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Crimson Desert

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I was just looking for a waypoint and these guys kick me out. I'm not sure how much I'll play this game just don't have the time. Upgraded my Weapon to +3 not sure if that changes the world.
 
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I'm still enjoying the game but I haven't found too many dungeons or loot. Maybe I'm not far in enough.
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They are there, the thing is there's a lot of really cool things hidden throughout the world that aren't tied to the story or quest lines. Sometimes you'll find documents alluding to stuff, sometimes you'll hear people talking about stuff and sometimes you'll just find cool shit by exploring randomly. I don't think I've ever played a game that rewarded aimless exploring like this game does.
 
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I was just looking for a waypoint and these guys kick me out. I'm not sure how much I'll play this game just don't have the time. Upgraded my Weapon to +3 not sure if that changes the world.
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Sounds like this game it not for you, it is simple:
1. Sneak in, don't get spotted and do the quest.
2. Buy a disguise and do the quest.
3. Buy a permit and do the quest.

It litterally tells you the 3rd option here, actually holding your hand here and you still have issues.
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
Sounds like this game it not for you, it is simple:
1. Sneak in, don't get spotted and do the quest.
2. Buy a disguise and do the quest.
3. Buy a permit and do the quest.

It litterally tells you the 3rd option here, actually holding your hand here and you still have issues.
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I unironically think he's on the spectrum from what I've seen of his posts over the years. He's always shown little to no intuition about anything, and constantly struggles with relatively simple topics or issues. Just how he verbalizes things seems off and rarely does he use proper punctuations or grammar either. I don't mean this as a personal attack whatsoever.

Anyways, I keep hearing about this game in the few podcasts and gaming YouTube channels I follow and really want to try it. I just don't think I can sink the time required into it to enjoy most of it. I usually prefer to play somewhat linear single player games you can beat in 40 hours or less. But I do love the occasional big open world game like recent Zelda games, Horizon, and RDR2. So I think I'll wishlist it for now and wait for sale at least.

Also it seems there are a ton of mechanics here, though mostly optional and arbitrary. Are most of them easy to pick back up after not playing for a while? Like I just picked up Tears of the Kingdom again today for a few mins and can immediately remember and continue using its core mechanics after months of not playing. Though I'm sure I have 80+ hours in that game at least since it launched and playing it sporadically since then.
 
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Also it seems there are a ton of mechanics here, though mostly optional and arbitrary. Are most of them easy to pick back up after not playing for a while? Like I just picked up Tears of the Kingdom again today for a few mins and can immediately remember and continue using its core mechanics after months of not playing. Though I'm sure I have 80+ hours in that game at least since it launched and playing it sporadically since then.
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For me at least I feel like this is a game I have to stay on top of. Nothing intuitive about the controls aside from movement, jump, and crouch. I’m using kb/m fwiw, but have had to re-look up key combos for skills quite a few times already. Typically that would turn me all the way off of a game but I’m still enjoying it quite a bit.
 
52 hours in and I just realized that you can lock onto enemies by pressing down on the d-pad. All this time I thought the little white dot on the enemy was an auto-lock, but the camera didn't track them which was kind of odd. I've been manually controlling the camera for every boss fight so far thinking that's just how it is. Talk about a face palm!

Anyway, chapter 6 is insane! They did a really good job of capturing a large scale battle. I fought for so long that day turned into night and then night into day.
 
TwistedMetalGear said:
52 hours in and I just realized that you can lock onto enemies by pressing down on the d-pad. All this time I thought the little white dot on the enemy was an auto-lock, but the camera didn't track them which was kind of odd. I've been manually controlling the camera for every boss fight so far thinking that's just how it is. Talk about a face palm!

Anyway, chapter 6 is insane! They did a really good job of capturing a large scale battle. I fought for so long that day turned into night and then night into day.
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Yeah, figured that one out by accident. Definitely helpful for bosses, I found it doesn't matter as much for regular fights.

I think I fought that battle for almost 4 days. By the end of that Kliff's body count was almost as high as my ex girlfriend's.
 
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T4rd said:
I unironically think he's on the spectrum from what I've seen of his posts over the years. He's always shown little to no intuition about anything, and constantly struggles with relatively simple topics or issues. Just how he verbalizes things seems off and rarely does he use proper punctuations or grammar either. I don't mean this as a personal attack whatsoever.

Anyways, I keep hearing about this game in the few podcasts and gaming YouTube channels I follow and really want to try it. I just don't think I can sink the time required into it to enjoy most of it. I usually prefer to play somewhat linear single player games you can beat in 40 hours or less. But I do love the occasional big open world game like recent Zelda games, Horizon, and RDR2. So I think I'll wishlist it for now and wait for sale at least.

Also it seems there are a ton of mechanics here, though mostly optional and arbitrary. Are most of them easy to pick back up after not playing for a while? Like I just picked up Tears of the Kingdom again today for a few mins and can immediately remember and continue using its core mechanics after months of not playing. Though I'm sure I have 80+ hours in that game at least since it launched and playing it sporadically since then.
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Well said...I have often thought this but you put it into words better than I could.
 
mQzz said:
its insane, they just give people basically everything they want. except for the shield everyone hates on the back, which they adressed and said will be done in a future update.
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They are kinda forced to because IGN reviews tanked their stocks.
Their origninal idea is being sunk in order to garner sales and recover stock value, every sale is a middlefinger to IGN and the "crowd".
 
Ranulfo said:
It seems to go from fantasy to medieval gun powder to steam punk with trains and flying balloon ships.
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What I like about this game, I have zero clues what to expect...from trains to bushes trying to eat me...it keeps me "on my toes" ingame with zero trust to anything :LOL:
 
littlegreenmenfromhome said:
They are kinda forced to because IGN reviews tanked their stocks.
Their origninal idea is being sunk in order to garner sales and recover stock value, every sale is a middlefinger to IGN and the "crowd".
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Except their stock recovered 2 days later. They are going to end up ruining their game if the don't put their foot down and stop trying to please everyone.
 
For some reason the game started crashing on my 4080S the other day for no apparent reason, I can't play for more than 10 minutes before it locks up. It plays without issue on my 5080.

EDIT: Didn't realize that PC had the most recent Nvidia drivers and It seems my 4070 doesn't like them at all. Rolled back and everything seems to be good again.
 
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You have to admit, Asmon is an agent of chaos. His YT videos are clickbait. Even his Twitch stream title is clickbait. He's a lazy mofo who doesn't really give a fuck about what people think of him or his opinions. He has no filter and thrives off controversy. His reason for living is to get online and see who is pissed off at him today. Not exactly a role model.

He literally said Crimson Desert was a bad game on stream and people in this thread flipped out because of it. This is what he does.

He mostly streams politics, so the fact he's streaming a game at all is a rarity these days.
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No he literally said he loved the game. His already put in almost 100h into it
 
I’m almost at 30 hours and enjoy it more and more every time I play it. I hit a wall on a boss so decided to look up where I could get a better set of armor and weapon. I ended up making the trek around to grab the frostcursed plate armor set and the darkbringer 2h sword, the sword is crazy good. I also grabbed the 2h katana, wish I came across that earlier, you can get that right at the start of the game and it would’ve helped, the first few bosses gave me a lot of trouble. I completely abandoned trying to not look stuff up, there’s just too much obscurity.

The size of this game is truly astonishing, I can’t imagine how much time it would take to cover the entire map. I’m really impressed by these devs, it’s almost like any little thing we don’t like they change it only days later, crazy.

Also got a loafy cat pet and put him in a little hat with a feather on it. Shit’s peak.
 
jonneymendoza said:
No he literally said he loved the game. His already put in almost 100h into it
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Don't be an ass. He also literally said the game was bad. At least get your facts straight.

Obviously, his opinion has changed over time. He's not given the game a score, so the jury is still out. Hasn't streamed it in over a week, so odds are he won't finish it.

His last video is titled 'My last time playing Crimson Desert…." Kind of proves my point about the whole clickbait thing, huh?
 
I’ve never much been a fan of card mini games but duo takes it to an entirely different level, I can’t make any sense of it at all. Getting 3 wins in the archery contest is a cakewalk compared to that nonsense.
 
w35t said:
I’ve never much been a fan of card mini games but duo takes it to an entirely different level, I can’t make any sense of it at all. Getting 3 wins in the archery contest is a cakewalk compared to that nonsense.
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I dislike that minigame, but press Z after being dealt a hand to see all the card values in the game (kinda like hands in poker).
 
I don't understand or like Duo either. It give you 10 seconds to decide what to do. Bitch I'm still trying to figure out if I have anything of value. Yeah I know hold the button down to see what they mean but it's still confusing. I just don't like any card games anyhow.
 
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The size of this game is truly astonishing, I can’t imagine how much time it would take to cover the entire map.
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I trekked all the way to the eastern edge of the map just to get the slutty Damiane outfit. I couldn't believe how much of journey it was, even going full sprint on my horse. I arrived in the middle of the night in pure blackness with pouring rain and lightning. Talk about atmosphere! I think this is the best implementation of rain I've seen in a video game. One dissapointment: Despite being far away in a foreign land, the enemies didn't seem to be any more of a challenge than the ones in Hernand.
 
I've been watching some gameplay vids of this recently after not paying hardly any attention to it at all tbh,...I had no idea the gameplay was so fast in this. This is like straight up Arpg speed and type of action here. I like it! Lots of movement skills and what not make it seem, dare I say, fun?

I kinda crossed it off because of the open world aspect of it, mostly because I'm just really tired of the formula. This kinda seems a little different than the typical formulaic open world rpg? After playing HFW I told myself I was done with open world games, permanently. I honestly hated it ttytt, but this thread isn't about that. Anyway this is suddenly on my radar for sure.
 
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One dissapointment: Despite being far away in a foreign land, the enemies didn't seem to be any more of a challenge than the ones in Hernand.
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That will definitely change. I ran into some up North that were ridiculous.

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I kinda crossed it off because of the open world aspect of it, mostly because I'm just really tired of the formula. This kinda seems a little different than the typical formulaic open world rpg? After playing HFW I told myself I was done with open world games, permanently. I honestly hated it ttytt, but this thread isn't about that. Anyway this is suddenly on my radar for sure.
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I didn’t like HFW enough to finish it and am completely over the same tired Ubi-esque open world formula. This is very different. There are a ton of mechanics though and almost none are intuitive. I’m almost 40 hours in at this point and still haven’t figured a lot of it out. Despite that however I’m having a great time with it.
 
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87.5 hours in and they're still throwing new stuff at me. I think I left the starting area for the main quest at about 70 hours in. I'm still loving it but there are issues.

The escort quests are awful. I had to redo one of them over and over because the dude would either get one-shot by a random enemy 20 minutes into the quest or he'd get stuck and I'd have to restart it. It was like a 400km trip from the town to the safe space and he won't get on the horse so I had to do it on foot. It was the first time that I thought, "I'm not enjoying this".
The combat is fun but pretty one-note. Some bosses are fun (Reed Devil and the Ape) but most are either super easy/boring or annoying (teleporting constantly like Anutumbra's Sword or the bear clan miniboss in Ch 7/8?).
Weapons/armor seem to be all about the drip. There isn't enough difference between them for your fighting to really make a difference. It's kind of making me want to start a new character in Elden Ring.
At this point I feel like my power progression lies solely on if there are better Abyss Gears. I already have all of the skills I want so I'm just pumping my skill points into HP, Stamina, and Mana (Spirit).
I don't care about the mounts. It's often faster to just go on foot/in the air.
Some of the puzzles have no clues so they are pure trial and error.


Regardless it's a great game 95% of the time.
 
135 hours, on the last main quest now.
of the 5 regions, ive done 3 pretty thoroughly. id say 90% of quests, a couple of bounties left.

kinda hitting a point where i feel like ive seen it all now. dunno if ill do desert and delyssia. might miss out on some cool areas.

great game for what it is. havent had as much fun in a sandbox since skyrim.


edit: some story bosses feel weird, especially in the later stages. like there is only one way to cheese it. if you dont do it, its almost impossible without tons of food and revives. if you do it, they are trivial.
the highest tier world bosses are no fucking joke though. you need to prepare for them, and learn them, you have basically zero chance if you go in without itemizing for them it feels like
 
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