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Post by madjack on Apr 6, 2020 7:03:19 GMT
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 6, 2020 7:08:28 GMT
YOU SEE TURNS OUT, EEYORE-You know, I hope Tony's arm doesn't have any independent thought capabilities of its own |
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Post by basser on Apr 6, 2020 7:11:19 GMT
HAHAH I AM SO PUMPED.
If there's any questions going forward about anything related to Death Stranding I got y'all covered - platinum trophy and 5-star legend of legends for every single delivery. I love this insane game.
I'm also just now remembering that the previous "Annie and Kat play a game" interludes were about Metal Gear, which makes this make a ton more sense. (They're both Kojima games, and Death Stranding is sort of like Metal Gear meets postal service.)
Oh and on thinking it over a second I am SO INTERESTED in whether this will be showing us a serious reaction to the plot on the part of the girls - you spend the vast majority of the game neck-deep in tortured souls trapped between worlds whose anguish manifests in mindless violence. Meaning they'll effectively be fighting to restore thousands upon thousands of Jeannes to the afterlife. Not to mention our boy Mads who's on a whole other level of ghost problems.
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Post by wies on Apr 6, 2020 7:18:49 GMT
Love Kat's obsessed face. I know the feeling of loving a work so much that you spend hours reading up on it.
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Post by arf on Apr 6, 2020 7:57:51 GMT
I suspect Annies are going to look at those tortured souls, then at each other, say "C'mon", and lead them on.
Kat will be amazed at Annies' ability to navigate a stranding.
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 6, 2020 8:50:24 GMT
And here I am, not owning a PlayStation and not knowing anything about this game besides its Wikipedia article... Sounds fun though. I think I'd still prefer Breath of the Wild, but I understand that for Zelda games, no understanding of the cultural circumstances is required, so there would be no interlude comic.
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Post by migrantworker on Apr 6, 2020 9:59:09 GMT
Heh. When drawn in black-and-white, Court Annie looks surprisingly similar to none other than - Becky Ground! Took me a moment to realise the page features Kat and two Annies.
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Post by arf on Apr 7, 2020 3:21:22 GMT
And here I am, not owning a PlayStation and not knowing anything about this game besides its Wikipedia article... Sounds fun though. I think I'd still prefer Breath of the Wild, but I understand that for Zelda games, no understanding of the cultural circumstances is required, so there would be no interlude comic. I don't own a playstation either, but I have been following the 'cut-scene' movies that some fans have put together. It may not give a feeling of play, but it provides the storyline. Those for "Halo", "Horizon Zero Dawn", and "We Happy Few" are very entertaining, but I found the one for "Death Stranding" more than a little underwhelming. Hope the gameplay compensates. |
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Post by basser on Apr 7, 2020 6:13:28 GMT
Those for "Halo", "Horizon Zero Dawn", and "We Happy Few" are very entertaining, but I found the one for "Death Stranding" more than a little underwhelming. Hope the gameplay compensates. Hahah, the gameplay is, well... you deliver packages. That's honestly pretty much it. Sometimes people hire you to deliver packages, sometimes you find lost packages on the ground, occasionally you deliver people (by carrying them), and haul a few corpses. There are spooky ghosts trying their hardest to touch you but you can make them go away by throwing body fluids. (Peeing is literally on the weapon roundel and poop grenades exist. Blood is best though so long as you don't get anemic.) A secondary obstacle is crazy people who want to steal your packages because they get high off delivering packages. You need to avoid accidentally killing the crazies because unattended corpses have a high chance of triggering supernatural nuclear explosions. Honestly though the majority of the fun of the game is just logistics. Planning out an efficient delivery route, maximizing your carry weight with smart load balancing (the game constantly calculates center of gravity and Sam will fall over if it's off), making a bunch of mentally ill hermits happy by delivering fancy underwear or whatever weird nonsense they need, building a network of roads for faster delivery times, etc. You've also got a fetus in a jar strapped to your chest and will love it unconditionally. There's a thing where the rain makes time go really fast, which makes deliveries harder since it breaks down cargo and equipment, Mads Mikkelsen keeps trying to shoot you for unclear reasons, and the main cast are all profoundly socially inept but in, like, a charming way. Usually. Writing it all out sounds sorta insane but the game does a shockingly decent job of making things feel logically consistent and normal. You're just a delivery guy, doing your delivery thing, trying in vain to avoid engaging with a lunatic apocalypse. |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 7, 2020 14:25:16 GMT
Those for "Halo", "Horizon Zero Dawn", and "We Happy Few" are very entertaining, but I found the one for "Death Stranding" more than a little underwhelming. Hope the gameplay compensates. Hahah, the gameplay is, well... you deliver packages. That's honestly pretty much it. Sometimes people hire you to deliver packages, sometimes you find lost packages on the ground, occasionally you deliver people (by carrying them), and haul a few corpses. There are spooky ghosts trying their hardest to touch you but you can make them go away by throwing body fluids. (Peeing is literally on the weapon roundel and poop grenades exist. Blood is best though so long as you don't get anemic.) A secondary obstacle is crazy people who want to steal your packages because they get high off delivering packages. You need to avoid accidentally killing the crazies because unattended corpses have a high chance of triggering supernatural nuclear explosions. Honestly though the majority of the fun of the game is just logistics. Planning out an efficient delivery route, maximizing your carry weight with smart load balancing (the game constantly calculates center of gravity and Sam will fall over if it's off), making a bunch of mentally ill hermits happy by delivering fancy underwear or whatever weird nonsense they need, building a network of roads for faster delivery times, etc. You've also got a fetus in a jar strapped to your chest and will love it unconditionally. There's a thing where the rain makes time go really fast, which makes deliveries harder since it breaks down cargo and equipment, Mads Mikkelsen keeps trying to shoot you for unclear reasons, and the main cast are all profoundly socially inept but in, like, a charming way. Usually. Writing it all out sounds sorta insane but the game does a shockingly decent job of making things feel logically consistent and normal. You're just a delivery guy, doing your delivery thing, trying in vain to avoid engaging with a lunatic apocalypse. Honestly, this sounds more like a South Park game. |
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