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

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So we have positive: quest design.
And negative: Needs 12 core, Denuvo crap installed, and it's short.

Make it run fast on 4 core, remove Denuvo, and sell it for up to 40 USD and we have a commercial game.

I'm so sad.

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If this shit is not good then I will be very angry.

Oof don't kick the third worlders and poorfags while they're down. That does look like sex tho. The good kind.

 

[soutaiseiriron]

so a 1080p upscale on a TOTL CPU
should (probably) get about 30-50fps on something midrange like a 12th gen i5 and a 3060 at max. optimize the settings by cutting back on shit that's borderline invisible to see like GI and shadow quality and 60fps should be doable

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

For fucks sake, after the success of Elden Ring you would think devs would man up and start putting some goddam challenge in their games, but no let's make sure everyone and their grandma can beat it

What's even the point of half of the systems and combat if enemies die if you so much as fart in their direction?

One thing I hoped they would actually improve is difficulty, seems they made it even easier..

Elden Ring ain't hard bruv. The game can be cheesed too death which is why it was so successful. You think normies actually beat Malenia fairly? Most of them probably never even ran into her.

 

[Sentinel]

 

[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.

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.

Honestly, after around 10 years for me, I'm really not that bothered about revisiting old enemies. They'll feel fairly fresh after that time.

And that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

 

[Dyet]

So we have positive: quest design.
And negative: Needs 12 core, Denuvo crap installed, and it's short.

Make it run fast on 4 core, remove Denuvo, and sell it for up to 40 USD and we have a commercial game.

I'm so sad.

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If this shit is not good then I will be very angry.

4K (DLSS Balanced)

So not 4K but only 2227×1253? And it's just 100FPS outside the city with nothing going on.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Honestly, after around 10 years for me, I'm really not that bothered about revisiting old enemies. They'll feel fairly fresh after that time.

Abd that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

Pretty sure this game uses "adaptive difficulty". So the game gets easier the worse you play.

 

[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.

Abd that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

Right now, I believe that there are no difficulty settings and hard difficulty in DD1 was kind of shit anyway. I have more hope that modders will fix this game than the devs.

Itsuno and his team should stick to DMC, honestly.

 

[Sentinel]

Abd that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

There's no difficulty options. It uses adaptive difficulty.

Also there's no way to delete save files or start a new character apparently.

 

[Artyoan]

Looks like I'll be waiting for some performance patches but likely to buy at full price. Not happy with some decisions made but it looks overall like what I wanted it to be.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Abd that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

There's no difficulty options. It uses adaptive difficulty.

Also there's no way to delete save files or start a new character apparently.

Stop saying this crap without backing it up with sources and facts. Multiple people have said this and provided no sources or facts. I'm just seeing a bunch of morons repeating something some other moron said.

 

[Sentinel]

Abd that's my point with the difficulty. Most of the reviewers won't be playing it on Harder settings to judge it in it's fullest context. They never do.

There's no difficulty options. It uses adaptive difficulty.

Also there's no way to delete save files or start a new character apparently.

Stop saying this crap without backing it up with sources and facts. Multiple people have said this and provided no sources or facts. I'm just seeing a bunch of morons repeating something some other moron said.

That ratatoskr reviewer mentioned it, and the main menu that 2 leakers posted 1 week ago also had no "new game" option IIRC.

 

[Turisas]

Stop saying this crap without backing it up with sources and facts. Multiple people have said this and provided no sources or facts. I'm just seeing a bunch of morons repeating something some other moron said.

https://eu.rgj.com/story/life/2024/...-dogma-2-director-hideaki-itsuno/72786342007/

 

[Jermu]

dynamic difficulty is the biggest decline I have heard for a long time

 

[Late Bloomer]

Made 4 characters, 2 of each

Arisens

Drake

Raoh

Pawns

Sofia

Was undecided between gold or silver, but a friend told me silver makes her looks a bit sickly


Diana

A shame that the editor only allows to migrate one of each
Also a shame you can still only have 1 main pawn, would've loved to form a party of just those 2 girls

Still have a few ideas...
A middle age wizard, a thief ressembling the Persian Prince (from the Sands of Time triology), a dwarf, a witch, a weird tribal warrior, a redheaded huntress and a Khajiit thief (although that's already 1 character over the limit...)

Are you ashamed of your degenerate arisens and pawns?

 

[d1r]

dynamic difficulty is the biggest decline I have heard for a long time

It's great when done right. God Hand proved it.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Can the adaptive difficulty be disabled? I asked earlier and nobody gave an answer. That crap doesn't ever work as intended and I'd rather play without it.

 

[Turisas]

Can the adaptive difficulty be disabled? I asked earlier and nobody gave an answer. That crap doesn't ever work as intended and I'd rather play without it.

...not on a console.

 

[Hobo Elf]

dynamic difficulty is the biggest decline I have heard for a long time

It's great when done right. God Hand proved it.

I wouldn't say it worked particularly well in God Hand either. It just made the game harder until you got hit in the face a few times after which the challenge would be instantly downgraded. Or if you were a wussy you'd use the Roulette skill to drop your level down.

 

[Jinn]

Can the adaptive difficulty be disabled? I asked earlier and nobody gave an answer. That crap doesn't ever work as intended and I'd rather play without it.

There doesn't seem to be a way to disable it, from everything I've read.

It's the one aspect of DD2 that I'm wholly opposed to, but I'm confident it's not going to ruin my fun in my first playthrough. I'm sure we'll have some good mods down the line to deal with that for subsequent playthroughs. Time to get a PC, SDG.

 

[Late Bloomer]

It's great when done right. God Hand proved it.

Can you expand on why it's great? It seems like something journalist and normies would love. That way they don't have to feel bad about lowering the difficulty.

 

[d1r]

It's great when done right. God Hand proved it.

Can you expand on why it's great? It seems like something journalist and normies would love. That way they don't have to feel bad about lowering the difficulty.

Higher difficulty = more enemies, enemies use new attacks, enemies are way more aggressive, and there is a higher chance of super bosses. If you didn't get hit for a while, or were completely styling on enemies, you would reach this mode quite fast. And if you got hit a couple of times, you were brought back to a lower difficulty while still fighting. It worked quite well for the earlier missions, but as Hobo Elf said, it could become quite tedious, since the later stages of the game were just throwing hard enemies at you nonstop. But that really was just a bad level design, imo.

 

[d1r]

Also, regarding the game being highly dependend on the end user having a good CPU. What exactly is running in the background again while playing the game? Denuvo, and Enigma? Hmh..!

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Can the adaptive difficulty be disabled? I asked earlier and nobody gave an answer. That crap doesn't ever work as intended and I'd rather play without it.

There doesn't seem to be a way to disable it, from everything I've read.

It's the one aspect of DD2 that I'm wholly opposed to, but I'm confident it's not going to ruin my fun in my first playthrough. I'm sure we'll have some good mods down the line to deal with that for subsequent playthroughs. Time to get a PC, SDG.

Yeah it's not a total boner killer but it's definitely decline. I noticed it throughout my entire playthrough of REmake 2. It was annoying af. Hopefully they improved it a bit since then so it's less distracting. Also I hear the Steamdeck kind of shits it's pants while running this game.

 

[gabel]

81 Hours. Less enemy variety than DD1.

This is just pathetic though.

Eh, just the fourth or so of my predictions from 4 years ago turning out to be true.
Man, you've gotta be beyond retarded to buy this manure.

dynamic difficulty is the biggest decline I have heard for a long time

This alone would be reason enough not to buy.