Crimson Desert can't be fixed..

Co Carnage first impressions review of the game Okay, these are his early thoughts of Crimson Desert. Let's take a look at it. Here we go It's an apology video at this point true

Hi everybody Co Carnage here with a very early and quick thoughts on Crimson Desert. Oh. Crimson Desert is a bit of a mixed bag.

Yeah.

And it's combined with a lot of expectations that I think have led to a very interesting situation in terms of reviews, gamers, and all that kind of thing. What we have is a game that is causing all sorts of a stir around the internet. There are people that absolutely love this game.

And you remember whenever the game was getting, well, like, was about to come out, everybody was saying this is either going to be the best game ever or the worst game ever. Like, the expectations for Crimson Desert were like crazy, crazy, crazy high.

Hundreds of hours into it, including some YouTubers.

Yeah.

There are others that have played this game for one to three hours yeah, and Stated to their very large audiences that this game is is garbage. It's it doesn't have a hook Oh, there's no lack of there's no main story. Oh, it's it's severely uninteresting

And uninteresting. And the thing is, is that they're both right. Technically. Uh oh.

They're both right. And that's because this game, like I said, is a very mixed bag. Now, let me start at the beginning.

It's a mixed bag. And inside of the bag, you've got and inside of the bag you've got a dead raccoon you've got a piece of dog shit and you've got a dildo. Yeah it's a mixed bag. I don't know what that's really supposed to mean but that's it. A lot of

folks think that Crimson Desert is like a Witcher 3 or it's an RPG? It's a game that they're expecting to have a hook early, that they're expecting to have a bunch of streamlined systems, levels, stats, experience. They're wanting the big story in the big RPG because

frankly, on the surface, that's kind of what this game looks like in some ways. Well, they just want continuity

they want continuity where it's like

There's like a point to the story

Okay, so Dwayne got drunk. You've got to go get Dwayne Okay Martha wants to shoot arrows okay uh Billy lost his goat okay uh there's a uh there's a evil demon that's inside of the on the top of a mountain there's a fucking uh there's a demon in there and you got to stop the demon from from doing some shit and

then you have to like reflect the sun on the demon and get rid of it. Okay. All right so now there's a so this there's this this dude rolled off his fucking chimney and You've got to go and mow his lawn All right. Good. Now. There's a werewolf in the in the in the Cathedral. You've got to cure the werewolf. Oh It's a stat check too, by the way.

Yeah, the attack that didn't hit you visually. Yeah, it still hit you. You're dead now.

Fuck you. And when they played this game, the beginning of the game, the bit that I've played, very tutorial-y, lots of systems to learn. Yeah. Not really much of a story. There is some story and lore stuff going on But it's not like a traditional like no, here's the hook kind of thing

It's more of a to keep you going to the world. I don't know what the story is. I know that Cliff was killed by this guy named Meriden or smirden and then he had his neck slit and then somehow he fucking got resurrected by Somebody and then he was alive again You didn't read well, how is it that I never read but I know what the story for every other game is

And The the thing that's so interesting about this project is people said star star for every other game is. And...

The thing that's so interesting about this project is... People said Star Rail's story is bad, or is as bad as this. No. I actually think that Honkai Star Rail had a good story. That's my opinion. Maybe I'm gay, but that's what I think.

That is a choice, and that is an okay thing to do. But there's no question that it has caused a huge variance of receptions about this game.

It has.

I'm approaching this game as an action sandbox, like Valheim. I'm playing this game to explore the world, to see all the little different things I can do, to explore all the locations. For me, going in with what my expectations were, this game is awesome. So far, I've really enjoyed it. I'm getting new mechanics all the time.

I'm discovering things and seeing things and seeing new locations, and it's been great. I've loved it.

I can see that.

If I was going into this game expecting that Witcher 3 experience, or looking for the hook, quote-unquote,

I would be unhappy. Yeah.

I wouldn't have found it by now, and I'd probably be pretty frustrated.

Yeah.

So, you know, I get where people are coming from with that. All of this being said, it is also important to mention that this game does have some what I would just call problems. This game has some problems. Particularly the control scheme and the ability for the player to manipulate it is a problem.

That's the thing is like playing the game the hardest puzzle in the game is figuring out how to interact with the puzzle. Like there's like like for example, the fist is a great example of this. Why the fuck are there like six different variations of how you can use the fist? Why are there four different keybinds for interaction? Who thought this was a good idea? A retard thought it was a good idea.

As a retard.

Retard thought that.

There are some control decisions in this game that I will safely say how we always say game dev is iterative, where a game will come out and then future games can learn from it. I feel in some way, Crimson Desert is a D iteration.

I feel like the game dev world as a whole has come up with in some way, Crimson Desert is a D iteration. Yeah, it is.

I feel like the game dev world as a whole has come up with much better ways to do what Crimson Desert is trying to do.

Yeah.

And instead of, it made everybody dumber.

Them taking that and building on it. They have said, no, we're going to do it our way.

That's right.

And our way is worse.

So, okay. Uh, alright. So, you've got right here, you have to understand that, okay, you want to see the memory? Okay, put the box on your head. Alright, good.

Okay, now go to the box menu. No, that's not the inventory menu. I meant the box menu. No, that's the box. That's the secondary box menu. No, you have to go to the memory box menu. Okay. All right now you're there. Oh you selected the wrong one

Okay. Now you've got to watch this one again Okay. All right now. All right. You want to take the box off now? You can't you can't take the box off. Wait a minute Oh, where's your lantern? Didn't you hit? Oh, you didn't equip your lantern. Oh, no It's just- it was so- It- it- it's so retarded. Like,

You know- you know what Crimson- you know who Crimson Desert was designed by? Federal government bureaucrats. This- it's like a- like, accomplishing a task in Crimson Desert is like going through the federal government.

And that kind of sucks. I'm not happy about that. So we are hoping very much that we will see some improvements on that because I will say one of the first controls you learn in the game is to hold down the right trigger and right button at the same time on your controller. And anyone who's played a video game will tell you that's not a fun thing to do. No

it's not. No. For all sorts of reasons.

Great. So then the controller gameplay sucks even too.

So even if it's a rarely used thing like an ultimate or something, you don't want your players to have to remember awkward

keybinds to do some of your game's biggest stuff. And that's just one thing. There's also the most important keybind, like your basic attack, you have to hold down shift and then use F12 and then the number pad, number lock, and that's how you have to do your auto attack.

Weird decision-making in life.

Basically you gotta be Frank Sinatra in order to play the game.

Using the control thing and having to hold control before hitting certain buttons. And then the same interactions or same types of interactions, use different hotkeys that you have to use control for. The weapon to sheath your weapon,

doesn't sheath your bow. You have to use a different hotkey for both.

Didn't he play on a piano?

A lot of really weird stuff in this game. I'm not going to lie. So if you're a big control person, you know, that's, that could be a big thing for you. Um, on top of that, the voice immersed into the world. So, you will be talking to somebody outside of a house, and it'll sound like they're right in front of you talking in a room in an office building, and then

you'll go inside to a small area, and the people in there sound exactly the same way. Where in most games, you would get like a bit of a reverb on the outside or maybe a bit of a reverb on the inside and then kind of that expansive Less, you know, they don't really have a lot of that in this game and it makes all the voice acting sound weird Even though it's well voice acted and the dialogue seems to be pretty good

So it is what it is the dialogue what it reminds me of is It reminds me of dialogue There's a beginning of the dialogue. There's a middle of the dialogue and then there's an end to it That's about all I gotta say

nope, the reason I'm saying this is because There are things in this game that need work There are things in this game that I would say definitely needed more cook time and and another big thing That's really driving me crazy is the fact that apparently this giant sandbox game doesn't have a good storage system and on top of that that control issue bleeds into inventory management because it is not super intuitive to manage your inventory in

this game either so nothing's intuitive again that's kind of that's that's another issue that I think people need to consider. Now we do know from the devs that they are working on apparently adding storage. Kat's been saying that. They have also said that they are going to be doing more control stuff. So all that's good. But you know, I

don't have a lot of experience with Pearl Abyss as I didn't play BDO. I don't know if it's gonna be three days. They're probably gonna, what they're gonna do is they're gonna add in three separate menus and then there's gonna be two sub menus inside of those menus and then there's gonna be a holiday reward structure that you have to log in for 60 days and then after that you get a bird mount.

You guys excited? Crimson Desert 1.1? A week or two months until we see those changes. So we'll have to see how that goes. But anyway, now that we're kind of getting to the end of this, because again, I've only played a few hours. I may make another video after I played more. I do want to stress, there is seemingly some really, really cool stuff in this game. Like really cool stuff. Even though this game does not have

your traditional main story, it is not a traditional RPG. Like instead of looking at it as an RPG with less, think of it as a sandbox game with more. And from that perspective, I am seeing things and getting glimpses of what I can do in this game that I think are going to be really, really enjoyable.

We're going to find out about that.

And I think that people that can get hooked on this game, and really want to explore the world and go everywhere and do everything, Dude, you're going to have 100 plus hours. I kid you not. And you're probably going to really enjoy those hours if you are getting hooked into that main loop. Yeah, so yeah. Sounds like coke. That's kind of why I am with Cribs in the Desert right now. It's gonna get better. It gets better after 75 hours.

Where the haters have good reasons to hate. They do. And the lovers have good reasons to love. Yeah. And what that means is we have this cacophony of confusing reviews and...

It's a value judgment. There are some people that don't care about certain aspects of games. And so they don't really... That it doesn't matter to them what the story is. They care about the combat and the bosses. So that's going to be different than a person who wants to have a story

that's transcendent, that's interesting, that's like Witcher 3. And so that's really the issue is that people play video games for different reasons youtubers, that's what I'm saying different things in some cases completely the opposite. Yeah, and They're all in some ways kind of right. Yeah in some in some ways so really big

It's this is again one of those times where I don't recommend listening to me. I don't recommend listening to reviewers

You just listening to me, I don't recommend listening to reviewers. You just listen to me.

People play the game and see if it's something that you want to jump into. Because we live in a day and age where you can do that. And frankly, we live in a day and age where you don't need to have somebody tell you how to feel about it.

You can get all the information to make your own best educated decision.

And this is a perfect example one of those games to do that on I think honestly that's what everybody should do for every game Like don't let people tell you what it's like like if I if I want to see if a game's good I just pull it up on Twitch. I do I pull it up on Twitch I watch three people play it and I'm like, ah, this is retarded. I don't want to play this. That's literally it Like that's how I make my entire decision. And anyway, I'm gonna go back and play more of it.

That's it.

Thank you for watching the other 32 hours and refunded.

Later.

Lots of good idea.

Bye.

Great idea. No, I'm out like a lot and obviously like, you know, I agree with his assessment. I do think that the game a lot of the functions of the game are more problematic. Like today, yesterday, I'm going to be honest. Like I actually was in a bad mood yesterday playing the game. Like straight up.

I was actually, I was tilted. I was annoyed. I was pissed off. I have been dealing with bullshit today. I'm just going to log in and I'm just going to try to play the game and say, fuck it, whatever, whatever happens happens.

Whatever is, is whatever't, is not, and whatever does be. He's refreshed. I am.

I'm refreshed.

Yesterday.

I'm trying to remember.

There's something else that pissed me off yesterday. I forgot even what it was, but it was definitely out there. Right. Don't force yourself. I'm not, I'm going to try not to. And are you going to play it again?

Yeah.

Well, why not? I beat the fuck out of that monkey. And so that's how I'm playing it. It's awesome. Yeah, like I do try to just, I mean, like, again, I just try to have fun, right? Well, why not? I beat the fuck out of that monkey. And so that's how I'm playing it. It's awesome. Yeah, like I do try to just, I mean, like, again, I just try to have fun, right? It's just a fucking video game to begin with, right?