Hatorade
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Yeah I was so stoked to play DD2 had an amazing first 10ish hours but the cracks quickly showed themselves and then it was all I could see.
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Dragon's Dogma 2
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Personally I really liked DD2, I think it had issues obviously and the biggest one was probably city performance but also stuff like pacing problems(way too many quests insides the city, backtracking quests, too many shit enemies everywhere), combat being too simple due to limited skill slots, difficulty not scaling, classes being poorly balanced and such but I still enjoyed my time exploring the entire world and finding all the caves and mini dungeons and stuff.
I'm looking forward to the expansion cause it looks like they're fixing a bunch of things, the main concern I have is difficulty, in Dark Arisen they raised it a good bit so maybe it'll be the same but them making so many changes that make the game easier means the difficulty would need a major jump to keep up. Might have to use mods to double the monster hp again which is pretty poor design but well still looking forward to it. Might wait 2-3months to pick it up though so they iron launch issues, we'll see. I have a good amount of games I'm planning to play at the end of the year so I'm not in a hurry to play this specifically.
I'm looking forward to the expansion cause it looks like they're fixing a bunch of things, the main concern I have is difficulty, in Dark Arisen they raised it a good bit so maybe it'll be the same but them making so many changes that make the game easier means the difficulty would need a major jump to keep up. Might have to use mods to double the monster hp again which is pretty poor design but well still looking forward to it. Might wait 2-3months to pick it up though so they iron launch issues, we'll see. I have a good amount of games I'm planning to play at the end of the year so I'm not in a hurry to play this specifically.
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I just didn’t like the random design of the world and monsters. Fucking cliffs everywhere so you couldn’t really see where the hell you are or where you are going. Then you’d come across some random goblins in the cliff, then 20 feet away you have some wolves then another 20 feet away some bandits. They should’ve flattened the world a bit, climbing sucks. And they should’ve spread the mobs out more like DD1. Have the lizards by the rivers, have bandits by bandit camps, etc. it felt like they used a randomizer to make the world and mob placement.
Of course the dog shit performance didn’t help any of that.
Of course the dog shit performance didn’t help any of that.
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Utnayan
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Hatorade
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Yeah this smacks of go fuck yourself and pay me for the expansion at the same time, why none of this was done like 2 years ago makes no sense, and apparently a performance update is also coming? The fuck they waiting for...
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If they would have addressed the shit right after release they would have a lot more people willing to buy the DLC this year. They done fucked up.
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Utnayan
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jsquirrel
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This is on sale now at Fanatical.com for $15 or so, with the announcement of its own Dark Arisen DLC coming out in October. Is it worth it at that price?
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Ymmv, personally I very much enjoyed the game even if it was flawed in many ways, but you need a decently strong PC and some aspects might turn you off more and make you regret your purchase, that said 15 bucks is pretty cheap. There's no demo so the only way to check the game out would be the cracked version, but not sure they updated it with the recent patch(and there's another patch coming soon which should make the game better).
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Yeah seems like pricing error. It's $34 with the 15% off code on fanatical and also straight up on GMG, there's a couple of sketchy sites on isthereanydeal showing it for less but these can be hit and miss(sometimes they show a price but when you go to order they ran out of keys, they don't bother updating their shit which is annoying)
Also worth noting the expansion is coming out, and the bundle for the expansion(which is $30 on its own) is "only" $50, so that puts the base game at 20 bucks in that bundle. Although obviously you have to buy the whole thing so it's not really the case. Still might be worth just waiting until then if you want the full game/experience.
jsquirrel
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Ah well, yeah. I've waited this long, I can wait a few years for the whole Dark Arisen package to go on sale. Not like I don't have other games including Elden Ring barely touched here to play.
Thanks for looking into it!