3rd Fleet Podcast Ep. 84 | Dragon's Dogma 2 Deep Dive (Some Spoilers)

[@figuures6098]

Gaijins story of how his daughter ended up stranded and alone in the desert is a literal comedy of errors lmao, every single wrong decision taken to get to the worst outcome for creating unfun tension and stress for yourself

[@withoutwarmth]

reminds me of Elden Ring with the chest that sent you to Caelid, i feel like the game would be better if it didnt let you just teleport out once you get out of the cave like in DD2 because thats one of my core memories, i went up because yknow if you want out of a cave you go up, but going up leads you to the boss room so i got to the boss room after like an hour or 2 of trying to get there and finally realised i need to go the other way to get out of the cave. I will never forget that frustration and stress but I loved every moment of it.

[@noctisebboy]

I wouldn’t call it errors from the players side. It’s stupid punishment for exploring.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Not punishing close to grace and resting at grace lets teleport

[@wytchhunter8448]

I'm trying to figure out why they didn't just load the in save? Isn't that what it's for?

[@withoutwarmth]

@@wytchhunter8448 thats what i thought too, its the failsafe for moments like that but maybe she didnt know?

[@damienofcrackball]

Over the last month I've listened to all 84 of these episodes. I just wanted to say thanks to you and Gaijin for recording so many fantastic conversations. As a relative newcomer to Monster Hunter I've found your historical insights and the observations about the community to be invaluable. Happy hunting, and cheers to many more episodes as Wilds approaches!

[@bej4987]

Gaijin: particular thing sucks and isn't fun. Ruri: That's what makes it great!

[@Pontif11]

That's where different perspectives come into play. Horror isn't fun to me but to others that's the best part of a game. Its about what kind of experiences we everyone is into. Same coul be said for the obtuseness of Souls or the competitive aspect of pvp games. Everything isn't for everyone and that's ok.

[@wytchhunter8448]

Yeah like why didn't he just load the inn save for his daughter?

[@jockpackage1770]

yeah, with the forgery thing it's the only time he does that and it's a matter of you gave the fake to the wrong guy. the punishment is severe but also funny. it's what you get for bum rushing to that town and doing that quest right away. it is sad that it does that to teach you that they can be smart enough not to trust you if you give them a fake but it ionly happens once. also consumables like all heal elixirs don't have forgeries so you can just copy the real ones. same with fruit wine, same with newt liquir, even the eternal wakestone can make working copies when normal wake stones won't.

[@Orexsis]

THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEEE

[@Keldrath]

he was definitely right about the time period, was around the same time we got RULES OF NATURE

[@ghostsoda7710]

That’s weird, I never had that issue with the elf village port crystal

[@ryanjohnson1124]

Here’s a neat little trick for the first play though riddles for the sphinx: For the riddle with the statues and guessing how many you’ve answered, she reflects the correct amount with the eyes on her wings. This was kinda interesting and I noticed on my second play through.

[@kudzukid12]

That is pretty cool actually…You can also just count the amount of chests that are unlocked or open if you’ve been opening them and just add 5 from the first location. That’s what I did anyway

[@brianjohnson9890]

Honestly if they would have put port crystals in one or two more major places then any frustration I had with fast travel would have been pretty much gone

[@TheShugoBR]

about the sphynxparent, don't need to be a CAPCOM pawn, and there is like Riftstone of Fellowship where you get "pawns with a different name" and is kind of close to the sphynx

[@mkv2718]

yeah, i think people just *heard* that player made “sphinxparent” pawns were done to mess you up and get you to fail the quest without actually just making an inn save and TRYING FOR THEMSELVES before reporting this as. “fact.”

[@kaitlyncampbell979]

Ruri, I have news for you days late. When you change your pawn vocation, it immediately updates them in the rift even if you don't sleep. I slept at an inn with a maxed mage vocation and then updated my pawn to archer without a bow and logged off for the night without sleeping and my friend the next day asked why my pawn didn't have a bow. Felt bad that they couldn't enjoy my mage pawn for the day while i was at work and they had the day off.

[@thehandle711]

The heath gauge depletion argument when dying is completely invalidated by just using a wakestone. That is the counter and you start to get them pretty much instantly.

[@brokemono]

Allheal elixirs are great too and probably even better because you can take it to the forgery and get a working clone.

[@williammcgregor7150]

Gaijin is right about the Dark Arisen title song. It sets a great tone

[@voidshaman3580]

From what I read, the max amount of gives you can give anyone is 1 a day. So if you give them more than 1 in a day, you're wasting the gifts.

[@Neroivno]

Just binge watch the last 4 podcasts, it's been a blast to listen to these two rant about stuff they're passionate about, reminded me of 2021 when it used to be every Wednesday, good times those were

[@MrThewalkingdead]

It sounds like they need two new overworld locations (like maybe a far north area and a high level corridor that lets you get places faster but has lots of ruins to explore and higher level monsters to fight), three new dungeons (an everfall type area, a bitterblack type area with its own story, and something new) and probably 5 new mini-bosses, 3 new bosses, and 5 new base types, along with higher level variants of most types, more armors, and more interesting weapons and specializations. That's a lot to cover in DLC. I think this is a DLC skeleton. I'm not necessarily mad about that. We shall see based on quality and cost. Still looking forward to finishing with school so I can have time for this game.

[@SubiKinubi]

I think the Medusa should have been found in vermund by the time most of us reached it we were over levelled for it tbh

[@zachjennings5320]

The loss gauge is a core mechanic of the game. Without it seceral systems completely fall apart and are useless. It would also make an already easy game even easier.

[@jlstudio1050]

We got em. He is wearing a Longsword Tshirt

[@RedDeadSakharine]

2:26:00 I'm very certain he always gives you the rearmament skill, you just have to talk to him a second time after unlocking the vocation. Also your daughter could've tried reloading from last inn save. I recon the time lost redoing some stuff would've been less of a pain than trying to get through Battahl as lvl 10.

[@DANCERcow]

Considering dark arisen added a port crystal ring to Cassardis and BBI. So likely they will add this in the rerelease to bahtal and melve and elf land

[@A_Dylan_of_No_Renown]

I think you’re right, but elf land/Sacred Arbor already has a permanent port crystal, but you just have to do a quest to get it first. I think they should add one to Rest Town though.

[@mkv2718]

rerelease? we’re not in the 200s or early 2010s anymore. the same way MHW had Iceborne as an expansion instead of a rerelease, this will just get an expansion if it gets anything.

[@ragen013108]

The ending is some what the same if you don't have max affinity with your pawn his speech is just a bit different about how they feel but it plays exactly the same

[@Orakio]

The stupid thing about the death penalty is that if you go to the title screen and reload your save, you won't get the death penalty.

[@dias8588]

1:12:00 you can also just use the silence spell from mage on a pawn.

[@Ocean5ix]

Well, the consumer did "took a break" from caring about microtransactions. Aside from very few specific cases in which the implementation was absurd like in Shadow of War, for example, we went on for like 5 to 7 years without an "event" like Dragon's Dogma 2. Now all of a sudden everybody remembers it's a thing. I want to see this same energy when MH Wilds comes out.

[@djagentorange]

For Gaijin, highly recommend the difficulty mods out there. Playing with 4x damage taken and enemies taking 25% of normal damage really changes the game. At least until they give us an official hard mode.

[@Nothuplay]

I never fully kept track of it but the endgame portcrystals activate either from playing out the story moment at the water shrine or getting your first "boss" - to keep it vague.

[@jakobrux5586]

Even Dark Souls 3 reduces your maximum health in a way when you die. But they were smart and made your potential maximum health, the max you have when you are embered, seem like a bonus instead of having you think it's a penalty when you don't have it. They even do it visually by having you keep your normal appearance if you die a lot but giving you cool visual effects on top as long as you are embered to make it seem even more like a Bonus.

[@silverheart7964]

It doesn't seem like a bonus, it IS a bonus. You get a reward for killing a boss by being embered, until you die again. And you can always pop another ember when you feel like it because they're consumable. It's not a punishment system, it's a reward system. It's not the same thing at all. Your max health will never be lower than what you made it when allocating your stats/levelling up in DS3. Rewarding the player for victory instead of punishing them for death are two very different design choices, it's not like they're the same thing but DS3 hides it or something. Being Embered is not the regular state of the player character.

[@Zaney_]

I wanna ask why she didn't just reload from the last saved inn.. instead of suffering for 5 hours straight. And about gaijin's long trek.. you can just port between vernworth and eld village and from vernworth take the oxcart to the checkpoint and take another ox cart from the checkpoint to bakbathal. Now i know that if you go to checkpoint earlier than you should you don't have a permit so.. what kind of player doesn't turn back? That's a clear indication that they don't want you to enter that area early.

[@Mr.Goodbar517]

I’d say it’s “High Medieval Fantasy Monster Hunter”

[@Someone-lg6di]

There was definitely stuff that was cut so many filled in caves were it starts with an arch byt is filled in

[@robkinney1974]

The main story you don't get the port crystal until Brandt sends you to Bakbattahl.

[@oldmangamer7161]

I know a few days ago. But you can steal 6k rift crystals from a dulahan. And carve can pull 1k. So not hard to stack them. And you can steal dyes aswell.

[@arzodyeetus7221]

I'm super mixed because the map and many other things are so much better in 2,warrior gets redeemed,that vocation was done real justice this time for example,but there's less enemy variety,performance issues for most people,meaning anyone who isn't running a high end pc build,the whole image fiasco with dlc and stuff,etc. This truly feels like a big time remake and not a sequel,there's improvements but there's also setbacks alongside a general remaining of the lore and all,which I liked a lot btw,but for example,the climax and true climax do t feel as grandiose and meaningful as DD1,even if it was a shirt story,the presentation and dramatism was VERY powerful the original. Is this game worth it? Oh absolutely,it's still dragons dogma for sure,but I'm waiting for a dark arisen like expansion that really focuses on juicing out the reinvented framework they have put on,I think that would do as big of a benefit as Dafk Arisen did the first time.

[@arzodyeetus7221]

2:52:00 i think you mean the seneschal,which was the final fightt of original dragons dogma

[@skullduggery1385]

You can also go speak to the Elven brother whom showed you the village and he will tell you that your looking for scalecinder

[@d3knot]

I got the same ending, I killed the dragon (which was hella easy), went back to vernworth, sat on a chair and became sovrand. The end, back to the title screen. I feel how he got robbed.

[@Grubkiller35]

This podcast can be summoned in a few sentences. Gaijin hates this bout dragon's dogma 2, Ruri loves it😂😂😂

[@zachjennings5320]

Sounds like Gaijin just doesnt like what the game is at a core level. It would be like playing a racing game and complaining about sliding too much around corners or complaining about recoil in a fps. Its an intended annoyance or difficulty intentionally designed to make the game more interesting.

[@tiberuishunter5390]

DD1 core was better and actually respected your time when you played. This game has some really baffling mechanics when the first one did it better

[@zachjennings5320]

@@tiberuishunter5390 what did DD1 do better as far as respecting your time?

[@noctisebboy]

@@zachjennings5320eternal ferrystone 😂

[@mcflufferkins]

​@@noctisebboy Ah yes, the item provided to people that transferred saves into Dark Arisen or had been provided with the re-release. The expansion that released a year after the original. Totally a respect of people's time.

[@Steadymobbin711]

I'm gonna have to put my shield down for that one boss.

[@retiresatisfied]

I broke into the south on accident. There was a covered fancy ox cart that let me through. I did everything I could while down there. Heck I still haven't gotten in legally! I'm still sneaking in hahaha 😆

[@alexanderwolf9408]

Do you see the game as a metaphor for our lives? Because the arisen has a will and the pawn is just an empty vessel, or man against dragon corresponds to light against dark and therefore also very much the hero's journey. What are your thoughts on this?

[@retiresatisfied]

God I miss the opening menu of the original Dragons Dogma. Gotta love that guitar riff.

[@sepiroth426]

Fuck yeah 4 hour 3rd fleet pod, let's go!

[@sevask8768]

I switched from straightforward to Calm on my pawn to try it out as fighter. So far he does a really great job blocking attacks and not taking much DMG, but doesn't taunt often to hold aggro. So I went back to that inclination. Changing inclination is pretty dang expensive. So if you want to change up your role and your pawn often. It cost so much to have your pawn use a inclination more suitable for the vocation that the pawn is using.

[@sevask8768]

One thing I wish was added in the game. A way to tell your pawns when to use the abilities. Like the Mage that has a ability (forgot name) that makes a giant bubble, but drains all the mage stamina. I would like to have stuff like that more used for bigger mobs instead of a random goblin. So many times having to wait on the mage passing out like Megumin on every little fight we go through lmao.

[@figuures6098]

My main issue with inclinations (I run a fighter pawn with straightforward too, so they rush down and yell at mobs more), is that voices are attached to the inclination of the pawn. I get it in concept, but female straightforward voice doesn’t fit my pawn at all, and I would much prefer the calm VA, even if they spoke in the straightforward style

[@sevask8768]

@@figuures6098 yeah i agree it's annoying the voice is locked in specific inclinations. I didn't care for it much for my pawn, but there was a moment in his line that sounded a bit like Nigel Thornberry lol.

[@chasegaetze4507]

I was at the beach area of bahtal and the birds picked up two pawns and threw em in the ocean lol I was kind of shocked and laughed

[@banedeath]

It's ok Gaijin, I also did not care for the original title music.

[@robertcespedes1671]

Knew what song you were singing before you ever said it miss that shit lmao

[@echoq7594]

Mage is a blast so far for me, I love all the utility abilities they have and honestly, the AI is far worse at actually properly giving out buffs and heals. I've been having a lot of fun with it.

[@zachjennings5320]

Jesus a whole hour dedicated just to talking about microtransactions... Wish people would talk about the actual game and quit overblowing the microtransactions

[@JohnShaft1469]

2nd dd2 podcast could be a critique on a quest per quest basis

[@worstwordmonger]

I did the quest with the hidden archive, and then much much later while I was doing another quest they gave me logistician and forager back to back seemingly at random

[@franciscor390]

Gaijin Hunter seems stuck in arrested development.

[@solace714]

Regarding the discord delay issues, maybe try the events feature. That seems to have very low latency.

[@adamstevens3661]

Its called friction.

[@boislap]

How come they made a whole sequel to dragon's dogma while disregarding everything about Dark Arisen.

[@EatWave]

It is no different than when they release a new Monster Hunter without the QoL improvements and Master Rank updates of the previous games.

[@tiberuishunter5390]

Cause dark arisen was made by a different director

[@mkv2718]

also, a bunch of the monsters that only appeared in BBi are here too. the only real improvement missing is the lack of Hard mode. not really much reason to wait on that one, since it just changed heath, dmg, gold pickups, and knockdown numbers around.

[@Callimandicus]

I'm curious since I didn't watch the playthrough. But he said he got the parent riddle wrong by using an item instead. So he would have only gotten 4 right in the first location. So 5 would have been his correct answer.

[@MarineCARMINE]

I have over 10k rift crystals and I didn't buy any. Make good pawns that looks cool with decent gear and they will hire them.

[@gaijinhunter]

My guess is at this point it's because Astarion is a guy. Make a girl pawn, profit.

[@Keldrath]

yeah and theres not much to spend em on either pretty much just dyes and glasses.

[@MarineCARMINE]

@@gaijinhunter I made a female sorc with a attractive face and body. She got hired a lot. She also had good skills equipped like malestrom and levin.

[@MarineCARMINE]

@@Keldrath yeah I only get the dyes and the character/pawn change items.

[@ingueferroque]

Not sure how you can prefer DD on Switch over PC. On Steam Deck it runs at a beautiful 60.

[@TheMetalheadStudios]

I agree Dark Arisen song is better it feels so haunting with the piano

[@TheDragonshunter]

Man I want loadout for pawns so all the fashion I did for mine, for each vocations doesn't get wasted, and lock it to lvl 40.

[@hamyman35]

Something im suprised more people dont have a problem with is the fact you can be hit down to zero health and you get half a second to just heal up from zero and ram through every encounter makes combat feel cheap to me.

[@mkv2718]

i mean, you could do that in the first game too. hell, there are a LOT of games you can do that in, like the last two Zeldas for example, and at least here you have a weight limit. not every game needs Souls style healing

[@hamyman35]

@mkv2718 I dont believe that's the case. The instant you hit zero hearts in zelda its game over you don't get half a second to just spam a healing item to deny your death if you take lethal damage.

[@Sinphanius]

I have to agree with the thoughts on the actual true ending. I feel you should have still had to fight The Dragon in the True Ending, while currently you have to skip it. You should have had to fight through a first phase to get him to half health and then he picks you up and you do the sword shenanigans. Honestly the biggest missed opportunity, and I honestly don't understand how games keep making this mistake, is the handling of the Pawn Driven Talos. Like not only does this come out of nowhere, but how do you, as a game developer, write a sequence where a Player Aligned Giant Robot Fights some Giant Monsters and not make this a playable sequence. For crying out loud even FALLOUT 3 was well written enough that it made Liberty Prime's March something you fought alongside and it was awesome. Would it have really been too hard for the game to have your Pawn be like "Master! I'm Blindesteth in Hereth! Prithee Verily Guidest Mine Fists!" and then you climb onto the robot's head, go Full Drift Compatible, strike a Synced Sentai Pose and actually pilot the thing? You could even work the Pawn Affinity thing into it where if you aren't super high on Pawn Affinity there's an input delay, though anyone who gets to this point will be maxed Affinity. Have you fight a normal Lesser Dragon. By this point the Player should have the moveset down and it will help you learn Talos' moveset. Then give us an Army Sequence where we fight to the tower through dozens of Cyclopses and hundreds of Goblins, then have the full Red Dragon come down and let us go full Kaiju Fight. After that, when we return to the central beam have it actually pull the Pathfinder's Soul down to reality, with him taking the form of a slightly Black and Green tinted Dragon and the end sequence plays out as in the actual game.

[@SpecLeader101]

I feel like ive 100% the game. Platinum trophy all side quests completed bad and good conclusions, all pawn badges and lvl 362. 100% could be level 999 but i dont see a point in going that far. My only real gripe with the game is still the stamina system. Stamina usage with skills feels % based, no matter how much i have i still run out just as fast with or without stam rings. Stamina recovery is NOT % based. The more stamina you have, the longer it takes to recover, and the longer you remain out of breath if you run out. Having almost 2k stamina keeps you out of breath for 12 seconds. 12 fucking seconds. Stamina recovery should be % based and out of breath should be at most 4 seconds. Sprinting outside of combat shouldnt reduce stamina.

[@Knights_of_the_Nine]

Definitely reccomend the Wild Loot mod to at least make loot better before the endgame =p

[@NekoBatyx]

THANK YOU, GAIJIN! ALL OF YOUR COMPLAINTS MAKE ME FEEL VALIDATED! DD2 was a chance to redeem DD1's potential, but I felt like it was an extremely wasted opportunity. I think the easiest analogy for comparing DD1 and DD2 is by comparing the cheap and expensive houses you can get in DD2. All of the houses in DD2 fulfill the same purpose, but the expensive houses are bigger, a bit fancier, but definitely not worth the time and effort.

[@tiberuishunter5390]

Yep Same here. It's not just gajin either, the sentiment has been spread deep into the community

[@mkv2718]

right now this game just needs a hard mode. why they didn’t release it with one despite its existence being one of the things people praised about DDDA is just beyond me…

[@magdeats]

While im not an extremist like Gaijin seems to be on this topic, I do prefer Dark Arisen's title music. Theres dozens of us.

[@swankypotato1249]

Gaijin's love for Dragonsplague and calling people weak for counteracting it (like the tutorial tells you how to do) was so strange. Should I also fail every quest as well to experience everything? It's okay for people to want to avoid a sickness that the game makes a big deal about being calamitous, and it's okay that you think it's cool to contract it. But also, I'm surprised he thinks the plague was a "Cool sequence". The plague could have been SO much better, and instead all we get is a cutscene (no fight with your infected pawn or something), extremely obvious signs that are very hard to miss, and as Gaijin put it, a "mean" way to cure it by killing pawns/throwing them into the brine. I feel like the feature is just... meh. It needed to be far easier to contract, and it needed to reach climax way sooner (not just at an inn rest). And then when it pops off, it can happen ANYWHERE and the pawn becomes super deadly with a boss health bar and everything. It just was super underwhelming (even the town destruction is not enough for hardcore people because most npc's respawn, lol) I also strongly disagree that it's part of a "perfect playthrough", because I actually liked catching the signs in my main pawn. He is kindhearted, so him saying "I act of my own accord!" And "you don't need to keep giving me orders, I know what to do!" Was REALLY cool, but also instantly signaled that something was up. And I even kept him around to see his eyes get redder and redder, and then... I cured it. I didn't really want to nuke a town when I had accurately noticed the signs of the plague and could do something about it. That's not "weak", it's just the other part of that gameplay interaction: curing it, or not curing it. Nether option "correct" or "perfect" just preference. I also think the panic from everyone at first was PART OF THE FUN! I think it's hilarious that the plague started happening and there was mass hysteria, because it wasn't weak, it was the exact outcome I had hoped for! I wanted it to be a scary thing that everyone was spreading and worrying about, and was dissappointed that it ended up being kinda underwhelming. Anyways, rant over lol.

[@worstwordmonger]

I haven’t crossed the checkpoint yet and I’ve gotten a portcrystal already. I don’t remember where I got it. I put it in storage because I just haven’t been using any ferrystones

[@Someone-lg6di]

Elf story, forest griffen nest brant quest are options also sphinx.

[@worstwordmonger]

@@Someone-lg6di Oh I did fall into a gryphon nest, where I had to fight it alone as an archer since my pawns went to find a safe route, and I killed it as my first gryphon kill. That must have been when I found it. I grabbed everything in the nest midfight and I wasn’t paying attention

[@elenaschmidt9476]

late watch but we really need a xenoblade chronicles X port, if only so I can hear gaijin's take on the soundtrack :'D

[@superwolfie4061]

I very much enjoyed this game but it needed more time to cook and sadly only a expansion will fix it maybe. I havent played the first game but based on what i'm hearing the first is way better.

[@FelyneFine]

DD2 definitely didn't have enough time to cook and i knew it as soon as they announced the release date. and remember covid hit game devs hard this one definitely suffered from that.

[@jockpackage1770]

arcady? yes, wakestones are your quarters lmao, let the game munch them all. the rring of assurance or whatever i found in game in the first few hours. wasn't particularly good or even of note. no port cristal in batahl is dumb, it's lore over gameplay "well they don't like visiters so if you could use a port crystal that makes the border a joke." even though there's anotehr path to bypass it that's always open if you survive the journey. the permanent port crystal in Harve village is pointless, it's so close to the main city in Vermond but those are the only 2 you get without setting them yourself. always nice to have one in batahl and one in the elf village. the elves even give you one for their quest, for that reason. lol calm inclination is "i will let you die, arisen, my survival matters most." even if the game's rules say the player dying is the game over condition. kind is for healers or support like sink casting more, straightforward is for tanks or those that you want to just damage things, simple is for exploration, and calm is for the dumpster. no really, calm will just trash your items on you if you're not careful with what you give them. forgery lets you clone the eternal wake stone, normal wake stones are woke stones but there is no eternal woke stone. this means you can copy infinite village revives and pass them to friends via the dismiss pawn gift. as long as you keep 1 in your inventory you can keep cloning them. oh it interrupt spells? see, i used dragon's delusion on drakes and half the time they no sell you going, "that's just a head saying hi, i know Fred's not actually here bro. even if he was we'd kill you together. i'm not afraid of Fred." it's like it interrupts certain things, like drakes are immune unless they are in certain animations, that's what it looked like to me. the clone latching on is a cool idea but there aren't enough encounters where it's relevant. it's either many small guys that drop like flies or a big guy. very rarely will you find a mix that's ideal for that strat. same reason i never used the platform, it's rare that small enemies will be that close to a cliff so it's not worth 1 or 2 of your 4 skills slots to set up with the astral projection too. trickster is not a tank, you have a tank on a leash and that's your clone. the density issue with enemies isn't the 100 monsters in 1 fight, it's the fact that in batahl region it's like every 10 feet there's anotehr goblin pack of like 6 of them in some parts of the map. sorcerer is better for traversal, you get levitate but also the stamina regen thing that even lets you walk when using it. yeah, why the hell do both sorcerer master skills work on golems? sure one of them is flaming rocks but wind is more magick like. give me a reason to have physical damage/lower dps gimmick spells to kill them with a caster. in general, give me more reason to use more of your skills.

[@Orakio]

DD1 on Switch is great because you can motion control aim rather than use an analog stick which makes aiming a lot easier. I hate aiming in DD2.

[@nicholasdaniels9203]

2:11:14 why not use the sphinx ring that lowers your stats lol

[@pantherusa3146]

About dragonforging Gaijin is so spot on that, I agree in the first game that was way more fun to get that done. and Yeah difficulty is really an issue to the point where I am soooo close to just delete my save and restart all over only to get those big fights to last more than 10 seconds. The only 1 thing stopping me is the pawn progress, knowledge for other people to use.

[@zealous-neptune8962]

I put my port crystal by the water and it worked before true ending it worked for Id be pissed if it pulled

[@Gungrave123]

Man, you guys know surprisingly little about the game. That shows that at least Itsuno succeeded in one regard, making sh1t obscure.

[@JJGateway01]

Rurikhan seems to love tedium. To me this game just seems like a bunch of tedious bullshit. Having to backtrack across map multiple times just to be told to go back like an MMO doesn’t sound fun at all.

[@BurningLance2]

The wind is pushing me

[@NickySayahSina]

I didn't even realise that this game was released... guess I will just wait until it goes on sale. Missed the hype train!

[@Darkrengi]

Remember how the pc elitists were talking shit about console being 30 fps? Well at least we can actually play the game and enjoy a more stable version without updates

[@thehandle711]

The pc version is still better than the console version. Console doesn't even get stable 30 fps LOL.

[@Darkrengi]

@@thehandle711 good for you

[@brianjohnson9890]

It’s crazy that I have a nice pc and still play almost every game on my ps5. It’s not a question of whether the pc is superior it’s a question of if it’s best for me and being able to just plop down on my couch and play on a huge tv without any other bullshit really speaks to me

[@magicalpuffcorn]

​@@thehandle711 Ehhh... idk what toaster you think we console players are playing on. But my Xbox Series X has had no issues... I have also had minimal glitches.

[@Keldrath]

@@brianjohnson9890 you can connect a pc to a tv same way you can a console.

[@xMtF54x]

My first playthrough was well over 100 hours lolim going through as each class

[@arsarq]

Funny moment. This cat guy plays the game 6 times but doesn't have some content that I have with one play. Maybe he stuck in infinity loop

[@simpleryoma]

I really feel like this game should have been in the oven for longer. The performance stuff and other things were just really sucky to deal with. I feel like story wise the dragon had like 0 involvement which disappointed the hell out of me because Grigori was so badass in the first game and in this game hes kind of a let down.

[@danpeas7516]

Poor gaijin he will never ujderstood the monumental song of free. Its the freshest music couppe with under the radar game fresh combat and the time its was Freeeeeee

[@bunklypeppz]

I totally agree with Gaijin about the health loss after dying being bad. It's not a huge issue in the game as it is now, but that is only because the enemies you fight are not very difficult. If we were fighting monsters that were highly challenging, that mechanic would be blatantly unfair because if it is tough to beat them when you have a full health bar, it would become completely hopeless on the 3rd or 4th attempt, so the fact that you don't respawn with full hp effectively means that the game is required to be easy. Punishing mechanics like that don't work in truly difficult content; that is why bosses like Malenia, Isshin, etc have a respawn point right outside their door.

[@m__two9829]

There are some game breaking things that can happen. I had a harpy grab me and dropped me between a hill and water and it auto saved right there. If i didn't have a ferrystone on me, my game would have been softlocked

[@Nazzul]

Load save from inn, fingers crossed it hasn't been 20 hours since you last stayed at an inn though.

[@m__two9829]

@@Nazzul I would've quit. I already lost 10 hours once doing that

[@withoutwarmth]

@@m__two9829 at that point you should learn from your mistakes and just rest more often, if you buy the house for 20k you can rest for free, i know that might not be your cup of tea but thats the game

[@Grubkiller35]

I'm also so torn on the hard mode. Cause I do agree the game is too easy, but for ex. Arc of might takes like 3-4 health bars off a drake, which I think is perfect. But if you add hard mode, I'm not going to be able to do that, which kinda feels bad, there are already vocations more powerful than warrior, an warrior would feel even worse with a hard mode. Especially when it takes all your Stam, an I don't like going into my inventory to give me Stam back with critives. I want a hard mode, they just need to do it right where it feels hard, but doesn't make me feel weak either

[@erikwilliams8692]

The overall combat system is just terrible and aligns with zero thought gameplay , hard mode would do nothing . Game is completely screwed from the ground up

[@Grubkiller35]

@erikwilliams8692 well that is the biggest L take I have ever heard. The combat an gameplay is what makes this game so could. It's the best combat in a ARPG I have ever played.

[@erikwilliams8692]

@@Grubkiller35 You don’t know good combat then, this is extremely bare bones without challenge or variety, there’s some some cool looking animations tho . Gameplay wise it’s a dud without fun enemies or evasive potential

[@Grubkiller35]

@@erikwilliams8692 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@erikwilliams8692]

@@Grubkiller35 Seriously, tell me there’s anything other than pretty vocation animation

[@Alpha115-YT]

Gaijin Hunter is wrong the ending does have some minor changes if you have max affinity with your pawn. Also you have different endings if you evacuate the towns vs not evacuating them.

[@Krudi89]

Time / Rest limited endgame + BIS gear from a vendor instead of the bosses , no eternal ferrystone after beating the story boss 😢 Not tuned New Game plus .....I didn't like the changes on most of the classes ( besides mystic spearhand) Not having an evade move during combat just is super demoralising and has nothing to do with class fantasy 😅 . Overall a smaller Monster variety than the 1st base game .The missing port crystal in Battahl also screwed me over ^^ .......Are my biggest problems with the 2nd Game ! I enjoyed beating it twice + getting the platinum trophy for it ......but not as much as I could have.

[@frontin2]

Fight a dragon it will grab your pawn and give it dragon's plague

[@gaijinhunter]

Not necessarily, I had it grab my pawns over 5 times in a fight and spew on them on purpose to test this but nothing occurred.

[@Keldrath]

I'm not sure that really works, like it'll mind control them a bit for the fight but that's about it doesnt seem to stick around after. They all automatically have it in unmoored though that's probably where it really comes from.

[@mkv2718]

@@gaijinhunterhow long did you wait and see after doing this? it seems like it takes a number of days for it to germinate. also, did your pawn die during battle at all? either way, it does seem to take time to take affect. days, maybe even weeks in game. it’s not an immediate thing; i.e. if your pawn gets grabbed it doesn’t immediately go haywire and kill the whole town when you sleep that same day. i’ve had pawns in my party who definitely had it, and since i was out in the field and sleeping in camps i didn’t worry about them going nuts at all, and even after multiple days, none got passed the “putting their hands on their head like they’re taking their temp.” phase, let alone progressed into the glowing eye phase. maybe just a slight tint of red… but it definitely seems to take a WHILE before the situation goes critical. as for catching it, my assumption has been that getting grabbed by the dragon has a CHANCE of causing the plague, similar to how MH deals with status. not every hit causes the status. if it was EVERY TIME your pawn got grabbed, that would get annoying. and when it’s happened to my pawn, i always end up killing her in combat during a dragon fight and bringing her back, so it may also be if you just let the mind control effect wear off that causes it? those are my guesses at least. it is still pretty easy to spot early on tho. even without red eyes, the hand on the head is a dead giveaway

[@Gyuribacsik]

I killed 4049 enemys my Archer. Write Ending capcom. Unmoored 8 hour 30!minutes. I upload youtube. I sleep 4 Times. Wakestone load up you full after death.

[@Pris6nexus]

Has to be moniker Spinxparent

[@bromeisterbryce]

Right from the get go and 30 hours later I still hate dragons dogma

[@retiresatisfied]

Skill check man. The dude complaing needs to get better at the game.

[@Gyuribacsik]

If something going wrong(answer) quit main menu without save .!! Me worked 20 times),or close the game. RELoad, ts só difficulty puzzle??? ,really?)

[@kim_ronin]

3:37:20 - XD... I didn't know you can teleport with vase. I did this quest before road(gates in rest town) was open and i didn't have ox carts working yet.... I manually delivered it to guy XD. It was painful, but it was fun

[@m__two9829]

I think it's the other way around, carry the guy you need to deliver it to and teleport back then give him the vase.

[@Lunar_Yojimbo]

Hello 👋

[@Brendangotgud]

Great game extremely poor mechanics witch ruined the entire game for me up to batahl great game

[@ghostsoda7710]

I don’t hear no audio disconnect, at least no on video