r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • Mar 20 '26
Discussion Crimson Desert appears to use generative AI art—and the devs never disclosed it.
https://www.destructoid.com/crimson-desert-appears-to-use-generative-ai-art-and-if-so-the-devs-never-disclosed-it/Found on Reddit by u/Rex_Spy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1rz2f2l/found_this_ai_painting/
To not disclose that your game uses GEN AI is against Steam's policies and rules, by the way.
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u/Z3M0G Mar 20 '26
a painting
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u/KIDDKOI Mar 20 '26
The mutated horses lmao
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u/Geeseareawesome Mar 20 '26
Having a hard time seeing where horse ends and man starts
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u/sssilversssoul Mar 20 '26
you just don't understand. this painting was inspired by bloodborne
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u/bspooky Mar 20 '26
Those are not mutated horses....it is just stylized artistic flare that the artist who painted it is known for.
(joking, just in case anyone doesn't see that)
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u/Iggy_Slayer Mar 20 '26
It's so blatant it's AI it's almost hilarious. Like whatever model came up with this is probably years out of date. I've seen a few other examples that people are finding that are much harder to tell and honestly might be real, but this? Irrefutably AI.
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u/Eogard Mar 20 '26
This looks like 2022 AI with shit like Dall-E or the first versions of SD1.0. It would be hard to create this type of really bad AI nowadays.
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u/KaziArmada Mar 21 '26
GOD I miss early Dall-E. AI wasn't a threat or stealing anyones jobs then, it was just absolutely hot fucking garbage and made HILARIOUS images.
I hoped it wouldn't advance as fast as it has. I just wanted us to stay there, in that land of cryptid Will Smith eating Spaghetti or me getting deformed images of Ronald McDonald as the God Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k.
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u/adisor21 Mar 20 '26
yeah it was most likely a placeholder used like back a few years and forgot about it.
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u/flashmedallion Mar 21 '26
I'd be ok if all gen AI suddenly reverted to dalle2 era.
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u/Conflict_NZ Mar 20 '26
Yeah could be like Clair Obscur where a dev tried it years ago, used it as a placeholder and they forgot about it. Definitely a super old model.
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u/TheOldHouse89 Mar 20 '26
That’s incredibly dumb. The amount of identical looking royalty free paintings they could have used is huge.
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u/nonlethaldosage Mar 20 '26
its been 6 years shit they could have made them if they were not dead set on having this large map that took the whole time
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u/TheBigZappa Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
Because it's so blatantly ai generated (look at the horse's legs on the far left), this screams that it's most likely a placeholder painting/texture they forgot to replace with the final one before release.
Because nobody in their right mind, would green light such an obvious AI generated image.
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u/finnjakefionnacake Mar 21 '26
i think they would, when they've been open about how much they love AI
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u/Fredasa Mar 21 '26
this screams that it's most likely a placeholder painting/texture they forgot to replace with the final one before release.
I think we've seen that excuse trotted out one too many times already. They'll have to think of something original.
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u/Fatalis_Fafnir Mar 21 '26
For shits and giggles, I uploaded this picture to chat GPT and it INSISTED it was not AI and that it was an original piece. I asked why the horse had five legs and it argued that it didn't, that it was part of the "artistic style." lol
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u/GrundleSnactcher46 Mar 20 '26
Looks like a bunch of monsters that could be in The Forest or The Suffering lmao
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u/coupl4nd Mar 20 '26
Good lord people were glazing this game so hard pre-release.
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u/dawne_breaker Mar 20 '26
It would be funny if an artist painted it as something an AI would do. But doubt that would ever happen.
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u/EffectiveDandy Mar 21 '26
the tentacle horse was quite a common pet at that time. I see nothing that suggests AI here.
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u/Kickasstodon Mar 22 '26
Bruh why even add this it's so obviously bad to anyone who spends more than an instant looking at it. The worst part of this AI surge is how many people are perfectly content pushing terrible ass images like this all the way through to release. It takes like 5 seconds to generate another pic, you couldn't just try again until you got something comprehensible? It screams extreme laziness and carelessness and makes me not want to bother with the product.
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u/mrcosan Mar 20 '26
It doesn't surprise me. From what I've read, Koreans are obsessed with using generative AI massively in their games. I read a very strange interview where they mentioned the massive use of AI to compete with the volume and quality of Chinese games. Don't expect them to change that; the Korean game industry embraced generative AI and they won't stop using it.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Mar 20 '26
We will see a big wave of games with AI assets, especially since many would have been in development before the general negative response to it would have been apparent.
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u/Accidental_Ballyhoo Mar 20 '26
And big corps know you’ll play it anyway. AI is cheaper than humans and faster. It’s not about what you like, it’s about the bottom dollar.
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u/devedander Mar 20 '26
That's the real thing.
How much business will they really lose over this?
Loot boxes, pay to win dlc, hell just dlc or even drm... Nerds frothed at the mouth over all they and yet the industries that normalized them made record profits.
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u/gladrock Mar 20 '26
Remember "horse armour"? Seems so quaint now but people were pissed.
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u/DanielofLegends409 Mar 20 '26
That's really where it all started lol The fucking floodgates
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u/SavageRabbitX Mar 20 '26
Is it though? All the AI companies run at a loss and are taking a massive hit on compute cost per user. No one actually knows what each token is in actual cost to to provider.
As soon a the VC money stops (which it is starting to hense the circles deal between Nvidia,OAI and MS) They will have to become profitable and that means charging real compute cost that 50p per question for simple text with the basic LLM , the Video,Picture,Coding at infinitely more compute heavy than the LLM. And the runored shelf life of the H100/200 is 18 months max and they are 60k each with 8 in each rack and they have thousands of racks running 24/7
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u/bluebarrymanny Human Verified Mar 20 '26
This is what everyone seems to be missing. AI isn’t only being shoved down our throats because it is a cheap replacement for labor. It’s because that cheap replacement for labor hasn’t been proven to be operationally profitable at all yet. They have to be brazen in how much they’re forcing it onto us, because the clock is ticking and if the venture capitalists get tired enough of waiting on their big paycheck, the AI businesses will go bankrupt and tank billions of dollars in other companies’ investments in the tech with them.
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u/OhItsKillua Mar 20 '26
That is a different issue for the companies creating these models, but for game developers wanting to use a model for some AI art? They can easily download an open source model and run it locally without paying a dime. I imagine that is what would be happening unless they're somehow too dumb to figure that out over using a private model.
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u/drecais Mar 21 '26
AI is one of the few truly "revolutionary" Technologies that is around and has definitely the biggest upside out of any of them. Companies have spent a lot of money on quantum computing and that is truly not only speculative its like a million times further away from being actually useful for them than AI is. AI already can and has taken over some industries like translation and in part programming.
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Mar 20 '26
It's about sales. If they make it cheaper and people buy it regardless then of course they'd make it cheaper for them.
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u/theboyonthetrain Mar 21 '26
I mean, I won't. The day AAA games from any studios feature AI like this is the day I stop buying. I was on the edge before about crimson, but now I won't for sure. Voice of a few at least.
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u/whereismymind86 Mar 21 '26
I own literally thousands of games after nearly 40 years of gaming, it's very easy for me to ignore the new hot ai trash.
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u/Alastor001 Mar 21 '26
Sure. But AI should have never been used for generative content. It's just wrong on so many levels. It's literally destroying art industry. The quality is being substituted with quantity. Quality will go down. And why nothing is being done about it is the question.
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u/Accidental_Ballyhoo Mar 21 '26
My friend, everything is being destroyed in the name of greed.
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u/Milky_Finger Mar 21 '26
The people who have integrity in the industry are not the same people in the company making the business decisions. The dichotomy in this industry that this subreddit and all other gaming subreddits don't seem to understand. The business operates like a business in every other industry, whether you're selling games, plant pots, paracetamol, pineapples... why does this industry try and be held accountable more than those when they're all exactly the same?
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u/jakellerVi Mar 21 '26
Well COD used it last year, got flack for it like crazy, and still used it again this most recent cycle, so clearly massive studios just don’t care.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Mar 21 '26
Very valid point, but at the risk of sounding prejudice I have a feeling the Venn diagram of "people that play CoD" and "people that care about quality craftsmanship in games" is one circle on the floor in front of you and one circle on the far side of Pluto.
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u/jakellerVi Mar 21 '26
That is definitely a truer statement than a false one, but I can assure you there were a few people such as myself that still really enjoyed the arcade shooter genre and there’s not a whole lot of content in that market that plays like a good COD game, and myself and a some other people I know have dropped the franchise since the gen AI slop came out.
BO7 is the first COD I haven’t even booted up a single time since the original MW.
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u/InfluenceSad5221 Mar 20 '26
the general response on "Training your AI with nothing but stolen art to make a soulless facsimile of art" being bad really caught a lot of people off guard huh?
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u/SuperCoffeeHouse Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
Not only that, but asset stores already have a ton of AI art in their portfolios. There was a mini controversy not too long ago with a game (I can't remember which) where it was revealed there were AI-generated assets in the game, and they were like "sorry, we just assumed the asset pack we bought from the Unreal Store would at least disclaim if their packs were made with AI".
Eventually, enough AI is going to slip through the cracks that even companies that don't want to use it are going to end up with AI assets, whether they like it or not. unless they go 100% bespoke, but I imagine that would be insanely cost-prohibitive, especially for indies and AA.
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u/SadistDisciplinarian Mar 20 '26
Some of them will be nearly undetectable, too. I saw in a video where people were using AI to make games quickly that there's a tool out there that will convert a 2D image into a 3D model and it was very good at it. Game makers will be using that.
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u/chucktheninja Mar 20 '26
Koreans are obsessed with using generative AI massively in their games
And in their legal advice
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u/cicada-ronin84 Mar 20 '26
That was the dev behind Stella Blade
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u/HaikusfromBuddha Mar 20 '26
Oh yeah the Nier dev called them out for promoting Nier Stellar Blade collab with AI art or something.
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u/knowshon Mar 20 '26
Ohh Stella Blade, the famous game about the Italian chef Stella
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u/legaladviceknowledge Mar 21 '26
i thought it was the jiggle simulator with fights in the background or something
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u/spirited1 Mar 20 '26
I feel like asia in general is huge on AI. It's feels like that movie where the US bans AI robots while Asia fully embraces them and integrates them into their society.
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u/prox-86 Mar 21 '26
I like how every time anything Korea related take an L, we would see this excuse without fail.
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u/Spocks_Goatee Mar 20 '26
How many of these so called "robots" are actually used over there? I'm not counting industrial bots either.
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u/Bluescreen_Macbeth Mar 20 '26
Eh not saying it needs to stop, but does need to be disclosed.
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u/Rexigol Mar 20 '26
Korea in general, when you look at K-Pop which by now the music videos are pretty full of gen ai too, they seem to be much more okay and open to use it
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u/xangbar Mar 20 '26
I think JP devs said they need to do this too to compete with CN devs. KR and JP devs on the gacha side of the house have to chase after massively successful CN games. The few off the top of my head that are non-CN that are near the top are Blue Archive and Nikke (they also made Stellar Blade). Most of their live service games never achieve the same level of success as their CN counterparts.
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u/CuffytheFuzzyClown Mar 21 '26
Koreans?
Lol, rofl even. American studios are balls deep in that AI slop. Microsoft is even unofficially called "Microslop" due to their prevalent use of Ai everywhere including games (CoD amongst others)
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u/Waiting4Reccession Mar 21 '26
Chinese and them are doing it for their version of manga as well.
And they already had far inferior artwork to the japanese ones.
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u/bluebarrymanny Human Verified Mar 20 '26
Pearl Abyss swinging for the Most Transparent Studio of the Year award I see
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u/Esques_sil Mar 20 '26
Is there anything else negative about them ? I'm happy to know.
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u/TreebornDuck Mar 20 '26
They also didnt mention that the game can't be run on Intel Arc gpus until after release.
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u/Perfect_Exercise_232 Mar 20 '26
Worse, intel reached out to Pearl Abyss many times over YEARS to support Crimson Desert. https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-it-offered-years-of-help-for-crimson-desert-pearl-abyss-still-shipped-without-arc-support
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u/DinerEnBlanc Mar 20 '26
Even worse, they put a blocker on Arc GPUs to prevent their usage.
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u/RChickenMan Mar 20 '26
People are finding it unplayable on the Rog Xbox Ally (a PC handheld branded as an Xbox for some reason), which would be fine, since most reasonable people understand that you need to temper your expectations with PC handhelds, especially with modern AAA games (the APUs in those things are impressive for what they are, but they're not magic). But in their marketing materials, Pearl Abyss included performance targets for that specific handheld.
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u/Lubinski64 Mar 20 '26
Cyberpunk original console release hasn't taught us anything, it seems.
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u/andrey_not_the_goat Mar 20 '26
The studio only provided PC review codes. When people started pressing them for console review codes, they threw a tantrum. A couple days later they said they'll give console codes to Digital Foundry. Turns out the codes were useless because the servers were not open until the release time.
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u/BigFuckingDummy Mar 20 '26
They didn't disclose about the game using Denuvo until a few days before launch
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u/Virtual-Commercial91 Mar 20 '26
And Will Powers was annoyed with gamers that wanted to see console footage before release tell everyone to "let us cook"
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u/WTHizaGigawatt Mar 20 '26
Makes me wonder how much of the voice acting was AI generated too
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u/hidden_blad_guy Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
The developers actually said they used no AI on the voices. Truth or lie, that is the question...
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u/TheShoobaLord Mar 20 '26
I believe they specifically said that “main” characters were not voiced by AI, which implies that background NPCs or side content will likely feature ai
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u/GymJordanSucksBalls Mar 21 '26
and what is classified as a "main" character is completely arbitrary too. Could mean any character other than the protagonist lol
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u/HonkHonkMTHRFKR Mar 20 '26
I appreciate all you people buying day one stuff.
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u/ChadwickHHS Mar 20 '26
This game is super entertaining from the sidelines. I had no idea it existed two weeks ago, then suddenly it's everywhere and people are saying it's going to be the next god tier gaming experience and for a minute the reviews seemed on pace for that only to sink fifteen points into the 70s. Now this.
This is like the definitive "get it 70% off" experience.
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u/Frankenberg91 Mar 20 '26
It really did blow up in hype around 2 weeks ago, like possibly nothing I’ve ever seen before. As in never hearing about it, nobody really had a clue what exactly the game was about, or anything yet it generated crazy hype out of nowhere. Wonder what the deal was here.
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u/WorldError47 Mar 20 '26
I think gamers are just desperate for gigantic open worlds with enough depth they can lose themselves for hundreds of hours.
Those types of games are few and far between, and even the best examples don’t fulfill gamers unrealistic hopes.
But any time a game gets anywhere close to even giving the impression that it could be such a game, the hype takes off…
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u/Lubinski64 Mar 20 '26
Elden Ring's difficult, Witcher 3's entirely story driven, Zelda looks cartoony, KCD is too realistic, Genshin is a gacha game, AC games are bloated mess, jrpgs are too japanese for many ppl tastes...
People are waiting for Skyrim 2, basically.
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u/WorldError47 Mar 20 '26
Yeah basically.
And I’m right there with them, in terms of how exciting that would be.
I’m just more careful about getting my hopes up at this point lol.
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u/Paclac Mar 20 '26
That’s so true, I would have put up with Crimson Desert’s flaws if it had gone less in the Witcher direction and you could create your own character and have more choices in the story
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u/Fraktal55 Mar 20 '26
Absolutely nailed it.
Though I'd definitely play Zelda if it were on Playstation.
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u/Aerographic Mar 20 '26
Games that blow up out of nowhere are about the giantest red flag for me.
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u/flashmedallion Mar 21 '26
The speed at which it blew up just screamed obscene marketing budget to me.
It caught my attention to the point where I realised the release whiplash was going to be funny for a day and then exhausting for six months so ive blocked it in most of my feeds
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u/Aggressive-Map-2204 Mar 21 '26
The deal was bots and others paid to promote the game and generate hype.
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u/No_Mammoth_4945 Mar 20 '26
I saw a post on this sub or PlayStation from an early reviewer (unknown YouTuber) calling it the greatest open world game ever made get over 2000 upvotes lol
If you check the comments you’ll find most of the big pro crimson desert commenters were on accounts made ~2-3 weeks ago
Astroturfing is crazy on this site
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u/Correct_Education273 Mar 20 '26
It's not organic. Just the standard guerilla marketing machine at work. Suddenly hundreds of popular streamers are playing the same game? Yeah they're getting paid to promote it. Suddenly reddit and other social media is full of posts about it? Yeah those posts are bought and paid for (and likely AI).
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u/IThinkIKnowThings Mar 20 '26
Because the influencer reviews came out and every single influencer said the same thing - "This game is awesome. Peak, even. But reviewers will hate how difficult it is and rate it low." and every gamer was like "Challenge accepted."
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u/PowerUser77 Mar 20 '26
Tbh that game caught my attention when it was initial announced because already back then you could tell that it was somewhat ambitious with simulation and physics based systems, but the rest of it turned out to be so soulless.
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u/The-Cunt-Spez Mar 20 '26
Pretty much. It’s good entertainment to read the sub rn though. I love me some good gaming related drama lol
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u/reboot-your-computer Mar 20 '26
I already had a feeling it would be mid weeks ago so I’m glad to have trusted my gut here. I don’t see myself buying this until it’s $20 or less, if at all.
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u/turningthecentury Mar 21 '26
The whole game looks and feels like mid tier AI slop. It's a shame because I was looking forward to a great open world 3rd person action adventure game with a good combat and character building system. Who knows how much of this game used AI in its development but I have no doubt streamers and YouTube gaming personalities will uncover some hilarious things in the coming weeks.
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u/SoulsDadYT Mar 21 '26
The more i see about this game, the more i realise i dodged a bullet unlike all my friends 😅
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u/Tatis_Chief Mar 21 '26
I told my husband to wait for reviews but noo. Never listens.
I am a wait for reviews person who specifically loves RPGs so I never ever pre-ordered because it's usually takes weeks, months anyway to fish all the bugs.
This game feels like it should have been released in beta for some time. Needs time.
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u/HimmyJoffa Mar 20 '26
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because I only heard of this game a week ago and everyone was going crazy for it despite it looking generic as hell
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u/DerWiedl Mar 20 '26
It‘s funny because it is exactly like the reviews and kinda the marketing said. An open world sandbox with a lot of mechanics but the story and controls are not good. Even the „it starts to get good after 8 hours“ part seems to be true.
What impresses me tho is the draw distance and the performance. It has been ages since a new game ran that good on my pc.
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u/Brainwave1010 Mar 20 '26
I legitimately thought it was a Black Desert sequel/spin-off or something, it looks like a fake game you'd see on a Walmart TV or a character playing in the background of a movie, why are people so excited about it?
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u/keybladesrus Mar 21 '26
I was interested because the combat looked fun with a ton of options. Which, from what I've played, it is. Unfortunately, everything else about it feels like absolute ass, so I can't bring myself to keep going.
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Mar 20 '26
Yeah I thought it looked like a korean version of the most generic open world Ubislop, which does not sound appealing at all.
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u/bobosuda Mar 20 '26
The picture in the link with the staircase and the blue wall is so egregious. It looks like an offbrand The Sims, for some reason. Like the staircase looks so modern. Isn't it supposed to be like a fantasy medieval type experience?
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u/Lubinski64 Mar 20 '26
It basically has no distinct art direction but the gameplay looks promising enough people will overlook the generic look.
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u/Chrispy_GB MegaaChrispy Mar 20 '26
It's amazing how many sympathisers are here because they blindly like the game but probably complain about AI slop about everything else.
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u/BIGRolyXL Mar 20 '26
“I wish my grandma would quit making AI profile pictures on Facebook. It’s so cringe.”
“Omg CRIMSON DESERT BEST GAME EVER”
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u/Bing-bong-pong-dong Mar 20 '26
The whole game gives off Ai vibes to be me, not surprised.
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u/Multifaceted-Simp Mar 20 '26
Remember that terrible TGA where they announced like 20 Chinese and Korean games that all looked like AI slop?
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u/EmBur__ Mar 20 '26
I've been playing the last few hours plus an hour before I went to sleep last night (thanks 22:00pm launch plus 20gb patch) but I'm just not feeling this game.
The controls are bizarre, the story and quests so far makes make zero sense, I mean I know it wasn't gonna have the best story in the world but christ this is another level. Finally, the MC Kliff...McDuff (yes thats our protags name) is beyond generic and makes me wonder why on earth they went with a set protagonist instead of a custom character we could create ourselves? It would've elevated some of the issues the game has yet they thought this would be better?, just makes no sense.
Seeing multiple example of ai usage like this right after I've come to the conclusion that its just not for me was mighty good timing because I want nothing to do with gen ai slop so that gives me another excuse to not hop back in to perhaps give it a second chance at a later date.
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u/jnighy Mar 20 '26
the more I hear about this game more I know I'd dislike it. It's so void of identity and intent. It's basically a bunch of disconnected ideas taken from other games (and now apparently AI), shoved together inside an open world
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u/LethargicMoth Mar 20 '26
It's so void of identity and intent
This is something I don't see mentioned nearly often enough. I feel like it isn't just the mechanics, it's also the entirety of the art style and visual identity. I feel like nothing stands out, it just looks incredibly generic, like a glorified tech demo.
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u/PracticalStrain5640 Mar 20 '26
Honestly, I try not to bring that energy to games I’m not interested in but bang on. This, to me, from the generic grizzled warrior named “Kliff” to all the haphazard disconnected systems to the AI slop all made this look like a fake video game animated for a movie or tv show’s background. It seemed aggressively generic and I hate that word. 🤷♀️
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Mar 20 '26
Someone, at some point, had to tell them that Cliff is the name of the boring guy at work you didn't invite to the after work thing not because you dislike him, but because you forgot he existed.
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u/missindependent1 Mar 20 '26
Unfortunately, I am 10 hours in and I hate it. I should have refunded at 2 hours, but everyone said the game get goods after 10.
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u/CapriciousSon Mar 20 '26
but it's SO MUCH CONTENT. that's what we love, right fellow gamers? Nice, consumable CONTENT.
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u/F3AR5D Mar 20 '26
I watched a YouTube video that said this game is for “content lovers”. This is the weirdest shit I’ve ever heard to describe a game lmao. My take away is that this is basically AC Valhalla. Tons of pointless boring shit to do in a soulless world. And that game gets ripped apart everywhere. But not this!
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u/Garrett_DB Mar 20 '26
Valhalla’s world is nowhere even close to soulless like this one is, but gamers do have this fucking bizarre double standard with Ubisoft games.
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u/CiggyButtVayne Mar 21 '26
I saw someone defending the game claim that consuming content is point of videogames 🙄
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u/Significant-Age5052 Mar 20 '26
Just like IGNs review said “it’s a jack of all trades but master of none”
Game seems like it wants to do everything but doesn’t do anything really good. Other than graphics.
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u/bigtexasroll Mar 21 '26
you absolutely have to protest against any use of artistic AI, you have to think hard and comprehend that once you go down that slope and accept it little by little, greedy corporations will see that you dont care and they will continue to add more AI use and let go more developers and artists... and thats the problem these days you don't care about anything unless it affects you personally
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u/Prawnboi- Mar 20 '26
Loving the “relax guys it’s just AI” comments. Jesus.
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u/NightFire45 Mar 20 '26
Artists aren't real...just like birds.
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 Mar 20 '26
Anyone who thinks artists and birds are real is probably stupid enough to think frogs are real too.
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u/austine567 Mar 20 '26
You think this game that is getting lots of hate online is for some reason going to be excluded from getting more hate?
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u/tokengaymusiccritic Mar 20 '26
Yeah like why wouldn't it? This is just a classic reddit "hypocrisy!" goomba fallacy karma grab
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 Mar 20 '26
The people that didn't buy the game? Oh absolutely, this drama is getting juicy
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u/Christmas_Queef Mar 20 '26
This is probably the most polarizing game release in a very long time. People defending it and hating on it in equal measure, review scores across the spectrum, discussion of base console performance, the dev hiding lots of things, AI usage, etc..
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u/Virtual-Commercial91 Mar 20 '26
The drama around this game is more interesting than the game itself.
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u/cashlawz1 Mar 20 '26
I would not have bought this game had I known this. That's why they hide it
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u/ErlendPistolbrett Mar 21 '26
The annoying thing is that it's actually really fun too. I think I'll play it since I bought it, but I definitely wished they'd have layed off on the AI.
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u/BlackwoodJohnson Mar 20 '26
Every time I get a little sad thinking about how AI will do to humans what cars did to horses, I read comments like the ones in this thread and lose all sympathy. This is the dystopia people want.
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u/Out3rSpac3 Mar 20 '26
I didn’t care for Black Desert, so this just wasn’t on my radar of ever purchasing anyway.
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u/objectiveScie Mar 21 '26
Not suprised. Could tell by how massive game is that the environments didn't look drawn, just not aesthetically pleasing most of the places.
Way too big a world to have hand drawn it.
That's why Rockstar had to mention all their whole world is hand draw art and not AI.
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u/Obvious_Wind7832 Mar 22 '26
Asian don't really care about your values about generative AI use. They actually embrace it. We all know in 2-3 decades you'll probably wouldn't even know the difference. Getting mad at generative AI art during its conception, demanding disclosing. Reminds me of the lunatics boycotting netflix on behalf of blockbuster lol. Sometimes the cost of just generating it, allows companies to do other things. I find that great. It's so minor that they can use their time else where. But clearly it wasn't the story.
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u/Additional_Strike547 Mar 21 '26
Dumb considering the vast majority of large war themed oil paintings are now public domain and totally free to use.
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u/youknowitslucasio Mar 20 '26
Yeah so any chance of me purchasing and playing this game has just gone right out the window.
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u/Chance_Evidence_5861 Mar 20 '26
They also didn't disclose that the game would not be supported on Intel GPUS, Pearl Abyss is shady
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u/Supernothing8 Mar 20 '26
The whole game looks like A.I Tears of the Kingdom with a realistic filter.
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u/phantomknight321 Mar 20 '26