TL: DR: It's going to be some kind of action game, but different (ROPES! = Protection!). Who is hyped?
"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.
“...there are other “small messages” hidden in the trailer.
“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.”"
http://au.ign.com/articles/2016/06/15/e3-2016-more-cryptic-death-stranding-details-from-kojima
>>341588937
“Metal Gear was an action game,” Kojima tells IGN, “but it was an action game where you happened to be hiding. There was no genre for that back then, and now it’s classified as a stealth game. In that regard, Death Stranding will also be an action game, but I want to make something new, something different.”
>>341588937
What. The. Fuck?
Based Kojima is gonna innovate.
>>341589769
Maybe he has finally lost it or was drugged?!
The worst part is fucking retarded pseudo-intellectuals on /v/ will eat this shit up.
>>341590310
Really strange that they like this stuff, but hate other "meme"-games like Life is Strange.
>>341590310
>pseudo-intellectuals
Nah, you mean the dream-gamers, like me. Anything surreal is better than sex for people like me.
>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
this sounds so fucking dumb
>>341588937
So in short "there will be action and interaction"
Thank you Kojima. I would've never guessed that.
>>341588937
He probably means that other than harming people, you'll have means to protect others to reach the same means.
Which means the entire game is going to be a timed underwater stealth escort mission.
>>341591618
which would actually be quite neato. Metal Gear Underwater. You are Captain Nemos Son - Solid Beaver and save the world.
>>341588937
Sounds good. a lot better than the half baked theories cunts have been coming up with.
Can deff see he's influenced alot by Kubricks space odessey
>>341592206
I wonder if those things around his neck are actually monoliths.
There was another thread about this game where some big questions got answered
First off the Kojima productions logo is related, he's said previously that it was related to his next game but also this photo, note the caption is the same as the song from the trailer
>>341592675
So that's probably Norman Reedus' mech suit, the umbilical chord is what attaches him to it
The other thing we found was this poster someone zoomed in on
Apparently those equations have to do with quantum mechanics and one of them has to do with black holes, so probably some dimension hopping or something like that, maybe that's what the stranding thing is supposed to mean
>>341588937
What's with all the usb drives around his neck?
>>341593121
It's the apocalypse. How else is a man meant to save his favorite smut?
>>341588937
>more pretentious kojimbo nonsense babble
pass
>>341590310
>anything complex is not complicated enough for me cuz im too smart for games hurr
break yourself
>>341588937
excited
>>341593217
What's the Sanskrit part supposed to be?
Everything else on that post has a connection (although the dhrad bit is a bit of a stretch)
>>341588937
So..
What if the baby was Reedus' comrad or partner or something and he more of less absorbed his or her life energy to get back up, turning is into a baby and finally absorbing it. The many hand prints on his body show us that he has done this a number of times.
.. Kojima is going to pull that Shining Lights thing again and im not sure if im ready for this.
>>341593706
It's full of shit.
Though in the title, the letters that have the dripping or whatever coming from them spell "EAT" and "STING"
>>341594496
wow that's way deeper
>>341589525
Thief, castle wolfenstein, infiltrator.
Kojima the hack.
>>341594656
None of those came out before the first Metal Gear.
>>341594496
Which is an anagram for
Ate Tings
Nigs Teat
Sing A TetA Testing
>>341594746
" Castle Wolfenstein " came out in 1981, infiltrator came out in 86 and Metal Gear came out in 87. There was also a title " 005 " before metal gear as well.
Then for modern 3d stealth games, Thief was in production long before MGS.
>>341588937
so literally quantum mechanics: the game?
>>341592923
>maybe that's what the stranding thing is supposed to mean
stranding means washing up on shore, what else would it mean?
>inb4 you shoot black holes and send enemies to other dimensions
>>341593217
hnnngg I'm back on the ruse cruise
I've missed this feeling, it has been almost a year.
>“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.”"
Wow that totally clears things up, everything is so clear now.
It was really cool and clever of Kojima to show the futuristic handcuff before revealing that it is norman reedus, if it showed reedus without any signs of sci-fi I would've thought it was Silent Hills and been let-down.
>>341593217
Where the fuck did you get dagon from? I really want there to be a connection but I don't see how anything shown links to Dagon.
>>341595775
The imagery is near identical to the imagery described in the story "Dagon" by HP Lovecraft.
>>341595902
Huh? It's been a while since I read Dagon, but I guess I seem to remember descriptions of black sand. I also remember obelisks, heiroglyphs, and fucking Dagon being huge and crawling about in the distance.
I don't really think it's enough to base a connection on, but in the image you should put the part of the story that you think connects it. just throwing out the title Dagon doesn't show how it connects at all.
We're at a point in life where people get hyped over a game even when a single second of gameplay hasn't been show yet. Get over it. Kojima is the new Miyamoto. MGSVTPP was shit
>>341595561
I really enjoyed that movie, I wasnt sure I would but I did
>>341596264
It isn't so much "hype" as it is "intrigue". The trailer was weird and cryptic and people find it fun to try and solve riddles.
I don't even really like MGS but people who say TPP is "shit" are delusional. The story was bad but it is still a good stealth game.
>>341592661
oh wow what if they are meant to represent monoliths!??!
The whole stikc thing is a big theme in space odyssey, sorta anyways, with the whole primitive thing.
it works better than the fucking idea that they are USB's like some fuckwits have said.
>>341596325
Yeah it was really good. I'm surprised it didn't blow up like the babadook or "it follows", it was way better than both of those movies. It was probably the old english.
>>341596463
This is the worst meme in /v/ history. I genuinely want to know what kind of person makes all these wojak edits and all these triple falseflag shitposts every single day and finds it simply hilarious. I really hope whoever it is is just a middle-schooler or something, it'd be pretty embarrassing if it was an adult.
It just isn't funny, it never has been and it gets progressively more and more retarded and obnoxious.
>>341596141
Didn't the monoliths and shit only show up after he walked on the beach for like a week before the water went away?
Maybe the things around his neck are small versions of big monolith, they also have symbols on them and who nows maybe in their time they're heiroglyphs
>>341596830
I don't think it was monoliths, it was obelisks. Like I said though, it's been a number of years since I read Dagon, I'll have to re-read it to see if their's a connection.
>>341595003
What Kojima said could be applied to those games as well. He didn't say he was the first.
EVA PLUGS CONFIRMED
>killing things not by shooting them but by disconnecting their plugs
>mc has no plug
>everything else does
>you must follow enemies plugs back to their source
>usb sticks to reprogram the source
EVANGELIONS CONFIRMED
The different equations on the things arund his neck will change how the gun work, you can shoot mini black holes or slow down time and speed up time to the point where the enemy ages real fast
>>341597846
ZoE has already confirmed Kojima's EVAboner too.
>>341596681
The funniest part is the people that post them are basically the parody they're portraying. While everyone else is simply hanging out and talking about a game, they're obsession with a particular console/PC forces them to defend it, even when it's not being attacked.
>>341596463
>not being pc+ps4 master race
fucking kill yourself fampai. The only game from Kojima that was or will be port to the PC is MGS V.
>>341594656
>Wolfenstein is a still stealth game
Were you dropped on your head as a bab?
MG came out in 87 btw
>>341588937
>not a horror game
Fucking dropped. Kojima is a god damn moron, and doesn't deserve a tenth of the praise he gets.
>>341596463
>IS THIS COMING TO PC OR NOT???
don't make me say it.
>>341598330
I have truly transcended to this realm. I just bought my PS4, and having both systems is the greatest thing ever.
>>341588937
>“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.”
The absolute kino
>>341588937
So what, stranding is actually referring to strands (ropes) and not the state of being stranded?
>>341598639
>sony doesnt make PC games
>>341598316
Yeah it's fucking obnoxious. Because of it discussing Bloodborne was genuinely impossible for like a year.
>>341598979
DEEPEST LOREprobably both yeah
>>341592675
Didn't his interview with Dorito Pope reveal that Ludens was a completely separate thing?
>>341599306
He also said that the foxengine demo is totally not MGS
And that the first hospital trailer is totallynot MGS
>>341599415
Yeah but he had the whole Moby Dick thing going on as well.
>>341599306
Kojima has straight up lied several times to cover his tracks in his ruse cruises.
>>341588937
Kojima is a shit writer.
>>341598070
What Eva references were there in ZoE?
I haven't played ZoE since I got into Eva and can't really remember anything similar besides the MC.
It's a PS4 timed exclusive which is then coming to PC. This has been confirmed.
No Xbox tho :)
>>341599582
Can't wait for your game anon
>>341599626
Eh I just meant the protag and the general tone, it was pretty obviously a source of inspiration.
>>341589525
I like that even after all these years and games and flak, Kojima still has a spark in his eyes
Metal gear minecraft
>>341599571
True enough, and I doubt he'd CG Enormous Reedums into the Ludens suit for no reason if they're unrelated.
On another note, I want to see a real Ludens suit. Might be cool.
>>341588937
>It's an action game. It has ropes and maybe sticks in it. Oh, and it's not like Metal Gear btw.
He got some of Snoop's Kush, right?
>>341599749
Yeah, i'm not going to wait for a possible PC port. I'm just going to buy a PS4. I lucked out with MGS5 coming on PC.. Also, some of the exclusives Sony was showing actually look really good.
>>341599163
don'tmake me say it.
Let me know when we see even a second of game footage. A nonsensical video and Kojima saying 'it wirr be a video game' is not any reason to be hype
>>341588937
>“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.”
>
“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.”"
honestly sounds really cool and better than all of the fan theories and speculation
i can't wait
>>341599756
>you have to be a good writer to be able to criticize bad ones
>you have to make good movies to criticize bad ones
>you have to be a good politician in order to criticize a bad one
okay
>>341599756
>You're not allowed to dislike anyone or anything
Cocksmoker.
>>341596681
jesus christ calm the fuck down you autistic sperg, its just a drawing
have a laugh, stop taking this place so goddamn serious
i bet you if it were a sonygger wojak up there, you wouldn't be batting an eye, in fact, you'd be samefagging, typing LOL or KEK 5 million times so people would notice
DUDE STICKS LMAO
>>341600175
>>341600206
triggered
>>341600264
>"I was only pretending to be retarded"
okay
>>341600264
You sure were
>>341600339
okay
>>341600247
>y-you're just a buttmad pcfag!
Try again, keep in mind that in pic related that is the PLATINUM theme. It isn't "just a drawing" because it fucking derails and ruins threads constantly if any game is either exclusive or superior to one platform. It's completely overdone and fucking obnoxious.
>>341600247
Not the same guy, but he's right. It was funny a few times, but at this point its constantly spammed in nearly every thread. It's not funny anymore, it's just annoying. It provides no real weight to the discussion. I know a good portion of it is people merely shitposting, but /v/ is becoming more cancerous because this crap derails every discussion into "MUH SYSTEM IS BETTER" arguments.
Is this guy immortal or something?
Seems like everything connected to the umbilical cords pretty much dies or turns invisible.
Could be some time loop black hole bullshit
>>341588937
>when you can't just make a trailer that even somewhat implies what the game is like in terms of gameplay
Kojima is cancer
>>341600657
It's very possible, I don't know if you seen this:
>>341593217
but it certainly might play a role in the black hole theory you have.
I just really hope that it has horror elements.
People think fans of the surreal or absurd themes in videogames think they're smarter than everyone else.
I don't think that's fair. These kind of games are a breath of fresh air. No cod, no fifa, no minecraft, no souls, something new, something inspiring.
>>341601397
I love surreal shit desu, why play in a reality you already have.
>>341601397
We need more H.P. Lovecraft like games. Too bad fucking hipsters have ruined his shit.
>>341599749
>This has been confirmed.
>>341595418
Sorry, was a bit vague
I meant like maybe he's stranded in another dimension
>>341601912
They only ruined Cthulhu. Any hipster or gamer girl with a Cthulhu t-shirt or something probably thinks he's from Dungeons and Dragons. H.P Lovecraft really disliked the Call of Cthulhu too, and he was right. It's a cool story, but absolutely nowhere near his god-tier stories like Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, or At The Mountains of Madness.
They don't get Cthulhu or what he's supposed to represent at all either. Don't even get me started on August Derleth.
>>341601397
I hate when people think anything surreal or anything with metaphors is pretentious. I've seen a lot of people call Silent Hill 2 pretentious or a walking simulator lately, and that's ridiculous.
Im a retard Anon let me play my Doom. I shoot things xd.
This game is already so deep, im proud of Kojima.
Masterpiece incoming
>>341600054
>a time traveler stranded in the past, you combine sticks with ropes to create the world's first flail, changing the history of medieval combat forever
Bravo kojimbo
>All signs of PC port like the interview deleted from the face of the earth
>Guys from SONY studios making the game
>No mention of PC anywhere
>no "console exclusive" or "first on Playstation"
Its gone.
But why does it matter?
The PS4 is like $250 and if someone can't survive the shitty fucking hardware NEO will come out before this game.
>>341600576
>/v/
>discussion
HA, good one
now pick one and only one
>>341600031
>Guys from SONY studios making the game
Not even important. Sony owns the IP brah>>341602939
>“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.”
the third is nanomachines
>>341602329
While you might be right whats important is the entire title "death stranding". Death is stranded, somehow.
If death is stranded you could think of that as being undead, immortal, etc, which ties into the slogan and trailer song "Ill keep coming". Not even death will stopped the MC perhaps?
>>341591349
early thread cringe
>>341603051
Have you repeated that joke so many times that you actually believe it?
>>341603448
Yeah, at the moment I'm just kind of exploring all options
Maybe the Dagon reference has something to do with it because I seem to remember the main character struggling with suicide?
It could be about like the struggle of immortality and life and all that shit that's been done 100 times before
>>341601397
>>341602447
>implying this tryhard effort to make it look like you're above all this petty labeling isn't the epitome of pretentiousness
Kill yourself.
Has there been a full length single released for "I'll Keep Coming" yet?
>>341604541
Yeah, the album already came out in 2014
It's called 0
>>341604795
we asked for title of album not number of times ur parents told u they love u #rekt
>>341604894
what
>>341604894
Uh, yeah i guess?
>>341604386
what are you even talking about?
