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Crimson Desert

Have had the game a couple weeks. I've probably put 5 or 6 hours into it so far and my honest impression is, it's just ok, not my thing.

Yes, the one incredible and truly amazing thing is the open world and the crazy cool graphics. I have it sent to ultramax cinematic effects. Ray tracing enabled every Bell. I'm with the lawn and I'm getting buttery smooth frames and the game just looks outstanding. Truly awesome!

And the open game world where you can go anywhere you want is so fun. It's just a really inviting world to be in.

But for me it stops there, of the controls to fuck donkey balls. I'm sorry but I can't stand the way you move the camera and the character in combat seems a little underwhelming. It's the same old hack and/ them or Sprint and/them blah blah blah. Really nothing beyond that

There's no like wizard to cast fireballs or ice spikes or necromancer stuff to control undead creatures. It just seems kind of like a tough guy with a sword and shield. Which is cool but not a lot of variety in a combat. But that's my opinion

And the world is so open, which I love. But then I don't like it because that's awfully confusing. There's really no guides to hold your hand and where to go. And that's cool. You wanted to be realistically open world but it's also like okay. Where do I go? What the fuck am I doing here?

And it just seems like I'm just wandering around killing bandits. Maybe do a quest wherever the hell those are. Maybe I'm just confused with the game but probably not going to be playing that much longer.
 
Zorachus said:
I'm sorry but I can't stand the way you move the camera and the character in combat seems a little underwhelming. It's the same old hack and/ them or Sprint and/them blah blah blah. Really nothing beyond that
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I seen a vid just the other day where someone said to set the camera or acceleration or w/e it's called to 100% and it should make the sluggishness go away. From what I understand any set below that value will add mouse smoothing or something to that effect anyway. Have you tried doing that?

I'm thinking about finally giving this a go as it's on sale at the moment and I'm def needing something to play right now.
 
horse said:
I seen a vid just the other day where someone said to set the camera or acceleration or w/e it's called to 100% and it should make the sluggishness go away. From what I understand any set below that value will add mouse smoothing or something to that effect anyway. Have you tried doing that?

I'm thinking about finally giving this a go as it's on sale at the moment and I'm def needing something to play right now.
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The camera acceleration is incorrectly named it should be called "Mouse Lag" with 0% being max and 100% being none.
Probably the weirdest setting I ever seen in a game before.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
Heard it was like Skyrim and BOTW so I played a few hours. The atrocious controls, poor writing, and bland setting were an immediate turn off.
Will try again later, probably after a few more years of updates.
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It's not. It's much better than both those games.
 
grifter_66 said:
It's not. It's much better than both those games.
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That's a mighty big statement, saying CD is better than those 2 super classics in Skyrim, and Breadth of the Wild, which are up there as some of the all time greats in video game history.
 
grifter_66 said:
It's not. It's much better than both those games.
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Say what? Skyrim has more active players over 15 years after its initial release than Crimson Desert has after only 5 months for a reason. The drop-off in active players for a $70 game that has such an immense open world is shocking.
 
Braamer said:
Say what? Skyrim has more active players over 15 years after its initial release than Crimson Desert has after only 5 months for a reason. The drop-off in active players for a $70 game that has such an immense open world is shocking.
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Couldn't give two shits, I still think it's a better game in nearly every way than any of the Bethesda games since Morrowind. Considering Bethesda has been building a fanbase for 32 years and most people play mainly for the mods of course they are going to have a larger, more steady player count.
 
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Couldn't give two shits, I still think it's a better game in nearly every way than any of the Bethesda games since Morrowind. Considering Bethesda has been building a fanbase for 32 years and most people play mainly for the mods of course they are going to have a larger, more steady player count.
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I agree. Bethesda's continued success is based purely on nostalgia. They got me into open world rpg's with FO3 and that will always matter to me, but they are 100% the most half-assed studio to ever exist, particularly post any measure of success, and all they do is ride on it. Starfield remains to this day the game I'm most angry about pre-purchasing, I want their games to be about exploring, a game set in space with zero of that? GTFO. FO4 is probably the game I've anticipated more than any other and it turned into a one and done. Fetch quests and base building? Not into it.

CD might not be the genre defining experience of a generation but there's a huge difference here, Pearl Abyss actively works on CD, they 100% CATER to the community while Bethesda RELIES on the community to turn their titles into something worth playing. You don't need to mod it because if you want it it'll probably be there next week. I don't think we've ever seen a more active studio. Is it awkward to control? Yes. Are there an obscene amount of mechanics to learn? Yes. Is it however an original and awesome experience? 100%.

Braamer said:
Say what? Skyrim has more active players over 15 years after its initial release than Crimson Desert has after only 5 months for a reason. The drop-off in active players for a $70 game that has such an immense open world is shocking.
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Kind of wild to me you referenced the price point of CD.. remind us how many times Bethesda has re-monetized their same ass titles? Should we talk about the horse armor again? You pay for CD once and get EVERYTHING else for free.
 
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