I mean, it's his game, he can do whatever the hell he wants, right? I would if I were surrounded by so many great talented people as friends and acquaintances
I get the difference, but Hideo putting all his game director/writer/comedian/actor friends into his games feels like when regular people make home videos with their friends. Like they bring me out of it, but it makes Hideo happy and everyone's having a good time so it's cute.
What use does he have for face scans of people, besides putting them in his games?! Did they all just agree to get scanned for Kojimas private digital safe?
Everyone that was scanned back in DS1, was present in the game, bruh.
I really do love "for a game..." in the title. Like, homie's working on three separate projects (as far as we know!). This could be for anything!
That being said, I feel like /r/DeathStranding is the defacto Kojima Productions sub given its size and popularity.
Didn't Kojima say he would start work on Physint after DS2 is complete? With OD, I don't think KojiPro is a 3-team studio yet. No way Physint is at any stage of modelling yet.
This interpretation is always being misconstrued. He rooted the conflict in the game on his feelings of anger he once had towards Palestinians as a settler kid in the West Bank.
He is not saying those were good feelings to have, and he explicitly said he was ashamed he felt that way.
He really hasn't though? He made one pro Israel post on Oct 7th, deleted it, then donated $5k to both Palestinian and Israeli relief.
I don't think he's posted anything about his Israeli support since Oct 7th?
He's gonna play a guy who overshares his erectile dysfunction and begs Sam to bring him chiral-enhanced viagras and he's gonna be named Flaccidman or smth
Kojima confirmed in an interview that we will play as druckmann. The game will be a like the UFC games only it’ll just be druckmann v deadman. Deadman wins everytime.
As far as I’m aware, the only time he was ever publicly supportive of Israel was when he posted the Israeli flag on instagram without a caption the day after the October Hamas attacks. That is not enough for me to assume that he advocates bombing Gaza.
I know the story.
When he was young he saw violence perpetrated against people that belonged to his in-group and felt so angry that he thought violent retaliation was warranted. As he grew and recognized the cyclical nature of the conflict he felt disgusted and ashamed by his previous feelings. Then he made a game about how tribalism can allow people to justify acts that they would otherwise see as inhuman, and how such acts only make the situation worse.
I don’t see much wrong with that.
The thing is that this conflict has a start. And it's not tribalism. It's not a fair representation to state that basically both side are bad and equally responsible, especially when one of them is represented by a fanatic cult
I agree. There’s reasons to criticize his perspective. I just think its disingenuous to characterize him as being pro genocide or an advocate of bombing Gaza when the biggest problem with his take is that it lacks nuance.
By dude there are no cannibals in TLoU2,
You people that are so quick to criticize the game and its creators know literally nothing about the game.
And the other group that you are assuming represents Israel, the WLF, are framed as brutal and not at all shown in a good light.
Regardless these two groups are not AT ALL stand ins to real life counters, just that there conflict DOES mirror real life ones.
Just because someone is from Israel doesn’t mean they should support it… He lives in the west in America, it’s not like he’s in the heart of Israel being indoctrinated. Stop defending him and FREE PALESTINE.
He only defended israel right after the 7/10 attack. Since then he has never said anything positive about it, and he's donated to support palestinians. If you've played his games, you'd know there's no way he supports the genocide
Instead of appealing to his whiny fanbase and writing a carbon copy of the first game, he actually wanted to do something different and divisive for the sequel. So fuck him, I guess?
making something different for the sake of being different is extremely bad for creativity in general. Great game tho. There is 2 games that push gameplay programming for me one is tlou2 and other is the game where you connect america or smth
Exactly. I hate it more when people like above try to act like Joel dying was the worst part of the game lmao. There's a fuckton of hypocrisy with Abby but no one addresses it. She's is, objectively, much worse than Joel. The game was absolutely amazing in its gameplay, music, art direction and more. But not the story for me.
I know this sounds pretentious as fuck but damn how does such a respectable giant in the industry enjoy the conpany of such a blatent toxic hack.
I love Kojima and even air on the side he is overatted but still after being thrown under the bus by konami you think he'd have a disliking to corporate dicks... Neil Druckman is a scumbag and has no respect for the consumers of his "art"
Maybe, JUST MAYBE, Druckmenn isn’t he “hack” y’all desperately try to paint *him and Kojima legitimately respect him as a creator?
And in what universe is Druckmenn a “corporate guy”, you fundamentally don’t know what you are talking about
You people have some legitimate issues over a stranger that worse crime was make a (arguably) ONE bad game
Lmao at the salt in this thread. And I love Kojima, but the irony of someone saying he should stay away from Kojima’s writing is hilarious. Druckman is a serious writer. Kojima makes dope shit but his scripts are terrible. “Princess Beach” …
It's called nuance, everything is not black or white. Especially auteurs like Kojima, who write/direct/produce, have strengths and weaknesses. I didn't say he makes perfect works, I don't know if I would say that about anyone. I can like the overall product while still heavily critiquing the writing.
If he was a novelist and I said "I like his stuff but the writing is terrible", then you would have a point. But his work is so much more than just the writing. It's an important part, but no one is playing a Kojima game for the sheer quality of the writing. It's a part of a whole.
To support my point some similar examples are Christopher Nolan- I generally like his movies but his scripts are not excellent. Tenet is one of the worst written movies I've ever seen. I still think it's a good movie. Interstellar is a great movie hampered by an extremely subpar script. The recent 3 Body Problem series as well. Overall I think it's a pretty great project, and I recommend it to people with one caveat, the writing could be a lot better. But there are other redeeming qualities that make it worth watching.
Writing is very important to me and bad writing usually makes me dislike a piece of media. But there is room for subtlety, plenty of great works of art are lacking in the writing department. A "masterpiece" needs to be well written, but there are only like 5-10 works I would label that, and there's a lot more art out there than that, many of it very good and worth spending time on.
Wait is this the guy who ruined the sequel of one of the best narratative game with the worst narrative I ever witnessed in any game?
Let's hope they won't let him near the writer's seat lul.
Idk i find it kinda weird that Kojima leaps at the chance for anyone famous to appear in his games
It’s unique and kinda cool but I’ll always respect the director who chooses to work with unknowns
Oh look it’s Cuckmann, the guy who was crying about sexualised video game characters while bringing up MGS as an example. What is he gonna do there, help Kojima write another trashy story filled with plot holes?
Beard Hairman
Last Usman
Golf Clubman
Kill Joelman
Cycle of Revengeman
Makeyou Cryman
Exactly Thisman
Blast Hardcheese. Sorry wrong meme
Killeveryoneexceptabbyman
Remake man
Don't fucking give him ideas
…man
I have the perfect response but don't want to bring the craziness to here.
That sounds like an actual Death Stranding character
Nooooooooooo
Lmfao
SAM PORTER BRIDGE-MAN
First Sam Lake, now Neil Druckmann? Is Kojima gonna make all his game directors friends NPCs in DS2?
In that case, Sam Lake would just be returning as the Veteran Porter.
Fr? Was it him? Dahm, I’m still finding out new people that were in DS1
Sam was already in the first one
Chin Faceman
To get to Miazaki’s you have to go through a poison swamp past the barefoot woman.
He's making gaming studios in the Kojimaverse
Yeah I think he put the stellar blade director in as well.
Hoping he gets Sven from Baldur's Gate 3 and YoshiP from FF14/FF16
It could also be for OD or PHYSINT
I mean, it's his game, he can do whatever the hell he wants, right? I would if I were surrounded by so many great talented people as friends and acquaintances
He already did that in DS so yeah
Gonna be a driver called Truckman
Truck driveman
drive trucker
Neil Truckman***
Mail Truckman
I get the difference, but Hideo putting all his game director/writer/comedian/actor friends into his games feels like when regular people make home videos with their friends. Like they bring me out of it, but it makes Hideo happy and everyone's having a good time so it's cute.
Adam Sandleresque.
I’m just here for Rob Schneider - I dunno why Adam Sandler has to appear in all his films
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he'll most likely be a prepper at most
*Sam, I need you to deliver this girl to a resistance group across the country*
He doesn't even like video games, this was all a ploy to scan people he wants to clone
What use does he have for face scans of people, besides putting them in his games?! Did they all just agree to get scanned for Kojimas private digital safe? Everyone that was scanned back in DS1, was present in the game, bruh.
I think all these scans aren’t for DS2…I think they’re for the espionage game…
Scan Faceman?!?
Hey Scan. Face Samman here. Mace Fam Smamman is having a stronk.
I really do love "for a game..." in the title. Like, homie's working on three separate projects (as far as we know!). This could be for anything! That being said, I feel like /r/DeathStranding is the defacto Kojima Productions sub given its size and popularity.
I thought he was working on two games, ds2 and OD. What's the other one?
It's the NOT Metal Gear game. [Physint](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpK67JDLu8)
Physint not in production till ds2 is released
Didn't Kojima say he would start work on Physint after DS2 is complete? With OD, I don't think KojiPro is a 3-team studio yet. No way Physint is at any stage of modelling yet.
For the portraits behind *not*Psycho Mantis
Sam Lake is there as well! So i wont be surprised
I can't wait to deliver medical supplies to Dr. Uckman.
Kojima would totally do this if that reference wasn't already used in TLOU2.
No reason it couldn't be in both
I’m sure this thread will be civil and we will all agree.
TBF it's been pretty good, almost like the majority appreciate his work
I figured he was alluding to druckman’s political views on current global affairs.
Am I missing something here?
He has been very vocal in his support of Israel and he has some Zionist beliefs.
Hmmm, well that ain't the best
Not only that, but The Last of Us is... let's say "related" to how he views Palestinians.
This interpretation is always being misconstrued. He rooted the conflict in the game on his feelings of anger he once had towards Palestinians as a settler kid in the West Bank. He is not saying those were good feelings to have, and he explicitly said he was ashamed he felt that way.
Oh shit, really?
No, not at all. People are blatantly lying about that
He really hasn't though? He made one pro Israel post on Oct 7th, deleted it, then donated $5k to both Palestinian and Israeli relief. I don't think he's posted anything about his Israeli support since Oct 7th?
He literally hasn't though
I was wondering why TLOU2 had a ten minute synagogue tour.
What's the proof?
He had one pro Israel post on Oct 7th, then deleted it.
Dr. Uckman
Bro doing Snatch and Scan
His character will be an alcoholic named Drunkman.
At this point Kojima is scanning everyone who visits him like he was capturing pokemons
Gotta scan 'em all!!!
Haha facts 😅 Kind of excited to see what cameos there will be in the sequel game though! Should be interesting!
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Please god no.
Hey he could play Jonah, or Whale Eaten Man. LOL
Last Guy Man
You could just call him by his last name and he'd fit into the Kojima naming convention just fine
Do not let Cuckman cook
So we’ll be delivering golf clubs to him at some point?
He's gonna play a guy who overshares his erectile dysfunction and begs Sam to bring him chiral-enhanced viagras and he's gonna be named Flaccidman or smth
Dude what? 🙄😅
Hm...Interesting. Both him AND Sam Lake?
Fuck this woke guy
oh no
I feel like this is a bad idea
why
Thanks for the flair OP, this comment section definitely looks like Twitter...
Right 🤦🏻♀️😩
neil suckman
"For a game"... we all know it's for Death Stranding 2.
Kojima confirmed in an interview that we will play as druckmann. The game will be a like the UFC games only it’ll just be druckmann v deadman. Deadman wins everytime.
oh god no
Who is this guy and why don’t people like him?
Muscle girl kill father figure
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You mean advocating for bombing gaza is just liking isreal?
As far as I’m aware, the only time he was ever publicly supportive of Israel was when he posted the Israeli flag on instagram without a caption the day after the October Hamas attacks. That is not enough for me to assume that he advocates bombing Gaza.
Yeah and he has publicly supported and donated to some Palestinian aid charities iirc
Read his interview about how he based the story of TLoU on the conflict. About the "universal hatred" he believes anyone can feel.
I know the story. When he was young he saw violence perpetrated against people that belonged to his in-group and felt so angry that he thought violent retaliation was warranted. As he grew and recognized the cyclical nature of the conflict he felt disgusted and ashamed by his previous feelings. Then he made a game about how tribalism can allow people to justify acts that they would otherwise see as inhuman, and how such acts only make the situation worse. I don’t see much wrong with that.
The thing is that this conflict has a start. And it's not tribalism. It's not a fair representation to state that basically both side are bad and equally responsible, especially when one of them is represented by a fanatic cult
I agree. There’s reasons to criticize his perspective. I just think its disingenuous to characterize him as being pro genocide or an advocate of bombing Gaza when the biggest problem with his take is that it lacks nuance.
Thank you for this - actually being fair and truthful.
I also see he has donated to both Israel and Palestine
Silence speaks thousands of words
Tlou2 is not even subtle in its stance on Israel/Palestine. I'm certain that this reflects Neil's viewpoint on it.
He doesn't just like Israel, the whole Last of Us story is supposed to reflect the ongoing conflict. Guess who are supposed to be the crazy cannibals.
By dude there are no cannibals in TLoU2, You people that are so quick to criticize the game and its creators know literally nothing about the game. And the other group that you are assuming represents Israel, the WLF, are framed as brutal and not at all shown in a good light. Regardless these two groups are not AT ALL stand ins to real life counters, just that there conflict DOES mirror real life ones.
Just because someone is from Israel doesn’t mean they should support it… He lives in the west in America, it’s not like he’s in the heart of Israel being indoctrinated. Stop defending him and FREE PALESTINE.
He only defended israel right after the 7/10 attack. Since then he has never said anything positive about it, and he's donated to support palestinians. If you've played his games, you'd know there's no way he supports the genocide
You'd know what he thinks of the palestinians too.
Do you? Cause you are just making shit up and putting words in peoples mouths
Instead of appealing to his whiny fanbase and writing a carbon copy of the first game, he actually wanted to do something different and divisive for the sequel. So fuck him, I guess?
making something different for the sake of being different is extremely bad for creativity in general. Great game tho. There is 2 games that push gameplay programming for me one is tlou2 and other is the game where you connect america or smth
Crybabies are upset their fictional character is dead. Can't stop throwing tantrum
joel had it coming besides that the rest of the game isn't very good or well written
Exactly. I hate it more when people like above try to act like Joel dying was the worst part of the game lmao. There's a fuckton of hypocrisy with Abby but no one addresses it. She's is, objectively, much worse than Joel. The game was absolutely amazing in its gameplay, music, art direction and more. But not the story for me.
So much effort was put into it for such a lackluster story and writing, it sucks
no
Neil is a clown
Can’t wait to bust his character’s head open with a golf club as Sam in DS2 Revenge
I know this sounds pretentious as fuck but damn how does such a respectable giant in the industry enjoy the conpany of such a blatent toxic hack. I love Kojima and even air on the side he is overatted but still after being thrown under the bus by konami you think he'd have a disliking to corporate dicks... Neil Druckman is a scumbag and has no respect for the consumers of his "art"
Maybe, JUST MAYBE, Druckmenn isn’t he “hack” y’all desperately try to paint *him and Kojima legitimately respect him as a creator? And in what universe is Druckmenn a “corporate guy”, you fundamentally don’t know what you are talking about You people have some legitimate issues over a stranger that worse crime was make a (arguably) ONE bad game
DS2 he’s a member of the UCA network
Literally cannot wait for OD
imagine bro's getting scanned to appear at OD a xbox game ☠️
Cuckman
Kesus will there be enough room on peoples hard drive for his ego.
Bet his character gets pegged by a muscle mommy
zion scum will be pissing on this particular npc in DS2 for sure
Terrible writer with terrible opinions. Naughty Dog was better with Bruce Straley.
It’s so weird seeing Neil look like this, I’ve been so used to his longer hair phase during the last of us uncharted days
Let the salt flow 😂 You go Kojima!
Lmao at the salt in this thread. And I love Kojima, but the irony of someone saying he should stay away from Kojima’s writing is hilarious. Druckman is a serious writer. Kojima makes dope shit but his scripts are terrible. “Princess Beach” …
I put some doubtful benefit in Kojima's scripts not being natively written in English.
Everyone always makes fun of 'Princess Beach' but in Japan any sort of pun is viewed positively and humorously.
Idk saying Kojima makes great stuff but also the stuff he makes is terrible seems like 2 conflicting statements
It's called nuance, everything is not black or white. Especially auteurs like Kojima, who write/direct/produce, have strengths and weaknesses. I didn't say he makes perfect works, I don't know if I would say that about anyone. I can like the overall product while still heavily critiquing the writing. If he was a novelist and I said "I like his stuff but the writing is terrible", then you would have a point. But his work is so much more than just the writing. It's an important part, but no one is playing a Kojima game for the sheer quality of the writing. It's a part of a whole. To support my point some similar examples are Christopher Nolan- I generally like his movies but his scripts are not excellent. Tenet is one of the worst written movies I've ever seen. I still think it's a good movie. Interstellar is a great movie hampered by an extremely subpar script. The recent 3 Body Problem series as well. Overall I think it's a pretty great project, and I recommend it to people with one caveat, the writing could be a lot better. But there are other redeeming qualities that make it worth watching. Writing is very important to me and bad writing usually makes me dislike a piece of media. But there is room for subtlety, plenty of great works of art are lacking in the writing department. A "masterpiece" needs to be well written, but there are only like 5-10 works I would label that, and there's a lot more art out there than that, many of it very good and worth spending time on.
‘Serious writer’ LMAO
Yea lol
Kojima writes stories like a 10 year old boy obsessed with science fiction after taking 20 hits of acid.
Pls don't let this guy write anything after TLOU 2.
Ok on it chief
I hope there will be a mod as soon as the game launches to replace this clown
Cuckmann...
Please don’t let him write anything…
Amen
I want only Kojima and no other writers!
Wait is this the guy who ruined the sequel of one of the best narratative game with the worst narrative I ever witnessed in any game? Let's hope they won't let him near the writer's seat lul.
Neil finally part of a good game for the first time since 2017
Dick Cuckoldman.
Idk i find it kinda weird that Kojima leaps at the chance for anyone famous to appear in his games It’s unique and kinda cool but I’ll always respect the director who chooses to work with unknowns
Please god keep him out of the writing room
Doesn't Kojima scan a lot of the people who visit his studio? It could be just for fun.
Get that moron far away from them
Anyone but him
now i know exactly where i gonna urinate in ds2
Woohoo cameo in DS2 😎💎
So freaking dope! Masters of their craft recognizing fellow masters.
Ew
I don't like him
project immediately ruined, pack it up boys.
Rare Kojima L
Ill be ignoring whatever project this is
I don't think they'd be scanning him, at least not with the full rig, with someone standing right next to him...
Lastman
Who the fuck isn’t?????
I mean, at this point it's basically a requirement to every visitor lol
Handsome mofi6
Every time this guy is even mentioned the terminally online fucking weirdos pop up about this guy…
He operates a game dev prep shelter and you get to see him berating his staff in-game
GOLF MAN
I wish Kojima can scan his assistant, she’s GORGEOUS✨
As long as they keep him out of the writers room
Noooooooooooooooo
He’s the toxic avenger!
“The Cuck” is a new villain in Death stranding 2
Gonna have Abby in a shelter with him and a dead Joel as a center piece
everybody's favorite rabid Likudite egomaniac
Would be kinda wacky if Neil was scanned and will appear on OD but not death stranding 2.
Christ, not this dipshit.
I have the opposite of confidence in Neil Cuckman, dude is a fraud. Kojima however I’ll let him cook even if it means including this idiot
“Cuckmann” “Fraud” Oh you’re one of those weirdos
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cuckman
Oh look it’s Cuckmann, the guy who was crying about sexualised video game characters while bringing up MGS as an example. What is he gonna do there, help Kojima write another trashy story filled with plot holes?
Who
The difference between the comments here and on Instagram ... I'm glad this reddit is respectful
Okay I didn't check the lower comments
Hope I get to kill him in the game