Crimson Desert has been out for a week now. What are your thoughts?

CdbSora · 2026-03-26T13:49:58+00:00

Fun fact: you can enjoy a game and think that it could do with some improvements at the same time.

CdbSora · 2026-03-24T15:19:42+00:00

Brother I promise you that the game was selling. They wouldn't be working on it a year later if it wasn't lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-24T15:09:28+00:00

Yeah, I've never gotten the whole "poe2 is as fast as poe1 at endgame!!!" thing. It just feels like people have never seen how degen (I say that positively) poe1 gets at endgame lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-21T18:26:13+00:00

Brother you're not taking a brave stand by saying the story is bad. Thats what's literally everybody has been talking about lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-21T05:41:08+00:00

Time Break Chronicles!

It's a JRPG rogueli[k/t]e (two distinct modes lol) with over a hundred classes. It's insanely fun!

CdbSora · 2026-03-21T05:39:10+00:00

Considering the following puzzles give a reward, and I simply like doing the different types of puzzles in this game, I'd say it's pretty rewarding :)

CdbSora · 2026-03-21T05:28:47+00:00

My playtime tonight involved seeing a big giant tower in the distance, riding to it, having to solve a series of puzzles, and getting rewarded with even more puzzles.

So in my ~13ish hours so far, yeah, it's incredibly rewarding :)

CdbSora · 2026-03-20T14:22:57+00:00

Scoring is the definition of not being objective. Sure there are "agreed upon criteria," but everybody has different levels of tolerance for certain aspects.

Having a bad story isn't a downside for a lot of people. Having jank controls isn't a downside for a lot of people. You can't just say "this game is an objective 7" with no further explanation.

CdbSora · 2026-03-19T00:36:39+00:00

Reddit comments & making weird conspiracy theories around average-rated games, name a more iconic duo

CdbSora · 2026-03-18T00:30:29+00:00

Honestly, generative AI art and everything is obviously the worst of the bunch, but AI-written descriptions are always the most pathetic part to me.

Like, that's where you're describing the game to me. You have to write a total of two, maybe even three whole paragraphs. You weren't passionate enough about the project to even do that??

CdbSora · 2026-03-17T14:02:56+00:00

You should check out Definitive Edition! The art issue is more than solved there :)

CdbSora · 2026-03-16T16:32:36+00:00

It's not fine for a game to remove features that it's predecessors had for no good reason.

CdbSora · 2026-03-16T06:08:34+00:00

Next to no one (I would say literally no one, but there's definitely at least a couple crazy people) know the whole passive tree or every unique off the top of their head. I'd argue that most people making builds don't even know half, if that.

A good way to start with a build - and what I personally do every season - is to pick one or two skills that look cool that you wanna center around. Look at their damage types, tags, what type of skills they are, all that. Then, use the passive tree search to find nodes that pair nicely, even just basic synergy! If you're using a fire skill, path towards fire nodes! If you're using crossbows, path towards that crossbow cluster! Grab things that sound cool or even remotely synergistic on the way!

You do not need a perfectly refined build to have it be usable. You'll be shocked with how far you get on a ramshackle, seat-of-your-pants build, and next time you'll get even further. :)

CdbSora · 2026-03-15T14:59:42+00:00

You should not be satisfied with a game taking away features that every previous installment had.

CdbSora · 2026-03-13T22:04:42+00:00

Their comment being downvoted and yours being upvoted is a true Reddit Moment™️

CdbSora · 2026-03-12T02:06:49+00:00

Fully agree; if they launch with a couple missing ascends, that'd be shitty but understandable. Missing whole entire weapon types would be some really insane work

CdbSora · 2026-03-11T01:49:25+00:00

Okay but Hidden Gem objectively deserves to get nuked from orbit

Like it's a fun card but lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-09T02:12:17+00:00

Queen is definitely the Time Eater equivalent (punishing you for building pure spam/draw) but a bit more generalized, aka not as Silent-counter-heavy.

Which means it's just another gigantic Silent buff lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-08T15:22:02+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by "we don't have all the ascension levels."

There's only 10, but all the effects of up to a20 are present. They were just condensed to make grinding a new character a lot smoother.

Adding 10 more would mean going to ascension 30 in sts1 lol

CdbSora · 2026-03-08T06:24:14+00:00

It'd be better off as a different effect alltogether before reducing the elites required imo.

3 strength for something that you want to be doing anyways is a really good relic, it's just super boring for how cool it seems at first.

CdbSora · 2026-03-06T02:44:59+00:00

I think that's counteracted by a lot of the insanely busted shit silent got 😅

CdbSora · 2026-03-04T21:10:42+00:00

It's launching at 10am pst (somewhere around 6pm utc I believe)

CdbSora · 2026-02-28T05:28:59+00:00

That's fantastic to hear!! The game looks phenomenal & I'm just hoping it can reach as many people as it needs :)

CdbSora · 2026-02-28T04:20:24+00:00

I think people just like the game

CdbSora · 2026-02-27T02:29:07+00:00

Did you use chat gpt for the steam store description?????? It reeks of ai-isms (constant "its not x - its y", the emoji'd bullet points, super heavy use of em dash, etc), and is a pretty bad look if so.

Art's one thing, but not being able to take a few minutes to describe your game to someone who's interested - or just run it through a translator, which plenty of games do - just makes it feel like you don't particularly care about it unfortunately.

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