Crimson Desert is poised for an impressive launch on March 19, with early pre-order sales estimates reported in the $20 million range. It’s been over five years since the open-world RPG was revealed at The Game Awards in 2020, and after multiple launch delays, it will officially be released for PC and consoles tomorrow. According to Alinea Analytics (via TechPowerUp), there have been the better part of 400,00 pre-orders on Steam alone, which, as impressive as that is, sales numbers could be much larger since it is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Epic Games store fronts as well.
“Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure set on the continent of Pywel. Join Kliff on his journey to rebuild the Greymane faction and to save the land from a looming threat. From vast wilderness and cities to ruins and the mysterious Abyss, forge your path through battles and discovery.”
-Pearl Abyss
Interest in Crimson Desert has been steadily building since its announcement, but it hit a major milestone recently after a PlayStation 5 gameplay demo was shown on YouTube. Pearl Abyss has gained praise for the game’s performance, whereby it can be seen that players should be able to enjoy not having to deal with traversal stutters, texture pop-ins, low framerates, or other annoying issues often found in games both at and long after launch.
Pearl Abyss has gone all out on revealing hardware requirements for PC, PlayStation 5/5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, ASUS ROG Xbox Ally/Ally X, and Mac in resolutions from 720p to 4K. The developers have also received positive feedback from the gaming community for the game’s minimum hardware requirements, which indicates that a wide range of hardware will be capable of running the game.
Crimson Desert will support FSR 3/4, DLSS 4/4.5 on PC, PSSR for PS5 Pro, and then FSR 3 for the PS5 base model and Xbox Series X|S. AMD FSR Ray Regeneration and NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction are also supported on PC. Mac users get support with MetalFX Upscaler, Frame Generation, and Denoiser.
Details regarding digital editions, which begin at $69.99, and physical editions can be found here.
Discussion (16 replies)
Join Discussion →Game could be interesting. Black Desert had some really confusion microtransaction system (at least to me, I may have been drinking). Was typical Asian MMO gameplay though.
Have my eye on this but not expecting much depth, just some flashy graphics and an overly complicated combat system that really boils down to how fast you can mash buttons.
Waiting for it to go on deep sale before I throw any money at it for certain.
That's the #1 reason why I hated Ghost of Tsushima.
Well, this took a quick turn.
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Honestly it plays a lot like other games with the uber protagonist... Batman series, all of the assassins creed games, God of war series... and so on.
I was pretty close to getting Ghost Tsushima due to all the hype but I always felt like I wouldn't really enjoy it. Sounds like it was probably good I didn't get it.
What? You don't want to learn all 400 move combos and need to do 32 combos in a row perfectly to defeat some of the bosses?
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I guess this is why I play with cheats.
Me too.
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A friend who got this game also complained about the controls, feel, and input response.
This type of game appeals to me. I will pick it up when it is under $30 and seen a slew of bug fixes. E.G. I put over 200hrs into a single play through of Assassins Creed Odyssey.
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Pretty honest review. Looks like the game design lead must've been a nepobaby with no idea what a good game is supposed to be like otherwise they wouldn't have made a game with AAA graphics and good music seem like a frickin' mobile game in terms of playability. But as the reviewer notes, it was supposed to be an MMO so at some point, they decided (or AMD convinced them) that going that route may not get them much press because I'm certainly one of those people who find out a game is MMO and refuse to do anything with it.
I can't believe you refuse to play Oni since the combat is the actual fun thing in it, especially when you are surrounded by enemies :D
It's the first such game I encountered before the gaming world had Devil May Cry or the Batman games.
The own nothing and be happy strategy corpos are leaning hard into, will see to it the vast back catalogue of games like Oni, I have never played, get my time.
Good news for Intel GPU owners, I read they just put out an update supporting them.