Death Stranding anticipation levels hit a new high here at Push Square Towers this past week as each of us devoured the near two hours worth of footage released at TGS 2019. It looks like a fascinating experience, and we reckon a lot of Comic-Con Africa attendees agree. So much so that PlayStation fans were given the chance to create a mural dedicated to the game before its November launch with handprints galore.
Replicating the iconic announcement trailer from E3 2016, those willing were able to cover their hands in black paint and place them on a blank canvas. This has been going on for the entire weekend, and you can see the finished product for yourself below. We just hope that plenty of water was provided after the fact to get the mess off your palms.
https://twitter.com/RogueJoker47/status/1175451767825424389
Did you attend Comic-Con Africa and have the chance to leave your mark on the Death Stranding mural? Would you have if given the chance? Give your hands a good clean in the comments below.
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Finally my home in some good news wish i could have attended comic con and rAge
It's nice to see a more positive DS story. I suppose it's my fault for being on Twitter but all this week it's been "DS is boring" and the latest gem, Kojima apparently offending developers because he dared to explain why his games carry his name. Apparently he was meant to credit his team which was missing the point of his tweet.
I hope Death Stranding is a home run critically and commercially. Good to see some positive hype.
@AdamNovice the negativity surrounding the game is really sad. I can't help but to kind of feel disappointed at people for treating Death Stranding like this.
As for the other matter, I don't know why this makes people upset. Big directors put their names on movies all the time and no one bats an eye. I get that the team is more involved in making a game perhaps but... damn this man went to Gamescom and TGS in the last weeks of development, pulled his s*** together and let go of all the stress and did his job as best as he could. Hasn't he earned a little pat on the back?
Language - Quintumply
@Homo-Ludens There's loads of reasons for this sadly. First xbox and Nintendo gamers will spread negativity because it isn't on there platform so it's in their personal interest to latch onto any bad press like a moth to the flame.
Then there are those who will call it "boring" because it doesn't offer instant gratification gameplay that they think the game should have. It's similar to the old "games should be fun" argument.
Then there are people who are against the whole cult of personalty that Kojima inspires.
David Jaffe sumed it up, people who grew up in the 80's loved the idea of an auteur. Someone who's projects are made by many but fall under one's complete vision.
Whereas those growing up later are more used to brands making things "Apple made this, Coca Cola invented this, Netfilx filmed this".
So to them the idea of one person dominating a piece that takes a team to make (especially one that isn't seen as conventional) gets seen as "pretentious" and the auteur criticized for been "ego driven" because as we well know from human history anything that is both seen or perceived as "different" faces some form hostility.
The idea of a gaming auteur is almost exclusively a Japanese one now cos how many Japanese game creators have become household names in gaming?
Kojima
Miyamoto
Miazaki
Yu Suzuka
Suda 51
Yoko Taro
Now name western game creators? Chances are people outside the very hardcore gaming circle will find very hard to do so because western development is more committee driven so the brand of the studio becomes the face and not one of the actual creators.
That's very cool.
@AdamNovice I like that you pointed out the difference between Japanese and Western game development. A lot of people ignore these differences.
I hope all these negative talks don't affect the game's sales. people have been working hard on Death Stranding and the shown footage of the game looks rock solid. I'm very excited myself.
Nothing new for a sony exclusive really, they try there best to bash the game but it doesn't work in the end. God of War = Can't Jump, Spiderman - Puddles, Death Stradning - Walking Simulator and so on and so on.
The game will be a success and the haters will shutup and then move onto the next exclusive to bash, the cycle continues.
@JayDub You missed Cyberpunk - No 3rd person mode despite the gameplay clearly showing skills like double jump, dashing etc that moved at such a pace that I personally think that a 3rd person equivalent would look janky af.
@The_Great_WmR Great news and in the coming years I strongly believe big things will happen with economic growth in both South Africa and Namibia in the next 30 years, so more positive news will flow.
@JayDub i dont understand why people hate on exclusive games. I dont own a switch or a xbox, but one day i may buy one, so i hope all their games are great. And "console wars" or whatever lead to better games. Every gamer should hope that every game is good imo.
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