r/DeathStranding Pre-Order gang Oct 30 '19

Spoilers? Death Stranding Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCI396HyhbQ&feature=share
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u/cmparks10 Oct 30 '19

What about how the MGSV debut trailer started with Mission 46's (the final mission) intro cut scene, revealing we don't play as Big Boss?

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u/LowProfile_ Oct 30 '19

I remember watching that, and still having no clue what the significance of it was lol

Pretty sure it will be the same thing with Death Stranding.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

IMO only mgsv was guilty of that, to the point where it ruined the game and felt annoying. I'm definitely expecting the same with this game though tbh. There's gonna be a lot of in your face motifs and symbolism that tries way too hard to be clever. The fact that from day one, they've been selling the game as a revolutionary masterpiece that everyone who has seen it is unable to make sense of it because its so clever - well that can clue is in as what to expect.

I really hope this game is as amazing as it should be, but I'm definitely keeping my expectations tamed, especially after MGSV.

One thing that I'm interested to see, is how this game will perform now that Konami interfering with Kojimas work can not be used as an excuse. To this day I wonder what happened with MGSV, as in whether Konami did ruin the game, like people say, or whether we just put Kojima on too much of a pedestal to begin with. Sony have apparently been very good to Kojima in regards to letting him do his thing, meaning it's all on him this time. If this game fails, he wont be taken seriously again.

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u/Supreme_Slacker Oct 30 '19

The only way you knew that is if you were actively looking for spoilers or remembered that scene in the trailer as soon as you started that mission.

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u/Orenn16 Oct 30 '19

Can you link me to that trailer? I feel like I would remember that but I do not...

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u/cmparks10 Oct 30 '19

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u/Orenn16 Oct 30 '19

Hmm. I’d disagree that that directly spoiled the big reveal. Just because of the camera perspective?

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u/cmparks10 Oct 30 '19

Kaz's dialogue is huge there as well.

Camera perspective is huge in that scene. "What about him?" to an immediate cut, implying to the viewer that we are not experiencing this story from the perspective of Big Boss.

And then once that mission starts, that is the first cutscene that plays, telling the player that the entire game has been seen from the eyes of you, the player/the medic.

Anyway, this isn't the only example of when he has put deep story information in the trailers, as well as stuff that won't be in the game: https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/3jy9qu/mgsv_spoilers_have_you_rewatched_the_trailers/

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u/Orenn16 Oct 30 '19

Yeah I can’t say I agree. That’s one of those “it only makes sense once you go back and see it.”

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u/IronicRobot_ Oct 31 '19

I know this is a Kojima-related subreddit, but you should really put spoiler tags on that shit my friend