Dragon’s Dogma 2 vs Skyrim | Asmongold Reacts

[@vahnn0]

Dude I was fighting a horde of goblins when a gryphon showed up. We killed the goblins then focused the gryph. My thief planeted a Powder Charge on its head and jumped off, and while I was charging that massive overhead slam with a hammer (as Warrior), the gryph leaped into the air to flee... and at the exact same moment, my hammer connected, and he reeled backwards in the air, then the thief detonated his bomb on its head, and it got knocked out and hurtled backwards through the air... right into the river, and died insatntly to the Brine. Fucking crazy moment!

[@dacronicspotgaming6104]

I love the crazy moments you get in this game

[@Nicros21]

The amazing thing about this game is every fucking Scenario sounds super made up but it's just how the game is played

[@MGC-XIII]

My first drake encounter, the drake decided to go for a swim and the brine took it xD

[@DarkHorseDanny]

I hope you clipped that cause it sounds insane 🤣

[@blackandwhiteduo4971]

Lol hell yeah! Crazy moments like this are great, was fighting an ogre and it was almost dead, then I heard a griffin screech and it divebombed me... near the water. And it fucking drowned, I got XP from the ogre and griffin, it was great

[@Coletidy]

I thought the dragons were amazing to fight in Skyrim until I played damn near any other game with dragon fights 💀

[@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133]

They are cool when they are novel, but then you realise that dragons are just another chore that presents zero danger.

[@wahtari03765]

i mean the game is like 100 years old or something

[@BadEnd98]

Especially Fatalis in Monster Hunter World, imho it's the best dragon fight ever

[@korneefart]

@@wahtari03765 dragons dogma 1 literally came out 1 year after skyrim. it still blows skyrim out of the water so that's not an excuse

[@drawgam2946]

@@BadEnd98 Oooh im looking forward to wilds.

[@CrimsonGuy69]

Ah yes, good old IGN comparing every new game to either Skyrim or Dark Souls

[@mray1072]

Fyi skyrim vs dragons dogma gameplay. Dragons dogma still win in gameplay

[@p1ngerss]

back to their roots

[@angryvaultguy]

​@@mray1072 yeah but Skyrim is like a true sandbox world where you can literally roleplay as anything

[@Jacob9815]

I mean they’re right to do so, dark souls created an entire lineage of copycats and skyrim is arguably to this day still one of the best open world experiences in gaming

[@curtisvenom32]

You mean modded Skyrim....(that's literally the only advantage that Skyrim has, Skyrim vanilla is overrated... BIG TIME)@@angryvaultguy

[@user00_xman00]

Someone said DD2s open world feels like the world you read about from the books in Skyrim lol

[@bonquaviusdingle5720]

"DD2 is like the dark souls of Skyrim" - IGN probably

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

And why is it wrong?

[@shiraisan3779]

@@anonymousinfinido2540 you and IGN must share the one neuron you guys have

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

@@shiraisan3779 Insulting me isnt gonna do anything.

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

@@shiraisan3779 I mean that statement is a bit of a hyperbole, but BBI really kicked your a** 😂 full souls like.

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

@@shiraisan3779 don't compare me with video game journalist.

[@somestranger1101]

I had a moment I won't forget in DD2. Pawn warns me about a cliff. I spent the next few minutes getting down safely. Then the same pawn who warned me face planted and was down. All I could think was hey pawn that cliff is steep be careful lol

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

😂

[@EssenceYT]

Skyrim got one thing that 95% of others game dont have, a huge modding support community. Something only a few games like GTA V and Sims could be objectively compared too. Its also why I bought a PC.

[@DLMyth2]

Yeah, I just picked up again modding Skyrim after a while. Lol

[@slashrocks19801]

There is a few mods for dragon's dogma 1 but definitely not as much as Elder Scrolls. I don't think it was a very well-known game at the time.

[@ZazeH]

The Mods are the only reason skyrim is still relevant. Even after 13 years, just use Nolvus Ascension mod pack and u will experience a whole new game with whole new worlds and questlines like vigiliant.

[@Steelmage99]

@@ZazeH Exactly. With a few mods you can get a full length playthrough, without ever touching any of the original main questlines.

[@Haggis-Giggles4692]

The vast majority of people playing Skyrim are the silent majority with no mods. There’s a reason why vanilla skyrim was vastly more popular than dragons dogma. Vanilla Skyrim had good aspects all around (more interesting World, more impactful leveling, ability to do quick movements, the best game soundtrack of all time) Meanwhile, dragons dogma had better combat but mediocre everything else with an uninspired world.

[@mixedcompany3225]

I knew DD2 wouldn’t make it a week without being called a soulslike or Skyrim clone 🤦🏽‍♂️ People genuinely do not think for themselves anymore

[@Yamato-t3d]

the game is garbage

[@bobdole3804]

@@Yamato-t3d We get it you didn't play it and are mad because it's a CPU bottleneck on PC so your 4090 can't run it well your friend plays fine on a 1080. But you don't have to tell us every comment hope they patch it and you can play.

[@ghost01477]

Don't forget about the NPCs that say DD2 is a literal 1 to 1 copy of DD1 lol

[@hainez14]

@@bobdole3804 Lmfaoooo so true :')

[@jlruiz9237]

Combat immediately reminded me of Skyrim it felt that dated, seem to be in the minority but feel deeply disappointed at dd2

[@blaynebittencourt5076]

This is the re5 is racist guy.

[@nunya_bizniz]

Wait wtf?

[@snxjsnsnjsiwnsjsosjsmmemsjsn]

lol, yeah he sounded like a jerk, hate his queens english as well 😣😣

[@riatorex8722]

Really? Damn, well that explains everything

[@Heraldmakesapoopoo]

Same with the Asian girl with the purple hair. She's a beach.

[@Luisasophie163]

@@Heraldmakesapoopooa beach, are you sure 😂

[@peakabooh]

It really is its own game, i get comparing it to Skyrim but all that does is create a "father son" dynamic with the game. A lot like any "souls like game" they will always be good attempts at "souls like" instead of just being a good game on its own. Terribly said but i hope you get my point.

[@Jacob9815]

They are more talking about the feeling it creates in the player, the sense of wonder. But I totally agree with you, dragon dogma plays like nothing else I’ve played, and the combat is miles better than skyrim

[@sd5919]

Skyrim had a lot of issues. Skyrim is overrated. It's not even the best Elder Scrolls game. Dragons were introduced as enemies too early. You will be fighting, and defeating, your first dragon after literally one dungeon if you follow the main quest. The final boss is supposed to be a world eating threat and he is basically a brick that flies around a bit. First person RPGs tend not to lend themselves well to spectacle as well as 3rd person games for whatever reason.

[@mikeD1234]

I think it was well said. You did a better job at staying humble than I usually do.

[@Haggis-Giggles4692]

I agree with most everything you said. Skyrim is not overrated, but the game would be better with your recommendations. Agreed that Skyrim would be better if it forced player to complete Civil War quest & a guild quest line as a prerequisite for main story line. Agreed last boss fight was too easy.

[@bkhai1041]

It's not even a father-son dynamic, because Dragon's Dogma only came out a year after Skyrim. If there was any inspiration from Skyrim, it was some last-minute tweaks, and I really have a hard time believing that. Dragon's Dogma 2? Maybe, but there's such a huge gap from Skyrim's release to Dragon's Dogma 2's release, it just seems like a very meh thing to say. The whole video strikes me as something more attention-grabbing than trying to say something of substance, because it just doesn't. You could split apart the Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma 2 parts, and get two videos that work better on their own, rather than together for some lazy and overdone comparison video.

[@shadedergu9921]

Dragon's Dogma 2 is a very specific niche of game perfected and it does it so fucking well And I love it for it. What you get from DD2 is something that truly is difficult to find anywhere else

[@kewa_design]

Yeah I love it as well, no matter how many people dislike it 😂

[@slick3996]

i wouldn’t say perfected, there are many valid issues brought up even by the biggest fanboys of the game (lack of enemy variety, gear, weird spawns, fast travel etc.)

[@kewa_design]

@@slick3996 sure, but fast travel ?

[@KevinShmelvin]

@@slick3996 If they are saying there should be no fast travel at all then yes. If they say they need more then disregard it. they are not fans nor do they understand the point of this game.

[@pharon5297]

I’m considering buying Dragon Dogma 2. Can you explain in more detail what’s the niche of the game that you can’t find anywhere? What makes dragon’s dogma special?

[@WillWonkeyTertel]

As someone who bought Skyrim on release day and played over 10k hours which is small fries compared to some. Dragons dogma combat just feels more weighty and have tons of options for how to approach the battle. The spells are varied enough to where I don't feel like I'm spamming the same 2 spells over and over. Skyrim is carried heavily by mods after the first 1k hours which isn't a bad thing but gamers shouldn't have to expect the community to fix major game breaking bugs.

[@dr1zzzy]

10k hours? That's fucking nuts

[@jasonfortin773]

10k in a single player game like skyrim wtf. dude did every single quest like 1000 time and playing literally every mod that exist, probably even played mod from the future that had yet to exist at this point. let be honest most review on steam that have 10k+ hour in a random single player game are afk 24h a day just to boost their number (yes this is a thing that people do) not saying they all do that, i mean myself i have 7k hour in POE, over 5k in wow and 8k on osrs/rs3 but these are multiplayer game that get new content every now and then.

[@WillWonkeyTertel]

@@jasonfortin773 Yea I just gamed a ton back then to the point of no lifing. I have lots of games around the 500-2000 hour area. Unfortunately even with mods now skyrim just feels bland to me since I know how all the quests work and can walk around the map blindfolded. But when it first came out it really captured me.

[@Haggis-Giggles4692]

All games should only be judged on the first 1k of play hours. Anything after that is such a small minority people that is negligible

[@WillWonkeyTertel]

@@Haggis-Giggles4692 I mean usually most people aren't even going to play 1k honestly. Unless it's a mmo because those are just time sinks.

[@UnrealDevGamer]

Best words ever, been saying it for ages myself, "Just play the game, enjoy the game, stop trying to finish it." Perfect.

[@jensenraylight8011]

yes, this is the Modern way of Playing the game. Games nowadays are immersive enough to the point that your mind can Believe it. i often feels like i'm exist in the world, it's no longer a pixel on the screen like previous Gen game. it's like i'm actually having an Adventure, a very fun adventure. and not playing a make believe, trying to fool my mind into believing Lowpoly rock is a real rock anymore

[@bobdole3804]

Everything about this game from the camp attacks if you try to cycle days to power level, to the one save so you can't save scum out of wiping a town is trying to stop you from meta-gaming it to death and get you to actually play it. The game isn't that hard every vocation can become completely broken they want you to just enjoy the ride.

[@deustauries]

​@RyanRoberts-qf5et yup. Modern gamers sadly. Huge reason to that too. Gaming became popular. So all the idiots who would just go play do some sport activity or get drunk every other day, is now a gamer. Nobody sits down to enjoy anything anymore. Everybody is in a rush. Everybody wants to be the one everyone is in awe for. Everyone wants to be a pro. Everyone wants to be a content creator. Everybody wants everything easy now. (Im using the word everybody loosely but you get the point.) I started playing Conan recently and everyone in pvp uses the same 3 armor combinations and the same 3 weapons. Its boring. CoD? Everyone using the fastest ttk gun. And devs instead of balancing it so every gun has some form of chance depending on the situation, they just leave it as is. Covid 19 really made these weirdos come in and kill gaming.

[@voice-of-the-flame]

In dragons dogma 1 they had drakes, dragons, wyrms, and wyverns. They did it correctly with the right differences as well. Also had bitterblack isle and that hole in the ground that goes almost forever. Dragons dogma 2 is awesome but number one had more enemies i think.

[@huyvouc9785]

Yes. But there are not much variety in most of the DD1 base game, though. Bitterblack Isle DLC on the other hand, introduce a whole new bunch of monsters into the game, not to mention the difference types of enemies spawning between pre-Daimon and post-Daimon.

[@bobby69g]

Hopefully theres BBI like equivalent in dragons dogma 2

[@ROYBGP]

BBI added a ton of content to DD1, so it's a little unfair.

[@TheNextGeneration60]

BBI didn’t come along for years after release. So you can’t use that part of DD1 to compare it to DD2 until DLC is released.

[@harryjd0_0]

The only big enemy i really miss is the hydra. It was my favourite to fight in the first game. i was really hoping they would bring them back with a slightly new moveset, hopefully they will make dlc for the game.

[@richymancebo8014]

I have been playing DD2 for about 20 hours now and I think I’ve done only 3 main quests I’ve been exploring this whole time and I’m loving it.

[@I-dont-know3]

Same the world is to distracting compared to the story lol it’s a great game

[@stefanolibero8975]

Me too! I literally stood and watched the fiddle performance at the Inn just taking the vibes. Also, turning off BGM sometimes and just walking by fields or cliffs appreciating the views. This game is so good.

[@mehrunez4838]

I got lost for 4 hours..cause I followed a pawn. I found a drake, a castle, and a sphinx! I was distracted so long I forgot I was questing...and the quest wasn't even near me.

[@TwistedFire85]

This is how older games were like Ultima Online and even WoW, play the game and enjoy it and not try to "beat" it. It was a gaming experience. People try to min/max and speed run every game anymore. It's sad to me. I thoroughly enjoy exploring every nook and cranny I can find in a game and taking my time.

[@cyork-sy1wr]

Same, I dread the moment when I complete DD2. Wish Capcom would just keep adding more and more lands to explore. Especially a bigger elf city or land area would be my favorite.

[@TheUnzeal]

Agree, I wish DD2 had more lore elements like books and more temples/ruins with a small history behind. So that you want to explore everything.

[@wolfman_jagermeistro8445]

Agreed! I cant stand speedrunning! Some like it but to me honestly it ruins a game. I dont want to speedrun. I want to enjoy the ethos, the atmosphere. And really get into the game story and characters.

[@shuriken4852]

I still play Skyrim to this day, with Nolvus, a mod pack of over 2000 mods that transform Skyrim into a modern game, even over 12 years after its release.

[@El_Diego86]

Masterpiece.

[@Undertakerr]

Same.

[@arnauddelaclos3221]

this is madness

[@Undertakerr]

@@arnauddelaclos3221 no trust me, Nolvus is a rlly good modpack. Makes the game pretty much look like it came out last year or smth

[@nickbillings2081]

is Nolvus modpack on PC only? Or is it on playstation too. I wanna try it!

[@Leongon]

I'm playing Skyrim right now as this vid popped up haha. Yeah if you lay down a world that has a lot of mechanics simply interacting with each other and you drop a player in there to experience it at their own pace, they make their own adventure and share it with others to make a community, and a community will make more content for each other building up onto that base world. If DD2 supports community mods and content, it already has the base to grow into what Skyrim became even if right now is not there yet.

[@TheWretchedEgg12]

DD2 has anticheat and denuvo. No mods. Only one save. Also why its getting terrible reviews

[@SuperZura91]

DD2 has potential. Capcom is keeping it back is the issue. It will never reach levels of Skyrim.

[@Kydino]

FYI capcom dislikes mods and DD2 has denuvo as the other guys have said. It will never get the same ammount of support as skyrim sadly.

[@ags8507]

@@TheWretchedEgg12 it doesnt have anti cheat, it has anti tamper

[@juannito6318]

Dragons dogma 2 will never be as good as skyrim shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence this be real

[@fulnaz3164]

Skyrim is a prime example where a game can thrive with just exploration, ambience, and lore That said the game is objectively ass gameplay wise

[@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015]

No truer words have ever been spoken. Couldn't have put it any better myself. And this is coming from a dude that has probably at least 2,000 in Skyrim across multiple accounts and platforms.

[@dynamiteandmatches]

That's why I refuse to play skyrim without combat overhauls..... that said I can never get my game to work after so I just give up lmao.

[@ashishbarthwal6961]

mechanically, it sucks ass, but the sheer number of weapons, spells and shouts more than made up for it back in the day... The ambience(Jeremy Soule's soundtrack is 11/10) and the grandeur of the game is what all I wish to experience again, man

[@CurrehMoFo]

Most weapons work the same way and is shitty as fuck, most spells are dumbed down from Oblivion. Shouts were the only fun thing. I got so bored in Skyrim after doing a few quests because the combat is just dogshit. @@ashishbarthwal6961

[@BumFritz]

Skyrim also came out 13 years ago I don't know why they are being compared

[@frankmills1917]

I hope they port BBi later on just for novelty. It's a really fun dungeon.

[@spectralassassin6030]

They'd have to tweak it a good bit. BBI was meant to be played with as broken a character build as possible. With the way DD2 is designed, it just wouldn't work the same. Honestly though, I rather them do something new instead of bringing back BBI.

[@JONtheULTIMATE]

The dragons, griffins, cyclops, trolls, they all spawn in the same areas after a day or 2. However griffins and dragons have certain requirements so that they land. For griffins you either have to be close OR if there's OXs near by, kill the OXes and the griffin will fly down.

[@levisorenson7873]

The Griffins still land in places even if none of those requirements are met.

[@JONtheULTIMATE]

@levisorenson7873 I said if you were close to them. Otherwise they need to feed on the oxs.

[@ugn154]

There are no trolls in DD1 There's ogres tho Don't know where you fought a troll.

[@JONtheULTIMATE]

@@ugn154 ya ogres

[@vknives]

Creating experiences you remember is exactly why RPGs are so great. I am loving this game.

[@Belzemoon]

"This Game Is A 9.5" Also him : dragon?s dogshit 2

[@MaliceSpeedwagon]

Brainrot

[@TheXxemarosaxx]

Yea it’s weird lol if the performance issues and micros weren’t there it would be a good 9.5 but it’s more of a 7.5 till they fix the performance at least

[@TheHolyBible-sz7um]

performance is great... on console.

[@wallflowerdan]

Ah yes. 30fps in 2024. That is totally what I would call great. Copium 🤣@@TheHolyBible-sz7um

[@Savon_the_gallent_knight]

@@wallflowerdannot really lol

[@venrahtryne5253]

Wait why is he comparing DD2 to skyrim like its trying to copy it? Also "its quest design is only half as good" as Skyrims? Skyrims design is todd(lers) first quest

[@krink084]

What I love the most about Skyrim is the same thing that ruins a lot of open world RPGs for me. It's the ability to switch pov. You notice it especially with modded Skyrim. The immersion you get with first person is second to none but the advanced combat is really difficult to do or appreciate without third person.

[@waltlock8805]

The magic and staying power of Skyrim can be summed up in one word: Mods.

[@everrunic8375]

Skyrim is not a video game. It’s a fckn video game engine

[@agunemon]

True... Bethesda essentially gave us a sandbox filled with tools... And then let us build our own castles .

[@rickycool6083]

The magic is baseline, and modding wouldn't work on a shit game. That is why fallout series is not as big as skyrim and why starfield modding is very small. You have to love the game, to work for free and make mods to add to it.

[@chuckchan4127]

Bad games need mods to be good.

[@FutaCatto2]

@@rickycool6083 I believe it has to do with the timeline. There were tons of people asking "What if I could" for stuff like no loading screens, flora overhaul and more followers during the time. Modders stuck to Skyrim despite of the Fallout 4 hype probably because Skyrim is just way better than the Fallout series except New Vegas.

[@natevoid9955]

Imagine a necromancer in dragons dogma universe raising dead cyclops armies and stuff would be so awesome

[@axolotl3883]

You're the necromancer though xd but the thing you resurrect are the pawns

[@Shocknfunk]

There actually was in Dark Arisen DLC

[@natevoid9955]

@@Shocknfunk really ? I played that but don’t remember I do remember the grim reaper though

[@SeppukuAddict]

@@natevoid9955Yeah about halfway/ 2/3 of the way through BBI, you fight the Lich Cardinal who fights alongside an immortal undead dragon.

[@Shocknfunk]

@@axolotl3883 even the dude you fight with the power ring that grants haste to spells was a necromancer

[@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo]

Skyrim seems like a more super computer government simulator vs Dragons Dogma 2 psp game.

[@nunya_bizniz]

Sure, let's compare apples to pumpkins...sounds legit.

[@snxjsnsnjsiwnsjsosjsmmemsjsn]

nope more like banans to cucumbers😅😅

[@jacchann]

It's more like comparing diced watermelon cubes in plastic containers you find at the grocery store versus cutting open a fresh watermelon to eat yourself It's no secret that Skyrim's combat is pretty awful. Back then, it was a marvel, but compared to how most AAA ARPG's handle the combat system (GoW, FF16, DMC5, The Witcher 3, Dragon's Dogma 2), Skyrim's could have been much better. Hell, almost every skyrim modder downloads the combat overhaul mod because it's just way better than the stale stick swinging vanilla Skyrim has to offer.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Are you incapable of seeing the similarity and differences between the two games series? We compare games all the time. There is nothing wrong with that.

[@bukojoetheslapsoils8273]

Do you not compare foods?

[@nunya_bizniz]

​@@bukojoetheslapsoils8273pumpkins don't remind me of apples.

[@Lancia444]

Wait for DLC....Wyverns and Wyrms coming to join the team

[@mac2312]

I really enjoyed the sections where you had to break into the palace and jail. It added so much to DD2 that i was not expecting. Short, sweet little story beats like that were needed

[@Jamie-nv3wp]

I was casually walking to a village yesterday when a beast i can only describe as the gruffello decided to silently 2- foot me into a boulder, killing me instantly. It was hilarious, and amazing! So of the quests bring me into the lore in ways i rarely have since skyrim. The games awesome

[@SushiPanda843]

As much as I hate how the controls feel in DD2, the clumsiness contributes to the combat's vibe, and I love that. Yet, the number of monster encounters adds to the lack of variety and makes the minor combats repetitive and forgettable.

[@horaceharris1855]

That depends on how far you are in the game just go to the wiki page there's way more creatures than you think

[@emoment1088]

​@@horaceharris1855 "If you enjoy Wolves, and Red Wolves, just wait until you find a small pack of Wargs bodying a Cyclops"

[@childelee2569]

My only complaint about Dragons Dogma 2 Drake(dragon) fight is that once they are on their 3rd health bar. They start spamming “meteor” spells.

[@G1mute]

That shit is so annoying

[@Apple_Apporu]

Mystic spearhands damage immunity beg to differ

[@dukesagami9974]

skill issue 😊

[@fishhead-24]

True that sh*t is so annoying

[@Crabriri]

I've cornered a beast & it won't let me kill it with ease.

[@LennyDykstra1]

Most alive game world I have played in since RDR 2. 9.3/10. I do think player movement during combat could be a little better

[@smoothduck7151]

The first dragon you come across in elden ring was so cool. Just being on torrent and dodging dragon fire and running by and getting some swings in was so cinematic up until our fight went outside the playable area and he just disappeared and when I went back his health bar was full again.

[@LARVideos]

Most of this stuff was in Dragons Dogma 1. It didn't take inspiration from Skyrim, Breath of the Wild, or Elden Ring.

[@Kings_Crossing]

Dragons Dogma 1 came after Skyrim

[@ToMo_VOX]

@@Kings_Crossing Ah yes, a game that was planned, designed and developed all in a single year or less

[@ToMo_VOX]

@surtoz227 If you're implying that Dragons Dogma has any mechanical resemblance to Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowwind or Oblivion aside from base RPG tropes then please explain the similarities, if anything it's closer to the Ultima series. The Elder Scrolls did not invent RPG mechanics, and the whole comparison the IGN video makes is based on Dragons crashing down etc. I love Morrowwind and Oblivion and they're some of my favourite games to be clear but implying that they're genre defining and that every other game copies their base gameplay loop or that it was invented by Bethesda is entirely incorrect.

[@musikalora]

Playing Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen killed my excitement to play Skyrim. I am not a huge RPG sucker, so Combat is what really sold me into DD.

[@bryebaker3343]

I'm literally playing Skyrim right now as I watch this.

[@WillyStinkman8593]

I dont like how dragons dogma has the same terrain everywhere you go. Like the other areas of the map are just different colors of the first map, i kinda expected the desert to be a little more open

[@Poisonedblade]

I beat DD1 on a zero death run. I own DD2, but I'm too busy to play it! I've been waiting for this game for 8 years!

[@Ultimascale4]

We old fam. Not enough hours in the day + jobs eating our time

[@Poisonedblade]

@@Ultimascale4 Hahaha... yeah. I shop at Lowes and Home Depot more than GameStop.

[@mkv2718]

Correct about the Griffin dive bombs. In the first game, you’d see it flying around but the damn thing would barely ever land. I think I killed 2, maybe 3 tops in that one. Now you see them all the time

[@triggerhappymoron]

The best part is: There are literally no cutscenes in Skyrim. The story is told in realtime player interactions.

[@Atlastown]

I love the creative combat and being able to climb the giant monsters. It really puts into perspective the scale of the battle, how youre a mere man trying to fell the beast. I also think having hidden features in the game like grabbing onto a griffin and taking it back to the nest with loot or maybe in the midst of a dragon fight the floor breaks revealing an encompassesing dungeon below. Maybe a dragon lair with gold everywhere thats lootable and unique items makes you feel like your actually in a fantasy book. Also if they did that itd be funny if you could only pick up 1 gold at a time and you had to go through an animation just to take the piss alittle since all the gold would be lootable

[@era3032]

im sorry, i LOVE dd2 so far but modded skyrim is a game i dont think will be beaten for quite awhile, for the style of game it is atleast

[@Keln02]

I'm having good fun with DD2. But kinda want to replay DD1 now. They are practically the same game.

[@dragonjegg82]

The best part of Dragons Dogma was the dlc Bitterblack Isle probably one of the best dlc's ever. Fighting Death for the first time 😮😮.. and by far going into the hybrid vocations forces you to play the game in different ways.Magic archer is probably the most fun I've had in most rpgs period

[@bohannon2692]

I beat daemon first try on hard with my mag archer I min maxed him. I'm playing basic archer in dd2 and it's fun and powerful

[@warriorfromhammerfell1557]

What I like about Skyrim is a lot of its dungeons and ruins have story.. Like Deadman's Respite and that another one which is guarded by a friendly ghost in distress because his power to hold an evil lich is waning. Random dungeon's that have memorable short stories behind them..

[@sidewaysfcs0718]

This take is kinda cringe actually, not every fucking modern rpg with dragons in it HAS to be inspired by Skyrim. Dragon's Dogma 1 came out the very same year as Skyrim........ and DD2 is just a remake of DD1 in many ways, heck in some ways it even dumbed down the combat

[@LucienCallidus]

Not every modern RPG with dragons in it has to be inspired by Skyrim, BUT, the games director has explicitly said that he was inspired by the elder scrolls, so in this case they might have a point

[@sufnskanne469]

​@@LucienCallidus drakes are also copy pasted in dragons dogma2 just like in Skyrim and unlike 2 dont have theyre variants.

[@TheXxemarosaxx]

Skyrim was 2011 and DD1 was 2012

[@jonah215]

Skyrim was my intro to elder scrolls and still 1 of my fav if not MY top fav of all time!! Sooo many good memories with that game over the years!! And outlasted even numerous gfs!!😂😂😂

[@matthewwalker5430]

I can't wait for Dragon's Dogma 3

[@killabammy]

Oblivion said “wouldn’t this be cool?” And Skyrim said “ yes it would let’s make it perfect”

[@Happymouth1]

Listening to disingenuous "Journalist talk" about gameplay is annoying as fuck. They always try to ham up the experience by adding in sheer bullshit it makes me wonder if they are getting a paycheck to do so.

[@El_Diego86]

100% they get paid.

[@BeeBeeBeeLol]

Well I doubt these kinds of people would be very unhappy to talk out of their ass without some coin going back into it like its a crane game :)

[@fake._]

I love the synchronization that happens with a good pawn party. For example my thief pawn pulls enemies, and the archer one shoots them while they’re hurling through the air. Like yo, my party is sick.

[@NatoRadeX]

Problem is even playing the game chill even if it runs well enough first on your system(most of the time it doesnt). You end up with 50-60 hours once you get the true ending. Replay ability isnt there either aside from maybe a quest or 2 or 1 decision you can change. DD2 needs an expansion badly.

[@Justanobody8472]

There's already a giant fenrir wolf mod and it's crazy

[@kaze2827]

After playing DD1, I hated Skyrim.

[@Oprah30]

Skyrim ur character can be op... and kill a dragon with a wooden toy sword.. totally different games!

[@figuures6098]

True ending enjoyers rise up

[@ShenBinhao]

Me bought and played skyrim first time ytd. Was overwhelming with items 😂 wfh to pick, sell. Just kept my things in the magic school dorm.

[@yep-its-them]

"skyrim skyrim skyrim elden ring breath of the wild skyrim skyrim" do these people play any games at all? DD1 is older than any of these titles

[@Zefar77]

Skyrim is the oldest out of these games. DD1 was released a year after Skyrim.

[@Ashbrash1998]

Dragon's Dogma came out a year after Skyrim

[@MrTommiTomsen]

Skyrim came out 6 months before DD1. But I do agree, IGN sucks.

[@yous2244]

DD1 one is newer actually, and Skyrim is much better, DD1 is not even close

[@monsters_are_human]

Yeah, no. You're wrong. Skyrim 2011, Dragons Dogma 2012.

[@Aoopah_on_Anon]

its amaysing to think how popular skyrim "was" like people dont go right back to the game ever 1 or 2 years to re complete the thing

[@CrimsonFIame]

Yeah DD2 is lacking when it comes to monster variety. Which is weird because DD1 wasn't even before the expansion

[@twinmonkeycows9267]

I think you need to replay vanilla dd1

[@CrimsonFIame]

@@twinmonkeycows9267 The fact that you're responding with this. Shows me you need to.

[@robr135]

In Skyrim adding something like KS Dragon Overhaul mod with randomized stats/custom attacks keeps dragons from becoming stale. You never know what's coming.

[@spcbrass]

The game is fun to play, but it is lacking a bit of depth. Hopefully they flesh it out more in the future without selling fully priced expansions. Roughly 30 hours in an I have played only 2 vocations and still haven’t completely explored the first main zone after the capital or even moved on to the desert area. There is still much more to unpack here while I toy around with some of the other game systems, but my biggest issues are the lack of variety in enemies and the ease of combat. The latter could likely be that I am OP for the area, but also once you learn how to beat a certain enemy, you can rinse and repeat the same tactic for every encounter.

[@evgenyomegin]

Well, it's only a second game with gameplay like this. It's been a niche game since 2012, and the gap between the first one and the second one is 12 years. They need to show it to a wider audience to see how they react to it before they can start refining it and adding more stuff. And Capcom is a greedy corporate company, so most content will probably be released in dlc like Dark Arisen back in the day.

[@spcbrass]

@@evgenyomegin I’m not against paying for dlc, but what I don’t like is half baked dlc content for a high price point. Adding one new area and a handful different mobs and bosses and charging $50 is something I don’t want to see and too many games are doing it today with standalone dlc’s. If however they added more classes and systems, a large new area, a few extra caves, a dozen new enemy types and 5-6 meaningful bosses and could part with a more sizeable chunk of money. All we can do now is wait and see as well as check their progression on improving the product that is currently released. It looks like it needed a few more months of development for sure, but it’s still a decent game. I just want to see it worth its price point.

[@dsweet5859]

If you want to make the combat more challenging, throw all three ponds away in to the garbage can AKA the river with whatever old god swallows anything up, and just play solo. It also depends on what class you use. All melee classes can survive solo. If you wanna play a caster, add only one pawn to your squadron and you’re good. As for archer, I think that entirely depends on how good you are and what abilities you’re using.

[@esqueejy]

Is telling how short he memories are for what truly laid the groundwork for modern RPGs. We used to have to RPG uphill both ways to the story and then fight the bosses barefoot in the snow with only a one button mouse....

[@Slat_ppc]

Bethesdas combat is incredibly outdated and imo their biggest fault in their games, back in the day (oblivion & Skyrim days) it was okay/tolerated because 99% of their competitors also had dog combat, now it seems like every company has evolved their combat and Bethesda are still stuck behind, & I honestly don’t see enough of an improvement coming for us in that regard with ES6

[@evanhughes9899]

0:44 needs at least one more elite mob ... (a few moments later ...) 2:56 Random elite mob dive bombing you ... IMHO there are other elite mobs hidden away like the Grim Ogre which sure are just tougher variants, but there's no way you've seen all the enemies that game has to offer and even if you have I reckon the DLC will expand on that massively!

[@GeoGyf]

Someone tell Asmongold that Dragon Dogma 1 has new game plus, superdungeon, world changes with new monster/effects & a true ending. I find no reason that Dragon Dogma 2 doesnt have exactly the same thins, cranked up to 11 (because the world is much bigger). Even in the trailers the boss Medusa was specifically mentioned to be not on the main story. If Asmongold wants to be like the other variety streamers who rush to the story and miss out on 70% of the game, so be it.

[@ToMo_VOX]

Sadly can confirm that dragons dogma 2, while having a short postgame section that is time-gated, has no newgame+ changes or additional newgame+ content, the difficulty does not scale and there is no hard mode. Comparitively it's the equivalent of the OG DD1 release, so expect BBI style content and actual new game + world changes with the release of the leaked DLC in november. DDII doesn't really build upon DD:Dark Arisen, but it builds upon Dragons Dogma and pretends that the expansion/refined release never existed in it's design. Which is weird, but fair enough.

[@GeoGyf]

@@ToMo_VOX OG DD1 did have post game, the world changes, the superdungeon can be accessed, the superboss can be accessed. And the post game can lead to a bad ending & the true ending. Dark Arisen is a different thing, Bitterback Isle is a 2nd superdungeon, Dark Arisen has is own post game as well, the final area & the final boss of DD:DA change.

[@ToMo_VOX]

@@GeoGyf Perhaps I'm getting mixed up here, I always had thought that you had Ur-Dragon, everfall and then there were no changes aside from the hard mode toggle. Apologies if I got that wrong! It's still a huge shame we don't have any of this in Dragons Dogma 2.

[@GeoGyf]

@@ToMo_VOX Yes Ur-Dragon, Everfall, world changing is in the post game of OG DD 1. The final boss of OG DD1 is the Gregori multifight & the true boss (of the post game) is the Seneschal. I havent played DD2 as i am trying to clear my own backlog, so i am going on your word, and if thats the case it will indeed be a huge shame. Perhaps the devs thought that the extra stuff in the world (Sphinx was revealed to be entirely optional) made up for this? In any case the stuff in DD were a bonus content, the game was perfectly playable without all the optional stuff. But there is a worrying trend in the industry to cut down content, Yakuza had also NG+ locked behind a paywall. Perhaps the AAA companies see the success of indie games who usually have low amounts content, no voice acting etc (it is a valid concern) & they believe they are owed more stuff. Worrysome!

[@ToMo_VOX]

@@GeoGyf The game is absolutely great and worth playing that's for sure and a successor in many ways to the first! I do reccommend it, but if you go in looking for a similar post/newgame+ experience it'll be disappointing. There's an absolutely fantastic base game there though that they can add too, so I hold a lot of hope for the DLC and update content to take the game to the heights that it most definetely can reach!

[@aaronpoisson]

I agree sir 100% with Asmond about not rushing thru the game - I’m nearly 180hrs in and just playing the game organically without spoilers nor rushing. I have a friend that blasted thru the main story in like the first week or of release, now he’s not playing anymore.

[@primadansaripudin9269]

I played Dark Arisen before Skyrim, and as I traveled around Skyrim on foot I often questioned where are the enemies, why is nobody attacking me, why are the wolves didn't hunt in packs.....

[@jgon12]

Maybe because it's more realistic? Do you expect people to attack you in the Middle of nowhere? Or wolves attacking you on a place where they don't live or hunt? If you don't have bounties why would anyone hunt you down?? So yes it was intended that way and also the monsters where put on locations intentionally so if you dint see a wolf its because maybe it was put near a camp or body to tell a story.

[@scottbecker4367]

This is one of the more annoying aspects of DD2 I think. There are enemies around every corner, which makes me wonder how anyone ever gets anywhere in this world. I don't find that it's realistic, and it doesn't really give much breathing room between fights.

[@OhjiiGlacier]

Since the first DD, I seen what meta was and as someone who needs to stay dripped up 75% of the time I thought "if this is meta, I don't want it" and equipped whatever I wanted. Staff weak? Defenses low? I'm still melting, I'm still succeeding so no issue

[@AD-rn1ti]

I need them to make the movements better.

[@dallinjc3]

Movements? Be more specific, are you talking about character animations or what?

[@jovee6155]

DD2's world is how i'd imagine The Continent from The Witcher was like before Geralt's time. Before witchers existed monsters were rampant and attacks were random while during the time of the books most of the monsters were eradicated and the witchers were also almost extinct like the monsters they once hunted

[@TheNextGeneration60]

I’m just glad Asmongold has the “yeah the performance and mtx is ass, but what does that have to do with the game and gameplay itself?”

[@stillnotchill2560]

Performance absolutely harms the gameplay. What is "gameplay" at 20 fps

[@Dr.AvenVon]

which is a stupid take, because bad performance can absolutely hinder gameplay

[@TheNextGeneration60]

@@Dr.AvenVon but it doesn’t hinder his. He’s not saying other people don’t have problems. But he won’t judge it bc of that since he hasn’t had those problems

[@TheNextGeneration60]

@@stillnotchill2560 would you judge a game based on something that didn’t affect you? Bc it hasn’t affected him basically at sll

[@Pe37777]

@@stillnotchill2560wait until the patch bro idk what to tell you. Stop getting upset at people enjoying the game and wait until you can play it. Acting like this is a permanent thing is kinda silly even Asmon agrees.

[@petebagwell6666]

Completely different games that are nothing alike gameplaywise but set in similar open worlds, dragons dogma seemed to be like a recoding of monster hunter in a full open world

[@SuperTyrannical1]

Skyrim doesn't have dragons. The wings being fused with the front legs like that makes them Wyverns not dragons. Ironically for a game that has a story about the return of dragons but actually has no dragons. 😁

[@drawgam2946]

Its part of the blue balls Bethesda dev method.

[@krokodil5131]

All wyverns are dragons but not all dragons are wyverns. Dragon can also be a category, not just a specific name for the winged, four legged type.

[@elijahbrooks1472]

Ahh you’re one of those types

[@Jakeryanu]

Bros the dragon expert

[@marconihimself]

I love the serendipitious encounters you get in these open world games with open ended gameplay, but what makes skyrim great is that you dont exist in the world just to kill things, you feel like you exist in that environment beyond just hitting stuff. A game like dragon's dogma or elden ring that succesfully merged the open ended structure of combat with a well realized world where you can kind of blend in the scenery is really the goal, at least for me.

[@plaguedoct0r]

Elder Scrolls games' combat takes zero skill and zero strategy. In fact the games suck in almost every way, other than that they're large worlds to explore.

[@SkellyHertz]

A beautiful world you can only explore with a 1960s remote control Rover robot.

[@plaguedoct0r]

@hellothere4431 I disagree. The last time ES showed the slightest bit of creativity was morrowind, and even then it wasn't enough.

[@Akusen_Arcade]

Preach

[@SoulPotion]

​@hellothere4431 Yeah, I agree. In an RPG I want to live my story, not necessarily difficult combat

[@ApexSpartanHD]

Zero strategy? You must have not played any Elder Scrolls besides Skyrim on easy difficulty. Morrowind was the first modern Elder Scrolls game that became an epitome of various builds impacting your game and gameplay. I mean, I respect that it's your opinion, and I do agree the skill ceiling is obviously low, especially if you compare it to some combat focused RPGs, but saying it takes zero strategy is fundamentally wrong.

[@zay_tiggygaming]

Idk bro Dragons Dogma 2 has some crazy moments you dont see anywhere else. Funny story, I was doing the riddles with the sphinx when it was time for her to fly to the next location. I jumped on her back and she flew me there and even acknowledged she was impressed I did that. When we landed, it was the riddle where you fight the guy with that damage decreasing ring on. No big deal I threw him off the cliff but not far enough to die and I couldnt progress. So I jumped down to finish him and had to work my way around the mountain back up to where she was. I got to the top of the mountain where it was extremely foggy and rainy so naturally, my lantern goes out and I cant cut it back on. Its dark as hell! I check my map and see I need to make a right. to get back to her. To my surprise a damn chimera appears seemingly out of the blackness. We ensue into a long (I kid you not) a 15 minute fight and we both (main pawn is mage) almost die to this thing until it finally falls. I check my inventory cuz I got a ferrystone from the corpse and thats when I realized it, the damn ring the sphinx gave me is still on my finger which is why that fight dragged on so long. Im lvl 67 so I couldnt understand why Ifelt so weak. The whole ordeal took me at least 45 minutes to an hour to do. I waa even struggling to kill hobgoblins! That is a unique experience I dont think I will ever have in another game world. Ended up having an epic battle with the sphinx for playing with me like that. She summoned tornadoes, ice spikes, teleportation it was incredible

[@jorgeelias1294]

Can’t wait for new elder scroll!

[@acev3521]

Me too drama will be amazing

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

Gonna be waiting til at least 2028. They said it's coming out then at the earliest

[@prinstyrio0]

I remember reading a reddit thread of someone wanting to list stuff that was typical 2010 but isn't anymore. Open world games was said by someone with a lot of upvotes along with MOBAs on the list. It's funny how many agreed that open world is a "dead genre that wont get back" and saying it knowing AI is on a high rise. There will come a day when we get a full fledged open world game run by advanced AI, so advanced it can keep track on characters and make up interesting quests, events and random things to happen that aren't fully random and has a full story to them, which you as the player can fully decide to explore or ignore. That's the future of open world and many games I'd imagine in the distant future and in that sense a lot of future games will be open world and less linear when there's tech (AI) that can fill in those bits continuously. And if you doubt me, just check up Dungeon Master AI stuff, you'll be impressed by how good the AI is right now at able to hold a D&D style campaign and fill in the mundane.

[@Anonimuuz]

Imagine if Skyrim had DD2 combat can only hope 4 ES6

[@KazaarLotha]

DD combat has been good since the first game and nobody has done it again.

[@UnreliableUsername]

Hope and Bethesda is not a good mix bro

[@apemasterrace]

How much you gonna hope bethesda has been failing since after skyrim and still people think they can rise up again. Stop funding these fail devs.

[@Nostradevus1]

Keep smoking that hopium

[@kwoni3337]

Es6 will be the defining game for bethesda. Starfield and 76 were by most counts a flop. I can't imagine them sticking around for long as an actual dev studio if es6 flops as well. One can hope, but unfortunately hope ain't enough.

[@freek931]

It's crazy how suddenly your quiet stroll on the road turns into a full on war with an ogre, 3 nearby wolves, and a small group of goblins lol this game is fucking awesome

[@mikenewman9959]

skyrim is really overrated bad big enemy fight, magic feels bad, melee feels bad. only archery really works.

[@brucealmighty5881]

Only archery works? That's a skill issue lol. Any build can work Skyrim at the time it was released it was cool, but what made Skyrim great was the modding community. Skyrim in no way holds up to today's standards by any means

[@alexcrawford7299]

2:00 was Skyrim still huge I bet loads of ppl still play it especially with mods changing the story’s or experience and the amount of different ways u can play it’s got years of replay value

[@Keyh]

Review of the first game was "Greatest 6/10 game ever made." Sounds like the second has overtaken the first as the best 6/10 game.

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

7/10

[@Surfingnet]

The best griffin moments are when you fall off of its back then a pawn catches you mid air and saves you.

[@ItApproaches]

Bullshit Asmon finished DD2 already, unless he was only doing main story and ignoring the entire point of the damn game which is to explore and have fun. I'm 30 hours in, have have barely done anything with the desert area lol.

[@yous2244]

Not really, problem with this game is that there's no enough of mobs and vocations. Even after 12 years Skyrim is still the goat

[@cyphuss1715]

​@@yous2244 hell no, skyrim has good roleplay aspects and that's it

[@cyphuss1715]

​@yous2244 and there's plenty of mobs, people just don't explore

[@ItApproaches]

@@yous2244 I don't even care to max out or use most of the vocations, don't need to and I'm at 38 hours with a crap ton left to do. If you haven't taken at least 100 hours in DD2, you really haven't played it.

[@yous2244]

@@ItApproaches oh my God, did you really use the "humfh I didn't need it anyways" argument that me and everyone uses when they're a kid? 😂🤣

[@XaadeTheBlade]

The "imprecise" bit gets me. You're getting knocked about. You get staggered, and that leads to more staggers. You step on uneven ground. You're not the greatest acrobat in the world, and so the environment knocks you about. I see that as a feature of the combat, not a bug. You're not 100% in control. Not in control of your party, not in control of your body. That's life.

[@kurhooni5924]

dide he said Dragon dog shit 2? wow theshift was fast, went form the game is so great every devs should take example, to tis l in few day, crazy

[@UriTheImpaler]

its trash and we all know it.

[@LennyDykstra1]

@@UriTheImpaleryou really think it’s a bad game?

[@darknyx9876]

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

[@GezzarTV]

It's a joke

[@Theclashcast]

I’m enjoying it…I’m only 6 hrs in but it’s got me hooked so far.

[@ErsolTV]

My favorite monster in the game is definitely the gryphon, as it seems is the case for most people. One gave me easily the most exciting radiant encounter I've ever had, on day 3 of playing: I was just entering Battahl, and fighting off a pack of knackers. The gryphon flying around was obvious - they're huge - but there wasn't much to do about it until it came down to me, so I was mostly ignoring it. Of course, half way through the fight, the thing divebombed me and my pawns. Which was an acute problem due to the fact that we were on a trail down a very steep cliff. Being a mystic spearhand and foaming at the mouth for any opportunity to lunge, it was inevitable I'd end up poorly angling a dash and sending myself off the side. But! The environs in DD2 are detailed enough that I was able to catch myself on a ledge maybe 10ish meters below where the fight was happening. Relief at not dying from fall damage was quickly replaced with submitting to my fate, as I was sure there was no way up. Thankfully (?) the gryphon decided to come down and join me. Putting me back in the fight, but albiet and even MORE awkward one, with approximately NO room to maneuver, on a narrow cliff ledge. A bit of downright brilliant acrobatics and parkour later on my part, I get a height advantage and plunge down on top of it still on the narrow ledge. Juuuust as it decides to relocate. Back to nest. I'm on its back. For the next couple of minutes, I fly around with the gryphon, getting an absolutely stunning first-time introduction to the vast canyons of Battahl at max settings (mind you, because you can free-stand on the back of large enemies, you can alternate between grabbing and releasing to never run out of stamina on the back of a gryphon). Once we reach its nest, I was somewhat hoping for a climactic 1v1 with it. That would have been a legendary end to the little adventure. Alas, my pawns magically teleported to the entrance of the nest, and with better footing, we thoroughly lashed the thing from basically full health to 0 in less than half the time the sightseeing flight took. Still magnificently cinematic. Still gave it a *don't recommend* on Steam, though, for using Denuvo and having microtransactions. Hey, gotta draw a line somewhere, right? :^)

[@jtggardner]

"do you like it more than Elden Ring?" 🤣😂😆😂🤣 How could anyone seriously make that comparison?!?!

[@esnezinu_neko8768]

Dd2 is beautiful. Elden ring is just horrible to look at. You have to use narcotics if elden ring nightmare monsters would be pleasant to look at and enjoy. Dd2 is video game. Elden ring is same robotic dead mario 1 experience.

[@bohannon2692]

I like dd2 better

[@taOGrimace]

About adding one more world boss; Most likely a Rathalos or Rathian can be used as a DLC monster. It makes sense.

[@MySOAP12]

i can personally guarantee as someone who hasnt watched his DD2 streams. he definently did not "finish" the game. he "finished" DD2 like he "finished" armored core 6.

[@figuures6098]

True ending enjoyers rise up

[@MySOAP12]

@@figuures6098 here here

[@lelenny7725]

It's kind of odd how so many open world games still choose to focus on a very linear storyline. I kind of wonder what open world games would be like if they would completely remove the concept of an intended progression and would instead completely focus on supporting a choose your own adventure type of experience. I think a lot of people would love to play games like this but it's just not the current industry standard unfortunately. I'd love to see a studio just go all in and remove all quest markers and 'main storylines' and just go ham with the world building and gameplay instead. Just make sidequests the main attraction

[@k--music]

Crazy how Skyrim came out 6 months before Dragon’s Dogma 1 and we’re still years away from a real glimpse at a sequel. Pretty sure IGN even made this exact same video when the first game came out iirc

[@Festiino]

In Skyrim I restarted the game to change character and try new paths multiple times. And it never costed anything, crazy 😱

[@splork8616]

but it doesnt cost anything???? (bar ur save slot)

[@Someone-lg6di]

Weird its the same in dragons dogma 2 get your facts streight

[@Festiino]

@@Someone-lg6di glad you can have more than 1 save file and as many fast travels as you want. after all you paid 60 bucks for a game, would be insane to pay for anything else.

[@VampireNoblesse]

DD2 is on the level of Skyrim, TW3, Eldenring, BG3.. ... I don't hype games much, but DD2 is SICK! & the insane combat, with oldschool manual camera & target feels so satisfying, combine that with a wolrd as immersive as Skyrim & TW3.., with organic quests, no quest-marker overkill, good NPC AI for once, beautiful & complex landscapes to explore etc. make DD2 a a great but also fresh experience (its just so immersive & intuitive) ... the quests in DD2 are among the most organic ever, next-level (unless you only use Pawns to guide)

[@meyes1098]

"Skyrim's magic was how it made you feel" - I don't know man, I put in like over 1000 hours in Oblivion, but couldn't manage more than 2 in Skyrim. It just put me to sleep out of boredom! Didn't have this issue with dd1 and dd2. In fact I honestly couldn't find ANY Skyrim in dd2 xD

[@michaelh878]

Interesting. I really liked Morrowind, thought oblivion was absolute trash, and would put Skyrim in between the two.