Supermanisdead
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Finally got the Hero trophy, and my first platinum, after 4 playthroughs. Now just to get rank 10 on every vocation and max level and some sick armor. This is the GOTY.
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Dragon's Dogma |OT| For the night is dark and full of terrors
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Johnlenham
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Ah that explains it, I just thought it had messed up as I swore on GT review it was in English aha.
Thanks for the responses folks! So you dont really need to get attached to hired pawns as they dont level with you? is that right?
Annoyed if so as I sent away some sick looking warrior woman all in black stuff with a dragon eyepatch I met on the road :|
AgentOtaku
Member
Deified Data
Banned
You can still mark that pawn as a favorite and look into her every once in a while. She'll level up along with her player, most likely.
Hired pawns are basically a 'copy' of another Arisen's main pawn. That copy will not change for the duration he/she is trooping with you. If you send the pawn away, however, and search the Rift for him/her again, you'll download a fresh 'copy.' This is assuming the owner of that pawn is still playing the game, of course.
Do keep in mind that folks tend to class-change their pawns fairly commonly, so the new copy could be quite a bit different than the one that was with you originally.
And yes, you can always 'favorite' a pawn to easily pull them up. You can also access a list of most recently hired pawns when playing with the Rift's search parameters. And finally, if the owner of that pawn is a PSN friend, that's another easy way to always be able to pull the pawn up. You've got a bunch of options.
Johnlenham
Member
Bloody hell! I had the most intense fight Ive had in a game in a long ass time, Proper monster hunter vibes aswell.
So I dont really know what Im doing, I just roam around the countryside wrecking stuff and getting lost in the night. Ive killed a few chimeras (maybe 4 now?) and thought that might be the biggest thing to find.
I end up heading south east and off into some woods, It gets dark and again im just running about soaking wet and its pitch black, whacking lizards and such.
Bump into some goblins, they are easy as I have some stupidly strong mace and some chimera armour I found in a cave that I had been lost in previously.
I hear some whoosh whoosh and a shadow.
"Fuck me that is a dragon"
I then spend the next possibly 30-45 mins fighting this thing, most of the night is spent riding it in the air trying to make it land, the rest of the day is spent smashing its face in, stabbing its heart ect
Only through many miracles did I win. He did some move atleast 5 times that outright killed everyone and left me with a slither of health, I used nearly every stamina, health and random potion I had made but yeah killed it in the end.
It was like fighting Ralthos mixed with Nicarauga. It was nuts.
So I dont really know what Im doing, I just roam around the countryside wrecking stuff and getting lost in the night. Ive killed a few chimeras (maybe 4 now?) and thought that might be the biggest thing to find.
I end up heading south east and off into some woods, It gets dark and again im just running about soaking wet and its pitch black, whacking lizards and such.
Bump into some goblins, they are easy as I have some stupidly strong mace and some chimera armour I found in a cave that I had been lost in previously.
I hear some whoosh whoosh and a shadow.
"Fuck me that is a dragon"
I then spend the next possibly 30-45 mins fighting this thing, most of the night is spent riding it in the air trying to make it land, the rest of the day is spent smashing its face in, stabbing its heart ect
Only through many miracles did I win. He did some move atleast 5 times that outright killed everyone and left me with a slither of health, I used nearly every stamina, health and random potion I had made but yeah killed it in the end.
It was like fighting Ralthos mixed with Nicarauga. It was nuts.
R_thanatos
Member
See this feelign you have right now ? this is because of this that many rate dragon dogma that high ( despite the game flaws )
remember this feelign .. savour it .. enjoy it
Augemitbutter
Member
i wish that feeling would come back with hard mode and expansion.
Supermanisdead
Member
Damnit, it's so stupid that you can't search same-level pawns in the rift after you go past level 100. I can't afford these level-infinite pawns!
Johnlenham
Member
bollocks my inn keeper is dead 
R_thanatos
Member
bollocks my inn keeper is dead
he will revive in 7 days of in game time
Johnlenham
Member
Yeah had to go find an inn and speed that up.
Managed to get the gold idol aswell
Man grand cannon is no joke!
Kind of annoying my gear for my mystic knight is so good as I want to give assassin ago.
Nearly maxed warrior, Mk and 4 spots from top fighter..
Man when the fuck is the hardmode coming out!? I want to replay this.
Don't think so, heard the quests were pretty bad (the ones in the main game weren't too good to begin with), so that leaves some of the equipment DLCs, but they're kind of unnecessary, better to save money and spend them on something else.
Don't think so, heard the quests were pretty bad (the ones in the main game weren't too good to begin with), so that leaves some of the equipment DLCs, but they're kind of unnecessary, better to save money and spend them on something else.
Augemitbutter
Member
yea, the upcoming expansion pack is where you want to spend your money on.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Do we have a release date for the hard mode and expansion?
I've been waiting so I could start a hard mode run.
I've been waiting so I could start a hard mode run.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I'm kind of glad it's taking so long. The longer the wait, the fresher the replay will be.
Johnlenham
Member
Well I just beat The Dragon... wut about sums up the proceeding 15mins and now Ive done a few bits and called it a night!
R_thanatos
Member
beat the dragon ?
Lol You're NOT DONE YET
you're post game and you have plenty of new things to do that have appeared !
The story is not over
Johnlenham
Member
Yeah I spent today running in and out of all these rooms killing things and poked the U dragon for abit. What else has opened up as if I just hand in 20 stones is it a boss fight away from NG+?
It's going to come out on Christmas day at this rate.
I'm so prepared where is it ;_;
sublimit
Banned
I just finished the game
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I can't believe a game so flawed is my candidate for GOTY 2012. It has a lot of issues but somehow they manage to add to the experience, and it was one hell of a ride.
Amazing game, I hated its guts in the first 10 hours or so, then fell totally in love. I'd like to play NG+ now for the platinum trophy but I'm not sure I want to play it again right now from the beginning, 60 hours are a lot. Maybe I'll wait for the patch you're all talking about or for the DLC. I skipped a lot of stuff in the first half of the game though, didn't think there were missable quests.
I really hope this sold enough to grant us a full fledged sequel (a bit more refined, hopefully) other than more DLCs.
for real, used the Godsbane sword and stuff
I can't believe a game so flawed is my candidate for GOTY 2012. It has a lot of issues but somehow they manage to add to the experience, and it was one hell of a ride.
Amazing game, I hated its guts in the first 10 hours or so, then fell totally in love. I'd like to play NG+ now for the platinum trophy but I'm not sure I want to play it again right now from the beginning, 60 hours are a lot. Maybe I'll wait for the patch you're all talking about or for the DLC. I skipped a lot of stuff in the first half of the game though, didn't think there were missable quests.
Also, apparently my love interest was Reynard lol, kinda happy with that.
I really hope this sold enough to grant us a full fledged sequel (a bit more refined, hopefully) other than more DLCs.
Johnlenham
Member
See I Prefered the earler part of the game.
actually being scared of the dark forests and cyclops etc by the time the blue tower came up there wasn't anything I was afraid to fight and most things became an annoyance.
Not to mention the travel got abit long in the tooth.
Some kind of carriage that you actively drive and could jump off if you felt like it would be useful rather than a port item.
actually being scared of the dark forests and cyclops etc by the time the blue tower came up there wasn't anything I was afraid to fight and most things became an annoyance.
Not to mention the travel got abit long in the tooth.
Some kind of carriage that you actively drive and could jump off if you felt like it would be useful rather than a port item.
Despite being very critic at first, I ended up loving the whole travelling aspect, even later in the game. Enough with instant bethesda-like travelling, it really kills the mood and the tension in those games and to me it feels like a debug mode or something.
I thought the whole ferrystones/portal crystals was very well design, it takes effort and money to establish clever routes all over the map but I appreciated having to build this network myself instead of having it ready for use. Very original imho, and for once not hand-holding like so many other games nowadays. But it helped that I didn't take many escort and secondary fetch quests, I must admit. I can see how it can be extremely tiring to do all that travel in a single playthrough.
I think I would have tried to add horses to the game as some kind of compromise between instant travel and the extenuating long walks between point A and point B. Something like Red Dead Redemption, but without the fast travel between cities.
Also monsters needed more variety, yeah. After 30 hours nothing really feels like a challenge anymore (except the whole ending part, that's hard if you're not past level ~55 and have crap pawns). It's a pity a lot of brand new monsters pop up in the last 5 hours of the game while for over 50 hours you battle like five, six kind of creatures.
But it's weird, I feel I even like some severe game's faults. They feel like they're part of the experience more than something that ruined it, for me at least.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Currently 9.99 at Microsoft store.
The framerate and tearing is atrocious on 360. The combat is pretty amazing but I don't think I can play a game that runs this bad. Has there been any news of a PC version? This would look incredible on pc! If not, I'll have to skip it
Might hear something about it when the new patches roll out. I hope it does happen, because I'm not sure if I can deal with the constant sub-20fps performance of the ps3 version again.
Johnlenham
Member
Yeah red dead did a good job as it was more fun to ride places than fast travel and theres some stuff as you say that shows up for what can be litrally half hour to an hours worth of game time.
I never did figure out how to get more things to make porting locations..
Johnlenham
Member
The ending was very
R_thanatos
Member
Mage early on HAVE to pay attention to their party composition it's the least friendly start in this gam easily.. be warned.
FINALLY, Hard/Time Trial mode coming on December 4. you get special armor and equipment for clearing them.
pics of those armors.
http://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/201211260008/
pics of those armors.
http://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/201211260008/
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Welp, guess it's time to fire it up again.
Supermanisdead
Member
Sweet. I hope they change up the enemy placements too.
Augemitbutter
Member
so sweet.
R_thanatos
Member
Well well ..it's time to go back
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Time to dust off my copy then.
Haunted
Member
Maan, this game is pretty great. Japanese Elder Scrolls sounds about right.
Wish it didn't have the technical limitations and problems it has (too ambitious for old consoles? Capcom should've done that PC port after all :/ ) and some fucking stupid design decisions that are unfriendly and tedious. Make Riftstones the fast-travel mechanic and have one at every major landmark and it instantly becomes a better game, none of this portcrystal bs. You can even confine fast travel to daytime only so you still get some of these desperate nighttime treks, when you're stuck in the wilderness in complete darkness with the oil running low and monsters seemingly everywhere.
That said, I think this is still a winner. Great atmosphere, top notch lighting and particle effects, ambitious world design, complex squad combat system, good shit all around.
Wish it didn't have the technical limitations and problems it has (too ambitious for old consoles? Capcom should've done that PC port after all :/ ) and some fucking stupid design decisions that are unfriendly and tedious. Make Riftstones the fast-travel mechanic and have one at every major landmark and it instantly becomes a better game, none of this portcrystal bs. You can even confine fast travel to daytime only so you still get some of these desperate nighttime treks, when you're stuck in the wilderness in complete darkness with the oil running low and monsters seemingly everywhere.
That said, I think this is still a winner. Great atmosphere, top notch lighting and particle effects, ambitious world design, complex squad combat system, good shit all around.
So much for "I don't feel like starting it all over again", I'm almost finished with my NG+, I only need to do the very last fight to get two of the three trophies I still need for the platinum.
The third trophy I'm missing is
, any help for that?
Can't wait for the hard mode!
The third trophy I'm missing is
defeating the Ur-Dragon
I tried both modes, but as far as I can tell the online mode won't give me the achievement unless I'm the one to deliver the final blow? That's pretty unlikely. Tried even offline mode, I can't kill it in the 8 minutes I'm given, I can only take like two third of its health. Sigh.
Can't wait for the hard mode!
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
If you leave and come right back in offline mode, the
Ur-Dragon will return with the same health it left at.
Woah, that simple? Thanks, I'll try it right now then.
Supermanisdead
Member
Be an Assassin. Get a light enchanted weapon. Dire Gouge all day.
Augemitbutter
Member
i think so. maybe they'll reward weapons and armor if you're fast enough.
