Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Great Combat Potential Story Great Enemy Design

Game is dripping with so much heart and sole, you cant help but fall in love with its charming camp-ness! You make your own adventurs, you can change your class at any time and the Pawn system is just so great! Add a fiew graphics mods for a modern look and you can easily get lost for 150 to 200 plus hours. Not to mention the hard as nails DLC inlcuded as end game! Dont miss out on this classic!

Runs well and offers combat that isnt based around your own maneuverability or ability to go through tedious combat, instead many enemies actually have either body weaknesses or elemental weaknesses and some tactics and party comps can benefit over mindless ones. An example, in the early part of the game a quest will be made available in the starting town in which you are asked to go down a well and kill the monsters in the cave it leads to, if you where to just slash at them mindlessly or just use your skills you will die, instead the way you need to kill these monsters at the early part of the game is to cut the tail off of every monster so it cant stand up on two feet anymore and will have less reach and become more vulnerable. Tactical thinking is incentivised and the combat isnt mindless thankfully. I would suggest this title to anyone that wants an rpg thats light in the roleplaying but well fleshed out in the combat.

I bought this game on every platform including steam last year, one of the few games I achieved every achievement. The game can be difficult to get into at first maybe the first hour.... But after you get used to the combat system and reach the first major city things open up greatly. The game also features a unique Pawn system, a dedicated companion if you will. Your friends who play the game can trade stuff with you, you can use their Pawns in your party Etc. The game is the closest game I can think of to Dungeons and Dragons but it's 100% action based. Completely worth it.

This game is a lot smaller than games like Skyrim but its quests are of high quality and really entertaining. Combat is a bit hard at the beginning but quickly becomes easier and fun. You can form teams with up to 3 NPCs and unlike some other games you can rely on them to aid you adequately in the game.