'Dragon's Dogma 2' - A Diamond in the Rough... [REVIEW]
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Dragon's Dogma 2 is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective. In the game, the player takes on the role of a character called the "Arisen", a hero marked by a dragon whom they must defeat. The player explores the world they live in, taking on quests, and fighting monsters, while being caught up in a geopolitical conflict between two kingdoms. To assist in this, the Arisen relies on allies called "Pawns", non-playable characters who join the player's party. These characters are AI-controlled, but function like player-controlled avatars, able to assist in fights, provide information on enemies, and give guidance to currently active quests. Players can each create and customize their avatar and their own Pawn character with different genders, appearances, and race. In addition, players can recruit two additional Pawns that have been created by other players.
~Wikipedia
Intro: 0:00
Is It A Game For You?: 3:16
Combat: 10:02
Emergent Encounters: 18:35
Pawns: 21:21
Open World: 27:34
Performance: 29:51
Conclusion: 36:44
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so ur pawns never got Dragonsplague so u kinda missed out on the whole new thing with the system
@@scott_money3543 It is my understanding that the Dragonsplague takes time...your pawn has to be hired often enough.
Dude The Ox cart thing is really funny as fukk. Its really trying to go for Read dead 2 level of immersion along with dumb shit. XD But yeah i was gonna say "Dont give your pawn, or chose any pawn online with certain crazy abilities as melee fighter" but i realized "you do them against Chimeras and drags" lol ~ so yea funny thing abt your Ox definitely not a bug. Its how DD1 seems they're keeping certain thing unchanged despite the times and the Age. I really wish less of Escort quests but that's just me
Actually there might be a work-around with getting the pawn back, if it's still in the new game, go to your history in the pause menu and add to favorites and in the rift walk to the stone and there should be a summon menu press search and there you can summon again past summons or pawns you favorited.
HEADS UP!
game just released all its monetization after review season
DONT BUY THIS GAME - another scum design mtx game from Capcom, no surprises there
not about what you can "stand" but about having standards
You mentioned it numerous times... "this game isn't for everyone." I think that's one of many issues with the industry right now. Devs want to make games that appeal to everyone, watering down systems and gameplay in turn making a generic run of the mill game.
Lol if games don't appeal to everybody then the game won't last long and I'm pretty sure that's not a good profit for them đ
agreed. if you try to appeal to everyone. it won't appeal to anyone. simply because you always appeal to the weakest common denominator.
meaning shallow generic junk for the masses. just because something is popular doesn't mean it is a good game.
studio's really need to go back to learning about the demograph they want to appeal to. and make a game that is actually made for that group.
there are plenty of big studio's doing just fine having more specialized games for a more specific player group.
You don't have to make ALL the profit. You just have to make profit in order to be sustainable.
@@SOUL-KING-93 huh? Not every genre is for everyone...I figured that was obvious. I generally don't like rpg's, for instance the game covered here is not for me. That's fine. If the devs took someone like me into account, they'd dumb everything down while alienating the core audience. Not every game has to be a genre defining, game of the year contender. Not every game has to be a AAA "experience."
@@GiblixStudio my point exactly
This is why Luke loved Hogwarts Legacy. Itâs a game that doesnât offended, doesnât try anything new. Games like these that actually try new stuff is what drives gaming forward. Outer Wilds, Kingdom Come, and now DD2.
Luke: starting his second playthrough
Charlie: can't create his character without crashing
Charlie going real hard on the game, heâs definitely angry, and fair enough. Selling a product that doesnât work for 70 bucks, itâs a scam. Pretty sure it was common knowledge the PC port was shit though, and console was the best place to buy it, so heâs gotta take some responsibility for that at least, even if it shouldnât be an issue in the first place.
â@@ivartheboneless5969 Asking consumers to be responsible for a flop from one of giants in the gaming industry is why I read comments. Impeccable logic right there.
@@bciven7862 clearly you donât read comments, lol. I said theyâre scammers for selling a product at 70 quid that doesnât work. But a quick google search would tell you the PC version doesnât work. Im not sticking up for the game companies bad practices, Iâm saying stop putting blind faith in companies and giving them your money without researching the product beforehand. Yes, we should be able to trust companies to deliver games without problems at launch, but theyâve proven we canât. So take some accountability or responsibility or whatever when you purchase a shit product, itâll be less likely to happen again. I learned my lesson with cyberpunk2077, yeah it was CDPR who done wrong, but Iâm not gonna get scammed again and will do some research before spending.
@@bciven7862 the whole reason companies even get away with this is because people just buy the games without researching them, end up getting mad and forgetting about it until 6 months later when a DLC drops for 20 bucks and the game is fixed, you get a bunch of CZcams videos âso and so game is great nowâ and then its all fine. If consumers took some responsibility then companies couldnât fuk us over all time time.
@@bciven7862 Iâm asking for consumers to be responsible with their money and accountable when these companies scam us. Yes the companies are the ones that are doing wrong, but if we keep putting blind faith in them and giving them our money without researching then game before hand then this will keep happening. A game will release in an unplayable state, everyoneâs angry, six months later itâs fixed and there is a new 20 buck DLC. You get every gaming CZcamsr posting âso and so game is great nowâ and then itâs a fine and dandy. I learned my lesson with CyberPunk2077. Know what I did? Got a refund, didnât buy the game until it was fully fixed, and vowed to not buy a game again unless I know itâs in a state that meets my standards. You canât trust these companies.
About the cart being broken, it would have been funny if the party spent the entire walk of shame roasting the one who destroyed the wagon đ
Technical Artist here, chiming in in regards to the performance drop while a lot of humanoid characters are present:
This may very well be because humanoids tend to have many layers (including their body mesh and elements of equipment) attached to their main "skeleton" that are treated in turn very similarly as separate skeletons that need to be animated. This can create heavy CPU load because one humanoid may require each equipment slot's current position to be calculated individually in relation to the wearer's skeleton.
As opposed to a lot of creatures that are treated as single skeleton and are thus way "lighter" performance-wise, since they are often only one single skeleton.
Tldr: humanoids are often way heavier to process because they are more customizable in body characteristics and equipment.
Bro, just stop⊠that type of thing should not happen in modern games.
Thanks for your comment.
AI as well. There could be tons of scripts for each NPC and many event triggers depending on how complex it is. However, that's not at all an excuse for it running poorly lol.
Which makes sense but this game is an 100 bucks for me. It should be running decently.
@@user-vi4zw6zu4c Ignorant comment. It will always be a tug of war between higher fidelity graphics and hardware performance. Its not a standard that can be set under the umbrella of what we call "modern gaming". That is a nuanced description that youre oversimplifying.
Lets be real here, DD1 was rough, sparse story and lots of jank, but incredibly fun and charming. DD2 doesnât really have to do much to be better and from everything Ive seen of it, they made improvements where it was needed.
It also not holding your hand is a HUGE PLUS for me.
I already got *INTO FREE* ready to blast through my speakers.
Iâm a huge fan of the game and Iâd say it has a lot to do better. Getting about the same level of game but it looks better isnât exactly an ideal outcome for me as a fan.
No hard mode and lack of enemy variety is sort of a gut punch as well. Iâve killed those enemies so many timesâŠand the first game was only hard on a first initial play through . Iâm still getting it, but Iâm not gonna knock others for wanting more.
@@ruekurei88exactly. Ima wait for when they add dlc.
Improvements?
FPS: Am I joke to you?
@@ruekurei88 Did I sound like I was knocking others for wanting more? Hope thats not how I came across. After Dark Arisen, Iâm sure theres enough variety compared to the first game and when talking difficulty, Im always skeptical. Hard for some might not mean the same for others. Hell, the people who complain about FromSoft never adding an easy mode are the ones that come to mind. I expect more complaints are going to be around how the game doesnât hold your hand rather than be too easy.
@@inthebeginning4751frames per second donât matter at all
If you've played the first Dragons Dogma and loved it, Dragons Dogma 2 will be the best thing in ages.
Agreed. It'll be my game of the year, almost without a doubt.
â@therotten6152 so far, haven't heard too much about bugs (outside of some quest pathing stuff), it's mainly been the fps. Which sucks, but it's not a deal breaker for me.
â@therotten6152 what are your specs. I'll let you know if you'll be able to run it
I hated DD1, but DD2 seems appealing. Probably gonna give it a try.
@@TheMordganif you hated Elden ring 1 you wonât like Elden ring 2 if you donât like gta5 you wonât like gta 6 if you donât like red dead redemption 2 you wonât like red dead redemption 3âŠ.you get where Iâm going?
Itâs extremely rare for a game like this to change what it was in its first iteration because thatâs what made the game a success or a cult classic to begin with.
It's 2024 . And no studio ever won the battle with clipping cloak, Clipping cloak - undefeated champion of gaming, untouchable , dominant and still kicking in every single game , that has cloaks ofc
You could structure this like an Ahoy video lol
Fun fact, Witcher 3 devs wanted to include cloak as equipable item, but it was removed, the cause? let's just say the clipping cloak god took another soul.
Also fun fact, you can download cloak mods and enjoy clipping in all it's glory :D
helldivers
The only one I can think of where the cape is done really well is the Arkham games. They had a whole team just for the cape!
there's collision on fabric but it would make the game too laggy but the technology exists it's just not marketable yet.
Thanks for the honest insight.
AC 2 - Ezio family - a beautiful piece of music in the background. Used to hear it on loop in my young days.
"Ezio's Family" from the AC soundtrack was also what immediately jumped out to me in this video. One of the most beautiful soundtracks in gaming history imo.
Although I would've preferred to hear some actual DD2 soundtrack.
Motiff from AC at this point, really memorable
So odd to use in this video, very odd đ
Sounds a lot like AC 2 soundtrack. I use it for work background music.
In the previous game, If I remember correctly, there was a way where you could favorite pawns in the rift and see which ones you've summoned before. They would also show up in the open world near towns. So even if they die, you can still get them back in the rift.
Can confirm, the Favorites function is in DD2. There are also static "codes" for each player's pawn, which can be entered while in the Rift to directly summon a specific pawn if you have it.
Yes, there is also a past summons option too besides the favorite system, but its only on the big rifts.
Will Ferrell: âNeeds more skepticism!â
I think Iâll like it, but Iâm going to hold off for a week or two before making a decision. I want to see what issues will be there on release day, how they go about fixing these issues and what the overall community feels about it.
Then, Iâll take a shot of whisky, spin in a circle counter clockwise and flip a coin.
Agreed. I'm trying to stop buying games on release only to be disappointed by them and wishing I hadn't spent my $70
Did you play the first one? If you are on the fence the best advice I can give is play dd1. It is a great intro to dd2. Alot that may intrigue you about 2 is most likely present in 1 especially if it's the combat. Most of the combat is largely ripped right from 1.
@@hannahw7023Iâm so on the edge to preorder this but after Lords of the Fallenâs disappointment I will probably just wait until next week if I really want the game after seeing some intro gameplay
Reasoning checks out!đ
Get it on sale.
Also a note, the AI in the first game Started dumb and got better as the pawns spent more time with you. They also will change tactics too. So like the dumb AI might have some level of intentions. IE the Ox cart might have been a level of the game messing with you to make more emergent game play. also the enemies falling off stuff was a thing in the first game, this happens with the dumber ones all the time. Also the first game had the same issues with the cities, also the NPCs in the first game have very detailed modeling of like routines.
just fyi, The pawn AI was downgraded in the second game. They no longer learn from you like they did in the first game and they dont change tactics around how you play anymore.
@@insector2093 i doubt you got this information at all
â@@insector2093Yeah that doesnt seem true at all from everything i've heard
@@insector2093where did you learn this?
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Will you be changing your thoughts on the recommendation as theres day 1 microstransactions in this game? Not just cosmetic either...
Not a surpirse. Considering every one of them were present in the original game too.
@@invidatauro8922 ?? No they weren't, camping wasnt a thing in the first game. Pawn inclination didn't require an item. I don't recall if character change was, but I do recall RC being in it. I also don't recall a port crystal purchase
@@dond2377 I do for port crystal. You can still buy them from the original version on the PS3 store. And I'm pretty sure there was an item for inclination.
@@dond2377 resting at inns was a thing, pawn inclinations required expensive RC elixirs, pawn appearance change required gold, port crystals couldnt be purchased and you could only find 4 in one playthrough. Ferrystones that enable fast travel were very expensive but the dlc gave you an infinite use ferrystone.
You dont have to buy any microtransactions to enjoy all the game has to offer, just like you didn't in shadow of War or Monster Hunter or even the newer crappy AC games
@@dond2377they are rare items in the game that require grinding to get. I donât honestly see the point of buying the store items as grinding and looting is such a important part of the rpg aspect of the game but non the less it really isnât a big deal all the purchases do is allow for time saving it affects you and the game itself absolutely none if you donât want them
If it's the same as the original Dragon's Dogma., just better... then it's a bangerđ±đ
A Banger With low FPS
@@El_Cattivo1988a banger with shut up and play the game. Got ya there didnât I?
@@El_Cattivo1988 So just like Elden Ring?
â@@El_Cattivo1988Unfortunately that's the standard right now. It shouldn't be, but it is.
@@TossedSalad69Elden ring was pretty stable for me only on consoles and low end pcâs
Not hold your hand? Looks like Asmon is gonna have a hard time then đ
He is almost finished with the first game, he played a lot of it off stream. I would assume he will do just fine, other than the obvious character he plays acting like he doesn't understand something lmao
â@@seanaes where did he bitch about the game? I have only seen him say to play the first game because of how good it is. Idk if you knew this but everyone gets to make a pawn đ€Ł
Also is it really clickbait when the video actually talks about what the title is? Cause at that point I wouldnt classify that as clickbait and even then that would be his editor and not the bald man himself.
i mean he beat elden ringâŠ
Also he correct about the woke crap In gaming
Jesus heâs living in your head rent free
you said at the beginning of the video that you started a second play through? How did you manage to do this? Did they give you special access to be able to have multiple characters? It seems myself and seemingly everyone else on steam is only allowed a single playthrough with our one character
Bro yes. I want answers! When is he going live? He Has a few things to explain about this.
Multiple accounts?
probably ng+ if not using another method to restart such as swapping acc
It is called ng plus
ah i see your confusion. ng plus stands for new game plus. we are speaking about starting a new playthrough halfway through like any other game. Appreciate the input though@@Raidon484
thank u for running msi afterburner overlay in your performance review section. The only one so far that I've seen, when I think it should be standard.
rivatuner to be exact
â@@crisschan2463 semantics. They're tied together.
AC The Ezio Trilogy OST in the background is so nice. Thank you Luke!
Iâm afraid that in investigating for a single quest and talking to everyone, Iâll just take on like 15 additional side quests
Yeah these games are just a waste of time.
@@jigzyonline2 Iâm sure itâs fun but I canât deal with that much at once.. especially if I have to organically track and retain all the info in the world throughout the story
and then you will fail 13 of them due to time limits and story progression
@@Cerebrums Iâm gonna turn trying to find someone into a 45 min session, then someone will be like can you kill 7 rats in my basement and someone else will be going on about delivering a letter to their lover.. wait a minute whoâs even missing and do I even care anymore
@@foggyvhs8790 lmaoo this made me laugh
One bug I have encountered a few times is a pawn would say "Oh look, a chest" and I would look at my mini map and I will see a chest marker. However, when I find the chest, I realize it has already been opened by one of my pawns. Despite already being opened, the chest doesn't leave my mini map and the pawns seem to believe it is still something I can use
is there a journal with the information you got from the people? Or must you open a notepad to write down all information for a quest?
You write down things with a pen and paper, listen to dialogues, look for potential key points, learn to read the map
@@godofsin4604 yeah ... no, its 2024, there should at least some ingame notepad sein, that you can write down smth for the quest and so on. Future says "hello"
@@gheeddeschain9638 oh sorry, I didn't realize critical thinking was offensive to you, my apologies.
@@godofsin4604 I didnt take it offensive. Its only not up to date, when you dont have ingame mechanics to update your quest journal. Even selfmade, that you can write down. E.g. When you are in some quests, then cant play for some days and come back - you will forget many things. To write down with pen and paper is a thing in 2000 to 2005, but its an other time
you know steam, has a built in notepad that you can pull up at any moment right? Its the way the games been forever. The first one way this way and it had a mini journal for quests. Its what the devs want it to be. Dont like it? don't play it@@gheeddeschain9638
Something about the way the drakeâs hand is on top of the rock at 10:15 and a little later itâs tail is going over it is really cool to me. I love little things like that in games. Itâs such a small detail but it really helps for immersion.
Mid 20s with a 4090 and dlss on? Oh boy thats abysmal
yeah a 4090 upscaling to 4k at 100 frames at best is sad. 20 series cards are gonna be awful and i feel we will have another cyberpunk
God dam
â@@kigan___216120 series in 2024? Yeah I think the problem is with you at this point.
And PC players trash talked the console players for having bad fps... It just shows now that its the issue of the game itself.
Fightincowboy is on a 4090 everything maxed dlss on getting 60 to 90fps so yeah. Also no drivers yet or day one update
The gameplay looks fun and interesting. However, on top of all the performance issues lots of people seem to be having, i dont want to pay full price to a company who thinks microtransactions in a single player game is ok. Gonna be waiting for a real big sale on this one before i get it.
there are websites out there ...that give...amazing discounts
â@@m0vx A shame Empress disappeared. I was looking forward to a 100% discount.
â@@m0vx Not buying this game for under 30, it might be a minute.
the devs have made it so the microtransactions are irrelevant, you can earn all of it in game and i dont mean after 7 years it's all obtainable and easily obtainable
its capcoms fault they are greedy asshats,
this game is honestly worth the price if you liked the original,
much better than most of that aaaa slop you can actually tell it was made by gamers
@leviryan5301 Gotta make a point to call it out some time. Sure the developers put work into the game but it's tacky bullshit that makes me want to just wait for indie titles
Did the review copy contain Denuvo?
What I don't understand is when games like this struggle with performance and the npcs dropping in and out in the town... but you look at red dead 2 opens world which is years old now, and probably still the best open world ever....and this game can't get it right. Shocking
Capcom loves Denuvo and making their games run like shit on launch
Rockstar puts out like, 1 game per decade.
@@rumpocalypse Quality not quantity is always better
Most game devs spend 1-3 years on their games. 1 for something yearly like whatever latest cod comes out, 2 or 3 for any other game with a modicum of effort put into them, or just misuse of time and resources.
Rockstar took 8 years and around 100 million dollars to make rdr2.
Gta5 took 252 million dollars to make, which is weird because it's much less impressive than rdr2, but that cost may be calculated after advertising unlike rdr2 cost.
Then there's larian studios with baldurs gate 3 and they took 6 years to make bg3, and a budget estimated between 100-200 million before advertising.
But really a big budget or long development time isn't what makes a good game.
The greatest game ever made only took 2 years and an estimated 20 million dollars or less to make.
NieR:Automata is the game in cas you're curious.
You just need the right people working on something they love uninterrupted by any big wig investors with only money on their mind.
Geniuses and talented folk tend to do pretty amazing things when you just leave them the fuck alone for a second to do their thing.
Yeah because rdr2s npcs arent really all that, they have routes and stuff but its not mechanically important like how it is in dd2
Getting the ogre to jump off of a cliff Is a dragons dogma classic
9:57 oh shit, walking over a cyclops back armour thing actually deals damage to you? Thatâs pretty cool!
50 bucks per frame DLC inc
I've yet to see any review mention that you only get one character, EVER. You have to buy a $1.99 mtx if you want a new character.
Really? Thatâs crazy!
they hid all the mtx from reviewers, so not his fault really
!? The game sounds really interesting. And I think I can deal with the framerate issues. But I don't play microtransaction games. I dont't pay extra for such basic things.
@SirJonHarringtonBlumpkinThe8th Exactly, I really hope they'll do update their reviews asap. It's their integrity and reputation after all. But to be honest its hard to be hopeful. Just look at the Starfield scam. Only after it became trendy to be critical about the game did the CZcams reviewers jumped into that bandwagon.
Its not rly an mtx to get another char slot, just to change the appearance of ur existing one, that can be found in game. But still, the point that one has to remove the save file while cloud save is off to just restart the game ist wild to me.
Holy crap. I didn't know you could one-shot that cyclops in the Blood and Wine. Now I need to redownload Witcher 3...
I believe Capcom is taking the open world genre in a better direction. A lot of open world games lack a sense of mystery and discovery because you always know where you are going. It's satisfying figuring out where to go and what to do by using your own critical thinking skills.
if only the same could be said about the atrocious fps console and pc
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Meh, can and will be fixed, shame in the future for people living in 2103 when the world undergoes its 4th recorded carrington event and they have to play offline but rn, we live in the best time to play Dragonâs Dogma 2.
â@@purvdragon-sensei but i need my 18k pixels 6000 frames a second game right now.
How can I enjoy something if it isnt catered to my childish wants
Looks good! I still no longer pay full price for games any more because they are never released bug free. I now wait for a good number of patches and hotfixes and then buy them on their first major sale, assuming steam reviews are positive. This is the best way...its more bug free and its cheaper = better game experience. Only game I've ever bought at full price in recent times was Baulder's Gate 3. Companies like EA and Ubisoft and Blizzard and Bethesda are the reason I no longer buy games on release at full price.
+1 Same
+2 same
+3 same
I wait a year or 2 for the 50%+ discount.
@@cosmancho2959 You ruined the flow.
Do you have HDR enabled? If so for some reason in both RE4 and Exoprimal (both RE Engine games) if you have HDR enabled it wonât utilize the GPU entirely.
So in the end how was the performance on ROG Ally? Or was it so bad we don't want to talk about it?
Will a full length critique come for this? I miss those
Bro hasn't even made one for starfield yet. What do you think?
heheHEheheHEhehe I have some surprises for you guys in the next few weeks :)
HeheheHehehhehe!!
@@LukeStephensTVI will wait patiently! Thanks for the quality content Luke! Love the consistent upload schedule too btw!
@@LukeStephensTVperfection
1 save file is pretty shit.
Is it bullshit in any Dark Souls game?
There are multiple save in the souls games. Multiple characters to make. @@yukitamas101
@@yukitamas101 Dark Souls gets a pass for every shitty thing it does, no matter what.
can you customize you or your pawns appearance at any point later in the game, or only at the beginning?
You can buy a thing from a shop ingame that lets you do it when you want.
How about now?
i actualy recomend it alot its a very interesting game. if you like elden ring and skyrim youll love this
@@user-xb9py1gd8xI love both and my favorite game of all time is the original Dragon's Dogma. But this game is straight garbage that's more like monster hunter than anything else. I'm sorry but I waited 11 years for this and I hate it.
I like a lot of stuff about this game except for one save file. At least have two. If the power cuts out, it gets corrupted, a thunderstorm, etc. (these have all happened to me) and your X number of hours in the game could be gone.
I love when devs let go and let you discover things without guiding you there. That was the biggest gripe I had with Forbidden west. I would explore then do missions and it would just bring me back to the place I just explored. Iâm excited to find things my friends either find or donât find.
Is their any armor customization? If u like the look of some gear but have better ones can u change the look?
What are the stamina/weight breakpoints
Hey Luke, love your content, and appreciate how conscientious you were about not including spoilers in this video. With the being said, personally, I felt like I learned more then I wanted to about some key beats and surprises in the game. Would have preferred if things could have been a little more vague. Just some feedback for your consideration, feel free to disregard it. Thanks.
Subscribed to celebrate DD2 and the fact that i just picked it up early at the game store. Received their call it was in while watching this video. Let's GOOOOOOO! I think i may be sick the rest of the afternoon and need to leave work..
Make sure you get plenty of rest, people who go to work while they're still contagious are the worst. Best request a few extra days
@@ghostratsarah After a number of hours... I'm pretty sure I have something HIGHLY contagious and can't take any chances tomorrow before my scheduled time off begins Friday. đ
Tbh I love a game thatâs well designed and itâs afraid to be difficult or random and reset some progression. Feels even better to over come
I love games like this. A game that makes you explore its systems and figure things out is what gaming should be. I grew up playing Atari through everything we play today. The games I enjoy the most were the ones that felt original and didnât have a âby the numbersâ walkthrough. Games like Metal Gear and Assassins Creed 1 and a few others did it so well. For old school gamers like me I think this is going to be a huge hit but for people who go in expecting âdodge and rollâ and everything else that every other game does⊠this likely wonât be for you. Challenge yourself to play games that donât lead you or give you all the answers. Those are the games that leave you wanting more and looking forward to sequels.
When you said "alot of potential for replayability" are you sure you used the right wording there? Unless you delete the save files in your games folder you cant replay anything... Or im missing someting.
ng+
@@kiwivi21 ng+ is pretty bare bones. But yeah I guess that's true.
Exactly why you can't trust pre-released reviews.
Don't think it was mentioned here, but if you have a quest and get a pawn with "Quest Guide" they will walk you to the objective when issued the "Go" command.
A question for pawn deaths - Are you not able to revive dead pawns at a morgue using wake stones or something???
On DD1 you must re-hire them on the rift Stones.
Pawns are immortal and go back to the rift if they die.
they go to the Rift.
So you tested the Game on the ROG ALLY but I watched it twice now and can't find the section you talk about it :0
Thatâs what Iâve been looking for too
@@iSubterfuge so I'm not dumb, he forgot to mention :( sad but I expect it to not run at all sadly
Yea wtf was that..
I may not always agree but man too many reviewers feed confirmation bias for engagement. Luke is one of the few that highlights positives and negatives. Truly appreciated
As for the game itself, I donât create content and I play multiple games so itâll get picked up on sale. Elden ring and Zelda felt hand crafted. No hand holding is a pebble roll away from lack of design. And from what Iâve seen from multiple people this is poor design.
Play the game
@@etieman97your comment is poor design. Game is good.
Except if you pay him, then it's a glowing review
@@etieman97 well said. this is a game that will be quickly forgotten
21:00 The developers absolutely intended this. The Trickster vocation has skills specifically designed to enable this sort of gameplay.
what you say about exploration is probably something i vaguely remember feeling in DD1. its been a while since i havent played that game since 2012 but i remember thinking this game is super fun but the world didnt feel as satisfying to go thru as other open world games i had experienced like fall out 3 for example or even dark souls 1 which is much smaller but the exploration in that felt so satisfying.
Strange how none of these reviews mention the cash shop and the fact you can't remake your character.
Paid review
Ya sad word we live in
@@hattorikenji7640Nah the cash shop only appeared on release. Performance etc probably wasn't too bad since these reviewers have massive PC rigs
Probably because everything you can buy is literally in the game making the cash shop rather pointless. Are you going to also criticize HellDivers? It does the same thing.
It's also worth noting that not remaking your character was advertised as a feature as with the origjnal.
you can remake your character đ
wtf that popin is insane. npcs are appearing and disappearing at like 2 feet away
Yeah and it doesn't even help with framerates
It's funny, everything you described in the Emergent Encounters from taking the armor off a cyclops and stabbing it in the eye to killing enemies by tricking them into jumping off a cliff, that's all stuff you could do in the first game. DD1 is one of my favorite games of all time, but even I have to admit that it was always rough around the edges and I understand most people bouncing off of it. So my main hope is that the modern polish of the sequel can introduce a new generation of people to the awesome gameplay that the series is known for, sorta like with Monster Hunter World.
I love how you always have the ACII soundtrack playing in the background. Very soothing and nostalgic for me. Great video as always!
Thanks for the video!
Personal preference changes with age and how much free-time you have. I used to enjoy games that took up a lot of time and you had to work things out for yourself, but these days I don't have the patience. I can barely get an hour of gaming in per day sometimes, so I don't want to be spending half the time wandering aimlessly or looking up solutions. If there's PC performance issues, I think that's also something that's not inspiring me for a day one purchase. Will wait for some patches and hopefully a discount. Thanks for honest review as usual.
Yeah I get what you mean, though personally I love that games dare to not spell things out for the player and that we have to invest some more time into things to figure stuff out. I'm glad some games still do this, as every game doesn't have to take every player into account.
I kinda like the idea of the game wanting me to think things through and then if I start getting frustrated because I'm too dumb to figure it out THEN I can look it up online or something like that. I know looking things up can get annoying, but the overt hand holding of many modern games can get very mind numbing.
I totally agree. I've never been the type to want to deal with convoluted or obscure questing or having to read pages of dialogue to get through a game, but even less so now that I actually know what I like, and that's action, not mystery, puzzling, or long journeys on foot.
â@@ZahhibbDev Km in the dame situation as he is. We're not saykng we do not like these ganes, just that because of constraints, we no longer can find fhe same joy in them. Thid is my tyoe of game 109% but Im probably going to get it and then never finish because my time between sessions will get so interrupted Ill forget how to play and what I was even doing. đ€·đŒ Thus is life and its ever increasing complexities
I sometimes get the feeling game devs make games with journalists in mind rather than players. Most people don't have 25-30 hours just to get to the part where the game starts to get interesting, which is something that happens often now, and playing big, dense games in 1 hour sessions can get confusing, because you don't connect as easily with the dozens of different characters that make up the story. I think this is why many players enjoyed games like Marvel's Avengers, because they are just mindless fun. You hop in, do a mission and hop out.
Seeing ppl start their 2nd playthrough and the games not even out.. definitely waiting for it to go on sale
definitely wait, get rise of ronin....I wouldn't be put off tho cause these people had days to play and only play the main quests that's why thier on thier 2nd playthrough.
@@DanC2352 sounds like I made a wise decision based on reviews lol
@@maggie937 what are reviews saying? besides this one of course? no good?
@@DanC2352 from what I've heard, lack of content but plenty of micro transactions, low frame rate..
@@maggie937 dang really lol, it looks cool but I quit the first one within a few days for how slow pace the game was
Is there cross platform sharing of pawns? Like PS5 to Xbox or PC?
prob yea
no there is no crossplay or cross save of any kind.
Sounds like exploration will be very Breath of the Wild like with no handholding
What? All the important areas are MARKED ON YOUR MAP at the beginning of the game
I was never worried that this game wasn't gonna be good, but I knew that performance would've been a problem. I even upgraded my Ryzen5 3600 for a more recent 5600x but at this point I'm sure my rig is going to struggle anyway. It's a real shame. Hogwarts Legacy had a similar problem where in Hogsmeade the performance would decrease significantly. And in Hogwarts Legacy, even though the problem was still somewhat present, I have found that a pirated copy ran significantly better than the game I purchased on Steam. So I am fairly convinced Denuvo is to blame for at least some of these problems, and I hope it gets removed soon from the game. Despite that, the game clearly wasn't optimized properly and that's a shame.
Cos pirated games dont have DRM the anticheat, Capcome uses Denuvo and Denuvo is the worst performance by far. The cpu drops i think is from Denuvo Drm that it's causing the problem
It was JUST a stupid Horse Armor onceâŠ
The random enemy encounters/lack of enemy variety was one of my biggest gripes about the first one.
And how could you not add mounts in this game? Hopefully they come out with a mod for better fast traveling and faster movement.
How does it run on the ROG Ally?
Bah, best to wait for performance patch for both PS5 and PC. cheers. "Playable" vs. "Exceptional" -- right on the spot 100% agree there.
Have they said of there will be a day one patch?
@@ZelBellzI think they will wait until the ps5 pro to optimize this game to try and sell those consoles watch it run a locked 60 on ps5 pro at the end of the year wouldnât surprise me if they have a deal with Sony to wait until then
i plan on letting my buddy playtest it first since we have, basically, the same pc lol
@@comyuse9103sounds like a decent plan
Iâm still playing most stuff at 1080P
But hearing some of the horror stories of the town levels is definitely making me concerned
@@smoothduck7151 lol what an insane prediction. The game is hard to run on PC, it won't do locked 60 on ps5 pro.
U stated that their is no hand holding in the game and their is no quest markers and now that I have played the game I had a quest marker for every quest so far ?? Everyone acted like this game was going to make u look and be blind to where to go but it seems like most quests are generic and hold hands with markers taking out the seeking and looking for clues âŠ
Let me guess, youve only done the main quest lines
@@BrandonDenny-we1rwjust ur mom
I died a little inside when he said it could take up to an hour to get to a city
ok, it's driving me nuts and i'm getting nothing on google.
How did you get barcharts instead of numbers on your performance overlay?
If you're using MSI afterburner, when you're choosing which metrics appear on screen, the frame-time metric can be set to "text and graph"
@@band0lero That gives me a graph. not a Bar chart.
I am highly unlikely to play this, I am a pathetic weakling who needs my hand held, but this review is helpful in making me feel less anxious about having pre-ordered this for my dad. He adores the first game, was constantly renting back when you vould rent disks in stores, for a couple years. I finally, after like 15 years, bought him a copy the same time I pre-ordered, lol. He's having fun getting back into the swing of it, and hopefully it'll make the second game more enjoyable - he won't have to learn the controls
From what i can gather, all fans of the first will love the second. I'm in for the ride because y'know, they're masterworks all. You can't go wrong!
DDA 1 >>> DDA 2 . $5 masterpiece or 70$ scam .
â@@imp6505"Scam" bruh get offline and touch grass. If "performance issues on launch" is a scam in your mind then you need like, anxiety meds or something.
tf is DDA? it's DD, DDDA, DDO, and DD2@@imp6505
@@rumpocalypselmao telling someone else that they need to touch grass and may need meds because theyâre not getting the product that they deemed worthy of their money is crazy to me. You should probably touch grass thinking that paying for a video game and it running like shit on release isnât an issue. Your other comment you justified it by saying Hogwarts Legacy didnât run great on release but telling someone else they need to touch grass because video game companies keep scamming consumers is wild. Itâs been going on for way too long now. Ppl like you make it seem like itâs ok to not receive the product you pay for. Itâs fucking $70 not some $30 knock off game nobody ever heard of. The first game played like shit, least they couldâve done was made sure after all this time of development that the game would run smooth on release. Itâs not that difficult. They definitely made sure mtx was out by the time of release tho.
Capcom Net Worth: 8.8 billion= Performance issues and Microtransactions
Fromsoftware Net Worth Worth: 40 million=Banger after Banger
Why dont mention these things, is there an incentive for them???
Your comment made me curious.
Capcom does make vastly more and has a bigger budget overall, they own like. 100 ips and multiple studios.
The expense reports say that Capcom actually spends more of its Earning than Fromsoft does.
If Capcom isnt finishing their games its because they hit that budget cap, considering Capcom is spending more of its Earnings it cant afford to continue development if the development isnt going well so they focus their teams to get out what they can in that budget.
Its why the CEO wants $100 games. Kind of out of touch and its probably too much spending on management but at the same time They are spending over half of their income back into the market.
Which was weird to read on tbh.
Capcom games generally run better, look better and play better than Fromsoft games. All From games have is edgelord content and boring combat to offer.
The part where your pawn misses his jump and dies or the other one accidentally destroys your cart is precisely what could make the adventure more alive and unique for me đ
Wanted to ask are the Pawns a necessity all the time can u just run off on ure own if u want and do solo fights?
The game is built around having a party dynamic. It is pretty much a necessity to have pawns with you. Certain encounters are much easier with specific vocations present... so without a pawn with that vocation, you will find the encounter frustrating if you're not using that particular vocation yourself.
how do you not mention the microtransactions at all
This review is obviously pre-release, which was before the micro-transactions were activated.
Oh, fuck capcom then@@TheLynx30
@@TheLynx30 Inside Games revealed that when they got the review copy, in the email, it came with the list of all the planned microtransactions. Therefore, Luke and every other reviewer knew about it.
Edit: After looking through multiple sources, although Inside Games did get a list of all the planned microtransactions, not every reviewer received one.
You donât have to buy themâŠ
They are like 3$ you big broke
Nah. Performance issues can be fixed. The game isn't for general audiences, but a specific kind. Yeah, so was the first. It needed patches to be optimized as well.
MY main gripe is that you have to pay to change your characters appearance. And that starting a new game with a new character is a non-existent feature.
Because you know that shit isn't going to be fixed in 6 months. You know that isn't going to appeal to a specific type of audience.
That's just straight up anti-consumer practice and greedy.
30+ years of gaming and we've never had an issue editing our character's appearance or starting a new character. But now suddenly it costs us money? And it's not even a one-time fee. No, it's a charge on your bank account for every time you want to edit your character.
You donât HAVE to pay to change your appearance you CAN pay for it
Itâs till scummy and lame but you dont have to but it, you can obtain the item to change your appearance in game without spending a dime
Incorrect. You can buy the character appearance changer for a small amount of rift crystals. Please criticize the MTX without mixing misinformation and lies into the criticism.
the random encounters being paced badly was definitely an issue for me in the first game. it wasnt terrible but after a while you get burnt out. and like i feel like the devs should have employed some system to keep track of how often you encountered a random fight. ik in DD1 they made it so u eventually get an infinite ferry stone from what i remember to mitigate having to fight thru things when u are more than half way thru the game and tired of it. but i dont think thats enough.
Damn bro I really wanted to play the game but idk if I can handle fps in the 20s especially when I'm paying $70.
Exactly. I also don't really want to support the practice of not properly optimizing before release.
Dont. 20 ish isnt playable
guys dont know anything bout gaming tech but they all know what fps is and how its the new seal for quality
@@GreenSabre187 dont give af about gaming tech if u cant work ur fcking game 60 fps for $70 maybe u shouldnt sell it in 2024.
â@@ozan7427 bro edit your comment before you post it next time u need to optimize yourself đ
This is going to be another Elden Ring with a chunk of people crying about not being told exactly where to go and not wanting invest their brain into quests.
Exactly. I'm playing Breath of the Wild now for the first time and I love how many quests don't give you a marker on the map where to go. You have to read and talk to quest givers and they'll tell you the general direction where to go. It oddly feels liberating
its fine only idiots would buy games they would not like
No because elden ring had recent optimization. So a lot of people wonât even play it.
It's a game at end of day. I don't wanna sit there for hours upon hours if I don't know where to go or what to do jsut becusse it's liberating idfc. Bro at end of day its super annoying looking up tutorials in 2024
â@dannyCoolSwag Than the game isn't for you and that's okay. Some people want to really explore more realistically ans others just want a marker on a map so they want to know where to go.
Your point about losing pawns... is there NOT a "History" section at the riftstone to recruit pawns that have been in your party before? I thought there was in the first game
what camera does luke use? if anyone knows
"Graphics don't really matter..."
Proceeds to bitch about the game looking like a PS4 game for 10 minutes.
Literally just the ethos of his Rise of the Ronin review
I just heard the news that all reviewers were given info that the game had mtx with their review copy. If this is true, this NEEDS to be mentioned in your reviews. And people make the excuse that "capcom puts mtx in all their games", you can't just assume that everyone plays or pays attention to capcom games regularily or at all. I like your reviews as a skeptic, but this REALLY damages credibilty of your reviews. People defend it, but I watch your reviews because your supposed to be the honest level headed reviewer, and leaving it out hurts the trust. It does. I don't care how cringe or how "not a big deal some people treat this. It is a big deal.
The man's didn't even mention the fact that it's flooded with microtransactions or the fact, you can edit your character without paying, or the main fact you can't even start a new save game in a singleplayer game. That maybe should be mentioned in a review no?
@@tecat132 You can edit characters without editing, but you need to earn the item in the game, but this doesn't excuse the mtx. And the mtx weren't posted in the store until the full release, but from another reviewer, they said that they were told all the mtx that will be in the game when it launches, so that isn't really an excuse. It should have been mentioned if he was given the info.
@F34RDSoldier805 I've watched over a handful of reviews about this game, some negative and some positive. Most negative reviewers say the same thing, you can't start a new game, you can only play on your first playthrough which is craz, for a singleplayer game , and you need to pay $2.99 to edit your main character, which doesn't make sense in a singleplayer game, that's unheard of. I totally agree with you that these reviewers didn't mention all the mtx, when receiving the game before others. It's sad
The microtransactions are not only identical to every other Capcom release for the past few years (nobody complained about the MTX in Resident Evil 4, for example) but are also identical to the first Dragon's Dogma. Anyone who complains about it never played the first game and is just outraging for no reason.
What is the level cap? And do the encounters scale?
Would you compare the open world of this game to the "open-world" of God of War? Where you can go anywhere in that certain area but not 'anywhere' like you can in RDR2 and, as you mentioned, elden ring?
I very much appreciate the amazing AC2 music
I really wanted to play it but I can't convince myself to support a game that has such disgusting microtransactions. A single player game having any micro transactions is bad enough, but a $70 game that cuts out fundamental features to sell them back to you is disgusting. Maybe I'll cave eventually but it doesn't look like I'm missing anything given it's horrible micro transactions, steep price, and the fact that it runs like shit.
yea, why is there no mention of all these things ? HE probably played a whole another version of the game Pre release but not re addressing the game AFTER release is full dishonesty, especially with all the Micro Transactions, Save Files shaddy business.
Runs fine on ps5 for me, also not buying any microtransactions, I also have tons of the stuff they selling already at low levels, gameplay is crazy and fun for me.
Everything sold as a microtransaction can be found in-game. It's stupid, yes, but nothing in the "online shop" is required to play the game and no features have been removed. It's absolutely the Capcom executives that set up those microtransactions, not the developers themselves, and unfortunately those execs only see games in terms of dollar signs.
By that logic i hope u didnt support resident evil remakes and monster hunter world which all basically have them. Not justifying it but they have all been so equally useless in just allowing lazy people to speedrun
Letâs open up your account and find MHW, RE4R, RE2R, RE3R, RE7, MHR, Lost Planet, DMCV, SF6, VILLAGE, and so on, if I find these in your list im gonna need an explanation from you
How were you able to start a new playthrough? Do you have to finish the game first? Thanks!
yes sadly thats the only way , ridiculous
oh man I haven't been this excited about a game in a while.
Reviewing games for years, just now realizes the cpu is the thing that has to handle loading crowds in cities.
I loved the first game, it is a true fantasy action RPG to me. I love the fact that you had to explore and find things and how quick the story actually was because it made repeat play throughs interesting imo. If you played the first game you would understand the endgame and how it all wrapped back into itself
can someone explain the combat to me? what is it similar to? ive never played DD and the way luke talks about how it gets repetitive, im not sure how engaging it is. If theres repetitive enemies i can deal with that if the combat is fun.
Oof all these reviewers who got pre-release copies, tricked into giving reviews of the game not knowing the full deal on release and all the micro-transactions. Honestly it's a bad look.
Itâs becoming a regular thing. And since these people are desperate for clicks they go for it.. itâs an easy to âcorruptâ system.
Who cares about micro transactions just donât buy them.
all reviewers knew that there were microtransactions, they were focusing on reviewing the game and how it plays not some nonsense that you *could* buy separately that has little impact on the game
@@steeledclub6368 the issue is that they influence and affect the games design more and more.
And itâs not a matter of not buying them, because they are aimed at a small minority that always falls for them. Or as the devs call them âwhalesâ (which comes from how casinos would call their high paying customers..).
The micro transactions are mostly what come with my deluxe edition copy anyway, and there just in game items that you can get by working for them. The only reason to buy them is if youâre lazy. All the items are in the game. Theyâve not an item that be obtained by buying only like in Diablo 3. So, I really donât see the issue!
What do you think about those microtransaction, specifically the fast travel one
Im addicted so bad. I think about this game as soon as I wake up, when Im at work and when Im trying to go to sleep. DD2 has got me bad đ
yeah i agree the performance is kinda rough but the game has a charm to it where after i fought the griffon i was hooked xd
This is twice now thatâs Iâve purchased a game because of your review..(Helldivers 2 also). Both times, I absolutely loved the game. Your reviews are so great at explaining the little things that people will enjoy about a game. Thanks for your videos. Youâre definitely my go-to review guy from now on.
Glad to see someone enjoying the game in the see of hate
I'm sorry, but review copies are never to be trusted
4090 in mid 20s fps ?? Jesus
People keep forgetting cpus are important
He literally explained that the graphics card doesnt matter.... like for 5 minutes.
Yeah.. thats exactly the problem. Games like this should not be bottlenecked by cpu â@ZachariahShihab
â@@ZeroHxC07its bad optimization, they are using 3 cores intead of all just like trash ue5 engine, only now are they working on truly multithreaded ue5