GreaserGoon

How has COD went so downhill since Modern Warfare 2019?

UPDATE: North American consumers CANNOT buy the regular edition of Crimson Desert on Xbox site, Xbox PC App, Microsoft Store or even Xbox Series Consoles!

Someone just told me that the top image looks more realistic 🤦‍♂️

Hot Take: 'its not for me' should be a rating in gaming reviews. There is no way everyone likes every kind of game. Imagine someone reviewing Soulslike when they are not into it. Imagine some reviewing JRPG when they are not into it. Maybe Crimson Desert will bring a change 🤷

Costco CEO Ron Vachris did the “CEO eats his own product” challenge by destroying a hot dog (and confirms the Costco hot dog combo is staying at $1.50 forever). Legend.

This feels like a fair score. Controversially, even as a writer, I’m starting to think that we are weighing storytelling TOO much in objective scoring in video games. Unless your game is wholly about its narrative (Life is Strange, Dispatch, Firewatch, that sort of thing) then at most I will weigh the story as like 2 points out of the total 10 it can earn, if that makes any sense. Gameplay remains king in these evaluations, with performance and visuals coming in second. You can have an outstanding game with a poor story, but if your gameplay and performance suck, then most people aren’t gonna get through your story no matter how good it is. We also have to keep in mind the vision that the game was pushing for in these evaluations. How well something is hitting its goals matters a lot in objective evaluation. Given how little they talked about the story, I don’t think them telling some complex narrative was on the list. Would it have been nice? Definitely. Subjectively? Most of the time I place writing at the top, obviously. Most of my favorite games are absolutely 6/10 experiences objectively but have 10/10 narratives that keep me enthralled. In the case of Crimson Desert? I called it having a poor story the moment I saw it was made by a Korean dev. Some thought I was jumping the gun, but nah, I have enough experience with Korean writing in games (outside of their gachas, which are entirely different beasts for some reason >.>) to know what to expect. What I want out of it is a game that forces me to think and do crazy things, which I think I’ll get. I will of course reserve full judgement until I play it myself, but from the general discourse and reviews I’ve seen this feels close to what I’ll probably grade it objectively.

So essentially what I've gathered from all the Crimson Desert reviews is its got a fairly long tutorial at the start of the game, much like a Persona game. And a lot of journos were trying to speedrun the story, hitting bosses and getting mogged because they were not prepared.

IGN gave Crimson Desert a 6

Not a fan of this DLSS 5 filter that turns games into AI slop and completely changes the original art direction of the game.

This gonna come off weird but does anybody get tired of men finding them attractive?

Phil Spencer spent $7.5 billion on Bethesda so this specifically wouldn’t happen btw 😭