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

[Talby]

Please don't suck.

 

[Suicidal]

At this point the only thing that will dissuade me from a day 1 buy is terrible performance.

 

[notpl]

Hope there's a ninja vocation

If they end up including Ninja, i could see it being the hybrid Mage/Thief class, weapon being either katanas or kurasigama, and it would be able to use Ninpo.

You've already seen all of the game's vocations! That clip is just the Thief! Class-based RPGs don't hide half the classes before release to the extent of intentionally keeping them out of every single incidental second of gameplay footage, the entire point is for people to know the classes in advanced so they can talk about what kind of character they're going to make and generate more hype! Aaaah!

 

[Anonona]

You've already seen all of the game's vocations! That clip is just the Thief! Class-based RPGs don't hide half the classes before release to the extent of intentionally keeping them out of every single incidental second of gameplay footage, the entire point is for people to know the classes in advanced so they can talk about what kind of character they're going to make and generate more hype! Aaaah!

While I don't harvest any real hope that there will be more vocations than the ones shown so far, the information that they had been sharing about DD2 up until now is surprisingly limited compared to other releases. We have been shown less monster variety than DD1, we know very little about the new setting and the world. Just a few day ago they had introduced the concept of the Pawn plague which seems like a completely new mechanic, and a big one if it messes with pawns, as the pawn system is part of the core of DD, as well as an important new addition to the lore.

At this point is still plausible that they may be hiding a lot of things about the game, specially considering interviews with the developer who stated he whishes for the players to discover things by themselves. More vocations are not completely out of the question and you can't really blame fans from speculating. The lack of information is the only thing that makes me a bit wary about the game and what will probably make me wait a bit before playing it to confirm that what they have shown so far in the trailers is all that there is.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

That's strider innit

Teef

Strider has been separated in two

You've already seen all of the game's vocations!

>we're supposed to believe there are no advanced vocations for thief and archer
>we're supposed to belive there's isn't hybrid vocations combinations of all 4 four main vocations
>we're supposed to believe the purple and pink colors of the trickester vocation aren't 2 new base vocations

Yeah... I don't think so

 

[silphCo]

At this point the only thing that will dissuade me from a day 1 buy is terrible performance.

Day 1 play, for sure.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Hope there's a ninja vocation

If they end up including Ninja, i could see it being the hybrid Mage/Thief class, weapon being either katanas or kurasigama, and it would be able to use Ninpo.

I could see a “Ninja” Vocation being a hybrid Fighter/Archer thing were you’ve got some sheathed sword that can do ranged slashes like Jubei in Ninja Scroll and Vergil in the Devil May Cry game. I don’t think it’ll be called a Ninja, but it’ll essentially be a Ninja. Maybe the Stider name will get reused there, Capcom’s Stider character has long range slashes as well.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Splitting strider up has some interesting implications. Will the ranger/thief hybrid class be strider now? Or would assassin get moved to that position? I do wonder with Ranger if it's going to lead to a class or too especially focused at very long range combat. Didn't have many options for that before. I could see them introducing a crossbow class as well, or possibly even firearms or javelins.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I also think we see Silat from Berserk (which heavily influenced Dragon’s Dogma) as the basis for one or two “Ninja” Vocations.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Splitting strider up has some interesting implications. Will the ranger/thief hybrid class be strider now? Or would assassin get moved to that position? I do wonder with Ranger if it's going to lead to a class or too especially focused at very long range combat. Didn't have many options for that before. I could see them introducing a crossbow class as well, or possibly even firearms or javelins.

I don’t think they bring back Strider as a hybrid Ranger Thief Vocation with access to both weapons. That’s what Warfarer is for. Before Warfarer that seemed possible, but afterwards I don’t see them having a hybrid Vocation that gives you two weapons like that.

I think advanced Vocation Archer is either some rapid fire gun like crossbow, or it’s like the total opposite and it’s some kind of cannon weapon like Gut’s has hidden in his hand. Or it just is guns that have cartridge-less ammunition so you’re throwing guns away after firing them, and that little Gut’s Berserk cannon is in there as a move.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Hope there's a ninja vocation...

That combat looks slick as fuck.

 

[Abu Antar]

Vocations and Pawns.

 

[notpl]

Vocations and Pawns.

"the arisen can choose from four vocations at the start of the game"

b-b-but there have to be basic vocations for the beige and purple colors in the trickster's graphic!!!

 

[Anonona]

b-b-but there have to be basic vocations for the beige and purple colors in the trickster's graphic!!!

They could be hybrids of advanced vocations you unlock later

 

[Kem0sabe]

I think that they have shown all the vocations we are going to get.

 

[Matador]

Hope there's a ninja vocation

If they end up including Ninja, i could see it being the hybrid Mage/Thief class, weapon being either katanas or kurasigama, and it would be able to use Ninpo.

Ninja being a thief-mage is faggy grognard shit.

Ninjas should be invisible beheading machines like in Wizardry or Elminage, dodging and insta killing everything (included final bosses) while being naked.

At the very least, highly mobile lethal Katana users with some cheap tricks under the sleeve.

 

[Damned Registrations]

b-b-but there have to be basic vocations for the beige and purple colors in the trickster's graphic!!!

They could be hybrids of advanced vocations you unlock later

Given the wandering master system, they could be basic vocations you unlock later as well, with no requirements except finding a teacher.

 

[HoboForEternity]

 

[notpl]

b-b-but there have to be basic vocations for the beige and purple colors in the trickster's graphic!!!

They could be hybrids of advanced vocations you unlock later

Given the wandering master system, they could be basic vocations you unlock later as well, with no requirements except finding a teacher.

a month after the game is out you people are going to be posting "there could be another vocation master hidden somewhere in the gameworld, until the dataminers and speedrunners have taken the game apart there's really no way to say for sure"

 

[Damned Registrations]

b-b-but there have to be basic vocations for the beige and purple colors in the trickster's graphic!!!

They could be hybrids of advanced vocations you unlock later

Given the wandering master system, they could be basic vocations you unlock later as well, with no requirements except finding a teacher.

a month after the game is out you people are going to be posting "there could be another vocation master hidden somewhere in the gameworld, until the dataminers and speedrunners have taken the game apart there's really no way to say for sure"

Yes, but also if I haven't found one myself after a few hours I'll check online and if nobody else has found a new one either, I'll refund. If the game really only has 10 vocations it's a sign they've fucked up massively somehow.

 

[Crayll]

It would be extremely strange to only have advanced vocations for two of the four basic ones, so I don't buy it that they've shown all of them off.

 

[Damned Registrations]

It would be extremely strange to only have advanced vocations for two of the four basic ones, so I don't buy it that they've shown all of them off.

The only way I could see it happening is if they've got half of them shunted off into some DLC scheme, and in that case, I don't care how good the game is, crapcom can go fucking twist.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

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I hope he's only talking about the PC version. Uncapped framerates on consoles are a nightmare. A locked 30 is almost preferable. Locked 60 is obviously the ideal goal as far as consoles go.

 

[Shrimp]

I find it difficult to imagine they'd add Thief as a basic vocation just for it to be a dead end with no upgrades. On the other hand I also doubted right from the start that we'd get hybrid vocation combinations for all the basic colours we'd seen at the time.
If I were to hazard a guess I'd imagine we'll only get hybrid vocations for the original three colours (yellow/blue/red), four advanced vocations for the four basic vocations with the additional vocations like Trickster and Warfarer just being standalone unique additions.
Hopefully they'll prove me wrong and have far more than that though