Seriously, why do they write almost every year that OD will be cancelled just like PT, even though no one has ever written that about Death Stranding? It feels like people want this game cancelled
After the onset of VSS, about a year ago, once a week I have a strange sensation inside my eyes, as if someone is pinching off part of my retina and my eye immediately starts to watering and squint, or as if there are small grains of sand on my retina. I think this description is close enough to what I feel. Does anyone else have this?
I understand it's fun to come up with theories and all that. But since the very first trailer for OD, people have been speculating that the game will be able to scan your face during gameplay and even integrate it into the engine in real time? It's literally impossible, and even if it were possible, it runs the risk of acting unpredictably and creating a lot of bugs, which could easily ruin the atmosphere of a horror game and turn it all into a clown show. All these theories point to the first teaser in 2023, but that trailer was just that because it was more of a technical demonstration of how beautiful the Metahuman facial animation will be in the game. There's no way you, players, will be using facial capture in a game played by Hollywood actors, sigh. We just need to move on and discard these theories, which already sound very unconvincing and far-fetched. Kojima has already given us a solid hint about how this unique system will work. He says it's meant to help players who struggle with horror games like this; facial motion capture doesn't fit in and wouldn't help with such mechanics. I don't think we learned anything from Death Stranding, where it was also quite difficult to imagine how that game would work. But remember all the crazy theories that surrounded DS1 before its release, and remember how everything turned out to be much simpler than everyone thought.
It's a bit of a shame that we're getting more information about OD than Physint. Although I think Kojipro was a bit hasty when they announced the game SO EARLY.
It was 2024. They originally planned to start casting that same year, but they were thwarted by a long-lasting strike that also disrupted OD filming. Even at the time of the initial announcement, Kojima expressed the opinion that they would begin Physint development in earnest after the release of DS2, but it seems the plans were changed due to the SAG strike aftermath, as it pushed Physint casting and OD filming back to 2026. The schedule has essentially shifted two years, and Physint is still in the scanning phase.
Apparently, the game is still very early in development. I don't think we'll get a teaser trailer until 2027, but I'd like to be wrong.
I've always wondered if Kojima would ever make a new MGS-style game, and overall, I didn't expect him to. He's already said he was very tired of being stuck on one franchise back then, and he was probably even glad to be freed from that. It's interesting that he finally decided to make concessions to the fans and create such a game; it will be interesting
I was thinking PT was photo realistic, but this game looks literally like real photo
This game has nothing to do with the SH series.
but i understand why SH fans do this, it's because they get new soulless, not scary and uninteresting games in the SH series and they have to discuss other horror game that they would really like to see as part of their series, i apologize of course, but it's true
The current theory that the pieces of paper with eyes are the players themselves seems a bit unrealistic to me, so I came up with my own theory: Look, maybe this will work like asynchronous multiplayer in Death Stranding, to help chicken players progress if they can't move forward on their own due to fear. We know from Kojima's words that this mechanic will almost certainly not be used to hinder each other, but rather to help or guide. Speaking of these weird pieces of paper with eyes, maybe through them you'll be able to watch a fast-forward recording of other players' progress, basically playing out key moments, and as you watch each piece of paper, you'll have to piece it all together and try to recreate the same actions the other player did to complete the current level and move on, I think it would be very convenient because you can essentially watch guides in game without having to leave the game and break your immersion to watch a guide site or YouTube. I don't really think you'll be able to watch other players in real time, but you can see into the future/past within the context of the game and get hints and might be able to track key actions of other players right inside the game that are already recorded by the game system using cloud technology. What do you think?
I think it would be nice if the Xbox had a Kojima horror exclusive. It would help attract more people to the console. I see PS5 fans everywhere yapping that nothing should have exclusives except their own console. I also see some stupid comments where people claim that Kojima is a traitor because PT was born on the PS4, but now he's releasing OD on Xbox, completely unaware that it's not up to him, and Sony themselves rejected his OD idea because, as Kojima said, only Phil Spencer understood his idea. Anyway, PS5 fans, let us enjoy our exclusives too
The radio in PT simultaneously served as a scare element for the player and as a means of providing information and background on what was happening, and I think the TV in OD will work in exactly the same way. With the TV, it's possible to create even more scary moments for the player, telling them something while simultaneously showing some cursed/horrible footage. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the intention.