@@__-fi6xg What’s funny is that high level pawns are best as mages because they buff your team with elemental damage types which allow your high level character to just absolutely shred anything and everything.
If they actually heal you other times they’re getting they’re ass knock A FUCKING CLIFF!! All while harpies, bandits, and a GODDAMN GRIFFIN ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU
@@kolbywilliams7234 any mage can do that, but only a well trained mage has 4 elements or more and knows the exact weakness of each monster. Plus arch mage will be way more proactive, and deal big damage like noone else. But if you want a truly strong Pawn, you have to dragonforge his gear too.
Fell in love with this game after a troll attempted to drop kick me, I dodged barely in time, and he yeeted himself ten thousand feet off a cliff and into a boiling lake of red tentacle monsters. Blessed.
Just goes to show how much unconscious bias gets in the way of real information. I always read the negative reviews first because they are far more informative than the stupid happy positive reviews that don't tell you anything other than how much that person is obsessed.
@@woulfhound Yeah, I typed my initial comment before looking up just how terrible the game is. Now all the unfair difficulty and grindy progression makes sense because you're intended to bypass it with microtransactions.
I put several thousands of hours In Dragons dogma 1 over the last 12 years. I absolutely loved that game. In my first few hours of playing DD2 I got in an ox cart, got raided by goblins, then immediately got attacked by a cyclops, then IMMEDIATELY got attacked by an ogre…. then getting back on the ox cart a griffin swooped in and destroyed it. I love this game.
Battahl was rough first time in, go through checkpoint, tried ox cart, told "monster attacks we closed bruh" THEY WERENT LYIN, EVERY CORNER I GOT JUMPED@@gespenjaeger2370
@@AA-BB Yea it is, Provided your not Batman who cannot laugh at his mishap. And if its not funny then really. We are The Jokers and you are The Batman who cannot laugh at are jokes.
OG Dragons Dogma fan here. Player height, weight, and shape effects things like sprinting speed, max stamina, carry capacity, and attack range. Maybe base stats too. The first game punished short ppl by placing a hidden item on top of a tall shelf. Even if you’re short and you could see the item, you couldn’t reach it. Main Pawns are like babies. You have to teach them the best way to support you. They will play the same way with other online players. Bad teacher = bad pawn. Personally, my pawns runs head first into battles like me. And we never die. However, she tends to die for newer players who can’t hold their own as well as I. Also she just learned how to climb monsters, search for their weak spots, or pin them down🥲 The game is meant to be completed multiple times. As it’s the only way to understand the complete story without spoilers. Every play through should be different. Quest lines can require special conditions. They can also be loss due to other quest lines. And may open/close other quest lines.
I'm going to make a game with a drink called Angel Semen and it will be ridiculously expensive. Also you won't know if it's good for you if you drink it or if you get permanent debuff from it 😂
Imagine the aggression of dark souls bosses applied to every NPC, if you so much as breathe in their direction they attack you and call the whole town for backup. That is how Dragons Dogma 2 be. Hell I accidentally pulled by daggers out and some bloke from a mile away saw it and called the legit entire Calvary of Vernenworth to fuck me up. I suggest manual saving often.
Liar. NPC's don't attack you just because you took your weapons out. They will simply go in a combat ready stance. If they attack you, it's because you attacked first. And even then the whole town won't come, just that corner where it happened. I've killed guards in one section of the city, only for another section to not even be aware of what i did and so they did nothing. Stop with the bullshit. This game isn't that brutal. It's AI is as outdated as 12 years ago.
I'm so torn because on 1 hand there's so much about this game I know I would love and enjoy but on the other hand I would break my TV if I got trapped in a nearly endless loop of a dog mauling me while my companions healed me
Tbh I am terrible at survival and hard action games like elden ring dark souls etc. but after playing dragons dogma 1 several times and on hard it is only hard at the start. Once you get more skills gear and can hire more powerful pawns the game realy become not easy but accessible even for mediocre players like me.
If you didn't notice, he played without tank and spammed Help me! all the time - of course they healed instead of doing dmg. Dude just doesn't know game mechanics.
I learned if you use the command 'Go' you can have your pawns kind of just guide you everywhere they're really useful for things like traversal because if you're lost in a really inconvenient spot near a quest they'll just be like "oh it was actually this way lol"
They guide you if they are familiar with the quest. You tell them to go and they have no quest to guide you, then all the do is move in that direction a little bit.
They have to be familiar with the quest. I personally don't like this because it's also to ok their suggestions. If they say they know the location of a chest nearby, for instance, and they offer to guide you to it, you hit go, to ok it, and all of a sudden, a completely different pawn is now trying to guide you on your quest and you never quite get guided to that chest. Might work if you unselect all quests, but that's just annoying.
@@over9000optimally Sometimes one calls out about knowing a chest nearby, you follow them and they take you to a chest you've already looted. However you don't have to say go to the other Pawn, until after you've finished doing what the first pawn was leading your to.
Assuming it hasn't changed from the original, the character creation also meaningfully impacts your gameplay. If you are different sizes/heights you get different amounts of carrying capacity/stamina, if you are super short you can fit down inaccessible passages for medium+ height characters, and in the original game there were entire factions that would be hostile/friendly towards you based on your race/gender. Also classes aren't just for skills, when you have a class chosen and level up with it, you get different permanent base stats than if you level up as a different class. That was the reason a common start in DD1 was the archer class for the first 20-40 levels because it got you a nice base amount of stamina regardless of whether you were planning to play archer or a physical class at all in the mid/endgame. I didn't get into Dragon's Dogma till years after its launch, but I really respect the depth and replayability of its systems. There are tons of other examples, like how your pawn's personality impacts their gameplay so there are "meta" personalities and whatnot. Gotta love how 100% of this is basically not told to you whatsoever though.
There were a few demo screenshots showing stats change when you change vocation. So either we don't have the joys of 190 assassin levels to play a Maximum Bonk Warrior, or your base stats do grow based on your class, but classes have stat multipliers. Can't wait to see which
@rythmiccoma2809 The whole min-max system is gone. You can play any class without needing to level another. I'd still recommend trying out and leveling other classes mostly to get different class augments.
Your size and weight also effected your character in the first game just in a less drastic way, for example if you made your character really small you could crawl through the goblin tunnels and I think if effected how easy it was to be knocked over but in a much less noticeable way now it looks like these decisions will effect your gameplay in a much more realistic way.
Alright a few tips From a dogma god. You can train your pawns by using the same class as your pawns they will mimic you later depending on the monsters you fight. Status effects are king so here how it works. Oil increases fire damage,water increases lighting damage. Enemies with harder outer shells take more lighting damage, enemies with softer outer shells take more fire damage, holy and fire for the undead,lighting and impact for dragons and golems. The strongest abilitys all arisens should have is knockdown and increased status damage,and stamina. Saurians are weak to ice. Magic archer has a regen ability get it as soon as possible. And one last thing weight affect stamina consumption you want to be light as possible in order to avoid getting tired and finally never ever travel at noght without a lantern or oil for the lantern. Al
A few more So some skills have added knockdown right. So when fighting a dragon and the dragon is hovering with the tail dangling if you use the high knockdown skill on the tail you can drop the dragon out the air. Cyclops are weak to blunt damage Petrify is really powerful it is great to use against garms wolves and small animals. Now some warrior tips( My favorite class). So the best way to play warrior is to not use the charge skills,Why? Because warriors main weakness is slow swing speed and single high damage hits. So to get the most of warrior you want to use insta cast skills and augments that increase regular swings. So a few I use are the one that increases jump attack because warrior jumping heavy is completely broken damage wis when augmented, another is increased knockdown. And the best is the skill with the I frames, that skill is essential giving the warrior a dodge button. Ranger can equip different arrows they can trivialize the game. Use blast arrow with the rapid fire skill to melt enemies. Pawns Check it out always give your main pawn a lantern,because main pawns get infinite oil so will always have a light source. If you keep hiring the same pawns they can gain an affinity towards those pawns. This is great because pawns will start to synergies and work together more affective. Some of the best combos are fighter pawn and thief,twin sorc, ranger and mage. Fighter pawn To me this is the strongest pawn in game, why? Perfect block. Be warned using this pawn combo will make all others seem not needed as much. My main pawn I give Perfect block augment, stamina consumption augment, and all rapid fire skills. Avoid the shield skill ,why because you want the pawn to Perfect block instead of using shield skills and save stamina for offensive skills. Gg arisens!
That opening bit felt like it was on a professional voice acting level very impressive. Your voice reminds me of the voice actor of Robin from Teen Titans.
The desert area has to be the most brutal area in the game. I was stuck fighting a griffin and I walked too far and triggered some goblins and dogs to attack, so I walked over to these rock structures to get some high ground… turns out they were rock giants…
Ah yes, the game that hates you. I remember walking towards a mission when this random NPC just runs to me for an escort quest. Since I had previously done 2 and the quest markers were relatively near the NPCs I said 'fuck it! Let's go.' The quest end point was on the OTHER side of the map. I debated killing the NPC but decided let's complete the quest. Off I went naively to escort an NPC, his name, I discovered, was Robert. I met, I think it may have been the Headless Horseman but I am not sure, all I know is: I was walking minding my own business when I see this weird fog which creeped me and then BAM! This headless monster appears, grabs me, slams me on the ground does a chain flury of attacks and kills me. Fine, I use a wakestone my only wakestone. In the time the animation of the wakestone finished the thing killed all three pawns, teleported to me, grabbed me, slamed me and did the flury of attacks killing me again. I didn't land a hit, I couldn't even attack it. I reload, the monster doesn't spawn which was a relief. The quest continued were I was attacked by goblins, slimes, wolves, bandits, an Ogre and a Cyclops. Barely reached the objetive and the moment I turn to leave a random npc runs to me gives me a quest which was just investigate flowers and fight wolves to find a boy, ended up in a fight against a necromancer, mind you the necromancer wasn't part of the quest it spawn while I was investigating the area of the quest. My experience so far has been: 10/10 the game hates you and it wants you to know it.
Sometimes so much random shit happens that it’s just hilarious. When I first got to the mountain where the Sphinx is chilling I needed to escort the NPC and we alles up the mountain and I heard something fighting and down by the big plateau you could watch as a Cyclops and a Lesser Dragon were battling each other while some random npc attacked both. I just watched it happen. The battle was kind of epic but the dragon won easily and just stayed there. Other times you’re just walking around on your way to sie thing and your here out of no where „ Fight me Arisen“ and a random as dragon fire breathes you ass. I fucking love the game. It’s so fun.
@@Manie230 I both love and hate the game. I remember this one random Minotaur attack. I was walking around Bhathal and nothing had jumped me yet, which is weird because you can't go more than a few steps into that area of the map without something jumping at you, anyways I was just walking wondering aloud why nothing had attacked me which was a nice change of pace when this random ass Minotaur just jumps out of nowhere, wacks me and my character is just laying there while my pawns fight the monster, eventually I got up and fought but it just came out of nowhere. Or that one other time also in Bhathal with an Ogre. I had just finished fighting a Cyclops (I remember cause my pawn got its first badge), am on my way to the Oracle when an Ogre grabs me yeets me all the way to a cave entrance, a cave I didn't even know was there, and twelve venemous lizzards came out and started beating the shit out of my Arisen alongside the Ogre. Somehow I survived though I spent most of the fight reviving my pawns, that kept dying to either the Ogre or the lizzards. I love the game for the randomness but I also hate it when it keeps staggering me and doesn't let me breathe without trying to gut me. Can't help but laugh at the two instances though. In one I tempted destiny in the other I was just minding my own bussiness.
@@pepergirl001 yesterday while playing I had the same situation as the guy in the video was dragged away by wolves and mauled to death while a magician pawn was just standing there and healed me instead of attacking the dog. Or how I and another pawn were soft locked in some slimes cause they drained our stamina and we couldn’t walk out of them. My two other pawns were stuck at some corner of that cave and just didn’t attack the damn slimes. I somehow managed to get away and could eventually kill them but god damn I was stuck there for like two minutes just contemplating if I should just go to bed and call it a day. I love the game.
@@brookd9006 well I wouldn't say I fought him, more like I witness his presences and got gutted. Was very low lvl when this happened. But I got my sweet revenge when I fought him during his quest. And the two times after that that I encounter him. Revenge never tasted sweeter.
I do feel sorry for the first timer because Dragon's Dogma should be renamed to "Bad choices I made in Life" The game. Every bad decisions you make, either intentional or nonintentional, the game will make sure to punish or haunt you for the rest of the game. For example in the video, having two mages as your pawn or any redundant classes in your party will result in something like being eaten alive by pack of wolves. For another example, bad management in questing will either you will fail, miss, or give you bad endings that could lock you out of a content in-game in the future. The game is truly difficult in different ways than other videogames I have experienced.
Pawn 1: Master, there's a statue over there! Pawn 2: Ooh! Maybe it will have treasure. Pawn 3: I don't know how to get there from here. The Pawns have a big discussion about that. Meanwhile, you are frantically running around and looking high and low to see this statue, which you never find. They do the same with treasure chests that you have already looted. And ladders. When you finally find the ladder and go up onto the narrow ledge, they all crowd around. You try to move, and get bumped off to your death.
I actually had the statue thing happen to me and I just happened to be looking at my pawns and they POINTED at the statue and I actually found it, it was crazy.
I love the fact that the game rewards exploring, i yeeted the quests and just decided to travel, found so much gear and stuff. Sometimes i gotta go back to a town just to deposit my stuff. But its always something like finding a gryph fighting an orc and then getting thirded by a lich.
"Doesn't tell you the weaknesses" That's the mechanic. You are supposed to find the weakness yourself, and then you AND your pawn (Pawn automatically gains knowledge) then take note of the weakness. So when you hire pawns they have a rating for every enemy type, and how much knowledge of that enemy that they learned when traveling with their Arisen master. The problem you encountered is that the pawns you have are mostly just NPCs generated by the game. So they won't have "all" the knowledge. The "player" pawns will be the one with all the knowledge as the game goes on.
Banger video Danny. First one I've watched from this channel and i was pleasantly suprised with how well you did in this format. Also congrats on 100k subs
btw, that segment with the wolves eating you alive was because you were using the help command, which is expressley said to make pawns not attack and instead indirectly help the arisen i think? pressing "go" or "to me" would have probably made them attack. i think.
Thank you so much for this brutally honest review! I've been on the fence about purchasing it for a while and you've just officially talked me out of it. I'll grab it on steam when it goes on sale and by then there should be a ton of mods to address the issues you mentioned.
I will say, a lot of these things he's having trouble with seem like skill issues. Most the other reviewers are actually enjoying the fact that there's not a ton of map markers everywhere and signposting. You have to really think and use your brain when getting these quests and ask around town to find tips. Your puns will also help you find things,
i'm on PS5 and not having performance issues, but its a game you have to pay attention in. No handholding, VERY limited fast travel options. 1 manual save / autosave !!!
I just discovered this channel it’s nice to find someone who can do an in depth review without boring me to sleep , really this is the best review I’ve saw on a game if years , most are so bland and unwatchable, can’t believe I hadn’t discovered him sooner
I absolutely love the gold approach. With this finding sums of gold actually means something and feels rewarding. In most other games you have enough gold until the end of time only a few hours in.
@@tomekkowalski3791Oh I must have missed the option to buy gold in the MTX. Weird. Also to OP; you hit that point in Dragon's Dogma 2. It's not meaningful or rewarding. The game is still a masterpiece though.
11:00 "guess this is my home now?" Lol This is awesome, you had the same experience as me and my buddy. We were ripping the absolute hell out of this game the first night, mealy controls, no feedback, generic story... After about 200 hours later between us, we might need to find an addiction support group at this point.
Quests are memory driven. It provides the location in a mystery yellow fart cloud on the map and you review the quest information fun and entertaining just like "Where is Waldo" and you actually walk into and around places to locate and identify your target, that's insanely cool. The lock on is all through haptic directional movement. The game want you to hit the GRAB function and climb big ass NPC enemies, hang on tight and slash stabbing tf out of your enemies. The big random enemy can fly and the Pawn Player reactions or confusion feels very authentic, it's hard to explain how the game does this function way better than many games with similar qualities. Players are essentially interacting and enjoying their playthroughs without ever meeting, it's a better introduction and setup for online gaming because everyone is already assigned a authentication player identification number. Online would destroy all of it's genre and will be the first at so large with some of the best characters and content.
Just coming over from your DD experience video, and I still heartily laughed at this one. You have a hilarious way of showing up DD's absurdities. After putting way over 200 hours into DD Dark Arisen back in 2014 and almost 200 hours into DD2 in 2024, it's safe to say I'm addicted to Itsuno's special flavor of sadism. Yet a lot of DD practically begs you to mock it - which you do very well, and I'm here for it!
This may be my favorite game review I've ever seen. It may not be all sunshine & rainbows, but who wants that? I want struggle, I want to explore, and I want to be rewarded for my efforts. These things create lasting memories & this video made me sincerely want to play this game. Well done sir!
One thing I loved in Dragon Age and I've never seen again (until Unicorn Overlord) is the tactis menu, imagine how good it would be if you can set your pawn to cast ''fire enchant'' everytime it runs out, or setting their heal skill only when any party member is at 50% or below, stuff like that. Great video btw, the more ''real'' I've seen so far.
Man...if you like Dogma 2, you'll love Dogma 1. So far, I think Dogma 1feels more fun. I didn't like that thief is only daggers, vice versa for ranger. I still haven't tried all classes yet. My beloved Mystic Knight...I miss you.
"Ser Arisen! Pray, I require you to assist me in my journey! Escort me a short way so aught should happen on these dreadfully dangerous roads!" Oh we're just going from Vermund to Melve? Sure no problem, maybe a troll or something, I'm ok with that! Followed by the most brutal encounter with a minotaur, a gryphon, a dozen saurians, goblins and wolves of course. All. At. The. Same. Time. 10/10
I used to love challenging games. And I still get bothered by games that are too easy but honestly I noticed I no longer have the stamina to finish multiple 100 hours of just pain. Monster Hunter World isn't too hard until the very end but I have yet to get there even though I love the series.
@@badreddinekasmi8919 Frustrating games are just bad for my mental health. I often get really angry, and I just prefer to avoid that. I like a challenge but not of this kind.
@@KhaosKontroller I'm about to do the same, I played Sekkiro last month and quit, this month I played DS3 and had to get help for most of the bosses, I mostly get angry and disappointed at myself. I actually just started playing Far Cry 6 just because it's so mindless and easy.
@@badreddinekasmi8919there is a massive difference between challenging and tedious. a game like sekiro is a great example of a challenging game. dragons dogma 2, like the first game, is just tedious and boring
This video made me laugh so hard, I could barely hit the thumbs up and Subscrube buttons through the tears. I've watched it a couple more times and it still makes me laugh. In fact, just thinking about it makes me laugh. I look forward to more of your sense of humor. Well done Sir!
One of the reasons for the more detailed character customization is it actually affects your stats. The taller and heavier your character is they get more stamina and carry weight, and its easier to knock down off balance monsters. While of youre shorter and lighter you move faster, regenerate stamina quicker and (at least in the first game) there are tunnels where if you're short enough you can enter.
i stood in front of the beggar for the beggar quest for 15 minutes not sure why he wouldnt move id rest hed dissappear anytime a game makes me google sumn to figure out how to complete a quest my enjoyment drops tremendously
I was in tears laughing at the first 20 sec of this vid! The feeling of beating a Boss in a Souls game is equal to the feeling of walking from one town to the next in DD2. I came to a fork in the road and took a path that led to a dragon. Immediately doubled back took the other path and fought a troll, a cyclops, a griffin and the goblin wolf coalition. Getting to town felt amazing!
@@deltaa7109no it doesn’t . The items you can buy are available to buy with in game currency, the feature is only there for people who are too lazy , but everything there is available to get normally too
@@deltaa7109Lmao. Abusive? They don't matter. They do nothing. Did you complain about BG3s deluxe DLC too? Also, they were in the original game. Literally no one who's played DD1 cares.
@@deltaa7109 the totally ignorable microtransactions that so far in like 20 hours of gameplay haven't been advertised to me? the ones that ruin your own experience if you choose to use them? yeah the microtransactions are stupid and NO ONE should buy them even once. everything there is earnable in game. I haven't even felt the desire to use them and thinking upon my experiences as a day one original dragons dogma player i'd never buy them. so what exactly about that is "abusive" I think like alot of people on the internet you're just looking for something to whinge about. the actual performance of the game is bad. complain about something real like that npcs popping in right in front of me on xbox
14:00 in a fantasy setting it applies fantasy setting as "a natural weakness of goblins is fire" same for the zombies but yeah not all are so easy to understand great video hahah
Always remember one must some day experience The Warrior Rite of Passage, as told by the first game. One-shotting a gryphon as it lands on you. Arc of Obliteration shall deliver ye
Pawns are sort of "Unfinished" people. this is learned in the first game. By travelling with an arisen who completes their journey though they can become full people.
When Capcom said their game didnt need fast travel because traveling was fun, what they really meant was you wont get a any time to breath or admire your environment without being ambushed by mobs. lmfao Idk about this game based on what Ive seen. I dont like the idea of not being able to walk for a few minutes without having to fight something. It looks like they overdid the mob spawn rate.
I bought the special edition thats $79.99 because it comes with extra starting supplies i played the first game i know how grueling the journey is but that feeling when you complete a quest after walking so long and then making it back to a major city is such a good feeling
i'm on my nth playthrough of elden ring (a game I love that constantly kicks my ass because I am bad at it) and this game sounds like it appeals to me.
Hilarious video, but all masochistically true. 🤣 I agree with just about everything you mention in this video, except that a "lock-on" feature is not as important to me, as it is to you. I almost always disable that feature in most games that have it, but that's a personal playstyle choice and as it should be. I agree that they should have given the players that option though. Since I'm a very patient player and a completionist, exploration, talking to NPC's and stopping to smell the roses, all come naturally for me. Enemies a bit more spaced out would have been great, but everything else is very entertaining and immersive, well,... other than that Dragonplague. 😂
Yeah it's like o so the Golems have their magick medals in pretty much the exact same locations. I know how to take that mf'er down quickly. Right Hand medal first. Then Fivefold Flurry the medal on its back. When that shatters, the Golem topples over, at which point you destroy the medal underneath its left foot. The rest is easy. You could destroy a Golem like that in seconds. The only problem now would be that you're probably not strong enough to pull it off perfectly, and perhaps they changed the Golem's physical response to getting its medals crushed. But I'm going to try out the strategy immediately; see if it still works.
@@XaeeD I remember that first encounter in the desert mountains before the castle 😭, Yes let's see what they've added to the original!, I'm hoping for another end game similar to bitter black personally.
@@Inamaruu Yup, DD1 was basically going for a Berserk type of thematic shift after Grigori's defeat. Suddenly, the world is overrun by more horrible creatures, ash falls from the sky, and doom and gloom permeates the air. Then there's Bitter Black Isle, which is an even more terrifying realm to explore. BBI was claustrophobic, extremely atmospheric, and teeming with unique monsters. But it also had an air of sadness and desperation, and an excellent soundtrack (specifically in the Arisen's Refuge and the first time you enter the Fallen City). I really hope that DD2 manages to capture a similar type of vibe and experience in its post game. I'd be kind of disappointed if it lacks that, because that's what really made me love the first game.
Advice for either anyone actively playing, or thinking about getting this game, from someone who has suffered through many, many hours, and is still discovering new things: 1. Wolves are so starved that they can be distracted by meat. It doesn’t even have to be fresh, just throw down a bit of rotted meat you’ve been holding onto since the beginning of your adventure the moment you hear howls, and they will all go for it, even while actively taking damage. Now the only challenge you’ll face are the sad puppy-whimpers they release as you kill them mid-bite. 2. Use the game’s time-based mechanics against it to get enough money to outfit yourself properly (and maybe even afford a house or two, someday). Pick up every damn herb you see, kill every pig/goat/deer/bison for meat, fish in every fishing spot, and harvest every fruit or spud. You will spot this stuff constantly on your journey. Let the fruits/spuds/meat/fish sit in your inventory for a short while, until it becomes aged (make sure to keep an eye on it, so it doesn’t rot, but even then you can craft some into lantern fuel which can be useful). Then, craft it into roborants. Each sell for decent gold, and if you find/harvest the right items, you can upgrade them to be worth even more (saurian tails are your best friend). Even while actively changing classes every time I max one out, I usually have made it up to 100,000 gold by then, before having to spend it on the new classes’ equipment. It may not be enough to get the best armor for that class straight off the bat, but it’s still game changing. 3. Item storage is your best defence against time. Go to an inn, or to your home if you own one, and chuck everything you want in that damn chest. Have something you don’t want to rot or dry out, but don’t have the other ingredients to craft it with yet? Throw it in storage, time doesn’t pass in there. It’s the best. 4. Never let an enemy put you between them and either a cliff face or any body of water. EVER. My first experience with an Ogre was hitting their weak spot so much with my arrows that they got pissed and decided to ignore my tank and target only me. I still have flying-feet related trauma from that experience. Just, instantly off a cliff. Brine, then death. Have had it happen so many times since then, most boss enemies have some kind of ‘launch you away/in a certain direction’ ability, and if you’re anywhere near anything remotely dangerous, you’re just f’ed. There is no defence, especially for the classes who have no dodge or block. RIP. 5. Beware when near edges or cliff faces. Your Pawns will follow you everywhere unless you tell them to stay put, and to put it in the simplest terms, they don’t have as good brakes as the Arisen/player does. They also don’t share your mountain-goating abilities. They will just outright fall. If you’re lucky enough to have them fall on solid ground, you just have to be able to (somehow) reach them in time to revive them, but if they fall in Brine, they’re gone until you next reach a riftstone. Good luck surviving without them til then. Also, every Brine-related dip they take, damages their affection (hidden stat). So that’s fun… 6. If you notice a Pawn you grabbed from a riftstone being especially nasty to you, like, really out of character-like, maybe replace them. Immediately. No reason 😗 On the other hand, if you notice your Main Pawn doing that or, gods forbid, their eyes starting to glow red…well. I wish you luck, my good friend 😬 Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got so far. Good luck players, I wish you a distinct lack of flying-feet, and hope you enjoy the sweet torture that is Dragon’s Dogma (2).
Biggest rec I can give is have one mage at all times for heals and alright magic. Maybe a sorcerer for big spells, then a fighter. Gives you a well rounded team that can heal, deal damage and tank moderately well and you can do basically anything you want. Also, if you have friends in the game, you can summon their pawns for free, regardless of level.
I hear the people complaining about the story and i just know they haven't played dark arisen. In Dragon's dogma games the first endings are always lackluster but the true endings will have you sitting up in your seats
That's bs you get a bunch of ferrystones from exploring and doing quests, I literally have 2 of the placeable teleport points and at least 15 ferrystones while being early enough in the game to not have made it to the desert area yet. Just use ox carts, they're really cheap, you will get raided half the time though it's usually just a few goblins. Btw there's a port crystal in the griffin nest, just grab onto the griffin then do a mix of standing when it's gliding and using stamina consumables while grappling it. Plus the boss fight gets a bit more difficult once you get there but it's fun.(make sure you take a ferrystone with you for after tho)
Only dopes can't grasp that there is nothing in the store, that can't be earned in-game thru normal gameplay. No one NEEDS to buy anything from the store. It's simply there as a convenience for casual players and lazy players with expendable incomes. This entire controversy smacks of jealous gamers who are butthurt that they can't afford to pay for the "easy, instant gratification way", and hate knowing there are those out there with extra cash, who can. Get over it and get playing, earning that shit ingame is waaaay more satisfying than paying for it in the store anyway.
@@SM-McKraken "a convenience for casual players and lazy players with expendable incomes" i wouldnt even say that i can get 100$ worth in like an hour of casual gameplay
I had no idea where you were going with your review, but I enjoyed watching… thank you so much. I think you not playing the first one made your experience genuine. I played the first one beginning to end at least 7times. It’s one of my favorite games. The core is present in DD2, but there’s so much more. Watching the review all I could think about was mayhem… and I can’t wait. I did have one question though: can you swim in this one? In DD:DA, if you go too far into deep water, you begin to get attacked by microscopic creatures that suck you under, the you end up on the closest land. It was weird, but I’m sure it was a technical matter.
I don't know where you got your info but it's a full on sequel. I understand you didn't play the 1st game but if you did you would learn that no matter what it's a repeating loop between the dragon and the arisen. Also I love all the new players crying about how hard it is at 1st.
1. Should not be as hard as A Souls Game, Lies of P. We have to many games of that type as it is, Not every dev needs to have 1 souls like or Lies of P Like Game. 2. the Story should not be a 100% rip of the first game where we end up in Cassardis and with Quina. It should play out differently.
Let’s complain some more about how hard or annoying this type of game is lol It happened in souls it happened in Elden ring and it’s gonna happen again in DD2 lol idgaf if it’s to “different” or “hard” for y’all I’m sick n tired of the quest marker hold my hand type of bs games!! Don’t like it? go play Roblox or Minecraft then 😝😜🤪
@@Rairosu Dont even try lies of p is not ots on game, its another souls like. And sorry to burst your buble, but the first dragons dogma is not a souls like, that game made its reputarion way befire souls like game became popular, and this sequel is juts doing what the first game did, bit even better, so keep with that copium calling this a souls like when it isnt.
This game is nothing like souls games, it's not that kind of hard hell I wouldn't even say the game is hard at all but there is a learning curve with the game.
The game isn't hard first one or 2nd, the combat mechanics are a janky mess and that's about it 99% of the combat is figuring out the jank and then spamming ok one button
Oh my god, the pawns are just healing you while three wolves rip you to shreds. That's actually hilarious.
Revenge of the pawns!! Lol
@@churchld2524 untrained pawns tend to be bad. popular pawns on the other hand, fight like a champion.
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What’s funny is that high level pawns are best as mages because they buff your team with elemental damage types which allow your high level character to just absolutely shred anything and everything.
If they actually heal you other times they’re getting they’re ass knock A FUCKING CLIFF!! All while harpies, bandits, and a GODDAMN GRIFFIN ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU
@@kolbywilliams7234 any mage can do that, but only a well trained mage has 4 elements or more and knows the exact weakness of each monster. Plus arch mage will be way more proactive, and deal big damage like noone else. But if you want a truly strong Pawn, you have to dragonforge his gear too.
Fell in love with this game after a troll attempted to drop kick me, I dodged barely in time, and he yeeted himself ten thousand feet off a cliff and into a boiling lake of red tentacle monsters. Blessed.
Yo same shit happened to me today when I was heading to the capital 😂
Trolls have been drop kicking since part one lol.
The wind was pushing him into the boiling lake, again.
Ngl, sped run dd1 and got sky upper cutted to oblivion, just for it to happen again, but this time actually fly.
how did you “dodge”? im 3 hours in and haven’t noticed an acutal dodge move
Before: Wolves hunt in packs!
Now: LOOK ARISEN. A LADDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
100%😂
They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong
Lol, TRUE.
“Mayhap we can use it to reach new Heights” *wolves ripping player apart*
Goblins hate fire!
Sometimes positive reviews are best at telling me I'd hate a game, and sometimes negative reviews are best at telling me I'd love a game.
Haha, thats so true!
The PC version of this game is broken , also the game is boring , just a few monsters to beat.
@@Mazilescu_Elianretarded take rage bait ah ass comment
Just goes to show how much unconscious bias gets in the way of real information.
I always read the negative reviews first because they are far more informative than the stupid happy positive reviews that don't tell you anything other than how much that person is obsessed.
@@woulfhound Yeah, I typed my initial comment before looking up just how terrible the game is. Now all the unfair difficulty and grindy progression makes sense because you're intended to bypass it with microtransactions.
I put several thousands of hours In Dragons dogma 1 over the last 12 years. I absolutely loved that game. In my first few hours of playing DD2 I got in an ox cart, got raided by goblins, then immediately got attacked by a cyclops, then IMMEDIATELY got attacked by an ogre…. then getting back on the ox cart a griffin swooped in and destroyed it. I love this game.
Dragons dogma 2 is Vietnam man....I went to Bethall for the first time and I always got ambushed...
Similar happened to me. Goblins, then some sort of Sasquatch attacked, then got divebombed by a gryphon
Battahl was rough first time in, go through checkpoint, tried ox cart, told "monster attacks we closed bruh" THEY WERENT LYIN, EVERY CORNER I GOT JUMPED@@gespenjaeger2370
The stupid cyclops destroyed the cart.. took me 40 minutes of battling everyone.. still love it.
@@edgebringr3494I beat a Yeti and was like YAY Griffin dive bombed my ass Lol
"It's always f☆☆☆ing something..."
Like Hell-Divers 2. The best kind.
If only helldivers 2 was actually good
@@GigaChadDuPlessis chill my man, the most stupid comment ever
1:58 ... I don't care who you are, you do not flame thrower someone up the ass.
Chestnuts roasting…
woke him up real quick 😂
Reminds me of college 😂
They were only trying to spare the troll the trouble of eating a curry later.
I desagree
*getting ripped apart by wolves while your pawns are healing you*
"Incredible! I've never seen such strategy, truly."
"That was incredible! Never have I encounter such a strategy!" Wolves gonna be a meme for this game for dacades.
clearly didn't play the first game, everyone knows wolves hunt in packs, Arisen
i wonder if they still hunt in packs
"Wolves hunt in packs" - They were already a meme in the first one lol
@@BreakOutOfYourTranceYou know fire aught to work.
@@DKarkarov "Fire lend thy kiss!"
"I don't know why but I kind of love this game"
That's a perfect summery of Dragon's Dogma... if you know, you know
That first minute is comedy gold.
Really?
@@AA-BB Yea it is, Provided your not Batman who cannot laugh at his mishap. And if its not funny then really. We are The Jokers and you are The Batman who cannot laugh at are jokes.
SAMANTHA S A M A N T H AAAAAAAA hahaha
Need one hour loop of it.
OG Dragons Dogma fan here.
Player height, weight, and shape effects things like sprinting speed, max stamina, carry capacity, and attack range.
Maybe base stats too.
The first game punished short ppl by placing a hidden item on top of a tall shelf. Even if you’re short and you could see the item, you couldn’t reach it.
Main Pawns are like babies.
You have to teach them the best way to support you. They will play the same way with other online players.
Bad teacher = bad pawn.
Personally, my pawns runs head first into battles like me. And we never die.
However, she tends to die for newer players who can’t hold their own as well as I.
Also she just learned how to climb monsters, search for their weak spots, or pin them down🥲
The game is meant to be completed multiple times.
As it’s the only way to understand the complete story without spoilers.
Every play through should be different.
Quest lines can require special conditions.
They can also be loss due to other quest lines.
And may open/close other quest lines.
“2,000 GOLD FOR ONE ROUND?!?! A ROUND OF *WHAT*!?!? *ANGELE SEMEN*?!?”
Banger line.
Those aren't words
I'm going to make a game with a drink called Angel Semen and it will be ridiculously expensive.
Also you won't know if it's good for you if you drink it or if you get permanent debuff from it 😂
Gold 😂
Bro tf 😂😂😂 #nodiddy
lol 9999 coin for a night at the inn got me
Imagine the aggression of dark souls bosses applied to every NPC, if you so much as breathe in their direction they attack you and call the whole town for backup. That is how Dragons Dogma 2 be.
Hell I accidentally pulled by daggers out and some bloke from a mile away saw it and called the legit entire Calvary of Vernenworth to fuck me up. I suggest manual saving often.
just press l2 in towns dont keep weapons out ect
@@diveblock2058 no shit, literally what I just said.
@@Whoareyoucalling clearly not because you got jumped....like do you know how much you need to do to piss the guards off lol
Liar.
NPC's don't attack you just because you took your weapons out. They will simply go in a combat ready stance. If they attack you, it's because you attacked first.
And even then the whole town won't come, just that corner where it happened.
I've killed guards in one section of the city, only for another section to not even be aware of what i did and so they did nothing.
Stop with the bullshit. This game isn't that brutal. It's AI is as outdated as 12 years ago.
That's bad design.
I'm so torn because on 1 hand there's so much about this game I know I would love and enjoy but on the other hand I would break my TV if I got trapped in a nearly endless loop of a dog mauling me while my companions healed me
Tbh I am terrible at survival and hard action games like elden ring dark souls etc. but after playing dragons dogma 1 several times and on hard it is only hard at the start. Once you get more skills gear and can hire more powerful pawns the game realy become not easy but accessible even for mediocre players like me.
Proper party set up kinda alleviates that issue....🙄
You're supposed to run away heroically and bring revenge later
Not like dark souls what so ever btw. A 10 year old could comfortably complete DD.
If you didn't notice, he played without tank and spammed Help me! all the time - of course they healed instead of doing dmg. Dude just doesn't know game mechanics.
I learned if you use the command 'Go' you can have your pawns kind of just guide you everywhere they're really useful for things like traversal because if you're lost in a really inconvenient spot near a quest they'll just be like "oh it was actually this way lol"
They guide you if they are familiar with the quest. You tell them to go and they have no quest to guide you, then all the do is move in that direction a little bit.
They have to be familiar with the quest. I personally don't like this because it's also to ok their suggestions. If they say they know the location of a chest nearby, for instance, and they offer to guide you to it, you hit go, to ok it, and all of a sudden, a completely different pawn is now trying to guide you on your quest and you never quite get guided to that chest. Might work if you unselect all quests, but that's just annoying.
@@over9000optimally Sometimes one calls out about knowing a chest nearby, you follow them and they take you to a chest you've already looted. However you don't have to say go to the other Pawn, until after you've finished doing what the first pawn was leading your to.
Assuming it hasn't changed from the original, the character creation also meaningfully impacts your gameplay. If you are different sizes/heights you get different amounts of carrying capacity/stamina, if you are super short you can fit down inaccessible passages for medium+ height characters, and in the original game there were entire factions that would be hostile/friendly towards you based on your race/gender. Also classes aren't just for skills, when you have a class chosen and level up with it, you get different permanent base stats than if you level up as a different class. That was the reason a common start in DD1 was the archer class for the first 20-40 levels because it got you a nice base amount of stamina regardless of whether you were planning to play archer or a physical class at all in the mid/endgame. I didn't get into Dragon's Dogma till years after its launch, but I really respect the depth and replayability of its systems. There are tons of other examples, like how your pawn's personality impacts their gameplay so there are "meta" personalities and whatnot. Gotta love how 100% of this is basically not told to you whatsoever though.
I KNOW RIGHT, it's such a crucial part of the game and yet of to the wiki if you want the specific 😅
There were a few demo screenshots showing stats change when you change vocation.
So either we don't have the joys of 190 assassin levels to play a Maximum Bonk Warrior, or your base stats do grow based on your class, but classes have stat multipliers.
Can't wait to see which
@rythmiccoma2809 The whole min-max system is gone. You can play any class without needing to level another. I'd still recommend trying out and leveling other classes mostly to get different class augments.
Your size and weight also effected your character in the first game just in a less drastic way, for example if you made your character really small you could crawl through the goblin tunnels and I think if effected how easy it was to be knocked over but in a much less noticeable way now it looks like these decisions will effect your gameplay in a much more realistic way.
True.
Alright a few tips
From a dogma god.
You can train your pawns by using the same class as your pawns they will mimic you later depending on the monsters you fight.
Status effects are king so here how it works.
Oil increases fire damage,water increases lighting damage. Enemies with harder outer shells take more lighting damage, enemies with softer outer shells take more fire damage, holy and fire for the undead,lighting and impact for dragons and golems.
The strongest abilitys all arisens should have is knockdown and increased status damage,and stamina. Saurians are weak to ice. Magic archer has a regen ability get it as soon as possible. And one last thing weight affect stamina consumption you want to be light as possible in order to avoid getting tired and finally never ever travel at noght without a lantern or oil for the lantern.
Al
water also maks things freeze faster. ice in the rain is broken op
Thanks king
A few more
So some skills have added knockdown right. So when fighting a dragon and the dragon is hovering with the tail dangling if you use the high knockdown skill on the tail you can drop the dragon out the air.
Cyclops are weak to blunt damage
Petrify is really powerful it is great to use against garms wolves and small animals.
Now some warrior tips( My favorite class).
So the best way to play warrior is to not use the charge skills,Why? Because warriors main weakness is slow swing speed and single high damage hits. So to get the most of warrior you want to use insta cast skills and augments that increase regular swings. So a few I use are the one that increases jump attack because warrior jumping heavy is completely broken damage wis when augmented, another is increased knockdown. And the best is the skill with the I frames, that skill is essential giving the warrior a dodge button.
Ranger can equip different arrows they can trivialize the game. Use blast arrow with the rapid fire skill to melt enemies.
Pawns
Check it out always give your main pawn a lantern,because main pawns get infinite oil so will always have a light source. If you keep hiring the same pawns they can gain an affinity towards those pawns. This is great because pawns will start to synergies and work together more affective. Some of the best combos are fighter pawn and thief,twin sorc, ranger and mage.
Fighter pawn
To me this is the strongest pawn in game, why? Perfect block. Be warned using this pawn combo will make all others seem not needed as much. My main pawn I give Perfect block augment, stamina consumption augment, and all rapid fire skills. Avoid the shield skill ,why because you want the pawn to Perfect block instead of using shield skills and save stamina for offensive skills. Gg arisens!
@@RatPipeMike even felt like cheating :) Froze a drake multiple times over and I was like, thank god it's raining.
The ragdolls in this game, are absolutely hilarious.
Yea the wolf shows it too. Funny
That opening bit felt like it was on a professional voice acting level very impressive.
Your voice reminds me of the voice actor of Robin from Teen Titans.
Bro same
yep I can hear it too
Dude, I said this same thing on another comment about how close this guy sounds like Robin! Lol
Oh good so I'm not crazy.
Wow imagine getting mauled by wolves and healed at the same time in real life. Would literally be a living hell
It's called marriage and it's a sacred institution. Tyvm!
The desert area has to be the most brutal area in the game. I was stuck fighting a griffin and I walked too far and triggered some goblins and dogs to attack, so I walked over to these rock structures to get some high ground… turns out they were rock giants…
That’s not a deal that’s just the terms of a mugging!
God that part had me laughing too hard
Ah yes, the game that hates you.
I remember walking towards a mission when this random NPC just runs to me for an escort quest. Since I had previously done 2 and the quest markers were relatively near the NPCs I said 'fuck it! Let's go.' The quest end point was on the OTHER side of the map. I debated killing the NPC but decided let's complete the quest. Off I went naively to escort an NPC, his name, I discovered, was Robert. I met, I think it may have been the Headless Horseman but I am not sure, all I know is: I was walking minding my own business when I see this weird fog which creeped me and then BAM! This headless monster appears, grabs me, slams me on the ground does a chain flury of attacks and kills me. Fine, I use a wakestone my only wakestone. In the time the animation of the wakestone finished the thing killed all three pawns, teleported to me, grabbed me, slamed me and did the flury of attacks killing me again. I didn't land a hit, I couldn't even attack it. I reload, the monster doesn't spawn which was a relief. The quest continued were I was attacked by goblins, slimes, wolves, bandits, an Ogre and a Cyclops. Barely reached the objetive and the moment I turn to leave a random npc runs to me gives me a quest which was just investigate flowers and fight wolves to find a boy, ended up in a fight against a necromancer, mind you the necromancer wasn't part of the quest it spawn while I was investigating the area of the quest.
My experience so far has been: 10/10 the game hates you and it wants you to know it.
Sometimes so much random shit happens that it’s just hilarious. When I first got to the mountain where the Sphinx is chilling I needed to escort the NPC and we alles up the mountain and I heard something fighting and down by the big plateau you could watch as a Cyclops and a Lesser Dragon were battling each other while some random npc attacked both. I just watched it happen. The battle was kind of epic but the dragon won easily and just stayed there.
Other times you’re just walking around on your way to sie thing and your here out of no where „ Fight me Arisen“ and a random as dragon fire breathes you ass.
I fucking love the game. It’s so fun.
@@Manie230 I both love and hate the game.
I remember this one random Minotaur attack. I was walking around Bhathal and nothing had jumped me yet, which is weird because you can't go more than a few steps into that area of the map without something jumping at you, anyways I was just walking wondering aloud why nothing had attacked me which was a nice change of pace when this random ass Minotaur just jumps out of nowhere, wacks me and my character is just laying there while my pawns fight the monster, eventually I got up and fought but it just came out of nowhere.
Or that one other time also in Bhathal with an Ogre. I had just finished fighting a Cyclops (I remember cause my pawn got its first badge), am on my way to the Oracle when an Ogre grabs me yeets me all the way to a cave entrance, a cave I didn't even know was there, and twelve venemous lizzards came out and started beating the shit out of my Arisen alongside the Ogre. Somehow I survived though I spent most of the fight reviving my pawns, that kept dying to either the Ogre or the lizzards.
I love the game for the randomness but I also hate it when it keeps staggering me and doesn't let me breathe without trying to gut me. Can't help but laugh at the two instances though. In one I tempted destiny in the other I was just minding my own bussiness.
@@pepergirl001 yesterday while playing I had the same situation as the guy in the video was dragged away by wolves and mauled to death while a magician pawn was just standing there and healed me instead of attacking the dog.
Or how I and another pawn were soft locked in some slimes cause they drained our stamina and we couldn’t walk out of them. My two other pawns were stuck at some corner of that cave and just didn’t attack the damn slimes. I somehow managed to get away and could eventually kill them but god damn I was stuck there for like two minutes just contemplating if I should just go to bed and call it a day.
I love the game.
You fought that thing too, I thought I just got unlucky
@@brookd9006 well I wouldn't say I fought him, more like I witness his presences and got gutted. Was very low lvl when this happened. But I got my sweet revenge when I fought him during his quest. And the two times after that that I encounter him. Revenge never tasted sweeter.
Your voice over really sells the video, the way you say stuff just makes it all riveting. I am thoroughly entertained AND informed.
He's got Sylvester the cat down.
Yes 😂 He made me laugh so much. He's so naturally funny.
I do feel sorry for the first timer because Dragon's Dogma should be renamed to "Bad choices I made in Life" The game. Every bad decisions you make, either intentional or nonintentional, the game will make sure to punish or haunt you for the rest of the game. For example in the video, having two mages as your pawn or any redundant classes in your party will result in something like being eaten alive by pack of wolves. For another example, bad management in questing will either you will fail, miss, or give you bad endings that could lock you out of a content in-game in the future. The game is truly difficult in different ways than other videogames I have experienced.
The 3 wolves using you as a chew toy and the pawn healing you makes me want to buy the game
"You will be this game's doormat and love it."
Peobably the game director
Pawn 1: Master, there's a statue over there! Pawn 2: Ooh! Maybe it will have treasure. Pawn 3: I don't know how to get there from here. The Pawns have a big discussion about that. Meanwhile, you are frantically running around and looking high and low to see this statue, which you never find.
They do the same with treasure chests that you have already looted. And ladders. When you finally find the ladder and go up onto the narrow ledge, they all crowd around. You try to move, and get bumped off to your death.
I actually had the statue thing happen to me and I just happened to be looking at my pawns and they POINTED at the statue and I actually found it, it was crazy.
They pop up on your map as a treasure chest or an exclamation point.
I love the fact that the game rewards exploring, i yeeted the quests and just decided to travel, found so much gear and stuff. Sometimes i gotta go back to a town just to deposit my stuff. But its always something like finding a gryph fighting an orc and then getting thirded by a lich.
"that's not a deal, that's just the terms of a mugging" lol I love your commentary.
Never heard of you until this video and subbed right up after the “terms of a mugging” line. Terrific review!
"Doesn't tell you the weaknesses"
That's the mechanic. You are supposed to find the weakness yourself, and then you AND your pawn (Pawn automatically gains knowledge) then take note of the weakness. So when you hire pawns they have a rating for every enemy type, and how much knowledge of that enemy that they learned when traveling with their Arisen master. The problem you encountered is that the pawns you have are mostly just NPCs generated by the game. So they won't have "all" the knowledge. The "player" pawns will be the one with all the knowledge as the game goes on.
Bro you sound like Robin from Teen Titans 😂
Nostalgic.
Now all he needs is a Robin Costume mod and he is good! XD
I was looking for this comment. Or I was gona post one.
He does
I can't unhear it now
1:58 I love how the giant is just laying there until someone stsrted roasting it's ass.
Banger video Danny. First one I've watched from this channel and i was pleasantly suprised with how well you did in this format. Also congrats on 100k subs
btw, that segment with the wolves eating you alive was because you were using the help command, which is expressley said to make pawns not attack and instead indirectly help the arisen i think? pressing "go" or "to me" would have probably made them attack. i think.
Yeah come to me would be the best choice cause hitting help makes any mages with you heal no matter what, even if you are full health
@@wafflez7530
Agreed
Thank you so much for this brutally honest review! I've been on the fence about purchasing it for a while and you've just officially talked me out of it. I'll grab it on steam when it goes on sale and by then there should be a ton of mods to address the issues you mentioned.
I will say, a lot of these things he's having trouble with seem like skill issues. Most the other reviewers are actually enjoying the fact that there's not a ton of map markers everywhere and signposting. You have to really think and use your brain when getting these quests and ask around town to find tips. Your puns will also help you find things,
i'm on PS5 and not having performance issues, but its a game you have to pay attention in. No handholding, VERY limited fast travel options. 1 manual save / autosave !!!
I just discovered this channel it’s nice to find someone who can do an in depth review without boring me to sleep , really this is the best review I’ve saw on a game if years , most are so bland and unwatchable, can’t believe I hadn’t discovered him sooner
why don't you have a billion views and subs? you are crazy and this content is amazing.
You made this review so entertaining I have subscribed because of your personality.
I absolutely love the gold approach. With this finding sums of gold actually means something and feels rewarding. In most other games you have enough gold until the end of time only a few hours in.
Finding Gold is hard, so u can buy it in microtransactions.
@@tomekkowalski3791 The game does not have a pay to win feature at all. If you played the game you'd know that
@@tomekkowalski3791Oh I must have missed the option to buy gold in the MTX. Weird.
Also to OP; you hit that point in Dragon's Dogma 2. It's not meaningful or rewarding. The game is still a masterpiece though.
developers are Japanese, there are roughly 150 Yen is about 1 USD. Divide all costs by 100 and the prices start to make more sense.
This isnt true. The first game didnt have such extreme prices in shops. The reason is you get much more gold from this game.
And the other reason... That doesn't need any denying or justifying... Is ofc. you can buy stuff for real money.@@bradr2567
25% of the game is managing your inventory, 40% is traveling, 35% is your pawns refusing to do anything useful while never shutting the hell up.
Dogg,
I have no idea who you are, but you are HILARIOUS. Holy shit. The first 2 minutes alone made me sub.
11:00 "guess this is my home now?" Lol
This is awesome, you had the same experience as me and my buddy. We were ripping the absolute hell out of this game the first night, mealy controls, no feedback, generic story... After about 200 hours later between us, we might need to find an addiction support group at this point.
Quests are memory driven. It provides the location in a mystery yellow fart cloud on the map and you review the quest information fun and entertaining just like "Where is Waldo" and you actually walk into and around places to locate and identify your target, that's insanely cool. The lock on is all through haptic directional movement. The game want you to hit the GRAB function and climb big ass NPC enemies, hang on tight and slash stabbing tf out of your enemies. The big random enemy can fly and the Pawn Player reactions or confusion feels very authentic, it's hard to explain how the game does this function way better than many games with similar qualities. Players are essentially interacting and enjoying their playthroughs without ever meeting, it's a better introduction and setup for online gaming because everyone is already assigned a authentication player identification number. Online would destroy all of it's genre and will be the first at so large with some of the best characters and content.
fart cloud made me chuckle
Just coming over from your DD experience video, and I still heartily laughed at this one. You have a hilarious way of showing up DD's absurdities.
After putting way over 200 hours into DD Dark Arisen back in 2014 and almost 200 hours into DD2 in 2024, it's safe to say I'm addicted to Itsuno's special flavor of sadism. Yet a lot of DD practically begs you to mock it - which you do very well, and I'm here for it!
This may be my favorite game review I've ever seen. It may not be all sunshine & rainbows, but who wants that? I want struggle, I want to explore, and I want to be rewarded for my efforts. These things create lasting memories & this video made me sincerely want to play this game. Well done sir!
Oh I loved this, subscribed cause your description of a Dragons Dogma misadventure is spot on. I've had the same stuff happen to me.
One thing I loved in Dragon Age and I've never seen again (until Unicorn Overlord) is the tactis menu, imagine how good it would be if you can set your pawn to cast ''fire enchant'' everytime it runs out, or setting their heal skill only when any party member is at 50% or below, stuff like that. Great video btw, the more ''real'' I've seen so far.
That sounds like FFXII's gambit system where you can program the AI into doing very specific things.
@@Garupan I barely remember FFXII but you're probably right.
YOOOO I saw the clip of you fighting for your life as you ran for a tavern on TikTok! Was so funny and a reason I got the game lol
Man...if you like Dogma 2, you'll love Dogma 1. So far, I think Dogma 1feels more fun. I didn't like that thief is only daggers, vice versa for ranger. I still haven't tried all classes yet.
My beloved Mystic Knight...I miss you.
Literally one minute in and your comedic commentary deserves an instant follow! 😂😂😂👍🏾
Lmao the opening bit is hilarious
Yes!
"Ser Arisen! Pray, I require you to assist me in my journey! Escort me a short way so aught should happen on these dreadfully dangerous roads!"
Oh we're just going from Vermund to Melve? Sure no problem, maybe a troll or something, I'm ok with that! Followed by the most brutal encounter with a minotaur, a gryphon, a dozen saurians, goblins and wolves of course. All. At. The. Same. Time. 10/10
Between this and a few of Danny’s anime takes, I’m starting to think he’s just a closet masochist.
Man loves media that’s causing him pain.
The opening hooked me in and gave me a good laugh, you got a new subsciber.
When I get into this game. I'm totally making a Berric Dondarion character with a caster, like Thoros to enchant my swords with flames! >:D
Luv to watch your videos. You have a fun storytelling voice
0:20 to think he could had avoided it by simply discarting any piece of meat (even a rotten one) whenever he heared the wolves
So glad I found this channel. 😂 Amazing work man keep it up
Despite you loving this game, you've still dissuaded me from playing it lmao. I ain't got the patience for allat.
I used to love challenging games. And I still get bothered by games that are too easy but honestly I noticed I no longer have the stamina to finish multiple 100 hours of just pain.
Monster Hunter World isn't too hard until the very end but I have yet to get there even though I love the series.
@@badreddinekasmi8919 Frustrating games are just bad for my mental health. I often get really angry, and I just prefer to avoid that. I like a challenge but not of this kind.
@@KhaosKontroller I'm about to do the same, I played Sekkiro last month and quit, this month I played DS3 and had to get help for most of the bosses, I mostly get angry and disappointed at myself. I actually just started playing Far Cry 6 just because it's so mindless and easy.
@@badreddinekasmi8919there is a massive difference between challenging and tedious. a game like sekiro is a great example of a challenging game. dragons dogma 2, like the first game, is just tedious and boring
@@NPK476skill issue
This video made me laugh so hard, I could barely hit the thumbs up and Subscrube buttons through the tears. I've watched it a couple more times and it still makes me laugh. In fact, just thinking about it makes me laugh. I look forward to more of your sense of humor. Well done Sir!
0:35 U DONT DESERVE THAT DEATH
Let him live the life of a chew toy
I subscribed IMMEDIATELY hahaha
His poor nuts😂
One of the reasons for the more detailed character customization is it actually affects your stats. The taller and heavier your character is they get more stamina and carry weight, and its easier to knock down off balance monsters. While of youre shorter and lighter you move faster, regenerate stamina quicker and (at least in the first game) there are tunnels where if you're short enough you can enter.
I like the cut of your jib! Subscribed!
i stood in front of the beggar for the beggar quest for 15 minutes not sure why he wouldnt move id rest hed dissappear anytime a game makes me google sumn to figure out how to complete a quest my enjoyment drops tremendously
Great review. Great script. Great presentation.
You earned yourself a subscriber
I was in tears laughing at the first 20 sec of this vid! The feeling of beating a Boss in a Souls game is equal to the feeling of walking from one town to the next in DD2. I came to a fork in the road and took a path that led to a dragon. Immediately doubled back took the other path and fought a troll, a cyclops, a griffin and the goblin wolf coalition. Getting to town felt amazing!
I already have it pre-ordered can't wait to play it. I played the original one years ago so I know exactly what I'm getting into.
Well you are gonna get sad with this it have abusive microtransaction
@@deltaa7109no it doesn’t . The items you can buy are available to buy with in game currency, the feature is only there for people who are too lazy , but everything there is available to get normally too
I hope You have no issues with performance
@@deltaa7109Lmao. Abusive? They don't matter. They do nothing. Did you complain about BG3s deluxe DLC too? Also, they were in the original game. Literally no one who's played DD1 cares.
@@deltaa7109 the totally ignorable microtransactions that so far in like 20 hours of gameplay haven't been advertised to me? the ones that ruin your own experience if you choose to use them? yeah the microtransactions are stupid and NO ONE should buy them even once. everything there is earnable in game.
I haven't even felt the desire to use them and thinking upon my experiences as a day one original dragons dogma player i'd never buy them. so what exactly about that is "abusive"
I think like alot of people on the internet you're just looking for something to whinge about. the actual performance of the game is bad. complain about something real like that npcs popping in right in front of me on xbox
14:00 in a fantasy setting it applies fantasy setting as "a natural weakness of goblins is fire" same for the zombies but yeah not all are so easy to understand
great video hahah
Always remember one must some day experience The Warrior Rite of Passage, as told by the first game.
One-shotting a gryphon as it lands on you. Arc of Obliteration shall deliver ye
Pawns are sort of "Unfinished" people. this is learned in the first game. By travelling with an arisen who completes their journey though they can become full people.
When Capcom said their game didnt need fast travel because traveling was fun, what they really meant was you wont get a any time to breath or admire your environment without being ambushed by mobs. lmfao
Idk about this game based on what Ive seen. I dont like the idea of not being able to walk for a few minutes without having to fight something. It looks like they overdid the mob spawn rate.
I have to admit first time watching your videos. But that opening pulled me in XD. Looking forward to more reviews
I bought the special edition thats $79.99 because it comes with extra starting supplies i played the first game i know how grueling the journey is but that feeling when you complete a quest after walking so long and then making it back to a major city is such a good feeling
I love that when the dogs have Him he's sitting there rotating his finger around the buttons
i'm on my nth playthrough of elden ring (a game I love that constantly kicks my ass because I am bad at it) and this game sounds like it appeals to me.
Hilarious video, but all masochistically true. 🤣 I agree with just about everything you mention in this video, except that a "lock-on" feature is not as important to me, as it is to you. I almost always disable that feature in most games that have it, but that's a personal playstyle choice and as it should be. I agree that they should have given the players that option though.
Since I'm a very patient player and a completionist, exploration, talking to NPC's and stopping to smell the roses, all come naturally for me. Enemies a bit more spaced out would have been great, but everything else is very entertaining and immersive, well,... other than that Dragonplague. 😂
This game will be a cakewalk for DD1 veterans. So fucking excited amazing review man 🔥🔥🔥
Yeah it's like o so the Golems have their magick medals in pretty much the exact same locations. I know how to take that mf'er down quickly. Right Hand medal first. Then Fivefold Flurry the medal on its back. When that shatters, the Golem topples over, at which point you destroy the medal underneath its left foot. The rest is easy. You could destroy a Golem like that in seconds. The only problem now would be that you're probably not strong enough to pull it off perfectly, and perhaps they changed the Golem's physical response to getting its medals crushed. But I'm going to try out the strategy immediately; see if it still works.
@@XaeeD I remember that first encounter in the desert mountains before the castle 😭,
Yes let's see what they've added to the original!, I'm hoping for another end game similar to bitter black personally.
@@Inamaruu Yup, DD1 was basically going for a Berserk type of thematic shift after Grigori's defeat. Suddenly, the world is overrun by more horrible creatures, ash falls from the sky, and doom and gloom permeates the air. Then there's Bitter Black Isle, which is an even more terrifying realm to explore. BBI was claustrophobic, extremely atmospheric, and teeming with unique monsters. But it also had an air of sadness and desperation, and an excellent soundtrack (specifically in the Arisen's Refuge and the first time you enter the Fallen City). I really hope that DD2 manages to capture a similar type of vibe and experience in its post game. I'd be kind of disappointed if it lacks that, because that's what really made me love the first game.
DD1 vet, this is a slog. Spare me that bullshit.
Advice for either anyone actively playing, or thinking about getting this game, from someone who has suffered through many, many hours, and is still discovering new things:
1. Wolves are so starved that they can be distracted by meat. It doesn’t even have to be fresh, just throw down a bit of rotted meat you’ve been holding onto since the beginning of your adventure the moment you hear howls, and they will all go for it, even while actively taking damage. Now the only challenge you’ll face are the sad puppy-whimpers they release as you kill them mid-bite.
2. Use the game’s time-based mechanics against it to get enough money to outfit yourself properly (and maybe even afford a house or two, someday). Pick up every damn herb you see, kill every pig/goat/deer/bison for meat, fish in every fishing spot, and harvest every fruit or spud. You will spot this stuff constantly on your journey.
Let the fruits/spuds/meat/fish sit in your inventory for a short while, until it becomes aged (make sure to keep an eye on it, so it doesn’t rot, but even then you can craft some into lantern fuel which can be useful). Then, craft it into roborants.
Each sell for decent gold, and if you find/harvest the right items, you can upgrade them to be worth even more (saurian tails are your best friend).
Even while actively changing classes every time I max one out, I usually have made it up to 100,000 gold by then, before having to spend it on the new classes’ equipment. It may not be enough to get the best armor for that class straight off the bat, but it’s still game changing.
3. Item storage is your best defence against time. Go to an inn, or to your home if you own one, and chuck everything you want in that damn chest.
Have something you don’t want to rot or dry out, but don’t have the other ingredients to craft it with yet? Throw it in storage, time doesn’t pass in there. It’s the best.
4. Never let an enemy put you between them and either a cliff face or any body of water. EVER.
My first experience with an Ogre was hitting their weak spot so much with my arrows that they got pissed and decided to ignore my tank and target only me. I still have flying-feet related trauma from that experience. Just, instantly off a cliff. Brine, then death.
Have had it happen so many times since then, most boss enemies have some kind of ‘launch you away/in a certain direction’ ability, and if you’re anywhere near anything remotely dangerous, you’re just f’ed. There is no defence, especially for the classes who have no dodge or block. RIP.
5. Beware when near edges or cliff faces. Your Pawns will follow you everywhere unless you tell them to stay put, and to put it in the simplest terms, they don’t have as good brakes as the Arisen/player does. They also don’t share your mountain-goating abilities. They will just outright fall. If you’re lucky enough to have them fall on solid ground, you just have to be able to (somehow) reach them in time to revive them, but if they fall in Brine, they’re gone until you next reach a riftstone. Good luck surviving without them til then. Also, every Brine-related dip they take, damages their affection (hidden stat). So that’s fun…
6. If you notice a Pawn you grabbed from a riftstone being especially nasty to you, like, really out of character-like, maybe replace them. Immediately. No reason 😗
On the other hand, if you notice your Main Pawn doing that or, gods forbid, their eyes starting to glow red…well. I wish you luck, my good friend 😬
Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got so far. Good luck players, I wish you a distinct lack of flying-feet, and hope you enjoy the sweet torture that is Dragon’s Dogma (2).
Brutal game as his MC stab the dude in the balls
He won't be having any kids now!
Biggest rec I can give is have one mage at all times for heals and alright magic. Maybe a sorcerer for big spells, then a fighter. Gives you a well rounded team that can heal, deal damage and tank moderately well and you can do basically anything you want. Also, if you have friends in the game, you can summon their pawns for free, regardless of level.
I hear the people complaining about the story and i just know they haven't played dark arisen. In Dragon's dogma games the first endings are always lackluster but the true endings will have you sitting up in your seats
Games would imply that this occurs in multiple games in the series prior two the sequel. Are you saying that the online game has a secret ending?
Muthaphuka that intro alone got a sub I almost crashed laughing so hard! 😂😂😂😂😂 “stop healing me!”
Play through when?
that thing with the wolves at the beginning is actually hilarious oh my god
I can see that they made it much more tedious than the original in order to sell you for that Riftstone for $2.
That's exactly why I'm sitting this one out
bro the shops restock them when you skip a few days....and they are cheap af just farm em lmao
That's bs you get a bunch of ferrystones from exploring and doing quests, I literally have 2 of the placeable teleport points and at least 15 ferrystones while being early enough in the game to not have made it to the desert area yet.
Just use ox carts, they're really cheap, you will get raided half the time though it's usually just a few goblins.
Btw there's a port crystal in the griffin nest, just grab onto the griffin then do a mix of standing when it's gliding and using stamina consumables while grappling it. Plus the boss fight gets a bit more difficult once you get there but it's fun.(make sure you take a ferrystone with you for after tho)
Only dopes can't grasp that there is nothing in the store, that can't be earned in-game thru normal gameplay. No one NEEDS to buy anything from the store. It's simply there as a convenience for casual players and lazy players with expendable incomes. This entire controversy smacks of jealous gamers who are butthurt that they can't afford to pay for the "easy, instant gratification way", and hate knowing there are those out there with extra cash, who can. Get over it and get playing, earning that shit ingame is waaaay more satisfying than paying for it in the store anyway.
@@SM-McKraken "a convenience for casual players and lazy players with expendable incomes"
i wouldnt even say that i can get 100$ worth in like an hour of casual gameplay
You'll never know the true might of the Coalition of Dogs and Goblins utill you're running from something with 2 Health Bars
Thanks for posting!
I had no idea where you were going with your review, but I enjoyed watching… thank you so much. I think you not playing the first one made your experience genuine. I played the first one beginning to end at least 7times. It’s one of my favorite games. The core is present in DD2, but there’s so much more. Watching the review all I could think about was mayhem… and I can’t wait.
I did have one question though: can you swim in this one? In DD:DA, if you go too far into deep water, you begin to get attacked by microscopic creatures that suck you under, the you end up on the closest land. It was weird, but I’m sure it was a technical matter.
No, the Brine is back. In fact, Rook shows up again and gets eaten by the Brine early on.
I don't know where you got your info but it's a full on sequel. I understand you didn't play the 1st game but if you did you would learn that no matter what it's a repeating loop between the dragon and the arisen. Also I love all the new players crying about how hard it is at 1st.
1. Should not be as hard as A Souls Game, Lies of P. We have to many games of that type as it is, Not every dev needs to have 1 souls like or Lies of P Like Game. 2. the Story should not be a 100% rip of the first game where we end up in Cassardis and with Quina. It should play out differently.
Let’s complain some more about how hard or annoying this type of game is lol
It happened in souls it happened in Elden ring and it’s gonna happen again in DD2 lol
idgaf if it’s to “different” or “hard” for y’all
I’m sick n tired of the quest marker hold my hand type of bs games!!
Don’t like it?
go play Roblox or Minecraft then 😝😜🤪
@@Rairosu Dont even try lies of p is not ots on game, its another souls like.
And sorry to burst your buble, but the first dragons dogma is not a souls like, that game made its reputarion way befire souls like game became popular, and this sequel is juts doing what the first game did, bit even better, so keep with that copium calling this a souls like when it isnt.
This game is nothing like souls games, it's not that kind of hard hell I wouldn't even say the game is hard at all but there is a learning curve with the game.
The game isn't hard first one or 2nd, the combat mechanics are a janky mess and that's about it 99% of the combat is figuring out the jank and then spamming ok one button
Right out the gate you had me dying with the wolf/healer bit
1:27 Naw broo😂😂
If you get the true ending, the title screen now shows Dragon's Dogma II
It's alright man, just buy a fast travel stone off of the store, if that doesn't scream $70 single player AAA RPG, I don't know what does.
0:11 pawn: remember all those times you threw me off a cliff for the lols master?
pawn: i remember... (casts heal again)
And the game still runs like ass.
Sir Menella??? Man that really sounded like Salmonella I was like did I hear that correctly???