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Personally I think it looks outstanding and I haven't been this hyped for a game in a long time.

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[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every single video I've seen, every single article I've read screams overhyped bullshit. The game looks extremely bland, shallow and generic to me. Sure it has nicely polished visuals but apart from that? Nothing.

[–] lath@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

But you can swipe the enemy's feet to knock them down!

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zero faith given Black Desert

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never played Black Desert so I can't say anything on that. What's the deal?

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Broken promises, p2w, uses a lot of f2p manipulations.

The only hope is that I think CD is supposed to be a single player experience? (At least that was the rumor many many years ago) So they may not fuck it as badly... But it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I've seen multiple articles state that Crimson Desert has no microtransactions.

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Waiting for the reviews. It's that simple. If it is even good, I am sure to play it as I love Open world Action- Adventure games. But, I am really hoping it is more Witcher 3 and less AC Valhalla.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I had a chance to play it at an event last year. Maybe things have improved in the interim, but I've never played a game with a more obtuse control scheme in my life.

Who puts jump on square??

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm willing to give any control scheme a chance. The first time I ever played Dark Souls, or Monster Hunter Tri, both of those felt obtuse. Now they both feel like home.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It does look really good, so I'm keeping my eye on it.

[–] LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, when I hear people screaming: "It's too good to be true!", or: "It has so much we have never seen in AAA!", etc., on the contrary, we did. It's taking features already defined in other games and assembled here all together.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think it's anything new or groundbreaking, but it does look like a lot of fun to me.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree - some games are alluring for their unique style, some for recognisability and comfort. Plus, normally I don't like too much of a departure from realistic physics in favour of fun factor, like being a damage sponge or tilting and boosting a horse in a different direction, but as a whole this definitely looks great to play. Even has breakable structures that crush enemies, it reminds me of 'Pursuit Breakers' in Need for Speed Most Wanted

[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Indifferent to it. It looks nice but I'll wait until reviews and early impressions before deciding to play it.

It looks pretty nice but definitely has the potential to be a bloated mess with how many things are crammed into it.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I like games where I can really customize my character. This is why I was not wild about the witcher. This seems the same to me so its likely not my bag of tea. Now granted when I played elden ring I was sure I was going to abandon it and its one of the few I finally finished along with cyberpunk. Although with that it was beause it seemed so insanely hard.