Crimson Desert - Korean devs really like deserts huh?

[LiquidKid]

Probably should have had create a character instead of a set protagonist.

These MMO lite sandbox games are always way more fun if you can play as Shrek or whatever.

This is the weirdest part for me. The set protagonist implies a heavy emphasis on story, but everything about their marketing made it clear story wasn’t their goal, gameplay and exploration was, which is what pissed critics off and confuses potential players. Elden Ring as an example has a very very lose plot, so lose it basically doesn’t exist and what little is there isn’t explained clearly and is mostly a set of context clues for what the narrative might be. Because of this, you can make your character whatever you want and it doesn’t matter, you’re just the Tarnished.

Basically all of From’s games do that to great success,
Maybe it was to avoid a black desert situation where every character is just a big tittied girl in a skimpy outfit, but fans would argue that’s a big selling point of the game.

Either way, the reviews do seem suspect to me, and this game seems like something designed for critics to hate. The real test is when people can play it. If this game really as as expansive and large, it might do well from word of mouth and when streamers start showing off the crazy stuff.

I do think they shot themselves in the foot by being so insanely cryptic about the game. There are a lot of people and even reviews that call it an RPG while they themselves say it isn’t one as an example. The genre should be the thing explained the clearest.

 

[Estate]

Any kiwi planning on playing on release and giving us some feedback for performance and vibe?
In the first month, I trust a kiwi more then any other faggot elsewhere.

 

[BibiLivesMatter]

Think this the first game I seen on Fanatical that had preorders sold out for base and deluxe edition. Kind of wonder if it'll hit 200k on pc today

 

[Jace on ice]

This is the weirdest part for me. The set protagonist implies a heavy emphasis on story, but everything about their marketing made it clear story wasn’t their goal, gameplay and exploration was, which is what pissed critics off and confuses potential players. Elden Ring as an example has a very very lose plot, so lose it basically doesn’t exist and what little is there isn’t explained clearly and is mostly a set of context clues for what the narrative might be. Because of this, you can make your character whatever you want and it doesn’t matter, you’re just the Tarnished.

Basically all of From’s games do that to great success,
Maybe it was to avoid a black desert situation where every character is just a big tittied girl in a skimpy outfit, but fans would argue that’s a big selling point of the game.

Either way, the reviews do seem suspect to me, and this game seems like something designed for critics to hate. The real test is when people can play it. If this game really as as expansive and large, it might do well from word of mouth and when streamers start showing off the crazy stuff.

I do think they shot themselves in the foot by being so insanely cryptic about the game. There are a lot of people and even reviews that call it an RPG while they themselves say it isn’t one as an example. The genre should be the thing explained the clearest.

It'll probably be a while before I can give personal impressions. I do not support or install games with kernel level anticheat on principle, especially single player games.

Fuck that noise.

 

[StacticShock]

Stellar Blade sold ridiculously well,probally even more so with the Striesand effect of journalists shitting on it.

which is beyond funny because pearl abyss also develops black desert which is south korean too so you know... skimpy shit and sexy females all around...
if they toned that shit down for CD then i don't know or can tell you, i simply do not give a shit about PA anymore because they tried to hook me with BD's inane bullshit to be farmed by whales, fuck you, PA.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Any good performance reviews for this game ? Not sure if my aging hardware is capable of a decent frame rate.

 

[4090 Chad]

Any good performance reviews for this game ? Not sure if my aging hardware is capable of a decent frame rate.

A 1060 is the minimum listed GPU.

 

[Battlefield42]

no way this runs on rx 580 and gtx 1060 6gb

 

[StacticShock]

no way this runs on rx 580 and gtx 1060 6gb

it's a update of this engine, why wouldn't it?

 

[Jace on ice]

Looks like this is a make your own fun sandbox type of experience a la Kenshi.

So basically the kind of person that have that particular autism are going to absolutely love it and everyone else will be mixed.

Not really what I expected. The pre release stuff made it seem like a story light action RPG a la Dragon's Dogma.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

So I'm going to see a lot of "Where's the yellow paint?" from the usual journo types, huh?

 

[moocow]

TBH if journos hate a game I'm much more likely to give it a comprehensive look, especially if they're complaining about difficulty, lack of LGBTQ+ representation, or misogyny. They're like Jim Kramer at this point -- if they love something, that's reason enough to hate it, and the opposite is also true.

 

[Estate]

Bros, I think I'm gonna take the gook pill and get the game.
Dog armour is a thing apparently.

 

[Back me up!]

TBH if journos hate a game I'm much more likely to give it a comprehensive look, especially if they're complaining about difficulty, lack of LGBTQ+ representation, or misogyny. They're like Jim Kramer at this point -- if they love something, that's reason enough to hate it, and the opposite is also true.

Ahh yes, the Fleek method


I DO want to see what the shitposters think of it through.

 

[Battlefield42]

gonna wait before pulling the trigger. i also have huge backlog i need to get through

 

[Questions are a Burden]

I might get this myself. There's a few minor things putting me off (frustrating bosses and gay puzzles), but with a world of this size, I imagine you can go and do other shit.

In reality, I'll buy it, rage within the first couple of hours and never touch it again. Another notch on the bedpost.

 

[clickbait]

So I'm going to see a lot of "Where's the yellow paint?" from the usual journo types, huh?

6/10s popping up.

 

[Jace on ice]

Well a bunch of reviewers I trust have said this is essentially a Ubisoft game where you clear endless map markers and fight the same enemies with almost no story whatsoever so that's a hard pass from me.

Damn, really wanted this one to be good.

 

[Grub]

Well a bunch of reviewers I trust have said this is essentially a Ubisoft game where you clear endless map markers and fight the same enemies with almost no story whatsoever so that's a hard pass from me.

Damn, really wanted this one to be good.

Open world games have never really been that good. They were fun as a novelty for a while but really, pretty much every open world game is full of bland repetitive content and if it does have any kind of story, it's basically just a linear experience anyway when you do follow it.

 

[Jace on ice]

Open world games have never really been that good. They were fun as a novelty for a while but really, pretty much every open world game is full of bland repetitive content and if it does have any kind of story, it's basically just a linear experience anyway when you do follow it.

One of the reviews I read said most npcs don't even have proper dialogue. They say something random like "I like chickens!" And then the term chickens gets added to the codex.

It seems like they did very very very little to make this a proper game once they decided to shift away from the MMO model.