Yet if you’d said Elite Dangerous it would be much more recognizeable, just like BDO is with Pearl Abyss.

Plus, Pearl Abyss has been working to get people to play their mmo for quite some time — Shroud played it for a bit and I know some other popular mmo streamers played it. All of this to say, Crimson Desert’s success is not wild — and using Marathon as a metric is just the worst thing you could do because Pearl Abyss hasn’t been shitting themselves reputation-wise.

Well, Marathon is a supremely bad example as Bungie has been doing everything they can to make the people who have supported them throughout Destiny hate them. Pearl Abyss might have scummy mtx but they’re honest about it and ultimately make a pretty good game. For Korean devs. Who develop games for Koreans. Who are born with a third invisible spirit arm that they use for extra inputs.

This game has no business being as good as it is, like some aspects are real bad (game controls are very poorly thought out/implemented, story doesn’t exist, etc), some aspects are real good (the movement, the combat, the options, the exploration).

Idk, if you like Assassin’s Creed you should play this game. This feels like what every AC starting from Odyssey should have felt like.

Edit: oh, and you can suplex people. You can go full WWE in your Korean single player RPG. What more need I say?

I wouldn’t call Pearl Abyss an unknown developer, at least not in the mmo scene.

They need to stop threatening and just do it

I think if you examine the quality of the dialogue itself — yes it was rather boring. However, the reactive aspect was neat — a character remembering the thing you last said and using it to justify their position is good. Even if that position ends up being boring due to poor writing, it seems more dynamic and real — cuz people typically remember what you say.

Yeah, I guess that’s true

It… also costs 100k

Edit: sorry, sorry, 70k — much better

Right, hence my question — 65 character slots doesn’t really mean much if you’ll only ever have the time to play one.

Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?

Odd, Firewatch was entirely forgettable for me — I don’t think I agree that it should have sparked a subgenre.

Should it be influential? Yes, I think the only thing they did a very good job with was the dialogue. Am I surprised there aren’t ‘Firewatch-likes’? No.

No issue with that at all, merely sharing my perspective.

Yes, though I think of them more as the times I unknowingly supported a company that was actively contributing to the death of digital literacy in the western world.

So, tomato potato — or whatever.

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Yeah… pretty sure South Korea is very xenophobic as well.

Lazy? No I was skimming while working, mainly because I was bored – I realize what I said was the point.

Ah, so you’re talking about the benefits we reap after the dust settles following the initial military actions.

That makes more sense, admittedly I did skim.

It’s China. The ethnostate. The country known for acting solely in the interest of the ethnostate.

You should just assume it will be used to crush cultural diversity.

How did the Iraq war yield quick results? Wasn’t the U.S. military there for like 9 years?

It’s China. I think the most they have as far as animal protections are the bans they placed on wet markets and the trade of wildlife.

This should not be a surprise.