Dragon’s Dogma Online (PC/PS4/PS3)

[Abandon]

I turned 37 on the 8th. I don't want to hear it lol.

damn my nigga, you old as fuck rofl

[6souls]

[Charismatic]

Oh shit, cross-platform online play? Was that announced before and I just missed it? Either way, nice.

[kmexe]

I am throwing money at my screen and nothing happens!

[Teknique]

Ok i saw a lot of brand new features in this trailer. striders get Ropes to throw (Think that titan anime show, or Freedom wars) something called grand battles with a crapload of giant orcs + brand new cyclops looking thing with purple spike shit, and PAWNS in an online mmo i also heard pawn rental as well so glad thats back.

[Charismatic]

sup?

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[Charismatic]

Cameo from vanilla?

[Teknique]

Bro that hair looks so fake, its clipping. looks like a wig so much lol
Oh shit are you actually playing? How is it?

[Charismatic]

I was playing, yeah. It was pretty fun but there's some things I can tell you right now that people are going to be pretty disappointed in. Still a fun time, even solo (but the bosses are clearly scaled in health and such for a multiplayer experience)

Anyway:

[Viq]

For example, what might someone be disappointed in?

[Brill Weave]

Start talking fucker or I start banning!! BECAUSE THIS IS THAT IMPORTANT!

[Charismatic]

Oh, you mean you can't see my opinions of it I posted to FB? Well, that's just too bad ain't it? :D

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lol

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I honestly don't want to say it because some of this stuff is really lame

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Seriously.

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This is copypasta from my FB and was directed at someone and I'm too lazy to fix any of this for BG so deal

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Yeah. Its right there on the edge of being what you'd want but it doesn't quite hit the mark.
On the surface its just more Dragon's Dogma, cept you can play with others...

But the more you play, the more you realize that "Online" part really does hold the game back. Everything is balanced around multiple players. Even a lowly Cyclops feels like its got HP/Defense values out of Bitterblack Isle (from Dark Arisen) or something. Then they have a (seemingly) random enrage trigger that makes you do practically no damage until you calm them down (by hitting them..? Its weird.) so the fights have a more complex mechanic to them which feels interesting at first but after a few fights its just kinda boring. Add in the fact that there's actually color-coded pop-ups that tell you what to do to dodge attacks while holding onto a monster, it kinda feels stale since you don't actually have to read the monster's movements. Red circle pops up? Press X. Yellow circle pops up? Press O.

Aside from these things, its basically what you'd kinda expect. Its really just riiiiiiiight there. A few changes and it could be the game that people actually want.

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Oh, right, the other thing I forgot to mention (the word underwhelming reminded me)...

The fighter class? Played exactly as I expected to. I started the game as fighter and just ran in and was pressing buttons without a care in the world about any tutorial and things reacted pretty much exactly as I expected. The heavy attack (triangle) is a little different but aside from that it was like just playing DD. Then I switched to the archery class.
No daggers. Just the bow. All you can do in melee range is kick stuff. You can kick to knock them back or kick yourself off them depending on the size of the enemy and the type of kick. Then there's timing-based reloading.
All the other classes were actually good though... just... this actually exists. No classic strider.

[Teknique]

hmmmm. well the bow was a great part, i never did like to wade in melee strider, however i did enjoy being able to fall back on daggers if they rushed me.
so do tell how you got into the beta?

[Charismatic]

Oh, one major plus I forgot to mention was that Fighter actually has a gouge. Being able to jump on monsters and do massive damage is something that class really needed in DD and DA, thank the heavens its a basic mechanic for the class now.

[Brill Weave]

I had wondered how they would scale health etc for online encounters. That kind of sucks.

[Tyrath]

Further confirms to me that I would have just been happy with single player Dragons Dogma 2.

[Brill Weave]

Further confirms to me that I would have just been happy with single player Dragons Dogma 2.

I'd be ok with drop in/out multiplayer that caused minor HP scaling etc.

[6souls]

So we have PAX, TGS, GA, & PSE left for them to announce a NA release?

[Botosi]

I just installed this game and I'm having a blast. Was wondering if anyone else was playing this game? The install was a bit of a pain, but so far it seems well worth the troubles. It seems easy enough to figure out what to do in-game even though its mainly in Japanese.

[6souls]

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