Badass detail I saw was that you finally get the “Dragons dogma 2” title on the main menu after you see the unmoored world since up to that point it was just a retelling of the first game. So now that you “strayed” from the story you get the 2 after the title
@JJubilations chill homie, the game itself explicitly refers to its own plot of the arisen and the dragon as something that is cyclical. Something cyclical is something that is repeated like the retelling of a story
I just love how you switch so seamlessly between God Gamer, Goober Supreme, and Fantasy Storyteller Epic Narrator this really is content after my own torn-out heart
1:30 I think the way the boss works is that even if you get all those scabs/stakes removed, the boss has to reach a set point before it actually counts as defeated.
He has a set "kneel" position. After removing the scabs you gotta do a little damage. If you do not/fail to remove the scabs/ignore it completely his arm will get shot off and he "fails" postgame at the 2nd encounter.
@solomon9655 it can it consumes an entire preserved Medusa's head but you lose the ability to use talos in the unmoored world which is very very helpful and badass same thing with letting talos fall into the lava pit
@@aidanlangan4720 Using Talos means you miss out on the exp and Wyrmfire Crystals from two beacons so beyond getting the achievement it's pointless anyway.
I really feel like the pawn fight before Big Red was way harder than he was, still I was so nostalgic fighting him. But to be specific the pawns knocked me on the ground, and that warrior lady proceeded to beat the hell out of me on the ground. I couldn’t get up for a solid minute, healing every time my health hit zero. My pawns were off fighting the false sovereign, while his pawns pulled the “drag you away wolf special”.
@@hunterhinkeldey4841 he will be there regardless because mechanically important npcs automatically revive after a week of ingame time has passed. ya the game was that lazy about some details.
@wochaoainigejiba1211 I didn't see him in my second playthrough he wasn't even at the tower to fight me niether, but yes he probably got revived Via reseting the world
I love that Itsuno embraced the meta narrative and just fucking drops game's title only for those observant enough to notice the Pathfinder in the Throne Room and solve the puzzle. It's not a difficult one considering how deliberate the choice of words the Dragon uses to hint at it and the only button available when riding it was "Item Shortcut". I legit had goosebumps at the post-Dragon world reveal. It flips the preconceived narrative of DD1 so it's still a crazy surprise for veterans of the series. Makes a lot of the concepts and oddities shown thru the game makes sense too. That title drop is what cemented this game has fucking legendary experience status.
@@wochaoainigejiba1211 You'd be surprised how many people miss it and assume the credits rolling as they sit on the big shiny chair is the true end of the game. Never underestimate gamers' ability to completely gloss over things that are intended to be glaringly obvious. Maybe he should have worn a yellow-painted robe...
First game had this problem too just it’s much easier in 2 really disappointing because DD has such a great combat system that is still held back by difficulty issues where it’s just way too easy after a point. I dislike having to mod my game to get some sort of rewarding challenge in the combat Truly their greatest blunder
people act like the first game wasn’t piss easy either. the first game was only considered difficult until dark arisen, which also added hard mode. the base game of DD1 was piss easy.
I am happy to report to the Fighter council that my prefered Warfarer loadout is a Sword & Shield w/ Burst Strike, Cloudward Slash, Full Moon Slash, and Rearmament to a Magick Bow in the second weapon slot for physically resistant/long range enemies 💼
The second I killed Raghnall I remember saying "Wake up dumbass" and instantly reviving him. Bro helped me not get framed and I wasn't about to let him die without repaying him.
Tragically, in my fight I had pushed him to the edge of the bridge with my attacks after getting a perfect party, and he slid off into the void after saying his lines. Badass way for him to go, though.
I got the old lady mage maister that I talked to for 3 minutes as the dragons captive. One thing DD always does is choose the wrong character to hold captive. In DD1 it was Edmunds new wife or soon to be. I killed her after the ending
Love the dual weapon warfarer, bow and fighter (for the idle stance animation holding the hilt) plus wearing starter gear for fashion as i find myself too strong. Onto NG+++!
Absolutely loved watching your streams alongside playing through the game myself. Especially as we both seemed to approach it the same way, with exploring everywhere and maxing out vocations instead of picking one to play all the time! Thanks for your coverage of the game! o7
Look at how they mascaraed my boy. Where is my 3 minute speech on human nature? Where's my 30 minute fight full of encouragement and cryptic foreshadowing? Where's my philosophical Italian dragon bro, the true hero of the story, dropping memorable line after line?
It’s there, cringe just skipped it for RUclips moments. Although the confrontation in the first game probably still takes the cake since the presentation of that fight was pretty incredible
so, one thing I noticed just now starting NG+. In the intro cutscene ppl are talking about how the arisen slew the dragon furthermore there are alot of clever shots where the seat of the pathfinder (whom you can't see at the time) is right in the middle of the scene. This makes me think that in truth the intro cutscene is the normal ending of the game and the voice sends you back in time in a way not dissimilar of how the pathfinder does. In fact who is the voice at the start of the game? I don't think I recognized it as either the dragon, the pathfinder or rothais
I realised that too, that voice has the power to send you back, but it's not the pathfinder cus it urges you to change fate. Maybe we *can* break fate and have our freedom, we'll see in a dlc how that works
I guess maybe it's like the first game where in NG+ you already defeat the previous seneschal, although the one in DD2 didn't seem as willing to relinquish his post as Savan was in DD1. So the voice is you from the previous cycle. I don't think Rothais wan an actual senshal. He just defeated his dragon, got Godsbane and instead of replacing the current seneschal he went on to find his kingdom and do his own stuff. DD2's cycle is kinda screwed.
@konstantinosmandalos7596 while I kinda thought that as well, the game does make it pretty clear that rothais was a seneschal, and then Somehow stepped down from the position when he learned the nature of the world
@@magiv7573Yeah, iirc his throbe is quite literally the Seneschal's throne, and the way it's kind of cratered in the floor makes it look as if it "came down from heaven" like the old man describes. So I guess Rothais already altered the cycle and in the process created the means for Phaesus (and moreso the Arisen) to completely break it, which is why the Pathfinder felt the need to intervene in events in the first place.
@dumbsterdives theres also the old guy in harve who describes rothais as having returned from the sky's above And that guy is without a doubt another arisen who unironically has not said a single lie
@durpypig1731 the worms were the easiest since their balls were basically on top each other, first purgerer I fought kicked my teeth in though since I was pure unga bunga brain and went straight for the feet
You expect less than the first game? less enemies and a timed endgame? Dunno man, i expected a much better story and a better endgame. advanced yellow and green vocations. More armor and weapons. etc.
@@anon2752 I agree that there seems to be less enemy types, but perhaps there will be a Dark Arisen equivalent DLC down the road that adds more. The story is what it is, and I quite like it. Not sure what’s missing, it’s about on par with the original. Also, the changes to vocations are good, it took some getting used to but I think they’re better in some ways but also very limited. You really have to think about how you want to form your party. No more one Arisen army. I’d be happy to hear more criticism, but as for me I enjoyed the heck out of this game. DDA will always hold a special place in my heart too, no doubt about it.
You may enjoy it. In fact, I hope you do. After 80 hours, however, I actually uninstalled the game before even finishing the first few missions from Brant out of sheer, unbearable boredom. And I'm the sort who will put hundreds of hours into games I hate _just to make a point._ No game sequel has ever disappointed me to this degree. If I'd known about the changes from the first, I wouldn't have bought DD2 at all. That's how different it is from what I'd expected. Maybe I wouldn't have felt my brain leaking out of my ear while playing had the game not felt like a gutted, version of DD1, worse in every way except graphics: - simplified equipment - single weapons only - fewer available skills - fewer enabled skills - somehow _more_ skill overlap within vocations despite having fewer skills in total - more useless skills, again despite there being fewer skills in total - audio/video feedback on attacks and spells so bad you have to watch life bars just to see whether something connects - hyper-aggressive hopping over obstacles making precise movement painful - removed mobility skills (e.g., no double jump or levitate for Magick Archer) - inability to sell from storage - inability to even equip from storage - pawns that actually push you off ledges - forgettable score other than the callbacks to DD1 - unreasonable NPC pop-in - mind-numbing quests - pretty but sluggish movement - tiny enemy variety - inability to heal loss gauge except through rest, leading to time-wasting trudging to campfires - pointlessly hidden vocations and "maister" skills - fucking annoying pawns that you don't dare mute because their dialogue is one of the primary ways to recognize the potentially game-ruining dragonsplague - wtf is the point of Pinpoint Volley except to make yourself worse? - baffling design decisions like Quickcast and Galvanize - aiming your bow shouldn't count as an ability And so on and so forth. To go into more detail, Galvanize and Quickspell are wasted abilities, because _you always use them._ Casting times are just too goddamn long otherwise. Strictly dominant strategies make for boring gameplay, and so the Sorcerer would have been more interesting had casting times been universally decreased, stamina costs increased, and stamina regeneration rate improved while not moving. Then Quickspell and Galvanize could have been replaced with genuinely interesting abilities that actually do something. Like, I dunno, more spell slots, like we had in DD1. You could even play around with it so every Sorcerer has to pick a theme, and those buttons can only be assigned spells from special, theme-specific lists. Don't forget that most vocations in DD1 could simultaneously equip melee and ranged weapons. The variety in combat was one of the things that kept the first game so fresh for so long. One moment, you're using one of your three dagger skills, and the next you're using one of your three bow skills, and this alternation kept going through every combat. It was fluid and dynamic and *fun.* Gah! Just thinking of all the wasted potential makes me angry.
@@PedanticTwit you’ve got some good points. I guess a lot of that doesn’t really bother me at the moment, and I just took everything in stride. I do hope that the devs are listening to criticism though. There are several quality of life changes that would make a huge difference for new and old players alike. I do miss the ability to equip from storage as well as upgrade items through storage and even purchase items to storage.
I am so glad I played the whole game unspoiled. Because in the back of my mind, I wondered why the main menu didn't have "2" in it. And I re fought The Dragon a few times because at first I thought it tested my persistence. But then I realized the tool I needed to use. The feelings I felt at that time after I saw the "real" title drop were glorious. ❤
Your vids are always quintessential emergent gameplay. I cannot stand playing full support so I'm always impressed by how you do things. It's so fun to watch!
@@kimashitawa8113 you can actually stop the timer if you kill all the red beacons and activate talos again, it’s only a limited number of rests you get but the clouds aren’t advancing anymore for me. Just exploring as much as possible before ng+.
@@kimashitawa8113 Use the warrior trait and all heal elixers and when your pawns get low swap them out and throw your own off a cliff and resummon or just don't get hit also wakestnes also give you a full hp bar if you use them when you die
The seafloor shrine are the ruins of Gran Soren! Whether they are the ruins from the past in this parallel world where Gran Soren already existed by failed in the cycle (the arisen was never born or was not worthy and time passed for the world to change to what is it now) or it is the ruins of Gran Soren yet to be build in this parallel world and we are seeing the origins to the creation of Gran Soren (is it written that the in the other parallel world Gran Soren was built off/upon the ruins of an ancient Kingdom [this ancient Kingdom]) has yet to be determined!
I remember reaching the sacres grounds for the first time and realizing I was in the Duke's Demesne! I was truly blown away later when I got to see the rest of the old city All roads truly do lead to Gran Soren
My Warfarer consists of using Aromatic Resurgence, Mirour Shielde and Remedy Arrow with a party of 3 pawns which I choose and set up for the challenge ahead. I divert aggro, I buff, I shield and I heal the pawns from the DOT of Resurgence. A 4th weapon staff allows me to levitate to more secure positions AND recover stamina. Glad I'm not the only one using it like this, it's so cool and so different from the usual DD formula.
GREAT video. I really liked how epic it got near the end! I actually randomly ran into Mr. Chonk in my own game and had him on the team for like 5 levels. He really does that petticoat justice, lol! I also find it interesting that we basically landed on the same support-focused Warfarer build. I generally prefer specialist classes in any RPG, so I wasn't as excited as most people about the Warfarer vocation. But when I realized I could throw out multiple buffs from multiple vocations to my team, I was pretty down for that. Normally I play Trickster, Archer, or Sorcerer. But I am just now, 130+ hours in, realizing how epic and fun Fighter is. It's made my vocation choice OCD for the endgame (and, thus, where to spend my limited WLC) even worse!
if you go for the throne after the dragon you got "Peace" ending and when you try to restart a newgame plus the game stop you like 4 time asking if you are really REALLY sure and if you don't think you forgot something, then i reloaded the lastet save and i get to talk with the watcher that was so mind blowing when the title dropped, that alway's bugger me that in the beginning the title was Dragon dogma only, now i know why xD
My warfarer was all about movement . Thief skills of the explodey jump and the meat grinder spin. The sorcerer blizzard spell for drakes/dragons and then obviously levitate. I could get anywhere .
Peasants: aight i "finished" the game *clocked in 40hrs,never even did the dullahand quest, all 10 sphinx riddles,all meister skills,unlocked all vocation or a quarter of the quests and their map is half explored* Infinitecringe: over 100hrs ,i might be ready to do the last quest 🗿
I got the gigantus achievement by accident, I had my main pawn as a thief and while the gigantus was running past us i used "go!" and my main pawn leapt off the island area onto the gigantus and she just climbed around stabbing all it's weak points before it even reached land. we killed it in about a minute after it got to shore.
@thefull9746 it's extremely busted, but it's also a single player RPG. I view Warfarer as the solo, jack of all trades class to do end game content with.
After my first playthrough I knew what was next, keep new game plusing until I’ve maxed out each vocation and gotten the ”end game” drip/weapons for each vocation.
The gigantus stop there if you kill it's points before that. Wakestone shards are lootable from those things you knock off off the gigantus... if they fall on land.
As someone who used an Arrow of Unmaking as soon as possible to kill it for the achievement, you can still pick them up if they fall in the water. You just need to wait a bit.
I didn’t realize that waking the giant statue put you on a time limit, and ended up missing half the game because I started the ending too early. It made me mad, but I enjoy playing it so much I immediately jumped back in to complete the game properly this time.
Defeats the dragon and causes an apocalyptic looking event Random gryphon: she ain’t that big *dive bombs* Cant believe this dragon really was dogma too
Bit of advice for power-leveling: There's a spellbow you get from killing the Medusa that quadruples xp gain. There's a fighter shield that allows you to reflect the medusa's gaze back at it. Using Warfarer, you can use the Fighter equipment to kill the Medusa easily, the switch to Magick Archer while it is dying to quadruple the xp, since it take several seconds for Medusa to die. Time it right and you should get that xp multiplier.
@@fieryrebirth Fair enough, but the principle remains the same: Swap to the medusa bow as it dies and you should get a major boost to experience. The Medusa can be easily killed with the special shield and while you don't get loot, you'll get a lot of experience even without the bow. If you're looking to reach max level, that's the way to go.
I want to thank ChonkLord for pilfering Wyrmslife crystals for me, together with my pawn, in postgame. Got over 300 from one dragonfight, it was amazing. Also I got Lamond, my drinking buddy, as the person the dragon brought. LOL.
Only question you've really got to ask yourself is this. Did you like the first game? If yes then you'll like the second one. It's more of the same but improved on.
@@spectralassassin6030 eeeh that's not really true, if you like the first one you'll be dissapointed with the second one since alot of features in 2 is worse than 1.
I think the better way to respond would be " If you enjoyed the First one, there's much of the same for to love. But there are also some Q.O.L, and Class changes that may be uncomfortable or difficult to adjust to."
There's always a bigger dragon... gosh this reminds me of when dollar store Sidious got crushed by Gregori. But the look on Phaesus' face when he realised that scrawny diseased ridden thing wasn't the true dragon. I laughed hard at that. I also took a screenshot of my character sitting on the dragon's head, I'm so glad that this is an option!! And the battle itself was stellar thanks to that epic soundtrack, nicely timed too. It picked up the pace as soon as the dragon roared. I had to watch that part again X'D Also, I love how the dragon has some small horns arranged in a circular fashion on his noggin, it resembles a crown. He is a divine king in my eyes.. I don't use wakestones either, if I have a moment of poor judgement, I tend to quit and reload. I do however carry one or two of them just in case people I escort have an accident, or to resurrect important characters. I had one on hand when I fought Raghnall, and I thought he was too cool to die, plus I wasn't going to let him chicken out of witnessing the end of times.. I can't wait for the next chapter, I've just finished this part of the game, it was kind of cool being able to explore all the areas once covered with water. It was quite a shock for me to see the Brine just evaporate and envelope the world in an ominous fog, it got real, and I thrive on scenarios like this, in games that it's X'D I don't think I'd like it to happen in real life, but I would like to meet the dragon. Have fun slaying the new bosses! They're loads of fun, and some of the familiar ones sometimes drop unique gear, good stuff too!!
Wait, is the post game going back to Gran Soren and finally learning what happened to that world after the Arisen ditched their god duty by godsbaning themselves?? That's rad as hell
Yeah he is not legally allowed to die before this, personally i used the one shot arrow and then instantly proceeded to get to the tower BEFORE the npc, but it is also scripted they teleported in front of me, and i got the gigantus success at this moment lol
Of course the problem with maxing out everything except warfarer on your first playthrough is that you will be so high level that the combat in general is fully trivial
The Dragon's Dogma II title screen 30, 60, 100 hours in is so fucking insane. I had to take a five minute break to walk and just scream internally at how well it was done.
@@ButterscotchPenguin the one in the Vernworth bar that magically keeps playing even if she's interrupted because she's just built different. I basically just dumped flowers on her while I was doing Brant quests for the funsies and ended up getting her as my beloved.
I love how once again Dragon's Dogma is released and its another 50/50 split of people either absolutely hating it or absolutely loving it. The big difference this time is people being mad that it's not literally the same game as 1 *AND* being mad that it IS the same game as 1 *at the same time.* Game has flaws, and there are a couple of QOL things I wish they had brought back from 1, but overall this is a fucking phenomenal game. Easily an A-, A at it's best parts. Cannot wait to see what they do with post-launch content and DLC.
@@reach769 Sorry for the confusion. I was asking if Infinite Cringe would make a new arisen / pawn or go into new game plus instead, especially since they added New Game recently.
i honestly would love for cringe to give us a rundown on fighter in this game. I know she digs it, but compared to DDDA i really struggle to figure it out here. For some reason.
vengeful slash is super strong. especially if you get swarmed with monsters because it dashes forward after the counter and damages everything in a big cone.
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"You will face the Dragon's Dogma 2."
So cool that he said the name of the game
It's there, this is not the true ending of the game.
He didn't say that
Badass detail I saw was that you finally get the “Dragons dogma 2” title on the main menu after you see the unmoored world since up to that point it was just a retelling of the first game. So now that you “strayed” from the story you get the 2 after the title
Imagine coping so hard you try to play off the massive letdown of a plotline by simply saying "It's a rETelLinG".
@@JJubilations It's fine if you don't like it man. You don't have to be a belligerent prick about it.
@JJubilations chill homie, the game itself explicitly refers to its own plot of the arisen and the dragon as something that is cyclical. Something cyclical is something that is repeated like the retelling of a story
@@JJubilations Say the line.
@@JJubilations ikr, ppl trying to justify incompetent game directing by saying its some 300 iq meta storytelling are actually ill.
I just love how you switch so seamlessly between God Gamer, Goober Supreme, and Fantasy Storyteller Epic Narrator this really is content after my own torn-out heart
3:51 Chonk Lord the Impatient. He'll give you three seconds to get ready. No, wait, two!
1:30 I think the way the boss works is that even if you get all those scabs/stakes removed, the boss has to reach a set point before it actually counts as defeated.
Yeah. You either use a makers finger or wait until the ballista hits him
He has a set "kneel" position. After removing the scabs you gotta do a little damage. If you do not/fail to remove the scabs/ignore it completely his arm will get shot off and he "fails" postgame at the 2nd encounter.
I’ve heard it can also be petrified which is wild
@solomon9655 it can it consumes an entire preserved Medusa's head but you lose the ability to use talos in the unmoored world which is very very helpful and badass same thing with letting talos fall into the lava pit
@@aidanlangan4720 Using Talos means you miss out on the exp and Wyrmfire Crystals from two beacons so beyond getting the achievement it's pointless anyway.
dragon dogma 2
(ps erupting shot + greatsword was pretty giga chad)
I really feel like the pawn fight before Big Red was way harder than he was, still I was so nostalgic fighting him.
But to be specific the pawns knocked me on the ground, and that warrior lady proceeded to beat the hell out of me on the ground. I couldn’t get up for a solid minute, healing every time my health hit zero. My pawns were off fighting the false sovereign, while his pawns pulled the “drag you away wolf special”.
i used a wakestone on rahgnall expecting some unique dialogue but nah he just goes and sits in the corner repeating the same line over and over
If you bring him back to life he should be in the end cutscene instead of not being
@@hunterhinkeldey4841 he will be there regardless because mechanically important npcs automatically revive after a week of ingame time has passed. ya the game was that lazy about some details.
@wochaoainigejiba1211 I didn't see him in my second playthrough he wasn't even at the tower to fight me niether, but yes he probably got revived Via reseting the world
playing baldurs gate 3 before this game was a bad decision by me, my expectations for that kind of thing were way too high
If you don't kill him in the first place (just avoid his blows for a minute or two) he actually has different dialogue and cutscene
You made 7:50 - 7:58 so unnecessarily cinematic with the music timing and all, I love it.
Really makes me wish DD2's soundtrack lived up to the first game.
I love that Itsuno embraced the meta narrative and just fucking drops game's title only for those observant enough to notice the Pathfinder in the Throne Room and solve the puzzle. It's not a difficult one considering how deliberate the choice of words the Dragon uses to hint at it and the only button available when riding it was "Item Shortcut".
I legit had goosebumps at the post-Dragon world reveal. It flips the preconceived narrative of DD1 so it's still a crazy surprise for veterans of the series. Makes a lot of the concepts and oddities shown thru the game makes sense too.
That title drop is what cemented this game has fucking legendary experience status.
idk about observant, guys literally a shining lightbulb in a dimly lit room.
Eh, it doesn't try to blow anything away. I mean, I do miss the heavy philosophical message of existentialism, but it does try something slightly new.
@@wochaoainigejiba1211 You'd be surprised how many people miss it and assume the credits rolling as they sit on the big shiny chair is the true end of the game. Never underestimate gamers' ability to completely gloss over things that are intended to be glaringly obvious. Maybe he should have worn a yellow-painted robe...
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the game after you have beaten it!
the intro to the unmoored world is way cooler with the music you put over the top of it 😂 rip chonk lord
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OH MY GOD SUZI HI ACK YOURSELF YWNBAW
Holy shit it's the girl from cyberpunk
@@Spood6 the mechanic trans one? 😂
@user-zs5oy2gt8g You will never be a winner. You will always be a loser. Glad we agree.
@user-zs5oy2gt8g You will never be a winner. You'll always be a l0s3r. Glad we agree. 🤗
Great job syncing the added music with the clips. Adds a really nice polish to the videos :)
I'm so glad the difficulty tweaks mod exists. As much as I love Dragon's Dogma, the default is just way too easy.
Trueeeee. Had to mod it in postgame xd
Try starting a new game and playing solo. Mind you a new game, not a new game plus.
First game had this problem too just it’s much easier in 2 really disappointing because DD has such a great combat system that is still held back by difficulty issues where it’s just way too easy after a point.
I dislike having to mod my game to get some sort of rewarding challenge in the combat
Truly their greatest blunder
people act like the first game wasn’t piss easy either. the first game was only considered difficult until dark arisen, which also added hard mode. the base game of DD1 was piss easy.
I am happy to report to the Fighter council that my prefered Warfarer loadout is a Sword & Shield w/ Burst Strike, Cloudward Slash, Full Moon Slash, and Rearmament to a Magick Bow in the second weapon slot for physically resistant/long range enemies 💼
The second I killed Raghnall I remember saying "Wake up dumbass" and instantly reviving him. Bro helped me not get framed and I wasn't about to let him die without repaying him.
I used Razing Sweep and he got flung off the bridge when I dueled him, but then he showed up in the post game and he was blushing lol
Tragically, in my fight I had pushed him to the edge of the bridge with my attacks after getting a perfect party, and he slid off into the void after saying his lines. Badass way for him to go, though.
It's kinda cool how the game opens with the title screen saying Dragon's Dogma and ends with the title screen Dragon's Dogma 2 once post game starts.
For the Raghnall fight I hit him with a razing sweep and he just ragdoll off the bridge. That was the most hilarious thing ever.
I got the old lady mage maister that I talked to for 3 minutes as the dragons captive. One thing DD always does is choose the wrong character to hold captive. In DD1 it was Edmunds new wife or soon to be. I killed her after the ending
The game makes the incorrect assumption that affection shown is the same as affection held
I think it depends on your latest interaction. iirc you can gift something to whichever npc you want before the dragon fight to get them to show up
I gifted tons of flowers to a random woman in Vermund after she won a fistfight at the tavern, and the Dragon picked Captain Brant as my beloved
you killed her after the ending? i just let the duke choke her out
Those controlled pawns at the end are something else...died twice because of stun lock reasons...lol
The stun lock in this game is something else. Those pawns were honestly the hardest part of the game for me
Love the dual weapon warfarer, bow and fighter (for the idle stance animation holding the hilt) plus wearing starter gear for fashion as i find myself too strong. Onto NG+++!
Big man leaked all his juices out and went to sleep
Absolutely loved watching your streams alongside playing through the game myself. Especially as we both seemed to approach it the same way, with exploring everywhere and maxing out vocations instead of picking one to play all the time! Thanks for your coverage of the game! o7
Look at how they mascaraed my boy.
Where is my 3 minute speech on human nature?
Where's my 30 minute fight full of encouragement and cryptic foreshadowing?
Where's my philosophical Italian dragon bro, the true hero of the story, dropping memorable line after line?
You realise the dragon each time is a different person that is turned into the dragon to seek a new arisen?
It’s there, cringe just skipped it for RUclips moments. Although the confrontation in the first game probably still takes the cake since the presentation of that fight was pretty incredible
In Dragons Dogma 1.
That's not grigori
Sadly it is not the almighty Grigori from the first game
so, one thing I noticed just now starting NG+. In the intro cutscene ppl are talking about how the arisen slew the dragon furthermore there are alot of clever shots where the seat of the pathfinder (whom you can't see at the time) is right in the middle of the scene. This makes me think that in truth the intro cutscene is the normal ending of the game and the voice sends you back in time in a way not dissimilar of how the pathfinder does. In fact who is the voice at the start of the game? I don't think I recognized it as either the dragon, the pathfinder or rothais
I realised that too, that voice has the power to send you back, but it's not the pathfinder cus it urges you to change fate. Maybe we *can* break fate and have our freedom, we'll see in a dlc how that works
I guess maybe it's like the first game where in NG+ you already defeat the previous seneschal, although the one in DD2 didn't seem as willing to relinquish his post as Savan was in DD1. So the voice is you from the previous cycle. I don't think Rothais wan an actual senshal. He just defeated his dragon, got Godsbane and instead of replacing the current seneschal he went on to find his kingdom and do his own stuff. DD2's cycle is kinda screwed.
@konstantinosmandalos7596 while I kinda thought that as well, the game does make it pretty clear that rothais was a seneschal, and then Somehow stepped down from the position when he learned the nature of the world
@@magiv7573Yeah, iirc his throbe is quite literally the Seneschal's throne, and the way it's kind of cratered in the floor makes it look as if it "came down from heaven" like the old man describes. So I guess Rothais already altered the cycle and in the process created the means for Phaesus (and moreso the Arisen) to completely break it, which is why the Pathfinder felt the need to intervene in events in the first place.
@dumbsterdives theres also the old guy in harve who describes rothais as having returned from the sky's above
And that guy is without a doubt another arisen who unironically has not said a single lie
The unmoored world bosses are way tougher than the dragon.
its just like fighting a bunch of ur-dragons mechanic wise wym
they were the easiest bosses for me lol
@durpypig1731 the worms were the easiest since their balls were basically on top each other, first purgerer I fought kicked my teeth in though since I was pure unga bunga brain and went straight for the feet
They were laughable bro. Suicide squad kill the justice league type beat with the "hit the purple weak spots."
Not really. They have damage gates that drag the fights out.
I just got to the post game myself. Man… this game is so good! It’s everything I expected and more. It brings me tears of utter joy.
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You expect less than the first game? less enemies and a timed endgame?
Dunno man, i expected a much better story and a better endgame. advanced yellow and green vocations. More armor and weapons. etc.
@@anon2752 I agree that there seems to be less enemy types, but perhaps there will be a Dark Arisen equivalent DLC down the road that adds more.
The story is what it is, and I quite like it. Not sure what’s missing, it’s about on par with the original.
Also, the changes to vocations are good, it took some getting used to but I think they’re better in some ways but also very limited. You really have to think about how you want to form your party. No more one Arisen army.
I’d be happy to hear more criticism, but as for me I enjoyed the heck out of this game.
DDA will always hold a special place in my heart too, no doubt about it.
You may enjoy it. In fact, I hope you do.
After 80 hours, however, I actually uninstalled the game before even finishing the first few missions from Brant out of sheer, unbearable boredom. And I'm the sort who will put hundreds of hours into games I hate _just to make a point._ No game sequel has ever disappointed me to this degree. If I'd known about the changes from the first, I wouldn't have bought DD2 at all. That's how different it is from what I'd expected.
Maybe I wouldn't have felt my brain leaking out of my ear while playing had the game not felt like a gutted, version of DD1, worse in every way except graphics:
- simplified equipment
- single weapons only
- fewer available skills
- fewer enabled skills
- somehow _more_ skill overlap within vocations despite having fewer skills in total
- more useless skills, again despite there being fewer skills in total
- audio/video feedback on attacks and spells so bad you have to watch life bars just to see whether something connects
- hyper-aggressive hopping over obstacles making precise movement painful
- removed mobility skills (e.g., no double jump or levitate for Magick Archer)
- inability to sell from storage
- inability to even equip from storage
- pawns that actually push you off ledges
- forgettable score other than the callbacks to DD1
- unreasonable NPC pop-in
- mind-numbing quests
- pretty but sluggish movement
- tiny enemy variety
- inability to heal loss gauge except through rest, leading to time-wasting trudging to campfires
- pointlessly hidden vocations and "maister" skills
- fucking annoying pawns that you don't dare mute because their dialogue is one of the primary ways to recognize the potentially game-ruining dragonsplague
- wtf is the point of Pinpoint Volley except to make yourself worse?
- baffling design decisions like Quickcast and Galvanize
- aiming your bow shouldn't count as an ability
And so on and so forth. To go into more detail, Galvanize and Quickspell are wasted abilities, because _you always use them._ Casting times are just too goddamn long otherwise. Strictly dominant strategies make for boring gameplay, and so the Sorcerer would have been more interesting had casting times been universally decreased, stamina costs increased, and stamina regeneration rate improved while not moving.
Then Quickspell and Galvanize could have been replaced with genuinely interesting abilities that actually do something. Like, I dunno, more spell slots, like we had in DD1. You could even play around with it so every Sorcerer has to pick a theme, and those buttons can only be assigned spells from special, theme-specific lists.
Don't forget that most vocations in DD1 could simultaneously equip melee and ranged weapons.
The variety in combat was one of the things that kept the first game so fresh for so long. One moment, you're using one of your three dagger skills, and the next you're using one of your three bow skills, and this alternation kept going through every combat. It was fluid and dynamic and *fun.*
Gah! Just thinking of all the wasted potential makes me angry.
@@PedanticTwit you’ve got some good points. I guess a lot of that doesn’t really bother me at the moment, and I just took everything in stride. I do hope that the devs are listening to criticism though. There are several quality of life changes that would make a huge difference for new and old players alike. I do miss the ability to equip from storage as well as upgrade items through storage and even purchase items to storage.
Rather than pressing the button for galvanize. Hold the button instead to regain stam to get it all in one cast
Wow I have so many hours in sorcerer and didn’t realize this til now, thank you
I am so glad I played the whole game unspoiled. Because in the back of my mind, I wondered why the main menu didn't have "2" in it. And I re fought The Dragon a few times because at first I thought it tested my persistence. But then I realized the tool I needed to use. The feelings I felt at that time after I saw the "real" title drop were glorious. ❤
Your vids are always quintessential emergent gameplay. I cannot stand playing full support so I'm always impressed by how you do things. It's so fun to watch!
Personally I only carry around wakestones for NPCs and for when I want to jump off a cliff because it's faster than going around.
The story is so short in this game, I accidentally beat it and now just fucking around in the unmoored world
Hate that the endgame is on a timer.
@@kimashitawa8113 you can actually stop the timer if you kill all the red beacons and activate talos again, it’s only a limited number of rests you get but the clouds aren’t advancing anymore for me. Just exploring as much as possible before ng+.
@@freaknature1774 How do you manage max health without rests?
@@kimashitawa8113 wakestones and allhealth elixirs
@@kimashitawa8113 Use the warrior trait and all heal elixers and when your pawns get low swap them out and throw your own off a cliff and resummon or just don't get hit also wakestnes also give you a full hp bar if you use them when you die
The nails you pulled out of the gigantus could have been looted for a wakestone shard each if they hadn't fallen in the water
I never use wakestones on me. If I die I die. But I do keep a few around in case other people die.
I've been literally carrying around 3 wakestones at all times solely due to concerns over like what happens at 5:15.
Spoilers !......
The seafloor shrine are the ruins of Gran Soren! Whether they are the ruins from the past in this parallel world where Gran Soren already existed by failed in the cycle (the arisen was never born or was not worthy and time passed for the world to change to what is it now) or it is the ruins of Gran Soren yet to be build in this parallel world and we are seeing the origins to the creation of Gran Soren (is it written that the in the other parallel world Gran Soren was built off/upon the ruins of an ancient Kingdom [this ancient Kingdom]) has yet to be determined!
That's insane
I remember reaching the sacres grounds for the first time and realizing I was in the Duke's Demesne! I was truly blown away later when I got to see the rest of the old city
All roads truly do lead to Gran Soren
@@perryborn2777 ok the last sentence made me really sad somehow
Grigori's VA still can melt femenine undewear with just his voice, it most be a super cool power to have IRL.
Got 95hrs atm, new game+. Need to do the Gigantus achievement and maxing warrior/trickster/magic archer and warfarer.
You can abuse the Medusa head to speedkill gigaticus when it steps across the ocean
My Warfarer consists of using Aromatic Resurgence, Mirour Shielde and Remedy Arrow with a party of 3 pawns which I choose and set up for the challenge ahead. I divert aggro, I buff, I shield and I heal the pawns from the DOT of Resurgence. A 4th weapon staff allows me to levitate to more secure positions AND recover stamina.
Glad I'm not the only one using it like this, it's so cool and so different from the usual DD formula.
you can loot the stakes that pop out of the Gigantus
Grabbed the unmaking arrow for gigantus :). Worked a treat haha
Holy shit seriously?
GREAT video. I really liked how epic it got near the end! I actually randomly ran into Mr. Chonk in my own game and had him on the team for like 5 levels. He really does that petticoat justice, lol!
I also find it interesting that we basically landed on the same support-focused Warfarer build. I generally prefer specialist classes in any RPG, so I wasn't as excited as most people about the Warfarer vocation. But when I realized I could throw out multiple buffs from multiple vocations to my team, I was pretty down for that. Normally I play Trickster, Archer, or Sorcerer. But I am just now, 130+ hours in, realizing how epic and fun Fighter is. It's made my vocation choice OCD for the endgame (and, thus, where to spend my limited WLC) even worse!
I like how they ditched the Taco Bell Bathroom air vibe and just embraced the Brine aesthetic for postgame.
if you go for the throne after the dragon you got "Peace" ending and when you try to restart a newgame plus the game stop you like 4 time asking if you are really REALLY sure and if you don't think you forgot something, then i reloaded the lastet save and i get to talk with the watcher that was so mind blowing when the title dropped, that alway's bugger me that in the beginning the title was Dragon dogma only, now i know why xD
I might be unable to play this game myself, but watching your videos is the second best thing.
Keep up the great work!
My warfarer was all about movement .
Thief skills of the explodey jump and the meat grinder spin. The sorcerer blizzard spell for drakes/dragons and then obviously levitate.
I could get anywhere .
Love how you use skylanders music so much those games were my childhood
Warfarer is like assassin in D1 I used to use GS with Bow
Peasants: aight i "finished" the game *clocked in 40hrs,never even did the dullahand quest, all 10 sphinx riddles,all meister skills,unlocked all vocation or a quarter of the quests and their map is half explored*
Infinitecringe: over 100hrs ,i might be ready to do the last quest 🗿
I got the gigantus achievement by accident, I had my main pawn as a thief and while the gigantus was running past us i used "go!" and my main pawn leapt off the island area onto the gigantus and she just climbed around stabbing all it's weak points before it even reached land. we killed it in about a minute after it got to shore.
Try mod called "True warfarer". It'll let you pick up 3 skills for every selected weapon + rearmement.
I hate consoles don't have mods!
@@junebug4004fr😭😭 missing out on fun mods just like with Elden ring I wish I had a good pc
Sounds busted
@thefull9746 it's extremely busted, but it's also a single player RPG. I view Warfarer as the solo, jack of all trades class to do end game content with.
@@beebop7039 true but I feel like the class is pretty good the way it is in vanilla.
After my first playthrough I knew what was next, keep new game plusing until I’ve maxed out each vocation and gotten the ”end game” drip/weapons for each vocation.
The Dragon actually Came
I used a wakestone on Ragboy and was disappointed he had nothing unique to say afterwards.
You loot the spikes he spits out. They drop wakestone shards.
Fun fact the Medusa head gets you the achievment very very easily
Didn't really get to this point yet, but Warfarer with Augural Flare + A thief/archer skill that multi-hits sounds poggers.
The gigantus stop there if you kill it's points before that. Wakestone shards are lootable from those things you knock off off the gigantus... if they fall on land.
As someone who used an Arrow of Unmaking as soon as possible to kill it for the achievement, you can still pick them up if they fall in the water. You just need to wait a bit.
I didn’t realize that waking the giant statue put you on a time limit, and ended up missing half the game because I started the ending too early. It made me mad, but I enjoy playing it so much I immediately jumped back in to complete the game properly this time.
I can't put into words how the title change made me feel. It's one of the highest notes a game has ever hit for me.
130 hours in I finally beat the game!! and in traditional DD style I didn't get the romance I actually wanted XD time for round 2!!!
Defeats the dragon and causes an apocalyptic looking event
Random gryphon: she ain’t that big *dive bombs*
Cant believe this dragon really was dogma too
Bit of advice for power-leveling: There's a spellbow you get from killing the Medusa that quadruples xp gain. There's a fighter shield that allows you to reflect the medusa's gaze back at it. Using Warfarer, you can use the Fighter equipment to kill the Medusa easily, the switch to Magick Archer while it is dying to quadruple the xp, since it take several seconds for Medusa to die. Time it right and you should get that xp multiplier.
The spellbow is actually an Archer bow. Misleading, but yeah, it's for Archer, not MA.
@@fieryrebirth Fair enough, but the principle remains the same: Swap to the medusa bow as it dies and you should get a major boost to experience. The Medusa can be easily killed with the special shield and while you don't get loot, you'll get a lot of experience even without the bow. If you're looking to reach max level, that's the way to go.
When the TRUE title screen finally came up on my own game, I whooped with joy. Now this is a friggin game.
I want to thank ChonkLord for pilfering Wyrmslife crystals for me, together with my pawn, in postgame. Got over 300 from one dragonfight, it was amazing. Also I got Lamond, my drinking buddy, as the person the dragon brought. LOL.
will you be doing a review? i'm on the fence about buying it and you're pretty much the only dd sphere youtube i'd trust with a review
Only question you've really got to ask yourself is this. Did you like the first game? If yes then you'll like the second one. It's more of the same but improved on.
@@spectralassassin6030 eeeh that's not really true, if you like the first one you'll be dissapointed with the second one since alot of features in 2 is worse than 1.
@@hovsep56I disagree personally I loved the first one and I wasn’t really disappointed by any of the missing features in the second one.
I think the better way to respond would be " If you enjoyed the First one, there's much of the same for to love. But there are also some Q.O.L, and Class changes that may be uncomfortable or difficult to adjust to."
I reach postgame after 130 hours. You sure get your money's worth
There's always a bigger dragon... gosh this reminds me of when dollar store Sidious got crushed by Gregori. But the look on Phaesus' face when he realised that scrawny diseased ridden thing wasn't the true dragon. I laughed hard at that.
I also took a screenshot of my character sitting on the dragon's head, I'm so glad that this is an option!! And the battle itself was stellar thanks to that epic soundtrack, nicely timed too. It picked up the pace as soon as the dragon roared. I had to watch that part again X'D
Also, I love how the dragon has some small horns arranged in a circular fashion on his noggin, it resembles a crown. He is a divine king in my eyes..
I don't use wakestones either, if I have a moment of poor judgement, I tend to quit and reload. I do however carry one or two of them just in case people I escort have an accident, or to resurrect important characters. I had one on hand when I fought Raghnall, and I thought he was too cool to die, plus I wasn't going to let him chicken out of witnessing the end of times..
I can't wait for the next chapter, I've just finished this part of the game, it was kind of cool being able to explore all the areas once covered with water. It was quite a shock for me to see the Brine just evaporate and envelope the world in an ominous fog, it got real, and I thrive on scenarios like this, in games that it's X'D
I don't think I'd like it to happen in real life, but I would like to meet the dragon.
Have fun slaying the new bosses! They're loads of fun, and some of the familiar ones sometimes drop unique gear, good stuff too!!
Wait, is the post game going back to Gran Soren and finally learning what happened to that world after the Arisen ditched their god duty by godsbaning themselves?? That's rad as hell
Fun Fact: Gran Soren is at the Seafloor Shrine in the unmoored World
I'm 100+ hours in and still finishing up all the side stuff lol
I hit Raghnall with a meteor spell and sent him flying off into the depths of that place, I couldn't revive him even if I wanted to lol
Congratulations! You beat the tutorial so now the real game begins
Grand kingdom ost outta nowhere
Yeah he is not legally allowed to die before this, personally i used the one shot arrow and then instantly proceeded to get to the tower BEFORE the npc, but it is also scripted they teleported in front of me, and i got the gigantus success at this moment lol
Good lord did I loose my mind in the unmoored world the first time. They killed the fucking ocean!
I loved DD2 and have 120 hours in so far but man I have been spoiled by Dark Arisen and need another BBI
leveling the other vocations via warfarer is pretty miserable anyway, they only get 10% of the dcp you get
Of course the problem with maxing out everything except warfarer on your first playthrough is that you will be so high level that the combat in general is fully trivial
The entire game is trivial, Its an rpg that gives you so many chances to be strong but has no actual challenging content to use it in.
I'm guessing Gigantus has a few set stopping points and once all the things are destroyed it'll stop at the next available one.
Greg fell into the Brine and gave the sky aids. Truly not what I was expecting
Improve the Rearmament skill at Dragon forged and it barely takes stamina! Super good if youre gonna be an offensive Warfarer
The Dragon's Dogma II title screen 30, 60, 100 hours in is so fucking insane. I had to take a five minute break to walk and just scream internally at how well it was done.
i cant wait until she relize what that castle was
Jason and the Argonaut
Violin waifu > blacksmith waifu, fight me
6:04 ...or maybe don't, that double air deflect was impeccable.
literally who
Violin waifu?
@@ButterscotchPenguin the one in the Vernworth bar that magically keeps playing even if she's interrupted because she's just built different. I basically just dumped flowers on her while I was doing Brant quests for the funsies and ended up getting her as my beloved.
@@Tilyaf Haha interesting choice, I always loved how you could romance anyone
Yea im at the exact point at the story at the start
Concrete: Beyond Journey's End
I love how once again Dragon's Dogma is released and its another 50/50 split of people either absolutely hating it or absolutely loving it. The big difference this time is people being mad that it's not literally the same game as 1 *AND* being mad that it IS the same game as 1 *at the same time.*
Game has flaws, and there are a couple of QOL things I wish they had brought back from 1, but overall this is a fucking phenomenal game. Easily an A-, A at it's best parts. Cannot wait to see what they do with post-launch content and DLC.
Yesss more chunk lord!!!
I had this same issue with rearmanent lol, I felt like an idiot
Sick video!
I only bring Wakestones for NPCs, cause I'm a bleeding heart. I make my pawn carry them.
Good day for the "vocations are op"
OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY REDO THE FIGHT SONG IT SO GOOD
Will you go to new game plus? honestly too attached to my arisen and pawn to delete them.
You keep them in ng+
@@reach769 Sorry for the confusion. I was asking if Infinite Cringe would make a new arisen / pawn or go into new game plus instead, especially since they added New Game recently.
@@a.trance6997 i highly doubt they will get rid of our lord and saviour Chonk Lord
4:25 neuron activated, return to monke
Try not to sleep a lot in the unmoored world
i honestly would love for cringe to give us a rundown on fighter in this game. I know she digs it, but compared to DDDA i really struggle to figure it out here. For some reason.
Perfect block is key. Still gonna be slapped around by packs of mobs tho, as shown here
vengeful slash is super strong. especially if you get swarmed with monsters because it dashes forward after the counter and damages everything in a big cone.
I laughed when the "Dragon's Dogma II" title showed up after fighting the dragon.