Goofy character and title aside I really like my free flight, I haven't done any cargos yet which is what I want to do, the performance is terrible I'm on a i7-10700, rx6700xt with 32gb of ram and yeah the game is installed on my nvme. The Orison planet was the worse so far in terms of performance but on my space jump travel the game completely froze on me for a few seconds.

All and all I've been hopping on free flights here and then, I don't remember my last one but I still like the scale of it, I liked the music when you first flew your ship, the game definitely does what Starfield failed to do in a way i.e space exploration

If you have anything on how to fix my performance that would be great, guys on chat said I should raise my settings to leave the load of my CPU

Ask me anything as I wait almost an hour for my impound to expire

In this post I'm talking about Death Stranding 1 please don't spoil anything from Death Stranding 2

I've always been a fan of Hideo Kojima games. I wondered what that man could possibly bring to the table after the MGS series. he experimented with Silent Hills but it didn't quite pan out, To my disappointment, in 2019 his next video-game would be a PS4 exclusive and I didn't have one, so much like this community I was patient and waited.

While I was waiting, I remember checking how divisive this game was, a Hideo Kojima game that didn't crack the 90s on Metacritic. What did the game do that disappointed some people? Well, when I heard the words "Walking Simulator," I thought, Oh no...

I held that Oh no for years until I finally played it as a free game on Epic Games Store 2 years ago, and that Oh no turned into Oh yes, this is actually good.

Story:

Story-wise, Kojima isn't known for writing brilliance, not just with women characters. I guess in Metal Gear Solid V I liked him quite a lot he somewhat proved that he could write a gritty story with serious political undertones, until it goes back to fantasy villains. Quiet thrusting her ass at the camera to remind you that you are playing in fact a Hideo Kojima game, Dude has his fetishes as we all do I certainly do (profile says duh), you do, It's like expecting a Tarantino movie not to have feet in it. I don't blame the guy.

Kojima has always been portrayed as this larger than life developer, a genius a guy who can't do no wrong and for a lot of his career we always placed him above a pedestal, people like to point out mistakes and miracles onto one person, however Kojima Productions is a team with other hundred talented developers.

But a new start for Hideo, well the story of Death Stranding is about rebuilding America, and I wish Kojima had left it at that without going into detail, because the cutscenes bore me and some of them didn't make sense, In the MGS games I was invested with the characters so I didn't mind long cutscenes, In Death Stranding though I don't know why he expected us to have the same sort of connection, I personally didn't care much about what anyone had to say, there were some highlights but not a scene I could go and watch back.

The writing at times was quite laughable specifically the "I'm not that fragile line" and "I'm Mario and you are princess beach" which sounded funny, a lot of dialogue in DS could be attributed as "Characters delivering exposition to you" which in a non gameplay context like if you compare Kojima's writing to RDR2, Kojima's mumbo jumbo doesn't make any sense, I found myself laughing at it than with it. So if I didn't like the story what did I like about it so much?

Well, Gameplay:

Okay, this is why I loved this game, and this is where the game needed to deliver and deliver it did. The game has an enjoyable gameplay loop, and it's a really simple loop: here's a package, deliver it there. How you do it is up to you. Do you want to walk there? Use ladders in neat areas that give other players an advantage? You do you. I'm not going to hold your hand figure it out yourself

My only gripe was that I didn't understand how many players I was collaborating with. I'd assume there were a lot of players because I would occasionally walk by a ladder that made my distance much easier, and it would have a lot of likes.

But a fair argument would be: well, if you're trying to skip the game with clever structures that basically skip entire terrains, what's the point of even going through all the trouble? Well, the game doesn't force you to take them—whether you decide to is up to you. But what I like about the game is that it's your basic human instinct that says "I need some help," because the deliveries feel like a journey and you just can't wait to finally catch a rest at an outpost. And to me, that's what mattered, you actually were immersed as if you were Sam all along.

My favorite moment and basically the part that solidified the experience for me was when I was walking down a hill when unexpectedly Low Roar's I'm Leaving started playing, I literally felt chills and thought, Holy shit the game is absolutely beautiful when it wants to be, I immidiatelly added the song on my playlist and walked to my destination as soon as the song started to fade away.

Are the mechanics perfect? No, obviously there's some clunky stuff. But the game, for me, delivered on what it set out to do which is a journey.

The destination, though? Was it worth it? Eh. The bosses weren't all that great they felt needless. I wish Kojima experimented more with the ideas he had rather than just throwing some bosses your way. There was a war section I didn't like while the setting was cool, it felt like I was playing a Third person shooter when the game tried to have a story beat instead of serving me that gameplay loop which I liked, it failed.

All and all Death Stranding for me was a gameplay marvel that saved the whole game from being disappointing and for free? What a steal, I'll play Death Stranding 2 someday.

Thanks for the support on my Cyberpunk review I really like posting reviews here :)

Reddit had a PM which is basically sending a Private Message, Lemmy has that as well but Reddit also had chat which I enjoyed because it popped up as a small window on the bottom of the screen and I could use Reddit and chat at the same time.

Are these similar in a way? Thank you for your help, I'm new to Lemmy but I'm enjoying my stay so far.

Basically I haven't played this game in like forever, I remember I touched it twice while it was free to play years ago, I remember liking the idea of going through corridors just to find my ship and how realistic it was, I like the scale of it.

However it might be cause of my ADHD but I don't like when games have like a hundred things you have to grind, my favorite thing to do was just delivering packages for credits, how much has it changed since like 2022 or 2023.

My review covers ONLY the base game. I haven't touched the DLC please don't provide spoilers but let me know if I should play it and better yet if I would enjoy it based on my complaints here. No Spoilers though

As much as you probably, I remember being incredibly hyped for this game since it's first gameplay trailer in 2018, to be fair I'm not really a Witcher kind of guy but Cyberpunk is a genre that intrigued me, back then I was more of an Outrun type of aesthetic guy, with an interest in how the future would look, flying cars, tall buildings, technology, augmented strippers, younger me was obsessed with the genre.

The presentation of the game shocked me, I still remember the trailer by heart with the apartment shootout the trauma medics coming with their vehicle at the end of the gig I thought, I don't know if it's a random encounter but it looked next gen gaming to me imagine if we were to do a gig during the night get involved in a shootout then walk back to our car overlooking the city, which leads us to.

Presentation This is one thing I think the game nailed it, younger me didn't realize all of this future would take part in a Capitalistic futuristic dystopia, the city does shine but also beyond the neon and the fancy lights you can see the gritty texture of the city, It still looks beautiful and I'm not running at the highest settings.

Even now I like traversing the city with a fast car but here's where my first criticism lies, while it may look beautiful even the backalleys the NPCs literally have nowhere to go, It's like they are walking in a straight line and they just exist so the city wouldn't look empty. Also there's nothing dynamic about the city I feel like it had some untapped potential for random encounters and minigames.

But what else did the Trailer hype younger me? Well the missions, you can imagine how hyped I was when the trailer narrator said "Random encountersl ike these are an example of how your actions directly influence your open world experience" So I was like "Holy shit, you are telling me I could actually maybe piss off some random corpo guy and I would maybe Roleplay as an outlaw"

Nope. You can imagine the disappointment when in 2020 I found out that the game has different introductions and they all lead to the same exact story, Corpo, Street Kid, Nomad, It's all the same, but that's fine I thought what about the side quest I mean it's CD Project Red we are talking about, what if someone random calls you up for a gig and it would be more of a Fallout situation where at least there's some flexibility in how you approach gameplay, No not really. I mean technically there are choices but it's mostly binary.

I didn't care about the bugs, I guess like all games have them what also mattered to me was the broken police system (still is) like what if the police could chase you in an interesting way, but most chases and detection system relies mostly on GTAs system. My main problem with the game as I was slowly playing it was "I mean I'm having fun, the story is engaging. I love how nicely written it is how the characters actually behave like human beings sitting in bars and talking like normal people, but imagine if it had a better groundwork"

Gameplay: gameplay is great, I had fun with the weapons, melee some side missions were neat I loved how they satirized the average surface level cricitism of Capitalism in a mission with Johnny not in favor of it obviously., I loved organizing my build and sneaking my way through most missions, shooting being the final choice.

The story while I liked the characters, I just wish my actions impacted the world I dreamt in 2018. I think the 30$ I gave for the physical version of the game are totally worth it, I got hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of it, It just wasn't what I anticipated.

I guess one thing I like already is that there's no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit's filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.

Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.

What's the wildest way you knew about someone losing a license.

I won't share many details, but a friend of mine knew a guy who made a lot of sexual suggestions on a client's mother and not too long till he lost his license (I might be able to share some in DMs)