I love the crazy moments you get in this game

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

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

I hope you clipped that cause it sounds insane 🤣

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

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

i mean the game is like 100 years old or something

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

@@wahtari2994 dragons dogma 1 literally came out 1 year after skyrim. it still blows skyrim out of the water so that's not an excuse

@@BadEnd98 Oooh im looking forward to wilds.

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

back to their roots

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

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

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

And why is it wrong?

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

@@shiraisan3779 Insulting me isnt gonna do anything.

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

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

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

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.

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 linke vigiliant.

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

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.

the game is garbage

@@arustyitalianhairyasscheek5305 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.

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

@@bobdole3804 Lmfaoooo so true :')

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

Wait wtf?

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

Really? Damn, well that explains everything

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

@@MorrisWilsonFvcksa beach, are you sure 😂

😂

Yeah nobody can crap on the soundtrack

Jeremy Soule!

Best Soundtrack in my opinion.

Jeremy Soule, the guy who compared piracy to the holocaust.

Have the trailer DLd so I can watch it whenever I want. Up there with the H3/ODST and Reach trailers

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

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.)

@@slick3996 sure, but fast travel ?

@@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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

10k hours? That's fucking nuts

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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

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

I have a friend who i play games with and its hard to play with him, trying to play a survival crafting game and he will watch a video and where all the best stuff is and meta of building. So instead of just playing the game and having fun you end up speeding running for the best gear/equipment and only build in a certain way and its so fucking boring

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.

​@@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.

@@deustauries yup that's basically how it is, we were playing the forest, the first one not the second..he built the base in a certain way where it's pretty much invincible (which he watched on youtube) and within the first 30 minutes he ran to get the sword and did the story within the other hour. We literally had nothing to do, no point exploring because he knew where everything was and already grabbed them because he watched a video where they're all located, he built the base in a certain way as seen on a video so we couldn't even enjoy building a cool compound and see how many days we survived, he recently got Into wow and wanted me to make a new character to play with him and he was always like 5 quests I front of me because I'm actually reading the story for the main quests..his first expereince playing it was grinding dungeons to max level then googling his build and armor and rotations of abilities, his first time playing the game and he hasn't even experienced the game in its slightest. It's always a rush for end game. He tried to play eso with me once, he skipped all introduction cutscenes..spoke to a guy that gives a side quest to fetch something to give to the quest giver to then meet him somewhere to carry it on, he didn't know why he had to meet up with him after handing in the quest because he didn't read shit.shut.. said he was bored, quit and never played again

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.

Hopefully theres BBI like equivalent in dragons dogma 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Brainrot

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

performance is great... on console.

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

@@wallflowerdannot really lol

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

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

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.

Bad games need mods to be good.

@@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.

Masterpiece.

Same.

this is madness

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

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

nope more like banans to cucumbers😅😅

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.

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.

Do you not compare foods?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

That shit is so annoying

Mystic spearhands damage immunity beg to differ

skill issue 😊

True that sh*t is so annoying

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

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.

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

There actually was in Dark Arisen DLC

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

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

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

Dragons Dogma 1 came after Skyrim

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

@@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.

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

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

100% they get paid.

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 :)

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

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

I think you need to replay vanilla dd1

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

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.

@@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.

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.

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

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

Skyrim was 2011 and DD1 was 2012

Bruh I was on an ox card ride and got fucking charged and launched by a Minotaur.

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.

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.

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

Hope and Bethesda is not a good mix bro

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.

Keep smoking that hopium

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.

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

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

@@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

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

@@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.

Its part of the blue balls Bethesda dev method.

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.

Ahh you’re one of those types

Bros the dragon expert

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

Dragon's Dogma came out a year after Skyrim

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

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

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

its trash and we all know it.

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

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

It's a joke

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

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.

I like dd2 better

True ending enjoyers rise up

@@figuures6098 here here

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

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

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

@@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.

@@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? 😂🤣

7/10

They should also make animations for cooking

Why 💀​@@Crabriri

@@cyphuss1715 Just want a bit more effort, have someone cook it like those cooking shorts on most social medias.

@@Crabriri pointless

Me too drama will be amazing

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

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

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

@@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.

It affects people differently, many games people have performance issues, but I just don't have it, at least I rarely experience it. As soon as there are problems, I search forum and someone will offer a way to fix it until patches.

yes it is, its not part of the combat, systems, shops, day and night cicle, quests, npcs you can have the best game of the world and bad performance, or the worst game of the world and good performance

Lmao this cope is pathetic. Ok I'll do some averaging then. If we take Zach's score of 9.5/10, and add it to Charlie's score of 0/10 (because he couldn't play the game), then we have a final score of 4.75. The interesting thing between these 2 reviews is how closely matched their 2 systems are

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.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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!

@@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!

yeah, skill requirement is very low. despite that the elder scrolls games still end up being better than games like dragons dogma and elden ring

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

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

Preach

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