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Crimson Desert | Review Thread

What scores do you think Crimson Desert is getting?

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PeteBull said:
After watching ACG review, which i value a lot, i love the game's pros and hate its flaws, gonna wait few more weeks hoping bugs are fixed and maybe some additional setting/patch/mod is introduced that eliminates/vastly reduces that freaking mid and close range pop-in :(
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Same. Karak is one of the few video reviewers whose final verdict I do trust and if it's a "wait for sale" for technical improvements, then I have no issues waiting a couple months and getting it cheaper and patched up.
 
A 79? Lower than I thought. Then again, Mad Max on PS4 got a 69 Metacritic, and that game is a joy.

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Kurotri said:
I'm not sure you understood my point correctly. I'm not calling the game itself garbage, nor do I shit on Pearl Abyss for their work. No one has failed here and I'm not belittling someone failing. I'm talking about the people, potential customers like you and myself, all across social media just absolutely pushing this game to insane hype levels and making comparisons to other phenomenal games when the game never showed any semblance of having the kind of gameplay or content that those games have. As I said in another post in an older thread, the game seemed to me like it would be a huge hit for the Dragon's Dogma crowd, but that game is nowhere close to having the clout of say, Elden Ring or Red Dead 2. It rubbed me the wrong way to see those comparisons everywhere. That's all there is to it. I saw people comparing this to Witcher 3 simply because of the music and the medieval style. Like come on, man. The game itself is probably good at what it wants to be and it'll land and sell well to the correct crowd. but it didn't need to be pushed so hard. That's all my point really is.
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The only people who pushed it hard were people outside of the dev team. The internet made this game sound like the next coming of Christ, not the devs. Celebrating the lower reviews by some (paid shill outlets, because PA didn't pay them) is everything wrong with the industry right now…and you backtracking on your own damn comment is comical to me. Don't gaslight me and act like I misunderstood you…I understood exactly what you were saying.

Using the reviews as a way to talk down on other gamers is some 🤡 shit.

Those gamers were probably excited because there was a game to finally excited about, amongst the trash we get today, and downplaying that excitement like a 3rd grader saying "I told you so!" is wild.
 
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The Cockatrice said:
but "trusting" one random guy over another random guy
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Imagine this: random dude #1 likes it and he praises the combat and exploration, but then comes random dude #2 and shits on it because the story is quite meh and he got frustrated with the puzzles.

Me, as a player, love combat, exploration and complicated puzzles while the story is secondary to me.

Can you see the reason why I would trust random guy #1 before trusting #2?
 
Been saying this forever, those who played Black Desert would already know this is going to be a soulless game. It'll have all those flashy moves but it's just off when trying to turn it into a single player game.
 
Game doesn't hold your hand.

"Videogame" journalist: OMG it's so bad and soulless, are they really asking me to engage in the world and figure things on my own? Like, yew.
 
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TintoConCasera said:
Imagine this: random dude #1 likes it and he praises the combat and exploration, but then comes random dude #2 and shits on it because the story is quite meh and he got frustrated with the puzzles.

Me, as a player, love combat, exploration and complicated puzzles while the story is secondary to me.

Can you see the reason why I would trust random guy #1 before trusting #2?
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What if number ones likes are the opposite of number 2's instead of different things? Who do you "trust"? It's rethorical. No one. Buy the game if you want, refund if you dont like it, if you can and thats it. Going out of your way to trust someone just so you can feel good, is eh.
 
Pretty much what I thought. MMO single player with frustrating UI, controls and some weird combat design.

I like the art and world and optimisation but I'm going to wait a lot more for the devs to fix the bugs and more.

This is a great $/hour game, easy 150+ hour but I'm not ready for this.

Will skip this right now and get some good stuff in the Spring Steam sale instead.
 
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The Cockatrice said:
What if number ones likes are the opposite of number 2's instead of different things?
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"Likes the opposite instead of different things"

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I'm ESL and it's quite late here so excuse me my dude, but what the fuck are you saying?

The Cockatrice said:
Buy the game if you want, refund if you dont like it, if you can and thats it. Going out of your way to trust someone just so you can feel good, is eh.
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Oh yeah I agree. People should form their own opinions. I'm just happy to see people complimenting the aspects of the game that I was most interested about, specially exploration feeling rewarding since that was kinda "in the air" for me.
 
Hugare said:
That's not how professional reviews should work tho

You complain about shitty story in one open world game. You review another open world game with the same flaw, and yet you rate it a 10/10?

What the fuck is the point of your review then if you contradict yourself in every piece?
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Believe it or not, it's not always the same reviewer. I know it's crazy.

There's also a difference in games? RDR2 is extremely story heavy. If the story sucked it can't carry other parts of the game - like the extremely dated mission structure and how restrictive it can be or the really simplistic gameplay.

Crimson Desert is trying to do everything from every game ever and not one thing seems to be landing with most reviewers. Add in the terrible controls and it makes it unfun to play.
 
Madflavor said:
It's called making an informed decision on a purchase. Not everyone has money to burn. Passing on Crimson Desert doesn't mean passing on it forever. Maybe just not at full price. Some people like it, other don't. If I'm not confident I'll like the game, then I don't want to spend $70 just to "try it, you might like it." No thank you, I'll try it when it's on sale.

It's not being pathetic, it's being smart with your money.
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That's perfectly understandable. You listen to reviews and come to the conclusion you wanna wait until later to get it or whatever. The problem I find is that some people will think the problems of a game will go away and the game will suddenly become even better at a cheaper price point, when that won't be the case.

If one isn't confident in buying the game and sees issues with it at jump, you wouldn't and shouldn't give a developer not one goddamn cent of your money. Even if it was $9.99 in a bargain bin.

I don't even think there's been a game that did a 180 based on future patches/updates and the like. I think we should also point out that some reviewers didn't even finish the main campaign by the embargo lift as I suspected. How much merit does a review even have?
 
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After watching Karak's review I will wait until at least one year after patches etc...

Knowing myself I will have to play this exclusively for a couple of months to understand and master all those systems.

Besides my backlog is glaring at me 😋
 
j0hnnix said:
Yup. Loaded YouTube and saw he had it available.

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Wow. He really loves it and especially gives high praise to the exploration and that is music to my ears!

He does recommend to wait because of a few cons and also just too many bugs that tend to ruin your excitement when it's at the highest. I am in no rush to get the game, not with games such as KCD2 still in my backlog waiting for me to start with it and also Witcher 3's B&W but later in the year I'll get it for sure.
 
TintoConCasera said:
"Likes the opposite instead of different things"

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I'm ESL and it's quite late here so excuse me my dude, but what the fuck are you saying?


Oh yeah I agree. People should form their own opinions. I'm just happy to see people complimenting the aspects of the game that I was most interested about, specially exploration feeling rewarding since that was kinda "in the air" for me.
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What I meant was, you're still selecting/trusting people who liked the things you like instead of the people who didnt like the things you like. That's not being neutral at all. If person A says the story is shit, and person B says the story is great, who do you pick? In a normal society, neither.
 
cash_longfellow said:
The only people who pushed it hard were people outside of the dev team. The internet made this game sound like the next coming of Christ, not the devs. Celebrating the lower reviews by some (paid shill outlets, because PA didn't pay them) is everything wrong with the industry right now…and you backtracking on your own damn comment is comical to me. Don't gaslight me and act like I misunderstood you…I understood exactly what you were saying.
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People were gassing this up thinking it'll stand tall with Elden Ring, KCD2, RDR2 or Witcher 3 for months, gaslighting themselves into believing that it'll be the next big thing when it never even showed any signs that it'll even play in the same league. Y'all did this to yourselves. Beware the hype machine.
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I have:
- never said anything about the devs,
- said that I feel vindicated for having a lower score than *people* expected because *people* wrongfully hyped the game up to the heavens
You have:
- brought devs into this for 0 reason
- admitted to my second point yourself

Who's doing the gaslighting here? It sounds like you made up in your mind that I'm some villain who's "backtracking". Go ahead and dissect my post in an objective manner.
 
Madflavor said:
It's called making an informed decision on a purchase. Not everyone has money to burn. Passing on Crimson Desert doesn't mean passing on it forever. Maybe just not at full price. Some people like it, other don't. If I'm not confident I'll like the game, then I don't want to spend $70 just to "try it, you might like it." No thank you, I'll try it when it's on sale.

It's not being pathetic, it's being smart with your money.
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I get that, except I've never seen the community react to any other game like they have to this.

They expect it to prove itself 10x over. They demand footage from EVERY console version.

It's ridiculous and embarrassing.
 
Hero_Select said:
Believe it or not, it's not always the same reviewer. I know it's crazy.

There's also a difference in games? RDR2 is extremely story heavy. If the story sucked it can't carry other parts of the game - like the extremely dated mission structure and how restrictive it can be or the really simplistic gameplay.

Crimson Desert is trying to do everything from every game ever and not one thing seems to be landing with most reviewers. Add in the terrible controls and it makes it unfun to play.
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So you telling me that BOTW reviewers would have rated this game much higher since this game has a lot of BOTW's same problems?

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BOTW is certainly deserving of a 97 MC score despite having those problems mentioned.

I have no problem enjoying an average rated game. Some of my favorite games of all time have 70-80's scores.

But to say there's no bias for big names is either disingenuous or ignorant
 
The Cockatrice said:
What I meant was, you're still selecting/trusting people who liked the things you like instead of the people who didnt like the things you like. That's not being neutral at all. If person A says the story is shit, and person B says the story is great, who do you pick? In a normal society, neither.
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Yeah I pick neither and focus on Person C who might be talking about the combat instead of the story.

What I'm trying to say with this shit that's getting more confusing by the minute is that: people will align themselves with the reviewers whose tastes seem to be more aligned with them. For that reason I think scores mean jack-shit and people should actually dedicate some time to watching/reading the review.

I believe that's pretty normal and not dishonest or anything.
 
Hollywood Hitman said:
Who the fuck is gene park?
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Gene Park is a reporter for The Washington Post, covering video games and gaming culture. He joined The Post in 2015 as audience editor, and is a former reporter in the West Coast and Pacific region. He is an alum of California State University, Fullerton.

He Tweets about games a lot so you'll often see him referenced a lot in threads.
 
As someone that have 5k hours into FF14 i m pretty fine with the MMO aspect of the game and ll probably enjoy a lot ( thanks to Idleyes Idleyes ).

Also, 79 is a good score, from a korean MMO first single player game i would say its a great score.
 
Predicted a 75-79, with cult status like STALKER. Looks like I might have actually called it. A game that's unabashedly as fucking video game being scored lower because of it is definitely indicative of why I don't read "professional" reviews. Can't wait to play!
 
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