Current Events > Death Stranding 2 at SXSW 2025

(+) Yeah! (+)

Anyone gonna watch?
https://www.youtube.com/live/hREnHNV4AaQ

I'm ready for the release date

I don't know that I'll watch it live, but I am very curious to see how this game iterates on the whole connected world concept and whether they can do something that is meaningfully different from the first game.

Looks incredible

God damn it looks phenomenal.

Debra Wilson is in every game now lol

Guy loves his pizza delivery game format so much he decided to turn it into the most technologically advanced game ever.

That actually looked like something I really want to play. I barely played the first but the shooting and combat are new right? Or was that in the original as well?

June 26th!

June 26th. That's super soon.

Kojima does this funny thing with his trailers where there's like 20 different points that can be an ending but it just keeps going and gets better and better.

THE GATTAI
THE BANDANA
Holy crap so good so far

Snake's back and Kaijus and big giant robots are back

That statue is bad ass.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

That actually looked like something I really want to play. I barely played the first but the shooting and combat are new right? Or was that in the original as well?

There was a bit of shooting but you were encouraged to use non lethal bolo guns/avoid combat, lots of new animations/stuff to mess around with it looks like.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

That actually looked like something I really want to play. I barely played the first but the shooting and combat are new right? Or was that in the original as well?

There was some but seems there's a bit more this time around. Vehicle combat is definitely new.

So that game was just a pack mule simulator, right?

goty

Gonna get that collectors edition so I can hang the Dollman from my camera set up lol

boomgetchopped3 posted...

That actually looked like something I really want to play. I barely played the first but the shooting and combat are new right? Or was that in the original as well?

there's a *lot* of shooting and combat in the original, but you're generally encouraged to use non-lethal weaponry because having to clean up bodies is annoying (and also I don't know if bandit camps restock on materials if you kill them all)

divot1338 posted...

So that game was just a pack mule simulator, right?

in a broad sense, yes. In a specific sense it's a lot like eurotruck sim and the like except on foot and with supernatural nonsense you need to either fight or sneak past.

There's like...zero other games I've found that recapture the feeling of "hell yeah I did that" when it comes to the game's roads and seeing paths wear through the landscape as you do missions

Get Norman Reedus away from Lea Seydoux

Voidgolem posted...

there's a *lot* of shooting and combat in the original, but you're generally encouraged to use non-lethal weaponry because having to clean up bodies is annoying (and also I don't know if bandit camps restock on materials if you kill them all)

in a broad sense, yes. In a specific sense it's a lot like eurotruck sim and the like except on foot and with supernatural nonsense you need to either fight or sneak past.

There's like...zero other games I've found that recapture the feeling of "hell yeah I did that" when it comes to the game's roads and seeing paths wear through the landscape as you do missions

I bet you could give people pallete swapped maps of real world traffic problems and theyd generate tons of data you could use to optimize them.

https://youtu.be/HdzIwQhYABQ?si=CLf5n8TaUoYlhr5B

Troy Baker seems like a douche ngl lol

Did not expect it to be that soon. I figured it would be closer to the holidays.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Did not expect it to be that soon. I figured it would be closer to the holidays.

Probably want to avoid GTA VI.

I hope Neil not!Snake is playable, would be neat to control the squad.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Did not expect it to be that soon. I figured it would be closer to the holidays.

Ghosts of Yotei is probably in the fall.

holy moly looks amazing

Looks awesome

they also put out a lyric vid for the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYwNeNuxtIc

Dark_twisted posted...

Ghosts of Yotei is probably in the fall.

oh yea, I'd forgotten how much control Sony has when it comes to the scheduling of its releases.

I wonder if Kojima wanted to release DS2 earlier/later, but June was decided on because it was the best time.

anyway, the visuals look interesting, but I won't be fooled again.

That's a sign of a good trailer when 10 minutes didn't even feel that long at all.

I seriously want to play the first one before this, this world looks so interesting now!

What da FUCK at Iroquois Pliskin. Kojima the madman.

New President voiced/faced by Alistair Duncan
Armstrong finally made it

Kojima is an artistic savant madman and I'm here for it.

Crazy shit from the Castle Super Beast podcast.

Is Elle Fanning's character a grown-up time-displaced Lou? Is her name TOMMO-LOU?

CyricZ posted...

Crazy shit from the Castle Super Beast podcast.

Is Elle Fanning's character a grown-up time-displaced Lou? Is her name TOMMO-LOU?

Tomorrow is (was) in your hands...unless it's a total fake out, I think that he might be hinting at such.
I read a few guesses that Fragile had to jump her to the Beach; from the first game there might be a hint that stuff on the Beach ages faster than usual? so maybe that pertains.

CyricZ posted...

Crazy shit from the Castle Super Beast podcast.

Is Elle Fanning's character a grown-up time-displaced Lou? Is her name TOMMO-LOU?

That theory works with something from the previous trailer

Sam: Was it you, Higgs? Was it you who killed Lou?

Higgs: Sam the man always in the dark about everything.

I wonder if I should get a PS5 now or wait and see if Sony does a bundle...