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[calico]

Violence by men is far more likely to be against a man than a woman, so now what?

 

[Yerd]

We have games where you shoot people in the face. You should have an equal problem with that or dragons breathing fire on you. It's fiction.

 

[RoadHazard]

Do we know anything about how this performs on base PS5 yet? I saw the DF coverage of the Pro version, looked nice.

 

[March Climber]

The chick is a wanted criminal named bianca, it's a sidequest not a random beating.

If it's a side quest then my point still stands.

 

[Stafford]

We rockstar now

I could swear some other previewers said the opposite. But I'm not gonna watch this. This is the kind of stuff I want to find out for myself.

 

[GymWolf]

If it's a side quest then my point still stands.

If i understood correctly, the beating can get you a confession or info, i watched a preview when the guy was doing this for the first time and the game popped out this tutorial, i'm not 100% sure because the game tutorial was updating more slowly than the player actions so i'm not 100% sure if you get the confession with the tackle or the beating, but it would make "videogame-y sense" if you could force info on stuff with a beating, other games do that and you can always avoid to do it.

found the video, min 4:00 he get some note about something after a punch.




Edit: even in the video where he beat the chick, he get a reward after 3-4 punches, i guess some npcs are harder to persuade or maybe he punch like a wuss

 

[WellSheet]

My biggest curiosity with this game is how the open world is laid out.

I get shades of Zelda and Elden Ring…the way there's all these cool landmarks and places of interest, it almost makes me think of a theme park layout.

But, I can't imagine the game is going to be able to manage that expectation- larger and deliberate Zelda like dungeons that are just…waiting for you; optional and hand crafted.

The only game that's gotten close to that is Elden Ring.

 

[March Climber]

My biggest curiosity with this game is how the open world is laid out.

I get shades of Zelda and Elden Ring…the way there's all these cool landmarks and places of interest, it almost makes me think of a theme park layout.

But, I can't imagine the game is going to be able to manage that expectation- larger and deliberate Zelda like dungeons that are just…waiting for you; optional and hand crafted.

The only game that's gotten close to that is Elden Ring.

It's funny that you say that because I thought one of Elden Ring's weaknesses was it's optional dungeons. Quite a lot of them had like 1 out of 5 layouts, and some had repeat bosses or repeat tree bosses outside of them.

Elden Ring's overworld on the other hand felt like it's actual handcrafted masterpiece.

 

[WellSheet]

It's funny that you say that because I thought one of Elden Ring's weaknesses was it's optional dungeons. Quite a lot of them had like 1 out of 5 layouts, and some had repeat bosses or repeat tree bosses outside of them.

Elden Ring's overworld on the other hand felt like it's actual handcrafted masterpiece.

Oh, I'm 100% with you regarding Elden Ring's optional dungeon design; it was definitely the weakest aspect of the game - I meant more the main world map, how there were these cool landmarks - a lot of them optional - it was like a theme park. Examples - Village of the Albinaurics or Windmill Area with the dancing ladies.

I'm hoping for that with Crimson Desert, but that may be a major ask.

 

[Stafford]

 

[Gubaldo]

Does this game have single big open world
or is it like KCD2 which has two ?

 

[Stuart360]

Man i love how good the lighting looks when its sunny. It has that real deep summer sunnylook to it, you know where it almost hurts your eyes.

 

[The_hunter]

My goodness, that looks so good.

The footsteps on the horse are really loud.

 

[Abysse]

The character doesn't revolve around his own axis, we have to congratulate him, that's rare these days.

 

[Stafford]

Yeesh, this location looks fantastic. For a second I thought this was a fake picture of how horror YouTubers sometimes do, annoying.

 

[Idleyes]

Does this game have single big open world
or is it like KCD2 which has two ?

It's one large, continuous open world when you're talking about the landmass, compared to KCD2. But, it's actaully two maps because the Abyss exists as a separate area from the main landmass. For some perspective: KCD2's two maps combined have an estimated landmass of 32–50 km², roughly 85% the size of Manhattan. Crimson Desert's landmass alone (not including the Abyss) is estimated to be between 80–110 km². You could fit one entire Manhattan inside it and still have room for nearly a second one, short about 8 km². Or if we want to use Paris, KCD2 is roughly 76% of Paris. Crimson Desert's landmass is 4% larger than Paris.

 

[saintjules]

 

[Orionsangel]

One of my favorite moments yet in Crimson Desert.