Dragon's Dogma II - "They’re masterworks, all – you can’t go wrong"

[Suicidal]

I'm not a fan of some of the changes to the movement of your character in this. In the first game it was much more snappy and arcade-like. Your character stopped on a dime and only went a little bit further due to inertia when sprinting. Here even if you run without sprinting you still move a bit further after you stop, also the turn animation is longer, you slide off most slopes and can trip/stumble when running over certain objects. I guess it's more realistic but it makes the platforming when hunting for hidden items/chests more annoying than it needs to be.

 

[Jinn]

I'm not a fan of some of the changes to the movement of your character in this. In the first game it was much more snappy and arcade-like. Your character stopped on a dime and only went a little bit further due to inertia when sprinting. Here even if you run without sprinting you still move a bit further after you stop, also the turn animation is longer, you slide off most slopes and can trip/stumble when running over certain objects. I guess it's more realistic but it makes the platforming when hunting for hidden items/chests more annoying than it needs to be.

People tend to dislike this, but I love having that weight and momentum behind my movement. In general it feels like my character is actually interacting with the world and moving within it, rather than floating on top of it.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

that's because the wind is pushing me~

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So I'm 30 hours into the game and the gameplay is really good. But I'm afraid this game has failed in one important aspect: soundtrack.

I cannot for the life of me remember anything unique, nothing like the first Dragon's Dogma, playing. What the hell happened here? Did the devs also realize their game's soundtrack was bland as fuck and that's why they put out original Dragon's Dogma music and sounds as paid DLC for the sequel?

It's mostly fine but yeah none of the original stuff is memorable. Doesn't matter, they brought back the most important track.

 

[Jinn]

The music is certainly more understated and "immersive," but I've found it really pleasant overall. Some of the exploration tracks are incredibly soothing and relaxing.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

People finishing it in 40 hours or less are using a lot of fast travel and hiring high level pawns. Basically playing on EZ mode, which is fine if you wanna do that. I feel like you're sort of missing the whole point of Dragon's Dogma and cheating yourself out of a unique experience but it's your money, play how you like. I can easily see myself sinking around 70 hours into it. But it's clearly not a 200+ hour game like Elden Ring. It lacks the size and filler shit.

Speaking of which I'm not seeing any signs of this so called "adaptive difficulty". Has anybody looked deep into it? As far as I can tell the game can be as hard or easy as you want it to be. It's entirely up to the player. If there is infact adaptive difficulty it's totally pointless.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I'm wondering if they're doing a Starflight or Super Mario World, where you can finish the game in no time at all.....if you play it like an autistic spastic who didn't actually buy it to play it lol.

I see no other reasonable explanation.

Pretty sure they're not talking to anyone, not discovering side quests, and just bee-lining the main quest and then thinking the game sucks when they missed the point of it.

 

[Orion]

Having not played the first one, this is the first game that managed to make me feel like I had to plan my adventuring by looking at the map and making sure I have enough supplies before heading out of the city and I appreciate it for that.

 

[Shrimp]

I've gotten a handful of quests just from revisiting old areas that I technically had no reason to go to.

 

[Reinhardt]

I'm not a fan of some of the changes to the movement of your character in this. In the first game it was much more snappy and arcade-like. Your character stopped on a dime and only went a little bit further due to inertia when sprinting. Here even if you run without sprinting you still move a bit further after you stop, also the turn animation is longer, you slide off most slopes and can trip/stumble when running over certain objects. I guess it's more realistic but it makes the platforming when hunting for hidden items/chests more annoying than it needs to be.

fuck, just did thief chasing quest in dd1. don't even want to imagine how it would play in dd2...

 

[Herumor]

don't even want to imagine how it would play in dd2...

Funny you should say that. It's not a thief chase, but you do have an opportunity to chase some NPC that's stalking you. It's over pretty quickly though, you can easily overtake him when sprinting and the tackle latches on smoothly.

 

[Robber Baron]

this is the first game that managed to make me feel like I had to plan my adventuring by looking at the map and making sure I have enough supplies before heading out of the city

Realms *cough* of Arkania

*cough*

Remakes

 

[Yosharian]

I'm 20 hours in and I haven't even touched the main quest yet lol. I'm about ... level 25-ish? Yeah I just like exploring at my own pace.

 

[Falksi]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what the general finish time is on here compared to Normie-ville.

Fingers crossed I'll be seeing a lot of 40/50+ hour finishes so I can tear the cunts a new one.

 

[Herumor]

I'm 20 hours in and I haven't even touched the main quest yet lol. I'm about ... level 25-ish? Yeah I just like exploring at my own pace.

I ended up exploring a bit too much, wound up in the Beastren nation territory, which then later triggered some other quests that I'm not sure I can actually do, but will try and see what's possible.

I got a mission to escort some noble from town to the west, the one where you got the scrap store, and I'm supposed to escort an oxcart to the capital of the Beastren, but I haven't even gone through the gate yet, I've gone the other way around through some caves and across the coastline.

 

[kites]

A lot of the MQ is pretty easy already at early levels or just non-combat story beats (having finished the first chapter so far) and has some big rewards (such as a portcrystal). You may want to mix one quest into a session every once in awhile.

edit: Also note you can talk to npcs or go places in the world but certain side-dialogue/quests or things won’t trigger until certain parts are hit in the MQ

 

[Herumor]

Yeah, I was just too busy wandering around and occasionally getting my ass kicked - first encounter with a drake ended up in a complete party KO, the biggest dunk of it being the drake grabbing me in its hand and just tossing me off to the Brine.

 

[sser]

20+ levels in and figured I'd go to the vocation quest.

"Get a Greatsword from this quest."

Already went to that place and sold the greatsword.

Had to take an ox cart to a far off village. Brought with me a little girl who wanted to go like halfway across the world so that worked out, though her reward of 1,500g for taking the fantasy version of a 747 was kinda bullshit. Had to spend dosh on a 2nd great sword to complete the vocation, just hemorrhaging money everywhere. On return trip back, oxcart gets triple ambushed by a troll, wolves, and goblins. Ox dies. I have to walk all the way back to the capital.



On the flipside, I also went and talked to what I think is the main quest guy and managed to turn in two quests immediately since I'd been footing around the entire world for so long.


Some more kino:

Spoiler

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Not sure if anyone posted this already, the DD2 review from the world's greatest video game scotsman, Worth a Buy:



"An infestation of fucking filth"
"1/10"

Hahahaha.

 

[Warlod]

Not sure if anyone posted this already, the DD2 review from the world's greatest video game scotsman, Worth a Buy:



"An infestation of fucking filth"
"1/10"

Hahahaha.

Scotsman? Accent sounds more like Newcastle England

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

We Americans can't be bothered with your little accents, ok. Scotsman is an umbrella category covering everything between royal English and Australian.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

TIP: Never use Frigor or ice spell against Ogres. Not only those bithes are resistant, but they will pick up the Ice cubes and beat the shit out of you with it.

 

[Ezekiel]

Not sure if anyone posted this already, the DD2 review from the world's greatest video game scotsman, Worth a Buy:



"An infestation of fucking filth"
"1/10"

Hahahaha.

I dislike YouTubers who always get so involved with the politics of a game, by which I mean corporate greed, and performance that they are unable to really critique the deeper mechanical problems. 1/10 tells me he's blinded.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

To be fair, if I was being fleeced like this (microtransactions for basic character options), I would be too angry to shit on deeper mechanical problems too.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Not sure if anyone posted this already, the DD2 review from the world's greatest video game scotsman, Worth a Buy:



"An infestation of fucking filth"
"1/10"

Hahahaha.

So when he going re-review MH World ? Also he straight up lied, calling the game bug ridden. The perfomance is trash , but the game it self is polished.