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

[d1r]

Huh, didn't they say that the game doesn't have quest markers? I see them all over the place.

Are you still in the tutorial?

If being in the capital still counts as the tutorial, then yes.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Oh what the shit. I spent an hour making the most badass looking MFer pawn ever and he has the voice of a flaming homosexual. He did NOT sound like that in the creator!

 

[Cyberarmy]

I don't mind techical problems and such and I do very mind return of the microtransactions, in a fucking single player $70 game ($50 in Steam Turkey though)
Seriosly considering refunding and save that money for some other game that really deserve that kind of money and probably rebuy DD2 after 5-6 years when its on sale %80-90. Oh Metro where are thou...

 

[Shrimp]

FWIW I remember DD1 also had an online store where you could buy bundles of rift coins and I doubt more than a handful of people ever interacted with it since enemies dropped RC in abundant quantities and you could buy things like metamorphosis potions at a modest price ingame. Don't know if anything's different in the DD2 rift crystal shop but I assume the microtransaction bundles exist solely to bait a few additional dollars out of clueless people whose playtime is less than an hour

That being said apparently you can't even restart your character without manually deleting your save file? That sounds absolutely retarded. I genuinely can't figure out if this is their way of trying to nudge people to buy the character editor or if it's just a prime display of developer incompetence

 

[HoboForEternity]

Performance is bad in towns with gtx 3080 and ryzen 7 3700x. Never goes below 40 fps. this alone made it wait till patched before buying

As for microtransaction, it's dumb since rift crystals, camping kits, wakestones, and art of metamorphosis is available in game and honesly it prefer they sell these useless things than locking cosmetics/armors and weapons behind DLC like monster hunter DLCs because games like this visual progression is important and i would hate if they sell cool equipmebt in microtransaction. Let fools part with their money but dont butcher my game.


The game itself is very cool so far, pretty much everything i asked for for a dragon's dogma game, and while i dont regret spending 60 bux (from fanatical discount) i would wait a month or 2 till this gets further patches.

 

[karoliner]

We can't have nice things.

 

[gabel]

Mostly Negative (38% of 4700 reviews).
It's recovering.

 

[HoboForEternity]

We can't have nice things.

1000 rift crystals is like 15 minutes killing goblins and random questshit.

Everything else is available for purchases in game including the art of metamorphosis. Feels like it's designed to scam idiots that if you fell for these DLCs i wouldn't even pity you.

 

[ferratilis]

Not surprised tbh, Capcom seems to do that with all their recent games. All the shit you can unlock just by playing can be bought from the store. To us, it seems stupid, but Capcom knows there are people out there with a lot of cash, and very few braincells. Optimization is the thing that bugs me most.

 

[Konjad]

38% steam review score? Guess I won't be buying it for now. The complaints are mostly about optimization and microtransactions, but the latter is not a good sign for content quality, so I'd rather wait and see.

 

[Lyre Mors]

microtransactions, but the latter is not a good sign for content quality,

Haven't seen any indication in 6 hours of play of microtransactions having any impact on actual gameplay. It's pretty much like how it is in every Capcom game, where you'd be robbing yourself of progression and fun if you bought any of that shit. And if you're stupid enough to do so, hey, you don't deserve the fun you're losing anyway. I hate the garbage being there at all, but I really couldn't care less if it doesn't have any negative effect on my gameplay experience.

As for some of these complaints about difficulty: clearly a lot of these reviewers rarely went off the beaten path. Yeah, if you're wailing on goblins and harpies on critical path quests for the first 10-15 hours, of course it's always going to feel easy. Look around, find a little cavern leading into the darkness, and you're going to get butt-fuggled by a troll at LVL 10 for sure. There's challenge to be found here. It's just for people who have enough of a sense of adventure to not go directly where the game asks them to at every turn. At least - again - this is what I've found to be true in my first 6 hours. I think I have three deaths behind me so far. It's not crazy difficult or anything, but it provides a nice challenge when you're looking for it.

As for performance, yeah, it's not where it should be. But on my midrange system on medium-high settings, I'm hitting around 60fps in wilderness and 35-40 in densely populated areas. It hasn't gotten in the way of my gameplay in the least. I find the game to be beautiful, but I'm a sucker for lush wilderness and sprawling vistas.

Anyway, having a blast.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So that heartfelt pendant preorder bonus is meant to be given to the NPC you wanna fuck I gather, based on the description.

 

[Silverfish]

The Steam forum is wild.

Found Todd Howard's account:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2054970/discussions/0/4289188517339303113/

 

[Lord_Potato]

Not only performance issues, it's filled to the brim with microtransactions. Refunded.

I haven't heard anything about that. Mind expanding on the topic?

They are listed in the store page.

These are not cosmetic items.

Enjoy your pay2win transactions in a 70$ single player game

 

[Morgoth]

Microtransactions my ass. And not a single word about it from reviewers.

"GOTY 2024!"

Yet again another example how Streamers are worthless shills.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Look around, find a little cavern leading into the darkness, and you're going to get butt-fuggled by a troll at LVL 10 for sure.

This is exactly the kind of thing I like doing but... is it just going to be a dissapointment like it was in ER? Is there anything in that dark cave worth your time, or is it going to be some gold and a weapon/hat you'll never use? The pre-release stuff seemed to imply there were going to be hidden masters to find and teach you secret vocations... but that was horseshit right? So what the fuck am I exploring for besides to find yet another cyclops or whatever?

 

[Lord_Potato]

Not sure what the butthurt is about the RC store, assuming you can still earn it in game from the pawn system. Either way, it was always only for cosmetic type stuff. YMMV. I had millions of them on my DD1 PC character.

How is it for cosmetic type stuff only, when shit you can buy in the store allows you to recruit better pawns or more frequent fast travel?

That's blatantly pay2win.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Not sure what the butthurt is about the RC store, assuming you can still earn it in game from the pawn system. Either way, it was always only for cosmetic type stuff. YMMV. I had millions of them on my DD1 PC character.

How is it for cosmetic type stuff only, when shit you can buy in the store allows you to recruit better pawns or more frequent fast travel?

That's blatantly pay2win.

the game isnt rigged so you need these, hell if you used these you'd rob yourself out of the progression

 

[gabel]

Yeah, the microtransactions are probably the least of the game's problems, eventhough the Art of Metamorphosis item is somewhat of an outrage: in Dark Arisen, you had to buy it with Rift Crystals as well iirc, but it permanently unlocked the character editor, whereas now it's one-time use.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Oh what the shit. I spent an hour making the most badass looking MFer pawn ever and he has the voice of a flaming homosexual. He did NOT sound like that in the creator!

Nothing that mere 2$ won't fix

 

[Shrimp]

Yeah, the microtransactions are probably the least of the game's problems, eventhough the Art of Metamorphosis item is somewhat of an outrage: in Dark Arisen, you had to buy it with Rift Crystals as well iirc, but it permanently unlocked the character editor, whereas now it's one-time use.

In the original you could initially only buy one-time uses but after reaching the post-game you could unlock it permanently

 

[Shrimp]

Oh what the shit. I spent an hour making the most badass looking MFer pawn ever and he has the voice of a flaming homosexual. He did NOT sound like that in the creator!

Tying pawn voices to their inclinations seems like such an odd choice to make. What were they thinking?

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Ulrika is quite fine indeed. Already promised my heart to Wilhelmina though. Ohwell.

Fuck I might have to cheat on Wilhelmina.

 

[gabel]

Yeah, the microtransactions are probably the least of the game's problems, eventhough the Art of Metamorphosis item is somewhat of an outrage: in Dark Arisen, you had to buy it with Rift Crystals as well iirc, but it permanently unlocked the character editor, whereas now it's one-time use.

In the original you could initially only buy one-time uses but after reaching the post-game you could unlock it permanently

Right.
The question is whether there's a Secret of Metamorphosis that you can unlock in this as well.

 

[Lyre Mors]

This is exactly the kind of thing I like doing but... is it just going to be a dissapointment like it was in ER? Is there anything in that dark cave worth your time, or is it going to be some gold and a weapon/hat you'll never use? The pre-release stuff seemed to imply there were going to be hidden masters to find and teach you secret vocations... but that was horseshit right? So what the fuck am I exploring for besides to find yet another cyclops or whatever?

Every piece of equipment I've found in my off-the-beaten-path explorations so far has been instantly valuable and equipped. But I'm still early in, so I have no idea how this'll be further in. As for exploring just for the sake of finding challenges to face? Well, this is one of those games where that's rewarding in itself for me, just because I find the gameplay so satisfying.

Have no idea how this translates into what you value in gaming. You seem very hesitant, so you should probably just hold off for a good long while.