Dragon's Dogma II - "They’re masterworks, all – you can’t go wrong"

[Blutwurstritter]

Awful performance put aside, the game seems like a disappointment

I am shocked that it only takes like 40 hours to do everything that the game has to offer (including the endgame content!). I really expected the game to be "bigger". Though I don't have a problem with short games, but at least give me something like Everfall, where you can grind for better items.

Also, performance seems to be absolutely ass. Here I was hoping that I would get AT LEAST constant 60fps on 4k on max settings, but that seems to be a pipe dream.

40 hours sounds great. I thought the first game was stretched thin and could have been have as long as it was.

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Tyrr]

Full harem party or full Bro party. Choose wisely western man.

The former. Anybody sees a bunch of guys hanging out in the woods alone together is gonna wonder.

Careful about that, Capcom is on to you:

https://en.softonic.com/articles/dr...ale-characters-and-it-will-tell-other-players

NTR simulator

 

[ferratilis]

Fucking Capcom.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/dragons-dogma-2-performance-analysis/

The performance of Dragon's Dogma 2 can be summarised with one utterance: CPU. It doesn't really matter whether you're measuring performance in the city or the open world, the processor and platform you have will play a huge role in determining whether or not your graphics card has a chance to shine in this game.

If you have a mid-range or budget-level gaming PC, you're unlikely to see performance figures in excess of 60 fps in the open world areas. In the main city, though, you'll be looking to hit half that figure, even at 1080p with low quality settings.

Only with a modern CPU and graphics card will you stand any chance of having a smooth gaming experience. Capcom's recommended hardware requirements should really be viewed as the absolute minimum, and ideally you're going to need a 12th Gen Intel Core or Ryzen 5000-series or better CPU. You can get away with just having six cores, as long as the chip supports multithreading. At least it's not especially demanding on the system RAM.

Hopefully, most of the frame rate issues I saw will be solved with future game patches and driver updates. But there's clearly a lot of work to be done in optimising everything further.

I'm waiting until they sort it out. No way I'm playing at 40fps, that's for the console peasantry.

 

[Sentinel]

81 Hours. Less enemy variety than DD1. Some of the new monsters are incredibly rare, only found each once (medusa and dalahan or whatever). Open world is basically Cyclops + Troll galore.

They brought back the limited ferrystone system despite essentially doing away with it in DDDA lol. Jesus.

 

[d1r]

Oh nice, maybe I'll get good fps after all with my R9 7900x3D!

81 Hours. Less enemy variety than DD1.

This is just pathetic though.

 

[Sentinel]

I'm waiting until they sort it out. No way I'm playing at 40fps, that's for the console peasantry.

A CPU bottleneck is not going to be sorted out via patches. Don't get your hopes up.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

They brought back the limited ferrystone system despite essentially doing away with it in DDDA lol. Jesus.

Based Itsuno.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I've avoided doomposting but at this point can someone give me a legit reason why I'd play DD2 instead of just going back to DD1?

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I am shocked that it only takes like 40 hours ... Though I don't have a problem with short games

Since when is 40 hours for a main questline a "short" ??

Supposedly it's easy

Now this one is interesting as both the PS5 and PC leakers said the game in difficulty was equivalent to ER...

 

[Black]

It's a false flag, I won't let you have hope ever again. I won't let you get hurt.

Should've listened to this guy, he seems very smart.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

 

[Sentinel]

Can't believe I took a 2 week vacation for this. Fucking Itsuno.

At least I haven't pre-ordered yet. Gonna wait for a patch I think, and try to resist the urge to off myself from disappointment in the mean time.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I've avoided doomposting but at this point can someone give me a legit reason why I'd play DD2 instead of just going back to DD1?

DD1 is painfully incomplete
Combat mechanics from everything shown so far seem like an indisputable improvement, like going from DMC4 to DMC5

 

[d1r]

I am shocked that it only takes like 40 hours ... Though I don't have a problem with short games

Since when is 40 hours for a main questline a "short" ??

Reviewer in the first video said that he did everything the game had to offer in 43 hours (80-90% of content). So I was assuming that he ALSO did everything that the endgame has to offer. But apparently the Fextra review says something different. 40 hours for a JRPG is still rather short nontheless.

 

[Morgoth]

4players.de is speaking of lazy game design, an uninspiring world, combat gets repetitive fast, and getting jumped by enemies every two minutes is tiring. Grognards only.

 

[proxon]

Some journo full playthrough allegedly. What in the fuck are those Japs doing with the difficulty

 

[Hobo Elf]

I've avoided doomposting but at this point can someone give me a legit reason why I'd play DD2 instead of just going back to DD1?

DD1 is painfully incomplete
Combat mechanics from everything shown so far seem like an indisputable improvement, like going from DMC4 to DMC5

I've yet to see any of these improvements you mentioned. Maybe you could say what caught your eye? All I see is that MA got gutted when they removed their dagger skills. Doesn't seem like an improvement to me.

 

[Raghar]

Had a feeling this was gonna be dogma 1.5, my computer can't run it anyway.



He's having framerate drops on the best computer money can buy.

Denuvo is killing the game.

 

[Morgoth]

Even for those IGN fags it only took 20-30 hours to finish the game.

 

[Falksi]

4players.de is speaking of lazy game design, an uninspiring world, combat gets repetitive fast, and getting jumped by enemies every two minutes is tiring. Grognards only.

Sounds full of shit tbh. I'm not buying that "combat gets repetitive fast", he's either not playing a class to suit his playstyle or playing on an easier difficulty setting, because the first game's combat was fun for fucking ages, and they've added to it not taken away from it.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

My mom has a better computer than most of you third world poorfags. You should be fucking ashamed that an elderly woman has a PC that rapes your's right up it's ass. Her's will be able to play the game at max settings just fine. Get a job and a better PC.

Supposedly it's easy (no difficulty modes, but we get adaptive difficulty that mollycoddles everyone with journalist difficulty mode if you fail enough) and the endgame is even worse than Everfall was.

Source on this? Also wouldn't be surprised if it was an opinion based entirely on critical path content.

This could be a legit problem if true. If it works the same way it did in REmake 2 and I'm sure it will because Capcom, it will be massive decline. It's based on how well you're playing and if you're doing good the enemies simply become spongier and take more headshots to kill. The game doesn't actually become more difficult, it just becomes more retarded. You're almost incentivised to suck on purpose to get more one-shot kills, but eventually the enemies become spongey again. It's a fucking nightmare travesty. People like to shit on REmake 3 but it atleast got rid of the garbage and is the better game for it.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

40 hours for a JRPG is still rather short nontheless.

For the shitty ones maybe
The ones that pad their time with bullshit grinding

I've yet to see any of these improvements you mentioned.

• more skills
• more complex base movesets by integrating old skills into vocation levelling
• expanded grappling mechanics
• expanded enemy behaviours even on old enemies
• it is now possible to stand enemies and use skills as if on solid ground
• foes with low health can be vanquished with a finishing blow
• a 'downed' state has been added, much like a prolonged out of stamina knockdown
• pawn revival from the unconscious state now takes longer and instead restores them to the same health as the Arisen.
• items no longer restore health to full, making expeditions riskier as they continue

 

[Lyre Mors]

Quest design sounds pretty fantastic, and a nice step up from the original. Demands common sense, critical thinking, intuition, and urgency from the player. It's going to piss so many people off.

 

[Dyet]

4players.de is speaking of lazy game design, an uninspiring world, combat gets repetitive fast, and getting jumped by enemies every two minutes is tiring. Grognards only.

Sounds full of shit tbh. I'm not buying that "combat gets repetitive fast", he's either not playing a class to suit his playstyle or playing on an easier difficulty setting, because the first game's combat was fun for fucking ages, and they've added to it not taken away from it.

Given that you fight the same enemies from DD1 over and over again, I can see the combat getting old fast. Also, people familiar with DD1 say that DD2 is even easier.

Quest design sounds pretty fantastic, and a step up from the original. Demands common sense, critical thinking, intuition, and urgency from the player. It's going to piss so many people off.

One of the game's few good qualities.