Aww, the timing's pretty bad for me because I lack the funds at the moment (gog winter sale, steam winter sale, x-mas gifts will do that), but I do intend to preorder it asap. I know I can wait, but I really loved my time with it on the PS3. I went Mage/Sorceror/Magic Archer last time so I will probably go more physical this time (probably Strider/Ranger/Assassin). Then again, I did have a lot of fun as the magic classes...
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Steam pre-order is LIVE
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Crimsonclaw111
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Thanks a ton wbacon. Also loving the avatar.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
I made a PERFECT Terminator era Arnold Schwarzenegger pawn in this game. I look forward to doing it again.
There were only two fast travel locations. One whose location you could pick via the placement of a special crystal you found maybe around halfway into the game, and the capital city, Gran Soren. I think you could get another mobile point via NG+, but that was considered too little, too late.
Dark Arisen added a bunch more of those mobile points and one more fixed location.
Pyros_Eien
Member
It kinda was. How fast travel works in this game is you get those Port crystals, which you drop anywhere in the world(well outside, can't drop them inside buildings and stuff), and that adds this location to your teleport stones.
Problem is in the original, you only had one port crystal until endgame, and teleport stones, which are consumables, were very expensive. Also the port crystal was like halfway into the game or so. So mostly you could only teleport back to the main city, and then had to run back out. A bunch of sidequests and stuff take you back to places you've already visited, and since overworld spawns aren't random, it was pretty annoying after a few times, plus the runs took a while(world is large).
In Dark Arisen, they added like 4 more port crystals to the base game, and you get them all throughout the story. This let you setup a bunch more places to go back to with teleports instantly, kinda like typical fast travel(visit a place, you can teleport there after). They also massively reduced teleport stones costs, so you can actually use them for casual travelling, while the original prices were a big downside early in the game, even for just returning back to town.
Ricerocket
Member
I don't think it was annoying. IMO having Ferrystonies purchasable in mass in Dark Arisen kills the exploration of the game. You drop a few in key locations and never have to travel again. ;/ The best part of the game is going through certain locations while your pawn constantly reminds you to blahblah.
Then again it probably didn't matter for the expansion due to how the expansion was focusing on something else.
It's refreshing to see so much care given to a PC port by a Japanese company. I don't usually preorder on Steam, but I made an exception in this case. Plus their faq linked me to "Into Free" the only thing missing from my Dragon's Dogma soundtrack. I really hope this does well!
Jon Armdog
Member
Wow, that's excellent. Do you still get the pre-order bonus or is that steam purchases only?
Oracle Dragon
Member
I didn't get it from GMG, but their page lists the same bonuses as on Steam:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/ca/en/pc/games/rpgs/dragons-dogma-dark-arisen/#b
Admiral Woofington
Member
it might be one of those situations that we don't get them until we have the key/game downloaded.
Jon Armdog
Member
Why? Always this licensing issues.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Man, that Canadian price is sad. 
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Right now, $30 USD = $41 CAD, according to xe.com. So you're saving 1 buck!Man, that Canadian price is sad.
Right now, $30 USD = $41 CAD, according to xe.com. So you're saving 1 buck!
$30 US = $42 Australian.
Go us.
CadetMahoney
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The game made you walk all over the map when escorting people to locations. Unless you already been there and collected those big telelport stones which you come across as you progress through the game.
It was mainly because the map is scaled to lower levels and never changes difficulty so it gets boring and the enemies are low level and most are repeated (wolves meme). I hope mods can make a change to this.
The problem with mods is that they come months after and a full difficulty spike with different enemy placements after you've played the game before on console and again on PC. I am thinking of buying this once I can get the "full modded experience" that changes so much such as textures, models, pawn speech-packs and most of all new enemy placements and difficulty. It's so that it will feel like a different game after playing it so much on console so I don't mind waiting.
Lux R7
Member
you don't have this problems in hard mode imho.
Cheers, bought! <3
family_guy
Member
Anyway to import your pawn?
Bought it. Any idea on when we might get the key?
Augemitbutter
Member
no berserk is a real downer. as a fan i am cry.
Dream_Journey
Member
I got 27% discount from GMG for as my birthday gift. If anyone want it quote me.
Keeping in mind that I haven't played the game, am I understanding this correctly that you send your pawn into the rift, where they'll engage with other players online and then you call them back (or they come back automatically)?
If that's the case, sounds like the rift stuff is tied to your steam account, and then if you send out your pawn in save1, then hotswap to save2, the pawn would return to the wrong save?
Even though you said it would be annoying, it does sound like your best bet would indeed be to make couple extra steam accounts and family share your actual library with the dupe accounts. At least that would prevent any pawn sync issues.
Or just make sure that the pawn is not in the rift when you swap the save files?
Lux R7
Member
if you play online, your main pawn can be hired by other players. It's automatic. But you can still play with him/her in your party. When the other player leaves your pawn, they will get experience, rift crystals and other things when you rest in a Inn. The kind of experience they get depends on the activities they did with the other players.
The pawn being "sent out" are copies of your own, and when you rest at an inn, those copies get back, and update the one you have (with new experience and any gift the other players might have given them to bring to you).
But anyway, i'll probably have to look into family accounts.
Still, not preordering until this is crystal clear.
The lack of the Berserk stuff is supremely disheartening. I always used one set of it, either on my main character or on my pawn depending on what type style I was going for. Either way, I have to wait for a sale.
I had bought both Vanilla DD and Dark Arisen Day 1 so at least I supported the game when I could.
I had bought both Vanilla DD and Dark Arisen Day 1 so at least I supported the game when I could.
Femmeworth
Banned
My DS4 and PC are ready.
Ah, so that's how it goes.
So then hot swapping save files would definitely result in some weird issues with spawn syncs when the copy of save1 pawn could get synced back to the copy of save2 pawn, for example.
Definitely recommending family sharing then, I think you can share your library with up to 5 other accounts. I suppose 5 is better than none at all.
Rudimental
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Lux R7
Member
i really don't think so.
silvermember
Banned
It doesn't have to kill it for you. You can torture yourself by going through the same areas listening to the same pawn canned speeches.
Given how small the open world is, after a certain point having to walk back and forth became a chore.
toddhunter
Member
Exploration is finding something for the first time which you still have to do. Exploration isn't running up and down the same damn road 200 times....pausing every 2 seconds to wait for your run to recharge.
And even with the stones, you could still never get close to the right city gate that you wanted. Being able to drop them everywhere will be a massive improvement to the game.
Slick Butter
Member
Darn it, I tried to get it from GMG with the 23% off voucher after refunding my Steam pre-order, but the voucher doesn't work for it.
It just says, "Unable to add voucher."
It just says, "Unable to add voucher."
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
Fucking awesome!
Krappadizzle
Member
I'll definitely be getting this once Christmas is over and I have money again.
This is one of the games that went past my tolerance level for FPS and resolution on consoles (I did try but it was the aspect ratio that got me) so I'm really glad we're getting a fully fledge PC release. Now I get to see what all the fuss is about.
This is one of the games that went past my tolerance level for FPS and resolution on consoles (I did try but it was the aspect ratio that got me) so I'm really glad we're getting a fully fledge PC release. Now I get to see what all the fuss is about.
Not likely. They'll probably go the Monster Hunter route and just change the texture but keep the stats.
Please stop making sense.
As much as I wanna purchase me, the rational buyer in me is waiting until the Steam sale just in case.
Also, while I doubt mods are gonna explode without proper mod tools, I just want someone to fix enemy spawns or make them more random, that's the only complaint that I really had about Dogma. Aside from that DD is one of my favorite games of all time, never played Dark Arisen before, so Ima feast hella hard on this release. To those who haven't played it already, you're in for a real treat.
Also, while I doubt mods are gonna explode without proper mod tools, I just want someone to fix enemy spawns or make them more random, that's the only complaint that I really had about Dogma. Aside from that DD is one of my favorite games of all time, never played Dark Arisen before, so Ima feast hella hard on this release. To those who haven't played it already, you're in for a real treat.