8 Exact Moments Video Games Split Their Fanbase In Two

Now if we're being honest, if you're a fan of Hideo Kojima then you're pretty much sold on his brand of "yes I'm a little eccentric from time to time and thank you for commenting on my pork pie had made of actual pork pies", however with Death Stranding, even the renowned auteur game designer was faced with an audience utterly torn on some of his decisions.

And it all began with the first step, or to be more accurate, the first time you fudged said step and went arse over tit, slid down a mountain, lost all your packages, and then watched them get swept downstream and out of your life forever.

This, this was the moment where Death Standing showed you what it really was. It wasn't a convoluted, often hamfisted message about literally rebuilding society, it wasn't about whales being washed up on Princess Beaches, hell it wasn't even about weaponized piss thanks to Monster energy drink, it was all of these things AFTER it showed itself to be Post-Man-Pocalypse-Pat The Tripping Simulator.

All that guff about Strand gameplay being its own genre, all of the mad celebrity cameos and crazy marketing that got you hyped on the game, all of this couldn't be enjoyed if you couldn't get over the fact that you would be running, balancing and then tripping your way across the map as a glorified courier, and that was enough to cleave opinion on this title in two from the off.