yeah same. been really enjoying dicking around and exploring in a way that i havent since botw, though exploring in this sometimes manages to feel more jrgent and desperate and sometimes more casual and laid back. freeways help.
you know travel its good when they give you the fast travel option 2 chapters ago and i havent used it all
I only used the fast travel to get back to the first area and then back to the second when I was done. Canāt see myself using it beyond that.
i really like the industrial areas in this game and the bombed out buildings and such. want a whole urban ex game like this
the best bt experience i had so far was thinking i was a brilliamt genius for laddering my way into a building and then realizing on the way back with hands and back full i was a fucking tosser who didnt plan a way back
I just realized you can plant āspeed upā signs that give you a speed boost if you drive through them in a vehicle. Thereās a few on the highway in my game but why arenāt there more? There will be.
yeah iāve had a similar thought that when i beat the game and have time to just mess around more, there will be speed boosts everywhere
One of the coolest things about Death Stranding to me is how it made me realize that the best part of any Bethesda open world game is walking from one place to another and seeing stuff.
The bit where you had to do the ārealā gameplay when you actually reach your destination always felt like a let down compared to the walk.
This game is just the walk. Except it made walking more of a game.
(Also mule and BT encounters are better than any Skyrim combat, but itās clear they are side dishes to the main course of walking).
Hey now donāt you discredit Morrowindās point camera all the way up or down to climb steep stuff, feature!
Itās worth noting the speedups only boost you if you arenāt already in boost mode (click L3), which youād probably be using all the time on a freeway already (since the middle lane gives you free energy, didnāt fully realize how much of a time saver the freeways were until I started using that), so thereās probably a better use for the boost signs off-road.
I am so excited to construct a highway
the film director is whats his name who made Kong: Skull Island and is supposed to direct Metal Gear Solid: A Metal Gear Solid Story and has been budding with kojima since shortly after announcing it
I saw Geoff Keighley and Conan OāBrien but other than those two and the Famitsu editor I have no idea who any of these people are.
I was hoping that Kojima putting all his work partners/friends in the game would lead to a meta commentary. Like how the themes of fatherhood in MGS were Kojima coping over his Dadās death. And I have not finished the game yet. But I am starting to feel that he really just wanted to put as many willing celebrities in as he could.
Wonder if the whole theme about having once been a part of something big and great, part of a team, but then an explosion ruins everything and now the thing you were part of is a pitiful husk of what it once was, and youāre left to scour the wastes trying to reconnect the scattered remnants into something resembling order has anything to do with Konami 
oh and while you were gone the jerks you used to work with created a puppet abomination out of something you once cared about, to try and profit off its name. Thatās gotta fit in somewhere, right
the engineer is junji ito i think
Yep. Also the southern distribution center guy (Southerland?) is Edgar Wright and I think the craftsman is someone from Guerilla Games (since heās got all the HZD holograms). The junk dealerās girlfriend is some instagrammer who visited Kojiprodās offices. Thereās also some french journo I donāt know in there and yeah, all secondary characters are probably either part of the dev staff or people who visited Kojiprod.
Whoās the Elder
The vaguely Central European accent makes me think I should recognize him
Jesus Christ the ending took me 5 hours.