Dragons Dogma

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Yahtzee: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=videos

Yahtzee said high level chimera. You can kill them before you even hit level 20.

It sounds like he may have actually liked it (sort of)?

Or, at least, not hated it?

I suspect he may respect it for its innovative mechanics.

Also, I lol'd at his reaction to the theme song.

If you are on PS3 you can work around it by making a new system profile. This doesn't help with corruption though.

Wow, no posts for almost a week.

Is everyone burned out on DD now? (I've been sort of taking a break after getting half-way through my second playthrough.)

To be fair the theme is song is complete Capcom garbage that fits into the game like a suitably shaming metaphor.

I'm still playing, but not so much. There has been no quality DLC yet that would add proper content and I'm getting burned out doing the same shit over and over again. Started my 4th new character two days ago. Made a fighter. Really fun vocation, very powerful too if you can get off a Dragon's Maw on a boss monsters weak spot. Ur-Dragon is kinda impossible though (good luck getting those wings, mr. Fighter) and I can't be bothered to switch to assassin just to kill him. I'm just floating in Everfall and playing duo with my Ranger pawn. I'll probably go full solo at some point. The game is actually more fun without pawns.
I realised that pawns are all fucking useless too. No matter what vocation you pick for them they will always fail to use the right skills. Occasionally they might get lucky, but that's only occasionally. The only pawn worth its salt is a pure support Mage, but it gets tiring constantly building the same Mage pawn.

To be honest if you are on your 4th new character you probably got your money's worth.

Oh, for sure. At this point I'm just making up arbitrary rules to challenge myself to squeeze the last drops of the nectar before moving on. I'm just kind of playing it on the side now anyway. I started playing MH Tri again and that's what I mainly play now, in between me crying over the fact that I have no BROS to hunt monsters with.

So... any tips for this game? It's pretty damn awesome, but the world is putting its jackboot all over my face at the moment.

Get out of towns and level on your own by exploring, also keep switching pawns as last thing you want is having a pawn 10 levels bellow your level.

But yes, there are some issues ... in one of the story missions I was going up a road and there were Snow Harpies that I never fought before but OK ... then come a Chimera during the middle of the battle ... followed by a Cyclops after I beat that clusterfuck and taken 10 steps up the road, J-O-Y.

The game can really fuck you with mob placement, also someone have a hard-on with unbeatable bosses ... Hydra? you cannot beat it when you first fight it (you win after a while but damn, its like your 4th boss) and then later you have the Evil Eye you cannot beat and have run away, it really goes against the way I try to play since I always try to fight an win.

If it helps, I think those are the only two bosses you can't kill if you try hard enough.

When I played this game for the first time I thought fights like this were hard. And then I got to post-game and went to that one magical chamber

Also this:

As I posted earlier in the thread, i really enjoyed this game but it has lost its lustre. I haven't bothered to play it now for 2 weeks. *sigh* Hopefully, I cna get back into it somehow.

This game's pretty great. Just fought what I thought was the final battle...but nope, more shit to do. Not complaining though, more of a good game is never a bad thing. Kinda curious how they sandbagged a ton of cool enemies and bosses until the epilogue though. And it seems like the difficulty ramps up in the Everfall. The double Cockatrice room was pretty badass, and Big Grey seems nicely done too (I assume you have to encounter him multiple times in order to finish him). Might go explore more of the overworld and find more of what changed. Already found a couple Wyverns; might go Drake hunting.

If you want to get the best gear , i suggest farming the everfall a bit before using your crystals and triggering the real ending . Of course theres not much point in doing it, but i am a bit of completionist. The new game + is a let down, diffculty dont really scale and its a cakewalk after everfall, thats why i am not talking about the game anymore, when its done its done, no mod to add alas , no dlc worth buying so far.Oh i really had my money's worth but i really wish i had more , if they fix the few issues in their next game i am pretty sure dragon's dogma 2 will be be phenomenal.

Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to Dragon's Dogma 2, as well.

I'm just concerned about how long it will be before we see that.

I would totally buy a Dragon's Dogma 1.5 with exactly the same game engine but a new country to explore. They could probably get that to market in less than a year.

Most things have bloated hp to encourage you to attack their weakpoints/use effective elements. The lizards, for example, lose like 3/4 of their hp if you kill their tails.

Pawn chatter and cinema cam can both be disabled.

Dunno if normal archers are especially weak, played as a mage archer, shit was pretty effective. You get access to a lot of different types of attacks and status effects.

Sort of. Climbing on chimera's is part of the best strategy for them, but the other part is taking off each head in the right order. You want to cut the snake tail off, cause it to go into stun (which gives close to double damage while it rolls around in pain), then do the same for the goat head (now that the snake can't pluck you off), use your biggest damaging attacks while it again rolls around, and then mop up the crippled monster however you want. And I'm not sure if the intro character has it slotted, but there is a sword skill called Gouge that is designed for stabbing things effectively while climbing; much better than generic heavy attack.

Oddly enough, bows can only be a good primary source of damage for two classes: Assassins and Magic Archers. Assassins can do it through all sorts of damage augments and a zoom shot skill to kill far away enemies in one (maybe two) blow(s) and Magic Archers are just plain awesome. For everyone else, the bow mostly serves as support, to knock out aerial enemies, disrupt mages with knockdown shots, deal elemental damage when enchanted, and take advantage of nifty specialty arrows.

Also the non-magic bows have a lot of "trap skills"; skills that are just plain bad. Any of the multi-shots are pretty terrible, the only things worth bothering with are power/knockdown shots or disabling ones. I'd say of any weapon, bows have the most. Fortunately, bow classes have daggers, which are excellent weapons with tons of great skills.

Yeah. This is no game for anyone with a simulationist bent. Double jumping, air-juggling, rolling making you invincible, launching slashes, and POWAH ARROHS will drive them batty.

The bandits on the way to the woods, right? Poor placement by the devs, sticking a high level bandits so close to a low level quest. Blast Arrows did a good job messing them up, as did a quick throw off the cliff.

Lucky. I tried that my first time down the well after a frontal attack turned bad, but the bastards just followed me back up. Eventually I killed them with the use of a few combos (Oil arrows plus fire attack) and accidentally learning the secret to beating them is to cut off their tails, which takes out their ludicrous damage resistance, and makes them flop around dead. Lighting them on fire was more fun though.

Pretty much. There's not very much in the way of cool stuff to find that isn't quest-related. And the fact that the exact same enemy spawns are constantly present in the world (barring some changes after a certain event) gets a little boring; I started traveling at night to change things up, or going it alone to just avoid some encounters altogether (mostly wolves/dire wolves). It's also retarded how some of the coolest monsters are sandbagged until the "post-game", and the fast travel system can't be (effectively) used until New Game+.

I agree combat isn't very hard for the most part, but I don't see the HP bloat complaint as valid. That's only if you play it like a typical RPG and just do what your build is "supposed to do". The game rewards experimentation and clever thinking. I don't know if you got to the Everfall quest in Gran Soren, but as a part of that quest there is an ogre wandering around a part of the dungeon. This monster is clearly meant to be avoided by use of side tunnels, but I had to kill that mofo. Weapons weren't powerful enough to deal with its damage resistance at the time, so I got creative, luring it to a spot of the edge of a long drop, in which I had a powder keg lying in wait. Set it off with a blast arrow and knocked the sucker down to his death, gaining a level or two in the process.

It's annoying as all hell, for sure. My guess is that they didn't want people farming the shit out of rune crystals by gearing up low level pawns with end game gear and essentially "cornering the market", making every other player's pawns not worth hiring. Being restricted to one character at a time solves this, I suppose, but I don't think it was worth it. Then again, I found Dark Soul's online features completely superfluous and resented not being able to pause in hostile areas if something came up, so maybe I'm just not down with this new generation of online integration.

Overall, while the game was not without some glaring flaws, it has a lot of upsides and a sequel could make for something really great if developed well. I would recommend giving it another go, except for the fact that single save slot plus modded FAGBOX tendency to corrupt data sounds like a recipe for HULKRAGE. Maybe they will say "Fuck it!", to the (IMO, worthless) online component and make a better save system next time?

Praytell, have you some kind of LARPers need to play a Ranger, or do the Assassin's bow skills simply not appeal to you?