Black Desert Online

Aug 26, 2017

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Apr 11, 2016

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Apr 6, 2016

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Apr 7, 2016

Black Desert Online has many faults, but the sheer scope of the game’s systems and variety in your day to day MMO life can more than make up for its shortcomings. So far, Daum and Pearl Abyss have proven very receptive to Western gamers’ wants and needs, and I’m hoping that in time Black Desert Online will be an even better experience for all. But for now, it’s still easily one of the best MMORPGs on the market, and the best non-traditional experience any fan of the genre could hope for. Listen, I’ve rambled on for about 1500 words here, and several thousand more in preceding weeks.

Mar 21, 2016

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Mar 15, 2016

A gorgeous world that feels truly alive, Black Desert Online is a solid entry into the sandbox subgenre of MMOs. Benefiting from having been launched in a major market for a year before coming to the West, it offers an open world to explore, and an especially deep tradeskill and trading system mixed with an action-oriented combat scheme.

Mar 17, 2016

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Apr 6, 2016

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Mar 15, 2016

The biggest issue for me is how dense the complexity makes the game. Crafting, particularly cooking, requires a lot of experimentation or wiki-diving, and finding out the game’s systems isn’t always represented, even in the quests. There are always quests that give you reasons to gather or play the many mini-games—moving a wheel-barrow requires you keep a cursor in between two points, and the fishing system is actually rather fun. Like many MMO launches, this one had its issues—-mostly lying in difficulty redeeming preorder items, but there is a persistent spawning bug that made some quests unbeatable, where enemies would not reappear, leaving empty areas without foes to fight.

Apr 15, 2019

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