bout to say.... what has the world come to? TH-cam being a clown show as usual. What rogue AI logarithm came up with the idea to demonetize vids with cursing in the beginning of the video? How do I know it's AI? Because it makes absolutely no sense and it makes my life more difficult.
TH-cam started age-restricting and downranking videos with excessive swearing at the beginning. That’s why most of you probably didn’t get the latest Metal Gear Rising video recommended to you. It sucks but will only affect the intros. -editor
@@AsmonTVwould probably sound less troubling if sir David Attenborough would replace all potty mouth words with some others instead of playing with the audio.
Completed DDDA on Steam Deck OLED back in April, all achievements. Damon is literally one of the best final bosses I've fought in a vidya game. I still listen to "Coils of Light" all the time. It's such a great fight. The OST, the narration, the combat, etc. When I saw his 'true' form, it was legit hype
@@Evanz111 I played the game at max settings, shadow quality at lowest, with a 30fps cap. I managed to get over 6h of playtime with 30fps. It CAN be played at a solid 90fps, too. I value battery/playtime more than changing how it looks when I push the camera stick around, tho
@@cqllel5186 Woah, it can seriously hit 90fps? 80% of my playtime is across the sub 30fps PS3 version and the capped PS4/PS5 one. Even managing to hit 60fps would feel huge, but I wasn’t sure it’d be able to do it!
@@Evanz111 It's pretty visually bare-bones/bland game. It's not that demanding at all. I didn't check the wattage consumption, but it might've been around 15W+ considering 90fps drops my playtime to around like 3h. At 30fps, I managed 6h+ playtime from full charge, so I guess it was at 8W or less It's a 12yo game. It's fairly old. Any 7th gen game with proper optimization can run at 60fps+ on the Steam Deck. Although I'm 99% sure the load screen speeds are not hardware-bound. They felt slow AF
@@trignite I hard agree with everything but the graphics. Are we rly gonna pretend the graphic jump from DD1 to DD2 isn't absolutely gigantic lmao, its like 4 generations worth of graphic improvements
@@trignite the game difficulty was easy as hell too. Played the spellcaster where i put a dot and all i did was spam auto attacks and the dot would one shot dragons
I was also a Sorcerer Main in DD1. Absolutely LOVED the magic experience in it. Was looking so forward to DD2. Find out I get FOUR spells and that all of the most interesting magic was cut. Major disappointment. Fact is... DD1 is a better game. Especially with the Dark Arisen Expansion. Quite frankly instead of lowering everyone's skills to 4, they should have let the Warrior have 8. That was such a massive mistake, total bonehead move, I don't know why they thought it was a good idea. Sad, but it is what it is.
@@ProStreeter100 It was such a bad decision from a design and gameplay perspective. Giving the player LESS options than they had before in a sequel is ALWAYS a No, no.
The item crafting is better in DD1 IMO, the oil and water flask, and the occasional healing spring water flask gathering was fun. Go buy 99 flasks, head to a healing spring, get a crap ton of healing items. And the Pawns will automatically fill their empty flasks from the healing spring. Also I miss Liquid Vim.
We should have had: - Cockatrice - Hydra - Beholder - Gore cyclops - Undead dragons - MORE DAMN SPELLS, it's nowhere near DD1 level - better story, dd1 was quite simple but it still was a compelling story - way better enemy variety
@@Yggdrasill8 that's only the case for the first couple levels in warrior. Once you unlock the ability to swing faster, it easily becomes one of the strongest classes.
More DDDA please! One of my favorite games of all time, I was so bummed out when you decided to play it offstream, very happy to finally see you play it =)
Wonder if he knows post and pre dragon means a completely different BitterBlack, it's not entirely obvious I think he's post dragon in this video, so I guess there's not much point in seeing pre dragon bitterblack
@@scarlet_phonavis6734 Unless you mean Daimon and not Grigori, BBI is not affected by killing Grigori and being in post game other than a few notice board quests.
@@scarlet_phonavis6734 you are simply attributing the changes after killing daimon the first time to having killed the dragon, possibly because thats what you did before doing bbi a second time.
So glad you actually played this one. I wish DD2 had more things to do and harder. Felt like the entire game was on easy mode. hope u liked 1 a lot! It was really fun when it came out like 10 years ago lmaoo
Dragon's Dogma is peak example of a game that could be way better in smaller scope (no big open world ect) which you can realize after playing Dark Arisen expansion.
Agree, Dragons Dogma is at it's best when it's just a big dungeon crawler like the expansion. The open world stuff can have some neat interactions but is mostly fluff, all those cool things could still happen in a dungeon anyways.
28:42 These mage goblins are immune to magical damage. You can however jump into their cage and throw them off and let gravity take care of it. 👍 Throwing them off was my go-to move when magic didn't work lmao, good fokin game.
I laughed hard at him fighting Daimon, not listening at all to the woman holding a history lesson, and then "... and his beloved besides." Hit like a semi. "Wait... guys! WORD? You have my undivided attention now!"
4:44, you don;t need to Min-Max your stats by playing other Vocations but i bet the Devs didn't intenionally make it that way. THe game is also very gear dependent and the min-max was probably just an outcome of the system they were trying to design. But it's not necessary to min-max.
Devs probably didnt want it to be that way but Mystic knight stats growth are so low on the offensiv side that you feel forced to level as sorcerer and then transition to mystic knight
Man, how is it that as a fan of Dragon's Dogma, I have way more fun with Dark Arisen than with the sequel? Yeah sure the world is big, but there's like 10 monsters, 2 spells a useless new class in exchange for a couple of the funniest to play in the old one... And you can't walk 10 mins without having to fight the same goblin group for the 5th time. Oh but now we have carts to fast travel I guess? Yeah tysm.
Do me a favor and go look up the dev team size of the OG vs DD2. Capcom seems to have something against this franchise because we're honestly LUCKY it came out as good as it did with the handicap it had.
This game is better off as a compact combat dungeon crawling style like in dark arisen bitter black island. It's obvious Open world is just too empty for almost all games. Even parts of the elden ring DLC were "pointless" so to speak because there were many parts of the world where there was nothing to do. It existed simply for the sake of visuals and filling out the landscape
@@BigPeeve2 The difference is FromSoftware gets 100% of FromSoftware's budget. DD2 has 1/28th the budget of Elden Ring. Not only did they have a small team, they didn't have the resources or money needed to make the game properly. I mean ffs, they didn't even have to worry about making a story or having writers because they hired mf George R.R Martin lmao
@@BigPeeve2 Buddy, that's a false equivalence. From's team hasn't changed. They've been working with this same engine for 9 years, and they used a lot of their previous games' resources to save on time and budget. This allowed them to fill the world in very quickly while focusing the bulk of their attention and resources on new enemies and mechanics. The result was fantastic. DD2's team had to basically make everything from scratch with a new engine (yes the RE engine existed, but it was tweaked for the open world), so they had a far tougher job and far less resources. Plus, let's not pretend Elden Ring isn't literally one of the greatest games ever made. Like, is that just a minimum standard now? I'm all for high standards, but that seems a bit much.
Your pawns suck Because they don't have the right character trades. The healer needs guardian to stay by your side. More importantly, the offensive paws need challenger. It changes their character style fighting style to constantly attack the enemy. But if they all Have guardian, they will run back-and-forth to you and the enemy for no reason. So guardian, they stayed by your side and challenger. They obviously challenged the Enemy. You can Teach them at a mirror. Or buy books, which is the easier way at the pawnshop vendor Old dude. You will have a way better time if you do what I say. The team will work better. It's what top players do. I spent and killed a lot of my life in these God forsaken lands.😂
Yeah but the game tells you nothing about this. This is something people figured out after 10 years of playing the game and general trial and error. If you read the wiki it's manageable but reality is that it's a TERRIBLE system where in 15/17 cases your pawn will suck because you played how you want instead of how you should.
It seems like the audio is cut for swear words, and since it started within the first few seconds its an anti demontization practice. Plus if the rate he swears keeps up, its likely to have been done for the entire vid to keep monetization
The worst part of dd2 for me was the complete lack of good dungeons, all we got were short, boring caves with no puzzles. We lost good level design for a big flat world with maybe 3-5 cool locations
@@dsshocktrooper7523 not pre-Dark Arisen/Bitter Black Isle. It was about the same. DD1 was even less if you consider that they had to cut the entire second kingdom from the game.
DD1 was still much more fun to play, even before DDDA. Everfall while flawed gave you stuff to do, also the classes are just much more fun to play. No one is denying that DD1 was blatantly unfinished, some saying up to 60% of the game was cut, but it still manages to be a better experience than DD2 for many. And that is the sad part.
I feel they should have made Mythic Knight in Dragon's Dogma 2, The Idea of a Magic Shield Tank Knight sounds awesome. Especially when perfect blocking unleashes it's true potential depending on the shield enchantment.
DD1 is blatantly unfinished, with some rumors saying they cut around 60% of the game, yet so much better than DD2. The more arcade style combat makes so much more fun than the more heavy DD2 approach. Not every game has to have Souls combat.
1:13:00 i was confused "where are all the drakes/dragons there? used to be 3 or something around that area when i played it? but i guess this is the 1st run so no drakes yea?
surprised asmon didnt mention this during the difficulty slider talk, the biggest issue with difficulty sliders in basically every game other than games designed to be replayed on different difficulties each playthrough, almost all of these games are designed to be played on "normal" then hard + they just make u take more damage and add more hp, its just artificial and doesnt feel "good" in a game where youre meant to play through it once or twice in your life. games that do difficulty sliders really well are games like dmc5 etc
The first DD is a better overall game. Even though the 2nd one did bring some nice improvements in some areas, it did drop the ball in many areas as well. No Mystic knight class was one of them.
In DD2 you can just run to the kittyland, buy gear you want and never even think about materials or upgrading. Just be most OP thing alive as long as random wolf do not drag you off cliff. And if you happen to play any ranged vocation then just stand on lightly elevated ground and beat every boss in game without them being able to reach you (even dragons bug out and won't be able to climb/fly to you and long as you keep hitting them).
One big complaint I have about all games like this is the "let me just pause the game open my inventory and eat 10 cheese wheels and now I'm at full health wow" I prefer a healing system that flows with the pace of combat. Of course like dark souls.
bitter black isle is absolutely not a grind, idk wtf that chatter was yapping about but you literally dont grind bitter black isle at all unless youre actually going for a specific drop which i think asmon is 1000000% not doing
back in the day when people didn't have the chest spawns mapped the game was absolutely a grind. Now you can just look up which chests have what you want and just godsbane scum till you get the item.
Well DD1 has an expansion and DD2 doesnt… yet. Comparing base game to base DD2 is more satisfying to me. Hopefully they add more unique bosses in the expansion or implement some sort of multiplayer to take on uber elite bosses.
playing dd2 made me want to play dd1 even more it's genuinly sad how much they fumbled 2 and i hope if theres ever a dlc for it they do some extra tweaks to the base game
@@Chris-qh5tz DD1 was a failure until they made the DLC and it gave the game a second life. They had DD1 as an example, years to prepare, a big budget, a fanbase, DD2 shouldn't have been a fumble like vanilla DD1
"Dragon's Dogma 2 is too easy" "Just solo it" "I don't want to solo it" "There may be a hard mode in the DLC" "I don't want to play it in hard mode" This man is THICK headed.
He is yes but most "hard modes" in video games are an unbalanced mess, it's better to have a challenging game as a default mode so that it can be balanced accordingly and then maybe add an easy mode if you want for pussies, i always play on the hardest on any game but a lot of times i get soft lock on a section that is nearly impossible without exploiting the game, dying light 1 as an example on nightmare mode you can be blocked on one runaway because damage is unavoidable from guns and yet you die with 3 or 4 bullets
Surprised he went for the Demon Periapts with the magic bow. Tenfold Shot from the longbow with the triple periapt buff nearly two/three shots the final boss and can 1-tap the Ur nodes. I know he said his stuff was bad currently, though. He'll get there. Then he'll know what true big dick energy feels like in DDDA.
"It's indefensible that the Cockatrice wasn't in Dragon's Dogma 2" Actually it's totally defensible, the Medusa takes it's place and is a more unique monster. Do we really need a Gryphon reskin with a petrification gimmick in DD2?
Honestly, the curse words being muted out literally changes the whole vibe of the video. Screw TH-cam and their demonitization, who needs youtube money when you run your own business amd play WoW like a GOD lol. Curse on my friend, fucking curse on 🤝
See like both games, DD1 was very special for its not story and yeah the movement were great, but I still prefer the ragdoll a little bit more, it looks less blocky and its a little harder this way... when character react to much to controls without weight, it actually make it easier, that being said, ennemies were a harder to kill in dd1, and there was more variety of them. I do appreciate what they did with the vocation in DD2, but again, even if the mystic spearhand is one my top favorite vocation, I will never forget them to replace the mystic knight, who was the blue/red vocation of dd1, which I always ended using because im a sucker for the big shield and mace, plus magick combo... it was just amazing... we dont have big shield in DD2 and I just which that they make other vocations, like a Monk, that would be pink as vocation color, and use only their hands and then a ''holy knight'' hybrid, red and pink, being basically a knight who use only a big shield and holy/dark magick... both magick type are almost not existant in DD2, and that was also a downgrade... Except a couple of weapons with holy element, there is none for the dark magick, which is sad, because it was super strong.
DD1 is so much better it's not even funny. It runs better, resolution makes it look good, combat feels more rewarding, story is less of a nothing burger, and you have an actual relationship with the dragon rather than him just settling for you among a few options and then turning up only at the end. And most of all, we don't have to deal with the godawful campfire mechaniscs in the first game. You don't have to rest constantly to keep your health intact, you don't miss out on important events because you had to camp. Idk wtf the director was thinking when he added that time-waster.
@@greyngo Hopefully the massive sales despite the massive budget cuts, rushed time and small dev team made Capcom realize that this can be one of their flagship series. It became one of their best selling IPs ever with DD2. Why the fuck would they not invest more time and resources into it... Come the fuck on, Capcom. Even if you don't care about the fans, surely you care about money?
I just realized after watching this, you could have used the "Rotten Bait Steak" to summon a random strong enemy which had a chance to summon Death, Garm or Elder Ogre.
Dd2 was a great game with a lot of room to improve and expand, it’ll be damn near impossible to surpass dd1 and the love people have for it. Dd1 was an amazing experience, one of those games you wish you could play again for the first time.
Sad thing that it isnt explained that if you want 100% drop for a certain class you need to have pawn an mc made the same class because it gives items to classes your pawn and mc are. So before identyfying you change everyone for one class and the items identyfied will be only for that class.
i think the most fun iv had in dd1 is starting a new character on hard mode and going straight to bbi, its hilarious at fist trying to survive and i came across the hidden lvl requirement mechanics that i didnt know existed and had to look up if my stamnia was bugged. In later playthroughs i just modded the game for better stat distribution since the game's distribution kinda sucks, it really should have been player allocated instead. Magick archer with 0 def and all magick attack would melt everything :P
My three main problems with dragon's dogma it needs to be slightly harder with more varied difficult enemies. I need some to have more indoor fights with some light puzzling and more difficult enemies. The classes need to have crazier/ more interesting abilities not just the sorcerer. Too many classes you end up doing the same thing repeatedlybecause a lot of the other options suck.
@@jprec5174 when I wrote that I left off the fact that I absolutely love the game I was just stating things that I think were lacking overall. For whatever reason it's just not as quite as good as the first one imo.
600 hrs in dragons dogma 2. Im really hoping they take their time with the supposed DLC, & add harder difficulty, Something similar to bitterblack isle, everfall etc. The game is beautiful with potential however content and lack of monster variety makes it feel lackluster at times. More gear, more weapons, vocation, better drops and dungeons that don't all feel the same.
funny thing is the biggest move they could have done is to just bring dragon dogma online over to NA instead of just keeping in japan and then shutting it down because they couldnt satisfy their Japanese audience. granted not to be harsh but after playing some end game content in that game with the japanese players it seemed that more english players understood the mechanics than them when we had to either hope a patch was up for the translator in game for some things or having to have google translate on their phone to try to understand things and pick it up. the game could have been so good too if they kept it up, at least there is private servers for the game now but even the new classes were nice and the fact that you could play with people was the biggest plus with raids and dungeons and all that there was a shop but it wasnt needed to play and do end game. kinda sad to hear dragon dogma 2 flopped. i do feel that they dont really advertise dragon dogma compared to their other games. but even the story for dragon dogma online was dope as hell... even tho it was in japanese (which i dont read) but the cutscenes gave enough away too kinda know what was goin on and it was super dope. played the hell out of dragon dogma and then when dark arisen came out i sunk so many more hours into that hope they dont give up on the game when it could be so good
damn I thought Asmon will beat the game on this video. When I saw 1 hour of video was left, I had doubts. Considering he will need to grind for that final fight.
Man bro..... They nerfed the %$@# out of Dragons Dogma 2. I was so pumped for it. Then they easy buttoned the hell out of it and simplified it way too much. Nerfed or Skill, Augments and Spell limits. They cut out over half of the enemies and bosses. They combined torso gear with gloves and legs with foot gear. Completely destroying better builds and glams too. Everyone's pawns in DD2 look exactly all alike. DD1 had amazing stats with extra gear slots..... Ugh...... thinking about it just pisses me off. Then they just ripped secondary weapons from classes like thief, archer, Ranger and assassin. Then no mystic knight class...... Broke my damn heart man as much as I love Dark Arisen. Capcom sure can $#@% up a lot. Congrats on your first beating of Dark Arisen, but? It's not beaten yet. You have to repeat that process several more times to free him. Then you fight the true version of that final boss. He keeps getting stronger until to finally best him :-) Wait till you're going through that last ghost town with 8 minotaurs, 6 mystic armors and 2 lighting wyvern calling spells down on you. All before the last fight. Epic ❤ You think you had trouble with that one lighting wyvern????? Try two lol... Oh and? Three things. Magic archers are weak vs Magic golems and lighting wyverns. You need a set of daggers for just this one enemy. His critical weak point is on his back. Strike there. Secondly? Your pawns cannot land the final blow on dragons. They cannot kill them. Only you can deliver the final blow. Just some friend advice 😅 Lastly. Weapon drops? Magic Archer has higher drop for Mage/Sorcerer. Staves. Mage/Sorcerer have higher drop rates for Mystic Knight and Magic Archer. Staves and Magic Bow. Thief, Ranger and Assassin have high drop rates for knives and bows. Fighter and Warrior have high drops for their gear. If you want to increase you arsenal? Might have to switch classes. Mystic archer is insane, but so is assassin and mystic knight. Sorcerer and Warrior too. Each have some insane dps in DDDA once you have the gear. You really don't want to fight Damion in his final form as a mystic archer. You want to face him as a assassin, mystic knight or warrior. Anything using holy magic augment will just destroy him.
He clearly has horrible pawn inclinations, he's using ice magic on the ice dragon, and he isn't factoring in resistances to magic or other weapon types in his build. Yeah, he's really tanky, but against certain enemies, his build won't work because he didn't round it very well.
Took me 100 hours to get all the weapons and armor I wanted for my myself and my pawn SCUMMING Bitterblack isle running pass all the enemies and using tens of thousands of explosive arrows and like a thousand of conqueror periapts.
Hey mate, I do agree with lots of things, but I disagree about all games should have only one difficulty, it wouldn't sell for new comers or working daddy's doe. Not proud but I don't have enough time to master a game to be able to play and enjoy.
Some games should only have 1 difficulty, but not every game is Dark Souls. Also difficulty can be made much more interesting than just changing a few numbers.
DD2 might have had slightly more enemies and technically a new area but DD1 felt... Finished. DD1 there was quests and people you needed to respect or you'd fail them. Don't know where to look? Damn, maybe someone in town might know where. Failed a quest because you beat a little girl (in a race)? Damn, better luck next time. DD2 was fun exploring and had good fights but that was all
Did he go through this game off stream? Or are there vods for this game. I tried this game for around 10 or so hours but gave up on it coz of few things i did not like. I was hoping I could watch him play through this to see what makes him enjoy this and maybe myself enjoy it too.
Is my audio cutting out or is the language being censored?
In the first 30 seconds if you swear you can get demonitised so most people censor bad words in the first 30 seconds to a minute
bout to say.... what has the world come to? TH-cam being a clown show as usual. What rogue AI logarithm came up with the idea to demonetize vids with cursing in the beginning of the video? How do I know it's AI? Because it makes absolutely no sense and it makes my life more difficult.
TH-cam started age-restricting and downranking videos with excessive swearing at the beginning. That’s why most of you probably didn’t get the latest Metal Gear Rising video recommended to you. It sucks but will only affect the intros.
-editor
@@AsmonTVwould probably sound less troubling if sir David Attenborough would replace all potty mouth words with some others instead of playing with the audio.
@@AsmonTV lol good luck editing this xD
Completed DDDA on Steam Deck OLED back in April, all achievements. Damon is literally one of the best final bosses I've fought in a vidya game. I still listen to "Coils of Light" all the time. It's such a great fight. The OST, the narration, the combat, etc. When I saw his 'true' form, it was legit hype
How did you find the performance on Steam Deck? I’ve always wanted to go for 100% and that seems a great way to do it!
@@Evanz111 I played the game at max settings, shadow quality at lowest, with a 30fps cap. I managed to get over 6h of playtime with 30fps. It CAN be played at a solid 90fps, too. I value battery/playtime more than changing how it looks when I push the camera stick around, tho
@@cqllel5186 Woah, it can seriously hit 90fps? 80% of my playtime is across the sub 30fps PS3 version and the capped PS4/PS5 one. Even managing to hit 60fps would feel huge, but I wasn’t sure it’d be able to do it!
@@Evanz111 It's pretty visually bare-bones/bland game. It's not that demanding at all. I didn't check the wattage consumption, but it might've been around 15W+ considering 90fps drops my playtime to around like 3h. At 30fps, I managed 6h+ playtime from full charge, so I guess it was at 8W or less
It's a 12yo game. It's fairly old. Any 7th gen game with proper optimization can run at 60fps+ on the Steam Deck. Although I'm 99% sure the load screen speeds are not hardware-bound. They felt slow AF
I really really REALLY hope they make a massive dlc for dragons dogma 2 I want a reason to play it again.
there's some leak about "Princess something" DLC in the work, so we just need to wait more
@@trignite agreed but they could still redeem it with a good dlc...
@@trignite I hard agree with everything but the graphics. Are we rly gonna pretend the graphic jump from DD1 to DD2 isn't absolutely gigantic lmao, its like 4 generations worth of graphic improvements
@@trignite the game difficulty was easy as hell too. Played the spellcaster where i put a dot and all i did was spam auto attacks and the dot would one shot dragons
@@SpecShadow Dragon princes leak is fake, but in reddit lately some guy found DLC folder being updated recently.
Ok, now i’m going back to dragons dogma again finished dragons dogma 2 twice but it doesn’t hit like this one
DD1 is better if you're a sorcerer main going from spells to 4 feels awful. I love having one of every element and dd2 got rid of sooo many spells
I think the fewer slots for attacks is the most annoying in DD2, and with fewer spells it makes it harder to do certain things
I was also a Sorcerer Main in DD1. Absolutely LOVED the magic experience in it.
Was looking so forward to DD2.
Find out I get FOUR spells and that all of the most interesting magic was cut.
Major disappointment.
Fact is... DD1 is a better game. Especially with the Dark Arisen Expansion.
Quite frankly instead of lowering everyone's skills to 4, they should have let the Warrior have 8. That was such a massive mistake, total bonehead move, I don't know why they thought it was a good idea.
Sad, but it is what it is.
@@ProStreeter100 It was such a bad decision from a design and gameplay perspective.
Giving the player LESS options than they had before in a sequel is ALWAYS a No, no.
The item crafting is better in DD1 IMO, the oil and water flask, and the occasional healing spring water flask gathering was fun. Go buy 99 flasks, head to a healing spring, get a crap ton of healing items. And the Pawns will automatically fill their empty flasks from the healing spring. Also I miss Liquid Vim.
We should have had:
- Cockatrice
- Hydra
- Beholder
- Gore cyclops
- Undead dragons
- MORE DAMN SPELLS, it's nowhere near DD1 level
- better story, dd1 was quite simple but it still was a compelling story
- way better enemy variety
Warrior in DD1 was enjoyable to play, in DD2 I noticed that warrior feels even slower 😑
I miss launching giant icicles
DD2 doesn't even have a beholder? Jesus man, that's sad
Also make the game challenging. DD2 difficulty was hella easy.
@@Yggdrasill8 that's only the case for the first couple levels in warrior. Once you unlock the ability to swing faster, it easily becomes one of the strongest classes.
More DDDA please! One of my favorite games of all time, I was so bummed out when you decided to play it offstream, very happy to finally see you play it =)
That 2nd trip through bitterblack always hits different 😂gotta stay on your toes
Wonder if he knows post and pre dragon means a completely different BitterBlack, it's not entirely obvious
I think he's post dragon in this video, so I guess there's not much point in seeing pre dragon bitterblack
@@scarlet_phonavis6734 Unless you mean Daimon and not Grigori, BBI is not affected by killing Grigori and being in post game other than a few notice board quests.
@@majinkit1371 my brain must be turding itself I swear I remember difference post/pre grigori but the wiki isn’t listing any
@@scarlet_phonavis6734 you are simply attributing the changes after killing daimon the first time to having killed the dragon, possibly because thats what you did before doing bbi a second time.
Watching this really makes me want to play it again. Glad to see people still enjoy Dragon's Dogma.
So glad you actually played this one. I wish DD2 had more things to do and harder. Felt like the entire game was on easy mode. hope u liked 1 a lot! It was really fun when it came out like 10 years ago lmaoo
I hope he plays Dragons Dogma Online, to make them private servers boom
the guy not being able to realize using ice attacks on an ice dragon WONT hurt it... so annoying to watch
😂😂
It's better. Ice dragon has higher magic reistance as well xd
Magik Archer is like cheese build and I love it.
Archer with Blast Arror literally cheese Death on certain level and max out your level really fast.
Someone should tell him he can change the game to hard mode and just speedrun to bitterblack in like 3 minutes so he gets more xp
Dragon's Dogma is peak example of a game that could be way better in smaller scope (no big open world ect) which you can realize after playing Dark Arisen expansion.
I liked DD2 more than 1 tho and there is much more poeple liking 2 more than 1
No it just needed more time and better funding
Agree, Dragons Dogma is at it's best when it's just a big dungeon crawler like the expansion. The open world stuff can have some neat interactions but is mostly fluff, all those cool things could still happen in a dungeon anyways.
I think it just needed the open world to be more meaningful.
@@sraitama9412Not true, 1 is considered better overally
28:42 These mage goblins are immune to magical damage.
You can however jump into their cage and throw them off and let gravity take care of it. 👍
Throwing them off was my go-to move when magic didn't work lmao, good fokin game.
Do you throw golems off cliffs too 🤣
I laughed hard at him fighting Daimon, not listening at all to the woman holding a history lesson, and then "... and his beloved besides." Hit like a semi. "Wait... guys! WORD? You have my undivided attention now!"
4:44, you don;t need to Min-Max your stats by playing other Vocations but i bet the Devs didn't intenionally make it that way. THe game is also very gear dependent and the min-max was probably just an outcome of the system they were trying to design. But it's not necessary to min-max.
Devs probably didnt want it to be that way but Mystic knight stats growth are so low on the offensiv side that you feel forced to level as sorcerer and then transition to mystic knight
Man, how is it that as a fan of Dragon's Dogma, I have way more fun with Dark Arisen than with the sequel?
Yeah sure the world is big, but there's like 10 monsters, 2 spells a useless new class in exchange for a couple of the funniest to play in the old one...
And you can't walk 10 mins without having to fight the same goblin group for the 5th time.
Oh but now we have carts to fast travel I guess? Yeah tysm.
Do me a favor and go look up the dev team size of the OG vs DD2. Capcom seems to have something against this franchise because we're honestly LUCKY it came out as good as it did with the handicap it had.
@@Hagosha Isn't there an expansion confirmed for DD2
This game is better off as a compact combat dungeon crawling style like in dark arisen bitter black island. It's obvious Open world is just too empty for almost all games. Even parts of the elden ring DLC were "pointless" so to speak because there were many parts of the world where there was nothing to do. It existed simply for the sake of visuals and filling out the landscape
@@BigPeeve2 The difference is FromSoftware gets 100% of FromSoftware's budget. DD2 has 1/28th the budget of Elden Ring. Not only did they have a small team, they didn't have the resources or money needed to make the game properly. I mean ffs, they didn't even have to worry about making a story or having writers because they hired mf George R.R Martin lmao
@@BigPeeve2 Buddy, that's a false equivalence. From's team hasn't changed. They've been working with this same engine for 9 years, and they used a lot of their previous games' resources to save on time and budget. This allowed them to fill the world in very quickly while focusing the bulk of their attention and resources on new enemies and mechanics. The result was fantastic.
DD2's team had to basically make everything from scratch with a new engine (yes the RE engine existed, but it was tweaked for the open world), so they had a far tougher job and far less resources.
Plus, let's not pretend Elden Ring isn't literally one of the greatest games ever made. Like, is that just a minimum standard now? I'm all for high standards, but that seems a bit much.
Bro im so happy you played this through THIS MUCH. Shit is too good man, thought you had quit the game at the everfall.
Your pawns suck Because they don't have the right character trades. The healer needs guardian to stay by your side. More importantly, the offensive paws need challenger. It changes their character style fighting style to constantly attack the enemy. But if they all Have guardian, they will run back-and-forth to you and the enemy for no reason. So guardian, they stayed by your side and challenger. They obviously challenged the Enemy. You can Teach them at a mirror. Or buy books, which is the easier way at the pawnshop vendor Old dude. You will have a way better time if you do what I say. The team will work better. It's what top players do. I spent and killed a lot of my life in these God forsaken lands.😂
Yeah but the game tells you nothing about this. This is something people figured out after 10 years of playing the game and general trial and error. If you read the wiki it's manageable but reality is that it's a TERRIBLE system where in 15/17 cases your pawn will suck because you played how you want instead of how you should.
The audio keeps cutting out. What the F____
It seems like the audio is cut for swear words, and since it started within the first few seconds its an anti demontization practice. Plus if the rate he swears keeps up, its likely to have been done for the entire vid to keep monetization
the have to cut out the swearing or YT will demonetize
It's only for first few minutes
that is very immature i hope you grow up one day 😜
The worst part of dd2 for me was the complete lack of good dungeons, all we got were short, boring caves with no puzzles. We lost good level design for a big flat world with maybe 3-5 cool locations
I loved the island expansion. So much fun exploring that dungeon.
I’m so glad I finally got to see you run through DDDA, so good!!!
People forget what DD1 was like before Dark Arisen. It was pretty barebones compared to what it is now.
And DD2 is even more bare bones then DD1.
@@dsshocktrooper7523 not pre-Dark Arisen/Bitter Black Isle. It was about the same. DD1 was even less if you consider that they had to cut the entire second kingdom from the game.
DD1 was still much more fun to play, even before DDDA. Everfall while flawed gave you stuff to do, also the classes are just much more fun to play.
No one is denying that DD1 was blatantly unfinished, some saying up to 60% of the game was cut, but it still manages to be a better experience than DD2 for many. And that is the sad part.
@@TheDasErdinger you’re just entirely blinded by nostalgia factor.
@@Fickets No, I just recently replayed DD1 and it's still amazing, even without DDDA. DD2 is very underwhelming and I am not the only one saying that.
Wonderful game!! Bitterblack is my favourite area
Remember to stick/change to the colours you need before purifying!
its actually crazy how much better this game is compared to dragons dogma 2
I feel they should have made Mythic Knight in Dragon's Dogma 2, The Idea of a Magic Shield Tank Knight sounds awesome. Especially when perfect blocking unleashes it's true potential depending on the shield enchantment.
Ah yes the fear of the screen going black for a second and knowing there's probably a garmr nearby
If u don't play on the hardest difficulty it's like not playing the game !this way is to easy
What ever happened to his homie McConnell?
DD1 is blatantly unfinished, with some rumors saying they cut around 60% of the game, yet so much better than DD2. The more arcade style combat makes so much more fun than the more heavy DD2 approach. Not every game has to have Souls combat.
Endgame of DD2 also feels completely rushed and unfished :( Bitterback Isle was soooo good
@@sayrode6244 Bitterblack Isle was an entire game overhaul + DLC.
I wouldn't say at all that DD2 has Souls combat. Neither of them does
1:13:00 i was confused "where are all the drakes/dragons there? used to be 3 or something around that area when i played it? but i guess this is the 1st run so no drakes yea?
holy shit so happy to see you enjoying DD1!
Holy moly, you can tell that the gamma is FUCKED when you look at the load screens. Makes bitterblack isle look like absolute ass too.
surprised asmon didnt mention this during the difficulty slider talk, the biggest issue with difficulty sliders in basically every game other than games designed to be replayed on different difficulties each playthrough, almost all of these games are designed to be played on "normal" then hard + they just make u take more damage and add more hp, its just artificial and doesnt feel "good" in a game where youre meant to play through it once or twice in your life. games that do difficulty sliders really well are games like dmc5 etc
The first DD is a better overall game. Even though the 2nd one did bring some nice improvements in some areas, it did drop the ball in many areas as well.
No Mystic knight class was one of them.
I couldn't play DD2 for more than 2 days before wanting to go back and run BBI.
Anybody else notice he doesn't understand how to command pawns?
In DD2 you can just run to the kittyland, buy gear you want and never even think about materials or upgrading. Just be most OP thing alive as long as random wolf do not drag you off cliff. And if you happen to play any ranged vocation then just stand on lightly elevated ground and beat every boss in game without them being able to reach you (even dragons bug out and won't be able to climb/fly to you and long as you keep hitting them).
you do not need to beat the game to start hard mode .
I loved DD2 however seeing you fight an Ogre that looks identical to DD2 makes me wonder what was actually new(Never played DD1)
Minotaur i guess. Even dullahan isnt new. The drake moveset is new though
Dragon's Dogma 2 was clearly just a tech demo for MH Wilds.
DD2 could definitely be saved by good Iceborne quality DLC. I don't want to get my hopes up though.
That's a tall order. For dlc to save the entire game
Good thing i have this saved in my playlist.. it's not showing up on the channel
Much better than the second game
One big complaint I have about all games like this is the "let me just pause the game open my inventory and eat 10 cheese wheels and now I'm at full health wow"
I prefer a healing system that flows with the pace of combat. Of course like dark souls.
bitter black isle is absolutely not a grind, idk wtf that chatter was yapping about but you literally dont grind bitter black isle at all unless youre actually going for a specific drop which i think asmon is 1000000% not doing
back in the day when people didn't have the chest spawns mapped the game was absolutely a grind. Now you can just look up which chests have what you want and just godsbane scum till you get the item.
and now you can see why DD2 sucked by comparison.
Well DD1 has an expansion and DD2 doesnt… yet. Comparing base game to base DD2 is more satisfying to me. Hopefully they add more unique bosses in the expansion or implement some sort of multiplayer to take on uber elite bosses.
playing dd2 made me want to play dd1 even more it's genuinly sad how much they fumbled 2 and i hope if theres ever a dlc for it they do some extra tweaks to the base game
@@Chris-qh5tz DD1 was a failure until they made the DLC and it gave the game a second life. They had DD1 as an example, years to prepare, a big budget, a fanbase, DD2 shouldn't have been a fumble like vanilla DD1
Yes its suck because it is not been cracked yet😢
This is expansion and in smaller scale/scope - which shows that DD is way better when it's not way too big...
I think they really dropped the ball when they reduced the number of skills you can have
"Dragon's Dogma 2 is too easy" "Just solo it" "I don't want to solo it" "There may be a hard mode in the DLC" "I don't want to play it in hard mode" This man is THICK headed.
He is yes but most "hard modes" in video games are an unbalanced mess, it's better to have a challenging game as a default mode so that it can be balanced accordingly and then maybe add an easy mode if you want for pussies, i always play on the hardest on any game but a lot of times i get soft lock on a section that is nearly impossible without exploiting the game, dying light 1 as an example on nightmare mode you can be blocked on one runaway because damage is unavoidable from guns and yet you die with 3 or 4 bullets
Say you are a liberal without saying it
DD2 needs to implement undergarments again and increase armor variety so we're back into fashion dogma territory.
Surprised he went for the Demon Periapts with the magic bow. Tenfold Shot from the longbow with the triple periapt buff nearly two/three shots the final boss and can 1-tap the Ur nodes. I know he said his stuff was bad currently, though. He'll get there. Then he'll know what true big dick energy feels like in DDDA.
"It's indefensible that the Cockatrice wasn't in Dragon's Dogma 2" Actually it's totally defensible, the Medusa takes it's place and is a more unique monster. Do we really need a Gryphon reskin with a petrification gimmick in DD2?
Honestly, the curse words being muted out literally changes the whole vibe of the video. Screw TH-cam and their demonitization, who needs youtube money when you run your own business amd play WoW like a GOD lol. Curse on my friend, fucking curse on 🤝
See like both games, DD1 was very special for its not story and yeah the movement were great, but I still prefer the ragdoll a little bit more, it looks less blocky and its a little harder this way... when character react to much to controls without weight, it actually make it easier, that being said, ennemies were a harder to kill in dd1, and there was more variety of them. I do appreciate what they did with the vocation in DD2, but again, even if the mystic spearhand is one my top favorite vocation, I will never forget them to replace the mystic knight, who was the blue/red vocation of dd1, which I always ended using because im a sucker for the big shield and mace, plus magick combo... it was just amazing... we dont have big shield in DD2 and I just which that they make other vocations, like a Monk, that would be pink as vocation color, and use only their hands and then a ''holy knight'' hybrid, red and pink, being basically a knight who use only a big shield and holy/dark magick... both magick type are almost not existant in DD2, and that was also a downgrade... Except a couple of weapons with holy element, there is none for the dark magick, which is sad, because it was super strong.
DD1 is so much better it's not even funny. It runs better, resolution makes it look good, combat feels more rewarding, story is less of a nothing burger, and you have an actual relationship with the dragon rather than him just settling for you among a few options and then turning up only at the end. And most of all, we don't have to deal with the godawful campfire mechaniscs in the first game. You don't have to rest constantly to keep your health intact, you don't miss out on important events because you had to camp. Idk wtf the director was thinking when he added that time-waster.
They did make DD1 better with dark arisen. So we can huff copium and hope that a banger DD2 dlc makes the game much better.
@@greyngo Hopefully the massive sales despite the massive budget cuts, rushed time and small dev team made Capcom realize that this can be one of their flagship series. It became one of their best selling IPs ever with DD2. Why the fuck would they not invest more time and resources into it... Come the fuck on, Capcom. Even if you don't care about the fans, surely you care about money?
God I am glad you people are in the minority...
@@Flopdoodleclearly not. Cope some more tho
I just realized after watching this, you could have used the "Rotten Bait Steak" to summon a random strong enemy which had a chance to summon Death, Garm or Elder Ogre.
Censoring stops after a minute or two. I don't think Zack starts each clip swearing every 2 seconds so we don't notice.
40:37 holly nice save asmon
Dd2 was a great game with a lot of room to improve and expand, it’ll be damn near impossible to surpass dd1 and the love people have for it. Dd1 was an amazing experience, one of those games you wish you could play again for the first time.
Sad thing that it isnt explained that if you want 100% drop for a certain class you need to have pawn an mc made the same class because it gives items to classes your pawn and mc are. So before identyfying you change everyone for one class and the items identyfied will be only for that class.
Save your 3 hours,
He didn't beat DDDA
Holy hell I didn't realize this video was 3 hours I thought it was 30 minutes or something
I mean he did beat daemon 1:18:30
Of course, there is round two of BBI, but I'll be really surprised if he does it.
@Rain1 beating daemon the 2nd is true completion but it's definitely difficult without cheese
@moonxpd Have over 2800 magic and spam Holy focus Bolts to win 😎 🆒️
@@moonxpdjust skip the hard mobs
One of the best jrpgs
i think the most fun iv had in dd1 is starting a new character on hard mode and going straight to bbi, its hilarious at fist trying to survive and i came across the hidden lvl requirement mechanics that i didnt know existed and had to look up if my stamnia was bugged. In later playthroughs i just modded the game for better stat distribution since the game's distribution kinda sucks, it really should have been player allocated instead. Magick archer with 0 def and all magick attack would melt everything :P
1:01:08 Asmon face to face with Death, haha
I soloed BBI without knowing anything about it man. I thought it was just some short dungeons lol.
It didn’t take me long to stop playing dd2 but I love this game
My three main problems with dragon's dogma it needs to be slightly harder with more varied difficult enemies.
I need some to have more indoor fights with some light puzzling and more difficult enemies.
The classes need to have crazier/ more interesting abilities not just the sorcerer. Too many classes you end up doing the same thing repeatedlybecause a lot of the other options suck.
it's literally a few mods away from being a goated diablo clone. Im surprised no one has made the mods yet.
@@jprec5174 when I wrote that I left off the fact that I absolutely love the game I was just stating things that I think were lacking overall. For whatever reason it's just not as quite as good as the first one imo.
600 hrs in dragons dogma 2. Im really hoping they take their time with the supposed DLC, & add harder difficulty, Something similar to bitterblack isle, everfall etc. The game is beautiful with potential however content and lack of monster variety makes it feel lackluster at times. More gear, more weapons, vocation, better drops and dungeons that don't all feel the same.
I always thought Asmongold would have the best long sword in the game, the Bitter End.
We never Get Iconic Boss Fight like Daimon in next AAA Games. Except if Capcom still Interested making a DLC for DD 2
just switch to assassin and spam conquerors periapts and explosive arrows u can clear all of BBI in a day doing that
so give it back x14. because of uhh. laws.
funny thing is the biggest move they could have done is to just bring dragon dogma online over to NA instead of just keeping in japan and then shutting it down because they couldnt satisfy their Japanese audience. granted not to be harsh but after playing some end game content in that game with the japanese players it seemed that more english players understood the mechanics than them when we had to either hope a patch was up for the translator in game for some things or having to have google translate on their phone to try to understand things and pick it up. the game could have been so good too if they kept it up, at least there is private servers for the game now but even the new classes were nice and the fact that you could play with people was the biggest plus with raids and dungeons and all that there was a shop but it wasnt needed to play and do end game. kinda sad to hear dragon dogma 2 flopped. i do feel that they dont really advertise dragon dogma compared to their other games. but even the story for dragon dogma online was dope as hell... even tho it was in japanese (which i dont read) but the cutscenes gave enough away too kinda know what was goin on and it was super dope. played the hell out of dragon dogma and then when dark arisen came out i sunk so many more hours into that hope they dont give up on the game when it could be so good
That moment when you realize there is a second form if you fight the boss again.
glad to see he realized that warrior is trash in dd1 and went to an actual good class.
damn I thought Asmon will beat the game on this video. When I saw 1 hour of video was left, I had doubts. Considering he will need to grind for that final fight.
Naw you do it the original way with the dual blades/daggers back in the 360 days
I hope that your health restores irl ASAP. Stay strong and take it easy. You're so good to your fans, but your health comes first. Remember that.
Man bro.....
They nerfed the %$@# out of Dragons Dogma 2.
I was so pumped for it.
Then they easy buttoned the hell out of it and simplified it way too much.
Nerfed or Skill, Augments and Spell limits.
They cut out over half of the enemies and bosses.
They combined torso gear with gloves and legs with foot gear. Completely destroying better builds and glams too. Everyone's pawns in DD2 look exactly all alike.
DD1 had amazing stats with extra gear slots.....
Ugh...... thinking about it just pisses me off.
Then they just ripped secondary weapons from classes like thief, archer, Ranger and assassin.
Then no mystic knight class......
Broke my damn heart man as much as I love Dark Arisen.
Capcom sure can $#@% up a lot.
Congrats on your first beating of Dark Arisen, but?
It's not beaten yet.
You have to repeat that process several more times to free him. Then you fight the true version of that final boss. He keeps getting stronger until to finally best him :-)
Wait till you're going through that last ghost town with 8 minotaurs, 6 mystic armors and 2 lighting wyvern calling spells down on you. All before the last fight.
Epic ❤
You think you had trouble with that one lighting wyvern?????
Try two lol...
Oh and?
Three things.
Magic archers are weak vs Magic golems and lighting wyverns.
You need a set of daggers for just this one enemy. His critical weak point is on his back. Strike there.
Secondly?
Your pawns cannot land the final blow on dragons. They cannot kill them. Only you can deliver the final blow.
Just some friend advice 😅
Lastly. Weapon drops?
Magic Archer has higher drop for Mage/Sorcerer. Staves.
Mage/Sorcerer have higher drop rates for Mystic Knight and Magic Archer. Staves and Magic Bow.
Thief, Ranger and Assassin have high drop rates for knives and bows.
Fighter and Warrior have high drops for their gear.
If you want to increase you arsenal? Might have to switch classes. Mystic archer is insane, but so is assassin and mystic knight. Sorcerer and Warrior too. Each have some insane dps in DDDA once you have the gear.
You really don't want to fight Damion in his final form as a mystic archer.
You want to face him as a assassin, mystic knight or warrior.
Anything using holy magic augment will just destroy him.
Well, this is definitely a sign to go back and finish DD1 lool
the optimal way to play warrior is just lvl fighter/assassin then warrior to 100-200. It's one of the easiest "optimal" ways to level.
He clearly has horrible pawn inclinations, he's using ice magic on the ice dragon, and he isn't factoring in resistances to magic or other weapon types in his build. Yeah, he's really tanky, but against certain enemies, his build won't work because he didn't round it very well.
Imagine the new DD was as good as this decade old game. Only if developers took pride in their work.
Took me 100 hours to get all the weapons and armor I wanted for my myself and my pawn SCUMMING Bitterblack isle running pass all the enemies and using tens of thousands of explosive arrows and like a thousand of conqueror periapts.
Did no one tell him about the bbi gear cheese? Literally ended an unending grind in a couple days 😅
I love this game. After I finished it I was hungry for more, so I found Monster Hunter World, but it wasn't the same...
did asmon forget he has a free dodge command with i-frame that can even be spammed
You have to fight this boss twice to see the full ending
Hey mate, I do agree with lots of things, but I disagree about all games should have only one difficulty, it wouldn't sell for new comers or working daddy's doe. Not proud but I don't have enough time to master a game to be able to play and enjoy.
Some games should only have 1 difficulty, but not every game is Dark Souls. Also difficulty can be made much more interesting than just changing a few numbers.
DD2 might have had slightly more enemies and technically a new area but DD1 felt... Finished. DD1 there was quests and people you needed to respect or you'd fail them. Don't know where to look? Damn, maybe someone in town might know where. Failed a quest because you beat a little girl (in a race)? Damn, better luck next time. DD2 was fun exploring and had good fights but that was all
That was nostalgic man.
Favorite Dogma Soundtrack go! Mine is A Simple, Yet Beautiful World.
Did he go through this game off stream? Or are there vods for this game. I tried this game for around 10 or so hours but gave up on it coz of few things i did not like. I was hoping I could watch him play through this to see what makes him enjoy this and maybe myself enjoy it too.
My favorite vocation for this game will always be warrior, I AM Nuts from Berk
God I love the final boss theme
Why don't you pop mushroom potage for stamina for the whole team?
final boss of the dlc is different after the first 2 times you beat him the third time is his final mode btw
You have to one shot death to actually beat this game. LMK when you do that. Cuz its hard.