Speaking of dragonsplague, last time playing I got excited thinking one of the pawns I hired had the dragonsplague because they were talking about it A LOT and yelled at me in a really rude way, but I checked their eyes and they weren’t red so I dunno what was up with that? Just randomly rude I guess.
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I haven’t had to deal with dragonsplague yet, and I’m on NG+. I did summon a pawn from a rift around level 50 or so and I got a tutorial message about it so I immediately picked that pawn up and hurled his ass into the nearby river.
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I also tossed my pawns into the water the one time I saw that message. But I quickly realized that was a mistake because why do I even play video games if not for experiences like that?
Now I’m hoping to encounter the plague before I lose interest in the game. (I’m nearing the end of my second time through but going days between sessions.)
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To be honest I throw most unhired wandering pawns in the river if they manage to stop me dead in my tracks to tell me they are good at collecting items etc.
Or I’ll grab them and carry them along to help with larger fights.
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A couple weeks ago I realized I didn’t particularly care anymore whether my pawn earned the remaining badges because the rest would be tedious to get. So I just set my pawn’s quest to kill a sphinx and figured that would take a long time if it happened at all. The next time I opened the game, my pawn returned not only having done it but having earned the badge entirely.
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I think dragonsplague can manifest symptoms before the red eyes show up. My pawn started talking about a power rising within her and had the standard brown eyes while i couldn’t recall her associating with infected folks. I tossed them all in the brine a few times but yeah, would have been a lot more interesting seeing how the game would handle critical quest givers getting offed if I let the nuke rip in a capital city…
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Last night I reached the ending for the second time. I sure missed a lot of things my first time though, including a unique boss that I liked (the worm).
The unmoored world was quite a different experience this time. I’m glad it was a complete surprise for me the first time because I was pretty aimless and it felt dangerous and hopeless. This time, I just went from place to place and got things done.
I looked at the trophy list and I have just two left (the last of the special vocation skills and walking across a cyclops bridging a gap) so I might as well do that in one more quick partial new game plus. And then set the game aside until its Bitterblack Isle gets released.
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Last night I beat this game. I didn’t mean to. I thought there was lots of mandatory stuff I still had to do. Like the Sphinx. I never saw any Sphinx. And I don’t think any of that palace intrigue I was mixed up in got resolved. And there were all these dragons still terrorizing the world but I guess I killed the only one that matters and that was it, game over.
I didn’t get any kind of big dramatic moment with my lover at the end. I think it was that gal who’s leading a rebellion or something? I know my character kissed her at one point. Maybe had s*x too, that may have happened somewhere. But during the ending I think I only saw like a mop of hair that kinda looked like hers. It’s kind of a downer, I wanted this to break in some funny way but it was kind of a big nothing, just a slog of a fight in the most boring locale I’d yet been to. Kinda wished I’d just left the game unfinished.
I enjoyed most everything prior to the final bosses at least.
Anyway check out my arisen, she was very damp most of the time.
Just realized I never even went to the brothel, shit.
Maybe I should do new game+…?
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ok, glad im not the only one.
i was away for like 2 weeks and came back did a couple quests and turned out that was the ending.
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i also never saw the sphinx!
y’all are getting past the fakeout ending though, right…?
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Oh duh now I am
I figured that dude did something or other but I wouldn’t be able to interact until the next playthrough or that I’d have to redo the dragon fight. Glad it saves right before there so I could give it another shot.
Dragon’s Dogma 2…is pretty neat.
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I ended up buying and playing this after learning that the dlc isn’t exploitative and getting back from my trip - I’ve had a good time with it and put in 10s of hours, then the part of my brain that is theoretically vulnerable to gambling addiction decided I should stop doing any regular quests and instead grind pawn quests to get 10,000 gold per dead megafauna, and that the only class worth playing was the mystic spearhand because it can make the entire party invulnerable for like 5 seconds at the cost of a little stamina and the breathing room to do a little windup animation. i have a lot of affection for this game and my thoughts about it will probably come back out of storage once i’ve returned to it. i hope my pawn is getting summoned a lot and soaking up those RCs
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Everyone post their hot pawns
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This game got an update for ps5 and Xbox and it’s 60fps as hell now
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So does 2 invalidate 1 or what? Does 2 have a crazy fucking twist?
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i think they end up having quite different tones, both in narrative and how the games play. i prefer the first game still.
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2’s map is roughly 4 times bigger than 1’s, but they didn’t do much to fill or contextualize that space, if anything it’s even more sparse and repetitive. The caves especially all look the same and have no narrative relation to whatever’s near them. If they were trying to make a point that Real Life contains lots of pointless space, they succeeded. On the other hand, they put treasure chests that always contain something useful on your minimap (once your pawn has spotted it). Versus in 1 where you had to do weird jumps off of 3 different buildings to find a single Egg on top of a chimney. Another thing that’s more realistic for the worse in 2 is that houses aren’t full of random shit you can pick up like brooms and piles of scrap paper, I never picked that stuff up but I liked having the option. Idk a lot of things about 2 felt like they were cutting corners.
The way 2 handles narrative makes 1 look normal. In 2 you are always on the periphery of what the main cast is doing, almost like you’re not the main character. It seemed like it was leading up to Phaesus being the main villain of the story but he’s just some guy who gets mildly annoyed whenever you talk to him. I thought the game was going to develop your relationship with the characters and locations a little more but then it just ends. You’re basically just a tourist. BUT after having relatively short interactions with certain cast members they will start coming on to you. Which is how real life is sometimes right?
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