Death Stranding (Kojima Productions) PS4

[Team Andromeda]

I'm curious about the game, but I'm happy to wait about 3 months to get a used copy for a tenner.

Its looks like another Shenmue One, to me. Only about a billion times, more boring. Great amazing tech and a truly wonderful looking world, that's boring as hell to play, at least in Shenmue you had SEGA's coin ups

I wonder if SONY will allow Kojima full creative freedom for the sequel, I suspect not

[Brad]

They’ll care about sales, not critical reception

[Team Andromeda]

They’ll care about sales, not critical reception

I guess it depends on the feedback after the sales and will people be so ready to buy a Death Standing II after playing the 1st. I seem to remember Aliens: Colonial Marines selling 2 million copies, I'll be very wary of buying a sequel mind

[Brad]

Not played it myself yet obviously but metacritic has plenty of high scores on there:

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/death-stranding/critic-reviews

So if it sells well, then Sony will have 2 metrics to go by, both of which spell success.

Now, I'm not sure if I'll like it; I'm definitely wary. I'm not defending the game in any way and will form my own opinion after I've played it.

Incidentally I should be able to whizz through this quite quickly as I'm getting the Limited Edition Yodel version of the game so I don't need to deliver any packages, I can just leave cards saying that I tried.

[Yakumo]

I'm surprised it hasn't had 10/10 across the board given RDR2 rode to success on the same ticket.

yeah but Red Dead redempion 2 is actually a very good game.

[Team Andromeda]

Not played it myself yet obviously but metacritic has plenty of high scores on there:

That means nothing and we know it with this game.

So if it sells well, then Sony will have 2 metrics to go by, both of which spell success.

A game can sell millions on hype and sometimes by who is making it, but bad feedback and how poor the game is to play can affect a possible sequel, like with APB

[Brad]

That means nothing and we know it with this game.



A game can sell millions on hype and sometimes by who is making it, but bad feedback and how poor the game is to play can affect a possible sequel, like with APB

Sony will go by metacritic scores more than my comments on here or twitter. Or yours. Rightly or wrongly.

[wakka]

Welp, I'm looking forward to playing this. I think it looks pretty interesting, if nothing else.

[hudson]

Like probably everyone, I'm very apprehensive about getting this game. My eyes want it, my brain for some reason is telling me "remember when you got FFXV?". I really wanted that game, but I soon found myself feeling like this isn't the game I expected and I'm not into it.

I don't want to spend 50 quid on it, just in case I don't like it... but I did this all the time in the pre-internet days. I bought Renegade 3 once, where instead of fighting street hoodlums, I was fighting dinosaurs lol.

I'll probably get it. I'll probably stop playing it after a week of trying. Hopefully not! Who knows?

[Team Andromeda]

Sony will go by metacritic scores more than my comments on here or twitter. Or yours. Rightly or wrongly.

We'll see. Can't help allowing Kojima to go wild is a Homer moment LOL

[importaku]

[Zaki]

Anal was not fun. I'd rate the experience 9/10

[Zaki]

I still want to play this and make my own judgement.

Everyone said Deadly Premonition was a POS, but that's definitely one of my favourite videogame experiences. It was rough and clunky, but the atmosphere, characters, music and story were something else!

[Brad]

Yes a lot of us seem to be reviewing reviews.

[Hirst]

Its looks like another Shenmue One, to me. Only about a billion times, more boring. Great amazing tech and a truly wonderful looking world, that's boring as hell to play, at least in Shenmue you had SEGA's coin ups

I wonder if SONY will allow Kojima full creative freedom for the sequel, I suspect not

Thing is with Shenmue is that the concept was groundbreaking. For a game of that time, there were a lot of different things to do. However, I think whether you enjoyed it or not did almost completely depend on whether you liked the carefully-built "living" world or not. I love it, but I don't think anyone's wrong for not liking it as I can absolutely see it's not for everyone.

This one on the surface sounds like a bit of a repetitive fetch quest in a world that looks pretty nice but honestly doesn't look like it offers that much we haven't seen before. I like atmospheric and slightly dull games so I'll probably like it, but I don't get the impression I'll love it.

Like I say, I'll hold out until it's a tenner!