While Crimson Desert has seen huge success since its March 19 launch on consoles and PC, toppling its own concurrent player numbers and selling over 3 million copies to date, the game isn’t without its flaws. The narrative is one of them, as it’s so confusing that not even Kliff’s voice actor was able to make much sense of it.

Speaking on Skill Up’s Friends Per Second podcast on March 29 (via Eurogamer), Alec Newman expressed how important writing is for any medium. He said he kept seeking clarity about the story and the characters because the project, to Newman, “felt very much like making a TV series” where the focus kept changing. This isn’t a secret–Crimson Desert started as a prequel to developer Pearl Abyss’ MMORPG Black Desert Online before transforming into the single-player action-adventure RPG that it is now–but it certainly presented continuity changes for Newman and the other VAs.

“I don’t want to say they kept changing the goalpost, but we started off recording with cards of the different parts of Pywell and the various characters,” Newman said. “He’s from this faction and he’s from that faction, and I kept just saying, ‘Yes, but what is happening?'”

Continue Reading at GameSpot While Crimson Desert has seen huge success since its March 19 launch on consoles and PC, toppling its own concurrent player numbers and selling over 3 million copies to date, the game isn’t without its flaws. The narrative is one of them, as it’s so confusing that not even Kliff’s voice actor was able to make much sense of it.Speaking on Skill Up’s Friends Per Second podcast on March 29 (via Eurogamer), Alec Newman expressed how important writing is for any medium. He said he kept seeking clarity about the story and the characters because the project, to Newman, “felt very much like making a TV series” where the focus kept changing. This isn’t a secret–Crimson Desert started as a prequel to developer Pearl Abyss’ MMORPG Black Desert Online before transforming into the single-player action-adventure RPG that it is now–but it certainly presented continuity changes for Newman and the other VAs.”I don’t want to say they kept changing the goalpost, but we started off recording with cards of the different parts of Pywell and the various characters,” Newman said. “He’s from this faction and he’s from that faction, and I kept just saying, ‘Yes, but what is happening?'”Continue Reading at GameSpot  Read MoreGameSpot – All Content