If you couldn’t get into Dragon’s Dogma I don’t know how you’d get into this one. Everything I’ve seen so far tells me that Dragons Dogma 2 is the full realization of the first as a whole rather than a real sequel with new stuff. It’s the same game but everything brought to its fullest the way the devs wanted to do with the first one.
Well, I think the next DD game will actually be the one to realize their vision. By then we'll be able to get fully A.I. driven NPCs and pawns, with thousands upon thousands of voice lines and the ability to even use voice chat to talk to them. While I'm sure this is going to be a fine game, the one I'm mega-excited to play is the next one :D
Tastes can be weird sometimes. You can see people saying for example that they enjoyed AC Odyssey and hated AC Valhalla (or viceversa) even though when you look up the gameplay it looks almost the same at it's core. DD2 might make some things just better enough to convince players who didn't like the first game to like it but it can also do some things just worse enough to make players who loved original DD hate the new one.
That's silly. The first DD isn't popular because it mostly flew under the radar and was overshadowed in the media by Dragon Age Inquisition and then Witcher 3. Just because a lot of people didn't play it doesn't mean it wouldn't have appealed to them if they had. Why is the DD fanbases so insistent on preventing new people from finding out about the franchise?
Which is weird because Dragon's Dogma came out years before those game existed... On the ps3 and xbox 360 nonetheless. I know this because I live through that era!@@antonytomas1
No stamina usage while running outside of combat is a game changer. In the first one you would spend a LOT of time traveling from one location to another.
This was one of the first things to Mod out of the PC Version. Same goes for the stupid Levelup Class Attributes. If you enjoyed playing as a strider or warrior in the early game. You have effectively killed any chance to play as a strong mage later on. Because you never leveled Magic Power early on when it mattered. And vise versa. Play as a mage early game and change to a warrior? Good luck not getting one shotted, because you lack a ton of HP. Because you leveled wrong.... this is most incompetent game design before the lord!
It seems there is a lot of misconception about fast travel, fast travel IS in the game but it's a mechanic in itself, it's been confirmed that ferrystones are in the game, for those who don't know ferrystones are a consumable item that allows fast travel to specific locations or portcrystals the player places in advance, in the original game after your first play trought you basically set your own fast travel spots in the world and had virtually infinite fast travels, so I am fairly confident this system will be the same in the sequel. You won't be able to fast travel straight away at the start but you'll have to use carts or carefully place your port crystals once you get deeper into the game
@@TheRealFAA Just wanted to say that, It is not gwent soundtrack tho, I think, it is just roaming music. Witcher 3 truly had one of the greatest ambient music of all time. Hard to believe we East Euros made that, when fin'g Eurovision is also exist haha....
@@TheRealUcanUwill it’s tavern music specifically, played by the bands that you can find in most taverns in the game, though it does play during gwent games as well sometimes. Witcher 3 main game and DLC music is too good.
@@lewissharpe4695 I think I have heard ambient music in this vid that is not exclusive to W3 taverns, like I remember this when just roaming fields looking for these question marks on the map. Maybe I am wrong, but W3 is one of the very rare mainstream games that I actually played a ton of. Anyhow, does not matter, good video. I am in a very bad place right now and not very functional, but I hope this game is good, and I hope I maybe pick it up. It is probably the only game this year I even moderately care about (this and that ARA Civilization clone looks good to me).
Yup, just like the original game. I'm glad they aren't changing it. Trying to cater to people who don't like a game franchise is the best way to ruin it (see Saints Row, Fallout, etc.)
To be completely fair he said "ALMOST no fast travel system" which is technically true. It is absolutely possible to do fast travel, but you need to get to the point in the story where you can use a limited amount of Ferrystones...
I mean it doesn't really matter though. Dragon's Dogma 1 had the same fast travel system and I never hear about people complaining about the travel because traveling in game is part of the experience. You get ambushed, you're exploring, you're managing your resources like healing/stamina items/consumables. I hate this "modern gaming" take like no fast travel is a bad thing. Its only a bad thing when the world is crafted like shit or everything you do in the game is structured like a chore.
@Arthillis my complaint was about his over explanation of simple concepts. Not about his supposed hand holding when it comes to helping adults reason logically. So yeah, I'd definitely agree with you bud, alot of adults do need hand holding when it comes to thier ability to reason logically, that is ofcourse in if my assumption that you're an adult is correct.
I feel like no fast travel has merit. Many of the most memorable moments for me, in open world games, came from wandering on foot. Luke made a good point about the dev team being able to focus on the fact that players will go through here on foot.
One of the reasons I had a special rule during my Skyrim playthrough. Either fast travel towards the quest objective *or* on the trip back to town. But never both. Much more immersive and I had a lot of fun with all the small encounters in between (being very deadly as well as I was using the Requiem mod).
I love how they rlly did this for RDR2. The fast travel you have to pay for and isn’t “efficient” so it forces the player through most of the game to ride on horseback and just, experience the game. Which for some, can be boring, but I disagree. It’s both an easy, but also a sure way for players to see the rich world in RDR2 and find little things while fucking around or just going to a place. Oddly for me it made me even more immersed into the game and world.
@@itsmedjoom987 Not strange at all. I understand the convenience inn our often hurried consumption lifestyle (even gaming many people just run like crazy past nice scenery), but if you really want to immerse yourself or get a feel for distances between places in a gaming world limiting fast travel options either through limited access or role playing explanation (as in: try to explain to yourself why your character should teleport) is the way to go. I believe this is the right choice for DD2.
There is a difference between skepticism and pessimism. It is okay to be excited for a game that looks good. I just think this dude is annoying and reddit
My most skeptical point was about the armor options and i was right, Itsuno answered: "Rather than having an inner and outer, we divided the equipment for the upper half of the body and the lower half of the body." So they stricted the armor options and we cant have inner option anymore, i dont like that and they removed an unique option from the game that was different from other games...
Has capcom been bad with pc ports? I only play shooters and rts games on pc and everything else on PS so i don't really know the history of Capcom on PC.
Likewise. It's an expensive game. I just hope it works well on PC and has good performance on it, for the price that it asked. But that price... It's a lot to ask, in my opinion. So I'll probably wait for a review or pirate it first and then try. If it's really good or GOTY, I'll buy. Gotta vote with your wallet.
@@keysncoffee7733I’m a college student but in the same boat cause I work too. Probably gotta wait till summer till I can really deep dive into most of the releases.
They should allow us run around without stamina draining when out of combat. It slows you down having to deal with stamina when you've got to run to a far side of the map
Ya'll remember Bioshock: Infinite? I got a wild hair and decided to redownload it. So, I was playing through it again. Nostalgia was strong. Gameplay was awesome. It was such a good experience. And there I was, running through the city and Elizabeth says, "Mr. Booker. May I please have a moment?" I stopped, looked at her and Booker said, "Sure, what would you like to talk about?" Elizabeth then pointed at a nearby tavern, "I do believe a saw a stockpile of supplies over in that building. Perhaps we should check that out?" And it just...floored me. That's crazy good design. To have a character exist alongside you and have her own agency enough to request your time politely and explain that you might have missed something. No map markers. No quest log. No glowing fairy farting a trail of dust. Your companion communicated something to you that she would have realistically noticed. That's what I like in my open world games, and it feels rare. It's just bloat that you don't need or want. Put me in the world and let the world and characters guide me on my own terms.
It's atrocious, I agree, though it seems to be the standard for some reason. Word is GTA6 will be 30FPS, RDR2 is 30FPS, now this game. I don't get how so-called "Next Gen" consoles have FPS similar to the ps3/360 era of games. It's a bit of a letdown tbh.
@@SatansSun 30fps is not the standard. All but 2 major releases since the debut of the ps5 have had the ability to run at 60fps, and one of those got patched to run at 60
I was thinking about this when i played the first Dragon's Dogma and got my bearings with it's fast travel sistem, it actually made sense in the world that was built around me and it nudged itself as a gameplay element as well, given the fact that Port Crystals and Ferry Stones are a limited resource, it actively encouraged the player to really think about where they wanted to fast travel and how often they could do so. That beeing said, while it was in general exciting to travel through the world, because there's always something happening in the map, after you go through the same harpy encounter for the SEVENTH time, in the exact same spot of the terrain, it gets old and annoying, when you're just trying to get from point A to point B. They could fix this issue very easily just setting up different creatures to spawn in any designated spot, OR, better yet, space out more the time between spawns, because in the original, every time you had a loading screen, the entire map was "refiled" with the enemies you just killed. So they could change that "clock" to once every in game week maybe? I dunno, the first game was incredible but this is one big critique that i have of it. The world is fun to traverse, yes, the first 3 times you do it. After that it becomes annoying, but i feel like it's an easy fix for the sequel
Absolutely. By far my biggest concern, whether they can actually keep following the same path between locations for the fifth or tenth of fifteenth time interesting. I have my doubts.
Exactly, loved the first one but not having unlimited fast travel until dark arisen made it so you had to either fight the same army/bandit spot whenever you went from the capital to anywhere
I one time had a bounty of $200 dollars in RDR2. I was able to pay it off, but i started another mission in that county that then, made me a wanted man again with a bounty of $300 dollars. I COULDVE loaded an earlier save so i didnt just waste money, but i figured “whatever” shit happens and ill live with it. I am now being hunted by bounty hunters and bloodhounds, while currently having the time of my life.
I had one moment where I was in a forest, had trees on both sides of the small trail I was on, then I had a warning about bounty hunters, and so I planted dynamite on the road, went up and hid against a tree in the foggy forest, and when a few of the like 15 bounty hunters and dogs went to investigate my tracks, I blew up the dynamite by shooting it, and had an intense gun battle with the bounty hunters and their dogs, it was really cinematic
I'm so glad Dragon Dogma 2 is making a comeback, I've been waiting for this game for 10 yrs or so. My favorite games of all time are Elden Ring and Monster Hunter Word, and now i get to have my hands on this, I'm so keen to play this game! Hope it's 500 hours long, lmao!
Dragon's Dogma: Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear Making the tears rain down like a monsoon Listen to the bass go boom Explosions, overpowering Over the competition, I'm towering Wrecking shop when I drop These lyrics that'll make you call the cops Don't you dare stare, you better move Don't ever compare Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced Competition's paying the price
@@AaronK-ef8yv If you seriously think older == better then I don't know what to tell you other than maybe you should take of your nostalgia goggles. A lot of these developers weren't able to fully realise their vision on the older hardware you take so much pride in so I'm sure they wouldn't agree with this delusional take either
i agree with luke about frame rate but what was the point of releasing the next gen consoles 4 years ago if still so many games aren't 60fps which was the main selling point of the next gen consoles
Bro I feel you on this so much lol. I built my pc a couple years back and it ruined everything. I never cared about frame rate, now it’s impossible for me to play 30 fps. I’ve tried with certain console games and just can’t do it.
BM Wukong I'm super skeptical about. It's yet another souls like but from a random Chinese dev nobody has ever heard of. Plus they have shared such little into about the game and it's releasing in a few months.
I'm one of those people who got really into the first Dragon's Dogma, despite not really playing Japanese games up until then, so I'm super stoked for the sequel. I even broke my own sacred rule of never pre-ordering. I just hope it's good and we get more memes out of it.
That doesnt make sense. You shouldnt play or not a game just because where it come from, what "japanese" its in Dragons Dogma? I dont understand why would you be afraid and what you have against japanese games, looks like prejudice for me
@@MrCaiops Japanese games are generally different from American ones, games like Okami, Persona, final fantasy etc. are different from Call of Duty, borderlands, Gta etc. While there is some overlap in the industry many games made in Japan are different. Another example is how different Dragons Dogma is to Skyrim, while they are both fantasy games there are many differences with plotlines gameplay as well as their vibe. Also, I don’t think they meant to say anything bad saying they don’t play Japanese games anyway.
This doesn't make sense. Japanese games have very different feels and styles. This isnt a bad thing and I'd argue its actually a good thing and pretending they dont is fucking ridiculous. This means someone may very well dislike Japanese products like say Japanese style rpgs and theres nothing wrong with that and isn't prejudice at all@MrCaiops
I originally missed these responses, but I will try to clarify my original comment. I have no problem with Japanese games as such, and in fact I often like their aesthetics and themes. The thing is that I am exclusively a PC gamer, I've never even owned a controller, and it used to be the case that many Japanese developers only released their games for console, with maybe an afterthought PC port down the line (or none at all). This has changed in the last decade or so, so now I'm playing more Japanese games, including Yakuza 0 and Final Fantasy XV. I hope that this trend continues.
Mixed feelings about the one save file. With such a great character creator I would have loved to make tons of Arisen and Pawns and tried all different class combos between them. On the other hand this is exactly the sort of thing I have done with other games like Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3, making new characters and class combos and then getting burnt out and not finishing the game. Got all the way to Crumbling Farum Azula in ER and midway through Act 3 in BG3 and got burnt out because I kept rerolling alts and playing so much. This should keep me on track and maybe, just maybe, I'll actually finish the game.
They have to make an avatar video game where you create your own avatar story. A nice open world map is already designed and each avatar is basically a reincarnation of passed avatars so it just makes sense to make a crazy open world game where you create your own story. Also side quests are literally a part of the story so it just makes sense.
I agree I don’t think it would be hard to pull off I kind of imagine it as a tears of the kingdom or breath of the wild esque game in the sense that you can visit each nation in any order you want to unlock your other bending trees and face the fire lord or if you want go straight to the fire lord.
As a long-time devotee of Dragons dogma, I just want to say that the lack of fast travel until you get port crystals is actually fantastic. You need to actively plan for journeys and the nighttime is even more scary when you are hoping to make it to a town or city before nightfall. It's a great mechanic, and it's nice not to always have your hand held by fast travel or quicksaving.
The Sphinx won't turn out how you describe it .. anyone who wants to find her will simply look at whichever Wiki is publishing the results of the datamining operation which will take place and I seriously doubt there are a meaningful number of players with the self-restraint not to.
I think that's sad that you think most people do that. Plenty of people prefer to play games blind and discover things for themselves, in fact the vast majority of people who buy the game aren't watching videos like this and looking things up constantly or obsessed with what's meta etc. I played 150 hours of Elden Ring at launch and never looked anything up at all and I'll be doing the same with this.
Agreed, I guess this reveals something deeper about people. Many many people want to get where they want in the world as fast as possible with as many handouts, leg ups" and shortcuts as possible, they couldnt care les for the journey. On the other hand some of us want to express our self agency fully by attaining our goals organically and naturally at our own pace, difference between an explorer/adventurer and a milksop.@@tj3423
I'm looking up all the solutions to it's riddles that's for certain, I honestly have no patience for puzzles anymore and being locked out of a quest for doing one incorrectly just sounds like bullshit.
People are so annoying with the pick and choose of complaining about frames. Not saying you are but never heard anyone mention that being a problem for rdr2 Witcher etc
I think the 30fps would be ok but uncapped framerate is not a good sign. It likely means the framerate won't hit a solid 30 fps consistently. It also should really be an option, not mandatory. And the games you mentioned came out in 2015 and 18. Long time ago, on worse hardware.
@@silverheart7964 rdr2 is still the arguably greatest graphical game and I genuinely had zero issues with the frames. I feel like they’d run it at 60 fps if that was best and they could. I have no worries with capcom honestly especially after the masterpiece of re4 remake
@barebuttspankin RDR2 is my favorite game of all time, but it would most definitely benefit from 60fps on consoles. Its definitely a lot smoother when i play it on PC opposed to my PS5. It doesn't run in 60 because R* would have to update it for the current gen of consolse. Seeing how RDR is R*'s red headed step-child, i dont see that happening anytime soon.
@@barebuttspankin But RDR2 & Witcher we’re released before the masses got accustom to 60fps. When people realize GTA6 is gonna be 30fps people will criticize tf out of it
Dragon's Dogma 2 coming and Outward 2 announced, now we need a Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and the sequel trinity of hardcore survival-like RPGs is completed.
I was a fan of the first one, and I am really looking forward to playing 2. It seems like the devs really invested in improving things that were issues in 1, improving some things weren't but making them better, and building a very immersive world that let's the player immerse themselves. For example, there aren't quest markers- you will be approached by people who have a quest or come across them organically. I also like the cost exchange they have implemented for travel. If you want to fast travel you can, however it requires a very expensive catalyst, and the exchange for the great cost is that there is no risk in traveling that way. The middle cost option is to take an ox cart, though you are at the mercy of the ox cart driver as to where you end up- and there is a bit of risk in traveling that way because ox carts can be attacked by monsters or bandits. The cheapest way to travel is also the riskiest, which is of by going on foot...though that to me is also the best way. They've also made some smart modifications to the Pawn system as well as combat. I hope it's a huge success =)
Lmaooo. No console is running this in true 4K at 60FPS. I doubt the Pro can run it at 1080 at a solid FPS. It's a 2024 game, you can't expect to get that sort of performance on 4 year-old hardware.
Dragon's Dogma felt like an alpha version of what this game is gonna be. It's going to be very similar, just fully realized and designed. And that game is like Monster Hunter in a standard D&D-kind setting. You focus on getting immersed in a very particular role: Questing. Traditional D&D monster quest fantasy. Mix in some of that "going on a trek" fantasy, that games like Outward scratch.
Even if DD2 plays and feels exactly like the original one I don't think it would be a bad game. What is there to be skeptical about? The first game is a known quantity, its been out for some time. This looks to be mostly the same. Either you like it or you don't. I don't like Fortnite and if a Fortnite 2 came out I wouldn't be skeptical because I already know what it is and that I'm not interested.
Coming away from this video with really only one question: Is the terminology regarding saving so muddy across the industry that when we ask a Japanese game dev about the number of Save FILES, he responds with an explanation of Save POINTS? I played DD1 so I already know the game will have one Save FILE -- that is, one character slot -- but someone who isn't familiar with the series could read this interview and think "Oh, so I can't quicksave, but I can still make multiple characters. Ok, cool." when that isn't the case. It's a very interesting case of how jargon can struggle to cross language barriers.
30 fps is bad on it self but is doable if it is capped and stable. Nothing worst than dipping below and around 30 fps. And tbh if this isn't performance modde i wonder hwo bad that mode will look.
No performance mode Itsuno confirmed in an interview with game informer, just one visual mode which targets around 30 FPS 4K. It’s also uncapped. Don’t know if it’ll dip below 30 since the preview gameplay isn’t the final version but keep in mind Itsuno himself said they’re targeting “around” 30 FPS.
To make matters worse, 30fps becomes more evident when detail is increased. So a current gen game at 4k 30fps is going to move more janky than a game from the early 2000's. More detail will accentuate the choppiness of the frames, although you actually need normal functioning eyes to notice this stuff. There are many gamers who have really shitty vision and cant detect motion for shit.
You can still have a single save slot and multiple characters so I hope you can have multiple characters but only one save slot per character similar to souls games
Its been confirmed port crystals are in the game so there will be a fast travel system for those who want it the only caveat is you need to travel to a place first and place the crystal as a waypoint to fast travel to and there most likely wont be many of them so its going to be alot like the first game in that regard
I truly do not believe that they need to make this the big huge ambitious sequel that everyone is expecting. All they need to do is give us a new world to explore a new story, new weapons and characters and improvements on the outdated systems of the first game and I’m set
the slow movement speed and lack of a convenient and easy fast travel system was why I gave up on the first game. it became really tedious to walk around between the quests
this guys video essays are always hit and miss. this one is blatant miss. first minutes of the video saying there's no fast travel, without mentioning ferrystones, when that system is well known with this (now) franchise. Another 20 minute video of a goof who barely researched what he's talking about.
If I remember correctly the original Dragons Dogma also had very limited fast travel, and it was a slog at times taking quite a while to walk to your destination... Hopefully for the sequel they've refined this design decision
30 FPS? Again? Starfield excuse was “bruh, it’s a single player rpg and it’s not CoD.” If I played Elden Ring at 30FPS, not only would the coop experience would suck but the PvP would be unplayable. What’s Dragons Dogmas excuse?
Personally, the only 2 big new games I've been genuinely excited for, are GTA6 and Dragons Dogma 2. I've been playing DD1 for a long time and I'm still loving it
idk why GTA6 excites you.. Its never going to live up to the hype and honestly the location of GTA6 is going to be Boring AF. Miami pretty much sums up our current culture and its trash.
1. Frame rate is probably the only red flag, 2. No fast travel makes the journey more important than the destination trust me you will get it. Choppiness of combat delayed hits, that's to try to make your hits matter. 3. Fast travel is after you have grinded the walk, when you are rich or you definitely want to beat the boss. 4. You can just grind the walk for levels until you are ready to beat the boss. 5. Puzzle sphinx I found her in DD, I played a lot and suddenly found her and then I kept trying to find HER. She eventually became an annoyance. Fighting her before boss was hard in the beginning. In the end it didn't matter. TLDR : Everything stated except the frame rate was in DD and it all worked...
@@Melontheyoutuber 60 was the limit, if you play enough games you would notice like in battle toads, the bike scenes would have some frame drop like a lot of frame drops. Same with Contra and super c when you do 2player spread shots, you would see slow downs in the frames or certain sewers when using the boomerang in TMNT. Even post SNES in N64 in golden eye, 4 player using proximity mines. Every consoles has slow downs, it part of the nature of optimization and limited resources when making the game. I actually dont mind it. It fell like a slow mo in a movie emphasizing a good scene.
My only concern from seeing all the footage so far is; how open is the world really? It feels like there are a lot of "canyons" that limit your exploration. So no water from what I have seen. Water kills you? Not really sure but so far no swimming in water.
There are some cases where I can thoroughly enjoy a game with an uncapped framerate. I was actually happy that God of War 3 on the PS3 ran at an uncapped framerate because I desperately needed my 60fps fix on graphics that good, even if it was an intermittent 60fps. Perhaps if you're enough of a 60fps fanboy, an uncapped framerate is an acceptable compromise as long as the 60's still happen along with the 30's.
Luke as an Ubisoft connoisseur I’d love to see you give Breakpoint another try in 2024. It had a huge comeback that took tons of work for free by the developers, and it really came a long way. Might not make up for the terrible launch, but it’s a success story that doesn’t get much attention
Yeah I was so excited until they let me down with 30 frames uncapped on console, only 10 vocations at launch none of the Dragons dogma online ones, and simplified armor, now its just like every other boring unlayered armor from other fantasy games.
Until info changes on release, here are my tentative issues with the sequel: - No multiple armor layering from what we seen so far(shirt, gloves, cape, chest slot). Only upper/lower body slots - Removal of our favorite magic tank Mystic Knight with a shieldless stick wielder jedi
I try and not get hyped for games these days, but the design choices they’ve gone with are exactly the kind of thing and play style I would be going for if I were designing an open world adventure game. I’m a massive hater of fast travel and hand holding. There’s no point in making a big open world with places to explore and stories to create if you’re just going to quick load to giant quest markers all over the map. Kudos to their design choices and I’m honestly expecting this to be my favorite game since Skyrim and RDR2.
Dragons Dogma had fast travel but it was just stones on certain locations that allowed you to go to certain location and it had a quick tp item to return to the last location you visited with the traveling stones. So meaby the say fast travel as in opening a menu and clicking the location, not teletranspotation.
Dragon's Dogma is tied with Warframe as my favorite game of all time. I played the game before it even came out with its two demos on the PS3 where they let you play the opening segment before character creation and then I think the second demo let you make a character and fight a Gryphin in a field. I remember when they released Dark Arisen and if you had a save file from the base game you received the Eternal Ferrystone. I love the Eternal Ferrystone but to be fair I think when they ported and rereleased the game and gave it to everyone it was a mistake. It was cool as a reward for those who played the game and were already familiar with the world but letting everyone have accessible and free unlimited fast travel realky worked against a lot of the game. I loved the Portcrystal system as it restricts fast travel behind exploration and story progression and you won't max out your travel points until your second playthrough. Dragon's Dogma definitely had flaws though. I think early game stamina was rough. It was fine in combat but travel definitely was tedious at points because you couldn't run as much as you'd like. Pawns were repetitive and they're inclinations changed all the time with no way to lock them. Support pawns were a struggle to get them to do what you wanted from buffing or healing or cleansing. Warrior was super limited and largely uninteresting. The break free stuff busted so many controllers! Fighting wolves and harpies terrified me because I didn't want to mess up my thumbsticks. Ugh I hated that so much! I'm so excited to play DD2. I hope we get a demo before release.
@@squashua7222 Because its moment to moment gameplay is top tier, its movement mechanics are one-of-a-kind and innovative beyond belief, its lore and stories are intriguing and imaginative, its monetization is fair and inferior only to PoE in my opinion, and as a kive service they have created an outstanding product overall for an impressively long period of time. While I no longer play and for sure have my complaints about the game it is still my most played game to date and I have massive respect for those at DE that created such a fun and unique experience.
Im just never going to understand the mentality that no fast travel is anything other then a bad decision. Give people the tools to play and enjoy it the way they want to. Choices are all ways the right direction.
the decisions made by the developer, specifically their thinking around save scumming, exploration and fast travel tell me this game will be a real feast for those that like to investigate every nook and cranny of the world....and for me this is what RPGs are all about. Looking forward to this now!
I really felt like the original DD really didn't get going until you got to the better specializations. Combat was the best part of the game and Bitterblack Isle is where it really started the shine. I do wonder if Capcom knows this going into DD2 because the coverage has been mostly about everything but the combat.
What do you MEAN? DD1's starting vocations (with the exception of mage) STAYED good throughout the entire game and only got better with new vocation actions. The advanced and hybrid specs are great too, but don't discount the starter vocations. And more importantly, covering everything BUT the combat??? Are you blind? There's literally hours of different people's combat gameplay out and various discussions about how it works.
On the point of fast travel, don't force me. Give me my gast travel points, let me find them through exploration fine. But if the world is as compelling as they say, I'll WANT to explore on my own.
The problem with one save file is. That like in the original with technical bugs that make that one save file invalid. U loose hours of progress which make u quite playing at all.😢
Omg. Can't imagine, a buggy game that only allows one save file. That would be the dumbest thing in the world... i don't know if you played BG3 but that game is very buggy if you would have only one save file, you would be fucked hahaha
My only real problem with the first game was the story. It was alright, just convoluted. At the end, theyre like "i have your lover!" Which i didnt even realize was a thing. Gameplay and combat was awesome. I just wish they added some co-op, it has the perfect systems for it.
Just want to clarify the whole fast travel thing. So DD didnt have traditional fast travel but is kind of akin to RDR2. At first you can't for the most part, then you get an item that lets you travel to a preset point. Then you get items that place down your own fast travel points wherever you want on the map. So effectively end game i could fast travel all over the map.
if by "at first you cant for the most part" you mean the first two hours, than you are right, cause as soon u reach Gran Soren you unlocks fast travel , portcrytal and eternal ferrystone.
@@irmaoburro1The eternal ferrystone was not part of the game at launch. It was only introduced with Dark Arisen. So congrats for playing the game later, but if you played at launch there was an EXTREMELY limited number of ferrystones. And one you use them, they are gone.
@@PlaySAoh c'mon, its not like on the OG game gold was so difficult to farm, u can literaly buy them for 20K at The Black Cat or for 10K with Fournival, there is no "EXTREMELY" limited number of ferrystone on the OG game.
My main question about pawn sharing with your friends… im on PS5 and my buddy will be playing on PC. Will he be able to find the pawn I created and will I be able to find his?
I can understand being bummed about the framerate but I can't understand passing up a game because of it. 30 with occasional dips is totally passable if the gameplay is grea. I think people have unreasonable expectations for consoles. A game like this is gonna push console to their absolute limits. Consoles aren't current Gen. They are always 2 to 3 generations behind current PCs. This game is incredibly complex from a technical standpoint. Big open world with no loading screens, diverse NPCs, incredibly varied and dynamic combat with incredibly varied and diverse enemies, the pawn system is also complex and blah blah you get it. It all adds up to needing a fuck ton of resources to run and consoles are great but they are definitely limited there. If you've ever dabbled in game development then surely you know that graphics alone are not the only thing that bogs down a system. It's the sum of all the games parts. I think passing on this because 30fps is a hard line for you is fine but shitting on something that isn't even out yet is Karen as fuck. The only game I know of that is visually pretty amazing and also has many complex systems is RDR2. However that game was 30fps @1080p on ps4 and xbox when it released and it was a hit. 30fps @4k is "reasonable" by all metrics
I really appreciate the framing of this preview because as someone who didn’t really click with the first game, I AM skeptical. Mind you, I started it last year and on switch so it wasn’t the greatest first experience, but still. Here you lay out the features and reports unbiased letting viewers form our own thoughts on it. Respect
1:59 Odd example. The pertinent difference being that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is developed by Capcom again. A sequel to Gollum could be compelling if done by a different developer.
The original Dragon's Dogma didn't really have much of a fast travel system either. You had ferry Stones. And most of them would just take you to Gran Soren. But yeah lots of walking
So sad. Console players used to talk about PC players because we always talked about FPS. Now you have this old PS 5 or Xbox X/S that can have different FPS now all of a sudden, it's important. So sad. If you want the best, join the PCMR!!
I wouldn't say it ruined Elder Scrolls. I couldn't imagine how boring it would be to have no fast travel at all. Dragon's Dogma has fast travel, but it's manually created by the player, and is very scarce. No fast travel at all would mean you're back tracking through areas constantly.
By “run around on foot” it’s actually “run for 10 seconds, then walk and regain stamina, then run for 10 seconds” I doubt there will be anything to the game to justify no fast travel, nothing beyond the occasional ambush by a lesser boss, or a group of goblins. I’ve played 200 hours of DD1. And I really have low expectations based on what I’ve seen from this one. It looks like the same as DD1 but with better graphics. The actual gameplay looks unchanged.
How are they making the same mistakes they did in the first one with no fast travel, which is why they added the eternal ferrystone later. You'd think they would remember that...
Console isn’t as strong as everyone makes them out to be. They are 2 generations behind the strongest PC. The gpu inside the ps5 is equivalent to a 2070 at most. The fact that it can run the game at 4k30, when the PC equivalent at a 2080 can do the same, that goes to show how optimized the game is. 4k is incredibly demanding and consoles are not up to snuff to dish out crazy graphics and high performance, it’s obviously been the case since the beginning and gamers gotta stop gaslighting themselves to believe otherwise because of manufacturer promises and marketing. Even the strongest PC’s aren’t getting ridiculously high frame rates at 4k in most games, unless you spend a thousand dollars, most likely more on a gpu. A 4090 can BARELY do 4k60 on Alan Wake 2 at max graphics without any upscaling. You guys really think the ps5 is doing that? Cmon now. A lot of games on the ps4 and ps5 aren’t even 4k native anyways, it’s all upscaled. People have to manage their expectations with consoles, cos these consoles are not the 4k60 wonder machines that everyone acts like they are. Optimization for consoles is incredibly hard in a period of time when the consoles are becoming too weak to handle next gen tech. Eventually and inevitably there’s gonna be a slew of very demanding games coming out that are gonna all be locked at 4k30 most likely upscaled until the next gen of consoles come out, deadass. The games that are coming out are becoming so intricate that PC’s aren’t even handling it with flying colors without some sort of upscaling. But as always, If you want more fps, it’s always been the case that you need to build a PC.
@@ItsDigidyDan nothing wrong with liking Xbox, in fact, my main way of playing games was consoles, specifically Xbox for most of my life. my point is that just because Sony and Microsoft said their box can do something doesn’t mean it can in every situation or at all. They claimed 120fps and barely any games even hit that on console, unless it’s like ori and the blind forest. No god of war at 120 unless you got a rig when that port comes out. They claim 4k60 but most triple A games cant do that without upscaling, and even then it’s not stable or consistent half the time. Consoles must be powerful enough to run premium games, but cheap enough for consumers to buy. Its power has diminishing returns like any tech, but it becomes much weaker over time as gaming tech advances and systems are pushed to their limits. The power ceiling is PC and the floor is console. PC advances faster and in order to keep up, we get a new console generation. It’s how this all has worked for well over a decade now.
My only wish is that capcom does not put Enigma into it, or any other titles for the matter. Edit: I remember in DD1 there were crystals you could use to fast travel, but you had to place them in places yourself. In the DA dlc you got an infinite use portal stone, but prior to that it was an expendable item. I hope they kept the infinite use one. Also, what on earth?!?!? One save file?!?!? This was such a problem with the first game, save corruption. Man I hope they change that or a modder makes a multi-save mod.
They've already said, or claimed at least, that there will be no eternal ferrystone. Who knows how long that will last if it's really a huge pain in the ass. Because yeah, I don't really fancy running halfway across the huge map for some dumb fetch quest following a route I've used dozens of times. That's like a commute to work.
Exploring the game was amazin on the first one but without an eternal waystone it will repeat the problem of each time you go out of the capital there is the exactly same ambush time and again on the same path you have to take. And only one save file means that if it corrupts or saves with a bug you didnt notice but its game breaking you are completly fucked
Honestly devs should at least have a 60 fps mode that just runs native 1080p on the consoles, considering the performance is slightly above a 3060. As a PC gamer, I just can't fathom playing any game that involves combat at below 60 fps, its 2024 people, come on.
I'm of two minds on save scumming. On one hand, I understand the devs having a vision for the game that save scumming would throw a wrench into. However, games are there for gamers to HAVE FUN. In order to do that for a wide variety of gamers, you need to offer options. Some people can't play Soulsborne games because there aren't options for those who just aren't skilled enough to take down all the bosses. When the devs from Dark Souls and the like don't offer options, they gatekeep out lots of gamers from ever experiencing what an awesome game they've created because developers have a vision that is apparently their highest priority. That sucks.
Dragons dogma is the only title I can kind of validate being hyped. (Not only because the first is literally my favorite game). But because I’ve seen enough of the combat to know they kept the formula. (Fast pace huge action combat). That’s all they needed to do really for most fans of the game. We didn’t really care about the story that much the first time playing. (Which is weird because the story is actually good. It might’ve been there delivery but something was just off). But yeah everyone complained about no fast travel/traveling. Everybody didn’t like the story. The world was relatively small. I sadly wouldn’t call it the most immersive game sadly. But it had combat. And we were all on board. And I still am as long as the combat is there. If they do anything else better/right with this game, that’s just an added bonus.
A lot of people are worried about the game being 30fps & I think that is certainly one of the criteria to judge the game, but not the only criteria. I just want more groundbreaking games like Elden Ring, BG3, RDR2,BOTW, Witcher 3. And all these games have some kind of issues with the performance or graphics. Elden Ring doesn't have the best graphics as a next gen game. BG3 doesn't have the best combat system. RDR2 doesnt have 60fps. Witcher 3 also didn't have 60fps till just recently. My point is, if a game is really really good...things like graphics & performance take a backseat. They become secondary. So while it's understandable to criticize the devs & it is indeed embrassing that they can't manage to do 60fps in next gen... I just think those are not the only things to look in a game. If the game is really groundbreaking & loved by people all that becomes kinda irrelevant But yeah, this game wouldn't be a 9 or 10 out of 10 now. It's now 8 due to performance & optimization issues. But that's it. Those performance issues are just worth deducting 1 or 2 points. It is not worth completely skipping the game. This game will still be a good game. This isn't a Redfall or Gollum situation
It's a subjective criteria to judge a game on lol Ratchet Deadlocked: Endzone challenge, if you know you know! But to give a quick rundown, this particular challenge has you in a small square arena with a laser goal post behind you to defend like a pseudo tower defense while waves of enemies appear from the front of you in growing waves! With the massive amount of bolts, enemies and weapon effects and particle effects the game chugs hard and the frame rate drops like the blood pressure of vasovagal syncope making the game into a slow motion Michael Bay explosion finale every time a new wave of enemies spawns in. As an unending large stream of bolts slowly follows you to be collected as you move all over protecting the Endzone in a motion that follows your movements making the endless bolt stream a pseudo aura borealis in slow motion! That shit is like taking several dopamine shots simultaneously! The "frame rate issue" is extremely subjective!
!['Dragon's Dogma 2' - A Diamond in the Rough... [REVIEW]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nL9EvGTPbAE/mqdefault.jpg)
╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗
║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣
╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣
╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝
To what
You first
Haha funny guy, no fucking way
cool guy
NO
If you couldn’t get into Dragon’s Dogma I don’t know how you’d get into this one. Everything I’ve seen so far tells me that Dragons Dogma 2 is the full realization of the first as a whole rather than a real sequel with new stuff. It’s the same game but everything brought to its fullest the way the devs wanted to do with the first one.
Well, I think the next DD game will actually be the one to realize their vision. By then we'll be able to get fully A.I. driven NPCs and pawns, with thousands upon thousands of voice lines and the ability to even use voice chat to talk to them. While I'm sure this is going to be a fine game, the one I'm mega-excited to play is the next one :D
Tastes can be weird sometimes. You can see people saying for example that they enjoyed AC Odyssey and hated AC Valhalla (or viceversa) even though when you look up the gameplay it looks almost the same at it's core. DD2 might make some things just better enough to convince players who didn't like the first game to like it but it can also do some things just worse enough to make players who loved original DD hate the new one.
That's silly. The first DD isn't popular because it mostly flew under the radar and was overshadowed in the media by Dragon Age Inquisition and then Witcher 3. Just because a lot of people didn't play it doesn't mean it wouldn't have appealed to them if they had. Why is the DD fanbases so insistent on preventing new people from finding out about the franchise?
Which is weird because Dragon's Dogma came out years before those game existed... On the ps3 and xbox 360 nonetheless. I know this because I live through that era!@@antonytomas1
This guy has trash taste
No stamina usage while running outside of combat is a game changer. In the first one you would spend a LOT of time traveling from one location to another.
Is this true? Like in elden ring? I dont have to fill the inventory of two pawns whit musrooms, thats the only thing i wanted to change 😂
@@raulalejandro3891 it has been confirmed, yes.
@@chubbybehem0thit hasn’t been confirmed, this is going to age badly. Once again Luke spreading false info without trying to fact check
This was one of the first things to Mod out of the PC Version. Same goes for the stupid Levelup Class Attributes. If you enjoyed playing as a strider or warrior in the early game. You have effectively killed any chance to play as a strong mage later on. Because you never leveled Magic Power early on when it mattered. And vise versa.
Play as a mage early game and change to a warrior? Good luck not getting one shotted, because you lack a ton of HP. Because you leveled wrong.... this is most incompetent game design before the lord!
You can see the stamina bar going down during running even in this video at 11:25. Or am I wrong?
It seems there is a lot of misconception about fast travel, fast travel IS in the game but it's a mechanic in itself, it's been confirmed that ferrystones are in the game, for those who don't know ferrystones are a consumable item that allows fast travel to specific locations or portcrystals the player places in advance, in the original game after your first play trought you basically set your own fast travel spots in the world and had virtually infinite fast travels, so I am fairly confident this system will be the same in the sequel.
You won't be able to fast travel straight away at the start but you'll have to use carts or carefully place your port crystals once you get deeper into the game
Luke trying to sneak in that Witcher 3 gwent soundtrack haha
Midway through the vid now, he uses the Witcher 3 soundtrack throughout the video. Nice choice Luke
@@TheRealFAA Just wanted to say that, It is not gwent soundtrack tho, I think, it is just roaming music. Witcher 3 truly had one of the greatest ambient music of all time. Hard to believe we East Euros made that, when fin'g Eurovision is also exist haha....
@@TheRealUcanUwill it’s tavern music specifically, played by the bands that you can find in most taverns in the game, though it does play during gwent games as well sometimes. Witcher 3 main game and DLC music is too good.
@@lewissharpe4695 I think I have heard ambient music in this vid that is not exclusive to W3 taverns, like I remember this when just roaming fields looking for these question marks on the map. Maybe I am wrong, but W3 is one of the very rare mainstream games that I actually played a ton of.
Anyhow, does not matter, good video. I am in a very bad place right now and not very functional, but I hope this game is good, and I hope I maybe pick it up. It is probably the only game this year I even moderately care about (this and that ARA Civilization clone looks good to me).
@@TheRealUcanUwillIt was an ok soundtrack
There is still ways to fast travel vast distances using Ferrystones and port crystals.
Yup, just like the original game. I'm glad they aren't changing it. Trying to cater to people who don't like a game franchise is the best way to ruin it (see Saints Row, Fallout, etc.)
@@Not-Great-at-GamingI would still like an eternal ferrystone too
That way nothing is lost for both sides
To be completely fair he said "ALMOST no fast travel system" which is technically true. It is absolutely possible to do fast travel, but you need to get to the point in the story where you can use a limited amount of Ferrystones...
@@Evanz111People either loved or hated the first game, is true.
I mean it doesn't really matter though. Dragon's Dogma 1 had the same fast travel system and I never hear about people complaining about the travel because traveling in game is part of the experience. You get ambushed, you're exploring, you're managing your resources like healing/stamina items/consumables.
I hate this "modern gaming" take like no fast travel is a bad thing. Its only a bad thing when the world is crafted like shit or everything you do in the game is structured like a chore.
He can't make a video without explaining to us basic concepts for minutes on end like we're little kids
The longer the video the more ads you can squeeze in..
Unfortunately a lot of adults out there are little kids in their ability to reason logically.
@Arthillis my complaint was about his over explanation of simple concepts. Not about his supposed hand holding when it comes to helping adults reason logically.
So yeah, I'd definitely agree with you bud, alot of adults do need hand holding when it comes to thier ability to reason logically, that is ofcourse in if my assumption that you're an adult is correct.
I unsubbed. His videos are all just negative complaining.
@@SquarePenix.doesn’t it seem like it?!? I barely hear good reviews from this channel
I feel like no fast travel has merit. Many of the most memorable moments for me, in open world games, came from wandering on foot. Luke made a good point about the dev team being able to focus on the fact that players will go through here on foot.
One of the reasons I had a special rule during my Skyrim playthrough. Either fast travel towards the quest objective *or* on the trip back to town. But never both. Much more immersive and I had a lot of fun with all the small encounters in between (being very deadly as well as I was using the Requiem mod).
I love how they rlly did this for RDR2. The fast travel you have to pay for and isn’t “efficient” so it forces the player through most of the game to ride on horseback and just, experience the game. Which for some, can be boring, but I disagree. It’s both an easy, but also a sure way for players to see the rich world in RDR2 and find little things while fucking around or just going to a place. Oddly for me it made me even more immersed into the game and world.
@@itsmedjoom987 Not strange at all. I understand the convenience inn our often hurried consumption lifestyle (even gaming many people just run like crazy past nice scenery), but if you really want to immerse yourself or get a feel for distances between places in a gaming world limiting fast travel options either through limited access or role playing explanation (as in: try to explain to yourself why your character should teleport) is the way to go. I believe this is the right choice for DD2.
it can be cool but it really depends on two things, size and how dense the world is. if its mostly empty and huge its not gonna be appealing.
You can wonder on foot and find stuff with fast travel in game. Elden ring is a good exemple
>sceptical look
>ends up being 85% optimistic
Typical youtuber, talking 15mins saying nothing
He'll keep uploading these "skeptical" analyses until the game releases, after which he'll shower it with praise.
There is a difference between skepticism and pessimism. It is okay to be excited for a game that looks good. I just think this dude is annoying and reddit
@@n91312 tbh, the only person i trust to be skeptical about dragons dogma 2 are actual big deep dragons dogma fans
concern troll clickbait
My most skeptical point was about the armor options and i was right, Itsuno answered:
"Rather than having an inner and outer, we divided the equipment for the upper half of the body and the lower half of the body."
So they stricted the armor options and we cant have inner option anymore, i dont like that and they removed an unique option from the game that was different from other games...
yeah thats deeply sad.
The only thing that worries me is the pc performance, because we all know how AAA games perform at launch...
fair, capcom tho has done a really good job with its most recent PC ports so I have good faith
Has capcom been bad with pc ports? I only play shooters and rts games on pc and everything else on PS so i don't really know the history of Capcom on PC.
Likewise. It's an expensive game. I just hope it works well on PC and has good performance on it, for the price that it asked. But that price... It's a lot to ask, in my opinion. So I'll probably wait for a review or pirate it first and then try. If it's really good or GOTY, I'll buy. Gotta vote with your wallet.
regardless......its still always going to perform better than console if you have a decent PC
Capcom latest games on pc were all good pc ports so im not worried about it
I'm a roofer so every game has like three months added to its release date when it's released in the winter lol
Good for you. Unironically.
That's actually good, because usually for the first few months the games gets all the bug fixes and performance patches.
@@awdrifter3394 that's actually a really good way to look at it, and look now I can get Suicide Squad!
@@awdrifter3394 I like how fellow adults in this thread agree 😁👍
@@keysncoffee7733I’m a college student but in the same boat cause I work too. Probably gotta wait till summer till I can really deep dive into most of the releases.
They should allow us run around without stamina draining when out of combat. It slows you down having to deal with stamina when you've got to run to a far side of the map
This, I absolutely agree with. I think it was one of the best decisions in Elden Ring, and wish it was more common.
I don’t see why they can’t do that. A mod for it should come out soon after the release I’m sure tho
Pretty sure that is a feature in the sequel
Remnant 2 fixed this from the first game too
BUT IMMERSION!!!
Ya'll remember Bioshock: Infinite?
I got a wild hair and decided to redownload it.
So, I was playing through it again. Nostalgia was strong. Gameplay was awesome. It was such a good experience.
And there I was, running through the city and Elizabeth says, "Mr. Booker. May I please have a moment?"
I stopped, looked at her and Booker said, "Sure, what would you like to talk about?"
Elizabeth then pointed at a nearby tavern, "I do believe a saw a stockpile of supplies over in that building. Perhaps we should check that out?"
And it just...floored me. That's crazy good design. To have a character exist alongside you and have her own agency enough to request your time politely and explain that you might have missed something. No map markers. No quest log. No glowing fairy farting a trail of dust. Your companion communicated something to you that she would have realistically noticed. That's what I like in my open world games, and it feels rare. It's just bloat that you don't need or want. Put me in the world and let the world and characters guide me on my own terms.
tell me you dont play dragon dogma by not telling you are never played dragon dogma: there is no fast travel
Portcrystals
@@BapiBoozle Ikr 😅
In the base game (before dark arisen) there basically wasn't. Ferry stones were expensive AF. Not a feature you could regularly make use of
Are these crystals in DD2?@@BapiBoozle
It’s obvious he’s just trying to cash in on the hype
20-30 fps on consoles is atrocious in 2024.
It's atrocious, I agree, though it seems to be the standard for some reason.
Word is GTA6 will be 30FPS, RDR2 is 30FPS, now this game. I don't get how so-called "Next Gen" consoles have FPS similar to the ps3/360 era of games. It's a bit of a letdown tbh.
This is what’s stopping me buying the game
@@SatansSun 30fps is not the standard. All but 2 major releases since the debut of the ps5 have had the ability to run at 60fps, and one of those got patched to run at 60
@@YeOldeMachinecomprehension issues
@SomeUnkindledAsh thats what I was insinuating, I was stating that 30FPS is the standard
I was thinking about this when i played the first Dragon's Dogma and got my bearings with it's fast travel sistem, it actually made sense in the world that was built around me and it nudged itself as a gameplay element as well, given the fact that Port Crystals and Ferry Stones are a limited resource, it actively encouraged the player to really think about where they wanted to fast travel and how often they could do so. That beeing said, while it was in general exciting to travel through the world, because there's always something happening in the map, after you go through the same harpy encounter for the SEVENTH time, in the exact same spot of the terrain, it gets old and annoying, when you're just trying to get from point A to point B. They could fix this issue very easily just setting up different creatures to spawn in any designated spot, OR, better yet, space out more the time between spawns, because in the original, every time you had a loading screen, the entire map was "refiled" with the enemies you just killed. So they could change that "clock" to once every in game week maybe? I dunno, the first game was incredible but this is one big critique that i have of it. The world is fun to traverse, yes, the first 3 times you do it. After that it becomes annoying, but i feel like it's an easy fix for the sequel
Absolutely. By far my biggest concern, whether they can actually keep following the same path between locations for the fifth or tenth of fifteenth time interesting. I have my doubts.
Exactly, loved the first one but not having unlimited fast travel until dark arisen made it so you had to either fight the same army/bandit spot whenever you went from the capital to anywhere
Why do I know you’re talking about the canyon? 😂
@@thefirsttrillionaire2925 please, don't start about the canyon... 😂😂
I one time had a bounty of $200 dollars in RDR2. I was able to pay it off, but i started another mission in that county that then, made me a wanted man again with a bounty of $300 dollars. I COULDVE loaded an earlier save so i didnt just waste money, but i figured “whatever” shit happens and ill live with it. I am now being hunted by bounty hunters and bloodhounds, while currently having the time of my life.
That's the best way to play games
I had one moment where I was in a forest, had trees on both sides of the small trail I was on, then I had a warning about bounty hunters, and so I planted dynamite on the road, went up and hid against a tree in the foggy forest, and when a few of the like 15 bounty hunters and dogs went to investigate my tracks, I blew up the dynamite by shooting it, and had an intense gun battle with the bounty hunters and their dogs, it was really cinematic
when he has the background witcher 3 blood and wine music it completely both relaxes me and makes me happy.
I'm so glad Dragon Dogma 2 is making a comeback, I've been waiting for this game for 10 yrs or so. My favorite games of all time are Elden Ring and Monster Hunter Word, and now i get to have my hands on this, I'm so keen to play this game! Hope it's 500 hours long, lmao!
Dragon's Dogma:
Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years
I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear
Making the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to the bass go boom
Explosions, overpowering
Over the competition, I'm towering
Wrecking shop when I drop
These lyrics that'll make you call the cops
Don't you dare stare, you better move
Don't ever compare
Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced
Competition's paying the price
You're two favourite games are under 10 years old. Tell me you are from the ADHD generation without saying it.
@@AaronK-ef8yvthere’s no shame in your favorite games being recent. My favorite game is from the Wii era but Elden Ring is also one of my favorites.
@@AaronK-ef8yv sorry not everyone was born during the cold war bro, being old isnt a flex btw
@@AaronK-ef8yv
If you seriously think older == better then I don't know what to tell you other than maybe you should take of your nostalgia goggles. A lot of these developers weren't able to fully realise their vision on the older hardware you take so much pride in so I'm sure they wouldn't agree with this delusional take either
i agree with luke about frame rate but what was the point of releasing the next gen consoles 4 years ago if still so many games aren't 60fps which was the main selling point of the next gen consoles
cause people want those 4k graphics. if people could be content with 1440p then more games would be 60 fps
@@nukenade4623 if people would be content with 30fps then we could have all games at 4k
@@ItsDigidyDan yup. but people want both 60 fps and 4k and right now, ya cant have that
"People watch movies on 20FPS" lol
Dude props to people who can game at 30 fps in 2024 i admire you i just cant do it no matter how hard i try
Bro I feel you on this so much lol. I built my pc a couple years back and it ruined everything. I never cared about frame rate, now it’s impossible for me to play 30 fps. I’ve tried with certain console games and just can’t do it.
At 30 fps is not playing, is a slideshow in Microsoft Power Point
100% agreed. I could not play rebirth in graphics mode because of the low frames.
"next Gen" my @$$
It blows my mind how people say they can't tell the difference between 30fps and 60fps. 30fps is rough
One of the most anticipated games for me alongside Rise of the Ronin and Black Myth: Wukong
rise of the ronin graphically looks like 2014
@@krishp1104 and Ghost of Tsushima got announced for PC which is a far superior samurai game imo
Assassin's Creed for me.... People talk crap about Odyssey but outside of the intentional grindiness and monetization it was a good game
Black myth wukong is on my list but I’m really hype for assassin’s creed codename red an Star Wars outlaws
BM Wukong I'm super skeptical about. It's yet another souls like but from a random Chinese dev nobody has ever heard of. Plus they have shared such little into about the game and it's releasing in a few months.
"Some players will never encounter the sphinx in their entire run." Challenge accepted!
I'm one of those people who got really into the first Dragon's Dogma, despite not really playing Japanese games up until then, so I'm super stoked for the sequel. I even broke my own sacred rule of never pre-ordering. I just hope it's good and we get more memes out of it.
Same here, I hate myself for it but their first game was so good I felt Capcom deserved it
That doesnt make sense.
You shouldnt play or not a game just because where it come from, what "japanese" its in Dragons Dogma?
I dont understand why would you be afraid and what you have against japanese games, looks like prejudice for me
@@MrCaiops Japanese games are generally different from American ones, games like Okami, Persona, final fantasy etc. are different from Call of Duty, borderlands, Gta etc. While there is some overlap in the industry many games made in Japan are different. Another example is how different Dragons Dogma is to Skyrim, while they are both fantasy games there are many differences with plotlines gameplay as well as their vibe. Also, I don’t think they meant to say anything bad saying they don’t play Japanese games anyway.
This doesn't make sense. Japanese games have very different feels and styles. This isnt a bad thing and I'd argue its actually a good thing and pretending they dont is fucking ridiculous. This means someone may very well dislike Japanese products like say Japanese style rpgs and theres nothing wrong with that and isn't prejudice at all@MrCaiops
I originally missed these responses, but I will try to clarify my original comment. I have no problem with Japanese games as such, and in fact I often like their aesthetics and themes. The thing is that I am exclusively a PC gamer, I've never even owned a controller, and it used to be the case that many Japanese developers only released their games for console, with maybe an afterthought PC port down the line (or none at all). This has changed in the last decade or so, so now I'm playing more Japanese games, including Yakuza 0 and Final Fantasy XV. I hope that this trend continues.
Who’s gonna tell this guy Elden ring had fast travel? No way you played it and omitted or forgot that.
love the witcher 3 soundtrack at the background :D
Mixed feelings about the one save file. With such a great character creator I would have loved to make tons of Arisen and Pawns and tried all different class combos between them. On the other hand this is exactly the sort of thing I have done with other games like Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3, making new characters and class combos and then getting burnt out and not finishing the game. Got all the way to Crumbling Farum Azula in ER and midway through Act 3 in BG3 and got burnt out because I kept rerolling alts and playing so much. This should keep me on track and maybe, just maybe, I'll actually finish the game.
They have to make an avatar video game where you create your own avatar story. A nice open world map is already designed and each avatar is basically a reincarnation of passed avatars so it just makes sense to make a crazy open world game where you create your own story. Also side quests are literally a part of the story so it just makes sense.
I agree I don’t think it would be hard to pull off I kind of imagine it as a tears of the kingdom or breath of the wild esque game in the sense that you can visit each nation in any order you want to unlock your other bending trees and face the fire lord or if you want go straight to the fire lord.
As a long-time devotee of Dragons dogma, I just want to say that the lack of fast travel until you get port crystals is actually fantastic. You need to actively plan for journeys and the nighttime is even more scary when you are hoping to make it to a town or city before nightfall. It's a great mechanic, and it's nice not to always have your hand held by fast travel or quicksaving.
No fast travel? I thought ferrystones were confirmed to appear again in the game
He said "almost" not any.
The Sphinx won't turn out how you describe it .. anyone who wants to find her will simply look at whichever Wiki is publishing the results of the datamining operation which will take place and I seriously doubt there are a meaningful number of players with the self-restraint not to.
I think that's sad that you think most people do that. Plenty of people prefer to play games blind and discover things for themselves, in fact the vast majority of people who buy the game aren't watching videos like this and looking things up constantly or obsessed with what's meta etc. I played 150 hours of Elden Ring at launch and never looked anything up at all and I'll be doing the same with this.
@tj3423 Nah I'm going to look it up just to piss off the real gamers.
Of course. Did anyone find Archon on their own (other than maybe the first person). Sorry, Remnant 2 reference.
Agreed, I guess this reveals something deeper about people. Many many people want to get where they want in the world as fast as possible with as many handouts, leg ups" and shortcuts as possible, they couldnt care les for the journey. On the other hand some of us want to express our self agency fully by attaining our goals organically and naturally at our own pace, difference between an explorer/adventurer and a milksop.@@tj3423
I'm looking up all the solutions to it's riddles that's for certain, I honestly have no patience for puzzles anymore and being locked out of a quest for doing one incorrectly just sounds like bullshit.
People are so annoying with the pick and choose of complaining about frames. Not saying you are but never heard anyone mention that being a problem for rdr2 Witcher etc
I think the 30fps would be ok but uncapped framerate is not a good sign. It likely means the framerate won't hit a solid 30 fps consistently. It also should really be an option, not mandatory. And the games you mentioned came out in 2015 and 18. Long time ago, on worse hardware.
@@silverheart7964 rdr2 is still the arguably greatest graphical game and I genuinely had zero issues with the frames. I feel like they’d run it at 60 fps if that was best and they could. I have no worries with capcom honestly especially after the masterpiece of re4 remake
@barebuttspankin RDR2 is my favorite game of all time, but it would most definitely benefit from 60fps on consoles. Its definitely a lot smoother when i play it on PC opposed to my PS5. It doesn't run in 60 because R* would have to update it for the current gen of consolse. Seeing how RDR is R*'s red headed step-child, i dont see that happening anytime soon.
That's because 60fps was never an option on last gen consoles, most gamers never experienced it till this gen
@@barebuttspankin But RDR2 & Witcher we’re released before the masses got accustom to 60fps. When people realize GTA6 is gonna be 30fps people will criticize tf out of it
Dragon's Dogma 2 coming and Outward 2 announced, now we need a Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and the sequel trinity of hardcore survival-like RPGs is completed.
A good hype is a sceptical hype, based upon facts and not emotions.
I was a fan of the first one, and I am really looking forward to playing 2. It seems like the devs really invested in improving things that were issues in 1, improving some things weren't but making them better, and building a very immersive world that let's the player immerse themselves. For example, there aren't quest markers- you will be approached by people who have a quest or come across them organically.
I also like the cost exchange they have implemented for travel. If you want to fast travel you can, however it requires a very expensive catalyst, and the exchange for the great cost is that there is no risk in traveling that way. The middle cost option is to take an ox cart, though you are at the mercy of the ox cart driver as to where you end up- and there is a bit of risk in traveling that way because ox carts can be attacked by monsters or bandits. The cheapest way to travel is also the riskiest, which is of by going on foot...though that to me is also the best way.
They've also made some smart modifications to the Pawn system as well as combat. I hope it's a huge success =)
I'm done with 30 fps. I just can't go back to it. Will wait for a 60 fps version, maybe on PS5 Pro.
😢😢😢😢 i cant play 60fps in 4K on cheap console😢😢😢😢
Its not even 30fps. Its unlocked so it can be above and has drops to the low 20s so it will be a stuter fest
Lmaooo. No console is running this in true 4K at 60FPS. I doubt the Pro can run it at 1080 at a solid FPS. It's a 2024 game, you can't expect to get that sort of performance on 4 year-old hardware.
@@mdc123-v2v I'm fine with sub 4k, even 1080p. I just don't want to play games at 30 fps anymore.
@@marikosic5178 Don't care about 4K but I get your point lol
They dropped the ball with performance PERIOD.
Seriously. Horizon Forbidden West makes DD2 look like a last gen game and runs 60 on PS5. This is an engine and optimization issue.
Dragon's Dogma felt like an alpha version of what this game is gonna be. It's going to be very similar, just fully realized and designed.
And that game is like Monster Hunter in a standard D&D-kind setting. You focus on getting immersed in a very particular role: Questing. Traditional D&D monster quest fantasy. Mix in some of that "going on a trek" fantasy, that games like Outward scratch.
I really want this to be good but so many companies are burning their consumers. Ive mostly just stuck to the few trusted studios left.
Even if DD2 plays and feels exactly like the original one I don't think it would be a bad game. What is there to be skeptical about? The first game is a known quantity, its been out for some time. This looks to be mostly the same. Either you like it or you don't. I don't like Fortnite and if a Fortnite 2 came out I wouldn't be skeptical because I already know what it is and that I'm not interested.
Good point ngl
he is definitely using the word "skeptical" wrongly. its a filler for engagement and nothing else.
Coming away from this video with really only one question: Is the terminology regarding saving so muddy across the industry that when we ask a Japanese game dev about the number of Save FILES, he responds with an explanation of Save POINTS? I played DD1 so I already know the game will have one Save FILE -- that is, one character slot -- but someone who isn't familiar with the series could read this interview and think "Oh, so I can't quicksave, but I can still make multiple characters. Ok, cool." when that isn't the case. It's a very interesting case of how jargon can struggle to cross language barriers.
I thought kingdom come deliverance saves were rough!
To be fair, that game is brutally hard.
In fine with 30fps but going below 30 is crazy. The game doesn’t even look that visually taxing for console so I dont get why it’s at 30 at all.
I’m on the fence. Depends on if there is a demo. If not maybe I’ll get it on sale some day.
30 fps is bad on it self but is doable if it is capped and stable. Nothing worst than dipping below and around 30 fps. And tbh if this isn't performance modde i wonder hwo bad that mode will look.
i've seen video's of it, and they said it was playing at 4k and around 30 fps, and it was also an early buld they were playing
4k30 is standard for PS5. Have to wait for the numbers at lower res.
No performance mode Itsuno confirmed in an interview with game informer, just one visual mode which targets around 30 FPS 4K. It’s also uncapped. Don’t know if it’ll dip below 30 since the preview gameplay isn’t the final version but keep in mind Itsuno himself said they’re targeting “around” 30 FPS.
To make matters worse, 30fps becomes more evident when detail is increased. So a current gen game at 4k 30fps is going to move more janky than a game from the early 2000's. More detail will accentuate the choppiness of the frames, although you actually need normal functioning eyes to notice this stuff. There are many gamers who have really shitty vision and cant detect motion for shit.
I could think of a lot of things worse than that.
You can still have a single save slot and multiple characters so I hope you can have multiple characters but only one save slot per character similar to souls games
30 fps means wait for a sale for me
30fps at 4k and it has settings to tweak, so we don't know how it runs at, say, 2k res.
Entitled gamers. Thats why all communities hates gamers. Always want want want like spoiled brats
@@moonsumi8172 "all communities" are equally garbage anyway, kekw
@@moonsumi8172 you are a wonderful human being
@@moonsumi8172 60 fps is a reasonable thing to ask for
Its been confirmed port crystals are in the game so there will be a fast travel system for those who want it the only caveat is you need to travel to a place first and place the crystal as a waypoint to fast travel to and there most likely wont be many of them so its going to be alot like the first game in that regard
Played a shit ton of Dark Arisen, this was an easy pre order
I truly do not believe that they need to make this the big huge ambitious sequel that everyone is expecting. All they need to do is give us a new world to explore a new story, new weapons and characters and improvements on the outdated systems of the first game and I’m set
Just play Assassins Creed or other game’s with their design philosophy, that is better suited for you
the slow movement speed and lack of a convenient and easy fast travel system was why I gave up on the first game. it became really tedious to walk around between the quests
this guys video essays are always hit and miss. this one is blatant miss. first minutes of the video saying there's no fast travel, without mentioning ferrystones, when that system is well known with this (now) franchise. Another 20 minute video of a goof who barely researched what he's talking about.
I don’t even think he plays games sometimes . Just reads other reviews and watches videos and creates his essay based off what he’s seen not played
Yeah i agree. He didnt do even the basic research stuff. Btw DD2 is the 3rd game of the franchise, 2nd is DD Online which wasnt released in the West.
I think it's odd that they decided to do an uncapped fps mode, I think a locked 30fps at 2160i, then a 1440i 60fps or 1080p 60fps would be better
If I remember correctly the original Dragons Dogma also had very limited fast travel, and it was a slog at times taking quite a while to walk to your destination... Hopefully for the sequel they've refined this design decision
30 FPS? Again? Starfield excuse was “bruh, it’s a single player rpg and it’s not CoD.” If I played Elden Ring at 30FPS, not only would the coop experience would suck but the PvP would be unplayable. What’s Dragons Dogmas excuse?
Personally, the only 2 big new games I've been genuinely excited for, are GTA6 and Dragons Dogma 2. I've been playing DD1 for a long time and I'm still loving it
idk why GTA6 excites you.. Its never going to live up to the hype and honestly the location of GTA6 is going to be Boring AF. Miami pretty much sums up our current culture and its trash.
1. Frame rate is probably the only red flag,
2. No fast travel makes the journey more important than the destination trust me you will get it.
Choppiness of combat delayed hits, that's to try to make your hits matter.
3. Fast travel is after you have grinded the walk, when you are rich or you definitely want to beat the boss.
4. You can just grind the walk for levels until you are ready to beat the boss.
5. Puzzle sphinx I found her in DD, I played a lot and suddenly found her and then I kept trying to find HER. She eventually became an annoyance. Fighting her before boss was hard in the beginning.
In the end it didn't matter.
TLDR : Everything stated except the frame rate was in DD and it all worked...
dude was born so late, he never experience video game low frames back in the 90s
you don't need to go that far n3ds runs games at like 20 or less
Born so late? wtf are you talking about all of us boomers played at 60fps in the NES and SNES era
@@Melontheyoutuber 60 was the limit, if you play enough games you would notice like in battle toads, the bike scenes would have some frame drop like a lot of frame drops. Same with Contra and super c when you do 2player spread shots, you would see slow downs in the frames or certain sewers when using the boomerang in TMNT. Even post SNES in N64 in golden eye, 4 player using proximity mines.
Every consoles has slow downs, it part of the nature of optimization and limited resources when making the game. I actually dont mind it. It fell like a slow mo in a movie emphasizing a good scene.
@@hby7768 Oh those sweet sweet contra frame drops were insane lol
My only concern from seeing all the footage so far is; how open is the world really? It feels like there are a lot of "canyons" that limit your exploration. So no water from what I have seen. Water kills you? Not really sure but so far no swimming in water.
I want to love this game so bad..
There are some cases where I can thoroughly enjoy a game with an uncapped framerate. I was actually happy that God of War 3 on the PS3 ran at an uncapped framerate because I desperately needed my 60fps fix on graphics that good, even if it was an intermittent 60fps. Perhaps if you're enough of a 60fps fanboy, an uncapped framerate is an acceptable compromise as long as the 60's still happen along with the 30's.
My body is so ready for this game. There hasn't been a game like this since the first one. Over a decade of waiting will finally pay off.
Luke as an Ubisoft connoisseur I’d love to see you give Breakpoint another try in 2024. It had a huge comeback that took tons of work for free by the developers, and it really came a long way. Might not make up for the terrible launch, but it’s a success story that doesn’t get much attention
This game looks great but still be skeptical.
lack of vocations and simplified armor stinks of running out of time
I hope they release the full game with the expansion
Yeah I was so excited until they let me down with 30 frames uncapped on console, only 10 vocations at launch none of the Dragons dogma online ones, and simplified armor, now its just like every other boring unlayered armor from other fantasy games.
30 fps is unexcusable in 2024. 😂😂
Until info changes on release, here are my tentative issues with the sequel:
- No multiple armor layering from what we seen so far(shirt, gloves, cape, chest slot). Only upper/lower body slots
- Removal of our favorite magic tank Mystic Knight with a shieldless stick wielder jedi
I try and not get hyped for games these days, but the design choices they’ve gone with are exactly the kind of thing and play style I would be going for if I were designing an open world adventure game. I’m a massive hater of fast travel and hand holding. There’s no point in making a big open world with places to explore and stories to create if you’re just going to quick load to giant quest markers all over the map. Kudos to their design choices and I’m honestly expecting this to be my favorite game since Skyrim and RDR2.
Dragons Dogma had fast travel but it was just stones on certain locations that allowed you to go to certain location and it had a quick tp item to return to the last location you visited with the traveling stones. So meaby the say fast travel as in opening a menu and clicking the location, not teletranspotation.
Dragon's Dogma is tied with Warframe as my favorite game of all time. I played the game before it even came out with its two demos on the PS3 where they let you play the opening segment before character creation and then I think the second demo let you make a character and fight a Gryphin in a field. I remember when they released Dark Arisen and if you had a save file from the base game you received the Eternal Ferrystone. I love the Eternal Ferrystone but to be fair I think when they ported and rereleased the game and gave it to everyone it was a mistake. It was cool as a reward for those who played the game and were already familiar with the world but letting everyone have accessible and free unlimited fast travel realky worked against a lot of the game. I loved the Portcrystal system as it restricts fast travel behind exploration and story progression and you won't max out your travel points until your second playthrough. Dragon's Dogma definitely had flaws though. I think early game stamina was rough. It was fine in combat but travel definitely was tedious at points because you couldn't run as much as you'd like. Pawns were repetitive and they're inclinations changed all the time with no way to lock them. Support pawns were a struggle to get them to do what you wanted from buffing or healing or cleansing. Warrior was super limited and largely uninteresting. The break free stuff busted so many controllers! Fighting wolves and harpies terrified me because I didn't want to mess up my thumbsticks. Ugh I hated that so much! I'm so excited to play DD2. I hope we get a demo before release.
WARFRAME??? 😭😭😭 why on EARTH is your favorite game WARFRAME? 😭
@@squashua7222 Because its moment to moment gameplay is top tier, its movement mechanics are one-of-a-kind and innovative beyond belief, its lore and stories are intriguing and imaginative, its monetization is fair and inferior only to PoE in my opinion, and as a kive service they have created an outstanding product overall for an impressively long period of time. While I no longer play and for sure have my complaints about the game it is still my most played game to date and I have massive respect for those at DE that created such a fun and unique experience.
Helldivers: A masterpiece, almost 0 skepticism
Dragon Dogma's 2: A Skeptical Look ...? 😂 Make your channel make sense.
Im just never going to understand the mentality that no fast travel is anything other then a bad decision. Give people the tools to play and enjoy it the way they want to. Choices are all ways the right direction.
There will likely be fast travel, like in the first game. Its just wont be a bunch on icons/tower you select like in assassin's creed.
the decisions made by the developer, specifically their thinking around save scumming, exploration and fast travel tell me this game will be a real feast for those that like to investigate every nook and cranny of the world....and for me this is what RPGs are all about. Looking forward to this now!
I really felt like the original DD really didn't get going until you got to the better specializations. Combat was the best part of the game and Bitterblack Isle is where it really started the shine. I do wonder if Capcom knows this going into DD2 because the coverage has been mostly about everything but the combat.
What do you MEAN?
DD1's starting vocations (with the exception of mage) STAYED good throughout the entire game and only got better with new vocation actions. The advanced and hybrid specs are great too, but don't discount the starter vocations.
And more importantly, covering everything BUT the combat??? Are you blind? There's literally hours of different people's combat gameplay out and various discussions about how it works.
On the point of fast travel, don't force me. Give me my gast travel points, let me find them through exploration fine. But if the world is as compelling as they say, I'll WANT to explore on my own.
The problem with one save file is. That like in the original with technical bugs that make that one save file invalid. U loose hours of progress which make u quite playing at all.😢
Omg. Can't imagine, a buggy game that only allows one save file. That would be the dumbest thing in the world...
i don't know if you played BG3 but that game is very buggy if you would have only one save file, you would be fucked hahaha
My only real problem with the first game was the story. It was alright, just convoluted. At the end, theyre like "i have your lover!" Which i didnt even realize was a thing. Gameplay and combat was awesome. I just wish they added some co-op, it has the perfect systems for it.
Just want to clarify the whole fast travel thing. So DD didnt have traditional fast travel but is kind of akin to RDR2. At first you can't for the most part, then you get an item that lets you travel to a preset point. Then you get items that place down your own fast travel points wherever you want on the map. So effectively end game i could fast travel all over the map.
if by "at first you cant for the most part" you mean the first two hours, than you are right, cause as soon u reach Gran Soren you unlocks fast travel , portcrytal and eternal ferrystone.
@@irmaoburro1The eternal ferrystone was not part of the game at launch. It was only introduced with Dark Arisen. So congrats for playing the game later, but if you played at launch there was an EXTREMELY limited number of ferrystones. And one you use them, they are gone.
@@PlaySAoh c'mon, its not like on the OG game gold was so difficult to farm, u can literaly buy them for 20K at The Black Cat or for 10K with Fournival, there is no "EXTREMELY" limited number of ferrystone on the OG game.
My main question about pawn sharing with your friends… im on PS5 and my buddy will be playing on PC. Will he be able to find the pawn I created and will I be able to find his?
I can understand being bummed about the framerate but I can't understand passing up a game because of it. 30 with occasional dips is totally passable if the gameplay is grea. I think people have unreasonable expectations for consoles.
A game like this is gonna push console to their absolute limits. Consoles aren't current Gen. They are always 2 to 3 generations behind current PCs. This game is incredibly complex from a technical standpoint. Big open world with no loading screens, diverse NPCs, incredibly varied and dynamic combat with incredibly varied and diverse enemies, the pawn system is also complex and blah blah you get it. It all adds up to needing a fuck ton of resources to run and consoles are great but they are definitely limited there.
If you've ever dabbled in game development then surely you know that graphics alone are not the only thing that bogs down a system. It's the sum of all the games parts. I think passing on this because 30fps is a hard line for you is fine but shitting on something that isn't even out yet is Karen as fuck.
The only game I know of that is visually pretty amazing and also has many complex systems is RDR2. However that game was 30fps @1080p on ps4 and xbox when it released and it was a hit.
30fps @4k is "reasonable" by all metrics
I really appreciate the framing of this preview because as someone who didn’t really click with the first game, I AM skeptical. Mind you, I started it last year and on switch so it wasn’t the greatest first experience, but still.
Here you lay out the features and reports unbiased letting viewers form our own thoughts on it. Respect
appreciate when you mention the motion sickness stuff in videos, it’s something I have to deal with as well unfortunately
1:59 Odd example. The pertinent difference being that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is developed by Capcom again. A sequel to Gollum could be compelling if done by a different developer.
Years ago I turned Skyrim into Dragon's Dogma with mods even tho it wasn't stable enough
The original Dragon's Dogma didn't really have much of a fast travel system either. You had ferry Stones. And most of them would just take you to Gran Soren. But yeah lots of walking
It is 2024 and companies are STILL shipping games at 30 FPS on console. If you told me that 10 years ago I would not have believed you.
So sad. Console players used to talk about PC players because we always talked about FPS. Now you have this old PS 5 or Xbox X/S that can have different FPS now all of a sudden, it's important. So sad. If you want the best, join the PCMR!!
The fact that fast travel is not a priority is exactly why this game will be amazing! Fast travel ruined Elder Scrolls
I wouldn't say it ruined Elder Scrolls. I couldn't imagine how boring it would be to have no fast travel at all. Dragon's Dogma has fast travel, but it's manually created by the player, and is very scarce. No fast travel at all would mean you're back tracking through areas constantly.
By “run around on foot” it’s actually “run for 10 seconds, then walk and regain stamina, then run for 10 seconds”
I doubt there will be anything to the game to justify no fast travel, nothing beyond the occasional ambush by a lesser boss, or a group of goblins.
I’ve played 200 hours of DD1. And I really have low expectations based on what I’ve seen from this one.
It looks like the same as DD1 but with better graphics. The actual gameplay looks unchanged.
How are they making the same mistakes they did in the first one with no fast travel, which is why they added the eternal ferrystone later. You'd think they would remember that...
Console isn’t as strong as everyone makes them out to be. They are 2 generations behind the strongest PC. The gpu inside the ps5 is equivalent to a 2070 at most. The fact that it can run the game at 4k30, when the PC equivalent at a 2080 can do the same, that goes to show how optimized the game is. 4k is incredibly demanding and consoles are not up to snuff to dish out crazy graphics and high performance, it’s obviously been the case since the beginning and gamers gotta stop gaslighting themselves to believe otherwise because of manufacturer promises and marketing. Even the strongest PC’s aren’t getting ridiculously high frame rates at 4k in most games, unless you spend a thousand dollars, most likely more on a gpu. A 4090 can BARELY do 4k60 on Alan Wake 2 at max graphics without any upscaling. You guys really think the ps5 is doing that? Cmon now. A lot of games on the ps4 and ps5 aren’t even 4k native anyways, it’s all upscaled. People have to manage their expectations with consoles, cos these consoles are not the 4k60 wonder machines that everyone acts like they are. Optimization for consoles is incredibly hard in a period of time when the consoles are becoming too weak to handle next gen tech. Eventually and inevitably there’s gonna be a slew of very demanding games coming out that are gonna all be locked at 4k30 most likely upscaled until the next gen of consoles come out, deadass. The games that are coming out are becoming so intricate that PC’s aren’t even handling it with flying colors without some sort of upscaling. But as always, If you want more fps, it’s always been the case that you need to build a PC.
Meh, I like my xbox
@@ItsDigidyDan nothing wrong with liking Xbox, in fact, my main way of playing games was consoles, specifically Xbox for most of my life. my point is that just because Sony and Microsoft said their box can do something doesn’t mean it can in every situation or at all. They claimed 120fps and barely any games even hit that on console, unless it’s like ori and the blind forest. No god of war at 120 unless you got a rig when that port comes out. They claim 4k60 but most triple A games cant do that without upscaling, and even then it’s not stable or consistent half the time. Consoles must be powerful enough to run premium games, but cheap enough for consumers to buy. Its power has diminishing returns like any tech, but it becomes much weaker over time as gaming tech advances and systems are pushed to their limits. The power ceiling is PC and the floor is console. PC advances faster and in order to keep up, we get a new console generation. It’s how this all has worked for well over a decade now.
Bruh, you could get a 10 year old pc to play this game.
@@blackRXrider that’s…my point
You can run the game on a 10 year old pc, but you ain’t running it at 4k60+ consistent lil
My only wish is that capcom does not put Enigma into it, or any other titles for the matter.
Edit: I remember in DD1 there were crystals you could use to fast travel, but you had to place them in places yourself. In the DA dlc you got an infinite use portal stone, but prior to that it was an expendable item. I hope they kept the infinite use one. Also, what on earth?!?!? One save file?!?!? This was such a problem with the first game, save corruption. Man I hope they change that or a modder makes a multi-save mod.
They've already said, or claimed at least, that there will be no eternal ferrystone. Who knows how long that will last if it's really a huge pain in the ass. Because yeah, I don't really fancy running halfway across the huge map for some dumb fetch quest following a route I've used dozens of times. That's like a commute to work.
@@PlaySA *Cries in agony
Exploring the game was amazin on the first one but without an eternal waystone it will repeat the problem of each time you go out of the capital there is the exactly same ambush time and again on the same path you have to take.
And only one save file means that if it corrupts or saves with a bug you didnt notice but its game breaking you are completly fucked
Honestly devs should at least have a 60 fps mode that just runs native 1080p on the consoles, considering the performance is slightly above a 3060. As a PC gamer, I just can't fathom playing any game that involves combat at below 60 fps, its 2024 people, come on.
I'm of two minds on save scumming. On one hand, I understand the devs having a vision for the game that save scumming would throw a wrench into.
However, games are there for gamers to HAVE FUN. In order to do that for a wide variety of gamers, you need to offer options.
Some people can't play Soulsborne games because there aren't options for those who just aren't skilled enough to take down all the bosses. When the devs from Dark Souls and the like don't offer options, they gatekeep out lots of gamers from ever experiencing what an awesome game they've created because developers have a vision that is apparently their highest priority. That sucks.
Dragons dogma is the only title I can kind of validate being hyped. (Not only because the first is literally my favorite game). But because I’ve seen enough of the combat to know they kept the formula. (Fast pace huge action combat). That’s all they needed to do really for most fans of the game. We didn’t really care about the story that much the first time playing. (Which is weird because the story is actually good. It might’ve been there delivery but something was just off). But yeah everyone complained about no fast travel/traveling. Everybody didn’t like the story. The world was relatively small. I sadly wouldn’t call it the most immersive game sadly. But it had combat. And we were all on board. And I still am as long as the combat is there. If they do anything else better/right with this game, that’s just an added bonus.
A lot of people are worried about the game being 30fps & I think that is certainly one of the criteria to judge the game, but not the only criteria.
I just want more groundbreaking games like Elden Ring, BG3, RDR2,BOTW, Witcher 3. And all these games have some kind of issues with the performance or graphics. Elden Ring doesn't have the best graphics as a next gen game. BG3 doesn't have the best combat system. RDR2 doesnt have 60fps. Witcher 3 also didn't have 60fps till just recently.
My point is, if a game is really really good...things like graphics & performance take a backseat. They become secondary.
So while it's understandable to criticize the devs & it is indeed embrassing that they can't manage to do 60fps in next gen... I just think those are not the only things to look in a game. If the game is really groundbreaking & loved by people all that becomes kinda irrelevant
But yeah, this game wouldn't be a 9 or 10 out of 10 now. It's now 8 due to performance & optimization issues. But that's it. Those performance issues are just worth deducting 1 or 2 points. It is not worth completely skipping the game. This game will still be a good game. This isn't a Redfall or Gollum situation
It's a subjective criteria to judge a game on lol Ratchet Deadlocked: Endzone challenge, if you know you know! But to give a quick rundown, this particular challenge has you in a small square arena with a laser goal post behind you to defend like a pseudo tower defense while waves of enemies appear from the front of you in growing waves! With the massive amount of bolts, enemies and weapon effects and particle effects the game chugs hard and the frame rate drops like the blood pressure of vasovagal syncope making the game into a slow motion Michael Bay explosion finale every time a new wave of enemies spawns in. As an unending large stream of bolts slowly follows you to be collected as you move all over protecting the Endzone in a motion that follows your movements making the endless bolt stream a pseudo aura borealis in slow motion! That shit is like taking several dopamine shots simultaneously! The "frame rate issue" is extremely subjective!
TL;DR
red dead not 60fps? what ? Runs at 144fps on my PC.