap the most of what you sow. It Demands your focus literally every step of the way by turning the terrain and the conditions of the world into the most dangerous enemy in the game. B.T. encounters are terrifying, although I haven’t yet used any of the countermeasures you’re provided. It takes the dreaded fetch quest and imposes unique parameters that force you to modify the paths you set for yourself. All the while, you’re also taking advantage of the provisions of others and the landscape almost ends up feeling like a character in its own right with its own developments that occur with or without your own alterations. It really won’t appeal to everyone, but it has to be said: reviewers have done the gameplay a grave disservice. The challenge just comes from a much more unorthodox place.
You are correct, i think to enjoy the game, you first got to accept the fact that you havd to give it time, when i was in a rush and only had an hour or so to play, i felt misrable playing, but when i had time to take things slow, thats when the game shines
"A video game that doesn't respect your time because it's so in love with itself" - That is just brilliant, I remember my relatively few hours with RDR2 and how I just couldn't keep going, regardless of how lovely the game is otherwise. When you put it like that I am not sure this one isn't for me, thank you much sir
i had the exact same feeling with RDR2, the comparison between the horse mechanics of Witcher 3 and RDR2 was perfect! i don't need that level of realism when it takes the fun and time factor away from me, the loot animation thing gets annoying really fast too.
I finished rdr2 and it was pretty fun but I completely agree that some of the things added were just pointless. Like cleaning your horse or having to clean your guns. They tried being so realistic that it was Honestly too much. It’s funny cause they added all this stuff but the shooting in that game is so outdated and bad
I feel like this is the kind of story I would enjoy watching in a movie or a mini series, but I'm getting exhausted just thinking about having to deal with all of those "systems." I'm glad Kojima was able to make the game he truly wanted to create, but god it was NOT made for me.
Come on people, really? If he actually made a movie or a TV series where the protagonist is a porter working for a company called Bridges and whose name is literally *Sam Porter Bridges*, and where the antagonist is named Higgs and immediately compares himself to a boson, he would get laughed out of the shop real quick. It's funny when people complain about a game like this getting a 6 and not a 9 or 8, but forget that over in the movie review world, people think you are doing well when only a *THIRD* of your reviews are *outright* negative.
@@azurebookllet9216 that's a pretty intense response to what I'd consider to be a benign personal opinion. All I meant was that I'm intrigued by the world building and the characters, and I'm curious to know what the story is, but I'm not interested in slogging through 60 hours of fetch quests in order to experience it.
@@TM-dq5lr I was responding to both of you, and particularly to the idea in the other comment that he would rather make a movie, but is -forced- to create games. Hence, I thought it was important to point out that the cinema critics are much less forgiving in general than the game ones.
I have played the maybe 6 or 8 hours, im close to take a boat i think , but I stoped playing it, I was boring me to do the same always, just to walk or in the motorcycle, but I havent surrender at all, I really liked the main story, and I have been reading and watching reviews good and bad, I dont know if continue playing it casually or stop playing it permanently. Do you have an advice?
@@fotoportillo6991 If the six to eight hours haven’t encapsulated you, I think it’s best to look somewhere else. This isn’t even worth time, and I’ve put 47 hours in this, and I still can’t recommend this to anyone, unless you want to look at something nice with downtime delivering nonsense while being annoyed by geography and combat. That’s it. Death Stranding just isn’t good, and not even Kojima understands what he written in this game. But that’s my opinion.
@@sprokerskelington6357 Thank you for take the time to answer, now I already played it, I saw a lot of reviews good and bad, and decided to try one last time, and.. I liked it this time, but just to do the main missions and a few secundary, finished it some days ago, I use some cheats in pc, for a better experience, I use infinity quíral red, and free road construction, I had a very good experience, even i think I could replay it again, but maybe some years further.
@@davevd9944 I'll admit that I was wrong about this one. I bought the hype, but I checked the reviews before I bought it. Now I think Kojima's artistic views need a more earthly tether to keep everything together, otherwise he goes completely apeshit. I still don't consider this game's conception to be a bad thing, however. In fact, I'm happy that Kojima got to do what he wanted, and maybe he's learned what he should and shouldn't do next time to keep the balance between his vision and player fun. I think it's very much a step in the right direction. Personally, I enjoyed The Outer Worlds, but it by no means blew me away. Its quests ended up being very lackluster and repetitive, and the game overall felt far too short. But Obsidian got some primo independent dev experience out of the whole ordeal, so they can make something even better in the future. Kind of like an investment in companies you trust. Hopefully, there'll be a return on them.
@@BigPuddin Very correct I was also hyped for the game but I kept myself in control and waited for the few people I watch to review it...and I'm glad I didn't bought it. Visuals are amazing but the story and gameplay nope thank you. I don't want to play as an amazone delivery man. I'm glad he's free from Konami but I hope he'll make games that people actually enjoy playing. And I liked the Outerworlds it was definitly nothing GOT groundbreaking. But it was a fun experience and not bad for a AAish dev. I experienced perhaps one or two bugs nothing gamebreaking at all it was (for me) polished. They certaintly beat the shit outta Fallout and the bug ridden mess that is Bethesda. And I'm very curious to see what they'll do next.
Leave it to Kojima to make the most involved and fleshed out hiking simulator, with excessive plot to boot. Could we have expected anything else? Perhaps.
Kojima created Metal Gear's convoluted plot to justify it being a stealth game because the platform it was released on wasn't strong enough for anything else...
Has anyone ever heard of a song called Stargazer by Rainbow? It's about a wizard that convinces a society of people to uproot their civilization in order to spend nine years building him a massive tower in the desert based on the promise that once it's finished he would be able to use it to fly them all to a star where they could live in paradise. After they destroyed their civilization to grant his wish and build his tower he climbs to the top and jumps off hoping to fly to the star but instead falls to the ground and dies leaving what little there is left of the civilization to mourn and regret and wonder why they destroyed their society for him.
It's the best song of uprising. Thanks for sharing the story! Haven't really looked into the lyrics of it, but it adds more depth to it now that I know :)
I'll admit, I'd been hyped about the possibilities for this game for years but as soon as the mechanic of calming the upset baby was revealed I noped out. The concepts related to death that it seemed to be playing with fascinate me and I could handle a baby being present as a detector thing, but to have to do the child-minding shit too? Nah. I'm happier not doing that, thanks.
in an industry full of inane overproduced shit made to try to please everyone, it's hella nice to see so many resources poured into a game that is not aimed at anyone in particular- just gets an idea, implements and sticks with it. we need more "it's not for everybody" games, that's for sure
@@antwango Now thats a straw man if I ever see one. Jut by creating something different it means it will be good. This game is an example of that. Tedious, boring and and in lack of better words: arrogant
@@qqq386 That's subjective though. I agree the writing was really pretentious (to the point where that one line near the end made me stop playing for two weeks), but lots of people can look past that because it's a new experience. People really do find wandering through the middle of nowhere, always on alert to preempt attacks by mules, terrorists, BTs and even the environment itself. No matter what you do (short of Digital Homicide level trash), someone, somewhere will see the best in your game and find it fun.
On the bright side: We now have a game that’s the most Hideo Kojima that ever Hideo’d a Kojima. So we can use it as a measuring stick of whackyness in future Hideo Kojima games.
@@EEKman71 I think there's a difference between wasting time and spending time. Playing a game for fifty hours that you really enjoy and connect with can be considered time well spent. Playing a game for fifty hours and not enjoying it to the point where you wish you were doing something else would be wasted time, and that's Jim point. His time was wasted rather than well spent
@@paradoxacres1063 it is a good waste of time. Ive enjoyed every second so far for the same reason i enjoy games like no mans sky. Its like methadone to the constant hits of seratonin every 10 seconds that most games try for. Its artsy fartsy and pretentious sure, but if you let yourself get lost in the minutia you might find yourself suddenly having an unusual amount of fun just jumping over rocks. You know, like what we all did when we were 5
So I think all these guys who got the early review copy missed out on some of the better features of the game. Jim isnt wrong about a lot of what he said. But the more im playing the game, the more im seeing how the community molds the world, Literally. Jim touches on it with being able to use other players ladders and bridges and such. But because he played through quick and not for an extended period he probably missed out on how the more people play, the more the world feels traveled. Ive been playing since release day, and on that first day the world was treacherous and rocky and not a single clear path to the next settlement in sight. But each time i fire up the game im noticing a rocky field now has a path where the rocks have disapeared making it simple to navigate. Then the next time there will be a light dirt road in that path making walking faster and less likely to lose balance. Then later that day that path was now a well traveled hard dirt road making the path through the once inhospitable field a breeze to walk. The more people play, the more the terrain seems to be getting carved out into roads based on the most traveled paths people take, the community is slowly making the game easier and easier to play and traverse.
So does this mean that people who waited a few days (like me) are kinda screwed out of being able to pioneer? Am I gonna boot up the game to see a bunch of poorly designed buildings left by people who don't use them anymore (like conan)?
@@matthewbrasel2737 Without spoiling too much, one of the main purposes of the game is connecting settlements to a network. Before an area is connected to a network its basically barren and untouched. So the first time you go through an area itll be like nobodies been there. Once connected to the network, other players structures and signs will be made available and appear for you. These things will however disappear over time due to a rain that degrades things. But if a particular structure is popular or useful, players can provide materials to repair it and keep it in place. And you cant make buildings. Its mostly just traversal items like ladders, climbing ropes and bridges. You eventually gain the tech to make a safe house, but even that is like a small metal platform that works like an elevator that takes you below ground, it isnt a blight on the landscape.
@@sharif47 Hardly, it doesnt need fixing. In Bethesda's case they were lazy and made a broken game. With Death Stranding, the challenging terrain is intentional with built in mechanics to make it easier in whatever way you see fit, all to give the players a sense of accomplishment for carving out roads and paths together. Theres a rocky hill between two settlements? You can take a long smooth path around it, gradually carving out a smooth dirt path to make the trip simple and traversable with vehicles. Or you can try and traverse over it, planning an efficient combination of ladders and climbing ropes to leave an easy to follow climbing path thats more challenging but will save you and others time. The general travelling was only difficult to begin with anyway. I wonder how far Jim got, because by the time I got to the second area I was able to run around with heavy loads with no problem. I only occasionally had to really focus on my balance when I was carrying towering loads weighing like 300KG and climbing over giant jagged rocks.
I suspect many games are guilty of this. Recently I've picked up again Metal Gear Solid V and boy...does it feel like a waste of time. Credits before and after every mission, obnoxious base micromanaging which feels like the foundation of a cut-at-the-last-time monetizing 'feature' (included nevertheless in the online component), not even a goddamn 'jump' button for the goddamn rocky terrain, you have to be next to the thing you want to jump, wait for the prompt, then press 'E'. I'm like ... REALLY?!
I downvoted your comment because I believe unintelligent people should not be allowed to speak about this game. It was never meant for people like you, who are incapable of connecting to art on an emotional level. Go back to your Call of Duty.
Hearing everything Jim said, it sounds like the vision for this game was more for it to be a simulation than a game. In the same way the devs behind dark souls said the games were never specifically designed to be be hard, but rather to test your patience and resourcefulness, I feel like Death Stranding is meant to immerse you in every aspect of this character trying to accomplish this huge task, even the parts that arent glamorous.
Yeah, I can totally feel that this game is probably good if you look at it the way it's supposed to be played. The world is dead everything around you is dead, you've gotta resource manage and I think this would be neat for 1 life only runs, but for the majority of people I don't think it's gonna click for em. And that's not a bad thing. Am I gonna spend 65.99 on it? No, am I gonna wait for it to go on sale and just full dive immerse myself in it? Yeah probably.
@@deckardp.i.4088 It's a game about invisible ghosts, hands reaching out of the ground to grab you, and babies used as ghost detectors...and double jumping is the hill you choose to die on? 'Immersive' doesn't equal 'realistic'.
THIS! There's a lot of cool features on display here -- A LOT, Kojima; we get it. It's freaking gorgeous. He just needs someone to trim the fat, and create more of a GAME/plot/story, so the ghosts and whatever aren't an afterthought. RDR2 had a FANTASTIC story, even if it was tedious AF to play.
Devs, there's a difference between interactive programs and games. Had RDR2 been released as a CG film instead, it would've won a frikkin Oscar. Cuz that's what it was: an interactive movie with CGI. Death Stranding looks like it could be presented by some ivy league PhD candidate at a science fair for dystopian crises mitigation. :\
"Delivery people that went a bit mad." No, Jim. Delivery people that went a bit postal.
goddammit
* snickergiggles *
Here's your like and get out!
Well Jim hate's detail so it's not a surprise he missed that one.
Well done 👍
Jim Sterling got a review copy? That's confidence.
0utta S1TE
This is more like an AI fucking with an alligator just to see what it would do.
They have nothing to lose so why not.
@@0uttaS1TE A bold move 0utta, lets see if it pays off.
Glad I heard his review. Alot of other reviews didn't go in depth in all the monotonous parts of it. They just said how pretty it was and stuff
When you're far enough up your own ass, you think everyone will love your thing.
@@axle1717 ironically IGN did and went on about how boring and repetitive it can be a lot of the time, they gave it a 6.8
"The great irony is you wait hours for some action to happen and when it finally does happen, it's just never the right time for it." Sounds like my life in a nutshell.
Brother, actually it happens to everyone. My life is alo the same.
Everything isn't about sex coolman
@@JauntyM everything is about sex, except sex, sex is about power
Damned anxiety/depression
that is so depressing but true [me]
"It's boring... and when it's not boring, it's irritating."
Sounds like a review I got on tinder
This comment made me choke on my own tonsils. 7/10
This comment has a little something for everyone 9/10
"I didn't have a shred of fun with it..." -JSterling
remember when we were saying we wanted gameplay trailers not another trailer with cutscenes and gameplay of the character walking , it turned out they were showing us the gameplay all along
That's what I was afraid would end up happening
yeah, what a dissapointment
BUT ITS KOJIMA, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE, THAT COULDNT POSSIBLE BE IT.
EDIT: For the ones who can't tell... yes, i'm being sarcastic.
Lol
@@olimphus26 Kojima can make mistakes too. Remember MGS4?
I, for one, appreciate Kojima bringing classic game Paperboy to a new generation of gamers and giving it the story that we all knew was in Paperboy but was restricted by the NES's low power.
lol
All except this is far more forgiving than Paperboy.
Best comment in here lol
Viewing this game as the spiritual successor to Paperboy has done more to make me want to play it than anything in its entire marketing campaign.
Prior to that I only wanted to watch other people play it.
man i loved paperboy!
I thought you said "Ebola gun" at first, with Kojima you never really know.
In Snake Eater you can throw rotten bat meat as bait for starving enemy soldiers which they will eat and cause them to vomit and die, I guess that's the closest thing to ebola...
@@ArifRWinandar I've played through the entire MGSV game and not once encountered any bats (that i can remember) let alone, come across any bat meat. Do you remember what part of the game it is (try and be specific)?
I believe they meant MGS 3 : Snake Eater, not MGS V : The Phantom Pain.
Chris Allen he said snake eater you fool
demizson576 oh yea, you’re right...I was skimming comments while listening to Jim, and he mentions MGSV-got mixed up. I definitely remember that from MGS3.
In this game, in the cutscenes, the story. Kojima carefully crafts a wonderful cake. Its an incredible cake made with the best ingerients. Kojima then proceeds to tell you all the ingredients of his cake and shows you how he put it together. Then at the end of it all, Kojima takes out a spoon and he sits in front of you, looks you in the eye and eats that fucking cake for you.
Finally when you can stand it no more, kojima winks and tells you the cake tasted good.
kudosbudo is this Doug Doug’s but explained with food.
Who the fuck eats a cake with a spoon?
@@Chapterhouse86 I do. Fuck forks.
And asks "Did you rike it?"
@@Chapterhouse86 I like em moist.
We all knew in our heart of hearts that 1) We wanted Kojima to create the game of his dreams and 2) it would likely be insufferable, because it's Kojima
You go buddy, you weird bird
This is the best comment.
This is it, this is the comment. I was really excited but I kind of knew in my hearts there was a fair chance it would be A Lot. Still, I’m glad it exists and that it was made!
I feel he trolled the masses with this game
@@Blackatchaproduction I feel Konami may have been right in keeping a tight reign on his creativity, and his game design.
The best comment. I am looking forward to this as I love walking, camping, rock climbing and long drives. Sounds like my kind of game.
"The Mules, theyre delivery men who went mad and became addicted to delivering things"
So... basically other players.
So it's just like Dark Souls, they're Hollows.
If they're so addicted to delivering packages, why not let them? Do they damage the packages before delivery or something?
@@jnoirj3124
No but you dont get the credit.
Like postal workers working Sunday for Amazon.
@@jnoirj3124 This was my exact thought. This would be the FedEx dream. Workers who will slavishly deliver packages without asking for pay. Problem solved. Roll credits.
Remember when Kojima wanted a mgs boss fight to take several weeks of gameplay in real time and he needed one of his coworkers to tell him "yeah we can't do that."
Which boss was that supposed to be?
Some people with artistic talent desperately need a No man. Someone who can objectively look at ideas and say "no" or "holy fuck no". Richard Williams is a man constantly portrayed in many animation schools as a man who's vision was never realized with Thief and the cobbler. Persistance of Vision is an eye opening documentary and I feel that while Kojima (hopefully) isn't as mean as Williams, I am sure there are similar. Kojima is still great but we Sony needs to hire that No person and we should be grateful for them.
@@RInger2875 I believe it was The End in MGS3. He originally wanted a super long drawn out sniper battle across multiple maps. We still got that, just much less.
@@Kelekona maybe Chris Roberts needs this person as well.
HAHAHAAH but you see that's exactly what he did made a boss ! MGS 2 facility "Big Shell" was the boss Arsenal Gear GW. LOL he fooled them all what a pog champ.
"it doesn't respect your time because it's so in love with itself"
fucking nailed it
snow politics yea because other games that have you just grind totally do...at least Kojimas world is so detailed just walking through it is more fun then any other open world game. I guess Kojima should have hired John Hopson to come in and make sure the game had easy dopamine hits every 10 seconds...
@@VintageDestroyed well, at least YOU get it.
Devin Giltner I like wasting 5 hours creating a zip line all the way to the top of the mountain and then creating snowboard track all the way down complete with ramps and huge jumps onto timefall shelters. Takes me like a minute to zip line back to the top of the hill lol
cum cakes it destroy red dead lol. I got bored grooming my horse I’ll tell you that much. I never finish Rock star games though I always get bored. Death Stranding world feels real though, it’s far more detailed. You cant just run across a river or climb any way you want. Its harsh real and beautiful. Fuck Kojima should be paying me for this
@@VintageDestroyed That's why the online feature is nice, you don't have to do it all on your own.
It's obviously totally okay to dislike the game, but not everyone will agree.
So in this depressing, desolate future Monster Energy drink still exists?
Why is that a question for you? In all the most depressing apocalypses, the most prominent survivors are always brands.
"You watered the crops with Mountain Dew for the last 100 years, and you wonder why the soil went barren?"
The most depressing beverage for the most depressing future.
It has electrolytes!
Of course, the true sophisticated gentleman prefers Red Bull.
"See that mountain over there?
You can climb it."- but unironically.
Isn't that BotW?
You have to climb it. Again. And again. And again.
@@rawovunlapin8201 no theres stuff on that mountain that link needs
Unless there's a big holographic wall in the way.
I love how, during the bit about the tedious 'realism', Norman Reedus jumps out of a car and rolls over, with basically a refrigerator on his back.
the refrigerator materializes from nowhere just as he finishes the last roll
"shoe degradation"
Real horses don't just plow head first into trees because you point them in that direction either.
A lot of the tedium in Death Stranding and RDR2 isn't for the sake of realism, it's just tedium of the sake of tedium.
@@crowleyswhitehorse Actually your horse in RDR2 doesn't deliberately crash into trees unless you're steering it into one. It'll automatically avoid lots of trees that are close together.
@bixnood bixnooding Are you speaking of shoes used in urban environments or shoes used to traverse the jagged, rocky wastelands shown in this game?
Kojima literally made a whole game based around that scene where he made you climb a ladder for a day.
SNAAAAAKKKE EEEEATTTERRRRR
No he made a game for the people who made fun of Snake carrying around a small militia depo in his pocket.
"They want to steal your cargo and deliver it themselves" awww they almost sound cute described like that lol
They just want to help you out
@@DragoonBB I know, right? I'd let them if the game didn't punish me for that haha
Sounds like a GTA V griefer.
“They’re tryna take mah jahb!” Norman Reeds shouts as he shoots bolas at people.
They kinda are tbh. I mean, they're just dudes who *want a job* man, they're at worst just weirdos. Bored out of their mind.
Guys, guys. The 7/10 is a joke.
It's a score Jim says sometimes after fans of Zelda: Breath of the Wild treated his 7/10 on the game as the lowest score possible for the game and it caused a big outcry against him.
So it’s a double whammy
Since others took it as a GaneJourno hypocrite score, which makes THEM a big joke!
Even if it wasn't. People shouldn't get upset about it. 7/10 is pretty good imo (but I guess that makes the joke funnier!).
SuperArppis Exactly. I’m very picky when it comes to giving out ratings, so to me a 7/10 on my scale (or Jim’s scale) is easily in the top 20% of games in existence.
He was ddos'd for it and he stopped reviewing games
@@whodatninja439 I think he stopped giving numerical values to reviews, not actually reviewing games (see this video).
Sounds like the game needs a lot of balancing
Lol good one
Booooo! Hiss!
I love that so much
well done
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Glad Kojima finally got to indulge in his game design fantasies. though I have to say, I work as a delivery driver for Amazon and this game gave me 'Nam flashbacks
“QWOP but more of a hassle”
Ok now you have my attention.
Haha I forgot about QWOP
So many times I have seen LP's and streamers say "Don't tell me this is the QWOP of AAA games" the first time a big cargo almost makes them trip over. Definitely it isn't (to not trip you just hold the trigger buttons), but it's always funny to hear the comparison.
"i never had fun with it" i saw you shaking the baby
Sorry, didn't mean it.
That's abuse, not fun.
Too bad I couldn't treat it like a football.
@@Crashandburn999 Bruuuh (x50000)
I get that's a joke and all, but I dont see how this is funny. It's just not my cup of tea.
This looks like an “Ow my aching back” simulator
Just put more into Strength and...oh, wrong game.
Lost it at boot degradation
I did start calling the main character a human sack truck.
"Knee injuries later in life" simulator
@@ADFG17E Me too.
This game is like watching paint dry, but you get high off the fumes so it's not an entirely wasted experience
Nah its like walking to the paint store. Sanding the wall. Prepping the wall. Painting with a tiny brush. Being all sweaty all tired and have a tiny amount of great satisfaction and then you have to paint the next wall.
I'm using that
@@SirEvilestDeath haha best game of the decade 6.8. Not enough whoohos
@@SirEvilestDeath I just had the same experience as you, except i quit out frustration in the last hour. Then bought witcher 3 and said to myself "Why did I waste my time like that?"
Kojima literally gave us "silent hills"🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Hahaha good one
lol, never thought I'd miss the expansiveness of a silent hill game about a single room while trekking across a ruined America essentially trying to do the same exorcism shtick as a delivery boy. At least Henry was an every man, I really feel what Jim is talking about how this game stars Norman Reedus, he feels too important to be doing this grunt work somehow...
badum tsss
Lmao!! 😂🤣
Yes, because you best be Silent on those hills if they’re BT Territory, you best not even breathe because they are waiting to get you and pull you away if you aren’t careful.
The plot of Death Stranding sounds like the hallucination of a FedEx employee, who dropped acid while reading a Cormac McCarthy novel.
I would say you’re wrong but so far... that’s pretty accurate
lol
Derevirn haha great comment.
Acid is amazing ngl
God, I do love The Road
If you give a review copy to Jim Sterling, I immediately respect your game and your faith in your own game way more.
Throttle Kitty I also appreciate Sony requires them to state they received a review copy for transparency
@@MasterMS1123 Yeah! Most companies hide behind not "technically" entering into an agreement, just giving them free stuff while holding the *blacklist* hammer.
Really low bar but okay.
I know I love this guy too much when I’m playing DS and am only thinking two things.
1. I am loving this game.
2. I bet Jim is gonna hate this game.
After watching someone play it i also knew that immediately.
"Every mountain can be climbed."
-Todd Howard.
KEKW
"16 times the detail"
Looking gorgeous todd
Surprisingly you can in this game, don't get jealous just because you still can't achieve npc's todd ^^
4 times the size of Fallout 4
Death Stranding speed runs should be interesting though...
That would be kinda unfair since online changes.
@@mariekanker3022 offline only ;)
You would have to really hate yourself to do that in this "game"
"interesting" like Golf?
Especially Platinum runs
You don't have to love the game because Kojima developed it, Jim. I'm glad you gave it a fair shake : )
Proteus
But who is saying that? I only played one Kojima game and though it was alright. But DF has be really interested on what it has to offer. It feels like the type of game that I would really enjoy play. And youtubers like Danny O’Dwyer really got me excited after watching there reviews. I hate that people have to call me a Kojima fan, or that I only like this game because of him.
Lucca216 Same, I enjoy games like this as well as more usual stuff such as Borderlands. This game is pure Kojima but I like his obsessive attention to detail. I’ve only played a few hours and who knows, maybe I’ll tire of it, it all depends upon what lies hidden in the wilderness, I’m assuming there are plenty of Easter eggs out there too.
Proteus...I wish people would say that about Outer Worlds .5 !
Do we get to say Konami was right all along now? Or at least that they made the right call in cancelling Silent Hills?
@@azurebookllet9216 konami was right about what? Making pachinko and microtransaction Metal Gear Survive?
I shat on the game when it came out. However, I finished it yesterday. The game made me rethink how I communicate and appreciate the people around me. So many do little things for each other to make the day better. After rebuilding UC 23 & 45, entire zip line networks from one end of the map to the other... just gotta say, I loved this game.
THANK YOU
I was half an hour away from finishing it, and I still didn't because the frustration at that point made me delete the game. It's like Jim said, this game really is obsessed with itself, and no better point does that stand out then when all of your vehicles are completely useless and you have to spend hours going through the snow Terrain. Hours upon hours, not looking at a beautiful Lush environment, but going through snow storms and you can barely see anything. I actually stopped delivering packages because anything you do in the game has absolutely no connection with the story anyway. Cliff was interesting, everything about him should have been the game, not the boring delivery guy who trips over rocks even without any packages on him.
shindean If you were that frustrated with the game then you should have stopped playing it way before you got to the ending, also the mountains aren’t there to be looked at but to be conquered, which is feasible if you know how to place Zip Lines. In other words... no matter how frustrating the game gets, you’re given ways to make it easier, if you take the time to figure out how to. Also how many times are we gonna play a game which stars a person like Cliff? Cliff’s character represents the “dead end” that most games and franchises have reached, simply because developers and publishers are too focused on mass appeal to make games that are different. But Sam, the “boring delivery man,” represents the future of what kind of stories games should tell. We’re always playing as superheroes, and it was refreshing to literally be put in the shoes of a normal person who’s just as vulnerable as I, and everyone else is.
@@118halospartan not to look at? The game runs on the same engine as Horizon zero Dawn, and all of you that keep kissing the game's ass always bring up the number one reason are supposed to be the graphics. And now I'm not supposed to appreciate the graphics? You are a perfect encapsulation of why this game came out so stupid, you can't even tell me what to enjoy😆
shindean See? Can’t even acknowledge anything else I said. Your only purpose here is to bad-mouth a game you clearly don’t understand.
"And iiiiiiiii would walk 500 miles..."
Zack Smith Dadada-da!
@@Roadent1241 peter Griffin: dada Da!
@Zack Smith Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
I walk inside this pit of danger!
A place where no one goes.
I walk alone!!
Batista has the best intro music next to Edge and Jeff Hardy.
Is it wrong to think about singing that line like Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You?
If I wanted the brutal existential slog of real life, I’d get out of bed.
Have you played Papers, Please?
Let's be real here, we can't do that.
@@HarryS77 I keep thinking about it when people say that games should always be "fun". The gameplay was repetitive, boring, and downright unpleasant, but overall it was one of the most immersive and powerful experiences I ever had with a game. I wonder if Death Stranding is somehow similar.
@@Derevirn I sort of agree. Looking at it as an immersive experience-rather than as a game-is probably the best way to think of it. Being a little boring must've been part of the point. It would be strange to make a "fun" game about being a bureaucrat.
The game succeeds in making you, even momentarily, into a person who is forced to scrutinize people's age, gender presentation, life story-essentially, to view your fellow humans by default as liars, scoundrels, criminals, terrorists, which is exactly the mindset of the bureaucrat, someone who views every member of society as somehow suspicious, hostile and dishonest, and who must be made to conform to ever-changing, inscrutable rules that you have the power to enforce but not the discretion to rescind.
The design of the game is pretty remarkable, I think, though again this may require appreciating the way the game intentionally fucks with you in order to put you in the mindset of this overworked, underpaid government employee. For instance, there are a bunch of upgrades you can buy that do basically nothing to help you. They're a waste of money, and if you purchase them, it's likely that you won't be able to afford heating, rent, medicine, transportation, etc. In other words, the best strategy is actually to not play the game like a game, in which you're expected to want to upgrade your character. In the fiction of the world, that means that being a "model employee," investing in your job, really does end up having negative repercussions for your life and the lives of your family.
Or take the way that the tray for your stamps will slide out but never far enough to reach the document where it lands on your desk, which means that you have to take a few precious seconds to maneuver the passport or whatever underneath the stamp. Or how about the fact-it's been a while since I played-but I seem to remember that the tranq gun is right next to the lethal gun, so, in a moment of panic, it's easy to grab the wrong one and kill the nondescript silhouette whom you meant merely to incapacitate. Even the way that every character enters as a silhouette and leaves as a silhouette-as if already forgotten, featureless-informs your character as a bureaucrat. The "fun" of the game emerges not so much from the moment to moment experience-though the introduction of an underground revolutionary movement certainly helps to propel one from work day to work day-but in the examination of how these mechanics affect and effect the world.
I tried watching some Death Stranding gameplay, and in the first hour there was maybe 10 minutes of actual gameplay. Papers, Please meets Shadow of the Colossus might've made for an excellent (Kojima) game, but I don't think this is it. I think Kojima is the sort of person who produces his best work (MGS1, Zone of Enders, MGS3, parts of MGS2) when he has conform to technical or storytelling limitations, e.g. the hardware of the PS1 negating 2 hour cutscenes or the fact that MGS3 riffs on and basically sticks to a pastiche of spy thrillers. Death Stranding LOOKS amazing though. I don't think I've seen facial capture/animation in a game look quite this good.
@@HarryS77 The dreadful routine in Papers, Please was obviously intentional, and contributed in the immersiveness of the game. I'm wondering whether Kojima tried something similar with the repetitive gameplay of DS, or it was simply the result of poor design choices. Regardless, I understand that some people dislike such games, and prefer something simple and fun to enjoy themselves. We should keep in mind though, that video games are a unique interactive storytelling medium, that should not be limited to providing disposable "digital toys".
P.S. Thanks for taking the time to write such an elaborate and detailed comment.
Atmospheric Depressive Euro truck Simulator: No Trucks Edition
😂
But there are trucks tho
Toppest of keks old chap.
Lol
Can't really recommended: 7 out of 10.
That sarcasm was beautifully perfect.
Can't recommend it giving it a rating of 7 out of 10? This rating however clearly stands for a recommended game though. How so that you can't recommend it but still willing to give 7/10 for it? kek...
@@kemalc.3782 this was a joke. It comes from the dislikes one site got after rating the game with a low score.
I see. Thanks for the reply.
I haven't been following the game for a while.
@@kemalc.3782 The joke also stems from the fact that high reviews for the game mentioned how it was boring and not fun to play.
A little something for everyone.
so this is basicly a postapocalyptic postal service sim.
this is gonna be a hit in Germany
As a german this is offensive. We only Play Gothic and Gothic 2, nothing else.
@@WizoIstGott Moorhuhn and Sven for these going mad.
@@WizoIstGott What about Gothic 3?
3rdPassenger hopefully not from nazis
@@3rdPassenger what is up with YOU?
"Your Boots are badly damaged"
"Your Containers are badly damaged"
"Your Boots broke!"
Truly a horror more frightening than any Silent Hill game.
10 hours of gameplay, I never broke my boots, or need to shake the baby. Sometime I feel maybe he just bad at games.
Ding rown OR your game is glitched.
Imagine all of these systems added to a Silent Hill game.
Horrors upon horrors.
Dude PT was gonna be massive but instead we got this. Idk, i really wanted PT to be a full game
More horrifying than the slot machine?
I said it before, and I'll say it again:
The sign of a great reviewer is when they tell you about a game that they don't care for, and absolutely sell it to people who would love it!
Thanks Jim, you're awesome!
Agreed. This was a largely unfavorable review but I am more intrigued by the game now than I was before!
Yeah, I like the idea of being the delivery boy that nothing goes right for. Maybe I'm a masochist? I don't know. Being that guy that says, "oh fuck, not this shit again." Like in the movies appeals to me.
I agree, Jim actually made me want to play this, as I often like games with detailed simulation systems.
@@Jesse__H Then you are an idiot and are one of those npc's that can only follow and consume, when clearly the review was saying it's not worth buying brand new.
I agree and disagree. A great reviewer is able to give good reasons for why he doesn't like a game, and is not just inventing stuff to try to give a better reason than saying that he had bad day when he was playing the game. A good reviewer manages to tell people who have the same taste in games, why they will or won't enjoy that specific game. I believe Jim did this but he also seemed a bit too lenient and fogiving, even if he said that Kojima is stuck so far up his own ass. Whatever, this game is pretty niche. If it were shorter I might've enjoyed it like I did with Abzû.
honestly the systems stopped bothering me when i finally let go of my gamer preconceptions. I never found anything particularly a hassle, especially when i realized that equipment is expendable and i should always swap stuff around to suit the current delivery. And as the game goes on it really tests your problem solving abilities and rewards creativity.
It's the kind of game that's as bad as you want it to be.
So, the same weak reasoning people use to defend The Phantom Pain?
@@always_serpico bro, the phantom pain doesn't need defending. It's a masterpiece
Actually it never rewards you for being creative. You just figure out for yourself that the systems in place can be avoided. The game gives you a gun that you are never allowed to use on anyone, so what the f*** is the point?
Before 2010, me and my friends were discussing how cool mechanics like this would be.
Boy were we wrong..
"Before 2010...".
🤔
Before 2010 games were made with some regard of passion even the "shitty AAA companies" made games like Mass Effect 2 and RDR, this is a new age brudda with monster energy and AMC's "Ride" placed in the game alongside semen and shit grenades and hours upon hours of walking.
@@Grandmaster-Kush why dont you just keep playing shit from before 2010 then
@@DrMcMoist Not entirely sure why an anecdote of his makes you ponder. Lol.
@@eddtard2686 The anecdote isn't from 2010... it was from before 2010.
Kojima with no restraints ends being up his own ass? Who saw that coming?
He is one of the best examples of artists that need a collaborator to tell them ‘Maybe not’.
Books need editors to weed out the insanity.
Like George Lucas?
Sounds kinda like any person on the planet if they were given power.
most good games are made by teams not by single people.
@@DragoonPaladin true, almost everyone thinks too highly of themselves
Konami: "you wanted Kojima's full creative vision? There you go. Now who wants another PACHINKO MACHINE?!"
Top comment.
Is this what you wanted a game over
Lmao 😂😂😂
NNNOOOOPPPPPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think pachinko machines are fun personally.
3:15 "You have to unify the country as a delivery person" - didn't Kevin Coster do this in the postman?
This is why I love Jim's reviews. He doesn't like it, but he explains exactly why, and knowing him and knowing that he doesn't like those types of mechanics helps me make an informed decision comparatively to my own preferences. Well done sir, A+ review.
It's a shame he didn't experience more than 5% of the story or 10-20% of the mechanics though
I feel like Kojima is currently experiencing the "George Lucas" effect. People are praising him for his old works alone but forget he was not alone in making those games great and he had supervision from others to prevent him from going to off the rails.
Exactly this, exactly this!
Except when did that happen to Lucas? People just didn't like the squeals. His story telling was brilliant but the use of CGI and his acting choice wasn't great and people didn't like it.
But it was no different from the original which he had total control over apart from a smaller budget for the first one. He brought in different directors for ESB and ROTJ but he harassed those directors and was so controlling they fell out and even had a break down. That is the way these people ARE they love their works. Kojima has produced many games even predating MG and MGS sometimes things work sometimes they don't. I think more the problem is people who follow this that have to be so absolute and dramatic. It was an idea maybe in the larger scheme of things it didn't work out or wants what people wanted. It doesn't mean these people or done ot have gone wrong rather that that particular idea or model just isn't as good. Who knows what they will make in the future. What annoys these producers and directors more than anything is that their works have to be joined together and they are judged on what they did before not on what the product is.
Any actor artists hates this and sometimes it causes them to give up all together because people can't judge something on what it is. It always had to mean something more. It's just rediclous.
Next game he makes might be amazing everyone has bad moments.
oh snap, Hideo Lucas he is
I mean really he learned how to code so he could do what he wanted.
Yall are just fat white people with literally nothing wrong in your lives so you spend your whole life talking shit about fantasy worlds. While our planet is dying, you failures will be circle jerking eachother for the next game that comes out.
"They want to steal your cargo and deliver it for you."
That is the single stupidest idea I've ever heard.
you mean it's a revolutionary concept made by our lord and saviour the great kojima sama senpai kun am I right?
the enemies in the game are npcs that try to do the player's job for them.
nah they want ur likes
@@thomasjenkins7506 Here's an idea for the Mules. They are actually super paranoid people who are freaking and think the BTs are actually the government attempting population control. So they leave the cities and get by with robbing delivery people.
@@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659 or they steal, then ransom the goods. i mean, that would make the most sense.
"just going out to stretch my legs" : the game
@THE NEWMAKER 'babe im just popping out for a bit'
With the baby
Faiz 😂😂😂😂👍🏾👍🏾🙌🏽
the grunting simulator
"can't really recommend it, 7 out of 10" lmao that's a honest way to put it
Because people crucified IGN for giving it a 6 i believe.
A 7 would be something worth recommending
@@readmarx420
Exactly lol
sounded more like a 5 or 6 at most tbh
I think he's just still making fun of the Breath of the Wild thing
Why are we here? Just to suffer?
Kojima: yes
cklambo 😂 brilliant. I love this game though. Lots of awesome Kojima cutscenes! Straight up my street.
He played us like a damned fiddle!
Life is suffering. Without suffering, joy's value and maybe even the concept of empathy would disappear. It's not meant to be a nihilistic or depressing thought. Suffering is a source of good as well as evil, it's just people's nature.
Oh FFS Jim, you're just upset because this is another game doesn't have Ekans in.
you know full well ekans would make the game at least a little better
@@weused2bestoned tru
Funny that you bring up Pokémon. If Sterling had any consistence he would be bashing Gamefreak into oblivion right now
@@720pchannel actually he would be bashing the people that sent the death threats causing gamefreak to become depressed and cancel it's party ...
True!
I actually kind of love how the game seems to emulate the frustration of working as an every day delivery man, and then takes it to the extreme.
@MaztaPan Papers Please is a good example of what I'm trying to convey
Yeah, it's kinda like one of those absurdist antigames like The Stanley Parable or Frog Fractions combined with Farming Simulator or something. It's just so weird from an outside perspective.
On the other hand, Kojima might just be fucking with his cultists.
Δ lol yeah I actually think he’s just taking the piss out of us all
You wait until you get to the last few requests for pizza delivery. Fucking hell.
At least the recipients are nice, respect you and call you the best thing it has ever happened in their miserable existence.
“We’re finally getting kojima unrestrained by corporate cynicism!”
Careful what you wish for
Corporate cynicism would have left it the same but given it micro transactions
>Free from corporate cynicism
>Recovers Stamina with Monster Energy™
Its almost like AWTORS tend to be up their own ass or something.
Corprate PatchnotesFixed ballance issues where it was too easy and not providing a sence of pride and acomplashment
Added AutoBallast. Avalable for 500 StrandingPoints. Helps with balance. its jusy a optinal convences for those who dont have the time not be falling over all the time.
_”15 times the walking.”_
- Todd Howard
♫ It just works! ♫
It's 16 times the detailed walking* get it right you dummy
16
4 times the systems
It just walks
'A game that doesn't respect your time because its so in love with itself' ; i think that pretty much sums it up
If it's not lootboxes, now it's this.
Not a fanboy but who cares... some will enjoy it, some won't.
Happens with most games.
So this game is a kanye
@@FallenStarGMV Your point being? Btw, this is nowhere near the systematic problems of lootboxes (that you apparantly don't see as a true problem.) Actually, i think your comment is the most nihilistic ones ive seen in while.
He was talking about RDR2 btw
A game being slightly tidenous is no where near the problem that loot boxes cause. If a game has paid loot boxes no one should support that shit. If a game is tedious and some people don't like it then they're entitled to their opinion. Don't try and compare the two things
🎵 Postman Pat
Postman Pat
Postman Pat and his foetus backpack🎵
You are a fucking god XD
ACKSHUALLY it's on his front. The olderi- something scanner is on his back. Libtard destroyed.
Jim Sterling: "I spent hours, and hours, and hours, and hours..."
Game subtitle: "Over and over again..." Even the game agrees it's a slog.
I’m honestly surprised Sony signed off on this
@@BlackangelKatakuri I mean they did the same thing with no man's sky
@@gidioter woah there, totally different thing. That was an early access game over hyped. This is an auteur work, deliberately sloggy.
@@BlackangelKatakuri you are a funny guy
@@FFKonoko okay
Sounds like Euro truck Simulator with the Breath of the Wild durability system.
But on foot.
Everything you just described is great, lol
There isn't one part of that statement that doesn't fill me with dread...
@@AugustTheStag For like 0.000005% of the earth's population, which is not bad. I am just saying that this game is for those people that enjoy boring themselves to death and that's just not what people are into in general.
So that's Euro Foot Simulator. Sounds like some German foot fetish game.
@@schibleh531 Paradoxical. Nobody can enjoy "boring themselves to death" because they would be enjoying it. Boredom is a state where you're not enjoying anything.
Also, a lot of people find the truck simulator's relaxing. Honestly, i feel like I would love this.
Kind of sounds like Kojima thought "what if I spent 100 Million dollars making the spiritual successor to Desert Bus?" and then did a lot of cocaine and did it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 best thing ive seen all day
He is basically the only man on the planet that could watch a live stream of Euro Truck Simulator and go "Yeah, I could make a shooter out of this."
Hahahahahaha
@@robynfooks4865 on point
If you haven't tried "Brownie Brittle Chocolate Chip" buy some at the grocery store. It's fucking amazing
That 7/10 joke... I wonder how many people got the reference to your old Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild review. Made me laugh :)
Never heard that rendition of Shake it Off before.
Best possible intro
"Cant really recommend it: 7/10" is the best commentary about the gaming industry there is.
“QWOP but more of a hassle”
*Puffs on Cigarette*
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a LONG time.
I literally had to google what he meant and felt like an idiot afterwards.
Try "getting over it" it's made by the qwop guy.
Had a wonderful time with the game. Connecting to the Chiral network and seeing all the structures built by other players to help you is inspiring. Bless you, Zipline friends.
You have bad taste
@@boobiedefloop6097 Apparently so do I...and the bulk of the reviewers on PSN and Steam.
You probably didn't realize this because you were so obsessed with finding anything fun about this game, but those Ziplines actually made the game slower. All the mechanics of the game actually don't help, you just think it does because you imagine that anything else would be more efficient than walking. Not here.
im getting ready for the modders to mod bear grills in and when you drink from your canteen its piss
Hahaaa that would be great!!! ^_^
And an Uber Eats backpack
And all the dialogue is replaced with explanations about how elephant shit is full of "vitamins".
that made me lol
I mean, there is already a button to pee as it is. All the mod needs to do is allow you to do it in your cup.
So basically this will appeal to people who like Trucking/farming simulators.
As someone who plays too much trucking/farming simulators this looks exiting. Can't wait to play it
*vomit*
I love simulators but stumbling norman reedus across an empty world isn't my idea of a fun sim tbh
Nah I love trucking simulators and this looks like it sucks
Imagine your favorite truck/train/farm sim, I'll use Eurotruck for this example but you can extrapolate.
Imagine not hitting, just nicking a car or something, as it is, you'll get a ticket and be on your merry way.
Whereas if it was made ba Kojima, you'll have to stop, call insurance if you have it and police as well, wait for them to arrive in real-time while you deal with the stress and shenanigans of whatever mood the random NPC you hit has, deal with legalities after they arrive, and after three hours you can finally be going on your way with massive penalties on your driver's stats that you have to deal with on some hotel on the road that who knows what is going to throw at you so you spend even more resources from your business that you have to keep an eye on every minute, and is not until five hours later that you'll be completing that 20minute delivery job, with penalties for being late.
@@Inferryu I'm surprised so many people are still playing Real Life.
*spends whole video absolutely demolishing the game*
“Can’t really recommend it, 7/10”
Just because he didn't like it, doesn't mean it's not competently made. It's just not for him. Or it could just be a jab at other online reviewers who give crappy games 7/10, and the gamers who think that's a bad score.
@@Here_is_Waldo Pretty sure it's another jab at the furious reactions he got to giving Zelda: Breath of the Wild a 7/10.
@@Here_is_Waldo While also acknowledging it is a competently made game.
There is your paid review. He said the truth and then puts the paid number.
It has a little something for everyone
I can see why people love this game but I can see more on why people hate it.
How about you "see" by playing the fucking game yourself. Bunch a sheeps in this goddamn world now that only base opinions on what other people say. Its sad.
@@Nathan-is7li calm your tits, I have played it.
@@Nathan-is7li literally the majority of people hating on it haven't even touched the game
@@Nathan-is7li Why would somebody buy a game they can quite obviously see has enormous flaws?
Will holding the controller and watching the same game on my screen back home change the way I feel about a game?
No. The reason these reviews exist, is because they can tell us something, objectively, about whether or not a game is worth spending money for.
But sure, we're all a bunch of "sheep" that don't have our own opinions. Yep. Only people that blindly buy games and don't trust a single review, much less the majority of reviews (that proclaim this game to be boring) are super "woke" and capable of critical thought.
It's not like you just don't understand how reviews work.
@@PenguinsAreColdish Probably because people are capable of forming an opinion with what they are given in terms of gameplay footage.
I knew beforehand that fallout 76 was a shit game. I certainly saw no need to buy it and play it in order to confirm that knowledge, all the footage of that game was enough for me to be certain of it. And that was BEFORE I knew about the bugs.
You know, every once in a while, it's a good thing to assume that people actually do know their own wishes for a game, and that they do know when they don't wish to play it.
Or are you of the opinion that only people WITH a game are allowed to have an opinion ABOUT the game?
Imagine if Fallout New Vegas had a protagonist that never stopped being a courier.
Fallout New Vegas is actually a game
I don't recall ever NOT being a courier in New Vegas. At least I didnt have to hold L2 + R2 so I didn't fucking fall in that game
Well ... the game IS rigged from the start.
*Big Iron stops*
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
That's how I approach painting my warhammer minis.
Exactly, i see this game as worst version of Shadow of the colossus, which was developed with that philosophy.
Then added back on to the game as microtransactions - Some random game publisher exec.
How KonMari'an.
Did you know that Kojima wrote the Metal Gear story as complex political intrigue because he need to justify his game being about sneaking (as opposed to the more popular run & gun) because the platform on which the first Metal Gear game was released can only render a few projectiles at a time?
I'm really enjoying this game on my PC. I'm not playing it, of course. I'm watching someone else play it for me on TH-cam, and fast forwarding through the parcel dropping simulator bits.
Yes let them suffer hehehe
I want to do the same thing. Who are you watching?
@@Captain_Neckbeard MKIceAndFire
Probably what I'll end up doing, too. Since I'm not a member of his cult, I don't really feel a need to worship "the totality of his vision" (lol) as somebody in this comments section put it. Not knocking him for HAVING a vision, but that doesn't mean I have to pay to experience it. As the Kotaku review stated, "Hideo Kojima has finally made a game that is like eating 60 pounds of vegetables at gunpoint."
In a nutshell, it's what I suggested to a friend. I'm playing it since this morning. I'm very interested by the story but for once I'd rather see the cinematics than play the game. I had to cut it with bits of Town of Salem, Vamypyr and Outer Worlds ...
The first time I had to keep my balance I was "are you kidding me ?"
This game is so interesting to me for the launch of it alone, I've been playing it for about thirty hours and it's quickly becoming one of my favorites even though objectively I should hate the gameplay because it's fetch quests, but there's something about finding the best route and optimizing how I'll get there and etc. that draws me in. Recently unlocked zip lines and spent a few hours creating a system of zip lines that take me to every destination in the current area and I had fun doing it. This game is such a love it or hate it that it just baffles me how people could hate it but then in this video I somehow agree with everything Jim said while simultaneously disagreeing. It's a weird feeling I'll tell you that much
One mans trash is another mans treasure
One game: Euro truck sim
Nah it's the same with movies, everyone has a few movies that are objectively just terrible but they also love to watch over and over, there's nothing wrong with liking things for reasons that are for reasons that are just your own :)
@@fredt.a7114 I like your gf, reasons are my own.
because its genuinelty a good and different open world game lol ?besides the mindblown realistic graphics and performance that is easily a match for RDR2 lol
I just can't stop imagining Jim going throw a graveyard with his wrestling outfit trying to loot corpses
Try this one, elephants as rocket propellant. Now, if that picture doesn't get Jim rifling through graves out of your mind, nothing will.
Jim looting graves in his Sterdust outfit and leaving Boglins in the emptied coffins as his calling card... That's the Halloween special we deserve.
*through
Figured I'd drop that off on my way to handing more deliveries in order to connect America
This game (and Red Dead II) seems like it's for the type of person that'll walk in a video game instead of running because they think it's a bit odd for someone to just constantly be running everywhere
I actually don’t like game combat it spikes my anxiety for some reason. But games like red dead 2 and this somehow fit my weird walking simulator taste. In RDR2 I’m that weirdo that takes the time to feed the horse and go fishing & do wildlife photography. So I guess there is a place for it. But yeah this is definitely not an action game
I walk in every game
I remember my mom commenting when I'm playing HZD that aloy is always running and not getting tired.
Should be top comment.
I like how at the beginning Jim was trying to be a bit more level headed, and then like two minutes in just starts ripping into it. Love it!
Shia Lebeouf: Life Coach perhaps they just want to...ya know....JUST DO IT!
He's not even ripping it dude. He basically said how annoying and boring it is. It may sound that he's ripping it but that's him describing exactly what you will expect and that how bad it is.
Dammit Greg! “Annoying” and “boring” are not valid criticism in any shape or form though.
Jim elaborated on why he thought DS was annoying and boring, and they were valid criticisms.
@@shmekelfreckles8157 LoL what? It's like saying :" I went to that restaurant yesterday and the dish was bland, badly seasoned and simply dreadful " is not "criticism" .
I can't entirely disagree, but I find it utterly compelling, I am very much enjoying it and I'm looking forward to coming home and playing it (Despite going out to work and admittedly coming home to more bloody work!) the story has me heavily invested, the vehicle mechanics have made traversal much easier than it was, I have my Postman Pat truck now to make deliveries a doddle and I've built up my road network in my instance almost entirely. Lots of busywork, lots of fetching, but I find myself loving this where I hated RDR2 and maybe that's because I'm not forced into an inaccurate and unfun gunfight every five minutes.
This is the best and worst of Kojima in one package and I hope this gets some of the more negative stuff out of his system.
Enrico Lauro just what I needed to read! After watching this video and hearing his comparisons to RDR2 (which I thought was just ok) you’ve inspired me to put this in my steam wishlist. Seems like a really interesting, polarizing game.
My buddy streamed his playthrough in its entirety. I stayed up all night anticipating the ending to the game, and it was literally blown out of the park when it was over. This game is beautiful, albeit niche, and I will make it a point to play every kojima game that follows.
Inaccurate and unfun gunfights ? Play it on PC then where its meant to be played....hoemw could you enjoy auto aiming in video games?
"You're in a really depressing, miserable world..." Even moreso than the real world? Kudos for that, that's a real achievement.
It's rendered in loving detail... but it's about 95% basalt, so yes
Honestly, there are no boomers... I think I can deal with basalt instead of grass if it means we don't see them anymore.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix It's so crazy to have an unpopular opinion I've held for most of my 30 years of life become normalized and even popular.
Depends really what you like.
Helium Osmium Nitrogen Krypton
Reminds me of that story where Monty Python was doing one Holy Grail scene over and over again all day long because their director kept trying to get smoke machine smoke lined up properly within one shot. Finally, John Cleese had had enough and stopped all that by simply asking: "Is smoke funny?" Their director realised smoke wasn't funny, so didn't matter, and so got on with things. Kojima's NES Metal Gears were fun, but for all his games after that he didn't have somebody asking him "Is that fun?" for every awful thing he wanted done.
Not that it affects your point, but you prolly mean the MSX games. The NES port and Snake's Revenge were nitoriously handled sans Kojima
I would argue that the "not fun" aspects of the MG games MGS1 through even MGSV all had at least SOMETHING regarding fun gameplay even if he crawled up his own his back in 2007 or so.
But DS is just the opposite of fun. In this case I'd agree, someone should have told Kojima "Hey boss this is... really not fucking fun, like, at all". The most depressing thing about DS is that this was supposed to be Kojima Unchained, his passion project, and yet it is the least fun I've had playing a AAA game in about a decade.
@SEaOfTides
his last game mgs5 is literally the most optimized and fun action game of this generation. Watch the video mgs5 gun eater on ytube and you will understand
SeaOfTides I think Jim referred to the very same Monty Python thing, as a matter of fact 😂
@Heavy Metal Collector totally agree. Took my time and really tried to get everything I could from MGSV and I felt so empty when I was finished. Hundreds of hours that felt like WORK. It's a fun system and when you improvise and really put the engine to the test, it's the best action and stealth of any games in the series. And yet it's the worst in my opinion. By FAR.
‘You wait hours for some action and when it does happen you’re just not in the mood.’ Sounds like my job.
As someone who was once obsessed with realism, people should realise that players are not their avatars; we can experience excitement while they are going through tough times; it’s called vicarious entertainment. We play games to have fun; if it gets tedious, people stop playing; we choose to play the game whenever we want, even though the avatars experience things they cannot opt out of.
I didn’t think I’d like this game. I bought it at about half price mostly to have the grounds to criticize it and stewed for a week about whether I should play the damn thing or return it to Best Buy while it’s still wrapped. On paper, it is very much making the most annoying aspects of games the focus and undercooking the parts everyone loves, but it isn’t boring, it isn’t meditative. On paper, it sounds like the gameplay loop is about taking an unbearable grind and making it tolerable, but it’s more comparable to conquering a wild frontier to expedite deliveries and minimize the risks to reap the most of what you sow. It Demands your focus literally every step of the way by turning the terrain and the conditions of the world into the most dangerous enemy in the game. B.T. encounters are terrifying, although I haven’t yet used any of the countermeasures you’re provided. It takes the dreaded fetch quest and imposes unique parameters that force you to modify the paths you set for yourself. All the while, you’re also taking advantage of the provisions of others and the landscape almost ends up feeling like a character in its own right with its own developments that occur with or without your own alterations. It really won’t appeal to everyone, but it has to be said: reviewers have done the gameplay a grave disservice. The challenge just comes from a much more unorthodox place.
You are correct, i think to enjoy the game, you first got to accept the fact that you havd to give it time, when i was in a rush and only had an hour or so to play, i felt misrable playing, but when i had time to take things slow, thats when the game shines
_Boot Degradation Simulator 2019_
Or *Singed's wet dream*
"A video game that doesn't respect your time because it's so in love with itself" - That is just brilliant, I remember my relatively few hours with RDR2 and how I just couldn't keep going, regardless of how lovely the game is otherwise.
When you put it like that I am not sure this one isn't for me, thank you much sir
i had the exact same feeling with RDR2, the comparison between the horse mechanics of Witcher 3 and RDR2 was perfect! i don't need that level of realism when it takes the fun and time factor away from me, the loot animation thing gets annoying really fast too.
It its opposite for Witcher bored me to no end rdr2 I am on my 5th play thru it's a subjective art form I guess.
I agree on RDR2. Put it down and never returned. I may have just done the same for Death Stranding
I finished rdr2 and it was pretty fun but I completely agree that some of the things added were just pointless. Like cleaning your horse or having to clean your guns. They tried being so realistic that it was Honestly too much. It’s funny cause they added all this stuff but the shooting in that game is so outdated and bad
@@NightsX That's very interesting, because the Witcher is my most favourite game of all times, very subjective indeed :D
I feel like this is the kind of story I would enjoy watching in a movie or a mini series, but I'm getting exhausted just thinking about having to deal with all of those "systems." I'm glad Kojima was able to make the game he truly wanted to create, but god it was NOT made for me.
Come on people, really? If he actually made a movie or a TV series where the protagonist is a porter working for a company called Bridges and whose name is literally *Sam Porter Bridges*, and where the antagonist is named Higgs and immediately compares himself to a boson, he would get laughed out of the shop real quick.
It's funny when people complain about a game like this getting a 6 and not a 9 or 8, but forget that over in the movie review world, people think you are doing well when only a *THIRD* of your reviews are *outright* negative.
@@azurebookllet9216 that's a pretty intense response to what I'd consider to be a benign personal opinion. All I meant was that I'm intrigued by the world building and the characters, and I'm curious to know what the story is, but I'm not interested in slogging through 60 hours of fetch quests in order to experience it.
@@TM-dq5lr I was responding to both of you, and particularly to the idea in the other comment that he would rather make a movie, but is -forced- to create games. Hence, I thought it was important to point out that the cinema critics are much less forgiving in general than the game ones.
Having fallen in love with this game, I am genuinely sorry that you didn't have fun playing it.
I have played the maybe 6 or 8 hours, im close to take a boat i think , but I stoped playing it, I was boring me to do the same always, just to walk or in the motorcycle, but I havent surrender at all, I really liked the main story, and I have been reading and watching reviews good and bad, I dont know if continue playing it casually or
stop playing it permanently. Do you have an advice?
@@fotoportillo6991 If the six to eight hours haven’t encapsulated you, I think it’s best to look somewhere else. This isn’t even worth time, and I’ve put 47 hours in this, and I still can’t recommend this to anyone, unless you want to look at something nice with downtime delivering nonsense while being annoyed by geography and combat. That’s it. Death Stranding just isn’t good, and not even Kojima understands what he written in this game. But that’s my opinion.
@@sprokerskelington6357 Thank you for take the time to answer, now I already played it, I saw a lot of reviews good and bad, and decided to try one last time, and.. I liked it this time, but just to do the main missions and a few secundary, finished it some days ago, I use some cheats in pc, for a better experience, I use infinity quíral red, and free road construction, I had a very good experience, even i think I could replay it again, but maybe some years further.
@@fotoportillo6991 I’m happy you actually got fun from Death Stranding. This is something I could never achieve, so I truly envy you.
In other words, it's a Kojima game. A Kojima game without a leash.
So basically the complete and utter madness of an artist.
@@OscarDirlwood HAHA pleeeeeeeeeeeeaseee keep dreaming :D
people are dumb fickle cunts and they're soooo sensitive to this stuff.
@@davevd9944 I'll admit that I was wrong about this one. I bought the hype, but I checked the reviews before I bought it. Now I think Kojima's artistic views need a more earthly tether to keep everything together, otherwise he goes completely apeshit. I still don't consider this game's conception to be a bad thing, however. In fact, I'm happy that Kojima got to do what he wanted, and maybe he's learned what he should and shouldn't do next time to keep the balance between his vision and player fun. I think it's very much a step in the right direction. Personally, I enjoyed The Outer Worlds, but it by no means blew me away. Its quests ended up being very lackluster and repetitive, and the game overall felt far too short. But Obsidian got some primo independent dev experience out of the whole ordeal, so they can make something even better in the future.
Kind of like an investment in companies you trust. Hopefully, there'll be a return on them.
@@BigPuddin Very correct I was also hyped for the game but I kept myself in control and waited for the few people I watch to review it...and I'm glad I didn't bought it. Visuals are amazing but the story and gameplay nope thank you.
I don't want to play as an amazone delivery man. I'm glad he's free from Konami but I hope he'll make games that people actually enjoy playing.
And I liked the Outerworlds it was definitly nothing GOT groundbreaking. But it was a fun experience and not bad for a AAish dev. I experienced perhaps one or two bugs nothing gamebreaking at all it was (for me) polished.
They certaintly beat the shit outta Fallout and the bug ridden mess that is Bethesda. And I'm very curious to see what they'll do next.
i dont get the hype. what so fun about it ?
Leave it to Kojima to make the most involved and fleshed out hiking simulator, with excessive plot to boot.
Could we have expected anything else? Perhaps.
The plot is excessively non sensical
Kojima created Metal Gear's convoluted plot to justify it being a stealth game because the platform it was released on wasn't strong enough for anything else...
@@lisupei6042 as always with him
@@ArifRWinandar even on ps3 and ps4?
A dripping ambience when walking in the dead wasteland?
For the "Shake It Off" joke with the baby, I tip my hat to you.
Pre-natal shaken baby syndrome
I have nothing to say this is for engagement
"Kitchen sink game design", gotta add that to my volcabulary.
Lmao🤣
Has anyone ever heard of a song called Stargazer by Rainbow?
It's about a wizard that convinces a society of people to uproot their civilization in order to spend nine years building him a massive tower in the desert based on the promise that once it's finished he would be able to use it to fly them all to a star where they could live in paradise.
After they destroyed their civilization to grant his wish and build his tower he climbs to the top and jumps off hoping to fly to the star but instead falls to the ground and dies leaving what little there is left of the civilization to mourn and regret and wonder why they destroyed their society for him.
Wow
The wizard is Tim Howard, isn't he?
Basically, the parable of Atlantis retold in a new way.
It's the best song of uprising. Thanks for sharing the story! Haven't really looked into the lyrics of it, but it adds more depth to it now that I know :)
Are you ,by any chance, related to the legendary drummer in Rainbow, Cozy Powell? :)
And light in the black....
"the world is sad and I don't like being in it"
masterful critique by jim sterling lol
I mean, it's not a critique, it's just how he feels.
@@Jessica-el5yx that's the joke
@@cherryr9285 I thought the joke was that it wasn't a very good critique, and I assumed that was a misinterpretation.
Oh, man I can relate.
Wait a minute... Are we still talking about the game?
No, the critique is pretty shit. I mean he didnt even finish the game. It's a story based survival game. You play it to survive and get told a story.
Baby Mario ruined this game for me years ago, never playing a game with a crying baby in it.
I'll admit, I'd been hyped about the possibilities for this game for years but as soon as the mechanic of calming the upset baby was revealed I noped out. The concepts related to death that it seemed to be playing with fascinate me and I could handle a baby being present as a detector thing, but to have to do the child-minding shit too? Nah. I'm happier not doing that, thanks.
It's like they took the crying baby from Yoshi's Island and the melon-carrying minigame from Yoshi's Story to make Yoshi's America.
Yakuza 6?
in an industry full of inane overproduced shit made to try to please everyone, it's hella nice to see so many resources poured into a game that is not aimed at anyone in particular- just gets an idea, implements and sticks with it. we need more "it's not for everybody" games, that's for sure
you mean you dont want another hero shooter or a battle royale type game or a live service???? whaaaat
Agreed
He built an intteresting world here, a sequal could be fantastic if he puts more mgs elements ( like the combat from mgs v )
@@antwango
All I need are Microtransactions honestly. We need a Microtransactions game.
@@antwango Now thats a straw man if I ever see one. Jut by creating something different it means it will be good. This game is an example of that. Tedious, boring and and in lack of better words: arrogant
@@qqq386
That's subjective though. I agree the writing was really pretentious (to the point where that one line near the end made me stop playing for two weeks), but lots of people can look past that because it's a new experience. People really do find wandering through the middle of nowhere, always on alert to preempt attacks by mules, terrorists, BTs and even the environment itself.
No matter what you do (short of Digital Homicide level trash), someone, somewhere will see the best in your game and find it fun.
On the bright side:
We now have a game that’s the most Hideo Kojima that ever Hideo’d a Kojima.
So we can use it as a measuring stick of whackyness in future Hideo Kojima games.
Hopefully there won’t be another unfiltered Kojima game and his next project will involve whichever company he’s working for saying “no” occasionally
This comment wins my day.
@@forgetaboutit1354 you mean 0.1 Kojima?
It's not whacky. It's stupid.
@@tehbeernerd He started his own company. So there isn't anyone to tell him no.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned watching Jim’s videos; never make him feel like he’s wasting time. That’s an unforgivable transgression.
But all video games are a waste of time.
@@EEKman71 I think there's a difference between wasting time and spending time. Playing a game for fifty hours that you really enjoy and connect with can be considered time well spent. Playing a game for fifty hours and not enjoying it to the point where you wish you were doing something else would be wasted time, and that's Jim point. His time was wasted rather than well spent
@@EEKman71 Yes, but we want it to be a *good* waste of time 😅
@@paradoxacres1063 it is a good waste of time. Ive enjoyed every second so far for the same reason i enjoy games like no mans sky. Its like methadone to the constant hits of seratonin every 10 seconds that most games try for. Its artsy fartsy and pretentious sure, but if you let yourself get lost in the minutia you might find yourself suddenly having an unusual amount of fun just jumping over rocks. You know, like what we all did when we were 5
@@EEKman71 OK, that's fair.
So I think all these guys who got the early review copy missed out on some of the better features of the game. Jim isnt wrong about a lot of what he said. But the more im playing the game, the more im seeing how the community molds the world, Literally. Jim touches on it with being able to use other players ladders and bridges and such. But because he played through quick and not for an extended period he probably missed out on how the more people play, the more the world feels traveled.
Ive been playing since release day, and on that first day the world was treacherous and rocky and not a single clear path to the next settlement in sight. But each time i fire up the game im noticing a rocky field now has a path where the rocks have disapeared making it simple to navigate. Then the next time there will be a light dirt road in that path making walking faster and less likely to lose balance. Then later that day that path was now a well traveled hard dirt road making the path through the once inhospitable field a breeze to walk.
The more people play, the more the terrain seems to be getting carved out into roads based on the most traveled paths people take, the community is slowly making the game easier and easier to play and traverse.
So does this mean that people who waited a few days (like me) are kinda screwed out of being able to pioneer? Am I gonna boot up the game to see a bunch of poorly designed buildings left by people who don't use them anymore (like conan)?
So, it's like Bethesda...
Why fix it when there are people (in Bethesda's case, modders) doing it for you?
@@matthewbrasel2737 Without spoiling too much, one of the main purposes of the game is connecting settlements to a network. Before an area is connected to a network its basically barren and untouched. So the first time you go through an area itll be like nobodies been there. Once connected to the network, other players structures and signs will be made available and appear for you.
These things will however disappear over time due to a rain that degrades things. But if a particular structure is popular or useful, players can provide materials to repair it and keep it in place.
And you cant make buildings. Its mostly just traversal items like ladders, climbing ropes and bridges.
You eventually gain the tech to make a safe house, but even that is like a small metal platform that works like an elevator that takes you below ground, it isnt a blight on the landscape.
@@sharif47 Hardly, it doesnt need fixing. In Bethesda's case they were lazy and made a broken game. With Death Stranding, the challenging terrain is intentional with built in mechanics to make it easier in whatever way you see fit, all to give the players a sense of accomplishment for carving out roads and paths together.
Theres a rocky hill between two settlements? You can take a long smooth path around it, gradually carving out a smooth dirt path to make the trip simple and traversable with vehicles. Or you can try and traverse over it, planning an efficient combination of ladders and climbing ropes to leave an easy to follow climbing path thats more challenging but will save you and others time.
The general travelling was only difficult to begin with anyway. I wonder how far Jim got, because by the time I got to the second area I was able to run around with heavy loads with no problem. I only occasionally had to really focus on my balance when I was carrying towering loads weighing like 300KG and climbing over giant jagged rocks.
@@matthewbrasel2737 Buildings deteriorate if I'm not mistaken
"A videogame that doesn't respect your time because it's so in love with itself."
Succinct.
He nailed it good right there.
I suspect many games are guilty of this. Recently I've picked up again Metal Gear Solid V and boy...does it feel like a waste of time. Credits before and after every mission, obnoxious base micromanaging which feels like the foundation of a cut-at-the-last-time monetizing 'feature' (included nevertheless in the online component), not even a goddamn 'jump' button for the goddamn rocky terrain, you have to be next to the thing you want to jump, wait for the prompt, then press 'E'. I'm like ... REALLY?!
@@razvandavid1510 kojima-isms
I downvoted your comment because I believe unintelligent people should not be allowed to speak about this game. It was never meant for people like you, who are incapable of connecting to art on an emotional level. Go back to your Call of Duty.
Hearing everything Jim said, it sounds like the vision for this game was more for it to be a simulation than a game. In the same way the devs behind dark souls said the games were never specifically designed to be be hard, but rather to test your patience and resourcefulness, I feel like Death Stranding is meant to immerse you in every aspect of this character trying to accomplish this huge task, even the parts that arent glamorous.
Sadly it doesn't stay immersive when you can double jump in the game.
Yeah, I can totally feel that this game is probably good if you look at it the way it's supposed to be played. The world is dead everything around you is dead, you've gotta resource manage and I think this would be neat for 1 life only runs, but for the majority of people I don't think it's gonna click for em. And that's not a bad thing. Am I gonna spend 65.99 on it? No, am I gonna wait for it to go on sale and just full dive immerse myself in it? Yeah probably.
@@deckardp.i.4088 It's a game about invisible ghosts, hands reaching out of the ground to grab you, and babies used as ghost detectors...and double jumping is the hill you choose to die on? 'Immersive' doesn't equal 'realistic'.
TL;DR: Death Stranding = AAA QWOP
Now that Kojima production released their tech demo I can't wait to see them make their first game!
Underrated comment here
This. Is. Exactly. It.
THIS! There's a lot of cool features on display here -- A LOT, Kojima; we get it. It's freaking gorgeous. He just needs someone to trim the fat, and create more of a GAME/plot/story, so the ghosts and whatever aren't an afterthought. RDR2 had a FANTASTIC story, even if it was tedious AF to play.
Devs, there's a difference between interactive programs and games. Had RDR2 been released as a CG film instead, it would've won a frikkin Oscar. Cuz that's what it was: an interactive movie with CGI. Death Stranding looks like it could be presented by some ivy league PhD candidate at a science fair for dystopian crises mitigation. :\
As a Metal Gear fan this does not surprise me at all.
Same bruh
He was always a lack of oversight/editing away from totally jumping the shark, this game proves that.