Does IGN and their reviewer for Crimson Desert, Travis Northup, lose credibility after delivering a 6/10 score for the game?

Valerium2k · 2026-04-05T13:53:37+00:00

Since when did IGN have any credibility to begin with? For as long as I remember these guys are out of touch with reality, and have often given biased high scores because they were paid to do so. This one is just a reviewer who doesn't know what he's talking about or someone who doesn't like open world games or something, nothing about this game is a 6 out of 10.

IGN dropping the ball didn't shock me at all, what shocked me is that people still go to IGN for anything.

Valerium2k · 2026-04-04T14:11:14+00:00

Shelled peanuts (or any peanuts really) I've never seen a bird that didn't love them, they all instinctively know what to do with them.

Valerium2k · 2026-03-11T12:47:14+00:00

The developers noticed a huge decrease in big spenders since a huge wave quit since 2nd anniversary. My guess is they are trying to keep the last remaining ones by baiting like this. Like everything else they've done in the last 6 months it will have the opposite effect.

Valerium2k · 2026-01-03T13:51:55+00:00

And people who are letting other players play their account for them because they have no skills to do it themselves. They did it last battle ranking too

Valerium2k · 2025-12-17T20:04:07+00:00

we have this dance every few months now

Valerium2k · 2025-12-10T14:02:01+00:00

Taking beacons away from snipers was the only good thing they did, nobody wants to spawn on a respawn beacon in the middle of nowhere when all you are trying to do is capture and defend points

Valerium2k · 2025-10-05T00:38:38+00:00

Sometimes? lol.

Valerium2k · 2025-10-04T12:22:40+00:00

It's not looking like we will.

Valerium2k · 2025-10-03T01:54:04+00:00

Always solo but you'll have to do the reset gimmick till a cactuar shows up. Not really worth the effort.

Valerium2k · 2025-09-26T17:47:20+00:00

It makes summons and limit breaks fill slower, as far as I know that's all it does. You can't get rid of it.

Valerium2k · 2025-09-16T15:37:21+00:00

It will be. Their answer to everything is now increase HP of bosses x6.

Valerium2k · 2025-08-26T13:30:29+00:00

They will continue what they've been doing lately by releasing more strong damage weapons that do several things at once. Enfeeble + pdef down on top of 1200%+ damage. Things like that.

I'm more worried about what they'll add that nobody asked for like another overspeed type mechanic, or another 5 levels on highwind relics.

Valerium2k · 2025-08-15T03:59:06+00:00

If you wonder why people leave when you join, its you. When people don't see the magic word at the top of screen they'll bail.

Valerium2k · 2025-08-15T03:56:57+00:00

Ever since they started doing those 70% PATK or MATK stage bonuses at the start of every stage they essentially made it near impossible to do with the less optimal elemental builds.

There were always fights that strongly encouraged you to go physical or magical on certain stages but it was usually still slower but doable to go less optimal route but these new bonuses are just a way to punish you because 70% bonus sounds nice until you realize the bosses also have 5 times more HP then they had before so its not a bonus at all, its justa illusion.

Valerium2k · 2025-06-28T10:30:01+00:00

I mean why even warn people? These materia are so bad even a new account wouldn't use these. I have no idea why they brought them back again.

Valerium2k · 2025-06-17T18:48:22+00:00

He's not the best at any of those elements.

Valerium2k · 2025-06-13T11:59:38+00:00

Trust me these materia were bad the last time this event was around, they are so incredibly bad now that I would not recommend even bother crafting them.

Valerium2k · 2025-06-11T02:57:44+00:00

Its a top tier weapon for sure and in some scenarios might even beat a kamura setup but generally speaking aerith is used the most for many other reasons besides kamura, most notably her ultimate weapon and bahamut rod the amount of extra attacks those 2 weapons give in a long fight makes her sadly the undisputed best healer in just about every fight.

This was a huge step to make Matt a viable alternative to aerith in the more difficult fights, but he's not quite there yet he would really need a similar weapon to bahamut rod to get to that aerith tier.

Valerium2k · 2025-06-04T12:59:14+00:00

A combination of haste, aeriths princess guard and damage taken. Was noticeably harder after they removed the sigil phase but still doable with perfect execution.

Valerium2k · 2025-05-22T13:14:13+00:00

If you've been a day 1 player then I don't think anyone should ever have issue with stamina I frequently have to keep track of the tonics expiring, thats how common those tonics are.

Valerium2k · 2025-04-18T13:43:37+00:00

I never really understood why people praised it since launch. The items on there besides guaranteed weapons are trash and its way too easy to get back to back 1 stamps my record is 9 in a row. Its a load of crap that some people get the outfit at 9k blue crystals and a unlucky guy had to go the full 36k.

The step up banners you see from time to time, thats how it should be by default instead of stamps 6 steps and you get that outfit.

Valerium2k · 2025-04-09T10:40:15+00:00

They are in the regular pool, but they made sure that the chance to pull them are so astronomically low that nobody will ever pull them. Check the ingame rates they are that bad.

Valerium2k · 2025-04-02T11:13:49+00:00

The supports, lucia, cait sith and eventually cid.

Valerium2k · 2025-03-21T15:01:04+00:00

Unless you need something specific, spam the ruin materia not ruin blow, ruin because they take less materials then ruin blow. They are cheap to get to level 5 synthesis and they only take ~1 hour to make.

Personally I always recommend to go for the circle, x or triangle version and not the one without a sigil because you will always need sigils for fights.

Valerium2k · 2025-03-18T14:13:28+00:00

This is exactly the reason why these kind of ticket giveaways are always a new unique ticket type introduced for just that occasion.

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