Waste of Time? - DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 No Spoiler Review

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Dragon's Dogma 2 no spoiler review after 110 hours. Plenty things to say so its a long video.
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@SadBoyHayato 5 месяцев назад

Can't believe you didn't enjoy exploring cave #27. I think getting the rotten harspud from the chest there changed my entire playthrough.

@Fishster 5 месяцев назад

27 was poor 29 now that’s a cave.

@Dantexshadows 5 месяцев назад

@@Fishster So funny, at least DDDA you could find some unique armors or weapons at cave by chance, but it seems much worse now than it's ever been in DD2. Problem being that in DDDA, every chest has is set loot and it's randomized, so have fun save scuming for good loot. Then when you realize that's the only way for some vocations to get good weapons and armor it'll really piss you off.

@phant0mdummy 5 месяцев назад

Just a wake up call: Whatever DD2 is doing, it beats Elden Ring. Elden Ring was literally riding a horse through copy paste enemies, to get to a copy paste catacomb, and fight a copy paste boss to open a chest that had an item with a 8% chance said item fit your build. Elden ring sucked. This game at least makes the act of exploration meaningful and fun.

@panthersfantre 5 месяцев назад

@@phant0mdummyLMAOOO someone never beat the game 😂. Did you get stuck on the first boss and then quit?

@phant0mdummy 5 месяцев назад

@@panthersfantre look at my sub count. It was more before I stopped doing RU-vid. I was a pretty known souls uploader for a few years. Likely played the series longer than you, and certainly am willing to PVP you if me wiping you out will make you respect my opinion like an adult Because with 130 hours in Elden Ring, I can't see how anyone can disagree with what I said. How many copy paste catacombs did you equip gear from?

@lapostetu9337 5 месяцев назад

after this game I feel bad for calling out Elden Ring for reused enemies.

@PedanticTwit 5 месяцев назад

After 80 hours mostly spent exploring and maxing vocations, I actually uninstalled the game before even finishing the first few missions from Brant out of sheer, unbearable boredom. And I'm the sort who will put hundreds of hours into games I hate _just to make a point._ The thought of having to run around doing _yet more_ busywork just to get some old man to get the hell out of jail was a hard nope. No game sequel has ever disappointed me to this degree. If I'd known about the changes from the first, I wouldn't have bought DD2 at all. That's how different it is from what I'd expected. Maybe I wouldn't have felt my brain leaking out of my ear while playing had the game not felt like a gutted, version of DD1, worse in every way except graphics: - simplified equipment - single weapons only - fewer available skills - fewer enabled skills - somehow _more_ skill overlap within vocations despite having fewer skills in total - more useless skills, again despite there being fewer skills in total - audio/video feedback on attacks and spells so bad you have to watch life bars just to see whether something connects - hyper-aggressive hopping over obstacles making precise movement painful - removed mobility skills (e.g., no double jump or levitate for Magick Archer) - inability to sell from storage - inability to even equip from storage - pawns that actually push you off ledges - forgettable score other than the callbacks to DD1 - unreasonable NPC pop-in - mind-numbing quests - pretty but sluggish movement - tiny enemy variety - inability to heal loss gauge except through rest, leading to time-wasting trudging to campfires - pointlessly hidden vocations and "maister" skills - fucking annoying pawns that you don't dare mute because their dialogue is one of the primary ways to recognize the potentially game-ruining dragonsplague - wtf is the point of Pinpoint Volley except to make yourself worse? - baffling design decisions like Quickcast and Galvanize - aiming your bow shouldn't count as an ability And so on and so forth. To go into more detail, Galvanize and Quickspell are wasted abilities, because _you always use them,_ so they might as well be static abilities. Casting times are just too goddamn long otherwise. Strictly dominant strategies make for boring gameplay, and so the Sorcerer would have been more interesting had Quickspell and Galvanize just actually been static. If casting times had been universally decreased, stamina costs increased, and stamina regeneration rate improved while not moving, then Quickspell and Galvanize could have been replaced with genuinely interesting abilities that actually do something. Like, I dunno, more spell slots, like we had in DD1. You could even have the design space to play around with different ideas, such as having every Sorcerer pick a theme, and those buttons can only be assigned spells from special lists specific to the chosen theme. Let's not forget that most vocations in DD1 could simultaneously equip melee and ranged weapons. The variety in combat this fostered was one of the things that kept the first game so fresh for so long. One moment, you're using one of your three dagger skills, and the next you're using one of your three bow skills, and this alternation kept going through every combat. It was fluid and dynamic and *fun.* In DD2, by contrast, you just spam whatever your best ability is most of the time, every moment of every fight along every road. The combat decision tree is basically a straight line. Gah! Just thinking of all the wasted potential makes me angry. Mostly it makes me want to go back and do yet another playthrough of DDDA.

@Clintdaddy412 5 месяцев назад

You played something you were unbearably bored with for 80 hours make it make sense.

@christopherway2546 5 месяцев назад

Also let’s not forget how you can be in the middle of move (Skullcrusher or whatever it is thief has-the flip) that hits enemies (goblins/other humans) multiple times and they can just stop being staggered and start staggering you. That’s not how it works. If im hitting another person over and over they aren’t going to just stop taking damage and start staggering me. That’s the point of STAGGER. You’re supposed to be fucking staGGERED

@zettor47 5 месяцев назад

90 hours in still didn't Finnish attend the coronation mission. I'm absolutely hooked on the game, and I can't deny what you say seems absolutely spot on.

@Kaynos 5 месяцев назад

After 30 hours of DD2 I miss playing Dark Arisen.

@CptEddyPrice 5 месяцев назад

70 hours in got the best ending and I feel relieved that its over. They haven't done shit with "NPC AFFINITY", no romancing main pawn, story doesn't loop properly and we don't even get to see what happens after we "stop the loop"... The worst part is they took all the flaws of DD1 and amplified it to 11. So dissapointed....

@Dymril8481 5 месяцев назад

the paralel dimension was in the first one. So i dont understand hows that is negative

@NotCharAznable 5 месяцев назад

Because the story and writing didn't improve, it's arguably worse. They had 12 years and still feel like portions of the game were cut. The lore changes they've made from first to the second game are kinda dumb as well.

@PedanticTwit 5 месяцев назад

So many comments saying the combat in DD2 is improved over DDDA. Now, you may find the sequel's combat exceptionally fun, but fun is a purely subjective, normative judgement. We can yell at each other until the heat death of the universe without making any headway on that front. What we _can_ talk about meaningfully is combat depth, and DD2's combat is objectively, numerically provably shallower than DDDA. Unless you've developed new Peano axioms under which 1>2 and 4>6? No? Didn't think so. Honestly, it's like people are conflating flashy animations with quality gameplay. I actually saw a video posted on Reddit supposedly showing how awesome and definitely-not-boring DD2's combat is, and the video was of a fight against a gryphon in which the gryphon _did absolutely nothing._ Literally. It got immediately knocked out of the sky and then wailed on for nearly a minute before dying. Huzzah. Such drama. Much excite.

@whylekat 5 месяцев назад

Lets be real - if they werent selling port crystals for real world money, there would be a stationary one in every major town like every other game ever made in this genre, including the previous entry.

@Goaheadandstaymad21332 5 месяцев назад

There wouldn't be because that's not how Dragons Dogma is. Regardless, there is still fast travelling in the game via the carts and the fact that you can get more than enough port crytals pretty easily in game.

@Fishster 5 месяцев назад

That’s not it, you can only buy one not enough to make a difference. In any case ferry stones are more of an issue until late game. It’s still an issue with the extra one.

@Liquid_Paper 5 месяцев назад

Found the parrot complainer that never played the game 😂

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

@@Liquid_Paper found the fanboy blindly defending the game

@evidicus 5 месяцев назад

No. Fast traveling is actively discouraged because when it is freely available, you get Starfield. Players would instantly bypass the world instead of being part of it. But Capcom wanted there to be some limited fast travel ability, so that's what we got. The sale of port crystals, like all of the MTX in this game, is an idiot tax. Not only are they not necessary, you'd have to be an idiot to actually buy them. And the vast majority of the MTX are things you'd get as part of the Deluxe Edition bundle, yet no one has a problem with that. The MTX 'controversy" around this game is overblown rage bait used to generate clicks and views. Do MTX in single player games suck? Sure. But that sailed back in 2006 with Oblivion's horse armor. Better to just ignore it and move on.

@TheSwampDonkey 5 месяцев назад

I know this is subjective but I don't like how we had more abilities in DD 1 and the ability to swap between them but In DD2, this was removed. You have 4 main abilities. If you pick Wayfarer, you lose 1 skill to have the ability to swap and the other 3 are split between whatever 2 classes you want to play with. No no no. IMO, they should have given you the ability to have at least double that.

@DJWeapon8 5 месяцев назад

Baffling how they lowered the active skills you equip. In the design document I wrote for my Ideal Dragon's Dogma Sequel years ago, the default is 8. With the right Augments equipped you can have up to *TWENTY FOUR* active skills • R1 + Face Buttons = 4 • L1 + Face Buttons = 4 Which are the default. • R1 + D-Pad Buttons = 4 • L1 + D-Pad Buttons = 4 • L2 + Face Buttons = 4 • L2 + D-Pad Buttons = 4 Which are unlocked by equipping certain Augments.

@jamilvints 5 месяцев назад

My biggest gripe is why did they limit our skills, devastating. Its the reason why Dogma was so fun and its the only game so far that just plain fun. No story, no side quests, just pure funn killing monsters. I feel monsters are lacking, endworld is bad vs DD1, side quests are left wanting more. Its good and bad in DD2, romance was made worse. BUT IM STILL THINKING ABOUT IT! they droped the ball, but it was a 9/10 in DD1 to a 7/10 for me.

@EvgGaar 5 месяцев назад

Disclaimer - I've got 110+ hours with this game and would say I rather enjoyed my playtime. Several criticism points though: 1. Exploration being such a huge part of the game clashes with the nighttime having numerous cool monsters that you barely see otherwise. Noone who wants to actually explore the game will try to do so while being nearly blind due to view distance, at least I avoided running around at night 99% of the time. 2. Combat is fun, but is incredibly unbalanced - dps classes like Thief and Spearhand having readily available "i'm immortal" buttons that allow them to be better tanks that fighters, stagger on stuff like Helm Splitter being able to rival Warrior AND a ton of damage on top of that. Yyyyyah. 3. Monsters are trivialized by select ultrahitting attacks (which not every class have access to, adding to the lack of balance) OR by stagger. On top of making the game too easy it also limits the buildcrafting by a lot - most skills don't have a niche, or the niche is to limited, when you have skills that fall in the "ultra dps","ultra stagger" or both categories. 4. For Warrior specifically I think this is my absolute favourite class in the game thematically, but is heavily unpolished - shoulder barge is ultra short distance, and the whole class would gain a ton of flexibility if you could use it mid-charge of a skill without restarting the charging from scratch. Without this most skills are borderline useless. I would also want a bit more animation cancelling potential for most skills, because the skills that do allow animation cancelling feel fantastic, but thosthat don't have this option feel clunky. 5. Going back to the world and quests - holy cow the quest system is bad. Sure, having missable quests is fine and fun, but not when its a freaking chain of quests and the later parts don't even show in your log. On top of that some MAJOR chains arent even initiated unless you actively scour the lactions for them! If I didn't know to not turn in the 15 crystals too soon, I would've missed out on ALL BUT 2 quests in Bakbathal, this is outrageous. 6. Endgame and especially NG+ is a huge missed opportunity, too limited, should've been so much more. In general I heavily agree that its a darn good game that should've been a masterpiece, but couldn't.

@phant0mdummy 5 месяцев назад

You played wrong if you avoided night. I constantly run around at night because you don't need to see... you are just out there farming difficult enemies (more difficult, anyway). and grinding xp. and the fights at night are epic. Ever battled a Golem and a Griffin at night? and then a wight shows up and resurrects a skeleton army... I have. It was an insane 16 minutes.

@EvgGaar 5 месяцев назад

@@phant0mdummy I definitely had that kind of moments, but for exploration having no vision is too big of a handycap. Since exploring the world is a such a big priority - you generally avoid the darkness.

@tilting_cat3344 5 месяцев назад

last game got spell that oight nightime in magic archer,the sequel doesn't have it?

@Master_Matoya 5 месяцев назад

@@EvgGaar Generally you would avoid darkness, but I'm not exploring 100% of the time, sometimes, I just want to go on a death march across the country to see how long it takes for my loss to accumulate enough to cause me to make camp.

@thenightingale7405 5 месяцев назад

Haven't played this yet because of the MTX, but I was a huge fan of the traveling in Outward.

@dumplingshakes22 5 месяцев назад

This game has a ton of things holding it back but mtx is the least of the problems. I didn’t even notice them until all the clickbait RU-vidrs sounded off.

@panthersfantre 5 месяцев назад

Yea IF that’s your main reason then it’s silly. outside of a “any game that has ANY mtx is an automatic no” rule, they don’t drastically change the world. I legit haven’t even seen the mtx shop and I’m 30+ hrs in. Wouldn’t even know how to access it

@thenightingale7405 5 месяцев назад

@@panthersfantreTo me the purpose of MTX is to pay for the indefinite maintenance of a live service game. It's just unfettered greed to put it in a single player game.

@macsattic7155 5 месяцев назад

I honestly would have never known the game had mtx had everyone not made such a ridiculously big deal about them. I agree they are a bad thing but I don't even know where to look to find such a thing. Let fools be fools. People have been and will forever be separating them from their cash. Not my concern

@homopersicum1850 5 месяцев назад

I think this is a good video and I'd liks to add that in my opinion the game would benefit greatly from an enemy randomizer mod or a proper hard mode that scatters end game enemies around the world as a surprise.

@dumplingshakes22 5 месяцев назад

I was so hyped for this game as I’d beaten DD1 several times over the years but man what a disappointment this was. I played maybe 30ish hrs and then I realized after my 1000th random boring encounter that I just wasn’t attached to my character and I didn’t care. Just quit right there and I haven’t been back on. Maybe I’ll go again later on.

@MrMoridinalthor 5 месяцев назад

I recently played Dark Arisen on Hard from a new save and it elevated the experience. Those bandit/goblin fights that are tedious on Normal get turned into life and death until quite a ways into the game. There were times where I was going around enemy groups because I was low on resources. Having a harder difficulty setting would raise the stakes of travel in DD2 and help with the realism of monsters being able to kill you.

@Ih8theleft-q8x 5 месяцев назад

Love the game, but it loves wasting time. Stamina is bullshit in the game. Tired of the dark souls shit being shoved in everything. Game needs free fast travel. Don't care what their vision was. Its annoying now. Same stun lock bs every 3 feet for 23 miles to turn a quest in. Unacceptable. No, shoving Lords of The Fallen amounts of shit enemies every 3 feet isn't immersive. Its annoying.

@cartoonvideos5 5 месяцев назад

Yea lords of the fallen got torn apart for gank squads and they had to patch the game, but Dragons Dogma 2 is perfect when it has worse gank squads and it happens nonstop.

@accretionist1 5 месяцев назад

Great review. It seems like most of the issues you pointed out could be fixed with mods. Hopefully modding picks up for this game and provides a way better experience.

@wurzelbert84wucher5 5 месяцев назад

Concerning the easy difficulty, I have a really easy explanation: You either have stat-based (like Diablo or Baldurs Gate) or action-based difficulty (like in Dark Souls), with dodge or parry mechanics. Obviously Dark Souls has stats as well, but you can theoretically win the game without level up and new items. Games like the Witcher 3 try to balance these two aspects and theoretically DD2 does does it as well, but most classes simply don't have action based mechanics to dodge or evade attacks. Thus it's mostly about stats and the underlying rpg mechanics of DD2 are super simple and, as you stated, easy to snowball for the player. Even the endgame bosses don't have any attacks you have to dodge or any mechanics you have to learn, you either facetank the attacks (with Warri/Figher) or you stand far away do be save 90% of the time.

@mrlopez7173 5 месяцев назад

It has the same issues that dd1 had . Fast travel unlocked at end , empty openworld , repetitive enemies, boring quests. stamina limited

@Memnion 5 месяцев назад

Walked all the way to battahl for the elf girl to look for fertilizer for her bonsai tree or whatever. It was a long journey with some difficult terrain and enemies but I really enjoyed it. Realizes there’s no port crystal in the city. Think “Ok whatever, I don’t really plan on sticking around this area anyways”. Find the guy who has the stuff. He tells me to F off unless I go all the way back to elf village (the other side of the continent) and bring him back literally, soup made of rotten fish and rotten apples from the elves….. Not only that, the elf girl WANTS TO DELIVER IT HERSELF making this now an escort mission, over one of the most painstaking treks in the game….. Capcom 1000% knew what they were doing with no permanent port crystals in major cities outside vermund and selling them in mtx. PSA don’t buy one there’s a vendor 10 min outside batthal that sells you one for wyrmscrystal or whatever you get for killing dragons. I was so mad because I knew what they were doing and why. So I decided to look up online where to get one. Kind of disappointing because I wanted to really do a blind playthrough

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

Why didn't you use the port crystal from the elf quest to always have a way back to their village?

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

Also it's one port crystal. You can't buy multiple like you said

@Memnion 5 месяцев назад

@@angellara7040 I placed the one from the griffins nest in the checkpoint town and the one from the elf in the elven city. I don’t have the one from the main quest because I haven’t done any of the main quest. 60 hours in and just exploring and sidequesting. I know they only sell one in the shop. I know I said “them” but that’s not what I was implying. Imo the fact there is zero permanent port crystals south, or the areas that it’s actually a trek to get to, was partially done because they want to sell port crystals. In the first game as you progressed and visited set piece dungeons you’d happen along port crystals somewhat more frequently. I know itsuno was going for a different vibe in this game, but it did not play out like I think he wanted. Exploration is fun but once you find everything, it becomes tedious due to the barrage of goblins and wolves. Not difficult, tedious

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

@@Memnion and you're using plural again. Anyways a dd1 tip is to basically put the port crystal in the area you got it. Most of the time it's there because the trek was so far in the first place

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

@@Memnion there's no reason to use a port crystal in batthal until late game. The oxcart can take you to the city from the gate after getting the residents pass.

@darksavior1187 5 месяцев назад

I enjoyed DD2 warts and all, but I am not gonna pretend it doesn't have those warts. I spent over 100 hours with it, and had fun, so I can't say I didn't get my moneys worth, but I can definitely see areas to improve upon, and potential unrealized. While it isn't fair to judge it for something it is not, it doesn't exist in a vacuum either, and released to an audience that have played games like Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate, and Monster Hunter, it will be compared to those. So while I liked it, and had fun with it, I absolutely can also see that it could have been so much more, and the potential untapped is a damn shame. I agree with RPG Divisions score, it could have been an 8 or even a 9, but for me the biggest detriments are: that it doesn't have enough challenging content to match the power of the player, it doesn't have much replayability, most if not all of the quests, and storylines, don't mean anything in the long run, only getting to the dragon really means anything, and too many designs waste player's time for no reason. Fast travel should have eventually become commonplace (eternal ferristone) by the end of the game. There needed to be a lot less travel for its own sake, passing time for no reason (sitting on benches to advance quests that just told you to "come back later" for no reason), and the ever terrible escort quest should be forgotten to game design forever more. With all of those, it does land in the D+ - C- range which would be a 6 or 7 out of 10.

@oduneyeman 5 месяцев назад

I am struggling to get through it, I am finding it repetitive and somewhat boring. Maybe I am getting old, maybe I expect too much from games these days.

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

To be fair, every video I have seen of the game makes it look repetitive and boring.

@shaifs5072 5 месяцев назад

I suggest playing shorter games. Gameplay loops do get boring and repetitive, the bigger a game is, the worse that gets. Makes me wish there were more games like Nier Automata that shuffles its gameplay loops.

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

I’m 36 and have been having a got damn blast playing. Idk man….maybe ppl are just f***in different 🫤

@don2nd650 5 месяцев назад

Did you play the first one? I’m trying to get through it but the quest are confusing af lol

@gamingod2137 5 месяцев назад

How I feel about ff7 rebirth. Took a break to start my 4th playthrough of bg3

@Arcessitor 5 месяцев назад

I dunno I think the enemies pose no real threat due to the nature of the combat system. It's built around enemies doing a move instead of spinning around to just hit you. Downside is that there are just blindspots you can stand in where no enemies could possibly hit you. I found that to be true of all enemies except for maybe the Sphinx, but I had Mystic Spearhand for that fight with predictable results.

@zoltanschweifer4304 5 месяцев назад

I think this was the most honest review of all your tube. I could not believe that most youtubers saying it's like elden ring and Bg3. This game is nowhere near that lvl.

@alexanderkruglov5199 5 месяцев назад

I'm a ddda fan, I was really looking forward to the second dogma. It's good that I didn't buy it. My disappointment is difficult to describe without swearing. Even the combat system, which is considered a positive aspect of the game, seems less deep than in the first game (yes, the animations are better, but nothing more). The variety of opponents is less, even if you exclude the Dark Arizen. New mechanics (for example, camp rest and dragon plague) seem to be specially made to stretch out the game time. The warfarer class is generally some kind of lazy crap... why come up with a new class, just make it from all the others, but at the same time it will be worse than any of them

@GeorgeGeo 5 месяцев назад

I am just exploring away ignoring the quests and killing shit and leveling vocations.. thats about al I will probably do as the questing system seems to be very confusing and chasing an NPC around trying to show me the way always gets bugged.

@DavoInMelbourne 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for your honest review. I’m glad i passed on this.

@thelinkgamersnetwork3724 5 месяцев назад

You are great man. We really need more people like you

@kaedeharakazuha2003 5 месяцев назад

In my opinion who's already spent around 86 hours into the game that Dragon's Dogma 2 is an improvement from DD 1 not the dark arisen just the base game overall... yes the unmoored world can count as the everfall but the thing is you can only access umoored world for a limited time if I recall you only have 7 days before the smoky cloud take over the world you can destroy the pillar and stop it but the monster after 1 week won't respawn... it's lacking the Bitter Black Isle vibe and endgameness to it... in bitter black isle you get the sense of "VERY HARD" content but in drgon's dogma 2 it's just dd1 base game but improved when I say improved I mean like improved a lot, but the things I don't like about DD 2 is that the chest is not respawnable T.T it's annoying but whatever... other than that the game is great for content wise, combat, etc... . THE BAD THING is PERFORMANCE ... OMG I cna't tell how much I stressed about this stuff ... okay so I have RTX 3060 12GB VRAM, i5 13400F, 16GB RAM, SSD Gen 4 you know that my pc is not a potato at all ... this game is somehow capable of performing worse then RE 4 like gosh ... okay so here's all my complain about the performance, and graphical issue in this game, ray tracing is good but there's this smearing when I turn around especially it's very noticable on grass... the shadow ... I look at the PS 5 version of the game and I see the shadow is crystal clear even at distant but in the steam version is not unless you set the shadow at max but that thing is not stable, very unstable... and again u need at least run this game at 1440p to look good... I don't know why but AAA game for the couple last year is not fit for 1080p at all like 1080p is always blurry even tho u're not using upscaling at all. I will recommend this game to anyone until capcom fix the performance issue in this game. if they're not fix it I will just tell them to go buy the PS 5 version instead.

@ryanzz1357 5 месяцев назад

Love your honest reviews as always keep it up my friend

@joewhan11 5 месяцев назад

I will wait for the dark arisen version to come out in a couple of years, I got too many games on my backlog to pay full price for this!

@anjindream 5 месяцев назад

Can't agree man. Some annoying things here and there, but hands down one of the most enjoyable games I've played in some time. Even after 60+ hours (which I very rarely put in a game), I really like going through new game+.

@misterG2006 5 месяцев назад

My initial thoughts after a few hours of play were "Good game but not worth the AAA price tag" and after completing the story that opinion has not changed.

@rodrigocavazzani9382 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this! It's very important to state that DD2 is mostly mediocre. And that objectively that has nothing to do with the amount of fun you can have by playing it. It's just that for a company this big I expected some things to be just better, you know? Let me share some thoughts with you too: - Totally agree with the poor quality of the story. - The world's aesthetics has some dense feeling around it, doesn't it? I agree with you. It's beautiful, more detailed, more immersive than most other games. Although this too could be much better if exploration was actually meaningfull, enemies more varied and if you could just walk around for more than 10 seconds without being interrupted by some mindless goblins or whatever - At first, I kinda liked the fact that you had to meet masters around the world to unlock new vocations. I like the ideia of learning new combat styles from your travels. But... the way the game actually do this is ridiculous. You just talk to some random guy and puff: "you've learned a new vocation". Lazy bastards. - The lack of fast travel, because of all the other problems the game has, becomes a real issue, for sure. It could perhaps be a tool for enhancing immersion, but with the lacking in enemie variety, the non stop talking pawns (and also the fact that they sometimes get stuck and die kk), the monsters overcrowding the road and attacking you all the time.. it's just a pain. And I think it's even worst, considering the fact that devs criticized other companies for not being able to develop true engaging open worlds and having to count on fast travel systems to fill this gap. - I think, for me, what actually saved the experience is the way the game ecourages you to try different vocations. This kept things fresh for me! - Know what really bothers me? The feeling that by watching the trailers before the game's release we have seen it all. We have basically seen all enemies, vocations and skills in the trailers kkk I though they were showing just a small portion of the game... but no! That was all they had to show kk - I also hate the fact that you can't dodge in this game. I really like the fact that when you get hit you feel dizzy and stunned. It's very realistic. But not being able to dodge or evade attacks is not realistic at all... it's just... wtf.

@PedanticTwit 5 месяцев назад

The dodging thing is extra crazy, because all the dagger-wielding vocations (that's four of the nine total) in DDDA could both dodge and double jump.

@ShxpxRok 5 месяцев назад

the story could have been better a lot better, if anything if the story was better little issues like stamina and fast travel wouyld not be so bad, there's just no follow through even with the final big bad at the very end it should have been a fight like how it was in the 1st game, they have all the animations and resources from the old game you see that from all the reused enemies. Capcom insisted that the game be 70 - 80 usd but then gave the team 390 people to work with. that's just beyond stupid and very unacceptable. However DD2 is one of my favorite games it captured me people saying it's bad is fine I like hearihg differing opinions because there is plenty I agree with or can learn. Also like your accent awesome guy xD

@phant0mdummy 5 месяцев назад

While i totally agree that people obsessively defend their purchases, i do disagree with a lot of your takes here. But thats how opinions work. Im at 70 hours and have 7 vocations maxed out. Im enjoying everything about the game, with obvious exceptions. But on the whole i think the games all i wanted from a sequel. I wish they nailed every aspect, and they definitely did not. But they definitely iterated over the first in many positive ways. Places they dropped the ball are things like inventory Management, the removal of pawn review statements (choosing a message to send), the lack of many enemies from DDDA, lack of difficulty, some mediocre quest design, and whoever decided the most expensive houses would have no tangible benefits is a moron. Performance also stinks, and why are there so many stealth missions? The disguise mechanics do not even make sense, and people arbitrarily get aggro and attack me.

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

Real quick, did you know they had a hot key for opening up the inventory menu? Cuz after 2 weeks I didn’t till last night 😂😂❤

@XmarcX92 5 месяцев назад

Can’t believe I waited 10 years for this shit 😢

@MrLiveforlove 5 месяцев назад

Did not play the game but this is a solid review. Damn, Imagine how better this game would be with just good optimization, easier fast travel and a better story. Hope Capcom takes note of this review.

@GrimGianni 5 месяцев назад

Standing Ovation!! Thank you for speaking the truth.

@pryt86 5 месяцев назад

Im hooked and loving this game. I absolutely loved the first one as well.

@vassilisvassiliou3747 5 месяцев назад

I couldn't enjoy the first game mostly because of how companions worked, just created pawns, no personalities, no personal quests, no interactions to each other. Just lazy design, can you imagine playing Baldur's Gate with companions like that? Not going anywhere near the sequel with all its added flaws

@well_said7846 5 месяцев назад

All the design problems you mentioned are features for me!

@skade9100 5 месяцев назад

I think some things that would fix the game would be : SOME way to farm portcrystals (even if it's rare af it would still be better than having 6 in the whole game like wtf) and a harder difficulty cuz rn the game is simply too easy Also i don't get why they deleted like 20+ spells from the first game, playing sorcerer was fun in DD1 and now you just pick the 4 most OP out of your 14 SPELLS and call it a day, miserable.

@firefistgaming117 5 месяцев назад

Im a Huge fan of DD1DA, one of my all time favs, however i have two seperate view points on games,movies ect. 1 side is my personal Opinion Other is critical trying to look at an objective lense DD1 is like a 7 honestly, but i love it dearly, after 13 freaking years i expected DD2 to be like a 9 on a critical lvl to me and have so much more to offer then it did. I still love DD2, i prefer certain aspects over The first game primarily around Combat, World (like How there is actually rain weather etfects lol) and Character creator but I'm disappointed that it has SO MUCH lacking over the first game ranging from Enemy variety to less skills and holy crap the story is hot ass and much worse then DD1 story imho, sigh... I put 126 hours in DD2, i give it a low 8 personally. I do hope the DLC and patches over the year improves it alot but we shouldn't have to wait for Fixes and DLC to realize a game at its full potential. Stellar blade demo stole my hype from DD2 and Unicorn overlord is absolutely stealing my Gaming soul in the meantime lol which i didnt expect cause DD2 was one of my most hyped games for a decade.

@johnyoungerman1857 5 месяцев назад

FINALLY!!! Someone see's the game the way I do. Thanks for your rewiew. As a final word...The game is fun(a few hours at a time), but it is not FUUUUN! Way to many issues and the story is boring for the most part( its DD1 with a makover and yes I did play it....47hours logged in DD1) This should have been a 50 buck game but is not worth 70 or 80 for a Deluxe. My opinions. Peace

@mikelawrence1876 5 месяцев назад

Dude, I may be the weird one, but I hated the game. Wanted to like it, but I just can't. It feels hollow to me.

@Dantexshadows 5 месяцев назад

Great review. The real problem with dd1 Gransys wasn't the lacking enemy variety in general, it was lack of diverse enemy packs with that lacking enemy variety. It would never be griffin, cyclops, goblins all in one fight. But on Bitter black island that changed, that "could" happen from time to time. What would improve dd2 overall in the combat part would be taking an idea from BBI and make the whole game based around it. In BBI, when you killed enough enemies in one room there was a chance a strong boss enemy or a pack of them could spawn on you. That's how the normal game should've worked, if you killed a weak enemy during the day, and it was few days ago, than in daytime or nighttime deadlier enemy would spawn at that location instead. Then make that apply to whole enemy swarms. For me, I'll wait until they do a dark arisen arena type area DLC for dd2 before I play it again. Probably when I build better PC too, can't run it on my potato 2019 laptop, unless you want to play at 10-30 fps at 640×360 LUL.

@Renyth 5 месяцев назад

I swear the fake arisen just disappears? I literally didn't see what happened to him. True ending world setup and things finally kick off but no final boss? Excuse me?

@Whiteshade 5 месяцев назад

Great review as always.

@jax-ew7lw 5 месяцев назад

The second is the same as the first. You appreciated the main story for what it is worth, but it only kept anyone coming back over so many years because of bitter black isle, which gave the game most of its enemy variety. Most people are right to feel how they feel about the game and cant say they are incorrect, but at the same time most are use to cookie cutter rpgs telling them how to do everything. Most people complaining about the story in this game can't even tell you what the story is about. Im not saying this could of been done better and capcom is amazing at story telling, but people really do come with a sense of entitlement these days and complain about the silliest things, such as fast travel. I mean to progress in some quest all you had to do was turn around and talk to the npc behind you, it just didnt point it out. Other times it is definitely a bit sloppy in game design. People who haven't played the first game and have come to respect it for what its worth are probably not going enjoy the second one as well. In the first game you bought all your "good" weapons. The dlc rift crystals were used as currency to crack open your gear in the dlc, which once again a currency exchange. The first game you could find some cool progression weapons and its the same in this one. They needed more enemy variety in the desert area and could of added orcs or something from their mmo or simply created something fun and new. Also could of gave you fortresses or strongholds to raid with a bunch of mini bosses along the way to slow enemy density if the player wanted, but they didnt so all we can do is see if their dlc will hold up to their last one or the game will be forgotten about. A hard mode and a equal dlc to bitterblack and they have given me all i would most likely expect. Point me in the direction of good games these days and i will follow. Most games are watered down for over monetization and broader public. Elden ring is a fine example of a watered down genre. All it is now is a bunch of people spamming overpowered anime moves and a repetitive open world that gets boring fast. Previous dark souls were much better.

@Jasperyeahhh 5 месяцев назад

I have watched a total of 42 seconds of this video, and I just wanted to tell you that you're wrong about everything you say throughout the whole 22 minutes.

@dr.strange1300 5 месяцев назад

Funny because at 54 seconds you'll notice how he says it's actually a good game, so I guess you must agree with him since he's "wrong about everything" lmao

@Heffalord 5 месяцев назад

@@dr.strange1300 I think you missed the joke

@dr.strange1300 5 месяцев назад

@@Heffalord I actually might have 🤣

@Heffalord 5 месяцев назад

@@dr.strange1300 all good brother 😅

@collapsiblechair9112 5 месяцев назад

It seems like he's just read the DD:DA sub reddit and copy pasted the criticisms posted there.

@albeon81 5 месяцев назад

This game could have been Skyrim level good with a few changes. More good loot in chests rather than shops, more enemy variety, and increased difficulty in later regions. I don’t even care about the story or fast travel.

@MegaCygnusX1 5 месяцев назад

This game honestly feels like Capcom just said "Eh, give the B team a project to keep them busy, while resurrecting one of our cult IPs and capitalising on the nostalgia". Which is fine. The triple A price tag and MTX? Not so much. This is not a AAA game, it is a mid tier janky game which is fun, but should not have been priced like a Resident Evil title.

@lalcantara18 5 месяцев назад

Can't agree more. Great review.

@khiraas5656 5 месяцев назад

Personally i love this game

@sunbather1576 5 месяцев назад

All this well thought-out critique of the game is overshadowed by yet another reviewer who can't resist to cry "Microtransactions!", "Microtransactions!" as if they were the core problem of the game. On a sidenote: Capcom, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, all those JRPG developers have dozens of DLCs for each of their singleplayer games: cosmetics, items etc. No one, I repeat: no one, complained about the DLCs for the Resident Evil 4 remake. None of the DLCs are necessary, they are basically cheats, and if you wanna pay money for cheats, well it's your prerogative.

@Tentacl 5 месяцев назад

I can accept basically every downside of this game OTHER than the NPC AI. It's ATROCIOUS and their capacity to suicide just put me off to the point I'm no longer playing.

@jhguygih 5 месяцев назад

Game is not perfect, lots of things to improve but I'm having fun. Like trying to explore everything. I'd give it a good 7/10.

@kingjabon 5 месяцев назад

This game is a good 5 out of 10 for me and thats not a bad thing.

@uchennaobi5985 5 месяцев назад

Any ff7 rebirth or rise of ronin review??

@rpgdivision 5 месяцев назад

Down the road maybe if I catch them on the sale, mate. Would love to play FF7 Rebirth. Really liked the first remake so the second one should be a good time. From Ronin I don't expect much but might give it a go eventually.

@christopherway2546 5 месяцев назад

That’s it. It’s beyond ridiculous how good this game could’ve been. 99.99% of chests are just useless shit. I’m currently leveling thief. I’m level 40ish and pretty much full cleared the entire Vernworth map(north area above Battahl) and the strongest daggers I have, can you guess where I got them ? Way back at level 13 from the seekers tokens. I have several pairs but they are all weaker than these snake head daggers. I think there were 3-4 chests that were worth going after. Mostly wakestones or ferrystones being the best loot. This game could’ve been so fucking epic instead it’s just another rpg that will never be anything other than mediocre

@warrenbriggs7449 5 месяцев назад

Very accurate review.

@deathtoraiden2080 2 месяца назад

I could say Dragon's Dogma 2 is the perfect poster child for nu-Crapcom but actually i could say that for every single one of their games save for maybe Monster Hunter (which i have no experience with). A soulless parody of what was once effortless greatness. This is Crapcom ever since "RE"7 with one or two outliers. Edit: So much time spent whining about no fast travel. Gross

@TitoVespasianus 5 месяцев назад

Only way i play this game is if i'm paid to do so. :D

@EvaBrvneko 4 месяца назад

They really need to add more to the game, quests are disjointed and literally all the hours you put in for Brant at the start was pointless. I really loved dragon dogma 1 and even got the deluxe edition... kind of let down. It's by no means a "bad" game, but it does nothing new from the first, and magic was actually dumbed down.

@1000MilezAhead 5 месяцев назад

Couldn't agree more.

@MattRoadhouse 5 месяцев назад

Modders will fix all of Capcom's fkups and terrible/hasty design choices, just like a decade ago Great for PC, bad for enabling these practices by fixing stuff outside of the corporation Best items from vendors instead of best stuff from world exploration was a bad move imho

@johnwallace5284 5 месяцев назад

it truly shows the sad state of the gaming industry when people are talking about such an absolute sh$t house game

@BryanRyuzaki 5 месяцев назад

I agree with you, it’s a solid game

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

Fan culture is a massive issue in the gaming industry, partially because of them, it is almost impossible to tell if products are decent until you use them yourself. We need more demo's.

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

I don’t think I’ve ever been able to KNOW if a game was fun till I got to play it though. Like….game reviews are nice, but more so for just telling you the facts on how things work so you can then make a decision.

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

@@Macheako I agree, I am just starting to think it is even dodgier/harder now than it ever was. I see reviews and gameplay for games that look terrible (Starfield for instance) and the comments section is full of people raving about it. Other games like the 'new and improved, but absurdly named' Lords of the Fallen looks like it should be worthwhile, but a lot of people say it is trash, when maybe they are trash 🤔 or maybe both the game and the commenters are trash 🤨 I put games in my steam wishlist, wait for them to go on sale and then check out a couple of reviews/some gameplay, and then often just remove them, instead of buying them. So they looked good enough to me once, but looking again they don't? Maybe I am just trash 🤐

@MidnightHozz 5 месяцев назад

I don't like JRPGs. I think they are complete shit compared to Western CRPGs. I didn't like Dark Arisen and, surprise, I didn't like this. The story and writing/dialogue are comically bad. Like, honestly the worst I can remember in any CRPG. Instant turn off for me. I played the Steam PC version and the HDR didn't work. The game looked awful, partially because of the broken HDR but also just because the graphics are terrible for a AAA 2024 title. I fucking hated this game and I have no idea how so many people seem to like it. Metacritic has 88 from critics for the PC version. If this is not evidence of pay to play reviews I don't know what is. 88! The user reviews are 63 which is far more believable to me.

@DJWeapon8 5 месяцев назад

To be fair. Dragons Dogma 1, its DLC, and Dragons Dogma 2, are also crap JRPGs due to: • Shit story. • Poor character writing and development. Really, its a tech demo for a meaty and satisfying real time medieval fantasy melee/magic/bow combat system. But that's all it has to offer.

@cartoonvideos5 5 месяцев назад

America Heck yea 🇺🇲🇺🇸🦅🦅

@lostnumber08 5 месяцев назад

The best thing about the first game was the delicious combat. This game is just as fun in that respect. It is a game for fans of the first game (what a sequel should be). SO, in that respect, it is a big success.

@collapsiblechair9112 5 месяцев назад

it seems so many people were expecting something different while many fans of the first game really appreciated how much this is like the first.

@zaskiaalsakila7248 5 месяцев назад

Dragon's dogma 2 may not be mediocre, but overpriced it surely is...

@xsnpxhoff8071 5 месяцев назад

I wanted to play this game but refunded it after I found out about the pointless dlc I'm done with scummy devs

@lafunk1978 5 месяцев назад

DLC?

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

@@lafunk1978 Down Loadable Content. There are 21 of them on steam already, microtransactions designed to increase revenue for the game, some of them are aimed at really stupid people (cosmetics), others may fall under the banner of pay to win (items that make the game easier/give advantages).

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

What games do you usually play?

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

@@lafunk1978 this game has more than 20 dlc's (downloadable content), microtransactions, the mark of a trash developer and/or publisher.

@xsnpxhoff8071 5 месяцев назад

@@angellara7040 fifa

@TheRavenShadowsWolf 5 месяцев назад

There was no need to write a story for the sequel - BUT: They called the trial of The Arisen CYCLICAL! Parallel dimensions were not necessary. The cycle was always meant to RESET eventually. Why? Nature abhorrs a vacuum. What's left when you murder the dragon (who is a failed arisen) and then murder the seneschal (who is a screwed over for NOT failing arisen) Gee, I wonder. The dragon's plague is stupidly punitive. It doesn't look to me like they've changed much about Pawns; and they took away the ONE vocation where you didn't need them (so you CAN actually make them shut up for once) I have no clue if they've fixed the LI problem with either shop or innkeepers (or creepy little pawn girls, none of whom shouldn't have been on that list to start with) and the HP bars look the same to me as last time. Too many dots, too little actual damage done to any one of them, and you get knocked around like a ragdoll. If the inclinations are as bad as last time, the game really won't be worth my money. From what I've seen Warrior and Sorcerer still have WAY too much wind up - with no ability to pay it off. Because every enemy on the field can, and WILL smack you before you get to do that "big damage" move. Tell me why I should spent 3/4rths the game trying to prove I am what YOUR GAME claims I AM. Just because you think it's "complex" (read interesting) to add a charlatan character claiming to be what I am. Did you forget about the literal missing heart? If his is beating in his chest; there's your goddamned answer. Genius'.

@PedanticTwit 5 месяцев назад

It's even worse. Most large enemies have some way to rapidly close distance and attack, invalidating the tactical advantage of range. And the audio/video feedback for ranged hits is all but non-existent, especially for Mage, Sorcerer, and Magick Archer. Oh, wait, that's 3/4 of the all ranged vocations, because they got rid of the ability to equip multiple weapons. When 7/9 vocations in DDDA had ranged weapons.

@TheRavenShadowsWolf 5 месяцев назад

@@PedanticTwit Ouch. Guess I will be waiting for a few patches before I even decide to try this out as a wild card purchase. I preferred melee anyway. If I wanted to play an FPS I'd have bought call of duty. Or more likely Mass Effect. (At least there your skills DO affect your ability to shoot. Don't know why they removed that in the sequels)

@PedanticTwit 5 месяцев назад

@@TheRavenShadowsWolf Actually, the Mass Effect comparison is apt. There's the same kind of dumbing down of RPG elements here that we saw from ME1 to ME2. And 5/7 of the ranged vocations in DDDA had melee weapons, too ... Gah! Such a downgrade.

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

Multiple worlds was already a thing in dark arisen. Daimen doesn't come from your world he comes from a different dimension.

@SeriousPeaches 5 месяцев назад

Wanted to mention - please check out Unicorn Overlord. Its a phenomenal strategy RPG. I am not a huge RPG player but I have been absolutely addicted to it. The game was in development hell and apparently the president of the company had to pay to finish it himself. A lot of love and attention to detail went into it and it makes me really sad that the game isnt getting the coverage it deserves.

@Nazyairsengikar 5 месяцев назад

The game is amazing

@collapsiblechair9112 5 месяцев назад

DDII is great fun and the world is great to explore. As a fan of DD I am happy with it. It didn't redefine the Dragon's Dogma but it's just a game that plays to its strength. Stories are almost poor, games are about the game after all. The story of any game is within the gameplay. No game can rival a book or even a movie for storytelling, games do it differently.

@romariogee 5 месяцев назад

best review. Disappointed I bought this trash

@lafunk1978 5 месяцев назад

The story really let it down.

@KT-83 5 месяцев назад

👊

@scottgust9709 5 месяцев назад

bro, you dont like the game, thats fine...but for those who love the game dont accuse them of simping for capcom, they just love the game...and you paid $70 for something you dont like, so your salty.

@karakters7905 5 месяцев назад

repetitive, not enough monsters, combat lacking,

@Kozmo-Kamuy 5 месяцев назад

Combat lacking not sure what game you are playing

@karakters7905 5 месяцев назад

@@Kozmo-Kamuyhave u seen combat of rise of ronin? how diverse it is?

@ogopogo1109 5 месяцев назад

Put no spoiler in the title then proceed to spoil the biggest, arguably the most interesting surprise the game has to offer in post game 3 minutes into the video with no spoiler warning. I don't even...

@victorsilverio2533 5 месяцев назад

I don't play games that don't have multiplayer...

@johnsonspark171 5 месяцев назад

a game that runs this poorly shouldn't be more then a 3/10. Also, it was super WOKE

@cookytrix 5 месяцев назад

and another doesnt like the dd formula and chalks it up as a bad game. welcome back to 2012 where everyone and their mother and father did this. and they are back with their subjectivity.

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

Reminds me off an old dragons dogma review were the review complicated that you can't just put 's at the end of something and think it has a meaning

@angellara7040 4 месяца назад

@kagyubeef2482 you don't know what that word means

@angellara7040 4 месяца назад

@kagyubeef2482 did capcom kill your dog or something?

@HyouVizer 5 месяцев назад

Majority of the story still does suck, I agree. nobody remembers what the original Vernworth Arisen (your character) of looks like besides mostly Bryant? All the city people just all somehow forget you entirely and accept this Arisen from Wish smh.

@angellara7040 5 месяцев назад

That's because you never made it to vernworth proper. You were taken from melves to batthal after you got deep fried by the dragon.

@HyouVizer 5 месяцев назад

@@angellara7040you do tho, the first cutscene shows Bryant introducing you to townspeople at the castle as the Arisen in first person. Then time stops and you pass out and are sent to the excavation site with amnesia ment to be posing as a pawn slave.

@MegaArtManiac 5 месяцев назад

Its capcom. CAP COM. I repeat: CAPCOM. Do you need to know anything else ?

@Bayocand 5 месяцев назад

Another thing that I have noticed while watching armour and outfit showcase videos of the game that the devs have downgraded the clothing mechanic interms fashion freedom (or fashionsouls as we call it in the dark souls community). In the original game (Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/DDA) you have two slots where you can equip clothes and armour for the upper body, and pants and Greaves for Lower body. Plus the glove/gauntlet for the arms. This gives you the freedom to come up with cool fashion combined with character creation. Here are my examples that I made. A wolf warrior with brown leather armour, dark elf strider dressed in white trophy jacket, and a crimson mage (think of the desert pyromancer in Dark souls 2 for a reference). Now with DD2 the Devs just said "fuck it. combined the two clothe, armour and gloves into one armour set and call it a day". Say you like a piece of armour but you didn't like gloves or Greaves. Well tough luck you can't remove/change it which is a bomer. Dragon's dogma 2 has badass armour sets and lovely skimpy outfits. But I do miss level of freedom in the original game 😕

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

Maybe there is a barbie doll game that is more suited to your needs?

@Dantexshadows 5 месяцев назад

I understand why they did it, but I don't agree with it. It's because in the original and in Dark Arisen, a lot of vocations just lacked gear out right in comparison to others. Fighters, Striders, Mages had great gear progression across the board, but warriors lacked good-looking armor up until the end game. Rangers and sorcerer lacked good weapons (literally, they have only access to less than ten weapons while fighter has like 25+ swords for the whole game) and good-looking armor for a long time until post-game even. Assassin doesn't have good armor sets fitting for him at all until everfall and BBI. Mystic Knight and Magic Archer are desperate to find good magic shields and bows in the early game and won't find them until they enter the face "The Dragon" quest or stage of the game. Dark Arisen made the old DLC armor and weapon packs purchasable in game, but they're weak until dragon forged. Where they messed up in the original is that if you make your up own set of “armor” or fashion the results can be great or meh. Without much of an in between. Also, that the female character model had way more stuff to play with than males did. The female model has access to the best underclothing in the game for legs at least. The last point I bring up is that a lot of armors and armor sets was just lacking or just straight up incomplete. Missing pieces from switch from Dragon's Dogma to Dark Arisen. The massive jump in op gear in the end game when you finish BBI. Then every vocation becomes godlike and can't die to anything outside BBI.

@Bayocand 5 месяцев назад

@@Skobeloff... XD

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

@@Skobeloff... first, I LOVE the energy 😂❤ But second, I gotta agree with OP. Changing my undershirt was peak rpg for me ❤

@Skobeloff... 5 месяцев назад

@@Macheako I prefer actual gameplay and working out which items, spells, ammo, weapons etc are going to work best for me personally. If you game for the petticoats, and the bracelets, then no doubt developers will be happy to include them, some will even charge you extra every now and again for the same tiara with different coloured stones in it 😉 Each unto their own, but anyone getting into microtransactions is a complete dickhole who is selling all gamers out in the future.

@MrMagnanimity 5 месяцев назад

Wow, a review I agree with. Thought I was nuts not to be gushing, instead of just being bored AF.

@tonberryhunter 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for your brutal honesty. Im so tired of gaming press reviewers and RU-vidrs being overly positive and forgiving for these massive titles. Also the blind fanboy gamers in every god damn comment section white knighting for the companies. Id love to hear your honest review of Final Fantasy Rebirth.

@evidicus 5 месяцев назад

"This game is worse that the first game in every way and has been dragged through the mud, and if you disagree with me, then you've just defending the publisher." That's a hell of a take, but I'll take the bait and leave a comment because I generally like your work and enjoyed my time with the game. STORY The story is absolutely the weakest aspect of the game, and I agree on the multiverse fatigue. (It's almost as annoying as The Silent Protagonist.) But I do think the story had some interesting ideas. The Dragon and the Arisen being locked in a cycle is interesting. The fact that the Dragon chooses the mortal that it will eventually battle to determine the fate of the cycle is interesting. But the fact that people think the Dragon is the antagonist shows just how flawed the storytelling is. The Cycle itself is the true antagonist. I think that's the point the game is trying to make, but sadly that concept is almost completely divorced from the open world gameplay. QUESTS Some are interesting, but the main quest line does a poor job of reinforcing the story, the main characters and how they drive towards the conclusion. Again, the introduce interesting concepts like a False Arisen, but very little is actually done with it. Some side quests are better than others and introduce characters and fights that I enjoyed. Other are pretty lackluster. The fact that there are a couple of stealth quests in a game with no stealth mechanics is pretty bad. And while I appreciated the fact that pawns travel between worlds and know some quest NPCs and destinations, Capcom again didn't do enough with it. Those are the two biggest issues with the game's design. Which is why if you approach Dragon's Dogma 2 thinking it is a story based RPG with a robust quest system (like The Witcher 3), you are probably going to have a bad time. If you approach the quests as something that requires you to "ping pong" across the map just to complete it ASAP, you may also have a bad time. But if you approach it as an open world exploration game first and foremost (like Outward), and think of quests as "something to do when I find my way back there" instead of "something I need to do immediately", you're likely to have a much better experience. I know I did. I did hate some of the ways quests become locked out to you based on invisible milestones. I don't mind quests being time sensitive. I even respect it. If the world doesn't stand still for the protagonist, it makes it feel more real. But I would at least like to know about it first. EXPLORATION The game has great environmental storytelling, and I really enjoyed roaming and exploring the world. It doesn't have the same sense of discovery as something like Elden Ring, but what else does? Where I think Capcom missed the mark was having different weapons, armor and vocations mostly tied to vendors instead of being out in the world to find. There are a few quests, usually for Maister skills, that did an okay job at this, but they could have taken it much farther. Imagine needing to find a vocation master and having them accompany you on a quest to teach you the vocation, not just as a set of skills, but as a way to see the world. The closest we get to this is the Mystic Spearhand NPC telling you how it was a combat art designed specifically to fight dragons (yet we never fight a dragon WITH them).

@evidicus 5 месяцев назад

FAST TRAVEL The fact that fast travel is actively discouraged in this game and is a limited resource is a good thing in my opinion. We already know that when fast travel is freely available, you get Starfield and load screen after load screen. Players would instantly bypass the world instead of being part of it. I think the addition of ox carts was pretty genius as a middle ground option between walking and teleporting that fit perfectly within the narrative of the world. Even the accidental destruction of ox carts is something I saw as dynamic storytelling rather than added tedium, probably because didn't see DD2 as a series of quests to be completed. To me, it was about a journey, not a destination. The game is what was happening between the cities and towns, not just the destinations themselves. And while I can see why limited fast travel would piss some players off, I still respect it as a design choice. INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Weight limits like the one in DD2 are the least interesting way to restrict the player. I would rather they allow you to buy a mule with saddlebags that you needed to protect, even if it meant that it could un off and die in the brine with all your stuff. At least that would be an interesting risk vs reward tradeoff. A big part of the reason that I was able to enjoy exploration and why fast travel (or lack of) didn't bother me is because I played with a single mod on PC that set all item weight to zero. That one single change made the game 100% better. Even without the mod there were always vendors I could sell stuff too to lighten my load, so it wasn't a huge deal, but in a world with magic we should 100% have a bag/chest of holding that we can buy (looking at you too Larian). Giving players a way we can eliminate/reduce inconvenience as a form of progression is good design. VOCATIONS I like the base design of the vocations. I also think it's fine that some vocations are "Overpowered". Balance is overrated. You can make a RPG with 100+ weapons and spells that all do 1d6 damage and it would be perfectly balanced, but not very fun. My issue is that Capcom didn't do enough to tie vocations to the setting and to incentivize mastering multiple vocations. Vocations like the Magick Archer, Mystic Spearhand and Trickster should have required the mastery of base classes first. Mastering the Archer and Mage, for example, to then combine them (as only The Arisen can) would have been a way to get players to engage with swapping vocations while also tying it to the lore and world building. The biggest miss in terms of vocations is the Warfarer. Rather than just being another choice, especially one that loses a dedicated skill button, it could have been an extremely cool vocation to chase for the end game that allowed players to mix and match skills freely. They could have even expanded their weapon upgrade system to allow Warfarers to merge existing magic weapons into Legendary weapons. Imagine combining a Sorcerer staff and a Warrior greatsword into a giant spellsword that allowed you to cast the abilities from both vocations while equipped. COMBAT I really enjoyed the combat system in DD2. While I know that a lot of people disliked the lack of an active dodge input, I enjoyed vocations like the Fighter and Mystic Spearhand that had weapon skills that could double as a dash. Even the Magick Archer allowed you to shield your allies. I wish every vocation had a similar weapon skill or core ability that offered something similar. The Mage and Sorcerer lacking a magic "bubble shield" similar to the Spearhand is something I found confusing. I also appreciated the incantation system for casters as well, even if Capcom could have done more with it. For example, give powerful spells two or three charging "levels" that each take longer than the last. The tradeoff for a quick spell vs a heavy hitting spell would have given casters a higher skill ceiling. ENEMY VARIETY/CHALLENGE I know this was another big complaint, but it didn't bother me as much as some people. As a tabletop dungeon master for games like Pathfinder and D&D, I know what it is like coming up with random encounter tables for the kinds of monsters that you fight in different regions. The game could have used more enemy diversity, no doubt, but it wasn't something that I found annoying. What I would have appreciated are more wandering monsters. Capcom already knows how to make these kinds of creatures, and a Rathalos or Anjanath random encounter is way WAY more fun than any cyclops in DD2. This goes for the level of challenge that monsters provide as well. I didn't mind some of the fights feeling repetitive. An ogre is only so smart. But I definitely think enemies needed more ways to challenge you. The wolves that can grab a player and run away with them is a perfect example. We should see more of that in these games! Harpies should not only pick up your pawns, but should try to drop them from great heights or throw them into the Brine. The player should be TERRIFIED of a facing a pack of harpies while on a narrow ledge, not just inconvenienced. Pulling enemies into advantageous terrain should be a major concern for the player, not just a happy accident. Again, Capcom already knows how to do this with Monster Hunter. Outside of drakes and dragons, the only real challenge I had in DD2 was when multiple enemy packs got involved in the same fight. ECONOMY/MTX There needs to be more ways to earn RC in game, even if you could trade gold for RC that would at least be something. Hell, have a RC vendor that lets you trade in items for RC that allows other players to buy those items from a global inventory. Make Kojima proud! But having RC only gained via other players selecting your pawns or by "awakening" summoning stones is too passive. The RC you can get in the store is extremely limited, and I think it caps out at like 10k total if you bought it all. That's nothing. Just as it is with most of the MTX. MTX is this game is an idiot tax. Not only are they not necessary, you'd have to be an idiot to actually buy them. Plus, the vast majority of the MTX are things you'd get as part of the Deluxe Edition bundle, yet no one has a problem with that. I think much of the MTX 'controversy" around this game is overblown rage bait used to generate clicks and views. Do MTX in single player games suck? Sure. I don't like them either. But that ship sailed back in 2006 with Oblivion's horse armor. Better to just ignore it and move on when the MTX are as non-impactful as they are in DD2. You can tell me to "fuck off from gaming" for this, but that genie is never getting back into the bottle. You can't prevent MTX from showing up in games. Boycotting is ineffective. Review bombing is a childish temper tantrum. All you can do is NOT BUY the MTX. GAME PERFORMANCE Abysmal. Easily the worst part of the game. Crashes and complete lack of CPU optimization especially. This is a perfect example of why I normally never pre-order games and even try to wait 3-6 months after launch to buy them. You always have a better experience if you wait. But I made an exception for DD2, so some of the blame is on me for being impatient. Overall I think Dragon's Dogma 2 is a flawed game, but a very good game. I don't think it is a masterpiece, but I think there is room for B Tier games even from AAA developers, so long as they take chances and make something unique. A game for everybody is a game for nobody. Is the game worth $70? To me it was, or I would have waited for a sale. I'm coming up on 90 hours played, and while hours per dollar isn't a perfect value metric, I've already got my money's worth from the game. I also wouldn't have written a novel as a comment if I didn't enjoy the game and respect and enjoy your videos.

@bucket936 5 месяцев назад

Disagree with the traveling. I enjoy the traveling and exploring in games. My pawns never lagged behind for me. Gold seems very easy to come by especially when you sell materials. Good video! Just because I disagree doesn't mean that it's not one! :)

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

It’s trivially easy to rack up a quick 2-3k gold in this game. So far I’m only having problems getting enough gold to buy the MOST expensive weapons 😂

@jamilvints 5 месяцев назад

Oh, fun fact. If you want to enter battahl wait by the gate for a cart with a roof, enter it wait for it to pass both gates and boom your in 007. Easy

@evidicus 5 месяцев назад

I was a Mage and floated beside the cart as it entered and then jumped in the cart when the guards aggro'd. Once the cart was past the first town on the other side, I got out and home free.

@Bladezeromus 5 месяцев назад

I just went down the waterfall.

@shawnofdadead1805 5 месяцев назад

People will always believe a lie instead of believing they were lied to...

@Macheako 5 месяцев назад

Because then I’d have to believe in the TRUTH that… I’m a dummy 😂❤😂

@Augury666 5 месяцев назад

I finished it yesterday... the half cook boring story is unforgivable. The quest are infuriating, everything to make you lose your time and makes the SHORT games looks longer. It's just fillers. I'll never buy a game again from Crapcom. Lazy unambitious devs! The map.. 40% water, 40% inaccessible mountain, 10% circular hallways, 9% deadend 1% shit loot. What a scam. they called this an ''Open world'' ? Hahahahaha. Combats are easy as shit, the game plays by itself, you gotta be really bad to die in this game. You can pause to heal!!!!! Games are designed for casuals first, not for experienced players. So us, experienced player can finish this game blindfold with a finger in the nose. Low armor choices, low weapon choices, no transmogs, can't even change the armor's basics colors. Horrible performancem Is this 2006? I expect more from games in 2024, a lot more than this lazy shit. Full price game? NEVER EVER again. Video games is just a business based on hypes, they don't need to make a good game to sell it, they just need to hype it good and fuck us after.

@viperdangerous 5 месяцев назад

At last fair review. Praises from everywhere piss me out. Paid by Capcom bastards. I’ve listened those lying peace of shit and bought the game. Tried to enjoy it very hard and failed miserably. After masterpieces from Miyazaki and Larian I simply can’t force myself to tolerate such synthetic soulless crap.