I played a lot of this today. It’s kind of gutsy how boring it is but I’m digging it. I love delivering to new areas, not so much doing backtrack jobs.
This is from the first 10 minutes but what’s really stuck with me was seeing goosebumps rendered for the first time (?) in a videogame.
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Are you guys telling me this is Wasteland Courier Simulator 2019
It’s The Postman. It’s Euro Truck Simulator without the Truck.
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Spoiler: You can in fact build a truck, eventually. Or find one built and left by another player.
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This is, without the slightest whisper of exagerration, the most effective thing anyone could have said about this game to sell me on it
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It also has more cutscenes than MGS4 so far so definitely keep that in mind if that’s a turn off!
this game has been surprisingly quiet on my pro so far considering how much it’s throwing around, i even turned on super sampling and even then the fan has only gotten loud a handful of times, and never for very long.
anyway i’m still very early on but yowzas these graphics, shaders (skin and hair especially), and character models are superlative. the game started and i kept looking at my tv going, is this real-time? this can’t be real-time. good lord this is all real-time
in death stranding america is a corporation, and you are literally conscripted and handcuffed to your job, which is to install a surveillance network under the guise of patriotism. somehow this is played straight, at least early.
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tfw the crying of lot ground zeroes
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I’m in episode one now and the PS4 only seems to get a little loud during cutscenes. Fairly quiet during regular gameplay.
This is like a strange dream.
Rocking your baby to sleep is a game mechanic.
So you can see the invisible monsters.
I’m glad this game got made somehow.
“We’re going to rebuild America… but without any of the representative democracy or anything.”
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but definitely still with Monster
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Yeah, it was funny how when (chapter 1 spoilers) the president died, her cabinet unilaterally made the first daughter the new president. Isn’t that just monarchy?
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Calling it right now: Homo Demens are really the good guys.
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I was thinking that during the exposition scene introducing them. A decentralized, directly democratic confederation resistant to being co-opted by the state? With Mads Mikkelsen, presumably? Sign me up.
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in between jobs, you are only allowed to 1) deposit bodily fluids for the state to analyse, 2) chain yourself to a bed via your monitoring device, 3) pound monster energy drinks, 4) take selfies, 5) play with action figures
because we already live in the dystopia this game will no doubt awkwardly try to criticize at some point, here’s an article describing these areas as homely and personal – with a referral link to walmart, of course.
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are these descriptions supposed to turn me off the game? because I am only getting more aroused
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did kojima play cart life