Crimson Desert | Update 3 (Patreon)

Written/Voiced: 13:08Visually Edited: ~8:00Estimated Length: 13:08

Hey all!

I haven't had much to say about the project for the past two weeks. Here's the update, though, because I've had a lot of developments. I decided that I wanted to go ahead and work on the Ace Combat 7 project (potentially) very soon. I have had to take a week break (this week) in the middle of this project sadly so my plan is to simply skip taking a week off the next video, because I already know the entire game completely inside and out and won't need that research and development week.

This video has been going well and I'm satisfied making it into a shorter one so that I can quickly begin development of a large project that will take more of my time. The video could've been longer, but I decided to make my point and stick to a thesis.

Here's what I mean: the point of this video, unlike other videos, is that it is nonsense. I had originally planned to develop into a more coherent critique, but instead decided that the fun part about making a video with a lot of bits on a controversial game is to acknowledge that the majority of people talking about the game do not know what they're talking about, don't fully represent the game, and that no one is going to change their mind anyways.

The central thesis, however, gets at something, but draws a nonsense conclusion: The quests and EXTRINSIC motivation for the game are hilariously bad. However, the farmville minigame, INTRINSIC motivation, is very very nice. I want to draw attention to the fact that when the writers create motivation, they fail. But, when they allow the player to create motivation, they succeed. The conclusion at the end of the video is a joking political bait message (foreshadowed at the beginning) where I compare the quests to the "Great Man Theory of History", believing that the world can only be changed by a great man (the protagonist) to simply swap out the bad king for a good king, whereas I compare the Farmville minigame to the theory of "Dialectical Materialism", believing that the protagonist is an economic force which will drive the development away from Feudalism and towards Capitalism, thereby inciting the creation of a "Bourgeois Class", as this theory subscribes to the idea that history is the slowly evolving history of class conflict driven by material developments.

This is obviously dumb and slightly nonsensical - but it does get at the point I'm trying to make, and it's also funny. So that's what I'm going to do. I'd call this video an "Inversion" of the concept of the Red Dead Redemption 2 video. Don't mind the delay, this video has very careful and deliberate cinematography. The Ace Combat 7 Remake is probably going to be developed a lot faster and may have a footage assistant. Thanks for the support guys!