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Black Desert cover artvsNFL 2010 cover art

Black DesertvsNFL 2010

Black Desert leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); NFL 2010 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Black DesertNFL 2010

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Black Desert leans harder on variance: gear enhancement is heavily randomized

Optimization8 vs 7

Black Desert leans harder on optimization: grinding routes and builds are solvable

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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