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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Steam pre-order is LIVE
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A helpful google doc with answers to a lot of things
Pawn guide
Lifted from the /vg/ thread. Also, Dangan replacement is already a thing, thank goodness.
What's your card? If a 970 can manage 1440p 60fps by itself you might not even need it.
At 1080p yes, definitely.
At 4k? No idea.
Running anything at 4k right now unless it's very old will tax your system. I tend to try and run things at playable resolutions if they're action games (consistent 60fps since I don't have a 144hz monitor), rather than being fancy.
If you just want to take screenshots though, I'm sure your system will allow you to take lots of good 4k screenshots.
Even if that poster's card is a 970, they might still be able to get 60 FPS at 4k if it was CPU constrained in that anonymous post. Hell, it might just be that they need to turn down the distance settings a smige.
Is it? I need a link to bookmark.
Baloonatic
Member
780ti. CPU is 4770k at 4.5. I'm not really sure how my card compares to a 970 to be honest, I only really pay attention to that stuff when I'm getting a new PC.
In benchmarks the 780TI is actually better than a 970. In the end, though, it shouldn't perform much worse than one.
Great. I hope we get the old menu back sooner or later, but that might be more difficult.
cyen
Member
They are comparable, when overclocked the 970 pulls ahead and has more 512MB of VRAM.
Gormenghast
Member
It depends a lot on drivers optimization. Nvidia is known to optimize only for newer cards, so with games new enough the 970 is going to outperform previous generation card, even if the hardware is on par.
Dragon Dogma probably not, I don't think Nvidia cares much for custom optimization. It's not a game that will sell videocards. So the 780 should hold up well.
Burnnnnnnn
Mad Season
Banned
does the game have hidden secrets in the world? i.e. treasure chests, loot etc?
Vital Tundra
Member
Sorry if it was posted already, but is their any more differences besides higher resolution/textures/FPS?
Can't wait to play.
Can't wait to play.
Oh, you missed the best new feature then:
You can mute all pawns. They won't speak unless spoken to. You may have blissful silence when you slaughter wolves... In packs.
Yeah.
Absolutely. There's a lot of weird shit to find in this game. It may look a bit generic high-fantasy, but the stuff that you encounter towards the end of the game, and in the DLC pack Bitterblack Island, is completely batshit.
Lux R7
Member
yes absolutely.
UnrealEck
Member
Object/character draw distance.
AA
Field of View
Lighting (I think this is a bit better but not 100% sure)
Shadows are higher res.
I'd bet spell effects are denser in particle quality too.
Your characters and pawns physical size matters. The taller you are, the more physical reach you have, period. Heavy characters can carry more and have more stamina, but they run slower and regain stamina at a lesser rate compared to those of slighter stature. None of these have anything to do with actual, raw damage output, barring the slightly longer term dps values being dependent on your stamina usage and recovery as well as the other usual factors.
The pawn chatter, even repeated ad-infinitum, brings life to the party, especially with the vocabulary and the modes of speech used in the game. I would never even consider silencing them. Instead I'll hear the endless tales of aught.
I wonder if they could somehow make a Feste-voicepack for the pawns. Cuz that guy is solid gold.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
If you meant to make fun of the guy, I don't think that's the correct way to use sarcasm... 'cause this sounds like you are sarcastically agreeing with him.
Yup, basically. Did DSP write this review? Haha.
Yeah, Kingdoms of Amalur is probably the closest equivalent out there, but it's a lot more fun than KoA. KoA suffered from content bloat, brain-dead easy combat (a lot of cool abilities that you never needed to use because there was no incentive), weak enemy design, copy/pasted dungeons over and over again, way too much dialogue and infodumps of lore no one cares about, and a rather poor art style.
I wrote a whole bunch of them for you that will be in the OT.
Beyond what was already mentioned, you can also now bind items to hotkey. No more digging in the menu to turn your wet lantern back on!
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Anyone know the global unlock times? I'm guessing we'll be VPN-ing this sometime Wednesday or Thursday.
Pingoreous
Member
any chance of Capcom porting this to PS4/XboxOne?
Don't believe so, they said recently it was a PC only thing.
I am excited of trying out Dragon Dogma. I truly love the Dark Souls/Bloodborne series,but I had a difficult time getting into Dragon Age Origins. I would like to test out a warrior nuild with maybe a bit of magic within, any recommendation/tips for me? Where can I find a non-spoiler tutorial for beginners in Dragon Dogma?
Mad Season
Banned
whats the average length of the game?
Kurt Russell
Member
50 hours or so (a fair bit more if you go for all the stuff)
To add to this: Heavier characters weigh down monsters more when climbing, but lighter characters use less stamina when climbing. Absurdly short characters can also climb into goblin holes(I really need to make a character short enough to do this sometime). Short characters also have a smaller hitbox... But the shorter your character, the easier it is for water to reach up to your latern and burn it out. Also, shorter characters are able to duck between larger monster's legs while taller characters don't fit.
I agree, to an extent. With 4 pawns in the party, it's insufferable, though, as they constantly interrupt each other. When I was playing with only one pawn, it was nice.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Having done both from scratch, I say no. Just more tedious. YMMV.
Good stuff! I hope these links make it to the OT. I'll never remember it.
LurkerPrime
Member
Lux R7
Member
i'm sorry the hear this. I only play on hard, i think it's an amazing and fun challenge.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The stamina cost is what annoyed me the most, really. The extra damage makes it harder at the start, but you gain so much extra gold, XP and RC that you start becoming more powerful earlier on so it cancels out the difficulty, but you're stuck with the extra stamina cost. Which meant always going in the menu to eat a steak or liquid vim or whatever. Annoying.
i'm sorry the hear this. I only play on hard, i think it's an amazing and fun challenge.
Still, with hotkeys, I might do it all over again..
it's really not like the souls game
I'd say if you like platinumgames/capcom action games you'd enjoy it
Mr. Smiley
Member
Yessir
Note: If you start on Hard mode, you can change Normal/easy anytime. If you start on Normal/Easy and want to go Hard, you'll restart from the beginning with all your items still with you.
There was also another character customization posted earlier in the thread. Will have to compile these.
Any cool looking gruff, bearded men guides?
In this version, yes.
Take a cell phone screenshot!
Is this post real life? Come on Smash.
If you really want me to deconstruct this post, I can, but there are some significant holes here.
Any cool looking gruff, bearded men guides?
Waifu Dogma sounds wonderful.
I went with a pretty lady as my arisen and a very short old man with a greatsword as my pawn, but I might go for a pawn waifu this time. I'll definitely use the same arisen though. Got her settings from GAF, actually, she's gorgeous.
I made a few adjustments, but the base is this:
The settings
In this version, yes.
My male pawns on PS3 look cool. I don't have a capture card to get the sliders and stuff though.
Take a cell phone screenshot!
For a game that came out in 2012, you are damn right I expect better than this. R* did way better and that game was 3 years old. Do not give me the excuse that they are a smaller dev team, or whatever other excuse. You have 3 years to remaster or spruce it up, this is abysmal. I know this game is a Neogaf darling, but excusing what I'm looking at is not happening. People need to call it out for what it is. Capcom is a big studio, they could have afforded to do something with this game. Using the excuse that it looked bad on last gen consoles, or that it somehow doesn't have to be at least graphically decent is terrible.
Here is a screenshot of Oblivion that came out in 2006 ON THE PS3:
Is this post real life? Come on Smash.
If you really want me to deconstruct this post, I can, but there are some significant holes here.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
My male pawns on PS3 look cool. I don't have a capture card to get the sliders and stuff though.
Maybe I'll work on such a guide on PC... xDIt was open from the start on consoles too, at least in the DA version.
luca_29_bg
Member
"Cough...cough"
chaobreaker
Member
I have never played the game before but pawns sound like the lamest thing ever. AI party members that tell you stuff and kill things for you. Can you do without them fine?
Also how fashionable can you make your characters? Fashion Souls was lowkey something I really enjoyed in the Souls games.
Also how fashionable can you make your characters? Fashion Souls was lowkey something I really enjoyed in the Souls games.
Soodanim
Member
Do it. There will inevitably be someone that reads the post and agrees with it at first glance.
You can go solo. There are even passive perks you can unlock to help with that. But pawns are useful both in providing information and balancing out battle. I tend to have mine be a healing mage for example, but if you're a solo mage and you're trying to cast a big spell while being the sole target of aggression it's not going to go that well.
Dick Justice
Banned
All of us except anyone with CPUs from 2009 who can't bear to turn down the draw distance a bit.
What? it runs nearly perfect on your 7 year old system. What's the problem?
Fortunately in this version you can turn off the talking part. And, yeah, solo is viable. Though having at least one pawn as a mage to heal you is pretty damn useful.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
the Assassin class is for you, friend.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Would a Surface Pro 3 be able to run this lol?
Dick Justice
Banned
He's an example of the kind of person that Durante described in that thread a while back, who will call a port shit because they can't max out everything while maintaining 60fps.
Hard mode was openly available when it was patched in at some point after the launch of vanilla DD.
I don't really find it that big of a hoot, after a while. You get killed when something looks at you funny at the beginning, then you get zillion of gold and xp and dc and oh look, you're suddenly OP or, at the very least, more than equal, vs most of the things that shat on you just hours ago. Then, like Morrigan Stark mentioned, you're only left with the increased stamina use which you then counter by having a bunch of stamina recovering shit in your inventory, which you can easily afford to buy cuz you're swimming in gold.
I played through the hard mode twice just to get two copies of the abyssal armor piece and then left it alone when I had done each of the possible encounter variations in the (lategame/postgame dungeon stuff)
and whatever other nasties were included, is easily one of the hardest encounter in the game, BBI stuff included.
The pawns system is great. While this is an action game, it is also a fantasy RPG romp. You tend to have a party in those. They help you carry shit, sometimes they give you good advice. You'll still rake in the kills as well, you just have some good fellows to join in the slaying.
And Fashion Dogma is arguably even superior to Fashion Souls. More item slots, more variables per slot.
I don't really find it that big of a hoot, after a while. You get killed when something looks at you funny at the beginning, then you get zillion of gold and xp and dc and oh look, you're suddenly OP or, at the very least, more than equal, vs most of the things that shat on you just hours ago. Then, like Morrigan Stark mentioned, you're only left with the increased stamina use which you then counter by having a bunch of stamina recovering shit in your inventory, which you can easily afford to buy cuz you're swimming in gold.
I played through the hard mode twice just to get two copies of the abyssal armor piece and then left it alone when I had done each of the possible encounter variations in the (lategame/postgame dungeon stuff)
Everfall. I must admit, the one with the lich summoning hell hounds,
The pawns system is great. While this is an action game, it is also a fantasy RPG romp. You tend to have a party in those. They help you carry shit, sometimes they give you good advice. You'll still rake in the kills as well, you just have some good fellows to join in the slaying.
And Fashion Dogma is arguably even superior to Fashion Souls. More item slots, more variables per slot.