re: Official: Death Stranding launches November 8th + new gameplay trailer

I actually understand and see both sides of the Kojima argument.

He's undeniably a visionary who has created some amazing ground breaking games that are clear masterpieces. I can't express how much MGS1 blew me away.

But he's also at times seemingly forgot he's making video games and video games are not movies. I can deal with lots of cut scenes and such in my game, but there should absolutely never be more than 10 or so minutes of cutscenes in a row without any gameplay.

I initially gave up on playing MGS3 TWICE because the first 2-3 hours of that game are essentially just cut scenes and dialog. Years after it came out, I eventually got through it and MGS3 is indeed a great game.

So yeah, if you want a very heavy story driven game, that's perfectly fine, just do a really good job of integrating the story into the gameplay in small, digestible chunks.

Dumping 2 hours of straight cut scenes is absolutely not the way to go.

Regardless, I'll likely end up getting Death Stranding.