Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

I used to play this back on the Ps3-360 era back in the day and had so much fun, then they launched dark arisen and expanded a little bit on the original game with easy fast-travelling, BBI and some rebalances to make it enjoyable. The pawn system was also great and enjoyable, being able to create your own sidekick and sharing with other people (although with many flaws) was also part of the fun but sadly they ended up botching the online features completely with the GOG version, the online barely works and the rewards system is completely F-ed. i hope Capcom fixes this someday but seeing as The second game ended up dissapointing a lot of the OG fans, i think they're just gonna focus on their main franchises like RE, SF, DMC and Monster Hunter.

got this game on sale on GOG. glad i bought it as it is a good single player rpg with a nice pawn party system. This game has a pretty good story and gameplay. It got the usual inventory system, skill distributions, but overall, a nice pawn (followerers) system. I view this game like zelda: botd but with leveling system. Also if you enjoy elder scroll and skyrim rpg elements, this game should feel right at home. minus 1 star for the ingame bug below: I enjoy it alot but currently Im having this weird shimmering bloom effect bug during cutscenes. i guess it might have something to do with my "odd" 34' 3440 x 1440 res display paired with nvidia 1080? either way, i'll try to resolve this as the cutscenes in its current state is really is a distraction to my overall enjoyment.

This game has among the most cohesive and liberating combat mechanics in any video game. It combined ideas from dozens of genres and games and created an extremely fun, fast, and ingenious combat system. You can choose which moves and attacks to bind to different buttons and thus create a personalized scheme. Each move changes the way you play by forcing you to be strategic and by giving you valuable tools that you can use in several different ways. The game world itself is also quite impressive. Although it’s a little empty by todays standards, the size of the environments and the detail in the assets still hold up. The monsters that inhabit the world are superb, having complex AI systems and detailed models. However, this game isn’t without flaws. I found it a little frustrating when mid-way through the beginning of the game I failed an important quest. While reading the wiki I discovered that certain quests need to be completed in order, however these 2 quests seemed completely unrelated, and the game never warned you that that could happen. Its character development is practically non-existent. Your companions (pawns) are so bland that the lore within the game literally strips them of their humanity. Even so, their knowledge system is quite interesting and can be useful at times. Also, the pawn system is quite broken on GOG, though I still decided to buy it here since it's drm free. Having a balanced party is very important and can easily change the course of a battle. However, combat strategy is quite lacking, and the available commands are quite superficial and not very useful for most situations. I hope that the rumors for Dragons Dogma 2 are true, and I will be buying it day 1 if the reviews show a worthy successor.

I first saw the game, thought: Ew, looks janky and then, i still bought it. Let me tell you how wrong i was. This game fucking slaps. The Music is grand, you can climb monsters, break kneecaps of ogres and other cool stuff. Progress is swift, a lot of cool stuff is found when you just explore and damn, i got to live out my biggest fantasy: Armormodels for females beeign actual armor and me beeing a buff mountain of a woman 10/10 great game

A cool Hack n' Slash game where you get to have a four character party with your Pawns a la Neverwinter Nights. Have only played for a few hours, but loving it so far and got on a huge discount. 10/10 for discounts!