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Dragon's Dogma |OT| For the night is dark and full of terrors
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Xander51
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I'm not so sure he did actually. I'm friends with the manager at my local Gamestop and they only got 3 extra copies of each version above their pre-orders. They were rather surprised. I think Capcom under-shipped this game.
Snapshot King
Member
Man, reviews are all over the place with entirely inconsistent likes and dislikes. Weird.
After 14 hours in, I can understand why. It's really a strange beast. As one review said, the game has bipolar disorder.
Nemesis_
Member
Either way, who cares? You pre-ordered, so what? You still get the game and you probably get a bonus piece of DLC or something for doing so.
I just don't understand how he's getting "played" when he's still going to get the game =/
Snapshot King
Member
I haven't been following either, have people confirmed how the two versions run? I remember hearing that 360 had awful pop in issues compared to PS3, or am I just nuts?
Xander51
Member
That's a fair point. The more people that buy this game, the better!
RPGCrazied
Member
Bascially the 360 has the higher framerate, but has tearing. The PS3 version runs at a lower framerate but has zero tearing. Easy decision for me.
Snapshot King
Member
There a breakdown of this anwhere?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Arg. I guess I need to play both demos to see what bothers me more.
RPGCrazied
Member
Not yet. The game barely came out, I'm sure digital foundry will do it at some point. I'm sure both versions has their share of popins though
KefkaTaran
Member
Pretty sure the demo won't be available for a few weeks yet. Some time in June, I think.
itzknickknac
Member
Just checked my tracking, estimated delivery is tomorrow!! Amazon is awesome.
I like the xena idea above, alrdy had a feeling someones gona do that so I am thinking of making either lightning n amodar, or beatrix n steiner w beatrix as strider. I think I want a fat person in my party
MagicWithEarvin
Member
The demo is an old build, though. The engine has been getting optimized and tuned ever since then.
Nemesis_
Member
Oh, right. I was kind of thinking maybe the card with the code on it would be like PLAY THE ADA'S WARDROBE LEVEL or something, just some more details to fawn over =P.
It's first week of July, btw.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Well, there's no other real information it seems.
Lavalamp1138
Member
Yeah it doesn't bother me if they played me since I was going to give them my monies anyway. If there really are only 6 copies, it's just a guarantee that the monies they get for the game are my monies.
disappeared
Banned
Quick question to anyone who's been playing it already.
How is the game outside of combat? Exploration, etc. Are towns active hubs, or do they feel like set-pieces? Are there guilds to align with (fighters, thieves, etc)?
How is the game outside of combat? Exploration, etc. Are towns active hubs, or do they feel like set-pieces? Are there guilds to align with (fighters, thieves, etc)?
Karak
Member
And both builds are better than the demo by leaps and bounds. Far less screen tearing on the 360. I installed it from the disk and this stops some of the popin but I still notice it. While it does indeed seem to have more foilage and so forth and its framerate was higher than the PS3 version I played today. And that version has really got better compared to the almost single digit FPS of the demo at times. I am sensitive to anything under 30 though so the PS3 version seemed jittery as hell to me. Anyone who can play stuff at around 20-25FPS should be fine with the PS3 version
Karak
Member
There are not a great deal of cities or towns. Many smaller areas and so forth. I would say that they feel more like smaller hubs then just set peices but the major city is big. It is just rather EMPTY sadly.
Exploration is encouraged due to the landscape at times and at other times you are in a valley with no where else to go. It really depends on where you are.
The major guild is the pawn guild itself.
disappeared
Banned
I'm not saying it has to be all anime hair and giant eyes, but I'm sorry—I'm sick of this boring and horrifically ugly pseudo-realistic visual style that Western RPGs have indeed helped to usher in. If people like the look, then great! I hate it. (And to be fair, I also hated it in Demon's Souls/Dark Souls, games I adore.)
I want more games going for less realism and more of an artistic style. I loved WoW for how it looks, and I'm also a sucker for the various Korean MMOs out there. (Some of their armor design? Not so much.)
I don't want a total anime overdose, because I hate that look as well. I'm just tired of this trend of Japanese developers thinking they need to make their games look more Western (which I'll argue is indeed what's happening until I'm blue in the face). Dragon's Dogma is a fun game, but good lord is it ugly and boring visually (style-wise, not technically).
dancrane212
Member
As today is a public holiday in Canada my tracking hasn't updated since Friday (no updates on the weekend either) but I have a funny feeling
that it'll be here tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be ahead on my work term project so I can get a chance to try it out when it gets here.
Good to hear, I'm not expecting much in terms of polish but the more the merrier.
I don't mean to hype it up too much but it's pretty crazy. It made the 4 hour slog through that game feel bearable in hindsight.
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Good to hear, I'm not expecting much in terms of polish but the more the merrier.
I don't mean to hype it up too much but it's pretty crazy. It made the 4 hour slog through that game feel bearable in hindsight.
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Deleted member 17706
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How do you know this isn't the art style that the designers wanted to take regardless of any attempt to appeal to a western audience?
I pretty much hate the typical Lineage 2-style look that so many Korean MMORPGs have. I love more realistic approaches like this. Dragon's Dogma and the Souls games are pretty much my ideal style for medieval fantasy RPGs.
Yay for opinions.
lunchtoast
Member
Nice, just like Last Story.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
A deal with MS, presumably.
disappeared
Banned
Never said it had to be. Just wondered if the option was there.
FateBreaker
Member
God forbid Japanese developers experiment on artistic style that they haven't provided us in the last many years. I love the "flavor" to JRPGs and generally like that style more than non-J-RPGs, but to me it is absolutely refreshing to have them experiment and not stick to what people identify with them as. Similarly, I like it when a brave studio in the US/Canda/UK tries to replicate a style very similar to Japanese. I've never understood why the "pseudo-realistic" has to be destroyed and reverted back to the same style I've come to expect from them my whole life. Again, I like their style, but I just don't see the harm in them branching out to western looks. It's your opinion, and it's one that I don't agree with at all.
Well sure, but you'd think maybe...a month gap at least. Not the month right before release lol.
Either way, i'm still leaning towards PS3 since my arisen and pawn are already done there.
Riposte
Member
You are not getting my point. You like cartoony and "over-stylized" games. Cool. That has nothing to do with Western and Japanese. (Moreover you are trying to make it seem like the Japanese devs are being dishonest to themselves for not appealing to your goofy/wacky sensibilities.)
Not true as far as I know. Can also help with pop-in, texture pop-in, frame rate, etc.
3.0?
Dang talk about mixed reception.
Anyone know if the RE6 demo code is first come first serve (like first production copies) or as long as you get a new copy you can get the demo, even later on? Course by the time the price for this game drops the RE6 demo would've probably already come out for free lol
Anyone know if the RE6 demo code is first come first serve (like first production copies) or as long as you get a new copy you can get the demo, even later on? Course by the time the price for this game drops the RE6 demo would've probably already come out for free lol
Karak
Member
Oh ya for sure. Can't easily count the games I have seen get a great benefit from installing that had nothing to do with loading.
1 part Skyrim
2 parts Dark Souls
1 part Castlevania LoS
Garnish with D&D bitters
Shaken not stirred. I don't know, my take.. anyone else?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
I'll just say it's Dragon's Dogma.
Prudent. My fun mix was to help out the ones who aren't playing it, yet.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
What word are you looking for? Its July for the 360, and September for the PS3.
Woot! Newegg shipped my game today and it should be here by tomorrow. I didn't even pick release day shipping or anything, how great.
What sucks is that I've been playing FFXIII for 30 hours now and I know that if I put Dragon's Dogma into my PS3 I'm never going back to it. This has happened far too many times and is what results in my backlog getting so goddamn large. Shit.
What sucks is that I've been playing FFXIII for 30 hours now and I know that if I put Dragon's Dogma into my PS3 I'm never going back to it. This has happened far too many times and is what results in my backlog getting so goddamn large. Shit.
sorry I meant how do we acquire the demo? is there a code in the game boxes?