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Crimson Desert 

 

I saw comments about how it is just like Assassins Creed with little story…

I could not spend more then 10 hours in AC before getting bored… here - I am loving every little bit of it.

i think it is a much much better game then AC and I am really enjoying the open world - the quality is next level and the game design is fantastic- that is my opinion about this game

this is a game that I am losing sleep over and I think it is worth it - damn - it is fun - everything works - from medieval setting to super futuristic things added on top! 

been a while since I had so much fun in an open world game!!!!

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On 25/04/2026 at 20:20, Random Stranger said:

Is it good? I remember when it first came out the reviews very horrible. Just they pull a cyberpunk and fixed/added enough stuff to make it good?

The game was already good enough at launch, and no, the new update is very very underwhelming and nothing like a "Cyberpunk 2.0". I just wish they made outposts more relevant and crafting more like Fallout 4, where you could scrap junk into components.

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So my weekend game lately has been "Life is Strange: Double Exposure".  I previously finished the first LiS on PS4, then played "Before the Storm" on Steam and now I'm working on "Double Exposure".  They're great narrative games but I run into the issue that I get stressed and have choice paralysis because I'm constantly worried what the outcomes are going to be of my choices, but I refuse to spoil the experience by looking up a walkthrough, lol.

One cool thing about these games is that they're easily digest-able in bite size chunks of 4-5 hours or so.  They're divided up into discreet chapters that have a beginning, middle and the end usually leaves you with some climax or cliffhanger that leads into the next chapter, but once it's over you get a little summary screen to compare your choices to what everybody else did and the option to back out to the main menu.  It makes it easy to just pick a day on the weekend and say, "I'm gonna do a chapter" and you've got a designated and obvious cutoff point to stop playing that isn't in the middle of anything, as long as you can deal with the cliffhangers, 😃 .

The game looks amazing too, in my opinion anyway.

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On 25/04/2026 at 20:20, Random Stranger said:

Is it good? I remember when it first came out the reviews very horrible. Just they pull a cyberpunk and fixed/added enough stuff to make it good?

Yes, if you haven't played it / played very little, Maybe if you played a lot of it before the newer content. 

When it came (Xbox) put in 100+ hours. Some story line(s) was awesome at times, and other very meh at times. This was before it's first DLC expansion.  

The new game plus (no spoilers) transition is amazing, but the way I play open world Bethesda games is AVOID main quest, do all faction / sub-quests / unique content first. The option to start over with the possibility of random variation wasn't enough for me since I probably make the exact same decisions and no new content. It was fun / cathartic to go to a random planet / moon. Go to one of the randomly dropped (identical) location - and try to stealth murder all the insert random bad guy faction, but after a while tired of all the same copy / paste locations. Because of this, at the time I've the game a rating of a "C" I'm a harsh critic. If it didn't waste my time, things get a "C". 

Fast forward to the PS5 launch (new content & "new" to me content since I stopped playing). There is now 2 and 1/2 worth of new faction(s) story lines. 2 years of bug fixes, Quality of life improvements from big city traversal, ship building, the new traveling system within a system (vs cute scene / warp), added a very Mass Effects Mako like vehicle, dramatic increase of the variety of types (still 100% copy / paste) random locations you can find, apparently an astro base / home you can acquire and customize, etc. The most important for me is an alter way to upgrade certain things without going through new game+. 

If your looking for Nasa Punk action / adventure RPG (note not space "simulation"), I say it's worth it.

In regards to the PS5 crashes, that seems to be fixed with the recent updates. I get a once in while lockup, but that's significantly less common now. I highly suspect it was related to the Creation Club (Mods) sub-program and how it handled installing them in the main game. 

So I call this a version 1.5 from the base game (address a lot issues, nice enhancements, additional contnet), not a 2.0 cyberpunk (a completely vastly improved game)

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On 26/04/2026 at 12:32, Gerowen said:

So my weekend game lately has been "Life is Strange: Double Exposure".  I previously finished the first LiS on PS4, then played "Before the Storm" on Steam and now I'm working on "Double Exposure".  They're great narrative games but I run into the issue that I get stressed and have choice paralysis because I'm constantly worried what the outcomes are going to be of my choices, but I refuse to spoil the experience by looking up a walkthrough, lol.

One cool thing about these games is that they're easily digest-able in bite size chunks of 4-5 hours or so.  They're divided up into discreet chapters that have a beginning, middle and the end usually leaves you with some climax or cliffhanger that leads into the next chapter, but once it's over you get a little summary screen to compare your choices to what everybody else did and the option to back out to the main menu.  It makes it easy to just pick a day on the weekend and say, "I'm gonna do a chapter" and you've got a designated and obvious cutoff point to stop playing that isn't in the middle of anything, as long as you can deal with the cliffhangers, 😃 .

The game looks amazing too, in my opinion anyway.

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Ah I need to check out the sequels. I really enjoyed playing through the first one!

I bought a game on my Steam wishlist that I've already sunk a few hours into. Vampire Survivors, have heard the years of hype around it but never bit the bullet and for a few £ it's a heap of fun

Also playing through As Dusk Falls on Gamepass, another great story driven game. Similar your dilemma @Gerowen really hate the decision points in the story. Always a tough choice, but it's always cool to see the story map at the end of the chapters. 

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I am very impressed by 007 fight light 

 

I am about 6-7 hours in and it is pure fun.  It is a bit similar to the recent Indiana Jones game in how I love it - but better so far.   I like the linear structure of the missions - it’s a nice break from open world.
 

once I am done I am back to Crimson Dessert open world that can take many dozens of hours more - I am not getting bored of it it.

 

i also finish Directive 8020 and I liked it just like I like most of Dark Pictures anthology but I can see why it is not for everyone - sci-fi was good but it was very very slow and you really need to like those types of games to keep going … 

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