Death Stranding 2: Fragile to Play a "Significant Role", Hideo Kojima Reveals

Death Stranding 2's Fragile is set to play a "significant role" in Death Stranding 2 alongside actresses Elle Fanning and Shioli Kutsuna.

[DrDoomer]

A proper strong female character. Take notes, western feminists.

[crazyCoconuts]

I just yesterday watched the latest Bond movie and recognized her from Death Stranding. I don't know what you mean about the feminist comment but she's definitely a looker

[Sonic1881]

😄

[DrDoomer]

I mean you can write a strong female character without her being just like a dude (eg naughty dog)

[TricksterArrow]

I fail to see how any of the women in The Last of Us are written as dudes. But otherwise, I agree Fragile is actually quite tough.

[CorndogBurglar]

I really wish Kojima would have done something different than this.

[LostinthePANIC]

He is. He's working on Overdose as well.

[Syphos]

He's working on multiple projects and also he is doing what he wants to do, you'd want him to do what he wants to do or cater to certain individuals making something he doesn't want to himself (like some of the MGS games, he wanted MGS3 to be the last but ofc business pushed him to work on the next one) I for one am happy for the man that he can finally just pick what he wants to work on instead of being pushed into a project he doesn't nearly feel the same amount of passion for to work on

[EvertonFC]

Can't win them all fella, I personally loved DS so looking FWD to it 😀

[Aloymetal]

That's 2 of us plus I'm a huge fan of the Decima Engine (wink wink) so I can't wait what Kojima does once again with the engine and his super talented team.

[Orchard]

Tbh I’d be more interested to see what KJ could do with UE5. UE is miles ahead of any other engine at this point.

They have confirmed they’re using some UE tech on DS2 though - and I suspect we’ll see KJP standardize upon it as they start making more non-Sony exclusives - starting with Overdose, since that game obviously won’t be Decima based.

[Flawlessmic]

@orchard

Would prefer to see bespoke engines, ue starts of great cause it's great for devs who don't have the time or money to build there own but as the gen goes on there are always better ones, ue engine rarely remains best in class, it's just easier for devs to use it.

Sony's devs creating there own engines since ps3 have always trumped anything ue does, don't see why this gen will be any different.

Besides I don't want games to all look the same, there enough games coming on ue, provided devs are using upgraded engines then I'd love to see different ones being used

[Orchard]

@Flawess UE is miles ahead with v5 and it’ll likely stay ahead this gen.

Game studios cannot dedicate as many resources to their engine as Epic does nowadays, since for them the engine is just a means to ship their game, while for Epic it’s a product they sell.

Systems like Nanite, lumen etc are just insane, even Fortnite looks great with them.

DS2 is already confirmed to be using MetaHumans from UE.

KJP will likely standardize upon UE - if they’re going to start making games for multiple devices, UE makes sense - plus betting the house on Sony/Decima is risky.

Realistically you’ll see many studios start to drop proprietary engines and move to UE this gen for the reasons listed above - some already have like CDPR - Sony know it too, hence the big investments in Epic and UE recently.

[BehindTheRows]

@Flawlessmic

Yeah, Sony’s engines easily remain atop the graphics and technology front. That said, I’m excited to see what current gen only games truly take advantage of UE5.

[Flawlessmic]

Currently replaying DS the directors cut, can't wait for the second to see how he chnages up the ganeplay which going off what's been said so far it seems like a sure thing!!

[Aloymetal]

Can't wait for DS2 as well.

[Thundercat77]

I liked DS1 but is not a game I would revisit. I didn't even wanted or expected a sequel.

I hope part 2 has a different gameplay. Getting back to this game to do the same stuff is not going to be attractive to me.

[EvertonFC]

"DS is not a game ?"
1) you control a character
2) a deep immersive story
3) guns (shooting)
4) enemy bosses
5) inventory management
6) side quests
Etc etc

Pretty sure it's a game fella 🤣😂

[sinspirit]

This is how you cherry pick words to take them out of context. Include his whole sentence. He said it is not a game he would revisit. He didn't say it is not a game

[jznrpg]

Well we are all different no big deal really . I won’t play DS1 soon but I will replay it again someday for sure

[TheEnigma313]

I loved the first game. So relaxing after a long day at work.

[HeliosHex]

I really admire Kojima. So glad he didn't let Konami derail his ambition, and is now free to do what he loves. I really wish Tomonobu Itagaki Could be as successful. His apex games studio has not done much since leaving tecmo.