What are your theories about Death Stranding?
There will be a strong environmental message, the floating figures don't like litter bugs
>>341376828
there will be a vague reference, in some way, to Silent Hill
>>341376828
it's gonna suck
>>341376828
no matter how bad it is /v/ will love it.
Rhythm game.
>cord attaching Reedus and baby
>obvious abdominal surgery
Mpreg?
Norman Reedus is fighting to save the planet by doing extra difficult archeological work deep within the Earth.
THANK YOU KOJIMA-SEMPAI
>>341376828
KOJIMA WORLD ORDER
>>341376828
Evangelion clone with 2deep4u ending
He's a clone
Literally Moon: The Game
>>341377516
I want fetishists to leave.
It's gonna be sci-fi horror mindfuck.
My inability to care. Kojima is a fucking hack.
Norman Reedus is on a journey to find out who goosed him
PC version when?
>>341376828
Anyone also get the symbolism that Kojima is mourning his series. Reedus is totally him and the baby represents his baby, MGS. They're tethered together in a special bond and he's crying as his baby dies only to look down in anguish as its ripped away from him. His hands are black to signify that he feels dirty in the role that he played in killing the series. Finally, he stands tall against the sentinels that are Konami, proclaiming that will keep coming despite his hardships. It's a big middle finger to Konami and a closure thing all at once.
>>341377989
It's ps4 only but the console isn't FIFE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS
>>341376828
>Eat standing
>STANDING
>Eat MGSV:TPP
Could it be that he made MGSV shit on purpose to poison the franchise that was taken from him?
What kind of game is it? This is too vague.
>>341377906
Lol, that doggy style tho
>>341378197
NORMAN REEDUS IS RAIDEN
>>341376828
Silent Hill meets Lovecraft feat. Norman Reedus
Directed by Hideo Kojima. A Hideo Kojima game.
>>341378049
oh my god you're so fucking gay just get out
fuckin dumb title
go figure
>>341376828
my theory is that the trailer is deliberately so vague you can't draw any reasonable conclusions from it.
it won't stop kojimadrones though.
>>341378367
kojima literal ruse cruise
>>341378309
You know I'm right. He still rocks the beard, which he only got after he got gypped. He won't stop rocking it until he's gotten closure and this is a step towards that.
What if the baby is his girlfriend or something, and she, by some work of fiction got infantilized.
That kind of explains the handcuff.
Is the title a reference to Musashibō Benkei?
>>341378612
The handcuff is just a sex thing anon.
>>341376828
>>341378716
It could be his brother, or his girlfriend, or his friend.. I didn't imply sex.
>>341378680
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_stranding
where's the gameplay kojooper?
It's going to be a futuristic third person action game with supernatural elements. The suit Reedus is wearing is like a battle suit.
>>341376828
Norman Reedus got cuckolded. The handcuffs represent his ties to his former relationship, while the baby represents the pure white boy that he could have had had he been less of a beta.
The five floating men represent Jamal and the gang.
>>341376828
Kinda looks like that guy off Walking Dead
>>341376828
Earth is wiped out
The Other/original Homo's emerge from the Ocean. Humanity is created again from Norman Reedus's ribs thus the handcuffs and scars.
The baby is born.
The oceans are being dumped with mystery fluid X to recreate humanity from the ocean in their image
The baby gets taken
Norman has 5 locks that are parallel to the 5 Precepts of Buddhism
Norman will go through many psychological frightening trips each going over a different Precept and the fall of humanity signified by all of the hand prints on Reedus that he bears all humanities sins
When all of them are unlocked who knows.
>>341376828
Walking Dead meets 50 Shades of Grey meets Silent Hill meets ... who cares..... just go play with yourselves ladies.
My prediction is that it is a poorly written shooter full of "2deep4u" dialog and self masterbatory ego nods.
Kojima has cancer. Death Standing is him on that stage.
>>341376828
Why do i find the video game version hot but the actually guy kinda meh
>>341376828
MGSV 2.02.0 in the sense that it will be another disappointment
>>341378941
I hope it's a third person survival/thriller experience and the suit is some hermetic tank for humans in dense conditions.
My earth science boner is pretty severe.
>>341378975
Actually he has 6 locks so as to not completely back track the final lock will be himself and Nirvana
It's going to be the EoE of video games. It will surpass MGS2.
I actual know what it is faggots. Screencap this shit. It's aracing game with jump scares
>>341378941
kojima said his new mascot isn't from death stranding but from another game
might be DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES
>>341379332
>Surpass MGS2
Oh goddamnit. Uncertainty all over again.
>>341379629
That doesn't make any sense
Why would women specifically go extinct
i predict your controller will turn off during at least 3 cutscenes.
>>341379794
Plot device.
You've seen/read Children of Men, yes? Hell, even The Walking Dead.
>th-that's different!
Repeating from the other thread:
The top dog-tag is the equation for the Schwarzschild radius, which is used to compute the event horizon radius for black holes.
The dog-tag behind it is likely the covariant Dirac equation, which appears in quantum theory.
This is what happened:
As you all know, one of the most clear-cut (yet far-off) goals for physics is to unify the two main "realms" of physics - quantum mechanics (hmmm, the Dirac equation?) deals with the very small, and general relativity (hmmm, Schwarzchild radius?) deals with the very large/massive. The two theories are incompatible; they break down when trying to deal with gravity in the tiny, quantum sense (e.g. black holes, or the Big Bang).
But here's what happened. Man was able to create the largest particle accelerator ever conceived. It was so large, that it was required to be built in the ocean. Somehow, through tests in this particle accelerator, we were able to pick apart something that points to a "theory of everything."
But something went wrong. Horribly wrong. This explains all the dead sea life. The man is the only surviving experimental physicist, and he is stranded; likely, he is the only one with the answer. The baby, etc. were merely hallucinations; this man has lots of shock and trauma over what he dealt with (the baby is a symbol for his discovery; his "brainchild").
Something evil from a whole other dimension is stranded and dying in ours, fucking up everything and causing lovecraft-tier apocalypse. Reedus is a part of some team designed to send it back, he ends up going back to whatever negative dimension it comes from, which is why physics equations are engraved in metal around his neck. It's not known if physics is the same in that dimension.
>>341379874
I have never seen/read any of those.
>>341379629
I like the oil spill thing, I hope it's an environmental message mixed with aliens, I really do.
>Kimbo jones game
>Deep
What theories are there to be had?
>>341376828
NANOMACHINES
IN WHALES
>>341376828
I want tolickhisnips
>>341379896
Why would he be wearing them on his neck
Why does he have scars on his stomach
Why are there people floating
Whats with the shit on his skin
Whats with that black ink like stuff
Whats with the floating people
Knowing Kojima, the song choice probably means something too.
>>341379896
This is a good basis for a ton of funny stuff if you make more edits to that image.
>>341380121
The last thread we had :
>>341379896
>>341379951
tell us Norman Reedus was a super scientist and he was diving into black holes. This would mean Norman is willingly jumping into a circumstance he can circumvent, which I don't think Kojima would be so casual about.
>>341379874
Women didn't go extinct in CoM, they became infertile, meaning no children at all, of either gender, and infertility is a real thing that can happen to you, there can be a viral outbreak that causes you to become infertile. Extinction of women is an ass-pull
>>341380396
>>th-that's different!
You are not the brightest of anons.
Dying is also a real thing that can happen to you. Everyone suddenly being afflicted with [PLOT DEVICE] simultaneously by unexplained plot magic is an ass-pull meant to drive the story.
>>341379896
Knowing Hack "Director and Producer" Kojima the story will never actually be touched on and turn into MGSV
>>341379827
Post saved
Everyone here appears to be ignoring the umbilical cord coming out of all the animals (besides the crabs) and Norman reedus, who has a scar there. Also, he is wearing handcuffs. Si, he is obviously a prisoner, and judging by the song and the baby, he is searching for his child. Likely everyone and thing is a prisoner before some event
>>341380663
He's saying thematically, it's hard to tell a story where an entire gender goes extinct. It's like trying to bridge the gap between church and state in a children's novel.
>five dudes
>five stages of grief
>like how MGS3's bosses had themes, these will too
>baby ain't even real
>it's a personification of his life's regrets/sins/grief
>NORMAN, YOU ARE THE BABY
>it's all one psycho head trip, and he wakes up from it in the end, that's the ending. We don't know why or how he was in it to begin with
>>341378941
That's the KojiPro mascot.
>>341379827
i predict your gonna have to turn your system on to play this game on for at least 3 play sessions
screencap this
>>341380835
The people in the clouds kind of look poorly detailed. Kind of like coffins. So that could be something too.
Is there anyone who seriously doesn't believe Kojima is a fucking hack
>none of the imagery or metaphors will make it into the final game.
>>341378726
>>341381145
The game is scheduled for release like next year or something so the script has to be done already.
>>341379794
>>341379874
I know Kojima likes Children of Men
>>341380663
The fuck are you on? Im telling you that CoM, women don't go extinct, so no matter how you frame it, making an entire gender go extinct is just an ass-pull
>unexplained plot magic
A viral outbreak isn't fucking magic. You can easily say that something polluted water and that is a reasonable and believable explanation for infertility worldwide. But the extinction of an entire gender? No. Show me a disease or anything realistic that can explain that.
>Reedus = Kojima
>Baby = Metal Gear Solid, his greatest creation, being taken away from him
>C-Section Scar = the pain of Konami''s betrayal
>Handcuffs = Kojima is now free from Konami
>Dead whales/fish/crabs = Other game developers who struggled and failed to make something as great as MGS
>Five Floating figures = Gamers, waiting and judging Kojima new games
>USB stick necklace = Kojimas previous games that he treasures
>Hand prints on Reedus body = the mark of Konami forcing Kojima to keep working on MGS
>>341378726
absolute madman if you do this
>>341381067
I think Kojima's writing is horrible for espionage thrillers like MGS.
But well suited for Weird Horror.
>>341381259
Death is probably unrealistic too under that logic, but diseases kill people like wildfire in the movies and in real life.
I don't think it's farfetched for a gender to go infertile, but I don't know if Kojima could be that edgy.
Me, Reedus and The Dying Fetus.
>>341381259
>video games have to be REAL
no FUCK YOU
Video games are meant to be shit that doesn't happen in real life.
YOU are the reason video games are shit that makes GOD OF FUCKING WAR THAT'S A BRUTAL GOD KILLING SERIES THAT TURNS INTO bitch baby father caring for some boy that isn't his and teaching him to be a man as YOU the player sits back and watch the kid do shit while the game acts like you are playing a game
Go to fucking hell faggot
>>341381551
whoa, i ain't readin no more timothy liu meme master
The flying sentinels reminds me of the monolith from 2001 and that ties into the baby
Man, Kojima really wants his Transsexual, Norman Reedus, aborted fetus fantasy to happen.
>>341380332
>Why would he be wearing them on his neck
He's proud of his work; the equations remind him of this - despite the equations likely being trivial to him, they make him feel good about being a sort of badass experimental physicist.
>Why does he have scars on his stomach
He cut it into himself during a moment of guilt; during this moment, he accused himself of "playing god."
>Why are there people floating
>Whats with the shit on his skin
>Whats with that black ink like stuff
Hallucination. Notice how these things look somewhat less "real" than the dead animals and the scars/dogtags on his own body? He's stranded on a desert island, after all. They could be additional symbols (like the baby I mentioned), but I don't think they are meant to be taken as literal plot points.
>>341381243
>kojinkies
>not being a ruse master
It's actually puzzle quest
>>341379896
That's a pretty shit interpretation
>>341381259
>A viral outbreak isn't fucking magic.
There is no viral outbreak.
> You can easily say that something polluted water and that is a reasonable and believable explanation for infertility worldwide.
To do that, you'd have to explain why it ONLY affects women, why it's universal, and why it's untreatable. WOW, the same level of ass-pull as mass-extinction, you absolute dipshit.
>Show me a disease or anything realistic that can explain that.
There isn't one, and that's the point. The mass infertility in CoM is unexplained, BECAUSE IT'S A PLOT DEVICE. The dead walking in TWD is unexplained, BECAUSE IT'S A PLOT DEVICE. Literally the writer wrote it that way so things happen, he ain't gotta explain shit.
You're stupid and I hate you.
Is that Reedus' real body? He looks pretty good.
>>341376828
The trailer really reminded me of 2001 space Odyssey. The game has to have something from that movie's plot. I'm guessing ayyliens or a.i. along with a lot of imagery in the presentation of the games story.
>>341381981
lol
Protagonist is in Silent Hill. Dead whales and aborted babies are his personal hell because he was a whale fisherman who accidentally pushed his pregnant wife down the stairs.
you guys are forgetting one of the most important parts of that trailer
>>341381998
Kojima would try and take on a classic piece of American sci-fi. THAT I believe.
>>341381950
I honestly think those equations are the best two clues we have. Everything else is vague and could be interpreted in different ways.
>EAT STING
What did he he mean by this?
>>341378726
Try, instead, looking at the letters with lines falling directly from them. It spells out,
'EAT STING'doesnt mean shit probs lol
>>341382120
ant pictures are the most important part of the trailer?
>>341382185
I think the problem with Kojima trailers isn'tthat they're too vague, but that they're too direct. There's so much to go on that we literally can't pin down a handful of theories that work.
>>341382210
>>341381998
>>341382151
It will be Kojima's interpretation of Dune.
>>341378080
But its not thought nigga its on pc also
>>341376828
Fuck you whale!!!!
>>341382259
Uh what if the letter that are bleeding are also below the ones that are bleeding above?
>NO HURR IT'S THE ONES ABOVE
Proove it
>EAT STANDING
Eat Sting doesn't make sense
>>341382441
Oh is it really?
>>341382412
Finally I can use this image.
>>341382539
It's obvious that the D isn't "bleeding", buddy.
>>341382539
'Eat Standing' makes just as much sense. What is he eating? Why is he standing while doing so? What does it have to do with any given story, and the given bits of information provided in the trailer? (jesus c section, 5 floating cunts, crabs, handprints)
H's probably trying to salvage Earth, or what's left of it, after some stupid supernatural event like aliens or hadron collider.
The postmodern storytelling techniques and surrealism kind of indicate the vindicated and titular horror that was supposed to be in Silent Hills, with a creative spin. The environmental message and stranding seems concrete too, so maybe it's about holding something really precious and losing it if you care too much.
>>341382907
Cuz if he is to eat sitting he wouldn't have the certain hand marks on his body.
His body would be curled up and the marks would not make any sense.
"He eventually finds himself inexplicably stranded on a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about him in monotonous undulations as far as he could see...The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish, and of other less describable things which he saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain. A portion of the ocean floor... thrown to the surface by a volcanic upheaval, exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths."
- Dagon, H.P. Lovecraft
>>341376828
That it's going to be a bad game.
>>341383170
Holy shit I thought the same thing. I'd be really happy if that was the case.
I really doubt it, though.
>>341382185
The equations are fine. I think they point to alternate universes theories.
But the crap about a giant particle accelerator killing life in the ocean is a shit idea. Hell, I think most if not all of the ocean life is a ruse, just to give it a Junji Ito atmosphere. And the "stranding" is a metaphor for one thing being where it's not supposed to be, not specifically sea life.
>>341383170
shit
>>341383170
What book is this from?!
Some future asexual faggot leaping around planet to planet trying to find his shitty way home to his cuck wife ends up fighting space retards to save the milky ways butthole and get back home before another one of his disgusting man babies get eaten by a hawk or whatever
>>341383320
I like that stranding theme, Kojima's concurrent with titles like that, he'll always use titles in some way like that. Not to box him in, but even Revengeance pretty much tells you what you're in for.
Death Stranding is about an otherwordly creature being "Death Stranded" here on Earth. Norman Reedus is a scientist, likely working for the government to examine and understand the creature's corpse. The loss of child in the trailer probably means Reedus' character lost his son recently which will feed into his psychosis examining the creature. I say creature but it's possible there will be multiple creatures, or that the floating people are the 'stranded".
If I had to guess I'd say Reedus is hoping the stranded come from some sort of afterlife where his son has moved on. In the trailer he 'follows' his son to the caucuses, and the floating. His hands also turn black implying he really enveloped himself in his work after his son's passing. The scar on his stomach could further hint at an alien influence and a past abduction. Reedus may assume his son was 'taken' by aliens and spent his life since trying to find them to find his son.
>>341381967
>There is no viral outbreak.
I never fucking said there was. It was my example, are you even following the conversation?
>To do that, you'd have to explain why it ONLY affects women
Because it fucking DOESN'T? Everybody on the planet could have it and yet guess what? Men don't have fucking babies so it wouldn't matter if they had it or not. Fucking christ.
>The mass infertility in CoM is unexplained, BECAUSE IT'S A PLOT DEVICE
It's unexplained because THEY DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN IT because CoM isn't made for fucking 12 year olds. Infertility isn't a hard concept to understand, you don't need a movie to tell you how a worldwide pandemic caused infertility worldwide because it's not a mystery how that could happen unless you're in 6th grade.
>You're stupid and I hate you.
Cool, fuck off now.
>>341383668
Alternatively Reedus could be stranded in some sort of "death dimension" himself. Maybe after he killed his family then himself.
>>341383668
Norman Reedus is YHWH and the baby is Jesus of postmodern fiction.
>It will be a "mecha" title
>Kojima's logo design is for an EVA-style (astronaut) suit
>reedus's scar has been compared to both those of a c-section and an autopsy
>baby turns into black oil/sea
>dead animals closest to beach have tendrils clinging to them, not unlike umbilical cords
>Reedus was already supposed to be in PT, very likely to be a horror-themed game
>5 figures = 4 Horsemen and Apocalypse/God Hand
So ayys poisoned the ocean and mankind has to try to reach space because they've lost the ability to reproduce
I think you all are fucking idiots. After all the "ruse cruise" garbage of MGSV, how much of that mattered? None. The only real theory that came to fruition from all of /v/'s retarded, feverish digging was that there were two Big Bosses, and even then in the game it was fucking obvious after the first level there were two Big Bosses when /v/ thought it was all this convoluted, 2deep4u bullshit about Decoy Octopus.
Stop hyping this up, you'll only disappoint yourselvesand meagain when this all turns out to be fucking nothing, again.
>Dead baby.
>Scar on is stomach.
You guys are missing the obvious...
>Is he the baby's mother/father?
>Is he hallucinating the baby and for some reason attempted to cut it out to save his abs?
>Is he merging with his female counterpart in an alternate dimension through the use of the underwater CERN?
>>341376828
EAT
STING
>>341383557
boku no fishman
How come no one is talking about the extra-tribal dogtags on his chest, while his coil and cuffs are superfuture?
>>341379332
Hey wait a minute, didn't we say this about MGSV? Ah, I'm probably over thinking it.
>>341377415
This
EAT STANDING
>>341379794
They are no longer relevant anymore. Men can get pregnant so who cares about women lol.
I can't believe you guys are excited for this? There was no fucking gameplay being shown. What makes Metal Gear even good in the first place is that you play a fucking super spy. Who the fuck is this new guy? Kojima fucked up 3 times in a row. Stop sucking his cock.
>>341378726
EAT AND STING?
Why is everyone saying the belly scar is a C-section? Don't you notice EVERY CREATURE has this umbilical cord thing coming out of them, EXCEPT for Norman? Makes more sense that he surgically removed his cord, hence the scar.
It makes more sense this way. More than the male pregnancy anyways. I'm guessing aliens/robots/whatever have taken over, stuck cords into everything and are sapping their life or something. Hence the floating figure WITHOUT the cords. Norman escaped but now he's stuck or something.
>>341384413
Konami git out
>>341384413
Norman Reedus is Dracula from the year 25XX where physical things like handcuffs are still used.
The figures in the sky are his life's work, and they keep getting stolen by his many ex-wives because Dracula lol.
>>341384132
they arent, they are solid metal blanks(appearance wise) and have some equations that relate to black holes and some quantum shit, written on them, or carved or something
>>341383668
this sounds cool
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.
A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.
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.
![deathstranding.mp4_snapshot_01.50_[2016.06.14_21.44.41].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oH2OW55.jpg "deathstranding.mp4_snapshot_01.50_[2016.06.14_21.44.41].jpg")
>>341384672
I keep watching the trailers but I don't see any numbers or formulas on the tags.
>>341384824
That's because they're symbolic of the ones in the sky.
I.e. Then number of columns on his necklace match the ones that appear in the sky
>>341384824
Because it's made up
Some anon edited the images
>>341382120
Maybe he had a bomb in there
Norman Reddit is some meme character
Baby is a meme
The ayy lmao are memes
The dead animals are memes
The sea is a meme
It's one GIGANTIC MEME GAME
There I solved it for you, /v/
Cuz I know damn well you're gonna MEME the shit out of this game
>>341379896
You do realize that this could be a complete ruse and could barely have any relation to the actual game itself?
>>341384824
there was an official high res image from kojima i beleive that had equations on the tags, i dont have it, can someone post?
The handcuff on the other side is not undone indicating that he was handcuffed to something
The other handcuff is glowing red
The baby has a cable not umblical cord that seems to be connected to Reedus
The scar is an upside down cross
The oil stains leading to the sea appearing and baby disappearing is the trail of the past. moments beliefs that occurred in life personified in a dream
at 1:26 you can see something glowing red under neath a whale. His handcuffs have a part that glows red so maybe a friend or companion he felt he had once
the 5 figures stand over all the death looking down at the meek man would symbolize the Apocalypse a la Revelations. The one in the center has it's arms crossed indicating that it is probably someone that died. As it shines it pushes the others away, which may be loneliness.
The Ocean is black with each thing having a cable attached to it.
So in short the game is going to be an LSD trip conveying humanities follies and regrets in life covering.
The message on Kojima Productions says that those who play are those who create which will probably turn out to be no John you are the demons
The ocean is probably a primordial soup where monsters and everything else come out of.
I imagine it's going to be something like Alan Wake
>>341378531
He'll never stop rocking it because in Japan and specifically Konami's society, it is considered disrespectful to not be shaved. Now that he's a part of Sony, a multinational corporation, he can finally unleash his inner american and grow a beard like the rest of the world.
>>341385026
Yeah but there are five of them up there and six metallic blocks on his neck.
Does he have one extra, or are they to tell him the magnetic pull of the ocean?
>>341384413
>What makes Metal Gear even good in the first place is that you play a fucking super spy. Who the fuck is this new guy?
Have you been paying attention faggot? you play as a skeleton astronaut knight guy
>>341376828
I theorize that it's a piece of shit
>>341385207
He is one of the blocks
And what about the Don Quixote references?
Especially with the suit?
>strand
>drive or leave (a boat, sailor, or sea creature) aground on a shore.
>leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.
In this case "Death Stranding" Meaning death is being left on a shore and Norman being unable to leave. This also ties into the slogan of "I'll keep coming" meaning not even death will stop him
Hopefully all of you made it at least this far.
In grasping rather far, but perhaps Norman Reedus is on a space expedition (his suit being the Kojima Productions logo / stuff) and he found himself on a planet where the dead come after they die, but him not being dead leads to a conflict (game plot). Hence the title "Death Stranded" and all the Dead Sea life.
>dogtags
>handcuffs
>autopsy scar
Reedus is a soldier who tried to fake his death to escape from prison so he could see his son
Either he died for real or the apocalypse happened at the same time
>>341385035
They appear on the poster, though.
>>341378967
...and you represent /pol/.
>>341383802
Kojima has said he wants this to be a massive franchise, but I think the first game will be fairly small in scope, similar to what Silent Hills would be. The later games would likely follow different people in different 'strandings'. People would be stranded in the other world, living creatures would be stranded here, there's a lot of potential with this premise.
>>341385416
Then isn't there something critically correct with him being there?
>>341385416
Death Stranding is the term for when the a dead whale gets beached
>>341385416
The mascot is not related to this game. Would have been cool, but thats not the case.
>>341382120
He created something unholy and, knowing it'll stick with him forever, real or not, causes him to feel grief/guilt?
>>341385416
>>341385497
also worth noting, these two images have reedo and ludens standing in the same pose, with an almost identical background
>>341381287
Why do people think it represents MGS I thought he hated what the series became?
>>341379460
>>341380874
>Implying
Both the song in the trailer and the quote used for the mascot is "I'll keep coming"
>>341385789
*live whale beaches itself to die
>>341378726
AND isn't bleeding.
It's EAT STING, which could be an anagram for A TESTING
>>341385928
I think, because Kojima still wants to make his dream game.
>>341385397
>a single thin length of something such as thread, fiber, or wire, especially as twisted together with others.
Follow the strand back home
>>341379896
>Kojima makes a new game
>it's actually a gritty dramatic Half Life reboot
B R A V O
No seriously, what's with the baby and the c-section scar?
Does Kojima have an mpreg fetish?
>>341385843
>first game in new studio
>not wanting to relate game with emblem
It's just a homage
>>341386028
>7 hour war
>6 metal blocks
>6 minutes
oh
it's generic tps game
>>341385959
No, that's a live stranding. Death stranding is a dead whale, hence the death
>>341386038
It's an upside down cross
fishing hamlet
>>341376828It involves Dark Souls 3 more than you thinkThe special characters in "Hideo Kojima Norman Reedus in" mean 蛇目人snake eyed man
>>341377721
evangelion is a rip off of many things
I think I'm starting to get uneasy with the idea of Kojima doing horror.
>>341378974
because it is you idiot
>>341386389
At the very least, considering Psycho Mantis, it'll at least be mechanically interesting, I'd imagine
Something like Eternal Darkness maybe
>>341379332
so it's going to be the most pretentious shit kojima ever made? cool
>>341383854
Kinda like this along with the adam and eve theories too
He said this was going to be an action game, right?
>>341386593
>instead of the game reading your memory card
>it reads your nuances back to you
>SIT UP REEDUS
>>341382120
>the game is about ded babies
>that scar
WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS
>>341377906
damn it anon
>>341386656
Reedus is MD Geist, of course it is
>>341376828
my theory is that just like MGSV everyone's fucking stupid off-the-wall theories are meaningless because everything in the game is going to be handwaved away with the equivalent of muh nanomachines or muh parasites
>>341378726
Now..hear me out here. What if it's the other way around?
You get "Dhrad", which is apparently the sanskrit word for "Divide."
>>341379794
>>341380396
could just be a plot device, like LISA. or battletanx.
What about those 5 figures that appear in the sky? I'm actually excited about this game just because of how many possible ways this trailer is being interpreted... Kojima is a genius after all.
>>341376828
>norman reedus is kojima
>baby is metal gear
>fishes and crabs are all projects lost
>the whales is moby dick studios a.k.a. kojima studios that closed
>5 things floating are the 5 heads from konami that fired him
>>341387237
muh dark matter
>>341376828
>video game
>the selling point is the actor in it
WELL DONE
FUCK YOUR GAME
FUCK YOU KOJIMA
FUCK YOU KONAMI
FUCK YOU DORITOS POPE
GIVE ME THE ENDERS PROJECT
IT'S ALL I WANT
>>341387375
Well he's not a hack, he's just giving more commentary on gaming as a community. That's why his games are so inspirational.
>>341377516
>obvious abdominal surgery
The surgery was to remove a similar cord that had attached him to someone else.
He has no belly button.
>>341387364
no anon, it can't be a plot device, because that would violate my suspension of disbelief but I'm too ignorant to put my thoughts into those exact words and too stupid to realize not everyone is too autistic for fiction
Cynical prediction: Heavy Rain interactive movie game
Serious bet: you will see Reedus' penis
>Norman Reedus is in purgatory
>except he doesn't know he's already dead
>we have to go back Kate
>L O S T
>>341387410
Are their 5 heads of konami?
>>341387664
The problem is if you use a plot device, it has to actually be a plot device and not something you just pulled out of your ass. If critics have to sit down to try and figure out what the fuck you just tried to do after 600 years of literary understanding, it might not be very good.
repostan
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0JgXPz3Ud7X
You guys should search for Homo Ludens from 1938 try to find some answers.
>>341376828
HERE IS THE ENTIRE GAME PRACTICALLY ALREADY FIGURED OUT IN ANOTHER THREAD
>>341387207
>>341388090
I know what this is and I'm still clueless.
#kojipro
#stillstumped
#thespoonisreal
>>341379896
the front dog tag says MGS backwards
Prediction: recent major apocalyptic event happened (hence the dead animals), Norman survived somehow due to whatever the cross thing in his chest is, which is most likely going to be at least a minor plot device
Norman and his kid survived but he lost him along the way and needs to traverse the wasteland to find him. Alternatively, taking the baby handprint part literally, there may be some inclusion of invisibility/superpowers, but it could also just be a metaphor for the loss of the kid and the idea of "still being a part of him" even though he's gone.
The 5 floating dudes could be Kojimbo's version of the 4 horsemen. Alternatively, they could end up being boss battles or just be some sort of "watchful guardians" plot device/metaphor, sort of like the ominous plot development voice from Shadow of the Colossus
>>341380835
Everything before"NORMAN" is a solid theory too
>>341387869
>firmly establish in a single line of exposition that [EXISTENTIAL RULE OF THIS UNIVERSE]
>never explain it, it's just used to propel the plot
>???
>violate literary tradition
You are missing a step, good sir.
But you retards win, I have to get some sleep, so you can pretend my sudden radio silence is me storming off in a rage because you're righter-er than me or some shit.
>>341388383
>???
barring you being an idiot, you still can't just say "THESE ARE THE RULES OF LITERARY PRACTICE, DISREGARD ALL OTHER MACHINATIONS OF LITERARY TRADITION IN THE NAME OF MY HEURISTIC DRAMA"
It's dumb. He wouldn't do that, just to cripple his own script.
>>341381490
>implying mgs3 isn't the best written video game in history
>>341378049
>his baby, MGS.
Bullshit he's been trying to break away from Metal Gear since 2 and had to keep being pulled back in due to stupid fanboys and Kojipro being a bunch of incompetent fucks. For god's sake MGS4 was him screaming at the player he's sick of making Metal Gear games.
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>>341388280
That's a "2," anon
It's going to be one of those signals without noise themes if it's really about Ludens.
But if Kojima does that, it'll just be like everything he ever worked for will be shit, because of a single deus ex machina.
>>341387869
It's not a plot device... this might be a legitimately good game, or at least we can expect a good story.
>Apocalyptic theme.
>Dead sea life.
>Debatable stomach scar... Pregnancy?
>Is the baby his?
>Is he hallucinating the baby or is something spiritual happening?
Kojima might just be making a connection between the scientific and the spiritual world. I hope the gameplay lives up to all of these possibilities.
Nothing in the trailer has anything to do with the actual game. It's all just a dream or some other bullshit. The rest of the game is just a typical action adventure game with no supernatural mindfuck plot twist or anything like that.
>implying japanese people care about dead whales
The "soon I'll come around" thing is spooky. I think it'll be some dramatic irony, with the song as the tipping point.
>>341388993
Silent Gear
>>341377578
Hollow earth game?
>five drones
KOJIMA WORKING ON DMC 5 CONFIRMED
>>341389219
I really hope so.
The chains could tell him the magnetic pull, the cuffs and the coil are literal and metaphorical devices. The Earth in ruins, and a person trying to piece it together, but can't because of some cosmic irony. But he keeps coming.
>>341389051
underrated post
Aliens are obviously taking the earth's water
Just a rehash of that Tom Cruise Oblivion movie
>>341389012
This guy never played a silent hill... kek
>>341376828
>3rd person action based game
I just wanted Quiet Mountains/Spiritual Successor Siren not some edgy pseudo deep futuristic action based cinematic game.
>>341379332
is this loss
>>341390052
well the only futurist thing about it are the "umbilical cords" in the whales and baby and his handcuffs. Might be a quiet mount if the new city is a coastal one.
Also there's no relation between death stranding and the space marine skeleton
>>341390742
I didn't see anyone mention this, but most of the handprints are timed with the music and seem to be heading towards the baby until Norman picks it up. After he's picked it up, there are 9 beats (maybe 9 handprints) before the baby disappears. The baby's handprints then follow the same beat as the big hands, until they hit the sand, where they start following a faster beat. Also, The big handprints seem to have disappeared from the ground by this point.The baby handprints then head towards the sea.
What does this mean? I dunno, but I think the big handprints "took" the baby and have great importance.
Why doesn't he go into films? Surely, even if he does it out of his personal pocket (which isn't exactly lacking) he could produce some good auteur films. He obviously has the talent for it.
>>341383170
People are analysing this in the wrong way. Imagine looking at the boss fight in mgs3 and speculating on what made the flowers turn a different colour and how that will mess with the plot. I'm looking at this all thematically.
>>341391172
just cause he's inspired by film doesn't mean he wants to make them. Many artists have parallel interest that inspire their work.
What do the lines mean?
At least it's not worse than The Evil Within trailer.
>>341376828
http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=k0ladBsb7rg&video_start=0&audio=2KYYVrBX4v0&audio_start=181
references aside, this seems to be either heavily inspired by or a direct adaption of the Russian novel "The Time Wanderers."
baby was dead beforehand, reedus's scar is a representation of his guilt/pain like venoms arm.
as for the rest of it Im not sure but I think this is right.
>>341391486
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=JAME+NIN+EAT+STING&t=1000&a=n
>>341383557
The short story "Dagon", by Lovecraft. You can probably read it online.
