Black Desert Online

This looks really nice, and I'll most definitely look into playing it once it's released.

It looks really cool, the character creator is stellar.

Probably the biggest disappointment. Been looking forward to this, and its all race locked n shit. Removed gear from the game so they could resell in cash shop. gay as fuck.

37152
Probably the biggest disappointment. Been looking forward to this, and its all race
locked n shit. Removed gear from the game so they could resell in cash shop. gay
as fuck.

Ah shit, sad banana.

Em. wrote

37152
Probably the biggest disappointment. Been looking forward to this, and its all race
 locked n shit. Removed gear from the game so they could resell in cash shop. gay
 as fuck.

Ah shit, sad banana.

Character creator is revolutionary in terms of online gaming. But, the fact classes are race and gender locked really defeated the purpose.

Malvarose wrote

Is anyone going to being playing this on released?  It's going to be b2p and the cash shop isn't pure cancer. 

I have a cute little Witch.

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>cash shop isn't cancer

you quite literally are forced to repurchase the game simply in order to get your character to not look like a peasant. The armor changes as you level up and get stronger armor are literally next to none (graphically wise).

Lokorfi wrote

I'm going to assume that opinions on this game are about 50/50.

Mmm, it's hard to say. I haven't played a whole lot, so take what I say with a pinch of salt. I enjoy that you don't feel pressured to grind to max level to do end-game dungeons/raids or something. Really feels like you can just walk around and do whatever you feel like doing at the time, and you seemingly can always help for guild missions regardless of level. There's always something you can be doing or helping with. 

That being said, Cash shop costumes are stupidly overpriced, and people currently despise the Ghillie suit considering it hides your name tag above your head. Apparently in the KR servers this is no big deal, and no one even uses the suit anymore. So i'm not sure what to think on that one.

I personally dislike the "Enchant" system that games use, which is what Black Desert uses. Getting weapons to +1, +2, +3, etc. I feel it's a very lazy system, and usually pretty flawed and way too time/money consuming. 

The combat is great in my opinion, I hate the typical 1₉ hotkey games. It's used too much, and my fingers ALWAYS struggle with it. So with how the combat is in Black Desert, it feels infinitely more comfortable to me. 

The game is definitely a grindfest, a lot of grinding is needed to level. Which, is not unexpected. This is a case for the majority of MMO's, and with how fun the combat is to me, I don't even mind it. MMO's are considerably more fun with someone to talk to, so voice chatting a friend and grinding mobs together makes it a lot more fun experience. Nevertheless if you want to figure out how to do this and that with each other.