you done it, me too. Everything from this review convicned me that I will enoy it. For me it is a good sign that the game is polarizing, some love it, some hate it. Universal praised game are less interesting to me.
Bingo! This is my take too. PC version will come out with a mod that makes Sam Porter not stagger around like he has been on a 3 day whiskey bender. At that point, you will be able to shave at least 10 hours off the gameplay as you deftly maneuver from point A to point B like a normal human instead of someone in the grips of Parkinson’s. A few other QoL mods and the gameplay will go from excruciating to tolerable so that I can enjoy the story bits without rage quitting.
Who knew that walking simulators were missing elements of QWOP?
Kojima! That’s who!
To anyone who buys this, please post your own impressions. This game sounds like a mess to me, but I’m also anxious for something new to play, so I’d be interested to know what regular players make of it.
I just watched the first hour of @Mike_Cathcart’s playthrough. He’s streaming on Twitch right now. It sure is weird.
I watched quite a bit of it and… whatever works for people.
It’s a decent stream game while you’re doing something else because it’s mostly just a dude walking, but occasionally insane shit happens and you can react to/watch it with other people.
Well at least until they started digging into BB’s, then I think I started getting queasy. Nothing about that felt right. Even the terms were causing a reaction in my brain that was unpleasant so I had to take a break from Del Toro explaining Kojima’s insanity and call it a night.
Will do. I’ll get to it tommorow after I return from a work trip. Kinda looking forward to it, it’s going to be my reward after a few hard weeks of work.
He’s played (walked) for about 4 minutes of that hour, as the game’s incoherent story plays out in the endless cut scenes.
I was feeling pretty positive in general about the game up until this point but yeah, I don’t really like where this is going. Maybe there’s some bigger point they’re working toward but it definitely feels kind of gross.
Likewise. It was “weird but whatever, people are enjoying it”. Then that started and I became like seriously creeped out by the entire thing. And it didn’t like… get better. It got progressively worse and creepier by the second. Then I decided to go to bed.
Ok, so after that review, i got this game.
It is totally bizarre.
I’ll have to play it a while before I can formulate thoughts about it.
But seriously. It is already so bizarre.
I don’t know what happens, but Ground Zeroes was a good indicator of the creep living in older Kojima (and what happened was strangely almost retconned in the most childish and Japanese way in MGS5).
Played this game for 10 hours. Is a very entertaining simulator, with a lot going on. Much of the dificulty seems to come from understanding how the game work. I would describe it has a trekking/climbing simulator in an apocalypse world, with monsters. The graphics are amazing.
I’ve learned by watching more that Kojima doesn’t even have a passing familiarity with physics or leverage. Seeing a dude crouch down with 13 feet of shit on his back is just silly as it sticks out in front of him and he somehow doesn’t fall over.
I mean the game even says how much weight it is and it’s vastly more than the character weighs, so… doesn’t matter how strong he is at that point.
Does anyone know the maximum number of pizza’s you can carry at one time?
Not much different than most RPGs where you’re carrying 2 shields, 3 swords, 2 axes, a bow, 2 suits of armor, crafting bits, 30 potions and hopping up mountains.
I recommend playing this with an actual baby on your lap - the BB noises from the controller are extra freaky!
@Jason_McMaster any chance for some IRL cosplay of you dressed up with packages on your back, and your 1:1 model of BB strapped to your chest?
Hopefully before you stream this again, for the extra immersion while playing.
:D
24 hours in… this game is great, continue surprising me.
Sure, Burke even made a joke “haven’t you ever played Dark Souls?” about it during his stream, but the thing is… there isn’t anything else really to the game. The game is “inventory management” so expecting to be better than Dark Souls where inventory management doesn’t exist isn’t a great defense imo.
It’s like making a racing game and then handwaving traction, torque and top speed away because no one really cared about that stuff driving the Mako in Mass Effect. I mean, they didn’t, but driving the Mako also wasn’t the game.