Dragon's Dogma

[overweight]

got a very unstable AMD GPU RX 5700 XT(even before you could buy it separately ) that i bought together with a built computer that a couple of months later skyrocketed to like 200% of the entire computer price
had 1 crash in 8 hours
to be fair my graphics settings are on low since i dont care about that and i put my hardware limit to 75fps
in the main town my fps did drop to 40+fps tho
yeah the game is unoptimized but not worth the negative review

 

[Cheeseknife]

my pawn is now a jew and has decided to steal everything and has become a sentient mind virus teaching other pawns to steal apparently.

Just wait until he starts telling you to hire more black pawns.

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

A mod that adds Portcrystals, Elite & Explorer Camp Kit, Wakestones, Seeker's Tokens and Farrystones to the first shop in Melve

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/59

Unfortunately the merchant is gone when you progress into the story a bit but maybe it will be added to another merchant later.

Making Portcrystals an item you can buy with real life money is pretty scummy, these were supposed to be very rare now it just depends on how much of a paypig you are I guess.

 

[ComeoutandJULAY]

Obligatory Indian Cr1TiKaL take

 

[SiccDicc]

Not that Denuvo is a good thing, but too many people want to blame DRM for the performance of various games being terrible and it's just not the case. The games themselves are shittily made.

Yeah, but most just run Denuvo. Capcom seems to be running Denuvo, their proprietary DRM and quite possibly Enigma for a three layered cake of shit.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

"Nah, in our RPG, you gotta pay for all that..."

pay to win in a single player game....

PAY TO WIN....in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME.
Granted this has occurred in smaller games in the past on a much smaller scale (serious sam3 had the scope for the devestator as dlc) But this is probably the most fucking egregious shit I've seen ever.
Closest I can recall to this is magicka having a ton of DLC for alternative wizards / builds / levels / guns, but even with those, you could very easily just ignore it.
This shits just fucking pathetic.
I realize countless others have said something like this, but christ, I gotta post at least to vent, because this is some disgusting practice.
Capcom just acting like a greedy Egirl at this point, Fucking sad.
The most disgusting thing is, they could probably be successful, even LIKED if they made this FREE with microtransactions, I don't even like that model, but I realize people would probably be more accepting. Charging 70, then demanding even more for basic functions??

This will only appeal to men with a findom fetish.

 

[King George III]

Now I'm a bit retarded and out the loop, but am I understanding this correctly? There's one save file, you only get to make one character, that's your character forever, and can't delete your save through normal means? Also something about this "anti-tamper" I keep hearing about, would deleting your save from the folder trip that software and lock you out of the game? Are japs really just jews in disguise?

 

[SiccDicc]

Also something about this "anti-tamper" I keep hearing about, would deleting your save from the folder trip that software and lock you out of the game?

There are some people having that trouble, yes.

 

[Cheeseknife]

WorthABuy gives his take on it:

 

[Sniperwoof]

I just want to point out that Redfall one of the worst games I've ever seen recieved a patch that allowed it to maintain a consistent 60 fps.

This game very likely never will.

 

[Castoreum]

Now I'm a bit retarded and out the loop, but am I understanding this correctly? There's one save file, you only get to make one character, that's your character forever, and can't delete your save through normal means? Also something about this "anti-tamper" I keep hearing about, would deleting your save from the folder trip that software and lock you out of the game? Are japs really just jews in disguise?

In DD1 you could start a new game, but it would overwrite your old save. There weren't multiple character slots and you couldn't load from an earlier save (iirc), but at least you could start over if you wanted to.

In DD2 you can't start a new game period. It's not hard to change vocations and I assume it's a bit of work to get the RC and gold to change your or your pawn's appearance, but I guess a lot of newcomers don't know that. I genuinely think it's to drive people to the microtransactions because what game dev forgets to put "New Game" on the title screen? But they're playing ignorant and begging for forgiveness in response to the backlash on PC.

Also yeah. Steam has Denuvo and apparently tampering with the system files will trigger its anticheat measures.

Capcom is really asspained about hackers and mods to the point they would prefer to make their whole player base suffer in order to stop a handful of people from cheating or doing things they morally disapprove of. Why? Idk. I think they have their head up their asses.

 

[SiccDicc]

This game very likely never will.

The only jap dev/publisher I've known to actually try to fix optimization on PC was Koei Tecmo. Didn't always work, but they tried.

 

[TheGuntinator]

I'm playing a thief, and having a blast. Just fought my first griffon. Started right near the capital when a griffon attacked the nearby field of ox, and after a skirmish, the griffon took off with me on its back. I'm trying to bring it down by attacking the wings but I'm running out of stamina. it flies a decent way northwest before I think to set off a powder charge on its wings. it crashes onto a path (I fall, instantly die, ressurect witha wakestone, and then get a 2000lb griffon dropped on my head) right on top of an oxcart full of soldiers. the card is entirely destroyed, the ox gets killed at some point in the battle and I eventually drive the griffon off, only for it to attack me as I make camp a day later.

they were so rare in the first game, and I learned you would be forced to let go once they reached a certain height so they werent much fun then. everything I have ever wanted out of DD2.

 

[L Ton Tubbard]

There's one save file, you only get to make one character, that's your character forever, and can't delete your save through normal means?

Yes.

Also something about this "anti-tamper" I keep hearing about

I'm not 100% on how it relates to DD2 but Capcom has a stick up their ass about PC players modding their games now for a variety of reasons and is using a new DRM called Enigma that's supposed to be anti-modding. They went so far as to add this DRM to entire entire catalogue of games on Steam, even ones that are over a decade old. I've seen speculation this same DRM is being used on DD2 as well but no confirmation.

would deleting your save from the folder trip that software and lock you out of the game?

That might have more to do with the online component, it stores your character on their server. Probably to make tinkering offline or redesigning them for free harder.

 

[0 0]

Let us know about your fps in towns. Apparently no CPU can stay above 60 there.

I hover around 70-80 with dips to 54 at worst, but I'm using top of the line hardware, so it's absolutely going to be unplayable until a patch for other computers.

 

[SiccDicc]

I hover around 70-80 with dips to 54 at worst, but I'm using top of the line hardware, so it's absolutely going to be unplayable until a patch for other computers.

How many kidneys will it cost me to have your specs?

 

[King George III]

Well then, I guess I'm never buying anything from Capcom ever again. Thanks for saving me $70.

 

[Lorgar]

I mean look at this shit:

Why the antiquated Australian spelling of Jail though?

 

[Cheeseknife]

Why the antiquated Australian spelling of Jail though?

It's a medieval fantasy game. Some of the words are supposed to look antiquated.

 

[Site of Origin]

Going to post my impressions as someone thst really enjoyed DD back 10 years ago on my Xbox, then again on PC with Dark Arisen.

Tldr: I like this game a lot. If you were a fan of the first, you will like this game. Let's break it down

MTX: very gay, completely unnecessary from both Capcom and to buy. You will have gold and RC galore to redo your character. Capcom shouldn't have included this.

Performance: Ass. My PC is fairly high end, 4090, 13700k, 64GB of DDR5 @ 6400 Mhz, installed on am NVME drive. In combat areas/ open world, im usually 90 to 124 FPS at 3440x1440. Not great but it feels good and fluid. In the major city, it's anywhere from low 50's to mid 70's. GPU is at 30% max, CPU is hammered with a few cores sitting at 100. Also, random spikes on my NVME drive. Whats interesting about the city's is that the 60 FPS doesn't feel like it. Input lag gets noticeably worse, and I'm pretty sure it has to do with frame latency. Goes from 1-2 ms in the open world to 7-8.

Gameplay: great. No handholding, lots of systems, rewarding exploration, and lots of nice touches. If you dominate an enemy pack you will bump hands / high five your pawns and it feels fucking great. Pick up shit and throwing on your enemies, go alternate routes and turn the traps on them in dungeons. Vocations got some extra abilities that amplify the gameplay, like mages can now fast cast spells but it costs a lot more stamina. World looks good, not groundbreaking but you can tell the environments are crafted well and things fit together.

I know the hate train is hard on this game now, but if you look at the gameplay and what it has to offer outside of the mtx which you can avoid. And you can deal with the performance in towns, I think there is a good game here.