Dragon's Dogma 2

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Honestly runs pretty good

Dragon's Dogma II is unlike any other Action RPG out there and once you get a taste of its world and design and mechanics you will spend the rest of your life looking for a game like it. (thankfully there's always DDDA to follow it up!) The game is a bit of an acquired taste, however. DD2 is at its finest with how you and your Main Pawn (and your hired pawns too) adventure through the world, because what Dragon's Dogma does best is its emergent gameplay. You could be traveling to a major city back home from a quest or to a quest and a Griffon or Ogre can pop in just to make sure you knew the world hated your guts. Or your pawns could all die and you'll have to wander the world with them in forfeit before reclaiming them from a Riftstone. Best yet, is how attached you get to these strange creatures. You make your own Pawn - a goober that follows you around permanently and sometimes gives you a high five after a job well done. They'll quip about things you do, support you in combat, or run off to find things because they saw something shiny in the distance. Truly, they're pets in human form. And you'll adore them. The vocations in DD2 have a much greater sense of identity vs DDDA. Each plays a much more specific, tighter role. Some might find this restrictive, but it gives a chance for each vocation to shine in its own area of expertise. This accounts primarily for Strider, who was broken into Archer and Thief for DD2. Magick Archer was also stripped of using daggers and staffs. Warfarer, the newest Vocation, allows your Arisen to mix and match *any* vocations' skills/weapon types. Do with this what you will. I've given the game a lot of praise for what it does really well - much the same could be said for DDDA back in 2013 for consoles and 2016 when it came to PC. The negatives hit hard and they leave a lot to be desired. DD2's narrative suffers from being 40% completed. It starts off strong, and the beginning quests give off an air of usurping the false Sovran to take your rightful place on the throne. You go through a large part of the game with this plot thread in mind, until... it stops. The plot shifts from taking your place on the throne to the game practically ending with the end of the world. It goes from 0-100 where you least expect it and it's not even a good surprise. Quest design is also worse imho. In DDDA, quests were semi-clearly marked with Red or Green "?" marks above an NPC's head. This is not so in DD2. While it's more immersive, it's much more confusing and disorienting. Talk to *everyone*. Literally everyone. And sometimes the quests are so vague in description it's best to just pull up a guide, get your pawn the quest knowledge, and help others. (this could also be done vice versa, if your hired pawns have the knowledge) No matter the negatives, I'm glad we got a sequel to this hidden gem. Dragon's Dogma deserved better by Capcom and I'm proud of Itsuno for getting the chance to make this wonderful game. I'm looking forward to the Dark Arisen expansion and I'm glad I gave this game a proper chance.

Pros: - Combat (for some vocations, others are cons) - Exploration - Pawn System Cons: (Everything else) - Story - Dialogs - Side quests - Weight system - Backtracking - Too many broken mechanics - You generaly do not beleave in anything in the game.

The Dragon's Dogma experience is like playing an old game of Dungeons & Dragons. The sense of adventure, explorations, discovery is something that is so well complemented by its dynamic encounters. While I don't have enough time with the game yet, in order to fully judge it narrative, I am content with the title merely for its gameplay loop. Also, to touch on the topic of performance, as it was a rather large issue on release, I do think they have ironed out many of the issues for the most part. My performance is pretty stable with a 3070 TI with 8GB VRAM and and 32GB of system ram, with the graphics setting set to High, no Raytracing, DLSS set to Quality Mode. I chose to wait for a while for the game to receive all its updates and to see whether a "Dark Arisen" version would be released, and I have not been disappointed at all thus far. Looking forward to see what the expansion holds.

During my 2 hour’s gameplay I found this game to be nearly intolerable, let alone fun/enjoyable. This games only deserves 20USD price at best. • Combat tutorial is a huge mess. You’re stuffed with constant verbal instructions from NPC while focusing on the monster in front of you. I barely had time to try the first technique NPC taught me before them came up with the second technique. I even interrupted NPC’s combat instructions because I killed the monsters too quickly. As a sword&shield fighter playing normal difficulty, I just don’t have the that much energy to listen to what NPC was teaching me while defending myself from enemy blows. By the end of the combat I barely remember half of those combat tutorials. •The English dub was PAINFULLY plain and emotionless. I know people online praise this game of using medieval phrases but I feel like 2/3 of the NPCs were reading their script with no emotion at all. Even AI can do a better job than what’s in the game. There were no racism despises like Skyrim. There were no enthusiastic combat shouts like Helldiver. Everyone outside the cutscene sounds hollow. •The starting plot was horrible. I was very excited to gain freedom and starts to roam around the map but everything in my mouth turns bad the moment they introduced “pawns”. The player was brought up from the pitiful prisoner to a chosen champion where so many people would follow you blindly and for no reason all of a sudden. In any other games if you were to be given a companion, it would be a reason for either gold, friendship, life-saving but not in this game. It’s like using a cheat at the noob village but on the plot level which makes no sense and made me lost all the interest for the progression system. This is probably the worst thing in the game. “Pawns” are driving me nuts. I can’t imagine leading a group of mindless zombies with none of them being unique. I played Mass Effect and it was a shiny example of companionship. Each teammates have their own story and culture and personality. They interacts with each other and none of them is replaceable. I’d sacrifice millions of pawns in exchange for a one friendly NPC that isn’t a zombie manifested out of thin air. This is beyond stupid. I know I don’t have much time invested in this game. If it can’t hook me up in 2 hours, it’s not worth my time. I’d keep my game copy and support the dev if it’s cheap and has potential. But not in this case. This is an expensive slop made by a big company. So it’s not worth my money either.

One of the best RPG series ever made Capcom on the other hand can eat my entire ass if they ever use RE Engine on an open world game ever again

this game is very very glitchy. went to use a port crystal and lost almost 20 hours of progress in the game even after multiple hard saves. i can deal with the glitches every 5 min, but not losing progress. i still have certain achievements, but also lost the levels and progress for them. it literally put me back to where I was a few days ago.