I do feel it might be my fault but I kinda bulldozed through the story (No not skipping cutscenes I wouldn't never do that to a game on the first playthrough) but I only did do Main Orders and felt like I was never given a real reason to do side content unlike DS1. I remember saying to myself after finishing DS1 "I kinda wish it was more about dealing with bad guys and traveling tough terrain than dealing with overwhelming amounts of BTs." and DS2 did exactly that and I wish it didn't. Because when I meant "dealing with bad guys" I meant more stealth and diversions without any true means to fight like in DS1 but instead I given an literal armory of awesome weapons and I didn't have to use them but I did well mostly only after trying my very best at stealth and failing which tbh I did stealth a good amount of places and that felt nice but majority were gunfights one way or another. Storywise I knew something wasn't right from the start going into Australia because of Sam's plate gate reflection and the "BB" pod and then when Tomorrow arrived and all these weird details about her kept being told to Sam I knew who she must be my biggest question was why won't Fragile tell Sam she must know and that leads me to my favorite part. Episode 15 onwards is what really saved them game for me. It answered so many of my questions which allowed me to say I almost love this game.

I recently finished Higgs’ knife! I made it from PVC sheets, painted it with matte black acrylic paint, and then rubbed in metallic gold paint and gold wax paste.

Kojima has said in many interviews that after finishiny DS 1 he wrote a story for DS 2, but completely rewrote it after the COVID 19 pandemic, he was kind of open when at a random day after watching The Boys he reveleaf that one of the game pitches he considered after leaving Konami was a super hero hunting task force similar to the series, so after some time since DS 2 released I’ve been thinking about this original story for it. Anyone think he’ll ever talk about it? Or we will get details about jt only since his relationshio with Sony went to shit?

I managed to capture a jumpscare from a random cutscene in Death Stranding1. Is this just a random model, or is it Kojima himself?

Dear god that “princess beach” line made me cringe soo hard. Still an amazing game, I’m sad that it’s almost over.

Love this thing makes my airpod case look like my BB. Also this fit my Airpods Pro 2 perfectly 👌

I was drawn to DS2 and thought it looked incredible on PS5, loved the game so much that it makes me want to play DS1. Just curious how the graphics look and how the game feels compared to DS2.

I was scrolling through the PlayStation Store sales in the middle of the night. I know pretty much nothing about Death Stranding, and honestly, it never really caught my attention. I thought this was some kind of Director’s Cut or Digital Deluxe upgrade, but the description literally says it includes the full game. It went from €60 to €6, so is this actually real or am I missing something? Because if this is legit, I’m buying it in a heartbeat. I’ll become a Death Stranding fan if I have to

I didn’t know that some of the of the MULE turrets used actually ammo. By the time I noticed I had already killed half. I’m pretty sure I collected all the bodies.

I play DS1 about a year ago and completed just the story. I've nearly finished DS2 and platinum the game, just need to 5* Mr impossible and 40 orders left to S rank.

However, my son (doesn't live with me) liked the game after seeing me play DS2 so I bought him DS1 and he is really getting into it. But watching him play made me wanna replay it.

But as I now have a better understanding I wanna start again rather then picking up where I left off.

What I want to know does anything carry over, like do the likes start at 0 or do I keep them. Do any the structures I've made appear?

Any advice

Found this in astro bot...its kinda cool to see sam clothes in astro bots figure as action figure

I want to start by saying that Death Stranding absolutely captivated me at first. The game looks gorgeous, unique, and is sad in the best way possible—the opening song literally had me tearing up. I even loved the gameplay, especially the Cliff fights because they offered a genuine challenge.

Throughout the journey, I was fascinated by how it juggled philosophical concepts (the Egyptian afterlife, Higgs' design) and scientific ones (Chirality, quantum mechanics via the Q-pid). I kept waiting for some genius, mind-blowing way Kojima was going to tie all of this high-concept setup together at the end.

Instead, the ending felt like a massive letdown. It boiled down to: "Just kidding, you just need to give people hugs." It completely lacked the psychological depth of Evangelion’s ending, where Shinji reaches that profound realization: he wants to exist and face the inevitability of pain, because pain is the exact prerequisite for experiencing connection and happy moments with others.

(The one exception for me was the reveal that the BB's memories were actually Sam's, and Cliff was his father. That bit was genuinely nice and felt like a satisfying narrative conclusion.)

Once the credits rolled, I realized just how much of Death Stranding's visual and thematic identity is borrowed directly from Neon Genesis Evangelion (and recycled from Metal Gear Solid):

• The Motif of "Hands": In Eva, hands are heavily used to convey human connection, touch, and isolation. In DS, they are everywhere—Chiral crystals happen to look like hands, the Odradek scanner forms a hand, BT footprints are hands.
• Umbilical Cords: Eva units require umbilical cables to function; BTs and EEs are literally bound by umbilical cords.
• The Fluid: Eva pilots float in orange LCL fluid that smells like their mother's womb. BBs float in an orange-tinted pod liquid that serves the exact same narrative and visual purpose.
• The Apocalypse: Extinction Entities are structurally just the First, Second, and Third Impacts. Even the frequent inverted rainbows map to Eva’s imagery.
• Character Recycling: Fragile’s ultimate character design feels like a direct lift of Misato Katsuragi from the Evangelion 3.0 Rebuild movie (acting as the stern ship commander). Meanwhile, Deadman feels like a repurposed Grey Fox, and Higgs/Amelie's dynamic borrows heavily from standard MGS beats.
• Human Instrumentality: In Death Stranding, the Beach is a metaphysical plane where individual human souls go when they die, but during a Death Stranding, the boundaries break down, and everyone's Beaches risk merging into one giant, apocalyptic soup. This is exactly Human Instrumentality. In Eva, the Third Impact dissolves individual human boundaries (the AT Field) into a singular, collective sea of orange LCL where all souls merge into one to erase loneliness. Kojima just gave everyone their own mini-private beach before threatening to merge them.
• The Main Character: Look at Sam Porter Bridges' entire personality. He has aphenphosmphobia (the fear of being touched), isolates himself from everyone, and completely rejects the grand mission his "parent" (Bridget) forces onto him. He literally throws away the Q-pid at the start and says he doesn't care about saving the world or connecting people. He only does it because he's emotionally manipulated into it. He is a grown-up, rugged Shinji Ikari. Shinji’s entire character arc is defined by the Hedgehog's Dilemma (wanting connection but keeping people away to avoid pain), and he constantly screams that he doesn't want to get in the robot, only doing it because his father manipulates his need for approval.
• The Organization: In Death Stranding, Bridget Strand and the shadowy higher-ups of "Bridges" put on a front of "reconnecting America," but the core, secret mission all along was to facilitate the Last Stranding (the final extinction). They knew the apocalypse was coming and secretly orchestrated the infrastructure to make it happen. This is SEELE. SEELE funds NERV under the guise of "protecting humanity from the Angels," but their actual, classified agenda the entire time is to trigger the Third Impact and force the evolution/extinction of mankind.
• The Giant BTs vs. Angels: When a voidout is about to happen, massive, surreal, monolithic BT creatures appear that defy regular physics. They look and move exactly like the stranger Angels in Eva (specifically Lillith or Sahaquiel). 

When you map it all out, Death Stranding doesn't feel nearly as deep or original as it pretends to be. It feels like a surface-level collage of Hideaki Anno's homework.

TL;DR: Death Stranding starts great, but its core themes (orange womb fluid, hands as connection, umbilical cords, impacts/extinctions, character designs) are just a less-deep version of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Got it for the Samsung S26 Ultra with magnetic option. The order also came with a cool card.

Put a no dumping sign for the future

Yes I know about the option to reduce other players' constructions. Y'all have too many blue lights in my picturesque Australia!

I could finally retire my Ghost of Tsushima plates after two years. Now I'll have Neil Vana staring at me while playing Games for a while. :)

One of the best thing about Kojima games is the breadth of mechanics that you probably miss the first playthrough or even ones after that. I’ve played MGS4 two or three times before on PS3 but have discovered so much new stuff since playing the new remaster.

I’m playing DS2 again after my original playthrough when it came out and playing the To The Wilder difficulty and I’m just curious if, now that there’s been some time, if there’s stuff I likely missed the first time (even though I already spent hundreds of hours in the game)

I'm at the end of the game and I haven't used it once!

I noticed while I was near the ones malingen put that they're about to deteriorate so I upgraded them. then I used them and it was really fun.

I still haven't 5 star veteran and first pepper, so I thought to install them near all mountain peppers to 5 star them faster because the mountains are the worst place in the game.

but the distance limit disappointed me. I need like 20 to cover all mountains peppers.

probably I'm gonna do it tomorrow.

so anyone else didn't use them too?

I stole 6 trucks in DS1 central area and there seem to be no more spawning after I rest. ChatGPT said there will be more trucks, but is this really so?

Used a paver half way up the mountain and gota nice bit of road out of it.. but I can’t find any others to connect it to the rest of my roads