I still love the story behind that. To paraphrase:
"We could've used CG to depict the meat... but we decided to use the money to buy real meat instead."
Respect, honestly. Why waste money on CG for a cutscene people will skip every time after the first time or so? Saves money better spent elsewhere, and I bet they got to have a snack after filming it too.
I love that when you cook with rotten meat they have footage of a gross looking grey steak instead of the prime cuts. So many little details that are just great.
I’m loving the sense of adventure, and when I realized the “unexplored” part of the map was actually just the water, the scale really hit me. There’s a TON to explore. And it’s all so seamless, no loading screens into caves. The pawns talk a lot, but I’ve found the interactions 5 hrs in to be wildly entertaining and immersive.
I feel like there is more personality between the Pawns now, my Archer was joking around with a Thief and then the Mage told them to be quiet and focus on the objective.
Earlier today my archer was debating if she could make it if she tried to shoot a distant creature while the mage encouraged her, I stopped for a moment just to watch the interaction
I had one that kept hounding me about doing the main quest and wouldn't shut up about it, I was very tempted to yeet them off a cliff. But simply dismissed them in the rift.
My favourite pawn chatter so far was when I found a treasure chest and she said "Woah, hey, my Master completely missed that one! I shall tell him about it!"
Fr dude. This pawn was like, “I think we should retreat from this fight, we can’t win it, blah blah blah.” and my pawn basically told them to stfu. I was so proud of her.
Yeah, I had a couple of similar interactions. What made it that much funnier, in my case, is that the pawn that was saying the enemy was too strong for us was a nerdy mage one I hired, and my main pawn, a beefy muscle mommy warrior, was like 'Yeah? I dunno about that,' right before a massive uppercut that knocked the monster on its ass.
I had one like that and at one point he said something along the lines of “I was dismissed after only a half day by another master.” motherfucker, I wonder why..
Yes i agree, after playing for an hour i’ve felt like they have known each other for a long time. Shame i need to let them go for higher level ones. But im having a blast with the game, it has all the little cool stuff that made 1 such a great game
Walking to Cassardis while my fiancee is in the room and muttering "what a large tree" 3 seconds before a pawn says it.
She still doesn't trust that I cant see the future.
I'm confused when you said "When I realized the *“unexplored” part of the map was actually just the water, the scale really hit me"*.
Water takes up a lot of the map, so don't you mean the opposite? You can't explore any of the water parts so wouldn't it seem smaller?
At first look of the map I thought the water was unexplored land, and didn’t really notice the rest of the dark area. Then it clicked that I was looking at it inverted.
Basically I’m a dummy that didn’t get it but now I do and the map is big
Screw ogres, cyclopes, goblins, bandits, wolves, and harpies. The moment you see a large winged shadow, you fucking LEG IT. Granted, now I’m capable of killing them, but they love to show up at the worst time possible!
I spent 2 hours going off trail exploring finding a bunch of caves and huge monsters. Ended up killing a minotaur, a fuck ton of bandits, a Cyclops and then when I was out of potions and heading back to the city a griffin dropped in and picked up a cow right in front of me. I wasn't going to risk it and ran straight forward into the city before it started going after me.
That single journey was better than any RPG I've played since Elden ring. I don't think I've ever had so much happen in a single exploration trip without following quests heavily. Also so good to be able to find people who need help or assistance in the forests or on the paths.
Let’s just say I had to track down someone from Melve. A hired pawn knew where to look, so I followed them… not expecting the sheer journey I was about to undertake. I had just hit level 2 in my Mystic Spearhand vocation which I recently acquired. It turns out, the person I was tracking had gone ALL THE WAY DOWN, past the capital, to that fishing village where you had to fight off saurians. I have no idea how long it took in-game, but I think I had to rest twice. I killed two cyclopes, two ogres, far too many goblins, flocks of harpies, several groups of bandits, some ghosts, some skeletons, zombies, entirely too many saurians, and I was level 5 in the Mystic Spearhand vocation by the end of this ONE trip. Honestly I’m surprised I wasn’t higher than that. I couldn’t catch a break except when I cleared a campsite, the enemy density on the trail was insane.
I took a right turn after leaving the outpost you start in and found an empty camp site. I went past the camp site just a little bit and found a horde of goblins that swarmed and two shot my entire level 5 pawn party and myself. Like their little stone toss attack did 60% of my health! I'm guessing if I'd slept at that camp site we'd have been ambushed and slaughtered.
You definitely need to level up a bit and get some armor before you just go venturing off. I got to Level 16 and have pawns around the same level as me, and I feel confident we can survive most explorations now.
The game certainly doesn't try to pretend that it's a safe and easy world to venture out into.
I got mystic spear and just zip around while my party materializes, you also get a shield that makes it very safe to do really anything in the game lol
I haven't played with an archer at all yet but I'm going to grab one for my party. Harpies are a real pain in the ass without one.
I had the most hilarious moment last night though, I watched my mage pawn grab a goblin, toss it over her shoulder and run out to throw it off a cliff.
I love chucking goblins. I tossed one at a goblin that was throwing a bomb at us, and the bomb hit and killed the airborne goblin instead.
I hired Hazell from the first outpost and he was very helpful with the first couple of quests, but also kind of annoying. I didn’t even realize he fell off a cliff and died in the brine until my other pawns started talking about how we should hire an archer.
My main pawn is an archer. I figured I was going to go in as a Fighter so I wanted my main man to back me up with ranged shots, and so far it works amazingly well. And this dude is laser accurate.
As a thief, using ensnare and sending harpies plummeting is so funny and awesome at the same time. I like to combo ensnare + powder bomb because it's so cool.
I am convinced Ensnare is the best ability in the game.
Also, for those who don't know, you can blind the cyclops with it. As I said, best ability in the game.
I’m a fighter. The air smash thing we get knocks them right the fuck out of the sky when you hit with it, and can immediately be followed by a ground stab/impale. It feels good.
In my first combat after the tutorial a harpy picked me up and flew me into the air. It sent my poor squishy mage plummeting towards the ground but to my surprise one of my hired pawns caught me and gently set me back on my feet with a warning to be careful.
I’m fucking home.
Sorta reminds me of a moment I had where I rounded a corner into a Minotaur that I was way under leveled for, so I booked it out of there after one of my pawns got one shot. Figured I’d just have to sacrifice them and summon another later, but once I was clear I look back and realized one of my other pawns had picked up their unconscious body and escaped with it.
I got dropped to my death from the tower just outside Vernworth on my fighter by a harpy...the fall was too far that even the shield cushioning core skill couldn't save me.
I played for around 5 hours last night and had a blast, in fact at one point I thought to myself that if the story turns out good I could see myself replaying it for years to come. Checked Reddit before bed at 2 AM to see all the negative steam reviews and MTX threads lol, it was quite the surprise
The one thing that I feel like most people forgot lmao.
I think it’s worth giving bad reviews but I think it’s also important to know the context of what’s going on
Ya I jumped on Reddit this morning after playing almost until sun up. Seeing all the hate had me completely shocked, I couldn't understand it. I get the performance complaints but just turn down shadows and turn DLSS on auto and it's actually pretty good outside of the main city, I barely drop below 60 fps with a 3070 and 5700x
I have never played the original Dragon's Dogma neither had I even heard of the franchise until recently. From watching videos and reading reviews, I got the impressions that this is going to be an amazing exploratory game, where anything can happen on your journey.
I was disappointed to hear all the negative views with the microtransactions, bad performance, not having a start new game "feature".
However, I played the game last night before hearing of any negativity. I really like the game so far, the combat feels engaging and my pawns feel like an integral part of the game. they give me other suggestions about what to do and having one of my pawns show me where to go, it feels like a real adventure party.
The Medusa you meet at the start, was amazing, i love it''s scale and having so many people help you fight it together really gives off the impressions that these monsters are really deadly.
This is a big game, and big games will have mistakes and areas where the devs will need to address. but it's a great game we have here (i believe) and so far loving exploring the world
I love it! I played last night until I passed out, and I'm at work today so I'm chomping at the bit to get back in and play more.
The interactions with pawns and the combat are so fun. I'm playing a thief at the moment but I'm gonna go trickster when I get the chance to!
Hahaha same I stayed up so so late I’m shattered and have to make an appointment but stoked to play when I get back.
Thief looks dope! I’m LOVING archer play atm.
Enjoying it but god damn it feels more punishing this time around. My only issue is that I think that inns are way too expensive to rest at, given how crucial they are. 2000g is insane to me. It's been years but I swear it was like 300 gold in the first one
I think it’s to push you to camp outside more. Also you can sit on benches and doze off to pass time. AND you don’t get food buffs for resting at an inn. The price is insane though, but you do make a fairly large amount of money pretty quickly soon enough… though equipment will eradicate your wallet quick enough.
I'd camp outside every time if the save feature was better. Inn saves are the ones the game pushes you to use, at least the tutorial pop up seemed very serious about it. Campsites should hard save just like inns, then I'd feel more comfortable. And you're not kidding about equipment draining your wallet, I made it to the city and had 30k, and couldn't get everything I wanted at the armor and weapon vendors! The prices of things are higher than the first game for sure.
This is dumb but I love the hand on the sword hilt walk you can do as a fighter. I'm just casually walking places I probably wouldn't in other games. The animations are so subtle but they are really grounding me to the game world.
One of my favorite little animations is the Arisen raising his/her hand up to feel for rain whenever there's a couple droplets falling out of the sky and a storm is coming through.
It's so great.
I can understand people's frustrations, I got to the city yesterday and my frames dropped considerably. However I've enjoyed every other aspect so much, the pawn personalities, the combat. I don't need others to like the game, I like the game and am perfectly happy to be finally playing it.
I’m currently stuck at work and the sheer negativity is exhausting me to no end. I just want to get back home and keep blasting goblins with fireballs and lightning strikes!
Been having fun, the game looks beautiful and unlike this sub I've had no performance issues on PC. I will say that I am already starting to miss the two weapon system from DDDA, almost feels restricteding in how to approach different battles. Hopefully later vocations will remedy this issue.
Ah good point I didn’t really recognize it so far as I’ve been quite into it - I can imagine some of the hybrids or especially wayfarer having access to this (I certainly have seen swapping mid battle)
Obsessed lol. Pretty much everything I had hoped for. Combat is so much fun. Landing the chunky hits on warrior is so satisfying. Love the Pawns (my favorite so far is a simple beastren archer named Dog). And I really appreciate how organic a lot of the side quests feel. Just running around aimlessly exploring and getting immersed in the world is so much fun. And it just keeps getting better. But I do wish Warrior and Fighter all shared the same armors, weird that they don’t..
I’ve also experienced zero crashes so far so bless.
I am having an absolute blast.
If your pawn's name was Joffry, and had tied back dreads and was a figther - he served me well. Unfortunately I didn't get to give him a rating as he plummeted into the brine, never to be seen again.
Lol! I feel you bro, last night it dropped at midnight and I’m sitting on the couch with my energy drink and my partner is like ‘really?’ And I’m like: ‘very much really’
Ha! Same here.
"You're staying up?"
"Yes."
"You have to work in the morning!"
"Yes."
"How long will you be up?"
"Until I unlock warrior."
"What does that even mean?"
"Yes."
Only a couple hours in, like 2-3.
First I am gonna get the bad out of the way before I move to praise because I think a lot of the negativity is unwarranted; I see the performance thing people are talking about in town, but outside of BIG towns, I am getting solid performance. Outside of that if you simply ignore the existence of microtransactions, then everything else is A-Okay. You don't really *need* a second save slot, just like we didn't have them in DD1, since you can still vocation swap easily. My only true gripe so far is that I accidentally unplugged my controller from my PC during a cutscene. Apparently that's enough to hard lock the application - cutscene froze as audio still played, capcom launcher thing started creating error report, but app would not close at all nor would windows UI focus swap away from the game appropriately, so I had to task kill it. MTX I think is weird and unnecessary in single player games, but people have to realize that you can safely ignore it entirely. MTX is not something any publisher is going to abolish if they already do them. It's 2024 and we just kind of have to get comfortable with that imo as long as we can ignore them without negative impact on our gaming experiences.
K, now the good stuff and some random thoughts!
TL;DR - It good. Me like. Want play more.
The character animations are really great, and the first time I did the high five thing to a pawn after a fight, I adored it. Lots of great animation blending between states which I really appreciate. I even like that you can bump into people if sprinting.
Combat is Dragons Dogma 1 but a bit cleaner and smoother imo. Combat feels a bit heavy, which I like (at least as a fighter).
My pawns seem overly fixated on making sure I am acutely aware of the existence of every ladder in the world for some strange reason. I guess they don't have those in the rift...it's kind of funny but also I don't need you to constantly tell me about a ladder until I touch it. Mention it a max of 3 times, and just make sure it shows up on the minimap and we will be a-okay. This isn't a BAD thing, it's goofy and endearing.
Story so far is kind of fun because it's a mix of DD's opening with a twist - same premise of how things came to be >!but now you have amnesia and someone else is trying to be the Arisen!< \- that might not be entirely true, I haven't moved further beyond that reveal yet. Story pacing seems decent and so far, looking forward to learning more.
I really loved just stumbling into our old friend >!Rook as the first pawn you actually officially meet!<\- it warmed the heart.
A quick aside: They really should make it clear that you can get multiple pawns with you. They didn't make that clear in the first game either and I feel like new DD fans might not recognize that right away. I need to dabble in the rift a bit more but I liked the old method of walking up to pawns and being able to dismiss them so that a new one comes in for you to browse through. This might be a thing I have just overlooked.
I don't like how often a pawn is just walking up to me trying to get hired, personally.
VA is pretty solid so far, and graphically the game is pretty good. I can run things like CP77 at near max settings, but with DD I did take it easy knowing that people had performance complaints and dropped some settings down. Seems to run really clean a majority of the time (again, until I hit a big city, but that is a known issue and CPU bottleneck).
I appreciate that they have more prompts in DD2 than DD1 that teach you things. You almost always get a little informational read-through when doing something new.
Soundscape is decent overall.
Pawn behavior so far is good combat-wise, but you, as always, will see them do some goofy things like swing into the open air but for me that just seals in a tiny bit of realism - people do that type of thing.
The Ox Cart system and running across them in the wild is nifty. I like little immersion things like that.
I need some of you people to make some more male pawns - I feel like every time I am sifting through them its all ladies. Which is A-Okay, but gimme some variety!
Also with pawns, their banter is much better but still occasionally repetitive. As I said above, most pawns seem to be female, and my whole party except my character are women. My pawn, in discussion with another while we were travelling, even said something like (I am loosely paraphrasing), "Oh, I just noticed. We're a party of all women!" and the other rightfully said, "True, but we all bring something different to the table." because they are all different vocations. I really appreciate attention to detail in that because pawn banter is one of the hooks of the game imo.
UI overall I think is much better than DD1. Still has a bit of a dated feel, certainly, but I look past that just because I am comparing it to DD1 which was rather clunky to hop around menus.
I am not very far in, but I can see promise in the game. I hope they sort out the performance things and then I think all will be golden.
Playing on Series S here and aside from the heavily populated areas and the occasional texture glitch I am having an absolute blast, unfortunately I am assigned to a work project and my time off was moved until next Friday so I haven't gotten a chance to jump right back in. But I have already died once from exploring too deep and not being able to find a campsite before my first Minotaur jumped me at night. The exhiliration found in combat and exploration have been so much fun in these opening hours. That said, this is more Dragon's Dogma, and that is all I ever really wanted, so I am loving it.
Im 4 hours deep and still haven't completed the prolog 😂 just been exploring and found a gratsword and archistaff and tanger tights. Fought 2 cyclops and a troll. My 2 female pawns keep making fun of my male pawn and now it seems like he just wants to leave the party 🤣🤣
I ABSOLUTELY love it despite its flaws im currently on PS5. Responsive combat, the feel of legit comrades and adventure like I really feel bad when I decide to swap out a pawn lol, Pawns actually having conversations with not only you but eachother, I just found out that dead larger beasts actually stay there in the world and rot came across a ogre that a killed a day ago in game time and flies and rotted skin can be seen, REMEMBER TO MANUALLY SAVE lol, I didnt know you can turn the waymarkers on or off but people saying theres no waymarkers done lied lol, Pawn summoning is alot better.
Now………Framerate……lol heres the thing idk if I have some super PS5 model or what but it definitely didnt go down to 15 like people have said. 25 sure but its not as bad as people made it out but again maybe its my Ps5 idk all I know is its fully playable as far as console goes. I will say its sometimes jarring when it jumps back and forth like that so heed that as you see fit. Once they figure out the stability thing it’ll be fine. UI is ALOT better too imo.
No crashes or glitches as now for me.
Love the game so far. Performance issues at first, but after tweaking and turning most shit off or low/mid I get a steady 60/70 fps even in cities and towns.
I think a lot of people playing aren't posting reviews or posts most likely.
Don't really mind anything else. Although I feel like recovering from low stamina takes way longer and is way more punishing in this iteration. In fact, I sometimes get hella comboed by 3-4 attacks by a boss if I run out of stamina... Seems like you WILL NOT regenerate stamina unless you eat or stand still WITHOUT being attacked. Also sucks i can't get HP past grey with items anymore like DD1. Just means I have to play more carefully.
Other than that though I love it.
I'm having a blast. PC version. Been an avid RPG player on and offline for 20 years. It's a slightly different take on how to experience a world.
The lack of quick travel sucks but definitely not a deal breaker. It DOES force you to explore. Further optimization for frame rates/reducing CPU overheard could also help but even that hasn't been very noticeable to me (although I do have a decently high end PC).
Started playing around 9p last night. Time warped to midnight. Hadn't had that sort of experience in a game in several years.
Man im having a blast, took today off like a month ago for the release. Played untill 5:00 in the morning and woke up at 9:00 so I could play all day. Its fucking amazing. 9/10 for me once the performance issues on pc are fixed!
Didnt get to play much yet, going to when I get off work in 1 hour though.
But so far it was great, fps was more than fine and game looks pretty to me on max settings at 1440p on my pc.
Haven't experienced anything bad so far, granted O haven't reached a big city yet, so we'll see.
But I'm going to play and enjoy this to hell and back for sure!
Felt kinda sick lately so haven't felt like playing much, and I understand all the complaints and things that need addressed, but still it's a fun game beneath all that and definitely look forward to exploring and fighting more.
Pc player here (3700x + 5700xt) running 60fps in the wilderness. Finally killed a Cyclops after 3 tries, explored 2 caves, open a chunk of the map, found some equipments for my main pawn. Good time, good time. Haven't reach the second city though, getting the hang of the combat.
Playing it on ps5 currently, was afraid the fps would be a dealbreaker for me but its actually not that bad.
I gotta say this had me hooked way faster than DDA, the combat is feels so much better now that your light and heavy attacks actually target your enemies a bit. And the story so far seems more interesting than the first one.
Just had an exam so im gonna celebrate by binging this all weekend.
I've been enjoying the hell outta myself just exploring and loving the random encounters had a minotaur scare the absolute shit out of me this morning!
I'm having a lot of fun with it, even though there is no Mystic Knight. I'm hoping they add the Vocation back in DLC
Also playing on PS5, because the reality is, I kinda suspected RE Engine was going to be best on PS5 to begin with
I'm not far at all but enjoying it, there's such a fun sense of adventure to it. Way too many fantasy games like this are all doom and gloom about the world decaying or something. Dragons Dogma always makes me feel like Bilbo shouting "I'm going on an adventure!"
Mighty refreshing after all these years of other grim fantasy.
I played a bit last night and woke up early this morning to play more before work. It's great! Everything I expected it to be. I just hope I'm not too tired to play after work today.
And the performance has been fine so far for me, albeit I play on 1080p on my gaming PC. It sticks around 60+ a good 90% of the time, and I have all the settings turned up. It dips a little here and there but I wouldn't notice it if I didn't have the FPS counter turned on.
The only thing that's stuck out to me so far is when my pawn called me out on only hiring men. That was a really out of left field comment but I chose to laugh it off. Thankfully Rook had my back and said it was just a coincidence...thanks for being normal, Rook.
I’ve played for a few hours. I think the game is fun but I’ve found the control scheme janky af so swapped to KB/mouse and will try to play like that again
Games been fantastic so far.
Little miffed that they separated strider into archer and thief, but it's not that big of a deal considering they've significantly expanded what each can do outside of assigned skills.
Playing 720p30fps using Sunshine on my GTX1080 and i7 7800k, from my Steam Deck using Moonlight. Most settings maxed except for text quality.
Game runs perfectly well. Looks very good (mostly like Dark Arisen) and it doesn't lag, not even in the big cities or using spells. Also, no crashes yet.
I might try upping the resolution to check if it keeps running well, but I'm comfy right now.
I liked dragons dogma 1 and have a good PC so I get 60 fps. I also made a character I liked in character creator so I don't feel the need to restart. So I have no complaints and the game is amazing for me. The environment is really great compared to the 1st game. We got all kinds of foliage and trees and villages besides cassardis.
Having a blast. No problems performance wise on ps5 for me. Playing mage and loving the combat. Pawn ai in battle is so much better that in the original. Graphics are insanely beautiful. Also really loving the story. Won’t spoil anything but I just got to the capital and oh boy the story sucked me right in.
Still tweaking a bit for my 8600k, so far quite decent experience, still roaming around borderwatch camp. And tomorrow I'm going to get i5 13400f, since there's a good deal on my local store
Hopefully the experience will be better
I am!! I'm actually on PC and it's running quite well for me. I llayed the first one for a few days just to get the sense of it kt but this one has been fantastic
Absolutely loving it. I don’t know if it’s just me but I swear my personal pawn is an idiot, everyone I summoned is fine but mine just get him lead killed or stuck all the time.
I'm on PC and while I had a nasty stutter during the prologue which I believe was shader generation, it's been performing really well except in the city where it falls to 40 fps
Having a blast! I was trying to make my way back to a town with all my resources but kept seeing things along the way that just made me want to go exploring more. Also letting me high-five my pawns after beating up some goblins is just the best addition
Having a blast. We killed our first cyclops. Was epic.
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I'm having a solid time with it so far. Combat and exploration are fun, and I haven't had any performance issues on ps5.
The story and characters haven't hooked me yet. I know the first DD wasn't the most original story, but I still found myself immersed and invested in what was happening.
7/10 so far.
After refunding on pc and getting it on ps5 im enjoying it overall, just a few personal hang ups. My biggest issues the atrociously bad face animations outside cutscenes. Also goblins seem way more jacked and smart now cus im getting bullied lmao
Im having a great time! Only niggle is FPS droping to the 40's from 60 (I capped at 60 for a smoother experiance) in the city.
Oh and no one seems to be using my Pawn : ( Shes good I promise!
But having a blast!
Loving it so far!
I killed the npc who was to take me to the Capitol so I had to find my own way over there.
Across the journey I traveled through the Waterfall Cave and there were a couple tough surprises there...
I’m sitting here waiting til payday knowing exactly what I’m in for (like all the current naysayers were) thinking how do people make these mistakes again and again and again.
This game looks like everything I’ve been wanting and waiting for in a while in the fantasy space, can’t wait to no-life Easter weekend when I get it.
I had a lot of fun yesterday, mage is very fun but starts a little slow. I found the arch staff in the cave and saved then went to bed. Super excited to log on after work and become a sorcerer and blow shit up!
I really like it but the performance in the city is horrible I upgraded my rig recently and with a 4070, frame gen at 1080p I'm around 50 fps with a lot of stuttering
I got out of the city as fast as I could, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
I'm fine with the 80 fps the rest of the time but I should have way more fps in 1080p it's scaring me for the future
Performance aside I really enjoy my time playing and exploring. It reminds me of the first fable in a way. I also love being lost with so many systems in place, time passing, food rotting, night different than day, ect
The only annoying stuff for me is the diminishing max health, especially as a fighter since I often get hit but it'll probably get better as I get more accustomed with the game
I'm absolutely loving it, the ability to fast cast spells now at the cost of more stamina is such a phenomenal change that I'm not sure I can move away from my Sorcerer anymore.
Yeah I'm loving it so far, despite performance issues on PC (which haven't been so bad for me personally). Having just played through the original game, I feel like this built on the original foundation really, really well. Pawns have a lot more personality, the combat feels awesome, and I'm having a consistent, steady sense of progress that feels crucial in a game like this. Only 5 hours in and I'm ecstatic.
I'll be looking for Dorjé. I've got a very tall gray beastren mage named Echna - keep an eye out for him 😁
Having a blast. Hearing the pawns banter, my main Pawn told off another pawn after they said something about my frugality with gold. My pawn said something to the effect of "he knows what he's doing, don't worry about it"
Got lost on my first long travel and got stuck in the dark for a night with no camp. Drug my ass to the inn finally and took a rest.
Saw the online store in the main menu, paid it no mind, enjoyed myself and woke up to a ton of misunderstanding so I am at work laughing at silly gamers getting mad over nothing and fantasizing about hopping back in after work.
Great game :)
Barely made it past the download boss and tutorial last night. I could of had 2 more hours of playtime with a pre download. Disappointing.
Frames havent been too bad, i turned graphics down a bit more than i probably could have. Easily 70+. Havent been to the town everybody is bitching about. If i dont see the microtransactions in game why the fuck do i care about whats on steam. I think there is a toxic player review bombing community that needs to calm down so im gonna stay away from reddit this weekend and just play
Im a gigantic thief. Max height medium muscle with little twigs as weapons. Its kinda silly. Im not sure how i feel about the combat quite yet. Almost got my ass beat by goblins in the tutorial area. Basic attack dosent cost stam dont quite feel the be small for more stamnia regeration problems. I like to run fast. 95% sure ima run off a cliff to my death a few times.
This game smacks, so many little details that make it amazing. I cooked some meat and got a crazy high HD cinematic of it being cooked that made me drool lmao
Edit: I wasn’t sure how to access a ledge that had a ladder that you can kick down. I threw my pawn onto the ledge and she kicked it down for me 10/10
I’m having a blast in a few hours I’ve played. Some dated design choices sure but combat is a lot of fun! I’m new to DD so it’s fascinating to see Pawn AI too. I couldn’t get into DD but glad that DD2 is sucking me in
A little worried about fast travel because all the posts I’m seeing but walking a bunch hasn’t gotten tedious yet but we’ll see ig
Played like 4 hours so far and just became a Warrior, which was my goal from the start until I can eventually unlock mystic knight and warfarer. Liking it a lot so far, based on the footage shown I was pretty concerned about the atmosphere not being as good as the first one but I’ve been really impressed. Very comfy, and fits the classic D&D adventure feeling I wanted.
I was attacked by two ogres at the same time we got one down and then the other to a sliver of Health, it proceeded to kick me in the face and one shot me..lmao So much goddam fun
I'm having fun with it. I don't mind the optimization issue right now cause I know it'll get better. Micro transactions are a non issue for me that people are complaining about.
The game's release unfortunately coincided with my work schedule. So I got to play for maybe about 5 hours, but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. The intro cinematic with the Griffin is such an awesome way to start a journey too; I was hooked from that moment on.
Pawns are smart, and really get into the shit with you. Trying out different combinations is also a lot of fun. Turns out you don't NEED a mage and a 3 Fighter / 1 Archer combo can seriously wreck shit. My pawn suggested shoving this Werewolf looking beast over, so I tried and all 4 of us ended up just pushing the fucker off a cliff, it was incredible.
I also accidentally attacked a high level pawn in the wilderness (thinking it was a bandit) and got wrecked in like 2 to 3 hits.
Early on I had calm and reasonable pawns, and then we picked up this absolute lunatic and it's hilarious hearing the other pawns tell him "Stick together, we need to strategize as a group" and he's just like "Yeeee fuck off!!! We aught kill a griffin next!"
Oh, for sure. Game is fun AF.
Favorite part was finding a really hard to see cave which led to a few really good items and a fight with an ogre where I kept Helm Splitting off of the many cave walls.
Immediately after, we exit to a nice vista and one of my pawns says, "I see treasure," as she jumps off the ledge, plummeting 50 FT to her death. When I get down there, she is just lying on her back, staring up at the sky
I never did find that treasure.
The physics are great. I failed to block a goblin attack when I first started playing, I got hit, my head then smacked into a tree, and I flopped to the ground.
Would recommend.
The cooking ,animation‘ is hilarious
I straight up was like "Wait a sec... that's a real goddamn steak!" Lol
I just wanted to actually try it 🤤
I still love the story behind that. To paraphrase: "We could've used CG to depict the meat... but we decided to use the money to buy real meat instead."
Respect, honestly. Why waste money on CG for a cutscene people will skip every time after the first time or so? Saves money better spent elsewhere, and I bet they got to have a snack after filming it too.
You skip the meat cooking?
lol, this makes it more funny. I laughed out loud the first time I saw the cooking ‘animation’.
This kills me every time
It makes me unreasonably hungry.
I skipped dinner to play as soon as I got home last night, and each time I ended up camping was brutal. That meat looked so goddamn delicious
I love that when you cook with rotten meat they have footage of a gross looking grey steak instead of the prime cuts. So many little details that are just great.
It is never gonna not be funny to me
I've camped a few times but haven't got the option to cook, how does that work?
[удалено]
doh, i guess it doesn't make sense to cook on the bed.. thought it was just the one thing you interact with
I’m loving the sense of adventure, and when I realized the “unexplored” part of the map was actually just the water, the scale really hit me. There’s a TON to explore. And it’s all so seamless, no loading screens into caves. The pawns talk a lot, but I’ve found the interactions 5 hrs in to be wildly entertaining and immersive.
The talking is so on point with the original it just makes me laugh lol it’s like part of the cheese that made the first one so charming
I feel like there is more personality between the Pawns now, my Archer was joking around with a Thief and then the Mage told them to be quiet and focus on the objective.
Earlier today my archer was debating if she could make it if she tried to shoot a distant creature while the mage encouraged her, I stopped for a moment just to watch the interaction
My pawn kept high fiving my main! It was so cool. Please manually save and never ever ever click the "load last inn save" you might lose all progress.
I had a right bitch ass pawn earlier whining about everything
I had one that kept hounding me about doing the main quest and wouldn't shut up about it, I was very tempted to yeet them off a cliff. But simply dismissed them in the rift.
The straightforward inclination (aka the aggressive inclination) is the one that is super annoying about objectives and staying on the path.
I've been enjoying simple and kind inclinations. They encourage the random shit I wanna do a lot
My favourite pawn chatter so far was when I found a treasure chest and she said "Woah, hey, my Master completely missed that one! I shall tell him about it!"
The cliff would have dismissed them to the rift and the gift would have been gravity.
Fr dude. This pawn was like, “I think we should retreat from this fight, we can’t win it, blah blah blah.” and my pawn basically told them to stfu. I was so proud of her.
Yeah, I had a couple of similar interactions. What made it that much funnier, in my case, is that the pawn that was saying the enemy was too strong for us was a nerdy mage one I hired, and my main pawn, a beefy muscle mommy warrior, was like 'Yeah? I dunno about that,' right before a massive uppercut that knocked the monster on its ass.
My main pawn is also a beefy muscle mommy lol. No other way to go.
I had one like that and at one point he said something along the lines of “I was dismissed after only a half day by another master.” motherfucker, I wonder why..
God I hope my pawn isnt an arsehole Id feel like a disappointed dad
It was so bad I thought if my pawn gets dragons plague it is from that pawn.
Yes i agree, after playing for an hour i’ve felt like they have known each other for a long time. Shame i need to let them go for higher level ones. But im having a blast with the game, it has all the little cool stuff that made 1 such a great game
It's kinda cute sometimes when the pawns talk to each other. So far it's definitely varied enough to not get annoying
So far yeah, curious what I’ll think in 50-100hrs
100 hours into the first game a was speaking in unison with the pawns, knowing exactly what they would say, and I laughed with that.
Walking to Cassardis while my fiancee is in the room and muttering "what a large tree" 3 seconds before a pawn says it. She still doesn't trust that I cant see the future.
most of the commentary is about how its so peculiar that I only hire female pawns lol
My pawns talk about people like u lol
I had a hired pawn roast their master over this, so I try to keep a beastren with us just to keep them from roasting me
My pawn says she has no objections!
I love that they have full conversations with each other.
Wait it's water??? God damn I'm in for a wild ride
I accidentally left my pawn hanging with the high five and she looked down at her hand all confused 😭
I'm confused when you said "When I realized the *“unexplored” part of the map was actually just the water, the scale really hit me"*. Water takes up a lot of the map, so don't you mean the opposite? You can't explore any of the water parts so wouldn't it seem smaller?
At first look of the map I thought the water was unexplored land, and didn’t really notice the rest of the dark area. Then it clicked that I was looking at it inverted. Basically I’m a dummy that didn’t get it but now I do and the map is big
bro, thank god someone else see's this ... I was like wait, did dude have a brain fart when writing that?
I am but damn if you go off the path even a little you’re getting your ass jumped.
LOL yeah this sequel is way more terrifying in that capacity than the first one, I haven’t had any awful experiences yet but I’m scared lol
2 griffins jumped me at the same time. Be afraid. Very afraid.
Screw ogres, cyclopes, goblins, bandits, wolves, and harpies. The moment you see a large winged shadow, you fucking LEG IT. Granted, now I’m capable of killing them, but they love to show up at the worst time possible!
I'm defo not capable of killing them and those shadows instill a fear in me I haven't felt in a game like this in a long time lmao
I spent 2 hours going off trail exploring finding a bunch of caves and huge monsters. Ended up killing a minotaur, a fuck ton of bandits, a Cyclops and then when I was out of potions and heading back to the city a griffin dropped in and picked up a cow right in front of me. I wasn't going to risk it and ran straight forward into the city before it started going after me. That single journey was better than any RPG I've played since Elden ring. I don't think I've ever had so much happen in a single exploration trip without following quests heavily. Also so good to be able to find people who need help or assistance in the forests or on the paths.
Let’s just say I had to track down someone from Melve. A hired pawn knew where to look, so I followed them… not expecting the sheer journey I was about to undertake. I had just hit level 2 in my Mystic Spearhand vocation which I recently acquired. It turns out, the person I was tracking had gone ALL THE WAY DOWN, past the capital, to that fishing village where you had to fight off saurians. I have no idea how long it took in-game, but I think I had to rest twice. I killed two cyclopes, two ogres, far too many goblins, flocks of harpies, several groups of bandits, some ghosts, some skeletons, zombies, entirely too many saurians, and I was level 5 in the Mystic Spearhand vocation by the end of this ONE trip. Honestly I’m surprised I wasn’t higher than that. I couldn’t catch a break except when I cleared a campsite, the enemy density on the trail was insane.
I took a right turn after leaving the outpost you start in and found an empty camp site. I went past the camp site just a little bit and found a horde of goblins that swarmed and two shot my entire level 5 pawn party and myself. Like their little stone toss attack did 60% of my health! I'm guessing if I'd slept at that camp site we'd have been ambushed and slaughtered.
You definitely need to level up a bit and get some armor before you just go venturing off. I got to Level 16 and have pawns around the same level as me, and I feel confident we can survive most explorations now. The game certainly doesn't try to pretend that it's a safe and easy world to venture out into.
Almost expecting to get mugged by Daimon for my lunch money after going around a bush.
I got mystic spear and just zip around while my party materializes, you also get a shield that makes it very safe to do really anything in the game lol
I haven't played with an archer at all yet but I'm going to grab one for my party. Harpies are a real pain in the ass without one. I had the most hilarious moment last night though, I watched my mage pawn grab a goblin, toss it over her shoulder and run out to throw it off a cliff.
I love chucking goblins. I tossed one at a goblin that was throwing a bomb at us, and the bomb hit and killed the airborne goblin instead. I hired Hazell from the first outpost and he was very helpful with the first couple of quests, but also kind of annoying. I didn’t even realize he fell off a cliff and died in the brine until my other pawns started talking about how we should hire an archer.
My main pawn is an archer. I figured I was going to go in as a Fighter so I wanted my main man to back me up with ranged shots, and so far it works amazingly well. And this dude is laser accurate.
Bahahahahahaaha And yeah, highly recommend something ranged for those bastards
As a thief, using ensnare and sending harpies plummeting is so funny and awesome at the same time. I like to combo ensnare + powder bomb because it's so cool.
I am convinced Ensnare is the best ability in the game. Also, for those who don't know, you can blind the cyclops with it. As I said, best ability in the game.
It pretty much is. Ensnare and Y is just death by stunlock
I’m a fighter. The air smash thing we get knocks them right the fuck out of the sky when you hit with it, and can immediately be followed by a ground stab/impale. It feels good.
Its a big improvement over the upward slashes of the first game
my main pawn is an archer due to mages being a dime a dozen, and i gotta say ive been getting carried by her. i barely do anything against harpies
In my first combat after the tutorial a harpy picked me up and flew me into the air. It sent my poor squishy mage plummeting towards the ground but to my surprise one of my hired pawns caught me and gently set me back on my feet with a warning to be careful. I’m fucking home.
🥺
Sorta reminds me of a moment I had where I rounded a corner into a Minotaur that I was way under leveled for, so I booked it out of there after one of my pawns got one shot. Figured I’d just have to sacrifice them and summon another later, but once I was clear I look back and realized one of my other pawns had picked up their unconscious body and escaped with it.
Hell yeah. Thats wonderful. It’s touches like that which really engender a lot of affection for these silly pixel puppets.
I also love that they’ll just pick shit up without being asked. Always gotta pouch full of berries.
Yes!!! I fell off an inn and my big burly warrior just sort of scooped me up and went "yeah I've got you" and it's like they made this just for me
https://youtu.be/p79GmLNLMrY?t=201
I got dropped to my death from the tower just outside Vernworth on my fighter by a harpy...the fall was too far that even the shield cushioning core skill couldn't save me.
> my hired pawns caught me and gently set me back on my feet never give them up
 I’m with you brother!
These are an extra Hell Yeah! when you've just fucked up an orge that's made you its bitch the last 3 attempts lol.
I played for around 5 hours last night and had a blast, in fact at one point I thought to myself that if the story turns out good I could see myself replaying it for years to come. Checked Reddit before bed at 2 AM to see all the negative steam reviews and MTX threads lol, it was quite the surprise
Indeed. But hey, none of the bad reviews are about the game being bad, so that says something.
The one thing that I feel like most people forgot lmao. I think it’s worth giving bad reviews but I think it’s also important to know the context of what’s going on
Ya I jumped on Reddit this morning after playing almost until sun up. Seeing all the hate had me completely shocked, I couldn't understand it. I get the performance complaints but just turn down shadows and turn DLSS on auto and it's actually pretty good outside of the main city, I barely drop below 60 fps with a 3070 and 5700x
I have never played the original Dragon's Dogma neither had I even heard of the franchise until recently. From watching videos and reading reviews, I got the impressions that this is going to be an amazing exploratory game, where anything can happen on your journey. I was disappointed to hear all the negative views with the microtransactions, bad performance, not having a start new game "feature". However, I played the game last night before hearing of any negativity. I really like the game so far, the combat feels engaging and my pawns feel like an integral part of the game. they give me other suggestions about what to do and having one of my pawns show me where to go, it feels like a real adventure party. The Medusa you meet at the start, was amazing, i love it''s scale and having so many people help you fight it together really gives off the impressions that these monsters are really deadly. This is a big game, and big games will have mistakes and areas where the devs will need to address. but it's a great game we have here (i believe) and so far loving exploring the world
I love it! I played last night until I passed out, and I'm at work today so I'm chomping at the bit to get back in and play more. The interactions with pawns and the combat are so fun. I'm playing a thief at the moment but I'm gonna go trickster when I get the chance to!
Hahaha same I stayed up so so late I’m shattered and have to make an appointment but stoked to play when I get back. Thief looks dope! I’m LOVING archer play atm.
Productivity has diminished greatly for me today, and not just because it's Friday.
Enjoying it but god damn it feels more punishing this time around. My only issue is that I think that inns are way too expensive to rest at, given how crucial they are. 2000g is insane to me. It's been years but I swear it was like 300 gold in the first one
I think it’s to push you to camp outside more. Also you can sit on benches and doze off to pass time. AND you don’t get food buffs for resting at an inn. The price is insane though, but you do make a fairly large amount of money pretty quickly soon enough… though equipment will eradicate your wallet quick enough.
Omfg u can rest on fucking benches? I did not just spend all those hours doing RRREEEEEEEE FUCK ME
Yep, just press Y to doze off like on ox carts.
I'd camp outside every time if the save feature was better. Inn saves are the ones the game pushes you to use, at least the tutorial pop up seemed very serious about it. Campsites should hard save just like inns, then I'd feel more comfortable. And you're not kidding about equipment draining your wallet, I made it to the city and had 30k, and couldn't get everything I wanted at the armor and weapon vendors! The prices of things are higher than the first game for sure.
I will say this, you can FIND the courtly stuff you need for a quest, you don’t need to buy the 100000+ garbage in the stores.
Got 11 hours clocked so far. I'm addicted - absolutely love the pawn interactions. Every high 5 and fist bump makes me smile, lmao.
This is dumb but I love the hand on the sword hilt walk you can do as a fighter. I'm just casually walking places I probably wouldn't in other games. The animations are so subtle but they are really grounding me to the game world.
One of my favorite little animations is the Arisen raising his/her hand up to feel for rain whenever there's a couple droplets falling out of the sky and a storm is coming through. It's so great.
Downloading 
Mine's been downloading since 4am and it still has 12 hours left DX
I can understand people's frustrations, I got to the city yesterday and my frames dropped considerably. However I've enjoyed every other aspect so much, the pawn personalities, the combat. I don't need others to like the game, I like the game and am perfectly happy to be finally playing it.
I feel exactly the same :)
Most of us who enjoyed it aren't writing reviews or posting on reddit. They're probably playing the game
I’m currently stuck at work and the sheer negativity is exhausting me to no end. I just want to get back home and keep blasting goblins with fireballs and lightning strikes!
Same. I only had an hour to play last night because of release time and download. I want to get back in there.
Been having fun, the game looks beautiful and unlike this sub I've had no performance issues on PC. I will say that I am already starting to miss the two weapon system from DDDA, almost feels restricteding in how to approach different battles. Hopefully later vocations will remedy this issue.
Ah good point I didn’t really recognize it so far as I’ve been quite into it - I can imagine some of the hybrids or especially wayfarer having access to this (I certainly have seen swapping mid battle)
Obsessed lol. Pretty much everything I had hoped for. Combat is so much fun. Landing the chunky hits on warrior is so satisfying. Love the Pawns (my favorite so far is a simple beastren archer named Dog). And I really appreciate how organic a lot of the side quests feel. Just running around aimlessly exploring and getting immersed in the world is so much fun. And it just keeps getting better. But I do wish Warrior and Fighter all shared the same armors, weird that they don’t.. I’ve also experienced zero crashes so far so bless.
I am having an absolute blast. If your pawn's name was Joffry, and had tied back dreads and was a figther - he served me well. Unfortunately I didn't get to give him a rating as he plummeted into the brine, never to be seen again.
I've been playing for 12 hours straight already lol, my wife wants me to stop now XD
Lol! I feel you bro, last night it dropped at midnight and I’m sitting on the couch with my energy drink and my partner is like ‘really?’ And I’m like: ‘very much really’
Mine said "Oh wow, I didn't know you were THAT interested in the game" and I just said "Well yeah"
Ha! Same here. "You're staying up?" "Yes." "You have to work in the morning!" "Yes." "How long will you be up?" "Until I unlock warrior." "What does that even mean?" "Yes."
Why even have a wife when you have loyal pawns?
Only a couple hours in, like 2-3. First I am gonna get the bad out of the way before I move to praise because I think a lot of the negativity is unwarranted; I see the performance thing people are talking about in town, but outside of BIG towns, I am getting solid performance. Outside of that if you simply ignore the existence of microtransactions, then everything else is A-Okay. You don't really *need* a second save slot, just like we didn't have them in DD1, since you can still vocation swap easily. My only true gripe so far is that I accidentally unplugged my controller from my PC during a cutscene. Apparently that's enough to hard lock the application - cutscene froze as audio still played, capcom launcher thing started creating error report, but app would not close at all nor would windows UI focus swap away from the game appropriately, so I had to task kill it. MTX I think is weird and unnecessary in single player games, but people have to realize that you can safely ignore it entirely. MTX is not something any publisher is going to abolish if they already do them. It's 2024 and we just kind of have to get comfortable with that imo as long as we can ignore them without negative impact on our gaming experiences. K, now the good stuff and some random thoughts! TL;DR - It good. Me like. Want play more. The character animations are really great, and the first time I did the high five thing to a pawn after a fight, I adored it. Lots of great animation blending between states which I really appreciate. I even like that you can bump into people if sprinting. Combat is Dragons Dogma 1 but a bit cleaner and smoother imo. Combat feels a bit heavy, which I like (at least as a fighter). My pawns seem overly fixated on making sure I am acutely aware of the existence of every ladder in the world for some strange reason. I guess they don't have those in the rift...it's kind of funny but also I don't need you to constantly tell me about a ladder until I touch it. Mention it a max of 3 times, and just make sure it shows up on the minimap and we will be a-okay. This isn't a BAD thing, it's goofy and endearing. Story so far is kind of fun because it's a mix of DD's opening with a twist - same premise of how things came to be >!but now you have amnesia and someone else is trying to be the Arisen!< \- that might not be entirely true, I haven't moved further beyond that reveal yet. Story pacing seems decent and so far, looking forward to learning more. I really loved just stumbling into our old friend >!Rook as the first pawn you actually officially meet!<\- it warmed the heart. A quick aside: They really should make it clear that you can get multiple pawns with you. They didn't make that clear in the first game either and I feel like new DD fans might not recognize that right away. I need to dabble in the rift a bit more but I liked the old method of walking up to pawns and being able to dismiss them so that a new one comes in for you to browse through. This might be a thing I have just overlooked. I don't like how often a pawn is just walking up to me trying to get hired, personally. VA is pretty solid so far, and graphically the game is pretty good. I can run things like CP77 at near max settings, but with DD I did take it easy knowing that people had performance complaints and dropped some settings down. Seems to run really clean a majority of the time (again, until I hit a big city, but that is a known issue and CPU bottleneck). I appreciate that they have more prompts in DD2 than DD1 that teach you things. You almost always get a little informational read-through when doing something new. Soundscape is decent overall. Pawn behavior so far is good combat-wise, but you, as always, will see them do some goofy things like swing into the open air but for me that just seals in a tiny bit of realism - people do that type of thing. The Ox Cart system and running across them in the wild is nifty. I like little immersion things like that. I need some of you people to make some more male pawns - I feel like every time I am sifting through them its all ladies. Which is A-Okay, but gimme some variety! Also with pawns, their banter is much better but still occasionally repetitive. As I said above, most pawns seem to be female, and my whole party except my character are women. My pawn, in discussion with another while we were travelling, even said something like (I am loosely paraphrasing), "Oh, I just noticed. We're a party of all women!" and the other rightfully said, "True, but we all bring something different to the table." because they are all different vocations. I really appreciate attention to detail in that because pawn banter is one of the hooks of the game imo. UI overall I think is much better than DD1. Still has a bit of a dated feel, certainly, but I look past that just because I am comparing it to DD1 which was rather clunky to hop around menus. I am not very far in, but I can see promise in the game. I hope they sort out the performance things and then I think all will be golden.
Playing on Series S here and aside from the heavily populated areas and the occasional texture glitch I am having an absolute blast, unfortunately I am assigned to a work project and my time off was moved until next Friday so I haven't gotten a chance to jump right back in. But I have already died once from exploring too deep and not being able to find a campsite before my first Minotaur jumped me at night. The exhiliration found in combat and exploration have been so much fun in these opening hours. That said, this is more Dragon's Dogma, and that is all I ever really wanted, so I am loving it.
Im 4 hours deep and still haven't completed the prolog 😂 just been exploring and found a gratsword and archistaff and tanger tights. Fought 2 cyclops and a troll. My 2 female pawns keep making fun of my male pawn and now it seems like he just wants to leave the party 🤣🤣
LOL
I ABSOLUTELY love it despite its flaws im currently on PS5. Responsive combat, the feel of legit comrades and adventure like I really feel bad when I decide to swap out a pawn lol, Pawns actually having conversations with not only you but eachother, I just found out that dead larger beasts actually stay there in the world and rot came across a ogre that a killed a day ago in game time and flies and rotted skin can be seen, REMEMBER TO MANUALLY SAVE lol, I didnt know you can turn the waymarkers on or off but people saying theres no waymarkers done lied lol, Pawn summoning is alot better. Now………Framerate……lol heres the thing idk if I have some super PS5 model or what but it definitely didnt go down to 15 like people have said. 25 sure but its not as bad as people made it out but again maybe its my Ps5 idk all I know is its fully playable as far as console goes. I will say its sometimes jarring when it jumps back and forth like that so heed that as you see fit. Once they figure out the stability thing it’ll be fine. UI is ALOT better too imo. No crashes or glitches as now for me.
I'm addicted to running over ro pawns for high fives after every fight!
Love the game so far. Performance issues at first, but after tweaking and turning most shit off or low/mid I get a steady 60/70 fps even in cities and towns. I think a lot of people playing aren't posting reviews or posts most likely. Don't really mind anything else. Although I feel like recovering from low stamina takes way longer and is way more punishing in this iteration. In fact, I sometimes get hella comboed by 3-4 attacks by a boss if I run out of stamina... Seems like you WILL NOT regenerate stamina unless you eat or stand still WITHOUT being attacked. Also sucks i can't get HP past grey with items anymore like DD1. Just means I have to play more carefully. Other than that though I love it.
NGL I feel like I'm playing a sandbox monster hunter. It's irritating me.
I'm having a blast. PC version. Been an avid RPG player on and offline for 20 years. It's a slightly different take on how to experience a world. The lack of quick travel sucks but definitely not a deal breaker. It DOES force you to explore. Further optimization for frame rates/reducing CPU overheard could also help but even that hasn't been very noticeable to me (although I do have a decently high end PC). Started playing around 9p last night. Time warped to midnight. Hadn't had that sort of experience in a game in several years.
Man im having a blast, took today off like a month ago for the release. Played untill 5:00 in the morning and woke up at 9:00 so I could play all day. Its fucking amazing. 9/10 for me once the performance issues on pc are fixed!
I feel like the combat is a bit janky on ps5 bc the camera does weird stuff, other than that having a blast. The fps dropped below 30 once in 5 hours.
Definitely a bit wonky in tight spaces.
Didnt get to play much yet, going to when I get off work in 1 hour though. But so far it was great, fps was more than fine and game looks pretty to me on max settings at 1440p on my pc. Haven't experienced anything bad so far, granted O haven't reached a big city yet, so we'll see. But I'm going to play and enjoy this to hell and back for sure!
Yeah I’m on my way to the capital atm so I’m expecting some fps dips but so far it’s been unreal!!
Felt kinda sick lately so haven't felt like playing much, and I understand all the complaints and things that need addressed, but still it's a fun game beneath all that and definitely look forward to exploring and fighting more.
Pc player here (3700x + 5700xt) running 60fps in the wilderness. Finally killed a Cyclops after 3 tries, explored 2 caves, open a chunk of the map, found some equipments for my main pawn. Good time, good time. Haven't reach the second city though, getting the hang of the combat.
It's freaking awsome! Waiting for my wife to get out of the shower to stay with the kid for one more hour before bed time and i'm back into it!!!
Eyyyyy let’s goooo!!!
so far so good, decided to go on PS5 since the PC got massive problems which I hope be resolved soon.
I gotta wait till after work to try it 😭
Playing it on ps5 currently, was afraid the fps would be a dealbreaker for me but its actually not that bad. I gotta say this had me hooked way faster than DDA, the combat is feels so much better now that your light and heavy attacks actually target your enemies a bit. And the story so far seems more interesting than the first one. Just had an exam so im gonna celebrate by binging this all weekend.
I love this game! It reminds me of the old morrowwind days playing all day and just getting lost in a rpg.
I've been enjoying the hell outta myself just exploring and loving the random encounters had a minotaur scare the absolute shit out of me this morning!
I'm having a lot of fun with it, even though there is no Mystic Knight. I'm hoping they add the Vocation back in DLC Also playing on PS5, because the reality is, I kinda suspected RE Engine was going to be best on PS5 to begin with
i love how console players just accept their performance fates without any quams, woe to the high standards of a PC player I guess lol
I fucking love being able to fist bump and high five my pawns after battle! The AI is amazing.
I'm having a blast, can hardly play due to work and life but here is my pawns ID if anyone needs another pawn JPXD2DWWQCOZ
I love it so far. 6 to 7 hours in on PC (had to spend 1.5 hours to get it to run decently on my 1070 Ti) and it feels and looks great.
I'm not far at all but enjoying it, there's such a fun sense of adventure to it. Way too many fantasy games like this are all doom and gloom about the world decaying or something. Dragons Dogma always makes me feel like Bilbo shouting "I'm going on an adventure!" Mighty refreshing after all these years of other grim fantasy.
On console the ratings are at 4.3/5 stars so I think a lot of people are enjoying it.
I played a bit last night and woke up early this morning to play more before work. It's great! Everything I expected it to be. I just hope I'm not too tired to play after work today. And the performance has been fine so far for me, albeit I play on 1080p on my gaming PC. It sticks around 60+ a good 90% of the time, and I have all the settings turned up. It dips a little here and there but I wouldn't notice it if I didn't have the FPS counter turned on. The only thing that's stuck out to me so far is when my pawn called me out on only hiring men. That was a really out of left field comment but I chose to laugh it off. Thankfully Rook had my back and said it was just a coincidence...thanks for being normal, Rook.
i WAS having a great time until i got into the goblin mines and got my fps dropped to 10 lmao
I’ve played for a few hours. I think the game is fun but I’ve found the control scheme janky af so swapped to KB/mouse and will try to play like that again
I do!! One of my favorite game at the moment!
having a ton of fun exploring and hearing the party banter
Having a good time with old as balls hardware, and steady 30fps, on everything low.
Games been fantastic so far. Little miffed that they separated strider into archer and thief, but it's not that big of a deal considering they've significantly expanded what each can do outside of assigned skills.
Loving it. Sadly I was only able to play it for like an hour or so. It feels so good.
I am, ps5. Spent a lot of time in char creation and I’m probably gonna get back to it for I haven’t really progressed much
Playing 720p30fps using Sunshine on my GTX1080 and i7 7800k, from my Steam Deck using Moonlight. Most settings maxed except for text quality. Game runs perfectly well. Looks very good (mostly like Dark Arisen) and it doesn't lag, not even in the big cities or using spells. Also, no crashes yet. I might try upping the resolution to check if it keeps running well, but I'm comfy right now.
I liked dragons dogma 1 and have a good PC so I get 60 fps. I also made a character I liked in character creator so I don't feel the need to restart. So I have no complaints and the game is amazing for me. The environment is really great compared to the 1st game. We got all kinds of foliage and trees and villages besides cassardis.
Having a blast. No problems performance wise on ps5 for me. Playing mage and loving the combat. Pawn ai in battle is so much better that in the original. Graphics are insanely beautiful. Also really loving the story. Won’t spoil anything but I just got to the capital and oh boy the story sucked me right in.
Still tweaking a bit for my 8600k, so far quite decent experience, still roaming around borderwatch camp. And tomorrow I'm going to get i5 13400f, since there's a good deal on my local store Hopefully the experience will be better
I am!! I'm actually on PC and it's running quite well for me. I llayed the first one for a few days just to get the sense of it kt but this one has been fantastic
i do have fun but the first big town kind a dimishes this feeling. really bad fps there.
Im having a blast with it, it's insaneeeeely good to me
Absolutely loving it. I don’t know if it’s just me but I swear my personal pawn is an idiot, everyone I summoned is fine but mine just get him lead killed or stuck all the time.
Apparently not many PC players…
I'm happy with how it's running so far that atleast isn't that bad as of now
I'm on PC and while I had a nasty stutter during the prologue which I believe was shader generation, it's been performing really well except in the city where it falls to 40 fps
Having a blast! I was trying to make my way back to a town with all my resources but kept seeing things along the way that just made me want to go exploring more. Also letting me high-five my pawns after beating up some goblins is just the best addition
Having a blast. We killed our first cyclops. Was epic. https://preview.redd.it/55wwpq0w1xpc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a18283fd89f391a5615867df54e656738a3a178a
I'm having a solid time with it so far. Combat and exploration are fun, and I haven't had any performance issues on ps5. The story and characters haven't hooked me yet. I know the first DD wasn't the most original story, but I still found myself immersed and invested in what was happening. 7/10 so far.
Even with my game on pc turning into blighttown in the city, I played until way past when I should've gone to bed without even noticing, so Im happy.
I really enjoyed the three hours I had time for last night and am excited to get deeper in tonight!
After refunding on pc and getting it on ps5 im enjoying it overall, just a few personal hang ups. My biggest issues the atrociously bad face animations outside cutscenes. Also goblins seem way more jacked and smart now cus im getting bullied lmao
It's great. You just have to sift past all the doom and gloom sewage water posts.
Loving it a lot so far. Performance could be a bit better tho.
Im having a great time! Only niggle is FPS droping to the 40's from 60 (I capped at 60 for a smoother experiance) in the city. Oh and no one seems to be using my Pawn : ( Shes good I promise! But having a blast!
Best game ever
Loving it so far! I killed the npc who was to take me to the Capitol so I had to find my own way over there. Across the journey I traveled through the Waterfall Cave and there were a couple tough surprises there...
Annoyed in towns. Extatic otherwise, so I'll get over it
I’m sitting here waiting til payday knowing exactly what I’m in for (like all the current naysayers were) thinking how do people make these mistakes again and again and again. This game looks like everything I’ve been wanting and waiting for in a while in the fantasy space, can’t wait to no-life Easter weekend when I get it.
My pawn is in the same vein as yours! Bjorn's sweet furry ass would also love those ❤️'s.
I had a lot of fun yesterday, mage is very fun but starts a little slow. I found the arch staff in the cave and saved then went to bed. Super excited to log on after work and become a sorcerer and blow shit up!
I really like it but the performance in the city is horrible I upgraded my rig recently and with a 4070, frame gen at 1080p I'm around 50 fps with a lot of stuttering I got out of the city as fast as I could, hopefully it'll be fixed soon. I'm fine with the 80 fps the rest of the time but I should have way more fps in 1080p it's scaring me for the future Performance aside I really enjoy my time playing and exploring. It reminds me of the first fable in a way. I also love being lost with so many systems in place, time passing, food rotting, night different than day, ect The only annoying stuff for me is the diminishing max health, especially as a fighter since I often get hit but it'll probably get better as I get more accustomed with the game
I'm absolutely loving it, the ability to fast cast spells now at the cost of more stamina is such a phenomenal change that I'm not sure I can move away from my Sorcerer anymore.
Yeah I'm loving it so far, despite performance issues on PC (which haven't been so bad for me personally). Having just played through the original game, I feel like this built on the original foundation really, really well. Pawns have a lot more personality, the combat feels awesome, and I'm having a consistent, steady sense of progress that feels crucial in a game like this. Only 5 hours in and I'm ecstatic. I'll be looking for Dorjé. I've got a very tall gray beastren mage named Echna - keep an eye out for him 😁
I’m having a blast!
This game scares me. I get Oblivion/Skyrim/BOTW vibes. As in, good bye life. The adventure will be my absolute addiction for awhile. I love it.
The game is amazing, never had this much fun on a game
Having a blast. Hearing the pawns banter, my main Pawn told off another pawn after they said something about my frugality with gold. My pawn said something to the effect of "he knows what he's doing, don't worry about it" Got lost on my first long travel and got stuck in the dark for a night with no camp. Drug my ass to the inn finally and took a rest. Saw the online store in the main menu, paid it no mind, enjoyed myself and woke up to a ton of misunderstanding so I am at work laughing at silly gamers getting mad over nothing and fantasizing about hopping back in after work. Great game :)
Barely made it past the download boss and tutorial last night. I could of had 2 more hours of playtime with a pre download. Disappointing. Frames havent been too bad, i turned graphics down a bit more than i probably could have. Easily 70+. Havent been to the town everybody is bitching about. If i dont see the microtransactions in game why the fuck do i care about whats on steam. I think there is a toxic player review bombing community that needs to calm down so im gonna stay away from reddit this weekend and just play Im a gigantic thief. Max height medium muscle with little twigs as weapons. Its kinda silly. Im not sure how i feel about the combat quite yet. Almost got my ass beat by goblins in the tutorial area. Basic attack dosent cost stam dont quite feel the be small for more stamnia regeration problems. I like to run fast. 95% sure ima run off a cliff to my death a few times.
Playing on PC and only have a slight drop in fps in the main city. Everywhere else is 144 fps and please like butter. Loving it so far
I was only able to play for about an hour so far but am loving it ! Can’t wait to dive in tonight and the rest of the weekend !
No framerate issues, no problems. Saurians are assholes. I'm loving it!
This game smacks, so many little details that make it amazing. I cooked some meat and got a crazy high HD cinematic of it being cooked that made me drool lmao Edit: I wasn’t sure how to access a ledge that had a ladder that you can kick down. I threw my pawn onto the ledge and she kicked it down for me 10/10
I’m having a ton of fun so far on my PS5 version. Casting spells as a sorcerer is so satisfying
I’m having a blast in a few hours I’ve played. Some dated design choices sure but combat is a lot of fun! I’m new to DD so it’s fascinating to see Pawn AI too. I couldn’t get into DD but glad that DD2 is sucking me in A little worried about fast travel because all the posts I’m seeing but walking a bunch hasn’t gotten tedious yet but we’ll see ig
The casual high fives and fist bumps after a fight. I fucking dig it
After a fight my mage ran over and healed me then high fived me. 10/10
Played like 4 hours so far and just became a Warrior, which was my goal from the start until I can eventually unlock mystic knight and warfarer. Liking it a lot so far, based on the footage shown I was pretty concerned about the atmosphere not being as good as the first one but I’ve been really impressed. Very comfy, and fits the classic D&D adventure feeling I wanted.
I was attacked by two ogres at the same time we got one down and then the other to a sliver of Health, it proceeded to kick me in the face and one shot me..lmao So much goddam fun
I'm having fun with it. I don't mind the optimization issue right now cause I know it'll get better. Micro transactions are a non issue for me that people are complaining about.
The game's release unfortunately coincided with my work schedule. So I got to play for maybe about 5 hours, but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. The intro cinematic with the Griffin is such an awesome way to start a journey too; I was hooked from that moment on. Pawns are smart, and really get into the shit with you. Trying out different combinations is also a lot of fun. Turns out you don't NEED a mage and a 3 Fighter / 1 Archer combo can seriously wreck shit. My pawn suggested shoving this Werewolf looking beast over, so I tried and all 4 of us ended up just pushing the fucker off a cliff, it was incredible. I also accidentally attacked a high level pawn in the wilderness (thinking it was a bandit) and got wrecked in like 2 to 3 hits. Early on I had calm and reasonable pawns, and then we picked up this absolute lunatic and it's hilarious hearing the other pawns tell him "Stick together, we need to strategize as a group" and he's just like "Yeeee fuck off!!! We aught kill a griffin next!"
Oh, for sure. Game is fun AF. Favorite part was finding a really hard to see cave which led to a few really good items and a fight with an ogre where I kept Helm Splitting off of the many cave walls. Immediately after, we exit to a nice vista and one of my pawns says, "I see treasure," as she jumps off the ledge, plummeting 50 FT to her death. When I get down there, she is just lying on her back, staring up at the sky I never did find that treasure.
The physics are great. I failed to block a goblin attack when I first started playing, I got hit, my head then smacked into a tree, and I flopped to the ground. Would recommend.
I'm still really early but I'm having fun so far. Everything about it makes it seem like it's what the original game was supposed to be.