COMPU73E ❄️Mar 23

caved, and bought Crimson Desert on PS5, downloading now. 85GB! I played Black Desert Online for three years and I like Pearl Abyss as a developer and this looks pretty much like a single player version of that game

I never played a game with as big a world as BDO, it was phenomenal. no fast travel* and it took an hour to sail across the ocean, and you could literally get lost in the desert

*well technically there is fast travel but you needed one of the rarest items in the game to do it. that may have changed now but when I last played the Archaeologist's Map was really hard to get, literally days of grinding for the 0.000000001% chance to get the pieces to drop. I'll never forget the feeling when I finally made it and people saw the server announcement

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 24

"well met, stranger. I'm sweatier than a pig's arse!"

...is what one of the first random NPCs I talked to in Crimson Desert said to me earlier 😄

game is great. movement is very slow and weighty, and the combat has a great feel to it. my experience playing Black Desert means I feel right at home already with some of the systems, and I can see myself getting lost in this game for hours

looks and runs great on my base PS5 at 1080p in Balanced mode

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 24

Crimson Desert combat is a mash up of a few classes from Black Desert, mainly warrior. even some of the skill names are the same! like Spinning Slash. it's all about learning the button combos to pull off the moves, can see the better players doing some crazy shit. the combat will have a very high skill ceiling I think

the tutorials are utterly awful though, I've had to Google about 20 things already (including "how to put my weapon away")

spotted a couple of characters from BDO already, too! Alustin (who was an Alchemist in BDO and is some sort of Abyss Priest here) and the little Shai Rulupee. so cool

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 25

raging at the boss at the end of the Quarry and his "disappears underground then pops up to one-shot you" bullshit attack 😤

I got him, but as the first boss most players will likely face they could've toned it down a bit. took me about 20 attempts

Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 25

I knew nothing about the story in Crimson Desert before buying it, and I am now starting to suspect that this game might just be a prequel to Black Desert. We have Alustin (who I was always suspicious that there was more going on than we knew about in BDO), Rulupee, and now Shakatu, all turning up

if we end up in a little port town called Velia at some point I will squeee

I really really hope the black spirit turns up at some point, I love that little guy 🤔 I have the beginnings of a theory but it's just a wild stab in the dark

Show threadJudeau (EatTheRich)
@COMPU73E Are you referring to the MMO, Black Desert Online? That would definitely be interesting if this were a prequel. Is Crimson Desert made by the same developer?
Mar 25 at 9:07pmWeb
Show threadCOMPU73E ❄️Mar 25
@Judeau yes, and yes! both games made by Pearl Abyss. I played BDO for over 3 years and over 10k hours (I used to leave my PC on 24/7 for all the afk stuff that game had, lol)
Show threadJudeau (EatTheRich)Mar 25
@COMPU73E Dang! That's a few hours you put in! Haha! That's really cool though. I didn't realize that it was the same developers. It makes sense that they could potentially build out the world that they already created for Black Desert.