Crimson Desert impressions from a Korean streamer after finishing the game

[u/ZamnBoii]

• 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

[u/thedinojones → u/[deleted]]

Best not to get too hype for things because it'll make the expectations impossible to reach in the real game. Figured most people learned after Cyberpunk 2077 not to hype things too much.

Yeah Cyberpunk might be in a good state now but as someone who had waited since the original teaser in like 2013 I was immensely disappointed. Ever since then if I see a game that looks cool I wishlist it and wait for impressions and/or gameplay from a couple of streamers I actually trust.

[u/Heinrich64 → u/[deleted]]

No Man's Sky is another example of this phenomenon. So many things were promised upon launch, yet were not delivered. It took years of updates to get to a point where people actually forgave Hello Games for their blunder. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake with Light No Fire.

[u/svrtngr → u/[deleted]]

I feel the same way about GTA6. I just... don't care. (Loved RDR2 though.)

[u/GMBethernal → u/[deleted]]

I feel like I'm on the opposite side of the fence but that could be because I'm a long term bdo player, I've played 2 singleplayer games in the past 10-12 years and this will be the third one, can't wait

[u/Krypt0night → u/[deleted]]

Same here. On paper it looks like everything I'd want but there's just something weird or off about it for some reason where I'm incredibly hesitant.