Dragon's Dogma 2 Discussion With Rurikhan | Yggdrasil Podcast 40

[@superwolfie4061]

An actual ng+ with new mobs or even just variants of existing ones would do wonders for this game

[@circlesnare3671]

which is strange as adaptive difficulty is already present in the game, why not change up the numbers to make enemies more aggressive and hard-hitting.. the stagger system is punishing for both players and npcs at the moment, just another thing to tweak

[@FrappyLee]

Tbh just new gear alone would be good enough for me, just give us more fashion and weapon options and i'd be happy.

[@ryankeith2712]

Yggdrasil podcast is just turning into talking with Rurikhan and I’m all for it

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

More like 80% Rurikhan rambling and 20% topic discussion.

[@00spiderwolfman]

As a ruri fan I see this as an absolute win

[@ess99_]

this is a win

[@rurikhan]

@@00spiderwolfmanlol

[@Cptraktorn]

@@user-zp8kj2cl9g to be fair, rata could do better as a host as well.

[@LizarusMovies]

"the fake arisen does not matter to the story" bruh.. wouldnt that be like... a bad thing for the story if the one plot point established at the beginning just fizzles out? I am really not being negative here i legitimatley need someone to help me understand

[@larsschulze2799]

The story/writing is bad, start to finish. Nobody questions that. Some might like it but it's bad. Doesn't make the game bad tho

[@vivid8979]

​@@larsschulze2799Depends still to the person, if someone new to the series came to this game and expects at least a "decent" cohesive story, can completely ruins the whole experience for that guy... The game gaslight you from the beginning that it has this "political" plot and whatnot just for it to be almost completely ignored at the later half of the game..

[@Foogi9000]

​@@larsschulze2799 Og DD1 had a mediocre story but honestly 2 is just bad.

[@RedDeadSakharine]

2:14:00 Giving gifts has a cooldown of 1 day. So you need to give her flowers, sleep a day, give her flowers, sleep a day etc. So sad to say, only your first flowers counted. None of the rest.

[@soneca798]

I wished that the unmoored world didn't have a time limit, because it's the most fun and difficult part of the game, so it was the most enjoyable part to be in. It's a bit of a shame that the postgame rushes you and doesn't exactly allows you to savor how great the unmoored world is. Maybe we'll get a dlc eventually with smth like bitterblack isle, cuz that would be great

[@Dragon4234]

Outside of no longer being able to rest after enough time has passed, once you clear out all of the beacons on the map, including the Talos cutscene, there is no time limit in the Unmoored World though?

[@soneca798]

@Dragon4234 For me after I cleared the beacons the pathfinder put a final beacon right on top of the seafloor shrine. So I didn't feel like risking resting and having that thing destroy all my npcs

[@Dragon4234]

@@soneca798 The game prevents you from spending any additional time once you've hit the time limit at that point, preventing you from game overs and normally restoring your Max HP.

[@soneca798]

@Dragon4234 I'm not sure I understand. I just know that in the first few days I had a city explode because I slept, so it gave me the impression that I just shouldn't sleep at all. And since after I finish the game it auto rewrites the save, it doesn't really lets me test the time limits now

[@Dragon4234]

@@soneca798 Clearing out a beacon prevents the associated area from being claimed by the Brine, once all of them are cleared and the final one spawns the game has a soft time limit of in game days. Once that limit has been hit, you are no longer given the option to rest as the Unmorred World has reached its limit and will soon disappear, but in terms of gameplay you can just persist at that time limit indefinitely, you just have to figure out other ways of restoring your Max HP like Wakestones or All-Heals.

[@basedSHARK]

To your point I do wish there was more of a payoff for the Disa plotline, like a scene where you can see all the evidence and effort you've done in the early game working for Brant pay off. I don't know if it's copium or reading too much into things but I felt like the plot of the game felt like a 'retelling' of DD1, but it was like being retold by someone who really wants it to go a certain way. I guess a way to put it would be like if a dungeon master for a DND game wanted to run DRAGON'S DOGMA but then the players decided to go against the script and the DM was just getting irate, because the Pathfinder really felt like that sort of person to me. He wanted the world/game to go a certain way but you as the Arisen decided 'nah i'm gonna use the godsbane on myself' and his carefully planned plot is just thrown out of whack and he throws you into Hell World as 'punishment'. Even the Dragon (who I have to emphasise isn't even given a name, he's NOT Grigori) comes off as someone who's really sick of this endless cycle schtick and wants you to break the charade, to the point where he just berates you during his phoned in fight because the Arisen didn't think to use the macguffin during the ride to the final battle.

[@salty4711]

I'm pretty sure this is the point of the story, I mean his name is literally "Pathfinder", like the tabletop RPG. They couldn't have made it more obvious (unless they named him "The Writer"). The main story even feels like a bootleg version of the first game, especially if you compare it to some of the side stories which are mostly well done imo. I'm not sure if that's intentional tho.

[@Cptraktorn]

nah man, the pay off for working for Brant was having him stare romantically over the ocean for me.

[@Wizard_Pikachu]

The thing is though, is your instructed by the Queen's bodyguard to go do something but instead, the Pathfinder interrupts you to focus you on a different objective, and completely derails the story on purpose so it's to keep you focused on other things that does not point towards you killing the dragon.

[@Zephy_Sky]

​@@Cptraktorn giving him a bunch of flowers would have achieved the same result.

[@SENATORPAIN1]

Dude there needs to be more of a pay off to the entire game.the quests lines are utterly pathetically written acted animated shot the game is absolute rubbish in the story department not even a slight improvement over the first.if I'm being brutally honest that is.

[@-Sparagmos-]

1:11:49 I think your focus is misplaced. I don’t think we should shift the narrative towards people being mad at mtx, but rather keep it focused on removing them from fully priced games.

[@Grubkiller35]

I think this game really could have benefited from radient monster hunt quests to keep you going well after the endgame

[@feircy]

We just need a real endgame dungeon and arenas to really let you get into the combat and to scale up the challenge to match the gear

[@LokiHades]

I want both a new land thing and something along the BBI level for scaling, personally. Would like some base game side stuff too. For less important stuff but still welcome: House customization, armor dying, business ownership that functions similar to monhun farms but are physical places that get attacked and you must defend and or hire guards to defend, ability to have your beloved move into the home and host parties with invites, to liven up your home and have npcs gather.

[@rengokiri]

Yeah I was missing the quest board from dd1 at the inn

[@joekeith2819]

One thing about Dark Arisen that I think DD2 is not benefiting from yet: As you progress Bitterblack Island, you gain certain noticeboard quests which add extremely difficult DLC monsters to the overworld such as the gorecyclops in soulflayer canyon, or living armor. Perhaps a future DLC can increase the variety and difficulty of the overworld! Not to mention, hard mode itself was originally a DLC for DD1. Maybe they can patch that in sooner because it's essentially just a multiplier! I would love to see a massive, labyrinthine DLC for DD2 in the future. Perhaps something involving the moon level they never got to realize in DD1.

[@TheMightyNovac]

This. Besides, I think an end-game only really matters if the game already has end-game level DLC like DD1 had--as otherwise, you're just asking to keep exploring a world that's ran out of things to see, which can spoil a part of the magic. In general, I wish people realized that RPGs can just, like... end. They don't have to be infinite content machines, they can just be good until they reach the end and then stop. For some reason there's this baked in idea that every RPG has to be Diablo--it's very weird to me.

[@DREADDWELLER]

​​@@TheMightyNovacI agree that a game like this can (and should) end. However with DD2 I am really yearning for a proper endgame simply because the main story itself is very uneventful and doesn't really play to the game's strengths. Tons of social pseudo-stealth and running in and out of Vernworth Castle talking to NPCs, then it just kinda fizzles out in Battahl until the final couple hours. The main quests never lead you into cool, unique dungeons or cinematic monster fights and fancy loot, which is what most of us are here for and which DD1 did a lot better. The fight with the dragon was really cool, but getting the game's ONE proper story-related boss requires you to go through a bad ending route. The unmoored world is a really cool idea but it only has a few hours worth of content and you can't even go through it at your leisure. The exploration is great, but that element of discovery only works the first time. To put it concisely, the lack of endgame is only an issue because the main game itself feels undercooked. I adore the game despite its flaws and will keep coming back to it, but it could have been so much more and it's frustrating how much potential goes untapped. I hope a DLC can flesh it out more and make it the masterwork it deserves to be.

[@Someone-lg6di]

So dlc got leaked for the game already Spoiler Name is dragon queen map is same size of base game in snowy land

[@TrueUIQuan]

I didn’t play DD2, but the idea that a fake chosen one doesn’t matter or has no real resolution is super jarring.

[@Cptraktorn]

It's beyond jarring

[@Ocean5ix]

I guess it would if the world hadn't pretty much gone post apocalyptic right after. Then unimportant stuff like throwing a con artist into jail becomes unimportant.

[@stonaraptor8196]

game literally just ends. Like you think you are getting into the story a bit more now and then credits roll lmao.

[@-Sparagmos-]

Most people don’t understand what objective and subjective means. This goes both ways. Some content crestors think what they’re saying is fact when it’s just an opinion.

[@mikedelgrande5296]

Talking about accidentally finding awesome weapons and abilities. I accidentally stole one of the best spears in the game, before I even had Spearhand at the beginning of the game. I guess my thief auto stole it from the dragon in Melve when I was fighting the dragon with the mystic Spearhand guy. I kept wondering why none of the spears in the game were as good as the starting spear.

[@SENATORPAIN1]

Me too.had to look it up and everyone was saying how it's one of the best weapons in the game.

[@ottoleong7958]

People who lie about this shit are so annoying. ALL Microtransaction fucking suck. You don't need to lie about this. This most disproportionate scapegoat for some reason. The Overwatch Macro-transitions deserve this shit some much more.

[@kampfer91]

If we don't stop them now it gonna be more worse in the future . But then again years ago when people started to have some concerns the shill gaslighted them anyways using the same argument , " don't need it don't buy it " , " it is overblown " , " it not affect game " , all of them got buried and people from the future don't know if there was even an outrage . I have seen people claimed that everyone is ok with MH Rise MTX and as someone from MH community , it is far from the truth .

[@mkv2718]

That crap was really irritating. Even saw a guy the other day still trying to say that “capcom was selling save slots on PSN, but then they removed them which is tooooootally even more suspicious!” And when confronted he just doubled down. It was odd.

[@Cptraktorn]

It's coming from emotion and most of the people going bonkers about the micro transactions haven't played the game and don't understand how the game works. Yes it's a bad look but the transactions are also worthless. Much different from games like BDO/PoE where the game is structured around the micro transactions.

[@leviosdraekion6993]

Them being worthless makes it an even worse look if you think about it. They are asking you to pay for something that has no value.​@Cptraktorn

[@pdaddy2259]

@@leviosdraekion6993no it would be worse if the gameplay was affected by the microtransactions

[@Tigerbro6]

You can absolutely stop the talos before he destroys the encampment.

[@goutbreak]

Yeah I did it on magick archer no problem, had two thief pawns at the time which made it a lot easier too, you can also just use the medusa head and petrify it before it can leave the ocean

[@rurikhan]

good to know!

[@cooperlittlehales6268]

One of his spikes just felt like it had infinite health it was crazy. Got down to the last spike and no matter how mcuh damage I pumped into it it just wouldn't break.

[@ZombieOfun]

​@@cooperlittlehales6268I experienced that as well

[@KokotoHero-N3]

@@cooperlittlehales6268 I re-did it 2 days ago, the explosive arrow on Archer was one-shotting the spikes, lmao, the ramifications it has for post-game was crazy cool though.

[@FUNFUN_101]

We need new game plus scaling in this game

[@brady9592]

Something I wonder about with uneven tolerances for mxt's in different games is that the games with milder mxt's creeping in are one's that attract more people who are intolerant of them. Say a Dragon's Dogma, or imagine if the next Fromsoft game had mxt's in it. Contrast with free to play, Diablo, World of Warcraft, etc., those audiences attract a different set of people with an overall different culture of values (maybe that's taking it too far). Anyways, I think there's something to this and Ruri has the misfortune, in some way, of being a mixture of both. He's into some of the heavy mxt games, has an intolerance for them, but ends up being on a bit of an island when it comes to railing against them because the bulk of the people who would be right there with him don't touch those games. I'm over here basically playing Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate till kingdom come then pepper in some Capcom and Nintendo and indies. So, when Dragon's Dogma or Monster Hunter have them, I might have a few moments of rage because I'm protective/defensive of the good games and don't want to lose the thread of relative pure for-enjoyment/quality game design.

[@moosiemoose1337]

MH Wilds is going to have MTX.

[@HeevaEgo]

@@moosiemoose1337 which is unfortunate. Capcom has been doing this for time. I feel like the recent outrage is a good sign that people are finally opening eyes, and hopefully it pushes Capcom to remove them from their singleplayer modes

[@xaicho]

2:12:44 that's been my biggest annoyance in subsequent playthroughs. if you have multiple people who are red-cheeked up the last person you maxed out will be the one you stick with. so in both of my playthroughs so far it's always been sven because vermund was the last town i evacuated and i guess that adds to his affinity so he ends up being the person in the credits for me despite not being the person i actively went after.

[@noahduncan5998]

Surprises in romance are one of the most classic jokes of DD. Whether it was my friends getting Fournival and Caxton or my brother getting Ser Julian completely by accident, they always make me chuckle.

[@sanguinetales]

One monster we haven't seen in Dragons Dogma is a Cerberus, but there is a Cerberus tattoo for one of the tattoo options. I would hope thats a subtle hint we might get that monster as DLC, it'd be cool to see how Itsuno interprets a fight with the 3 headed hell hound

[@TheMightyNovac]

"It'd be cool to see how Itsuno interprets a fight with a 3 headed hell hound."--you did this on purpose, didn't you?

[@sanguinetales]

@@TheMightyNovac well I mean yeah lol

[@sanguinetales]

@TheMightyNovac I know he was in charge of DMC but I mean in Dogma

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Cerberus is also another Greek mythological creature, like the Sphinx, chimera, minotaur, and a few others. So yeah, I really hope we get to see it.

[@Foogi9000]

1:38:17 I've heard some people say it's due to the physics and what not but i'd argue that the Hydra could have been a unique endgame boss encounter. You could literally just say that lorewise they're mostly extinct but that a few do survive. Anything would be better than what we have right now. I also hate the simplification of combat and the classes.

[@Unknownost]

The false Arisen is so unimportant he doesn't even have a character entry in the journal.

[@Homophonic]

The spoiler alert is a scam, am more than halfway through and they haven't even talked abt the game 💀

[@jviezzi]

Just finished the game yesterday, and this podcast appeared exactly when I needed it. 👌🏻

[@SirCowdog]

I love you guys, but holy shit talk to KZbin about the ads. LITERALLY every five minutes there was. 30s to 2 minutes ad. I timed the frequency. Completely out of control. It absolutely disrupted and disjointed the conversation. To the extent that I didn't finish the podcast even though I was really interested in what was being said.

[@FUNFUN_101]

I had a cyclops pick me up and throw me at another cyclops face and it stagger him and he started falling backwards when I hit him

[@Fixti0n]

My first cycle i played without looking anything up, and one of the proudest moments i had was clearing the Sphinx riddles without looking it up. The harder two riddles were to find its parent and return to your first seeker token. Finding the parent became clear to me when i remember the onslaught of "SphinxesParent" pawns in the rift, all with high scores. The Finders Token was aweful, i retraced all the exploration parts i had done so far. But after i had gotten all the chests and gotten all the loot, the big one included, i felt so satisfied. Pro tip, you can dupe the eternal wake stone at the guy.

[@joelaugustin6407]

Awesome we're back!

[@JoTheWeirdoz]

I didn't even know the dragon grabbed your most beloved npc at the end, he was holding that guy at the hot springs giving you rotten boiled eggs and because he was a former arisen I thought it was scripted.

[@YeOldeMachina]

I was playing Warfarer during the Talos fight with a bow and daggers, and I stopped him before he got to the outpost and got the trophy. I didn't even know he could trample the outpost.

[@ShxpxRok]

Helldivers is a 30 - 50 usd Game Dragon's Dogma is a 70-80 usd Game and they try to sell you a stupid tax after the fact I feel that's a bit less acceptable than Helldivers pay to win. .... And you payed 70 - 80 usd for a mid ass story that you can tell was rushed told by less than half of a normal triple A team. Capcom really Shat the bed here. In the end Dragon's Dogma 2 deserved much better it's a awesome game feels great to play but it's a shame that Micro transactions and poor performance is going to be the main thing that people talk about when it comes to the game and not it's true fun gameplay or the actual stuff that needs like paper thin dialogue, on rails RPG limits and poor enemy variance, might get fixed with DLC but it's a 70 usd Game it should not need a DLC to become passible.

[@Mr-Hakim]

Helldivers isn’t P2W.

[@pcwildcat]

Spending half the podcast being like "people don't understand these are just opinions," "Call me a shill but don't call me a liar," and other such basic ass takes is really a drag. Yall really don't need to spend so much time defending yourselves from the vocal minority. You're giving them power when you do that.

[@arisozerah]

False Arisen is in the story... "He's not important". Then don't write him in. Bad bad bad.

[@Lork22cm]

I'm the only one that thinks the music in DD2 is super forgettable compared to the music in DD1?

[@Titan-zp7ex]

I think the problem with microtransactions is we are talking about two different community's you mentioned WOW, Helldivers and Diablo I think these are more main stream younger audience and and more Casual gamers I think when you start touching single player RPGS you have a more mature audience and a community that doesn't have a lot of microtransactions in their games, when they see some they fly off the rails but if WOW added more microtransactions they have been conditioned to it same with COD and other live service games.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

most of these reviewer's didn't review the dragons dogma mmo and how the game died due too microtransaction's

[@moosiemoose1337]

It's a capcom game. Capcom has ALWAYS sold tons of mtx. Prepare, MH Wilds will have MTX day 1.

[@tristan_967]

I think the main reason people got upset about the microtransactions is because it seemed like Capcom intentionally hid them until the game launched, when it was too late for people to cancel their pre-orders, which created the perception that they'd tricked everyone into buying it before knowing about the microtransactions. I think if they'd been more up front about the microtransactions from the beginning, nobody would have cared, because the reviewers would have mentioned how they are very minor and don't deter from the gameplay at all.

[@justkallmekai]

The only time I did spoil a mechanic (Sorry Rata) I did it because I thought he knew the solution but maybe had a lapse in memory (MM playthrough). I never backseat but something came over me so I understand when people do it, even if it's not ideal.

[@phantomvox]

I played without spoilers and sat on the throne. Had to start all over again in NG+. Cant wait to get to the end game this time around.

[@stonaraptor8196]

wasn't it odd to you that you had control over your character during credits? And that the ghost was there? I heard this a few times now that people didn't realize there would be more. To me they couldn't have made it more obvious. How didn't people think "oh wait this is not normal, maybe I can do more here?"

[@Dr_Donald_Duck]

Goated podcast. Ruri was spitting so much fire during the mtx segment, my pawn's gear's now dragonforged. Podcast should've gone on for at least another 30 min tbh.

[@kaiosun]

Talos fight.. and that achievement for fighting "faster" easy to do with the magick archer.. basic attack with right click and destroy every spot before he even reaches ballista..Not sure if there is a time limit.. and you can give one gift per day.. dragoncrystal or whatever that drops from drakes will max out the relationship.. so give that to 50 people and you get the achievement for maxing out 50 people

[@Terminarch]

Is it ever explained why suddenly only 1 arisen is allowed?

[@Christopherdbjohnson]

Any plans to post your recent podcast videos to your podcast channel? I'd love to listen to them on my podcast app of choice rather than KZbin video.

[@smokthedragon19]

Can't see this and the previous podcast on youtube music. I'd appreciate if you could put them there (somehow) - if possible

[@axis8396]

The pawns at the park are free, I have 458 pawns

[@wolfiewoo3371]

So, should I wait for Dragons Dogma 2 definitive edition or should I get the game now?

[@Matthewm777]

The comparisons you make from DD1 to 2 are awesome and very insightful, a video focused on this would be awesome I wish you delved into it more but ruri was not having it lol

[@DANBAN119]

This podcast is how I find out RE4 had microtransactions (I played the game 3 times to completion so far).

[@scroom1202]

Devs don't decide whether a game has microtransactions, Publishers do.

[@thepeanutter9972]

Unrelated but did Ratatoskr ever make a follow up on Final Fantasy 16? His thoughts on the demo were extremely positive but I don't remember seeing him say anything about the full game.

[@ratatoskr6324]

Didn't like it.

[@thepeanutter9972]

@@ratatoskr6324 fair enough

[@doomsouls48]

@@ratatoskr6324I also want to know your thoughts on a Final Fantasy game. VII Rebirth you brought up a few times and now that it’s been a while since it’s been out, what do think of the controversial ending? I haven’t finished it myself, I’m only on Chapter 8, but I keep hearing how divisive the ending is and I wonder if you’ll make a video on it?

[@johncra8982]

​@@doomsouls48 rata didn't like Rebirth.

[@johncra8982]

But he said on stream that he didn't play the game so 🤷‍♂️ I assumed he'd played it bc he'd mentioned a few times that he disliked it. but yeah he didn't like it, but also didn't play. So he prob disliked what he heard abt the ending on some kinda fundamental level.

[@dylhas1]

When Bayonetta came out, she was seen as sexiness being empowering and now sexiness is seen as repulsive by the same outlets that championed Bayonetta

[@FSVR54]

Two best video game channels on youtube! Shoutout to Smoughtown too

[@CalDale-i6z]

I find it hard to believe that none of the bosses in ROTR took more than 5 attempts by Rurikhan, The Blade Twin? The Red & Blue Demon fight? The Bayonett dude? And those are earlier fights. Either he's using a cheesy playstyle (blocking while spam parrying?) or I'm missing something. The feeling of this combat is right up there with Lies of P and Sekiro, it's straight up flow state inducing. Even now you keep comparing this poor game to everything else, I guess it will need a year or more before "crititcs" are able to judge it clearly on its own merit, along with GOT and Elden Ring it has the most FUN gameplay I've ever had in an open world, that MEANS something. It's a strong 7 or a weak 8 (so a 75/100) but a 9/10 for gameplay.

[@buckyhurdle4776]

I saw like 5 minutes of Rurikhan playing ROTR and I don't think he hit a single counterspark, healed about 7 times against a basic enemy, and didn't change stance once. Hmmmm....

[@buckyhurdle4776]

He strikes me as a person that played Nioh in high stance for the entire game.

[@rurikhan]

I did say I didn't finish the game. The bosses I did fight didn't take too many attempts because when stuff gets hard you can swap characters and pressure the bosses into infinity (at least the ones I fought). I will say the bayonet dude kicked my ass, he was one of the tougher ones.

[@CalDale-i6z]

@@rurikhan Your admission of the bayonet dudes difficulty makes me happy thank you. I've played this game on the hardest difficulty from the start and played it the way it wants to be played, parrying while standing right in front of my enemy and that particular experience is what makes me put it up there with Sekiro and Lies of P.

[@JorgeM270]

I liked Dragons Dogma II quite a bit for the first 15ish hours, then slowly began to hate it lol. Had to force myself to finish it

[@HiroThatDude]

I played through BG3 twice putting 350 hours and I saves gum the hell out of it and I'm not ashamed. But when I say save scum I mean like most of the saves scumming was because I'm trying to pit pocket someone and keep getting caught so I just save scum... sorry not sorry. Now in this game I have not saved scummed once because I can't. Ps5

[@GamingCaveman1989]

Same here. I did it with Fo4 too, cause the games are too damn long and exhausting and this way you can dig in deep without wasting too much time. I love Elden Ring, but they demand you play the whole game entire for some shitty ass alternate endings and quests.

[@joeyshirey9232]

I turned a cyclops into a living bridge after I got him to fall on the real bridge between two canyons then he fell into the canyon onto a pack of saurians, it was hilarious

[@Thesoulsnerd]

Such a fun game now need to to get to baldurs gate 3

[@yinyun2715]

new podcast lets goooo

[@real_corn_man]

When is the crossover with Asmongold happening?

[@leopard2690]

Just wished its Dragons dogma 2 and not 1.25

[@circlesnare3671]

it’s like hardcore with gmdx, or doing a run in the roguelite shiren 5.. a hard save-system without manual saves (though you can sort of scum this system) makes you play the game without thinking of abusing saves.. I will admit this game is pretty easy but it has enough challenge at levels 0-30 to always have you considering it and making your own struggle stories.. after a certain point you won’t be having those long struggling adventure moments which is disappointing

[@typicalgoodguyclub4games]

DD2 feels more like a DD1.5, its like they take 1 step forward and 2 step backward lol I mean i still like the game, but how can they kinda downgrade it from Dark Arisen tho, i mean they really got the formula back then but how did they fcked this up on the basegame of the new one, they're definitely doing some works for the DLC i guess lol

[@rhinoplug5491]

I wish i liked DD2. I really don't get how you guys like DD2 that much, I played about 20 hours and from then on everything was too easy. It became mind numbing as i could kill gryphon, golem etc, in somewhere between 30 sec-2 mins. Climbing mechanic is very cool, till it's too easy and you jump on head and spam attack and insta win. The hardest fight til late game is a dragon i just climb and spam and win in 2 min. Also exploration was cool, but you get some random roborant 90% of the time. I don't explore to get nothing of value. 8-12 skills per class was very narrow. Fighter felt like it had 4 real skills and 6 defensive that were useless since i can't die.

[@noble6897]

Crazy

[@YujiaLu]

agreed. you can try solo or only with main pawn

[@reach769]

Then don’t play. Simple

[@SoulsNThings]

Theres a mod on nexusmods that will drastically increase difficulty and you can edit the numbers. I would suggest trying that if you're looking for a tougher experience.

[@shanegale6143]

@@reach769 lol

[@HunterSolo]

Didnt know you and cowboy played together :0 good content i loved the game :) forager is OP

[@OldHoagie]

We’re so back

[@JadedJasantha]

WOO NEW PODCAST

[@Someone-lg6di]

In regard to guy in rift its actually worse id argue could be wrong but pretty sure the game wont show pawns more then 3 lvls over unless asked 4

[@CallinWasTaken]

I thought they were talking about Friends Matthew Perry lol, didnt know theres was a historical figure Matthew Perry

[@Cptraktorn]

Actual bad micro transactions are stuff like weight and incentory increases in games where those things are limited to incentivise buying those micros, or things that invalidate parts of the game. The micros in dd2 are tacked on and have little utility and the game clearly isnt built around them.

[@HeevaEgo]

Actual bad microtransactions are purchasable conveniences in a singleplayer game that revolves around the concept of the player being in inconvenient situations.

[@Dynamus21]

If the MTX was such a huge point of stress for the reviewers then why didn't anyone at least slap Cowboy on the wrist(privately) for throwing stuff out there before confirming whether or not people knew?

[@Idk40003]

Holy shit the whole time your talking about rise of ronin I thought you were talking about the actor Matthew Perry from Friends did a role for the game.

[@jeffreymaxson6216]

We need to change the name of this game to Dragons Drama 2.

[@marlonc7668]

What’s the point even of the Talos?

[@Ocean5ix]

I don't think people "don't understand" it's an opinionated content, I believe it has more to do with people wishing they could be interacting with you debating the subject and agreeing or making counterpoints. But this happens in everything, even in fiction. Sometimes you watch a movie and say "man this character is dumb, he should've said that!". Or you watch a reality show in which people can't seem to be good at bringing up good arguments to debate someone else. We understand (at least some of us) that when you say "Y game sucks" it's just an opinion but there will always be this urge to reply "huh I wonder why you came up with this sentiment, maybe play the game like this", and just talk about it. For example, you or Ruri mentioned that BG3 3rd act is perceived as the weakest act of the game and as someone who thinks the opposite, that act 3 is by far the best, I wish I could chime in and defend it. I think that's all this is about.

[@Willow4526]

The conversation about how people interpret what you say, is very much inline with the Neurotypical & Neurodivergent conversations. Neurotypicals are more prone to come into a conversation with their own preconceived notions & expect to see specific behaviours or special language being used & when it isn't they become defensive/aggressive. Neurodivergents are prone to take things at face value, listen or accept the contexts that are being presented in the moment rather than assume any preconceived ideas & also express back in that same literal way. There are overlaps & way, WAY, *WAY* more details & intricate parts I haven't mentioned but yeah. Very inline with that, which also connects to the broader conversations out there about how people today aren't communicating effectively but ppl aren't connecting together.

[@TheSultan1470]

lol

[@exquisitemeat5845]

Lol

[@SpecLeader101]

Magic archer killed talos before he got up the beach.

[@damnvier3897]

about affinity. Somewhere in the game, maybe the tutorial for affinity it explains in strange words that if you had a romance they get jelous very hard if you have a romance with another character after that. Wich is pretty dogshit because you dont have the option to if you want this to end this in a romantic way and you sometimes dont even know that you just had a romantic scene. iam not shure even now. Its just Wilhelmina Ulrika and the Empress right? ah before i forget, this corsett underwear having the best defensive stats for everyone is also a thing that needs to go

[@cr-nd8qh]

I just started sekiro and i try to play every game blind but i looked up a couple behinner videos because that game is brutal.

[@HollowKnight21]

Not what Miyazaki intended. Git gud you filthy casual.

[@jungchoothian2039]

I have a question toward streamers and reviewers. How do you review games and also follow with a first time play through when the game launched? If you played before launch for the review, would live-stream not be a first time play through? I’m just curious because Ruri live stream seemed to be his first time?? But he already played the game weeks ago.

[@omegaxtrigun]

If I recall correctly, he intentionally played very slowly. So it was his first time. He took his time exploring everything and trying to keep his pawns lower level so more people could use them in early game.

[@rurikhan]

I'll play enough of the game to formulate an opinion on everything except story, then stop. Although I don't call those reviews, I call them "My Thoughts on the game so far", then I stream, then I might followup with a full review.

[@jungchoothian2039]

@@rurikhan thank you Rurikhan!! I have been curious but I’ wasn’t sure how you do it!! Keep it good work!

[@sanguinetales]

The Brine only kills pawns. The Brine sends everything back to shore. I sent that racist Harve village guy and he was back the next quest.

[@James_Rustled]

Yggdrasil podcast is always so good. I am also wondering if it’s possible for your pawn to pick up your character and be directed to move somewhere? The reason I’m asking, I want to do a heavy roleplay play through as an old man, who refuses to walk

[@-Sparagmos-]

I listen to ign if they make good points. You have to listen to their arguments and not just look at the score at the end.

[@PauloGarcia-sp5ws]

Dude, I was so miffed at the difficulty in dragons' dogma 2. I had JUST gotten magic archer before the final boss, was like halfway through leveling it, used the ultimate for the first time vs THE Dragon, and poof, one shot. I was like, wtf. Entire fight just completely skipped. They NEED to add a difficulty slider of some sort, its SO easy with any class its sad. That, or level cap the player and pawns.

[@jesserexespiritu973]

Spoiler ahead gran soren is in unmoored world :) dd1 reference

[@HollowKnight21]

Is this the Capcom Shill Convention?

[@AdamL2326]

I save scum because I know it's very unlikely I'm gonna replay the game to experience what I missed. So I want to get rhe most out of it during that one playthrough.

[@FSVR54]

Same for BG3 specifically though. Zero desire to ever play it again. I actually put it down right at the last section.

[@aarondubourg3706]

Tbh, I don't get that logic. ESPECIALLY for games lik Kenchi, Outward, BG3 etc where failure is part of the game. Where failure actually CREATES experiences that I would miss if I save scum. I want to get the most of my experience so I let things play out and only load a save if I get a game over. I'd rather have MY unique journey than Save Scum journey 5,737,836th.

[@AdamL2326]

@aarondubourg3706 sure for BG3 failures lead to something. But the other 99% of the time. It just ends up being you missed content

[@figuures6098]

BG3 and disco Elysium incentivize embracing failure, the majority of other games just aren’t worth embracing mistakes in the slightest. I’m biased towards bg3 tho, I replay it constantly, have like 600hrs in it

[@DJWeapon8]

​@@AdamL2326good point. Very very very few games that are advertised as RPGs are actually good RPGs where failing or missing a quest isn't automatically bad/missing content.

[@Limbopope]

Listening to this having Raid Shadow Legends adverts interrupting every 5 mins. So meta ❤

[@allandm]

I don't remember a game where the guy character just has a MASSIVE bulge pack 😂

[@badalrana10]

I love the podcast

[@Epicfaceguy40]

finally... a new episode...

[@tristondula9776]

I like rurikhan. I watch a lot of his video and his podcast because we have similar taste but damn is he annoying sometimes.

[@JJGateway01]

What makes you say this?

[@arseonist2686]

Not sure what Ruri is talking about, clearly the British Empire was the best at ships.

[@tequila_tibbs7938]

yeah. portuguese were best at building giant ships though, but ultimately not best ships because british ones were more succesful. it is common knowledge that the height of the british navy was the king in all regards except maybe ship size (which doesnt translate to effectiveness)

[@pyrrhos8175]

RE Stellar Blade and sexualization: Most with a head on their shoulders aren't just complaining that Eve is hot. After all, who on earth thinks that say a lesbian would be upset that a game they play has hot women? There's a divide in narrative and audience often in this debate. Sexuality is a form of self expression and when it makes sense it's appreciated by all, ie Bayonetta. 2B's design while joked about even by Yoko Taro as just because "hot woman good" is also very in sync with her tragic story with 9S and the overall work of art Automata is. Eve, on the other hand, doesn't look to fit in her world. Granted we only have some trailers and a small demo so more remains to be seen, but the environment and enemies don't match Eve's design weakening the showing. Her combat, however, is incredible and does. A good comparison is aforementioned Bayo or also Samus Aran whose Zero Suit look is very similar to Eve and the enemies of Metroid being very akin to the monsters of Stellar Blade, but Samus's look makes more sense in the scifi space setting not to mention she has a more combat oriented power suit to boot. Lastly, it's true that men also get hypersexualized designs, but how they are is not nearly as intimate. An impossibly muscular chest or chiseled jaw is much less sensitive than breasts (sometimes even with implied nips) or hips on a woman. Think about it: when's the last time you saw a male character design hypersexualized with bulge physics? That's the difference. TLDR Sexy =/= bad. It just depends on context. Hoping Stellar Blade is more of a game than character bait, and so far the demo is promising but showing flaws in continuity. Didn't expect to write this in a DD2 video but fun thought piece.

[@amysteriousviewer3772]

This is my issue too. Her design makes it hard for me to take the game and the character seriously because there is really no good reason for her to dress this way. As you said, sexualisation is not inherently bad when there is more of a point to it or it fits in the world like with 2B but in Stellar Blade it just seems unnecessary.

[@MadProphet1306]

Rurikhan's rant was awesome 😂

[@global-sequence]

Ratatoskr I love your tone of speaking man lmao. Like I don't disagree but I think it's your strength.

[@Cptraktorn]

Yeah he always sounds like he's looking down his nose at me, and I like it.

[@gorxela8982]

About the mtx controversy: a lot of people, myself included, don't really know what is wrong with the thing that we think we should like but we don't so we generalize and latch onto understandable clearly defined points and shout about them as if they are the sole problem that impedes our enjoyment. Case in point: police system in Cyberpunk. Like, how many people really cared abot the fact that there was not a robust police response at launch? No, people were burned by the broken immersion 'cause of the bugs and false marketing and latched onto one of the things that they could explain were clearly bad. Plus, Dragons Dogma 2 has an inherently restrictive game design so any directly gameplay-affecting mtx, even absolutely stupid and unnecessary stuff, are compromising the vision and enjoyment of the game.

[@omegaxtrigun]

I dont get how the mtx “compromises the vision”. The one port crystal doesnt because even if you buy it you still need ferry stones and regardless you will be spending most of your time traversing on foot or using ox carts. One port crystal doesnt change that. Same thing with the few wakestones. Having a few extra isnt going to meaningfully change anything unless you do something insane like intentionally get several key npcs killed at the very start of the game. Theyre completely inconsequential. Nothing about the “vision” changes. It still plays the same.

[@gorxela8982]

@@omegaxtrigun It compromises the vision in a way of selling a limited resource in a game that is built around your resources being limited. If you played Elden Ring, imagine if FromSoft sold Rune arks for real money.

[@TheGrzB]

They added real life monetary value to items, so the drop and how You engage with items can be affected by that. We don't know if those values are affected design, but existence of MTX strongly suggests that. Capcom was always greedy with MTX so it's naive to believe it's not.

[@huff_glue]

I feel like my position of "waifu characters arent enough to sell me anything" is being conflated into "i hate sexualized characters". I hear nothing else about the game, just that eve has a butt. Dont care, im not 12 anymore

[@PowerfulSkeleton]

Enjoyed this episode overall, Rata. Regarding the little point about opinions at the start, there's always going to be unreasonable commenters who will treat anything you say as gospel. However, your own language always plays into it, too. Everything you say is an opinion, but opinions CAN be facts. I can present true, objective information as an opinion. Slipping in a little 'I think that' rather than 'This *is*' when you really want to flag something as purely your feelings? That only makes your communication clearer.

[@SlothTalismanHater]

With stellar blade, I’ll be honest - I’ve seen more complaints about complaining, rather than actual complaining. And from the fans, more hornyposting than gameplay praise or discussion (I know it’s just a demo, but still) I’m going to play the demo soon so I hope the combat is good enough to grab me

[@sparxskywriter2589]

Sounds like you're being selective in your information so you can be a contrarian, or you're just remarkably deep under a rock

[@Ocean5ix]

Stellar Blade has been bizarre. Your post sums it up pretty well. To me the game looks generic as hell, very similar to how studios loved to make Shinobi and God of War clones for the PS2, but everything everybody talks about is "oh yes waifu" and "this is a disrespect to women". I find it bizarre that there are only extremes regarding this game, the outrage on the character design by big media companies is ridiculous, but coomers saying this game will be GOTY is almost even more ridiculous. A character action/adventure hack n slash game has never sniffed a GOTY nomination, I'm talking about games like Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Rising, Bayonetta, Nier Automata (which takes a huge dip into the open world action rpg genre) and Astral Chain for example. I'm sure Stellar Blade of all games won't be able to break this bubble just because it has a hot chick as a protagonist..... and it's not the first time there's a hot chick as a protagonist.

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

47:40 damn that dude has a very active complex about lying. Either he's a pathological liar and he's projecting or was hurt badly by someone in a situation involving lies. Either way he sounds very psychological unstable in that regard. God helps his kids if they ever lie to him ...

[@GamingCaveman1989]

I agree. it sounds like he was called a liar a lot in his past and now hes scarred by it cause he won't stop crying about it.

[@ronthorn3]

Yeah reminds me of my roommate, her and her son both have a weird relationship with being called “crazy”, anyone who calls them crazy is “attacking” them, hmm, I wonder why they get called crazy all the time? I mean it’s sad but also, like it could, might just be, you have a mental illness you need to take care of, and they very much do, it’s definitely genetic, cus it’s not just them, her mom had been sent to mental hospitals all her life, but yeah, call either of them crazy and they’ll straight up fight you lol. But yeah, at least the son, my friend, is seeing a therapist, the mom is too stubborn and paranoid to seek help.

[@rurikhan]

It's the way I was raised. And when you're always honest (often to your own detriment) being called a liar stings significantly harder.

[@jonhard12]

I see rurikhan also raised to be a person that like to F people all the time when people disagree with him Other than his so called honesty his behavior is questionable

[@leslievandam8905]

Ok then armchair psychologist

[@DreyfusLagoon]

She was dragon on my dogma, 2

[@DonutSwordsman]

Man Asmongold is so toxic, i literally had to block him so his videos wouldnt show up in unrelated search results

[@SubiKinubi]

That would be his editors. He doesn’t do his own videos, please resesrch

[@notsorrystory]

@@SubiKinubi is that a defense somehow? Sounds like a turd

[@amysteriousviewer3772]

@@SubiKinubiSo his editors make him say the stuff he says?

[@TheSultan1470]

loool offended

[@SubiKinubi]

@@amysteriousviewer3772 and still smarter than the both of you, yeah he misses sometimes but majority he’s on point with a lot of things, I’m guessing the things he gets right are probably about you guys 😂