Cassie Barns that because the bastard would use that sneeze too in the game just to make us feel like idiots for missing it XD XD XD kojima makes us paranoid
Kojima : Achooooo!!!! Fans : As you can see here, his sneeze is symbolize the death pentagram of stigmata between death and living human being, as what happened in 1938 about genocidal theory about when bush did 9 11? yeah, that lead us to multi theory of afterworld of heaven, of 6th floor of heaven, and my theory is the one of the rightest from all of youtube whatever theory
That sneeze could be a new game mechanic where the game could resemble the traumatic effects of world war 3 and the result of no females in the teasers
Shaunak Deshpande it's interesting speculation and it doesn't sound that outlandish because we're seen games try and have an approach like this and everyone knows Kojima is really ambitious
No, it isn't. I'm not on the IGN hate bandwagon as I presume you are. What is it about IGN content you don't like? I mean, you're here... Did they review a game you thought deserved a higher score or something? That's normally the sort of pettiness that gets people upset.
Thought: Maybe all of the "cords/ropes" that are seen throughout the video that are spiraling into the sky are markers for locations that the player and/or characters have died? You see them coming from Sam's body in the ocean death scene, and then again in the final shot you can see them littered throughout the landscape.
I don't like defending people (specially IGN), but for the ones that say "there is no gameplay, this is clickbait": They talked about the story and what we've seen in the trailers, but also how the deaths and the weather in the game work, that's part of the gameplay. Also, the title says "Gameplay and Lore explained", implying that they are gonna explain how it works, not show it. If there's anything to critique here, it's the "explained" part, because these were vague conclusions.
Wait. So Timefall and the baby inside Norman Reedus. Possibly that baby was just Norman's character being reborn, and the timefall, with it's ability to move time forward, moves that baby forward into time to the point where it's an adult again. That makes sense in my head.
The baby lets them see the ghosts or see if the ghost things are nearby. Notice how the guy had the baby and his machine started to indicate that there were enemies nearby. We couldn't see them and yet he was saying they were surrounded. After he died and when Norman picked up the baby, his machine instantly started to work and he was able to see the monsters or whatever they are. But hey.. That's just a theory!
i think its just a sensor it moves faster or slower how close the creature is..its most likely a stealth aspect of the game knowing kojima there will be stealth in this game.
Everyone else has their baby on the outside. But Sam, he's got the baby within.... also the guy under the car doesn't have his hood on which is probably why he's affected by the rain. The others do have their hoods.
Yeah I'm almost sad he gave that part away before I could catch that. I figured it wasn't the shadow beings draining him like everyone was speculating, but couldn't put my finger on what else it could be.
Calling it now: at some point in the story (possibly ending), the baby is going to be released from the capsule and the ‘time rain’ is going to make it rapidly grow into an adult; and how about for extra mind fuckery, the baby is actually Norman Reedus (Sam)
The rain didn't hit Norma's Reedus cos he had a raincoat on you goddamn stoners. Only guy who aged was the one who didn't have the hoodie over his head.
i also cant stand it when people who are supposed to be top notch reporters and analyzers, miss such crucial details and explain things completely wrong.
hey, it's kojima, plus this is all theoretical anyway, much more so than anything in metal gear was. being protected from the rain would make sense in this case, seeing as how the energy or power within the rain to age things, is not coming in contact with organic matter, like skin cells or plant cells, relatively fragile things compared to whatever industrial plastic or material their coats are made from. so in the time a human would age to be old, glass or plastic would not deteriorate much.
TL;DR: When you die in the game, you are reborn in some ocean and you return to your death position. When you die times doesnt revert to before you died, time passes as you sort of rescurrect(? Details on that is unclear) yourself everytime you die. Rain/rainfall and the dark flood of water is a mechanic in the game which is called Timefall. When something comes in contact with the timefall, it rapidly ages (as seen in the last trailer) Our main character Norman is an exception doesnt age rapidly for unknown reasons. There is only one baby, it appears.
The scifi raincoat also protects them from the Timefall. That's why the fallen character aged (his face was exposed to the rain) but the other guy trying to help him wasn't affected while he was covered by his suit/raincoat thing.
David Lynch improvises throughout his projects, as in he makes stuff up on the go. If something feels right, it probably is and is thusly implemented. There is no strict adherence to a unified grand vision, and what goes on is largely free to individual interpretation. This is why some of his projects quite literally make almost no overall sense beyond an expression of purely artistic merit. It’s good art, dynamic and alive and it speaks to your soul, but it is an altogether different beast than what we are seeing here. Lynch is almost the inverse of Kojima’s approach. Definitely more comparable to Andrei Tarkovsky, although that is a bit of a stretch as well. Tarkovsky explored somewhat isolated themes of well established philosophical thought (like Isaac Asimov). Hideo Kojima spreads his eclectic vision almost to the point of thematical oversaturation, given the limited narrative scope of the medium (hence the frequent utilization of massive grandiose cutscenes).
Yeah, the gameplay is supposed to feel a lot like 3rd person shooters such us Uncharted, but at the same time it's somehow gonna be... more than that? Supposedly, it's gonna be comparable to how the very first Metal Gear game had the same controls that all top-down fighting games had at the time, so people didn't even realize it was supposed to be a stealth game when it came out. I'm paraphrasing, but Kojima _did_ say something to that effect. Essentially, Death Stranding will play like a 3rd person shooter, but there'll be an overarching layer of gameplay on top of that. What that is, we will obviously have to wait to find out.
Why not both? Hey, could be, and personally I see no issue with that. If it's similar to how the switch between 1st/3rd person has worked in MGS then it could be a welcome addition to the overall experience imo.
Fallout Wanderer 2077 would be cool if it was like this. It would be like gtav camera. I was so surprised after playing 20 hrs in and found out that you can play in first person.
This really was a perfect trailer though, showing a lot of possible gameplay mechanics in a really natural way, like showing the life bar on the characters wrists (that changes colors like in Dead Space), the moving robotic thingy on their back that might be some kind of danger indicator, the fact that staying still and not breathing keeps you somewhat safe, etc,... There's also a company name on the character's uniforms and vehicles, yeah, that's great.
Omfg, if the open world is actually explorable and not empty with meaningful side quests, the story is complete and the gameplay is revolved around whether or not you want to play stealthily in carefully planned level designs it'll be too good to be true.
Great video!! Starting to make a bit more sense now! But also worth noting, there isnt just 1 baby. If you see in the trailer, Mads Mikkelsens character that lands on the truck, also has one attached to him
Abner Fuentes no kojima want to make horror and mysteries games mayzaki want some science fiction and robotic. kojima wirte a story twisted mayzaki know how to tell story in gameplay in fact they complement each other
This explained all the oil in the water when this game was first revealed oil is created by really old but living things that died and minerals breaking down over hundreds of years the rain makes stuff it comes into contact with age so well that mystery is solved also it gives you an idea of how many living things have already died in the world of the game
I'm very excited for this game, cause you know if Kojima is involved then it's gonna be strange and unusual but once you play the game and get deep into it the more it'll make sense. I hope that there will be a novelization of the game as well and that it'll expand even more on the lore.
Considering they say the baby is the same 1 that we have seen. Is it possible it gets cut out of him? In previous trailer he has a scar on his stomach. Just a thought.
We finally got some good info about this game, and surprisingly enough those info are from IGN. Good job and great video!! (I never taught I would say that to you)
Kojima loves to pick people's brains. It's very interesting, The way he creates his video games, The camera angles even in metal gear. Also Death Stranding, It looks so much like a film. I don't think i've seen any other developer make something so unique in my life. Life may be short but no matter what I have to see what this becomes. This is one of my wishes, Arigatō Kojima-san. You make me believe that there is still hope for the video game industry.
That's not the only baby, the guy who floated down upon the car had the same type of carrying case strapped to his torso as well. If anything, the babies seem to react as the device does, so perhaps they're connected.
I guess not a lot of people know Kojima enough. Naughty Dog always delivers story and gameplay but they're way more popular and recognizable than Kojima's games. Kojima's games are extremely far apart which is another reason.
I don't see it as a double standard. The Last of Us 2 is a sequel. I would imagine that most people already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from it in regards to gameplay. But Death Standing is a totally new IP. People are eager to learn about it, so they get frustrated when the trailers for it reveal little besides weird imagery and Norman Reedus openly sobbing for some reason. For the record, I hate teasers and trailers that lack gameplay. You are making a game, show me some gameplay.
New personal theory. When Reedus wakes up from his death, he's in the same place he was before, but crying. I also take in consideration these invisible creatures that leave handprints. My guess is that when he dies he turns into one of those, a type of ghost, and he's crying not only because he's dead, but also because he has to kill to survive, just like the rest of the "ghosts".
interesting...the black goos and time-accelerating stuff remind me of a manga in my reading list, the manga has a similar concept: some people could sense the flow of time as a kind of black water, and they are constant on the run from "time water" to avoid contact, so they could live forever without aging. Normal people are submerged in that water on a daily basic, so they grow, wither and eventually die.
If you watch the other videos, everyone needs an artificial womb while Norman is the only one who doesn’t. I feel like possession of the baby allows people to live after dying, but Norman is special cause the baby is connected to him somehow. The baby seems to avoid danger by teleporting away from it.
The baby represents our heart. When we die metaphorical as in when we start working we start aging faster but the baby represents our youthful heart like when we game or do what we love
When they first showed Death Stranding last year I was like "wow cool, can't wait to see more!" but just kind of forgot about it..but the latest trailer honestly pulled me back in. I love the vibes this game has and I'm really amped for whats to come. And the information from this video only makes me want this more
I guess the baby has some detecting abilities since it powers the shoulder machines and when it's inside norman's belly in the end he's able to see the figures instead of just some invisible creature.
The Rain isnt hitting him cause he's wearing the hoodie, the other guy is too, so im guessing the rain has to make contact with your skin in order for it to age.
Deathbrewer Its a game, there could be a thousand explanations but the main difference i seen between the people were that the two had their hoodies up whereas the other guy was exposed, im sure theres got to be a mechanic in place to help you not get exposed to it, im sure that is it.
I’m seeing a lot of people praising Kojima in the comments section but i think Miyazaki deserves more praise. I don’t mean to start a war but it takes a lil too much to make a compelling story by item descriptions than hour long cinematics (metal gear series)
I really believe that the baby being protected may be the last female alive. There were no women in the trailers, not even women soldiers for Mads' army marching with him in the first trailer for this game a year ago. I also believe Sam (Norman) to be the only survivor of whatever Mads' character is and that he is impervious to him. I believe because Sam is the only proven survivor, he is designated to transport (porter) the female baby safely so possibly he can impregnate her and make more safe people. I also believe it possible that Sam is a robot designated to protect the human baby that is possibly the last on Earth in his time
Having to return to your body to get your stuff back isn't a "dark souls thing". First game I know of that had that mechanic was Asheron's Call, but the concept is likely older still.
I think the timefall ( rain ) did not affect anything , only the one who drinks the timefall ( rain water ) is ageing and getting old , because you can see it in the trailer the only man who getting old is the man who is under the car but he didn't get old until he screamed and open his mouth. Maybe am wrong 🙄
don't you just miss the old days where you actually go gameplay footage in the commercials right there on you little tv at home before dragon bll z comes on back on from a break? i miss those days too
you guys do realize that the whole "death run" mechanic where a player needs to run back to where they died to collect their stuff has been around before Dark Souls and not every game that does it need to be compared to Dark Souls, right? I mean World of Warcraft had the death run mechanics and that game came out in 2004.
Does everyone forget that in Shadow of Mordor you basically died but you didnt? I mean, youd die, respawn at the tower, but your death and previous actions left a trail in the world. Also the orcs society gets affected by you dying or not. When you meet the one that killed you he'd say something about how he's gonna kill you and you didnt have enough of him beating you. I know that Hideo probably will implement the idea of life after death with permanent consequences in a lot more complex and detailed way, but the idea of continuous progress in the timeline without "going back to the last save point" is nothing new
story line : the oil run out of the world and the creatures those whose creating it under the world came out. so, the world divided into two parts one was planning to capture those creatures (Mads mikelsen) ,and another part was planning to save the humanity (Norman team) and the creature have another dimensions that effect the world laws sorry for my bad English
What if Mads character started on our "side" and he converted over to the other... His technology seems similar to the team Norman's character is with. Not only does he have a version of the robot arm, if you pause you can see he has the baby fetus tank thing on his chest too like the other guy. It's really interesting... I think he went evil.
the baby is norman, if the baby dies norman dies. The whole world of death stranding is virtual, its about what we sacrifice to be online. The baby stands for humanity, the senses.. which you ignore in the virtual world and therefore are no longer living as youre no longer connected.
Wasn't it supposed to be like those character from different world are PLAYERS and they somehow invade it. That's what was being said about this game months ago and I guess by Kojima himself. Unless it changed in the process but I don't think so. Look at those characters doing that distinctive hand gesture. Mads Mikkelsen's character in the trailer was controlling those zombie soldiers like that.
In TPP we got on the back of the Eli's jacket "NEVER BE GAME OVER", in DS when we die we go into the purgatory, in that case, a under water world... a LIQUID substance!!! Coincidence? I dont think so... That man its beyond the genius
Kojima has said this latest trailer is the earliest point we've seen so far. So we know it takes place before the first two trailers at least. There were fan theories that the first two trailers were happening at the same time though.
Deathbrewer Not likely. Even if the baby is jumping between parallel universes via the artificial womb thing that's always around the device is broken in the first trailer. The baby is seen outside of it. The baby would then be stuck in that universe.
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I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for a shoulder-mounted robot pal like that.
~Marty
IGN It will be part of the collector's edition of the game, mark my words :)!
I want a shoulder mounted alert system that will flap and light up when i'm about to stand on lego bricks or a plug in the dark
IGN release the 30 min interview.
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You mean a mirror?
IGN Same marty same
Kojima: (sneezes while in the middle of explaining death stranding's gameplay)
People: *starts deciphering the sneeze*
Cassie Barns that because the bastard would use that sneeze too in the game just to make us feel like idiots for missing it XD XD XD kojima makes us paranoid
Cassie Barns LOL 😂
Kojima : Achooooo!!!!
Fans : As you can see here, his sneeze is symbolize the death pentagram of stigmata between death and living human being, as what happened in 1938 about genocidal theory about when bush did 9 11? yeah, that lead us to multi theory of afterworld of heaven, of 6th floor of heaven, and my theory is the one of the rightest from all of youtube whatever theory
Kojima farts and mass deciphering ensues
That sneeze could be a new game mechanic where the game could resemble the traumatic effects of world war 3 and the result of no females in the teasers
Kojima: Im making a new video game!!
Me: Awesome! What is it about?!
Kojima: Yeah
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This video had surprisingly good info. Good job
Shaunak Deshpande it's interesting speculation and it doesn't sound that outlandish because we're seen games try and have an approach like this and everyone knows Kojima is really ambitious
Why suprising? It's IGN... always quality content.
lanesplitter87 Is that sarcasm?
lanesplitter87 your joke is funny
No, it isn't. I'm not on the IGN hate bandwagon as I presume you are. What is it about IGN content you don't like? I mean, you're here... Did they review a game you thought deserved a higher score or something? That's normally the sort of pettiness that gets people upset.
There's gameplay? I just assumed it would be a 1000 hour cutscene.
Mr Corps Issa joke pal
need to relax, dude was joking, we all know its a video game.
Mr Corps kinda dickish comment ngl he means along side of metal gear becuase of kojima
Mr Corps
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B. Tisdale Yes there is, "Death Stranding" is a videogame. That's the evidence.
May we continue to be confused in excitement
As long as it's not excrement, I read this as this for some reason...
Thought: Maybe all of the "cords/ropes" that are seen throughout the video that are spiraling into the sky are markers for locations that the player and/or characters have died? You see them coming from Sam's body in the ocean death scene, and then again in the final shot you can see them littered throughout the landscape.
Kojima did talk about using 'threads' to connect experiences between players online for Death Stranding.
I swear, if these 'threads' are umbilical chords, imma flip.
Notice they're all connected to the whales and dolphins as well
I don't like defending people (specially IGN), but for the ones that say "there is no gameplay, this is clickbait": They talked about the story and what we've seen in the trailers, but also how the deaths and the weather in the game work, that's part of the gameplay.
Also, the title says "Gameplay and Lore explained", implying that they are gonna explain how it works, not show it. If there's anything to critique here, it's the "explained" part, because these were vague conclusions.
Inserte Nombre "Game play *EXPLAINED*"
Wait. So Timefall and the baby inside Norman Reedus. Possibly that baby was just Norman's character being reborn, and the timefall, with it's ability to move time forward, moves that baby forward into time to the point where it's an adult again. That makes sense in my head.
That theory is very N I C E
Yeah like when you die, you’re a baby. And the timefall happens, you grow up to how old you were when you died, then you can collect your stuff maybe?
Chris Wong I'm won't be surprised if there's more than one Norman
Interesting theory. Might be why that one particular baby is protected as well. I think you may be onto something.
Nobody should be. Should we start counting Snakes, just to make sure?
I hate IGN reviews but I love it when they actually do inside scoops like this. Good content
The baby lets them see the ghosts or see if the ghost things are nearby. Notice how the guy had the baby and his machine started to indicate that there were enemies nearby. We couldn't see them and yet he was saying they were surrounded. After he died and when Norman picked up the baby, his machine instantly started to work and he was able to see the monsters or whatever they are. But hey.. That's just a theory!
You can see them, though. They're faint, but visible in the clouds/fog.
AlleElizabeth I believe that's just for us viewers to see what he's looking at
i think its just a sensor it moves faster or slower how close the creature is..its most likely a stealth aspect of the game knowing kojima there will be stealth in this game.
Yellow Guy A GAME THEORY!
That's what I'm saying but I think they using that baby as a battery tho makes no sense but it does
Everyone else has their baby on the outside. But Sam, he's got the baby within....
also the guy under the car doesn't have his hood on which is probably why he's affected by the rain. The others do have their hoods.
Yeah I'm almost sad he gave that part away before I could catch that. I figured it wasn't the shadow beings draining him like everyone was speculating, but couldn't put my finger on what else it could be.
Also how come they held their breathe for a hotsec then didnt do it again when the “unseen” (my name for them) cone back?
Mr Azza that name gives me shivers "unseen" its so goood and mysterious
Purple Squad it’s much better than “invisible floating people” my initial name for them 😂😂
Calling it now: at some point in the story (possibly ending), the baby is going to be released from the capsule and the ‘time rain’ is going to make it rapidly grow into an adult; and how about for extra mind fuckery, the baby is actually Norman Reedus (Sam)
I can actually see it happening.
I'm too sober for this XD
It kinda did but at the end timefalls stopped. And it wasn't Sam but Lou
This is my most anticipated game right now.
cocoMB after tlou
The rain didn't hit Norma's Reedus cos he had a raincoat on you goddamn stoners.
Only guy who aged was the one who didn't have the hoodie over his head.
Yep, the scifi raincoats protect them from the Timerain, lol.
i also cant stand it when people who are supposed to be top notch reporters and analyzers, miss such crucial details and explain things completely wrong.
hey, it's kojima, plus this is all theoretical anyway, much more so than anything in metal gear was. being protected from the rain would make sense in this case, seeing as how the energy or power within the rain to age things, is not coming in contact with organic matter, like skin cells or plant cells, relatively fragile things compared to whatever industrial plastic or material their coats are made from. so in the time a human would age to be old, glass or plastic would not deteriorate much.
TL;DR:
When you die in the game, you are reborn in some ocean and you return to your death position. When you die times doesnt revert to before you died, time passes as you sort of rescurrect(? Details on that is unclear) yourself everytime you die.
Rain/rainfall and the dark flood of water is a mechanic in the game which is called Timefall. When something comes in contact with the timefall, it rapidly ages (as seen in the last trailer)
Our main character Norman is an exception doesnt age rapidly for unknown reasons.
There is only one baby, it appears.
The scifi raincoat also protects them from the Timefall. That's why the fallen character aged (his face was exposed to the rain) but the other guy trying to help him wasn't affected while he was covered by his suit/raincoat thing.
"We're not worthy, we're not worthy"
That was actually a lot of good information, sweet.
*SPOILER: THERE IS NO GAMEPLAY*
PLAYSTATIONGUYGaming It literally says gameplay EXPLAINED...wow!
which is why the title says "lore and gameplay EXPLAINED" good job sherlock~
Explained...
That's what they thought about MGS
It's a button masher like telltale games.
Kojima really is the David Lynch of video games now.
lankyGigantic more like the Tarkovsky
Eh.
No, David Lynch is the Dark Souls of movies.
Am I doing this right? Do I get to be a video game journalist now?
He has been since MGS2
David Lynch improvises throughout his projects, as in he makes stuff up on the go. If something feels right, it probably is and is thusly implemented. There is no strict adherence to a unified grand vision, and what goes on is largely free to individual interpretation. This is why some of his projects quite literally make almost no overall sense beyond an expression of purely artistic merit. It’s good art, dynamic and alive and it speaks to your soul, but it is an altogether different beast than what we are seeing here.
Lynch is almost the inverse of Kojima’s approach. Definitely more comparable to Andrei Tarkovsky, although that is a bit of a stretch as well. Tarkovsky explored somewhat isolated themes of well established philosophical thought (like Isaac Asimov). Hideo Kojima spreads his eclectic vision almost to the point of thematical oversaturation, given the limited narrative scope of the medium (hence the frequent utilization of massive grandiose cutscenes).
the part that was crazy in this trailer was when the guy tried to kill himself multiple times and some malevolent force wouldn't let him
ashtonjackfanny yeah... i wonder what the forces want
This has been one of the more informative videos that I’ve seen about this subject. Hats off to you gentlemen.
They aren't special, they're wearing suits to protect from the "rain"
Well i guess they are cos they got that "corpse disposal team" on their suits.
It seems they've never heard of a hood.
beerstone2573 plastics like vinyl tend to dramatically outlast things like grass and humans.
Truth i saw on the wiki a rain called Timefall
Read the wiki it has gameplay details
Doesn't plastic have an insane lifetime?
Okay, can people not read the title? It's literally says gameplay EXPLAINED
Hope it's Third person view
Luther D. Strode I think its already confirmed to be third person
Luther D. Strode it is!
Yeah, the gameplay is supposed to feel a lot like 3rd person shooters such us Uncharted, but at the same time it's somehow gonna be... more than that? Supposedly, it's gonna be comparable to how the very first Metal Gear game had the same controls that all top-down fighting games had at the time, so people didn't even realize it was supposed to be a stealth game when it came out. I'm paraphrasing, but Kojima _did_ say something to that effect. Essentially, Death Stranding will play like a 3rd person shooter, but there'll be an overarching layer of gameplay on top of that. What that is, we will obviously have to wait to find out.
Why not both? Hey, could be, and personally I see no issue with that. If it's similar to how the switch between 1st/3rd person has worked in MGS then it could be a welcome addition to the overall experience imo.
Fallout Wanderer 2077 would be cool if it was like this. It would be like gtav camera. I was so surprised after playing 20 hrs in and found out that you can play in first person.
This really was a perfect trailer though, showing a lot of possible gameplay mechanics in a really natural way, like showing the life bar on the characters wrists (that changes colors like in Dead Space), the moving robotic thingy on their back that might be some kind of danger indicator, the fact that staying still and not breathing keeps you somewhat safe, etc,... There's also a company name on the character's uniforms and vehicles, yeah, that's great.
Death Stranding is the next big thing. I can already tell
Kojima took the only thing that make Miyazaki a genius like him. He explained death in the game, giving it a sense in the Lore of the game itself.
Omfg, if the open world is actually explorable and not empty with meaningful side quests, the story is complete and the gameplay is revolved around whether or not you want to play stealthily in carefully planned level designs it'll be too good to be true.
Great video!! Starting to make a bit more sense now! But also worth noting, there isnt just 1 baby. If you see in the trailer, Mads Mikkelsens character that lands on the truck, also has one attached to him
if myazaki and kojima work togther
AssassinGrudge I think the tones of their works are a bit too different for that to work.
Abner Fuentes no kojima want to make horror and mysteries games mayzaki want some science fiction and robotic. kojima wirte a story twisted mayzaki know how to tell story in gameplay in fact they complement each other
AssassinGrudge miyazaki doesn't really like dark horror though for the most part.
AssassinGrudge kojima does not make horror games lmfao
*Hideaki Anno*
Death stranding is my favorite game already
Me to ! IT'S NOT OUT YET BUT I ALREADY LOVE DEATH STRANDING !
This explained all the oil in the water when this game was first revealed oil is created by really old but living things that died and minerals breaking down over hundreds of years the rain makes stuff it comes into contact with age so well that mystery is solved also it gives you an idea of how many living things have already died in the world of the game
I'm very excited for this game, cause you know if Kojima is involved then it's gonna be strange and
unusual but once you play the game and get deep into it the more it'll make sense. I hope that there will
be a novelization of the game as well and that it'll expand even more on the lore.
Here's hoping for a 2 week long boss fight now that nobody can tell Hideo "No".
This...is The End
Get this to YongYea !
I'm pretty sure he's working on his usual 20-hour analysis video :D Can't wait!
Considering they say the baby is the same 1 that we have seen. Is it possible it gets cut out of him? In previous trailer he has a scar on his stomach. Just a thought.
hawk40gtx - or they use it as a warning ⚠️. The back analyzer thing only works with whoever has the baby
Jenson John-Alexander yong yea here
We finally got some good info about this game, and surprisingly enough those info are from IGN. Good job and great video!! (I never taught I would say that to you)
Kojima loves to pick people's brains. It's very interesting, The way he creates his video games, The camera angles even in metal gear. Also Death Stranding, It looks so much like a film. I don't think i've seen any other developer make something so unique in my life. Life may be short but no matter what I have to see what this becomes. This is one of my wishes, Arigatō Kojima-san. You make me believe that there is still hope for the video game industry.
Good job guys, an actually good video that explained the confusing parts.
That's not the only baby, the guy who floated down upon the car had the same type of carrying case strapped to his torso as well. If anything, the babies seem to react as the device does, so perhaps they're connected.
the baby is the one who could see them, and that connected to the shoulder probe
Harry potter, Is that you
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far from reality
Its funny how people only say that Death Stranding has no gameplay, when The Last of Us 2 only has had cinematics, and people don't say the same
I guess not a lot of people know Kojima enough. Naughty Dog always delivers story and gameplay but they're way more popular and recognizable than Kojima's games. Kojima's games are extremely far apart which is another reason.
Fernando Sosa double standard is real
I don't see it as a double standard. The Last of Us 2 is a sequel. I would imagine that most people already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from it in regards to gameplay.
But Death Standing is a totally new IP. People are eager to learn about it, so they get frustrated when the trailers for it reveal little besides weird imagery and Norman Reedus openly sobbing for some reason.
For the record, I hate teasers and trailers that lack gameplay. You are making a game, show me some gameplay.
Fernando Sosa is the nostalgia effect
Fernando Sosa it's funny cause it's a joke
I dont understand why this video is getting a lot of hate. It is actually really informative and concise.
Max and Marty keep up the great stuff, love you guys always a pleasure to hear from you, folks like you makes the internet a better place
New personal theory. When Reedus wakes up from his death, he's in the same place he was before, but crying. I also take in consideration these invisible creatures that leave handprints. My guess is that when he dies he turns into one of those, a type of ghost, and he's crying not only because he's dead, but also because he has to kill to survive, just like the rest of the "ghosts".
interesting...the black goos and time-accelerating stuff remind me of a manga in my reading list, the manga has a similar concept: some people could sense the flow of time as a kind of black water, and they are constant on the run from "time water" to avoid contact, so they could live forever without aging. Normal people are submerged in that water on a daily basic, so they grow, wither and eventually die.
If you watch the other videos, everyone needs an artificial womb while Norman is the only one who doesn’t. I feel like possession of the baby allows people to live after dying, but Norman is special cause the baby is connected to him somehow. The baby seems to avoid danger by teleporting away from it.
The baby represents our heart. When we die metaphorical as in when we start working we start aging faster but the baby represents our youthful heart like when we game or do what we love
When they first showed Death Stranding last year I was like "wow cool, can't wait to see more!" but just kind of forgot about it..but the latest trailer honestly pulled me back in. I love the vibes this game has and I'm really amped for whats to come. And the information from this video only makes me want this more
I guess the baby has some detecting abilities since it powers the shoulder machines and when it's inside norman's belly in the end he's able to see the figures instead of just some invisible creature.
The Rain isnt hitting him cause he's wearing the hoodie, the other guy is too, so im guessing the rain has to make contact with your skin in order for it to age.
Yep, scifi raincoat clearly protects you.
Deathbrewer Its a game, there could be a thousand explanations but the main difference i seen between the people were that the two had their hoodies up whereas the other guy was exposed, im sure theres got to be a mechanic in place to help you not get exposed to it, im sure that is it.
I was agreeing with you.
Deathbrewer My apologies, I dunno why my mind processed it as an argument.
“Obviously the internet everyone is interconnected”
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This is actually one of the few good IGN videos
When i see "death stranding" and "explained" in the same sentence, i grow more faith in humanity!
Kojima always thinks out of the box
So then the dreamcatcher is an item since it was on his rig but then was floating in the water.
I’m seeing a lot of people praising Kojima in the comments section but i think Miyazaki deserves more praise. I don’t mean to start a war but it takes a lil too much to make a compelling story by item descriptions than hour long cinematics (metal gear series)
Wow this is actually new and meaningful information. Thank you very much!
I'm glad the main man himself gave us just a little bit of information about the game. A bit of it makes sense
Kojima's games don't start when the disc goes into your system. It starts when it's announced.
I really believe that the baby being protected may be the last female alive. There were no women in the trailers, not even women soldiers for Mads' army marching with him in the first trailer for this game a year ago. I also believe Sam (Norman) to be the only survivor of whatever Mads' character is and that he is impervious to him. I believe because Sam is the only proven survivor, he is designated to transport (porter) the female baby safely so possibly he can impregnate her and make more safe people. I also believe it possible that Sam is a robot designated to protect the human baby that is possibly the last on Earth in his time
IGN's Ricky and Elliot, much love.
"May death stranding.. keep you guessing, or something."
It looks like something Tool would do..
Jonadab Balderas good one
Absolutely.
Decent video. Information from the man himself that sheds some light on things. Thanks!
And they say single person games are dead. I love the stories they tell.
Having to return to your body to get your stuff back isn't a "dark souls thing". First game I know of that had that mechanic was Asheron's Call, but the concept is likely older still.
I think the timefall ( rain ) did not affect anything , only the one who drinks the timefall ( rain water ) is ageing and getting old , because you can see it in the trailer the only man who getting old is the man who is under the car but he didn't get old until he screamed and open his mouth.
Maybe am wrong 🙄
Anybody else cant see the video but can only hear the audio?
don't you just miss the old days where you actually go gameplay footage in the commercials right there on you little tv at home before dragon bll z comes on back on from a break? i miss those days too
Kojima directing: "yes"
Production: "so what game are we makin...what?"
Can someone explain to me, is there any information of all that stuff? Or were the trailers just thrown out into the world just like that.
So who is the character played by Mads Mikkelsen? Is he supposed to be the arch boss villain in the entire game? He was in the first trailer.
"This is a very important baby."
Sam and his companion, I think they didn’t even contact the timefall
It wasnt Snake Eater, it was MGS2 that had the game over screen , but you kept playing in the little screen at the top ~
you guys do realize that the whole "death run" mechanic where a player needs to run back to where they died to collect their stuff has been around before Dark Souls and not every game that does it need to be compared to Dark Souls, right?
I mean World of Warcraft had the death run mechanics and that game came out in 2004.
The tl;dw is : Death won't reset your progress, you'll respawn in water and resume.
The rest is just idle chatter.
*joins hands and leans foward*
It's not aging them because the rain isn't touching their skin?
I knew it as soon as they said death keeps you moving forward and talking about death as a mechanic they’d mention dark souls.
Lot of cut scenes but no game play ?
Does everyone forget that in Shadow of Mordor you basically died but you didnt? I mean, youd die, respawn at the tower, but your death and previous actions left a trail in the world. Also the orcs society gets affected by you dying or not. When you meet the one that killed you he'd say something about how he's gonna kill you and you didnt have enough of him beating you.
I know that Hideo probably will implement the idea of life after death with permanent consequences in a lot more complex and detailed way, but the idea of continuous progress in the timeline without "going back to the last save point" is nothing new
Timefall must've only affected that one guy because he lost his protective helmet.
story line :
the oil run out of the world and the creatures those whose creating it under the world came out.
so, the world divided into two parts one was planning to capture those creatures (Mads
mikelsen) ,and another part was planning to save the humanity (Norman team) and
the creature have another dimensions that effect the world laws
sorry for my bad English
What if Mads character started on our "side" and he converted over to the other... His technology seems similar to the team Norman's character is with. Not only does he have a version of the robot arm, if you pause you can see he has the baby fetus tank thing on his chest too like the other guy. It's really interesting... I think he went evil.
interesting I like your theory more ,but one thing I am sure about is " the story is so so deep and complicated "
Just found out about this game and it is unlike any game on the market right now, surely it will impress us like all of Hideo Kojimas work
Kojima is the Enstien of gaming entertainment. He was praised by those work for him. People like Del Toro and Norman Reedus for his genius.
Very informative video, cheers IGN
“JUST LIKE DARK SOULS!!”
the baby is norman, if the baby dies norman dies. The whole world of death stranding is virtual, its about what we sacrifice to be online. The baby stands for humanity, the senses.. which you ignore in the virtual world and therefore are no longer living as youre no longer connected.
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that this would be easier to understand if I were on Acid.
Om, finally, no AD!!!
Hands down to the meaning of "Timefall" Thanks its a nice material for my novel.
I can’t help but feel like the baby thing idea comes straight up from PT
Gonna call it, the baby is what allows you to come back to life. Which is why there was a fetus in Reedus, and partially why the baby is so important
Wasn't it supposed to be like those character from different world are PLAYERS and they somehow invade it. That's what was being said about this game months ago and I guess by Kojima himself. Unless it changed in the process but I don't think so. Look at those characters doing that distinctive hand gesture. Mads Mikkelsen's character in the trailer was controlling those zombie soldiers like that.
In TPP we got on the back of the Eli's jacket "NEVER BE GAME OVER", in DS when we die we go into the purgatory, in that case, a under water world... a LIQUID substance!!! Coincidence? I dont think so... That man its beyond the genius
Am I the only who thinks that Trailers 2 and 3 takes place at te same time in parallel universes?
Kojima has said this latest trailer is the earliest point we've seen so far. So we know it takes place before the first two trailers at least. There were fan theories that the first two trailers were happening at the same time though.
Deathbrewer Not likely. Even if the baby is jumping between parallel universes via the artificial womb thing that's always around the device is broken in the first trailer. The baby is seen outside of it. The baby would then be stuck in that universe.
Man this is literally the first game of which I am completely unable to guess how its gameplay goes.