Dragon’s Dogma 2 left me speechless [Review] 

Sorry for no audio on this video (like the title says, the game left me speechless)

You can actually turn the pawn comments off, it even works for the first game and doesnt include mods, its an opption called "throw them off a cliff"

5:45 "goblins, wolves and harpies" - no bandits? I remember those being about as common in the first game.

Awww I loved the incessant chatter of the pawns in the first game, they were like excited children that were just so happy to be out on an adventure!

If Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima and Spiderman 2, which look more impressive, can hit 60 fps on console why can't DD2?

2:38 Hmmm, can't wait for those excellent plot points...

What a lot of people forget is that yes, during the day there are the usual boring enemies like goblins, wolves and harpies but at NIGHT the enemy types changes to zombies, skeletons and phantoms. Yes, they are the grunt types and not too challenging but many reviewers don’t mention the enemy changes at night time which gives the game a different feel and atmosphere.

The cape keeps clipping through the shield

What’s going on nowadays is that todays games are being played like back in PS3 and 360 era, when games drop below 30 frames because of the intense particle effects, but most definitely with the PS3. The PS3 was powerful, but the focus wasn’t on faster frame rates or even better graphics, but how massive the game can be made. And PS3 is famous and infamous for massive open world games that play wonderfully gameplay wise, but tank hard in frame rates.

The pc port is not okay, you got a ps5 code for a reason

1:00 Hell yes to the first game's character creation music. I put it on when I made the character in the demo.

The more I learn about this game the more I'm interested in trying it. I'm intrigued by the Morrowind-esque lack of quest markers for example so it feels like it will play somewhat differently compared to other RPGs. Sounds interesting to me.

excited to see if you'll make a follow up review

I'm very thankful for your channel, you are one of the only reviewers I truely trust their opinion and rating for a game

The main story didn’t grip me at all, and a lot of quests are just fetch quests

I know this review is weeks old, but for the 'Prey for the Pack' quest you mentioned broke, did you take Rodge back to Morris? I didn't see the yellow NPC marker on your map so it doesn't look like the boy was with you, but you have to make sure he follows you all the way from the cave back to Morris to complete the quest. (Yeah, the wording 'inform Morris of Rodge's wellbeing' is misleading). I had the same problem with this quest and had to make 2 trips back to the cave for the boy, really annoying, lol.

"Masterworks all, you cant go wrong"

Thanks for your honest and insightful review. I totally appreciate and agree with your praise and your criticisms and I for one will be buying my copy on release day. Cheers!

Always great to see a new vid by you, NK! I'm unsure about DD2 for myself, but as I was watching your video it suddenly occurred to me: How did you miss the Baldur's Gate 3 train??

I encountered that too but found out right away that you have to enter the NPC's shop to complete it, like the Pawn that was leading you that quest showed you when we arrived.

This is the first and last review for this game ill watch until i had my full playing it. Thank you very much, i knew i can count on you

Love your review! Can't wait to play the game when it comes out!

Ok so, repeatedly heard you say, "...goblins, wolves, and harpies is all you'll see for the first several hours." I'm not disagreeing with you, if you stay on the main roads, but if you explore, what the game devs intended, that will not be the case. In my 3rd hour I went into a cave and fought multiple types of enemies, including a chimera. That's why dd2 is such a great game, everything is up to you as a player.

'we hope our players weren't eating too much yellow paint as a child' NAHHH i lost it right there hahahaha

I hid my weed on the hospital grounds near my wirk place. On the way home , I'll grab it & smoke right there. I hid it under a broken branch.

Dude I HAVE to thank you for recommending Thronebreaker, god that was such a great experience.

I had forgotten how hurt I am to read “locked at 30fps”.

I almost got out of the video in trying to know the least before playing but the realize it was my favorite man neon and ha d yo watch it can wait for you to make more content man keep it up love the vids😊

Fingers crossed they fix the performance issues with a patch.

I was on the fence before but definitely going on my wishlist now. Keep up the good work! You have the best and most interesting commentary on games like this.

I had the same issue happen with Prey for the Pack side quest. I actually had to go back to the wolves’ cave and pick up the boy and escort him back to the NPC who gave me the quest to complete it. Took me a little while to figure that out.

Every time i leave the city. I have to go back and hire a new thief. They keep throwing themselves off cliffs. inside and outside of combat. 😂

there's only one thing i want to know. is there a storage system to save all our fashion dogma?

quick question what was the frame rate like? because i herd that its around 20-30 fps on consoles was it smooth for you or was it not good.

You played the music of the best Game ever in the background - I love it

Currently playing on PC with a PS5 controller because I heard about the console issues (about 25h in).There it runs quite smoothly at 60 FPS even in the big city. But I am not running at at the highest settings (running it on high). However I also heard of performance issues on PC. That is runs so poorly on consoles is a disgrace. Also thanks for the tip with the harpies. I was wondering how to reach those chests :D. Also an interesting choice not to mention the microtransaction that are masked as DLC. Currently I am not experiencing places where I am incentivised to buy. I am in no need of more rift crystals (you don't need them for summoning pawns at your level) and quick travel is very very cheap. So currently I cannot see game design decisions that were just made with the DLCs in mind which was a pleasant surprise. Maybe you felt the same so it wasn't worth mentioning. As always. Great video.

In Dragon's Dogma 1 I literally found Gandalf as a rental. Worth every penny.

Waited 12 years to play it at the same frame rate from 12 years ago

The clipping on the shield and robe is awful. Really. Its details like that ... just slaps immersion across the face.

They took out way to many of the mage and sorcerers skills, while adding nothing. Vocations are horribly underwhelming, the armor choice was ultimately reduced. Then there's the matter of monster variety and locations. It all just comes together to be the most lackluster sequel you could make after a decade of fans waiting.

People criticizing Elden ring for a lack of enemy variety are crazy that game had probably the most enemy variety in a while, I was hoping DD2 will have different types of enemies than 1 but so far I’ve seen the same stuff, hopefully the bring more on future updates or a dlc

Ik this aint part of the video but can someone tell me what the ring of assurance does? Btw good vid, I'm super eager to play on the 22

When you reach the Volcano Island and alternate ending and you realize all the gear and loot you find follows the same early game, mid game, late game, post game quality than it makes almost all exploration in the early, mid, and late game completely a waste of time. All the good stuff is at the end. Rush to get it/unlock it. I don’t appreciate that kind of world design and loot system, and this is a huge problem for me. When 80% of what you will find is ingredients for consumables- you have a very very empty open world game that actually isn’t worth exploring in.

lmao, the rant about the pawns being annoying is oddly comforting for some reason. it's one of the things that drove everyone crazy about the first game, and it's almost endearing that it's also a problem here. we're coming home.

They should add a feature from Pathfinder Kingmaker, you can set it to how often your companions banter.

I can tell you love the witcher 3 so much that you decide to have Toussaint background music for your other game clip.

From what I’ve heard, I’m going to wait a bit before buying it

this would have killed with ONLINE play

I can't wait. I'm so happy this is reviewing well.

Im not even halfway through the game and i have like 40+ hours invested, might be my new favorite game

So excited for this big fan of one. You also said more will come later but the creator actually said there is no secret vocations and there is no plans to add anymore, what we have is what we are going to get. Also on performance, i heard its bad on all platforms. Capcom knows and is working on it so hopefully a fix very soon. But yeah no excuse for performance issues especially below 30 and 30 max on console why. Or at least i heard its 30 max on console but even pc i heard is struggling and pc you would think would be best because of what hardware people run but no.

FYI You can turn Pawn voices off. The text will still pop up so you can look for new info. Honestly, I'd have preferred a frequency slider, but this is an option.

How is the haptic feedback on controller?

Thanks for the review. It sounds like a game that I might enjoy but I'm definitely going to hold off until the performance is improved on the ps5

Are pc players able to bind movement to the arrow keys?

I also waited. But now I don’t care.

I never liked Pawns. Like in theory i find the whole system cool - they learn stuff and then help others, but in actuall combat it feels like you playing singleplayer game were you playing 1/4 of the game, where pawns will fight for you, give you advice you'd rather learn yourself, it's like playing with random players a game i actually just want to play myself. It's not a turn-based party RPG where i controll every character, it just NPCs playing the game for me.. I played the first one on Hard up untill second round of DLC, where it's just becomes insane. But that's DD1 with broken item healing, i heard DD2's item healing is limited wich is good. In terms of solo-play the new universal class also sounds very fun, if you're alone it's more fun to have wide range of options.

Dragon's Dogma 2 Is Being Review Bombed because its have a lot of dlc can't delete your character you have to play to edit plus the game runs terrible on PC

Very limited fast travel, no ability to skip time (without paying gold for a stay at an inn), there are design choices in this game that leave me baffled, I showed up at the vernworth castle in all my finery to attend a masquerade, only to be told ‘there is no ball held tonight sir’, all I could think was ‘ then tell me when it IS!’ . Methinks I aught not have bought this game.

Great review, thanks

I love how the gane puts you in the world wnd basically says GO..... I heard this elsewhere but its true. It feels like my own LOTR adventure.,. This reminds .e of elden ring pn release. No guides. No builds. No tutorial. Figure it out. Man that was so fun ppl figuring things out with NO META.... I know its not really a souls, but in the adventure aspect it is Sorry fir rambling. Hope you guys enjoy

Oh my god they deliberately gave you a PS5 code, they KNEW the PC port is LITERALLY unplayable with the game crashing literally every 5 minutes yet they STILL SOLD IT FOR SEVENTY FUCKING DOLLARS (Exactly Like CDPR and Cyberpunk on old gen consoles situation) I honestly don't care how good the game is I am NOT supporting capcom after this fuck them we need to root out this kind of behavior from companies.

Arisen: Ok remember to keep an eye out for anything of value. The Pawns: Master I have found a rock! In all seriousness though, I guess it's good to know somethings about the Pawns haven't changed. I just wish it was a little more for the better, not that this kills my excitement for the game.

Thanks for the performance warning. GamerRanks said that performance only really chugged in the city centers, and that open world was fine. I assumed that meant combat as well, but I guess not. PC it is then.

The entire pawn system is incredible the specialty aspect is also great

I like the yellow paint to some degree, otherwise I find myself wandering aimlessly for hours to try and figure something out to just then give up and turn off the game.

Really appreciate the time that went into this. I was planning on buying on release day for ps5 but with plans to play as a mage and seeing such shoddy frame rate i think i might hold off a while

@8:03 I think this voice actress was in Witcher 3 also.

Anyone know the name of the helmet in the thumbnail?

The map in the first game wasn’t very big but it was sooo empty and it always felt like such a long trek to go from one end to the other and then back.

Anybody know if we have the option for both inverted X and Y axes on console?

Finally a youtuber who acknowledges the horrible frame rate issue for ps5, people seem to be disregarding as if its not a big problem.

5:35 "I used to be an adventurer like you but then I took a boulder to the knee"

Great Review, Ive decided to give the first game a go before picking this up, hopefully performance will be Ironed out on PC and they'll sort out the microtransaction mess.

All I need to know is if wolves hunt in packs.

God im so mad that some people in the comments are getting mad That they can purchase the deluxe edition stuff and are acting like they didnt already by them in the deluxe addition anyways

Just finished the game, 171 hours later on my first run. Absolutely loved it 👍

glad to hear that its very much like the old one. can't wait to dig into it.

Looks like one of those games I'll have to play because the footage and reviews aren't selling me. Unrelated but I never gave Advance Wars a shot because I thought the same and recently got into it and it's amazing. So I think i'll have to give Dragons Dogma a shot at some point Anyway not sure I've commented before but I enjoy all your videos - nice job as usual :)

MASTERWORKS ALL YOU CANT GO WRONG

I explored as much as i could. A majority of my 70 hours was exploring. But when every chest is filled with some gold or a potion or very rarely armour i just bought from a vendor. Exploration felt like a waste of time. The only unique memory i had was finding the sphinx. It was cool the missions were fun. But the only unique reward from her was a more xp ring. Not even a unique weapon or armour. Exploration feels pointless for me. For vocations i used fighter first. Then warrior, then twinblade and finally thief. Fighter was decent, warrior was nice but twinblade was absolutely awful, little damage and constant stun lock. When i tried theif tho. It was far better than any other class. Like far better I didnt like rental pawns due to their come and go nature. It made customisation of them needless and once i had my desired armour. (Which you can get 30 minutes in by going into the vermumdian palace) i hardly saw a need to customise companions beyond aesthetics For me the game suffers content wise, narrative wise and immersion wise. It feels like the devs were told what a game is but never played one. Which is a shame. Im not even mentioning the peformance where the border checkpoint town was a slideshow at 9fps on a RX6800XT

Been loving this game. Spend a half hour fighting a higher lvl minotaur with my pawn, some random pawn who happened to be in the area and a guy I was escorting with just a sliver of health. Was too stubborn to run away or come back with full health. 😂

I really hope for an implementation of a performance mode on ps5 in a future patch, fingers crossed... The game looks really promising otherwise, good to hear your enthusiasm :)

I waited to play the game until the first big patch was available, and I've had zero bugs or performance issues on Xbox. Loving the game!

Hope it works well on pc when it releases. I am likely to wait a bit after that still just because I do have one game of DD:DA currently going on and I want to jump into the second one having a good grip at which game I prefer after I'm finished with both.

This game looks like something from five years ago

They already added some graphics options turning off motion blur works fine on ps5 now. They will make future improvements too.

@neonknight problem already been answered but the quest about saving the boy from wolves is finicky for me too. But when i carried the boy inside the quest triggered properly.

Feel like the no guide part of the game will get people annoyed and they’ll just be like “ugh this game doesn’t help us do anything or tell us what to do” - guy who complained about yellow hints. That being said it comes out tmwr at 5PM and I already have my wine to play the game with

Is it true you can only have ONE save file? So if you start a new game, you lose your previous character?😅

thanks for being honest about performance, 100% going for pc, I regret getting helldivers 2 on ps5 cuz that game chugs as well especially on the highest difficulties

Great job here 👍 thank you.

Was it worth the wait? No, Capcom needs to give us at least 2 more Dragon's Dogma games if they want to make up for it's absence.

Yes it also left me speechless and gameless as soon as i got to know 30fps

Me personally, I’m getting rid of all my pawns beside maybe one healer/mage. I want to focus on more of the combat, can’t do that when my pawns jump and almost Instantly kill all the enemies lol

What about skeletons, zombies and phantoms? Those were pretty common at night in the first game, are you saying those don't show up at all in the early game?

you need to bring the kid back to morris, the quest is unclear about that but hes still waiting in the cave for you to escort him back

70 bucks is theft honestly. Just wait for the game to be half off and patches added that help fps.

Seems like a great game to pick up after they will fix bugs and performance issues when it be at 50% off 👍

I've had zero problems with performance on PC since I got it. Also, the most annoying bug I've run into is escort NPCs that just stop following you, and I never notice until I get too far away