Crimson Desert

Zindan

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Call me a cynic, but if this game is even remotely the "RPG" experience some people are hoping I'll be shocked. I suspect this will be a massive open world combat sim with very light world building/story stuff. My expectation is the "story" just exists to push you around the world so you can continue to engage with the combat. Watching youtube, there seems to be this sentiment after the last official video that you'll be able to base build, do a ton of meaningful side activities, etc - aka this is fantasy RDR2, or akin to the witcher 3 or something, when to me this looks much more like a Nioh 3. A pure action combat game. Guess we'll see, I'm interested either way.
Mostly agree. I think it will just be a bigger BDO with a focus on combat, a more coherent Story and with all its various lifeskill (aside from Sailing). I hope the exploration side of CD will be worthwhile, I want to be running around and find some hidden away "dungeon like" area, kinda like the cave dungeons in Elden Ring. If it manages to scratch my itch for Character Progression and Exploration, I'll be happy.
 

Uriel

Vyemm Raider
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3,306
Call me a cynic, but if this game is even remotely the "RPG" experience some people are hoping I'll be shocked. I suspect this will be a massive open world combat sim with very light world building/story stuff. My expectation is the "story" just exists to push you around the world so you can continue to engage with the combat. Watching youtube, there seems to be this sentiment after the last official video that you'll be able to base build, do a ton of meaningful side activities, etc - aka this is fantasy RDR2, or akin to the witcher 3 or something, when to me this looks much more like a Nioh 3. A pure action combat game. Guess we'll see, I'm interested either way.

I'd prefer that honestly, I don't care about story in these games really (RDR1 probably did story the best for these types of games, so I appreciate it if they do it well). I want a huge immersive world with tons of stuff to do like Skyrim, New Vegas, Elden Ring, RDR, Terraria, Stardew Valley, etc.
 
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