Death Stranding 2: On the Beach just got a proper age rating for PC by the hand of ESRB. ESRB has always been the main organization to rate games in America, and it has been with us for quite a while now, some decades to be precise. Games like many media, are made for everyone, including us adults, and I would dare to say the medium exists primarily for adults. While there has been an ongoing conflict on trying to censor and remove adult games by shady payment processors and other organization, adult media still remains popular.
Death Stranding 2 is coming to PC
Getting rated for a platform means that the game is coming soon on it. This time we will be able to play it on PC as it was meant to be played, and the reason there might have been a delay was due to trying to optimize it for everyone to enjoy it. Games are weird with optimization nowadays, mainly thanks to the fact that engines make everything so bloated. Thankfully, the engine used for Death Stranding 2 is quite optimized, and Kojima seems fond of it too so it will keep being used indefinitely.
The world of Death Stranding is quite strange, and it honestly feels like something out of a past sci-fi flick that ended up being a cult classic. It all makes sense when you realize that Kojima himself wanted to work on movies instead of video games, but he still found his way to do what he wanted with the medium. We need more people like Hideo Kojima on the industry, because bold and new ideas are the thing that needs to carry the medium forward. Playing it safe for too long is actually risky because it can stagnate the industry. Death Stranding 2 might be coming to PC next year, or perhaps in 2025, we still don’t know.
