Death Stranding Trailer Baffles Everyone – TGA 2017

It’s not like Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding was anything new at the time. However, we had only seen brief glimpses of what Hideo Kojima’s twisted mind was capable of delivering. At The Game Awards 2017, over 8 minutes of new footage was showcased and it arguably trumped everything before it. Shadowy figures, supernatural happenings – it was weird, to say the least.

Disappointingly enough, there was no big, major Oculus Rift announcement at The Game Awards tonight (though the headset did get a small segment by Palmer Luckey himself). We did get what you might construe as a major announcement for the platform, though- Harmonix are working on a version of Rock Band for Oculus Rift.

Rock Band is the kind of game that would greatly benefit from VR, and from what was said on stage, it sounded like it will be done justice on Oculus- we are talking about a game where you are jamming it out, surrounded by thousands of adoring fans cheering you on in VR. It’s the kind of thing that would probably be the ideal VR experience, given its intrinsic universal appeal, as well as the relative lack of motion, thus negating the issue of motion sickness.

Oculus Rift itself was re-confirmed for Q1 2016, which means it is almost here.