At this point I'm more excited by a "walking simulator" than an FPS.

I won't pick this game anythime soon, when the PC version is cheap I'll pick it.

We are really relieved to know that.

A lot of reviews criticize the game hard for being boring across big stretches, and then gives a high score cause it's a Kojima game. If it was anybody else it would getting Days Gone level scores.

I see a lot of you saying that actually.

"But it's because it's Kojima". 

I saw a video from a guy who was saying Breath Of The Wild used the old Assassin's Creed mechanic but since it's Nintendo, everybody is saying "genius" instead of bashing the game. What do you think about that ? Me nothing because I haven't played the game. You do not have played Death Stranding so keep quiet about that kind of comment.

This is where I insert a long comically exaggerated sigh, because this thread and other threads like it are why I chose to stop regularly participating in discussions on this site. There's a real opportunity here to discuss the merits of videogames as art, to examine what makes us feel different ways and how that affects game development...but everyone's just spewing ignorant nonsense about bias in games media and how this is only getting good reviews because it's Kojima and a dozen other poorly thought out, poorly explained, intellectually bankrupt opinions masquerading as fact.

Even when someone like Torillian comes in here with something poignant to say, half of you just jump on him, twisting his words and putting meaning into what he writes that just isn't there in order to justify your shitty beliefs about what is and isn't good game design.

The fact that people are bitching about how 'this game gets called boring for stretches but gets good reviews because Kojima' shows that not only do a large majority of you not understand the underlying tenents of artistic expression as a whole, but you don't even understand the value of art in the medium you're acting protective over!

So I'll spell it out for you: A game can be 'boring' for long stretches and otherwise have lacklustre elements and still be good. A game can falter in certain areas and still get good reviews. How? Sometimes the bad parts of a game are good enough to nullify the parts that don't stack up. Sometimes a game isn't about steady action, but the 'boring' bits are there for tension building, atmosphere, and story elements. I can't believe this has to be explained, and I feel like such an arrogant ass speaking like this but it's baffling how so many of you can be so uncultured that you think that bombastic 'fun' is the only thing you should get out of a videogame. It's threads like this and responses like that which make me feel like resorting to the 'go play COD' dismissal, no matter how terrible that is. I just don't know how to explain to people that there's more to the medium than explosions and action. I don't know how to explain to you that art can move you without necessarily being 'fun'. I don't know if I'm qualified to teach you the basics of artistic expression and the value of variety in any media.

If you don't understand those fundamentals, then I don't want to have a discussion with you. And that's why I don't bother coming around here very often. So few of you have even the slightest desire to widen your horizons or even accept that the world exists beyond the narrow scope from which you view it. I also know that me saying things like this is just going to make me look like a snooty, arrogant SJW virtue signalling posh cunt or something, but I don't even care. Get some culture and grow up for fuck's sake. Not all of you, but more than half of you. No wonder this place is dead. All the good posters regularly leave.

The hilarity of this is that I don't even like how this game looks and I bet I'd be one of the ones finding it boring. I've had no interest in the title since day one outside the idea that it's basically Kojima with Carte Blanche to make whatever he damn well felt like and this is what we got. I'm not trying to say this game is for everyone, just that a LOT of you REALLY need to stop acting like it's only getting good reviews because of name recognition or that having flaws is the same as it not being good at what it set out to be. 

So very many of the folks on this here forum are narrow-minded and it stifles any opportunity to have a real discussion about the medium. 

Yeah what fools! Calling most everyone narrow-minded is how to create opportunitys for real discussion!

Did you guys rike it?

a new Gaming-Genre is born, thanks "Death Stranding" :)
like Stealth-Action in the past with Metal Gear Solid. Awesome work, Kojima-san!