Crimson Desert just launched yesterday to a bit of a chaotic and mixed reception from critics. That hasn't hampered its sales, but those two million players are starting to stumble into some concerning issues in their first day in Pywel, including the presence of what may be AI-generated art assets.
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.
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.