Did Crimson Desert Live Up to the Hype?

You guys can get this one. Hello everybody, Welcome to another episode of the Other Trolls gaming podcast. If you are new in joining us, we are two brothers who get together and talk about gaming. We may also talk tech, TV, movies, and other nerdy. Geeky stuff too. Wow, you did it. Today we will be talking about Crimson Desert. But I'm nasty night now I am taking easy John. And also today we have a few esteemed guests to talk about Crimson Desert with. We have Will from Friday Night Game Cast, Chris from One Hour One Decision. Boys. It's been quite a. While, indeed, and I think it's the first time you've all been on together at the same time. Say, I've unprecedented, I've heard, I've heard of will. This I exist? I really really? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Oh nice? Okay cool? Well damn that is cool. But yeah, today I would I would like to title this episode. We had an episode already about Crimson Desert, right, Yeah, we did a preview. We asked the question though, we asked the question, will Crimson Desert meet up to the hype? Right? But now I think we need to answer that question? Right, Well, we answer, are we in a position yes, exactly, that's what are we in a position? Are we in a position to do that? Like we I barely scratched the surface of the game. I played fifty hours of it, so like you know what I mean, it's tough to it's tough to say. But we'll get into that later. We'll but yeah, we'll tight of the episode. Did Crimson Desert meet the hype? There you go? Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. So boys, uh, if no one's heard you before or heard about you, guys before plug your shows. Now let's start with Siege. Chris Windy cool? Yeah, what is this like the third or fourth time you've been on here quite a bit? And but yeah, I mean I am Chris one half of the podcast one Hour, one Decision on one D and uh my co host Tom and I play random games currently on Xbox Game Pass for an hour and decide if it's worth playing past that. Hour or not. Mm hmmm. Played a lot of games. You have you had a quite you hat a few good ones on your last on your last handful episodes, you had replaced Cando come Deliverance too. I was like, I was like, oh, is he gonna keep playing or. Playing oh my god, Kingdom come. But like, how could you know, I know, the tutorials like cut scene. Yeah, it took forever, but I was streaming that game and the fucking intro took two hours. Yeah, and I was like, oh my god. I was like I forgot how long this is? Like You're like, I'm going to bed. I'm like, okay, yeah, definitely, especially if you haven't played before it and you're asking to explain everything. Yeah, like, oh yeah, it's way longer. Because I was like, yes, I know that, Yes, I know that. I literally just played the first one and I was skipping it and it was long. Anyway. I mean, it's not as Pokemon as long as i'd say Pokemon game is. Oh no, the Pokemon intro every game for the last thirty years, the. Latest the latest one was so bad. It was so bad. It was awful. I was complaining about it on the show. I was complaining about it on the show, like back when we one first one, we first played it. We just like constantly with these Pokemon games and the intros explaining it to like you're a complete moron and has never played a Pokemon game, Like you don't know what Pokemon is like, dude, they. Literally just needs one question at the beginning. Have you played a Pokemon game before? Yes? Yes, No, that's what they need to do. That's it. Yeah, that's definitely I won't do that though. Anyway, Well where are you from, buddy? So I'm from Friday Night Game Cast, me and my co host Nick. We do a lot of different things. We've done, mysticles, we've done. Is this better? Is this not better? You know, the way the actual game kind of climate is changing, et cetera. But what we do really consistently and more consistently than the last couple of years or so, is good old game reviews. So you'll catch just reviewing a lot of games. I think the very first one we did was My Great Love Control, So I always recommend people to check that one out. Because you got Control Resident coming out later this year too, very very hype. But yeah, we got some new stuff on there. We do a little bit old, a little bit of new, but either way, it's always good. I mean, shout out to you guys for always trying to go for the platinum too. Yeah, try to you try. Can you imagine trying to get the platinum in this game? Like Crimson Desert. They don't even have what to do? Do you want to know. How many achievements I have on Steam after fifty hours? Too? Three? Two, two? You know how I know it was too because I'm ninety hours in and I got three. And they're all story based. I don't know, it's crazy. There's thirty four of them. There's thirty four. There's no way that's crazy. Okay, So we're gonna go in a game time a. Little Yeah, go in game time if you're playing a game that's not Crimson Desert, just talk about it for a little bit and all we'll chat. Right. Well, I recently went back. I went to my backlog backlog with the power of Xbox and their overpriced game pass, which is now slowly becoming. More regularly priced. It's cheaper now. Shout out new CEO coming in and cleaning house. So that's always good. But I was playing a little bit of Far Cry Primal, something that I missed back in the day. Man Daniel played that not long ago. It was fun. I actually had a really good time. Now. Is it an Ubisoft game? Yes, so it has all the Ubisoft isms. I once once again you knew Chris you called it out. I was like, let me go ahead and get the thousand because I like Saber two Tigers and Caveman. And then I realized very quickly, I'm like, this kind of sucks. So it's like, oh, I gotta do every camp. It's just the same thing over and over again. But I did it because I myself. But still, wow, you did it, you did it. Yeah, it was fun. Though the story itself is cool. I did appreciate that they tried to get pretty. I'm realistic, obviously is not the word like you're riding Saber two Tigers and throwing people. Do they do? They talk and grunts. Exactly, have their own language. Yeah, they have their So it was really cool. You're like, you win. JOT and I was like, oh, really lots of let's say, I don't know if I can recommend it to you boys because he has unfortunately, but it was fun. It's an old game, so that's that's radio. It feels old. I would say it feels old every time Crimson Desert has spoiled me, especially because I got to the top of a mountain in that game and I'm like, I just want to jump off, can't I'll die, so. You just can't do anything. So that was me dipping back into that one. And then the only other thing I've been playing recently is I did boot up the Xbox after finishing up Far Cry, and I have not checked out Replaced yet. But Planet of Lana was something that I played a little bit of because I saw when the second one was announced like last year, year before last, something like that, and now it's out, so I got to play both. But I wanted to play the first one a little bit, just kind of scratch that side scrolling, you know, inside slash limbo itch. And it was pretty good. So I'm actually having a lot of fun with that. I think I maybe halfway through the story right now. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's a good game. Oh, Chris played it. I finished it. I finished the game. I finished. You're like, you're like what Nate used to never ever finish. Never never, not since I started restarted the podcast that I actually start finishing. He's like, I got what I wanted out of it. You finally stepped up and started beating games. Not this year though, I can't. There's all the games I've been playing are so long. Just blame the kid. That's what we always nodding. He's nodding for those who can watching as nodding in a rual. I didn't play, was it Project Lanta Planet Alana Planet recently? Yeah? Last year? Last year was good. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Actually, like. I I finished replaced it's done, I haven't. I guess I finished it after our last episode, right, Yeah, yeah, we did. You've aired your a grievances about but I didn't share that sentiment with you until the end of the game. Yeah. Yeah, And then I was really mad. I was really really mad. And then they patched the game to make it easier. I'm pretty sure, because I I couldn't beat this frigging wave of enemies, Like near the end, right before the last boss, there's a there's a kind of a gauntlet you have to beat that's three rooms. Then. Oh and I was playing on hard mode. I'm playing on hard and up until then, I was like, yeah, I know that I knew the combat. The compt is just a little slower, that's all. You have to be more deliberate and kind of but the game does screw you over like a lot more towards the end, like with the amount of enemies that they have on the screen. They're all doing this different move like attacks to you at the same time, and you have to choose basically which one to get hit by, Like you have to make sure crazy which one to dodge, but you're gonna get hit by two of the other ones kind of thing. But man, the three rooms. I tried for an hour. I couldn't do it an hour sitting there, and then I was like, hey, I'm not playing this. So three days later I went back and I did it first fucking try, Like not first try, but like I died like first five minutes, Like I died a couple of times. But then the I was like, okay, first room again. I cleared it, and then I it was over. So I was like, what the hell just happened? Like it was only one room. I think it's because they added a checkpoint between the second and third room. They updated the game, so I made it to that checkpoint and I only had to do the last room again when I thought I had to start over. I am fairly certain they updated the game because that was definitely not happening the last time I played. But yeah, it was. I mean it was not as good as we'd hoped it would have been, really honestly, Like, the art style was awesome and the sound was awesome, but just the gameplay was tough. It was rough and that the like the platform is kind of fun, but like the combat was way too slow, like your your movement definitely yep yep. I did beat another game, though, a game called a little game called Mixtape. Okay, okay, hear I want to hear your thoughts on this one. This is brand new, excellent game. Oh, excellent game, excellent, excellent, alright, but it's only like four hours long. It's like it's really casual. It's quick, but it is like going back in time. But it's very cool. It's very cool. I would say if you're in like a nineties kid, the eighties maybe late eighties, nineties, and it's just like an old it's kind of like one of those old high school movies about these kids coming. Of age yea coming of age joint. Yeah, really cool, really cool. The music is sick. The game it's just basically a little mini games. Okay, that's pretty much all it is. It's really casual but super fun, super fun. It did very well. Until the last ten reviews came through and Breggan dropped me down three points. It was sitting at ninety two an open critic, and then the last ten reviews came through and it dropped to eighty nine. I was like, I think they all gave it like a eight out of ten the last ten reviews, so it just put it down under ninety. But man, it's really good. Ihighly recommend it. And it's like twenty bucks or something like that for like four hours. Yeah, for like for twenty twenty three dollars. Whatever the hell it was, man, excellent game, cool all play. Well, speaking of replaced, I dropped that because. You dropped a twelve hour game. Because I got to a point they added a new mechanic that I guess the mechanic the guy have a double jump or kind of oh yeah, with the blasting, and I couldn't get past the literally the tutorial part of it. That's what we were talking about. That's what we were talking about. What you had to go. You have to go over the left screen, like two left screens, go on top and then jump from Are you serious? Yes, man, yes, stupid. We were talking the exact same thing. Exactly what we were talking about. Leading the game, I was like, I don't want to play this. No, you have to go like two screens over to the left, like how are you supposed to know that? And climb on a box and get on top and go back. And you have to do it from the top level were you jumping from like the right right? The same? I got to that there and then jumped try to jump across because you. Have the event there. You can't you can't get it. You can't be above, so you have to go back to screens up onto a box on the roof of the train station thing and then jump. So stop. People got that. That part got so stupid. It's so ratt right off, I just I. Just ended up watching YouTube ANDDI explain kind of thing about it. I was like, it's so look it up. I did have to look it up myself. It's just so disappointed because I had so much like so. Much that happens. That happens a lot like in the games. The hand does look cool, at least a handful of looking game where it's like, okay, I'm not like I can't exactly. The puzzles are not good like the puzzles in the game are not good. Like there's a bunch where you have to like guess a password. It's like the puzzle for guessing the password, it was so dumb and like you would never have ever guessed what it was. I was like, that is the dumbest puzzle I've ever seen in a game, Like it didn't make sense at all. And then that happened like a couple of times to men. I'm like, man, these puzzles are bad. Yeah, but yeah, like the world like vibes so nice. Yeah yeah, yeah, the world very nice. But on a on a lighter note. I also purchased Screamer. Oh, pretty good, pretty good so far. It's very like, you know, very like Japanese like anime inspired with like the the the characters that you deal with. What I thought was interesting though, is like everyone has everyone speaks in their native language, and like there's like this there's this way that people like so there's like people that are cave men. There's a lot of reading, though, Nate, there's a lot of neat reading because everyone is talking in all these different languages, like people speaking Germans speak speaking Italian. Really they just speak to each other. Yeah, so like and then and then the way that they kind of handwave it is like, oh everyone, there's like some universal translator in between that like allows. People to talk to each other that way, babblefish exactly something like that. I don't know. I mean so far, like the game is pretty good, Like I think it can get pretty hard at times too. But but you know, I've been for for a racing game. I've been having fun. I don't think it's I have all the mechanics down yet, at least where I am at in the game. Is there a story? Is there a story? Yeah, there's a story. There's a story. And like, so I guess you kind of like switch between characters per race. So you have like you try different vehicle types and stuff like that too. So okay, cool, it's been your favorite vehicle so far. I don't know. They're all like they're all made up cars and based off I mean, yeah, you can kind to see some stuff, but they're all like that. They're basically like need for speed versions of. Is it like supercars or is it like drift cars in Japanese. Cars, they're like drift cars. It's like that's the other thing the game you play with both the or joysticks. You like you do you. Accelerate and break with the triggers. But then like you can do you can drift with your right stick. Oh cool, so you can control it kind of like. I like that. I liked that. I liked that. It reminds me of Auto Modelista if you've ever played that. Yes, Oh, it was such a sick sick. And they had they had the licensed cars that was. Yes, they had the Japanese like the drifter, the tuner cars. Like it was like a downhill racing game. You got to get the lice. It was sick. It was a downhill drift and you could like upgrade your cars. It was you had you could do all the stuff that you could do in like Grand Turismo with or in Fortsa with all the car parts and stuff. You could even swap. You could do engine swaps. So I remember I put a like I put a skyline engine in my like my Niecean like Sylvie or whatever like I was doing. It's sick. It was so sick. I was like, man, that is a game, I think, because that's a swap they do in real life. It's a sweet swap. And I was like like I used to read the magazines and ship for all those like tin cars and stuff, and that swap was so sick, And then I could do it in this freaking game. I was like, oh my god. And it was cell shaded. It was such a cool game. So oh right that one. Yes, I'm trying to find it. I can't find it. Auto Modelista Modelista Auto and the all the cover art. Yeah, it's just an r X seven yeah. And the viper that's yeah. I won't take I won't take too much more time. I also played the Dead as Disco demo. I'm definitely in the early plate sweet that was. That was really It's like where you fight to the beat, right, you fight to the beat. It's a rhythm fa yeah, okay, okay. And you can put your own music in and. Oh yeah yeah my nephew was telling me you could put your own music. Yeah, welcome back, High five rush right on, that's on game Pass. No no, I well there's a demo on Steam and then. Dead as Disco, Dead as Disco It's got yeah. It's given. It gives me like high fight rush slash, like uh no more heroes, vibe love heroes. Yeah, visually it looks really really cool. But it's like by former, like bywear and like there's like a bunch of people that were like involved with this. Man sweet like like what's not vand heals like metal hell singer. Yeah, that was so fucking cool. Oh in the studio shutdown though I don't know rip rip. Alright, we move on. Did you play Yeah? I just started playing Diablo. Oh yes, oh my, do they have you locked in? Yeah? Yeah, I love it so much. I got I'm at like yeah thirty forty. Man, it's just like it will get to Crimson Desert story. But like whenever you play a whenever you play a game that's got an actual like strong narrative and like fantastic voice acting, you're just like you're just like Desert exactly. Like the voice like Mephisto's force acting is unfucking believable. It's so good. Yes, it's so like rat Laura Ribcage. Yeah, ol Laura, like. So Laura, like so freaking good. And you know what's funny, like moving the other way. After I played Crimson Desert for a bunch and then I went and played Replaced, the combat seemed so fucking slow, Like after after playing Crimson Desert for a bunch because like I was pissed off and replaced. It was even almost even worse when I came back and I was like, this is so slow. After fucking going Insane and Crimson Desert for like three days and then going to the Replaced, it's like. Yeah, no, maybe that's but yeah, diable before I'll probably be playing that quite a bit. Same. Yeah, I always get back into that, and it's just like it's always fun, man, It's always so fun to get back into and you're just building. Yeah, they redid the skill tree, so the skill tree is different though it's behind there's I don't know if I approve of this, but like when they released the when they released the expansion, they retooled the skill tree, but there's some skills that are like locked out behind the expansion. So the tree goes up and then uh, where there's skills, there's like three main skills like on the on the tree branches. Let's say one of each of those three will be locked out because you don't have the expansion. So you got to get the expansion to get all the skill really in just the new characters or in all characters all characters. I think the. Nineteen nine or twenty fifty eight what. Oh no, can you buy Hatred by itself? Or do you need to have Diable four? I guess you need the big game. But I think now that if you buy it now, you get yeah, you. Can buy you can buy the if you buy now, you get everything with it. So like it's just like the right, is this like the end of Dilbom? Yeah, so this is going to be the end of the Hatred. Arc? So double four was Lilith right and Lilith or fist Lilith Lilith begot us right? So what happened Abraham? But got but actually though. And Moses big God. Yeah, and. It's so sweet though, Yeah, And I listened to like we drove home for the weekend, which is like an hour drive, and we put on like all the Diablo lore, like a like a YouTube video. It was like an hour long. The lore is so sick, it's so good man. But yeah, I'm That's what I'm pounding right now in between because you got to play Crimson Desert and then you gotta take a break and I'll get into why. But but there's always got to be that It's like it's like the back track. You know, Crimson Desert is the back track of this year. It's just fucking back there. Yeah, it's the mass track. You'd been playing it the whole year until DTA was out. Yeah, well, yeah, that's what I've been playing. Just oh I tried that new gotcha game, Endless. Enter this Endless. It's game of the year. Isn't It's peak gotcha game. It's Spider Man. It's Grand Theft Auto. It got the game of the year. Is that the thing? Oh? Yeah? Yeah, what the hell was that? You're like riding a scooter and you just hit it. Yeah. So it's like, well I thought of never Neverness to Everness. Like these fucking names. I don't know if it's lost in translation, but they're the worst names ever, these gotcha games. But like it's like they tried to pitch it off as a Grand Theft Auto meets urban Open World Army. The cars look really cool and you can jack people's cars or you can like tell them to get out of their car. There's a wanted system, there's a whole bunch of stuff and you just go around. There's a romance. You can Romance. Some of the characters. Characters are you know, like you know, a big titted anime. It's just when I play on my phone or whatever, because you can play everywhere. You can play it on your freaking toaster. That game that is funny, but a strange looking game. Yeah, it's it's they all look the same, all these that stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's all I think they all use the same engine and they just change the colors on my characters. But that's what I've been playing. Nice. I'm looking at the I'm looking at the subreddit right now, and it looks pretty funny. Actually, it's pretty cool. There's a lot of funny memes too. Memess love memes. All right. Cool, So we're gonna jump into Crimson Desert today's topic. We're just gonna talk because you know, I can't much like this game. Hold on, should I transition? Oh? But first, I mean from our first a word from our VR sponsor. Oh sure, okay, and a transition that every time I hear that, but like, I. Was like, how don am I going to make notes about this game? This game is a game that it's is like, it's so it's so out there, you know, it's a all this ship, but they piece, they just give it to you. They're like, here, just take it and go do your own thing with it. How long did it take to make this game? Ten years? I think it was ten eight, just eight to ten. Scope of it is ridiculous, nuts, right, Yeah, you. Can definitely tell. Was one of those like, hey, it started as an MMO because they did Black Desert that MMO and they were like, let's do another one. They were like, actually, I want to do game. I wonder what made them, like, I guess MMOs were just dying, right, Like, no. One realistically, Yeah, because especially to you already have one, So why compete with yourself when you exactly do something else. Yeah. So. Crimson Desert is a twenty twenty six action adventure game developed and published and published by perlbis originally planned as a prequel to Black Desert Online, which is the MMO RPG. The game evolved into a standalone title during development, and it was released for mac os, PlayStation five, Windows, Xbox series consoles on March nineteen. Macoes can play. That's crazy. No one makes games for mac. They put it on everything like they're getting its many hands as they as they could, but their sales numbers also would say that it worked, like they're they want more sales, put it on Mac and that's an extra fucking I don't know. Piece, you know. Yeah, but they didn't. They took them a while. They said, oh there was a big thing. It didn't work for intelligips at all. Oh, yes, wouldn't even launch. That was weird. I heard that too. They purposely, purposely and until people complained and then they're like, oh, then they developed the. Fine or whatever. Yeah, they're like all right, but they did. They did bring it out. Soon it's going to be game developers for A m D and Intel. They're just going to do it for n video. Yeah, make my words, Julian, make my words. But yeah, like I said, I don't know where to stop. I guess like I sent you guys like the story, gameplan, graphics open, open, whatever, so we can just just to try to keep it organized, because this game isn't really that organized, you know, So we'll try to organize Crimson Desert. So everyone how many times, how long we've been playing here, So I've I'm at about one hundred, and I think I think I just broke a hundred hours. I know, I'm just over like ninety some change, probably ninety five ninety six. Yeah, oh damn, I am only a fifty hours and Chris. Fifteen. I looked. I looked at my steam twenty eight. Yeah, I went too far off. Okay, pretty good, pretty good. But you took a hiatus. Didn't you go on vacation or something? Weren't you gone for a while? We went on vacation? Yeah, I mean I went to packs and then there's that Oh right, nice packs. I I heard Robin Kelves episode on it. They went there too. Did you make a full episode about no packs? Do you know anything there? Like shorts? That's cool, that's cool. It would be sweet to go to that man. We used to have something like that, but it died. It was in Montreal, fucking died. Dream remember Dream? Well, I guess it wasn't like I still do it dreamg did. I was like, I remember hearing about it and went We. Went dream the year before, a couple of years before Dream. Heck was cool, very cool. It was more going to Montreal. It's cool. So yeah, I'd like to appear in Montreal. I don't like driving to appear. It's only two hours two hour drive that bad, No, not. The length of but once you hit the outer limits of the city, like people become the traveling ravenous. Yeah, wants to teleport like Cliff in this game. Yeah, you can travel. You could teleport into the abyss and jump off, which is so awesome. This ever, but like did I get Did I get old? Like did that get old? And Zelda the Tears of the Kingdom? Now I probably just flying? Yeah, just flying. I wanted to fly everywhere, like I didn't make. Yeah, did you ever get on your horse? I'd never jump on my horse, yet I had to start doing it because I realized that just another system in the game. You know, the horses had trust levels, so the more you rode them, the more quicker they got, the more help they got and unlocked, and they got skills like you can drift with your horse what so like the right stick when you're like, you know, running around the corner and your horse like slides his ass on the floor like. Like Adeline, I didn't even know that. There's so much that I there's so much that we probably don't know because we still don't know, and I'm a hundred. Hours no I've barely done anything. I feel like, I I don't know, I feel like I've done nothing. I've done for fifty hours of nothing. Yeah. Actually while I'm on chap for like seven of the story. But like that's not it's not a lot of content. Yeah, I mean you talk about the story. Yeah, it's just like, let's talk about the story. They try to start you off. Pretty decent, right, Like I feel like the opening it was Honestly, I don't know if I would say strong, like, oh man, I'm super engaged, but at least saw the vision, right. You know, you're with your gray Manes, Cliff is walking up, You're getting ready for this battle with the Black Bears, and of course classic RPG start. You know, your team gets routed, you fight the boss at the beginning of the game, because of course you do, and you know he ends up splitting your throat and pushing you into the river. So I'm just like classic yea, all right, yeah that's it, because like. He's brutally fucking murdered and tossed him to the Like, yeah, how the do you come out of that? Cliff crazy? Yeah, that's what I was thinking exactly to like, what is happening. Explain that, and no, he just calls back to life and on the beach. Yeah. Straight, he's a repatriot, he said. Okay, Chris, Like later on you get more information obviously from the characters. But yeah, at the beginning of the game, when it happens, you just wake up in the abyss, You're like, oh, wow, this must be I got. Pumps that part will. It didn't take him twenty eight hours to do the intro. I imagine somebody just like, no, I'm going to beat this guy. I'm going to beat the first buss of the game. I'm not gonna let him beat me. Started because to Google and starting. He doesn't see that the cut scene continues game over screen. I'll skip it. Man. Yeah, it was not very good, tell you that. But but then you just they just let you go. And then you're like, oh, I want to do this. I don't have to do that right now, I'll do that later. What's this? What's this? Yeah? And then what happens is like you start meeting the families or the houses of this world, and then they have stories, right, yeah, they're just like fucking tense story is going on it. Once I have involved you guyslines. Yeah, like you've got your Great Manes, You've got the witches, you've got the houses. There's like there's four or five houses open right now. You got your camp camp stories. I'm like, oh, my fucking sores, oh so much. And I was like, oh, I like I like city building and camp building and something, so I'll start the camp. And so I went crazy on the camp. I didn't even start doing that. I didn't even know you could. Do that, like finding all the Gray Manes. And then yeah, missions that allow you to get like the farm on your camp and then you can get the I must not have done the Great Orchards. Yeah worth it, Yeah, because because you know it's your camp quest. Yes, the Gray Maine Quest is all side stuffs. It feels like main story though right like thirty hours, it's like grabbing your It's like finding all your Gray Maine people that got split up, I guess, and like you just have to keep going out and finding them. And I guess it's like a parallel, like it's parallel to it. But like, but once you start unlocking stuff in your camp. You can unlock a cook, you unlock the Blacksmith stores. I have to cook. Yeah, that's early. Yeah, it's so sweet. Then you just go to the one spot, fix my ship, up my stuff, go over to Buddy, sell my stuff, go over to Buddy, change my colors of my clothes. Go take some apples off my tree in the orchard, and. Just buy a bed for your house. Go across it's exactly what you're doing to the cliff and start playing the things. All the stuff I pick up. I'm like, all right, my bed here, I put my fridge here. Some paintings, paintings stole, put them on the walls. I gotta put some lights in because if you don't put lights in your house, you walk in this pitch fucking black. Like, I gotta put some some lanterns here. So it's a sub it's a complete sub game within. There's like fifteen sub games that really is. Yeah, you got cozy games, you got your your Action RPG's. A ton of mini games. Horse racing, oh yeah, arm wrestling so good. Like the archery, which is complete bullshit. Yeah the archery. No, it's still not fixed. It's still horrible. There was the one meme where the guy like just parks a car from front of the other. So he just shoots the cart and you're like. The last guy, because they will still do like the very last one. We'll still snap to where the thing's gonna He's clairvoyant. Oh my god. Yeah, and the controls aren't great. I'm playing a controller and I'm like, no, it's hard. It's like you can't like snap over that. I was like, oh, should I play a mouse keyboard for this one? I think that's how I did it. Oh really, I didn't touch that. So yeah, because you touch, not much to talk about the story. So that's pretty much it. Uh, some sequences will give you some good boss was about to say with theos especially. Yeah, the sequences of boss fights are pretty cool. And then you're just like, okay, it does pick up a little bit, like it went from I'm not good to like, okay, like it's gone. It's gone. I say around chapter six it starts to pick up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you're like switching characters by then, so you get to kind of have the other guy. I haven't switched characters yet, you haven't taken over what's his name, unka, I just just got him, I think maybe, and I actually ivy and like just I got a cool weapon for him though, from like twenty hours ago. Yeah, and you're like, can't use this, Like who's this for? Yeah? Yeah, and I have to keep it in my bag and for forty hours until I unlocked this friggin guy. You put it in your storage? What the hell? Yeah, there's a storage at your camp that you could use, and you could. They upgraded the amount of uh slots that was that's in the storage, so you can. Man, they've done it, just dumped everything in there. They've done a lot of updates since the game came out. Let's talk Okay, let's go from story. Let's let's slice one in here. Let's talk about that. Okay, Like these devs, man. They are conn believe they're definitely chained to their desk right now. They're not taking vacation, not spending times with their families. They are updating this game. There was an update yesterday period. As of this recording, there was an update yesterday in this game. Wow, wow, unbelievable. They added more mounts. They added uh. Now you can ride the liquors, and you can ride the lions and keep them as like main pets. Before you could ride a lion and then it would just be a temporary mountain. Now it's a a true mountain that you can keep forever. They added chokobos, they added you know, lizards you can keep forever. Philosophers you can keep forever. So it's nuts fucking big two hand swords on your back. Before they would just hang on your back like you know, Halo style, just like out and about. They added sheets, So now you put on your back a sheath and if you want so, you can turn the sheaf off. So yeah, they're just they're doing the small things. It's it's the quote unquote little things that people don't either don't think about or you really want it and you're like, I'm the only person in the world that wants this, and they're like, I got you. I think that they did do that for a couple of people. I like, guarantee, there's one email this guy thinks we should Uh, I don't know. Something weird in the game that you can do raise pigs and ships. They're definitely on the reddit there. They're on the reddit right now. Check out. Okay, I got you? And like they did they even give a road map. I read that. They're like, we're not even doing road maps. We're just going to keep updating this thing a road community wants. But I also remember them being like months ahead of the roadmap, like they were like, oh, yeah, in June, we're probably going to have you know, some more mounts for y'all. And they've done like three different rounds of mounts since then. So this is the game. This is like the only game that I can think of where it may not have been perfect on launch, but within a month it was like like three weeks, like the amount of they think of, like my money completely worse. Wondering how long did it take for Cyberpunk to be like in your graces? It took at least a year for the well for for you guys, for you for us for us. Launch, which was not accurate. For the peasants, Yes, but it was Yeah, I mean but first of all, what what Like we were talking about the story being bad, So maybe we should talk about why it's this game is good, why you like it, because obviously we're going to get into that story. We're going to get into that with the gameplay like everything else. Yes, gameplay, we'll do gameplay combat, We'll do gameplay combat. Here slicing this. Like I don't even know how to start. I mean, I'm just like taking it back. You know, I was looking I was at the gym a while ago, and I was like, you know, let me look at old videos, like before the game came out, because I remember when this game first got announced and it was super choppy and the visuals were fine, but it was just like the FPS was horrible. But I saw the vision the second I saw somebody, you know, get r kao by the character, and I was like, I was like, oh, this is gonna be badass, and I was one hundred percent right. It's just so great seeing the combat flow well, and it go for the sword and board attacking. You smash somebody in the face with a shield and they go flying backwards like a like a prepfall, and then you jump on someone and slam them like the German suplex in. Thats the feel of it. The impact they really good, the impact that they really like put through the controller and the screen You're like, fuck and you just freaking armis. I wish I was better at it. I wish I was better at it, but it's you can get by by just mashing buttons too, Like yeah, it's you don't. Have to like you just hold the button down and you hold the attack down, which I didn't realize until later. I was like, oh, I could do that. But I liked the clicking because it's just like it just felt more click. Yeah, I clicked too, But there's so many combos you can do, so if you memorize all of them, like you'll just tear through everybody. But but like I it switched to to melee, and I don't know if I like it as much. Melee or grapples. There's like punching and ship grapples, and then there's like, uh, swords or the melee weapon. Yeah well sorry I meant unarmed melee unarmed. Sorry, Yeah, I haven't really into that. But yeah, I thought it would be cool. And I just feel like with the sword you hit more people, so like hit more people than with a fist because you like you do these huge slashes. So I'm like, what, it seems like a disadvantage, but your your attacks are stronger. Though then like hitting someone with a sword, like if you punch them they do it does way more damage. I'm pretty sure it's not a. Reason when you put like the gears into your system, like slotting into bisk gears for damage into like your gloves for example. Yeah, it just affects your punches and it makes them stronger too, So yeah, yeah, it's really cool. I don't think we're really at that point yet for any of us, but I actually know. I think we were talking about that in the chat. Y'all unlock some of the magic, right, so the lightning and the fire and the ice and all that. I have some lightning. You can imbue that onto your hands too, so then if you really want to get into it, you can be like Raiding from Mortal Kombat, going there with your fist punch. Oh aspires for that, because I just started doing as this is a part of that, okay. I I remember seeing like an ice tower and I was like, what the hell is this thing? And I'm like going up to it, but I couldn't. I don't think I don't. I couldn't get into it. I don't remember what. Oh no, it was too cold, and I was like, ah, I'm freezing to death like in Zelda, and like I had nothing to to like save me from that. I was like, what the fuck? What do I do? And then I walked away, and I never went and figured it out. So a couple of little hot coal systems, like the freezing with your stamina, what do you. Take torch out? Just take the torch, or you. Can just eat some food that gives you like ice resistance. Yeah, so I'd have to find out what food I'd have to freaking get for the ice resistance. And I was like, geez, clear soup, clear soup, because they just clearsuit heals all just spamming clear soup, just burying it. Oh yeah, that's never gonna beat me. Read Devil, Chris, where did you get to? I? Yeah, okay, that was that was really cool. That was really cool. Yeah. Like I said, all the bosses so far have been actually really really good, even though very many are nonsensical. There's like one boss that they I think it was the end of chapter six or end of chapter seven, one of the two where you beat him and then he just decides to become a god for some reason, and I was like. All right, what this lightning god? Okay, what the hell? Yeah, honestly, the fights for me, it's just like spamming. Make sure I have fifty fucking braized meat. Before I go in your just cra crap crap, grabbing your face with soup and meat during a fight, like. Like why did they do that? It's a bit weird. I think, I know because the controls are so absurd. Just give yourself more, like give us more health or make the damage less, Like well, why. Do I keep zeus? He's the abiscuit to give yourself more healthy? Yeah, but I think the controls in a way, you're always thinking what am I fucking pressing to get the Like even now I lock, I unlock a few new skills and I'm like, okay, I want to I want to put those into my little combo that I have right, And I'm like, oh, that's. R one, R two and then I gotta do R two L two to light it on fire. Then I gotta go trying like what that's what I'm saying. It's just got a pump cake and mill a pump cake. You gotta press these button a giant swing, Like I. Still don't even know how to do the big swing, Like I know how to grapple and push myself towards, but I have no idea what the hell they're talking about. I can't even make sense of the instructions on how to like swing, and it's the apple that. Like grapple and then jump in mid air. While you're jumping, you get to spin the right sticks. It's wild what you have to spin the right stick while jumping like. Like like a circle. Yeah, do the wind move? Yeah yeah. So I just stuck to pulling down the trees. I love that launching myself like, I don't know how to do that either. It was just pull myself towards. So they bore quite a quite a bit of like mechanics, like they like the nature stuff where you can go into like a little focus mode, right, and then you can pick up logs, throw logs from zelash logs into little logs. You can. They've got the energy attached hand where you could grab things and maneuver things around for some of the puzzles. Falling from the sky Sky Sky Trials in the Sky is literally a thing from Zelda. Yeah, yeah, the But what I think what it does well is that it does all of these things quite well, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's really weird. It doesn't feel like any of it's thrown in yeah right, yes, yeah, yeah, Like how did they take all of this ship from all these games and make it actually fucking work together. Like it's crazy. It's actually crazy. And like the cave systems where you're like, that's a waterfall. There's probably something behind that fucking waterfall, and you go in and you. Got to look for the little stone man, you look for the little stone, slash through the and you have to stab through the you have to do a special water. You can't just walk through the waterfall. No water will kill you. So this is like a whole area of the game that people could probably have not they don't know because no, I guess there's nothing behind the waterfall. He knocked me away. Yeah yeah. And I was like, I was like, okay, I'm exploring. Like after to read Devil, I like climbed that mountain that was right beside the field and there was nothing up there. Yeah. Same, No, there was like I mean when I played it, there, oh there was a crystal, and there there was a teleport and no crystal, but like no gear, right, I don't even fucking nothing. I was like, okay, what the hell? And I would I would explore. I explore down to the coast, to the all the broken ships, I went to the broken ships. There's like you found some collins. I was like yeah. I was like, I was like, there's gotta. Be saying, that's a huge mountain beside that it is, Oh yeah, huge mass. Because I remember looking down on those ships, I'm like, that is so far away and way down there, like I wonder if I can even go down there, Like I didn't even know, Like it looks so far away that I didn't even know if it was hard the game or not. The good thing about this game, man, if you see it, you can go to it, just like you mentioned before the Ice Tower. Remember being at one point I looked off I see a giant spire like on a mountain, super far away. It was like I want to go to that thing. And it was no thirty plus minutes of traveling a straight line and I got to it. And then I got to the front door and they're like you can't go in here. I'm like, cool, but I have unlocked or something or yeah. It was like I think it was based off of the main story mission. Yeah, And it was like you. Don't have the key yet, and I was like, great, everyone's starting to kill you. Like I went into this one the one region, and I was like, I because I committed a crime. You know, you running, You're just running. I'm just running through a town and then I randomly fucking tackle somebody, like person, I'm tackling people because the button is the same as a tackle button while you're running, so I'm just like spamming it running. It's like you bring him to the ground and you're just like and they're like and I'm like, oh sorry, sorry, sorry, and then you're like you're like, yes, punch. Accidentally beating the ship out of the civilians. He got thirty seconds between punches. So anyway, I got trouble about I got in trouble doing that. It's like accidentally like got a bounty on me. So like everywhere I went, I was being chased by the damn law And for some reason, I think it went into the other area too, unless they're hospital host style there, Okay, maybe that's why. And I was like, man, why are these people? What did I do to you? You go into the next area and any patrol of like a like a soldier patrol walking down the street, they'll just they'll attack you on site on site, and you're like, there you're there for like fifteen minutes, like wave after wave. Yes, I get to practice my moves now, yeah, and I want to try it a new unlocked move. I'm like, all right, let me see how this one. Oh yeah, because they don't die in two hits, so. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, they're way stronger the other. Yeah. I want but they added a another thing they added as a difficulty think, so I put it to fucking easy. I'm like, this is a game, Like I'm not gonna I'm not going to play this game for one hundred and fifty hours. Like I'm just I'm giving through it. Yeah, I'm like yeah, because I'm not like the bosses, like the fights were good and they were worked too hard, but like it's harder than I wanted to yeah, because you take so much damage and you have to constantly pound soup, like go pound soup, but he's just dunk and soup. Do you guys. Missed the Red Bossy? Like yeah, missed Like there was like a it's like a yeah, part of the missed part of the story. That's the part of the fighting this guy. I'm like, okay, something like lying around. Yeah, and I just keep getting smashed, and I just every time I get close to him, like, what in the your healthy down? Yeah, so I just googled it like the some guys like, oh, you can focus, focus, expend or expelled, but like focus expel you push it out right, yeah expel, right, so you focus expel and it like disables this thing for like five minutes and you just go at it like it expels him out of the smoke. I was sitting with the push the spirit. You can do that too and knock him over, or you can grab him when he's standing still. You grab him with the axiom hand and then you probably to the ground. And then like if you you all the bandits that you're killing, there's like a high chance they dropped the little hood that makes you immune today, so you put that on and then that way you don't take damage to his poison missed. So like the way it is, Yeah, the way I tried this guy's and it literally made it. I was like, this is ridiculous. And they didn't patch it out. They don't patch it out, you know, it's like, oh, whatever, let the guys beat this guy. Like all I was like focus expulge and then I beat him focus expulge, you know, expulsions. That's how I work. Yeah, yeah, to figure that out. But taking on those garrison ships two hours, well, just what you got to make sure you do is before you walk in there, you summon you know, like the Damien or you summon Unka or both, and then you can have all three of you with you know them both computer controls. Just I just got I just got you. Yeah, you could do it initially going in there, but then when you fight the boss. You can't fight the boss like with your companions. But just like beating up on the normal guys, you have to do it before you go fight because when you're in the middle of the fight, you can't summon them. But yeah, that's what I did for the quarry. When you the one boss that looked like a bi Yeah, I summoned Damiens to fight, so it was the two of us, you know. At the quarry. What I ended up doing was like there's a there was a patrol that would sometimes like walk around it, so I would like I would draw people over to them, and they would start fighting each other and then and then then then they started to come closer and closer to the quarry so that now I had like a little group, a little posse with me to fight. Wow, you called the guards on them? Yeah, basically like hello gods. But I mean again like that. That's the thing that's like so crazy about this game, Like like you can play with the systems and like they're like, okay, cool, let's just see what happens. Yeah, yeah, Well every time I tried to summon her, she was busy doing something. Yeah, same freaking bitch, Like whatever, I don't need you. Well, especially I think you hit chapter six yeah, and then she disappears until like chapter nine, like you can't do it? Oh okay, that must have been it. I hit this, But like every time before that, it was like, is on an important missure? What's more important than helping me? The hell is that? Is she a Gray Maine or not? She like got initiated into the Gray Main camp, but she wasn't in it like one of the OG's. Oh yeah yeah she's from damn. When you're playing as her. When you're playing as her, all the people are like, oh Gray Maine, Like yeah, really really immersion breaking breaking. And obviously obviously they went from like they went from a like a custom character designer, like to just giving you one character because they were gonna call you Gray Maine either way. So I'm pretty sure I think Maud's has actually unlocked the character creator that they have in mind. So you could be a woman, You could be a female gray Mane or a male grey Mane and customized that way. Your your voice is still this deep freaking British Scottish guy whatever. He sounds like Janeted Butler, Jared Butler, Janted Butler, like uh twin or like they the cheap version. They would just like keap version version. Brother man, he just came out with that new green Land to. Oh on. Second one, I saw the first one these Netflix movies. No, it's like Amazon Prime or some ship. That's what clip is. Yeah. Uh. They've also got like a thieving mechanic. You got to put the mask on in order to steal anything. You guys get your thief gloves mission yet So I got a thief glove. I don't really know what it does, but it has a cool down of like thirty minutes steal. Things without getting caught, So you can like pick pocket somebody without it that you robbed them. Really even if you're doing it broad daylight. Broad daylight. Yep, you're good to get. But like you said, it's a thematic. Yeah, cool down, ridiculous. Shine your lantern into people's eyeballs so you can see it in their pockets. Yeah, excuse me, excuse me, I'm just checking up pants. What do you got down? Was that a gold bar in your pocket in your trousers that goes into the banking mechanics. Oh, here we go, fucking I finally got my gold bars. So they put in a patch where like there used to be these gold bars you could find, like people would be finding these massive piles of gold bars, but you couldn't pick them up. And they're like, why can't I pick up these gold bars? And then the dev's like here you go. Yeah, this is the one guy that was sitting there messaging them, and they just replied to them, okay, okay, but they turned we got one message some guy wants to pick up gold bars. It's like, yeah, sure, all right, but they're gonna be crude gold bars and only five silva. The monkeys. Paul curls, Yeah, they're just then, but you're there. I found a pile of them and you're picking up items. It's so fucking stupid. It's like red like red ye. Oh yeah, yeah, it's a box of like the items is and they're like, if you want these crude bars, if you want these crude gold bars, you're gonna pick up three hundred. Yeah. But there I was there for like twenty minutes Olden Square picking up these crude bars, like picking I got like three hundred, just like it's realistic. Man, if you would have been there picking up those gold bars, you've been sweating my back hundred gold bars. See. That's the good thing about this game too, is the system that your actual items are, right. It's not weight based though what any other game, you would have picked up ten gold bars and I'm over encumbered one. It's like as long as you have a space for it, you can put it in there with video game Dragon, thank you for being a video game. Yes, yeah, exactly. So I get these cool Crewde gold bars, I find a merchant that buys them for seven dollars instead of or seven silver instead of five silvers. So I ended up getting like sixteen hundred silver for all these things like sweet, go to the bank, put them in the bank. I changed them into gold bars. I put three gold bars in the bank. Then I go and steal the gold bar from the fireplace in Lion Crest manor put a fourth gold bar in the bank, and then you put it to high interest. What are they gonna put it? Yeah, had to invest. They're like your gold bars in high risk. And it's like, okay, in three days you're gonna see either a return or we're going to take your money pretty much right, And it's fucking random. So you go, you go there in three days and you wait and you watch the clock go down, and you scum. You save, scum, you say, you gotta say, you gotta do it. It takes too long to freaking load this game. Save. So then partners there, I was like, what are you spending this money on? I need to know what are you spending his money on? You? Here's a hoarding money because there's nothing money. He's going to become a local lord. He's going to become one. To have my own house, you already have your own house at the camp. You have to put a nice house. I don't want to living in intent. Yeah, this fucking tent A bunch of smelly gray manes you guys know this is only like. Three girl gray manes and there's like four hundred man gray man correct, this is exactly what they are. So back to the bank. So I go in and I save right before, and I'm like, I get a twenty percent increase on my investment. Like sweet, I save scum go back negative twenty percent, negative fifty percent. But I keep trying to load, and I keep getting worse and worse. I was like, I should have just kept the twenty percent, So like, I'll do it one more time, Bang, fifty increase of profit. I was doubled my mind. That probably took me three hours. Oh yeah, it took me like forty five minutes to load that many times. So now I've got like four grant four thousand silver, and I could just do whatever I want. I'm just go out. I'm gonna bet high stakes in that fucking straw game that they play. The high Machine, and the last update to the Roller a claw Machine Machine added a claw machine to you can go spend it all there, swear, just go spend it all there, just like in real life. Those claw machines are just a complete like rigoff, Yeah yeah, ripoff. Terrible but anything else. We all know why you were actually reloading your saves over and over again. It's because you wanted to hear that sweet, sweet loading music. Yeah. Every time the game bots up, I just start levitating in my house. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty good. Music is pretty good. But yeah, the loading wow wow. And the menus when the menus in the game first came out and the selection are so bad, it came out so bad. I did I overwrite my save? Yeah? I think I accidentally overwrote my save because of the stupid way they had the buttons in the men Like the bottom button X or A, whatever you're playing on should be continue yes, action, Like it's your freaking cursor is over your save file, Like that should be the button that loads the save file. But it's fucking saved, not load. You have to first like different buttons. I was like, what is this fucking Oh? I was so mad. I think I lost two hours after Oh so mad. And then they kind of fixed it. They made it each their separate, their own separate selection. WHOA crazy? It's like that the meme of the guy goes looking at the laptop like, dude, have you made a game before? Like what the hell is that there's so many little interesting things they did at first, Like do you remember when the game first came out and your character apparently has amnesia, so they didn't know what anything was, like question mark, question mark, question mark, and then you had to stare at something for thirty seconds what it was. When I was going into a store, You're like, that's an apple. It looks like an apple silhouette. It's like, yeah, I didn't even notice, so you can tell. You can tell. All those mechanics were from MMO, their MMO section of the. Like scan this apple. You're just like staring at this apple. I didn't realize that they fixed it though. They Yeah, they made it a lot faster, and now when you go into a store, for example, instead of like each individual one, it'll just auto scan all things in the store, which is very nice. Now it would be a great time to start playing this, And I feel. Like every time you get into the game, like it just gets better and better. Like that's what the updates, the quality of life updates, and then just the straight up add ons. I don't know, they're going crazy with it. Yeah, it's a good game. It's a good game to just for if someone is just looking for something to fucking pick up and and just kind of get lost in. Yeah, but always again, like you said, like something new almost every time every time we launched the game. What's this that's going to stop? Right, it's gonna stop or slow down? Like what else? I know? But there's so much to do anyway, You're just okay, something else that I might get to. I don't know, ridiculous like after after my after my base building and my you know, the the Gray main quest and the I want to go find some dragons to ride or something, or like I'm gonna go find the Lion. I found a fucking entt in the forest man, Like I was literally riding. I was riding on top of a fucking ant. I was like, what the hell is this? It's so fin like randomly walking through as part of forest, part of is it? Like I just stumbled upon him if I heard something and I was like, what is that? Like I'm like something large is around me, and I like went into this clearing and there's this giant giant ant and like I was at its feet. I'm like, oh my god. I was like actually it was very sick. And then I like could climb on his head and I was just walking with them all on top of his head. It was fucking sweet. It's just stuff like that in the air. The world makes you feel like that a lot too, Like you still get really surprised seeing those kind of magical creatures because so much of it is very medieva Like Game of Thrones. You're fighting normal guys. You're attacking you know, what's it called wolves and stuff. Even when you see those really large giant guys in town, you see them so often they start to become normal. But then yeah, like Jonna says, you'll come across an ant or you know, later on, Yeah, a giant crow, a dragon will come to know where You're like, oh, this is magical. Man, I haven't. I have only fought the plant monsters. I climbed to that mountaintop and I was like, there's nothing here, and then I got absolutely by some freaking plant monster came out of the ground really and jump on you. Yet, Yeah, you know. Who the worst enemy is explosive barrels. Oh definitely. Oh yeah, the quarry. Like ten times they purposely put those there to fuck you. Yeah, because hello, I played Divinity Original Sin too for sixty hours. Man, It's literally all there is in that game. Everything is always on fire always, like it's a running joke. The game is literally always in your in your combat, there's always something that explodes and lights everyone on fire, even yourself. Every fucking time. It's always fire. So I was like I was not really too uh to take in the back by that. I was like, oh yeah, I always go for like the free the wrestling, like everything. Like you die, go fucking fly you would? Would you like to the palm pill? Want to come back to health or thirty percent health? Right? Yeah? I'm like wow, when did I pick these up? It's like I got twenty of these and like, okay, one hundred percent health and get blown up again? What are those things called again? Palmer pills, Palmer pills, Palmer pills, pop some pills. I'm back, just like send beans. Yeah you just stand up? Yeah, whover killed? You is looking at you? Like again? That just seems like the combat is a lot of it is. It's like just healing like crazy. And just like the combos and like just the animations. I got the sword that shoots crows at the fucking thing. The crows are flying it. The crows are fucking flying. Ever, I don't see I can't see it blowing ship up, killing people. Where the hell you get a crow sword? Yeah, it's from buddy boss. Yeah, the crow bus there beat him. I didn't see a sword. It's that you got it automatically once you beat him. It's either in your stuff or it's back in your or your camp gave it away to the camp one of the three. You may have accidently made it a provision. Yeah, but it's not the sort. It's the thing, yeahah, which people show you can take it out. And then I saw somebody put on like a couple of swords. You can put on the crow gear, and then there's a couple of different ones, including like one of the very first bosses you fight that has the little wind whipping thing. Oh yeah yeah, so yeah, you can add that on the different swords so that when you hit right trigger twice, it shoots out like six different effects. Just blows people. Especially when you go dual wielder, and y'all try out dual wielding like one. On the other hand, it feels awesome. Yeah I should try. Yeah. Well, I do two swords. I do sword and shield a shields two swords. It's okay, Oh yeah, it's really sick. I was doing a splash slash through everybody. You're just like and if you find the sword, that's really fast, Like he attacks so fast. Attacks be super important in this game, Like you can just go crazy. You feel like a baby, lad. Yeah you know why. I think it's because when you actually hit somebody, it locks them for a little bit because they're actually like they're animated. Yeah, so like you can just still fuck them. Yeah, unlike every other game I play where I'm like and there's. Like ILike replaced. When the guy's just about to hit he's like just about to hit you, and it does a little like timer for your perry. I was like, I'll just punch him instead because I don't interrupt him. No, nope, it's just like cranks. I can't s I can't stand that ship and like all those Souls games. Souls like games, like when you hit somebody, they're still winding up and their animation is going to go through. You know, no matter how hard you hit them, there's like they're still smack you. Right, I'm too right in a way. Yeah, there's a there's a stun bar or whatever it is. But yeah, but there's like ao aoi effects and yeah. Elders playing the creation system. Yeah, you just swinging for the fences goes right through this a. Like completely, You're gonna regret this. I don't know how you guys played on? Did you play it on console? That game? Because the controls are which one the controller Crimson Desert, No, not Crimson Desert, the Oblivion remix or. Well I played controller on? Oh really? Yeah? Yeah, more brutal than can Crimson Dessert because yeah, pretty good. The button presses are just you gotta press six different buttons at the. Same I mean there's a lot of combos. Yeah, there's a lot of different. Blinding flash you gotta hold L one and R one at the same time, then and then one to focus. Anything about anything else about the game play, any kind of other mechanics we touched. We probably didn't touch everything. Definitely fishing fish or you can just jump in and grab a fish. Yeah, yes, fishing is pointless. You just go into the water and take the grab whatever you want. That's what Cliff does. He doesn't need a fishing don't need a fishing all. How did you catch that legendary fish cliff Mans grab it with mahons. Okay, well other mechanics. Sorry, sorry, because I thought this one was super cool, because very unique as far as especially how this game is a patchwork of most things. But the observation mechanic is awesome. Where you see a boss or somebody it doesn't even I got you could go watch training people training. It was like some kid like practicing his like kung fu, and then I got a level of an on combat by just watching this kid like throw punches. That is sick. Yeah, how do we forget that? You know? That's cool, That's very cool. It's part of that learning. There's a learning system. Yeah, when you get your ass by a boss, he's like punches in the face, like new skill super punch. It's like press this to observe this boss that's trying to kill you right now. And you're just like, oh, okay, stop, stop and press this button PEP while he's fucking slashing the ship out of you. Like it's like you've learned a new skill. Press okay. While you're flying. Through the air, it's like you've learned a new skill. Like That's what it was to me. I was like. Just getting blown away. Yeah that is really cool because you can go and if you observe a skill when you've already put a point into it, they'll refund the point to Yeah that's which is awesome. Yeah, what is so sick if they if you what if you observe a skill that you are that you've already spent a little whatever the cube whatever a cube on it getting refunded. So I went in the game with that and I'd like, I'd like six cubes funded, like oh shit, and I just put them back. Man, love it. Love my skill tree. We can talk about the skill tree, say two with the skill tree. Yeah, if you also use the faded abyss cubes to renew your skills, then it keeps the ones you viewed as well. So yeah, that's good that you can just Oh I want to I want to tried doing this now instead of being unarm combat, I'm gonna go like full you do like a reset lightning stuff? Yeah, you reset the skills. Yeah, I have a bunch of those. I've only reset once, but I think I have like nine or. Eight d them. I had to reset when I took over the girl because she has zero skills. Yeah, and I was like, I can't want to play her. Yeah, if you want to play her even a bit, you probably would add all something. So yeah, but they just though they keep the health, the stamina, and the spirit across all three. That's nice that it's oh that's good. Yeah, yeah they do. But you can expect into all of those, right, but you're specking into it. So wait a minute, so like not not the whole tree, but those very end cat parts where yeah, most your stamina and your health on cliff, it'll be the other ones too. Yeah, oh cool, cool, Okay, well that's skill points. That's to take skill points or like biscubes. Remember before they patched the game again and made the stamina a lot more forgiving. Before the stamina was incredibly brutal. Yeah yeah yeah, you. Climb three times and lose your full Yeah, you can barely fly anywhere, ye do anything? Like I put everything in the stamina every time I got in the basic stand. It's just like they're like, okay, what do you guys want? What do you guys? How do I guys want this game? And everyone's like this this this this okay, thank you, Like no, this is our vision like, no, what do you guys want here? You go like that for you? Yeah, that's it's so awesome. And and the sales numbers are reflecting like the I think maybe million. Yeah, look up the sales. I think it's definitely five million. That was like two a week ago, a week and a half ago. In the first month, they sold five million first month. It's impressive. Yeah, that beats out a lot of the big games. Yeah, it was selling well though from the beginning even. Yeah, the hype was there for it a lot, and then people thought there was after some of the reviews came out and it was kind of middling. But this, you know, once they started making sure that they were doing the quality of life and the improvements and they were staying really active in the community as far as what the people wanted. Yeah, the sales pick right back up, as did the reviews on like Steam. I think now they're at I don't think they're overwhelmingly, but I think they're mostly positive or like fully positive something like that. Oh on Steam my Steam, open the Steam reviews. Yeah, store page. Well, look, there's an update. It's very positive right now, very positive. It's very positive. Eighty six percent of all of eighty of English reviews eighty four percent of total reviews, so it's eighty four percent eighty four percent thumbs up basically. But yeah, I think the uh, the Open Critics score was only like a seventy nine or something. It was seventy nine or eighty. Yeah, but polarizing at the beginning. It was like you either loved it and like or you just thought it was absently. But I don't understand for these reviewers reviewing this game, like did they play for three hundred hours? Like how are you supposed to review this game? Like how long did these guys play? Because this is a game, but you cannot just play twenty hours of and do a review, Like did they just do the main story? I think it's like the main story, you're not having a good time. Yeah, it's like literally the worst part of the game. So like these guys are reviewing the Golden Path of this game, Like I don't I don't understand how you can review this game. So it's so hard to play, Like tod do that for any of these open world games, right, And it's like that's why I feel like you have to have you can have like an initial impression. But you you can't do a full review for like at least a year because you've got this, I mean, like with the patches and stuff like that that it happened, like you can't. It's also too hard. Yeah, it's hard. Though. The reviews for the reviews that obviously came out were before all that stuff happened, before all the the updates. And all that. So yeah, and at least they didn't say, at least Pearl Bass like wait till we patch everything? Den Yeah, yeah, he was playing. Marathon gamers like damn, They're like, I didn't know we could do that. Hold on, Yeah, what the hell was that man? And how many players even on Marathon Now it's losing a lot of players. I was. I bought it and I was playing the let's play. Well, you also bought the Concord. Yeah, I got that refund though, maybe they'll refund me on Marathon. No, they won't. Sony lost so much. I didn't get my refund on High for your play free game. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on. The gameplay mechanics. You just fucking talk about that. It's it's it's very robust. I mean, yeah, the controls, So we don't really to talk about controls. We need to talk about the armor. And you can take the hoods on and off like that's a couple. That's the basic stuff. That's basic stuff. Every game has that. Now, okay, we could move into graphics performance and talk about the look of the armors and the sets. I guess that fall into this. Yeah, like that. Cool? Oh yes, you're the it's the it's the Litch game. I wanted. I just saw someone they had the the Kermit the frog like that. Yes, that was awesome. What armor set that looks like when you have the hood over it. It looks like the current like. Die the helmet like frog green up. It's so awesome. There's like google No, because he's covered. His eyes are covered anyway, so it's. Just googled it. I can't paste the imagining. Give me the LIKENK send me the link that. I don't know what the hell you're talking about. But though some of the fucking Harvard does look sick. Yeah, I mean just the game. I know. We'll talked about like the draw distance and everything's unbelievable. I believable. With this game. You stand up on top of a cliff and just like no pun intended. And then you look over you're just like this is absolutely nuts. Like on a clear day you can just see everything. You see the whole map. Oh yeah, literally the whole fucking map you can see. I will say like that when I first played it and I think it was dark and it raining, I was like I don't get it, Like it didn't look good like that, like then on launch day it didn't look great. And then like and then like once once you got to the park where you were sitting at the at the beach, and then I was like, oh shit, okay, I see what they're talking about now. But then it's just I think it's because the because in this they forced the ray tracing on you, and the ray tracing and the whole like ray regeneration tech and all that stuff was okay yes when it launched. So for PC users are the way we were handling the ray tracing with the ray regeneration ship was all broken. So like when we when it was dark and you had the ray tracing on and you went into a building, like awful, it looked all blotchy and it was like flashing at you. It looked all super gross, and then they ended up fixing that and now it looks so much better, So maybe that's what it was. Also, the rain effects was non existent if you had the upscaling on, So if you turned your upscaling on, there'd be no rain. You would just see the puddles on the ground. You wouldn't see the actual rain, like the rain drops. So it looked stupid, like I can tell everything. It must have just rained. It must have just rain. That's like raining right now, not like in Henry where you can't see a fucking thing when it's raining. Oh yeah, they're just like, ah, I can't see anything. Talk about those puddles though, too, my god, Like after reflections you're walking around, yeah. The reflections and then just like the puddles themselves being there, Like it's just like I'm walking around in real life, Like this is nuts, yea spider Man want to eat your heart out, like. It's crazy. Whenever it gets like overshadow or what's called the overcast, everything just looks real. It's just that weird that that one lighting time of day or after whatever weather effect, that weather effect makes the game look real, like the mud, the grass, everything looks so fucking good. It's so fucking sweet. No, no detailed photo mode though, Yeah, which is funny. Do you still see like when you go to look at the photomode, it says beta in the corner, So I guess they're semi actively adding things and work. They added they added a focal length so you can, like, instead of moving the camera, you can zoom with the lens. It's yeah, not as basic as hell. It's basic. Yeah did it? Was it even there at the at launch? It was there, it was just more basic. Yeah, you could barely do anything but need to just listen. PlayStation Slash Sony set the gold standard, especially in an open world game like this. I need to be able to add lighting. I need to be able to change the time of day, and then I need to be able to change the weather effects. And that's like, you know, really all you need. Everything else I do and post just that just everything else I do in post, Yeah, Chris. With the other meme Crimson Desert means in the chat, it's like a quarry with one hundred plus bandits. It's bane. Fifty what up? Because just just like pants full. Of suits, I brought my soup backpacks, my soup camel pack. Yeah, the tube in my mouth. The guys just. You punched in the chest. Hold on, hold on, hold on, you're coughing, you're coughing up soups. What's funny? What's funny? There's no like penalty. It doesn't. Global cool down like half a one to like fifty. Yeah, so there's no downside, just making and also it's super easy to make, Like clear soup is just any kind of meat. I think it's barley water and then water. That's I keep seeing the other thing with the abyss laser cube. It's like apparently like yeah, yes, the meta is the laser cube. It automatically kills anything it touches. I haven't seen it. Like a little obiskie. Once you get that cuhoo pot, you can grab different things from like. The abyss and into the pot. Big lasers. Yeah, one of them is like a cube that has a laser on the other end. Ye. Like you literally pointed at anything in the game one hit kills. They're up in the abyss, Like you just go grab them and go back like those I just know how to use the fucking decoup pot or whatever the hell it's called. What the hell is called cuckoo pot. Look, cuckoo pot. I don't know how to use that. So that's for like whenever you're doing those sanctums or whatever, and you have to carry that stupid fucking cube from the basement to the top. Just hold. I just put in the pot. Yeah, I didn't know you could do that, because there's a sanctum you have to do it. There's a sanctum where it's behind like bars and there's the way to open this bar. It's not even a room. It's like there's bars and then there's a cube behind this Bar'm like, how the funk am I supposed to get this cube out of there? And then I just was like, oh, cuckoo pot. I put it in, put it in the cuckoo pot, and it just disappears in my cucko pot. But how do you put it in the poo poo pot? You grab it with your hand, your energy hand, and then it'll give you the up the option. Oh there's a stash or something stash. In the cook Oh fuck sake, man, I must be blind you every day I am blind. I must be blind. We were talking about a little bit, but that's the kind of thing about this game I think is also very cool. The reddit with the subreddit. Specifically for Crimson is awesome because this kind of game really thrives off of Dave Jackson talked about this when he did his Fear and Loading review. But you know, like playground knowledge where you and your friends would be playing a game and be like, hey, did you see this when you Oh no, I didn't know that was there? Did you know this was here? And now you can do that on a global scale on the Internet. So people go to this waterfall and cut through and then boom you get this super o p sword. Yeah, I see what you mean, Like, yeah, talking to your friends as cool. It's like, yo, if you go to this place and you go behind the waterfall, there's something back there. It's like a cool sword. But there's one thing I found. I had to do a memory. You know, you take your little lantern out and you listen to a memory. Put your stupid helpmet watch it. Yeah. Yeah, and I see this vision from the past and these guys are like trying to get into this cave this entrance, and it's like. There's a tale of a legendary sword that's. Behind there, and I was like, yes, nice, how do I get in here? And I get in there and there's no thing there, there's no sword, I get the puzzle inside. All it did was give you a one. Yeah. Is that the one with the dragon that's like hanging over the Yeah yeah. And it's like a. Ledge in the middle of a cavern wall. Yeah yeah, yeah, And you do the stupid question. But I was like sword, yeah, gives you a cube, not even a sword. But it was like in that same area, if you turn around and go down a little cave path, it's full of diamonds. Yes, I found that. I'm like, you know what, I'm not even mad because now I will sell these for a pretty penny. Is that you just sell those you don't craft with them. Later you can craft with them as well. Well. Later on you'll probably have to refine with the find your arm. I've been keeping everything. It'll come back. It'll grow back. Nice diamonds will grow back. Diamonds are forever. The diamond. Back to was like, let's say, the water in this game, unbelievable, great stuff. I think they just put out patches for the tracing on consoles where it's like they boosted the frame rate Daniel was saying, he was like it was He's like, this looks and feels way better. I don't know what the hell they did, but it's like he could feel that the game ran better and looked better. And this game is just such a visual treat because I don't the amount of detail in the view of the world, the view distance and the detail of the view is un fucking believable. When you're up on the abyss and you're diving down like the detail on the map, you're just how is it just not a big pasty mess? Right there is there is a weird layer like abyss layer. Yes, they have to load though, yeah, yeah, they have a slight loading screen when you get to a certain altitude. And then smart how they did it? Like how they Yeah, I will say. When you're riding around, like on the ground level and going back and forth the places, did y'all notice a pretty rough amount of pop in? Yes? Yes, did you see how they did that? The the flowers out up, yep, yep, they grow. That's but like nothing that was like bothering me where it's like a tree was like yeah, yeah, it wasn't ever like the worst. No, it's not it's really good. It's it's really good. Really. The wind and the leaves, the wind, the trees and reminded me of Ghosts of Sushima. And there's a lot of movement. Oh yeah, you can turn that down if you want, but don't. No, it's immersive. It's immersion emerge. I just love. I just love, And I think this is one of the rare games that you could say, like the graphics made me want to play more and more and more, and just like I just want to see this world, like go to these snow cap mountains, or go to these desert or just follow this trail of this river of the water and you're. Like this is and when you find your favorite method of traversal, like yeah, it just becomes a traversal game. But that's what I felt like in Death Randing. It's like that's what it is. People don't People think of it as like a walking simulator. No, it's the it's you against the map in the game, you know what I mean. That's what it's part of the game. You versus the map and traversing the map. That is part of the stranding, and it's part of this game for sure. You could do whatever you want, Like you could walk and climb with your bare hands from wherever you see to anywhere else. If you have the stamina, you could literally just use your feet in your hands and then the crow skills that you could do the dive and the yeah exactly. Yeah. Did you guys see that guy go to space? Yes? Yeah, you can do the aerial stab if you like give yourself, you. Can literally went into the fucking space. Space like space, you go out of the strategy. You can look over and see the horizon, like the curvature of the Earth. I'm like, why did they animate this? Why they actually rendered the moon? And he's like, standing on that's just them put their big old cock on the table. I said, why not? You knew somebody would do this with five your moves like, and it runs. It ran quite good, runs well enough, but now it runs way better than it didn't launch. But even at launch it ran pretty decently where I was like, okay, I'm at like mass graphics and I'm yeah, if I'm holding this frame rate like it was. Released sixty, I mean it's probably I think I get like seventy five or eighty maybe on the Ultra wide. Yeah, I think so native native resolution, ultra quality. That's all I asked. So it's like eighty eighty FBS ninety, I would like that. I'll even lock it. I locked it at sixty because I don't like any any sort of stutter I didn't like, so I locked it at sixty. And I had played that through the first month or so as the patches kept coming out, and then the frame generation was broken as well. When when it lost so you couldn't even use frame gen to use their new like rate tracing ray regeneration tick oh there. So like when you turn it on for AMD, you'd get like fifteen frames per Secondly, it was fucking terrible. You're like, oh, it looks so good. I can't play this. So like their point was like, oh, just use frame gen with the ray regeneration, right, but everything was broken, so. I was like, fuck, yeah there, Yeah, it didn't look great on AMD. Shot now yeah shot yeah, Now I'm using frame gen with ray regeneration. You do you have one? Yeah, okay, I'm just playing with ray tracing on ratracing on no ray regeneration and. The frame the frame gen it doesn't kill the like I can still fight, like I'm pounding fucking soups. Anyway, it doesn't matter as long as I get my freaking attacks off right like it, and like the traversal is fine, like the frame generation with the with all the bells and whistles. Man, what about that weird noiser that they used. Did they fix that? Yeah? They they uped the quality of it. They fixed it a bit. Yet, Okay, it's not as good as the. End video one, but cool, Maybe I'll try it again. Then tried again. I've just been playing like normal native rate racing on not but like i'd like the ad fs. It's just they also they also had when they designed it. I was reading that they designed it with the intent for the native AA, like the f SR anti aliasing to be turned on, and it's crazy. I went from quality mode f SR to just the AA and I was like, wow, just the quality of the image was so much better on Yeah. Because quality mode on the f SR is upscaling from yes, like like super low resolution, but. Then you can you can change the sharpening and stuff. But man, with the AA, even it looked better. I found it looked better than the native. No, it looked better than the native. Well yeah, it's it's native with anti ali with upscaling to lots of options here in poor world ye. Down there. The Baby Base PS five was really bad on launch, so people had to like one myself personally, yet a ton of crashes. Like I was, I was really looking forward to the game. In my first maybe at least three days if not the first fall on week, I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to play this game literally just because every thirty minutes to forty five minutes or so, like I would, it would crash. Probably overeating it was nuts maybe. And then when I first got into it, it was really stuttery and janky and messed up. So I had to go look online. People were like, yeah, in consoles, you have to do this setting, in that setting, in this setting, like really make it very bespoke, and then it would have done fine. But then it's choosing between running fine and kind of looking ugly ish versus you know, looking a little bit better tail as old time. You're like, are you gonna look better and not run good? I'm like, actually, you're gonna do neither. You're gonna look worse and run worse. Tailor is oldest time, my friend, so in the PC world, welcome to PC gaming. Come come to our PG. You're never gonna get anything here. But they fixed that though it's much better now, it's a lot better, So thank goodness, he has a lot better. Definitely well worth waiting him for it. Like we talked about a little bit earlier on, every time you wait a little bit, you're gonna get the best version of the game. That's effectively where we're at now. Guy was even looking at the well they did the roadmap. We were talking about the roadmap before, and yeah, like they had a roadmap they set out I think it was supposed to be from April through June, and by May second they completed the roadmap everything they wanted. To add, plus a little. They have all workers working every hour of every day. They're like the Korean gold farmers, the Korean gold farmers. This guy fucking died playing Wow because he didn't take a break for however, drinking just gold keeled. Over God' wasn't that Diablo two player thing? I thought it was a wild player tablo two. Gambled two player. He was Korean diable to a player death, resulting real death, real human real death. I thought it was wow. Wow. I didn't human die playing Diablo Wow, And you will find it because it was wow. Yeah, here you diable. Two three. Police in Hong Kong reported that the twenty eight year old man died after a six hour gaming session. That's it. That's not that's not that's not it. Six hours six. That looks the rookie numbers. You got a pump was like six. What a pussy geez. I'm not saying that for this dead Okay, I'm not saying that for this rip recipes. That is really sad, but damn, yeah, you gotta there's another. There's another story of the guy. Didn't your sleep for like two three days. Yeah, they love momos. They just love momos. Gotta go use the bathroom or something some water. Well, that's why they have super controls on the gaming over there, don't they. I thought they did put it the catheter something. My wife's got a whole closet for them from the hospital, taking old cap like just in case Nate needs it. This is my souvenir. It's in a box, gaming a box label game gaming catheters. So you come over for a land and we'll get some catheters, and. My wife will put him in. Alma will put him in, and we'll just. Around the corner, right. Around the corner. Doesn't don't worry. I boil these after every. Use anything else for graphics and performance. I don't think it's a real treat. I think it's one of the best looking games I've ever played. Beautiful game. I'm leaving, really, how many times you'll be able to you know, you can zoom in and out and like, you know, get closer for the way what have you. And you get to a certain distance and Cliff just stares at the screen. He just oh, yeah, you hit you with the blue steel if. You get Yeah, she does. The girl does that a lot too. Yeah. I was like, she's like. Fifty hours looking at me. Fifty hours and I haven't even played the other characters. Like yeah, Like the thing is I can't even used to input. On that I'm so used to like for some reason, like translating this to like Witcher three. So like the that button that does the zoom, like the controls for that is usually the map in the Witcher. It's like every time so I pressed them, like damn it, I just zoomed in again. It was like, getting to the map is annoying. Yeah. I was about to say, they heard you, Chris, because if you hold that button down, it's the map. Oh my god. Because like getting over the map you have to press like pause up, down, up, like I just hold it now. Yeah, I didn't know that, old man. Actually, I think there's an update right now as we speak, ready to download. Yep. Yeah, well I think that's probably the one that Will was talking about. The background and all the good stuff, the eleventh more mounts, more mounts. Something else. Camera wise, has any have you tried playing through any significant amount of the game in first person mode? You know you can do the camera to the point where you're like looking out of their face. Me, it's the whole thing we talked about the game being pretty. You can obviously see that, even more so when you're like on ground level. So yeah, it's pretty neat. I can't do it. You can't see. That is true. That is true. You can see footprints, oh but not the feet trash trash. And to be fair, if you take your boots off this cliff, can you see his toes? You great questions? I think, So what do you mean I thought you couldn't see his feet. Like your third person zoomed out. If you take off, is he wearing socks? Or is he dogs out? These are the questions we asked. Can you count his little piggies? Cliff has never taken his boots off, superstitious. But say the stinkiest boots and all. Yeah, that's the smell of a real gray. That's how we smell, like so much. The guy sleeps in his full plate with his furs and all this ship. I sleep with a freaking lich King mask, sleep like my seat bath machine. That machine is a giant skull. Hell yeah, hell yeah, that would be awesome. Oh man, attention detail in terms of like audio and stuff like that. When he does have the helmet on, you can hear like the kind of vibration from him wearing, like when he's doing dialogue when he's talking. Yeah, okay, sometimes you can't even hear like what, yeah, you've got some ballgag. Or something bringing the game. Had the voice actor put on the bulk. A newman, No for someone. You need to record three hundred hours of dialogue? Jeez? Oh good? All right, Yeah you're talking about the sound though. Yeah, Chris like that was. The sound is really cool, especially considering the different gear and weapons. You know, you put on leather gear, you put on plate gear. And when you were wearing plate gear walking around and cut scenes or sneaking around, et cetera. Yeah, you hear the little. Clink clink clink clink. So yeah, very noisy detail there. My guy is very noisy. Just plate. Crank, not not quiet at all. The geese when you go run through the field and the fucking ducks and geese take off, they sound superb. The freaking birds, Like, I'm like, is that outside these Canadian geese running. So sick and I gotta plug plug one so I can get my bird meat. It's like, get all that bird meat. I gotta start doing that in this wilderness? Do you have a point here of wilderness? Open wilderness? Open wilderness? So you're talking about that, just as you're running through, just find some deer and just yeah, slice some deer up, pick up their meat. Skinning. It's thankfully, very very short. Yeah, it's not like to like butcher. Uh. If you're like if you catch a little animal in your pack, and then yeah you can butcher that animal. It took me too long to realize that. I kept catching animals like in cages in my my pack, and I was like what do I do with this? And at one point I saw a butcher command was like, oh, it's like small bones. Yeah. Same with fish, Like the fish is like how do I get the filet? And you go on to the fish in your inventory, it's like fly the fish. Oy Okay, I guess eat this raw fish. Cooking stuff hilarious because it's like whatever it is. I mean, it was cool when you first see it's like, oh cool. He's like he's like you seem actually cooking the items. But then it's like you're cooking steak. But then it still looks like you're cooking vegetables initially and it turns into a steak. I find that like there's like lump of them fried meat. I'm like, yeah, that looks like a lump of fried meat. And it's like barley pancakes and I'm like, yeah, that kind of looks like some dry ass. Like but the like soups are really cool looking. Yeah, they're like bubbling fish pornage, Like, yeah, looks delicious. It's like it's just like fruit punch there's so many Oh I got I unlocked, like a what's it called like a feast? Yeah? You can cook food and then make that into a different whole food, right. And you can invite townsfolk for a feast at your camp and then it increases your like with them. Yeah. I didn't know that. That's cool. You can go like a yeah, I haven't done yet, but I was really like what I have this recipe for it, but I haven't collected all the ship for because it's ridiculous. Was like, what does this do? And like apparently you cook a feast and you invite people to the gray Man camp and it's just like upstairs. Yeah, that's large, all these mechanics that are here, and yet there's no romancing one. Yeah, there's no like dancing, is there? It's gonna come. Yeah, I would not be One person on Reddit already requested very serious. I don't know. It's like I would just want to go into the tavern and the tavern wench romance. Yeah, just put romance. Everybody doesn't have time to romance. Yeah, it's true. You know what is what I also really love is mining. Just mining really good and the sound awesome. I used to drill the dress that the drill because you auto collect auto collect. Okay, So later on for logging you get a chainsaw. Pretty sweet, Okay, it's pretty good, noteds powered chainsaw. Yeah. Daniel put in a little note He's like, the music in this game is really really good, And I was like, I haven't really paid much attention to it. Yeah, And I don't know why, but I think I think it's because I play without headphones when I play this game. I don't know why, but the music never made me stop to listen to the music like some games. Do you know. I like it on the loading screen, like I love the little pretty I think a lot of it blends in really well, like you notice too or you think about it when you go to a store, like a like the Smithy or somebody do do do do do do do? Like all that music that kind of goes through like yeah, it was very like Jaunty, It's like joking, yeah, yeah. Nothing is like nothing was like oh this is like there was one game that had I can't remember what game it was. I was like, what the fuck music is this? Why is this in this game? I remember thinking that didn't happen in this game. It's just something I've thought that many times. That must have been really bad. Expedition No expedition, No expedition music was like. And French. No, there was something. There was another game that had a weird I was like, what, like, that's weird in this game. Was the guitar battling scene from Death Stranding. To aesome unreal unreal unreal, But that music I didn't really, it just fits its fits very I guess it's good. This is good. That is good. So yeah, we could go on forever. I think this freaking game, and by tomorrow I'll find four hundred new things that I did. No correct, So we have to answer the question that, yes, that we did. Crimson Desert, Crimson Desert, John Crimson, Junior Senior. Esquire meet the hype, I would say I would. I would say it did. I would say it did. Yeah, and it. Continues to meet Slash exceed based off of the devs doing just really really good work as far as quality of life and extra add ons. I think if the game came out as it was and they only fixed the broken parts and left it the way it was, people would still be like, oh, yeah, this is pretty great. It's awesome. Yeah. More. I think it's just because it met everyone's expectation of what it was going to be. Like, I think everyone knew going in. It's like, that's not really it's not a story story tATu. Yeah, oh yeah. I think people knew that, and they knew what they wanted. They want that other, that other experience. They don't care about that, they want a sandbox. There's a lot of people out there who thought that way. I think that there's a lot of people who don't give a ship about stories. People fucking skip that ship all this like an MMO. When I'm play an MO, you think I give a fuck about this story? Like you can fast forward this story? Yes you're playing? He said. The story was great, Okay, mmo, it would be an MMO, but it's not like World of Warcraft. Yes, it's an MMO. Half halfway through World of Warcraft, Okay, I can't even. It's so long in World war Is this game this generation of gamers? Skyrim could this game? Like it could be because a lot of the times people like Skyrim not just for the story. The story was good, but it was about all the different systems and people exploring and finding cool stuff. It was about the world. That's what I feel like the world. This world is not as living as like Kingdom com. Like you're not going finding random things really happening, like events and stuff like that. The NPCs don't really engage. Yeah, they don't really. Drop some stuff on the floor. They don't engage all right, steal try to feed a dog. Yeah, some guy walks over to the meat. I should have chopped that guy's sucking. You just run after and tackle them. R kaot. I would say I would say yes it did. When I was first starting it, I was a bit questionable. When I first was starting the game, I was like, I was like, what's going on? Looks feels it was a yeah, And I was like I don't know if this is it, and like there's a lot in here, like using them for the first time. Would you give it? When you give it time? When you give it time, and you're just like get used to just try to get to the controls, just get through like the beginning, and man, did it pay off? Yeah? You have to. I just like I just looked hooked. And then Alma was like she's been watching me play almost the entire time because I play it. Uh in the living room the other night, She's like, this game, I thought it was really cool when you first started playing it, but now I just you're like googling. Everything, you're nerved. You're just like beating people up with these wrestling moves, like over and over again. She's like, the game was really cool, but now I think it's really late. I was like, I thought about it for a second, was like, you don't have the controller in your hands. It's not one of those games you can watch. That's why. That's why I felt like with Oblivion or like any of those pathetic games, like because I would I would just like go to my friend's like room watch them play and so I can fall asleep because it's just so. But like just the feeling of the game and the crunchiness is just so addictive, Like crushing people's skulls is just so good. Yeah, I would say, yes, for sure, it met. It met and you didn't have much time with it. You got thirty hours is pretty good. No, I mean I think it's money well spent for me. Yeah, just because like the amount of content that is there and continues to be there, and yeah, like the combat itself was just this is so fun, and then it just keeps me going even though I'm like, oh, like, I mean, I know I had I like veered off the path a lot in terms of the main question and stuff like that, which I think that's that's a testament to them in terms of that too, because there are so many other things if you really want to go out there and explore in the world, and that's I was like, I've never really like put much time into an open world game like this before, Like I mean, which R three was probably the other yes, which your project right does a much better job with stories, but this game just like it just knows how to take all these different styles of games, styles of mechanics and put it together and you're just like, wait, what you can do this now and do that, and like it just blows. My mind what you can do. Yeah, yeah, nice? All right, So yeah that's pretty much it. Should we give it a rating? You want to give it a rating out of ten? Can we rate it? I didn't beat it yet, I guess yeah. I feel like I would say I would recommend I can do what Like I don't recommend you recommend. I'm like, I recommend this for sure. For sure, Yeah, sure if you just want to get lost in something. Especially too if you get this to anything under like MSRP, like you're getting a deal. Like imagine somebody a year or two from now picking this up for twenty dollars. I'm like, you don't understand how much how much game you just got for twenty dollars. That's crazy. I didn't even think about it, Like fuck, I'd spend it like one hundred dollars price tag or whatever. It was, like, oh good, I haven't. I haven't even thought twice about it. Yeah, to be honest, yeah, Peq Peq freaking reflected in two hours back to said he needed to cook. Yeah, he needed to cook, and they need to give it more time. 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