Norman Reedus on Death Stranding: the concept is mind-blowing, ahead of its time
In an interview with Norman Reedus by a podcast of B&H, the actor talked a bit about Death Stranding and working with Hideo Kojima.
“I know what the game’s about, to a certain extent. We went out to that music game awards a couple of weeks ago and we came on stage, and part of the scripted dialogue when you come out with the microphone was me saying: ‘now I need to go on the internet and figure out what that was about’. But I kinda know what it’s about because I’ve asked him a zillion questions.”
Norman talked a bit about the performance capture, and that he had never seen anything like it, resulting in a videogame that looks just like a movie. But it’s also the concept of game itself that intrigues him. “The concept is so mind-blowing, because it’s not like, you know, ‘kill everybody and win the game’, it’s a connecting thing. It’s like the opposite. And, you know, it’s so ahead of its time. And there’s elements of social media in it, and the idea is that – you know, you have so many games, and so many parts of millennial culture I guess, is being alone in a room. And you lose physical contact with people. This is after that and the re-establishing of that physical contact.”
During the recording sessions Kojima Productions are trying to capture every trait of Norman, including unscripted movements and mannerisms.
“It’s super super interesting, but you know, when I met him [Kojima], I was like: ‘Oh, so they’ll play me?’, and they’re like: ‘No, they ARE you’, so as we’re doing this motion capture stuff, you know, they want me to be Norman. You know, they’re all standing around and if I scratch my head a certain way they go: ‘Oh, do that!’, and they’ll capture it. So by the end of the day you’re kind of not moving because we’re like, okay, if I keep moving we’re going to keep filming (laughing).”
Norman Reedus concluded this part of the interview with these words:
“I’m down with whatever Hideo wants to do because he’s another level genius, that guy.”
B&H Photography Podcast (from 41:55 onwards), via Metal Gear Stranding
I guess he is talking about the new genre and a huge idea behind it. Damn, I want to see that in action.
I don’t think Kojima will show us that in the game previews until we experience it.
It sounds a bit reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid 2, how it predicted the impact of social media, the ‘post-truth era’.
God I hope so. Kojima after MGS2 predictions and great storytelling have so much to tell at this point.
All MGS games are masterpieces to me, but MGS2 was my special one.
I can’t wait for this game.
The thing is, while Kojima made MGS1 and MGS2 because had something to say, later games kind of inverted that. He had to make more Metal Gear games, but he had not much to say within that genre anymore. MGS3 worked brilliantly, because it still expanded on the stuff from MGS1 and MGS2 and also commented on MGS3’s own situation, where Kojima had to adapt to the new situations of the gaming industry in order for Metal Gear to survive (more weapons, more lenient with the stealth, more straightforward story and later with the re-release a 3D camera and an Online mode). With MGS4 he just wanted to end the series but had nothing to say anymore really. PW and V then basically had virtually nothing to say and were tonally very inconsistent. While I still love them and they are great games, you can still feel, Kojima just wanted to make different games. Now he finally has the chance to make a game where he has all the freedom technology and budget allows. Let’s hope he truly has something to say again.
Kojima is the only true Post Modernist Video Game creator.
I’m expected the same post modernism themese in this one, hopefully along the lines of MGS3 not 2, where the social commentary doesn’t feel forced, 3 did it best.
I have a feeling Norman Reedus gonna outdo himself and then some for this performance.
I hope so. Say what you will about Kiefer Sutherland, but he had nothing but great things to say about his experience working with Kojima and seems like he was proud of playing the part of Venom Snake. I hope Norman and Mads have a good experience with Death Stranding and can convince more great actors to lend their talent to gaming.
That was The Game Awards, Norman !? 😀
The concept sound very intriguing, can’t wait to see how it works.
Yeah that’s what he meant. 😛
Feels like they were so drunk that he can’t even remember which exact event it was..
xDxD
Never play booze games with Kojima…
Ohh Yeah !!!…
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Check me this bottoms up… Lethal … xD
Where does that come from? Must be older.
I’d say at least 12 years ago..
It’s from a series of Japanese Metal Gear Solid Integral commercial, that can be found on the MGS2 premium disc. It’s from 1999.
Here’s another one:
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Well, for me he is right. xD I did not care about the awards. So for me TGA is awards show… or music game awards.. ad awards show.. whatevs.
I just wanted to see Kojima and his game xDDD
So do I actually… Just for checking Koji-Content and voilà..
xDxD
i think he meant the live orchestra playing that night
it was amazing performance
You are right, he probably enjoyed it as well to the point that the first word popping in his mind was “music” when he thought about the show..
;D
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“And there’s elements of social media in it, and the idea is that – you know, you have so many games, and so many parts of millennial culture I guess, is being alone in a room.”
I wonder what kind of elements are those?
*Off-topic*
Finally landed back to my home-town… and dear Kojima, it is so damn cold.
Starting to miss that Indonesian heat and humidity I’ve been in for the last couple of months.
But nothing that spicy-beef stew (gulas) and shot of vodka can’t fix. 😉
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FFFFffeeewww… Filibuster, I was not entirely sure in which direction you were flying, since you seemed pretty solicited those past months… Happy Welcome Back in the Shire Brotha.
Happy head-shots of Vodka ! And yeah, welcome to the frozen-balls club..
;D
Not sure what they serve you on board but marine meals should be usually very decent… Always fresh sea food and stuff… But yeah, nothing beats our favorite home-made-custom-genuine meals..
Enjoy !!
Not sure which social elements we’ll deal with, but knowing his imagination, he has plenty of vectors to play with..
50% of me want to see this now, but 10000% of me want it rock-stable and beautiful, so I hope he’ll not rush anything.
Welcome back, brother.
That Gulas looks delicious.
Damn that looks good, willing to share recipe?
Sure why not, tho keep in mind this beef-stew varies from country-to-country.
You need:
– 2x big and fresh onions.
-A dozen of potatoes
-A nice slice of beef-meat (preferably the 1 kilogram of “round” part of the beef… do tell your butcher that you don’t want too much fat on the meat, cuz the bastards sometimes give you on purpose too much fat that you won’t need but still need to pay for it)
– Spices: Curry, Chilly, *Sweet*-red-paprika, Pepper and Curcuma.
– Arrabbiata sauce (god bless the Italians for that)
– Cooking cream (product varies from country to country)
OPTIONAL: A bit of parmesan
So chop those big juicy onions, and when you are done crying put the bastards into the oven to fry until they are caramelized (BUT NOT TOO MUCH…you don’t want to fry all the good stuff out of them).
Meanwhile you need to get your Cannibal-Lecter mode ON, and slice that beautiful chunk of beef into square shaped pieces that are thick as your average hand-thumb.
Now put that sliced beef in with the onions and stir them together, while you are doing that, it is time to put the spices in. So first you want to put is two to three pinches of salt, then goes around 2 tablespoons of pepper, curry and chilly and one pinch of curcuma (reason being you already have a bit of curcuma spic inside of curry). After that you want to put 1/3 of the Arrabbiata sauce and the cooking cream together with all the stuff and stir it properly.
Now that orgasmic mix is frying together, you want those tatoes….
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(thank you Samwise) and slice them up each to 4-6 pieces (depends on the size), the size of each piece should be a bit larger then your beef pieces.
Now put the sliced potatoes in with the other stuff, and put water in it until the water, covers all the potatoes and meat. Leave to cook until the potatoes are soft enough when you touch it with the spoon.
That should be it, add a bit of parmesan over your beef-stew for that extra thick-goodness and …. ” Bon appétit mon ami ”
PS Gordon Ramsey is watching!
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The force is strong in this Gulas..
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The Force especially Awakens couple of hours later in the bathroom!
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xDxDxD
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Got everything ready to cook it for supper tonight! Thanks a bunch for putting in the time to make such an awesome post. Cant wait to get started.
Wow there Hannibal! 😛
Hannibal is my spirit animal, we both love our food and jumping around the kitchen.
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Why are there teeth in it?
Gotta strain those out.
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Sooo Stefanie visited Guerilla Games again, and Hideo Retweeted it.
Can’t wait for E3!
https://twitter.com/hermenhulst/status/956171624998371331
huh…
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This anniversary could have been easily forgotten and that would have been perfectly fine for everybody, although this sign of respect from Hermen toward Koji-Pro is really cool.
Hermen is always keen and proud at showing how much respect he has for Kojima and his team.
Like if them co-operating with Koji-Pro was some kind of consecration..
Such partnership should be an extreme pride for any studio, actually.
Like “Sorry Dudes, the Bests of the bests have chosen us to work with them so we are the Bests, too”..
https://twitter.com/hermenhulst/status/956850058623897600
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Hi All
This is my first post to this awesome site. The reason i decided to comment is that i got worried as soon as i read norman stating there will be some sort of social media aspect in DS. I belong to the old school of gaming and love single player games. Metal Gear games are amazing and i love their stories and character depth and to be honest i never played the online elements like MGO. now im worried that DS will not be enjoyed as a single player game anymore and to be frank i dislike mmo and online elements in games. even thu kojima has stated that DS can be played as single player, the aspect of connection and its possible link to social media in the light of normans interview above worries the hell out of me. Can someone calm my worries. thanks
Don’t worry too much, Kojima Productions has already confirmed you’ll be able to fully play the game in single player: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=28230
And welcome!
hope so, thanks Nyxus
Hi John, as an old-school solo player too, I understand your fears and if I had to choose a single question to ask in order to possibly calm your worries, it would be the following one :
Have you ever seen Kojima and Kojima Productions scamp a solo campaign through those past 3 decades ?
The reason is not random at all, Kojima is like you an old-school solo campaign lover.
He does the QA himself, play extensively his solo campaigns before releasing them to the public.
The guys are heavily specialized, the best ones in developing that kind of games.
Don’t worry, I believe those social features stuff won’t be that central at all.
in Kojima we trust, thanks man
My pleasure, dude.
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There might be more to it…
Death Stranding is meta online/gaming commentary
http://thesnakesoup.org/forums/Thread-Death-Stranding-is-meta-online-gaming-commentary
Probably, but I stay pretty convinced that the game will serve a complete traditional solo mode experience and judging by the rich plot originality of the 3 trailers we saw so far, a very consistent story-line, aside those social features.
I think you’re jumping the gun here.
What Norman means is likely that the game features commentary about social media, given the themes of connection Kojima is emphasizing. Likely Kojima will also make use of the PS4 share/stream features in some cool ways as viewers can actually interact with streamers to change things in the game based on what they type in the chat.
I’m also not into online gaming (and social media).
One reason is that it makes me feel uncomfortable.
But,
think of Thatgamecompany’s “Journey”.
For that game I stepped out of my comfort zone,
because I knew it was about connection.
For Kojima I would just try it out as an experiment,
since “Journey” was really beautiful.
You should play it^^
That will calm your worries.^^
I have journey on ps3 but i never got to play it…maybe now is a good time to do so…thanks for reminding me about this game.
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As spotted by Gamesradar…lol
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