Friends Per Second Crimson Desert is the most hyped game since Elden Ring - can it deliver? | FPS #90
Mar 15, 2026
They unpack hands-on impressions of Crimson Desert and whether its ambition matches the hype. Conversations cover GDC highlights, inventive indie demos, and nostalgia-rich mixtape picks. Multiplayer design, tech talk about Xbox next-gen hints, and reactions to Resident Evil Requiem performance capture also pop up.
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Zero Parades Updates Disco Elysium's Systems
- Zero Parades preserves Disco Elysium's psychological mechanics while adding a spy narrative and new fatigue/delirium systems that change checks.
- Lucy praised how failure is made fun via conditioning, anxiety and fatigue that you can clear by sleeping or choices.
Screenbound's Game Boy Twist Creates Perspective Puzzles
- Screenbound blends first-person movement with a handheld 2D screen mechanic where unseen objects appear only on the Game Boy display.
- Jake described dunking the Game Boy into arcade machines and a surprise top-down Zelda-style mode revealed at GDC.
Xbox Teases Ambitious Next Gen But Keeps Details Tight
- Xbox signaled a next-gen Xbox/PC hybrid with major ray-tracing and AI-forward tech but kept concrete specs and marketing vague.
- Hosts noted dev kits target 2027 and Microsoft plans to roll Xbox Mode into Windows 11 as an early preview.