Whata ya think it will sell LT and are you enjoying the game?

Idk how to feel about this, like wtf...

Hideo Kojima, reportedly changed the game halfway through because playtesting results were "too good," and he doesn't want his work to be "mainstream."

"Then he said, 'I’m going to be very honest, we have been testing the game with players and the results are too good. They like it too much. That means something is wrong; we have to change something.' And he changed stuff in the script and the way some crucial stuff [happens] in the game because he thought his work was not polarizing and not triggering enough emotions."

https://www.ign.com/articles/hideo-kojima-made-significant-changes-to-death-stranding-2-because-playtesters-thought-it-was-too-good

I kinda see where he is coming from but good lord I hope he knows why DS1 was so good because of the meditative experience but also cause it's mixed with massive amounts of dopamine to enhance that. With the price and this I could end up playing DS1 again instead of DS2 and waiting for a sale. 

He's right, TBH. But it's still a risky move.

I heard some very good impressions on it, so I'm fully expecting a 90+ score.

To make a prediction, I would say 92.

It will score very high.

I tried to play the first game... Amazing cinematics, but I got bored after a couple of hours.

I'm about the same as you but I really don't expect journalists to play a 70 hour minimum Kojima game when only a third of them can see Clair Obscur through to the end so it'll be a hollow score based on expectations and the first dozen or two dozen hours. We'll find out much like the first game how it holds up months or years down the line, only now are many people realising how good the first game was. 

Lmao. Death Stranding really did feel like it foreshadowed Covid. I like this qoute from Kojima, he says DS2 leans more into that, I just hope he doesn't have small nuclear exchanges in DS2 or I'll be eyeing Isreal with a bit more fear in me.

Kojima - "We released Death Stranding before the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world was moving toward isolation and division—as with Brexit. The idea behind it was ‘Let's connect. We’ll face disaster if we don’t connect.’ The theme, the story, and the gameplay of the first chapter all revolved around that idea,” Kojima tells WIRED. “After the release, just three months later, a pandemic broke out, and I was very surprised. It really felt like Death Stranding, in a way.”

I enjoyed the first one and will play this at some point. Will wait for a price drop though.

90 with 103 reviews right now, great score.

Nice scores. But no interest to play this. I'll wait for Psyint, whenever that happens.