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In Korea, most people don't use Twitter and are popular with some subculture enthusiasts. In the United States, almost everyone uses Twitter. As a foreigner, I have to force myself to use Twitter to follow the information trend.

What’s strangest about Crimson Desert is that even though it uses that classic Korean MMO-style female character design, they covered up all the outfits. This is basically the official successor to Black Desert, and it feels like they were way too conscious of Western sales. In Korean MMOs, that kind of censorship would never normally fly. That was honestly one of the game’s biggest strengths, too.

The idea that gamers can somehow refuse DLSS 5 is pretty funny. When the RTX 50 series launched, everyone pointed out that it was barely any faster than the 40 series in real terms, and that the only real difference was MFG. People called it trash. And yet the 50 series ended up becoming one of the best-selling product lines in history. When people buy products from a company that leads the technology, they are not leaders themselves, just followers.

Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, has called for strong pushback against NVIDIA's DLSS 5 in a new interview. "Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers. Then maybe they'll think about going back to giving us what we want," Oshry said.

@pahkevalu38862 I just wanted the exact same story, but they’re calling it a sequel to the old FF7.

@crictorz It’s better they don’t. We all know very well how they try to bring in MoDeRn AuDiEnCe.

According to recent Circana data, 77% of US players of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are aged 30 or older, with 62% aged 35+. The game draws heavily from fans of the 1997 original.

@Pirat_Nation Well, that doesn't really seem enough to justify a game that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

[Forbes] Steam is 70% of Marathon’s population. PS5 is 19%, Xbox is 11%.

Koreans do not like Crimson Desert’s story either. The reason really isn’t that complicated. Most Korean video game studios come from an MMO background. MMO players usually do not care much about story and tend to skip it all, so for a long time most Korean developers never seriously tried to improve that side of their games or treat it as something important. As a result, Korea simply does not have much of a tradition of strong game writers or narrative designers. Storytelling is something Western studios have spent years steadily developing, but for Korean studios making single-player games, it is still unfamiliar territory. This game handles every cutscene like a typical MMO. It honestly makes me wonder whether environmental storytelling even exists in it at all. Still, those dumb, Korean period-drama-influenced performances can be pretty entertaining... sometimes.

No, that's because Oblivion Remastered isn't a new game. It's basically the original game still running underneath with Unreal assets layered on top. It wasn't rebuilt from scratch, it's just a graphical upgrade. That's why existing mods can still work, and why all the same bugs are still there.

Todd Howard revealed Oblivion: Remastered kept some original bugs on purpose "Stuff like that? Yeah, just leave it. It's fine. It's part of the game's character" via GamesRadar

No matter how Modern Warfare 4’s campaign turns out, one thing the entire world can agree on is that this damn woman better not show up again. There was zero reason for her to return in MW2 or MW3, but Activision clearly decided the game ‘needed’ a woman no matter what. And they completely butchered the story because of it. Don’t even get me started on Laswell’s pointless 5-minute campaign segment. The original MW trilogy had a perfect campaign without a single female character, and it was still GOAT-tier. This forced DEI checklist kills immersion, and Korean players absolutely hate it.

@ChibiReviews Why does he keep obsessively checking this? At first I thought it was just algorithm paranoia, but it looks more like he's trying to confirm he exists. Could be some kind of depression.

Can you all see this tweet?

@AI_EmeraldApple This will be one of the rare games where critic scores and user reviews actually line up.

My updated impressions of Crimson Desert... The story isn't just mid. It's basically MIA, with the quests only there to facilitate exploration and introduce you to gameplay mechanics. It is not the Witcher 3, or breath of the wild, or even where the winds meet. Crimson desert is a true sandbox where you explore the world, do crazy things, and have punchy combat. Is it enjoyable? Yes, but only if you like that kind of completely open-ended sandbox experience. My main complaints remain the controls, which still feel laggy after the update, and the UI that still needs work. The game should also have had a character creator so that you can create your own character instead of playing Kliff, who has the personality of a potato. Other than that, the game is great. It feels like playing a completely insane, chaotic game where you can go from riding crazy mounts to doing feats that are impossible in other games. I don't think the game will ever breach 248k peak players, as it is a hardcore sandbox; it is not most players' cup of tea.

@StarfieldGame You've ignored Korean gamers' localization requests for 20 years. It's honestly surprising that you didn't even consider adding more language support when releasing on PS5.

In the first new Trackers Alliance mission released last week, The Widow, you'll investigate a series of unexplained deaths casting a shadow over Neon. All five new Trackers Alliance missions are free for players who have purchased The Vulture! beth.games/3PsVnRt

@curatorgamingx I can say with absolute certainty that it’s impossible.

If Starfield scores a 88-96 on PS5 will you people admit you were wrong about it? #Starfield

@videotechuk_ Western studios do not work on weekends under any circumstances...

I'm not being funny but Pearl Abyss could've ran with everyone’s money and made slow patches like western studios do when they release broken games These guys worked during the weekend to release a huge patch

@Pirat_Nation I’m more interested in the news that GTA 6 might run at 30 FPS than stuff like this.

A leaker claims GTA 6 will launch day-and-date on Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in November 2026.

This is probably the first time user reviews and critic scores actually line up, and Steam reviews are just correcting toward that reality. So what exactly is there to rage about game journalists for? If IGN were really “outraged,” this thing should be sitting at overwhelmingly positive.

Crimson Desert Steam reviews have moved from "Mixed" to "Mostly Positive" after listening to player feedback. IGN is seething.

@Grummz Any other company would act the same way if their stock dropped 40%.

Crimson Desert patch is bigger than I thought. You never see Western Devs patch this fast. Bethesda would have taken weeks. Velocity is a superpower.

ChatGPT only showcasing 5.3 Instant and 5.4 Thinking makes for a genuinely confusing UI. They've buried the legacy models so deep that it ends up feeling like user choice has actually been reduced, and the difference between 5.4 and 5.3 isn't presented clearly enough either. It's messy and confusing.

I'm concerned that Western gamers seem more willing than Koreans to embrace this bad MMO-to-single-player slop. The game clearly has sections designed to artificially pad playtime, which is an obvious case of MMO design being shoved into a single-player game, and defending that kind of design will only accelerate the overall decline of video games

I really hope Modern Warfare 4’s campaign finally goes all-in on scale. It’s likely going to be the first title to leave PS4 and Xbox One behind, so there’s no excuse for another small-brained story where everyone loses their mind over one missile. Show an actual large-scale war for once, not another fake high-stakes conflict dressed up like some idiotic American/British TV drama.