Dragon's Dogma

Habast said:
Morrowind is still my favorite RPG I've played. But it was pretty terrible when on of the guilds was like "go to this random cave in the middle of nowhere and kill this guy. Oh, it should take you about 2 hours to find. Mark it on your map? Don't be ridicuous! Don't worry, I'll give you insanely crappy directions that will make you more confused."

Anyway, still haven't played Dragon's Dogma. I've heard very mixed things about it, but it looks good to me. Just haven't had enough extra spending money to justify getting it. How would you guys compare it to other RPGs out now?
Click to expand...

The fairest description I can give: Imagine Dark Souls and the Elderscrolls had a baby. Now imagine that baby attended a school for leveling up run by... let's say KOTOR. It's uglier than elderscrolls but more populated and vibrant than a souls game. Its bigger than a souls but smaller than a scrolls. The combat stands somewhere in the middle too. It requires skill and timing and sound tactical decisions... until you level up and gear up enough. Then it becomes"spam your godslayer attack". If you are a mystic knight this will be magic cannon, if you are an asassin this will be dire gouge and if you are a ranger this will be "launch 12 arrows at my enemy''s eye-sockets attack", but no matter what you will have an ultimate attack and the experience is sort of the same. It kind of reminds me of two worlds two but a good bit more professionally done with house buying a music playing as casualties of the improvements to combat. You get to build a sidekick called a "pawn" for yourself, the sidekick looks like whatever you want and can help liberate you to play any role you want by supplementing you in combat. Wanna roll a healer? Make your pawn a tank or dps, keep them topped off and go own some faces. Wanna roll a squishy damage dealer but don't like dying! Make your pawn a healer or tank. Like Melee fighting but don't want to be owned from a distance? Make your pawn a ranger or mage and they'll snipe ranger threats while you kill melee goons. You could go on and on, but you also set the pawns AI.

I got my copy for 20 bucks, its honestly worth twice that even if its a little rough around the edges. Seriously, can't be too expensive now, go out and buy it.
 
I beat Dark Arisen yesterday. I loved it, the enemies were tough and I didn't completely plow through everything. Now I'm going to play through it more to actually explore the huge ass dungeon. Also I recommend you be at least level 100 when you attempt this DLC on normal difficultly. Level 200 on hard, the enemies can hit for 3K damage. It's insane. I blame Hard mode just being "Kill the Arisen" mode(because everything does x2 damage to the player but not pawns). I still can't get over getting hit for 3K. It might have even been 3.5K...

EDIT: I finally got the new most powerful bow and daggers. It made me a little sad that I could stun lock the final boss with 10 fold flurry though. Lol
 
so does the dlc from the original game work in DA? bc i went to the marketplace and i saw DD: Dark Arisen instead of just the plain DD. while i was there, some of the dlc i bought for the original showed up and were checked like i had already bought 'em.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top