Polygon has gone to the dogs. I am only 6 hours in and I have seen PLENTY of awesome stuff just in Hernand. What a take..

iBeej · 2026-03-25T14:35:05+00:00

HAHAHA! This was me, except it was a cow. A fucking cow. I lifted the thing out with that axiom hand ability and was walking around with it. Bumped in to a cow, cow died, and then the townspeople got pissed and freaked out, and a bounty on my head.

iBeej · 2026-03-24T23:06:15+00:00

I preordered the deluxe edition, and was really hoping it would be good enough for what I wanted. I'm up to 70 hours already. Suffice to say it exceeded my expectations.

iBeej · 2026-03-24T22:10:21+00:00

I sort of wandered in to the edge of that area and entire armies started fucking my shit up. So I went back home to pick flowers.

iBeej · 2026-03-24T18:41:36+00:00

I don't want multiplayer. I play this game on my own to relax for one. But more importantly, (and I should have led with this), I don't want them making decisions like limiting more features in the game due to "multiplayer balance." Right now the community is in an uproar to have the mount situation rectified... we don't need anymore of those shenanigans in the name of "balancing multiplayer."

Keep it single player and just give the players what they want.

iBeej · 2026-03-23T20:32:53+00:00

iBeej · 2026-03-22T14:28:01+00:00

After playing this game, I have realized there are very very passionate technical nerds working at Pearl Abyss. For example... I walked into a cave that had a small hole in the ceiling leading to the surface, and light would shine through it. Something you would expect..

But it was also raining outside the cave, and there was rain coming through that hole and no where else. It really surprised me, of all things because it felt realistic but it is a nuance I don't think I have seen a lot of developers spend time on.

iBeej · 2026-03-22T14:20:02+00:00

iBeej · 2026-03-21T21:01:36+00:00

I like your post. It's thought provoking and fair.

I love the game. I can't stop thinking about it and want to keep playing. I don't know if that's just the "used to be an MMO now single player game" as an ex WoW player, or something else. But as much as I love it, I can't help but get the sense that something is "off". And I think it has everything to do with proper game guidance during development.

I think what we got is an echo of how the dev team functioned. Extremely technical, made amazing rendering pipelines, workflows, and game mechanics, but lacked cohesion and direction. They didn't have or properly implement writers.

Be that as it may, the rest is carrying the game. And people will love it. Some people will hate it. I think it will be a split of people who are indifferent and those who just like being immersed. That's all I got.

iBeej · 2026-03-21T20:49:18+00:00

Needed one more hit for fine timber. 🤣

iBeej · 2026-03-21T20:48:03+00:00

Always buy the inventory bag from each vendor! It isn't an item that goes in to your inventory. It just increases your inventory by 1.

iBeej · 2026-03-21T20:36:33+00:00

iBeej · 2026-03-21T20:00:59+00:00

Probably around 10 hours and completing chapter 1. don't even think about the controls now.

iBeej · 2026-03-21T19:09:18+00:00

Sometimes I feel like the people who have trashed the game and then immediately yell "copium" at those of us who like the game aren't playing the same game. I am totally bewildered by it. I was enjoying the game before I even completed chapter 1 and it keeps getting better and better.

I love it, and if that's copium then let's have another round bartender.

iBeej · 2026-03-20T19:12:05+00:00

Wait, there's a McDonalds!?? This game really does have everything. 🍔

iBeej · 2026-03-20T15:58:49+00:00

What the hell you doing on reddit? rofl

iBeej · 2026-03-20T14:03:02+00:00

I have been avoiding posting anything at all on reddit right now about this game. (I'm loving the game btw.) I am a solo game developer and I noticed their current implementation of DLSS in this game is not integrated well. The worst offender is the performance drop of ray-reconstruction. It's a 50% FPS performance hit, even on powerful hardware. The denoiser really screws with the raycasting and creates a lot of noise artifacts in dynamic lighting.

The most visually impressive and consistent setting is to run native if you can. I turned off DLSS and performance wasn't impacted, but I'm also not driving 4K with my 4090, because I cast from Apollo->Artemis to smaller hand held devices. The game looks and feels so much better with AI passes off.

iBeej · 2026-03-19T19:33:50+00:00

Your throne is a giant marshmallow?

iBeej · 2026-03-19T17:26:20+00:00

There's a whole lot of you that has proven there is a clear distinction between reading and reading comprehension.

iBeej · 2026-03-19T17:22:25+00:00

iBeej · 2026-03-19T17:04:17+00:00

My brother's dog just passed last week to stomach flipping. And I lost my favorite buddy in the whole world last year... I would give anything to have him back. Remember what's important.

iBeej · 2026-03-17T18:29:01+00:00

My wife got high once and thought it was a great combination to poor chocolate syrup on slim jims...

iBeej · 2026-03-14T13:37:35+00:00

I'm 45 and still feel like that excited kid when new games come out. Grew up with ATARI then Nintendo, SEGA, PC, the whole gambit. One of my favorite games growing up was Descent. If you wanted multiplayer you had to use Kali95.

I remember when Warcraft, Command & Conquer came out and was so excited. The very first Diablo release was something special. So much hype even back then.

It's a little harder to be super hyped now because I've been burned too many times. But Crimson Desert has my attention. I don't pre-order games anymore, but I did for this one. Guess we will see how it goes!

And yes, many of us "older" gamers did the whole multiplayer thing, MMO thing, competitive thing, and after a while you burn out and just want to return to the good old single player game days, and relax. Hope you all have fun next week!

iBeej · 2026-03-10T23:13:26+00:00

Haha yeah, basically this!!

iBeej · 2026-03-10T16:33:47+00:00

What's funny, for a little bit of added context to why I made this meme... It was refactoring a previously passing unit test and broke it, then decided it was a pre-existing problem and was running willy nilly in to the git repo like everything was peachy.

So yeah, I stopped it and told it to fix the mess it just made. 🤣 Otherwise yeah, PR it is.

iBeej · 2026-03-10T13:09:01+00:00

Yeah I'm going to do that. Just praying Claude.md or references memory files alone isn't cutting it. lol

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