im a massive fan of the 1st dragons dogma. and yeah DD2 is dragons dogshit. The combat was its saving grace, BUT WTF ITSUNO GOBLINS AND NEKKERS AND SAURIANS ONLY?! WTF
The person that the dragon took as my beloved was the elf lady who's married to the dwarf and she gives you the mystic archer vocation. But like I only talked to her twice and also she's married?
Saying it sucks seems a bit extreme, I still think it is a good game. But it is a mind-bogglingly massive disappointment considering all they had to do was release a more polished version of the first to have an absolute masterpiece on their hands.
I respect that some people don't think it sucks, based on the gameplay. But I do still think the gameplay needs significant changes to become truly *good*. Combined with the story though, the game overall does suck in my opinion.
WOW. Man this really hit me. I got a new job recently, and I'm constantly worrying about whether or not my coworkers like me or if they find me annoying or if I've made them upset, and it just PLAGUES me to no end thinking about it. When in reality they probably aren't wasting a second thinking about me. I also shame myself for procrastinating on drawing or improving myself a ton, then I beat myself up about it while I'm at work. It really is so interesting to learn about new ways of thinking based on ancient philosophy when your growing up in an advancing world. The past really does teach us. Philosophy really is interesting. I'm excited to watch the rest of your videos. I'll definitely try to apply this.
The game is addictive as fuck, BUT it has lots of problems indeed, the worst offender is no endgame for me. I just wanted to play the game more, get more enemies, bosses, items ecc. Got lot of love for this game and I hope they release a DLC to fix the moronic issues it has.
Dragons dogma 2 has a team of less than 400 people, which is massively less than other capcom titles. Capcom had zero faith in Itsuno which is why the game lacks content. They have to make a Iceborne sized dlc to make this game attractive again.
Your first mistake was giving DD1's story WAYYYY TOO MUCH credit to begin with. The first game was never some unsung masterpiece. It was an above average RPG with; Great combat.........and no good enemy variety to actually take advantage of the surface level combat. At the end of the day, you're either mounting, bashing or shooting increasingly repetitive damage sponges. DD had one of the worst stories I've ever experienced in a modern RPG. That trash makes Dark Souls sound coherent. Some of the worst quest design in ANY RPG ever. The quest design in DD is a criminal offence in itself.
I respect the opinion but disagree, on the point about story. Although I did acknowledge in the video that I'm sad its greatness might have been an accident.
@ZombiAstral i think the explicit story in dd1 was pretty terrible, but hints at a fascinating setting with lots of room for speculation and theorycrafting that makes me remember it way more and more fondly than many rpgs with arguably better narratives. Plus, the endgame is a whole different beast. The cycle of the great will as presented in dd1 is a fascinating concept told through some genuinely awesome reveals. I dont think it's crazy to be disappointed when a game with great narrative potential and foundations but mediocre execution gets a sequel that is advertised heavily as "fulfilling the creative vision and missed potential of its predecessor" and that story ends up being even worse in every single regard Totally disagree on the combat system being surface level. Sure, it's no devil may cry but for an action rpg it's the most fun ive ever had outside of souls-likes, and while it's not particularly deep, there IS more depth than i feel you're giving it credit for, and the breadth, variety and sheer game feel of it compensates imo. The complaint about the repetitiveness and poor enemy variety towards the latter half is very valid though and again, i expected the sequel to make that better, not WORSE. Thats the real problem of dd2, it's a fine game, but it's worse in every way than its TEN YEAR OLD PREDECESSOR while being promoted as the complete fullfilment of that predecessor's potential.
I had fun with DD2 but i cant recommend it to someone in its current state performance wise. The only thing stopping me from playing again is having to suffer through the framerate drops again lol. This was a good video as i agree that the enemy variety is just not good, i wish they had improved on that in this sequel. Still like the game alot but like i said earlier, cant recommend it to anyone in its current state anyway
Not to mention all the amazing innovations from dragon's dogma online and all of the new vocations and great stuff in general in that game nowhere to be seen
The story doesn't explain itself well, but I can see a sort of unwritten story being shown here. 1. The brine/void/guide is stuck in a loop, it cannot change itself, only doing what its meant to do, keeping this area of the world in a state of constant repeating cycles. 2. the arisen breaks that cycle, and kills the brine/void/watcher. 3. Much of what the watcher/brine thought to be true was not, the great will maybe set the cycle in motion awaiting a hero that could break the cycle and kill the alien/evil that had infested that part of the world and kept it in a cycle.
i watched up to 7-8ish minutes of the video thinking it would somehow go back to talking valheim, "ah maybe this deep insightly philosophy has something to do with valheim's game design" I think I might just be dumb
You guys are too easily duped. Did you guys not see gameplay demos before this came out? Fuckin yuck bro, this game was $100 fuckin dollars! Stop buying bad games! You'll not only save money but save sanity and dignity
@@Valosken I would half-agree. I can see why you'd think it might be good, being that it's a sequel to a beloved game, has great graphics, ect. I get that. I never buy anything without doing research. There are so many resources to gauge the quality of a game before you play it, though. Mostly through demos and the like on RU-vid. It took me 2 seconds to judge this would be a piece of crap and it was. This was a game I was so excited for, too. Loved the first game. But I don't lie to myself and say something looks great when it doesn't. I just feel bad for you guys, because I care about the community and it sucks when a cash grab hooks so many people under a guise. A hundred dollars, man. Just sucks!
@@Valosken yeah it is $89 cad right now on Steam. With tax very nearly $100 which is just crazy. And same, actually, for Monster Hunter. I usually wait for initial patches and fixes for most games. Monster Hunter though, day one and straight in. Can't wait for Wilds.
They should have did more with the open world, more with the pawns, more with the social system, combat is half assed nerfing every class. story is terrible insanely bad. And hey you already know
I always WAIT for the REAL reviews 2 months after release. In 90% of all cases, the so called "10/10 masterpiece" is more like a 5-6/10 game in most cases. This is true for DD2 also. Glad I saved money AGAIN.
I paid 70€ to buy it on day one, it is the most disappointing game I've spent over a hundred hours on. If I didn't preorder it and bought it on sale later I'd not have spent so much time with it.
You have no idea about how bad the whole Disa situation is : in an attempt to get some other Berserk inspirations for DD2 to continue the trend from DD1(one of the MC default models is pre-eclipse Guts, have Guts and Griffith's armours and swords, have Zodd as the final boss of Dark Arisen DLC, allusions to God Hand and Mercedes who's not-so-subtly Casca and the llittle witch is basically almost Schierke), DD2 copies instead the "Conspiracy Ark" of the Golden Age of Berserk, namely the Queen who tried to assassinate Griffith because previously it was her lover that tried to do so, behind the back of the King. Disa is the queen from berserk, Sven is surprisingly not her surrogate daughter Charlotte but instead the little kid Guts kills by mistake nd the "not-Arisen" could be implied to be her lover and possibly the one she was cucking the King with long before his death. And Brand is just a black Laban and Owen melded together, with the ball in the game meant to mimic the ball Guts and Casca properly fell in love with after the Band of the Hawk got recognised as knights and it's supposed to parallel your ascension as the now-rising star of the land. It's weak. In both story and execution compared to the first one.
@@imashnake_7151 I worked this one out by myself through my engagement with Zen Buddhism, namely the Buddhist concept of anatman/no-self. I got started on it with Brad Warner’s books - Hardcore Zen is the place to start. Sadly that’s all I can tell you.
I just don't get how this game is a step down from DA. They had the perfect blueprint from two great but incomplete games and they still dropped the ball. I didn't even beat the game. But DDDA goes down as one of my favorite games to date.
It's interesting to me your biggest issue with the game is the story. I've played a good amount of JRPGs in my 40+ years of gaming and I can say that the story was riddled with common tropes/cliches that you can see in other popular JRPG series such as Persona and Final Fantasy. The story was bad and poorly told no doubt. However-- My problem with the game was the mechanics. I have never seen a game's mechanics be so purposefully designed to stretch out the game length. The limited fast travel, the endless fetch quest design, the constant trash mobs spawning every 15 seconds along the faux open world which is really just a series of corridors took what was around 20 hours of content and ballooned it to over 100 if you wanted to do everything. As someone who did all the side quests let me tell you it was an absolute slog to get through. Easily one of the worst JRPGs I've ever played outside of early ones from the 80s where they had to design them that way to prevent people from finishing them in a couple of hours and demanding their money back.
@@murphbri I don’t mind travelling in games, and if the combats decent I don’t mind fighting a lot either. But the enemy variety is probably second place to me. It’s a problem but I would have tolerated it if the story had just made sense.
Thanks very much. Awesome review about the narrative. I was about to spend good money. And I know that I wont enjoy this game now. Just because the story. I don't see any reason to play this on my series x. It doesnt even perform well at all. It looks wrong in motion. I Will buy for 3 € the first one and replay It.
@@Valosken I have used all types of bow apart from Japanese bow. The "mechanical" bows are called compound bows and are the most precise. The curvy ones are recurve or Olympic bows. I have one of those too. I also shoot Hungarian horse archers bows (not on a horse)! And have an underused crossbow. Archery always appealed from school when I used to watch the older boys hooting in the summer but I was too young to partake. Then when I was old enough the teacher had left! So I was 31 when I started and have been involved for 33 years now. My club is 600m away!
I’m damn near heartbroken honestly. Because I genuinely find dragons dogma 1 to be far better. But then again hopefully they redeem it with a dlc like dark arisen did for 1
1 didn't need redeeming with the DLC, but it was only improved by the DLC because the issues weren't core to the game. In my opinion, DD2's issues are endemic to its nature, like the basic vocation design and story.
Now I'm ok with people ENJOYING the game. That's fine. But how many of those players are just coping because they have invested money and times so they try their best to "like" the game... I'm a fan of the original one and DD 2 simply is worse than the sequel. Story sucks, main dragon sucks, elves and dwarves have maybe 3-5 quests ( and nothing is really done with that aspect of the game! ) looting in this game is shit if every bloody chest contains potions or materials.... Locations are unremarkable and there is terrible balancing / enemy variety. Either Itsuno smoked his own farts when he said he wanted to create this game or CAPCOM INVESTORS rushed the game release. Also FUCK ENCUMBRENCE in this game. You can't heal to full with potions so just skip this crappy "baggage".
i find your perspective on gaming very deep and valuable because of that i feel close to you although i dont really know you. With that said, i just wanted to recomment a game to you so that you taste a real good rpg called Gothic from pyranha bytes. Just play the 1st and 2nd game with the expansion. I would be most curious of your commentary
What did you find deep about my perspective? I actually don't feel like I said anything especially profound in this video, which is why I actually never expected it to do so well!
@@Valosken well this vid might lean more to the rant side but other videos, especially that valheim video really made me respect your content. Even this dd2 video is well put together. Looking forward for the future videos.
From what I had seen and heard it feels more like a remake then a sequel. At best it is same game with better graphics and bigger map. At worst some would call it demake. I will wait until they release a definitive edition with all patches and dlcs. But right now I would maybe buy it for half the price but thats a big maybe because I don't really see why if you already got first game.
I actually enjoyed it.. for what it is.. cause it scratched that itch a bit.. But it felt like a watered down version of DD1.. combat wise especially.. I won't be buying any DLC for it.. maybe DD3 if they bring it back to DD1's level
Yes. But ultimately these are the things that came to my mind and really mattered to me. Also, I have to make videos incomplete and imperfect to literally ever upload them. Check out @yoredrag-onight4202's comment. It includes basically everything I missed.
What I understood from the true ending: 1. The Pathfinder is the Brine and it is also the void 2. The Dragon is the pupuse given to the void by the Great Will, so it would not destory the world, it keeps the Pasthfinder (the Void) busy, by making it retaining the circle, the world is it's playground 3. Arisen kills himself (breaks the circle) but the Void brings him back to the ruined world (as usual, when you fell into water) 4. After Arisen weakened the Void by killing the end game bosses, the Void reveals itself in a form of a dragon and tries to run 5. Arisen kills the void and himself. No more Void, the world is free of Brine/Pathfinder and the old man can now finally go on a boat somewhere