Post-apocalypse Australia is the setting for hotly anticipated video game - Death Stranding 2

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/hideo-kojima-george-miller-video-game-death-stranding-2/105453826

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/58797

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tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

A game set in Australia where you deliver the vtuber Usada Pekora pizza. Kojima is a visionary

Tau@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I like the callout to On the Beach, fits well with a post apocalyptic Australian game (it's a good book, albeit not one you want to read if you're already feeling down).

Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Well that's made me a lot more interested. I've heard a bit about it, but this is the first time I've seen the setting mentioned.

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Unfortunately apart from a solitary roo nothing about it really looks like an Australian setting in the trailer. Maybe it's not entirely set in Oz.

Sternhammer@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

The first game is set in North America but mostly looks like Iceland. I don’t have high hopes that Kojima’s Australia will be recognisably Australia.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y

Oh well. I was gonna wait until it was free on EGS anyway, just like the last one.

fletch@mapstodon.space · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

@maniacalmanicmania don’t see Eucalyptus or Acacia there.

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It is very strange. I don't know anything about these games. Has the geology of the world radically changed? Would that explain the landscapes I see in the trailer?

I like the look of Big Walk. If I ever get a chance to check it out I can tell I'll feel very much at home.

fletch@mapstodon.space · 2 pts · 1y

@maniacalmanicmania yeah there’s elements there, I think Australian bush would be tough to recreate digitally, leaves are thin and strappy, hang down and often sparse. The red in the rocks is always a bit light on to my experience. And the topography just looks young, there are steep bits but few big rolling valleys. We’re too old and eroded

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y

When they showed some of the flash flooding tech shit, I thought maybe Wyoming.