In today's climate, a new game is just another battlefield in the unending online discourse. Much of this discourse is around the idea that critics are out of step with True Gamers, with the difference in review scores between the two groups used as evidence of this conspiracy.
In the run-up to launch, it looked like Crimson Desert was going to be just that. Would-be fans were not happy with the game "only" getting a score in the 70s on Metacritic, now levelling out at a 78. But now that they've had the weekend to play it themselves, it turns out that the critics and the players are actually aligned on this one, as the user score is pretty much the same.
Over on Metacritic, the user review score averages out at 7.9 out of ten, so almost bang on the 78 score from official reviewers. This is far from the divide that we usually see when reviews are looked at this closely, with gaps in recent releases like Marathon and the now-defunct Highguard.
However, the Crimson Desert user reviews do not come from everyone giving it a 7/10. Rather, it's a sea of tens and...
