Mitchell Saltzman

Oh my god, I found it. The moment I received my first video game console. I wish my grandparents knew just how life changing this moment was for me. Also lol at my sister. "ITS MINE!"

@GamerNate20 bruh...

@JurassicRabbit Remember playing without all those extra inventory slots?

they added a fast travel point in town with the day one patch lol oh my goddddddd. The game you all are playing is NOT the one we did pre-release.

@OSIIIRO Which might not sound like a lot, but when you consider how often you're going back to town, it quickly becomes really tiresome, especially when you're wondering "why couldn't this just be in the town"

@OSIIIRO Not in town. It was a little bit outside of town and required you to do some climbing and gliding to get to the main area where all the shops are, or you had to follow a very round about trail on your horse. Usually took me an extra 2 mins or so to get to where i wanted to go.

@Semiiotic they have their own unique quests.

@JurassicRabbit question about the multiple character thing. Do they each have unique side quests or can any character do any quest?

All right, enough dooming about Crimson Desert. I do wanna at least balance it out by mentioning some of the really cool things. The world and exploration are incredible; the performance on my PC was mostly flawless, outside of a few crashes;

Like this isn't a game where I'm looking at these high scores and going "What game were they playing?" Like I said before: it's a game of high peaks, low dips. There are moments I thought this game was as special as it looked in trailers, but they were fleeting.

The different characters all feel great and have their own huge skill trees to play around with as well, there's great incentive to explore, the puzzles are *mostly* well done and do a good job of making you use your abilities in clever ways

@revenant_MMXX They have since added a teleport to town, so at least there's that. Maybe they'll fix some of this other stuff down the line.

If this is even remotely true then Crimson Desert sounds unbelievably tedious to play. Good time to emphasize that it's fine to decide a game isn't for you without playing it, and that this is completely different from pretending to like it.

Like good, im glad. This is a good addition that removes a big pain point for the game. But also WHY WASNT IT THERE FROM THE START 😭

@GenePark Genuinely would have shaved at least 3 hours off my playtime.

@JurassicRabbit goddammit man lol

But as someone who's playing this game on a deadline, it feels bad, man.

The issue for me is more that the game isn't built for this style of die, repeat, die, repeat, die repeat, etc. Everything in this game takes an eternity. That might not be an issue for some people!

I was asked what I meant by bullshit, when I said that if you have a high tolerance for bullshit, you'll probably adore Crimson Desert. This is just one example of what I mean:

@ooterousa tldr; this game has no respect for the player's time. And I think that's bullshit.

@ooterousa Then I have to take all of that to the blacksmith, watch and skip the refining cutscene for each item, then go back and try the boss again.

I've been working on guides for Crimson Desert, and man, the highs and lows of this game are something else. It is hands down one of the most gorgeous open worlds ive ever played around in. There's just an unbelievable amount to explore and discover.