scores are overlbloated due to early embargo. A ton of reviews list a lot of negatives then slap a 10/10 or 9/10 score. It's ridiculous. Its like they fear of being blacklisted by Sony

Having now seen a few 4K gameplay vids, my resolve is starting to weaken.

It's a very, very pretty game.

@frytup: Yeah, it's a shame that the Fox engine is being held hostage by Konami but the Decima engine looks better, even if it isnt as well optimized. (knowing nothing about engines, i'm just impressed that the Fox engine hit 60fps on consoles and even worked at all on last generation hardware)

Also, I see Jeff has changed the background image of Death Stranding to Monster Energy drinks, at least theres something in the game he likes.

I want to play it, but I don't want to pay $60.

However, I'm worried that if I wait for it to go on sale and come to it late, the asynchronous multiplayer parts will be a problem.

I.e. either the world will be already so overpopulated by stuff as to make it seems like there's nothing to be done and ruin the feeling you get from seeing the world built up. Or, because the stuff degrades, I'll get to a world with nothing built and no sense of community because no one is playing it anymore.

@sweetz: I worry about that, in general. I think there’s awesome potential in a shared world that changes based on what others are doing, but I think it’s more academically interesting than a net positive for players.

I get that it ties into the theme of the game, but even if you could make the world changes private, so that as you and some friends played, you’d see the changes, I think I’d prefer that to something wider scale.

I just don’t like feeling like I need to play at launch, or at a certain time of day, to get the right experience. I play games when I can, so even something as dumb as daily quests leave a bad taste in my mouth (thanks, Destiny).