Status killerstar Jan 30, 2023
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Death Stranding (2019)
PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4
4.05 from 2067 ratings
6751 members have it in their collection · 548 playing now · 2785 backlogged · 1660 wish listed
How long? Main story 44h · with extras 68h · 100% 105h (from 143 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Kojima Productions
- Publishers
- 505 Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Open world, Science fiction, Stealth, Survival
- Franchises
- Death Stranding
- Series
- Death Stranding
- Events
- The Game Awards 2019, gamescom Opening Night Live 2019, PlayStation E3 2018 Showcase, Playstation Experience 2017, The Game Awards 2017, PlayStation E3 2017 Media Showcase, The Game Awards 2016, PlayStation E3 2016 Press Conference
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Nov 08, 2019 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PlayStation 4
- Jul 14, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
Also available on
- Death Stranding: Higgs Variant (2019) · PS4
- Death Stranding: Digital Deluxe Edition (2019) · PS4
- Death Stranding: Special Edition (2019) · PS4
- Death Stranding: Collector's Edition (2019) · PS4
- Death Stranding: Director's Cut (2021) · MAC, PC, PS5, XSX, iOS
- Death Stranding: Director's Cut - Digital Deluxe Edition (2021) · PS5
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
887
4 stars
653
3 stars
328
2 stars
133
1 star
66
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status killerstar Jan 28, 2023
Now the game is literally stopping me on my tracks, not even for a cutscene, but to listen to audiologs!
Status killerstar Jan 28, 2023
I'm back to the endgame content and into the second final boss. What the actual fuck. Who thought this lousy fisticuffs with QTEs was a good idea for a final confrontation? It actually feels like a bad game intentionally, like as a joke.
Status killerstar Jan 25, 2023
Well, I'm in ending content territory and, knowing Kojima, I'm expecting miniseries length cutscenes with a bunch of exposition that pretends to be a ShockingTwist (TM) but it's just nonsense. So I'll just focus my rants here.
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Of course,
the villain wanted the hero to do the stuff all along: WHAT A TWIST. Except that it doesn't make any sense …
Well, I'm in ending content territory and, knowing Kojima, I'm expecting miniseries length cutscenes with a bunch of exposition that pretends to be a ShockingTwist (TM) but it's just nonsense. So I'll just focus my rants here.
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Of course,
the villain wanted the hero to do the stuff all along: WHAT A TWIST. Except that it doesn't make any sense because he tried to stop him several times. -
Wait,
DOOMS people have nightmares about the apocalypse? Why didn't I see even one during 60+ hours of game? -
Yeah,
Amely is an EE; Heartman had told me already. Why does the game pretends is a shocking revelation? -
Why after 60 hours of open world gameplay in gorgeous open spaces in which I could chose my route and how to avoid or attack obstacles now suddenly I'm railroaded into a embarrassingly ugly city which is just a linear corridor with basically only one possible route?
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Why do people talk about "the whole continent" and even "the world" even though we've only connected the USA?
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Why after hours of some of the most original gameplay mechanics we end up with the most generic and uninspired boss known to humanity? Running around the obvious arena shooting the big lumbering enemy in its weakpoints? This is Mass Effect 2 levels of terrible boss design.
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Aaaand, of course. It's one of those boss fight in which you win in gameplay but then you lose in a cutscene. What a joke.
Status killerstar Jan 25, 2023
Wait,
Wait,
Status killerstar Jan 23, 2023
I think I realised why liked Microsoft Flight Simulator and Death Stranding but not Eurotruck Simulator 2 nor Elitte Dangerous. I think what I really enjoyed about the first two games is how the act of moving from one place to another is filled with decisions big and small.
In both MSFS and DS you need to plan a route, …
I think I realised why liked Microsoft Flight Simulator and Death Stranding but not Eurotruck Simulator 2 nor Elitte Dangerous. I think what I really enjoyed about the first two games is how the act of moving from one place to another is filled with decisions big and small.
In both MSFS and DS you need to plan a route, understanding the map and its geography, then you need to constantly make adjustments: make course corrections, get your plane leveled, change directions do to some obstacle like BTs or big slopes.
But in Eurotruck SImualtor and Elitte Dangerous you don't need to do any planing nor corrections. In the former, you can only follow roads and the GPS tells you where to go. It was more fun trying to ignore the GPS and driving reading the signs, but it still was too boring. In the latter, you just point to the system, planet, space station you want to go and then press a button. Even docking is automated by default.
So even though the four games have a superficially similar core gameplay of travelling from point to point deliverling stuff (you don't deliver things in MSFS but you might imagine tht you do), the first two make a meal out of the act of travelling wile the other two just abstract it away into nothingness.
Similar games I'd put into the first category are BOTW, Sable and Lake. Rebel Galaxy would be a game in the second.
Status killerstar Jan 22, 2023
I just looked up a gameplay video to actually count, but the first hour of this game has literally 10 minutes of gameplay.
Status killerstar Jan 22, 2023
I think I've found how to enjoy ziplines: have fun setting up the network, scouting for good spots, climbing to places I would've missed, and then never use it except for emergencies.
I still think they are seriously overpowered, but at least I managed to find how not to get annoyed by them.
Status killerstar Jan 22, 2023
Well, fuck. Now the epic launcher had an issue with syncing my save file and I lost progress.
Status killerstar Jan 21, 2023
The Epic Games Launcher launcher is still so bad after all these years. For some reason it randomly logs me out of my account and I only realise this when I try to run Death Stranding and literally nothing happens. Instead of opening the launcher and asking me to log in, the thing does nothing whatsoever so I need to …
Read moreThe Epic Games Launcher launcher is still so bad after all these years. For some reason it randomly logs me out of my account and I only realise this when I try to run Death Stranding and literally nothing happens. Instead of opening the launcher and asking me to log in, the thing does nothing whatsoever so I need to manually open the damned thing, log in, wait until I get the 2FA on my email and then the game launches...
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Status killerstar Jan 20, 2023
I built a few ziplines and, wow are these things OP. They remove all gameplay and challenge, especially with so many of them from other players I barely needed to set up a few to get an almost complete network. They are also dirt cheap and trivial to build.
I might need to handicap myself and not use them on …
I built a few ziplines and, wow are these things OP. They remove all gameplay and challenge, especially with so many of them from other players I barely needed to set up a few to get an almost complete network. They are also dirt cheap and trivial to build.
I might need to handicap myself and not use them on principle.
Status killerstar Jan 19, 2023
God, that hole Heatman bit was excruciating. If the rest of the game wasn't as engaging I think I would've quitted and never returned.
The game screams for a mod that cuts out all these cutscenes and cringeworthy dialogue and lets you actually play it.
Status killerstar Jan 18, 2023
The bit without
The bit without
Status killerstar Jan 14, 2023
Out of nowhere the BB has a name and Sam is all attached to it. This was never an element of story of gameplay before (Sam barely showed a bit of interest in one cutscene at the start of the game, and that's it). God, the writing of this game is terrible.
Status killerstar Jan 14, 2023
I arrived at a city by a long, circuitous route along the snowy mountains and when the plot forced me to go back, I decided to take the shortcut and cross them. Bad idea 😅,