Crimson Desert Enhanced

23 hours in the game and this is what the game has been so far: The first 8-9 hours: It was ok, but absolutely did not get that click and I only wanted to come back to the game because of the money i spent on it, in hopes that it would eventualy click(it did). The first 8 hours had very little action, not much combat and even if it did, i barely knew how to make combat feel fun as i was just pressing buttons in hopes of doing something right. I tried a bit of exploring for 10-20 minutes when the main story felt too boring and I felt like although the world was massive there was nothing to explore(I just did not know where/how to look). The main story or whatever the gamed had me do in these early hours were pretty much tutorial, just showing me dozens of mechanics. I was regretting the purchase, hated the game and thought maybe it was not for me, although I enjoyed similar games such as skyrim. However, I said I'd give it a few more hours and literally "few more hours" turned into 8 in that session only. The game just.. clicked. I started exploring, I started doing various side quests, pushing the main story, learned how to upgrade my skill tree and unlock different traits/combat combos and the combat feels sooo good now, even though there is so much more to learn. I am not even doing main story right now, just doing everything else that i can because the game has so much to offer and it is one of the best i've played since elden ring. The game has the biggest open world I've ever seen and it is absolutely gorgeous especially if played in 4k resolution. I won't even begin to enlist all the things it excels at because the review is already turning into an essay, but I will list the only things that could've been better: - the main story is vague, just an average/mid story, nothing too crazy 6.5/7 out of 10 - *some* side quests are boring (go there, examine X, follow Y, return there) - when it rains, the game looks blurry, distorted and.. just unpleasant. (however, the it is an already known issue and the devs will most likely fix it in the near future as they are going crazy on updates) Great game.

I have spent decades modding my Skyrim to be a fraction of what Crimson Desert (CD) largely is at release, but while I had fun with it and would recommend it, I have rarely been both this impressed and perplexed by what is clearly a labour of love. [h1]Cutting Edge, Drawing Blood[/h1] From the initial boot-up, CD is a title that stands out amongst the crowd for reasons that are both its merit and its demise. Powering up this adventure is the [i]Black Space Engine[/i], an in-house tech of Pearl Abyss that delivers incredible visuals - if you have the hardware to enable them. Gone are typical industry restraints, and welcome are cutting-edge implementations that make the game run completely on real-time ray-traced lighting. This is something often avoided, especially in close, dimly lit areas, as it shows the cracks of the tech quite easily. Even so, alongside the simulation engine, which adds a level of interaction both physical and elemental with the world worthy of the recent Zelda titles, it makes for a steep yet worthy trade-off for a world that is so dynamic. Impressively, a seemingly older tech - hypothesized to be [url=https://youtu.be/44PT8XRZRGA]Screen Space Displacement Mapping[/url] - makes its comeback with per-pixel texture depth detail that rivals Unreal Engine’s Nanite, with different downsides. Worth singling out is the water, which has officially surpassed that of Red Dead Redemption 2 on a technical level. I managed to run everything well at max - especially the lighting and ray tracing - with Nvidia’s DLSS set to Performance and Ray Reconstruction (RR). The final image was clean enough with the use of DLSS 4 in particular, as 4.5 does not yet work with RR. However, this incredible presentation crumbles the moment even just RR is not enabled, with softer Ambient Occlusion and in-surface detail, and it gets worse, noisier, and flickier the lower you go. The difference between high-end and medium can be quite staggering. [h1]Labour of Love, Overbearing Incompletion[/h1] My kudos go to the devs at Pearl Abyss for being extremely active with the community feedback and for delivering patches and new features at almost a weekly cadence. Their experience with Black Desert Online clearly shows here, although speed comes at the cost of quality at times, with, for example, Nvidia’s RR being broken for the third time by the last patch (16.0x) that added the new version of FSR Ray Regeneration, while completely overhauling the trading system. It’s commendable to see a single-player game get so much support, and it almost gives that extra reason to continue returning to it. However, while systems getting completely overhauled and new mounts or armors being added are welcome, planning more story cutscenes in the future or bringing up the other two main characters' ability roster, traversal included, up to Kliff’s - as if separate ability purchasing wasn’t enough friction - makes it seem like the product was somewhat undercooked. [h1]Hard to Love, Harder to Leave[/h1] The [b]story/quest[/b] content features some of the best cutscenes I’ve seen in open-world games in a while, especially when Ubisoft is part of this conversation. There’s a level of care in it, with NPCs being very animated during dialogues. Sadly, all of this effort is put into a story that is honestly a mess. 3h of extra cutscenes, à la Final Fantasy XV, would not fix this. It has some intriguing bits, but the way to get there at times is genuinely just cause a new marker appeared on the map, without further context. The [b]world[/b] is immense, full of things to do and see. I’m sure that some of the context I missed is somewhere, but I missed it not because I wanted to, but because while going between point A and B, it might have been drowned in another 20 knowledge entries on every river, hill, flora, or fauna I found on the way. 3000+ entries to read is surprisingly too much even for a lore-nerd Souls player, who used to have entire evenings of book reading sessions with friends on Baldur’s Gate 3, or screenshot and bring to work the codex entries of Dragon Age to read during lunch. It’s nice to be able to read about a world, but when there are 76 different entries [i]just on insects[/i], mostly stating general facts… while it’s nice to see so much fauna, on the nth butterfly, I stopped reading. There is no distinction for [b]side content[/b] between a boring MMORPG-like fetch quest and an in-depth, multi-step questline. Every time you take on a quest, it’ll be a gamble whether it leads to a fun new boss/dungeon, or to collecting fruitflies from a market stall. [h3]High Effort, Hollow Trophies[/h3] The game seems to struggle in focusing on what matters, rewarding you little to nothing for important content, including bosses, but with an entire aura-dripping armor set for a side mission about hunting an animal tagged as “legendary”, but that has nothing really special about it. Equipment can be quite scarce, and a lot of armor sets, especially of bosses, are completely unobtainable as of writing this. After defying all odds and winning the horse races minigame, against the enemy AI having infinite stamina, sprint, and rubber-banding, I now find myself chasing 17 side missions with a random spawn, only to hopefully soon get the one to unlock the last out of three arm wrestling bosses that will unlock the minigames achievement. In all this, I still have quite plenty of side missions that I’m sure are far more interesting around the map I could do, but this is what I’ll be rewarded for chasing. I’m currently at the last two achievements separating me from platinum, but it’s worth mentioning that I got 4 achievements in 190 (!!!) hours, 3 of which story-related. Most of the achievements focus on either weapon-specific combat challenges or specific exploration challenges, like sliding for 50m. [h3]Deep Immersion, Hostile Design[/h3] While I disdain hand-holding in videogames, game design is the art of guiding the player towards something without directly telling them. Let’s make an example from Elden Ring, another open world notorious for not hand-holding. From the first few Ruin points of interest, it is established that in them, there is a chest with a unique reward. So when you find a Ruin that doesn’t have it, the instinct is to start looking around. And while it might only be hidden better at first, eventually, you’ll learn about invisible walls. The game, after that point, will start using them. Were it not for social media, I would have never learned that walls, in CD: - sometimes might have a mark on them, visible only with the lantern, which means it can be lowered - a middle part, which means it can be rotated - lines on the floor in front of it, meaning it can be pushed It would be hard to find the earliest instance of the latter, on the side of a church tower, on my own. There are so many fun interactions and things that can be done, but the line between interesting and obtuse is a thin one. I wish better game design was used in CD to teach me that, specifically, the thrust attack could be used to use your sword as a replacement lever when broken, or break a barrier in a puzzle where normal attacks won’t; or that sometimes cables carrying electricity are disconnected somewhere on the way. And I was a lucky player who, early on, understood the capricious control scheme hierarchy in the settings and set a good control layout I carried on for the whole game, so I could easily try things when stuck. [h1]Brave the Rough, Reap the Gem[/h1] In the end, the title is definitely a high-quality production, technically impressive, with deep and dynamic player interaction with the world. It suffers from many good ideas at times not implemented in the best way, but I’m happy to have so many options. I strongly suggest it, if you have a good idea of what you might be getting into. [b]7/10

сборная солянка из всего подряд, которая не работает должным образом эта игра буквально является копией механик из зельды, из ассасинов, из рдр 2, но эти механики сделаны максимально на коленке и вызывают одно лишь раздражение я не понимаю тех людей кто хвалит вот ЭТО, но чуваки, просто пойдите поиграйте в ботву, поиграйте в тёрку, зачем душиться ЭТИМ, заместо игры в нормальные игры ? кримсон десерт это определённо скам года, но не более того

I almost never leave comments on games. This time I feel I need to warn you not to make the same mistake I did. This is not a top game. Nor is it worth money they want for it. This is a B class game. Looks nice, seems to be good at first glance, but it turns to be an empty world of unfullfilled promises. Story is flat, dialogs rather naive, quests as if written by some AI tool. For me fighting system was also not very enjoyable, but this could be more personal inclination, and objectively would rather be okayish taking into account genre standards. All in all, if you want a single-player MMO-like game, you can go for it, but if you look for something at least a bit deeper than a thin layer of nice visuals and basic gameplay, it will be a waste of time and money. If only I could I'd eagerly give it back. And don't understand such good opinions it has. Let's fight together for a better industry giving us quality products not rehaeted pizzas from supermarket served on a silver plate.

I Love Crimson Hernand ❤️

Pure distilled open world slop Plenty of things to do, none of them interesting

НИХРЕНАЖСЕБЕ!!! Вы хоть читали лицензионное соглашение этой игры?? Это же добровольное рабство по денежному обеспечению всего состава компании из за любого намёка на её "имущественные потери". ВСЕ, кто согласился с этим лицензионным соглашением неотвертятся даже тогда, когда лицензия будет уже недействительна... ОХРЕНЕТЬ!!!

다른 건 다 제외하고, 순수히 전투 파트에 대해서만 언급하고 싶다. 전투가 너무 재미없다. 영상을 보면 파티클 이펙트가 과해서 재미있어 보이는 착각을 주지만 막상 해 보면 더럽게 재미없다. 전투가 아니라 음식먹기 대결로 만들어 놨으니... 젤다를 보고 따라 한 것 같은데 왜 안 좋은점만 따라하는 거지? 출시 초반에는 조작감 얘기가 많이 나왔는데 이건 구조적인 문제라 패치를 수백번해도 소용없다. 처음부터 많은 동작을 넣고 싶고, 컨트롤러 버튼 수는 한정되니 살짝 누르기, 길게 누르기를 다른 동작에 할당하여 오작동을 유발하게 만들고, 그것도 모자라 이것 저것 불편한 버튼 조합을 동시에 눌러야 겨우 동작이 발동되게 만들어 놨다. 보통 제대로 된 액션 게임에서 버튼 2개를 쓰는 경우 그 중 하나는 범퍼나 트리거를 쓰고, 이 경우 범퍼나 트리거를 누르고 있는 상황에서 다른 버튼을 누를 때 액션이 발동된다. 이렇게 하면 버튼을 2개 누르더라도 동시에 누를 필요는 없기 때문에 크게 불편함이 없다. 그런 측면에서 붉은 사막은 액션 시스템의 기본기조차 제대로 안 되어 있는 느낌이다. 조작이 불편하니 스킬이 여러개 있어도 평타 이외에는 쓰지도 않는다. 액션 게임의 재미라는 것은 컨트롤이 주는 재미이다. 컨트롤이 불편하면 재미있을 수가 없다. 개발자들이 액션 게임을 즐기는 사람은 아니라는 느낌이 들 수 밖에 없다. 다른 건 다 형편 없더라도 전투만 재미 있었으면 좋게 평가해 줄 수 있는데 왜 하필 음식먹기 전투에 집착한 거냐... 전투가 음식을 무한히 먹을 수 있다는 가정하에 설계되어 있어서 난이도도 내가 얼마나 음식을 빨리 많이 먹을 수 있느냐, 아니면 적이 내가 음식 먹기도 전에 먼저 때리느냐의 전투다. 전투가 재미없으니, 파밍도 탐험도 의욕이 별로 생기지 않는다. 왜 갓오브워를 놓고 젤다를 참고한 거냐...