FoxMcChief
Gold Member
You can go in depth with what skills you are looking for with each class. Look at the advanced search at the big rift stones in towns.
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I see lots of Frierens, Shadowhearts, Witcher characters. Saw a couple rare Gerudo characters, lithe cats. I'm thankful my Pawn is unique thus far as a hot Goblin Girl. But I imagine I'm getting more leverage out of my rewards for setting them with Thief and all the big stat boosting augments and a optimized skillset with Skullsplitter, Plunder, Implicate, Feint with Spite Daggers for the sexy Blight Proc on most enemies.
I'm not seeing many characters even attempt alt skin colors.
Nintendo's Witch
Member
My save decided to skip the last 30 hours and randomly load in level 18 ( I was level 40 ). No way to retrieve the fucking save file on PS5 either.
It's a shame because I was loving the game but this means goodbye
It's a shame because I was loving the game but this means goodbye
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semiconscious
Member
they're also disturbingly unnatural/creepy. never really felt put off by kimahri in ffx, so maybe it's an uncanny valley thing?...
so you're saying that a 'twist' at the end of the game is that you've actually been playing 'dragon's dogma 2', all along, & not 'dragon's dogma'? or is it that the game suddenly becomes 'dragon's dogma' 2' from that point on? well, gosh, either way, they sure got me with that one, I guess...
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
The negative is you can’t reward them back unless you rehire them and then dismiss them, thing is set for 10000 for a Cyclops you can literally run out the north west entrance of Vernworth and run into one, run back dismiss then rehire.
The other part is if you do it long enough doing a search of ‘pawns your main pawn knows’ will likely net you at least a quarter of them offering 10000 gold quests or close to it (I won’t shirk an 6800 quest if you got the looks). Some are even simpler; hand the pawn a bunch of flowers and get 10k.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I just hired a pawn with that name.
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
It’s stupid, let’s just put it that way…
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semiconscious
Member
now that's just depressing...
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Faster stamina regeneration rate and I think things that drain stamina take longer.
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
Hitbox too…you get knocked down easy but there’s less to hit.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Correct. But I think you can mitigate this with Constancy from Sorc and stacking Dwarven Smithing on all your gear.
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
Lol or…you know just not getting hit in the first place
… by being a hobbit. My main character is Sarah Hyland and I’m pretty sure she’s actually a hobbit.…probably just like Kim Kardashian:
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I finally finished with the
“true ending” today and it was a great 82 hour hiking sim. But I enjoyed every single moment of it. In reality the game averaged ~52 enemies per hour, (yes math was done) I think that’s ok considering the downtime in towns etc.
tmlDan
Member
i really tried that and it didn't work, maybe ill jump back in and try - i started a NG+
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Quite easy for Thieves and Tricksters. The real benefit of Dwarven Smithing is the Knockdown Power increase so everything staggers that much more.Lol or…you know just not getting hit in the first place
Yerd
Member
It's really a timing thing, and I have yet to figure out the perfect timing. If there are monsters attacking around the time of the comment, it's going to interfere.
I have found if I look toward the pawn talking as I hit up, I have better luck. Then sometimes nothing happens.
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
The main thing is ‘soft‘ target them by aiming in their direction as directed and close as you can then hit up on the dpad. They will usually continue after fights if you have it ‘active’.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Fyi, you can eat rotten meat at campsites, they even filmed the flesh being rotten lol.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Woah I gotta try this. That's pretty cool they added that detail.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Is it possible to kill the Griffon the first time you see it outside the capital?
Reizo Ryuu
Member
The griffin is always killable yes.
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
Maybe through a glitch, but this isn’t like From Software games, the damage calculation in this is literally just ‘attack-defence=damage’, you can literally do zero damage if your attack is under the enemies defense early on and that’s what they set it to…so in otherwords no…unless you’re overleveled.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Reizo Ryuu
Member
It does that.He flew away when I finished two of its health bars
Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
The health bar stays the same when you meet them again at leastHe flew away when I finished two of its health bars
Good luck! I trust you to finish the job…
Kacho
Gold Member
If you climb on him and use your Y attack on his head you will critical him back to the ground.He flew away when I finished two of its health bars
fallingdove
Member
My encounter with Rodge was also an interesting one.So I guess this Rodge kid is the secret final boss of the game eh
Here's a story for y'all...I take a quest to find this kid who went out to tend to some flowers who then gets kidnapped by wolves,after talking to some concerned citizens about his whereabouts I go to the quest marker but it instead takes me to fight a Lich when i get there and a horde of skeletons at night,nice info assholes, I then press on following the flowerbeds the kid used to tend to until i lose my way, its now daytime and now I'm near some battlefield where a goddamn dragon and a cyclops are duking it out with some gryffin cassually strolling in the sky just for good measure,after the initial shock wears off,I turn back and turn to the internet to see where in the loving fuck this kid is cuz the timer is almost up and I have no idea where he is,I find that I took a wrong turn somewhere,so I double back and while I'm just about to reach the cave he's supposedly in,what do you know,another dragon just cassually walks towards me....
WHO IS THIS FUCKING KID???
Is this the origin story of Daimon? Now I'm stuck between fighting a dragon and potentially getting dragonplague on my pawn or giving this quest the finger and let Rodge rest in piss,direwolf piss to be more exact...
Defeated the lich, saved the kid from the wolves but he got stuck behind a rock on the way back to town. I picked him up and began carrying him back to his father when he wriggled free while crossing a bridge.
He fell to his death — however, that didn't stop me from carrying his corpse home and throwing it through his shop keep father’s front window.
His father is still so kind and professional to this day.
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Agent_Nobody
Gold Member
Can also attack the wings (fire works really well). Stand on top between the shoulder blades you can hit both wings at once.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gouging Skewer just fucking a Cyclops up real good.
DavidGzz
Gold Member
Ok, since I beat the game all bets are off and I'm rolling with like 50 mods now. From names above important NPC's to being able to teleport to anywhere from anywhere (even caves). My camp fires are now Souls bonfires, the base armor near the beginning looks like the armor from the dragon flashback fight. My camera is pulled back enough to see wtf the harpies are doing above me and I can jump higher to get those coins easier. The two hander looks like the sword of Artorias. So good.
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DavidGzz
Gold Member
fallingdove
Member
Both save files? Last save and Last Inn RestMy save decided to skip the last 30 hours and randomly load in level 18 ( I was level 40 ). No way to retrieve the fucking save file on PS5 either.
It's a shame because I was loving the game but this means goodbye
fallingdove
Member
I don't think the value in DD2 is in the story or the characters, it's in the exploration, the survival, and the mix/match of combat abilities.
If you are more interested in fast traveling the world than traversing it and exploring it's nooks/crannies, the game is probably not for you.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I thought wasting 20K gold on buying a house to complete the side quest in the capital was a waste of gold, but the amount of quests that are asking me to come back after a few days or so, the house is paying off for itself as an immediate rest/recovery point lol.
It's a skill which has very selective usage (only really works on downed enemies), but when it works .. it fucking works.
It's a skill which has very selective usage (only really works on downed enemies), but when it works .. it fucking works.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Right? Unique experiences for everyone. What else can gamers ask for, from a gameplay perspective?Couple or three glasses of wine down, but damn I love reading what you guys are experiencing with this game.
existensmaximum
Member
I'm absolutely not more interested in fast traveling, but every now and then I want to fast travel to town to offload som stuff that I've gathered and not being forced to fight 200 monsters on my way back.
I don't think that's unreasonable or anything. What is unreasonable, is that the developers want you to pay for the fast traveling with real money? It's painfully obvious and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If they just wanted to discourage you from fast traveling that's fine and their design choice, but don't more or less put it behind a paywall?
I haven't played the game for that long yet so maybe it gets better, but I'm having a hard time getting excited to explore every nook and cranny when everything looks the same everywhere? The same brownish green color, the same chests, same looking environments, the same comments from my pawns.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Wow, this griffon is a fucking ass. Ran into it again at a cape, when his health was in the final sliver, he flew away.
edit: resting at the nearest campfire brought it back and at the same health, yay. Bye bye griffon.
edit 2: god damn this game is amazing. The world is probably one of the best in terms of exploration. The night times are scarier than any survival horror game.
edit: resting at the nearest campfire brought it back and at the same health, yay. Bye bye griffon.
edit 2: god damn this game is amazing. The world is probably one of the best in terms of exploration. The night times are scarier than any survival horror game.
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fallingdove
Member
The devs really don't want you to fast travel. If they did, you would be able to purchase unlimited port crystals and ferry stones. I don't know how far “I haven't played for that long” is but the game greatly increases it's verticality, visual variety, rock formation types, branching paths, enemy type/placement, etc. It really shows how simplistically flat and samey most open-world fantasy games are.
Agreed on the pawn chatter. Even though their dialogue is much more robust than in the first game, there still isn't enough variety.
The series isn’t for everyone and this game is far from perfect but there is something very unique about letting exploration be your guide. You aren't supposed to pick up everything (the pawns tell you that 100,000 times) you need to actively manage your curatives, you have to plan your routes to be as efficient as possible. You have to weigh what time of day it is with how much health you have with whether or not you want to risk a detour into a a cave off the beaten path…
It’s not a hold forward Bethesda-brand walking simulator, or a fast travel all over the place and check every map icon Ubisoft-branded productivity simulator, or a combat shallow CDPR-branded story-focused epic, it's Dragons Dogma. They want you to walk and fight and climb and experiment and manage your inventory…they want you to travel throughout the night, they want you to encounter massive enemies at the most inopportune times, they want you barely survive a long journey back to town.
existensmaximum
Member
Fair enough, great answer! I won't give up on the game and see if it clicks for me more eventually. Sounds pretty promising from your description because I've been struggling to find what people find so appealing with it.
Like I wrote before, it's not a bad game or anything but to me it's just feels kind of mediocre and uninspired so far. I do miss locking on to enemies though.. Too used to the Souls games I guess.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Got to the desert area after what felt like 10 stealth missions which of course didnt progress the story one bit, and man the difficulty spike is real.
I had my gear upgraded at the border town but no weapon upgrade there meant i was doing virtually no damage to anyone. The desert area is also full of enemies at every turn so simply running past them is not a good idea because they chase you down no matter how far you run away. I tried it once and had an army of goblins, lizards, and thieves chasing me. Kinda cool but also very annoying because all im trying to do is get to the damn city to upgrade my weapon.
No port crystal in the city btw. So you have to put one down yourself. Then they have you travel back and forth between cities which can be a 30-45 minute trip if you dont have any ferystones which you likely wont since they cost $8k and most gear costs 25-40k before upgrades. Really obvious that they made this game for microtransactions.
Boss fights are still fun but i keep running out of healing items because these dudes do so much damage. Dragon and the stone giants go aggro towards the end and its virtually impossible to find an opening. used 5 wakestone shards in one dragon fight but couldnt make a dent after it went down to 2 health bars and went aggro.
I had my gear upgraded at the border town but no weapon upgrade there meant i was doing virtually no damage to anyone. The desert area is also full of enemies at every turn so simply running past them is not a good idea because they chase you down no matter how far you run away. I tried it once and had an army of goblins, lizards, and thieves chasing me. Kinda cool but also very annoying because all im trying to do is get to the damn city to upgrade my weapon.
No port crystal in the city btw. So you have to put one down yourself. Then they have you travel back and forth between cities which can be a 30-45 minute trip if you dont have any ferystones which you likely wont since they cost $8k and most gear costs 25-40k before upgrades. Really obvious that they made this game for microtransactions.
Boss fights are still fun but i keep running out of healing items because these dudes do so much damage. Dragon and the stone giants go aggro towards the end and its virtually impossible to find an opening. used 5 wakestone shards in one dragon fight but couldnt make a dent after it went down to 2 health bars and went aggro.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
I wish the night time wasn't so dark ..the view distance is so short and it obscures the beautiful visuals