Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Something about Dragon's Dogma that I don't see mentioned often, is the Atmosphere of the game, or the feeling you get when playing. When entering new places, the game can give a feeling that you possibly just walked into somewhere dangerous. It's hard to explain without spoiling, but certain places I still have fun at even though I've played the game for a long time. For me, the feeling of adventuring in places still comes even when going somewhere I've already been, and I hope it will for you as well. Just try it out for yourself!

Several unique monsters, open world, dungeons, different stuff at night and day, a unique pawn system, character customization, a few different classes, 9/10, unlucky it's a 5 stars rating system. keyboard/mouse control is not very efficient. I recommand using a xbox controller. The bad things are PC port and graphics, although the graphics are not as terrible as some people say.

TL;DR: avoid if you don't like having your time wasted. This game will try it at every opportunity. Despite having an epic premise and a strong start, this game is unfortunately designed to drip-feed you with decent gameplay, while most of the time you'll find yourself wondering why you keep sinking hours into it despite little progress. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is not even an RPG in a typical sense. Yes, we have a character progression, an NPC-based party system (called Pawns), a good dose of satisfying hack'n'slash-style combat, a vast open world of epic proportions, and a quest to beat the titular dragon. However, just a few hours in, it becomes obvious that the character progression makes little difference to your abilities, the combat is repetitive and clunky, and the open world is mostly empty with repetitive encounters made to fill the void of having to travel on foot everywhere, because THERE IS NO FAST TRAVEL (in a traditional sense) in this game. While there's plenty of interesting features and mechanics (climbing on top of big monsters just to bash them on the head with your sword is really cool), the game is vastly shallow and uninspiring. Majority of your quests are typical "escort a person to location Z" or "kill X amount of Y monsters in location Z", and despite having a decent main quest line you cannot even remotely compare this to the intricate writing of The Witcher 3. Nothing you do seem to have a bigger than a cosmetic impact on the world, which is just there so you could fight and level up, then fight some more. All in all, I'm torn because I wanted to like this game very much for some of its great features, a really nice and varied open world and the prospect of being immersed in it. Sadly, the game left me feeling like I'm wasting my time with little return on that investment. Verdict: AVOID

Ha good! GOG version of DDDA. Brought it, downloaded good. I been playing this game off line and its smooth. There is something missing and I cannot put my finger on it. Played the Steam version to see whats missing. GOG version of the game have no Share button in the pause menu of the game. Maybe dose not concern some but it matters to me because I like taking screen shots. If you see your character getting picked up by a harpy you want to take a picture of that. You take it and come to reliese there are two arrow buttons in your picture. If you take that same picture after pressing the share button, no arrow keys only the copy right marks of the game and Capcon. There is a mod to remove them. I taken 2291 pics in the Steam version of the game after 370 hours and I was going to remove it from Steam to start from fresh. I cannot do that until the Share button is included in the GOG version of this game.

Dragon's Dogma is a fantastic action rpg in terms of gameplay. I guess if your're hunting this down, you've already heard plenty about this. My addition to the list of suggestion is if you can, try to get this DRM-free version of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. It's only because Steam version of this game requires a constant connection and Offline mode not to work for this game. Considering how old this game is, there is aboslutely no reson for someone not to play this on a i5-7th gen laptop with a controller. And the requirements of constant connection of steam version kinda ruins that mobile experience of enjoying it on a long journey.