Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[hivemind]

I like the skill system this game has I only wish there was a bit more melee weapon variety.

 

[Heresiarch]

After reading a bit back in this thread and thinking back of what I did, I think treated the game wrongly as with Dark Souls seriousness, Skyrim open world, DMC comboing,

No man wants to get cucked by another Arisen.

Ain't nothing like coming back from work to find out that someone has been teaching your pawn "new tricks".

You know NTR, right?

 

[Gentle Player]

My Pawn has multiple one-starred entries for "Unfamiliar Foe", but under "times Main Pawn hired" it says zero, and I've received no ratings, rift crystals, gifts or anything else. Is this due to that bug that was mentioned or is it just a case of my Pawn fighting enemies that were too far away from my Arisen to register? I shouldn't be surprised if it's the latter and no one has hired my Pawn, because nobody hired him on PS3 either .

 

[Hobo Elf]

How's the game with KB + M ?

 

[Tacgnol]

How's the game with KB + M ?

Seems playable. I haven't had any significant issues so far.

Most annoying thing is the cumbersome UI, but I've played with worse.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I can live with that since you're not wanking around the UI much anyway.

 

[treave]

Looks like they're starting to fix the pawn rental. Just got some RC and scrag from a hire, and other people on Steam are saying that they're beginning to get their rewards too.

 

[Invictus]

I bet since they had get out the review copy first they screwed up the online component bu including it last... Eqsily fixable but still kind of funny

 

[Ivan]

bros since the herbalist in the capital sells the potent green herb for pennies, isn't the game's difficulty pretty much over?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Yeah, I'm not sure if the pawn thing was a glitch with their system when porting it or due to the online/offline option. I know for a fact that I had set my game to online and after a few hours of playing, had dropped out to the menu and noticed it reverted me to offline so I couldn't see friend pawns or anything. Seems to be working now though - I'm still not sure about pawn review and gifts since I haven't dismissed any since changing it again.

 

[Damned Registrations]

bros since the herbalist in the capital sells the potent green herb for pennies, isn't the game's difficulty pretty much over?

Spamming consumable items does indeed make the vast majority of fights in the game trivial (and there are even better sources of consumables than the herbalist.) But not entirely, since there are enemies that can one shot you, and there are also enemies who are so hard to injure (especially without your pawns backing you up to distract/hinder them) that you can literally burn through your entire encumbrance limit of healing items before you can finish them off. Or you might need other consumables to fight as well, and run out of those first.

Besides, fighting lowly cyclops and shit shouldn't be a matter of winning or losing, it should be a matter of style points. Save worrying about difficulty for Bitterblack. I'd say the first real fight in the game is the cuckotrice. Everything up to then is still training wheels while you flesh out your character build with the skills you want. Even then it might be pretty easy depending on how much you've overlevelled by doing all the sidequests, but Bitterblack is pretty much level playing field- it won't matter what you did before you got there, the difficulty and rewards put it on an entirely different tier.

 

[Zombra]

Yeah, I'm not sure if the pawn thing was a glitch with their system

Don't say it past tense like that. Not yet.

 

[hivemind]

Not sure if I'm playing the game wrong or what but I'm not having all that much fun so far.
The trashmobs are completely banal while the minibosses(mostly just fought cyclops and other big humanoids) are boring as fuck because I deal so little damage to them unless I climb on their head which was fun the first time but the charm is going away real fast.

I just finished the Everfall "quest" and previously did some wandering around.

Does the combat get more substantial anytime soon?

 

[hivemind]

I'd say the first real fight in the game is the cuckotrice.

Roughly how many hours is this in?

 

[Mozg]

You can buy empty flasks for like 10 copper pieces and fill them with healing spring water, which is a full party heal for a couple hundred HP, which you can do in an inventory time-stop.

DD is clearly some frankenstein of Capcom trying to put together highly competent action design with Bethesda somnambulism.

I think I can extract enough fun for a playthrough, though. I have fun with e.g. Cylops fights even though they're trivial by doing stuff like: get him to remove his helm -> cleave off leg armor -> knock him down -> jump on his face and bash his eye in.

 

[Ebonsword]

For the folks saying it's too easy, you don't have to bring a full complement of pawns along.

I had a lot of fun with one playthrough where it was just me and my main pawn and we both played martial classes. It was just two bros wandering Gransys, and it was awesome.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Man that entire section with Griffin was complete and utter bullshit. That railroading for a boss fight that is over in less than 30 sec

 

[Haba]

So uh... I just killed a drake at level 30.

That was some fight. Oh well, on positive side I'm now very light... since I used all my potions.

Also got some dragonforged gear now!

Too bad it chose to dragonforge my worthless pants.

 

[Strayed]

Man that entire section with Griffin was complete and utter bullshit. That railroading for a boss fight that is over in less than 30 sec

You can skip the railroading if you kill it the first time

 

[Damned Registrations]

I'd say the first real fight in the game is the cuckotrice.

Roughly how many hours is this in?

Well I just got past there a bit ago, and my time played on steam says 12 hours. So, accounting for how far I played past it and time spent recovering lost ground from dying, probably around 9-10 hours. Again though, this is highly dependent on how much time you spend on sidequests, general fucking around, exploration, etc. You could easily spend 30 hours getting to this point without even dying, or you could get here in 3 by being cheesy as fuck and basically speedrunning it.

Man that entire section with Griffin was complete and utter bullshit. That railroading for a boss fight that is over in less than 30 sec

You can skip the railroading if you kill it the first time

The fight can also be a total pain in the ass depending on your vocation and who you brought to help you. If it was over in 30 seconds I'm guessing you were either over leveled or

Spoiler

you recovered the grimoire and gave it away.

 

[Ivan]

what difficulty mode are you guys on and how are you enjoying it? I'm still not sure about continuing on Hard or starting from Normal again to "figure things out"

 

[Strayed]

For the folks saying it's too easy, you don't have to bring a full complement of pawns along.

I had a lot of fun with one playthrough where it was just me and my main pawn and we both played martial classes. It was just two bros wandering Gransys, and it was awesome.

Solo fighter is pretty good too. Bringing behemoths to their knees with your sword, parrying the dragon itself, perfect defending from Daimon...lots of fun to be had because it teaches you how to block properly considering that there are no pawns to distract enemies.

Spoiler

It's great until you fight a metal golem at least

 

[Mozg]

Hard, stuff just falls down/gets stunned way too much on Normal. Like on hard human bandits in a decent group can kill you just because you can't stunlock them with regular attacks.

 

[hivemind]

I'll try throwing the pawns of a cliff and see if the game gets more fun that way.

 

[Reinhardt]

Pawns can be summoned by only one person at a time? What if someone summon your pawn and throw it in the water? Will you still get something from it?