Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[Moink]

They put a lot of little details like that, clothes have physics, throwing water at people will put out their torches etc, there's also area's which only small people can go.

Adds to the charm

 

[Delterius]

Most importantly the characters height and weight affect combat. Weapon reach is pretty much the reasion why my MK was max height.

 

[Zeriel]

Made a big bertha style female warrior and to my surprise not only the long hairstyles have some physics but the breasts have giggly physics too when swinging a sword or jumping, felt like good old Oblivion when I had my custom followers dress in skimpy clothes and dance for me :D

There's some funny AI behavior tied into that stuff. Ogres and some other monsters will pick up female characters and carry them off, some areas can only be accessed by very short characters, you can carry pawns, etc.

 

[Moink]

Setting my pawn of fire and then throwing her at the enemy was always fun.

 

[PirateScum]

They put a lot of little details like that, clothes have physics, throwing water at people will put out their torches etc, there's also area's which only small people can go.

What the... I've finished the PS3 version like 4 times and never noticed that last detail.

 

[Exxos]

For anyone interested in performance, my overclocked CoreDuo e7400(3,42 ghz) 4 gb ram and Radeon 7750 allows me to play the game pretty much smoothly on max settings. (Thank god, since I pre-ordered it).

 

[Makabb]

Obligatory

 

[insukk]

I really hope that my laptop with GF650m will run it at least on medium.

 

[Stefan Vujovic]

It will dont worry, am playing on 4600HD cause my 7990 DIED OFF, 1k down the drain, anyway its working quite nicely on HD4600 witch suprised me a lot, they really really did a great job on optimization. Am playing pre release copy...

 

[Reinhardt]

But i've preordered game to learn how in japanese "WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS". I think, i will use demo version to play.

 

[Damned Registrations]

If it's a matter of a simple sound file switch, I assume someone is going to release the right files anyways so you can have the japanese voices even after they patch it.

Personally I'm going to make my pawn a huge dude with the voice of a female chipmunk, just because I can.

 

[Haba]

When will this fucking cocktease unlock ffs.

 

[Moink]

On the 15th at around 6pm GMT

 

[Avellion]

for those of you who've played the original, normal or hard?

Hard is terribly balanced. And a lot of things will one shot you (but ONLY you since the companions are unaffected). But on the other hand, you level up twice as fast and you get showered in gold so you will always have the best equipment and plenty of buff consumables to boot. So in the end... Hard Mode actually ends up being easier than Normal Mode.

That said, getting instakilled by all the giant monsters kept the tension high in boss fights at all times. So I played on Hard Mode regardless of how poorly designed it was.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Dragon's DOGEma!! many wolves!!! such tree, arisen!!!! masterworks wow

 

[Delterius]

for those of you who've played the original, normal or hard?

Hard is an attempt to keep things fresh for new game +. If you start off on Hard, most things will one shot you (but only you, your pawns won't be) and the economy goes broke. Its far from impossible for an experienced player but not necessarily more fun, even if vanilla becomes easy after a while. I think its just a way for people to grind new characters straight for Dark Arisen.

 

[Ivan]

cool. normal it is then.

 

[funkadelik]

If anyone wants access to Into Free, the original song, just PM me and I will add it to my dropbox for download.


Edit: Also, I fucking hated the song when I originally played it. Woke up drunk one day with Dragon Dogma on the TV just basically looping the song and it grew on me as I was too hungover to turn it off.

 

[Zeriel]

God, that intro sequence makes me want to blow my brains out when you have to repeat it to change some customization option or whatever.

 

[Raghar]

If anyone wants access to Into Free, the original song, just PM me and I will add it to my dropbox for download.

Do you have FLAC version?

 

[Zombra]

In anticipation of liking the game and the OST, I'm putting the full soundtrack (including Into Free -Dangan-) on my iPod for bicycling around the city. Your thoughts? Good idea or bad idea?

 

[funkadelik]

If anyone wants access to Into Free, the original song, just PM me and I will add it to my dropbox for download.

Do you have FLAC version?

Unfortunately not, I will see if I can find it.

 

[Siveon]

God, that intro sequence makes me want to blow my brains out when you have to repeat it to change some customization option or whatever.

[Ugly old lady pawn intensifies]

WATCH OUT ARISEN, HARPIES!

I'LL SEAL IT WITH MAGICK!

STRIKE IT'S TAIL.

"This way, ser!"

And to top it all off, this fucking cutscene:


Feel free to switch it out with the cutscene of that one guard getting hilariously eaten through badly clipped models.

I've probably replayed the intro to this game over 20 something times.

 

[PirateScum]

In anticipation of liking the game and the OST, I'm putting the full soundtrack (including Into Free -Dangan-) on my iPod for bicycling around the city. Your thoughts? Good idea or bad idea?

Nothing wrong with that, but the OST is nothing to write home about, Dangan grows on you naturally, after you played the game for 60+ hours (before Dark Arisen).

Also if you're a story fag and don't want to miss quests or like gothic lolis, go back to Cassardis (starter villager) after mainquests in 'The Encampment'. It's quite easy to forfeit certain quests by progressing the mq.

 

[Ebonsword]

God, that intro sequence makes me want to blow my brains out when you have to repeat it to change some customization option or whatever.

Yeah, it is annoying to have to go through all of that again when you realize that you made your Arisen's face look messed up from certain angles or something.