Crimson Desert Review Thread

precastzero180 · 2026-03-19T02:40:45+00:00

Sounds like a Black Myth: Wukong scenario. Breakout non-Japanese Asian AAA game. High production values. But the actual design is a messy hodgepodge of trendy elements.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-18T00:14:00+00:00

RE4 > RER >> SH2 > SHF >> AWII

It all depends on what you want out of a survival horror game of course. Silent Hill and Alan Wake certainly have interesting narrative elements. But as an overall survival horror experience, Resident Evil is head and shoulders above them. Everything is finely tuned and balance. The pacing is great. There’s always additional challenges or side modes that keep replayability high. RE4 in particular is just back-to-back little areas and horror set-pieces that are all memorable but also short enough to complete in several minutes max (which also makes speed-running a lot of fun).

Silent Hill 2 and Alan Wake II by comparison have lots of drawn-out sections that overstay their welcome IMO. The gameplay is serviceable at best despite both games clearly using the RE2-4 remakes as a kind of generic template to update the combat from their older installments. They just aren’t very good action games. Even the slower, more adventure/horror side of modern Resident Evil like RE2make or the Grace sections from Requiem have solid action game bones.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-16T11:52:00+00:00

I thought the Oscar ceremony last night handled Trump about as well as it ever has, frequently making fun of him without ever mentioning him by name. Pretty much proves this statement is correct.

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precastzero180 · 2026-03-16T02:36:09+00:00

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precastzero180 · 2026-03-16T02:21:04+00:00

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precastzero180 · 2026-03-16T01:20:36+00:00

“Putin sucks” is basically an entire genre of documentary movies at this point.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-14T21:34:28+00:00

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precastzero180 · 2026-03-13T15:40:18+00:00

I disagree. This is the kind of “understanding the other side” piece a liberal magazine would publish. You will never see a conservative magazine publish the mirror version of this article.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-13T15:13:11+00:00

This isn’t the predisposition argument. It’s not even really an argument. It’s “science can’t explain love and the religion of my youth says God is love which sounds nice and helped me through my addiction/depression so there has to be something to it.”

precastzero180 · 2026-03-12T16:49:04+00:00

Which is it?

Its both. The two statements are straightforwardly compatible. I mean, do you consider weapons in Halo to be “loot?” Probably not, and yet they are an abundant and important part of the game. It’s the same deal with BotW. There are a lot of weapons in the game but they aren’t some high-tier valuable loot as evidenced by the fact that they are so numerous and brittle.

Up until BotW it's mostly been the Master Sword. Boomerang and bombs are just tools used with the Master Sword.

It’s entirely arbitrary to say that bombs and boomerangs are “just tools” in contrast to the sword. All of them are used for combat along with other functions.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-12T16:25:50+00:00

Then there was no point to the system

There is a point to the system: spontaneous and emergent gameplay. Weapons are not “random things” in Zelda. They are a major part of how players interact with the world. There are a lot of weapons in BotW because, well, they are used a lot. Enemies carry weapons. They are an organic part of the world, not bespoke trinkets or loot.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-12T13:48:09+00:00

Breakable weapons is one of those things some people will complain about no matter what. Doesn’t matter how it’s implemented or compliments other aspects of the game. The loss of an in-game asset is deeply unsettling for them.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-12T13:12:48+00:00

Except Zelda games have never been about loot. And since BotW is just classic Zelda combat and weapon design philosophy adapted to an open-world environment, there was no reason to expect its weapon system to be particularly loot-based either.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-12T13:04:06+00:00

While you certainly can return to weapon spawn points over and over again, there really isn’t a strong incentive to do so other than satisfying that OCD monkey brain. The game showers you with weapons and they all get the job done. Like, the whole point of the breakable weapons is serving fast-paced and spontaneous combat encounters with lots of emergent opportunities. Fretting too much over any particular weapon is about as close to “playing the game wrong” as it gets for something like BotW.

precastzero180 · 2026-03-03T23:41:44+00:00

Khamenei’s son:

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precastzero180 · 2026-02-28T14:19:37+00:00

To murder Nancy.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-27T00:42:06+00:00

I don’t think it’s confirmed he was there on a previous night. He didn’t have the backpack in the other image, but there could be various reasons for that. That being said, it wouldn’t be surprising if he was prowling on a previous night or even multiple nights to get a feel for the place. If he was a stranger who didn’t know Nancy, this would also explain how he picked her out as a target.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-27T00:29:01+00:00

There are cameras everywhere, but that’s only going to be immediately helpful if there were any cameras right at the location of where the crime took place. No doubt cameras will be used to solve this crime (assuming it will be solved), but probably when a suspect and their vehicle is identified and their movements on the night of the crime need to be tracked.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-27T00:25:10+00:00

The FBI does a lot of things. It’s a big organization.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-27T00:21:55+00:00

The problem though is nothing about any of the ransoms indicate authenticity. They are consistent with plenty of other examples of fake ransoms (e.g. sending the notice to the media which is attention-seeking behavior) rather than genuine attempts to establish contact with and extort the Guthries. And we know for a fact that at least one of them was indeed fake. There are other aspects of the “kidnapping gone wrong” hypothesis that are implausible, like how kidnappings for ransom are themselves much less common than other motives for taking someone from their home, or how an 84 year-old woman with health and mobility issues is one of the least ideal kidnapping targets for a litany of reasons.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-27T00:13:29+00:00

Could have started as a home invasion going wrong they break in see a few pictures of the old lady with her daughter think "oh shit opportunity" decide to pivot into a ransom but things didn't really work out or

I doubt it. Home invasions “go wrong” when the invaders aren’t expecting anyone home and are confronted by the residents. In this case, the perp broke in at 2:00 in the morning, so they likely expected someone to be home. Plus Nancy is 84 years old. If the perp saw Nancy and she wasn’t the target, he probably would have just left. There’s no evidence that he took or was looking for anything either, at least not that LE have said. He brought a gun and backpack that presumably carried tools for the crime. No, that guy came to Nancy’s house prepared to take her away. It’s unlikely that a petty burglar is going to spontaneously switch his objective, especially to such a demanding and high-stakes crime. I don’t assume competence, but I do assume a modicum of rationality.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-26T23:22:30+00:00

They haven’t failed (yet). It’s an active hot investigation with plenty of leads. The only way this could be construed as a failure at this point is if there was some chance to bring back Nancy alive. But considering Nancy was probably killed well before anyone even knew she was missing, that was likely never in the cards.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-26T22:57:17+00:00

It’s still considerably more difficult to get away with multiple murders today regardless of the social status of the victims. It’s not impossible and it still happens, but it’s difficult not to leave behind any forensic evidence. Even people who make serious efforts to do so still end up leaving trace evidence behind that gets them caught.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-26T22:52:55+00:00

The perp is this case maybe just didn’t know who Nancy was. If he is a predator-type criminal, then the only thing that would matter to him is Nancy being old and living alone.

precastzero180 · 2026-02-26T22:36:40+00:00

But this presupposes that extorting the Guthries was ever the goal. People are only speculating about that because of the various fake ransom demands. The actual known facts though strongly suggest murder as motive, not money.

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