Redpill me on this game. Why do you guys love it so much?

>>378831507
Only thing i didn't like about the game is you can't fast travel unless you use a really expensive item

>>378831627
The fast travel stone came with pre-order bonus. It's up to you if you want to use it or not. It's not really fast travel but it makes going back to town so much less tedious somI used itl

>Character creator is super complex and has small, but really cool effects in gameplay
>The various classes are almost all fun to play
>Mixing and matching pawns makes battles unique
>The fighting itself is super intense and over the top
>The story, while very slow and generic at the start, eventually turns into an insane ride with one of the most crazy post-games and endings in a long time

Overall it's a very high octane experience once you get past the slow beginning, and there's a lot of room for creativity in battle.

Dragon's Dogma has good writing, style, combat, crafting and atmosphere. It does have it's shortcomings though, as it's a bit easy, doesn't have a lot of role playing, fairly short and it doesn't have much of a story other than "dragon bad, you good, kill dragon"

The thing that sticks out above all is the combat, it's definitely fun to take on the big enemies.
That being said, it's a fun action fantasy game with light role playing and there better be a sequel.

>>378831627
Dark arisen like 1/10thed the cost of the fast travel stones and made them super common. I think the guy on my old save had like 200 of them just collecting dust in the bank

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>>378831507
It's a good that does a lot of things right (combat, pawns, character creation) albeit all of them could do more polish. Because of this, the game is one huge casual filter, considering most of the complaints I hear are "Muh bandits" and "Muh walking", though the latter is slightly more reasonable.

>>378831507
it's a fun game with fun combat and a somewhat interesting story.

>>378831627
Is the game's map big?

>>378832823
It's pretty big when you have to travel in it at foot, but seems very small once you discover all of it

>there will never be a sequel and Capcom will never make a fun new IP ever again
Why is this allowed? All of the Capcom games I have this gen are ports. I'll be buying DD when it hits PS4 too.

>>378832823
It is, but that's not really the problem itself. In base Dragon's Dogma, while the world is big, the routes to get to each place are very linear, so while you probably won't get lost unless you go off the path intentionally, you're gonna wind up seeing a lot of the same stuff over and over again.

Luckily in Dark Arisen, they lighten the load and make getting fast travel items a lot easier.

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Madelein is best girl.

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>>378833023
That's not how you spell SHE-GOAT

The pawn creation system let me live out my fantasy to travel with a scantily clad amazon-esque muscle girl.

>>378832201
>fairly short and it doesn't have much of a story other than "dragon bad, you good, kill dragon"
Did you play to the end?

>>378833080
>using pawns for fetishes
>not using it to create proper traveling bros
Come on now.

>>378832201
>good writing
That's where I have to disagree. The story was just plain boring to me. The ending was a surprise, but overall, it was pretty generic.

I can't OP. I tried it a few months ago and it was a crock of shite. It's the typical "this game isn't super popular so I'll latch onto it" hipster kind of game

>>378833142
There's more to writing than just the story, there's also dialogue.

>>378832943
I really wish for an E3 announcement on the game but we all know it will never happen.
>>378831507
The core gameplay of the game is really fun even if many parts of the are lackluster, also the fun really starts once you defeat the "final" boss, and BBI is a really cool place to spend some time leveling and farming gear.

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>>378833080
>not being the delicious brown amazon and /ss/ing your brown trap shota pawn

>>378833142
To me, the writing itself isn't the strongest, but the ideas behind the writing are very strong. Hopefully if we ever get a proper Dragon's Dogma 2 they will take what was good of the game's story and flesh it out into something really nice.

AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT

>>378833142
At the start it seems like it but once you truly finish the game and visit BBI you discover some bit and pieces that make the story quite good.

It's dark souls ripoff made right

Is it good on PS3? Thinking of getting it.

>>378833471
Wait a little while, it's getting rereleased on the modern consoles pretty soon. If the reviews are good for it, then get that instead.

>>378833397
This game is nothing like dark souls at all
And I should know, I got it because it looked like it was gonna be

>>378833510
Don't have a PS4 or Xbone, though. Not really playing on getting either any time soon. Just wondering if it's still a good game on PS3.

>>378833471
It's playble, but 360 had better version
I got dark arisen in the ps+ for free, and it was visible downgrade
PC has nice visuals, but all pawns are broken thanks to the cheat engine
Better wait for the ps4 or possible switch version, level mage pawn for the 10 lvl and enjoy free training and exp

>>378833732
I played the 360 version, so I couldn't help you there, but if it's the only way you can properly play it, and you don't have a PC that can do the PC version, I'd probably risk getting it on PS3. Even if it's a downgrade, the I think the game itself will be strong enough to carry you through.

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>>378833197
>not being the shota

>>378833941
>not being a shota with a giant old man as your pawn and guide on your quest to be a hero.

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>>378832434
I honestly fucking hate people who meme about the combat in this game.

Literally the only good combat comes from Warrior/Assassin, and Warrior is only somewhat fun because you are intentionally gimped.

The second I learned maelstrom I was able to autofarm that dumbass dragon in the grove. I would just rest at the camp nearby for 7 days and then kill him over and over until I was a god and steamrolled the rest of the game up unto BBI. Magic and magic archers are hilariously fucking cheesy and boil down to using one utterly disgustingly strong move over and over again until you run into a cuckold that is immune to it, at which point you use your other borked as fuck spell and invalidate them too. Nothing is really threatening once you realize you can chump your pawns for a free ticket to win the encounter because a spell will stun them long enough to infinity chain spells because of

>well thought out and simply EPIC menu-healing/stamina recovery

$250,000,000 budget and the combat still came out one dimensional as fuck, this game is /v/'s most overrated game

>>378834107
>not loving the overblown craziness of the magic
>not liking the spiderman craziness of striders and the other archery classes
Who hurt you as a child?

>>378834168
>Overblown craziness

nothing stays cool forever, as great as the effect is for maelstrom I really don't give a fuck anymore because i've cast it 3000000 times to kill everything but ur-dragons

>>378834107
The game is horribly balanced yes, but what's there is fun. Also, quit meming the "10,000 year casting time" because that only happens to idiots who bring Grand spells all the time without investing to Ingle or Levin.

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>>378834168
>haha its so CRAZZYYYY

people like you are why im glad the dmc series is dead

>>378833397
>it has stamina, so it's a dark souls ripoff

Kys

>>378834107
>cheese the fuck out of the game
>lel why is the combat so awful

>>378834317
>not liking crazy
What are you, gay?

>>378834292
Except I didn't meme about the casting time, dipshit. In fact, I said the opposite. Casting time isn't even a problem when the first maelstrom stuns the dumb fuck long enough for me to cast another into another into another (inhales shrooms) into another into another and oh hes dead.

>>378831627

>Really expensive

Ferrystones are 2,000 a piece. Unless you're buying them in ridiculous bulk, that's pretty cheap. Expensive enough so that you don't use them frivolously, like warping across town, but I never found myself out of them.

>>378834358
>cheese

spamming maelstrom is nowhere near as cheesy as assassin 1shotting everything or magik archer 1shotting everything

in the time it takes for a high wiztard to cast a single tardnado the magik archer already killed the mob

>>378831627
Doesn't Dark Arisen come with the Eternal Ferrystone? I've only played it on PC and I've always had it available to me so I haven't had that problem at all.

>>378834448
>Assassin has the stupid speed boost/clingy kisses.
>Magic Archer's kit is all cheese.
>Ranger's Tenfold Blast Arrow Flurry rapes everything
>All of them use bows.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

I played about 90% of it, but to be perfectly honest, I never felt like I really "got" what the game wanted me to do.

Like, the half-story, half-endgame was weird, the farming dungeon was weird, the pawn system and trying to understand which worked best was kinda vague, and ironically I felt like I was less familiar with what I was supposed to be doing at the end of the game than at the beginning.

What I expected was an RPG where I kill big monsters. What I got was very different.

It's not that it's bad or anything, it's just that...I guess outside of the actual combat SYSTEM, the game has surprisingly little of interest to offer.

>>378831627
Once you have the eternal ferrystone, you'll miss having to explore the world. You'll end up forcing yourself to leave it in your storage

>>378834448
>the magik archer already killed the mob

the magik archer already killed everything*

fixed that for you m8 btw remember that this class is very fair and very balanced and is in NO WAY a shitter crutch! :^)

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>>378834728
>complaining about balance in a PVE game
>complaining about balance in a single player game

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Post family photos.

I only wish that if there's a proper sequel for the warrior classes to have some kind of ranged attack even if it is just a "you can now aim and throw bombs farther" or a "throw your weapon at the enemy" and at higher ranks being able to knock enemies off the air because it get kinda frustrating to entirely rely on pawns to do that.

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>>378834107
so you never tried a SET YOURSELF ON FIRE build, or any strider build that didn't involve sticking yourself to the large enemies and spamming thousand kisses, or any mystic knight build
the only classes that are fundamentally bad gameplay-wise are Ranger and Sorcerer and even Sorcerer can be fun for a while if only for the Timmy side of things.
The game is terribly balanced in regards to leveling, attack, and defense so cheesing out XP is even worse on the experience than normal, as well as trying to fight higher level enemies. This along with the recovery-in-menu are the two biggest flaws in the gameplay and probably the entire game, and it's totally kosher to bring them up as legitimate issues. It is not okay, however, to complain about the balance after cheesing out as much XP as possible which will ruin the balance of most level-based games.
In short the combat of the game is limited a lot not only by the leveling system, but also by your own imagination. You seem to be lacking in that department which isn't your fault; you wanted to play the game simply to win and not to explore the more fun options that it has in store.

Are the pure melee classes any fun? I love the archer and magic classes, but whenever I tried to do one of the more straight hacking and slashing classes (sans Assassin) it felt very basic. No real shtick like climbing or powerful magic.

>>378834929
fighter gets like 3 different abilities to deal with targets that are at a range/in the air.

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>>378831507
The combat mechanics are pretty fun, battles are challenging without being frustrating and has a great atmosphere.
On the downside the characters and story are a bit bland but still acceptable.

>>378835069
I was mainly talking about the Warrior but the fighter abilities are not that handy when dealing with dragons on post Daimon (specifically the ones that spawn in the city before facing the Daimon) or Death.

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>>378835004
>My imagination

Okay

I started the game wanting to play a Mystic Knight, thinking I would be using my shield like a wall and bashing retards with it.

What did I get instead?

A fucking cunt that uses his shield to parry. A massive, fuckhuge shield I keep on my fucking back at all times except when I pull it out for a split second to parry some tard like its a buckler.

Now, pray tell, was this a failure of my imagination or a hilariously bad fucking oversight on behalf of Crapcom? Because in terms of "imagination" and "themes" it was a devastating fucking failure if you ask me.

Honestly, something about the engine just clicks perfectly for me.Just running around is enjoyable in this game., let alone the stellar combat animations and combat itself.

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>>378831507
Honestly we all just want to fugg the Dragon.

>There will never be a route where Grigori tries to kidnap your beloved only to find out it's himself.

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>>378835283
Having your expectations for a class or technique not being met is also a perfectly legitimate criticism of the game; I was also disappointed that the shield stays on the back and that there weren't a whole lot of combat options with it. As a consequence I haven't tried any mystic knight builds for an extended period of time as most of their options are "sit and charge up for a nice particle effect". There are plenty of other builds in the game that aren't completely exploitative and also fun, like I said, the "set yourself on fire and run around like a madman" magick archer build is real fun. Also the game is significantly improved if you do the whole clinging to large enemies and slicing them over and over as little as possible.

>>378835425
Grigori was shitter who lost against fucking Savan
Even bandit from the forest is more dangereous than Savan

>>378835283
>actually using the shield counters
MK is fighter with weapon buffs and a minigun.

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>>378835584
>MK is actually Engineer

For anyone that's happened to play it, how playable is DDO? I know there's a semi-completed English patch but is it worth going through the trouble?

>>378835682
Patch is good but the game itself is not.

>>378835578
The dragon is a different person each cycle.

>>378833941
sauce

>>378835751
To become dragon you need to kill dragon but lose against current Savan

>>378832201
>it doesn't have much of a story other than "dragon bad, you good, kill dragon"

Someone didn't finish the game

>>378835837
You know, now I wish that the dragon was actually different every playthrough, like changing the name and voice every reset.

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>>378835682
If you're a die hard DD fan you'll adore the changes to the classes since they got rid of all the OP crap and fixed up the left behind ones. I'd say if they were to take DDO's changes to the classes and slap them into a DD2 that would be the best combination.
Story is untranslated if you care about it, and it can drag on if it's just you and pawns at times.

Probably the worst thing about it is that it's butt ugly, but then the poor engine is being pushed way too far at this point anyway.

>>378835751
that's not entirely true. a new cycle only happens when the current arisen defeats the current seneshal. if the arisen fails to defeat the seneschal they become the new dragon. if the seneshal is defeated the arisen becomes the new seneshal and when the time comes they will make someone the new dragon. if the arisen can't defeat the dragon or chooses not to fight them then the dragon stays and chooses a new arisen.

>>378835980
Is the gameplay mostly the same then? I was thinking of trying it since I've heard it's fairly instanced for an online game like PSO2 which might make it a bit easier to play without lag issues.

>>378835175
I never get tired of the warrior class but replaying the game for the fourth time might be a bit too much for me

Sequel when?

>>378836186
Considering it's Capcom, Squandering[/spoiler] OppOrtiNities.

>>378833732

Dont buy it for ps3, fps dips below 20 all the time, its so bad its almost unplayable

>>378836160
Not the anon you're replying to, but I tried it forever ago back when it first got released.

Pretty much everything outside the main town is instanced, just a big interconneced area to explore similar to regular DD. It's P2P, so there's 0 latency issues and it was very enjoyable playing with friends, as far as connection and latency goes.

It plays somewhat similar, but you can definitely tell it's not a single player game if that makes any sense. I don't really know how to explain it, but the majority of the attacks felt like they had much less weight to them as opposed to DD.

Except for magic. Shit was cash and a straight upgrade from the already great system in DD.

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>>378836160
Pretty much the same. Grabbing onto monsters is reserved mainly for the larger ones, so no ox rides anymore. And you can't grab other players for obvious reasons no matter how sad it makes everyone.

The two biggest things I can say changes is that the game is a lot more strict about levels, where if you're 10+ levels lower than the enemy expect to get your shit pushed in easily. The other is that they added a "rage mode" mechanic to larger monsters, which got a lot of flak at launch, but they've re-done it now where instead of simply having to climb on the monster and shake its stamina away, you can instead attack it with big hits to break down the stamina with attacking weak spots having a much bigger effect.

The nitty gritty like elements, statuses, and how health works are pretty much one-for-one compared to DD.

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>>378831507
I can't really describe why I like DD so much because in a lot of ways it's objectively pretty flawed and blatantly unfinished, but the gameplay is just so fluid yet meaty that I can't help but love it

>>378836413
Would somebody kindly explain this whole Rage Mode thing, how close is it to Monster Hunter's? I really liked it there though.

>>378836373
>>378836413
Sounds pretty good then, can you just fuck around and explore then without really doing anything and just kill stuff?

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>>378836432
it's the fact that when you hit something it feels like you're hitting it and the general slow pace of movement during combat just feels right.

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>>378836468
This is the only screenshot I have showing it in play, and even then it doesn't have everything.

If you see the yellow bar under the Geo Golem's 1-hit left health at the top, that's the stamina the monster has during rage. For most other monsters there would also be a little shield to the left of the two bars. While it's up the monster takes vastly reduced damage and deals a lot more as well as using new attacks.
As you attack weakspot or climb onto the monster and shake it by mashing a button, you sap away at that yellow bar. When the yellow bar is gone, the monster staggers and then you can knock it over for uninterrupted damage.

Originally, you just had to do one of those two things, but when they added the new system with the shield, as you do damage overall the shield will fill up with blue, and when it's full a large chunk of stamina instantly goes away as well as putting the monster in a state where anything that takes away stamina is more effective.
Sorcerers in particular are incredibly effective at this point and can blow through a monster's stamina in a single well placed spell.

>>378834461
Not on console. The eternal ferrystone was only obtainable on console by having a vanilla DD save file and then upgrading to DDDA. On PC they just gave all that shit away for free, which was a little irritating.

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>tfw no one to play DDO with so just stuck replaying DDDA

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As a huge Devil May Cry fan DD pretty much left me with the same feeling DMC4 did. Unrivaled in some aspects, but completely kneecapped by its tremendous flaws.

The best and worst part about the director Itsuno is that he's ridiculously ambitious, too ambitious for Capcom. Dragon's Dogma has the makings of a classic, but it never becomes a game greater than the sum of its parts.

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>>378831507
>redpill

you mean... lolipill?

>>378831507
Pros:
>great gameplay and combat system
>Pawn system is interesting
>Bitterblack Island
>Grigori

Cons:
>story is subpar
>beloved system isn't utilised well
>map is small and has almost nothing
>classes aren't balanced

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>>378831507

I have to find the article again and while it didn't give any details there's a rumor that the reason why Deep Down has been vaporware all this time is because its being re-christened into Dragon's Dogma 2 at e3

Now I would be alright with that if they changed the battle system to the quick one da or vanilla dd had, not that slower-than-dark-souls one deep down initially had, though the magic system seemed interesting

>>378837640
Better not listen lies and heresy anon, everyone is way too busy pulling each other's legs right now. Better wait for E3.

Any recommended mods?

>>378837717

I am, e3 is less than two weeks now

Best to take things with a grain of salt right now until it passes

I feel bad for the metal gear conspiracy theorists though...they just can't let it go .

>>378837781
Get the non-gamebreaking collection mods and the dll hooks. You could get the ENB as well.

>>378837640
dondodistomeman

>>378836598
You technically can with two main things stopping you.

One, if I recall, there are just blatant things that will bar your progression unless you complete a certain quest. At least I recall something similar to that.

Two, even if I'm a fucking retard and that aforementioned system is just something I'm remembering incorrectly, you wouldn't WANT to explore places more than a few levels ahead of you. As that other anon already mentioned, levels make a much bigger deal in this game than DD. If the level difference is too great, you'll just deal extremely low damage while getting one shot by glancing blows on even the tankiest of characters. You have to remember it's technically an mmo.

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>>378831507
I don't understand the text, but i think I get it from the pics alone

>>378831507
Combat and movement in general. Good art design.

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>>378831507
I like the weight of some shit, that satisfying hit.

The first time i played this game i ended up dropping it two times but for some reason i came back and now is one of my favorite games of all time. Such a sad ting really that while exploring is inevitable to find places where you are sure there could have been a road or a deeper part of a dungeon only to be cut out.
Also nobody mention it but the music is quite good in this game.

>>378838262
If I have to guess, the Arisen already is banging two girls and the main pawn is jealous.

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>>378838262

>>378838298
>that filename
Fuck I can't stop laughing.

It's prob one of the few games that makes the player feel like they are going on a proper adventure right. Also, the scale between you and the larger monster is so damn good.

>>378832943
FUUUCK CAAAAPCOOOLMMMM

>>378837015
>But can I BE the little girl?
>Of course!

hahah

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>>378838391
This one got cut off I think. I could only find these 3 too

>>378834107
You have only yourself to blame.

If you are playing to win then play online multiplayer shit and not DD

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sup

I remember the pawns never shut the fuck up.
Did that change in the PC version?

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>>378838512
>DDO has a feature where you can designate a single pawn as your "Partner Pawn"
>Every now and then you get the message "Affection between you and your partner pawn has increased"
>Eventually they will confess their love to you

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>>378837781
Modifying the Magick Archer's stat growth if you want to be OP but are too lazy to put the autism into min-maxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUTooztdpM

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>>378838664
>still not outside japan

>>378838664
N-NANI?
Is this true?

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>>378838651
______ ____ __ _____

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>>378838748
Yep.

>>378838651
yes

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It's one of those rare 7/10 games where the devs spent 100% of their time making the actual gameplay as kick ass as possible and everything else is mostly just an afterthought or used to further the gameplay.

Interestingly, you can use this as an objective measure of taste.

People with shit taste are turned off by the muddy graphics, unengaging story, and voice acting. Or they compare it to other games and trash it for not being enough like Skyrim or Dark Souls.

People with good taste enjoy Dragon's Dogma for what it is. They look past those superficial elements because that shit ain't important. People who like DD truly enjoy video games, because they understand video GAMES are about GAMEPLAY

>>378838664
Is the old Dragonforged dude in DDO? I thought the comic was about the arisen trying to give the pawn the arisens bond but the game wont let him. That's why the square button is highlighted cause he was mashing it in frustration

>>378838917
my main gripe with Dragon Dogma is the kind of paltry overworld.

Could be bigger.

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GIVE GEIMU CAPCOM

>>378838836
I need to play DDO now
Any guides for setting everything up?

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>>378838723
Soon, Capcom.
Soon.

>>378839024
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonsdogmaonline/comments/45t8i7/want_to_play_ddon_look_here/

>>378839068
Thanks

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>>378838959
Nothing that fancy.
You get a room that you can make decorations for and just slowly build up their affection.

That cyclops doll in the back is also something you can make.

>>378838917
DD is absolutely amazing even with said problems.

Yet I appreciate all the other aspects you mentioned to a high enough degree where they might make or break another game for me. Don't assume shit anon.

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>>378838664
>US release date never

>>378838959
>Is the old Dragonforged dude in DDO?
I haven't played DDO, but why would he be? He turned to dust in the ending, after all.

>>378839450
Capcom would probably sell it for 59.99.

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Anyone who doesn't know how the romance system works have had this happen to this.

>>378839516
So? I'll suck dick if I have to.

>>378839681
can you explain it so I can have my waifu live in the end

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>>378839681
>tfw this happened my 1st playthrough

>>378839785
What do you mean? The affection system, or the choice?

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>>378839785
sure, you shower her with cloudwine
you'll get the shegoat and you'll love her tenderly you swine

>>378839970
Both, I guess, I've never played before

>>378839785
Your romance option will be whoever has max affinity and if you have more then one option with max affinity, it will be whichever one you talked to last before you face the final boss.

>>378840141
Which also doesn't matter at all because it just puts your "romance option" into your house and that's it.

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>>378840013
>combat when it comes to bosses - most of it just boils down to climbing onto a boss and slashing their weak spot, or shooting at it from afar. Not really many approaches to bosses in the end.

Because others of its genre are so varied right?

>>378840173
We're talking about Dragon's Dogma here, not other games so stop deflecting.

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>>378839952
>Feels bad for you.

>>378840141
>>378840169
So I just get with two of them and whichever I like, talk to the opposite one last? I'm assuming they die.

>>378840238
They don't die, if you beat the game they just sit in your house. Can't even do anything with them.

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>>378839952
what about this

i love this game, but i know its shit. so id say its ok

>>378840227
What do you even want out of it anyway? It has the most varied combat in its genre already, if you want even more go to other genres.

>>378840281
>>378840169
You should care, do you want fucking Fornival to be there at the end?

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Should I try the BBI challenge as Warrior?

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>>378840169
Except as soon as you get out of the castle area you and your loved one, regardless of their age or gender will have hot steamy sex with you.

Which was Fournival for me. on purpose

>>378840410
No, its not fun.

>>378840410
>BBI as a melee character
living armor.jpg
death.jpg

>>378840471
That's not the goal.

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>>378831507
Because, minus the absolute trash story and plot, it is the only game I have played where I feel like an actual adventurer.

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Every class is fun except mage

The only reason all my hours aren't on MK is because the shield is on the back. What the fuck.

>>378840534
What is? Epeen?

>>378840512
>Arc of Obliteration.jpg
>RUN, FUCKING RUN!.jpg

>>378840607
>Arc of Waiting30minutestohit.jpg

>>378840565
The only way to play a mage/sorcerer character is to have all your pawns be them too and quad cast spells

Nothing like destroying an enemy with 4 tornadoes and not being able to see shit.

it's boring weebshit leftclick simulator

more clickspam than diablo games

>>378840574
The challenge.

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>>378840645
You just stunlock the LA with a single surging light tome and them Arc them into the air and they die of fall damage.

I've only ever killed Death as a sorcerer MA, and blast arrow ranger because fuck that shit

>>378840661
Seconded

LOVE THIA GAME.
Got it on ps3 and PC.
Capcom needs to quickly announce a sequel

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>>378839971
>tfw french brown knight was your first without even knowing about the romance system

>>378833089
>>378835885

To be fair, although his point is proven wrong in the end of the story; and "post-game" content is where the whole game is at, you do spend most of the narrative essentially doing just what he said.

"Ebil dragon, do the dragon kwests, do the royal hunt, go stop dem cultists who worship ebil dragon, go kill dragon"

Makes up an overwhelmingly large proportion of the narrative. Just because it M Night Shyamalans you repeatedly at the end doesn't mean the thrust of the storyline isn't "Bad dragon, go killz it"

>>378840698
There's none. Just tediousness.

>>378840292
>flips the bird

my sides

>>378840684
underage pls

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>>378840565
>an humbler

Fucking cockneys.

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>All those pawns that will never level up and are waiting for their Arisen in that gloomy overworld

>>378840990
>tfw your pawn is great at his job but nobody hires him because he's not a little girl

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>>378841083
BETTER REV UP THIS HORRIBLE FUCKING PRINCESS COSTUME, SLAP A MONOCLE AND CALL IT A DAY
It's pretty hard to find pawns with personality, that's why I mainly hire male pawns

>>378841083
>tfw to busy playing DDO to go back and hit your pawn

I also would hire loli and brine them with 1 * ratings. Waifu fags are cancer in this game.

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>>378841257
I do the same shit.

>tfw my brown skinned qt girl pawn has 5* all around

Feels good.

>>378840684
>playing with m+kb

laughingwhores.jpg

>>378841257
Brined pawns go back with three stars, though.

>>378841173
>pawns
>personality

I dunno man, you sound like a closet homo.

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>>378840684
>weebshit
>the game is the most western fantasy thing there is

>>378841518
I don't want to go adventuring with generic 5 feet tall woman in Princess garbs
God that makes me so mad

I fucking miss that game but I finished to 100% to many times. Made all kind of fetish related pawns. roleplayed everythng I wanted to roleplay.

I just wish the modding community was more active on PC or if Capcom just released DD2 or DDO in the west

>>378841878
You're right using the word "wish" there, because from what I heard, it's almost impossible. Mod installation is much more difficult than say Bethesda games. Though yeah, this game could have mod support and it would just be superb.

>>378842026
Yeah I figured by the fact that mods on nexus are pretty much all the same. But damn this game is one of my favorite ever. I don't even remember how I discovered it (probably a thread like this one here). it has everything I like in a game. Except maybe for the map lacking some other major cities. Problem is DDDA is the only game like that I know of.

What about DDO, any news for it coming out in the West. I hate Capcom the killing suspens.

>>378842204
>What about DDO, any news for it coming out in the West.
They said they're considering bringing it overseas once the game gets a more "solid foundation" in Japan a few months ago. So I'm hoping some time this year.

>>378842437
Well, at least there are some communications about it. Don't know if the game is as good as the first one but at least there's something to be hoping for.

My first playthrough of this game from start to the end of BBI was as a Warrior.

I had fun, the only tedious part I really had an issue with was living armors, but most of them on BBI you can meme strike off of cliffs before they go phys immune.

Also, Death was a fucking chump he just took forever. Just get rid of all your pawns and jump attack him, his attacks are very predictable. Run out of AoE, run in and hit,repeat.

Honorable mentions to fighting Gorecyclops' as a warrior.

>>378841527
No, it's a weebshit conceptualization of western fantasy. through their eyes

>>378843905
C'mon dude just say its superior and you like it better. Being vague doesn't help anyone.

Best ARPG combat ever, interesting character customization both in terms of appearance and stats/class, good enemy designs and boss fights.

It's not a 10/10 but the good parts makes it one of the more memorable games I've played.

>>378831507
>fun, easy gameplay
>nothing challenging or demanding
>waifu maker + romance side-plot
>you fight and/or become god

literally the average mentally ill narcissist's wet dream

Its the only game I can play where shields are incredibly useful offensive tools
Also the only game I've played with a satisfying mystic knight playstyle that wasnt just enchant weapon with (element) and spam basic attacks

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How does NG+ fit into the story if the Arisen kills himself at the end of the game?

>>378844147
it's funny that the most optimal way to play MK is to spam basic attacks on that stupid orb cannon thing. But only idiots play like that, it's boring when you can magic parry everything

>>378844184
The cycle of eternal return never finishes.

>>378844184
>and countless lifetimes come to pass
Your sacrifice couldn't stop the cycle, and after enough time a near-exact duplicate of your first character arose
ABANDON ALL DELUSIONS OF CONTROL

>>378844230
Actually the most optimal way to play is to use holy riposte on a three stack of grand cannon, which is a lot more involved than just whacking it
But still, grand cannon annoys me with how good it is

/v/erdict says its shit

>tfw did everything in the game and there's nothing left

>>378833068
I'd like to see her in the sequel, as unlikely as that is.

Can you fast travel in this game?

>>378845559
Yes but you have to make the fast travel points yourself.

>>378845460
Same. I try every now and then to start a new game. But as soon as I create my character, I know the exact path I'll have to take, the answers to give, the objects to get to finish it at 100%.
And I also think about the tedious shit I have to do to get all the items, weapons and armors and just give up.

>>378831507
They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong.

Dragons Dogma is an interesting game to me. It's very flawed and there's a lot of shit in it that really bothers me. But despite this I love the game. I loved the exploration, combat and the monsters especially. And the fact that you can create your own companion that you can travel and fight with. It made them very special.

It's also the only game I've bought more than once. I played it on my PS3 originally and then got the PC version. I'd say it's a fun game. Still hoping for a sequel.

Combat is fun and I have a waifu pawn.

>>378839681
I got his daughter once. Wouldn't be so bad if not for her bowl cut.

>>378840013
You can cut off dragon horns, too.

>>378839681
>Got the princess
>Last time I met her she put me in prison
I would've preferred the blacksmith over that bitch.

>>378844739
That makes no sense. Fuck off, you fanfic shitter.

>>378846391
>Last time I met her she put me in prison
You got the slut princess without doing the second half of her storyline? She really is way too easy.

>>378831507
For me it's the Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen.

>>378846491
Just talking to her rise her affection level to the max I think. If you don't put effort into romancing someone else, you'll get her.
Doing some characters side quests does the same.
I got Valmiro once. I had a male character. I wasn't pleased by this.

>>378831507
It's japanese.

>>378844184
NG+ isn't canon, dumbass.

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If your beloved wasn't Julien you need to kys (kill your self)

>>378846767
Is it possible to throw her off the castle from outside her room? Would doing so remove her from the game for that playthrough?

>>378846953
All characters that have quests will respawn after 7 days. All you need to do is ignore her. Preferably, never interact with her at all.

>>378846953
There are some characters you can't kill for good. They'll get back after a few ingame days.
Or maybe I'm thinking about another game. I need confirmation.

>>378838641
hi gregory

I keep getting the E-09-03 error
What should I do?

>>378847054
>>378847078
I've already done her whole questline for the Hero trophy. I'll just give her one of those items that resets/lowers affinity.

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AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT AUGHT

>>378847275
Or give a whole lot of items that increase affinity to your waifu. I turned Mercedes into an alcoholic more times than anyone can imagine..

>>378838641
THE RAMBLINGS OF AN UPJUMPED ZEALOT MAKE FOR TEDIOUS LISTENING

>>378831507
Wolves hunt in packs.

Anyone know what face shape Mercedes has? The wikia says 44, but that's totally wrong - jaw is way too wide.

>>378838682
>to put the autism into min-maxing
literally just start leveling as a mage complete vocation path and switch to MA

>>378831507
I love that the wind pushes me, Arisen

>>378847561
MA is easy mode. Stop being such a baby.

You were fooled by /v/ the game is shit and I will explain why:

>No indication of where roads lead
>No hint to what enemies are weak to
>No hint of when enemies are alone or in groups
>No warning to avoid status effects
>No clue to which items are masterworks

I don't know how people defend this game.

>>378847770
There's no reason for those spaces, leddit.

>>378847770
>Not telling which things are interesting
>Not telling me which monster is that
>Not telling me when it's enough
>Not telling me if that's a jape
Bad form.

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I like to go hiking with my pawn

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me and my pawn (gf)

>>378833732
No its terrible, one of the worst running ps3 games. 540p, black bars, 20fps and less, blurry muddy graphics. I played it for a couple of hours and dropped it on ps3 a couple years ago, thankfully the pc version was released because I would have missed a fantastic game

Is there any game that does dragons as good or better than Dragon's Dogma? Genuine question.

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>tfw no DD2

>>378848092
Degenerate.

>>378848163
No.

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enjoying the view

>>378848163
Skyrim

>>378848163
The only one I could think of getting close is that Fereldan Frostback dragon from DA:I. It actually felt like you are fighting a great beast in it's lair. The ruined place, dragonlings around and the place covered in flames. That's pretty much the only good dragon there though.

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>>378848352
>tfw no rain in the game for storms

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fug :-D

>>378848094
>one of the worst running ps3 games
You've obviously never played Skyrim or New Vegas on there. DD runs very well, in comparison.

Aren't the graphics muddy on all systems, or are you taking mods into account?

>>378848402
>BioWare game
Hahahahaaha

>>378848163
Midir in DS3 is a really fun dragon fight. Music, atmosphere, it's attacks, everything.

>>378834056

This actually sounds great.

>>378848425
I was also disappointed at the lack of rain. You get the one scripted thunderstorm during the gryphon fight at Blue Moon Tower, and that's it.

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It's the Skyrim I wanted but never got.

To bad it was never finished, ironically it felt like a more finished product that Skyrim.

If I am to critique it, it's a bit repetetive, the world is way to small, little variation in enemies and the story is a bit wobbly.

>>378848092
godtier taste

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>>378848648
>Gransys will never be 3x as big with more than 2 towns
>different weather from rain, snow, powerful winds like near bluemoon tower
>more than just one lesser dragon in the overworld pre-grigori
I want more DD

>>378848402
Darn, I'd rather not have to slog through DA:I just for that.

>>378848591
Ah, right. I haven't gotten around to playing DS3's DLC yet. Thanks.

It's a shame that despite how highly dragons are put in fantasy, not many games really do them justice.

>>378831507
One of the best, most complex character creation systems where you can fine-tune just about every aspect of your character's physique, including their stance if you want to make a bold hero who stands strong, or a weakling who cowers and hunches in on themselves.

And wizards feel like they do more than spam fireball, you actually do get to feel like a conduit to unimaginable powers that could let you decimate cities.

>>378849106
I'm almost 100% sure they will announce DD2 at E3 this year

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>>378849106
>you will never fight dragons on the moon
Genuinely makes me sad.

>>378849114
>It's a shame that despite how highly dragons are put in fantasy, not many games really do them justice.
This. They are supposed to be monsters that terrorize the land for ages, yet they are a fucking joke to some asshole who decided to walk by one day. What gives?

>>378849210
I've never really followed E3 before, do they announce release dates as well when they show the games?

I'll legit schedule holidays for when that releases so I can no life it for 5 weeks straight

It could be DMC5 though

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The problem with the game is, the quests are pretty shit. When i end a session I'm never eager going back to the game because the quests are a snoozefest.

>>378849350
>playing for the quests
Jesus.

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>>378846476
It fits the theme fine.
If the cycles repeat and repeat, for ever, eventually every possible version of events will unfold an infinite number of times.
New game plus also skips the tutorial, jumping straight to 'and countless lifetimes come to pass' - implying that it leads directly on from your previous game. There's also a different Arisen as the Seneschal and furthermore, at the end of the game when your name appears in the book of Seneschals, it's not the last one suggesting that the cycle continued.

It's vague, probably intentionally, but this interpretation makes as much sense as any other, and I'd argue more.

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>>378838641

>>378849106
>snowdrifts that reduce you to walking pace and are so thick that short pawns have to be carried
A man can dream.

>>378849443
>playing a game advertised as a RPG for quests is wrong

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>>378848174

>>378849335
>do they announce release dates as well when they show the games?
They either announce one or they don't. There's no regularity to it.

>>378849626
>Being able to princess carry your cute loli waifu to safety
Take my money.

>>378831507
Shills. Genuine shills because the game is garbage.

>>378849106
Alright then, post dreams
>Melee is separated from 1-handed and 2-handed.
>Melee damage types are crushing, slashing and piercing.
>Spear and axes are added.
>Spell mixing or chain casting.
>Exploration is rewarding, letting you find a unique weapon after you traversed that mountain.
>Dynamic weather.
>Randomized spawns.

>>378849453
I realize that the game is all about infinite worlds, but do you not get how dumb that is? I could maybe understand a guy/girl looking like you after so many years. Having that happen with every person in Gransys (and them having the same personalities) in the same exact setting is fucking retarded, like something you'd see explained away in Rick and Morty.

Everything makes sense if you disregard NG+.

>>378843905
Better than Oblivion or Warcraft.
Not even bait. I'm fucking serious.

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>>378844184
>Cycle of Eternal Return
>Ends.
>Not knowing Savan pulled the sword out of HIS chest like he was the rose bride.

>>378849883
Play past the delivery quest next time, kid.

The entire game is just a big fat load of filler before you get to the Everfall and BBI. Whenever I start a new game, I just go straight into BBI.

Honestly, the game would be served so much better going DS-style. More metroidvania, less open world. All of its best sections are those sorts of things. Or, just as good, make it linear.

>>378849210
It's nice seeing people being this naive.

>>378850147
Souls games are trash. We don't need more games like them.

>>378850241
>immediately disregard post because it mentions Souls
BBI and the Everfall are Souls-style. Those are indisputably the best parts of the game. The open world in this game is garbage and just served to increase production costs.

Put two and two together, dude.

>>378850116
Maybe that's where every Arisen/Seneschal keeps their Godsbane. Honestly, who fucking cares?

>>378850147
>DS style
And into the trash it goes. The game is clearly inspired by Monster Hunter. If anything, they are trying to do an open world MH game but fell flat because Capcom decided to rush it out since competition suddenly popped up. A horrible idea.

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>>378849626
>>378849835
>>378849885
YES. FUCKING FUND IT.

>>378850353
>these parts are bad because I don't like them

>>378850353
>. The open world in this game is garbage
IT's weird, but I find that it isn't.

Every area in this game is unique. I noticed this when harvesting consummables to survive. You get to look for grapes with your pawn, or find apples and rare herbs you can use later. If the world was bigger and it was as moddable as Skyrim the game would have been 10/10
Look at all the shit that was half-implemented.
>Item combining.
>Harvesting
>Hunting
>Camping
I normally don't like survival elements, but this could have been comfy.

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>>378850364
And now they're trying to convert MH into an open world game by Telltales

>games with interconnected levels are now "Souls style"
I want off this ride.

>>378831507
>Great combat
>Fantastic atmosphere of a real adventure
>Some actual challenge
>The pawn AI is fantastic, just going to show that good AI does sell games

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Hey want to sneak into my room at night and have nasty lesbian sex?

>>378849106
We posting dreams? Okay then
> Map is 5x Gransys
> More customization, weapons, armors but same system
> Dynamic weather
> Level ups give you points you can attribute yourself so you can have a faster Warrior for example.
> More exploration (caves, mountains, undergrounds, castles,...)
>

>>378850798
ok let's go

>>378850724
I would've liked the option to buy and carry a sleeping bag/tent to use in cleared areas. Actual fishing and cooking would be cool, too.

>>378850364
>DS style
>And into the trash it goes.
You're everything wrong with the internet. DS is overhyped, but just mentioning it in a post doesn't immediately invalidate that post.

>>378850445
No, they're bad because they're inferior to even the shittiest AC-style open world games. The open world in DD is completely pointless and adds nothing to the game.

Seriously, what does it add to the game? Beautiful vistas, amazing scenery? No. The most attractive locations in the game are self-contained. Any gameplay purpose? No. There are hardly any giant monsters out there, hardly any items to find, nothing interesting to discover. It's not a barrier to moving around. I suppose that it serves as an overworld, but that's the worst possible use for something that probably ate up half of their development budget.

>>378850724
>Look at all the shit that was half-implemented.
Shit indeed. Half of a feature isn't a feature at all. They did their best work when they didn't try to implement a massive open world. Their best work was done when they made smaller, more contained zones.

>>378850827
>muh big map
Christ. I bet you buy Ubishit games. DD's map isn't that small. A sequel would only need to double it's size in order to feel massive.

>>378849905
It's an infinite chain, man
The main menu music (in DA at least) is literally called 'Eternal Return', the name for the concept that the universe, and everything in it, will eventually repeat in exactly the same way and will continue to do so for all time.

I agree that it's a less satisfying ending than the player being the one finally able to break the cycle, but the core theme of the game is that you cannot fight fate - every end you meet is simply part of the order of the world. If you die, you die and another Arisen eventually takes your place and the cycle continues. If you kill the dragon and then die, you become the next dragon and the cycle continues. If you fight all the way to the throne of God and kill him - well done, you've done exactly the same thing he did, and the endless chain of previous Arisen have done as well. The cycle continues.

If you think that in all that time, the only person who ever thought to kill themselves was you, then consider the point this anon makes >>378850116. Possibly every single Arisen eventually tries it, with the same result, and has to pass on the Godsbane the same way. The cycle, as always, continues.

>>378851057
Accept that not every game has to be like Souls. The open world wasn't utilized to its full potential, but that doesn't mean they should totally scrap it.

>>378851057
I'm saying making everything related to DS is bad, since DS is pretty much the only one that could do it properly. DDDA is a different game and it should remain that way. The reason BBI worked so well because it was just combat after combat, a huge reason why people liked this game. But cramped places is limiting the game by a huge margin, spells and climbing are largely underused there. Imo the condemned gorecyclops would have been much better when fought in some sort of mountain range.

>Goblins
>Wolves
>Harpies
>Zombies
>Annoying fucking ghosts
>spiders
>saurians
>bandits
>chimeras
>cyclops
>gryphons
>wyverns
>cockatrice
>dragons
>hydras
>gargoyles
>that tentacle shit from the rift
>Games is still mostly fighting goblins, cyclops, chimeras and bandits
>despite that there still isn't much variation

>>378838305
Engineering ain't to shabby, been curious for awhile who handled that. Google tells me nothing.

>>378851112
Nah m8 it felt small and repetitive. As much as I loved the game, it lacked other cities than Gransys and Cassardis. It lacked mountains and caves. Exploring was pretty much about finding stuff you knew were there.

>>378850986
It's the epitome of comfy. I don't care about the story or the quests. Just exploring the world and finding cool stuff is awesome enough. I remember finding the watergod's altar with my pawnbro on my first walkthrough. It was amazing. I wished the world could be as big as Skyrim or Oblivion.
>>378851298
Honestly I wish they'd just recycle DD's monsters for the next game and implemented a fuckton of new creatures. IT would be god-tier. I think DDO did precisely that.

>>378851146
>in exactly the same way
Nope. The rest of that makes sense, but not this.

>>378849905
if you're offline when you reach the Seneschal in NG+, it's literally your Arisen and main pawn with the gear and skills you had when you beat NG
(deleted previous post because forgot spoilers)

>>378851298
They honestly don't use the big monsters enough

>>378850798
>20 minutes into Gran Soren and she gives you that look

>>378851367
>Tainted Mountain
>Frontier Caverns

>>378831507
What's with the sudden attention to this game?

>>378851581
>Sudden

>>378851552
I didn't say there were none you silly goose. I said it lacked more of these places.

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Where are the elf pawns

>>378851581
This game has been getting its dick sucked for like years now famalam. Closing in on half a decade.

>>378851485
That's just a gimmick. It'd only make sense if the main game played out differently with your second Arisen. Instead, everything is exactly the same as the first time.
>inb4 "muh cycle"
That refers to the cycle of the Arisen, Dragon, Seneschal, and Pawn. It's not some goddamn time loop.

>>378851452
I don't think you're grasping what the concept of an infinite number of links means.
There are a finite number of possible ways that every particle in the universe can be arranged. If you have them move around at random, and don't worry about things like entropy because it's established that magic exists so fuck physics, after an infinite amount of time every single possible arrangement will (and must) have happened an infinite number of times.

Also, I'd forgotten about >>378851485 which is pretty conclusive on its own.

>>378851748
Wait a minute... are they gods technically?

>>378850147
As much as I was annoyed by the open world in the end, I'd rather it not become linear. The game has an identity in it's "quest to kill the dragon" story. Making it linear and abandoning all of its ideas for exploration would ruin all that. I'd rather not be railroaded on a quest to kill the greatest mythical beast known to man and actually prepare for that final duel at my own pace and in my own way like an actual prophecized hero.

My character is a giant orc with a beard and dreads but has scrawny legs who travels around with a snarky rogue whose gender is ambiguous and an archer who could very easily be some sort of princess. If it was an anime I'd watch it.

>>378851820
Again, that's fucking retarded.

>>378832823

Yes in the sense that it takes awhile to get from one place to another, but no in the sense that you'll be disappointed that you cant go past certain points (e.g. the shadow fort), and the encounters/routes are the same as you go across the map so travel unfortunately becomes rather repetitive.

>>378851960
Cringe.

>>378831507

I thought it was really enjoyable training my pawn to be super useful, and then whoring her out to strangers.

I enjoyed the several different play styles available, and I enjoyed the story as well.

Going in blind to the expansion area (bitterblack whatever) was genuinely challenging, and I had no idea what to expect.

>>378852030
>Shadow fort


Every time I get to this quest I remember that map the devs showed in the original previews. This games intention was to have a massive world. At no point in the game is that made more blatantly apparent then at the shadow fort. Makes me want to play DDO, but the floaty weightless combat is a huge turn off.

>>378851581
There's a rerelease coming for PS4 and Xbone and hopefully DD2 announcement at E3

>>378851748
The cycle doesn't have to be a time loop, it's simply the fact that in a bounded system with infinite time, every arrangement will happen again and again. Remember that in between NG and NG+, 'countless lifetimes come to pass' just like they did between the tutorial and NG. There were clearly hundreds, thousands or even potentially millions of Arisen between you and Savan, and again between NG and NG+, each of which lived a completely different life and had different experiences - remember as well that the revive item is literally the crystallised heart of a dead Arisen and that every drake is one that beat the dragon but died in the Everfall. The game as it's experienced is simply the life of an Arisen who was born when the world had come to be in one particular arrangement, and NG+ happens when the world happens to have returned to that arrangement.

>>378851861
Sort of.
The world would exist without the Seneschal but there wouldn't be any people.

So if The Dragonforged was also meant to kill Grigori but didn't, then why does he drop out of the sky at the beginning of the game? Shouldn't he have already been in Gransys?

Also, what was up with Savan's dragon?

>>378852217

Agreed. I loved DD but goddamn did the immersion take a hit at the shadow fort. I love that whole part (taking down 2 cyclopses, etc), and then I got all pumped thinking i was just "heading out into the real world" now, only to realize it was the end of the line.

somehow i never found/explored the frontier caverns there until like my 3rd playthrough though.

>>378852564

Dragonforged is not the last arisen, he is old as fuck. The duke was younger than he is and was probably the last Arisen to try to kill the dragon but of course he took the deal so the dragon fucked off until the game starts.

>>378831507
Porn parody called Dragon Bitch when?

>>378852358
I understand Ashe's frustration with the cycle now. Thanks for taking the time to type all of that.

>>378852759
Well, it would be niche and probably provide clicks, good call anon. Good motherfucking call.

>>378852759
>not Dragon's Smegma

>>378847770
THERE MASTWORKS ALL YOU CANT GO WRONG.

>>378853162
>>378853081
>>378852759
Sfm porn, never ever.

>>378852358
>Wakestones are the crystallised hearts of dead Arisen
>every drake is one that beat the dragon but died in the Everfall
gonna need a source

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>>378853240
>sfm porn with custom arisen and pawns
Think of the possibilities