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.
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.
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 hardly, both games have about the same number of active players according to steamDB, which is impressive considering that bg3 has no DLC outside of cosmetics and elden ring just got a huge one with a new map and story
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.
@@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....
Explains why every single fight they've shown for Monster Hunter has a weather effect that brings your draw distance down to 20 meters, because they learned that the RE Engine absolutely cannot handle open world games, so Monster Hunter dynamically turns the open world into a tiny moving room to fix a massive, unfixable engine flaw.
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.
@SamuelCatsy Look at me: i hate a game because i dont have consequences for my actions. Despite the fact that most games would've done the exact same thing and even its predecessor does so as well, i can still complain about this.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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?).
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).
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.
@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)
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"
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.
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.
I agree the story is thin. I put the game down for a year. I came back, did some stuff and all of a sudden I'm fighting the last boss? Who was the villain again? Oh, that right I'm an Arisen, almost forgot.
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.
"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!"
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 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! 😃
dragons dogma 2 is a tragedy. The potential was so huge, and the fans were already invested. but they still didnt deliver. I am so dissapointed, especially since it puts a huge question mark about the future of this franchise. I hope Capcom will still willing to give it a chance to shine even tho they screwed it this time.
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.
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.
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??"
I'm 7 hours in and felt bad for buying it at full price but feeling empty. The combat is fun, but i couldn't be the only one feeling like something isn't right with this game. Glad i wasn't wrong. I'll probably keep dicking around but i won't have much hope for it. It'll be nice if the Devs did an overhaul to it.
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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
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
@@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.
That is not a reason to do it. If you are right I say people are so positive because they are not honest enough. If you buy a lemon you not gonna praise it as a supercar.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that thinks the writing is bad and any quests outside the final boss doesn’t matter! You spend the first part of the game focusing on Queen Disa, only for that to be thrown out of the window! What was the point of me uncovering the identity of the false arisen only for him not to matter in the end. They have completely removed all of the mystery of the game when players can predict the ending of the game. I spent most of the game avoiding the magic research lab cause I’m like “aren’t they the fucking problem? Why am I giving the godsbane to the fucking problem?” I dislike venturing in Bahttal BECAUSE THERE IS NO STORY IN BAHTTAL! they set that region up to be the second most important region in the game, only to be given nothing! What is the point of using seeker’s token when majority of the prize can be found in chests when exploring!
I too hated how so many tried to glaze this game and its many many issues, and once again Gameranx comes in with the worst take claiming this was the best game of the year. Absolutely insulting when there are several indie games that put this an practically triple a games released this year to shame. Also damning is that Starfield is still to this day a beating stick for some youtubers to launch their careers yet will ignore games like this being so half baked and just as if not more deserving of a thrashing.
It makes no sense for the story to be this BAD. When they could have easily picked up where the first game left off right after killing the dragon. The everfall opening up could have branched out a great story in so many different directions. We should have went back to gransys.
Personally I've been really enjoying the game. To each their own I guess, but this game reminds me of an open world Monster Hunter game with a really great character creation system. Sorry the game wasn't for you, but I've been having a blast.
It’s funny myself and many others bought this over rise of the ronin and after playing both rise of the ronin is so much more enjoyable . Graphics aren’t even that bad like people claim . It’s a pure fun experience
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.
@@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.
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?
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.
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.
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 👍.
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.
Just because you got bored and didn’t like it means nothing. People can like things and dislike things, but saying that you dropped it 7 hours in without playing it at all and claiming it that it was failure is just stupid.
@@aguywithadog1663 wonky and clunky controls, convoluted multiplayer elements, bugs and glitches, pointless micro transactions, poor saving system, now multiple campaigns etc..: so many weird and simple issues to fix.
@@BlackVerathion Could you expand on what was clunky with the controls, the only problem I had was climbing on certain monsters, and this is my opinion but I thought the multiplayer elements was simple to understand, if you could give more info on what was hard. Also I don’t understand what you mean by multiple campaigns. I do agree with the pointless micro-transactions and the saving system, but why drop the game entirely without giving it a chance, and even with the games you stated they aren’t really comparable and some of your criticisms can be applied to Elden Ring with it having some weird controls and a very convoluted Multiplayer system.
These pieces of garbage always wipe your content and progress to try and forcw you to play and replay a certain way. Any deviation is potentially very costly in terms of actual hours and save content. Do not waste your time or money. They game doesn't even allow you to know where your saves are or when the "endgame" starts. This is an absolute trainwreck of wasted time. 100% agree with this video. I deleted this after days of plaeying. I've never been angrier at being deliberately screw out of real time hours.
Yes. I was appalled at the quet design. Go here, deliver this item, speak to x, go there, soeak to y, backtrack and speak to x. Ok, new quest. And the enemy variety. Recolouring saurians doesnt make them a different enemy. Likewise the cheeky reskin of goblins into knackers. Cmon!
Have you tried catching the flying creatures on fire so they dont fly away? Have you been changing pawns after every 5th level or so? Are actually attacking the enemies weaknesses or are you just hitting their heads?
...why are you giving advice for things that don't relate to anything he said? Well, except for him attacking the wrong spot on enemies and then complaining, that was pretty funny.
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.
@@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 who played, and loved, the first Dragon's Dogma game from my 360 days, after watching your review, I've decided not to buy the second game, at least for now. It feels as if the second game didn't add to or build anything upon the first game. The theme of the story and the ending, about rebirth and an endless cycle that can be stopped with you killing yourself is generally the same. Its not like the second game adds a different twist to it or even expands on that theme in any way (like maybe adding more lore as to why at the end you keep going through this cycle). Its just a repeat of what they had in the first game. Furthermore the combat seems very similar. You were able to climb the bosses in the first game which I thought was fun. But if it feels as if its the same thing here. . THe first game at least had a cult as part of the main story which kind of made it the story have an element of suspense that doesn't seem to be present in the second game. It also appears that the first game had more varied monster and boss types. THere was even a monster similar to a DND Beholder in the first game that doesn't seem to appear in any footage of the second game. I'm also very disappointed that a lot of the bad design decisions I didn't like with the first game, such as not being able to make more than one character and the fact that there is very limited to no fast travel, and that requires a port crystal, are also done here as well. Like why? Those were the 2 things I hated from the first game. Finally, the thing that I really dislike is how, at the ending part, they delete all your autosaves and force you to start again or use a wakestone, which they essentially sell for real money. The things that they did add just made the game worse IMHO. This is really disappointing.
It's horrible. I've tried several times to enjoy it and it's just trash. WYF were they thinking? Maybe it will be ok in a year or two, but no more Capcom for this guy.
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.
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
@@brokendreamchaser39s 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.
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...
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
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.
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.
@@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?”
This game Is the perfect encapsulation of modern AAA gaming and why it's such a shitty industry: - Sequel that didn't fix any of the original's problem - The bloated budget only ended up improving the graphics - Poor performances on launch and baffling design choices, BUT a perfectly functioning MTX shop that was hidden in the review copies ;) You know why DD1 was good, despite it's flaws and problems? Because It was bold, and It had a soul and an identity as a game. It went against the odds: low budget (in the context of AAA, of course), basically little to no marketing and an original concept and vision. That's how some of the greatest series are born (think about demon's souls of final fantasy) and people hoped that the same would be true for dragon's dogma: a rough gem that could have been developed into a great series. But of course modern AAA can only copy and mock without understanding. Taking what fans loved and only providing the most surface-level version of that. Want an example? Let's talk about how shitty the intro Is compared to DD1. "Oh, the big dragon was in the first game so we're putting him in too :)" without understanding WHY Grigori's introduction was so memorable. In the First game you HAD to challenge him in the beginning, using your shitty weapons and without abilities, and that's how you developed a connection. You tried your best, knowing that you'd fail, but you still wanted to try and deal as much damage as possibile. That's how you create a connection between the game and the player: your intentions matched the story and the vision of the designers. In DD2? You get a high budget cutscene. So glad that I didn't preorder or waste my money on this game. Fuck Capcom and fuck 99% of AAA studios.
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!!
1:29 the microtransaction to speak of are all one time purchases. 3:13 you can recover all your health at a campsite or you can use an allheal potion to recover all your health back. 4:06 or ask for performance I had to have that many issues on the xbox series s. 5:17 I've been playing for around 186+ hours in dd2 and yeah the game's story is worse than the orginals, but im having a hard time putting the game down. Let's hope future title updates are done in the same way as monster hunter, with new monsters, dungeons, quest weapons and armor.
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.
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.
Never ever buy a game at launch. Just dont. People make a ton of money because of hype surrounding something. They dont want to sell a good game. They just want to trick you into buying their shit, before you realize what it really is.
@@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.
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.
@@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
@@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...
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.
My faith in gaming reviews has been on a all time low for a while, this game made it even worse, thankfully some people like yourself and Mortismal gaming is actually telling like it is.
Finally a refreshingly honest video. I’m tired of being gaslit into thinking this game is amazing by soygaping redditors despite playing it myself for dozens of hours and it’s so exhausting and boring. Look at how they circle jerk eachother into being angry at people who don’t think this game is as good as everyone says. Elden ring has better bosses, customization, performance, exploration. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a casual, Elden ring is way more polished than dd2
you can dislike a game without insulting the people who like it and comparing it with Elden Ring is weird. It is a completely different type of game and has its own issues. I enjoyed both games.
@@amwazdraws6890 I don't understand how it's a "completely different type of game." Open-world fantasy RPG with action combat--that seems like a fairly specific category, while "completely different" would be, you know, Mario Kart. Of course there are differences, but what games would you even say are more comparable to Dragon's Dogma (either of them) than Elden Ring? I can only think of one; Kingdoms of Amalur.
I pre-ordered this game, but then when it came out it crashed on me like 5 times in 30 minutes, so I refunded it. It seems I made the best decision of my life by not playing this steaming pile of shit.
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.
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.
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
3:06 just use an allheal potion, it restores your max HP. Just playing through the game through the storyline, I have 24 wakestones, never felt the need to use em. Also, you can always run away from a battle if you haven’t got good.
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.
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
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
12:10 Well the explanation the game gives is bad but makes sense in a way. But for the story to make sense they make the world worse is just dumb. What they say is imagine this as a book. You have your own epic journey nobody else matter nobody else actually does anything. Everything is pre written so the world can be hostile but because it's pre written monsters will only invade towns if the arisen is there etc. It's interesting but the game suffers because of this imo makes it boring.
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" 😔
Have you played the DDDA since the making of this vid? I strongly suggesto to. It is not a Goty but its at least 4 times better than DD2. More enemies, more difficulty, a better story (not amazing but enjoyable), more than Brant as a character with personality, Mystic Knight, at least some dungeons, more skills and augments, and, while the map is smaller and you still has some walking issues, it is much more enjoyable.
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
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.
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.
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 hardly, both games have about the same number of active players according to steamDB, which is impressive considering that bg3 has no DLC outside of cosmetics and elden ring just got a huge one with a new map and story
@@peterpupe8352BG3 sucked
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198because BG3 is a niche game. Elden Ring is a mainstream game that comes from a niche
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....
Can’t believe I actually payed 70€ for this, this should be like 30€ or lower it’s f king unfinished
It’s sad because this game had great potential
I got it on sale and feel ripped off
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
@@crossfire4691it's bad
Explains why every single fight they've shown for Monster Hunter has a weather effect that brings your draw distance down to 20 meters, because they learned that the RE Engine absolutely cannot handle open world games, so Monster Hunter dynamically turns the open world into a tiny moving room to fix a massive, unfixable engine flaw.
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.
@SamuelCatsy Look at me: i hate a game because i dont have consequences for my actions. Despite the fact that most games would've done the exact same thing and even its predecessor does so as well, i can still complain about this.
@@GeteMachine you can pickpocket people. You cant pick what you pickpocketted but you can do it.
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.
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.
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.
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
It’s actually criminal that they charged 70 for this💀like wtf
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.
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.
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
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 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”
Wow
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?).
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).
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)
this how i feel about rdr2
@@Aqsticgod Really? Interesting.
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"
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%
I agree the story is thin. I put the game down for a year. I came back, did some stuff and all of a sudden I'm fighting the last boss? Who was the villain again? Oh, that right I'm an Arisen, almost forgot.
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.
"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.
I love it when they say the game is boring on purpose.
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.
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 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! 😃
dragons dogma 2 is a tragedy. The potential was so huge, and the fans were already invested. but they still didnt deliver. I am so dissapointed, especially since it puts a huge question mark about the future of this franchise. I hope Capcom will still willing to give it a chance to shine even tho they screwed it this time.
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.
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.
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
I gave up on this game like 10 hours in, so damn repetitive and soulless
I'm 7 hours in and felt bad for buying it at full price but feeling empty. The combat is fun, but i couldn't be the only one feeling like something isn't right with this game. Glad i wasn't wrong. I'll probably keep dicking around but i won't have much hope for it. It'll be nice if the Devs did an overhaul to it.
@@VchaosTheoryV bro you feel forced to play it just because you spent money on it, it’s honestly a terrible game and I don’t regret that I gave it up
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
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.
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
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
He says in the review he didn’t even beat the first game lol
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 because that game was bad too lol
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 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.
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.
@@gracegeek4678right and shit 💩 all over rise of the ronin even though that game was miles better but got unnecessarily hated on
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.
Some quest made you say like wtf, and the worst part is running around so bs far.
Thank you for being so truthful about this dribble. I think people are so positive partly because people are starved for a good game.
That is not a reason to do it. If you are right I say people are so positive because they are not honest enough.
If you buy a lemon you not gonna praise it as a supercar.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that thinks the writing is bad and any quests outside the final boss doesn’t matter! You spend the first part of the game focusing on Queen Disa, only for that to be thrown out of the window! What was the point of me uncovering the identity of the false arisen only for him not to matter in the end. They have completely removed all of the mystery of the game when players can predict the ending of the game. I spent most of the game avoiding the magic research lab cause I’m like “aren’t they the fucking problem? Why am I giving the godsbane to the fucking problem?” I dislike venturing in Bahttal BECAUSE THERE IS NO STORY IN BAHTTAL! they set that region up to be the second most important region in the game, only to be given nothing! What is the point of using seeker’s token when majority of the prize can be found in chests when exploring!
I too hated how so many tried to glaze this game and its many many issues, and once again Gameranx comes in with the worst take claiming this was the best game of the year. Absolutely insulting when there are several indie games that put this an practically triple a games released this year to shame. Also damning is that Starfield is still to this day a beating stick for some youtubers to launch their careers yet will ignore games like this being so half baked and just as if not more deserving of a thrashing.
It makes no sense for the story to be this BAD. When they could have easily picked up where the first game left off right after killing the dragon. The everfall opening up could have branched out a great story in so many different directions. We should have went back to gransys.
Personally I've been really enjoying the game. To each their own I guess, but this game reminds me of an open world Monster Hunter game with a really great character creation system. Sorry the game wasn't for you, but I've been having a blast.
im having a BLAST
HE'S. BLASTING.
@@SeasoningTheObese gotta blast
I really like the game as well, but the overall writing is pretty bad, it lacks the soul that the first game had
@@limawhiskey7451 yeah i'm not saying it's perfect by any means, but it's really enjoyable despite the flaws it has
It’s funny myself and many others bought this over rise of the ronin and after playing both rise of the ronin is so much more enjoyable . Graphics aren’t even that bad like people claim . It’s a pure fun experience
Again and again Japanese developers prove they HATE players having fun. JAPANESE HATE FUN. Dont @ me
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
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.
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.
Totally agree… I dont understand all the positive reviews. I loved Dark Arisen and found this game pretty horrible.
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.
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 👍.
Great review dude, just spot on about everything. I 100% agree.
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.
Just because you got bored and didn’t like it means nothing. People can like things and dislike things, but saying that you dropped it 7 hours in without playing it at all and claiming it that it was failure is just stupid.
@@aguywithadog1663 wonky and clunky controls, convoluted multiplayer elements, bugs and glitches, pointless micro transactions, poor saving system, now multiple campaigns etc..: so many weird and simple issues to fix.
@@BlackVerathion Could you expand on what was clunky with the controls, the only problem I had was climbing on certain monsters, and this is my opinion but I thought the multiplayer elements was simple to understand, if you could give more info on what was hard. Also I don’t understand what you mean by multiple campaigns.
I do agree with the pointless micro-transactions and the saving system, but why drop the game entirely without giving it a chance, and even with the games you stated they aren’t really comparable and some of your criticisms can be applied to Elden Ring with it having some weird controls and a very convoluted Multiplayer system.
Exactly. I have more hours in Elden Ring than I care to admit. And BG3 as well. This game is just a mess.
These pieces of garbage always wipe your content and progress to try and forcw you to play and replay a certain way. Any deviation is potentially very costly in terms of actual hours and save content.
Do not waste your time or money. They game doesn't even allow you to know where your saves are or when the "endgame" starts. This is an absolute trainwreck of wasted time. 100% agree with this video. I deleted this after days of plaeying. I've never been angrier at being deliberately screw out of real time hours.
Glad I stopped after 5 hours. It's to tedious for me
This channel got my immediate subscription. I was never so hyped for a game and so much disappointed except maybe Diablo IV
Yes. I was appalled at the quet design. Go here, deliver this item, speak to x, go there, soeak to y, backtrack and speak to x. Ok, new quest.
And the enemy variety. Recolouring saurians doesnt make them a different enemy. Likewise the cheeky reskin of goblins into knackers. Cmon!
Have you considered doing a playthrough of the first dragons dogma to see how it compares?
Have you tried catching the flying creatures on fire so they dont fly away? Have you been changing pawns after every 5th level or so? Are actually attacking the enemies weaknesses or are you just hitting their heads?
...why are you giving advice for things that don't relate to anything he said? Well, except for him attacking the wrong spot on enemies and then complaining, that was pretty funny.
He said the game was too easy
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 who played, and loved, the first Dragon's Dogma game from my 360 days, after watching your review, I've decided not to buy the second game, at least for now. It feels as if the second game didn't add to or build anything upon the first game. The theme of the story and the ending, about rebirth and an endless cycle that can be stopped with you killing yourself is generally the same. Its not like the second game adds a different twist to it or even expands on that theme in any way (like maybe adding more lore as to why at the end you keep going through this cycle). Its just a repeat of what they had in the first game. Furthermore the combat seems very similar. You were able to climb the bosses in the first game which I thought was fun. But if it feels as if its the same thing here. . THe first game at least had a cult as part of the main story which kind of made it the story have an element of suspense that doesn't seem to be present in the second game. It also appears that the first game had more varied monster and boss types. THere was even a monster similar to a DND Beholder in the first game that doesn't seem to appear in any footage of the second game. I'm also very disappointed that a lot of the bad design decisions I didn't like with the first game, such as not being able to make more than one character and the fact that there is very limited to no fast travel, and that requires a port crystal, are also done here as well. Like why? Those were the 2 things I hated from the first game. Finally, the thing that I really dislike is how, at the ending part, they delete all your autosaves and force you to start again or use a wakestone, which they essentially sell for real money. The things that they did add just made the game worse IMHO. This is really disappointing.
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
What skill did you use to spin your thief?
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
The only saving grace this game have is combat. It suck to hear the gear and loot is weak.
It's horrible. I've tried several times to enjoy it and it's just trash. WYF were they thinking? Maybe it will be ok in a year or two, but no more Capcom for this guy.
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.
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
@@brokendreamchaser39s 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.
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...
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
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.
lol, lmao even
because of resident evil 7 and remakes*
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?”
This game Is the perfect encapsulation of modern AAA gaming and why it's such a shitty industry:
- Sequel that didn't fix any of the original's problem
- The bloated budget only ended up improving the graphics
- Poor performances on launch and baffling design choices, BUT a perfectly functioning MTX shop that was hidden in the review copies ;)
You know why DD1 was good, despite it's flaws and problems? Because It was bold, and It had a soul and an identity as a game. It went against the odds: low budget (in the context of AAA, of course), basically little to no marketing and an original concept and vision. That's how some of the greatest series are born (think about demon's souls of final fantasy) and people hoped that the same would be true for dragon's dogma: a rough gem that could have been developed into a great series. But of course modern AAA can only copy and mock without understanding. Taking what fans loved and only providing the most surface-level version of that. Want an example? Let's talk about how shitty the intro Is compared to DD1. "Oh, the big dragon was in the first game so we're putting him in too :)" without understanding WHY Grigori's introduction was so memorable. In the First game you HAD to challenge him in the beginning, using your shitty weapons and without abilities, and that's how you developed a connection. You tried your best, knowing that you'd fail, but you still wanted to try and deal as much damage as possibile. That's how you create a connection between the game and the player: your intentions matched the story and the vision of the designers. In DD2? You get a high budget cutscene. So glad that I didn't preorder or waste my money on this game. Fuck Capcom and fuck 99% of AAA studios.
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!!
1:29 the microtransaction to speak of are all one time purchases.
3:13 you can recover all your health at a campsite or you can use an allheal potion to recover all your health back.
4:06 or ask for performance I had to have that many issues on the xbox series s.
5:17 I've been playing for around 186+ hours in dd2 and yeah the game's story is worse than the orginals, but im having a hard time putting the game down. Let's hope future title updates are done in the same way as monster hunter, with new monsters, dungeons, quest weapons and armor.
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.
Never ever buy a game at launch. Just dont. People make a ton of money because of hype surrounding something. They dont want to sell a good game. They just want to trick you into buying their shit, before you realize what it really is.
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.
This game had amazing potential and the foundation is there but like… there’s just not much to do or explore
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...
Thank you for giving an honest review instead of all these other pathetic shills on UA-cam.
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.
My faith in gaming reviews has been on a all time low for a while, this game made it even worse, thankfully some people like yourself and Mortismal gaming is actually telling like it is.
Finally a refreshingly honest video. I’m tired of being gaslit into thinking this game is amazing by soygaping redditors despite playing it myself for dozens of hours and it’s so exhausting and boring. Look at how they circle jerk eachother into being angry at people who don’t think this game is as good as everyone says. Elden ring has better bosses, customization, performance, exploration. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a casual, Elden ring is way more polished than dd2
you can dislike a game without insulting the people who like it and comparing it with Elden Ring is weird. It is a completely different type of game and has its own issues. I enjoyed both games.
A full of shit lying video
@@Nazyairsengikar you can start with not spelling capcom while riding their dick lmfao
@@amwazdraws6890 I don't understand how it's a "completely different type of game." Open-world fantasy RPG with action combat--that seems like a fairly specific category, while "completely different" would be, you know, Mario Kart. Of course there are differences, but what games would you even say are more comparable to Dragon's Dogma (either of them) than Elden Ring? I can only think of one; Kingdoms of Amalur.
I pre-ordered this game, but then when it came out it crashed on me like 5 times in 30 minutes, so I refunded it.
It seems I made the best decision of my life by not playing this steaming pile of shit.
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
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.
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
dragons dogma 2 lives at the shadow of fromsoft creations and monster hunter jaja. a fun game but so outdated that needs a real remake imo.
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
3:06 just use an allheal potion, it restores your max HP. Just playing through the game through the storyline, I have 24 wakestones, never felt the need to use em. Also, you can always run away from a battle if you haven’t got good.
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.
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
DD2 is a bad game. I was annoyed and bored more than anything else.
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
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.
12:10 Well the explanation the game gives is bad but makes sense in a way. But for the story to make sense they make the world worse is just dumb. What they say is imagine this as a book. You have your own epic journey nobody else matter nobody else actually does anything. Everything is pre written so the world can be hostile but because it's pre written monsters will only invade towns if the arisen is there etc. It's interesting but the game suffers because of this imo makes it boring.
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" 😔
Have you played the DDDA since the making of this vid? I strongly suggesto to. It is not a Goty but its at least 4 times better than DD2.
More enemies, more difficulty, a better story (not amazing but enjoyable), more than Brant as a character with personality, Mystic Knight, at least some dungeons, more skills and augments, and, while the map is smaller and you still has some walking issues, it is much more enjoyable.
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
I agree! It feels like a lot of reviewers shilled for it.
Dragon's Dogma is so frustrating because you can see the potential but it's just never realised.