(BDO) Black Desert Online: MEH!

UnleadedRev

ok, so I took a chance and purchased BDO this morning and all I can say is WTF?

First off, what's with the dual dialog?

For example, you go and talk to an NPC and as the NPC text says one thing the voice over says something totally different!
It is like being forced to watch a bad Kung Fu movie; except instead of watching the actors mouth move badly out of sync with the voice over, in BDO you read text that is not only different than what the voice over audio is saying, but it is both in wonky english.

This all reminds me of the senseless stuff "The Sphinx" used to say in the movie "Mystery Men":

• "Learn to hide your strikes from your opponent and you'll more easily strike his hide."

Also, the movement is clunky, the dialog pure cheese, and the combat very clunky.

I guess if you like poor Eastern MMORPG conversions to Western MMORPGs then this game is for you.

Otherwise...../emote "Face Palm"

UnleadedRev

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the annoying and stupid "Black Casper the Ghost Thing" that makes the most annoying sounds that you wish a Nazghul from the Lord of the Rings was screeching in your ear while you sleep!

pingo

UnleadedRev said:

ok, so I took a chance and purchased BDO this morning and all I can say is WTF?

First off, what's with the dual dialog?

For example, you go and talk to an NPC and as the NPC text says one thing the voice over says something totally different!
It is like being forced to watch a bad Kung Fu movie; except instead of watching the actors mouth move badly out of sync with the voice over, in BDO you read text that is not only different than what the voice over audio is saying, but it is both in wonky english.

This all reminds me of the senseless stuff "The Sphinx" used to say in the movie "Mystery Men":

• "Learn to hide your strikes from your opponent and you'll more easily strike his hide."

Also, the movement is clunky, the dialog pure cheese, and the combat very clunky.

I guess if you like poor Eastern MMORPG conversions to Western MMORPGs then this game is for you.

Otherwise...../emote "Face Palm"

BDO has some of the smoothest combat ever in a MMO. I can't think of a single MMO that has better transitional animations between attacks. I don't want to accuse you of "learn 2 play" but you really sound like you're suffering from a knee-jerk reaction because you don't know what you're doing. The control scheme is excellent. 
If you are more specific about what about it, that you find clunky maybe people can help you. 


Secondly regarding the translation and voice overs, absolutely. Somehow the translation, voice overs and world building is worse than Blade and Soul. Worse than TEAR though? It's hard to trump TERA, but BDO most def continues the transistion to garbage localization. 



Thirdly, the mix of eastern and west artstyles is superb in BDO. They did the impossible and managed to blend eastern flair with western without making it feel out of place. the world itself feels like a world where eastern and western flux intertwine.