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Black Desert Online

2016
GenresFantasy, Adventure, Action, Third Person Perspective, RPG, Multiplayer
AvailableMar 3, 2016
PlatformPC
DeveloperPearl Abyss
Overview

Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege, exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.

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60 reviews found

91

GameOctane

Aug 26, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


90

DualShockers

Apr 11, 2016

Summary and quote unavailable.


90

IGN Denmark

PC

Apr 6, 2016

Summary and quote unavailable.


86

MMORPG.com

PC

Apr 7, 2016

Black Desert Online has many faults, but the sheer scope of the game’s systems and variety in your day to day MMO life can more than make up for its shortcomings. So far, Daum and Pearl Abyss have proven very receptive to Western gamers’ wants and needs, and I’m hoping that in time Black Desert Online will be an even better experience for all. But for now, it’s still easily one of the best MMORPGs on the market, and the best non-traditional experience any fan of the genre could hope for. Listen, I’ve rambled on for about 1500 words here, and several thousand more in preceding weeks.


86

Meristation

PC

Mar 21, 2016

Summary and quote unavailable.


85

GamingTrend

PC

Mar 15, 2016

A gorgeous world that feels truly alive, Black Desert Online is a solid entry into the sandbox subgenre of MMOs. Benefiting from having been launched in a major market for a year before coming to the West, it offers an open world to explore, and an especially deep tradeskill and trading system mixed with an action-oriented combat scheme.


85

MMOGames

Mar 17, 2016

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85

Gamer.nl

PC

Apr 6, 2016

Summary and quote unavailable.


85

CGMagazine

PC

Mar 15, 2016

The biggest issue for me is how dense the complexity makes the game. Crafting, particularly cooking, requires a lot of experimentation or wiki-diving, and finding out the game’s systems isn’t always represented, even in the quests. There are always quests that give you reasons to gather or play the many mini-games—moving a wheel-barrow requires you keep a cursor in between two points, and the fishing system is actually rather fun. Like many MMO launches, this one had its issues—-mostly lying in difficulty redeeming preorder items, but there is a persistent spawning bug that made some quests unbeatable, where enemies would not reappear, leaving empty areas without foes to fight.


85

NoesPaisparaFrikis

Apr 15, 2019

Summary and quote unavailable.

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