Using it like that for in-game paintings kind of sucks, wasted worldbuilding opportunity. If a game has details that imply you should spend time looking at them, they should have content that has to do with the game and isn’t arbitrary filler.
Plus most classical paintings are public domain. If you want to be lazy but still have good art just put some of those in
“think” they found
This is worded to be pro-publisher and makes the player base seem stupid and is very accusatory towards them.
Have you fucking seen these images? There’s one with a two assed horse.
Agreed. Especially since they’ve admitted to it now.
Here’s an article I found that has a copy of their statement (rather than linking to their Twitter, where they originally released the statement):
“Crimson Desert Dev Apologizes For Not Disclosing AI Generated Art As It Works To Remove It”
Two Assed Horse. New band name!
Two-assed is better than half-assed
Makes sense to me. From what I’ve seen I fully believe the UX and control scheme was vibe coded by an intern who has never touched a video game before.
To be fair to them, the BDO control scheme is just as alien as the CD one. Them not learning in the successor is not the same as vive coding it, and vibe coding wasn’t a thing when BDO released.
In any case, I agree, no idea how that scheme passed any kind of preliminary check. What’s worse is that what we got is apparently a revised version after reviewer feedback, so it was worse even.
I’m itching to buy the game once they patch some UI improvements, I refuse right now out of principle.
If the insider reports from those anonymous dev forums are correct then that would explain a lot.
I highly doubt that’s the case, we knew that this was supposed to be a prequel to BDO, then it’s own story but coop, then offline. That’s what’s been publicly known for years. That this was because of internal restructuring, sure, there’s no way it got so delayed otherwise, but the reports say things like the story being defined like a week before launch. That’s not how voice acting and development works.
Those 4chan-esque insider reports about how the story was supposed to be are weird, given that in BDO there’s a desert in the title too, yet the desert zone and the reason for the name was dropped years after the original launch, so as horrible as a strategy for a game story it is, it’s not unheard of from Pearl Abyss to release a game with a cool name and then in a future expansion to actually release lore.
I knew this game was gonna be basically Black Desert Offline: zero story, good exploration, good combat, bs controls, tons of busywork content. What’s sad is that the amount of hype this got has attracted a lot of people that come to the game without knowing what it was about.
I didn’t see anything about the story being finalised “a week before launch”, only that it was re-done and finished late. And I have yet to see a better explanation for the random sky island bullshit other than BotW did it and they wanted in on the action.
I thought the point of teamblind was that only verified industry professionals could post there? But if it’s a LARP forum like 4chan then that’s different. I’m not super familiar with it.
Do we need insider info to realise that the islands are heavily inspired from TotK (not BotW). Like, no shit bro. I know math.
I have no idea about teamblind, but I take any forum where you can be traced back to your person and put your personal career at stake with a grain of salt. And if it’s anonymous, my confidence plunges hard. Idk, I’ll look it up since I didn’t know that the source was seemingly to be trusted, thanks for the info.
I haven’t gone deep into the rabbit hole myself, I watched a video about Crimson Desert today which reported on it, and in the video the original comment was cited as being from blind, and teamblind’s whole schtick is supposedly that’s it’s verified professionals only. But it could still be a larper and whatnot I suppose.
