Death Stranding Speedruns?
4 years ago
Denmark

Hey I'm really curious if anyone else have thought about Death Stranding as a speed game? Personally I'm super excited for the game despite many players shrugging it off as a "walking simulator". That's definitely not the case if you look at the different teasers and gameplay shown there's so much more to the game other than just walking around (action scenes, boss fights, cool cinematics, huge open world, fun casual stuff in the safe room etc.)

The thing that I find super interesting about the game is the 'strand' element - basically other players can leave stuff behind in the world that you can interact with or pick up. Kojima calls this a totally new game genre where you can interact indirectly with other players, and I think it's gonna have super cool merit in speedruns too! It will make for some super interesting speedruns since you kinda have to improvise on the spot if you find useful items on the ground or a motorbike etc.

Anyway, I just wanted to hear other people's thoughts on Death Stranding, possibly as a potential speedgame, although I reckon a lot of people won't run it since it will probably have a super long runtime. (personally i have gotten used to that though after speedrunning RDR2) But I really think this will be interesting and I imagine the game would be split into an offline and online category, where you in the offline category have a consistent route but in the online category need to improvise and adapt to whatever items, objects or vehicles you find along your journey.

EDIT: i'm curious if anyone else have thought about running this/adding this to speedrun.com? I've seen some people add unreleased games, does anyone know how do that because I definitely want to submit this game if no one else wants to. :P

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Canada

Game is a write-off for me since it's a PS4 exclusive, I honestly haven't followed that much stuff about it but...

[quote=Hess]where you can interact indirectly with other players[/quote]

Bleugh. I'll personally never understand why anyone would ever want this in a single-player game.

I have to imagine that, at least for the sake of leaderboards, you'd have to disable this feature or disconnect from the internet (if the game is nice enough to allow either of these options) or something, otherwise you're stuck relying on other players to drop useful stuff for you to get a good time (unless the "strand" thing is a cover and it's actually just RNG under the hood, which is probably is).

Online could be interesting to run I guess but I'm not sure if having it as an official category would make sense, I guess it depends on how exactly it affects the game (that said, I'm probably never going to run this so 🤷 )

[quote=Hess]Kojima calls this a totally new game genre[/quote]

Is he really just gonna pretend no one has ever done this before

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
4 years ago

As far as getting a leaderboard for an unreleased game, it's the same as for a released game. speedrun.com/requestgame

And no, I'm not the slightest bit hyped for this game. I am most unequivocally not a part of Kojima's cult.

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Canada

[quote=emeraldaly]I am most unequivocally not a part of Kojima's cult.[/quote]

I kinda feel this. I mean, I loved Metal Gear Solid just as much as the next guy, but I am wondering if this is gonna be a 'George Lucas' situation, where he had some good ideas but only really succeeded because others were keeping him focused and pushing him in the right direction (this is a massive oversimplification of George Lucas but you get the idea). My understanding with Death Stranding is that Sony basically gave him a blank cheque and said 'do whatever', so... yeah I'm wondering how this is gonna go.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
4 years ago

I sorta feel bad pooping on other peoples' excitement (wouldn't want it done to me) but people are already anointing this as Game of the....forget Year, Game of the Century. And it's not even out yet. Until what, a week ago, nobody even know what the moment-to-moment gameplay looked like. "Cult" is obviously meant metaphorically but the full weight of the metaphor is definitely meant.

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Denmark

hmm yeah i see what you mean, i definitely won't say this will be a game of the year or anything but I feel like it has potential to be either that or the total opposite also i suppose. it seems like kojima has been holding back on showing too much so saying the game is just a fedex walking simulator, or the game of the century, would be jumping to conclusions. but personally i can't help being really interested in this game as it seems super original and different, especially considering the "strand-element".

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
4 years ago

I do hope you enjoy it.

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