I might be in the minority here, but nothing I've seen of Death Stranding does anything for me. The E3 trailer I found to be a load of pretentious twaddle.
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@Kidfried''Kojima-san mentioned near the end that the game is still on track to release when planned, which is the year in which Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira is set. If that’s the case, it would be 2019.''
I might be in the minority here, but nothing I've seen of Death Stranding does anything for me. The E3 trailer I found to be a load of pretentious twaddle.
Haven't seen the E3 one yet but the ones I saw prior felt pretentious. This one seemed a bit more gamey though, like they're trying to make an actual coherent game now.
Honestly - I wouldn’t mind if it was a bunch of “pretentious twaddle.” It can absolutely “sacrifice” “fun gameplay” for a fantastic, artful, and impactful story. It doesn’t have to fun.
@Jaz007 To perhaps echo what Johnny wrote in a different thread, it is indeed interesting to see the way people play games, and what people value in them.
@AdamantiumClaws@Jaz007 Yeah like I said I don't put story first when it comes video games. I can count one one hand the amount of times I was truly engrossed by the story and characters in the game this gen.
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It is amazing how most of the PS4 releases now seem to be not only very ‘story-heavy’ but also very mature in tone and content. Especially the PlayStation exclusives. After Uncharted 4/LL and Horizon, both of which I might call more lighthearted (but also very narrative driven as well) then think about the other exclusives — God of War, Detroit, TLoU2, Days Gone, Death Stranding... all rather grim and deep in their subject matter, it would seem. Even Ghost of Tsushima looks pretty heavy and serious. I would say in these final days of the PS4 are looking brilliant, but if there was one observation I might note is the lack of a little diversity in the exclusive content. Spider-Man is probably the only one that I would call being more ‘lighthearted’ and with the real hook seeming to be the attraction of pure gameplay, although even that game has managed to put the story as a focal point, supposedly. (I haven’t played it yet)
Compare the releases of 2018 and 2019 to years past and you notice a lack of the likes of Gravity Rush, Ratchet & Clank, Journey, Infamous, Knack, Tearaway, The Last Guardian, and heck even Persona despite having serious subject-matter has a light-hearted tone with a lot of comedic moments.
I guess Dreams would be the one wild card here. That game has a colorful and just plain ‘fun’ feel to it, rather than depending on a thought-provoking narrative with huge ethical dilemmas or hardcore themes.
And this is not a criticism of this year and next years exclusives, as I said previously (in this thread or another, I can’t remember) that I am high on all these upcoming releases and honestly am excited about and will likely buy all of them. I love a great narrative driven adventure that doesn’t necessarily have to have deep or complex gameplay. I actually quite enjoy walking sims and visual novels. I like variety. I just am making an observation that the release schedule has become a little one sided from Sony lately. But I may be forgetting some games.
Anyways, my apologies for the random ramblings of a person who is sick of my job and needs to think about something else 😆
@Kidfried Yeah, true. I had forgotten about Medievil and Concrete Genie. (Don’t know much about Monkey King) — which supports your theory that these games are not getting as much press and not in the public consciousness to the degree that the post-apocalyptic, horror, or war themed games are.
Side note: Is Concrete Genie coming out this year? I somehow missed that.
@Th3solution@Kidfried Yeah, I wouldn't mind if they did something like Knack (but good), Gravity Rush or Concrete Genie with a bigger budget; A game that's less serious, and more about silly fun. They have that space robot game for VR this year, and it looks pretty good, but too bad it's VR exclusive. A proper big scale jolly platformer or something like that? Yeah, I'd like that.
@Kidfried I’m not able to look at your MGS example, but given what I know about the series, it sounds like it’s probably spot on. Meaningful gameplay that’s not “fun” is what I meant. Schindler’s List isn’t a fun movie, but it’s a great and meaningful one.
@RogerRoger Interesting theory. I agree about GoT, but it already had dismemberment and blood spewing in the E3 showing, so that’s probably already a lost cause. It can be plenty dark without that stuff too. I mean look at the evil ending of inFamous: Second Son, it was pretty nuts. It
@Kidfried I didn’t know about that. Calm down with the “maturity” people. I remember when here was a balance. Back when Splinter was fine without being rated M or COD was a GOTY without being mature. Realistic blood splatter isn’t even new anymore, and honestly worries me about their focus a little. This isn’t Doom lol. Of course, I’m still beyond excited for the game all things said.
@beemo The movie or the game? The Wii game was M and the PS3 one was T. The original movie was PG before PG-13 existed. I’m a little confused by your post.
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