Dragon's Dogma

[Bunk]

Picked this up over the weekend for 360. Pretty addictive so far - though I'm learning to save frequently, as my explorer tendencies have brought me in to a few areas I clearly am not ready for.

Bunktavious on XBL

[NiX]

Picked this up over the weekend for 360. Pretty addictive so far - though I'm learning to save frequently, as my explorer tendencies have brought me in to a few areas I clearly am not ready for.

Bunktavious on XBL

Added you.

I already have the urge to restart. Picked Warrior and not feeling the combat. Watching my Hunter pawn is making me jealous.

[Kitsune]

Don't need to restart, you can just swap classes when you reach the big city.

[NiX]

It takes up points doesn't it? Or do they not mean that much?

[Hawkbit]

It's 1000 for the basic classes, 1500 for the advanced.  I usually net 2000-3500 on a single dungeon run at lvl 24, so it's really chump change when all is said and done.  Mobs respawn, so you won't run out of XP to put into points. 

[Kitsune]

I'm sitting on around 40,000 unused points right now, so no, it's not arduous to pay to unlock extra classes.  It's a one-time unlock; once you've paid you can switch to that class at any point in the future without cost.

[jakonovski]

Yeah, class switching is the spice of DD and it's practically free. I've gone Strider->Ranger->Assassin at level 30 and I'm still drowning in points.

[Falconeer]

Another thing I dislike, the lack of a roll/evade function. Or can you pick up something like that later? When a big bad monsters lunges at me I love to be able to, you know, step aside.

Also, I fought the hydra at the very start of the game, when you wake up and it is ravaging the camp. My pawns kept telling me to chop the head off but I just couldn't do it since at that point I was still struggling with the lack of a target lock. Well, after 5 minutes like this, pathetically hitting the body or the tail and trying to figure out how to get at the head, and after my pawns had been swallowed by the hydra (!), the thing just... died. I know for a fact I didn't land a single hit on the head and while there was some TNT in its neck I certainly am not the one that threw it there or made it go boom (how am I supposed to hit the barrel without ranged weaponry?). So yeah, after 5 minutes of aimlessly flailing at the monster, it just chopped its own head off out of pity I suppose, and still all the NPCs proceeded to call me Arisen and cheer me for my amazing feat.

 

I know I am still in the tutorial-ish part of the game, but this is the third boss fight already and while cool looking it played out as a complete farce. This thing has a tendency to play on auto-pilot and I am not sure how I feel about it.

[jakonovski]

There's no autopilot after the Hydra fight, believe me. As for combat rolls, I believe that's a Strider/Ranger talent I believe, along with double jump.   

[Bunk]

Yea, the Hydra fight was kind of silly. I "heroically" chopped its head off and saved the day. What I really did though, was ride around on its back for five minutes while it crashed through town, then shot a couple arrows at it from 200' away after I fell off. That somehow beheaded it...

[Kitsune]

Anyone using Cyllix should release/renew her (haw, networking humor!)  I just finished getting her to rank 9 in sorcerer for the cast speed boosting augment and upgraded her gear, in addition to getting a pile of extra levels and knowledges on her.  She should now be a better pawn in most every respect.

[Falconeer]

So, if I use your level 50 pawn with my level 7 main character, am I actually playing the game in God Mode?

[Kitsune]

Not precisely.  She's pure support, heals and buffs, so she won't win a fight for you on her own while you go off for drinks.  But she should make life considerably more convenient with those buffs and heals.

[Hawkbit]

Cyllix is fucking awesome.  I wouldn't call it God Mode, but she has helped turn the tide of a fight quite often. 

[Tairnyn]

Got this yesterday for PS3 and really enjoying having a game that scares me. Getting stuck in the swamp in the dead of night was pretty epic. The pawns I had with me and their advice was the only thing the kept me sane.

Going to start friending to check out your pawns!

[nurtsi]

I've been also playing this for few days now. The game is freaking hard at points. I don't know in what order you are supposed to do stuff in the beginning, but after the prologue I head for Witchwood and while the woods are not that difficult the bandits on the way murder me.

Also running back to civilization half dead in the middle of the night while being chased by a pack wolves is pretty awesome.

My only gripe so far is the stupid AI and pathfinding. Pawns get stuck behind small cliffs they can't climb up and are too stupid to run around. Also put  a group of bandits with both melee and archers with them and at least rogue and mage pawns just run towards them, get hit by something and run back and repeat until they die while doing nothing useful. Especially mages with weapon buffs and heals decide to cast shit in the rain of arrows that causes them to dirt nap fast.

[Yegolev]

This game is very engaging.  I managed to stumble on the hydra head escort mission at about dusk, thinking the midcastle was perhaps someplace I could avoid being killed, so Mercedes started rolling the cart.  Did the mission at night, which was interesting.  About the time I could see the sky brightening, we arrived at Gran Soren.  This is now somewhere in my Top Ten Moments of Gaming.

[Tairnyn]

I liked when I saw there was an augment skill that increased the radius of the lantern light and decided it was a must have based on assorted moments of terror. Also, I started planning long journeys based on the daylight schedule and departing at night so I will be in daylight when things start to get nasty. It makes me realize there's a fine line between inconvenient game mechanics that are annoying and those that add atmosphere and enjoyment. For example, repairing gear in Olbivion, while realistic, was annoying.

[MournelitheCalix]

I was very skeptical of this game, so much so that I decided to rent and not purchase.  After playing it, I found a lot to like about it and alot also to dislike.  My main gripe was how unforgiving parts of the game was.  After this I also found myself wondering where to go on many of the missions which was frustrating.  Operationally I also had problems as I had alot of trouble outfitting the pawns. 

You wold have thought that it would have been as simple as buy an item then order it to be worn by a pawn. 

The combat though was really exciting and for every problem I had there was a lot to like such as the truly intense night combat.  Bottom line is its a good game but there are alot of hmm what do I do now moments as well.

[Morfiend]

Fuck, now I want to buy this. I STILL havent finished Dark Souls. Although I do have around 120 hours invested in it, over 4 characters.

[Falconeer]

This is a great game, I own it and love it, but nowhere near Dark Souls. That game, and Demon's Souls, are just the best ever.

[Yegolev]

I think the comparisons to Dark Souls is unfair to both games.

[jth]

Started this a couple of weeks ago and love it, I don't have much time to play during the week but try to catch up on weekends. Level 27 at the moment and about to start the last Wyrm Hunt quest (saved the escort quest for last).

Not much to complain about so far, maybe the pawns should sometimes have more initiative picking up items and less initiative on wandering around picking fights, but those are small issues. Also I was positively surprised when I noticed a hired pawn start mining while we were strolling through a dungeon, never thought pawns were capable of doing that on their own.

Aeternus72 on PSN.

[Yegolev]

You can buy items to change their inclinations, from a guy in the encampment near the riftstone.

[Hawkbit]

Wow.  I just got bit by the corrupt save data bug.  My bad for not backing things up, but in my 4+ years of owning a PS3 I've never needed to. 

2/3 of the game finished, level 32.  Now I have to start totally over.  This went from being in my top 3 games this year to being the worst game experience in the past few years.  Maybe 50 hours lost?

Back up your saves, folks.

[Yegolev]

How do you notice the bug? Reload?

My saves are shot up to PSN nightly so I suppose I need to do a test reload before I go to bed.

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, I played this morning for a bit, then when I went to play today it was corrupt. 

In reading about it, when PSN+ members upload their saves, those saves are corrupted too.  PSN is actually saving the corrupted file.  So all the recommendations are to do a daily USB backup. 

I filed a support ticket with Capcom, but I suspect I'll hear squat.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/dragonsdogma/go/thread/view/122057/29154085/Hey,_thanks_for_the_single_save-file_system,_Capcom...

[Kitsune]

Yeah, ever since I had my power cut off in the middle of a game, I've been making occasional backups onto USB.  Just in case.

[CmdrSlack]

ARISE!

So I just finally got this via Gamefly.

Are any of you XBox folks still playing it? In any event, if you see my username add you please to accept so's I can use your pawns and vice-versa.

[CaptainNapkin]

Totally late to the party, but finally picked this up for Xbox. If the handful of you that have this for Xbox see an XBL request from TheToxicWaltz and don't mind me fondling your pawns, please accept. If I understand correctly the pawns should still be available even if you no longer are active, though they may not level or something to that effect.

[Hawkbit]

This game is being re-released April 23 at $40 with the base game and a new xpac.  They're supposedly cleaning up some of the UI, better travel and other systems, hopefully with some bug fixes.  It is supposed to be available day 1 from Live and PSN.

I'll likely rebuy, even though the game seriously fucked me over last year.  Enough time has passed that I think I can try it again.  Such a damn good game.

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2013/1100.html

[KallDrexx]

Man I forgot about this game.  When I saw the title I was about to go to Amazon and buy it since I'm needing a new game to play, but I guess I might as well wait until april.

[Hawkbit]

Head's up: This launches on Tuesday.  I'm grabbing it for a second playthrough, though I'll remember to backup my saves frequently.  Fingers crossed they didn't hose the base game up.

I'll be on PS3 if you want to see my pawn:  T_Abernathy

Supposedly this has been turned into a franchise and we should see a DD2 in the future.

[kildorn]

Totally late to the party, but finally picked this up for Xbox. If the handful of you that have this for Xbox see an XBL request from TheToxicWaltz and don't mind me fondling your pawns, please accept. If I understand correctly the pawns should still be available even if you no longer are active, though they may not level or something to that effect.

Idle pawns are available (and if you run into a cock block quest like the early witch quest, pick up a mid/high level pawn to help for free), and still gain their rift crystals. I came back to this after like a year, and had some million fucking crystals waiting for me.

[Yegolev]

Too lazy to read elsewhere: can I buy the xpac and get the bugfixes?  I'd rather not buy it twice.