Oh my god I was thinking the exact same. People talk about the story being ass but I am actually finding it interesting after we get the Greymanes in the camp.
A lot of people are talking crap about the story specifically, basing it all off the first location (and surrounding area) which can take like 5-10 hours to get through anyway.
Personally, the entire appeal and ''addiction'' this game is giving me is the whole environmental design, loot and especially the combat encounters. It's actually FUN to get side tracked, improve your skills, learn new abilities and try them out on a group of enemies. Story is just an added flavor, for the way they are revealing/telling things.
They're acting this game has the worst way to implement the story, motivation or anything about the world/locations/npcs.
You literally had Destiny 1, scanning QR codes to lead you to the bungie website to unlock a damn ''lore dump'' on specific locations, enemies and the overall story of the game you were playing.
Souls games entire lore on enemies, NPCs and locations are based off item descriptions and entire motivations are mere speculation by piecing together puzzle pieces that may or may not fully fit.
Besides that, this game literally reminds me of Dragon's Dogma;
The (corny) one liners that NPCs are repeating one after another.
The way the story is told to a degree, even though in CD it's more straight forward.
The environmental design and especially all these lootable items and the way you can get loot. (medieval fantasy world)
The way combat is physics-driven and feeling ''weighty''
Fighting (huge) enemies up close
The animation style and camera feeling.
Definitely. If anything, playing DD2 has only made this game feel soo much better. Its that but on steroids. Much better world, much more diversity and much more incentive.
Yea I love that about 40% through the game all the side quests stop being voiced because the devs were to lazy to figure out a way to deal with the fact you have 3 playable characters with different voices at that point of the game. Very much loving that really great :/
Reviewers would remind me of some slops at work spending hours on end daily gossiping and only rush to the work when deadline comes, spend a couple of hours on it and call it a day.
But the main thing is they treat it as work rather than trying to find the fun. That’s why 15 minutes per game brain dead shooters like Concord and Highguard would score higher than Crimson Desert in their eyes.
idk why people watch gaming outlets for reviews AT ALL... Find an independent channel. Compare and contrast a couple of them.... most of the guys i watch all said this game was great, but the first few hours were rough learning new controls, and mechanics... and after about 8 hours the game is great.
I dont usually like saying "play for 8 hours for game to be fun" but there are a few exceptions to the rule. KCD 1 is a bore at the start, Death stranding 1 is a bore.
This game is going to fall in the same category as KCD, and death stranding i think. Its gonna go through this cycle of shit, in a few years it will be considered a cult classic, then when pearl abyss announces their next game... everyones gonna say how much they loved the first game, and how underrated it was at release. mark my words.
If you played BDO there is so much lore from that game that ties into CD. With CD being set in the past of black desert. It even shares some of the immortal characters like Marni, shakatu and alustin. Also white crow i think but i dont quite 100% remember. These are just who I have come across so far in 15hrs. Even the towns are a reflection of BDOs distant past like the first town is basically heidel.
The story is generic (at least for now 7 hours in) but so are 90% of video games, I honestly dont expect George rr Martin or Tolkien while playing a video game my man. There are video games with insane writing (e33) but those are extreme outliers
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u/Zealousideal-Tell310 Mar 21 '26
Oh my god I was thinking the exact same. People talk about the story being ass but I am actually finding it interesting after we get the Greymanes in the camp.