One of the key things evident from Death Stranding’s E3 2016 reveal trailer is “the idea of life and death being connected to each other,” according to Kojima.
“Animals are connected with each other, people are connected to each other, so many things are connected,” Kojima tells IGN.
But it’s a short story by Kobo Abe that Kojima points to as a way to explain one of Death Stranding’s strongest themes.
“In this short story, Abe states that the first tool mankind created is a stick,” Kojima tells IGN. “He states that the stick is the first tool that mankind created to put distance between himself and bad things — to protect himself. He states that the second tool mankind created is a rope. A rope is a tool used to secure things that are important to you.”
Kojima points to the umbilical cord in the trailer, and the rope-like “umbilical cords” hanging from the actual title of the game.
>>341555114
“Most of your tools in action games are sticks,” Kojima continues. “You punch or you shoot or you kick. The communication is always through these ‘sticks.’ In [Death Stranding], I want people to be connected not through sticks, but through what would be the equivalent of ropes… But of course you will be able to use the sticks too.”
How this idea manifests in-game remains to be seen, but Kojima says there are other “small things and small messages” hidden in the Death Stranding trailer.
WHAT's the hidden message!?
PAM PARAM, PAM PAM PARAM
what the fuck is kojima even on right now
>>341555314
The hidden message will be flaunted in plain sight. Then degenerates who think vidya are art can have a brief moment of pseudo intelligence
>>341556741
Death Stick
What is he saying? What the fuck? Just make a game you over hyped meme
>WHAT's the hidden message!?
He's unchained from Konami but is now chained to Sony. Making his new dream forced to be a VR compatible.
>>341556741
>you now see that Konami did nothing wrong
please let them reimprison him
>>341556930
I guess that explains why his games are just movies now.
>>341556741
Dust from my PS4
>>341555114
oh great another walking simulator with long shitty cut scenes.
>>341556903
go play nintendo or something
games are for adults now.
>>341556997
Eh he he
>>341555114
So its confirmed that Kojima is a madman?
>hidden message
this guy literally cannot stop making ruses
>>341555114
Lol first Kojima ruins his own franchise so hard it becomes a slot machine and now this. What a hack.
So is he going to release a pretentious indie hipster tier game at full price?
>>341555114
Subtle
He is a small guy, but that silhouette stands out in a big way
>>341557097
Stop boogeymanning, we're discussing Death Stranding. There was no gameplay shown and what Kojima is saying is vague as fuck and doesn't make any sense.
>>341555114
too bad kojima hasn't been connected to his audience in years
>>341556852
It all depends on how you actually talk about it in person. Kojima seams like he's just trying to explain his strategy for his 'ideas'.
Now if you heard a tumblr hipster turd say any of that, immediately you would be irritated.
Either way Kojima has finally made it to the top and can do what ever the fuck he wants,
Either way it's all made us interested.
>>341557291
I think he's just baiting anon.
>>341557202
He did it for a demo that was better than the game it advertised
Will this game have more or less gameplay than, say, MGS3?
>>341555114
>>341555314
I like reading these things.
Kojima is super cute and explains things like he's a friendly old man who lives next door.
I can't wait to drape my ropes all over everyone in Kojima's new game.
>>341555314
the lalilulelo!?
the models in the sky look like this
>>341557309
>Kojima has finally made it to the top
There was a time Kojima was known for making good games
>>341556930
>Chained to sony
Kojima's studio is completely independent. Sony just contracted him first since Koji is friends with Andrew House. Granted, if the money and conditions are good, I can see him becoming a first party developer for sony. But as it stands,he's a free manand actually happy for once
>>341557613
>I can see him becoming a first party developer for sony
I can't see a guy who feels he belongs in film intentionally limiting his audience in the long term.
>>341555114
>This is what Kojima creates when he's unbound
To be honest, i want to see more. The madness this man offers the world is impressive.
>>341557309
No, you just have kojima dick too deep in your ass
its gonna be as shitty walking simulator
>when Kojima is smarter than /v/
>Literally no gameplay footage whatsoever, Kojima's statement about the gameplay is so vague he might as well have not said anything
>The teaser is 3deep5u thing that won't even be related to the game
Why even get hyped over this right now? At least wait till you know something about the game.
>Muh Kojima ruse curise
>>341557770
that ain't madness.
btw notice that kojima has obviously seen this video.
https://vimeo.com/16056709
shit is so weird. I was thinking about this video over and over recnetly and showing it to people, then the stranding trailer came out
>>341557291
boogeymanning?
games have complex themes now. sorry. ever read moby dick? infinitely harder to understand than what kojima has just said about his game.
he is illustrating the themes his game is meant to explore, and showing how those themes are simplistically conveyed in the trailer which announced the game. why is the anon i responded to so incredulous and confused? i am not baiting.
this is literally gonna be the evangelion of video games
>>341557291
Sticks: He's talking about tools that people use to try and control their outcome based on a 'outside' situation. Phones, Guns, Arms/Hands ect.
Ropes: Internet, People, Ways we meet end up meeting, Communicating and being apart of their lives ect.
He could be looking on how to build gameplay that has the character impacting more than just hitting targets or hunting objectives.
From what i understand, It sounds like he basically wants to create something almost entirely new in videogames.
Or either he's just trying to figure out a clever story in a game that might ultimately be a 3rd person adventure with some really weird themes.
I'm fine with either of those.
>>341556741
Kino.
>>341558030
Thanks again for your input for the 500th fucking time.
>>341555114
A string is used as a necklace to secure what appears to be usb sticks around his neck, referring to how important memory is in this world, perhaps he's been brain-wiped or suffers from the ol' amnesia.
>>341558306
reminder
>>341557765
True, but even if he did his gabs will follow him to the ends of the earth
>case in point: Guillermo Del Toro
Surprised he wasn't part of the reveal demo, but Im sure he has a part with the actual game
>>341557915
>tfw a multi millionaire game producer is too washed up to think of a second half of his game but knows his fans are retarded enough to buy it anyway
>>341556741
Split from Konami made him snap.
>>341557952
The points about gameplay really aren't vague at all, just his statement about other things hidden in the trailer.
It's going to be a game primarily of securing things precious to you to protect them instead of attacking things trying tti take your precious things.
A pacifistic Last of Us is what he's going for.
My god, the pseudo intellectualism in this thread is nauseating.
But that is what you get with the kojima "games"
He is trying too hard to be 2deep4u. Hype is over right here
>>341557613
He may as well be first party, he exclusively makes everything for Sony. It's obvious he wants to be apart of that company.
I started involuntary laughing as I read that second post. My nigga Kojimbo stay smoking that good kush
>>341555114
DT is just a tech demo like GZ, the main game is something else.
>>341558567
No, it was probably Konami that kept him calm and inline. He has always been a weird fuck.
Giving him full creative freedom is a big mistake.
>>341558080
answer this question
how do you make a player's life be valuable in a video game
video games like DayZ for instance, because they are free for all, are ruined by everyone just killing each other. In the real world you would never just kill a useful person, you could make them a slave, make them an ally, learn from them, ransom them etc
So how do you make the player's life have some concept of value? This is something I have thought hard on, and I think it's a question he will try to answer with this game
>>341558484
>but Im sure he has a part with the actual game
doubt it, guy has a full slate coming up. i don't see his influence in death stranding at all. the trailer looks, to me, like a hideo kojima directed piece
Sticks are like........ symbols of humanity man.
*inhales that sweet 420 shit*
AAAAHHHHHH
you just don't understand /v/, you're too hold on
*grabs crack pipe*
too stupid to understand.
>>341558592
So basically an escort mission?
>>341559137
games will always try to answer this in unique games
i remember an iphone game (there was a flash game like this too) where the whole game is permadeath, no "new game" button. you obviously can delete your cookies or whatever but it's hard enough that for many people, your character is straight up dead. undertale explores stakes like this.
>>341559261
it's true though. Abbo's story makes sense.
this thread cements /v/'s retardedness for me
what kojima is saying is very very obvious
Kojimas greatest achievement in being deep and meaningful is making the Matrix of video games (IE ripping off grade school philosophy class material and being praised as a genius by retards)
He's a fucking hack and this interactive movie is going to be shit
You'll Cowards Dont Even Use Sticks
>>341558478
REMINDER
>yfw Kojima's special brand of crazy is literally perfect for Silent Hill
>but Konami booted him out
>>341559819
That he's a hack living past his prime?
>>341556741
He's Japanese.
>>341559914
>metal gear: ghost babel
it's a metal gear game, not a metal gear solid game
You guys don't actually think what Kojima said is bonkers do you? What he said was a pretty sensible way of looking at game structure and player interaction with the game world. If anything it's a far cry from 2deep4u bullshit.
>>341558632
zizek post
everyone get in here
>>341558325
>necklace
Just what the hell are those things? They don't looks like USB's and they don't look like locks. They just look like loopholed metal blocks.
This guy is a fucking hack.
>>341555114
He doesn't even have an engine yet, how does he know what the gameplay will be like? Not like he wanted to make metal gear rising and couldn't figure out good gameplay mechanics or anything, right?
>>341560317
I bet you they're simply futuristic dog tags. Nothing special, just dog tags. No meaning, no symbolism, just dog tags. Of whom? Blanks. It's just how people in a parallel future earth dress and accessorize.
kojima is finally free
>>341560147
A rope is a tool to hang yourself, ropes are the symbol of death. You can now use ropes in the game to hang people.
If I was Kojima, would you think I'm some sort of genius?
>>341555114
Dude, Kojima been smoking some dangerous shit. Spending too much time in Los Angeles does that to you.
can we have a moment of silence
for Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Zone of the Enders, and Castlevania
>>341555114
>inb4 the entire game is basically an escort mission that lasts 5 hours.
>>341555114
>>341555314
The fuck is he saying.
>>341562005
Ico?
>>341562159
>>341555114
This talk of ropes makes me think of the yoshi island games, where the main focus was to keep mario safe by not getting hit.
Why did Kojimbo make a game about Norman Reedus naked? Do you think he wants to fug him?
day of the rope?
>>341562159
Players typically use weapons that hurt or repel enemies. But in this game you can also try to be peaceful.
Anything other than that is just people bullshitting and looking too deep.
>>341555114
How fucking high is Kojima holy shit
>>341562360
we couldn't even get Quiet to be naked, but he got Reedus in the buff. what the fug.
>>341562159
He wants you to hang yourself obviously.
>>341555314
You have control over black holes and quantum states. Obviously gameplay has to center around them somehow
>>341559137
Die in the game and you die in real life :^)
>>341560834
Nah, they've got formulas on them.
They seem to have some meaning, but I doubt it'll become apparent anytime soon.
>>341562359
Think of what a stick is. It's an individual, short, single object. A rope is a continuous long and connected object.
Like a punch is it's own thing. A roll is it's own thing. They aren't connected. They don't flow through one another.
>>341555114
Can you catch any big guys with those ropes?
>>341555114
>“In this short story, Abe states that the first tool mankind created is a stick,” Kojima tells IGN. “He states that the stick is the first tool that mankind created to put distance between himself and bad things — to protect himself. He states that the second tool mankind created is a rope. A rope is a tool used to secure things that are important to you.”
AHAHAHAHAHA
FUCKING WHO SAID THAT ?!
Dear God, this is so pretentious.
We are way above high levels of Neo Genesis Evangelion Autismo over here.
>>341561191
No.
a massive multiplayer game where you become connected to everyone that you interact with, through peace or through violence. if anyone that is connected to you dies they disappear from your view forever, as if they were blacklisted. If you thoughtlessly kill everyone around you, or if you become too connected and then die, then you will effectively strand yourself, through death.
death stranding
>>341563251
Shit idea.
Go kill yourself.
>>341559914
>GZ now accepted as a good game after years of 30 dollar demo shitposting
The Zelda Cycle is real!
>>341555114
>>341555314
Sounds interesting, hope that he delivers this time.
>>341563515
it's goodif you compared to the shit that MGSVTPP was
>>341555114
How do we go from rebirth to motherfucking space suits?
>>341562159
He really like Kobo Abe stories.
>>341555314
>but Kojima says there are other “small things and small messages” hidden in the Death Stranding trailer.
Oh fuck no. I'm not gonna try and make sense of that trailer.
Someone with more time probably already found it out anyway.
>>341563814
Mishima > Abe
ergo, kojima is a hack.
>>341563889
let's see you make a video game.
>>341557880
Like all the other Kojima games, right?
>>341562489
He's just super terrible at explaining things to regular people. He's an "artist".
I'm an artist(Concept art, woo!) myself and I can kinda see what he's trying to say but it's still fucking obscure as shit. Artists tend to make weird connections that make perfect sense to them, in their heads but to communicate that to someone else can be difficult. Like, my entire job is to communicate an idea or concept. I have to design a person or object that will be able to tell a story through it's design and visuals alone. Where it came from, who made it, what it's for, how it's used, what it's been through, ect. Sometimes connections work in my head but not when I transfer that idea to words or paper.
Seriously its just... what? So sticks are individual objects that are used to stay away from "bad things". As in, you attack an enemy, or roll away from them. These actions are sticks to him. But the things you want to keep protected, secure, Like story? The characters relations you want to keep secure? Things you want to secure. Your morals? Your life? Your community? Is he just doing a roundabout way to say your actions will have meaning in the in-game world. Where you kill something it will be connected to the world in someway. So you need to be careful of your actions or the rope to the things you want to secure will become undone?
>>341563076
>Dear God, this is so pretentious.
It really is
>>341555114
I really, really wonder what is wrong with sonyggers and their innate desire to ruin the gaming industry further by supporting these fuckin 2deep4u walking sim games.
I FUCKING KNEW IT I HAD A HUNCH IT'D BE SOME BULLSHIT HIPPY "EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED" CRAP
>>341555114
>>341555314
>becomes "indie"
>starts doing pretentious shit
like pottery
>>341555114
>>341555314
So this is what happens when a publisher decides to let Kojima do whatever he wants.
At the very least it will be different.
>>341564501
how is he indie, Sony is funding his shit.
and he's always been making pretentious games
>>341564501
he's been doing pretentious shit since 2k my man
I'm always rooting for you kojima
>>341555314
>Kojima says there are other “small things and small messages” hidden in the Death Stranding trailer.
There's no possible way in shit that anyone could look at the trailer and think the umbilical cords are a reference to ropes that reference the work of Kobo Abe and the nature of human tools. It would be absolutely absurd to extrapolate that accurately just from seeing some umbilical cord imagery, unless you can read Kojima's mind.
If the trailer is full of other 'hints' like that, then he's either going to have to spell it out or forget it.
hideo kojima literally can not make a bad game. I am not wrong.
>>341559325
>we want the ICO audience
>>341565143
MGSV isn't bad, but it's not complete either.
>Kōbō Abe
>William Blake
Kojima is going full kino
>>341565143
MGSV was a bad Metal Gear Solid game
>>341563697
But...it's exactly the same shit minus base management.
Did you faggots really hate base building that much? You could have really just ignored everything besides developments.
>>341564447
Have you never played a Kojima game? Have you not read the clear mention that you can use "sticks".
I have faith in Kojima because in every MGS game, even 4 for how cinematic it was, it always has a great deal of gameplay, of course in the case of 4 I have to concede that is a shame you are given so many tools and not enough time to use them but they all also tend to lend itself to replayability.
>>341565304
i meant the whole open world shit that just fucked everything up and the bad way to tell the fucking story (fuck those cassettes)
>>341565304
I don't know if it's because /v/ had a lot of time with the smaller area of GZ but GZ felt more like a playground... while TPP felt more like a sandbox (minus sand)
>>341555314
>cable
>>341555314
The pseudo-intellectualism oozing out of this guy...
>>341562159
Something about sticking ropes up eachothers asses.
>>341555314
He's making katamari damacy
Kojima is making a game based off William Blake's Auguries of Innocence
He is basically using the scenes described in the poem to create the game
In particular the trailer is this part right here
>Every night and every morn
>Some to misery are born,
>Every morn and every night
>Some are born to sweet delight.
>Some are born to sweet delight,
>Some are born to endless night.
>We are led to believe a lie
>When we see not thro' the eye,
>Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
>When the soul slept in beams of light.
(Reedus standing)
>God appears, and God is light,
>To those poor souls who dwell in night;
>But does a human form display
>To those who dwell in realms of day.
>>341556995
>now
Mgs1 is 4 hours if you skip cutscenes
>>341556741
A E S T H E T I C S
>>341565469
>minus sand
>>341563076
You sound like a child.
>>341566150
I mean there's even less to do than in most open world games
Daily reminder that the only fun thing about Kojima's games is speculating about them before they release.
Quoted by some anon on a random board
>Given his ego is the size of a whale (all his games mention his name 300 times before you get to even play it), I have no doubt that all this is just a metaphor for his personal journey.
>He's cut the ties with Konami (umbilical chord), let go of his baby (MGS), and has opened his eyes to the sea of destruction around him (horrible state of games industry, unfulfilled potential, rushed releases represented by small fish and big fish).
>The angelic beings in the sky that threateningly seem to advance then disappear represent the handful of publishers that are likely to approach him to publish his new game, who are put off when they see the obvious insanity of the dead whale surrounded protagonist and vanish back into their lairs, back to their AC15, FIFA455, etc cycles.
>This is all underpinned by a self glorifying "I'll Keep Coming" soundtrack which is obviously a message from him to the industry.
>>341556865
Underrated post
>>341566257
because's it's not the same type of game you fucking moron. It isn't an RPG or a game like GTA. You don't drive around an open world looking for shit to do.
The game is "open world" that wants you to do specific missions from a list. You select the mission, get dropped in a large world so you can approach the mission in the way you choose to do so.
With how large the maps are people approach it like it was far cry or witcher 3. The maps should have been more varied and the size of Ground Zeroes instead.
>>341555314
>we are sticks
>but we'll use the ropes this time
>but there will still be sticks
>>341558558
>dat pic
Oh shit, I know what I'll watch to entertain me tonight.
>>341555114
huh.
what if this is just an elaborate ruse and Kojima and Reedus have just been working on Resident Evil 7 this whole time
>>341566959
Seriously, a better comparison would be Arma 2 and 3. Just a massive world that allows you to do specific missions. But if you just drive around you won't find anything at all.
The side quests are just that. They just let you dick around.
>>341565650
He's a stupid crazy idiot, but he makes the bullshit look and sound good. Most of the time.
>>341559914
>MGS3 absent
>GZ in
>A not Solid game in
>>341558567
Like a stick?
>>341555314
>>341565650
There's no chance at all that this is a rough translation of the Japanese ideas that he's trying to convey. None at all.
>>341566959
Well it fucking sucked at what it was trying to do. Is that what you want to hear?
>>341555314
I think maybe he's talking about using a different type of gameplay mechanic
>>341567429
he's talking about using sticks as your main weapon and a rope to fulton things back to motherbase
>>341555314
Does he always talk like this?
>>341564501
did you even play MGS2
he didn't "start" doing pretentious shit just now
>>341563719
Astronauts use an umbilical cord
>>341555314
The five figures will use
Sticks = Weapon
against you
You only have
Rope = Secure yourself
>>341567332
>Cutting the rope that binds us together
>Not throwing away the sticks that keeps us apart
Did we even watch the same trailer?
The double standard over this shit is kind of incredible. Everyone else does a cinematic trailer and they get shit on for not showing gameplay and being really vague. Kojima does it and people say they're hyped as fuck.
>>341555114
>>341555314
Actually the first tool man invented was a woman
>>341559914
>not mgs3 L
LEL
>>341567789
wow, it's almost like we have different standards for judging different people based on their past actions. it's almost like that's how every system of judgement in human history works
>>341567789
This was Double Standard - The E3
>every conference gets shits on for only having open world sandbox shit
>but Zelda is the best game ever made!
>>341567789
>The double standard over this shit is kind of incredible. Everyone else does a cinematic trailer and they get shit on for not showing gameplay and being really vague. Kojima does it and people say they're hyped as fuck.
For Kojima, the cinematic might as well be a part of the gameplay consider there is so much of it.
>>341559876
What does this post even mean and why did you bother to write it?
>>341567521
hahaha, yeah that's pretty good
I think he might be inverting the normal "press x to hit your enemy" mechanic. So you'd like, press x to bring a friend to you. Sort of like Katamari Damacy, like another anon said, except full of really expensive cutscenes and excessive narrative
Maybe strands is like strands of cum and you get to run around and fuck people and then get pregnant and shit babies out your ass
>>341567950
So you're admitting to sucking Kojima's cock because you liked a game he made for the PS1?
It's going to be an action game based on defense and deflecting enemy attacks. The main character will be invincible but you will be forced to protect something that is fragile. If it breaks/dies then you lose.
>>341568138
Put down the stick, anon
The game will feature 568 different customisable sticks, with unique animations and sound effects
But if you use anything but the rope you'll be penalized
>>341557954
Holy shit this is crazy anon. I like the music too. What is it for though?
>>341567976
Yeah, I don't know why people think that open world Zelda is a good thing. Then again, maybe it's just because Nintendo fans haven't played any.
>>341568170
I hope you don't mean like Ico.
That game sucked.
>>341568196
>>341567976
Nintendo actually showed hours of gameplay
What did the other shown ?
Shallow promise and scripted demo
Actually I don't know why you are shitting on this game ,I mean does it bother you that people get excited for games ?
![562[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/a4k7wSu.jpg "562[1].jpg")
>>341568001
The real weapon is what keeps you together. Not what distances yourself from the harm.
>>341560275
>le left is actually far more right than you think slav meme
still love zizek tho
>>341555114
what the fuck
how much cocaine has the guy been doing since the split
I really hope sticks for weapons becomes a new for of inside humor
>>341568271
Ico literally has you carrying around a big stick so no, it won't be like that. Also your taste is horrid.
>>341558734
Well Sony DOES deal with movies :^)
>>341555114
Will also be released on PC?
It'll be a third person action shooter.
You all know this is true.
>>341568503
third person action stick and roper*
>>341556930
>chained
you mean ROPED. sure is better than to be sticked.
>>341568503
>Shooter
>He uses sticks
Fucking casuals I swear
>>341568608
Wow, a new meme that I fucking hate already. This might be a new record.
I also like the stick & rope game
>>341568669
Hey, calm down, okay?
>>341568720
PUT THE STICK DOWN MAN!
>>341567429
nono anon
you're supposed to act like kojima is a madman and his comments made no sense
WHAT'S THAT SHORT STORY BY KOBO ABE??
>>341568973
PATRIOTISM
Seen a few posts saying it's coming to pc?
Any truth to this? Would fucking love to play it.
>>341568702
>tfw this is my fetish
>tfw my new gf tells me this is her fetish
>tfw i have no idea what to actually do because it's always been an imaginary fetish and not something i ever expected to happen irl
That was quite an awkward read. Perhaps the sense was lost in translation.
>>341569203
Nope. This is just what happens when you give a person too much power.
>>341568973
The Stick
>>341569075
there are literally books you can read about it and how to do it safely
>>341555114
everyone forget that Junji Ito influence also here, this game will be surreal horror about future of humanity and planet in general.
>>341568138
i have more faith in kojima because of his track record in making games that i like than i have in, say, ubisoft
is this a hard concept to understand
>>341569075
One solution
Search on Google and buy [rope]
Why do I keep coming to this shithole. At this point anyone who actually wants to discuss video games would have better luck going to GameFaqs or something.
Life is strange.
>>341555114
>One of the key things evident from Death Stranding’s E3 2016 reveal trailer is “the idea of life and death being connected to each other,” according to Kojima.
Huh, it's kinda funny how that was the first thing it popped in my head when the first "holy shit, this is pretentious" wave had passed and i tried to understand the trailer, the first thing we see is a bunch of dead crabs in a desolate place with a sad ambiance behind, right afterwards we see reedus holding with joy the baby, representing life. I didn't think on the ropes and sticks thing though, interesting, and while i do believe our first tool was some kind of stick, i highly doubt our second was a "rope", but if i had to guess what he is planning issome kind of "friendship" system like undertale, as your main weapon will be a rope, made to connect you and the enemy togetheror maybe it's just a whip, we never know how literal we can take his words or any jap developer for that matter.
>>341569075
You know what needs to be done anon.Remember to take pictures while she's tied up
Kill, or become one with death
>>341569492
Die or become one with Kill
>>341561191
>ropes are tools to hang people
>Kojimbo worked with Junji Ito for P. T.
What if we actually play as Crossbow Man in a Floating Heads post-apocalyptic word? (Cointidentially, Norman Reedus' role in The Walking Dead is almost the same)
>>341555114
>"A rope is a tool used to secure things that are important to you.”
>>341555314
>"I want people to be connected not through sticks, but through what would be the equivalent of ropes…"
He's making a Knuckles Chaotix sequel.
>>341569412
>kojima's new AAA IP is an undertale ripoff
this would actually be the end of /v/
>>341569412
>Lasso some guy guarding a door
>Try to talk to him
>"H-HEY HE'S OVER HE-"
>Reedus gives him a big hug and they look at each other for a second
>"Wow thanks man I really needed that, here take this"
>He drops a usb drive
>Reedus adds it to his collection
>Immediately bludgeons him to death with a stick
>>341562829
What about a Dempsey Roll?
>>341569862
Actually it would be fun at hell
>>341569809
Well, i just used the undertale since it's the new hot thing that's using something like this, but we had "friendship" things before like the negotiation system from persona and SMT.
>>341569862
Thanks anon, you made me chuckle.
>>341569310
>>341569382
>>341569435
Yeah you're right. I just gotta do it. It's just weird thinking about, how am I going to set the scene, etc etc. It's like I'm going on stage or something.
>>341570442
just remember to stay safe, it's pleasure, not punishment.
ITT: People that don't understand that obsfucation of basic concepts is not "genius".
>>341570578
thanks for the tip, that sounds really obvious but it's actually helping me frame it
>>341570442
Go on stage and become the violent rapist you've always wanted to be.
Reminder that the collective IQ of /v/ is <60
All he's saying is that games are centered around "sticks" or combat/conflict. Being the pacifist fag he is he's trying to somehow come up with a game that's more about "ropes" or cooperation. Also he doesn't want to make things too ridiculous or avant-garde, so there are still "sticks" -- traditional gameplay mechanics -- as well.
Why is everyone so dumbfounded at what Kojima is saying? Seems pretty simple to understand.
At least appreciate he gave gameplay hints. It's better than the usual "youre this cool [profession] in the city of [US city], an open world experience!" or something.
>>341556741
He started listening a little too much to all the praise, and started crawling a little too far up his own ass.
AND I'LL KEEP CUMMING
>>341570852
>Reminder that the collective IQ of /v/ is <60
This so much. I always believed that 4chan was the "smarter" parts of the net back then at '09, but /v/ literally debunked that as time went on. /v/, or the whole of 4chan maybe, is no different from, say, facebook retards or youtube commenters.
>>341570852
>>341570883
no one is confused by what he is saying
they are mocking the way in which he is saying it
it is a simple concept expressed in a verbose manner via a largely pointless metaphor
Did none of you learn from MGS5 and it's hype? I bet 20 american peso's that this shit is gonna be a stealth action game with some bullshit forced "deeper" meaning.
>>341571207
and it take like 6 games to you retards to realize that kojima is a hack.
>>341555114
>>341555314
Pure Kino
>>341571207
>it is a simple concept expressed in a verbose manner via a largely pointless metaphor
How would you have said it then, o wise one?
>>341571190
4chan isn't smarter than others, they're just more self aware
>>341558080
>Internet, People, Ways we meet end up meeting, Communicating and being apart of their lives ec
I think you're on to something
When he made PT he said that it was designed so that people would work together by talking about how to go on, overcome this, get the fetus to laugh three times and so on
Could this be the same thing?
>>341557470
He is a cute old man. He needs a sitcom where we follow him around and he explains things that make no fucking sense and the other characters go, "Oh Kojima, you so funny!" <laughtrack.mp3>
And he looks at the creen and just makes the face he's always making when he's serious and we're not sure he's crazy.
Just image, you the CEO of Konami right. Most of your investors wanna dump this video game bullshit but you keep letting Kojima do his thing because he has been so good for the company. He comes to you with this bullshit.
What would you do?
>>341563719
Is the man in a spooky halloween mask in the astronaut suit Norman Reedus?
It does kind of look like his eyes
>>341567789
I liked the opening sequence of Phantom Pain
with the whale, supernatural creatures, etc.
was the rest of the game like that? Or is there a better game for that sort of genre (what's it called again)
>>341555314
Sticks = Thumb Sticks
Ropes = VR
>>341571463
Sell half the company to fund his game.
>>341571463
Well, I'll tell you right now, if I was the CEO of Konami I would be smashing pussy and snorting coke
>>341571569
This is why you are not a CEO right now
>>341571591
That sounds really good too
>>341571190
There was a time 4chan was average-above average + more self aware, but that self awareness lead them to start thinking they were better and then all the contrarian opinions that they heard they took on board because "see, all those sheep think this, but we know better"
The Katana is the best example of this, you go outside of 4chan (okay I'm lying the Katana has a bit of a hate-cult but lets assume that bit is less true for the sake of making a point) the worst you'll hear is people saying "it's not the best at everything guys, chill out" while on 4chan it's "LOL KATANA IS SHIT AT EVERYTHING."
It could even extend to 4chan's increasing flat out madness in general, years ago 4chan made light of hitler and the holocaust, now, 4chan says he did nothing wrong and denies the holocaust.
>>341558567
This is actually fairly tame for the shit that comes out of Jap directors' mouths. I mean, look at Taro.
Look at a lot of old anime directors, for that matter.
Kojima has yet to earn the label of "snapped" on that scale.
>>341571598
>Metal Gear was about butts
>Death Stranding is about sticks
>>341571649
>years ago 4chan made light of hitler and the holocaust, now, 4chan says he did nothing wrong and denies the holocaust.
he's a master. He saved the bait for the last sentence
What it means is that combat isn't the primary focus. Sticks = weapons and combat, rope = something else. Something about utility and helpfulness. May be a horror game after all.
>>341571530
Like weird ass shit happening in a realistic setting? I'm not really sure. I always liked that about the mgs series. And no the whale never appeared again, or the unicorn, and the skulls were just shit "Boss fights" using that term as loosely as possible.
>>341563719
An atmospheric pressure suit is like a womb. It's your entire environment. Outside the suit is nothing, an empty vacuum. The suit, in its entirety, is your world.
Even when exploring other worlds we still need this protection, this portable environment. A womb that keeps us safe, that comprises our entire livable world in that moment.
>>341571749
More focus on dialogue, less focus on combat
>>341571863
yea figured, rip
The games name is a reference to Cetacean Stranding, the act of sea mammals intentionally beaching themselves to commit suicide, abandoning their home/world to sacrifice their life
Death Stranding is a parallel, humans abandoning their home/world, the stranding part is significant however, as it implies abandonment, humanity forgoing and cutting it's ties to death and what it is to be human.
Reedus Feedus has tags around his neck with quantum physics equations, which would imply this "Abandonment" of death and our world would be by breaking our "strands" to the physical realm by breaking quantum ties.
The game will be about Norman Reedus trying to find his strand leading back to the physical realm and life (baby parallel) by connecting "ropes" and tying reality back together using time spaces and gravity shenanigans as it has been unraveled by humanity "death stranding"
>>341571649
I can't take anything on this site seriously. I feel like its entered a level of irony so complex its beyond my understanding.
What is the likelyhood that Norman wakes up on that beach with amnesia?
>>341572187
I don't think there will be a scene in the game where you wake up on a beach with a magic tar baby and a bunch of dead fish.
I think this is pure symbolism for this trailer, just symbols and things that hint to the final game.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10498045
Let's settle this
>>341572325
It's possible.
But then again, everyone thought the stuff from the Phantom Pain reveal wasn't real, and then it turned out to be
We can only speculate, but there's a good chance that this is a scene from the game
>>341572451
stick master race
Thats a buddhist statement, kojima is japanese, why would that theme be a damn surprise?
The baby is the father.
