sounds like a perfect Dragons Dogma sequel so far!!
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Aw man they turned rift crystals into a micro transaction currency? In the original they essentially were just there to inflate the costs for hiring overleveled pawns, if I recall correctly. I think there was a special shop where you could buy DLC outfits in exchange for them too.
we’re calling this double drag dog right, that’s the official title of the game right
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You can roleplay Bimmy and Jimmy in this one probably
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You could always use a friend’s overleveled pawn for free, though, and that’s the same in this game. (At least, so I’ve read. I started the game late last night before anyone on my list had yet created a pawn.)
(If anyone playing this on PS is not on my friend list and wants to trade pawns, feel free to add me. My name is the same on there as here.)
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i dont want to hire any pawns i just want me and my og main pawn to takedown cyclopes together
The microtransaction thing does suck shit fwiw i will try to ignore it as much as possible like any fuckin microtransaction deserves
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Yeah, one of my friends just played through 1 with my old pawn, and sent me a cordial text thanking me a week or so back when he realized it was mine.
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they’re still in the game normally too. the original release of dragon’s dogma had the same thing. The Gamers just decided to glom onto it this morning as their excuse this month to write “greedy devs” and other pairs of words i don’t even feel like typing on steam reviews and etc
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this game is such a fascinating combination of PS3-era systems thinking and like, the natural consequence of anyone but bethesda trying to make an elder scrolls game and it immediately turning into on-the-nose parody…
I was given a quest to save an imprisoned advisor from a jail, and the quest giver gave me a key to the jail. I went into the jail at night and the guards seemed to be totally ignoring me, so I opened a chest in front of one of them, which made them hostile, and they beat me up and threw me in the jail, taking away all of my equipment and items… except for the key to the same jail, so I let myself out. my party was really happy to see me afterward! and then one of them announced that they’d “discovered a chest” nearby and proceeded to run into an adjoining building and rob a morgue.
this game has the funniest possible lobotomy
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I’d been collecting “shards of life stone” or something for the entire 3 hours I’d been playing until finally it told me I’d gotten enough to make a whole one, and I didn’t know if this was gonna raise my stats or what… not two minutes later I accidentally fell off a cliff due to the camera (revealing an incredibly funny animation choice, your character just slowly pitches forward qwop-style whenever you go off a ledge, and if he rotates enough to land close to his head then he dies when he hits the ground) and the game immediately prompted me to use up my newly formed life stone. fantastic, no notes.
I then wandered off into the forest to test out some new attacks when a goblin came flying out from behind a tree to my right and just pinned my mage, the most slapstick shit imaginable, I had to get him off of her (combat physicality!) but it was the silliest way to start an encounter I could’ve imagined. I learned a new skill that I thought was gonna let me rope enemies to me scorpion-style but instead it just kind of pulls them halfway and they fall over? hilarious.
I climbed up a tower to get a chest and fought some harpies circling on top and my archer suggested that I grab on to one of the harpies after wounding it and see where it flies me to which is a completely bonkers idea that I would never in a million years have thought up on my own (I am a 7 foot tall lion man and the harpies are not very big).
game rules.
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it feels like it was directed by an eight year old (with a team of talented professionals backing them up) in the best possible way
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i’m picturing this?
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the funny thing is that the actual script is totally po-faced – so much so that it quickly becomes clear that is not the point of any of this and it’s just there as a framing device – because every single emergent aspect of the storytelling or the world design is three stooges shit. like, all these characters walked on set after having only a day to rehearse. I love it.
anyway it could all go sour from here but so far this is by far the most pleasantly surprised I’ve been by a big-budget current gen title, they don’t make em like this very much
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also, so far it seems like the higher level the allies you recruit are, the more they talk back? like disobedient pokemon? I finally hired someone who was higher than my current level for the first time and instead of constantly praising me and saying “the arisen has a great sense of direction!” they were like “well I think you should go this way but you don’t have to listen to me”
it feels almost like saints row 4 in terms of the developers clearly having time to implement a bunch of tossed-off ideas because they thought they were funny
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The best part of character creation is “Teeth.”
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if dark souls is a bleak comedy, this is “fucking up a community theater production”
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@physical’s pawn won’t stop high-fiving me
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i think i might just go back to the first one to satiate my thirst for dragons doggin but it heartens me that all of the stuff @Felix is so enamored by is stuff that was basically present in the first one
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a pretty curious detail is that there’s no “2” on the title screen
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Off topic but one of the best depictions of keigo used to condescend is in Koreeda’s latest film Monster, recommended
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