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[Draugoth]

The year is 2024, and we now live in a world where Capcom considers Dragon's Dogma to be one of its "key brands". According to the publisher's latest financial report, the action RPG series currently sits alongside the likes of Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter as a pillar property.


Sure, it's just some wording in a document, but this is still a fairly big deal when you think about the relatively humble beginnings of Dragon's Dogma. The original game released in 2012 and was, by most metrics, a bit of a flop. It immediately established a hardcore audience, but it was far from being the fantasy RPG blockbuster that Capcom wanted.

via Pushsquare

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Only time will tell if it's true or not.

 

[Terenty]

Fuck yeah, this is great fucking news.

 

[PanzerCute]

I mean with the insane investment made around the series, they should.

Good news tho, obviously.

Now it is time to release Pragmata and have a top new IP (hopefully)

 

[BennyBlanco]

Hell yea

 

[recursive]

Awesome. Now release that performance patch.

 

[Bloobs]

 

[Negotiator101]

Have they fixed this yet or not?

 

[TintoConCasera]

Great news. Hopefully this means more support for DD2, and maybe another sequel later on with more effort put into it.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

 

[Astral Dog]

I never got the impression Dragon's Dogma was a flop, sure it didn't got the sales of blockbuster western games (at first,Dark Arisen made up for that),but for a new ip ,one that didn't had perfect reviews or even anything remarkable outside of the combat,was good.

The reason it took so long to see a sequel was that Itsuno and his team wanted to bring back the Devil May Cry series in a big way,from what i remember Itsuno was asked what he wanted to work on at the time and he picked DMC

 

[RoboFu]

I love it but it definitely needs some tweaks here and there. 2 was a way more bland world and experience over 1.

 

[Švejk]

Been tryna tell folks for over 10 years now..

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

Outstanding games, absolutely outstanding.

A bit of a learning curve as far as combat and systems go but totally worth learning.

 

[bbeach123]

DD2 deserve better . Feel like its a demo for capcom to test the tools , open world and AI for the next RE / MH game .

 

[FeralEcho]

Only time will tell if it's true or not.

Yeah.I trully hope so as I love this franchise but Capcom has made statements like this in past that amounted to shit.

 

[Hudo]

DD2 deserve better . Feel like its a demo for capcom to test the tools , open world and AI for the next RE / MH game .

I had this feeling as well. That DD2 is a proof-of-concept for something. A fun proof-of-concept but it felt lacking. Maybe it was me who was just overhyped. I dunno. But I kinda dropped playing it after 20 or so hours because I wasn't really feeling it.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I had this feeling as well. That DD2 is a proof-of-concept for something. A fun proof-of-concept but it felt lacking. Maybe it was me who was just overhyped. I dunno. But I kinda dropped playing it after 20 or so hours because I wasn't really feeling it.

I had a ton of fun and eneded up putting 130 hours into it. The game is just so fun to play.

But yeah, it could and imo should have been much more. The main quest sucks, some sidequests are too simple and the game has only 2 really new vocations and barely new enemies when compared to DD1.

The lack of Evil Eye hurt me personally, one of my fav creatures from fantasy stuff and they go and remove it from the sequel.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

Been tryna tell folks for over 10 years now..

Same. Finally got a few friends to give Dark Arisen a chance last year and they started saying stuff like "This is better than Skyrim!!!".

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Curious that before, no one paid attention to Dragon Dogma.... I did support it in its launch year with PS3. And it turns out that out of nowhere, and journalism... They already like the franchise.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Been tryna tell folks for over 10 years now..

We are two... Friend.

People don't understand at first.

 

[Mattdaddy]

Been tryna tell folks for over 10 years now..

 

[Black_Mamba]

Great news. DD2 could improve in many aspects (although the criticisms are exaggerated), but the IP has enormous potential. Could be Capcom's Zelda or Elden Ring.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Yeah.I trully hope so as I love this franchise but Capcom has made statements like this in past that amounted to shit.

It's one of their best no doubt about it, just like the first Lost Planet (for example) which they need to remake at some point - there's far more they can do now with this IP and make a much better game, cuz what they did after the first one is.... ugh.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Hopefully they hire a Westerner to help them read the data. I don’t think the game’s rep survived weeks a few weeks post launch.

 

[Gojiira]

Good news but DD2 needs a ton of work and new content…Hopefully they’ll follow Monster Hunter Worlds Title Updates releasing expanded content periodically then a large expansion like Iceborne/Bitterblack

 

[bender]

The last 20-30% of DD2 really soured the game for me and made the annoyances leading up to harder to overlook.

 

[semiconscious]

well, to the extent that dd2 was fundamentally just a 're-imagining' of dd, i'm not really sure what this even means...