Posted on: February 25, 2024

Hellzwindstaff1986

Spiele: 290 Rezensionen: 5

A flawed gem that is worthy of your time

A lot of people moaning about DD's graphics, the Devs were hindered by the console infrastructure of the time, DD arrived late in the console life-cycle and to say the hardware was straining under the game's weight is an understatement. Given that the Developers are Japanese the Console market is far larger than the PC in that particular territory so it's understandable why it was developed with mass appeal in mind. Regardless, we got a clunky (control-wise) PC port with few upgrades. You don't buy DD for it's graphics or even it's story necessarily, it's more for the experience. This isn't a game designed to be convenient (see the fast travel method for example) but to my mind that's one of the game's great strengths. The combat, vocation system and environmental traversal are all sublime IMO. I personally love the gear system too. The intricacies of the merchants and some of the more obtuse dialogue delivered by the NPCs (not in the bland, meandering Dark Souls manner but more through implication) is genuinely interesting. It's just a shame the story is so underdeveloped. This is a Japanese interpretation of Western fantasy and that's what makes it fascinating, some of the little quirks are just hilariously baffling (aught aught aught aught). The Pawn system is just brilliant (it's broken ATM, online issues) but there are offline Pawns which can be used which essentially provide the gist of the Developer's intention. I just hope that the forthcoming sequel is worthy of the name, it certainly looks promising. On a side note, I suspect those who dislike the game are either Skyrim/Souls-fanboys or those who want a shiny otherwise hollow game. DD is a flawed masterpiece and is deserving of it's revered status.

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Posted on: June 15, 2017

mintee

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Spiele: 799 Rezensionen: 122

gorgeous, fun for awhile, tiresome menu

Many little annoyances lead this game to be one of patience amongst all that it does right. Pros: Beautiful graphics, astounding combat effects, playing as a mage is one of pure awe, the devs really put the magic into this class like no other game. secret chests and exploration galore. pawn system is surprisingly fluid and easy to use. ... see a bloke on the landscape .. hire him/her for as long as you wish. Same goes for your own carefully crafted pawn, in fact you hope that others will make them their go to pawn. Character customization is a joy, you can make your avatar into pretty much whatever you want from old/ugly to cliche majestic, and you get to see them in play in many cutscenes and closeups unlike other games. so why the 3 stars? Cons: Many niggling hassles in gameplay for keyboard. Every darn thing needs several keystrokes to complete. Want to use your combat spells? activate them first with a key, then use your mouse controls, which is awkward as they interfere with wsad keys. Every task is a multi menu hassle with awkward key mapping that tasks your patience and flexibility. exorbitant inventory management due to a ton of craftable items that make the variations of the same thing. none of which is really explained. pawns interfere by picking up stuff too which you then have to manually sort/store via several menus. in the end i just started to skip looting, it takes several hits to crack open chests to get more trash to have to sort out or try to craft into who knows what. you can map 5 items for quick use, but there are so many healing/buff items that its worthless to bother. biggest prob is NOTHING is explained, there is a small manual that does little to impart what anything means. there are few to none tooltips in menus and game. enhance items at huge cost only to see it obsolete in the next alley. messy line of sight targeting combat. i see a great game in here, but all the aggravations are making me put it down.

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Posted on: March 27, 2024

jollygooduser

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Spiele: 55 Rezensionen: 1

So you've finally left Tamriel

Having been lost for nearly a decade in a land of biting frost and Dragons, I discovered Dragon's Dogma. I'll admit coming from a first person experience, the lack of immersion wasn't to my liking and navigation was far more limited than I was used to. This wasn't an issue for long as the game's story captured my imagination, daring me to solve it's mysteries. Featuring over saturated and smudgy bloom reminiscent of the times, the world's art direction is otherwise unique--to someone like me who's never touched a 'Souls' game. The combat is fun and challenging, which makes exploring both dangerous and rewarding if victorious. The Pawn system was new to me and largely ignored as I'm happy with a single companion or none if possible. Sure it makes battles more difficult and in many cases for me, impossible but that's just how I role. Dragon's Dogma is one of the best RPG's I've come across over the last decade and I'm glad to recommend it.

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Posted on: July 26, 2023

Uber_Gamer

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Spiele: 549 Rezensionen: 41

Played it over and over

So, this game is hard to compete with as far as actual combat and gameplay go. You don't just hack-n-slash (though there's plenty of that too), you literally have to climb giant beasts to fight them. SO cool. While the world graphics are quite nice, the character graphics are a bit, I dunno, odd? Proportions aren't quite what I hope for, but the story and gameplay make that part of the game almost instantly not matter. This is not a game for youngsters, by the way. Aside from the gore, some of the female armors are risque to say the least; something you'd expect to see on a beach, not a field of combat. Using a sidekick in the game was obviously meant to be new, novel, and unexpected, but the deadpan nature of your cohort makes them feel plastic and ruins a bit of the atmosphere of the game. All that being said, I've bought this multiple times. If you like Skyrim, or Two Worlds, then you want to add this to your collection. Worth full-price. (And...its modable.)

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Posted on: March 17, 2020

CatGog2017

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Spiele: 127 Rezensionen: 36

This is a single person MMO

I wasn't sure this game was going to be that good based on some of the reviews, however, as someone who's played games on computers for over 40 years, I can assure you that this game does almost everything right. It feels like your own personal MMO minus the monthly fees. Yes, it was built for a console first, but like Skyrim (as you can tell by the menu system), console game ports often are VERY tight and this one is no exception. The pawns really make you feel like you're in a group and you can change them out anytime you like with zero penalty and you should every time YOU level because only YOU and your MAIN pawn level with you. The questing isn't as "deep" as a game like witcher, but this game has a lot of magic spells to offer and GREAT visual effects and the landscape and dungeons are very detailed. It has mod support on nexus if you'd like to see some changes and while it's not as easy to mod as skyrim, there is enough there to make it worth taking a look. My only real complaint is the mouse aiming when trying to apply buffs on pawns and when pin point targeting a body part of a mob when you're attacking, but you can't have everything. 9/10 (minus 1 for not the best quests and mouse aiming) There is limited fast travel so the game makes traveling feel more meaningful and doesn't not trivialize the size of the map. Playing the game, knowing when to hang back if you're a caster or rush in if you're mele is something you'll pick up quickly. Thank God for GOG having this game here.

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