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Nexon's The First Descendant Launched Yesterday To Mixed Reviews, Day One Issues | MMORPG.com
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Nexon's The First Descendant Launched Yesterday To Mixed Reviews, Day One Issues | MMORPG.com
Nexon launched its looter-shooter The First Descendant yesterday, and it's fair to say the reaction has been mixed. Couple that with launch day issues that have plagued the live service and Nexon is promising compensation for the trouble.
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#ModernGaming.
Got to run on a different computer, and the game just feels like a weak Destiny clone.
So I uninstalled it and moved on.
Remember folks you have the OPTION to pay extra 60 cents to Super Size it!
but they can all be grinded for free soo wtf is he on about lol
People saying you have to buy things. You don't have to buy anything everything to include the premium skins which to be honest are nothing special can be farmed in game. Just look at spending 1000 hours to farm those premiums as it is right now.
I love when the mobile phone generation of gaming comes in and tries to say something smart. This thought process right here, is why gaming is in the terrible shape it's in.
The game does not play as smoothly as warframes for me and the parkour is limited as you just get a grappling hook.
I found the feel of the weapons and their aiming to be odd is the best way to describe it. I need more time with the game and further experience of the various types of weapons as there are quiet a few.
Thanks. This is informative. I'm installing it on Xbox to check it out.
Here we go with the OVER GENERALIZATION
We have the OPTION to INSTALL THE GAME or NOT
We have the OPTION to PAY to Support the Game or NOT
If you feel like you're a victim and like playing the victim card, that's on you. no one forced you to do it. You're an adult learn to take responsibility for you own decision making.
If this game was B2P with a Subscription you'd still be bitching about it and coming up with how to categorize these groups.
So, do you have a hard time knowing that there are folks who are willing to pay despite how you feel?
The market is saturated with many games for each of us to find and enjoy. Unfortunately, we can at least agree that it has become a revolving door. Shit in shit out!
OMG, I totally forgot about this game! Nice take on it!
When does that not happen?
I enjoyed Defiance, for the bit of time I got to play it anyway.
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But that's also part of its problem. I get the aim to emulate the successful games and their features, but if that's all you do, what exactly are you offering? I see a bland uninspired game with no identity or character of its own. It still plays ok, but if you want Warframe mechanics, just go play Warframe. It does these things much better.
I ran into some pretty annoying bugs, especially with a dungeon boss who became permanently immune to any damage. They use this simplistic boss mechanic where a boss becomes immune and spawns 3 orbs that you have to destroy to be able to deal damage to the boss - you do that 3 times, the boss dies, that's it. Only this time at the end of an annoying 20m dungeon the orbs were completely invisible and untargetable, so 20m completely wasted. Same annoying thing sometimes happens in the open world, when the game spawns invisible game objectives - you only see a mission icon, but no actual object.
But the main issue I see with TFD is that the devs have tried to bite more than they can chew. Instead of starting with a small, well-polished core (the way Warframe started 11 years ago), they start big and spread themselves too thin. Then you end up with bugs, missing stuff, unfinished features, and a game that just feels lacking. Korean games are usually technically extremely well made, so I was very surprised by the relatively weak animations in this game - compared to Warframe, the player movements just feel odd and wooden at times. And for some reason, many of the assets look very cheap, as though they are placeholders - for example the mods. Honestly, I often had an impression this is a more polished beta test instead of a full launch...
I'll probably give it a few more tries, it's not a bad game per se, but with all its lifting of other games' features it just leads to the question 'well why not play those games instead?'. They generally do it better, to be honest.
100% Disagree!
I get it folks want to hate NEXON and these types of Corps and business practices. There are more than one type of consumer, not just one.
How is it Predatory? What exactly is being disguised here?
You can already purchase level boost in games like WOW, GW2, SWTOR.
It's predatory in that you cannot buy exactly enough currency to purchase the character. Characters cost 300 and 600 but you can only buy in increments of 250 or 520 (which I assume is some %bonus for buying 500 vs 250). That means if you want a 300 character you have to buy a minimum of 500 (although you'd just buy the 520) and get stuck with 200 in change that you can't use. Nexon pockets that because you already handed over the cash and it's a non-refundable transaction. That's how it's predatory. They're forcing you into giving them a tip basically.
You calculate the cost based on what you have or willing to pay.
How is this any fucking different than when you to fucking grocery store?
You typically have a financial budget.
No one is forcing you!
Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.