Reviewers Liked
- Great visuals
- Complex, varied economy that rewards you for mastery
- Many secondary activities
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Sub-par localisation
- Terrible, convoluted interface
- No real endgame
Black Desert Online
Black Desert Online is certainly one of the most unique fantasy-themed MMOs out there right now, and it offers a beautiful world that's also generally believable and enjoyable. Even with shortcomings like grindy combat and a weak endgame, it still manages to deliver many dozens of hours of fun.
-- As reviewed by IGN
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By WCCFTech
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Black Desert Online is the most refreshingly unique MMO around. Introducing many new game mechanics and ways to play in a world that's so exquisitely designed, with characters, building, monsters and even the weather all working together to make the best looking MMO to have ever been released, BDO is only really let down by the game's unwillingness and/or inability to properly explain its mechanics. The post-launch updates have been great so far and there's no reason to think the game won't keep improving.
By HardcoreGamer
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Black Desert Online is a beautiful game marred by inept tutorials and an impenetrable story. The gameplay is strong once you understand it, but that might not happen before your patience runs dry. Black Desert doesn’t have typical endgame raids like comparable titles, but instead offers its endgame systems near the beginning of your journey.
By GameSpot
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Black Desert Online will attain greatness when it can provide good answers to those and other questions. Yet even now, it's hard not to heed it's call, which it sounds out the moment you enter its robust, genre-best character creator. I imagine that it will be even harder to tear myself away when player-versus-player siege wars are in full swing. Until then, there are plenty of fish to catch, plenty of demons to slay, plenty of meat pies to make, and plenty of coins to earn.
By IGN
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Black Desert Online is certainly one of the most unique fantasy-themed MMOs out there right now, and it offers a beautiful world that's also generally believable and enjoyable. Even with shortcomings like grindy combat and a weak endgame, it still manages to deliver many dozens of hours of fun.
By CGM
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Black Desert Online, hyped for its visuals and character creation, is a much more complex game than that.
By showmetech.com.br
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Repleto de ação e dotado de um rico mundo cheio de opções, Black Desert é um dos melhores MMORPG da atualidadeOs MOBAs dominam o cenário online atual. League of Legends é um fenômeno mundial e Dota 2 também tem sua legião “raiz” fiel.
By techtudo.com.br
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Black Desert é um excelente MMORPG e tem o que é preciso para competir com outros do gênero, em especial a nova leva de jogos da nova geração de consoles e PC. O servidor sul-americano ainda está nos primeiros estágios e certamente precisa de mais
By ingame.de
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Black Desert Online ist ein wunderschönes Sandbox Spiel, ganz in der Manier von Grand Theft Auto und Co. Das große Problem von Black Desert ist aber, dass es dem Spieler zu viele Freiheiten lässt und dabei vergisst zu erklären.
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Black Desert Online ist ein Spiel für zwei Arten von Spielern: Einerseits für die, die gerne ihre Zeit mit Wirtschaftssimulationen verbringen, andererseits für jene Spieler, die viel Wert auf Optik und Lore legen.
By gamestar.de
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Jürgen Stöffel(@GameStar.de)Black Desert Online ist für mich wie fränkisches Rauchbier. Also wie etwas, das anfangs grausam schmeckt und für das man erst später und nach fortlaufendem Konsum eine Vorliebe entwickelt.