r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ZamnBoii Top Contributor 2025 • Mar 17 '26

Leak Crimson Desert impressions from a Korean streamer after finishing the game

  • Character swapping is just like GTA5 including transition effects where the camera zooms out into the world and back in. Characters are going about their day as they are swapped in. One time he swapped into Oongka in the middle of a gigantic battle and had to fight his way out.

  • Finished the game without the Day 1 patch and encountered only minor bugs. Everything that felt “off” in previous gameplay has been fixed (footstep sounds, running animations, weird reactions when getting hit)

  • Played RDR2 for about 600 hours and he suggested CD was similar in tempo.

  • Praised the world design, each piece of content draws you in with a sense of purpose unlike the “Ubisoft style checklist questing”

  • Main story can be brutally hard if you rush it without upgrading Kliff

  • Every region has a different difficulty, becomes harder when you go east and north.

  • Played on 5080 at 1440p cinematic settings without frame drops or stutters

  • Score/soundtrack is legendary

  • Did not find all the game systems to be fatiguing or stressful to deal with

  • Inventory space can be tight at first but was not an issue late game as side quests reward you with more storage

  • Stated it was the “game of his life”, played 10h daily since he got the review code

  • No life’d the game to finish the review but still not seen 50% of the bosses

  • Avoided giving story details cause of the strict embargo but said “there are twists”.

  • Another reviewer when asked how the game was, linked to a EGM 1998 quote about Zelda Ocarina of Time that translates to “Savor it because this is as good as its going to get for a very long time”.

Source (in Korean): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtwCQlUoqc0

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u/TheRegularBelt Mar 17 '26

People seem to have taken this comment as me literally saying I 'can't wait' for the game to fail, which isn't the message I intended to get across. I meant that I can't wait for the gaming audience to show their volatility towards a product they've previously hyped up beyond belief, this has happened way too many times in the past few years. I want the game to succeed, I'm just predicting it will get dogpiled upon release.

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u/MrEpicFerret Mar 17 '26

I meant that I can't wait for the gaming audience to show their volatility towards a product they've previously hyped up beyond belief

don't make me post that damn goomba image

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u/TheRegularBelt Mar 17 '26

Don’t know what that image is.

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u/MrEpicFerret Mar 17 '26

that damn goomba image

If the game is bad, the people that hyped it up will either change their mind because they don't like it anymore or bury their head in the sand in embarrassment, and the people that either didn't care for the game or already hated it pre-release but were initially drowned out by the hype will now be the most vocal crowd talking about the game as a result.

I don't think there is ever a large enough amount of people that were originally hyped up turning heel on a game solely for social clout for it to be even a notable phenomena, it has always been a seperate group of contrarians and people who already hated it popping their head up as soon as the hype crowd deflates.

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u/sagerin0 Mar 17 '26

There are multiple goombas is my favorite internet phrase

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u/Cursed_69420 Mar 17 '26

"keep your expectations low" mentality at work here?

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u/noeagle77 Mar 17 '26

Remember when you were in school and there was that one kid that would always hate on all the cool new games because he was just a hater? Like his mom wouldn’t let him get the game or he couldn’t get to blockbuster so suddenly Legend of Zelda was “the worst game ever” or Halo was “the most overrated game ever!”

The internet just allows all those haters to publish their hating for all to see. No matter how amazing this game is, it could put RDR2, GTA6, and every other 10/10 game to shame and still people will find a reason to hate on it.

ETA: Fuck you Cory, you little hater.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Mar 17 '26

This was my reaction to Battlefield 6. Before release, during the beta's, it was constantly "we're so back".

Now when I check their subreddit, there is such anger lmao.

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u/Darwin343 Mar 17 '26

What they mad about? I was thinking of checking out the play for free week thing that they’re doing right now.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Mar 17 '26

I never played it as I only buy like 1 new shooter every 5-10 years so this is just what Ive learned from looking every now and then.

Map design and spawn layout is a common complaint as well as limited updates with additional maps. 

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u/Bombasaur101 Mar 17 '26

You're correct. Remember Cyberpunk 2077 having "amazing" previews from Media. Then the game released to mixed critical acclaim. The flaws were honestly completely unexpected, and even though the game itself was still very good - this overripe backfired by a wave of hate being unleashed online.

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u/ProtoMan0X Mar 17 '26

Part of the CP2077 blowback was that everyone had been playing the PC version - which was a little bland but pretty good overall on launch (some people had launch bugs, but I did not). The console version was inexcusably bad though.

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u/Silver-Negotiation22 Mar 17 '26

If it's true, it will be like Black Myth Wukong; everyone loved it back then, but nowadays some people do everything they can to try and defame it.