[wourme]

I've been playing through the new area, since Dark Arisen finally got cheap enough during a recent sale for me to justify re-buying the game.

I like the new content, but I don't have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said in this and that other thread. I will say that I'm disappointed that they changed the title screen music, though.

[Toptube]

I started playing this and although I like the straight forward get the dragon setup, the crudely beautiful graphics, and the insanely detailed cities;

the combat is very shallow. nearly all buffs and healing are handled by your pawns. Leaving you to-----mash buttons and basically try to stun-lock or just mash until you see the very occasional enemy attack coming and dodge it. Most of the time, the enemy is just standing there, eating shit.

I'm playing on "normal" which is the hardest difficult allowed, on a first playthrough.

*I also HATE how the pawns are A. constantly talking B. constantly having ants in their pants C. running ahead of me and picking up shit that I'd like to see for myself D. stealing the treasure out of the chest I just opened, before the little pop-up description has a chance to load and even tell me what it is.

*I'm guessing the later/harder fights in this game will end up like MMO raid fights. Where you have a group of people spamming an barely active enemy that eats attacks forever with it's giant health bar, and occasionally lets loose an attack that may or may not kill some people. This is also the impression I got from the early demo videos of this game, as played at gaming conventions.




**I would really like to like this more. My character even looks like MGS4 Ocelot with Old Snake's haircut----which REALLY compells me to play....

[remote]

[Toptube]

Alright, I'll stick with it a bit more. I picked the bow and arrow/knife fighter class.

[another god]

One of the cool things that never really took off (though totally does work if you try hard enough) is the pawn system being fucking amaze-balls. If you take the time to craft your pawn's AI, that becomes way more important than gear or level.
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[a pair of gators]

[rye]

[Talbain]

[Mr. Apol]

[Talbain]

Agreed that the ending is strangely existential given the high-fantasy plot.

And yes, the game is boring if you decide you want to break it.

Assassin is fun but does become pretty repetitive pretty quickly. Archery is still probably the most interesting and enjoyable thing about Dragon's Dogma. Shame physical attacks are so weak against enemies generally.

Also, Bitterblack Isle is way better because to some degree it at least requests the player take design into account while interacting.
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[rye]

Every class is fun to play in some way, so if you want to keep the game moderately challenging… try each one! Your stats will be all spread out!

Then, if you want to hate yourself, play the game on hard mode. (The real Dragon's Dogma starts here)
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[remote]

[Talbain]