Glad you loved Dragon's Dogma! I've been singing its praises ever since the PS3. When I discovered they took a lot of inspiration from Berserk, I fell even more in love with it. Those long incantations are directly inspired by Schierke requiring the protection of those around her to incant undisturbed.
@@petitknightcreations7431 Very few games take the risk of long waits on magic, mainly strategy games do this with the punishment of having it cancelled. Biggest difference is that it's the closest I've seen magic be devastating that you just don't get most times.
@@dirtbomb5 Well lets not go into a yes no argument. Depends on how you will define "production quality". And my opinion is obviously not the holy grail of what is and what isn't. I would not call it a 9/10 game though, even for back then.
A few tips for new players: 1: when you arrive at Gran Soren, check into the inn, this will give you the fast-travel stone 2: the game directs you to the pawn guild. Once there, you’re given a quest to go UNDER the guild. You can accept it, but DONT DO THE QUEST! If you do, upon completion you’ll be locked out of the ‘Witch in the Wood’ quest, which foreshadows the end of the game, and has several quests attached to it. Instead, fast travel BACK to the starting area, and head for the woods. 3: if the bandits along the way are kicking your ass, run past them (although they CAN be beaten by low-level characters, especially archers and mages, you just need to keep your distance!) 4: accept all the dumb-looking ‘bounty’ quests telling you to ‘kill x number of undead/harpies/chimeras/ghosts!’ Reason? You’re going to kill those enemies ANYWAY during your playthrough. Accept the bounty and you’ll get a nice, unexpected influx of gold from time to time as you complete the bounties. 5: IF you accept an escort mission, travel to the mission end point FIRST, then leave a ‘port crystal’ which are found around the game. Travel back to gran soren, accept the quest, then fast travel BACK to the escort finish point. BAM! You’re done without risk to your escort of any kind. Finally: there’s a port crystal under the pawn guild which you’ll find during that mission. There’ll also be a quest to escort someone to a ‘healing spring!’ Go to the merchants, stock up on empty jars, then travel to the spring. Put down a port crystal and LEAVE IT THERE! (You’ll get more port crystals!). Not only will you easily complete this quest, but you and your pawns can fill jars with spring water, which HEAL YOUR ENTIRE PARTY! You’ll have to move around the jars to different pawns to stay under the weight limit, but you’ll come back here again and again for free party healing. There’s another Port Crystal on the way to the springs, at a house on the side of a hill, surrounded by harpies. Get that one for your OTHER quest needs. Oh yeah: but a lamp, GET INSIDE BEFORE DARK EARLY GAME!! Nightime is no joke in DD, and you need to get strong before you handle the night’s challenges. I can honestly say, my first play through of DD, remains one of my favorite gaming experiences EVER! Its a special game….and after you beat the dragon, KEEP PLAYING! The game’s not over!! On the initial trip to Gran Soren, you can jump on the oxen’s back and kick to make them go faster. This, along with goblin attacks will lower their health, which you can raise by demanding’healing’ from your mage. You’ll get there a bit quicker, and the real game can start.
4 is what I think is the hang up for a lot of people that I think makes them think the game is way more tedious than it is, I feel like too many people play this game like other rpgs and do one side quest at a time, so they're going out doing these hunting side quests trying to kill these enemies rather than just accepting them and having them in the background while you do other things.
The most unique mechanic of this game is the grab button. All characters can grab anything. You can pick up objects in the environment and throw them at enemies. You can pick up enemies and hit them, or throw them at other enemies. But the best thing is if you grab a giant monster, you start climbing them. The game turns into Shadow of the colossus. There's nothing cooler than jumping a chasm to grab onto a dragon in mid flight and start stabbing them until they fall to the ground.
Red classes (Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Knight and Assassin) can also grapple enemies. While grappled, enemies take double damage from any attack. It's pretty gnarly when you pin down a Saurian and rip their tail off with a single kick.
@@ghaul4292 hope we get a monk class that has skills specifically for grappling in dragons dogma 2, something that was in the design docs for the first one. Grappling an enemy and suplexing them, doing like a judo throw or hip toss, would be fucking amazing.
And the wieght system.. There was this windy canyon that you are pushed back. Grab a barrel or a pawn (they dont try to escape in comparison to NPC's while being carried XD) and the wind won't be so hard
I've been preaching the goodness of Dragon's Dogma for a decade. I still remember the time I was fighting a cyclops on a thin land bridge and getting tossed off the side as it died. One of my pawns leapt over the expanse, grabbed me, and tossed me to safety as they fell and returned to their own world. Shit's epic when it all goes right.
Awesome stuff. My main character was lifted so high by a Harpy, I was wondering where my save file would start me from; the Harpy dropped me, I hear, "I have you Master!'' and the sword and board pawn I hired from a friend caught me, put me on the ground safely and went on fighting.
This has to be the best format for a review I've ever seen, it's just perfect. I've always felt like the best review a game can have is a trusted friend's recommendation, so having Mike explain and sell the game to Casen is really perfect. I've played a few hours of Dragons Dogma but you've completely sold me on going back to it and playing much much more. I hope you both do hundreds of these reviews, it's really fantastic.
The combat of Dragon's Dogma is the funnest action RPG combat I've ever had. The spells are pretty dang cool too and when I feel too sluggish to cast I switch to magic archer and the satisfaction of the bow skills is incredible. I agree the spells are very satisfying and feel great to cast, I have to say the the most Beautiful spells I've ever seen are FF9's and Lost Odyssey's). It's really so sad the Dragon's Dogma MMO never came out here. Some good modders you can find on RUclips can show you how it's like.
Ehh. If you use 'Action RPG' as broadly as most journalists or modern gamers. There's lots of action RPGs that have 'the best combat's. 2D sides scrollers. Top down games. Shooters. Fighting games. Character action/Third person brawlers and other similar third or first person games like Souls/Elden Ring.
I remember the demo coming out and I'm like 'yeah, I'll give it a go' and then I was fighting a griffin and I climbed it's back and it took of to the sky and shakes me off. That's when I knew 'oh, this is special.'
I actually had the opposite reaction with the demo. Was really looking forward to it, but when I played the demo I thought it was awful. Due to seeing some crazy gifs six months later I decided to revisit the game, and I'm so glad that I did. The demo was just really bad. Cluttered as hell UI that couldn't really be adjusted and characters that simply would not shut up. Plus, you didn't have access to any of the cool spells that really made the game for me.
This game also handles light and darkness the best out of almost any fantasy video game I have ever played. Running through the night with your lantern barely illuminating your path when suddenly wolves, or zombies, or harpies or god forbid one of the ogres early game is an intense moment.
Really liked this approach to the review! I love watching you guys bounce off of each other, and Mike essentially selling Casen on the game is like SO MANY conversations I have had with friends about games we love one way or the other. Great video, and I am gonna have to check out Dragon's Dogma soon as I get a chance!
Yes! This is the first time I've seen a review done in this way and it just felt so natural to watch this back and forth between Mike and Casen. I'm definitely on board for more of this style of reviews!
I LOVE how he gets totally into it😂 Glad to see these shorter videos about sleeperhits/personal favourites! Keep’em coming! Everyone’s here to discover your taste
I absolutely adore this game!!! I will say, there IS a little more to the pawns than meets the eye, but Mike's warning about party banter and bonding is fair.
I remember picking up this game in 2020 during quarantine just because I wanted something to play. I became completely engrossed in it over the following weeks. The story really isn't much to write home about but it really is a great game. Everyone talks about how good the battle system is, and it is. But I loved the exploration aspect the most. Finding hidden caves and paths that lead to loot, secret dungeons, alternate paths and enemies was just really fun to me.
This game is Hideaki Itsuno's love child, passion project. He was "forced" to make Devil May Cry V in order to get permission from capcom higher ups to make the sequel. Imagine the love the man feels for this game that he made such a fantastic game as Devil May Cry V in order to be allowed to make the sequel to his passion project. There's an AMAZING interview in which he tells the story of how many years he had this project in mind, since the times of street fighter II more or less.
I love that you're like "This is the LOTR game I always wanted". Yet when I played through Dragon's Dogma I mained a 2-Handed sword and I said to someone "This is the closest we'll ever get to a game worthy of the BERSERK series" To this day I'm sad that no other game has attempted to recreate the Pawn system, the ways in which they can learn and function feels like game development black magic, even though I have researched it and understand how they function now, I still adore how convincing they can be as AI companions you care about if taught/setup well. Glad to see you got into this fantastic gem of an RPG, sometimes I can't believe it came out the same year as Skyrim, and somehow even in all of it's mediocrity Skyrim was the popular one.
Great video. Sometimes a recommendation/conversation in this style is more useful than more 'structured' reviews that feel the need to comment on ever aspect of a game and give it some kind of score or rating. "This game feels like the LoTR action RPG I never had growing up". This way people can give the game a try if they've been craving the same experience. Also, the "Umm ACKCHYUALLY" @6:20 hahaha.
Going from fearing one shot kills from bamdit archers to wiping them out at the snap of my fingers is easilly one of the most satisfying experiences of growth ive ever had in a game
RESONANT ARCCCCCC. You have been so in sync with my recent gaming habits lately! Finally started up Dragon's Dogma on my steam deck and hit the 10 hour mark just recently. This game is SO DAMN good and it kills me I waited so long to finally get into it. Thanks for the content. Could not have come at a more perfect time for me!
This review absolutely captures what's great about dragon's dogma. Great stuff! Honestly I think you UNDERsold how good meteor feels to use - magic has never been better in an action game. I highly recommend going arouybd with a sorcerer who also has the spell you most want to use to take advantage of to ritual cast it. I tried four sorcerers using meteor and it's absolutely ridiculous. amazing experience
4 sorcerers?? Never thought of that, hilarious!! For me, once I tried going solo, (no pawns), it’s hard for me to go back. This sounds like fun though, I will do this on my next run. There’s always another run for Dragon’s Dogma.
One of my favorite action RPGs of all time. I've been preaching about how cool and imaginative the sorcerer, mystic knight, and magic archer classes are to all my friends since 2012. So glad to see you talking about this
I'm so glad you dabbled with the magic. I've seen a lot of reviewers just stay on warrior or something and never even knew you could do those insane spells. Like you said, it's easily the coolest I've ever seen in a game. Although it isn't good, I love that they have an instant death spell. You just let the meter drain on all enemies visible, then release the spell and instantly kill everything, so fucking sick
Dragon's Dogma's character creation is insanely detailed. There are images out there of in-game versions of Geralt and Ciri, Khal Drago and Daenarys, Iron Man and Black Widow etc. Even before you've explored the world, it's so much fun just building a unique character.
Glad you guys enjoyed it this much. We have been fans of it for a decade and no other game can scratch the itch that this game does. Imagine waiting 10 years on a sequel, oh well at least I've enjoyed this game for hundrdeds upon hundreds of hours and I think about restarting a new playthrough all the time. Truly one of the best games ever made. As much as I want it, I don't think Itsuno will allow for coop, as you said that's what Monster Hunter does, and Dragon's Dogma was meant to be like a forum game, so no coop. And yes Itsuno is returning, the director of Dragon's Dogma and Devil May Cry 3, 4 and 5, aka the savior of videogames. I hope this video convinces many more folks to give this game a shot, it is worth it no doubt.
Underrated game! I still remember when *spoiler* At the end, the villain kidnap your "special person", but since I pretty much focused on the main quest, and only talked to the weapon seller (an hairy old man), he was choosen as my "loved one" by default. Ending wasn't the prettiest.
Once I learned about that mechanic, I would purposefully make everyone except Mercedes dislike me so that it would choose her by default even though she leaves mid-way through the game.
The combat in this game + the Genius level AI moments make this game unforgettable. I will never forget my first playthrough ever a cyclops peaking through a cavern door towering over it. And then watching him squeeze through the tiny doorway to hunt me down. I was equally terrified and impressed.
One of my top 10 games. I thought this game is what D&D and RPG finally culminated into. What's weird is that after playing for about 2 weeks there were barely any videos or hype over the game. It felt like I was the only one playing the game. Climbing and smacking the monsters right in the face was my favorite move (most of time upside down). So much fun. Then Bitterblack Isle DLC came out and it kicked my ass. The monsters were so vicious. Worth the price!
Eh. Dragons Dogma doesn't really do what D&D/an RPG does. Dragon's dogma is action mostly combat. Earlier video game RPGs do everything else D&D does better than Dragon's Dogma.
"They're masterworks all. You can't go wrong" I think the only announcement that hyped me in over a decade was when the director (I think) showed the logo for Dragon's Dogma 2. Yeah, it is jank. Eurojank or double A jank even though it is Capcom. If you can get past that: top shelf!
I love the state of the arc story analysis podcasts, but glad to see we're getting other types of content again. I would love to see retrospectives reviews for Zelda sometime
Never touched this game until 2021. Bought the dark arisen version for $5 on PSN the first night during my 14 day Covid quarantine. This game single handedly kept me occupied for all 14 days. From the time I woke up, till the time I went to sleep. And when I went back to work, all I could think about was what I needed to do next in the game when I got home. I’m on NG+3 with 285 hours in and STILL haven’t done everything. What a fucking masterpiece this game is.
Wow you guys made my day!!! ❤This game deserves all the exposure it can get (and then some). The combat and the Pawn system in this game are some of the deepest systems i have seen in any game. You can casually enjoy DD on your first playthrough (or even think that it's a mediocre game if you rush through it) but it's one of those rare games where the more you play it the more you begin to understand its brilliance.
Glad you managed to get around to this game finally! I happened to try it shortly after release on a whim and was hooked from the minute I got a taste of its gameplay. It was hard convincing my friends to try it one by one but each loved their playthrough when they got around to it. Definitely a sleeper and I'm excited to see what they'll do with its sequel.
The magic in this game is the best I have seen in an RPG. They nailed almost everything, but especially the animations for spells, it feels amazing. My dream has always been Skyrim with Dragon's Dogma's combat.
I gotta get back into this, my brother suggested to me, ended up picking it up and really enjoyed what I played but just got busy with stuff. Really fun from what I played and cool to see you guys do a review on it!
I unabashedly love you two. Any time I see one of your videos in my feed, it’s just instant happiness. I know I’m about to spend time immersed in the well-thought out, articulate and enthusiastic opinions of people that love this medium as much as I do. Thanks for all you do, boys.
I played the re-release on PC in 2016 and I really didn’t foresee myself spending so much time in this action rpg… the combat and loot/skill system is what really pushed me to venture into every corner and even attempt the very difficult end game battles. If DD 2 is in the works - I can’t imagine what Capcom will pull off this generation.
I love this game! I was so suprised when I thought the game was over and instead it just became really crazy. I'm so hyped for the sequel. I never thought this would be possible.
Already have it on PS4, aIthough I was on the fence about playing it all the way through because of the early quests you mentioned. But this review convinced me to give it another try. Thanks for the video & all the great work you guys do.
Your experience with the game will be much more enjoyable if you ignore the escort quests altogether and learn how to properly set up your pawn on RUclips. Trust me, this game can be much better than you might think.
I've heard it described as "the best 7/10 game I've ever played" and that sums up my thoughts on it when looking at it while trying to be unbiased. THAT BEING SAID... I freaking love this game despite all of its jank and squandered potential and cut ideas which only have traces left in the final product (we'll never get to fight on the moon ); ). I put 2 playthroughs in doing everything and getting the platinum trophy because it's so darn fun. I hope DD2 can realize all of what DD1 was trying to accomplish.
I still keep a save file just to battle Grigori. There's something truly mesmerizing about this monster calmly monologuing philosophy on the futility of life during one of the largest-scale battles in ARPG history.
This game has my favorite character creator of all time. Over the years I’ve created every fantasy race of every type, dwarf, halfling, hobbit, elf, orc, goblin, etc. You can really do anything with it if you put the time in. The only negative is they only give you one save slot so you can’t have multiple creations in the game at once, or I’d own all the top pawns in the game.
This game is so good. It's slightly imperfect in a lot of ways, but has so many incredible ideas jammed into it. The lore is great, the design is great, the characters are great. I'm hoping that Dragons Dogma 2 will smooth out the rough edges and become the perfection that this game came so close to.
Agreed. The number of incredible ideas more than make up for the imperfections. Like I had an issue with inventory; when you hire a new pawn, there’s no way to quickly/seamlessly transfer the inventory of a current pawn that you’re releasing. Silly small things like that.
I got this like a year ago on sale randomly, never really heard about it, started on highest difficulty and was annoyed for a while but suddenly it clicked and I fell in love. Love this game!
What the game doesn't tell you and a lot of people miss it: - When you are playing a class and you level up with it, you get stats, but you gain stats based on waht class you leveled up as. Melee classes get more Strength and Stamina/ HP, if you have leveled up as a mage, you get different stats, why is this important? - You have a maximum level cap, you can't level forever, when you hit that cap, your stats are based on the classes you have leveled during those levels. You have leveld as a pure mage and switch to Warrior after the cap to try it out? You can sort of get by, but you won't even eb nearly as effective. If you level as a Warrior / Fighter through the levels, you will have a TON more Strength and other stats to go along for the classes and you will be significantly stronger. - It's not the best system, but something to keep in mind when you are playing the game.
This game is in my top three from gen 7. It was actually my most anticipated prior to release, but then when I played the (absolutely terrible) demo, it really disappointed me and actually made the game drop off my radar. Six months later I noticed a bunch of crazy spell gifs on a gaming forum that were showing off spells you did not have access to in the demo...I decided to revisit. So glad that I did, because there hasn't been another game before, or after yet that was so good at simulating a spellcaster. This is the only game that I've played where you truly feel like a powerful Wizard. The animations and feedback are likely the biggest reason, but it still felt so good to play. A controller is a must though, since that doesn't translate through mouse and keyboard if playing on PC. Cannot wait for DD2.
The fact that fighting every type of enemy feels sooooo different, the elemental weaknesess, the lineup of the party, the specifics attack that you have to know to make the fifth easier if you discovered earlier, ever combat is a mini puzzle, but resolved int real time... So fucking cool.... Love this game
Ah man, I love to see a new person getting into this game! It warms my heart to see people trumpeting it, after over a decade. Richly deserved. I will say, that this review, although great, omits a big element of the game that I would want people to know, which is just how satisfying exploration is in this game. Seeking out every little nook and cranny of the main game and especially Bitterblack Isle will reward you with cool fights and unique locales and just little details that make you feel immersed in the place. I'm gonna go play it for the 11th time now.
One of the interesting things about the pawn system is that it learns behaviors, strategies, and quest knowledge from both you and the other players it plays with. So if your pawn finished a quest with someone else that you haven't yet, it'll help guide you. If it Knows the weakness of an enemy it'll tell you it.
DD2 it's not just made by the same director, Hideaki Itsuno it's the man who took direction of the Devil May Cry franchise after Kamiya (except for the reboot). If someone can direct a great action game it's certainly him.
What hooked me with this game was when I was escorting some party around the world at night and we were ambushed by a huge Griffon. And it was absolute madness fighting off this unexpected monster and overcoming it. I’ll always remember that moment because it felt so real and organic, and the combat system just…WORKED
When you guys were talking about how you grew up during the big LotR boom, that reminded me of the version of Strider that I grew up with. So when I see the name Strider, the first thing I think of is Strider Hiryu from the Strider games. I am a bit older than you guys, growing up in the big Ninja craze of the late 80s and 90s. When I read Fellowship of the Ring in high school, the entire time I was literally picturing a badass looking anime Cyber Ninja traveling around with the hobbits. Pretty ridiculous from any other perspective, I'm sure. But this was before the LotR movies came out so I didn't really have much visual aid and inserted what I knew best. (as a side note, I did the same kind of thing when I read The Princess Bride in school as well. I imagined "The man in the black mask" Wesley as a ninja, not a Zorro type character.)
All 9 classes feel amazing to play. Found ranger and mystic knight were the classes I played the least but they were still really useful and a lot of fun. Assassin and majik archer are extremely versatile and I probably used them the most. Strider was the absolute go to class for getting rich from pickpocketing pawns and other npcs.
oh wow this channel reviews games? Edit: The best lord of the rings experience ive had with videogames BY FAR has to be Divide and Conquer, a fan mod for medieval total war II.
The games whole story theme is insane as well. I wont spoil anything but god dam. Its just crazy good man. If you do the dlc, you're going to have an even better time. I legit just start a new character and go straight to the dlc area and play that now, its basically an entire game on its, that single gigantic dlc dungeon.
One of my favorite things about this game is how you run into certain NPCs periodically throughout the game, and they have new stuff to talk about. It really makes the world feel alive
I remember reading the breakdown of making the game from Gamasutra, the game was only ever 60% done when it originally released. It’s a miracle it caught a grip in fans and was able to do the expansion. This expansion was much more focused and really benefitted from leaning in to what worked about the base game. I hold out hope that DD2 can bridge the divide and carry over the open world questing and scope of that with the new title but the mark they made on fantasy combat will always be the selling point. I remember fighting a beholder and it had some magic attack spike that came up out of the ground: if you grabbed onto the monster it would accidentally stab itself in the big eye and get disabled. Skyrim just didn’t have anything on this. In a way the game was the anti-Skyrim.
I absolutely cannot say how much I love Resonant Arc. They keep talking about my biggest faves, even Dragon's Dogma, that absolutely deserves attention.
I agree with everything, but I surprising don't agree with wanting it to be multiplayer. The entire purpose of the Pawn system was to make the game feel like a multiplayer game, without it actually being multiplayer. The devs mention this in an interview. They wanted it to be a single player experience that feels like a multiplayer experience. So what I'm hoping for is an updated Pawn system. The Pawn system was already AMAZING, it just needed some touch ups. Like the whole repeating the same lines over and over thing. XD
I truly love this game. I’ve bought it on 5 different platforms over the years and never get tired of it. Great soundtrack, gameplay, mechanics. I still remember the hype I felt when the original trailer dropped and when the demo released. I played that demo so many times. I wish there was a game that could hype me up like this one did these days. The best I can hope for is the sequel.
I absolutely loved this game so much when it first came out! I actually got it as a random gift from a friend at my birthday party when I turned 13. Feels like such a long time ago looking back...
The fight against the dragon is still my favorite dragon fight in all of gaming. Never before or since has one felt as amazingly epic from the music, the setpieces, that awesome chase sequence, how the dragon actually felt like a massive heavy creature, or even just the dialog. Everything about it was just amazing and I felt like I needed a cigarette afterwards.
Dragon's Dogma is probably my favorite game of all time. I could not even begin to guess how many times I've slayed Grigori just to Dragon Forge some equipment. Or Daimon for Cursed items and Rift Crystals. I genuinely love this game and I can't wsit for the sequel. Edit: I also remember that cheesy original Title Song that they ended up changing for what I assume were licensing issues. I loved the original Title Song. It's called Into Free if anyone is curious.
The action feels super responsive, and satisfying with its feedback, and fantastical. It's like a melding of Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry, with a Skyrim aesthetic. The story is deceptively simple, and you can miss quite a bit of content that helps characterizes some characters, but the way it wraps up is really well done. It contextualizes everything in a perfect circle, a ring you could say.
One of the best on-a-whim video game purchases of my life - noticed it when browsing games in the CEX shop one day & thought "ooh...I like RPGs, I like dragons. The price is right. Let's give it a go". Almost stopped playing it after 10 minutes, for the reasons mentioned at the beginning of the video. It's since become one of my all-time favourites. So glad I stuck with it.
@10:52 This is SO spot on. “I wanna feel like I’m afraid to fight a rabbit when I leave town one… But at the end of the game I am as powerful as an ancient dragon…” 💯
You absolutely nailed the feeling of the game. I've had it on Steam for 3 years, just installed it last week, and wow, I can't believe it doesnt' get more hype. Awesome , awesome game.
I have fond memories of playing The Hobbit on my Apple 2. Was so fun watching each item be added to the screen.... they saved the enemies for the last render, so it was always tense in those moments.
"Come Arisen. I shall meet your on your own terms, joined by my own companions of old. You stand now at its end, Arisen. See your journey through!" Chills. Every, damn, time.
This game is one of my brother's all-time favorites. He might even have more hours in it than Dark Souls 1 and he's played the ever-loving FUCK out of DS1... I own Dark Arisen on my PS4. I haven't gotten to it yet. Hopefully at the end of this year when I am through all of the new releases I'm wanting so bad I can actually prioritize this now. The review made me decide I'm actually gonna do it haha
In the original, the main menu music is what always got me. I though it was laughable bad at first but as time went on it grew on me to the point to where I couldn't get enough of it. Shame they got rid of it in the updated versions of the game.
Something to keep in mind with the pawns: How many pawns you have, and their level, affect your exp gain. Basically having feweer pawns gives you more exp, and having weaker pawns also gives you exp boost up to 25% (1% per level they are below youy)
Its crazy, i played this 1, 1/2 years ago, and i already have a really nostalgic feeling towards it, so happy i finally pulled the trigger to play it that faitfull day, even after people constantly said that it had big flaws on forums and in reviews.
For me, it was a blast, even from the first battle vs a monster, climbing on it and slashing it felt amazing. Even if the narrative for the game was super weak, and the romance system was about as clear as paint. The combat mechanics and the enemy variety were way ahead of its time. The ending was also a weak point for me, as it was either slay the dragon and cause the apocalypse, Become King/Queen but give up your beloved and lie about killing the dragon, or defeat the Seneshal only to become invisible and intangible to everyone.
This game absolutely slays. Don't sleep on it.
And this was done on ps3. Imagine the new one on the 5? Can't wait
I'll pick it up thanks! I was unsure but those magic animations are 🔥🔥 I told my friends this game does have the best mage animations in gaming!
Glad you loved Dragon's Dogma! I've been singing its praises ever since the PS3. When I discovered they took a lot of inspiration from Berserk, I fell even more in love with it. Those long incantations are directly inspired by Schierke requiring the protection of those around her to incant undisturbed.
@@petitknightcreations7431 Very few games take the risk of long waits on magic, mainly strategy games do this with the punishment of having it cancelled. Biggest difference is that it's the closest I've seen magic be devastating that you just don't get most times.
I’ve been meaning to play this game for years. Your review pushed me to finally buy it. Can’t wait to play it!
Dragons Dogma is a 10/10 game disguised as a 6/10 game. It's amazing and I can't wait for a sequel.
"Production quality" is kinda a 6/10. Though it is one of those really awesome 6/10 games.
It released in 2012, for the time "production quality" is 9/10
@@dirtbomb5 Well lets not go into a yes no argument. Depends on how you will define "production quality". And my opinion is obviously not the holy grail of what is and what isn't. I would not call it a 9/10 game though, even for back then.
It’s a VERY flawed game, it just doesn’t matter. Each play though, the flaws matter less and less!
Monster hunter is the next evolution, but they need the magic. Calling down meteors and summoning tornadoes. The heart stopper spell is wild!
A few tips for new players:
1: when you arrive at Gran Soren, check into the inn, this will give you the fast-travel stone
2: the game directs you to the pawn guild. Once there, you’re given a quest to go UNDER the guild. You can accept it, but DONT DO THE QUEST! If you do, upon completion you’ll be locked out of the ‘Witch in the Wood’ quest, which foreshadows the end of the game, and has several quests attached to it. Instead, fast travel BACK to the starting area, and head for the woods.
3: if the bandits along the way are kicking your ass, run past them (although they CAN be beaten by low-level characters, especially archers and mages, you just need to keep your distance!)
4: accept all the dumb-looking ‘bounty’ quests telling you to ‘kill x number of undead/harpies/chimeras/ghosts!’ Reason? You’re going to kill those enemies ANYWAY during your playthrough. Accept the bounty and you’ll get a nice, unexpected influx of gold from time to time as you complete the bounties.
5: IF you accept an escort mission, travel to the mission end point FIRST, then leave a ‘port crystal’ which are found around the game. Travel back to gran soren, accept the quest, then fast travel BACK to the escort finish point. BAM! You’re done without risk to your escort of any kind.
Finally: there’s a port crystal under the pawn guild which you’ll find during that mission. There’ll also be a quest to escort someone to a ‘healing spring!’ Go to the merchants, stock up on empty jars, then travel to the spring. Put down a port crystal and LEAVE IT THERE! (You’ll get more port crystals!). Not only will you easily complete this quest, but you and your pawns can fill jars with spring water, which HEAL YOUR ENTIRE PARTY! You’ll have to move around the jars to different pawns to stay under the weight limit, but you’ll come back here again and again for free party healing.
There’s another Port Crystal on the way to the springs, at a house on the side of a hill, surrounded by harpies. Get that one for your OTHER quest needs.
Oh yeah: but a lamp, GET INSIDE BEFORE DARK EARLY GAME!! Nightime is no joke in DD, and you need to get strong before you handle the night’s challenges.
I can honestly say, my first play through of DD, remains one of my favorite gaming experiences EVER! Its a special game….and after you beat the dragon, KEEP PLAYING! The game’s not over!!
On the initial trip to Gran Soren, you can jump on the oxen’s back and kick to make them go faster. This, along with goblin attacks will lower their health, which you can raise by demanding’healing’ from your mage. You’ll get there a bit quicker, and the real game can start.
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4 is what I think is the hang up for a lot of people that I think makes them think the game is way more tedious than it is, I feel like too many people play this game like other rpgs and do one side quest at a time, so they're going out doing these hunting side quests trying to kill these enemies rather than just accepting them and having them in the background while you do other things.
Thanks for the tips! Gonna start the game soon!
The most unique mechanic of this game is the grab button. All characters can grab anything. You can pick up objects in the environment and throw them at enemies. You can pick up enemies and hit them, or throw them at other enemies.
But the best thing is if you grab a giant monster, you start climbing them. The game turns into Shadow of the colossus.
There's nothing cooler than jumping a chasm to grab onto a dragon in mid flight and start stabbing them until they fall to the ground.
Don't forget about the Pawn System, no other game have that >D
Red classes (Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Knight and Assassin) can also grapple enemies. While grappled, enemies take double damage from any attack. It's pretty gnarly when you pin down a Saurian and rip their tail off with a single kick.
@@ghaul4292 hope we get a monk class that has skills specifically for grappling in dragons dogma 2, something that was in the design docs for the first one. Grappling an enemy and suplexing them, doing like a judo throw or hip toss, would be fucking amazing.
And the wieght system.. There was this windy canyon that you are pushed back. Grab a barrel or a pawn (they dont try to escape in comparison to NPC's while being carried XD) and the wind won't be so hard
Such a great game. The sequel is probably my most anticipated (announced) game currently in development.
two more fucking months.......yeahhhhhhhh babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I've been preaching the goodness of Dragon's Dogma for a decade. I still remember the time I was fighting a cyclops on a thin land bridge and getting tossed off the side as it died. One of my pawns leapt over the expanse, grabbed me, and tossed me to safety as they fell and returned to their own world. Shit's epic when it all goes right.
He is now Brother Mike. Praise to the Seneschal!
Beautifull take of why i love this game so much, nothing is scripted yet it still feels like a movie at times.
you sure that wasn't a gorecyclops?
Awesome stuff. My main character was lifted so high by a Harpy, I was wondering where my save file would start me from; the Harpy dropped me, I hear, "I have you Master!'' and the sword and board pawn I hired from a friend caught me, put me on the ground safely and went on fighting.
Ive been farming chimera on Xbox 360, good memories.
This has to be the best format for a review I've ever seen, it's just perfect. I've always felt like the best review a game can have is a trusted friend's recommendation, so having Mike explain and sell the game to Casen is really perfect. I've played a few hours of Dragons Dogma but you've completely sold me on going back to it and playing much much more. I hope you both do hundreds of these reviews, it's really fantastic.
The combat of Dragon's Dogma is the funnest action RPG combat I've ever had. The spells are pretty dang cool too and when I feel too sluggish to cast I switch to magic archer and the satisfaction of the bow skills is incredible. I agree the spells are very satisfying and feel great to cast, I have to say the the most Beautiful spells I've ever seen are FF9's and Lost Odyssey's).
It's really so sad the Dragon's Dogma MMO never came out here. Some good modders you can find on RUclips can show you how it's like.
Between Magick Archer and Ranger, I'm not sure which is better. Lol!
Ehh. If you use 'Action RPG' as broadly as most journalists or modern gamers. There's lots of action RPGs that have 'the best combat's. 2D sides scrollers. Top down games. Shooters. Fighting games. Character action/Third person brawlers and other similar third or first person games like Souls/Elden Ring.
I remember the demo coming out and I'm like 'yeah, I'll give it a go' and then I was fighting a griffin and I climbed it's back and it took of to the sky and shakes me off. That's when I knew 'oh, this is special.'
I had one pick me up in a claw, fly up, and hurl me to the ground. haha
I actually had the opposite reaction with the demo. Was really looking forward to it, but when I played the demo I thought it was awful. Due to seeing some crazy gifs six months later I decided to revisit the game, and I'm so glad that I did. The demo was just really bad. Cluttered as hell UI that couldn't really be adjusted and characters that simply would not shut up. Plus, you didn't have access to any of the cool spells that really made the game for me.
This game also handles light and darkness the best out of almost any fantasy video game I have ever played. Running through the night with your lantern barely illuminating your path when suddenly wolves, or zombies, or harpies or god forbid one of the ogres early game is an intense moment.
Really liked this approach to the review!
I love watching you guys bounce off of each other, and Mike essentially selling Casen on the game is like SO MANY conversations I have had with friends about games we love one way or the other.
Great video, and I am gonna have to check out Dragon's Dogma soon as I get a chance!
Yes! This is the first time I've seen a review done in this way and it just felt so natural to watch this back and forth between Mike and Casen. I'm definitely on board for more of this style of reviews!
I LOVE how he gets totally into it😂 Glad to see these shorter videos about sleeperhits/personal favourites! Keep’em coming! Everyone’s here to discover your taste
I absolutely adore this game!!! I will say, there IS a little more to the pawns than meets the eye, but Mike's warning about party banter and bonding is fair.
I remember picking up this game in 2020 during quarantine just because I wanted something to play. I became completely engrossed in it over the following weeks. The story really isn't much to write home about but it really is a great game. Everyone talks about how good the battle system is, and it is. But I loved the exploration aspect the most. Finding hidden caves and paths that lead to loot, secret dungeons, alternate paths and enemies was just really fun to me.
9/10 game that's an 11/10 in my heart, I love this game, man.
This game is Hideaki Itsuno's love child, passion project. He was "forced" to make Devil May Cry V in order to get permission from capcom higher ups to make the sequel. Imagine the love the man feels for this game that he made such a fantastic game as Devil May Cry V in order to be allowed to make the sequel to his passion project. There's an AMAZING interview in which he tells the story of how many years he had this project in mind, since the times of street fighter II more or less.
I love that you're like "This is the LOTR game I always wanted". Yet when I played through Dragon's Dogma I mained a 2-Handed sword and I said to someone "This is the closest we'll ever get to a game worthy of the BERSERK series"
To this day I'm sad that no other game has attempted to recreate the Pawn system, the ways in which they can learn and function feels like game development black magic, even though I have researched it and understand how they function now, I still adore how convincing they can be as AI companions you care about if taught/setup well.
Glad to see you got into this fantastic gem of an RPG, sometimes I can't believe it came out the same year as Skyrim, and somehow even in all of it's mediocrity Skyrim was the popular one.
Great video. Sometimes a recommendation/conversation in this style is more useful than more 'structured' reviews that feel the need to comment on ever aspect of a game and give it some kind of score or rating. "This game feels like the LoTR action RPG I never had growing up". This way people can give the game a try if they've been craving the same experience.
Also, the "Umm ACKCHYUALLY" @6:20 hahaha.
Going from fearing one shot kills from bamdit archers to wiping them out at the snap of my fingers is easilly one of the most satisfying experiences of growth ive ever had in a game
RESONANT ARCCCCCC. You have been so in sync with my recent gaming habits lately! Finally started up Dragon's Dogma on my steam deck and hit the 10 hour mark just recently. This game is SO DAMN good and it kills me I waited so long to finally get into it. Thanks for the content. Could not have come at a more perfect time for me!
This review absolutely captures what's great about dragon's dogma. Great stuff!
Honestly I think you UNDERsold how good meteor feels to use - magic has never been better in an action game.
I highly recommend going arouybd with a sorcerer who also has the spell you most want to use to take advantage of to ritual cast it.
I tried four sorcerers using meteor and it's absolutely ridiculous. amazing experience
4 sorcerers?? Never thought of that, hilarious!! For me, once I tried going solo, (no pawns), it’s hard for me to go back. This sounds like fun though, I will do this on my next run. There’s always another run for Dragon’s Dogma.
4 times maelstrom also pretty nice, my favourite is 4 times fulmination.
@@vinniamsterdam700 ha!! Love it
One of my favorite action RPGs of all time. I've been preaching about how cool and imaginative the sorcerer, mystic knight, and magic archer classes are to all my friends since 2012. So glad to see you talking about this
I'm so glad you dabbled with the magic. I've seen a lot of reviewers just stay on warrior or something and never even knew you could do those insane spells. Like you said, it's easily the coolest I've ever seen in a game. Although it isn't good, I love that they have an instant death spell. You just let the meter drain on all enemies visible, then release the spell and instantly kill everything, so fucking sick
Dragon's Dogma's character creation is insanely detailed. There are images out there of in-game versions of Geralt and Ciri, Khal Drago and Daenarys, Iron Man and Black Widow etc. Even before you've explored the world, it's so much fun just building a unique character.
This game is my Skyrim, the combat system is just chef kiss.
Glad you guys enjoyed it this much. We have been fans of it for a decade and no other game can scratch the itch that this game does. Imagine waiting 10 years on a sequel, oh well at least I've enjoyed this game for hundrdeds upon hundreds of hours and I think about restarting a new playthrough all the time. Truly one of the best games ever made.
As much as I want it, I don't think Itsuno will allow for coop, as you said that's what Monster Hunter does, and Dragon's Dogma was meant to be like a forum game, so no coop. And yes Itsuno is returning, the director of Dragon's Dogma and Devil May Cry 3, 4 and 5, aka the savior of videogames.
I hope this video convinces many more folks to give this game a shot, it is worth it no doubt.
"In another place, in another life, another child of Man blazes your path."
- A Masterpiece ❤
❤
Underrated game! I still remember when
*spoiler*
At the end, the villain kidnap your "special person", but since I pretty much focused on the main quest, and only talked to the weapon seller (an hairy old man), he was choosen as my "loved one" by default.
Ending wasn't the prettiest.
Once I learned about that mechanic, I would purposefully make everyone except Mercedes dislike me so that it would choose her by default even though she leaves mid-way through the game.
First play through was similar. I gifted him thinking it would lower prices.
Wolves hunt in packs.
Goblins ill like fire!
We share these roads with traveling peddlers, guardsmen and other folk.
The path splits here. Let's be doubly sure which will see us to our destination.
Even in numbers, a weakling is a weakling still!
All roads lead to Gran Soren.
The combat in this game + the Genius level AI moments make this game unforgettable.
I will never forget my first playthrough ever a cyclops peaking through a cavern door towering over it. And then watching him squeeze through the tiny doorway to hunt me down. I was equally terrified and impressed.
One of my top 10 games. I thought this game is what D&D and RPG finally culminated into. What's weird is that after playing for about 2 weeks there were barely any videos or hype over the game. It felt like I was the only one playing the game. Climbing and smacking the monsters right in the face was my favorite move (most of time upside down). So much fun. Then Bitterblack Isle DLC came out and it kicked my ass. The monsters were so vicious. Worth the price!
Eh. Dragons Dogma doesn't really do what D&D/an RPG does. Dragon's dogma is action mostly combat. Earlier video game RPGs do everything else D&D does better than Dragon's Dogma.
"They're masterworks all. You can't go wrong"
I think the only announcement that hyped me in over a decade was when the director (I think) showed the logo for Dragon's Dogma 2.
Yeah, it is jank. Eurojank or double A jank even though it is Capcom. If you can get past that: top shelf!
I don't think Dragons Dogma is janky for an RPG of it's time. I think its really weird though in a similar way to other Japanese games.
I love the state of the arc story analysis podcasts, but glad to see we're getting other types of content again. I would love to see retrospectives reviews for Zelda sometime
Never touched this game until 2021.
Bought the dark arisen version for $5 on PSN the first night during my 14 day Covid quarantine.
This game single handedly kept me occupied for all 14 days. From the time I woke up, till the time I went to sleep.
And when I went back to work, all I could think about was what I needed to do next in the game when I got home.
I’m on NG+3 with 285 hours in and STILL haven’t done everything.
What a fucking masterpiece this game is.
Wow you guys made my day!!! ❤This game deserves all the exposure it can get (and then some). The combat and the Pawn system in this game are some of the deepest systems i have seen in any game. You can casually enjoy DD on your first playthrough (or even think that it's a mediocre game if you rush through it) but it's one of those rare games where the more you play it the more you begin to understand its brilliance.
Glad you managed to get around to this game finally! I happened to try it shortly after release on a whim and was hooked from the minute I got a taste of its gameplay. It was hard convincing my friends to try it one by one but each loved their playthrough when they got around to it. Definitely a sleeper and I'm excited to see what they'll do with its sequel.
This game is so good. If you enjoy monster hunter then try this game out! Combat is top notch
The magic in this game is the best I have seen in an RPG. They nailed almost everything, but especially the animations for spells, it feels amazing.
My dream has always been Skyrim with Dragon's Dogma's combat.
I still remember my unintended romance with the fat merchant, good times.
I gotta get back into this, my brother suggested to me, ended up picking it up and really enjoyed what I played but just got busy with stuff. Really fun from what I played and cool to see you guys do a review on it!
The combat and gameplay absolutely carry this game. One of my favorite action combats in an rpg.
I unabashedly love you two. Any time I see one of your videos in my feed, it’s just instant happiness. I know I’m about to spend time immersed in the well-thought out, articulate and enthusiastic opinions of people that love this medium as much as I do. Thanks for all you do, boys.
I had no idea. It's just been sitting there on my backlog for years. I guess maybe I'll just have to dust it off and give it a go!
I played the re-release on PC in 2016 and I really didn’t foresee myself spending so much time in this action rpg… the combat and loot/skill system is what really pushed me to venture into every corner and even attempt the very difficult end game battles. If DD 2 is in the works - I can’t imagine what Capcom will pull off this generation.
Its already announced
@@danielmales123 Need to see that teaser trailer this year.
I love this game! I was so suprised when I thought the game was over and instead it just became really crazy. I'm so hyped for the sequel. I never thought this would be possible.
Already have it on PS4, aIthough I was on the fence about playing it all the way through because of the early quests you mentioned. But this review convinced me to give it another try. Thanks for the video & all the great work you guys do.
Your experience with the game will be much more enjoyable if you ignore the escort quests altogether and learn how to properly set up your pawn on RUclips.
Trust me, this game can be much better than you might think.
You don’t have to do any of the quests if you don’t want to. Just progress the main stuff.
Hell yea. Certified CLASSIC. New to your content. Glad you loved the game. So excited for a DD2, if and when they announce it.
Best game ever. Only game I've ever looked forward to have a sequel with, and its now happening!
Was a huge fan of this one. Climbing on bosses was so fun. Couldn't believe it when I grappled a gryphon and it started flying around the castle.
I've heard it described as "the best 7/10 game I've ever played" and that sums up my thoughts on it when looking at it while trying to be unbiased. THAT BEING SAID... I freaking love this game despite all of its jank and squandered potential and cut ideas which only have traces left in the final product (we'll never get to fight on the moon ); ). I put 2 playthroughs in doing everything and getting the platinum trophy because it's so darn fun. I hope DD2 can realize all of what DD1 was trying to accomplish.
I still keep a save file just to battle Grigori. There's something truly mesmerizing about this monster calmly monologuing philosophy on the futility of life during one of the largest-scale battles in ARPG history.
This game has my favorite character creator of all time. Over the years I’ve created every fantasy race of every type, dwarf, halfling, hobbit, elf, orc, goblin, etc. You can really do anything with it if you put the time in. The only negative is they only give you one save slot so you can’t have multiple creations in the game at once, or I’d own all the top pawns in the game.
This game is so good. It's slightly imperfect in a lot of ways, but has so many incredible ideas jammed into it. The lore is great, the design is great, the characters are great. I'm hoping that Dragons Dogma 2 will smooth out the rough edges and become the perfection that this game came so close to.
Agreed. The number of incredible ideas more than make up for the imperfections.
Like I had an issue with inventory; when you hire a new pawn, there’s no way to quickly/seamlessly transfer the inventory of a current pawn that you’re releasing. Silly small things like that.
This game man. I hope dragons dogma 2 can still capture the magic.
I got this like a year ago on sale randomly, never really heard about it, started on highest difficulty and was annoyed for a while but suddenly it clicked and I fell in love. Love this game!
What the game doesn't tell you and a lot of people miss it:
- When you are playing a class and you level up with it, you get stats, but you gain stats based on waht class you leveled up as. Melee classes get more Strength and Stamina/ HP, if you have leveled up as a mage, you get different stats, why is this important?
- You have a maximum level cap, you can't level forever, when you hit that cap, your stats are based on the classes you have leveled during those levels. You have leveld as a pure mage and switch to Warrior after the cap to try it out? You can sort of get by, but you won't even eb nearly as effective. If you level as a Warrior / Fighter through the levels, you will have a TON more Strength and other stats to go along for the classes and you will be significantly stronger.
- It's not the best system, but something to keep in mind when you are playing the game.
Thx for the tip.
This game is in my top three from gen 7. It was actually my most anticipated prior to release, but then when I played the (absolutely terrible) demo, it really disappointed me and actually made the game drop off my radar. Six months later I noticed a bunch of crazy spell gifs on a gaming forum that were showing off spells you did not have access to in the demo...I decided to revisit.
So glad that I did, because there hasn't been another game before, or after yet that was so good at simulating a spellcaster. This is the only game that I've played where you truly feel like a powerful Wizard. The animations and feedback are likely the biggest reason, but it still felt so good to play. A controller is a must though, since that doesn't translate through mouse and keyboard if playing on PC.
Cannot wait for DD2.
The fact that fighting every type of enemy feels sooooo different, the elemental weaknesess, the lineup of the party, the specifics attack that you have to know to make the fifth easier if you discovered earlier, ever combat is a mini puzzle, but resolved int real time... So fucking cool.... Love this game
Ah man, I love to see a new person getting into this game! It warms my heart to see people trumpeting it, after over a decade. Richly deserved. I will say, that this review, although great, omits a big element of the game that I would want people to know, which is just how satisfying exploration is in this game. Seeking out every little nook and cranny of the main game and especially Bitterblack Isle will reward you with cool fights and unique locales and just little details that make you feel immersed in the place. I'm gonna go play it for the 11th time now.
One of the interesting things about the pawn system is that it learns behaviors, strategies, and quest knowledge from both you and the other players it plays with. So if your pawn finished a quest with someone else that you haven't yet, it'll help guide you. If it Knows the weakness of an enemy it'll tell you it.
DD2 it's not just made by the same director, Hideaki Itsuno it's the man who took direction of the Devil May Cry franchise after Kamiya (except for the reboot).
If someone can direct a great action game it's certainly him.
What hooked me with this game was when I was escorting some party around the world at night and we were ambushed by a huge Griffon. And it was absolute madness fighting off this unexpected monster and overcoming it. I’ll always remember that moment because it felt so real and organic, and the combat system just…WORKED
I love this game. It was great to hear you review it. The expansion was brutal.
When you guys were talking about how you grew up during the big LotR boom, that reminded me of the version of Strider that I grew up with. So when I see the name Strider, the first thing I think of is Strider Hiryu from the Strider games. I am a bit older than you guys, growing up in the big Ninja craze of the late 80s and 90s. When I read Fellowship of the Ring in high school, the entire time I was literally picturing a badass looking anime Cyber Ninja traveling around with the hobbits. Pretty ridiculous from any other perspective, I'm sure. But this was before the LotR movies came out so I didn't really have much visual aid and inserted what I knew best.
(as a side note, I did the same kind of thing when I read The Princess Bride in school as well. I imagined "The man in the black mask" Wesley as a ninja, not a Zorro type character.)
In the realm of frequently repeated pawn lines, the one that drove me nuts was "Fire works well!"
All 9 classes feel amazing to play. Found ranger and mystic knight were the classes I played the least but they were still really useful and a lot of fun.
Assassin and majik archer are extremely versatile and I probably used them the most.
Strider was the absolute go to class for getting rich from pickpocketing pawns and other npcs.
oh wow this channel reviews games?
Edit: The best lord of the rings experience ive had with videogames BY FAR has to be Divide and Conquer, a fan mod for medieval total war II.
The games whole story theme is insane as well. I wont spoil anything but god dam. Its just crazy good man. If you do the dlc, you're going to have an even better time. I legit just start a new character and go straight to the dlc area and play that now, its basically an entire game on its, that single gigantic dlc dungeon.
One of my favorite things about this game is how you run into certain NPCs periodically throughout the game, and they have new stuff to talk about. It really makes the world feel alive
I remember reading the breakdown of making the game from Gamasutra, the game was only ever 60% done when it originally released. It’s a miracle it caught a grip in fans and was able to do the expansion. This expansion was much more focused and really benefitted from leaning in to what worked about the base game. I hold out hope that DD2 can bridge the divide and carry over the open world questing and scope of that with the new title but the mark they made on fantasy combat will always be the selling point. I remember fighting a beholder and it had some magic attack spike that came up out of the ground: if you grabbed onto the monster it would accidentally stab itself in the big eye and get disabled. Skyrim just didn’t have anything on this. In a way the game was the anti-Skyrim.
I absolutely cannot say how much I love Resonant Arc. They keep talking about my biggest faves, even Dragon's Dogma, that absolutely deserves attention.
I agree with everything, but I surprising don't agree with wanting it to be multiplayer. The entire purpose of the Pawn system was to make the game feel like a multiplayer game, without it actually being multiplayer. The devs mention this in an interview. They wanted it to be a single player experience that feels like a multiplayer experience. So what I'm hoping for is an updated Pawn system. The Pawn system was already AMAZING, it just needed some touch ups. Like the whole repeating the same lines over and over thing. XD
Dragon's Dogma is one of my favourite games of all time, thank you for spreading the word!
I got it on-sale for Switch because i never finished the original release. After the slow start it becomes a great game just as you said.
I truly love this game. I’ve bought it on 5 different platforms over the years and never get tired of it. Great soundtrack, gameplay, mechanics. I still remember the hype I felt when the original trailer dropped and when the demo released. I played that demo so many times. I wish there was a game that could hype me up like this one did these days. The best I can hope for is the sequel.
This game is a hidden gem. I played it when it came out and I have the remaster. I can't believe it flew under the radar so hard.
I absolutely loved this game so much when it first came out! I actually got it as a random gift from a friend at my birthday party when I turned 13. Feels like such a long time ago looking back...
This game is on sale for 5 bucks on Steam right now. No brainer.
The fight against the dragon is still my favorite dragon fight in all of gaming. Never before or since has one felt as amazingly epic from the music, the setpieces, that awesome chase sequence, how the dragon actually felt like a massive heavy creature, or even just the dialog. Everything about it was just amazing and I felt like I needed a cigarette afterwards.
I'm loving the new stuff you guys are doing! This and the podcast are so good
Dragon's Dogma is probably my favorite game of all time. I could not even begin to guess how many times I've slayed Grigori just to Dragon Forge some equipment. Or Daimon for Cursed items and Rift Crystals. I genuinely love this game and I can't wsit for the sequel.
Edit: I also remember that cheesy original Title Song that they ended up changing for what I assume were licensing issues. I loved the original Title Song. It's called Into Free if anyone is curious.
The action feels super responsive, and satisfying with its feedback, and fantastical. It's like a melding of Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry, with a Skyrim aesthetic. The story is deceptively simple, and you can miss quite a bit of content that helps characterizes some characters, but the way it wraps up is really well done. It contextualizes everything in a perfect circle, a ring you could say.
the gameplay is anything but responsive
probably my favourite ARPG for a long time. I cant wait for Dragons Dogma 2
One of the best on-a-whim video game purchases of my life - noticed it when browsing games in the CEX shop one day & thought "ooh...I like RPGs, I like dragons. The price is right. Let's give it a go".
Almost stopped playing it after 10 minutes, for the reasons mentioned at the beginning of the video. It's since become one of my all-time favourites. So glad I stuck with it.
Can barely wait for a teaser of DD2!!
@10:52 This is SO spot on. “I wanna feel like I’m afraid to fight a rabbit when I leave town one… But at the end of the game I am as powerful as an ancient dragon…” 💯
great to see any review from this channel
This game is amazing. Frequently goes on sale too and can be picked up for super cheap (under $10)
Happy to hear you enjoyed it as much as you did, glad to to hear someone say exactly what ive been thinking for years its so good!
You absolutely nailed the feeling of the game.
I've had it on Steam for 3 years, just installed it last week, and wow, I can't believe it doesnt' get more hype.
Awesome , awesome game.
I have fond memories of playing The Hobbit on my Apple 2. Was so fun watching each item be added to the screen.... they saved the enemies for the last render, so it was always tense in those moments.
"Come Arisen.
I shall meet your on your own terms, joined by my own companions of old.
You stand now at its end, Arisen. See your journey through!"
Chills. Every, damn, time.
This game is one of my brother's all-time favorites. He might even have more hours in it than Dark Souls 1 and he's played the ever-loving FUCK out of DS1...
I own Dark Arisen on my PS4. I haven't gotten to it yet. Hopefully at the end of this year when I am through all of the new releases I'm wanting so bad I can actually prioritize this now. The review made me decide I'm actually gonna do it haha
In the original, the main menu music is what always got me. I though it was laughable bad at first but as time went on it grew on me to the point to where I couldn't get enough of it.
Shame they got rid of it in the updated versions of the game.
I can't think of a game with more potential than Dragon's Dogma 2
Something to keep in mind with the pawns:
How many pawns you have, and their level, affect your exp gain.
Basically having feweer pawns gives you more exp, and having weaker pawns also gives you exp boost up to 25% (1% per level they are below youy)
You absolutely need to play Stranger of Paradise
Its crazy, i played this 1, 1/2 years ago, and i already have a really nostalgic feeling towards it, so happy i finally pulled the trigger to play it that faitfull day, even after people constantly said that it had big flaws on forums and in reviews.
I love this game! Can't wait for part 2! I hope the character creation and combat is still as good!
Also, playing this game on the go on the Steam Deck is AMAZING!
For me, it was a blast, even from the first battle vs a monster, climbing on it and slashing it felt amazing. Even if the narrative for the game was super weak, and the romance system was about as clear as paint. The combat mechanics and the enemy variety were way ahead of its time. The ending was also a weak point for me, as it was either slay the dragon and cause the apocalypse, Become King/Queen but give up your beloved and lie about killing the dragon, or defeat the Seneshal only to become invisible and intangible to everyone.