The First Descendant - is it Worth Playing? 

All you had to say was "Crafting timers" and I was immediately never going to play the game. Timers, for me, are infinitely worse than cash shops. It says, "I don't respect the limited time you have on Earth."

I hate the "its free to play therefore it can be shit and the cash shop can be predatory" argument

You confirmed exactly how I was feeling after about 4hrs of play so I thank you for that. I don't think I'll be putting anymore time into this game.

I was 2hrs in and noticed that everthing i do is same stuff over and over again. Waiting for once human. 😂

The game should start easy because they want as many people as possible to play and get hooked in. Once you hit harder stuff they need you to die, scratch your head, then buy credits.

Anyone else think this game just Warframe,outriders with a dash of anthem.

I've been trying to get the bunny outfit all day. The game says the part I need has a 20% drop chance. I've done that damn mission 17 times and I still don't have the damn item I need

The shooting in this game feels like Suicide Squad.

I agree with points about repetitive quests and inventory management, but to be fair warframe has a similar system with time gated crafting you can pay to skip, and the crafting times in warframe are longer. Crafting a new war frame requires you to first craft all the parts at 12 hours a pop, then assemble them for 72 hours. Overall I don't hate the game, not blown away either but I want to play more than my current 5 hours before judging too much.

has better butts than both those games tho

I played up to level 19 and can agree with most of your points. Definitely doesn't do anything exciting or unique. Why are missions broken up into 5 minute way points??? Way too much meaningless loot, and I stopped listening to any parts of the story after the first hour in. Because this is a free to play game I came into it with medium expectations. But with any free to play game (pc, console, or mobile) I knew it was gonna cost either all of your time or all of your money. I can see this game having a small cult following in the years to come but sadly won't make much of an impact in the looter shooter space. Good thing is all of the complaints can be addressed and improved upon. The real question, are the developers be able/willing to make chances based off feedback?

Thanks for an honest opinion brother. I appreciate the word from another customer. We have a duty to the public out there.

The tasks sound like they've been borrowed from Mass Effect multiplayer but without the charm.

Great game, having a blast, no content locked behind paywalls and everything you can buy is obtainable

Definitely has destiny 2 vibes but the grappling hook being an essential part of mobility is killing my enjoyment. Attempting to latch on to something and missing the first one messes you up for areas where you need both charges.

If this game had the Warframe F2P model I’d definitely play it, but it doesn’t so I won’t. If anyone’s curious, in Warframe there’s a huge premium currency shop for skins and classes etc as well, but you can unlock “prime” Warframes (classes) easily and then sell those to players for premium currency, yes, their premium currency is tradeable. Then you can buy all the boosters, skins etc you want without ever paying a penny.

Finally a content creator who is playing the game like normal and didnt start off spending like $1000 from the jump to get ultimate bunny.

Another thing you didn't mention is the art style. There is none. No eye candy. No cool locations. There's nothing in this game that i can't find anywhere else. I highly doubt that they had concept art. They just told the devs to "Make a desert." Or "Make an overgrown town." Absolutely ZERO creativity in this game. A single destiny destination has more character than this whole fucking game.

Couldn’t agree with this assessment anymore! After putting 6hrs in, felt like I was running Destiny patrols over and over and over. The game is gorgeous, but feels like Anthem in terms of the same monotonous missions, un-exciting character abilities, and Lost Planet grappling system. I just didn’t find the experience enjoyable, as I was excited to play after seeing gameplay. Great assessment of the game!

I do agree with you on the amount of inventory management you have to do. They should decrease the amount you earn in each mission because it does get excessive and can be tedious compared to other games; however, this is a free game. You either grind or you pay to progress, it's that simple. This is how grind works in these types of games by doing the same things repeatedly. I'm not saying that this game is better than the other F2P games, but this is just Nexon's way of doing it. Much love man.

Love the honesty. Saved me the headache 😴

I agree with everything you've said except for the loot part. Leveling and early game in looter shooters, you shouldn't be looking and analyzing all of your drops. See higher # equip higher #. Scrap the rest in 2 button clicks. You'll find better gear in 5 mins. There is a scrap all button that you can customize for simplicity. Aside from that, yeah, this game is hella mid, and that's being generous.

Just started playing it. Seems good so far..apart from xbox network going down for 5hrs. Be the 'last descendant' by the time I get back online lol.

Yep played 3hours and got bored.

It's so much Destiny, so much Warframe, so much Anthem...but not as good as one of them!

Game is awesome and everything can be unlocked free with grinding of course. We've been playing it all day.

Korean games are always monetized for pc cafe audiences. Knew this game was either going to be blatantly p2w or have "pay for convenience"

Played about 2 hours today got bored with it not going back to it ....

Having been play Warframe, I have to say this game did a pretty good job on release day than warframe did. But, Nexon isnt no DE and i know for a fact they will heavy monetizes the game.

$100 for an ultimate character .. no shit

Someone was comparing this to Once Human and besides the 3rd person camera idk what they were seeing... Game is fun for a time waster I guess, but everything just feels insubstantial to use, even gunplay compared to Once Human is lacking. Good time waster but as a main game nah.

And this is why i enjoy this Man....He is gonna tell it like it is!!!!!....Lmaof

I downloaded it but hadn't played it yet. I suspected it would be as you described. Thanks for saving me the time

I will mention that the way the story missions are laid out is the same way that Lost Ark is laid out. go to area. Do quests. Talk to people. Repeat. every once a while do a dungeon and keep moving.

I have been pkaying Warframe for 2 years now and i dont know, Maybe It is bc this is a new Game, and Warframe has been evolving for 11 years now, but the first descendant feels like something is missing. The Game is Beautiful and interesting, but the mechanics and Game systems are not the best imo. I Will keep playing for a while, and im looking forward to new updates, but its not as good as i thought It would be

Cosmetics are also on per descendant so you buy a cosmetic it’s only for that one character. You have to re buy it for the other characters.

There is a bug on console, you cannot talk to Alpha, so now I cannot progress.

If your opinion is that, then i don't think you played enough warframe, especially when warframe first launched. They're literally the same game. Warframe had years to improve and wasn't good when it first launched. Thats the thing with f2p games like these. A lot people started this game thinking it was a triple a game, when in reality these types take time.

I’m enjoying this more than warfare because of the weapons

Unlike warframe though, the grind isn’t to bad cuz the parts for descendants are guaranteed while warframe is a rng mess

its not mobile mechanics.. nexon was one of the first to use free to play with maple story. so its in their blood pretty much

As someone who plays both Warframe and Destiny 2, I was curious about The First Descendant. However, Nexon is also well known for making their games very pay-to-win or dropping them entirely if they don't immediately see a return on investment, so I was already pretty skeptical. Maybe when I have some more free time I'll check it out. I'm not one to get hyped over stuff, so I'll just wait and see if things get better. Timers in games like Warframe aren't anything new. The heavier emphasis on inventory management sounds like a pain. This looks more like what I termed "first game syndrome," where all indications point to the fact that they made this game with only a cursory look at other games in the genre. It would NOT be the only game to have done so. So many live service games tried to copy Destiny without understanding that they cannot just constantly update their cosmetic shop, slap some tiny event that can be completed in under five minutes, and call it a day. Content drops need to be very frequent and fairly meaty; this is something that even Bungie frequently struggles with. I'm sure that if Nexon stick with it, the game can get better, but only if they stick with it. At this point, we have nearly a full graveyard of live service games with so very few successes. I hope that this game isn't going to join them, but it sounds like it may. Companies need to learn that live service is not the quick way to earn cash. It's literally tying down your studios to a single project for a very long time as they are essentially making an MMO with constant content updates, without the MMO moniker.

I was hoping this game was going to be good but nah it kind of sucks, kept losing connection as well. The gameplay doesn't feel like you hitting good compared to other games. The graphics kind of suck as well from what I was expecting. Will keep playing a bit longer to maybe see where it goes but its not looking good at all.

The Divisision 2-esque health bars on player is nice. If it aint broke dont fix it.

Im not sure why everyone is saying warframe ( a game that came out 11 years ago ) is better than a game that LITERALLY came out today. This game has potential and quite frankly, i prefer this over warframe

People have to stop what people are saying about the give it a try then have a opinion on it people just watch these types of videos and they never play these are the type of people who make these type of games fail it’s a really good game so give it a try and don’t always believe a word what people are saying

Agreed 99% and another thing ye game drop modules not for the character your playing as but for ones u might or might not unlock yet u notice it drop fire and lightning mods when the 2 fire dealers have to be researched and the % of each attribute is so minute min wise to where they dnt affect ur build or character

So far yes, but its still early days. It will take a month of grind to see if its able to stand the trst of time. I plan on playing the game completely free during this month and if its held up i will give some money to the company as a reward. Im.working on unny ultimate as i have her at lvl30 and im master rank 8.

The way your explaining how to get decadents is exactly how you get frames in war frame do missions to get one piece then a different mission for another one craft each of those with materials you need to collect then once that's done 72 real life hours to craft the full frame I don't see the issue

So many compliance geez what did the game did to you

Not surprising considering its another F2P game. I keep saying that despite the bad launch, and terrible DLC pricing we need more looter shooters like Outriders (and Borderlands) where the players time is respected, we are not nickled and dimed for everything, and its fun and replayable with tons of content to grind out. Its sad that one of my favorite genres in gaming has turned into only F2P cash grabs, and devs are not willing to actually make these types of games premium experience anymore (they see how much money they can milk from idiots). I personally refuse to waste any of my time of these F2P looters and I'm still waiting for that next big AAA looter shooter (or cool indie one) that is just a paid premium game with tons of content (no strings attached). The only thing I see keeping this genre interesting for me is Borderlands 4 but Gearbox and Randy don't seem to have any idea what they are doing anymore so...... (also division 3 in 2050 lol).

played warframe a lot (still do, its great), got around a small used car worth of premium currency by just playing/trading and all the stuff. I dont think i will begin the grind again in this generic meatgrinder.

I will never touch a game that makes me wait a day for a timer just to get a item. You would have to sustain brain damage to play that.

money goes into your inbox instead of directly into the acc, you claim it from the inbox.

100% sounds like Warframe loops. So are they confident they can take Warframe players and keep their attention?

How does it compare to the beta? It was really enjoyable but needed SO MUCH MORE content and more variety in things to do

Thanks For Another video man, that was awsome 💪🏻

As someone who's sunk alot of time into warframe. It plays alot better then this "next generation" game. Your actually able to earn premium currency to buy everything in warframe. And getting parts for weapons and warframes. Feels way better when also upgrading them with the perk cards. The only thing warframe suffers from is a slow start up time for new players and the community doesn't really point out how to help new players. Took me too long for people to tell me that progress in warframe is tied to new weapons. Gear and warframe. Leveling them up upgrades your mastery. Gameplay is fresh with new warframe skills and abilities. Every cosmetic in the game is earnable. Making my warframe look like a cool knight character that calls in Laser air strikes and electric shock drones. Haven't spent a single cent on warframe but honestly. I'd be okay with doing it because the devs deserve the money considering slogs and grinds in warframe could be passed completely by selling your premium prime gear you don't want to other players. warframe recently added cross play. Cross progression and cross trading. Was kicked out of my old clan so i started my own and was able to to make a super sweet forest looking base with an underground man cave that I customized myself. Warframe definitely deserves the time spent if your able to have patience getting past the start. But it treats your time well if you care to put in the effort.

I was looking forward to the game. It seems like a niche steam game that somehow got a backing and just created this. I played during the beta and had a blast. Now I am playing it now it doesnt have the same appeal.

The game has a very short “honeymoon period”. It takes like 3 hours or less to see how shallow the gameplay loop is. I love Warframe and WF’s gameplay loop isn’t that insane, but the gameplay has a much higher skill ceiling for what you can do. I thought it was at least better than vanilla Destiny 1, but it shows quickly that it’s more shallow. Even Destiny in 2014 still has better mission design(which is saying something). I didn’t know the build time was even worse than Warframe’s.

im used to crafting times from warframe, 3 days to craft a character not counting the 12 hours it takes to craft the other 3 components required. warframe just makes it fun because you can craft other things, and the gameplay is fun in warframe

Geesh. I thought i was having fun. I was able to craft Bunny and the first ultimate weapon that i can't remember the name of yesterday (the weapon takes 4 hours to craft so i stopped gaming for the night there). But yeah at that point it did start feeling really repetitive where i was starting to wonder if it was actually worth my time or money as i was also thinking of getting the battle pass. I will admit that i skip most of the dialogue as the story is a little lame IMO. The odd thing about games being repetitive is that i have over 3100 hours in Division 2...and that has been mostly repetitive for 5 years but i still keep going back for more. I have not found another game where i can do that since.

crafting gives me destiny 1 vibes lol.. 1 month to get a sword was wild

going to try it but i think im not going to like it, i hate games with bad performance.

If people had your mentality towards video games, we would have an amazing hobby in gaming still. This is what is called a gacha game. It is doing exactly what you mentioned and it’s meant to quite literally make you a stupid debt slave with your time and money. Great review btw

I just want to know why there are timers when you are grinding for materials that take awhile to begin with. Like this isn't a mobile game so why would they make it that I have to just stop playing and wait for what I want?

The games seems to me like a console/PC version of 星球：重启, but with less content.

i understand the criticisms i was in the crossplay beta and got bored at the fecking desert. but im in it for the long haul at this point....i get god damn tired of warframe and destiny at times dude. at this point if people want a game that respects their time go to GOG and Buy the Resident Evil Classic collection for 25 bucks right now. the first game is ready to go and the other 2 are still being finished up

80 dollar for ultimate! Im sry I can’t justify buying one ultimate that cost more than a “triple AAA game” 🤦🤣😂

Sounds like they made Warframe, but got super greedy with it.

Personally I really prefer the 1 character style of having abilities you a pick between like destiny then the hero shooterish 4 abilities per character suit that warframe offers. I already dont play warframe for this reason. I would be open to trying this game even if it was bad if it was more a destiny style prog then a warframe one tbh but this is probably a no for me.

Thank goodness I've been playing WF and Destiny for a while so I'm not buying shiiiiiii.

thanks, saved me the wasted time

After i got bored watched some tuber rave about how much there is to do and content. But if its ALL THE FRIGGING SAME what is the point.

yeah but destiny cost you like 400 to 500 usd for the full game and you add the the cash shop on top of that and warframe does the same with the paying for accelerating crafting

Microtransaction, sorry but destiny is the king of that,plus 200buck on dlc,ye cause destiny its not a free to play, its a free to try game

Is it still worth playing for a non warframe/Destiny 2 player? If not I might try Warframe as I feel D2 will end soon since I heard they are close to the end.

The currency and stuff is just like in Warframe it's just like destiny and Warframe. Both games do everything over and over again.

I personally dislike the typical glamorous Asian gacha game-style design of EVERY character in the game, it also doesn't help that there is an insane amount of weirdo cosmetics like school girl outfits, maid outfits and other stuff like that literally on release day; seems like they knew exactly what kind of people usually spend money on these kinds of games and just went all-in day one. The problem with these skins is that for a lot of people including myself it breaks the immersion and the ability to care for the story, the world, and what we as players are fighting for, whenever there is a girl in an oversized dinosaur costume, or a sexy maid outfit running around on the battlefield. One thing is revealing armor, but this is just straight up a lazy cashgrab from the devs (they did not invent anything new or cool to add onto the lore of the characters with their respective skins, instead its the same boring model for thirsty gamers). The mobs are extremely boring and very borrowing design-wise and, honestly, so is the story/lore, except the lore is not borrowing, rather just uninspired af. Example: the first boss you'll fight is literally Urgot from league (its just a coincidence that LOL is extremely popular in Korea where the devs are), also a lot of the enemies you'll fight are very reminiscent of destiny and halo. Can't give an example on the lore being boring, because I legit could not care to listen after seeing the generic red armor overpowered telekinesis bad guy. Its nice to see cutscenes that don't look completely awful in a F2P game, but the animations in game... oh the animations. They're extremely clunky and feel like this was supposed to be a mobile game. The scopes on sniper rifles look terrible - straight up, so does the UI both in menus and in-game as it seems like it was borrowed from COD mobile. You can show me a F2P game that was made in Asia, without telling me it was made in Asia and I will be able to tell just by looking at the 2015 cheap mobile game ass UI. Ironsight (also a game by nexon) somehow had better UI than this shite, and that game's relatively old. At this point it is hard to tell if its the laziness, incompetence or both?? of the developers from asia, but UI design is literally their bane. This is a game that even if it gains popularity will do so not because its a good game, but because theres a severe lack of NEW alternatives in the looter shooter genre. And a starved player who enjoys these sort of games will likely play this and the devs will pray they get him hooked on the monetization of this game, cuz the way it works with these projects is that once any sum of money is in, one ends up in the sunken cost fallacy and just keeps playing even if its no longer enjoyable (same thing happens with time spent as well); and if u say that's not how it works and you personally would never, that you would righteously not spend a penny on this game like it (obviously yeah uhuh) doesn't give you an advantage, congrats you are only a bit smarter than the next guy who actually decided to waste money instead of wasting time on a project like this. I got mixed feelings from the sound design, its mostly fine in the effects department, that is until u listen to the characters speak and especially their catchphrases. They're unbelievably corny and this was actually the last straw for me (again, if u fw that I guess you're not invited to my birthday party, stay inside and there's a new episode of Demon Slayer coming out soon just for u). While the gameplay itself is fine (for maybe a couple of hours) the gameplay loop and the mission types are extremely boring (IMHO), coupled with the beforementioned boring enemy design it becomes a snooze fest very quickly. And that's considering I didn't finish the "story", I could not imagine how repetitive it would get without any other sort of stimulation besides from the same loot just different colors after one is done with the sad excuse for a campaign. As per locations we have empty abandoned city with nothing to do in it and then acidic desert (very cool and new), I think I am also missing one, but at least there's a simulacrum from Warframe where you fight bosses guys!! Anyway, I think if you're somewhat reasonable and know how devs scam players for their time and money and you know at least something about game design and don't need a constant flow of dopamine via different color borders around loot u acquire in a repetitive mission while playing a game, I suggest to simply pass by. 2/10 this game is secretly an advertisement of Warframe.

Me looking at how long it took me to do anything of noteworthy in bdo 👀

The microtransactions etc is how they make money on a free to play. I'm sure Warframe does the acceleration thing? . I like the gunplay. But with just starting I haven't hit the issues you are commenting on. When it gets to that point I will move onto something else.😊

Worth it for the gyatts honestly

It is very early on and there is room for improvement, warframe has evolved over a decade and is probably the best looter shooter you can play, live service looter shooters are what they are, it will have its audience and I've heard nexon have a bad reputation yet if there's no constructive feedback the game can't build on itself, it does have the benefit of being built on a somewhat decent engine so who knows how it could evolve.

Destiny should have been 3rd person and felt more fast paced like this game (you can actually sprint and reload omg), not to mention more actual active skills for us to use. Lets hope D3 will stop making guardians feel like clunky slow soldiers with very limited magic abilities and maybe a cool grenade lol

For a free to play its worth it, but its by Nexon games so the ingame store prices are really bad

No live service game has ever released to be a good game. Fact. God bless the optimists that hold out hope 😂

I hope the grind to farm the Ultimate parts or Caliber isn't so bad, because I know technically it isn't p2w since you can just farm all of it but there is always a limit when it goes from pay 2 rush to pay 2 win. A decent pay 2 rush game can save you 30 hours of a grind, 100 hours even, for me the max is 500+ hours to reach endgame content. If the game takes over 500 hours minimum to reach endgame content and you are able to lower those hours with microtransactions then I will classify it as Pay 2 win. I still don't know much about how grindy it is to reach endgame content or be OP in this game so that''s why I am saying this. In Warframe, I reached Endgame content at around 250 hours, and for me that is a decent time and you can lower those hours by paying. But if this game takes it to the extreme with microtransactions then it's p2w. Some people have less time or more time so they have different limits from when it goes from pay 2 rush to pay 2 win.

Getting strong Outriders vibes

Warframe is a better game from what I saw in betas BUT when you play Warframe a lot and it's the only game you enjoy you occasionally need a break from it. The First Descendent will hopefully be a game I can play when I need time away from Warframe.

I mean besides the shop you can use this video and just change the game to any looter shooter. its the End game content that keeps everyone hooked. Destiny anthem The division etc all are the same kill mobs kill boss get loot.

I've only played a little bit because of maintenance.

i like the gunplay and the seemless join up with other players. The game is new and we just have to see where the devs take it. Until then i will continue to play it, but it's not good enough where it's at right now to replace the only 3 games i even play, which is D4, Eve Online, and Destiny 2. It's going to take a hell of a lot to get me to put these games down for something else.

Its mad how popular it on steam charts. I really hoped this game improved ALOT from the beta but it hasnt. This is an Anthem 2.0

Appreciate the real review, footage and gameplay! We need more content creators like you! Real, honest, to the point and no pushing an agenda. Thank you! +1 Sub

It gets better. Currently 30hrs in.

ehhh, its ok. I played for an hour. After seeing the battle pass and pricing of virtual currency I quit out and deleted. Some people will love it, but it is P2W or an endless grind. I went and continued my new playthrough of Dragon Age Inquisition, getting ready for veilguard.

Apparently mtashed broke the server for playing the game 13 hours straight.

Nice vid, you spoke what many of us are feeling about this game. Started feeling this early on (2hrs in) and was already feeling like a boring loop at that point. Way too easy, no real challenge, also loot drops don't feel impactful nor exciting, in destiny 2 at least you feel good when you get a new weapon. Not here!...

It really seems like everyone hates on nexon games

Yo I'm starting to think this guy doesn't like the game