IGN has shared a 19-minute gameplay video from the third-person looter shooter, The First Descendant. And, as you will see, this latest free-to-play looter shooter looks kind of bland and boring as it does not seem to introduce anything new to the table.
To its credit, The First Descendant will be a free-to-play title. This is good news as you can at least try it for yourselves and see whether it can appeal to you. For me, though, this seems like a “been here, done that” experience.
The First Descendant feels like a mix of Remnant 2 and Anthem, with the main character looking similar to Eve from Stellar Blade. And that’s it.
In this 19-minute gameplay video, we get to see some truly generic and boring missions. The game appears to have the typical boring missions you’ve seen in other games. Protect this object for X amount of time. Go to that location and destroy all enemies. Move to that zone and eliminate all enemies.
And then there are the stuttering issues. Although IGN has not enabled MSI Afterburner Overlay, you will immediately notice the stutters. I don’t know whether these are traversal or shader compilation stutters. What I know is that they are really annoying in this video.
The First Descendant is powered by Unreal Engine 5, so you’d expect the devs would use its latest features to address the PSO stutters. From the looks of it, though, this will be a stutter-fest. At least at launch.
NEXON plans to release this free-to-play looter shooter on Steam on July 2nd. Finally, you can find here its official PC system requirements. NEXON recommends using an Intel i7-7700K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600XT.
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And yet just because it's an EU5 title it had more coverage on DSOG than a lot of genuinely good titles, by looking at this picture alone you know it's bland and boring, no need to watch a second of this video
Don't worry, John will cover this game's DLC while claiming he doesn't cover DLC because it's a cancer, like the new Elden Ring DLC, or Cyberpunk DLC…
Anthem without the flying and without the bulky armored suits, with modern day "edgy" sounding voiceovers.
I woudn't say edgy, just a bad saturday morning cartoon.
It's probably been 25+ years since I last watched Saturday morning cartoons…
Nowadays you have safe edgy, like newer Resident Evil games having swearing all over the place.
Pros : .."aesthetically" pleasing
Cons : Animations lacks impact.
Subpar sound design
Bland Environments
Bland Enemies
Bad performance
Retarded enemies
Conclusion : Certified Generic Slop !
Basically Stellar Blade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgX_eN3gj8
i lasted less than 3 minutes before having to stop watching, another warframe and destiny style looter shooter repetitive grindfest that you had to shoot bulletspony dudes and defend an object for a specific amount of time and when the mission is over you go to your hub and scroll through loot to decide what to keep and what to sell. How do people still play these games?
I am watching a video on the background about how culture died after the mid 2000s and everything is a remake or a reboot or a clone. Everyone has forgot how to make good games or movies or tv shows.
Nowadays it feels like games are a job, a waste of time, a grind and most people have so many old games to play that they dont see any reason of playing new ones that look exactly the same as older games just more demanding for hardware because they are made on better hardware, eg boomer shooters are exactly that. I find it impossible to care about anything upcoming at this point.
I can't stand the localization, who actually gets shot and talks like they just listened to a bad joke? "seriously" my @$$. Other than that it is a free to play game and it's not like it will compare to a single player campaign, there is a certain amount of "blandness" that is baked in the cake.
Played the beta and it was fun.
I liked it as well.
This is another case where a game isn't for everyone.
Raytarded Johny Buoy: I DoN'T CoVeR DlC ThEy'rE A FoKiNg sCaM!
Also Johny: Heres publicity for this big kukrean turd!
Games just keep getting more and more bland.
eh, cigarettes are largely bland and boring but the addictive properties are obvious, starbucks and equivalent just added sugar to caffeine and likely some unknown addictive drug. Those igit types are what these are for, the ant like conformist societies so common in asia. There are plenty of those types in so called western countries it's just a mass induced neurosis to not know it or see it.
btw elden ring DLC erdtree is more of the same but as usual w FS the art style is fantastic, looks amazing imo cool new map etc, We needed coverage instead of this but payola talks….
To be fair, Elden Ring is all people talk nowadays, and DSOG coverage is mostly dogshite, nothing of value is lost other than adsense money that Jonny won't get.
This looks like another horrible Korean game like Stellar Blade, where the only selling point is the scantily clad protagonist.
I'm sure some Onlyfans simps will throw their money at this.
Looks like Immortals of Aveum