Is Dragon's Dogma REALLY That Good?! 

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@@dr.Degenerate816 👌

I have about 140 hours in this game and didnt even know this. Thanks!

@@Calmhurricane Glad to help. It's better for end game as it makes the combat very trivial if you're a new player.

Also a ring to ensure the loved one's identity fixes that but c'mon everyone who played the OG had a shopkeeper or the (ew)the Queen.

Lmfao I got Feste and Julian a couple of playthroughs before I figured out how it worked

some lonely NPCs that they fall in love just by talking to them lol

@@angrypepecancer5205 Well it's very realistic

Bruh this shit here

Those experiences were always the best fucking game. I did the same with Xcom and Supreme Commander 2

XCOM and Mad Max fits that description

They weren't removed from Dark Arisen on PS3, I still have them unless the file is corrupted. It's been awhile since I dusted off the old girl but despite the resolution and letterboxing they looked great. I believe they were PlayStation exclusive content. The PS4 version sadly removed them though, because Capcom are dicks. Just pay the damn license, and then commission FromSoft to make a damn Berserk game already. A joint venture between Capcom and FromSoft would make me experience female ejaculation, making it a Berserk game would drown me and everyone else in the vicinity. Sorry for the crass imagery but there's no other way to express what would be the intensity of my joy, you know it's a guaranteed god tier game. Capcom and FromSoft share enough overlap, both craft dark world's well, both craft solid combat systems, both have respect for Berserk, it couldn't possibly fail. It needs to happen.

That's... Kinda upsetting man

So aggravating. I bought the game specifically to RP as Guts & Casca. My disappointment is immeasurable.

@@Dandoskyballer I think it's possible to mod it back in

It was still in Dark Arison. It was the ports to PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch where it was removed

Sorry for your lost ❤

My condolences. I think the same about Suikoden. That friend has since passed on, when ever I think of that game and those RPG's I always think of him. Miss him so much.

Awwww ❤

I feel the same way, and I honestly feel like the graphics haven't aged too poorly. I mean obviously it's going to look like an older title, but compared to other games that released at the time it's still pretty good looking. I was surprised how many shadow casting light sources the game has, that stuff used to be way more expensive to render

​@@irecordwithaphone1856Dude, this. Every replay I'm always surprised at how the graphics still hold up. I love this game so much...

Fake fan

for me, the graphics still holds up since the visual style was its identity.

I'd been itching to replay it myself over the summer (I've played it all the way through probably five times now), but didn't want to get burned out before the remake in March. The graphics don't really bother me. The PC release looked like a decent enough upgrade over the console one anyway. Sure, it's definitely dated looking now, but not so bad that it's unplayable or anything. The drakes still look amazing too.

Worth noting the Eternal Ferrystone is only given for free in the later releases. Originally on the PS3/Xbox 360 versions it was only given to players who transfered their save file from vanilla.

Traveling was tedious in the base game.

Port Crystals persisted through NG+ cycles, meaning by the 5-6th run you can set a portcrystal at each main quest destination, then start Sleed Run mode and finish in about 10-15 minutes for the achievement.

Was about to type this out, you saved me the effort, thanks.

oh man i highly recommend Dark Arisen for new comers, it fixes the QoL and notably UX for openworld traversal since OG DD was tedious

Great comment. Great game.

Agreed. This game is so confusing at the first time. U really need figure it out by yourself. The story would be complete if u done enough quests.

Yes! That's one of the absolute best feelings in this game. I remember taking out one of those magical golems early on and it also took me literally 2-3 hours but my level had to have doubled or even tripled.

It's not underrated at all

same lol i ended up farming bitterblack isle for hours farming gear levels vocations and dragonforging.

@@ChozenUnbread Farming Death made this game an instant classic for me.

Magick Archer is the stealth archer of DD 🤫

@@jonestly943 😂omg

same here as a Magick Archer, ended Dark Arisen, but not the campaign. i quit being a Berserker since later parts of the game has a lot of ailments and weaknesses

You won't regret it. Had it on the ps4 years ago and it was a blast. Just saw it on steam today for £4 and I bought it. Truly an underrated hidden gem.

The first couple hours are a little confusing and underwhelming. There’s a “click” moment that also everyone talks about where the game starts to expand and also make more sense, but don’t be afraid to look stuff up, because the game doesn’t tell you enough information unfortunately.

@@rossedwardmiller I see what you're saying. I spent a while fumbling around in the dark, lol. Took a break, but it seems pretty good so far. (I'll definitely be looking things up)

@@robertstimmel1100I’m right there with ya mate. Just picked up for 7AUD on steam and looking to play through it as well.

Can be a lil challenge if your new

Could just teach them miasma, and then give them only miasma. It may not be the most efficient pawn in terms of dps or utility, but it'll still help you destroy most things. You just have to keep enemies busy, miasma will do the rest. If I remember correctly, the tick actually interrupts and staggers some enemies as well, it's been awhile but I distinctly remember something happening to that effect. But then again, rusty weapons exist. Technically the best weapons in the game, especially on the right pawn. Or to use yourself if you're a strider/assassin. Poison is kinda OP against the majority of enemies, and torpor is OP against everything. Once you fight diamon using torpor, it's kinda hard to fight him normally.

Spell sync works wonders, and if you have the high speed casting ring and perks you can start Grand Bolide, use the Syncro circle to get off a grand Bolide, allowing you to “start” casting again. Casting in a Syncro circle makes you join at their progress rate. Having 5-6 grand bolides pounding the enemies over a good 5-15 seconds is funny AF.

@@bobroberts2581 It's fine if the player upgrades, but the pawns are still best left with the basic. The pawns can still spell sync with you making their casts instant if you've charged a higher tier spell than them. Assuming you get the time to charge up something higher than the basic version. Also, the extra meteors aren't as helpful as you'd think since most of them don't target anything anyway. Better to have the faster cast time in the end.

Wish I had known this sooner. My sorcerer pawn casting kept cancelled or interrupted. She just can't for the life of her cast the lower level spell smh.

I play a sorcerer with a sorcerer pawn and we spell sync grand spells (currently bolide and gicel) all the time, though I am looking for a couple bolide/ fulmination rings. With the right inclinations my archer (pioneer/ challenger)and fighter (scather/pioneer) distract after I tell them to go while my socerer pawn utilitarian/guardian and I rev up a massive spell together off to the side or above the battle. It is awesome.

The studio has a name my guy

@@inoodlesi4459 capcom has a name, but i am not referencing capcom as a whole, i am referencing the devil may cry team and the director Hideaki Itsuno.

@@inoodlesi4459 Yeah, but the whole studio didn't work on DD. The team developing Street Fighter's gameplay most likely knows jack shit about balancing RPG mechanics. Developing games for large companies requires specialization, like any other job.

As I understand it, the Monster Hunter team also helped with DD. And you can clearly see it in the end product.

DMC team is madlad

Haven't watched it but was curious, is the lore breaking pretty bad?? On a scale of 1-10

There were a lot of boobs in the anime, I enjoyed it

Apart from combat everything is meh in this game.

^ no

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👀 ooh... 🤫

YOOO even the character you end up after Character Customization has mechanics like carry weight

@@R3TR0J4N up height and weight effect agility and movement as well as what / who you can grap or pickup its so dope.

Having fun currently but ummmm....HELL NAH!!!

Because it honestly is just a ok game. Ppl are simply acting like it's a masterpiece because dd2 is about to come out.

It is a great game, You're only acting like this because you think you can stand out from the crowd by acting indifferent and not appreciating what the game has to offer. You're not special Lil bro​@@2genders-tk2ue

Thats what i was gonna say. I heard the eternal ferrystone is the only thing they added when it comes to fast traveling in Dark arisn

Was it worth it?

This is why I never wanted DD2 to have co-op. That would destroy one of the main draws of the game, which is managing pawns and seeing them grow. Capcom got it right from the start when they didn't include co-op in the main game but made a separate one, Dragon's Dogma Online, for that instead. Now if they'd only release Online in the West... or maybe make a new DD co-op spinoff if DD2 sells well.

The problem with the story, I assume for most people, is that you have to fill in a bit of it yourself, like read between what few lines there are and then think it through. And a lot of people seem to have issues with that. And it's kinda philosophically deep, the kinda depth that the writer will probably wave away as "Pfft, I was just writing nonsense." genuinely unaware of the brilliance he's brought forth, as many artists are. *beware, some minor spoilers ahead* I personally think the story is great, the way it starts kinda generic fantasy with an evil Dragon that for some reason steals your heart, posing the question "why?", and then said Dragon basically goes "Come at me, bro.", and off you set to reclaim your heart with some bollocks along the way. And at some point, you do just that, only for the happy ending you expected to fall to pieces as the world turns to shit, the city is swallowed into a chasm, and you with the task to now repair the damage you somehow inadvertently caused by slaying the Dragon and reclaiming your heart, which then eventually leads you to becoming a god and starting another cycle. I like the questions it poses, not directly but that you naturally ask, such as if the Dragon really is a bad guy, an enemy, or for good, or just another pawn of the gods, despite no gods really being mentioned as far as I remember. The Dragon goes from evil to kinda morally ambiguous, and it arguably requires the input of the player to do so, Grigori (the Dragon) tells you all chill like after his defeat that you're going places, he seems satisfied, proud of you even, like the right choice has been made and now it's in your hands, you've freed him, and now it's time to free yourself (arguably the philosophy behind the story, ones own volition, to determine your own fate. I could be wrong, hence "arguably", but it is kinda spoken). But I feel it is you that has to intuit that to a degree, it isn't just handed to you as a finished article, the pieces are on the table but you have to pick them up and peice them together. Sort of like Dark Souls, dare I say, but not as much lore. Or maybe I'm overblowing it, thinking too much a little too freely. I think what is perhaps missed by many, in terms of importance to the narrative, is the words spoken by the dragons you slay. Many dragons you come across and slay will say something like "the seat of god lies beyond", which you think means little until that second run and you use your head to connect the dots. All these dragons, they're not mad, they're in awe of the arisen and praising him/her. Why? Maybe you're setting them free. And that NG+ run feeling samey at first until that big reveal, the seneschel being your previous character and thus the reveal of the cycle, the game itself technically has no end. The one issue I have with that is that after using the sword on yourself, you fall to earth with your pawn becoming sentient and replacing you, taking your form, the pawn becomes you. So how is the senseschel your previous character when the pawn took over your body, is he/she sentient or did they swap so this god is essentially your pawn? The fact that a failed arisen, as in slayed by the senseschel (is that the right spelling? Meh, basically a god) becomes the next Dragon tasked to seek out and challenge the next potential arisen, that's a pretty impactful revelation too. It's not the tightest narrative and it feels like it was whipped up kinda quickly but there's some depth to it that captured me, a moment of genius from the writer that kept it living rent free in my head for a decade. Perhaps just me giving it more credence than it deserves but meh, I like not knowing all the answers. When a narrative fails to come full circle and seal itself, it isn't always a bad thing.

@@djinnxx7050 Love that you took the time to write this, went on my own rant earlier about the story. If I could share my theory about the seneschal, they always pull the godslaying blade from their chests, you just put it into yours and at that moment shed your physical body. I think your pawn merges with your former physical body and lives as a regular human. Plunging the blade in your heart was just that final step in becoming the Maker.

@@Volgeirea I honestly can't remember how you get that sword, does it just appear in the inventory after beating Grigori, or do you get it after beating the senseschel? I remember the first time I "beat" the game, I ran around lost like what the fuck am i supposed to do now, I must have looked at that sword an embarrassing number of times before I decided to actually use it. I love that it doesn't even mention the sword, that in itself completes the narrative because you as the player do that act of your own volition. Nothing pushes you towards it, no guidance, just curiosity and free will, the traits of consciousness that make us human, and traits that pawns lack. Do you think the second is going to rival it?

Oh, cool, thanks for the spoiler

That doesn't seem to be a problem with the Souls series, though. With even more cryptic lore, but everyone seems to love that then. @@djinnxx7050

And I have to also throw in here, the first time I beat Grigori, I cheered. It was a long and epic battle that was incredible. The credits rolled, and I thought "wow that was a lot of fun. Too bad it's over." and then everything about the world changed and my mind was BLOWN. This game was never about killing the dragon, that was just a means to an end. And then I spent 2 hours on the Daemon fight, beat him and thought that I did it cool, kept playing normally then went back to the island and the entire dungeon was tougher as if to mirror how the grigori fight messed the whole world up! So after beating Grigori, then the Seneschal, then the Seneschal again to realize it was just my last character, and then Daemon coming back! I thought this game was done too many times and it had more to give each time. *Huf* okay I'm good now, I got that out of my system. lol.

If you haven't beaten the game, do not read this comment. Spoilers ahead. Grigori being nothing but a tool to beckon you further blew my mind. I thought the whole game was about killing the dragon, but no, it's far more than that. I have yet to see another game pull the carpet from underneath your feet like that. It was amazing and one of the most memorable moments in gaming for me.

What's the nemesis system?

@@Shadohz75free head

From Resident Evil 3, an NPC that actively and freely hunts and chases the player throughout the entire game. Also cana dapt to the character's play style. Which can lead to some unique experiences. A more recent example is the xenomorph in Alien Isolation. @@Shadohz75

Same boat,necer gonna pre order a game again After diablo IV, waste of money