85 < 55: Death Stranding vs Totally Reliable Delivery Service

I've been playing Totally Reliable Delivery Service thanks to its inclusion in Game Pass, has a 55/100 on MetaCritic. It's one of those Human Fall Flat clones that's half decent, but my gawd is it an effing hoot to play. Doing co-op with friends has lead to some pain-inducing laughing fits of amusement. I realized though it's basically a simpler but superior version of Death Stranding (85/100 on MetaCritic), because you basically do the same stuff, deliver packages and not much else, it's even every bit as challenging of an endeavor just to move packages, but Totally Reliable Delivery Service does something Death Stranding just can't do, and I'll post this video and let's see if you can figure out what that is:

Hint, it's in the audio... give up? Well, that's what having fun sounds like. Funny too in all the praise and excuses I have seen for Death Stranding, I have yet to see people look/sound like they are having fun. I hear people say how great the game is, and I guess I just have to take their word for it (or not), because watching streamers play Death Stranding is about as lacking in emotional stimulation as I imagine watching two Vulcans having a staring contest would be.

So, if you disagree, please, feel free to show me what having fun playing Death Stranding looks like. I figure given how well it has sold and how much praise it gets that this should be really really really easy.

Death Standing created the Euro Truck genre.

So... you don't find it weird at all that you want people who have actually played a game to prove to you why your stern opinion on a game you haven't played might be off? Even though you outright say you'll dismiss them anyways.

And yeah, can't say I measure my enjoyment of a game by outbursts of laughter and screaming. For instance, having a great time with Dread right now. Half way through my 2nd play through. Can safely say I neither laughed nor screamed.

Laughed plenty with the buds playing Among Us tho, GOTG I guess.

Very weird thread.

Death Stranding is an awesome game. As conan said, weird using laughter as a metric to determine if you enjoy a game.

Should be using endorphins.

Joy comes in many forms.... Its not really more complicated than that.

@Chutebox: I mean, I could mute it and it still looks like people having fun

Any trash can be fun with friends

Even the review outlets who gave it high mark seemed to be in unified agreement that it was boring and dull. I'd say it's complicated.

Amazing how much seething a name can cause.

A Blackbond video. 😂

He should start posting here again.

Death Stranding is a vastly superior experience.

Though my expectations and demands of quality sink to the floor when it comes to co-op, anything can be fun with friends. I'd never play it alone, not even for a few minutes but if I can convince a friend or two I'll give totally reliable a whirl.

It's all a rip off of Mega Drive's Paperboy.

This should be a quote on a videogame box somewhere.

Death stranding is shit

Death Stranding is amazing if you can get past the first few chapters which are a absolute slog.

Keep that comment to yourself as I happened to actually like Death Stranding for the wrong reason lol.