Going Over One-Star Dragon's Dogma 2 Reviews... ⭐ (Steam, Google, Metacritic) 

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My only real complaint about this game is that 499% of the time are fighting the exact same monsters we fought for hundreds of hours in the first game. They barely added any new monsters at all and you defeat them all basically the same as you did before so there wasn't as much new and fresh in the enemy Department as I was hoping for. Which really could help the game stay fresh for me longer as you're going to fight these enemies hundreds of times

bro the guy with 100 hours that doesnt know how to "doze off" on an ox cart :S skill issue clearly

The comment about the ox cart being slow makes me worried that they didn't know that you can doze off on the seat after 100 hours

This how I play DD2: “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

I think something that a lot of people don't get, is that you can't win every fight and sometimes you have to run away.

I didn't get the game at first because of all the negative stuff out there. Finally, after watching your videos, I got it. I'm totally addicted now, lol. It's not perfect, but so much fun!

It's rare for a game to just make you feel like you overcame a goddamn mountain. I went through those mines and at this point I am utterly spent or so I thought. Oh no, it's nighttime when I get out of those mines at half health and low resources. I run into a fucking goblin and wolf pack trying to make my way to a campsite in the dark and then I get freaking jumpscared by a damn minotaur whilst dealing with that. Now I'm at an eighth of my health fighting this thing and I am woefully under prepared and I'm freaking desparate. Oh god that music kicks in as my hired pawn sets this sucker on fire and my main smacks it with the skyward slash from her great hammer flooring it. I am nearly out of stamina so I urge myself to it. I get right on that bull-fuckers head and dire impale it and keep found till my stamina is out. I roared like a mad man once he went down after what felt like a twenty minute fight. That is what makes Dragons Dogma 2 good.

Its clear who are the players that have genuine criticism of the game vs the ones who just want an outrage fix and spew bullshit on the reviews like that 100 hour player who couldnt figure you can DOZE OFF in the ox cart

The 100h one makes no sense, most of what that person wrote is just false. Mages and Sorcs are really strong, I prefer to have my own pawn as a mage and always have a sorc pawn with me. I myself is a warfarer with a bow and daggers for that old strider feel, it is really strong however I wish we had access to maister abilities in warfarer, but I can see why that is not the case because some of them are OP.

Oxcarts are slow he says. My guy didnt see the "doze off" button???

How brazen to say “these ideas should stay dead”, if gaming industry went to my liking the whole FPS game genre would be dead.

Back tracking and limited fast travel aren’t always bad, but they can start to feel like a negative when extremely limited enemy variety leads to monotony.

Honestly I think the limited fast travel is great. It really makes you get familiar with the routes and landmarks. I have a clear mental image of most of the main pathways in the first game and I could beat it with no map, probably even with a limited field of view. Edit: Just got to the point where the person says Oxcarts are slow. Do people still not realize you can skip the whole trip by sleeping?

My main issue of the game is just mainly due to enemy variety, if they had more variety this game would be so much more fun as it is.

The others prob hate high CPU consumption kernel level anti-cheat & micro transactions in a single player game, since the average person doesn’t have a PC like myself or you have Wolf there’s a lot of performance issues with frame rate & CPU usage especially.

I just hit around 80 hours as well, i gotta say that it's one of my favorite games of all time.

How do we make a player explore the world we created? Skyrim, BG3, Witcher, Fallout:NV - How about we make it really immersive, rewarding a player with awesome secret locations and interesting quest lines which will make a player wanting for more. Dragon's Dogma: How about we remove fast travel, so the player have no other choice.

Most criticism of the game may be valid but are not sound. They are more indicative of gamers massive mistrust and general depression with the gaming industry in general.

For me it's the lack of vocation progression especially with them splitting up the strider, which im fine with. Because instead of them going thief then assassin, and archer,l then ranger, they just wrapped them into one class, yet the fighter and mage have their advanced classes. It kind of ruins the class advancements. And then they hybrids are lack too. 1 fighter + mage, 1 archer + mage, thief gets no true hybrid. No magic assassin. It just feels half baked compared to the first game

Some of the best RPGs of our generation (Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Witcher 3, etc.) had at-will fast travel.

I like reading the negative steam reviews and seeing the hours played.

Its wild that just 6 months ago people were complaining that Starfield was just fast travel the game.

192 hours and 0 deaths because you can heal yourself before the death actually happens and wakestones on top of that. I really don't understand some people saying its "too hard"

Let's be fair, a ton of 1 star reviews were left by people who never played the game, jumped on he microtransaction hate-wagon and dropped a bad review thinking they were such a brave brave heros boycotting a game they were never going to buy, and who's downfall would've had NO impact on the gaming industry's practices

I think the game is good, definitely not a 5 star or GOTY but its a good game to sink some time into. The lack of enemy diversity really brings the game down for me. Also its kind of irritating that all monsters always hang out in the same locations after they respawn I can come to the exact spot and theres goblins again... solid 3.5/5

Bottom line.. this is a game where you need to "manage your game" be prepared when you venture out, great pawn composition, paying attention to your pawns eyes and attitude for the dragon plague, it happened to me and my heart sunk, but to be honest, I think it needs to happen to everyone once, sooner the better really, that way you know what’s up, trial by fire on that mechanic, also this game is designed for multiple playthroughs, I had like 15-20 playthroughs in dd1, your personal character, pawn, gear, gold, materials, everything all carry’s over and the mistakes you made previously can be rectified on a new run… oh and starting a fresh lvl 1 character… just don’t do it.. at least not based on a bad playthrough, if your playthrough sucks, then grind to end game and start a new run, and keep your progress and correct your mistakes and missed opportunities

luv how wolf starts these videos & you think he is going to be a dick but the vid actually turns out to be quite balanced & respectful 👍

I feel like the single save thing, may have something to do with the pawn system and *maybe* glitches or dupes

If dragons dogma didn’t have its fast travel system I wouldn’t care so much about finding a port crystal, take so much stock in my pawns resources before venturing to a new region, it would borderline invalidate sleeping at inns and camping, I wouldn’t use ferry stones strategically or think critically about whether to hoard my money or to spend it on that new gear I might not see again for a while since all the shops carry different stuff. Currently actually have an extra port crystal that I decided not to place in melve or the unnamed village since I felt I don’t have much reasons currently to venture back to those places, so I’m holding on to it for now and using it as an emergency teleport back if I end up stretching myself thin.

Another thing about the single character slot, is you have to think about the pawn system. Having each player have 3 or 5 pawns floating around the rift would probably be a huge strain on the servers.

45 hours in and love this game. saved all my ferry stones for the sphinx riddles. a few changes i would like to see stamina out of combat, fast travel, finding stuff in the world instead of having to buy at stores, more quests, more mobs, anytime ox carts. I love how when you fight a ogre or minotaur you get dive bombed by a griffon. timed quests make you prioritize them over other stuff.

I like the no fast travel, but no horse makes it a bit of a slog, just like the first one. I think it’s a beautiful game tho and plenty fun.

I think a lot of people don't realise that the Pawn system is inherently incompatible with multiple save slots. They would have to work out a way to not overload the servers with 8 pawns per userID. Which is probably do-able but makes it a lot more understandable than saying theres no reason why.

I like the fact things kinda are the way they are, gives it more of a sense of realism. What would it be like to be a part of the world. Things start off tough and you progress and make progress so things are in place and easier later down the road. Kinda like life. You are in the world.

Its no elden ring, far from, but it’s fun, my only big downside is the lack of variety in enemies, within 5h of the game, you’ve probably run into most enemies in the game

Love the game, but I will be honest and say enemy variety, replay value, fast travel (if you can't teleport, at least add mounts), fake open world, unnecessary density of enemies in places that do not make sense, and the story are all pretty bad. I am enjoying the game a lot, but I don't think its 'Game of the Year' good because of poor choices they made. I understand they say they want the story from the travel on the road, but really thats not true if its always the same exact enemies in the same exact spots. Red Dead Redemption 2 did it way better, and made you want to travel.

The state of Dragon's Dogma 2 reviews really just stresses how many people are eager to lie online. I find that shit exhausting.

While I understand it may be inconvenient not to be able to switch your weapon on the Fly the fact of the matter is binding weapons to vocations allows you to feel the balance across the classes as a player. The only thing I would change is that I would have allowed all vocations to be available at the start of the game but specific new and powerful skills to have to be discovered throughout the world for each vocation.

Man I would LOVE if Pawns could be Mystics, and Mystic Spearhands. Magic Archer would be interesting to see on a pawn.

I’m really enjoying the game I take breaks and play hell divers two of course cause that game is fucking fantastic but I’m actually really enjoying dragons dogma 2. I actually like the Wayfare class I have like a mix between like a great sword, a magic archer, and then sword and shield. Plus the fact that the wayfarer levels all of your other vocations at the same time as a huge timesaver because you don’t have to keep swapping vocations now.

I was fair bit disappointed on the wayfarer I wouldn't mind the rearmament, would be nice if u change your weapo. U have 3 skills of that class u can use

I haven't even been able to play the game without constant crashing; and refunded last night after another frustrating 30 mins session where I crashed another 4 times. I tried to give them some time to fix at least this issue for me; but no way I'm giving away my money for a game that I can't play. Normally I'd have refunded immediately; but I really enjoyed DD1 and was hoping the do the same with the sequel. A total of 9 crashes in 78 minutes of play is unacceptable in and of itself for any game. Add in the other factors like the ridiculous MTs and overall horrible performance; this game is simply not up to snuff for a $70 'AAA' game.

DD2's dlc will be Capcoms biggest map they've ever made, plus multiple new bosses and enemies! I haven't even figured out everything on the main game yet, and this is awesome! I love this game! 5 stars!

"frustration being enjoyable" is a game design philosophy known as Friction. You have a player, and their endgoal, maybe to be the strongest adventurer in the multiverse. A video game is all the friction between you and your endgoal.

A lot of the complaints about DD2 are unfounded, but saying that playing a game for 90 hours and give it a 1-star review is totally understandable even though I don't agree with it in this specific case. While I love DD2 and is a great game for me, I completely understand people that played Starfield for 100 hours and gave it a negative review because of the lasting feeling that it left them. I don't think we should discount negative reviews or criticize those people because they ended up regretting that they invested so much time in a false promise and then they decided to share that opinion to save other people their time. I'll trust a 1-star review from someone that played 100 hours before I trust one from someone that has only a few hours in.

Honestly, the only things that bothered me were dragonsplague, and the classes not having the multiple weapons of the original. I played over 120 hours, DD1 is my favorite single player game but dragonsplague is needlessly a pain in the ass. Having to get rid of every pawn after you reload your game, having to check their damn eyes when you hire them, and before you sleep in town every time you need to toss every damn pawn off a cliff. I miss the assassin and ranger also. Is what it is, maybe theyll add things in with DLC like they did with Dark Arisen in the original.

I have about 90 hours so far and I haven't finished yet. When it comes to the difficulty I don't think some players understand that not all fights are meant to be won.Running away is a valid option and in a game where at the beginning saves are quite limited its something I did a lot. Like my second cyclops fight being interrupted by a griffin I didn't stand around. I legged it lol. As for the fast travel I understand peoples gripes about it. Some sections of the game where you're running back and fourth a lot can get rather tedious. However fast travel in this game is earned by exploring and finding ferrystones that then makes mid to late game easier. As well as you can just farm gold for an hour and then buy as many ferrystones as you like. You can make 100-150k an hour depending on if you have the volcanic islands unlocked or just bakbattahl by selling fruit.

Escorts are just a REASON to take a detour it realllllly shouldn't be that complicated to accept...especially if you play with a full party as someone who plays solo or with my pawn only, Escorts with a full group would be a joke

I would love if they added advanced pawn commands so we can use the skills pawns have equipped when we want to. My main pawn is a warrior and the catapult launch is so useless like in the middle of a fight he just sits there waiting to launch someone in the air and he even threw me off a cliff several times in the middle of the fight. The only reason I still have that skill equipped is out of the combat unreachable locations. But it only triggers at some specific locations you can't use the skill at will which is so disappointing. Hopefully capcom adds advanced pawn commands because this is just ridiculous.

Very informative video, Wolf! It was fun to watch you play!

Most of those Reviews are funny to read, I have 90 hours by the time of this comment and i'm still not into the endgame (maybe the next weekend) And every second of it is not wasted at all, on the contrary, I still have loads of Ferrystones in my storage cuz i simply... don't WANNA fast travel. EVery journey has been hardcore and adventurous with amazing enemy encounters. I mean if a Open World RPG makes u not Fast Travel, then its a win. And i have lost count how many times i walked from BakBattahl to Venworth without any kind of Fast Travel. It's just really fun to walk in this game with 3 pawns, feels like a D&D campaign. I barely died too in this game, so i still have around 10+ Wakestones by now. If a Person says this game is wasting your time, then i think they don't know what a Open-World RPG is... Especially in a Game Like Dragon's Dogma where the Story is not that interesting but exploration is. I don't care about the Microtransactions either, Throughout your playthrough you'll get alot of the items you can buy Anyway. ofcourse it doesn't belong in a SIngleplayer game... My Pc is about 5 years old and i had no performance issues really, maybe some in the Capital City, but nothing annoying. So i can't speak for that, i don't know what PC those players run, it can be a Potato machine and they expect it to run smooth. I don't have verry good skills, but i use Warfarer like... ALL the time now, I love the idea of using ALL armor sets in the game and combining Vocations. Or be a Archer in heavy armor in general. Everyone has different Opinions yes, but cannot expect Dragon's Dogma 2 be the next Skyrim or the Next fallout. I Gave it a Positive Review on Steam and i love the game so far, Will 100% do NG+! I look forward to the future of this game.

Thank you for another amazing video Wolf! Keep up the amazing work! ❤

I agree that the fast travel mechanic is likely more beneficial than detrimental to DD2, since it encourages exploration, and since exploration is one of the few things I think DD2 does exceptionally well. And I don’t think that the fast travel system warrants condemning DD2 to a one star review. However, you’re comparison at 2:30 between players who like online gacha point and click style games, while maybe not indirect, downplays the issue a bit. I definitely understand and agree with others that the fast travel system in dd2 is more of a hassle than a boon. Even by lategame, when I found myself with plenty of port crystals and ferry stones, I still found myself having to backtrack fully explored locations up to 15 minutes for x objective, or audibly sighed when I realized I didn’t have a port crystal in my inventory and would have to completely repeat the trek out- or just refused to use them in the event that I needed them later, resulting in me forcing myself to spend time backtracking an area I was already backtracking in. I think this could easily have been solved by putting portcrytals in ALL towns, not just major cities. Especially when I found myself fast traveling to a city, only to have to jump into an ox cart, oh great there’s a rai- and they killed the driver and destroyed the cart, great. All these things lead to frustration, like you mentioned; and while you and I and many others might not find that too egregious, I could definitely see how those instances would leave others to just sighing and shutting the game off.

I also find the escort mission such a bore 7 out of 10 times but there are certain times that they escort me somewhere where there is a cave that I missed.

On PC it's easy to have several different saves, I use a save manager called Scum Bag, which easily allow you to switch between characters.

Love all the vocations. Was a little disappointed that Assassin wasn’t included BUT dropping Mystic Knight for Mystic Spearhand was an A+ decision and I’m over the assassin now.

110 hours in and loving this game so much. However, we need more monster variety and more unique bosses.

I do think that a lot of the "annoying" things like lots of on foot travel aren't warranted...but what I really don't like that you're only warned about Dragonplague, but not story related quest timers. There's so much you miss out on if you do the coronation early, and especially obtaining the improved 13:50 magic sword thing from the crazy scientist gives no indication that it'd advance the plot significantly. At least you can't lose vocations, except that I somehow lost some npc in Bakbattahl for the Warfarer quest.

After 6k hours in Dark Arisen (2nd director and producer); Itsino destroyed 5 of the 9 vocations that his fans loved to use. This was a doltish move. Quests to reach the throne was never the Arisen's goal. Yes I know people that agree. I have a large list concerning why this is not worthy to be played again. IMO

I played dragons dogma 1, i bought dragons dogma 2 hoping for dragons dogma 1 but 2. I got what i wanted

I agree that people who complain about the limited fast travel options are missing the point of the game. This is a really fun world to explore and take your time walking through. The journey is the best part of this game, not the destination. A lot of times, I could easily use a Ferrystone to teleport somewhere but I more often than not choose to walk there instead. Even roads and areas I've been through a bunch of times are always still enjoyable to see and experience again. This journey system is especially fun when paired with the idea of changing vocations frequently. Every area, old or new, becomes fresh again when you have the opportunity to play with your "new toys" in the form of your new vocation skills. It's really a blast to try out new attacks and learn a whole new combat system every few hours and it keeps the game interesting at every turn. And the more you play as a particular vocation, the more fun skills you unlock and get to try. So why wouldn't you want to take the "long way" everywhere in this game? This has got to be one of the most satisfying, addictive games I've ever played.

I love this game. Combat, environment, and immersion. I play on ps5 I haven’t noticed much frame issues. I’d carts and dozing off is a fine “fast” travel.

I'd hate to be the dev that put everything into this game only for it to be trashed by knee jerk reactions over MXTs

Beautiful spring time? Huh?? We just had a snow storm here 😭

Let’s be honest. Games a good 65% outta a hundred at most. Has very good graphics but I mean idk. And feels like for the price can have more stuff added to it. Maybe more armors, more combinations with the vocations, better dialogue, and make interactions not feel so lame like gosh can’t tell you how I felt like I was playing some ps2 story on how the characters kept speaking. Doesn’t matter the genre of game if you have a population based area with NPCS make them fun to interact with. I played this game 120 hours and really tried but overall the satisfaction just was not there. Even getting kills with the bosses feels more of a “dang finally did it”. It was either I know what to do and how to do it or just die within 5 minutes. This is just my opinion.

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My major complaint is just the FPS performance and transactions to the ending story.

I'm loving this game, and I never got into the first one. I can't understand people saying it's 'player antagonistic'. It honestly doesn't have that high of a difficulty curve, just don't take on giant monsters at super low levels (especially if they have 4 or 5 dots above their health bar...). And camp when the sun goes down. You don't use up camping gear unless monsters attack and it's destroyed (which has yet to happen to me). You can teleport with easily available ferrystones, but most of the fun I've had has been wandering around exploring, getting turned around a bit, then pulling myself back to the road to get back toward the quest I'm working on. Also, you can make as many characters as you want (on PC) by simply turning cloud saves off and copy-pasting your files to a back-up folder (I've got 4, and all the other online features like pawns work just fine). Each vocation plays very differently and are all fun (although I prefer to have a pawn tank so I don't have to worry so much about the loss gauge).

It’s funny how people can enjoy both a quick burger and a fancy steak dinner without arguing about it. But when it comes to video games, everyone’s suddenly at each other’s throats over their preferences. Doesn’t make much sense, does it? We should all just let people enjoy what they like!

Don't know. Switched to Warfarer as soon as I got the chance. Getting the master skill and switching weapon sets is great. But maybe that's just me. As for wakestones. Once you get the eternal wakestone, just forge it. Won't work for regular ones though.

The cash shop in most game like this where it's a full game and they give you free updates I feel is more of a "leave a tip" option. In monster hunter world they had a pretty decently sized cash shop and personally, I absolutely love the MH series and I bought some just to let em know I love their product. Yeah the cash shops in most games suck, but Capcom is giving us a fully fleshed out game. Not bits and pieces with season passes. It's basically just a tip at this point.

We didn't even know we were failing a quest in the first one.

You can make as many characters as you want on PS5. You just have to make more than one PSN profile. Also any time you buy portcrystals or RC, it goes to all the accounts on the console. My wife and I have different accounts and I got RC when she bought it and she got a port crystal in her game when I bought one

He complained about oxcart being slow, I think he didn't see the doze off option.

It doesn't deserve better than "mixed" until the game is fixed. The biggest issue with the microtransactions was that it shifted the conversation away from the technical state and performance problems of a rushed game. As far as Jim Sterling's review, it's not entirely wrong. The majority of the time someone complains about a friction point because of a design choice that is deliberately inconvenient or time wasting, the response from the "fans" is that you have to like it because it was that day in DD1. That's not a good reason. Journey 1 from town to town is fun. Journey 5 even. But when you're on journey 10 down the exact same road where you fight the exact same troll, exact same goblins and then the exact same harpies, it becomes a chore. Itsuno said something to the effect that if you have fast travel that means your world is boring. I would respond that if you have boring destinations the repeated same trip in between doesn't make your game engaging.

I'm gonna wait on a deep deep sale. I don't have much time for games, so that's totally fine for my backlogged schedule

There was another review that put the game perfectly for me “it’s the best 7/10 game I’ve played”. It’s good but it is far from perfect. Mob variety is lacking, fighting the same goblins, harpies, wolves and the same large monsters over and over again is tiring and not especially challenging what so ever. The world is neat, but exploration for me doesn’t feel rewarding when there are no unique monsters to find and the loot is pretty lackluster. Story and side quests are pretty meh. The world doesn’t react to you really whatsoever and doesn’t feel natural. Many systems feel honesty dumbed down from the first one (throwable items gone, talking to pawns, less armor/clothing slots, no quest boards, no dual weapon vocations like strider). Also IMO we shouldn’t have to wait for DLC for a BBI equivalent. The first game was over a decade ago, honesty it should be in the base game of 2 and to give us a new experience with dlc for this one. Especially since end game is somewhat limited.

I think most people don’t understand that the one save limit is due to the pawn system. One pawn per account to share with other players.

I really enjoy the game and am happy I bought it after your videos! There are... issues, but I am a noob. I am level 20... and haven't even gotten far in the main story because I got lost in the map. The review mentioning the cart was relatable lmao I am mostly relying on the damage of my Pawns nuking the enemies. I am slowly learning...

On the PSN store the scores from buyers is closer to an average of 82%. The combat and gameplay is top notch, there are some problems with parts of the game, but I feel like it greatly improved most the things from DD1. Having pawns as quest guides helps now the first game I was getting lost too often, it’s better where if you need quest guide help you can get it but not all pawns have it and they guide you better when they do. I think it is the best action adventure/rpg since Dragons Age Inquisition. We probably won’t get another one since there has been some overreaction to a few of its problems which is fine if that is really what people want, not that many good games in these type genres left and they take many many years to make. Just a little surprised since for me this one of the best games I played in this genre, oh well I will be replaying this game many times I am sure for years.

I really would like to try this game, because it looks really cool and I like the pawn system. Unfortunately I don't think it will have a good performance on my laptop. But I'm enjoying watching your playthrough and maybe they fix the performance, so I can give it a try one day. By the way, I have a suggestion for you, since we are in a ARPG's phase, maybe you could give Divinity II - Ego Draconis a try, which is the only ARPG from Larian Studios, and I would really love to see you play it and I believe a lot of fans from this channel may like too. Either way, thank you for your work and always being assertive in your videos.

It’s a game that actually makes you pay attention to it, much like rdr2, a lot to discover out there

I was tempted to buy a port crystal but managed to find a few extra by searching and questing. Also am sitting around 10k RC so nothing is hard to get.

Great video, thanks Wolf! I am really enjoying the game now that I have added a mod to allow key bindings that the game doesn't support (no keypad support among others). I'm left handed and not allowing key binds to a good portion of keys was a real let down. I did use a controller to start but I prefer keyboard and mouse!

I love DD1 & 2 but I will say that I felt the need to buy the port crystal from the cash shop & that kinda miffed me. It's totally possible to miss the port crystals that are given in game. I had snuck around the checkpoint rest town & walked all the way to Bakbatahl. I was baffled that there wasn't a static port crystal there so I bought one from the cash shop so I could come back without having to walk 2-3 in game days.

My frame rates goes very well in the cities. But there are places in the wildernesss that falls to 10. And I"m talking about empty places.

My 10 biggest complains are : 1. Lack of Quality Main story ( I come from CRPG , JRPG , WRPG exp ) 2. Lack of Enemy Type 3. Advance vocation locked end game ( They need to move everything to ACT 1 ) 4. Itemization is really bad ( Best loot paid vendor ) , Upgrades don't matter much for difficulty. 5. Repeative Content and encounters 6. Lack of Quality New game plus with higher difficulty with more content. 7. Average Music / Voicelines 8. Performance issue on my 4090 9. Lack of Side Quality content Quests. 10. Exploration is average most of things are filled repetitive stuff and most boring caves i seen in a video game. 12 Year old Skyrim does better cave then this.

James Stephanie Sterling can be a tough cookie. I don't disagree but I also think it's a hot take as far as this game is concerned, but this is having only played Dark Arisen myself sooo....

DDDA was my favorite game of all time, that is, until DD2 came out. I am so very pleased with the game.

I'm still wondering how modding works in DD2. Looks like theirs scripts like true warfarer allowing 3skills per weapon swap. I hope any updates focus on performance and not break mods

Assuming the restriction on multiple characters is because of the pawn system, they should just allow people to 'activate' or 'deactivate' a character slot, removing the associated pawn from the world upon deactivation. Even just 3 character slots would be adequate. There might be issues the devs saw with this, like players logging in to find their favorite borrowed pawns gone, or maybe they feared the number of high level pawns would be too low? It does look like most people would prefer that to the current limitation though.

I AM still getting used to the way they changed the controls a bit on console. 8+ years of muscle memory is tough to migrate from.

I think the NPCs in this game are just too simple. They barely react to anything you do. I'd expect that from an adventure game, but in an RPG.. it was the main thing I think could be improved, the "immersion" aspect when it comes to the social interactions, not only on the combat. Besides that, it's a passable game for sure.

Dragons Dogma does not have pay to win features, it has pay for convenience. Its not even all that convenient. If you play the game normally, you will have plenty of PortCrystals and Ferrystones to use for fast travel. The issue in fast traveling everywhere, is that you lose out on a lot of experience, gold, and pawn badges (which is super important to making your pawns stronger). The only time you need a ferrystone is when you have to travel across the whole world, or when you are doing an important escort quest. Otherwise, traveling is fine on foot. Saw some people in those reviews complain about cooking. Cooking is completely optional, and you dont need it to camp. It only gives you a bonus for the next 24 hours. Feel free to skip it if you dont wanna grab meat, youre not losing out. The game is a strong 7.5/10 for me. A few bugs, and poor optimization takes a 1.5 away, and the rest is that i felt the main story/side quests couldve been a little better.

Great video as always. My favorite reviews are those 1 stars at plus 100 hours. Just pure hyperbole like the people screaming “dead game” before it even came out haha. For some people there just isn’t a middle ground, it’s only extremes and it the idea of a great game with a few issues just isn’t possible for them.

I think the problem is that a lot of people understand that game companies are just pushing more and more exploitative means and many are trying to wrap up garbage and tell us it's AAA. Every time we just let a company get away with it with no actual pushback it just means that the boundary for what becomes acceptable gets pushed a bit further each time. Public backlash and our wallet are the only real way we have to combat corporate greed. Some of the reviews are silly, of course, but they help. Even if Capcom doesn't take the hint it at least makes all the other companies watching see that maybe they should do things differently. We get way too many games that are released early full of optimization or bug issues and they just expect the players to deal with it. All of these are issues that should be resolved before release. Even if you think the game is 5 stars it's more about the industry as a whole. Just need a bit of unification where there's public backlash whenever a corporate company wants to use exploitative monetization practices or just lies about the quality of their product.

I found many of these negative reviews hilarious and just blatant lies. The lies went as far to say you need to pay extra just to create a character, or you need to buy microtransactions to fast travel. Yes, I agree that the performance issues complaint was legit. The microtransactions was also unneeded. Some people on my Steam friend list gave the game a bad review, but kept playing it religiously... This didn't make sense to me. Stop playing the game if you hate it so much for you to leave it a negative review.

this got way more low reviews then i would think, for me im a hardcore dogma fun absolutely loved the first game 10/10 the only thing that was annoying on the first game was the pawns constant dialogue drove u insane harp harpy harpy harpy goblin yikes but they did add a option to turn it off thank god, The moment i started playing this one i already fell in love with it, the Character customisation dont see any of that mentioned in these reviews when it is literally the best dam customisation ive seen in a game yet so detailed, i was able to make my Arisen really beautiful wads over the moon with that, the detail and customisation is amazing in dogma 2, would of loved for us to have a voice in this one but nope but thats cool i dont mind the silent protagonist used to it, the combat was amazing in this one to, the abilities of all the classes, some classes way more fun then others i noticed they basically took the - Strider, Ranger, and Assassin dagger abilities from the first game and melded them into the thief class, then the bow abilities from ranger and strider into the Archer class. the complaints about fast travel, u have ferrystones people that can teleport u to any portcrystal, i always felt fast travel was a cheap way to get to places i prefer earning my way to places. They gave pawns way more personality in this one they always make me laugh, the whole slapping ur hands after fights is really awesome and fist bumping xD, the new pawn inclinations are alot better then the 1st game. Dragons are even more challenging then they where making them more fun, they added more abilites you could do they made the enemys smarter like goblins throwing boulders and explosive barrels at you now something they never could do in the first. My main issues with dogma 2 and there are only a few - first i dont like the new dragon forging system using crystals to forge ur weapons, it was so much better getting ur gear forged after beating dragons loved that. No end game weapons from killing the main dragon no rewards u have to buy them with the wyrm crystals dont like that. Certain quests can be almost annoyingly hard figuring out what to do at times and finding quest givers is to hard at times some are easily missed, No hydras was my biggest bummer my all time fav enemy from dogma 1 is not in this game which sucks maybe they will add it at some point dlc perhaps. Lastly with as little spoilers as possible to get the true ending u have to do something u would never think to do why would you, i ended up fighting the main dragon 3x before i figured out what to do instead, oops forgot about the annoying locked doors u have to be a certain class to open like why just teach the pawns instead but most those hard to reach chests had poor loot anyway. thats the main issues i had. everything else was amazing love the new abilites the enemys have to. some nice new varients aswell. i dont understand how people find this game to hard, it dosent even have a hard mode like the first, the game is pretty easy, once ur past level 40 things get almost to easy, my first run of this game i completed it with no deaths at all none.

I only got to play the last two saturdays and I started over on the 2nd. The only time I've felt annoyed is of my own making because I love sequence breaking so some areas are tough at such a low level. I'm also on PS5 and unless I go from the noble quarter and back down, I don't really see slow down in town. I feel for ppl on PC who have worse performance than the console versions.