You were fooled into liking this game and I'll explain why;
>no indication on where roads lead
>no hint of what enemies are weak to
>no explanation of when enemies are alone or in groups
>no warning of which status effects to avoid
>no clue to which items are masterworks
honestly no idea how people can defend this game
>hit enemy with the wrong enchantment
>2 dmg
FIRE, LEND THY KISS
dont care preordering asap, buying a ps5 and a new 4k monitor
they pretend to like it because they need to fit in here
>fitting in here requires liking a shit game
i kneel.
They will fix those in 2
>Pass a big tree.
>No comment at all on its size.
Indefensible in 2012
>Get closer to the tree.
>They still say nothing.
OVER THE FUCKING LINE YOU USELESS DEVS.
I wonder what kinds of new, silly things pawns will say
What was the deal with that tree anyway? special voice line and model.
Well you see, 'tis a large tree.
It all makes sense now.
'tis even larger up close
Was it the one with goblins around it and near a healing spring? IIRC the lore says goblins are born in fruit grown from human corpses placed around trees.
It bears the head of a cock!
Really the only major problem I had with this game was the weird progression system of how leveling vocations affected certain stat growths, so if you wanted to min-max a hybrid class it usually meant grinding through a hundred levels of mage and then switching over to your chosen vocation. It's like how awful it was to grind level bonuses in Morrowind/Oblivion; yeah, you didn't NEED to do it, but it feels suboptimal not to.
>yeah, you didn't NEED to do it, but it feels suboptimal not to.
bro you can beat the game at level 1, just use the fucking consumables
When will this shitty fucking minmax meme end. Your stats at max lvl and max gear count for less than 10% of your total ar. Even if you decide to play strider after playing mystic knight for 200 levels, it will barely make a difference.
Didn't even realise this was a thing
As soon as I got Mystic Knight, I just stuck with it
Does it actually gimp you that much for just using one vocation?
Nah, the minmaxing is more of a meme than maining a single vocation.
Not at all you can just keep playing as the vocation you are, but mystic knight gives you like... a bit of everything I think? And a little more stamina
meanwhile ranger gives a shitton of stamina
Assassin gives a shitton of physical attack
Sorcerer gives a shitton of magic
That stuff
It only matters for minmaxing
this
minmax shitters insisted I needed to do it because "muh bbi will be too hard" but sticking with a class made me drop the game every time I tried picking it up for like three fucking years. Now I'm playing it and just playing as whoever the fuck i want when I want and it's so much more fun.
meant to say sticking with a class I didn't want to play, fuckin brain moves too fast.
dragon's dogma is not a game to care about minmaxing. if you do you are a turbo nerd amongst turbo nerds, as only turbonerds played and enjoyed dragons dogma. i say this as someone who has played through it multiple times and is probably in my top 5 most played games.
Why is fighting against Grigori so fucking awesome?
Because it's one of the only good parts of the game that comes after dozens of hours of empty tedium and fetch quests
To be honest, it is so good that even if the whole game was shit it would be worth it.
Pure sex.
one of the coolest fights in vidya
Really, the lack of Aught in this game disappoints.
>spend the whole game pointing at the dragon like it's wrestlemania
>don't expect it to pay off for a second
>at the peak of AD&D hijinks where the one-eyed priest is summoning liches to fight me DRAGON DROP
>retread the steps of the prologue character
>get to the deal
>"I didn't come all this fucking way to NOT fight a fucking dragon."
>it's actually amazing
>dragon giving you occasional enemy bro-fists throughout the fight
>telling you to keep up with your cardio and shit
Honestly, Grigori didn't even do that much evil dragon shit. He totaled a boardwalk in a dumb animal rage before the presence of someone who wasn't bitch-made activated his higher brain functions, then took off towards a locked up mountain canyon and EVENTUALLY crushed a cult leader during his evil monologue.
Meanwhile the Arisen is a putz who gets yanked around by his dick for 50 hours then eventually trips over godhood.
Grigori is an amazing antagonist because he's not really evil. He's just doing his job.
In this game about slaying the dragon no one on the continent is more hype about you slaying the dragon than the fucking dragon.
My brain just puts the Dangan in there whenever I remember the flying bit. I know damn well that song wasn't in that part of the game but THE WIND IS PUSHING ME
INTO THE CLOUDS AGAIN
I FEEL THE BLOOD IN MY VEINS
The games is so fucking weird. It's super dull dogshit and then Grigori shows up. Grigori absolutely steals the show with only like 3 cutscenes and a boss battle leading to an absolutely insane, game-changing endgame leap in tone.
It's almost a miracle that this game got a sequel greenlit
...what? Grigori is literally at the start of the game twice. Both with Savan in the prologue as well as eating your heart and shitposting.
The whole point of Grigori even bothering to speak to you is that you were getting caught up in the duke's deliberate attempts to distract and hopefully kill you, he was literally about to ship you off to another country to get rid of you before Grigori drops in to remind you of the point of leaving Cassardis in the first place
>Grigori didn't even do that much evil dragon shit. He totaled a boardwalk in a dumb animal rage before the presence of someone who wasn't bitch-made activated his higher brain functions, then took off towards a locked up mountain canyon and EVENTUALLY crushed a cult leader during his evil monologue
Grigori is my favorite dragon in vidya. But is Grigori the name of the dragon, or the Arisen who becomes the dragon? Because if you lose against the Seneschal you end up becoming the dragon too, so is it a name or a title?
Also obligatory fuck Duke Edmund. Wish there was a way to get that stuttle-fucker to get screwed over.
>Grigori is literally at the start of the game twice
I wonder if this means that no Arisen since Savan managed to beat the Seneschal OR Grigori. Would be pretty badass.
Savan is the last one in your first cycle, yeah. The Duke is the last Arisen known about in DD1 and he took the deal with Grigori.
Grigori is the name he went by when he was Arisen, I think.
true
Oh no! A game that didnt hold my hand the entire time like a little baby. Seriously how have you made it this far in life anon?
It's not perfect but it was also a new IP. Most IPs on their first installments are trying to find their footing. A part 2 would ideally improve in comparison.
Basically OP is saying you are not allowed to have fun
>Exploring
>Experimenting
>Observing
>Learning
>Testing
this pasta still gets people
i do wonder constantly how people come here to whine about videogames every single fucking day but dont recognise very common threads
OX CONFIRMED
YEYEYEYEYE KICK THAT FUCKING OX
it lets me roleplay as Guts so I don't give a shit
>cat sluts
my dick is literally not ready.
Can't tell if everyone is retarded or if I'm really the only one who sees the jokes in OPs post. Perfect bait, too perfect maybe since nobody seemed to catch on.
It's the OP of like a third of all dragons' dogma threads.
it's fine isn't it? funnier this way.
he based
>abandon all delusions of control
>...
>[Fight]
>I KNEW IT, YOU FUCKING LOVE FIGHTING, I WAS JUST JOKING EARLIER, ITS FUCKING AWESOME WHEN YOU DEFY FATE
>>I KNEW IT, YOU FUCKING LOVE FIGHTING, I WAS JUST JOKING EARLIER, ITS FUCKING AWESOME WHEN YOU DEFY FATE
he's the same after all.
I get the feeling that most dragons act like assholes to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you can’t handle some entry level mindgames you dont deserve the throne, you’ll end up as a shitty Drake or a Wyvern, just a future roadblock for a superior Arisen
I mean pretty much. Its all a test to see how far you'll go. Its all a test to find a god willing to put fate into their hands. Fuck nihilism, row row fight the powah.
Something about the old game's engine just feels SOUL. I'm glad I played this first before any Dark Souls game. Feels like the kind of RPG I would have sunk weekends into in my teen/college years.
I know exactly what you mean
Been looking for games that itch that "underrated slightly janky" desire
I believe Dark Messiah of Might and Magic might satisfy that itch but I haven't tried it yet.
bure bure is better than rumba rumba fag
I loved this game since vanilla back when you couldn't even get a thread off the ground on Ganker, its weird seeing it slowly grow into this big cult hit over the last decade so I really don't care about all the posers and nu-fans I long had %100 this before it ever was cool to like.
>sequel is basically the same game but with more shit
absolutely beautiful
>no indication on where roads lead
All roads lead to Gran Soren
>no hint of what enemies are weak to
This one's weak to fire
>no explanation of when enemies are alone or in groups
Wolves hunt in packs
>no warning of which status effects to avoid
I'M SOAKED TO THE BONE
>no clue to which items are masterworks
Tis' masterworks all can't go wrong
THE WIND IS PUSHING ME
If this was a good game you'd all say it's shit which is proof that it is in fact a shit game.
I've tried to get into this a few times and kept bouncing off of it. What class should I play, and what do I need to know to get into it?
Strider as starter, then branch out and try others to see what you like
>what do I need to know to get into it?
They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong
>shows up
>puts you and your party to sleep
>sends all your pawns back to the rift
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
>shows up
reload
>floats 1mm outside a ledge
>takes 100 bomb arrows to the face
>falls, gives some exp then leaves
>floats 1mm outside a ledge
>waits for you to whip out your tenfold bomb arrow flurry
>waits for you to hit the button and fire 10 bomb arrows
>immediately locks into the *teleports away* animation
>you get nothing
The absolute definition of "Home." in a single track.
If you used pawns you didn't beat the game
What was everyone's favorite mechanic in the first game? For me it was being able to climb those giant monsters.