As a veteran MMO player and after spending the last few days in CBT 1 I can say unequivocally that Black Desert is the most beautiful game ever. The aesthetics and graphics are sensational, giving the highest level of immersion I have yet to experience. For instance, clothes and horses are soaked in rain, giving a special effect. I know games need to be more than pretty to look at it but Black Desert combines beauty with technical sophistication and great support from devs and GM's.
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Now we have to deal with the leet Bunny-Hop PvP maneuver......ugh.
I'll pass.
Anyway - while BDO have some really good graphics it has at same time some preety bad graphics as well especially visible by contrast.
That ones include - some awful combat animations that have way way too small number of frames, and thus are choppy and covered by flashy explosions.
Similarly - game has preety nice consistant style and graphics of scenery and exteriors and then it punches you right in the face with totally not-consitant out of place things, especially on characters but also on NPC side of things.
Low res textures or flat spaces and textures, short view distance, etc
It is not all roses, there is plenty of low quality things, which are especially visible because of a contrast with more high quality parts of the game.
NPC merchants and what not have semi-collision where if I'm running along and run into them, I pass by but both characters flinch and semi slow down.
I've enjoyed the game simply for those reasons. I'm on the Korean servers, so language is a barrier even with the english patch, but I'm having more fun on this than in MMORPGs of the past, including the anticipated Bless (which feels old, archaic, and like FFXIV to a T handling wise).
Plus BDO is well optimized. They have a very good engine.
Gameplay/Content/Execution trumps anything else to me, when it comes to immersion.
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p.s. If you are looking for competitive EU guild eg no carebears be PvP focused check http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?/topic/118-futilez-do-you-have-what-it-takes
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Once the profits from Box sales begin to drop, I'm betting that's when the kick in the teeth is coming.
But hey, that's only a guess. It's not like there was ever any kind of precedence for online games like this before.
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It goes both ways.
For example, you cite the dev's statement that you can't cash shop items in the marketplace during the launch phase, although that may change in the future as a red flag.
Personally I prefer they be honest and upfront that changes may happen.
If they really wanted to dupe everyone and this whole B2P thing is a big charade for the real f2p purpose for the game, they wouldn't say anything about things possibly changing in the future.
Need to ask though, is the game play there to keep you engrossed ,immersed,totaly excited to keep playing an leveling ?
To me it kinda looks like GW2 and when I hit max I was like?? that's it now the new grind.... And Gw2 didn't look all that bad tbh
Now some of those games in your sig there them had so so graphics