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[havoc00]

Wow that looks rough

 

[Bartski]

If the open world doesnt suck its gonna be amazing.

I love how they don't shy away of speaking abiut "weird controls" and how some people got totally lost playing thrown into the deep end. Its one of those games that really is pretty much impossible to demo properly. The demo I played (summer 2024 build) felt crazy complicated despite them showing like a 20 min video controls tutorial covering most of abilities. Its systems are very deep and I really believe if tutorialized well building muscle memory its gonna feel fantastic to play eventually.

Day one.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

This game looks impressive to people who have never played Black Desert online. But as someone that has, it still has that soulless feel to it despise having great graphics and flashy moves. It's basically Black Desert but single player while still keeping the similar move sets and the other cons from it.

 

[Boneless]

Looks good, but fps seems low in the video.

 

[KyoZz]

I've never seen a video or trailer of this game where I could look at it and say "this looks solid". I don't know what AA they're using, but everything at every level of distance and detail always looks way too jaggy.

I agree but I also think this trailer is ok:



That's the only one tho. At least on PC we'll probably be able to get a clean picture thanks to DLAA and mods like Reshade (if needed). I'm pretty hyped honestly =D

Edit: the engine has some nice features too, bus as always the quality is shitty

 

[Abysse]

Hope people can play this on their 2026 3060s

Don't worry, future owners of the 3060 will be able to play.

 

[VeganElduderino]

everything looks great in this game! I remember watching the first gameplay trailer for Witcher 3 and got excited and when I 1st played it it looked not nearly as good and I dint like the slow fighting, anyways hopefully this delivers! I'm not a fan of open world games but Ill give this a try

 

[GymWolf]

Another interview




I'm only like 40 min in and it's pretty much as useless as the previous ones, dude has that politician ability to go on a tangent and never actually respond any question in a clear way

 

[DavidGzz]

Another interview




I'm only like 40 min in and it's pretty much as useless as the previous ones, dude has that politician ability to go on a tangent and never actually respond any question in a clear way

So in this interview he advises that the State of Play trailer was captured on PS5 Pro, and it seems everything else has been on PC. (37:41)

 

[GymWolf]

So in this interview he advises that the State of Play trailer was captured on PS5 Pro, and it seems everything else has been on PC. (37:41)

Yep, for now the game has been showed only on pro and pc.

 

[Paasei]

I'm pissing myself off with this title. I constantly confuse it with that MMO Black Desert online and think this is that (or at least also online only). Making me not interested.
And then I look up or see it again and I'm like: Damn, this looks good!

 

[GymWolf]

Lol poor horse

 

[GymWolf]

This is from reddit so grain of salt and everything, but if true...

Spoiler

Ok, I just want to share this because it's been living in my head since Saturday.

I was in Amsterdam this weekend with a group of friends. A couple of them work at Guerrilla, so it was already a pretty game dev heavy table. At some point another friend joins us, and someone casually mentions that this person works at Pearl Abyss here in Amsterdam.

Obviously I had questions.

After a few drinks, I told this person how genuinely excited I am for Crimson Desert. Not in a weird fan way. Just that the trailers look kind of insane. The combat, the scale, the world. It feels ambitious in a way we do not see very often.

This person said there is not much that can be shared because the focus at work is language localization. Fair enough.

But then this person added something that completely caught me off guard.

What we have seen in the three trailers is maybe around forty to sixty percent of what the game actually has. The exact number was not super clear, so I might be misremembering that part.

I laughed because it sounded like classic hype talk.

This person did not laugh back.

Then came the question. Do you remember the Depths map from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?

Of course I do.

This person just smiled and said that Crimson Desert has something very similar.

At that point, I was just staring. Then this person added that once you advance the story a bit, something happens in Delesyia (the science district) that allows you to explore under.

Like very deep and full of secrets.

That was the exact wording.

After that, just a smile. No extra explanation. No big reveal. Just that little tease. We continue drinking, and our other friends join us. I didn't want to be an asshole, so I didn't push back. Night finished with the four of us near the red district, haha.

Now I am back in Germany, wondering if it was just the drinks. Maybe I was being played a little. But the way it was said did not feel like a joke. If Crimson Desert actually has a whole second layer to the map tied to story progression, this game might be way bigger than people expect.

I am using "this person" for privacy reasons. Please take this with a grain of salt. This is not a trust me bro post. It is simply something that happened to me, and maybe I just got lucky. I do not expect everyone to believe it, but I wanted to share it. Also, nothing was said about NDAs or secrets. Just a casual conversation.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

This is from reddit so grain of salt and everything, but if true...

Spoiler

Ok, I just want to share this because it's been living in my head since Saturday.

I was in Amsterdam this weekend with a group of friends. A couple of them work at Guerrilla, so it was already a pretty game dev heavy table. At some point another friend joins us, and someone casually mentions that this person works at Pearl Abyss here in Amsterdam.

Obviously I had questions.

After a few drinks, I told this person how genuinely excited I am for Crimson Desert. Not in a weird fan way. Just that the trailers look kind of insane. The combat, the scale, the world. It feels ambitious in a way we do not see very often.

This person said there is not much that can be shared because the focus at work is language localization. Fair enough.

But then this person added something that completely caught me off guard.

What we have seen in the three trailers is maybe around forty to sixty percent of what the game actually has. The exact number was not super clear, so I might be misremembering that part.

I laughed because it sounded like classic hype talk.

This person did not laugh back.

Then came the question. Do you remember the Depths map from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?

Of course I do.

This person just smiled and said that Crimson Desert has something very similar.

At that point, I was just staring. Then this person added that once you advance the story a bit, something happens in Delesyia (the science district) that allows you to explore under.

Like very deep and full of secrets.

That was the exact wording.

After that, just a smile. No extra explanation. No big reveal. Just that little tease. We continue drinking, and our other friends join us. I didn't want to be an asshole, so I didn't push back. Night finished with the four of us near the red district, haha.

Now I am back in Germany, wondering if it was just the drinks. Maybe I was being played a little. But the way it was said did not feel like a joke. If Crimson Desert actually has a whole second layer to the map tied to story progression, this game might be way bigger than people expect.

I am using "this person" for privacy reasons. Please take this with a grain of salt. This is not a trust me bro post. It is simply something that happened to me, and maybe I just got lucky. I do not expect everyone to believe it, but I wanted to share it. Also, nothing was said about NDAs or secrets. Just a casual conversation.

I was kind of expecting something like this, didn't they show off like some sky diving stuff before as well? I swear there's a video with the main character diving into a giant hole or portal.

 

[saintjules]

This is from reddit so grain of salt and everything, but if true...

Spoiler

Ok, I just want to share this because it's been living in my head since Saturday.

I was in Amsterdam this weekend with a group of friends. A couple of them work at Guerrilla, so it was already a pretty game dev heavy table. At some point another friend joins us, and someone casually mentions that this person works at Pearl Abyss here in Amsterdam.

Obviously I had questions.

After a few drinks, I told this person how genuinely excited I am for Crimson Desert. Not in a weird fan way. Just that the trailers look kind of insane. The combat, the scale, the world. It feels ambitious in a way we do not see very often.

This person said there is not much that can be shared because the focus at work is language localization. Fair enough.

But then this person added something that completely caught me off guard.

What we have seen in the three trailers is maybe around forty to sixty percent of what the game actually has. The exact number was not super clear, so I might be misremembering that part.

I laughed because it sounded like classic hype talk.

This person did not laugh back.

Then came the question. Do you remember the Depths map from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom?

Of course I do.

This person just smiled and said that Crimson Desert has something very similar.

At that point, I was just staring. Then this person added that once you advance the story a bit, something happens in Delesyia (the science district) that allows you to explore under.

Like very deep and full of secrets.

That was the exact wording.

After that, just a smile. No extra explanation. No big reveal. Just that little tease. We continue drinking, and our other friends join us. I didn't want to be an asshole, so I didn't push back. Night finished with the four of us near the red district, haha.

Now I am back in Germany, wondering if it was just the drinks. Maybe I was being played a little. But the way it was said did not feel like a joke. If Crimson Desert actually has a whole second layer to the map tied to story progression, this game might be way bigger than people expect.

I am using "this person" for privacy reasons. Please take this with a grain of salt. This is not a trust me bro post. It is simply something that happened to me, and maybe I just got lucky. I do not expect everyone to believe it, but I wanted to share it. Also, nothing was said about NDAs or secrets. Just a casual conversation.

Interesting if true.

Reddit Post

 

[GymWolf]

I was kind of expecting something like this, didn't they show off like some sky diving stuff before as well? I swear there's a video with the main character diving into a giant hole or portal.

I thought about that but it seems like they are talking about something "under"...

Also, the sky stuff are not a secret at all.