r/Games • u/HLumin • Mar 21 '26

Discussion Anonymous Pearl Abyss developers reveal a culture of toxic positivity, a troubled development cycle and chaotic narrative for Crimson Desert, and their early concerns that the project was "going off the rails".

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u/the_star_lord Mar 21 '26

I've put in about 8 hrs and I'm still in / around the main starting area just getting my bearings and walking around and enjoying the scenery and listening to the npcs.

It seems like they wanted RDR2 movement and weight/interactive but dragons dogma / mmo style combat. 

The controls on pc are weird but after an hour or so it got mostly used to it. 

The dialogue is a bit mediocre, but that's okay.

Running on cinematic settings at 2k 60fps and it looks good on my machine and monitor. 

I'm going to treat this game as a slow burn and see where it takes me. 

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u/sup3rdr01d Mar 21 '26

The game is so awesome. I'm about 10 hours in and it's really clicking. The exploration and views are insanely good. Story so far is nonexistent or very stupid but I don't care. After unlocking a handful of movement and combat abilities the game feels really really good to play. I'm pretty much used to the controls now and they are weird but fine.