What sets it apart IMO is a very pleasant tactile feel that complements the exploration of its hand-crafted, no level scaling, medium-sized game world perfectly.
Running, jumping, walking on rooftops, exploring at night with a torch all feel REALLY good. When I first played the game I just stayed in the generic seaside fisherman starting village for like 2 hours, exploring every nook and cranny, because movement was that good.
You can get the « wet » status effect after falling into water and the soggy clothes tech is perfect. I absolutely love the palpable desperation on the avatar when running at full speed with fully drenched clothes
You can grab small enemies and allies and toss them off cliffs, it feels incredible. Taking 10 seconds to charge a gigantic maelstrom is also great.
Otherwise, the game complements a lot of different playstyles and switching classes is easy and recommended, I enjoyed the variety a lot
that post captures dragons dogma better than i can. but the one thing i’ll add is that moving around the world map in dragon’s dogma just feels incredible. captures a feeling of real distance covered, and it’s all wonderfully designed with shortcuts that actually matter (as in you have to weigh up the distance it covers vs the risks involved).
im excited to check out outward, which definitely looks like it captures a lot of a similar vibe, but dragons dogma is fantastic.
I know this group of guys who each have a top 700 games list, and at first I thought it was a bit—like every time some weird ass game came up they’d mention it’s #522 or whatever—but after a couple months I realized they were serious.
As of a couple days back I’ve now seen some screenshots
yeah, I think a 4-year upgrade cycle probably makes sense for an ARM console, though I think they’ll probably do it like the Xbox Series X where everything is backwards compatible for at least the half-generation
if you could tell from the non-answer there unfortunately still isn’t a cheap PC option that’s comparable to the explorer when it launched, but PSVR is definitely better than getting oculus
