Dragon's Dogma 2 Critique - An Overrated Disappointment
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Oh no I played another new game release and it was disappointing.
/ feebleking21
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Fails as a Sequel 0:00
Brain Damage & Microtransactions 1:19
Terrible Writing 4:49
Starfield Quest Design 7:01
Exploration: It’s No Elden Ring 12:50
Enemy & Boss Variety is Terrible 15:40
Combat Balancing is Terrible 19:15
The Best Part About Dragon’s Dogma 2 20:33
In Depth Plot Analysis 26:20
Ending of Dragon’s Dogma 2 31:15
Endgame (Unmoored World) 35:15
The “True Ending” 39:55
I’m Angry 42:50
How to Fix Dragon’s Dogma 3 44:25
Feeble Grifter (Objectivity vs Subjectivity) 47:24
Hidden Bosses (Video Corrections) 50:58
I Rate Dragon’s Dogma 2 💀💀💀 53:43
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'Dragon's Dogma 2' - A Diamond in the Rough... [REVIEW] - Luke Stephens
How To Get Through Auriza Side Tomb - Lever & Boss Location | Elden Ring - PerfectParadox
Complete Sphinx Guide | Location And All Answers | Dragon's Dogma 2 - Ratatoskr
Elden Ring Bosses: An Unbalanced Disappointment - theDeModcracy
Dragon's Dogma 2 - Do THIS Now - All 12 MISSABLE Secret Bosses - Location, Rewards & Fight Guide! - RageGamingVideos
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A game where you fight 72 unique bosses and over 100 unique normal enemies: 10/10
A game where you fight the same 7 bosses for 95% of the game, 6 of which are reskinned from the first game, and 5 or 6 normal enemy types which are also from the first game: 9/10 almost as good as Elden Ring 🤡🤡🤡
(I know that not every boss in Elden Ring is a banger, but some of the 15 bosses in Dragon’s Dogma 2 are pretty bad too)
I mean even Elden Ring was meh for me tbh. Its just DS4 in all but name but spread over a larger emptier space. Having said that, Nioh 2 is where its at. Good lord its SO. GOOD. Have you played it? :)
Elden ring level 1 video when
@@satyasyasatyasya5746it's fine if you don't like elden ring but there was TONS of new content in that game. It had a lot from DS3, sure, but it's not "just DS4 spread out"
After TOTK and Dragon Dogma 2 people finally understand that Elden Ring is the open-world with the most enemy diversity
@@ni9274 Hold up, did anyone really think that Totk has high enemy diversity?
The fact that this game has a new game+ but its the same difficulty as the normal game just blows my mind.
Really? Wow. I just finished the game. Im lost for words.
It's kinda dumb but also it makes 100% sense for the story if you understand it. Doesn't mean it's good but it fits the story.
The game is so easy that NG+ wont make any differance.
The bosses are easy because of their AI and moves more hp and dmg wont make them a challenge once you know how to deal with them.
Almost every game with new game + doesn't have a change in difficulty
And even the rare games that do just bloat HP and damage making it inconsequential
Is that not what most new game + are? The only one I can think of that doesn’t are dark souls and Elden ring
I killed 3 dragons right a the start of the game by standing next to the water.
Your greatest ally in life and games, apparently.
Epic😂😂😂😂😂
The Brine is undefeated! It's your greatest ally....
“But theres one thing they fear… dragonborn”
Playing this game just made me want to go play Dark Arisen again.
Frfr. Kudos to dragons dogma 2 for making me want to go back DDA to finish bitterback isles
Basically all of the problem in DD2 are in DD1, and the DLC also suffer from similar problems
Imagine if DD2 had an actual endgame dungeon, or any real large dungeon at all. I guess we'll have to spend 30 dollars on DLC to get that.
@@feebleking21please dont waste your money on that shit man, its just enabling them to keep making this dogshit
@@ni9274ddda runs at 30 fps? i dont think so bud
You forgot to mention the best gear is found in shops, and not by looting the open world chests.
Isn't that kinda the same with the first game tho? Madeline or whatever her name is has a ton of absolutely busted shit, same with the regular blacksmith dude, depending on who you gave the gold thing too. Right? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
@@r3gret2079it's a sequel though, this is an aspect that SHOULD be improved, why else brag about having a bigger map if there's nothing in it?
@@dudeman757 no ya, I 100% agree
The first game was like that too. Most of the stuff in the world was worthless or common stuff that was already buyable, which meant gear in the world was often just stuff to sell. Where as in games like ES Oblivion, it was the opposite. The better stuff you find in the world only appear in stores later.
@@dudeman757 Because the devs don't seem to get that a giant empty map isn't better than a moderately open empty map. It just doesn't seem like these devs get what people actually want from an RPG.
Finished the game last night. I sat in disbelief at the ending, there is zero resolution for the entire Queen Regent arc that you spend the first 70% of the story setting up. The minute you get to Batthal the game loses the plot, so to speak, and never recovers.
This game is 95% missed opportunity. The 5% was somehow enough good to play this 2 times and over 100 hours
Have you done the true ending?
I'm doing it right now, so don't spoil me if you have...
The real ending has the resolve for most quests
@@mariogarcia-ev5mu Yeah I learned that later, but it's completely dumb. Majority of players will never see it.
@@pochu9506well as a 30 year old gamer played many a rpg even the og fallout the ending of fable 3 is on par with dd2 if not imho surpassed it and if you know the crack with that rpg enough said....
If you look at the amount of devs that worked on the game, Itsuno had way less than a standard Capcom game usually has. To me, it seems like either someone doesn't like Itsuno or Dragon's Dogma so the series was again sent out unfinished.
I just saw that. It's weird because Dragon's Dogma DA and the sequel both sold pretty well, yet Capcom won't invest in it. DMC 5 has around 1,300 developers while Dragon's Dogma 2 only had around 400.
@@feebleking21Dragons Dogma 1 sold pretty poorly but has slowly but consistently gotten sales coming in over the years.
I guess Capcom just wasn't willing to give Dragon's Dogma 2 the resources that their biggest franchises also get. But seeing how this sold so well already, the DLC and Dragon's Dogma 3 are going to be flame emojis all over.
Kinoshita gave us Dark Arisen with a different producer. BBI was Dogma 1 but its reflection is not found in this game.
@@feebleking21 Honestly, I don't think a massive team would be needed, if they just had focus. As you said, WAY too much money and time went to making pointlessly large, empty areas, and pretty graphics. They could have gone with lower-tier graphics and, as suggested, a single hub city (like the first freaking game) and just focused on the world and exploration and all that, and had a much better game.
dd2 is a $70 engine showcase for monster hunter wild
Hopefully it's vastly better
LOL, i think your exactly right!
God no this looks trash i hope mhw doesn’t look this bad
@@_CrimsonBladethis game doesn't look bad by any means. It's boring a shit and undercooked to put it nicely, but it looks pretty good.
That save system was pretty annoying. I had to hurry up and quit without saving multiple times because of that shit.
What would have made sense would be a autosave feature when you rest at a campsite and would remove the backtracking if you die
Yea the story fell apart for me once i hit battal. I almostly hated that regions story. Giving the godsbane to evil scientist was most braindead writing ive ever seen
It doesn't even has a story. It's two major plot points: pawn discrimination and the Lambent flame are never explored, despite stating that pawns are hated in the country you can encounter several wandering pawns inside the city, there are a couple of instances in which you get into trouble for being with pawns but they shallow at best. And the flame which was hinted during the marketing to be a major story element is never brought up at all, it's never explained what it is or why it's even worshiped.
It's so bad Battalh's empress, who is featured on the cover of the game has zero plot relevance at all, you can even finish the main story without having to interact with her once.
@@Xfushion2 Exploring requires critical thinking and actual work. They didn't put much effort into this. It's a remake without the soul.
The entire was just so contrived, its surprising. The first game was simple yet, clearer.
Another bad thing about Dragon's Dogma 2, it uses ALL of your CPU for all the NPCs and the NPCs have almost no reactivity. This is in line with how nobody cares about you stealing everything. You can take Ulrika, chuck her off a cliff, nobody cares. Even her dad (or whatever he is) didn't care he just wanted me to poison the saurians. I started a new game and was going murderhobo at Melve and the only thing that happened was the main quest making me go through the waterfall caves because I killed the guy who tells the guard to open the gate.
So really all the game does by chugging all your CPU power is keep track of the pointless affinity system. Or at least that's my theory. It's either that or some other poor optimization.
The other problem with the world interactability is that, they didnt fix it at all from the first game. You can steal from people like the video mentions, without any reaction from NPCs because unlike in Bethesda games, there is no stealing mechanic, there is no notoriety system, you can just pick things up anywhere because the game designed it so that all items are by default for you. You cant lockpick, you can't pickpocket, you cant steal or shoplift anything. The only crime in the world is just killing someone, and immediately you get sent to prison. No option to fight or flee or pay a fine.
The CPU hogging is actually from all the physics in the NPCs clothes being calculated. That's why the FPS tanks in cities. Bizarre as fuck calculating the physics for all NPCs where 80% of the population is obscured from your view.
Huge DD fan here. Played over 1200hrs on the first one. Even made multiple accounts to build my own pawn party. I was really excited for DD2 and left a positive review of it when I completed it. But like you said at the beginning, I was reviewing what I wanted DD2 to be and not what it actually was. Everything stated in your review is regrettably, but unmistakably true. A colossal missed opportunity to make this franchise everything it could have been. But they missed the mark hard.
It's so frustrating, this could've been so much more!
They missed the mark again, nothing new in the "new generation"
the more i think about it, the more disappointed i become.
Got a great time playing DD2 but when i hit the second main city i just notice i was rushing the game to get to the end game content, the end game content was good but DDDA end content was better. I can't say DD2 it's a bad game, but yes.... a waste of potentiall.
100%
The problem I find with game reviews like this, especially in the past few years, is that we have become so braindead so as to categorize everything as either the "worst thing ever" or the "greatest masterpiece". Elden Ring is "the greatest masterpiece of all time". Baldur's Gate 3 is the "greatest game of all time". Meanwhile, Starfield is "absolutely f***ing dogshit". Cyberpunk used to be "absolutely f***ing dogshit" and now it's the "greatest RPG ever". I'm so tired of this trend. If everything is either the greatest or the worst, then everything has no value anymore. Where is the nuance?
I agree I think there has to be some middle ground. And yeah these statements are true sometimes, but they are severely overused. Sometimes a game can just be good and that is satisfying enough.
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@@lanceelopezz223 Understandable.
Feeble King used to be a normal dude with regular opinions, but now I think he's leaning too much into the negative because apparently that's what brings clicks. Also agree with your comment 100%
every game review is opinion based and i feel like this dude forgot abt that lol, always talking like hes coming from an objective place is so annoying
Great summary dude 100% agree. Loved the OG but it had a lot of issues due to being unfinished so I gave it slack. Itsuno said DD2 was his vision realised. And frankly it's garbage I have no clue how it got so much positivity from reviewers I played for 20hrs and I could already see the issues everywhere. for $70 as well.
Really said that this is what he claimed his vision was, while the first game is already mostly the same as this for better or worse. Its not a good sequel. Its just a remake of the first game with slight changes and stuff dumbed down. It has better graphics but the story is still contrived. I definitely find it overrated, but I think people who were praising it thought that it was "his true game, the vision he wanted before Capcom" and... this is it?
This is best bad game ever made. It's so flawed or outright bad but still had blast playing it over 120 hours and 2 playthroughs
It’s actually criminal that they charged 70 for this💀like wtf
The early main story quests (with the masked ball and such) literally feels like a minecraft adventure map. It baffles me why put those in.
The vast majority of Reviews that I've seen are either a "near perfect game" or a "terrible failure."...For me, its somewhere in the middle. Game has a lot to like, but sadly also a lot of issues that range from minor to annoying. And its a mystery to me how so many of these issues got ignored? I loved the original, but this game feels like a number of steps forward & an equal amount of steps backwards. For example, the map is 4x bigger (step forward) but the vast majority of the map is nothing but extremely long & narrow paths that zig zag all over the map (step backwards). Game has more caves & such to explore (step forward) but they are all short & look exactly the same (step backwards). Game introduces a handful of new enemies (step forward) but also removes the same number of enemies from original game (step backwards). And I could go on & on.
And I feel like much of the content that was planned for this game but got removed so as to sell as DLC later. I like the game, but it still feels like a disappointment. The original game was extremely dull initially but got much better the deeper into it you got. Whereas this sequel is the exact opposite, where it was good initially but eventually gets more dull the deeper you get into it.
This is the best articulation of what the game is. A lot of good, and a lot of bad. Improves on some areas of the first game, but regresses in others. Introduces some new mechanics for better or for worse while simultaneously removing mechanics from the previous game (usually for the worse)
i gotta agree, tbhi think they pulleda fast onein many ways with this game,a best i would say it's worth 40 because it's so short, the imo lied about map size and purposel made the greyed out map look massive but when filled out you realize it's a doughnut shape lol. HOWEVER, for me personally although this game isn't even a tenth of the size of elden ring buti have had 10times as much fun with it than i did the whole run of elden ring, the main issue i have with dd2 is it's so fun that there simply isn't enough of it, i want to play more of the game but it doesn't have enough content.
It's basically a lateral move with prettier graphics. Which is so baffling. The game didn't need super-duper graphics, it didn't need more narrative, it didn't need more characters. How did someone look at the first game and decide to focus on all the wrong things?
The game really barely improves on anything from the first game. When they said the map was 4 times bigger, I hoped for small towns and better enemy variety. Didnt get either. Its a bigger version of the same thing with things dumbed down outside of combat. People calling it a "near perfect game" is just an overstatement and why I don't trust game journalism anymore.
I never understood why in the first chapter they didn't think of making the entire Gransys region explorable, considering how the map is quite large, but 70% of it inaccessible.
But at least this second chapter could have given us the opportunity to set sail for some island, or archipelago. In 2015 The Witcher 3 allowed you to explore the Skellige Islands by boat, couldn't we have invented something similar?
An area detached from the continent, at the right distance to represent a different civilization, with its own rules and problems (I don't know, given that DD takes the monster designs from Greek mythology [in part] and even from films like Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, why not put a kraken or sea monster type boss on that island?).
the first DD to me, and I think many others, was about the awe of seeing an open world berserk-like medieval dark fantasy world, by a japanese developer, and all its quirks but with _really_ interesting combat interactions and hints of possible greatness if just a few thinks were iterated on... it's sad to hear those changes never came. This really does just look like DD1 but with better graphics.
You just describe demons and dark souls 1 lmao
I don’t think you should have to defend your opinion on this game at all. I made it as far as that cave that rose up out of the water thinking it was going to be some amazing area to switch things up again but no, just another cave 😞 I quit after that. I don’t hate the game but it’s so boring that I can’t muster the effort within me to finish it off. Maybe I’ll come back to it another time, maybe I won’t but for now, it was just another waste of £55. RIP. Anyway, Stellar Blade in 2 weeks! 😃
the false arisen was among the group of guys you fight at the end, just to get that out there 😄
He was literally a nobody loser... Just like your character like the main character. How many arizon are there? So far I've counted 3 so who gets the throne?
@@cendresaphoenix1974 he was next in line to be the leader of the thieves of the hidden village before he basically betrayed them.
besides your character there are the 4 former arisen who are the hybrid vocation meisters, there is the dragonforged, and the crazy harve village elder who might also have been an arisen in the past.
as your arisen is the current one who can still slay their dragon, they would get the throne in the normal ending.
@@limawhiskey7451 How is one a "former Arisen"? You are Arisen until you die or defeat the dragon.
@@billjacobs521 as these guys tell it, they all lost their resolve some time ago, one way or another and their dragon is no longer around, that’s why they can no longer fulfill their role.
technically they are still arisen, yes and thus practically immortal, but they no longer have the strength of will that normally comes with the title and cannot command pawns anymore.
@@limawhiskey7451 Retcon. Dragonforged and Duke both got aged.
Significant plot point then.
Man, this game's story is so trash.
Yeah the writing was awful. DD2 is my favorite game but I have to agree here, like in the story and even the dragons tell you that you are the Arisen and that you have no heartbeat no pulse yet we still have to prove that we are the arisen, the society that worships arisen does not let the Arisen's main servants on to royal ground that's bizarre.
You can tell that a lot of corners were cut with the story like they had an idea at the start but then time constraints forced them to just force you to the ending so we get alot of moments that feel unearned like the mean wizard was straight up evil, he sent a dragon to wipe out a village he was experimenting on poor people and creating the STD dragons, but in the end they want us to know that he was a good guy.
Same for the Queen she did so much evil but in the end the story wants us to know she was a good mother; bitch sold MC into slavery, was an all around awful person to her people and screwed over many people during an end world event to keep her political power she is not redeemable she is a scum character.
Then the actual why big bad guides you to a point where you could rise up against him. you get the god's bane blade and this allows you to go to the unmored world I mean you did not really need the blade to kill the dragon just to operate the lifts and machinery,
I feel the unmored world should have been a secret ending something that you do a certain out of MSQ quest chain to get.
and again we don't really get good story fights Ragnall a merc that the world hyped up was easy the dragon a world ending threat was a major step down from the 1st game and even the dragon at the very end was not a boss fight they really gave the player the sneako treatment with some parts of the game.
In the end Capcom screwed them over but still u can't keep using that as an excuse (Same was said in DD1) it just reflects poorly on Itsuno himself
as for your issues with wakestones they are easily farmed from novice pawns it sounds like a skill issue to me stop dying *shrug*
just finished the game
you are mostly right in everything you said
the game encourage exploring and traveling but punish you for that with the awful stamina management and the absurd prices of ferrystones (80% of my expenses in the game went on those) and if you decided to travel on foot so your reward is fighting the same enemies 2414214214 times....
the combat is really good but anything else just screams "UNFINISHED"
The subreddit for this game is nuts. I encountered two game breaking bugs and when i posted about them they basically all tried to gaslight me into thinking they werent bugs.
One was every npc in vernworth aggroing to me upon arrival, and the other was the priest in the slums of vernworth being locked in place and not being interractable.
Absolute craziness. Went back to BG3 shortly after lmao.
The insane amount of copium people will inhale to justify their 70$ purchase.
Your first mistake was using reddit lol
@oxsila Second mistake was leaving BG3. 😅
This seems to be usual with fanboys of any game in any forum, you'd report an annoying bug and they'd try their best to deny it's existence. First they'd try to deflect the blame on you, "there's something you must be doing wrong" once they can't do that anymore, they'd try to gaslight you into accepting it as part of the game. So obnoxious.
@@noobeternal9718 I expect the subreddit for the game to just be sucking it off. Every issue pointed out is just met with downvotes, whining about hate, or deflection.
Good fucking review. I feel like I'm going crazy with all the praise the sequel is getting from people. Thank you for the sanity check.
I feel like people who are showering it with praise day 1 either didnt play the first one to compare it to, or just on the hype train and played the game for a few minutes and stuck on the early game high, and don't wait till the end to review it. Game journalists these days care more about adding hype than being honest.
If you played the first game. You'd notice how barely this "sequel" really did anything design-wise to improve on the emptiness of the first game and it either dumbed things down in areas, changed nothing, or removed things.
It's a very flawed game with interesting ideas
@GeteMachine im here to say that i love the game and i didn't play the first game.
I think a lot of those who like the game aren't expecting anything.
Like i do acknowledge the "shallowness" of the quests and all other criticisms. But i dunno, i am loving the game so far. I bought the game 2 weeks ago.
I think those who praise it are genuine and those who dislike it are genuine too. Just different expectations. (I also found out that some people expected it to be souls like, i mean... yeah)
another few things to improve the game in the future:
- NPCs should utilize more world assets, such as using the large ballista whenever a large monster attacks like Ulrika did in the intro. other examples are using alarm horns on top of vernworth castle when monsters attacks, attacking training dummies, sailing, camping, etc.
- more activities/minigames such as, fishing, sailing, hunting/tracking, bounty hunting, thief jobs, etc.
- more romance activities other than escorting.
- more lairs for unique monsters like the medusa.
- more roaming monsters like the griffin (significantly less normal monsters between one another).
- more visual npc activity, including bar fights, fishing, hunting, bounty hunting (for you), stealing, bandit raiding, begging, mugging, sparing, arresting, etc.
- maybe consider adding some kind of mount.
- unique gear found in the open world. never anything you would find in shops (shops should give players a good place to start).
This is the first review that actually captured my experience with DD2. I was straight up upset by my experience with the game and felt like all the reviewers were outright lying about the experience. It is so unbelievably mid, so frustrating to engage with, and has almost zero reward for sticking with it. I got to the true dragon and put it down. I wish I waited til it was on sale and I wish I only played til I got to battahl. The rest of my time was wasted.
I had every npc attack me i had to reload from in an lost 5 hours of gameplay
We're you attacked in bakbattahl too huh...
Either i just let my pawns just end them, or just run out of town, both work.
Alot of the npcs that attack you are not important. If you mess up and end and important one, wait 7 days for them to revive, and you'll be fine.
Let’s not mention that being a beastern basically means nothing lol I thought it would and now I’m stuck with catman until ng+
@@ShinKamaitachi I was attacked in Vermer I had just finished a quest and after I turned in the quest that is where all npc were going crazy attacking me I thought it would stop once I got to another region it didn’t and I couldn’t rest any where cause all the inn keeper was hostile to
And I didn’t have any camping packs to rest at a camp site so I was running around for 5 hours and no health cause the you loose health when you die so after 5 hours I’m like fuck this so had to reload for last in save
Not doing the, UNINSTALL
@@sinister1151lol not once have this happen to me probably you draw your weapon out if not a glitch and yeah you should jeep track of your camping kit...
Totally agree. This game has disappointed me so much! I wanted Dark Arisen but with budget and time to make it even better. We got a let down in just about every aspect except size of the world.
02:45 FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. I thought I was losing my mind since none of the reviews I watched bother to mention this mechanic. It's such a deal-breaker for me. Why would the loading of the autosave not put you back into the exact state that existed when the autosave was created??? I like taking on every fight I encounter in games, but DD2 pretty much forces you to run away from fights when you get put into OHKO range if you can't beat the enemies in the first few tries.
not gonna lie (and this may be more brutal than this review)
but after beating DD2 i decided to play the first dragons dogma and honestly...
Dragons dogma 2 is the Capcoms equivalent warcraft 3 reforged
love to hear vets opinion on that statement because i cannot help feeling love for the first game but hate to this "Sequel" after playing the first and truly understanding what could have been :/
Reducing weapons to 1 per vocation, reducing skill slots down to 4 max, taking away double jump, taking away dodge roll, making movement super floaty - the core gameplay is worse than in the original in so many areas - and that was DD's unique charm
How is movement floaty? If anything I thought it looked heavier.
Tbh they messed this game up from the first one, like they tried to make it more serious and it didn’t work out. Sliding down the side of every rock is annoying I don’t even wanna start on the lack of double jump with everything being so high
But imo the worst thing is the lack of enemies and that warfarer should have four skills per weapon
@@adamp6320wayfarer clown
@@PauloCesar-oz6dyit is heavier but the movement in the first game was just so damn responsive bro. It was so fun to simply just run around and jump from building to building and whatnot. The second game feels so heavy and hard to control it sucks.
DD1 is also a huge stat game, there're no max damage cap , the amount of damage you do to a boss when you're below its defense level is completely pathetic, and insanely high once you pass the defense treshold. The difference in clear time between stacking attack and not stacking (and possibly undergear) for the final boss (awakened daimon) is 15-20 second vs 10-50 minutes.
Another way to to regain full hp without a rest or wakestone is to use the Item All Heal Elixer it will restore health to full
There's things I like about the game, but for everything I like l dislike something. Some of which makes it worse then the first game. Like standing on a large opponent to recover stamina, but while clinging the stamina runs out like crazy even with augments boosting climb speed and stamina drain.
I hate how hype creates people that just latch onto a product and defend it for months no matter whether it's good or not. Fans were excited for DD2 because it was meant to have at least DOUBLE the content of DD1, not just recycle what was there, cut some of it and make it run at 20 fps.
Reminds me of how people act towards ER and BG3
Tbf with Elden Ring it’s held much of luster now 2 years after launch within the eyes of the gaming community
BG3 on the other hand really seemed to blow up and fade away quick, I only see occasional comments about it being good
@@NuckFiggersTND a friend of mine bragged about BG3 since the beta and claimed that it has unlimited replay-value and that he simply doesnt need any new games afterwards.
We've been playing warframe for a while now...
"Hypes" got so insane in the last 10 years. Its a mix of FOMO and copium. Very unhealthy for consumers, developers and the product itself. I hope publishers escalate even more, so it can all crash down and get built up again by smaller indies.
Agree, it has so much potential but they did nothing with it... paradoxically they repeated their own dogma 🙃
You miss the point, the Dogma part comes from spending the most time on the menus. Overly complex garbage .. because you literally have to manage GARBAGE in the way of rotten food??? In turn food that makes you too heavy? WHY??? Because the dogma of not playing a game but sitting in the menus for hours.... but not actually playing the game
Ironically.
Have you considered doing a playthrough of the first dragons dogma to see how it compares?
I gave up on this game like 10 hours in, so damn repetitive and soulless
Honestly a relief to see a review that honors the experience I had, I felt super hoodwinked by the reviews with the exception of Mortismal I suppose.
Thanks for keeping it honest, I thought I was going nuts for a second there "Did I play a completely different game??"
You probably just have different taste than the people who pike it. Its not that astonishing.
@@omegaxtrigun ok buddy
Got about 3 hours in.
Crashes, Frame issues, food that goes from fresh to spoilt in an hour or less, Max HP loss due to attacks that only got me due to frame drops and bugs.
And for all of that at 3 hours in I dropped the game and replayed Elden Ring instead because I was bored.
So... I finished the game. Still enjoyed it. I was right on predicting what you'd say, but that's not me defending the game or attacking your criticisms. In fact, I agree with you on a lot of what you said. I could cherry-pick some of what you said even after you went back to clarify a few things, but nothing I can say could/would change your or anyone's opinion on this. Besides, I'm not interested in doing that anyway.
For me, the game is like Kingdoms of Amular: a shut your brain off fantasy RPG where you can become a God. And that's good enough for me. Sometimes, I want the gaming equivalent of junk food. While on a comparison mention, I am baffled who's comparing this to Elden Ring. I guess I get why, but even so, I find it jarring.
So... yeah. I think the game is fine. It's not a masterpiece, but it's also not offensively bad. And just to be perfectly clear: I couldn't care less how you feel about this game. I enjoy your content and respect your opinions even if I may not always agree with them.
Great review.
*I feel so seen, thankyou!* I had to unsub from 2 channels because I called-out DD2 and got so much abuse for it. The braindead 'arguments,' gaslighting and corporate apologetics were shockingly persistent, stubborn and almost, proud?
One channel was just a streamer so it wasn't too big a deal (though their popularity is clearly not proportional to their intelligence or honesty) but the other was someone who is clearly very thoughtful and considered and to see them arguing with me saying the same thing like a PR talking point, was just so sad. Clearly they were doing so for review codes and I just thought better of them.
I felt the same, it's the elephant in the room but everybody is in the delusion it is goty-material wtf
@@granujja Its the "frog in boiling water" problem. Things have got so bad, but everyone is used to it or thinks its normal. They have been conditioned to defend the decline. You only have to see some of the threads or replies to my comments for the *exact same 5 arguments as slogans* over and over: You don't have to buy the game! Its always been this way! Its only cosmetic! Just ignore it! OMG stop being a buzzkill! We like it so shut-up!
Especially given that there are young gamers now who don't know games never used to have mtx or DLC or patches for years after release. They don't know any better and so they don't even fight for it.
opposing opinions are PR for review codes?
@@supacadabra cute. but not very honest.
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 nah I was just trying to understand your train of thought but I didn't see your second comment
Wow amazing video, I love how you articulate and also own up to your errors you made in to the video. I feel like dometimes hype culture really get people excited for some games and when something surges in popularity, people tend to praise a game with little to no flaws such as frame drops or poor ui without tackling level design sometimes.
But it is sad to see dragon dogma 2 didn't improve on the first game's flaws as most of it was boring and arisen is where it got good due to post game content.
I played through the game blind. Took my time and explored everything and tried to find all the side quests and secrets. Was having a great time until the end quest popped up and i realized how little there is in the game. I dont wanna keep running around the same roads if theres nothing in them
Two people I really dislike for having shilled this game- Rurikhan and Fighting Cowboy.
Dude. Those guys are either complete paid shills or they have no concept of what is actually fun in a game. Disingenuous man. There’s no freaking way this game is any close to an 8/10.
Its always because of people who just shill because they want to stay in publisher's graces for early access or free copies for new games, or placating to hype-train fanboys that don't want you to be objective about things until a month or two after release.
I also trusted Cowboy on this, now I'm not trusting him again.
@@gracegeek4678 Dropped him and GManlives over starfield they have sold out.
Ruri is literally a shill. He partners with capcom all the time.
After Rurikhan started to shill for the newest MonHun garbage?
Yeah he was a goner. Went the way of the Gaijin Loser.
Anyone that has any perspective and isn't a paid shill would have loathed Rise and its DLC.
Itsuno vision, but Itsuno has wrong glasses
Itsuno should just stick to action games.
@@X_Gon_Give_It_To_YaI think he’s just becoming worse at game direction personally. Since dmc 3 I think his games have gotten worse game by game. At least for me.
@@porkwhisperer3050 dmc being handed over to ninja theory probably broke him
@@rblx_taxevader280 And if it wasn't that, it was peak of combat
I think he didn't fully understood why people liked the first maybe. Sometimes a mistake turns into something great, just look at how combos started in street fighter 2
Amazing review, mad respect for such detailed and honest video essay 🍻
Please continue, I wish your channel to prosper with amount of work you putting into your vids 👍
Def didn’t forget Elden ring that’s for sure. Idc what people say Elden ring is my fav game to date. This game is okay but not even close. I did like this better than monster hunter world tho and def rise. I just like games in general. My complaint with dd2 is kinda same. I like the combat and that’s most important part for me. Story I don’t like much. It is fun to explore around but the quest are awful overall with a few cool ones. I think just like with Elden ring if people would just play the game atleast once before running to UA-cam to meta early or figure out quick ways or even help they will enjoy and get a lot more out the game. Like with Elden ring if you genuinely explore and do first run on your own man it’s hard to beat. This game can be good and better than a good bit of games but don’t compare to Elden ring or even Witcher 3 imo
This is how I feel about DD2 as well! But I wasn't able to finish it. I kept getting way too bored and so playing elden Ring again
Totally agree… I dont understand all the positive reviews. I loved Dark Arisen and found this game pretty horrible.
I'm about 30 hours into it and I'm probably not going to continue. I really want to like this game. It has its moments in the open world. But the battles are repetitive and meaningless. The loot seems negligible - and as you say, the quests are nothing short of tedious. I don't mind walking through an open world without a mount or fast travel if it's mysterious, atmospheric, surprising, and immersive. As I said, there are moments, but none of that is anywhere close to something like Elden Ring. Loot and stealth: why would people in homes, castles, camps, etc be happy about you just walking in and opening chests in their private space? That's just weird. And the pawns are annoying as hell. I really, really, wanted to like this game. Very disappointed. More disappointed that I'm about to abandon it. Thanks for your detailed and honest review.
I am 10 hours in and i al bored already want to quit this game enjoying horizon forbidden west more, i hate the slow walking in dd2 and the save system is worthless
@@AverageJoe1006 Yeah, if you are used to playing games like HFW, etc, this game....... I had high hopes..... its just a pretty world with mindless combat and redundant loot, tedious quests. This and Alan Wake II are the only games I've ever given up on due to sheer boredom. I stopped after 30 hours when I read multiple comments stating that it just gets MORE boring. Too bad... It could have been an amazing game.
I was hoping the devs would improve the loot from exploring and certain quests, but was ultimately disappointed. There's little reason to explore much because most loot you find are garbage. Most gear you find pre-Unmoored World can be bought from vendors. This wouldn't be much of a problem if gear you found from exploring would have unique things to it such as holy enchant and better stats, but nope. It's pretty much the exact copy you can just buy from a shop.
I hope the devs will add things through updates similar to what they did with Monster Hunter. Perhaps add in new rare enemies that could drop unique gear and randomly spawn and roam in certain areas. Add in higher level drakes that look and fight differently, and sometimes soar the skies like griffins do.
I'm also surprised the drakes and griffins seemed rather tamed compared to big creatures in Monster Hunter. The folks from the Monster Hunter team did work on this too, so I was expecting drakes to fight similarly to the dragons in Monster Hunter.
It baffles me how every gear in the game is just stat based.
There are no weapons with unique skills, no armor with unique augments. Vocations being the only thing that defines your playstyle is such an outdated system.
@@realshortguy13 been a thing since DA. the special augments exist either as elemental buffs, debuff-inflicting (%-of-applying), mob-specific damage amps/def increases. the more niche weapons/armors were also usually low-level and used to be microtransaction DLC's before the game's release on the PS4/XBone gen.
very baffling decision by Capcom
Jesus Christ, wtf. I'm writing a whole new comment for this now after the video.
I'm having an alright time with DD2 atm and i'm trying, like in every game, to complete as much content as possible. Currently doing everything before talking to the guy that needs the wyrmslife crystals, which only is collecting all Seekers Tokens as the last thing.
Idk how, but the microtransactions and saves being automatically overwriten by loading inn saves went over my head completly and it's sounds awful. The unmoored world taking away autosaves is riduculous and it continuing all the fetch quest stuff sounds insane, in a bad sense obviously. The "lover" in the game not being relevant at all basically is infuriating after taking quite a bit of time to get the most affinity on an npc. Pretty much everything that was listed sounds terrible, although i don't have any problem with fighting the same bosses all the time for some reason, which might be because of the badges. The only bigger thing i had a problem with while playing, besides enemy variety, quests and performance, was the music, which wasn't mentioned at all in the video. After around 150 hours, i can't recognize a single soundtrack, nor do i remember even one. Music in a game like this is so important, just for important moments alone. A game like Elden Ring, or the souls series in general, would be straight up worse without their memorable soundtracks. At least 2-3 tracks should be in everyones head, but DD2 doesn't have any.
This game, after seeing all this, went from a solid 7 to a confused 4 or something, idk dude. Maybe i'll do NG+ and kill all the npcs this time.
Shadow of the Erdtree as a dlc probably deserves to get goty more in the end, if games like this continue to come out
It sounds to me like you're letting some guy from a UA-cam video dictate what you should enjoy or not. You are allowed to enjoy a game even if it has flaws right?
@@JuliusCaesar103 Ofc you can, but seeing everything more detailed and now being in the endgame myself, the problems are becoming very clear. If you enjoy it, i'm glad you can, cause i'm don't anymore
@@JuliusCaesar103 It serms though like you are enjoying DD2. If so, could you explain to me why? My view you already saw in the comment above and the only thing i would add is some heavy enemy spam from time to time, at least in endgame, and the ridiculous stunlock
I am kinda disappointed too since I'm a gigantic fan of the first game, and this game misses in so many areas, but it also does SO much right that I'm super willing to forgive so many of its shortcomings.
Now going through your list of complaints, mtx are overblown, there are ZERO in game prompts to get you to buy some with real money, wakestones at that point in the game are very common drops, the NPC affinity works mostly fine but he got Sven because of quests and ignoring the other NPCs, Unmoored World does not take away quicksaves, it just has a bigger penalty for dying which people forgive in a Souls title but apparently not this one, and the fetch quests continue just like the first part of the game which didn't bother you apparently. And yeah regarding the music, it's super subjective but I found some tracks to be pretty awesome. So yeah anyway the first game is much better and you should try it lol
@@blackdust7353 ok so regarding my enjoyment, fighting enemies with different vocations is where the meat of the game is. If you're tired of playing as a Fighter, switch to a Warrior and then to an Archer or Thief etc, all vocations are fun if you experiment and try to play with some skill. But it's not like I only got good things to say, some aspects of this game are also disappointing but I already got solo (no pawns) playthroughs planned with different vocations since experimenting with different skills is super fun. Yeah the mobs are annoying, most caves are nothing special sadly but the fights with big monsters are tons of fun and at the end of the day, that's what I play Dogma for. Also try the first game, it rocks!!
This game has only 1 new thing going for it : the atmosphere. Otherwise not only does it not really offer anything new, but it even took a few steps backwards from the first game.
It has outdated stuff from 12 years ago, such as how the NPC's don't react to you stealing their stuff, and they don't change their dialogue and behavior when one of their loved ones die or was killed by you.
They cut down the amount of skills you can equip by half, which greatly reduced the versatility in combat. And they got rid of several classes such as the Strider, Assassin, and Mystic Knight.
Some abilities were carried over, but many were removed, such as the ability to dodge roll and double jump. Several spells were removed as well.
The brine used to be a lame excuses for the developers to not need to implament any swimming animations and mechanics, but now it has a lore explanation behind it, a sh*tty one.
Lesser Drakes were actually more dangerous in the first game, as they had this shout that could instantly kill all your pawns, and they would more frequently try to grab your pawn and control it.
And there was a chance that one or several of your gears could get "Dragonforged" during the actual battle, as long as they've been improved at least once.
The better the upgrade, the greater chance of dragonforging.
Whats confusing is that they brought back 1 enemy type from Dark Arisen (Garm), but none of the others?
They missed out on so many opportunities here.
But if rumours are true, there is an expansion that they worked on along side of the main game, that will release much later this year.
My guess is that they are saving a lot for that one.
But i doubt that expansion will adress any of the core issues the game has.
The world just doesn't feel alive with people, it feels alive with monsters and organic robots who repeat the same lines of dialogue, and they either have ZERO reaction to theft and murder, or they have an overreaction on you simply drawing your weapon.
Also who the f**k designed this worlds map? It's beautiful but why are so many surfaces so slippery? These guys have clearly not been out in nature much.
Tbf strider should have never existed. It's 2 classes in one.
I didn't play the first one for a long time but I did wonder about the abilities slots and magic spells being reduced or not,thank you for clearing that up as well as reminding so much more like the double jump. Loved the first one, and to be fair I did enjoy the combat in the second one too (until I sadly got overpowered) But yeah it's really frustrating to realise that the second opus not only has the exact same problems, but also took a step back on so much stuff. I would still recommand it for the gameplay, but the story and quest are just a huge waste of time, they're not only boring, the rewards aren't even worth it. Although it's definitly not worth it's price. I think the poeple directing games are getting too old: they keep rebranding the same old game design from 15 years ago, maybe some younger inovative minds would get it right... not even sure...
Nah, fuck this. They're asking 70 fucking dollars for this game, yet somehow I should also pay for a dlc to fix an unfinished game?
Unless the dlc is free, I'm not paying a cent to these fuckers
Enjoying the game, I'm pretty close to beating it but it is indeed pretty flawed.
1. The combat is a step down from DD1. The movement and pace is incredibly slow and cumbersome, and the shit performance and chugging framerate doesnt help. Im not sure what they were going for, but it is, in fact, not fun to have to crawl around on the floor for 15 seconds every time you get hit with a big attack (which if you play warrior like me, is relatively often). They should just patch that shit out of the game.
I maxed out fighter for the diligence augment which makes you recover from this faster, and it was torturous. Maybe it just doesnt click with me, but playing fighter is incredibly annoying because you constantly get stunlocked by dumb stuff like shitty little goblins and random skeletons yet they super armor through most of your attacks, this would happen even towards endgame in spite of the fighter being positioned as a tank class. Im supposed to hold aggro, but i am constantly being slapped around, stumbling and flopping, cartoonishly bumping into walls with these long ass recovery animations that remind me of GTA 4 ragdoll physics, its just not very fun. There is almost nothing fighter does that warrior doesnt do better. Not to mention being totally useless against flying enemies.
2. The loot is shit. Towards the middle of the game i gave up on exploring the environment and caves looking for treasure because the loot was boring. Probably the only cool thing i found the entire game was the dragon visage shield (? Forgot name), 99% of chests just have stupid nonsense like roborants, boring shlock like a few thousand gold, arrows, a random cape you could have gotten from the town vendor anyways, whereas in 1 you would find unique weapons and armor all the time.
This game isnt terrible but its a step down from 1 in a lot of ways, which, considering they took like 11 years to make the sequel isnt understandable. Hopefully we get a Dark Arisen like DLC because it left me wanting for a real dungeon but knowing capcom it will cost a decent chunk of change.
If the expansion doesn't fix the floaty movement and stunlocking BS, I'll pass on it and keep playing 1.
I think the point was to try and make the combat feel more, well, Souls-like, more impactful, by slowing it down. It was not an improvement. While I understand the criticism when combat is TOO fast and fluid (and that's what "floaty" entails) but DD1 was totally fine, it didn't need to feel this exaggerated.
Thank you for being so truthful about this dribble. I think people are so positive partly because people are starved for a good game.
Bought this game, played for 7 hours, never touched it again. If that doesn’t tell you this game FAILED, idk what will. I have over 300 hours at lvl 267 in Elden ring, played every assassins creed game twice or more. Hardcore gamers were disrespected with this release.
Wait Did you play dark arisen? From the intro it seemed like u only played the original game and not the expansion. Way over 10 bosses especially with bitter black isle
The vast majority of enemies in BBI are just reskins of vanilla monsters.
Wargs, strigoi, Sirens, snow saurian/saurian sages, gorecyclopes/condemned gore cyclopes, the undead dragon is a scaled down UR dragon with poison breath, elder ogres are just ogres but literally gay, and of course the beeced up Drake/Wyvern/Wyrms with auras.
Only brand new enemies were Living Armours, Tormentors/Elminators, Death, Garms, Daimon.
He says in the review he didn’t even beat the first game lol
I believe this game was rushed to release too, it released in March during Monster Hunter's 20th anniversary... my tinfoil hat theory is that they needed more time to develop Monster Hunter Wilds and pushed Dragon's dogma II instead. What is sad is that this game has sold millions (as CAPCOM expected) and they now will make more of this..
Some quest made you say like wtf, and the worst part is running around so bs far.
Practically the only thing that you said that I disagree with is that the microtransactions feel as though they're being forced on players. In more than 30 hours of playtime, I haven't felt pushed to purchase a single microtransaction even once, and even if I had, things like Wakestones are highly limited in supply anyway, so at best, it would only be a laughably small temporary workaround for any potential issues that a player might face during a playthrough.
In reality, if you're ever so truly bogged down by something like reduced HP that you don't feel as though you can make any progress, you can literally just leave the encounter and rest at an inn, house, or campsite to give yourself a fresh start. This is the case in quite literally every scenario excluding the final boss fight.
The overwhelming majority of the game is still very much absurdly anti-fun regardless though and I have a rather hard time believing that anyone on the dev team could even define "quality of life" if they were asked to, but in all seriousness, the microtransactions are only truly bad in my opinion because they're entirely senseless and unnecessary.
Capcom has had this exact model of microtransactions in their games for years now though, and it's never been a real problem. It's honestly the next best thing to having no microtransactions at all, which is obviously the best case scenario, but one look at the rest of the game should make it clear that the best case scenario was likely never even in the cards to begin with, so here we are.
Like I said at the beginning of my comment, I agree with practically everything else that you said, and in my opinion, the game is only a 6/10 at best with the potential to become a 7/10 with some much-needed tweaks and substantial additions, but I genuinely don't see the microtransactions as being a big enough issue to dedicate even 60 seconds to when discussing the game as a whole because whether or not they exist, what we ultimately have is one of the most inexcusably unfinished, fundamentally flawed, and confusingly reviewed RPGs of all time. No amount of skepticism could have led me to believe that post-RE7 Capcom would fumble so badly.
This is truly "Dragon's Dogma Too" 😔
Great review dude, just spot on about everything. I 100% agree.
I just finished the game unknowingly after 50 odd hours, which honestly the sequence in the main story felt like mid game to me (For a 70 USD game). Before people start saying “you didn't explore enough", I'll tell you that I was so bored of exploration, it became so much of a chore that I was looking forward to the main quests, which was honestly abit more interesting to me.
Why was exploration so boring?
1) There's no challenge, enemy types were severely limited and walking around running into the same goblins/ ogres/ dragons were boring AF.
2) There's no interesting items to be collected, I have no need for best-in gear slots since the game is so obnoxiously easy
3) Not all quests are fetch quests yes, but some potentially interesting quests such as Ulrika's should be built upon, it felt like each questline were planned by CAPCOM intern groups as part of their final year short projects. All other quests/ escort missions are just rinse and repeat, Brant's missions are just forgettable, honestly there were no memorable and unique NPCs for me after beating the game, doesn't feel like being an Arisen was impacting their world at all, I'm just some random errand guy.
4) Pawns are just there to waste my time re-rolling for a $10,000 reward to kill Cyclops/ Griffin/ Ogre so I can hit the next town and buy then next available weapon/ armors for better stats, there's no need for any actual combat synergy planning. Planninng and guessing your next possible kill (Cyclops? Griffin? Ogre? Golem?) is the real challenge here.
5) Extremely dumb AI that bugs out on responding to chests that are EASILY accessible via levitate/ shield launch (they just wont do it), utters repititive lines throughout the entire 50 hours.
You are one of the more technical reviewers, which I'm not always a fan of I'm more like the artistic feeling sides of things,
But it's always nice to get a more technical side of things so thank you for the video
Perfect review, tired of all the shills acting like they got paid to say how awesome cool and fresh this game is. Is was a huge disappointement and you picked out all the bad points flawlessly. I'll just add the TINY INVENTORY PREVENTING YOU FROM LOOTING IN AN RPG, oh but don't worry, you can get golden scarab to raise inventory capacity....... BY 0.15 !!! ive found like 4 or 5 of them kek.
"No no no, you don't understand! The story,characters and quests are bland and boring because they are supposed to be so! You see, the story of the Arisen is a play! So Itsuno made a 70$ game boring on purpose because he is a trailblazer!"
Thats pretty much the DD sub-reddit.
Honestly your critique is exactly what I have problems with the game. The laser part of the game. I'm so over leveled and everything dies so fast but the spells are so powerful they destroy the ox cart and end up having to walk. Fml. OK we'll I'll just run. Well you die because everything just follows you and kills you. The npcs are so freaking dumb! The escort quests the npcs won't even follow you. They just go and disappear and "quest" failed.
By the time I got to the first griffin it died on 20 seconds
My gripes with the game after around 130 hours.
The ability to pull up the item menu mid game without the pause menu seems to pull up like half curatives only
The escort requests dont tell you where they are headed until you accept (really fkn annoying)
Gave my warrior pawn the master skill and he just constantly blanks his stamina and doesnt use it intelligently at all. Or any master skill for that matter
Other than that, it feels like an improvement in all the areas i care about. If the expansion dungeon rivals bitterblack, ill rejoice. Its a fantastic rpg, and i really am getting excited to see how the build off of MH Sunbreak and take what they applied with DD2 for MH Wilds or whatever 6 will be called.
love ur videos fam
You know it's a disappointing game when you can recommend folk to play the prequel because it's better in every way.
I'm serious, all the complaints you addressed: repetitive enemies, annoying fast travel, lack of dungeons, filler npc's blending with quest givers and a mediocre endgame aren't a thing on the previous game, Dark Arisen. The only thing that both game share is that the story is bad and the enemy pool is the same but since the map of the first game is much smaller it doesn't fill as repetitive, plus Bitterblack isle which is the post-game dungeon features more enemies that aren't present in the main map.
For real, I still don't get how the sequel not only didn't address any of the original game's problems but introduced even more or brought back issues that no one liked from the vanilla version like the limited fast travel, also I find it extremely bizarre that the focus of the marketing was the story and world-building which are the worst aspects of the game.
Better no different story yes the fast travel lol go away casual gamer. Stop ruining quality games with this modern trash fast travel everywhere
*Daggerfall has entered the chat*
"oh, you dont like fast travel?"
@@NazyairsengikarYou're right dude, how could I not saw it before? DD2 is the most hardcore game ever because of it's fast travel system, it's irrelevant that combat is so easy to the point that you can kill the Dragon with a half-charged Martyr's bolt, backtracking is were it's at. I Always thought Elden Ring with bosses like Malenia was hardcore but now I see is casual trash because it allows fast travel.
You are beyond coping if you think this game is hardcore and for saying the story is better, it's so bad not even the Dragon is cool, guy got jack-shit on Grigori from the first game.
The fast travel system was fine in the first game because you weren't all that far away, but it felt more natural, and you get an infinite use item to do it with (this is Dark Arisen, obviously, not original DD1). However, yes, making the map 4 times larger really does make the fast travel irritating. Also, in DD1 is was easy to just run past enemies if you wanted to--there weren't 12 goblins blocking the path every 50 feet.
The story was pretty bad, and the world is still just as empty as the first game but just with longer paths. I don't know what kind of joke it was but the marketing just seemed to oversell their lack of actual creativity and design. The people overpraising it, are just people who either on the hype for the game or just defending it because it exists after how niche the original was, but then when you get it. You realize that, this "vision" Insuno had, really doesn't live up to it. Its just more of the same, but worse.
As someone with the tiniest shred of nostalgia for DDDA, (played it once up to the post game, until little Timmy [Timmy in this case being me like 2 years ago] got fucking stuck in the everfall, thinking there was no way out) DD2's a solid 8/10. I quite like the video game. I like that the world actually changed in postgame outside of "Oop! That wolf is now a hellhound! Oooh! Not impressed yet? Well, the world now has a god-awful filter! Not like you'd know any of that because 80% of the postgame is in the everfall!" I was really hoping when for the postgame to be a wee bit more, (and ditch the fucking GARBAGE filters they use, I get its the end of the world but damn) would've been dope to FULLY explore the seabed, instead of just the rim and some dried out rivers/lakes.
Sexondly, I'm gonna be the first to say this... I LIKE the DD2 ost! Almost equally as much as I like the DDDA ost! The Cassardis theme and the entirety of Bitterblack Isle's soundtrack are still SS+ tier. But I would be lying if I said I didn't like the DD2 ost. The theme for the purgeners is so, so good.
Nonetheless, I had fun with DD2 *and* DDDA, but the reason I don't return to DDDA is honestly just that beginning god-awful escort quest, anybody who isnt bored to tears from that (I assume) mandatory quest is a psycho.
I honestly don't understand how a 10 minute quest is SUCH a roadblock to so many people. Yeah, it's annoying, no one LIKES it, but it's literally just 10 minutes, WTF?
games like this are the cause of the economy, with interest rates up, companies like capcom cant invest the appropriate money on making good games. the selling point of this game was the graphics looking next gen on paper but quality and QA sucks, because majority of the budget probably went graphics and marketing.
I bought this game to walk around with a bunch of skimpily dressed female pawns, it's a 10/10 in my book.
bro just play stellar blade in 2 weeks.... the women in dd2 are ugly as fuck anyways
Facts
At least you know what you want from a game!
Same here Amazon's and busty babes a plenty 😎
Dude Reddit post amazing karma bro
Omg finally a youtuber that talks about the issues in the game. I don't know why so many youtuber regurgitate the same things over and over again. No one to my knowledge that I watch review the game pointed out how little enemy variety there is, not just in bosses and how most of them are just straight up reused from one. If they were going to reuse enemies then why not reuse vocations too? We would at least have more variety. The game has more issues than what the popular media hinted at. Yeah yeah, micro transactions, that wasn't even my biggest gripe. They got so fixated on the micro transactions that they ignored the game as a whole. It is an overrate disappointment, how are we getting sequels that are still not just straight upgrades over their predecessors. Yes there is some improvements but there's also some step backs. It's not triple A price worthy.
Most of them are sell outs
I'm disappointed as well with DD2, I hoped it'd improve so much more compared to DD:DA, but it sold really well, and a lot of people feel what I felt with DD1 already, its a cool game burried under a lot of unnessesary crap, hopefully with the DLC and DD3 they get the ressources they need and get some people who are able to get rid of the crap while preserving the awesome from the game, and I'm sure its doable.
Solid, honest review. Vocation, enemy, and dungeon variety. Three things that would have added so much replayability to a game like this and they underdelivered. This isn't the game that DD1 was always meant to be but couldn't become due to time restrictions, budget constraints, and technological limitations. Sadly, it doesn't seem as though any DLC can correct course enough. And waiting for the possibility of DD3 isn't very appealing. Fool me once...
Dont know if you mentioned it, but the story is sooooo bad that you can meet the queen and slave master (who know amd hate you, btw) and speak to them. The best part is THEY DONT KNOW WHO YOU EVEN ARE. you can also pick them up, and i assume, kill them. And complete the plot instantly.
Go try it.
Aaaaand you said it. People are lying with themselves and more importantly with US to get review codes 🤷♂️. It’s not a surprise. We all know it.
Thankfully, we have you to call out this bs and bring the real issues to light. Don’t be sorry for your content. It isn’t negative, it’s constructive and just.
Keep up the good work 👍.
Oh okay It wasn’t just me…. I just wanna freaking find a game that I could enjoy. Why is that so hard now of days and I don’t think it’s the vast option of games
Well shit. I am so happy I decided to pick up Baldur's Gate 3 over Dragon's DUDma. The only good things I hear about the game is that the gameplay is fun. But I hear exploration sucks, the story sucks, the new class sucks. Sure the game has some really cool stuff, but it's completely overshadowed by the lackluster to downright bad everything else.
Baldurs gate 3 blow this shit out of the water 🤣
@KotaWebb easily! BG3 is a masterpiece, a masterclass in storytelling. The fact that you can literally make your own story and play in such a way that you'll likely not have the same experience twice, is just incredible.
@@r3gret2079 agreed, bg3 is 100% in my top 3 games of all time. Might even be my #1
synthetic man/ coby goldst31n coped hard for this game.
you, gibby, and mugthief appropriately critiqued this game.
the one thing that I swore they'd fix is the healing. I'd even go so far as to say that I can't take the game seriously if they don't improve on DD1's healing. 20:24 well, I'm kinda speechless.
they did sort of ruin healing by not allowing curatives to refill the loss gauge, unlike in the first game where it was only magic that couldn't fill it. Some people might think that's an improvement but I hate it
Yeah they did actually kinda fix the healing system by not allowing you to restore your full health. Basically your maximum health slowly decreases until you use a fairly rare camping item.
they 100% fixed it
@@porkwhisperer3050”Fairly rare” There’s literally multiple campsites in Vermund with a camp pack sitting a few feet away from the campfire. Also vendors sell them.
@@DevilNeverKnowsThats fixed. The point of the loss system is to make outings wear you down and so you need to rest, which means you need to plan and make important decisions about how much you explore, when to go back to rest, etc.
DD1 healing items undermined all of that and turned it into “how many healing items can you carry?”
I’m glad you posted this. lol I feel bad being a big fan of the OG/Dark Arisen. The gameplay and bosses are actually a lot MORE shallow than the original, especially with Dark Arisen. Around lvl 30 I felt like I had seen all the cool bosses and they were also all cakewalks. I tried just doing side quests and I was having an awful time. I ended up just putting it down.
This is the video I needed to see. I feel betrayed by this game. I'm a big fan of Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen, and I was very excited about this sequel, so much so that I didn't even watch trailers or content in the hopes of not spoiling myself, big mistake. I thought it would be a continuation and great improvement of DDDA, something similar to what Mass Effect 2 was to Mass Effect 1, but I found myself with literally the same game, or perhaps worse. Same enemies, same systems, same mechanics, 0 improvements, downgrades (like separating the strider class into two), horrible narrative... There are many things that I forgive about DDDA due to its age and budget, but for me it is unacceptable that a game of this generation is the same as a PS3 game from 10 years ago.
Hey, an honest reviewer with testicles. Well, done King.
Nowadays not liking things and having hot takes is the new "Chad with balls" eh..
Nowadays not liking things and having hot takes is the new “honest reviewer” eh..
@@vivid8979 who said chad? that shits not even in my vocabulary, kid lmao
@@zolo4600 as long as it rings true. Its on a review by review basis and I dont always agree with Feeble King, but hes dead on with this and his limited but still correct assessment of the mediocre Dark Arisen.
@@GamingCaveman1989 No way not GamingCaveman1989
we already got this guys expert opinion and you backed it up
well shi* this cements it even more now you've agreed.
Feeble King❤
I just recently got into new game plus and i can confirm it is terrible... You get to keep your broken items... but the problem is that usualy in most games the difficulty is raised in a way to balance out your stats compared to the enemies... but here... for some reason it doesnt...Wich means that the one thing that could keep the game engaging is now gone....
I agree! It feels like a lot of reviewers shilled for it.
At last an honest review. And you're lucky to have lost just an hour, I lost 5. Imagine my rage quit at that moment.
Man I love feebleking's game reviews. They are extremely honest. Not afraid to say it when a part of a game is absolute sheit.
Just lost hours of save data because I rested at an inn and the game completely froze. I was given the choice to load from last save or last inn stay. Of course I picked from last inn since technically it showed me resting and returning to the game. So I figured, maybe it just glitched.. nope I'm now several hours behind. Leave it to say I uninstalled and will be moving on with my life now. Thanks for nothing, Capcom.
thank you for once again being the voice of reason
EDIT: As someone who has played DD1 and really loves it, I thought I'd repost a reddit comment I wrote from the perspective of someone who was expecting more from a sequel, so here goes:
I loaded up DD1 to compare just the FEEL of the game, and it's leagues better. The sounds are better, the feedback is better, the exploration and combat expression triumphs over dd2. DD2's combat could be better in a vacuum but the mob density and travel times give you no breathing room so it just becomes an exhausting and boring affair to smack 3 goblins and move on to the next 3 goblins 7 feet that way, not to mention only having 4 skills at once and less vocations to chose from.
The story is somehow worse, with plot points dropped completely and characters ON THE BOX ART being introduced and then immediately being shelved to introduce more new characters. Grig literally just shows up at the very end, no build up, his fight being a shallow imitation of his fight in DD1.
The characters are so boring. In DD1 they had very little depth but they were at least eccentric and had strong identity. Julian, Madelaine, Selene, they're memorable for how little they appear in the game. What does dd2 have? Ulrika? Nadinia? Brent? You see potential here with the fake arisen and pimpmommy but they just go nowhere.
Exploration doesn't mean much when the best gear is purchased in shops, so there's not much of an incentive to go explore when you're most likely going to find A. Enemies you've already fought thousands of. B. Useless materials for crafting or a pittance of gold C. More forest/desert. DD1 is not different in that regard but it is MUCH smaller so the amount of unique stuff to find feels better because the game's size (both in content and actual landmass) is brisk and tightly packed together. DD1 has far better pacing.
God, and the music- so generic. The only memorable song is the song they reused from the first game for boss fights. DD1 had such cool and weird music with whimsy, guitars, harpsichords- now it's just a boring movie score.
I really could just keep going. It looks prettier, but that's about it. And that's even debatable when it comes to preferences in art direction.
There's no excuse, this was supposed to be a sequel, a "finished" DD1- this is just DD1 but longwinded and worse, with pretty graphics that gets really boring after about 10 hours. I'm generally not the type of person to complain about a game being short, but so much of DD2's runtime feels like padding in a game where the main story is like 10 dogshit quests.
It needed another year or more to flesh things out, because this is just so disappointing.
When I saw videos for this I knew it was going to be a rehash of the first game and it 100% was. It's sad people are back on the "Capcom can do no wrong" train because of Resident Evil.
No one is saying that. Resi has been a dead franchise since 6
lol, lmao even
Dragon's Dogma is so frustrating because you can see the potential but it's just never realised.
To me, it seems Capcom or developers knew exactly what they were doing. It was brain dead or oversight. Because even if majority don't fall for the microtransacrions- there will still be people who cater to the trashy setup
Im gonna wait a few months for some issues to be ironed out before i fully commit to a playthrough
The game just feels outdated especially after playing a lot of newer and older games this year
I fixed my crashed by lowering my gpu's powerdraw (used to crash every like 20 minutes to 0). Easily done with msi afterburner but it needs work for sure.
I reckon you would enjoy a game called majoras mask, it came frome a time when lightning could be caught in a bottle
I tried to make the Majora's Mask video after playing Tears of the Kingdom, but Tears of the Kingdom made me so depressed I couldn't get into a Zelda experience at that point in time.
@@feebleking21 I'm sorry to hear that 8^[
@@feebleking21Majora's Mask is still my favorite game in the series. The story, dungeons, side-quests, everything. True perfection
@@lilili765 me too
Nintendo earned a big bonus and new excitement for zelda with botw just to throw it in the trash big time with totk. Not looking forward for what comes next this time
Finally, a good review.
32:06 you actually kill the fake arisen guy in the battle before the dragon shows up but the game makes no mention of it lmao
Going to wait until it’s discounted but will def give it a try.
Personnaly I enjoyed it. Everything he says is true: story and quests are mind blowing f-ing bad, the ennemies aren't that diversed, the loot, is pretty much shitty, but I did really enjoy the gameplay. Although if haven't I would advise you to try the first one, which is actually better in many ways.