Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Into brain of player who originally had that pawn.

 

There's a mod to replace the English voice overs with the Japanese ones. Improved my experience a lot, not the the dialog is great but at least now it's delivered in a way that makes it impossible for me to tell how shit the voice acting is. Also the pawns endless babble is now just background bakanas.

 

Magick Archer does. It thanks enemies for their service too

 

This has a slight chance of improving butthurt I approve!

What sort of pawn are you using Dreaad? I suppose since you're going physical it's a support healbot like mine?


Edit: My pawn finished the game before me she already knows about all the end game quests

 

Great youtube series from the guy that developed Volgarr the Viking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr3BglAXM8g&list=PLPpgEXhxLRZgqZm_i5rHkBzfVetkvIlS4

He certainly makes normal mode w/ restrictions look much more fun than hard mode. I could never knock over a troll in hard mode with anything less than super endgame shit.

 

Damn, he's got that chimera fight down pat. I vaguely remember fighting that battle myself now that I've watched it.

I really appreciate the detail that went into that fight, with the different heads doing different things (serpent spewing poison cloud, goat's head casting Hellish magic, and the lion's head doing the obvious), the obligatory severing of the serpent's head, the leaping and knockdown animations, but especially how the goat's head lolls around limply once it's been killed while the injured chimera continues fighting. That part's great.

 

Finished BBI and now I can't muster any desire to fire up the game again. The only progression that remains is farming the top BBI gear, which feels kinda pointless.

 

Big monsters grab me and eat me before I can escape even with egression skill.
Does stats help?
Is it because the game is initially for console and controllers are faster at button mashing than keyboard?
Or I just slow? I mash the mouse as well.

 

Did you go through BBI twice or just once? The second run unlocks some more encounters (especially in the arena rooms, stuff like multiple dragons at once and shit) and a second form of the final boss.

 

I think some of the grabs are pretty much just way too hard to break, like they initially wanted them to be breakable but changed their minds by just cranking the timer way up instead of removing the mechanic. Though maybe I'm wrong and you could pull it off with the right gear/skill and mashing technique. Character size/weight might have an impact as well, I know it has a lot of subtle effects in the game.

 

I saw someone saying somewhere that any input counts towards the mash, not just A D (which sounds right from Capcom fighting game mashes). I *think* stuff I used to consider inescapable was doable if I hit ASDE and L/R mouse buttons.

I am also done with BBI and I wanna play more but I don't really know what. I don't particularly like the mage stuff and I already played warrior -> assassin (which is basically all the red and yellow classes in one run). I messed around with mystic knight (magic cannon is an awesome idea) but the long charge up times and animations on most of their skills makes me play them as a fighter with a mace (also they seem to do no damage compared to normal chains because the character has just about the lowest magic attack possible). Stone Grove takes like legit 6-7 seconds.

 

On console the mashing icon is whirling the analog, I've no idea if other buttons count or what the keyboard equivalent is.

Try out magic archer. It's like being a mage without all the obnoxious casting times. Also you get to do fancy magic knife attacks like Ascension and the explodey jumping attack. Oh, and the cool vacuum arrow. And other awesome utility shit. Also their strongest attack is hilariously strong against anything that isn't some BBI ubermonster, it's basically cheatmode. And in BBI their ricochet arrow becomes like 50x better because you're always in tiny hallways.

Magic Archers got ALL the cool shit.

 

Killed the boss dude, am level 49 now.

Been looking around in post-game, trying to decide if I want to finish it up and just go BBI somewhere in the NG+ or hang around post-game and then go to BBI.

 

Using a useless sorcerer pawn who turned into a scather. Playing on hard, used to have a full party but it got to the point where I could just run around reviving my pawns and they would win all the fights eventually so I got rid them. Now it's just me and my useless pawn lvl 39, have yet to kill the griffin.

 

Then make her utilitarian, give her all the buffs, high voidspell and a single attack spell and turn her into a moving buff machine! She'll rarely contribute to direct combat and you'll always have the right enchants, once she gets to know monsters better.
If you ever feel like trying to go full party again, PM me and try my support pawn! I must be doing something right cause I got like 300.000 crystals by level 40 , and lately each time I sleep she comes back from 4-5 rentals.

I start feeling like a cuck pimp...

 

Elder ogres are god damn sponges on hard mode.

Time to see if I can beat this dragon + undead mage combo.

 

Ah, the true BBI experience. Enter the room with the 2 chained gorecyclops > kill a few pawns > worgs spawn > manage to kill them one by one while constantly getting blinded > cyclops breaks free in the process > my sorcerer uses an ice spell that breaks the other free as well > run around reviving my pawns while eventually realizing I have no chance of beating two cyclops and reload.

 

Sounds like quitter talk to me!

 

I've just experienced idiotic pawn behavior the likes of which I had never seen in three playthroughs on PS3. During the confrontation with the Dragon, at the point in which

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you run from the Dragon through a long hallway as it chases you while breathing fire, the pawns as usual had run ahead of my character --- except this time a mage pawn (not my own) decided it would be a wonderful idea to run back towards my character and the Dragon, getting instantly killed when the Dragon caught up with her. And since the hallway is blocked by the Dragon, I had no possible way of reaching and reviving her.

 

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Maybe the zealot's speech got to the pawn.

 

I can't hire male pawns!

All is good and fine in the rift, build ok and he doesn't look or sound retarded.

Then as soon as we leave the rift his voice will get high pitched like he took a hit of helium, and it stays like this.

Unplayable.

 

DDZ Happened to me too... Thought it was a bug and Googled for a fix. Turns out 97% of human beings are just retards with a shitty pawn. Keep trying, you'll find one with a decent voice.

 

So... I just did the Ur-Dragon.

Yeah that was bullshit.

 

So far I have met goblins, harpies, wolves, bandits and saurians and their upgrades in daytime and undead at night. Wiki also show few trash mobs. I'm sad, will llike more variety.

 

I started this as a mage, let's see whats up. The beginning is really fun so far.