A Dragon’s Dogma Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2022
- Holy moly this Dragons Dogma long form analysis/ retrospective/ gameplay/ talkthrough/ impressions/ commentary thing was loong overdue…
Sorry for the long wait but I sincerely hope this was worth the wait for you guys! This was a fun project although I think I stressed more than I should’ve. Real life has made it difficult to take time off to work on this so that is the reason why this is almost half a year in the making.. Also yes. It turned out to be a bit longer than one hour. I guess that + was bigger than anticipated lol.
I know this is not quite a retrospective in the traditional sense, but I wanted to do something different. And after getting Private Sessions’ blessing to do this after seeing his Skyrim retrospective it kinda just snowballed into this mess.
I have however been super lucky with friends that have helped me out during this project. My best man has watched through this vid several times to help me pick out and fix minor things and giving me ideas etc. Spoogie Derpington has also been super helpful during this time. So a huge shoutout to him as well. Thank you for being my therapist when I’ve needed to vent lol.
Also I know I’ve glossed over a lot of stuff in this vid. I just covered what I felt was most interesting and entertaining. Also the Bitterblack Isles was not even in my mind during this. I just wanted the “vanilla” game. Maybe Chad and BJ will return on a BBI adventure?
I feel I should clarify why Quina has been captured by Grigori. The game has an “affinity” stat that governs how much npc’s like you. Giving Quina the Blessed flower raised her affinity to max and thus she is our “beloved” as Grigori calls it.
Also hope you guys like my new avatar and thumbnails. Wanted to do something different.
Music used:
Wii Music - Gaming Background Music (HD)
Dragon's Dogma OST_ 1-43 End Of The Struggle
Nier_Automata OST Pascal Village
Dragon's Dogma - HD OST - Character Creation - 05 - Disc 1
Nier Automata OST - Forest Kingdom
Skyrim Soundtracks - Dragon Fight Music 1 & 2
NieR_ Automata OST - City Ruins (Dynamic - Vocals)
The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion Soundtrack - 04 Harvest Dawn
Ricco Harbor - Super Mario Sunshine
Jeremy Soule - All's Well
Nier Automata OST - Wretched Weaponry ：Quiet
Nier Automata OST - Peaceful Sleep
Ico OST - Castle in the Mist (#04)
Nier Automata OST - Possessed by Disease
The Witcher 3_ Hearts of Stone - Gaunter O'Dimm Theme (Polish) - Unofficial Soundtrack
The Witcher 3_ Blood & Wine - Regis conversation ambience - Unofficial Soundtrack
The Witcher 3_ Wild Hunt OST (Unreleased Tracks) - Outskirts of Novigrad
Piotr Musial - The Banks of the Sansretour
Metal Gear Solid OST _ 01 - Metal Gear Solid Main Theme
Mikolai Stroinski - Spikeroog
Piotr Musial - The Slopes of the Blessure
The Witcher 3_ Blood and Wine - Fighting the Beast of Toussaint (Mix)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Trail
Piotr Musial - The Slopes of the Blessure
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Trail
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion OST- King And Country
Dirge of Cerberus soundtrack -Fight Tune Girl Named Shelke
Nier Automata OST - Birth of a Wish
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt OST- Unreleased Music - Curse
The Elder Srolls III_ Morrowind Soundtrack - 13. Stormclouds on the Battlefield
Dark Souls III_ The Ringed City - Slave Knight Gael (Extended) (OST)
The Witcher 3 - Fyke Isle (1 Hour of Music)
The Apex of the World - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Music Extended
Selection Of Fate Extended (Dragon's Dogma)
Voice of no Return - Normal_ NIeR Automata OST Extended
#dragonsdogma #retrospective #ddda
dragons dogma dark arisen long form analysis, gameplay, talkthrough, impressions, commentary 
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Based on your intro you should have titled this “the only non normie game I’ve ever played”
😂
It’s wild that in 2023 the souls games are considered normie and this isn’t.
What a role reversal
@@amadhollow635 and Elden Ring essentially "borrowed" a few ques from DD along the way.
Innnnteresting lol.
@@UpToSpeedOnJaguar What? DD has far more living world, but Elden ring has a better balance and isn't linieral.
@@danieladamczyk4024 well..he didnt even fight Drake or the other dragons. All 3 different types of dragons will TALK during battle while the everfall is open (Dragons arnt in the everfall) He also didnt battle the regular Hydra or the WHITE Hydra. He also didnt recuse Elenor. He also never fought the gorgoil in a another cave. There's alot of quest he left out...( item require to get weapon/armor UPGRADE/FORGE)
At level 43...He'll die instantly if he goes into BBI..There's SUPER DRAGONS and Other enemies that's 3-4 times more powerful than the base game...If he purchase the DARK ARISEN version. It comes with BBI.
You can teleport/FAST TRAVEL...or go to the DOCK at night.
You can also enter the UR dragon's chamber..through the BEACH.
You can also purchase LURE to get 8-10 different combination enemies to RESPAWN in 2 different combat arena...Fight one dragon at a time is for TRAINING..Fighting 3 super dragons at the sametime with 7 other flying
creature that's also 3-4 times more powerful..Now that's FUN.
D.D. isnt perfect..but it's PARKOR still put EldenRing scale/climbing/jumping to shame...You can wack and perry in D.D...that's child's play.
Arisen CANT swim thou.lmao
What always confused me about DD is how a kingdom is able to survive with 1 city and a 1 flimsy fishing village....surrounded by monsters.
Chad pawns
we only get 1 borough. The kingdom is much bigger since we obviously cant just walk across a whole country
The lore claims that there was much more but everytime civilization starts to thrive or get too upity about religion a dragon is sent, keep in mind the last dragon wasn't all that long ago, less than 100 years, they also get supplies from neigboring nations, all the ruins hint at there being more people in the dukes time but his dragon was more successful probably due to him being a pos that put off the dragon as long as he could
@@colosine we can resume it in funds cut
WHAT FO THEY EAT
Doing the ox mission at night, chad indeed!
🤣
Ride that Ox.
Well done Brow! I know how hard it is to make longer thought out videos like this, finding music, editing and especially narration. I see that you have put a lot of work into this, great job man ✊
Thank you so much, Rift! Appreciate the kind words 😁 Yeah the last couple of months have been hard so haven't had as much energy or time for this project but I am soo glad I made time for it!
Another Dragon's Dogma content, very welcome indeed
That makes me glad! 😁
I can't stop laughing on Selene and Quina's convo with Oblivion theme playing
Seeing a 2 hour video in my recommended on such an underrated RPG in need of a sequel is like waking up on my birthday. Cheers Browsley! Commenting before I watch but I know I'll enjoy!
We got that glorious news today
More of a summary of the game than a 'retrospective', but still nice to see this game getting some much-needed respect and attention.
Here is what happens in most open world games: As soon as you get access you venture out. You learn the enemies you can beat and those you must grind for. Generally speaking you ignore the story and learn to exploit the world around you until you quickly become overpowered.
Now here is how that goes in Dogma: As soon as you get access to the open world you venture out. You start surveying enemies and learn the difficulty curve is greater than most. You struggle but find it manageable if you stay away from large enemies or large mobs. Then the nightcycle hits and everything gets oppressive. You run out of oil for your lantern and now you cant see. Your once happy trounce around a new world becomes a horror survival and you hope to just make it through the night. You realize then this game is not to be trifled with. Dragons dogma balances fun, freedom, fear, oppression, skill, ingenuity and survival to name a few in a way you won't be familiar with.
And then you realize that it's a numbers game and that entire illusion falls apart.
@@Bladezeromus It's not a numbers game. You can kill things incredibly underleveled. The problem I see that people have with Dragons Dogma is the game allows you to become a one man army. If you want you can become an overpowered freight train. That's freedom. There is a lot of time between starting out and becoming OP. The point is the game rewards you for the toil. If I'm going to spend 100 hours or in my case 10,000 hours in a game I better damn well be OP and feel OP. I better damn well have access to massive tornados, falling meteors, massive earthquakes, flashy weapon enhancements to accentuate the perfect feeling of weight and damage in my strikes. To have a spectacle of grandeur to go along with time investment. The combat in Dragons Dogma is the best of any action RPG. It's more than a numbers game. Only a person actively seeking to cheese a game sees it that way and those people play themselves.
@@sethchandler4170
Just because you've fallen for the illusion the game crafted, doesn't mean that everyone has. Dragon's Dogma is objectively a numbers game. The most skilled based move you can make is knowing how long to level as what vocation to get what Stat spread. Laboring while underleveled and undergeared is highly unrewarding, unintuitive, frustrating, unbalanced, and punishing.
Unless you're playing on Normal Mode. In that case, the game is pretty easy and you can get away with just about anything. On Normal Mode, being good at action games can trick you into thinking that that is what mattered.
But in Hard Mode? Post game and Bitter Black Isle? How good you are at fighting, dodging, and blocking doesn't much at all. The difference between a fight taking 30 minutes vs 30 seconds is if you have big numbers in the right places. And it's not that rare for there to be just straight up roadblocks in the form of monsters that just refuse to take damage if your damage numbers aren't pumped up over their defensive values. I don't understand how this well know aspect of the game is even in question right now
@@sethchandler4170
Like, bruh, you can see that he was an assassin most of this play through. Why? Because Assassin has, hands down, the highest physical atk growth in the game. And that allowed him to just melt everything in his path, no problem.
@@Bladezeromus Bruh I put 10,000 hours into the game. I've done it min maxing and not min maxing. It isn't the advantage you are claiming it is. My very first playthrough I did whatever I wanted without thought on growth stats. I just invested in vocations to try them out and get augments I liked.
I also did the min max thing. The difference isn't that great. In fact the game is more enjoyable when you don't min max. My preferred vocation is Mystic Knight. To min max that you have to play as assassin for a long time and in my opinion the assassin vocation is one of the more boring vocations. I can melt things with my non min maxed Mystic Knight extremely effectively. The reality is you can use peripats to boost any character into way over powered status anyways.
You thought you were going to bs me? Lol. Nice try buddy but I have invested more time into this game than any other game I have ever played. Min maxing is completely unnecessary. If that's the sort of way you attempt to play games that's your fault. All you are doing is cheapening your experience for very little returns. Some people love min maxing and Dragons Dogma allows that but if you are trying to sell to me that it makes some huge difference I will call you a liar to your face. Come meet my non min maxed mystic knight we aren't scared lol.
I love when the pawns shriek “Careful! A goblin!”
Listen, I didn’t give a shit about goblins at level 1. I sure as shit don’t care now at level 200.
Goblin Slayer would disagree. But true!!!
Nothing adds more to that drake fight near Shadow Fort when pawns are more concerned about goblins than that drake
Finally found enough time to sit down and watch this monster. I'm actually glad you put so much emphasis on the story and let gameplay mechanics take a bit of a backseat, since that's usually all anyone talks about with Dogma.
The point about the sense of urgency in your quest is an especially good one, and is a tradeoff that most open world games have to make.
Very comfy video, man. Thanks for making this.
Thank you, Kexille for those kind words! 😁
You see, Dragon's Dogma isn't a game where a new player would just hop in and become the lord of destruction and kill everything in one shot. I feel like the lack of fast travel in the game is what actually makes it so good, because without fast travel players are forced to improve and get better as they travel around the map. They would even level up naturally whilst traveling the lands and eventually the player would become better.
Being forced to travel on feet makes the game a little boring and may ward off new players, but the game mechanics and content far outweigh that. Dragon's Dogma is a game that rewards you for your effort that you put into the game. You have the diversity and ability to build your own character, your Pawn, and create a character who fits your play style. Even now despite having over 600 hours of gameplay in Dragon's Dogma, I still am willing to start over from scrap and highly recommend Dragon's Dogma to others. I grew up with Dragon's Dogma and so it has shaped my taste in games. So, I recommend others to get the game as well, if not for the game, just do it for the experience. I feel like Dragon's dogma has the ability to be loved by everyone who plays it, it's just that they don't give it a chance.
Couldn’t agree more! I am so glad I disregarded what my friend said and tried it for myself. Definitely my favorite game of all time 😁
Travelling on foot forced players to think tactically and plan their inventory carefully before they set off from Gran Soren. Would you trade speed for more healing items, for more survivability? Would you hoard your loots risking being overencumbered and move at a snail’s pace? Or would you trust your adaptability that you can craft essential items on the way? All of these interesting decisions are ruined by free fast travel. Now you can go anywhere, and when you’re low on health, just pop a travel stone, buy supplies and go back. I guess the travelling was considered as tedious because most open world games don’t require you to prepare your inventory before travel.
"lack of fast travel"
Port crystals be like BERRR
(Port crystals stay in the same spot you place them and respawn where you found them every single run so.. like I have a port crystal at every boss or location I need to go to
The complaint of "no fast travel" sums up the overall feel of people who dislike this game. They are very eager to put it away seemingly due to a lack of amenities they believe the game owes to them. I was one of those player when this game released back on xbox 360, I picked it up again when it re-released on pc and now have hundreds of hours in the game.
I loved the game too, played it for thousands of hours on the PS3, even made 4 accounts to level 200 just to have my own party comprised of pawns I made myself. What stopped me from doing it all again in the PS4 was the way you have to raise characters, stats being tied to certain classes instead of you just distributing it yourself.
With that issue aside, really loved the game so much while I played it.
The cataCOOMS
The dreaded cooms of cata 😂
It's almost 10 years since this game's initial release. I'm happy there's still people enjoying it. Hell, I go to Bitterblack once every few months just to try out builds or find treasures. And just to...you know, experience that dungeon exploring adventure.
I play on switch. Hire my pawn if y'all see her around. She's a cute mage wearing Selene's tunic who only knows how to heal you and slow down enemies with Grapnel and her rusted staff. I named her Lasah.
Unfortunately I don't own a switch but I sure hope others see this and hire Lasah!
@@Browsley Yeah, and thank you for the video, dude
Anodyne is for cowards.
I only run 4 Sorcerers.
I love how often this "i thought the game was boring, then i quit. So i went back eventually and realized that was a mistake" we hear when talking about Dragon's Dogma. This game is similar to something like Pathologic 2 in ths regard, it won't catch your interest if you're too filled with expectations, but after you approach it with the correct mindset and the necessary knowledge, it just gets you. I myself quit twice before the game became my crippling addiction.
This is so true!
I was just playing this last night, felt the urge to go back again.
Jump back in, Arisen! I was a bit burned out after this but now that it's out, I can't wait to get back to Gransys!
@@Browsley I've played this game dozens of times but it still feels engaging and intense when things heat up.
@@SilasSeiler Couldn't agree more!
Quite the grand structure... a supercut perhaps
The Bitterblack Isle will always stand as one of my favorite grinding experiences in any game, ever.
Absolutely! Couldn’t agree more
@@Browsley “What a base and trifling creature is man. I bid you, hone your spirit, refine it.” Such a badass moment hearing that and seeing Daimon’s awakened form.
This was fun to watch, good editing and a great game, I'm happy the community still plays this
Thank you Justin! Appreciate it 😁
Such a great game! I feel it will always be my favorite game.
Same here! 😁
Every PC i own will have this game
I saw it's on sale on psn also so soon every console or pc I have will have this game!
I remember fighting the dragon from the south of Shadow Fort very early on. After 30 minutes of any skill barely making a dent but I knew I still did damage, died with 2 health bars remaining. I tried again, and after painstakingly ignoring my daggers as a weapon during the encounter and just sticking to a shortbow, I finally defeated it. Fast forward to post BBI with a full set of Lv3 gear, that same dragon is essentially a one-shot. So for anyone who wants to start playing the game, ignore an enemy if even after you use your most powerful skill, it just does a pixel of damage, unless you want a very challenging fight right off the bat at least.
Here is what people don't get about this game: The tedious nature of travel, the burden of getting caught in a night cycle and the streamlined brief main story are all masterful design choices. The story of the game is the relationship between arisen and main pawn. The story is emerging from an oppressive world together and the bond forged through frustration, failure, fear and ultimately teamwork and success. The grueling aspects of this game suck when you are in them. Sometimes it's exhilarating. The story are these shared moments brought to life by a masterstroke of a twist at the ending. It's subtle and requires the player to think to get it and that is Dogmas strongest attribute. The developers respected the intelligence and ingenuity of it's players the way most modern games do not. This is a 10/10 game.
Perfect description, Seth!
Amazing summary! Agree 💯 %. The bittersweet story / relationship between arisen and main pawn is also masterfully told through the stories around Selene and the whole Bitterblack Isle plot. The story of Dogma has many philosophical concepts (God, free will, keep fighting even if it looks hopeless - just to name some of them) and makes you actually think about life and the concept of choices imho.
@@lf7877 It annoys me beyond belief when reviewers or fans criticize the story of DD because I know they didn't understand it. Since the story revolves around the relationship of the two main characters you create, you shape your pawns personality and gameplay style, you as the player have a level of control or involvement in the story all the branching dialogue options in the world could not give. You aren't just some chosen hero who goes on the heros journey. You are also a mentor to a future hero and ultimately the main villain yourself.
You don't just empathize with those journeys you live them out. The first time I saw the ending I saw what happened but did not really understand it on a deep level. I was like..... Huh? That was weird. It took me 2 maybe three times seeing it before the gravity of it set in. Then I understood the many design choices I thought were flawed and realized they were expertly crafted and implemented. Even the opening escort quest I hated everytime I did it and cursed it over and over, I came to understand why it was there and what the developers were saying with it.
Don't get to comfortable. You can't speed through everything nor should you want to. Embrace the struggle and the game opens up to you.
@@sethchandler4170 Exactly! I really don't understand how a reviewer could miss this deep and well crafted story and yet there are many who still insists that 'the story is non-existent', 'it's only about combat', 'there is no fast travel, it's unbearable' (when clearly there is fast travel but you have to earn it) and so on. Clearly they did not do a full playthrough (and then a NG+). As you've said, only after a while all the hidden (and not so hidden) messages of the game become clearer and why it is designed in exactly this way. One thing is clear tho: this is not a RPG for the casual gamer. In a way DD reminds me of Morrowind, for me one of the best RPGs ever. You are a stranger in a strange land, you have no clue what's going on and even tho you try so hard to get better the game very often tells you that you are simply not good enough, no matter how hard you try. You are a N'wah and you have to fight and learn really hard to earn your place in this land.
That's why I love DD so much: you have to keeep going, to keep trying, to keep fighting and all those failures and experiences eventually shape you, make you fit for your role as the next Seneschal.
Thank's for such a good conversation, Sir, very much appreciated!
@@lf7877 Keep in mind this is not a review. It's more of a love letter to my favorite game of all time 😁 But I see there's some bits and pieces I've forgotten to include in my video. I couldn't agree more with what you guys are saying. I fell in love with the world and how the traversal made you think about your choices when venturing forth. My only critique is what I said about the feeling of urgency. However making a game of such scale and side content will make the main missions have less ugency.
You guys have such perfect grasp of the journey and what it means for the player and now I feel dumb for forgetting to talk about the relationship with your pawn and overcoming this seemingly impossible world together.
Thank you guys for putting to words what I could not!
If you're a Mystic Knight (or just feel like it,) you can use a Wakestone on Julien after killing him, who will rise from the dead and then admit that yes, he's guilty, but he's too honorable to give a shit. You can speak to him in the Dungeon in Gran Soren afterwards, getting his Magick Shield for MK (it's alright) and 100% Affinity with him, if that's your thing.
I always make sure to give him some Liquid Effluvium afterwards to negate the Affinity gains and because I hate him intensely, greatly enjoying his "EUGH" response, because nothing says "New Boyfriend" better than a glass jar full of the city's diarrhea. Thanks for the shield, you uppity chode, I'll never use it and you'll rot in jail before being executed. Pretty satisfying, ngl. This game fucking owns.
"Thanks for the shield you uppity chode" 😂😂 Perfect depiction! Love it
@@Browsley Thanks! Love your work, Browse. :)
What the hell did I just read?
I stole this post to send to a friend and explain why he should play this game. It's now 2 weeks later and he has like 60 hrs in it. Thank you for your service.
Julien is based, even tho the choccy tomboy she-goat is top tier waifu material I always revive him.
The traveling is only bad until you learn where to place your waystones
So so happy to see more people still talking about this game. It's thanks to people like you if we'll ever see a sequel. We're all here waiting for that day to come..
Thank you! We need to keep the hype up so that we may one day be blessed with a sequel
What if you want to feed The Brine with your Pawns but Chad Rook said "Im my own master now"
Nice video tho^^
Haha that would be awesome!
Thanks 😁
DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 GOT ANNOUNCED BABY.
Iknoooow! 😁😁😁
Amazing quality, just fantastic I bought this game for Switch and it's been a very long time since a game really had me for a MOMENT , something special about its Character progression system !!!
2:21 "Oh hi Mark"
Ah I see the uploader is a man of culture. Do go on.
😅
Dragon's Dogma chads we eating good tonight
'til this day Grigori is the greatest boss fight I ever had (with Daimon at a close 2nd)...🐉
hope it wasn't just me feeling that the neir automata music playing sets the mood.
This was really enjoyable! i normally never watch hours long videos but i really love this game and to be able to see it being talked about by people makes me happy. Hidden gem for a lack of a better words. This video was worth every minutes
Thank you! 😁 Glad you liked it
Thanks for showing the game off my man
Of course
I so hope they're working on the sequel.
Elden Ring: I sleep
Dragon's Dogma 2: REAL SHIT?!
They are
good to have a gameing to talk about the game if the friend like talk about the game from the heart in my eyes and thannk you for the help not stop on the help and thank you 😀
One of my all time favorite games, I go back and play it every year.
Its one of those games one never can put down for good
Thank you for making this retrospective. I enjoyed every minute.
Subscribed after 30 seconds. True gamer. Ive sacrificed alot for my love of games, and I dont regret it either.
I've gotten to Gran Soren before, via quarry, but it's pointless since city won't open. Fights were often legendary, and deadly (save often) :D
I love these type of videos, great work my man
Thank you! 😁
Finally got time to watch this in its entirety and I'm so glad I did it. Amazing editing. Fantastic choice of music. Brilliant writing. 10/10 stuff champ
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it 😁
I was literally searching for a videos EXACTLY like this 2 weeks ago and here it is, great video :)
Thank you! 😁
This video made me play this game lol. When I got my switch, a friend gave it to me because they didn't really play it at all, which didn't really make me want to play it, but this game is great. Actually haven't finished the video yet, as I don't want to be spoiled anymore than I have been already, but definitely will come back to finish haha.
That was smart! Glad it made you want to try the game 😁 Let me know what you think of it once you've finished it 🤗🤗
Amazing video, made me remember how as a child i gave up in the game only to play it again afther a few years and get hoked up.
Great video 📹 👍 👏 👌 🙌 😀
Thank you! Glad you liked it 😁
I really love that a shared experience for this game is that it takes a few tries to get into, and then it clicks. It really makes loving this game a unique experience. I often liken it to reaching enlightenment.
I knew you played this game alot when you killed the goblin leader in the shadow fort took me a few years before i realized that was even possible
Not sure about what I want changed about the open world, but I 100% would love to see more intricate dungeons and bosses for DD2. Dare I say it, make it more of a pure dungeon crawler with DD’s combat
More variety in landscape traversal, monster variations (perhaps changing over time, not just night-day cycles), NPC encounters and large variety of random quests would all be great.
"Master this path leads to Gran Soren" There!!! A Harpey!!!
You did swell on this. I love the dedication that was put into a 2hr video! I just started playing this gem this year and ironically am lost with what to do after reaching Gran Soren.
Thank you! Have fun exploring Gransys! If you're on pc you can add me and Hire Beach Jesus if you want a hunk of a man accompanying you while spouting nonsense.
Ho ho! Dragons Dogma! Good to hear one speak deeply of it.
grigori was never the bad guy, there never was a bad guy
More retrospectives. Hell yeah. 2 hours of joy
2 hour talk about my favorite game… WITH MEMES!!!!!!!!! Gold
Wow, I really enjoyed your video, must’ve taken you a long time to make, but glad you did.
Thank you! 😊
Your music choice was exactly how it felt. Bravo ez sub, and great adventure of a video please make more
Thank you! Glad you liked it 😁
One of my all time favorites. back in 2012 when i beat the game on ps3 i wanted a sequel.
And here we are.. 10 years later and still hoping for that lol
I remember playing the demo as a kid and always wanted to know what Gran Soren looked like then years later getting the game on the ps4 and getting the platinum trophy. Now to this day I still play the game but with mods now on pc this game was everything kid me wanted in a video game Dragons huge monsters the option to make my own character and run around a world doing quest with companions just me playing the imaginations I had as a kid. I just wished the game wasn't rushed we missed out on so much that Capcom didn't add and I truly hope we get a Dragon Dogma 2.
Here's to hoping that we eventually will get a sequel!
I recently purchased this game on Steam. Had a hard time getting into it. Slugged my way through and it is much better.
That was lovely, thanks!
Thank you!
Another legendary entry in why this game is so much fun. Thank you for making this.
I cannot explain how much I enjoy the freedom and player agency provided by this game. Sustained with a story so grand it would take a wise, selfless person not to repeat the same mistake to infinity. So much room to be taken across the world to see how others have dealt with the dragon, or addressing the different solutions to culling the cycle. Dark Arisen DLC tastes that potential, and it makes you curious of why the Duke wanted to harm Aelinore, was she a spy for the other "Wyrmslayer"? Feels like we'll never know...
Hopefully Capcom gives this game another go in someone's lifetime. The efficient cycle that depends solely on the players will could be served with many solutions. I'm curious to if they'll parallel to my own ideas or not. I hope I have the opportunity of seeing... But after that anime... I'm a little reticent.
A 2 hour retrospective to listen to while in work, nice. Perhaps I'll find aught of use
Great format. Well done!
Thank you!! 😁
Ah a fellow Arisen i see what an amazing Video must be a hecc of work to pull together such a long one
amazing video!!!! such a shame dragon dogma comunity is very small.
Thank you! Yeah it's small but extremely friendly and awesome! 😁😁
Funnily enought, if the Arisen simply had the ability to *s p e a k* everything would turn up fine for them.
Duke: he betrayed us! He took the bargain!
Arisen: no u.
😂
Arisen: "I would never do such a thing! Caxton won't be sacrificed, he's the lad that keeps equipping me after all."
Jokes aside, it's awkward how often I took the deal, just because the game decided that Simone or some other random NPC would be the one that got kidnapped.
I litterly can't do anything but restart:
-take the deal: you just killed a child.
-Don't take the deal: you're on the registry now.
@@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 the fact that Symone is even an option concerns me *a lot...*
And i was here thinking that Selene was weird. I think the only mildly decent reason for those two to be chosen in the game would be that you can tecnically make a child Arisen, but still, that shouldn't be a freaking random choice, or else you end up with this really weird scene.
If a sequel to this game wasnt obvious enough a good move for Capcom, they should seriously take note of how Elden Ring uses a lot of open world ques DD did so long ago.
i believe it is pronounced "Demain" (Demesne) as in the song coils of light there is a lyric "frozen demesne"
Thanks! 😁
My god im so sorry i missed this. Absolutely amazing job. The effort really shows on this one
also, of course she would fall for chad rook 2:01:41
oh i just realized i logged in at the perfect time
No need to apologize, friend! Glad you liked it! 😁😁 Hahah yeah! I wanted to use that login as a shoutout but guess I forgot.. Shouted you out in the Description tho
This is one of my most favourite games of all time
Same!
As a straight guy, I can say I had a gay romance in dragons dogma, and without even realizing!.
10/10 game.
Hahah who was the lucky one?
Was it Fournival? Accidently got him on my first playthrough because I didn't do the sidequests.
@@Browsley man iirc, was the vendor with beard? i don't touch this game since my very first experience, bought the game at the day one, i still remember the cutscene, he was looking at me, and i was like: "hmkey?... h-henlo?" X'D
@@wyattwebb6963 nono, was brown hair, long hair i think with beard is possible? i think was a vendor if i remember correctly
@@AtreyusNinja the armorer maybe?
A small Yt creator with huge potential...
Sign me the hell up.
Like the narration, like the writing, not much for that Pascatrauma thank you very much.
Keep up the good work.
You earned a sub from me, a well deserved one. Cheers, mate.
Thank you so much glad you liked it! 😁
I hope the sequel doesn't nerf the travel. Having the limited fast travel makes traversing the environments challenging in a way most games don't give us now. I love Elden Ring, but once I've got somewhere then can easily fast travel back and forth, it cheapens the experience. Why create amazing landscapes, creatures, puzzles and traps then be able to skip them all. I know many people find travel tedious. But there's plenty of games with fast travel everywhere. It's so refreshing having that restricted, so you actually have to live in the land. They could make it more exciting perhaps by changing up monsters and even having shifting terrain in places to make it more unpredictable (and limit repetitive fetch quests to the same areas). Just my two pennies worth.
That's such a great take! I also hope they keep the limited fast travel.
Love the neir automata background music!
Starting Dragons Dogma is the same for everyone I feel. You’re kinda invested at the start. Seeing Grigori for the first time and traversing through a small dungeon fighting wolves and harpies then finalized with a chimera. You’re intrigued with the combat and mechanics then get into the real game. You make your character and fight Grigori for the first time and are even more invested. Then you get to the encampment and fight the ogre make your pawn then everything slows way the fuck down. The ox quest. I won’t lie, every time I restart I dwell on this one. But I know the absolute fun and amazing things that lie beyond it and get through it anyways. Sadly most people just put it down because of that. But this game is so amazing. The story isn’t entirely fledged out and kinda vague but the more you play the more you understand and learn how amazing it is. The little mechanics are my favorite part. For instance character creation. The fact your weight and height affects gameplay is amazing. Or maybe throwing your pawns off cliffs. Better yet playing catch with your pawn using a dead deer. One I like a lot is that your class really doesn’t matter and none is truly better than another and all have their shining moment. Everything is unique in its own way. Traveling is kinda tedious yes. But getting to experience the landscapes and being rewarded for killing enemies makes up for all of that. This game is challenging in many ways but is also beautiful and extremely rewarding. I’d suggest it over any triple a title.
Another cool aspect I've recently started noticing and also read a bit on some forums is that the cycle, you losing your heart and becoming the Arisen, fighting Grigori, becoming the Seneschal, then plummeting back and everything starts anew in new game plus. I feel that it's sorta a meta-story. Where the cycle never truly end before you the player puts down the game for good.
@@Browsley I completely skipped over that! Which makes me mad cause that’s my favorite part of it. It doesn’t just restart abruptly there’s a reason for it
Just started. BOYYY
Calm voice i might call daddy from now on?
Check!
Nier music?
Check?
Audio memes?
Check?
Im roughly ten mins in, and your video has taken me for several rides so far. Good ass format. Prepare to get binged buddy.
Hahah glad you like it so far! Have fun 😁
dragon dogma dark arisen is a masterpiece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember playing this game and reaching the Ur-dragon and i was the one who got the killing blow on so i got a bunch of special loot for killing that incarnation of it
I remember getting an Ur-Dragon kill before Dark Arisen came out, and the armor & mass amount of wakestones made the game so laughably easy at the time, even on hard, that I put it down. Until Bitterblack came that is.
nice video, love to see more dragons dogma content
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Appreciate it, MarcKyro! 😁
I bought the base game for an old xbox 360 at $10. Now, after playing that for hours, i'm thinking about buy the Dark Arisen port for the Nintendo Switch and playing it solo and with all the experience I have and look forward to a good time
Dude have fun with that! It's such an awesome game. I am this 🤏 close bying it again on ps4 lol.
@@Browsley Will do, dude the combat system is freaking addicting. The sound and hit mechanics are crunchy and the guts squishy....not to mention the magic
dragons dogma is like a weird mix of shadow of the colossus and a souls game, love it. hopefully the supposed sequel that was in a capcom leak a while back is real, but kinda doubt it :(
Let's just put our hands together and pray
So I spent 3 weeks trying to get RISE to click and bought this out of boredom. I cannot put it down. I always end up going back to Skyrim but I thought "It's Capcom what could go wrong?" Thanks for the work you do.
Glad you liked the vid! Never tried RISE or any other MH really. I also have difficulties putting Dogma down! I'm glad the community is ever expanding! 😁
@@Browsley Try World, it is well worth the time. :D
@@JustAPingwin Gonna check it out if it ever comes on sale on steam! Thanks for the tip!
The traveling is only an issue for people who don’t understand how Portcrystals work.
The biggest issues with this game are, and always have been, how leveling works… and having only one save file, a la Pokémon.
Christ, I could talk for ~20 minutes on how f*cked the leveling is.
let's hope dd2 will fix that
at 1:04:56 that is called the Ancient Battletactic of Backpedal the Invincible.. Yeah I rember when I first started playing this back in the day it beat my ass to a pulp so many times but, I didn't give up and this ended becoming one of my favorite games ever in my over 3 decades of gaming..
Thank you for the clarificarion lol 🤣
@@Browsley you're welcome!!
Loved the nier music it’s so melancholy
wow. just wow
After playing the game and finishing it completely(Main questline, a bunch of the side quests and Dark Arisen subplot). One word essentially describes the game. Unfinished.
The world was empty, the quests requiring hours to complete(usually tolerable, if you have something to do, besides trekking), lack of quests, no subhubs, too few main hubs, clearly cut content (the quest suggesting you go to other lands, besides the dukedom), reused maps in Everfall(again highly likely to be compromise to meet deadlines).
It's not even restricted to world-building and quest-linking. The combat system is pretty balanced for the first 50 levels(pre-Gran Soren), but after that mark, any enemy(maybe besides the Drake in the woods) can be dominated by most classes. This is fixed in the DLC, but I always felt that some enemies became annoying bullet sponges that required you to mindlessly hack them in a learned pattern, making a single fight your 1 hour trek from before(or I'm simply a noob who doesn't utilise his hero well)
If it was given more time to stew, it could have been a much better game. Then again, it felt like it missed half of its content, so I'm not even sure if it's can be a design flaw/flawed design that makes the game feel unfinished. Dark Arisen did not exhibit it too much, but that may be masked by its more intense combat, that made individual areas more challenging and hence more memorable.
Is it better to have a memorable world with fast travel or an empty world without?
I think I read somewhere that there was planned way more for this game but they were rushed to release it. Which would explain the feeling of emptiness.
This will always be one of my favorite games. I really hope it gets a proper sequel with improvements. But until then, I’m really enjoying Elden Ring - my first souls game and I haven’t had as much fun with a game since DD
i was like man i didnt know dd had the same soundtrack as nier lol
Best part imo 1:31:45
I disagree, 53:37 is pretty solid.
@@_Jay_Maker_ Can't really say I disagree with that
I'm torn between that and the Dragonborn theme playing during the Hydra fight and the Goku instant transmission sound when Quina leaves the witch's hut. It's all so good.
@@greendragonfly4831 Pretty good contendors as well 😂😂
Dragons dogma reminded me of the fantasy mangas i read, thats probably the reason why i even buyed it
What mangas was that? I'm intrigued
I loved this game, still have 8 accounts active with new char. I had no problem with walking, first play I didn't even sleep just kept wandering at night.
Still woulda been better if Dogma was multiplayer. Heres hoping Dogma 2 will have some coop
That would be insane! Let's pray together
i didn't know untill sometime last year, that during the ox quest you can "activate" the ox to make it run for a little bit, it goes sooooo much quicker
I'm real late, but great video, and Nier Automata music... Masterworks all
Thank you!
The original Dark souls
Greatest sin of Dragon's dogma is beaing a linieral game wearing skin of open world game.