Dragons Dogma 2 Limited Fast Travel is a Good Design Choice! 

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This is exactly what I want. I'm that guy that refused to fast travel, in Skyrim.

I almost never use fast travel in games even when they have them, unless the distance between point A and point B is astronomically big.. As I prefer to travel there myself especially if there are mounts available.

My thing is. Is out of combat stamina gonna be an issue since we’re going to have to walk everywhere. Also, when doing a quest I don’t wanna have to fight every min when walking from town to town when I’m trying to finish a quest.

I hate to admit the lack of fast travel turned me off from the original Dragon's Dogma. I was so used to it in other games and thought it was backwards for not implementing it the same as other open world games. But i understand now its a different type of game and that exploration is part of the gameplay loop for this series. I'm willing to give Dragon's Dogma 2 a try.

Dragon's Dogma doubling down on this made me very happy. I was terrified they would dumb the game down for Funko Pop fans.

On my first playthrough, I remember I came across 2 trolls while walking trying to get back to the city in the middle of the night. That was terrifying I froze still for a solid 2 seconds right after my lantern lights started illuminate the 2 trolls, I still remember it clearly to this day, 10 years later. This simply wouldn't have happened if there was free unlimited fast travel in the game. It's the moments like this that sticks with you for a long time. I'm so glad they keep this for the 2nd game. I hope I get moments that will traumatize me again like in the first game lol.

I'm happy DD2 is doubling down on the limited fast travel, it shows they've put in the effort to make the world a lot more full and interesting than the first game. It'll likely have several different routes and shortcuts you can take to and from locations so that you've not going down the same paths all the time and get to always find new things as you go. And if it's balanced well, by the time you start getting sick of an area might be when you find a portcrystal and don't have to do those same trips anymore. Dragons Dogma was always about the journey and not just going objective to objective. I can't wait to start exploring and I'm not stopping until ever inch of that map is filled in.

Never use fast travel (except lore friendly options such as magic or mounts) and I have played some huge RPGs! It is the journey that truly makes these games my favorite genre!

If your video game has an open-world and the fast travel is limited make sure your traversal options remain fun and interesting. So, keeping that in mind, let's see what kind of traversal options Dragon's Dogma 2 has, shall we? A) Hold the Left Stick forward + a face button to run (?), you run out of stamina, wait a couple of seconds for the whole animation of your character getting exhausted to play out, start walking and wait to regain stamina, repeat. B) Buy stones to place them on the ground so you can fast travel to the area you placed the thing in later. Buy those things using the in-game currency, of course. We would not want to have a situation where game developers tease you with that currency on the game store screen, would we now? Ok, but what if you have no money? Revert back to the option A. C) Ox-Cart Ride! You pay for an Ox-Cart and it transports you to a random place, you can't skip the ride itself and you have to watch as your character(s) gets transported very slowly from place A to place B, but you have an option to sit. Ok, but what if you have no money? Revert back to the option A. I guess ALL three options are realistic and they remind you that you're still human in this Fantasy RPG. Video game quality of life features aren't needed in video games, because they remind people that real life is indeed hard and tedious. And that is Itsuno's Vision for Dragon's Dogma 2 - hard and deep provoking title that lets you fully immerse yourself in its world with all of its flaws and hardships. I agree with the video, basically.

I cant wait for this game! its going to be FF7 Rebirth vs DD2 for GOTY!

Fun for the first 30-40 hours. Now I’m 100 hours in, haven’t beat the main quest yet just from exploring everything and I’m fed up with it. I’ll hop on, look where I need to go, go play something else. Feels like a chore. Running through the same place, fighting the same enemies over and over and over is just tedious and boring. The boss monsters aren’t a challenge, I run past the Drakes because I can’t carry or use anymore Wyrmslife. And I only have 10 ferrystones left so it’s just not fun at all. I wish I would have followed online guides and pushed through the main story instead of saving it for last because at this rate I just won’t do it.

Agreed. If your open world game has/needs instant fast-travel, then it shouldn't be open world.

As someone who actually never used fast travel in the witcher 3, I agree it's a good decision.

Limited fast travel is a double edged sword! Let's see if the devs are up to the task to make the world intriguing enough to make us not want to use fast travel

I just hope the spawn point of monsters are randomized. I don't wanna do the "port crystal near the dragon" farming again XD. idk maybe this is harder grinding?

i agree

I wonder if this game is for me... Because on one hand i really like souls game, i liked Elden Ring and Bloodborne is one of my favorite games ever, i absolutely love open world games too like Witcher, Cyberpunk, RDR. But on the otherside i really don't like Monster Hunters at all. Im worried i will end up being bored after 10/15 hours because i feel like i have nothing to do, no goals to work towards, since the game doesnt really have a story right ? Does it take a long time to get your character to the highest level ?

Facts

I have no objections to enabling fast travel to a location after player discovers it.

It is about the 20 fps

Limited fast travel is fine. I don't even remember having a problem with it when I played the OG and I'm the type that would abuse fast travel if it was in a game. OG does not have unlimited ferrystone like Dark Arisen. The only thing I don't like is the out of combat stamina drain. Fromsoft nailed that part as Stamina drain on an open world is gonna kill the fun about exploring.

There’s certain games where having no, or very limited, fast travel options could work well, idk if this is one of em.. but I think a game like cyberpunk could’ve benefitted from having no fast travel at all .. the city is small enough, the cars r fast enough, and there’s never a time where u have to travel back to a quest giver to get ur reward.. that’s the perfect scenario to eliminate fast travel

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Nah it's not good choice lmao why remove options from the player that's just stupid. Let those who want to fast travel let them and those won't don't well don't.

no matter how you try to make it good … no fast travel is makes this game garbage .. i wont pay 70 dollars on a game that forces me to walk for hours and non stop fighting to go from point A to point B … this is complete garbage way to force me to explore

If you don’t like fast traveling you can choose not to

Forcing us NOT to fast travel until majority of the game is already beat sucks.

Limiting or restricting fast travel options usually just annoys the player, reduces the likelihood of exploration, reduces the likelihood that player will go off the beaten path, and motivates modders to fix the problem. Effective fast travel is a critical design feature that should be a mandatory feature in any large open game zone.

Nope. I will search for unlimited fast travel mod.