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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Steam pre-order is LIVE
- Thread starter Tizoc
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Jon Armdog
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Admiral Woofington
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Sounds like your one year old has amazing taste in music.
Jon Armdog
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She does, its like all Dragons Dogma with some Little Einsteins for flavor
PepsimanVsJoe
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Ohhh so this is what led to Killing Floor.
Spazznid
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Into Free is something I want to die to.
Like, I want to die in such a way that Into Free is applicable to the situation. So that when they make a movie, and my character is in their dying moments, the song starts playing, and the only tears are tears of pure joy, mixed with the blinding glory of my situation.
Tizoc
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Less than 48 hours to go
I am excited to see the steamspy values XoX
I think Capcom and Sega have found some weird formula for success, here. Make a great game for consoles, which will initially sell poorly because dumb reasons. Let word of mouth build up for a few years, then polish it up and bring it to PC. It worked for Valkyria Chronicles, and it seems to be working for Dragons Dogma. Everyone wins! I think.
Jokes aside, I can't wait to play this. Too bad it releases right when I'm going back to college.
Jokes aside, I can't wait to play this. Too bad it releases right when I'm going back to college.
Primethius
Banned
Dragons Dogma never sold poorly on consoles, it probably just never met the insanely high expectations Capcom had for it at the time. It was especially successful in Japan, especially for a new IP.
I'm hoping the PC sales along with the console sales push Capcom to consider a Dragons Dogma 2. Too bad Itsuno is already working on a game, which is likely DMC5. So we'll have to wait a while.
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What time does it unlock?
Ghost Slayer
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Wasn't that Capcom expected it sold like Skyrim level?
Khilandros
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9am PST
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Khilandros
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Yeah, Jan 15 @ 9am PST
They kept repeating that on their stream, so I guess they are sticking to it. There were a few games they actually released a day ahead of the advertised Steam time, guess this won't be
They kept repeating that on their stream, so I guess they are sticking to it. There were a few games they actually released a day ahead of the advertised Steam time, guess this won't be
Primethius
Banned
I don't recall the expectations being that high. What I do remember is that, were it any other new IP and publisher, we probably would've gotten a sequel by now. The game sold quite well.
But Capcom you see...
Keyboard and mouse controls looking really good there.
Yeah, Jan 15 @ 9am PST
They kept repeating that on their stream, so I guess they are sticking to it. There were a few games they actually released a day ahead of the advertised Steam time, guess this won't be
I still wish it was midnight
Well yeah, I've seen Capcom on the top sellers list of Steam for the last 2-3 days:
This means Asura's Wrath is next. Yay.
Damn.
I was gonna hold off on this game because I have a backlog... but I might push this to the top.
I still gotta beat Shadowrun HK though, so maybe another week until I break down and order this, haha.
Yeah, really Mr. Bacon. How are you so young looking and a Sr. Director of anything. Pretty unique compared to where I work.
EatinOlives
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Crimsonclaw111
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Hold steady folks, stay at the top seller until launch at least.
Karak
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LOL no. She is like me. She actually likes them. I would never turn them off. lol. I think it was the constant wolf howling.
toastyToast
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Why can't this be out already? I'm so bored
Yeah, really Mr. Bacon. How are you so young looking and a Sr. Director of anything. Pretty unique compared to where I work.
You'd be surprised...few more years and I'll be upgrading to version 5.0.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Are they going to sell digital codes on Amazon? I need to work through all this gift card money.
texhnolyze
Banned
And after the positive reviews pouring in, it'll stay there for the foreseeable future.
I was gonna wait awhile because:
A} I just finished completing Dark Souls for the first time and I tend to spread out playing titles in a similar genre to avoid burnout, and
B} I planned to progress through more of my general backlog before snagging it.
Great deals always disrupt my carefully laid-out plans.
Onimusha78
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How would I go about adding more DoF to the Enb? Can't get enough the stuff lol
is it just me or is there a slight viginette effect going on? wonder if you can disable it.
KCroxtonJr
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Yeah there has always been a vignette effect, even on consoles. It's especially bad at night when the games color banding issues really stand out. There isn't an ingame option to disable it currently, but you can disable it if you use ENB.
You don't have to enable any extra stuff from ENB (like SSAO, DoF, Bloom, etc) and can just simply use it to remove the vignette effect, but the current version does have issues with load times and some other stuff that will affect you no matter what.
lowhighkang_LHK
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The assumption that Dragon's Dogma sold poorly is inaccurate. It, initially simply didn't meet Capcom's lofty expectations. According to Capcom's Investor Relations pages Dragon's Dogma / Dark Arisen sold 2.300.000 on consoles.
I think Capcom no longer uses irrational sales expectations to judge business decisions thankfully.
toastyToast
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9AM PST so 12PM
I don't doubt that 2.3m across what is essentially one-and-a-half games and a period of three years is unsatisfactory. Dragon's Dogma alone was Capcom's most expensive project until RE6 surpassed it.
My man.
Into free was funny the few first times for the weirdness. Then it got annoying.
lowhighkang_LHK
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Again, I think narrative that Capcom is disappointed with a game that effectively has sold 2.3 million units is simply a false one at this point. Also consider that Dragon's Dogma / DA is Capcom's 20th best selling game in the company's 30 year history. If you are not satisfied with the sales of your game which ends up being in the top 20 from a company that has put out hundreds and hundreds of games in it's three decades of gaming, then color me surprised.
Keep in mind Dragon's Dogma beats out a lot of big Capcom IP's in Japanese sales. Hopefully the PC version and a seemingly obvious would-be PS4/XboxOne port can help the Western markets catch up to how the franchise sells in Japan.
EDIT: No details on the budget costs of DD is known. I know they said it was one of their bigger projects. But in development time, Itsuno began working no DD after he finished Devil May Cry 4 in 2008. So the game had about a 3 year development cycle from 2009 - 2011. As it was released relatively early in 2012. And a 3 year dev., cycle certainly isn't abnormal. Mind you, it could be even less if there was much downtime for the staff, Itusno was also supervising Ninja Theory during this time frame.
Good to see that you can disable it, will definitely be using enb regardless for that AO.
toastyToast
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Why do they do this.
No idea. Why can't everything unlock at midnight? We're not waiting for a store to upon. I thought this was the future
It strikes me as exceedingly unlikely that Capcom's then-most-expensive project to date and its expansion pack-laden re-release selling a combined 2.3m across three years was a profitable venture. But that doesn't necessarily make belated ports a bad idea as they're relatively cheap, so I'm not trying to suggest that Capcom is wasting its time with the PC release; on the contrary, it'll likely be successful when considered as its own project.