Corruption or Crimson? Which do you prefer?

Corruption or Crimson

  • Corruption

    Votes: 173 45.3%

  • Crimson

    Votes: 209 54.7%
  • Total voters
    382
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I guess my favorite combination would be pre-hardmode Corruption and hardmode Crimson.

I like the Corruption color scheme more. The trees look nicer, the demon altars and shadow orbs look cooler. I like to build a minecart track through the horizontal cavities in the early game, and you then drive by all those altars and orbs. Plus, I still like the EoW. Okay, it's very easy to beat, but it's a nice concept. I also prefer the Corruption surface music.

During hardmode, it's different. The Underground Corruption monsters annoy me for some reason. I prefer the Underground Crimson monsters, and I also like the music of that biome (unlike the surface music). Fortunately, that's not an insurmountable problem, as I just keep Underground Corruption in check and plant some Crimson in the Corruption world, so all's well.
 
Crimson. I just like its music and the regeneration quality of the armor and its bloddy theme. i also love floaty grosses. And BoC is a good boss. And vamp knives are awesome. And the fleshcatcher. AND finally, the crimson heart pet. It just flops around! Cute :D
 
Corruption is better IMO. It has cooler terrain, and while it has worse items overall, I think the scourge of the corrupter is a really fun weapon to use.
 
Scourge of the Corrupter is good for Plantera, the Destroyer, and Golem, but any other boss, I differ.
 
For me: In a normal world: crimson. More gory, more awesome, more fun. But in expert I would take corruption (partly because of the worm scarf) but to be honest, crimson items are better. So it's Crimson for me (also my first ever world was crimson and for some reason I only get a corruption, like every 8 worlds (really weird).
 
Corruption
Although the EoW is a bit of a cakewalk, the difficulty of hitting them damned eaters always gets me, it is forcing me to build over chasms just so I don't get knocked down.
 
Arakina said:
Corruption. Personally I prefer Shadow Armor/other corrupted items over crimson items, plus the music.
My god, the music is perfection.
It's fun and sounds adventurous.
The Crimson, however, is just.. gross. Call me a pussbag, but I have to take breaks every now and then when I'm in the Crimson, just because of the sheer grossness of everything. The music doesn't help.

tl;dr: I like Corruption because it's fun and not gross.
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I'd say Crimson mainly because of the atmosphere overall. I don't like the ripped up terrain and chasms of the Corruption, that just gets really annoying personally. However, I am pretty new to the game so this might change.
 
The Crimson is creepier to me and it has stronger weapons and tools. I prefer the Crimson armour set bonus to the shadow armour bonus.

I also find the EoW way too easy, the brain of Cthulhu is more of a challenge to me so I find it a more enjoyable fight
 
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Corruption. I hate the crimson. I don't know why, I just hate it. Also, Underground corruption is my favorite soundtrack, there is the worm scarf, and the Eater of Worlds gives a feeling of satisfaction when you are shredding through the segment with an Arkhalis. I always bring crimson seeds into my world (mainly because I have this thing with collecting all the trophies) because there are some cool items in there. But when my world is primarily crimson, it's not as fun for me.
 
I think I remember posting in another thread like this, but I have better reasoning now.

I DO NOT like the Crimson. Sure it might have cool items, but I reeeeeeally do not like the flesh and gore theme. It just kind of disgusts me. Which I know it's meant to but...the aesthetic, the music...I just really do not care for it. And I wouldn't use Flesh Blocks anyway. Also I had to generate about seven worlds before getting a single Corruption.

I much prefer the Corruption. I like the look of it, and what you can make from ebonwood and ebonstone. I like the look of the Shadow Orbs, and I like the Musket. The music is among my favorite in the soundtrack, and those chasms can be SERIOUSLY threatening, especially early on--falling down one of those without a recall and knowing you're going to die, just dreading the moment when you don't bounce, but YOU FALL FOR HOURS. And there are no maaaagic balloons.

Plus I just like cursed flames. So yeah, Corruption wins on most things for me.

Though I'd probably take Crimson if I'm on mobile because I find it so much harder to build or use rope in that version--I fell down the same chasm five times while having a mostly completed rope. I guess I just have big fingers D:
 
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