TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Finally got my key. Game releases at 1:00 tonight and tomorrow's Friday... might just lose my job. 
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Maiden Voyage
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I'm excited to watch someone else play this. If there are other worthwhile creators out there worthy of some views, please share.
Sick days exist for these very reasonsFinally got my key. Game releases at 1:00 tonight and tomorrow's Friday... might just lose my job.
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Amish Prince
Member
Glad I took off work tomorrow, but today is taking forever. Just wanna go home and explore Nu-Gransys, and romance the Milf queen Disa already.
Yerd
Member
Hey boss, I think I've come down with a little bit of cancer.
R6Rider
Gold Member
"Hey, boss my friend had unexpected open heart surgery. I need to help him out.
Also, he's a cat person."
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Already did that once, think it was for God of War (PS4).
I was at work and, the moment I got the notification that I got the game delivered at home, I started to pretend like I was sick, coughing and all that stuff.
They told me "yeah you look pretty bad" and sent me home. Still don't know how to take that, but hey, it worked.
Nowadays I do wfh, so mayhaps I'll be able to pretend to do stuff while I game.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
What worries you? Without spoilering too much.
Draugoth
Gold Member
The game has less enemy variety than DD1, the Map is Linear just like the first one, NPC and Pawn AI doesnt seem to be that much of an improvement/SPOILER]
R6Rider
Gold Member
From all the videos and impressions I've seen, the majority of them have stated the pawn AI is much improved over the fist game.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Yeah, enemy variety sucks and I'm disappointed in that too, specially since apparently they didn't bring back some iconic monsters like the hydra or the evil eye.
Roman Empire
Member
Probably Rurikhan, He is very early in the game and he played the original multiple times back then. He has very similar taste to fighting cowboy.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Also
The Beloved Systemis the exactly same from the dirst game, no improvements
Apparently, most people will be mass killing NPCs since they have perma death and they are the ones responsible for the FPS drops
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fatmarco
Member
First few hours were a bit of a mixed bag.
- It seems harder to grab onto enemies compared to the first game, but it's neat you can simply walk on top of them now.
- The image reconstruction isn't great and lots of the foreground elements look very muddy in general, despite far away vistas having extremely high detail (playing on Series X).
- Performance is sloppy, but the city is just bizarre. I stared at a wall in the city and the framerate dropped lower than it did staring at the actual city full of NPCs.
- I'm not sure I get the new system of blocking enemies in a different direction by having to press an additional button to re-allign yourself to face them.
- The intial story has a lot less momentum than the first games. There's needless convolution that doesn't actually aid the pacing.
- Some of the new animations are fantastic, impaling enemies etc.
- It feels a lot easier to get swarmed by enemies in this game, and yet it also feels extremely easy at points. Not sure if its a dynamic difficulty system?
To be fair, Dragon's Dogma 1's start isn't great either and it takes a while for that game to come together, so hopefully its the same for this game, but it was a somewhat muted introduction to the game.
- It seems harder to grab onto enemies compared to the first game, but it's neat you can simply walk on top of them now.
- The image reconstruction isn't great and lots of the foreground elements look very muddy in general, despite far away vistas having extremely high detail (playing on Series X).
- Performance is sloppy, but the city is just bizarre. I stared at a wall in the city and the framerate dropped lower than it did staring at the actual city full of NPCs.
- I'm not sure I get the new system of blocking enemies in a different direction by having to press an additional button to re-allign yourself to face them.
- The intial story has a lot less momentum than the first games. There's needless convolution that doesn't actually aid the pacing.
- Some of the new animations are fantastic, impaling enemies etc.
- It feels a lot easier to get swarmed by enemies in this game, and yet it also feels extremely easy at points. Not sure if its a dynamic difficulty system?
To be fair, Dragon's Dogma 1's start isn't great either and it takes a while for that game to come together, so hopefully its the same for this game, but it was a somewhat muted introduction to the game.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
in which platform are you playing mate? and thx for sharing btw.
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Shake Your Rump
Banned
What do you mean planning to pick? Didn't we already create our characters last week?
I have an archer pawn, and wavering on thief or mage main. I will probably pick thief.
I am picking up my copy at 10am tomorrow. I tried to get the shop to give me my copy early, but no luck. I even promised to not play it until Friday.
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Draugoth
Gold Member
Yeah. this is what i'm feeling. We were very close to have a very strong GOTY candidate if they had better peformance and more variety.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I remember Itsuno saying there were more big monsters like the Sphinx hidden in the world on that IGN interview.
Wonder it was just an outright lie.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
My GameFly copy just shipped.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Never asked you this, but what PC specs do you have (I presume you're playing DD2 on PC)?
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Draugoth
Gold Member
fatmarco
Member
I think it's just early on. Dragon's Dogma 1 had you fighting goblins for like 10 hours at least before real variety and those sort of special one off enemies kicked in.
fatmarco
Member
Xbox Series X. For me personally the image quality has been more of a detriment early on than the framerate, but then again fighting small mobs of around 5 goblins isn't exactly testing the limits of the games framerate potential.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Damn, that's not bad! It was quite the high end system a few years ago. Dragon's Dogma 2 should work fine on it, I think (minus some lower FPS in cities).
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Draugoth
Gold Member
I've built it before the pandemic hit, had to sell my consoles to build it. Now prices doubled and i dont see upgrading being feasible :/
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Yeah, I heard that PC components are priced pretty bad over there in Brazil, even more so than here in Europe so that's understanble.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
So sounding like 9/10 solid even with the frames on console, 9.5 to 10 if you're on a beast mode PC.
My Phantom Liberty upgrade whilst drinking is paying off for a 2nd time now, thank the maker.
My Phantom Liberty upgrade whilst drinking is paying off for a 2nd time now, thank the maker.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I'm guessing no preload on Steam? I'd like to start playing on release, 1:00 and go to sleep at like 03:00 or so.
Skifi28
Member
Upgrade your internet you cheapskate. Join the 1GB master race and download it in a few minutes.I'm guessing no preload on Steam? I'd like to start playing on release, 1:00 and go to sleep at like 03:00 or so.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Yeah, it looks like no preload on Steam based on this big thread on their discussion forums.I'm guessing no preload on Steam? I'd like to start playing on release, 1:00 and go to sleep at like 03:00 or so.
Dragon's Dogma 2 :: Steam Community
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
I have like half of that I think. If the game's about 70GB it shouldn't take too long, but still, it's time spent not playing the game.
Aw that sucks. Well, thanks for the info! Might go take a nap so I'm fresh when the release time comes.Yeah, it looks like no preload on Steam based on this big thread on their discussion forums.
Dragon's Dogma 2 :: Steam Community
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FunkMiller
Banned
I'll try to play this on my 3070 laptop with a Ryzen 9.
I'm expecting to get about GETFUCKEDYOUIDIOT fps.
I'm expecting to get about GETFUCKEDYOUIDIOT fps.
Shake Your Rump
Banned
In Canada, you'd have to be extremely cheap to not have 1GB. It's not even "master race", it's just bog standard now.
GymWolf
Member
It's not the preload of the file that take time, it's what comes after.
With a release at 00:00\01:00 in europe, only people with insomnia are gonna try the game
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FunkMiller
Banned
They really do need to start making proper demos of games again. This idiotic thing of not knowing whether your hardware will handle the game or not until after you've dropped 70 bones has got to come to an end.
Tempted to sail the high fucking seas just to establish whether I can play the damned game or not at all
Tempted to sail the high fucking seas just to establish whether I can play the damned game or not at all
Skifi28
Member
I always sleep late, I'll drink a monster or something and play till noon.It's not the preload of the file that take time, it's what comes after.
With a release at 00:00\01:00 in europe, only people with insomnia are gonna try the game
Draugoth
Gold Member
I have like half of that I think. If the game's about 70GB it shouldn't take too long, but still, it's time spent not playing the game.
Aw that sucks. Well, thanks for the info! Might go take a nap so I'm fresh when the release time comes.
I can already imagine how bad the download speeds will be
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Well you can always request a refund. Thing is those only work for games purchased through Steam and not key resellers, so keep that in mind.They really do need to start making proper demos of games again. This idiotic thing of not knowing whether your hardware will handle the game or not until after you've dropped 70 bones has got to come to an end.
Tempted to sail the high fucking seas just to establish whether I can play the damned game or not at all
I'm going to open a can of soda, roll a spliff and play the game until I fall asleep on the couch.
Don't say those kind of things man, don't do that to me.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
We are almost there! And they just released the launch trailer:
Reizo Ryuu
Member
nopeI'm guessing no preload on Steam? I'd like to start playing on release, 1:00 and go to sleep at like 03:00 or so.
semiconscious
Member
thanks for this. as I suspected, definitely more of an iteration that an improvement. not necessarily a bad thing, but I can wait for a price drop (& loads of good pawns)...
Amish Prince
Member
Finally back from work, fucking hyped. 3 day weekend and I've been nursing my dragon in anticipation for midnight tonight.
Archer arisen
Healslut pawn
It's gaming time
Archer arisen
Healslut pawn
It's gaming time