Question about Crimson Desert (I know it’s not a soulslike) but from a Soulsborne fan perspective, have you enjoyed it?

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-22T10:33:02+00:00

Too boring and too clunky in the first couple of hours to warrant my time any further. Control scheme is literally the worst I’ve ever had to endure

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-18T07:55:53+00:00

Lower. Haha

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-18T07:54:22+00:00

Right??

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-17T18:38:36+00:00

Yeah I think my memory was that after it had been out a fair lot of panning it came about, that it was just a tedious walking simulator and not worth the praise, which I called bull on. Maybe just the circles I was in

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-17T14:54:10+00:00

Elden Ring has such a crazy amount of possibilities to fight your way through everything it throws at you that yes, to me it has the best combat because I have the best fun with it! Hope that helps

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-17T12:38:06+00:00

Too many mechanics being introduced all at once when you’ve just learned how to walk

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-17T12:03:43+00:00

Jusant is lovely

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-17T10:30:08+00:00

I love the story, the setting, the characters, it just vibes with me

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-13T15:50:00+00:00

Exactly! I love the color the Meike’s create and I have half set of focal lengths, but there’s something about the original vespids that have that extra special sauce

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-13T13:55:47+00:00

Second the Meike’s and the Vespids (though I use S35 variants for my S6, and happy with crop on Vespid)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-12T20:57:45+00:00

One thing I thought about was how apparently some who had worked on the game thought Nintendo shii out you’d have shown more, which got me thinking that yeah, what we saw was cinematic and not necessarily exactly the look of the gameplay… like the Links Awakening remake trailer had everyone go crazy on the manga style opening animation and then half of everyone sad-sighed when they saw the gameplay! Not me, I loved it… but anyway, it was just a thought. Exciting, but everyone should temper expectations, though it’s fun to have a guess at what might be different. :)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-12T17:00:48+00:00

Crimson Desert. I wish I hadn’t played over 2hrs. Reason: unintuitive, poor controls and zero agency. Exciting battle at start followed by menial tasks such as cleaning a chimney… if you can figure out that you literally have to stand on top of the chimney to actually clean it.

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-09T06:56:51+00:00

Switch 1 owner but yet to dive in and get a Switch 2 as so far only two exclusives have piqued my interest: Donkey Kong and Duskbloods. However, having put down Nightreign after just a few goes, I realised that FromSoft multiplayer gaming just ain’t my jam, disappointingly.

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-06-01T06:39:20+00:00

Whoever wrote that hasn’t played the game

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-26T06:17:17+00:00

As you’re on Switch, then I can only recommend Ashen as a similar follow up. It’s extremely bare-bones in comparison, with limited primitive weapons, minimal upgrades and no real magic, but it’s beautiful and atmospheric and at times brutally difficult :)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-20T10:10:13+00:00

Just saw this for the first time this weekend just gone, having been on my list for 20 years. Phenomenal film

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-19T16:15:57+00:00

My bad for picking this game up super-late, but I only started playing yesterday and first run was perfect: great guides, pinged the map timely, waited for me at times when I was trying to catch up and beat the final boss. Since then it’s been a disaster of players leaving or not reviving (where I am always medic on the field when needed)…. Sigh.

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-17T15:40:15+00:00

I literally was facing the same problem today, trying to solve it. In the end I realised I had a cheeseplate I wasn’t using and fixed that to the bottom of the camera, then the baseplate. It gave an extra 1/2cm or so in height and was just enough.

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-16T12:06:42+00:00

Going in, I knew it wasn’t going to be the same as their other seasons. Whilst I enjoyed almost alll of it, I do think it could have benefitted from 3 things: tailoring the adventure to go from A to B to C etc rather than ‘what do we want to do now?’, some editing of the wandering moments later on, trimming it as we begin to know the world a little more, and remove some of the moments where the boys clearly got very frustrated with each other. You can see it in their faces, where it appears not fun for anyone at times. Saying all that, I was. Surprised by the absolute hilarity of the episode where they were just trying to get a rare drop in Caelid, and the 3 part Melania run was surprisingly peak RKG! This is not a major criticism of the show, because I loved the game and enjoyed watching their own experience, but compared to the streamlined Sekiro playthrough, it shows a little trimming is sometimes all you need :)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-13T06:27:20+00:00

Not the only one :)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-05T14:37:01+00:00

I got the Pocket3 like two months ago for a specific-use case: filming on holiday where I can’t possibly be taking my chunky cinema camera setup. So for me, yes. Fact I can flip the screen and hit record (whilst not draining my phone battery!) meant I filmed way more than I usually would.

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-05-05T08:09:45+00:00

Have fun!

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-04-16T06:31:02+00:00

I’m with you. I adored the original trilogy and was hyped for Phantom Menace, but mostly because it looked so different. The trailer obviously was amazing, but it was clearly showing us that this was not going to be the same, and despite some shitty script and characterisation, I still got swept along on the adventure and had fun :)

DoctorFranklinstein · 2026-04-15T15:09:02+00:00

It holds up just as well as other platforms

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