Remember Crimson Desert? The impressive looking open world adventure was first shown at The Game Awards back in 2020, and it was one of those gameplay trailers that had people questioning whether it was actually real footage. Roughly six months later, the project was delayed indefinitely, with developer Pearl Abyss stating that it would use the extra time to add "new ideas for an even deeper, more enriching game".
We haven't heard much about Crimson Desert since — until now, that is. Rumoured over the last day or so and just confirmed by Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley, the title will return during next week's event. Keighley says it'll be a "brand new look at gameplay".
As alluded, it feels like we need a good reason to believe in Crimson Desert. We've seen plenty of projects explode onto the scene with amazing trailers in the past, but so many seem to get stuck in development hell, are eventually cancelled, or they release and they're simply not what was once promised. Hopefully this showing will be a positive step forward for the action title.
How do you feel about Crimson Desert? Dream of a glorious adventure in the comments section below.
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Had a bit of a whiff of vapourware at the time, haven’t given it a second thought since that trailer.
Its predecessor, Black Desert, looked amazing but was terrible to play so I'm not interested at the moment.
I quit playing Black Desert because of all the popping and the lack of directions about how the game works so I have concerns about the upcoming title.
Wow! Great I'm looking forward to it
Lord British approves. Peter Molyneux claps.
That trailer from a couple of years back did look incredible, so I will be keeping tabs on this.
Is this the single player game? I think they may have wanted to see how well black desert did before fully committing to this one.
Geoff said he's mostly showing updates from games coming out within the year.
Let the speculation begin 😮😮😮😵😵😵
Was this even confirmed for PS5? Black Desert was a timed exclusive on Xbox
Apparently the team were surprised by the negativity surrounding some of the visual effects in the original trailer so they did a big overhaul.
There were a lot of ott weather effects and characters hair clipping through faces.
There was a rumour last month that Sony are chasing some kind of partnership on this game too.
Personally I'm very excited by the potential of this game. Looking forward to seeing more.
Mmmm, Crimson dessert
@Shepherd_Tallon if that is true, it kind of suggests that their extreme overhaul to polish it up nicely is perhaps well on track and paying off 😄 regardless of where it comes out, I'm pretty excited to see this one
@Ravix There was one short clip in the trailer where the player character was riding a horse across an open plane. That one clip is still my favourite part.
Very eager to see this.
Not had my ps5 for very long and to be honest not that impressed with the games ,could of just played them on my PS4 pro ,so I hope crimson desert will take things to the next level I am still waiting for a true next gen game 😞
I kinda miss playing Black Desert, it was simple grindy fun for when I wanted to turn my brain off, got turned off by the endgame upgrade system though. Be interesting to see how Crimson Desert has evolved.
I was very into this when it was first revealed, so I'm intrigued by what they've been up to since then. Hopefully it can deliver a good-feeling single player open world experience.
@Mel44alpha I think we're all waiting for a next gen game (BG3 aside though maybe that could've worked on the old stager?)
My bought in May PS5 disc edition is slowly gathering a thin layer of dust whereas the SSD PS4 Pro under the TV is still doing everything I throw at it without complaint and with much more comfortable controllers.
Totally agree my ps5 controllers feel thin and cheap and don't feel responsive ,and now I here that Sony will be bringing out a ps5 pro so I basically wasted loads of cash on a piece of hardware that I thought was going to blow my mind 🤔
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