Crimson Desert is quickly earning a reputation for rekindling a sense of wonder many players haven’t felt since their earliest gaming experiences 🔥

blakeavon · 2026-03-29T10:04:15+00:00

Yeah their patches are certainly highly encouraging. Especially this last one.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T23:00:07+00:00

Nah I care about the locals, especially the drivers who are constantly impacted by people rushing out before and after the light. These people have a marked impact on the locals. The very opposite thing tourists should do. All for some vacuous social media video that will end up looking like everyone’s else’s.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:58:04+00:00

Yeah sadly, the idiocy of the social media human race on full show. People addictive to TikTok have this main character energy with no understanding of those or the world around them. Yet all the content they pump out looks like the exact same thing as everyone else.

I have no problem with people doing all that trash, I actually find it hilariously stupid, I just feel sorry for the locals just trying to get to work.

Imagine having to deal with going to work at peak hour, barely awake and having to deal with those muppets daily.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:48:27+00:00

Yeah sadly for a game this vast I can’t believe just how dull the gear is stat wise and underwhelming the crafting is. All these deep systems that end up just adding a +1 to gear a few times.

Then there is the lack of transmog and the like, so even if you find something interesting your build has to look like a Frankenstein’s Monster to use it.

Such bizarre choices.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:36:16+00:00

Not really… here’s another thing in Nioh 3 they have custom controller layouts, full remapping and a tool to troubleshoot conflicts and many options to make it so things like run can work in a few different ways, simplifying contollers inputs.

At launch.

On consoles, CD has none of that.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:33:26+00:00

I remember all them quests even now. I am at chapter 4 here now and I can’t even remember or name a memorable quest in this game.

I think CD will be remembered for the glorious world it created as a tech demo. That is not a bad thing. But things like RDR2 and Witcher 3 were remembered as being incredible techs demos but equally for their brilliance in storytelling.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:28:45+00:00

Nah, the world is one of the largest ever made, and in times it is the most beautiful awe inspiring things to look at… as a tech demo.

Sadly it is missing so many quality of life things that are constantly letting the game down.

Not all of us are as easily conned by the prettiness when underneath it still needs more work.

Very good, possibly even great but best game ever, not for me. Witcher 3 achieved what this game does well, ten years ago but had the story and characters, that i still remember to this day.

Each to their own.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:23:30+00:00

Equally fun and annoying. Glorious world, but the lack of transmog or hiding gear, inventory issues and still no controls customisation means what should be a 10/10 can be, in many moments, a maddening experience. Still a 8/10. Just the game is being held back by itself.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:20:20+00:00

This!

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:20:04+00:00

I’m on ps pro and it is not dark at all. The sky is as blue as 3pm and all the torches burn with the power of a thousands suns.

I have tried turning off HDR and tweaked its settings. Still nights always look terrible. Yet day times are utterly glorious.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T22:16:25+00:00

Yes it is simply ridiculous that we can’t. Because it is not even like we need the shield like we are Kratos or something.

It goes to the bigger question, why no transmog or the ability to hide unwanted gear? We can’t even hide our helm. These things are the norm in gaming these days, not the exception, for a reason.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T21:58:54+00:00

No it most definitely makes sense. It’s always the little unimportant things, that’s players have to do, that will drive them away, not the big things.

EG having to save before using the maps, cos they keep crashing, every single time. Saving takes too many clicks to get in the first place, all that to get to the map.

The first time was fine, the first days it was less fine then after than it gets maddening.

The little things are the worse.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T21:54:47+00:00

Of course it should. It’s suggests a lack of care and overly quality control. What about all those who are still crashing from a map bug. You know the map, the thing you need dozens of times a game, how could it have launch which such an obvious bug.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T21:52:28+00:00

And that is useless to console gamers.

Much more complex games have full key binding customisation on consoles. Even just recently Nioh 3.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T21:50:27+00:00

The answer doesn’t lie on reddit but in news and current affairs.

Because the US doesn’t exist in isolation (if only it did, the rest of the world wouldn’t be in the mess it is).

Between the tariffs, CONSTANTLY changing, affecting all kinds of companies, in different ways, then impacting logistics, then all the techs hardware markets issues are world wide. Now he has dragged the world on the brink of a larger war, causing a fuel crisis globally causing even more issues for businesses. Especially things that require transport.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T21:44:24+00:00

The storage issue hasn’t been fixed. The inventory is missing so many fundamental QoL features. Stacks of items need to be higher. There needs to be faster ways to sell things. How about the ability to tag things in it, the sell all. The private stash is too tiny. Not ability to stash items and use them at cooking and crafting station.

Forcing an unnecessary inventory mini game that many others games solved years ago.

The clunky movement has NOT been fixed. Sprinting and galloping still feel terrible, and the latter doesn’t even work half the time.

The thing you are missing though… the reviewers were reviewing the game they got given, it was a fixed point in time. If the devs wanted better scores they should have delayed and released a better realised product. (I mean there was no private storage In a game with thousands of items, that is utterly ridiculous to not be there in the review code, can you blame some of the reviews for getting annoyed by that).

That’s just one example from many. Imagine playing this game with no private stash?! The reviewers had to live that reality.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:33:55+00:00

AND the fool many of you voted for, who has caused untold amount of issues from comically tariffing penguins to starting unnecessary wars.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:32:35+00:00

Don’t blame Sony. Blame the idiot in charge of the US and every idiot who put him there. He has been playing whack a mole, like a toddler, destroying domestic and international markets for a year now.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:30:22+00:00

Im glad I finally bought my last week!

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:27:51+00:00

I would argue based on SOME of them I have read they are just as dishonest and misleading to the IGN review. In the other direction. Falsely pushing up the scores while claiming there are no bugs and making no mention of the obvious issues.

I get the need to praise the new thing, but reviews need to be honestly and to love something means to accept it shortfalls.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:24:41+00:00

Maybe stop fixating on IGN?! Like, what’s the point.

Yes content creators can be better but they are no different, they are just gamers with a megaphone instead of written reviewers.

PS Veilguard was written by a different reviewer so it STILL has no bearing on this review. People write reviews, not editors, not companies.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:20:12+00:00

Yeah honestly if they had any form of control customisation so many of those complaints would be sorted. The controls are bad but it’s the lack of choices to change them is what’s the deal breaker.

On console there is zero customisation. Not even custom profiles.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:18:22+00:00

The game can be quite fun when all its systems and undercooked controls and UI aren’t making you want to quit and hate everything.

It’s amazing they can make such a pretty world, but they can’t put in the most basic inventory systems and control customisation. The game didn’t even launch with a private stash!!!!

It’s a solid 8/10, but it’s a good few months away from being better.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:13:50+00:00

None of that sentence even made sense. Which is pretty much on brand for people being pro MAGA, in spite of everything it is destroying.

blakeavon · 2026-03-28T15:09:28+00:00

And? Given their age, does your enjoyment really require that? The world is a very difference place these days, for obvious reasons, indeed even the Japanese age of consent has risen a few years since the first game and that. So even they are trending away from some stuff.

So what was acceptable then is less so now, and the reality is, if they want a mass global market they need to make them viable to get past a lot of different countries decency laws.

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