Like you, I waited what seemed forever for this to port to PC. Your opinion is close enough to how I feel about the game, that we could accurately call them the same opinion. Nice review. So impressed with so much of this game, was worth the wait. This is what I felt with the first Tenchu so damn long ago. I like your review style, it covers a lot w/o a bunch of jabbering and BS. Thank you. Subbed
After my 3rd NG+ I got the "shut the fu@k up scroll" for my main pawn and it's so nice having a silent pawn that just goes to work. I don't pick up the other 2 pawns but would search for the muted ones to make it a proper crew.
Ther were four games in total DD1, Dark arisen, Online, and DD2. Combat is garbage compared to the fighting mechanics and maintained vocations with intro of Bitterblack Isle (minus Itsuno but still with Ryota Suzuki and Kenoshita).
Capcom is lucky that the first game went under most people's radar. The fact that DD2 players don't have anything to compare it to, lets Capcom off the hook w/ this lazy sequel.
Dark Arisen was just a better game, and had more content. Yes, I know it's a DLC that had additional content. But if you can't bring a game out 12 years later that's got more of what the prequel had, then that's pretty pathetic. Add in the fact that this game is hardly a sequel, iykyk
My bad, I just saw this comment! I am running most of my game on medium settings with DLSS on and I think Frame Gen as well. From what I understand though, DLSS really only helps if you are using a 40 series Nvidia card, otherwise I think you want to go with FSR.
I loved the first Dragon's Dogma. I was super excited when I heard of this game. I thought they were going to improve on the drawbacks the first game had, but somehow, they didn't, and even added other drawbacks. When I first booted it up, I was sucked in hook, line, and sinker. Until I got to Vernworth, and my performance dropped to like 15 or less fps due to the optimization issues. And then the game started to crash randomly when exiting menus, or the map. And I got frustrated with how wobbly the character's knees are when trying to climb, they stumble and slip on the slightest incline. Pawns casually yeet themselves into the Brine, or off of cliffs The UI is atrocious when it comes to inventory management, or receiving new items in bulk, (get goaled and get your stuff back) The affinity system is still trash, and the game only has 2 official romance options, that are not optional if you don't want any open quests just sitting in your journal, and they're both women. Like you can't complete the quest WITHOUT having the romance scene with them. Like, I know ANYONE could be your beloved, but bruh. I would at least like for there to be a wider option of official romances with scenes to match. That aren't tied to quests. And the affinity system is so finicky. Just like the first game. They removed the eternal ferrystone, and gave us a LARGER map. Like, that doesn't make sense??? And the two port crystals that are static on the map are both in Vermund, like, does Battahl just not need a static port crystal? End game puts more static ones around the map, but they are only accessible during the time limited unmoored world map and have no effect on NG+. I mean, yeah there's oxcarts. That goes to Melve, Checkpoint Rest Town, Battahl, and Vermund but what good does an oxcart do when you have to waste a few seconds to wait at a sign for it to be the proper time of day to access it, and then have it get attacked and likely destroyed part of the way to the destination? The story starts off strong, but once you get to the Coronation, which is built up to be a big deal only for you to have to dip out due to the godsway, and the fact that Disa and her plot just becomes irrelevant as you get to Battahl, it's a bore. You can do the bare minimum and get the same results in the main story as if you had done everything. Becoming Sovran isn't even part of the original cycle. The dragon is meant to be a test to find someone who has enough will to be able to relieve the current seneschal because their will was decaying after watching over the world for who knows how long in between successful Arisens. And speaking of Arisens, why are there so many just out and about in the second game? Surely our dragon wasn't their dragon, as if it was, shouldn't they have aged or died when we killed our dragon using the godsbane on ourselves? I thought failed Arisens that didn't take the dragon's offer of sacrificing one's beloved turned into drakes and lesser dragons? And the arisen that lost to the seneschal became the next great dragon. The Japanese translation to English mushed up a lot of key words, and so the story is interpreted differently, as Rothias is actually the seneschal, but that word is never used in the English version. The same is also applied for taking the godsbane blade to Phaseus, it's worded like you are delivering him the tool he needs to achieve his goals, which to our knowledge at the time, was opposite of our own. He was propped up to be some big scary villain, the true villain behind Disa, but no. Just a scientist sorcerer that wants to be free of the cycle, as the player wants to do. Like, honestly, I don't feel like there is an actual concrete story. It's just speculation and crap because the translation just seems too muddled. And what was that crap at the end with the gigantic giga dragon? Like, I spent all that time gathering everyone up to the seafloor shrine, battling bosses and facing the Brine, only to have an interactable cutscene of my character scooting up the dragon's tail and wing while the pathfinder tries to explain things, but somehow doesn't? And NG+ is just depressing. There is no difficulty setting, and enemies do not scale with you. So, in NG+, you just melt through enemies like a hot knife through butter. It's not fun. Also, port crystals don't stay, unlike the first game. Once again, the map is larger, substantially so, with no eternal ferrystone, AND the port crystals don't stay when you do NG+ The game was rushed, for sure. Content was definitely cut. It feels too loose to be the final vision that was intended. I want to enjoy the game. I've sunk nearly 200 hours into it, and instead I just feel dread when I think about playing it. Anyway, sorry for the long comment. I'm just so frustrated over the game because I truly want to love it. It just... doesn't make me feel that way.
The fact there was not a "Start new game button" told me everything I need to know. This game was not finished and rushed out as soon as it was desirable. This hurts alot considering DD1 is in alot of ways a skeleton of an amazing concept. They did do mileage on DD2, but when you look around you see missing pieces. Like ghosts of what could have been. Seems Dragons Dogma's ambition is always going to be cursed by the fact that the games industry does not care.
“What should we have the bulk of the story be in our game where combat is the best part??” “Uhhhh political intrigue?” “You do realize last game we had an ogre siege battle, a griffin fight in a ruined colosseum, and a zombie filled crypt?” “Nahhhh, political intrigue.”
Yea bro this review is kinda doo doo. So pretty much you don't understand rpg mechanics or what you're playing. But you also sound young and on the cusp of the fortnite generation.
Honestly you’re spitting facts. While I love certain stupid quirks about Dogma as a series, I cannot deny that you’re right about how this game can get really annoying! Performance is an instant turn off. Combat retained a solid 60% of DD1’s variety, debuting with horrible changes to existing vocations (changes to archer needing an arrow skill in order to use specialty arrows is ATROCIOUS, changes to mage and sorcerer have only 4 spell slots down from 6, almost none of the cool spells from the previous game, and completely removing elemental bolts and focused bolt/removing sorcerer’s force push is ridiculous, just to name 2), and not even mentioning that removing Mystic Knight and Assassin, which are beloved vocations which only deserved to be built upon, is insulting. The story is somehow a fraction of DD1, basically the only memorable set piece is Talos, and he sucks! The fact that they didn’t even try to do a Fortress Besieged, Watergod’s Alter, Griffin’s Bane, Cockatrice assault on Gran Soren, Wyrmking’s Ring or ANYTHING Notable besides the absolute nothing quests of Vermund, and absolute nothing quests of Battahl until Talos is abhorrent. This game is divisive, and that’s okay, because it’s resurrecting Dragon’s Dogma which I love. But despite that, this game which is extremely polished, didn’t even try to replicate some of the most memorable moments from the first game, and because of that, it just falls flat in comparison. Even the Pathfinder crap at the end is just annoying. How DARE You make Grigori’s fight essentially worthless and entirely skippable and basically necessary to skip, in order to enter the endgame? And while we’re at it, how dare they make the endgame 12 days only? The endgame is (supposed to be) some of the funnest content of the game if you’re trying to remake Dogma 1 (which they 100% were) No Everfall or repeatable dungeon of any kind? Ends in 12 days forcing you to restart the game? You’ve basically stripped a grand majority of what made DD1 fun *and replayable* to begin with.
I keep seeing comments from people telling me that I don't "get" Dragon's Dogma (even though I played the first and enjoyed it) but then there are players like yourself who are super passionate about it explaining why this game is nowhere near the greatness of the first one. This split I think really shows just how divisive the game truly is to the fan base when it should have been a game that could have been an easy 10/10 if they had just built on the first one and made it better.
People may not like this for the title a defense for how hrped on the ganne is over MTX and performance but you gave the game a shot and you have the same gripes I got with it I liked the game 100%'d it but yeah the game needs a better story, and npcs and far far more monsters the current state of the game feels like they released a beta test for the game ngl.
I knew people were gonna downvote the video to hell and back, and they have, but it's hilarious how many people in the comments assume that I haven't played the first game, but I have, and fairly recently too. Dark Arisen was so much better.
I play a long 50 hour plus rpg if the story is good or not. If I care about the characters and where it goes. If the side quests have good story and awards. The combat to me is the last thing I really care about. Witcher to me was the last great long rpg i played in awhile. Thats why to me Elden Ring wasnt as high of a praised on my book as alot of people put it as. Some said it is the best game that ever created mainly because of the combat. I personally lost interest in that game half way in. Its a shame. I was looking forward to this game. I played the first one but kind of lose interest in it half way mainly because I couldnt give a shit about the story. I was expecting a better story and side quest. I guess my hopes of seeing another Witcher was false hope
I love the game and i enjoy the combat except i can count all the enemies in the game on both hands. I also beat the game in like a day so it was extremely short. Not too sure what to do now end game as the map is pretty limited and so is armour and weapons.. at least as far as im concerned..
dawg, youre not supposed to just go through the story missions XD any dragons dogma vet would tell you that. this game is a place to "live in" not burn through. theres alot hiding under the hood that you will just assume isnt there if you just play the story missions.
I honestly tried finishing the video …. But really couldn’t …. Perhaps I have to be patient as I remember seeing wow and age of civilisation and going like ….bla bla bla…. Now I see the foolishness of being young and so sure about my opinion. This review will age poorly.
Sorry you couldn't get through the video. If I were unsure about my opinion, it wouldn't be an opinion worth having; if they don't fix core issues with the game, that opinion likely won't be changing anytime soon.
@@BubbasGameReviews Don’t get me wrong , it is a good video and you put a lot of effort in the production value and writing that it did hold my attention and I always appreciate good work. You don’t like the art style or direction of the game that is fine, opinion noted. Just be aware that it is clicking for the people it was aimed at. The critiques on the fps etc legit especially when comparing to Elden ring which is an own world game. But when compared to breath of the wild they do draw a lot of parallels in terms of frame rate, story content or actually lack there of. And sadly it tells you didn’t work out how to make your pawns smarter using inclinations or the obtuse interactions with npc’s that tell a deeper story if you think about it. Take for example.g the jadeite orb quest , you as a player are actually scammed by all three parties imo. The lore is funnily deep when you start getting through the quirks.Well you don’t like it then you don’t that’s fair. But no take back on that later my friend!
I'm glad you at least gave me a critique of the review that wasn't just "you don't get it" like some others. So let me say this: "clicking for the people it was aimed at" I AM the target audience. I played the first game and I've played many other RPGs. I love the genre and wanted this game to succeed just as much as everyone else who enjoyed the first one. I get that when it comes to opinions, my negative opinion could be someone else's positive opinion, but that's for them to decide, not me. I knew how to make my pawns smarter. I said that the combat AI for pawns was actually very good, but they were annoying outside of combat because the constant chatter and cliff jumping became maddening. Yes, they do have some interesting lore bits (Dragonsplague being one) but it was nice to hear that information...the first time. I didn't mention inclinations because changing them didn't really do much for me. It could have been a bug, but I'm not sure. I specifically mentioned that finding quests through exploration was one of the best parts of the game. That includes overhearing NPC conversations, statues that are pointing to a certain location in the wild and following them, etc. That was a strength of the game. I disliked the story(ies) the quests told, and that's where we can agree to disagree because people like different things. I don't regret making the review. This is my view of the game as it released and is a stamp on the channel of how they started the game. If they do some sort of "Dark Arisen" DLC for this that fixes a lot of things, then I'll make a new review to talk about the new content. As of now, I can only review what they put in front of me and not some future content that doesn't even exist at the moment. Once again, I appreciate you taking the time to explain more of what you didn't agree with. At the end of the day, I enjoy having conversation around games, good or bad, whether we agree or disagree.
@@BubbasGameReviews with regards to cliff jumping add the thiefcore skill that helps easily scale cliffs and foes on any of your pawn vocation. With regard to shutting them up I forgot which but one of the inclinations does the trick plus there is an option but I love the chatter that I can’t do without it. I would advise try a solo play through when time permits and then build your team around it. And the pawns should vary not by vocations or skills but purely by body weight. I rarely take mage or sorcerer and it is actually viable and they make short work of the ambush and you only need the occasional camp site visit. By having varying body sizes you actually have a proper tank , vanguard, sniper etc..
Nerfed mobility in rogues, poor loot, mediocre looking npcs that don’t justify poor performance and less Armor slots. DD2 is a downgrade on everything that made DDDA great and its a shame.
I picked up DDDA for 3 quid after putting 100 hours into DD2 and honestly, DD2 is a straight up downgrade from Dark Arisen. Even combat wise I feel that the dual weapon skill system of the first game was far more involved and even simple things like the basic combos having variations if you delayed inputs added to a fight. The archer requiring a skill for an arrow type is also ridiculous. Story is laughable, ui and general inventory management is worse *especially* changing equipment from storage etc. The world is the only exception, the amount of caves, discoveries and general layout of the world was great. I still massively enjoyed DD2 but playing Dark Arisen was a big reminder of how they've seemingly learned nothing and that's massively frustrating.
@@BubbasGameReviews My hope is that they fix the game up and expand, apparently the base version of DD was a bit shit until Dark Arisen revamped it too, fingers crossed!
@@BubbasGameReviewsWastes a skill slot, and attempts to “balance “ a fun mechanic that made Strider cool. When will people understand that some of the things that made classes broken, were just FUN to play with?
DA is so much better and more fun to play, the weapon and armor variety was better, it had many more skills, and also you could equip more skills at once, i loved being able to save scum w/ the godsbane too which is something you can't even do in this game, not that you'd want to
Dude, if the title is incendiary; bag it and leave it on Capcom's door. Problem solved. ; ) For me it's: - RPG mechanics that actually matter and allow me to build the character that I want to build = Pacing balance mechanically (Including Monsters of an appropriate level ONLY showing up WHEN I can realistically handle them!!!) - Story = This game wrote an IOU - Romance = If you're going to do it; DON'T half ass it. - Combat that DOES NOT do "chip" damage/have monsters that can damned near ONE SHOT me at any given level... - Cool loot to find (There is NO good equipment as far as I have played) = NO stealth missions in a game that WAS NOT designed to be a stealth game! - Escort Missions where the target can either properly defend themselves, or NO ESCORT MISSIONS! * The fast travel bullshit and the dragonplague idea were the two WORST possible ideas that Capcom could come up with. They deserve EVERY Dunce cap on the whole damned Dev team for whoever a) came up with either, and b) allowing each of them to pass into the coding at all. If you're going to FORCE me to camp just to make your dumb assed "fast" travel system "viable" then make the camp gear INDESTRUCTIBLE!!! [I care less that you can be attacked at night than I care that it -unnecessarily - costs me a shit ton to buy decent camp gear if it breaks] The Meister thing specifically PISSES me off. A LOT. There was NO NEED to make the highest teir skill that hard to get. In the original you had to earn the rank to get it - and you DID. It was EARNED. That should've been good enough. Now, not only do we have to FIND the pain in the ass to TEACH the skill; we have to do a quest - on TOP of getting the damned rank to begin with. Really disheartened me to get my Pawn to Mage 9 and then realize they trapped that bullshit (not worthwhile skill) behind a quest where I have to play hide and seek all over the damned map just to pick up SPECIFIC grimoires when the kid LITERALLY says ANY grimoire would do... Fuck. That. And captain you need to be dressed a certain way before I'll even answer you can absolutely kiss my Irish ass. That's ON TOP of the fact they both want the same damned books... : / Beren gives you the Meister skill; but ONLY if you're rank 9 of warrior BEFORE you bother doing the second quest he has - or he'll bugger off to Bhatall and you're screwed getting it til MUCH later in the game. Who the fuck thought EITHER of those options was a good idea, and why the fuck wasn't he fired? Summarily, out of a cannon.
For me, there's just so much stuff they only did half way that it felt like they should have either gone all in with the idea or never put it in to begin with. Fast travel is one of those, romance is another, heck, even the brothel. Why did I select a voice for my character in the character creator if they never speak?
@@BubbasGameReviews All true, and totally agree. I don't understand why Warfarer wasn't the Brawler class, given BBI had the Bloody Knuckles. We didn't need Trickster, it adds nothing to the game as the pawn AI is NOT reliable enough to make them the party main damage dealers. I also would have liked presets that didn't look like ass; and pictures of EVERY body part that I could choose, rather than all the numerical slider things. I've made ONE decent looking pawn in the 2 times I've started the game... and of the perhaps three times I've actually restarted - the other two looked either not quite right, or almost mutant. I'm not a graphic designer - and it should be assumed that MOST players are going to want their characters to be aesthetically pleasing.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about everything but ESPECIALLY the loot. There is no interesting, game-changing loot at all. Everything is a bland item with no special effect, or synergy with existing skills/passives, nothing. That alone makes exploration feel pointless and empty. Why am I going to go look for that elusive cave if I know the loot in it is just as dull and lifeless as many of the NPCs are? I think I KNEW the game was going to be half-assed when I learned there were only 10 vocations. Only two of the four starting vocations had advanced options that fit in a comfortably similar-ish play style: Fighter and Mage (Warrior/Sorcerer respectively). The progression in the game is just not there to me. What the hell happened to video game RPGs?
So little caviot to the gameplay elements. I recomend designing the weapons around your team first, for example you may want to spread your weapon consistancy for the area/combat your aiming for. At current I know most of the squad I'm with wants to run Rifles down the board. The issue with running rifles only is the fact the weapons have range but require sometimes a more direct approach when sweeping buildings and the time it takes to aim and fire completely lethal shots in the game (because you need to hit vitals), you need specific ammunitions. I opted to by a CQC of my team so I run weapons for cavity or shotguns for simplicity. So far Shotguns are great for staggering the AI enemies and they hit like a truck: Often 2 shotgun shells is all I need to bring down a basic AI with a good 30 feet between us (I didnt test the 870 with choke, with slugs, or an optic, just used the better fore end and the longer barrel option, which allowed me to 1 shot enemies within 5 feet guarenteed to the head, but noticed the MOA could be better so I got off after upgrading to the 870 with choke and optic). From what I've been told Artisan is going to give us the Russian Arms vs Gunny who gives you Nato Arms. So as we level we can unlock more weapons and vender features. I have a personal low expectation of the 5.56 unless you know where to hit the vitals (which isnt hard to look at an anatomy chart). Things to keep in mind as you play: 1) Blood is your HP and bleeding out is a critical death, most of the time you will lose vitals before that and losing critical vitals is instantly death as well. 2) Cavitation or wound channel expectations are going to be problematic based on your weapon. If you choose to take high pen ammo then the bullet will also produce a smaller wound channel and some enemies will take a lot of rounds to kill, if you choose soft points for example you can 1 tap unarmored targets but armored opponents are going to be a pain in the ass (Right now helmets cover the whole head regardless of outlook) This means the following: Pistols/SMGs are capable of being more lethal then NATO rifles per bullet, but suffer accuracy at range more (And they can drop off sooner for sure), meaning shotguns and SMGs are somewhat the same in game-play effort, just depends weather you want a bullet hose or a cannon (Or a ambush weapon in the case of handguns). Rifles can be a mixture of game-play depending on your slice of it: High caliber weapons often will drop the target but have recoil and weight as an issue (Often being designated for overwatch or sniper rolls, also cant get much loot potential), Moderate Caliber weapons are probably the most consistent: 5.56 and 5.45 requires more tentative aim for vitals then weapons firing higher powered rounds such as the 7.62x39 or 7.62x51 which even with AP will have bigger cavity wounds then the latter (Again, recoil will be harsher meaning full auto isn't prefered) Placing this into practice if you want accuracy focused weapons you can get bolt rifles or smaller projectile calibers to do that easily (semi for these will be king for sure) however the Assault Rifles also can dump a mag if the emergency is required giving you a higher pen SMG with higher recoil If you want to kill faster on a theoretical kill per bullet potential then the 7.62 options are going to slap like a truck, the AKM packing the ability to full auto out the gate with semi as an option opens up a lot of gameplay options, however it will be a beast to control so this would be a rough to use SMG for sure. Against targets that are straight unarmored, arguably using shotguns or hollow point equiped SMGs and Handguns will be the best at landing vitals on the chest. A great example is if you hit both lungs you instantly kill the target, a shot to the heart is an instant kill, or a shot to the head as well. Meaning Accurate well placed fire in those zones with anything works, but arguably lower recoil and easily manageable weapons that can check corners on the lighter end allows more efficient stamina use and targeting. Meaning your kit itself means more to gunplay then just load the best ammo and run it like a boss (Tarkov attitude).
Great video!! I think that i heard in another video that one of the traders that are locked have some AK stuff, i just dont know when or how we can unlock
@@BubbasGameReviews ah, alrighty, lol. Might be good though to cover that though as well choosing a muzzle device though like flash hider, and all that good stuff. Great video, I made myself a OG Vietnam style CAR-15 using the XM177 muzzle device in the game last night.
From what I understand, he's mad about there being paid season passes and needing to subscribe to Fallout 1st in order to unlock the rewards. However, if the guy had actually looked at the Bethesda website, it states that the season pass is completely free and that there are some items that can only be unlockable if you have a Fallout 1st subscription. It has been that way since Season 9 according to their site.
@@BubbasGameReviews he said they started rolling out season sys (with that score boards) and put it behind paywall, in short how is FO76 for lone wolf? not lone wolf friendly?
He also did a follow up video where he apologizes because he got his information wrong. They have had seasons in Fallout 76 for a very long time because this one is Season 13. So they aren't a very new thing. The season pass can be mostly completed for free by getting something called score, which you can get for free, that levels up the pass. The pass does have some exclusive items that you can only get with a Fallout 1st subscription but the majority of the pass can be unlocked for free. It also seems that the majority of the items in the pass are mostly cosmetic items, so you don't actually need them to play the game. I'm not a huge fan of battle passes, which this is, and I'm not going to buy a Fallout 1st sub for the exclusives, so I'm not too worried about it. It's more, mostly free, content for the player. Playing as a lone wolf, it depends on how much you like exploration. While there are quests and stories, exploration seems to be the core of the game as well as learning about the world at this time in the universe. I'm not at the end game so I can't tell you about that content, but it seems like it's pretty solo friendly. Of course, playing with a friend is always more fun and there are people you can team up with in the game, if that's something you want to do.
