Death Stranding: Tarkovsky's Stalker of video games, also The Postman with K.Costner

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Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

I'm about 5 hours into this game, and last night I stumbled down a slick hill, caught my balance just in time to jump-punch a MULE. Knocked him out instantly, slo-mo grabbed his cargo container, then in the same motion chucked it directly into his buddy's face and KO'd him.

gently caress this game is awesome.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2020 14:53

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:34

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Beat the game last night and I'm still figuring out if I really liked the game or not. It had awesome moments, the world building is awesome, but... I dunno, almost everything just fell flat for me. I don't give a poo poo about any of the characters, all the deliveries felt boring, the game seriously plateaued a few missions after you make it out West, and honestly the gameplay was just.. mediocre.

I don't regret playing it at all it was certainly an experience, but having just beat it and reading about a bunch of the stuff I missed out, I really feel no compulsion to pick the game back up. I'm gonna take a break from it for awhile and see if the urge comes back, but I just don't think it will. I'm kinda bummed cause MGSV was so fuckin fun to gently caress around in once you beat the game, but DS does not have me in that same mindset at all.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 18:50

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Ben Nerevarine posted:

It�s honestly better if you never find out what BT stands for

Mark my words: turn back!

i had to google it cause i guess i missed it in game

they never tell you what DOOMS stands for, do they?

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 17:34

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

drat Odradek, Obfuscating MULE poo poo!

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 17:48

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Stare-Out posted:

BT stands for Boring Trash. I love this game but it would be better if it didn't have BTs or Mules in it.

I agree but I think BTs should've been used way more sparingly. Mules were fun for just beating the absolute poo poo out of with their own containers, so they get a pass for me.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 18:06

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Stare-Out posted:

I don't mind them in the game as-is but I wish they'd ditched them aside from a few encounters in favor of focusing on the traversal being the main "antagonist" because they had it figured out so drat well already.

It was pretty much every other order was BT territory. In the beginning of the game they were spoopy as poo poo; towards the end I basically was just crouching through the most efficient route and severing any umbilicals that I incidentally found.

I'm def still processing everything but I think I liked Heartman the best out of all the characters. Really intriguing backstory, like really the only one I found believable and actually human, and funny but not dumb-funny interactions.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 18:23

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

I should give MGS3 a replay at some point, it wasn't my favourite when it came out but I think I'd appreciate it more now.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 18:26

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Tormented posted:

Raiden from MG4

The Zombie Guy posted:

I just finished a mission where I had to transport some unusual cargo: A living person. I carried the artist girl to her boyfriend the Junk Dealer for a happy reunion, yaaaay. I first wondered "Why the hell am I carrying this grown rear end adult on my back, instead of her riding on my trike, or walking beside me?" Then I realized that if I didn't carry her, it would have been a lovely escort mission through enemy territory, which is never fun ever. So shlepping her rear end over the hill, much simpler.

I am pretty sure I let out an audible "oh thank gently caress" when it showed her all wrapped up in a body bag for that one, lol

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:45

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Sam, Delirium Tremans here. Where's that delivery of beer?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 16:40

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

CJacobs posted:

No, because it's one of the rewards for beating the game . Would've been cool if your suit color changed according to the type of delivery you're doing or something like that.

What are the other rewards for beating the game? I haven't picked it back up since I beat it yet, wondering if there's a whole bunch more added to it. Also, can you pretty much do any deliveries you haven't done yet in the post-game world or are some locked?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 17:35

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

CJacobs posted:

You can do any of the 500 standard orders and redo any of the tutorial orders that you get graded on, in case you want to go for S ranks. You unlock the final pizza delivery for Peter Englert and the rewards therein, though I think you can technically do it just before finishing the game when you're in the aurora borealis rain hellzone. There are also a whole slew of 'epilogue' interviews that unlock for each of the characters and the game world in general as you continue to deliver stuff, and a new series of logs about Sam and his wife that explains his backstory. Nothing substantial really changes since the post-game is set two weeks before the inauguration (i.e. the actual ending), but some of the delivery destination characters do send you emails about Die Hardman's impending presidency and the truth about Amelie and stuff.

Ooh gently caress, more interviews might have me jump into this sooner than I anticipated, those were probably my favourite part of the game.

repiv posted:

I don't remember there being anything else you can only do in the post game

Every delivery can still be done in post game though, even Higgs and the Elders deliveries after they die.

I must've absolutely missed any deliveries for Higgs, but the Elder in my game is still alive and kicking I'm pretty sure.

Thanks for the answers, y'all.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 18:01

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

punishedkissinger posted:

Killing people is bad

Chucking containers full of rocks at them, though? Fuckin excellent.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 17:04

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

^^^^ huh, sounds like maybe you won't into a cutscene/different area and the game just ignored that one dead body?

Do your poop/pee/bathwater grenades do anything to humans? I don't think I ever tried testing that out..

# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 17:13

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Yeah the only connection between MGSV and DS would be "standard Kojima whackiness" but MGSV is probably the most fun sandbox game I have every played. I've honestly contemplated buying it on PC just so I can play through it again.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2020 15:18

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

CJacobs posted:

Maybe he didn't try wearing it around BTs.

...gently caress me running.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 22:36

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

night slime posted:

I think you might be able to view how much a structure needs if you go to the map and look at the generator structure icon?

You absolutely can :toot:

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 16:41

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

dantheman650 posted:

That�s great! There�s a lot of overwhelming visual information in virtually every screen so I must have overlooked that possibility. That should make road plans a little easier.

I think I was something like 15-20 hours into the game before I realized the right portion of your map screen isn't just like, a hosed up format of your deliveries, but that you can press a button and have it slide over to properly fit. I for real thought it was just some weird background/graphical kind of scenery :psyduck:

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 16:53

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

CJacobs posted:

No, but you can hurl Vog decoy containers at incoming trucks with MULEs clinging on to detonate the container and knock them all out instantly. If you feel like being a real dick you can attach some remote stun grenades or god forbid real proximity grenades to a piece of cargo and then chuck it, it'll explode on impact.

edit: You can also turn motorcycles into portable stupid dumb action movie bombs by sticking a ton of explosives to them and then hitting square(?) to dive off while driving at your target. Lots of MGSV open world goofiness still works in Death Stranding despite the more limited toolset.

You're really making me want to hop back in and just dick around for a few hours but NO I've goes finish Control :mad:

# ¿ Oct 26, 2020 14:43

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Robotnik Nudes posted:

Then smash that mf touch pad!

I’m so excited to see that this game features an implementation of sorts of my theory of Capital as Clout#

I looked back a bunch in this thread to around release time just to get a swab test of what the vibe and goonsensus was at the time, mainly because I wanted to gawk at haters and philistines having Gamer-Type Opinions and engaging in the classic goon sport of having a boring, bad, hand me down pink boy opinion and constantly reiterating it in a stupid rear end in a top hat way over and over. Because I am a painpig who is on this site.

I’m glad to see that enough folks have at least been able to sense that they are confronted with a work that’s not even on the same level as the false idols of A Good Game of the Past, let alone the swill they’re developing erectile dysfunction, a vitamin D deficiency and Skinner box induced oxytocin deprivation of their own from while they suck the test of a digital succubus in exchange for virtual head pats, trophies to celebrate their time investment, and the happy chemical when the number goes up, up up towards no fulfillment of any objective! And even though these.

You know. Video Games.

Sure these “Good Ones” of Gamers may not actually understand the depth, the layers, the way to “read” the “text” which A Video Vagina Game: Dick Strangling confronts them with, but they at least can whiff its powerful mojo enough to perform as Death Strumming Understanders and Appreciators. Some have even found some engaging and rewarding experience just splashing in the waist high water of their Game Toucher capacity for comprehension, and I can no more condemn this than I could condemn condemn thousands of 10th graders telling each other they liked Gravity’s Rainbow. Sure it’s a bit ridiculous to a more mature, worldly, literate, sophisticated, libidinally overclocked, cultivated, all grown up I can buy my own insurance and everything, cool as hell, virtuous, hypothetically fabulously wealthy, liked and retweeted, Slack radiating, minds more open than a French politician’s marriage, does all the cool drugs and that doesn’t include getting addicted to pain meds like and dumbass but still means a lot more than weed and a gram of mushrooms five years ago you won’t stop talking about to make yourself look more interesting to your obnoxious bougie friends, Polly, considerate, gentle, sensual, supple, book reader, art liker/comprehended etc kind of crowd, but god dammit it would just be senseless cynicism and misanthropy fir the sake of reinforcing my own misery!

I’m just tickled as hell that those 10th graders even know what Gravity’s Rainbow is and that they’re getting such a head start on my generation when it comes to lying for clout or pussy about having read it and hoping no kind of killjoy Kenosha Kid showing up to reveal you never did.

That’s a long way of saying, I’m glad to see that the overwhelming power/stank of its artistic mojo has caused people to mostly adopt an attitude of appreciation and reverence/vomited in submission to its pungent, rich aroma of the ceaslelessly flowing ballsweat of Kojima Hideo’s massive BTs (Big Testicles)

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Sir this is a McDonald's

# ¿ Nov 27, 2020 12:43

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Even the fighting in it is chill, I'd say

# ¿ Dec 17, 2020 14:41

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Bedshaped posted:

First time in the snow (just after reaching Mountain Knot City) and I feel like I want to stubbornly continue despite it being a terrible loving idea

I did this and... yeah it's a pretty terrible loving idea.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 13:08

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Romes128 posted:

Is there a better route?

I'm about to come up to that part of the game again. First time around I think I did something similar to that and it was easily the worst part of the game for me.

As far as I can remember, nope. That's just a fuckin slog. I never really set up ziplines, so I really just.. didn't enjoy a lot of snow trekking.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 19:57

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

CJacobs posted:

, they use human babies connected through the Event Horizon warp to their biological comatose mothers to power the internet.

This is an amazing sentence

# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 01:11

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Ziplord

# ¿ Feb 17, 2021 01:22

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:34

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Death Stranding: A Sequel to Shaq-Fu? It's More Plausible Than You Think, a dissertation thesis by Smart Schoolman

# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 14:23

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