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Black Desert Online Videos: MMOFTW - Black Deserts Very Bad Week
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This week is all about Black Deserts bad week of patching, Shards Online's Steam Greenlight, ESO's new DLC announcement, SWTOR's big Dark vs. Light event, and more. Watch and learn!
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I played it at launch for three months, and went back and leveled another character to the cap about a year ago. I regret both instances. The game is like an unfinished painting - incomplete, and massively disappointing for what might have been. Moreover, it's frustrating that myself and many other beta/alpha testers were absolutely screaming at Bioware from a very early stage that they were cooking up a enormous failure, and everyone working there just "knew better."
Well, I guess they didn't.
I enjoy undercutting people in the market place - it's the only PvP a crafter gets.
Still no elephants yet, though.
Pff... what? What old school games would those be?
Don't say EQ, because it's nothing like EQ.
Don't say UO, because it's nothing like UO.
Certainly don't say SWG, because it has NOTHING in common with SWG.
See, the one distinguishing element that the above three titles had in common (well, SWG until the combat upgrade) is that they weren't garbage. And BDO... is pretty much the definition of a trash release. So, I'm glad you're enjoying it and all, but let's not insult the hallowed greats of old by dragging them down to the level of Black Desert.
BDO is a themepark without rides - there is none of UO or SWG's gleaming, majestic sand to play in. The hallmark of both those old sandboxes was that a player could actually shape the world in meaningful ways - building houses, fortresses, towns, all of which (in the case of SWG) were destructible. They could also craft meaningful gear, the best of which was highly coveted. This gave players a reason to head out into the world - both to crush their enemies, and to harvest precious materials to keep the economy humming. Moreover, PvP had extra meaning because of the value of time-invested by the players who owned and defended their homesteads, the loss of which would set them back to square one.
By contrast, Black Desert is a lovely looking overworld utterly devoid of any and all complexity or intrinsic value (I mean, Jesus Christ, if you walk 50 feet off the road, the monsters even vanish - it's like Daum was too lazy to set up spawn points, and why would you lure people off the beaten path and towards "unknown adventure" when none actually awaited them? It's game designer nihilism). Not only are players NOT trusted with the keys to the kingdom, they aren't even valued enough to be spoon-fed a derivative WoW-clone PVE experience. It really is the worst of all worlds - a "sandbox" where every open door is shuttered with a "GO AWAY, MARSHAL LAW" sign hanging in the window.
However, never let it be said that I failed to assign credit where it is due. You did correctly interpret one element of my post: I was indeed dropping my trousers to squat over your beloved game. That's what happens, you see, when I spot a toilet.
I think I might actually look into this seiging thing it looks like fun.
Nope, got the memo. That works fine for me- I'm only 52 so the more time to grind for me before they really start, the better.
HAVE AT THEE! I will force you to change your opinion to align with mine!
((While, simultaneously, making fun of those that "follow the herd's opinion".))
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.