Dual DRM running at the same time is the worst thing Capcom did with DD2, especially since one of them is Denuvo which is a Red flag for many people (me included).
@@benito1620different levels of intrusion. Steam's core DRM element is that it controls installation and online features. Via offline many games still run, provided you don't need online multiplayer. Other DRM service's are notably more intrusive. Denuvo being one of the worst.
Capcom has been nuts with the DRM because they are very touchy about the customization players can do themselves (See Take-Two and GTA V's shark cards) more than they are anti-theft. RE4 was really mediocre and it's DLC was revealed just to be mostly content taken out of the main campaign thus its low prices (on-disk DLC part 2 lol). Capcom hasn't changed, still bending a knee to western guidelines with gore, costumes and female appearances. Then still greedy as ever. They just cannot leave well enough alone.
@@NormanReaddis What do you mean 'gamers allow it'? Players dont have any say if there are DRM settings in their titles. Capcom is doing this out of fear and need of control and good ole greed. They aren't the heroes stooges make them out to be.
@@NormanReaddis i was always against it. but like on the MTX i always get people angry that i dare complain about it. im not taking the blame for those people
I imagine the devs aren't happy. They made the same restrictions with fast travel as in the first game, but when capcom added the microtransactions it suddenly looks like a scam. I like less fast travel. It makes travel feel more significant, forcing you to plan for the journey and suffer the consequences if you didn't. It feels just like LotR.
@@kielhawkins9529 I agree. The dual DRM and low performance because of extreme lack of competency on the side of their programmers are much worse issues. The microtransactions are there just because the average crapcom consumer is just that dumb.
@@endlessstrata6988 at this point it seems that every game released these days has performance issues for the first 60 days. Nearly all of them get fixed, but it does make you wonder about all AAA QA.
@@kielhawkins9529 Yeah. In Horizon Forbidden West I had to turn of Hardware Scheduling because my FPS would fluctuate wildy at random. Mind you, it was a steam user that fixed my problem, not the game devs. Absolute crazy levels of incompetency.
Capcom has always been this bad. It's just that others have been so much WORSE! Now that the release cycle has slowed down due to the market being in FREEFALL there's time for the backlash to single out every 💩 game the AAA publishers put out.
Denuvo isn't about anti-piracy anymore, it's about tracking who steals from the MTX stores and who doesnt. The irony is that cheaters often will find ways to circumvent these things so its just legitimate players affected.
@@LurkerDaBerzerker Lmfao, liked my own comment? Just because you do that doesn't mean others do, kid. But I suppose getting insulted by an incel is a badge of honor. Hopefully you didn't get too angry and wake your mom up with your furious response. Also, did you at least tell her before using her credit card to buy membership here?
@taxman3749 fair enough I'm perfectly happy with dragon's dogma 2. You can play it exactly like the first but better without buying anything lol hell divers is great tho enjoy.
The MHW stuff is all cosmetic.. let people drop a few extra dollars on hairstyles or emotes without having a moan about it 🫵🤨 MHW is legit one of the few recent-ish games that was complete upon release and had some bangin' Iceborne DLC that was excellent value for money... internet whiners are everywhere these days 😵
I loved DD1 (especially Dark Arisen). But this got worse and worse over time. I miss the days of not having Influencers/TH-camrs ruin every single game. This game took it to a whole new level when it announced to have pawns that represented actual streamers. Too cringe for me.
Dude that's not a problem. Japan had been doing collabs with people since the NES. You just see the influencers you don't like you think it's a first in the industry. Also pretty sure you can just not hire that pawn if you're that meticulous.
-Capcom's declaration of war on mods and forcing Enigma DRM into all their older games, as well as future games once the Denuvo gets removed. -Denuvo -Performance issues -Ludicrous microtransactions There's several reasons I will not be buying DD2, but that first one is reason enough for me and why I will not be buying ANY Capcom titles for the time being.
For me, personally, the existence of the MT isn't nearly as offensive as the silence from reviewers who knew about them ahead of launch. That feels shady as hell to me and the amount of gaslighting from creators like FightinCowboy is high level shill behavior.
How is FightinCowboy gaslighting? He condemned the MTX on day one. Capcom didn't release the MTXs until the official release, so early release players didn't see it.
Actually yeah They did know about it if they paid attention. Apparently when capcom gave them review copies they also sent them an information package with information on the game which included a screenshot of the micro transactions in the store. For many of them, I have a feeling they just didn't read it or pay attention to the package, which was a mistake. But some of them did and just said they didn't think it was important, which was really stupid of them. I think the TH-camr the original poster is talking about was one of those who actually knew about it, but just said he didn't think that the micro transactions were important enough to mention in his review originally.
@@FreedomTrooper89That packet didnt go out to everyone and who cares if it did? Do you think the entire worldwide community of critics conspired together to dupe everyone? That just sounds stupid when you say it out loud. There was also a bunch of flat out wrong info fueling alot of this because of all the misinfo in the original post that started it.
Not all of them did. EU Creators were not informed about the MTX situation in their packets from Capcom (as an example, Rurikahn has mentioned over and over his package from Capcom had NOTHING about MTXs on it; if it did, he would have said something about it). In FightinCowboy's case, he did say something the moment he saw it (on Twitter, he specifically called them out saying they were stupid and people should not buy them).
@@greyknight627 he's gaslighting because by his own logic if you don't wanna support micro transactions you shouldn't buy the game but by leaving that out of his review his viewers that would have done that, wouldn't have known to.
I’d rather not pay for a game from a company that uses Denuvo and hides micro transactions until launch day. That’s really all for me. The game looks good (minus performance issues) but personally I don’t want to support them when they act so shady. Doesn’t matter if the micro transactions are worthless - if that’s the case, there’s no need for them in the first place. Just be upfront about the greed or don’t be greedy. It’s that simple.
So either they make a significant impact on your game or they shouldn't be there? Are you advocating for pay to win then? Or are you advocating for net 0 MTX in games, something that is grossly unrealistic?
@benito1620 I'd rather get a game with useless mtx in it because the investor side demanded some kind of mtx than a game that is garbage but has endless mtx that fix it. My opinion though.
What ruined it is the wrong design decisions, MTX being last on the list. First is the intentional design of not having the option to have multiple saves, as well as not being able to start/restart from the New Game option on the main menu when you already have a save. The first one already had this just fine, as all games should. Makes ZERO sense to make the game this way. Second is the inability to manage saves which ties in with the next issue. Third is the performance issues and crashing for people. This is showing a lack of QA, and if we consider the first issue to be "a mistake or a feature they forgot to include", the lack of QA becomes even more possibly true. It ties in with the second issue because if all the crashing breaks your save, you not only have no option to restart from scratch, you are also unable to delete your save unless you tinker with game files manually. Fourth issue is the inclusion of DRMs. Anybody with a sane consumer mindset and understanding knows that this is purely anti-consumer. Not to mention the multiple DRMs seem to be part of the performance issues at a high probability. Fifth, the game seems lacking in actual content impact to the player as opposed to the first game, mainly in terms of writing. Although this may depend on the person. Sixth and perhaps the last one is the mtx stuff. Unnecessary, and scummy, these are mainly assets/data that likely cost Capcom nothing to produce, but they get actual money from it. We also do not know how much it affected the game in terms of the design and balancing, or if it is a symptom of why the rest of the earlier problems on the list even existed in the first place.
Seventh: The character creator is worse than the first game's and is that way on purpose. There's a bunch of options that were fully implemented by can only be used with memory hacks or mods. Lots of basic stuff like a chest slider that actually works instead of just going between "medium but slightly smaller" and "medium but slightly bigger"
Your fifth point is what makes me the saddest about the game. So much potential and yet this is all we got from them. This could have been an absolute classic for the ages. Where are the new monsters? What happened? There's a couple of things here and there but it's really just the same stuff as the first game. Maybe I'm not far enough into the game but where is the everfall and things like that?
It boggles my mind since Capcom have been doing this kind of microtransactions in most of the single player games. It's like people forgot it was in the most recent devil may cry and such.
i believe it's because the game in question id Dragon's Dogma 2; the sequel of an underrated gem which has been HIGHLY requested and anticipated for 12 years. the first game had DLC, but not microtransactions. Monster Hunter's somewhat in the live-service area: a roadmap of updates which every month or so - both base game and expansion. it's single-player if you want it to be, and multiplayer if you want it to be. and microtransactions, in my experience, only come a few months after the game's release. Dragon's Dogma 2 is inexcusable. the microtransactions may be inconsequential to the game - the backlash is a tad exaggerated, imo - but the fact that it's in a game where they don't even make sense (a single-player game whose pawn system is the closest thing it'll have to being online and multiplayer)... well, people will get angry if something like that happens again. that's just how i see it.
@@jacktheomnithere2127 DD1 did have microtransactions. Originally, they had cosmetic/gear DLC packs you could buy before Dark Arisen came out ($5-10 each). This would give you armor sets, and new weapons with game-play changing affects. Later, these simply integrated into Dark Arisen and later into the full expansion-included release.
People complained about this stuff before, we have been for a good long while. The number of those complaining about it is just growing as it becomes more and more pervasive, pushes the line to new limits, the experience given to players, the growing rift between the player side and the making side (whole process, not just devs, plenty of awesome devs still out there), etc it just seems that this time the people who are talking about it seems to have broken some sort of new ground in scale and is now more so within the mainstream zeitgeist then many cases before. Also, to say it's only the microtransactions that has people so miffed would be a gross misrepresentation and frames the entire discussion in a bad faith attempt in my opinion. ~edit I do think most criticism towards this game, and more specifically Capcom in this isolated case (my opinion on where to place a majority of the blame with this case), is largely valid. However, I also don't think the game was "ruined" by all this. I'd more so liken it to the situation as a whole putting an unfortunate stain on what would have otherwise been likely lofted up by the majority as a homerun title (post some performance updates for example). If you like the game, play the game, I'm not going to judge you for that. It's got a whole lot of good going for it. All the same, those pushing for higher standards (arguably what used to be the baseline) and being upset are in my opinion right to hold those views.
I feel like the only reason that microtransactions even exist in this game is because either investors or the ceos or someone wanted to make more money, even though developers didn’t want to, so they put the most pointless microtransactions just to get those people satisfied
That game got a whole Gamers Nexus video on how broken it is.^ What do I think of Microtransactions? What you tolerate is the new normal, just like it happened with needing to be online for a single playergame.^
The issue is that some people who had pre-played the game & launced good reviews and they all magically "forgot to mention" the microtransactions with the excuses like "it looked harmless" or "that is ther way it is today". Microtransactions in a full priced game that lauched without a "new game" option? The priceses being small also locks in that its genuinely predatory of features that should have ONLY been inside in the game. If it had been "harmless" then you would have seen the usually overpriced and pointless $19 for the colour blue. This is not aimed at the whales but at everyone else who is likely to fall into the "its just a buck"-trap, luring you into spending & make it "normal" & suddenly you spend $30 a month out of "convenience". Aggressively predatory allright.
Being easily obtainable or not in game is irrelevant, and people keep falling for that trap and that's what Capcom wants. It's and RPG with tons of drop chance percentages under the hood, meaning the developers can tweak those numbers at any time to sway people towards making a purchase. These things benefit the consumer in no way. I find it deeply disturbing that a seemingly large number of gamers support this behavior in a 70$ single player game.
They are shooting themselves on the foot, a game that could have longevity as a frnachise and a big fanbase waiting for future releases, now all filled with hate and bad reputation for a quick buck, hope its worth it...
Yeah the game had BG3 levels of hype, but the greed decisions turned it into damage control for Capcom. While dd2 still got good numbers their next release is doomed to fail hard now.
Love Shad's love for fashions dogma! Itsuno said he wanted to simplify the armor system and wanted people to look different in the endgame, but alot of people are using the stargazer armor for their female pawns. If monster hunter could have transmog/layered armor, I don't see why Capcom couldn't put it in Dragon's Dogma 2 before launch.
Yeh Itsuno has failed pretty dramatically if he wanted there to be more armour/gear verity but that was honestly to be expected, not only did they reduce the amount of customization you have but there is like 3 sexy armours in the game and even for the male pawns everyone is basically choosing the BiS gear because that what happens when you have gear that is just objectively stat wise without a transmog system.
It wasn't _just_ the launch day surprise microtransactions for single use items. It was also the double drm, including the much hated denuvo. The lack of a new game option. And the performance issues, enhanced particularly in and around towns. Then there is the sub _20 hour_ main story in a _70 dollar_ game. Oh, and the lack of enemy variety, as well as the apparent underpowered sorcerers.
The problem with Pay for Convenience DLC is when the company wants you to buy more the make the game WORSE on purpose and they Sell you the solution and they can make it worse AFTER you have BOUGHT IT. It ALWAYS goes that way because the tasty tasty cash to to tempting for EVERY greedy Publishers, Once they start down the dark path forever will it dominate their Destiny Consume them it will, like did (insert almost any publisher name here)
The most useful "pay for convenience" items in DD2, can, quite literally, be farmed while afk. Hire 2 low level pawns, letting the game run for a full in-game day rewards 2 wakestone shards (3 makes a full wakestone). Endlessly repeatable so long as you switch out the pawn hires each in game day. You earn RC (the "premium currency") whenever someone else rents out your own pawn. Post your pawns code to you social media of choice and anyone who rents it will earn you RC without you playing the game.
@@pscully608 I think you're kind of even making this sound like a bigger deal than it really is. You get this shit while playing normally, there's no need to farm for anything and you can't even buy more than four wakestones with real money so it's not like the game has been designed with these DLCs in mind. This whole outrage is ridiculous and mostly kept up by people who are either misinformed or just don't know anything about the game.
@@InkyMuste I agree, but what better way to show how preposterous the arguments those uninformed people are making than to outline exactly how you can get those items >without< playing the game.
There is no 'pay for convenience', that's just shill gaslight bs that far too many people bought into. It either affects gameplay or it does not. You can make a spectrum for P2W, but it is P2W.
@@MordethKai It does not affect gameplay. UNLESS you specifically buy Riftcrystals (which are limited to one purchase for each listed DLC) with the express purpose of hiring higher level pawns. But then you're now playing an autobattler, with no real gameplay outside of a walking simulator. And the same can be accomplished for free by simply adding someone to your friends list who has a high level pawn - friend pawns can be summoned for free regardless of level difference.
Me: "Hey, Capcom, didn't I already pay $70 for this game?" Capcom: "Yes, you paid $70 for the ability to download and install the game. Now, you have to pay another $5 to start it." I could actually see them doing that.🤣 After that, the next thing is they'll charge you per install.
Either I need to have my hearing checked, or Shad has a very interesting way to pronounce 'pawn'. 😁 Also, TH-cam looks to be playing tricks with the notifications again. Although I see your review in the sidebar, I never received a notification for it. If you hadn't mentioned it, I probably wouldn't have noticed it in the sidebar, and missed it completely.
What I find odd is that you can purchase 500 rift crystals for a dollar to buy in game art of metamorphosis but two dollars to purchase as DLC. That some underhanded cash grab if ever seen.
It's dye for character editing/barber only, not for armor. It's still nice to have, expands the options for any aspect of the Arisen and Pawn that can be colored; hair, tattoos, makeup, skin.
The game is amazing, kids are just crying about stupid things like always. The only thing I find bad, is the Denuvo bs, this should had been banished into the darkest depths since ages ago.
Shad, you mentioned you did a review for the game, but I can't find it. I am interested to hear your thoughts, as it was your videos that convinced me to try the first game out 😊
Was really looking forward to this game for a long time, but have also learned my lesson when it comes to pre-orders and now wait for at least a couple of days after launch so that any performance issues and scummy tactics that aren't made public prior to launch get revealed before deciding to purchase. As soon as I saw that they included Denuvo, this got pushed back to my "wait and see if they remove it" list, but with the nature of the MTX on top of that I'll wait for this to go on sale in 2 years time with all of the MTX included as part of the discounted price. There's enough Indie titles offering much better value for money while providing a similar or better experience and we should be looking at supporting and rewarding those companies instead.
Even on sale the game won't be worth it. It's not even worth the disc space. 1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women 2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose. 3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use. 4: Runs like absolute garbage 5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5. 6: No option to delete save file and start again 7: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos who have golden nameplates so you can't ignore them. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge. 8: Worse enemy variety than the original game 9: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide. 10: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything. 11: Fewer equipment slots.
@@kanrakucheese Have you tried the game? 1: isn't true. You have "masculine" and "feminine" and they're locked to male and female bodies. 2: You definitely can. I've got a short character in one of my saves that I backed up. 3: You can very definitely do both of these as well. 4: This one's true for lots of people though not universal. I haven't dropped below 30 FPS once. 5: denuvo being malware is a stretch... It's trash and it shouldn't be there but it's not malware. 6: this is also legitimate though obviously you can manually delete your saves (or even back then up to have different characters) but will be fixed in the future. 7: no idea what this is about. Evidently you can ignore them 'cause I've never seen any of that. 8: Not quite. The issue is that it feels like it has the *same* amount of enemy variety as the original game. Meanwhile it's a much larger game. Part of this is because many of the mob enemies are too easy to beat so the differences between the variations don't come into play at all. Part of it is that it really does need more enemy types to feel right. 9: Speak for yourself. For me I saw the tutorial pop up first time I got a plague-infested pawn and it told me what to look out for. It's been very obvious since then. Haven't needed a guide. It's also extremely extremely rare. 10: I felt that warrior was in a good state. Fighter felt worse to me, but I was crushing things with warrior. 11: this is definitely true. And the explanation didn't make sense at the time. Turns out the reason was basically "we're making outfits locked to classes so you'll have to change them which means we're giving you less slots to have to change" in other words, because of a dumb design decision they decided to make another dumb design decision...
@@kanrakucheeseYour talking points are for the most part obscure and not representative of actually playing the game. This devalues actual criticisms pertaining to denuvo, mtx, and performance. You're a wierd geek with a chip on his shoulder and you come off as abrasive and insufferable. Settle down.
One of my favourite things about DDDA was the armour and how it a layered together and stuff, shame to hear they've removed it. I was hoping for some sort of transmog system too the Bitterblack Isles gear looked like ass for the most part.
They removed lots of things people loved about the original. Short characters were removed *after* being fully programmed in (you can access them with memory pokes and they can be seen in a video preview videos). Capcom made this game bad on purpose.
It doesn't matter if you can get these things through playing. It's still scummy to try and squeeze more money from customers like that. Saying it's not *that* bad is justifying the basic idea of the scummy practice.
Dragons Dogma 2 Expansion is and have already been in work for years. The title for the next expansion is The Dragon Princess, 29.99$/€+ expansion planed for November. > Title: Dragon Princess > DLC is considerably bigger than Dark Arisen "expansion for Dragons Dogma 1" > DLC isn't planning to alter content from the base game. > New Area is Swamp and Tundra of a country called Galacyia, based on European Northen Countries.
The Art of Metamorphosis is part of the Digital Deluxe edition, if you have the pack you can't buy the individual version. Something that you could do in the original that you can't is this one is changing your equipment directly from storage and when you change vocation, it's really annoying to me. The Berzerk dlc was a console exclusive and it was removed from the PC version for licencing reasons.
Patches won't fix it. A lot of bad choices as very basic levels sunk the game. The minimum height in character creation is more than the real world *average* height, even though the game supports shorter characters with memory edits. Capcom programmed in support then deliberately cut it. It's just garbage and can't be fixed.
Don't even bother then. The game is just overall poodoo even without the microtransactions. Complete edition won't fix the character creator with random options made inaccessible, the stupid dragonplague "read a guide LOL" mechanic, the the lack of enemy variety, etc.
the 2 other big issues, bad performance in part caused by denuvo and the fact that since there is no in game new game option you ahve to delete the save file but that in tern makes the denuvo malfuntion are not helping the game either
3: The character creator is worse than the first game because Capcom fully implemented stuff from the first game then purposefully cut it. Game fully supports all these options but Capcom disabled the fully implemented options.
Performance issues have nothing to do with denuvo. It’s a gpu issue nothing more and it only exists in cities. The Denuvo malfunction thing is a myth, people have tested and debunked it.
@@zzodysseuszz Can't make a female character. Can't make a short character. Can't make a flat character. Can't make a large breasted character. Can't make a character with long hair. Can't select voice (it's locked to personality). It's 100% worse. Stop being so pathetic you defend giant companies making bad games.
Hell no. Not supporting this, not one cent. This is one step closer to paying for bullets in your shooter games. Im in full gatekeep mode for gaming. Vote with your wallet, there is plenty of great games.
If they drop the Denuvo in 6 months then I'll look at the game. Micro transactions don't bother me for cosmetics, but if they design annoying features into the game and then sell mitigation of the annoyances that would be scummy.
Don't bother even then. Even if the game ran fine and had no micro transactions it's still terrible. They made the character creator worse *on purpose* . Basic options need a memory poke to access because Capcom made them inaccessible.
None of the micro transactions are worth buying. You can easily get all of them. I have rare dps drops other than that it runs fine. The game is good they cut a couple of important things like the complexity of the armor system. They could have done more with Pawns also. It feels more like Witcher than the original does.
Weapon and clothing/armour customization was a nice feature of Neverwinter Nights. The variety of dyes was ok, but if you want colour options you must create them yourself (take some time).
Dragon's Dogma 2 has bigger problems than just microtransactions and optimisation. This game is largely the same video game from 12 years ago, but a bit more pretty. Everything is the same, to the point this game has the very same mistakes as Dragon's Dogma 1. This is a shame, because after 12 years, I execepted some of the improvments, but after some little research turns out, there was diffrent director of a game, for the Dark Arisen expansion.
The complaints about the microtransactions are 100% overblown. A lot of people frame it as "You need to pay money to change your character appearance" as if there's not 2 in game that resets at least on NG+ (might restock after a few in game days but I haven't had to buy one). They also like to frame it that the inconvenience of travel was implemented as a way to sell their microtransactions when it's more of a "People won't like this about the game so maybe people will be willing to buy this". I have found more ferrystones than I think in an entire playthrough of the first game and I haven't even made it to Batahl, and have only used 1 because I got stuck outside an invisible wall from being yeeted by a minotaur. People forget that there were almost identical microtransactions for the first game before Dark Arisen and I think most people who love Dragon's Dogma started on Dark Arisen. Now the performance and other stuff are legit problems, but once the performance is fixed I'll probably end up leaving a positive review. I was disappointed about them getting rid of the layered armor system too... My immediate thoughts were "Damn, this is gonna limit looks so much"... I believe this decision was made to save time/money more than setting up for selling more armor sets/monetization.
The microtransactions are one of TWELVE read flags I found before I even finished the tutorial. The MT aren't necessarily a big deal, but until and unless proven otherwise, I'm going to assume that their are much worse things elsewhere in the game that I won't find until after 60+ hours when refunding ceases to be an option.
An annoyance I have is the downgrade of armor customization. Now it seems that there is more exclusivity in armor for vocations, and a lack of layering, such as an undersuit and top of armor.
The same people who will tell you that in-game MTX can be just ignored and dont affect gameplay are the same kind of people that wont be able to ignore off-game comments criticizing them.
They also don't understand how developers alter gameplay to push people toward the microtransactions. So, the gameplay is affected by the presence of microtransactions.
@@G360LIVE except that you can clearly see that isn't the case in DD2 because the systems people are talking about are either exactly the same has DD1 with zero mxt or more convenient (oxcarts being a thing not in DD1). You might have a point in some other game, but it holds no water here.
@@G360LIVE i had the same arguments during 2017 when shadow of war put lootboxes in a single player game. people just didnt believe they were throttling the game to "encourage" you, even though every video about farming XP always started with "redeem an xp booster", a perfect example of how the game was balanced.
NOBODY would have complained if they put em all together as a starter pack like ALOT of games do. People are only pissy bc it looks like a lot. It’s single purchase shit that is literally worthless after the first 10 hours. The amount of misinformation about the game that spread was outrageous. There is NO throttling in this game.
@@PistolReaper01 well. my comment is also literally worthless after 10 hours. but here you are complaining about it. and im not even charging you money for it
@@NDenizen when I bought Dark Arisen I don't remember there being any DLC for save points and the like. If there was it was removed by the time I bought it or I never would have purchased it. Are we talking about the same thing? I'm confused.
GPU should not die after 3 years if you are cleaning it a few times a year (assuming it's not sat next to a smoke machine/etc) and if you have a few fans inside. Possibly the thermal paste inside was not applied properly or something like that. ALSO check out the 4090 launch, it was infamous for destroying people's computers (literally exploding the GPU). Nvidia's practices are partially why I switched to AMD about a year ago, have been enjoying the extra VRAM at the lower cost.
The 4090 launch problems were related to people not pushing the new power cable all the way into the card causing it to melt. Nothing exploded. Stop spreading lies. Also if you need to clean your card multiple times a year you should get a better case. Simple sheet of fine metal mesh stops most of the dust from getting inside. Its literaly imposible to have a badly applied paste on a GFX card. Its done by a machine and its not even the regular paste its a face change material that melts when heated ensuring a perfect contact.
I would probably ignore the DLC if the game didn't have other red flags I can't ignore Denuvo I can't ignore that Capcom thinks that 30 FPS (occasionally lower) is adequate performance on the recommended system (see system requirements) I can't ignore a broken save system and no built in ability to start a new game. Too bad - the game seems interesting, but its going to join the list of things to evaluate when it is 50 percent off, is patched and has Denuvo removed
It wouldn't be worth $1 . It's just inferior to the original in all aspects, and many of them were worse on purpose like the fan favorite character creation options that were fully implemented but Capcom decided to block from player use unless you memory edit.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided did the same thing back in 2016, and it wasn't an excuse to call it a small issue. These DLCs are there because someone will want to pay to win. Although, in DE:MD, there's a Credits check very early on for 35,000, which is impossible without paying for boosts. And if you're dumb enough to pay that, you get told you'll get nothing.
Ruined? No no no. The game itself is fantastic. Even Asmongold, who criticized the FK out of the game for the MTXs and stability/optimization, gave the game a 9.5 after he beat it. I've got about 40 hours in it so far. It's literally amazing. The old English speak, the little details like needing to learn a language in order to speak to a certain people, the big enemy battles. It's just the first one but better. MTX is bad. Yes. The optimization is bad. Yes. but the game itself is cracking. Capcom execs are just boneheads. The devs are awesome. Most of the "mtx drama" was between content creators (Asmongold vs FightinCowboy for example) But yes, Capcom needs to STOP PUTTING MTXS IN GOOD GAMES but the game is still good.....Times like these I miss TotalBiscuit. He had extremely extensive reviews and no bs. RIP my good man.
My pushback to this is : How are you going to prevent MTX creeping in from becoming an industry standard if you wait until there are no good games left? I'm exaggerating a bit, but it's far easier denying ground than reclaiming it. I might sound overdramatic, but the "enemy" is coming and I don't know how long we can afford to hold fire until it's too late not to be overrun.
@@thomaslacroix6011 Agreed to a point. I think it's already here. They are literally putting MTX in single player games. All you can do is just boycott or review bomb. Specifically I would do those to the MTX themselves. We also need reviewers to do the same. RN they don't.
Your argument was valid 10 years ago, the fact is that the time to stand up against MTX came and went and there wasn't enough resistance so its now industry standard.
love dragons dogma so much. I own 5 copies of the game: original for PS3, DA PS3, PS4, Steam, and Switch. Biggest crime of the game is NOT HAVING A RANGER CLASS and taking away daggers making them assassin exclusive.
The other problem with DD2 was Denuvo, which it grabs your frame rates by the balls and drops them I understand it's anti-piracy, but can you really beat pirates? I have doubts
Gabe newell said it best about combating pirates, its a service issue, you want pirates gone, then offer a better service than them. “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue, The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting anti-piracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates."
It's a timing thing. Capcom has been doing this type of useless monetization on their games for awhile now. Look at DMCV and monster hunter. Nobody really cared for those but the climate against monetization stuff is pretty hot right now.
I'm glad you explained that you can get the stuff in game without micro-transactions. I was refusing ro buy it because the things I was hearing is you had to pay for every little thing. I refused to support that. It looked so cool and I was so disappointed. Now with this information, I am more inclined to buy it.
The is terrible aside from the microtransactions. 1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women 2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose. 3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use. 4: Runs like absolute garbage 5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5. 6: No option to delete save file and start again 7: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge. 8: Worse enemy variety than the original game 9: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide. 10: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything.
@@kanrakucheese Thank you. I wanted the game before it launched and then I started hearing about the micro transactions and wrote it off. Thank you for your breakdown, I appreciate it. I think I'm going to hold off on purchase for a little while and watch some reviews before I make a decision. If I do decide to purchase, it will be when it's on a significant sale. Again, thank you. I appreciate getting more information.
I still haven't played it yet but a change in Dragons Dogma 2 that I am very skeptical about is the ability to change your class at any point. To me it just sounds like a to pick up the slack for pawns not doing what you want them to, however, while I think the pawns in the first game could be a huge pain in the butt having the player be able to do their job for them goes against one of the games most prominent mechanics. I would have massively preferred it if they gave you a way to give more direct orders to your pawns instead.
I'm fairly certain the method of changing your class is practically the same between both DD1 and DD2. Basically you do it at an innkeeper or guild NPC. Only difference is advanced classes are locked behind a short quest, and hybrid classes are locked behind finding and befriending specific NPCs that basically "teach" you the class. As for pawns, they drastically simplified the inclination system with just 4 basic inclinations, but added a bit more control to it with a new system that lets each pawn specialize in one certain bonus action - like foraging, using consumables, giving a bonus to your shop prices, distributing items between party members to maximize carry weight and limit encumbrance, etc. Also, as far as I know, the pawn order commands from the first game returned, but they >do not< screw with your pawns inclination long term anymore, it seems to work as intended for on the fly behavior changes.
@@fizz576 There is a single hybrid class - Warfarer - that (from what I've heard) sacrifices one of their active weapon skills to switch between three weapon types (and thus classes - each weapon type is otherwise bound to a specific class). But it also has slightly lower stats across the board - a jack of all trades, master of none situation.
Not really. I believe people were more pissed about the optimization. I was pissed, and I have a 4080, so I'm one of those who just installed the DLSS 3 "mod" (more like a bypass). Some people weren't even able to play it at 60 fps. Btw: I know you can use an FSR 3 mod too, but I don't know how well that works.
We should have held the line better with the horse armor. Given how Capcom is going for grind or pay. I am so tired of it. For the folks who bought it have fun, but I will die on this hill and not being able to even delete a character to start over. No thanks
Why do the microtransactions have to be "aggressive" in order to be bad? People have legit been saying "B-b-but they're not mandatory!" What is this, 2008? Y'all know better. Just sell us the game and then make and sell the expansion packs. It's that simple.
I'd buy the game and all DLC if it wasn't woke, but capcom has been issuing DEI statements for years and I've seen what they did with their other games. As much as I loved the original, this one is a hard pass.
@@endlessstrata6988 The only good Borderlands character is Handsome Jack, because the voice actor dropped the trash scripts the writers gave him and improvised all the lines.
@@kanrakucheese Thanks for the heads up. I'll probably avoid the game altogether then. Too many red flags. Worst case I'll go back and replay my SNES/Playstation JRPGs. Back when the issue with the translation was the bare bones speed rush that they got.
@@kanrakucheesethey literally didn’t do that though. Why are you fucking lying?? The ogre is described for having a penchant for women. Where does it mention trans?
So Capcom was doing really well with Monster Hunter, in that both World and Rise had transmog added later and was free, both also included some paid cosmetics as well but weren't amazing and some of the best looks you could get were still through mix n matching armors already in the game. I don't know if they'll keep that pattern or change it for all the extra money that could, or likely would, generate.
Some of the things in the microtransactions for DD2 are rather odd. I've never liked them to begin with and now companies are really getting creative about what they'll turn off in the game just so they can sell you to them as "extra" content.
I think we need to distinguish DLC from microtransactions: A DLC is when the player pays for content or expanded systems which are then always available, a microtransaction is when the player pays for something that can be purchased repeatedly (some season passes, in game items, one time use cosmetics etc). I'm largely okay with DLC (though there are exceptions) but I'm adamantly against microtransactions and never ever buy them unless the game is free to play (and even then ONLY if the game was fully playable and enjoyable without them). Based on what I've seen DD2 has microtransactions, not DLC. However as you point out there appears to be a way to obtain these items in the game. So while I'm not happy that they exist in a $70 game, it won't stop me from buying the game when it's on sale if they fix the performance issues (and preferably ditch Denuvo though they're at least using the lesser form of that abomination). EDIT: Corrected a typo.
MTX for a full paid game is a huge no from me. Path of Exile is the only game I've ever been willing to buy MTX and only just $10 for a currency stash tab a 2 extra regular stash tabs. But thats a free to play game, the MTX is not pay to win, and I've been playing for 10 years so $10 seems the bare minimum I can do to support at least the server usage I've done. But paid games are out of the question. I want a full experience, not a gutted game at full price that demands more for simple things.
To be honest, what makes me the saddest about dragon's dogma 2 is the missed potential. They could have kept all the classes that were in dd1 and come up with more and then some. They removed vocations and spells and they didn't really add new enemies to the game? I was honestly expecting quite a large addition of enemies along with what we had in DD1. There's really nothing new that I've come across yet except the slimes and big minotaursI think. I was really hoping for some big new multi-health bar monstrous enemies. Like, what did they do for all of these years besides the map and the NPCs? There are some new spells but why did we have to lose old ones. Where is the everfall or something like that? Perhaps I'm not far enough in the game yet?
They scrubbed the game for ESG and DEI points. Short characters? Gone (despite being fully programmed in and usable with a memory poke). Female characters? Gone so it can be "trans inclusive".
I want to buy Dragon's Dogma 2 but I have 2 problems with it. First is DeNuvo which is a complete crap. The other thing is that even if you can get things in game that the dlc provides I still see it as a blatant cash grab and a way to move the goal post.
There's a lot more issues. Here's only a few of the many, many issues 1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women 2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose. 3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use. 4: Runs like absolute garbage 5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5. 6: No option to delete save file and start again 7: Microtransactions 8: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge. 9: Worse enemy variety than the original game 10: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide. 11: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything.
@@NDenizen I can't say anything about that because I bought the Dark Arisen version which most probably is all-in-one type. Still no matter where I see such things I don't like it or to be more precise I loathe it.
I’m disappointed with this game. There are zero side quest all that matter fact, all of the freaking quest in this game suck. yeah the fighting cool but that got old after a couple days I’m out
Dual DRM running at the same time is the worst thing Capcom did with DD2, especially since one of them is Denuvo which is a Red flag for many people (me included).
Technically it's triple DRM, steam is DRM too
Console atleast only have one.
But faq is that's.low expectation.
Yeah. The DRM is the worst part.
@@benito1620different levels of intrusion. Steam's core DRM element is that it controls installation and online features. Via offline many games still run, provided you don't need online multiplayer.
Other DRM service's are notably more intrusive. Denuvo being one of the worst.
bro i have a 3060 ti and i only have 45 fps to 37 fps
and that on all low with 1920 x 1080
may well go to the 720p
Capcom has been nuts with the DRM because they are very touchy about the customization players can do themselves (See Take-Two and GTA V's shark cards) more than they are anti-theft. RE4 was really mediocre and it's DLC was revealed just to be mostly content taken out of the main campaign thus its low prices (on-disk DLC part 2 lol). Capcom hasn't changed, still bending a knee to western guidelines with gore, costumes and female appearances. Then still greedy as ever. They just cannot leave well enough alone.
All games now have DRM in them and the gamers allowed it.
@@NormanReaddis Stop spreading that bs. I only buy on GOG, everything is DRM-free there. You get what you tolerate.
@@NormanReaddis What do you mean 'gamers allow it'? Players dont have any say if there are DRM settings in their titles. Capcom is doing this out of fear and need of control and good ole greed. They aren't the heroes stooges make them out to be.
@@NormanReaddis i was always against it. but like on the MTX i always get people angry that i dare complain about it.
im not taking the blame for those people
Glad to see that I'm not the only one that recognizes that RE4R is mid AF.
Never pre-order, never buy day 1, and never purchase microtransactions.
6:50 that is _precisely_ why Capcom is going hard against modders, they don't want us bypassing their upcoming "DLC" content.
Nobody can stop the modders.
They are above all.
DRM = not buying. Ill take the free version that has none
I imagine the devs aren't happy. They made the same restrictions with fast travel as in the first game, but when capcom added the microtransactions it suddenly looks like a scam.
I like less fast travel. It makes travel feel more significant, forcing you to plan for the journey and suffer the consequences if you didn't. It feels just like LotR.
The actually expanded the fast travel with oxcarts. People are just dumb.
@@kielhawkins9529 I agree. The dual DRM and low performance because of extreme lack of competency on the side of their programmers are much worse issues. The microtransactions are there just because the average crapcom consumer is just that dumb.
@@endlessstrata6988 at this point it seems that every game released these days has performance issues for the first 60 days. Nearly all of them get fixed, but it does make you wonder about all AAA QA.
@@kielhawkins9529 Yeah. In Horizon Forbidden West I had to turn of Hardware Scheduling because my FPS would fluctuate wildy at random. Mind you, it was a steam user that fixed my problem, not the game devs. Absolute crazy levels of incompetency.
Honestly DD1 map is not that big.
Capcom has always been this bad. It's just that others have been so much WORSE!
Now that the release cycle has slowed down due to the market being in FREEFALL there's time for the backlash to single out every 💩 game the AAA publishers put out.
Denuvo isn't about anti-piracy anymore, it's about tracking who steals from the MTX stores and who doesnt.
The irony is that cheaters often will find ways to circumvent these things so its just legitimate players affected.
Stop buying AAA games at release until they release them ready.
Plus fuck Denovo.
This game doesn't even deserve your money as part of a $1 bundle. Capcom ruined everything possible.
@@kanrakucheese Lmfao, yeah, okay buddy, keep trying to be edgy
@@usnairframer Lmfao, yeah, okay buddy. keep trying to be funny.
I also like that you liked your own comment, gud stuff.
@@LurkerDaBerzerker Lmfao, liked my own comment? Just because you do that doesn't mean others do, kid. But I suppose getting insulted by an incel is a badge of honor. Hopefully you didn't get too angry and wake your mom up with your furious response. Also, did you at least tell her before using her credit card to buy membership here?
@@LurkerDaBerzerker
What’s denovo?
I'm not buying it. I'm not going to let them set this kind of behavior as a precedent.
Your loss it's not bad at all in fact people exaggerate it you do you...
@@noiminoimi1179 I am perfectly happy with Helldivers 2.
@taxman3749 fair enough I'm perfectly happy with dragon's dogma 2. You can play it exactly like the first but better without buying anything lol hell divers is great tho enjoy.
@noiminoimi1179
You won't be happy when your lax attitude lets them make it even worse next time.
Capcom always were scumbags with the monetization look at all the shit you pay for Monster Hunter, besides the actual game.
Yes, that's why, why is became hot topic in DD2? they should knew capcom always have microtransaction in all their game even in resident evil
Then simply don't buy it. Problem solved. Just buy the game and ignore the microtransactions. A difficult concept, I'm sure.
The MHW stuff is all cosmetic.. let people drop a few extra dollars on hairstyles or emotes without having a moan about it 🫵🤨
MHW is legit one of the few recent-ish games that was complete upon release and had some bangin' Iceborne DLC that was excellent value for money... internet whiners are everywhere these days 😵
I loved DD1 (especially Dark Arisen). But this got worse and worse over time. I miss the days of not having Influencers/TH-camrs ruin every single game. This game took it to a whole new level when it announced to have pawns that represented actual streamers. Too cringe for me.
Influencers and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Dude that's not a problem. Japan had been doing collabs with people since the NES.
You just see the influencers you don't like you think it's a first in the industry.
Also pretty sure you can just not hire that pawn if you're that meticulous.
@@NormanReaddis thanks Norman, I'm sorry you didn't get your pawn.
Yet here you are. Simping on an influencer's chat. You sniff your own farts and enjoy it right?
-Capcom's declaration of war on mods and forcing Enigma DRM into all their older games, as well as future games once the Denuvo gets removed.
-Denuvo
-Performance issues
-Ludicrous microtransactions
There's several reasons I will not be buying DD2, but that first one is reason enough for me and why I will not be buying ANY Capcom titles for the time being.
For me, personally, the existence of the MT isn't nearly as offensive as the silence from reviewers who knew about them ahead of launch. That feels shady as hell to me and the amount of gaslighting from creators like FightinCowboy is high level shill behavior.
How is FightinCowboy gaslighting? He condemned the MTX on day one. Capcom didn't release the MTXs until the official release, so early release players didn't see it.
Actually yeah They did know about it if they paid attention. Apparently when capcom gave them review copies they also sent them an information package with information on the game which included a screenshot of the micro transactions in the store. For many of them, I have a feeling they just didn't read it or pay attention to the package, which was a mistake. But some of them did and just said they didn't think it was important, which was really stupid of them. I think the TH-camr the original poster is talking about was one of those who actually knew about it, but just said he didn't think that the micro transactions were important enough to mention in his review originally.
@@FreedomTrooper89That packet didnt go out to everyone and who cares if it did? Do you think the entire worldwide community of critics conspired together to dupe everyone? That just sounds stupid when you say it out loud. There was also a bunch of flat out wrong info fueling alot of this because of all the misinfo in the original post that started it.
Not all of them did. EU Creators were not informed about the MTX situation in their packets from Capcom (as an example, Rurikahn has mentioned over and over his package from Capcom had NOTHING about MTXs on it; if it did, he would have said something about it). In FightinCowboy's case, he did say something the moment he saw it (on Twitter, he specifically called them out saying they were stupid and people should not buy them).
@@greyknight627 he's gaslighting because by his own logic if you don't wanna support micro transactions you shouldn't buy the game but by leaving that out of his review his viewers that would have done that, wouldn't have known to.
I’d rather not pay for a game from a company that uses Denuvo and hides micro transactions until launch day. That’s really all for me. The game looks good (minus performance issues) but personally I don’t want to support them when they act so shady. Doesn’t matter if the micro transactions are worthless - if that’s the case, there’s no need for them in the first place. Just be upfront about the greed or don’t be greedy. It’s that simple.
Day 1 DLC is just a paywall for Day 1 content
Except the items they offer are easily gained without paying any money. Literally all of it except the alt soundtrack is in the game and easy to get.
@@pestilencemercury2230I don't care, if the microtransactions are worthless then they shouldn't be in the game anyways.
So either they make a significant impact on your game or they shouldn't be there? Are you advocating for pay to win then? Or are you advocating for net 0 MTX in games, something that is grossly unrealistic?
@benito1620 I'd rather get a game with useless mtx in it because the investor side demanded some kind of mtx than a game that is garbage but has endless mtx that fix it. My opinion though.
What ruined it is the wrong design decisions, MTX being last on the list.
First is the intentional design of not having the option to have multiple saves, as well as not being able to start/restart from the New Game option on the main menu when you already have a save. The first one already had this just fine, as all games should. Makes ZERO sense to make the game this way.
Second is the inability to manage saves which ties in with the next issue.
Third is the performance issues and crashing for people. This is showing a lack of QA, and if we consider the first issue to be "a mistake or a feature they forgot to include", the lack of QA becomes even more possibly true. It ties in with the second issue because if all the crashing breaks your save, you not only have no option to restart from scratch, you are also unable to delete your save unless you tinker with game files manually.
Fourth issue is the inclusion of DRMs. Anybody with a sane consumer mindset and understanding knows that this is purely anti-consumer. Not to mention the multiple DRMs seem to be part of the performance issues at a high probability.
Fifth, the game seems lacking in actual content impact to the player as opposed to the first game, mainly in terms of writing. Although this may depend on the person.
Sixth and perhaps the last one is the mtx stuff. Unnecessary, and scummy, these are mainly assets/data that likely cost Capcom nothing to produce, but they get actual money from it. We also do not know how much it affected the game in terms of the design and balancing, or if it is a symptom of why the rest of the earlier problems on the list even existed in the first place.
Seventh: The character creator is worse than the first game's and is that way on purpose. There's a bunch of options that were fully implemented by can only be used with memory hacks or mods. Lots of basic stuff like a chest slider that actually works instead of just going between "medium but slightly smaller" and "medium but slightly bigger"
Your fifth point is what makes me the saddest about the game. So much potential and yet this is all we got from them. This could have been an absolute classic for the ages. Where are the new monsters? What happened?
There's a couple of things here and there but it's really just the same stuff as the first game.
Maybe I'm not far enough into the game but where is the everfall and things like that?
It boggles my mind since Capcom have been doing this kind of microtransactions in most of the single player games. It's like people forgot it was in the most recent devil may cry and such.
a dip-$hit landmine. we all see it, we know it's there, you can earn it, dont be a dip-$hit.
i believe it's because the game in question id Dragon's Dogma 2; the sequel of an underrated gem which has been HIGHLY requested and anticipated for 12 years.
the first game had DLC, but not microtransactions.
Monster Hunter's somewhat in the live-service area: a roadmap of updates which every month or so - both base game and expansion.
it's single-player if you want it to be, and multiplayer if you want it to be.
and microtransactions, in my experience, only come a few months after the game's release.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is inexcusable. the microtransactions may be inconsequential to the game - the backlash is a tad exaggerated, imo - but the fact that it's in a game where they don't even make sense (a single-player game whose pawn system is the closest thing it'll have to being online and multiplayer)... well, people will get angry if something like that happens again.
that's just how i see it.
@@jacktheomnithere2127 DD1 did have microtransactions. Originally, they had cosmetic/gear DLC packs you could buy before Dark Arisen came out ($5-10 each). This would give you armor sets, and new weapons with game-play changing affects. Later, these simply integrated into Dark Arisen and later into the full expansion-included release.
People complained about this stuff before, we have been for a good long while. The number of those complaining about it is just growing as it becomes more and more pervasive, pushes the line to new limits, the experience given to players, the growing rift between the player side and the making side (whole process, not just devs, plenty of awesome devs still out there), etc it just seems that this time the people who are talking about it seems to have broken some sort of new ground in scale and is now more so within the mainstream zeitgeist then many cases before.
Also, to say it's only the microtransactions that has people so miffed would be a gross misrepresentation and frames the entire discussion in a bad faith attempt in my opinion.
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I do think most criticism towards this game, and more specifically Capcom in this isolated case (my opinion on where to place a majority of the blame with this case), is largely valid. However, I also don't think the game was "ruined" by all this. I'd more so liken it to the situation as a whole putting an unfortunate stain on what would have otherwise been likely lofted up by the majority as a homerun title (post some performance updates for example).
If you like the game, play the game, I'm not going to judge you for that. It's got a whole lot of good going for it. All the same, those pushing for higher standards (arguably what used to be the baseline) and being upset are in my opinion right to hold those views.
@@greyknight627 oh. Didn't know that.
If you accept this kind of scamming in one game they will add it to every single player game
What happened to the original upload?
I was listening too. 🤷 I even commented.
Guessing a copyright issue, or Shad had a oops that needed fixed.
I feel like the only reason that microtransactions even exist in this game is because either investors or the ceos or someone wanted to make more money, even though developers didn’t want to, so they put the most pointless microtransactions just to get those people satisfied
That game got a whole Gamers Nexus video on how broken it is.^
What do I think of Microtransactions? What you tolerate is the new normal, just like it happened with needing to be online for a single playergame.^
Having to buy 4 copies to run tests due to the DRM hardware swap ban must have been "fun"
The issue is that some people who had pre-played the game & launced good reviews and they all magically "forgot to mention" the microtransactions with the excuses like "it looked harmless" or "that is ther way it is today". Microtransactions in a full priced game that lauched without a "new game" option? The priceses being small also locks in that its genuinely predatory of features that should have ONLY been inside in the game. If it had been "harmless" then you would have seen the usually overpriced and pointless $19 for the colour blue. This is not aimed at the whales but at everyone else who is likely to fall into the "its just a buck"-trap, luring you into spending & make it "normal" & suddenly you spend $30 a month out of "convenience". Aggressively predatory allright.
Being easily obtainable or not in game is irrelevant, and people keep falling for that trap and that's what Capcom wants.
It's and RPG with tons of drop chance percentages under the hood, meaning the developers can tweak those numbers at any time to sway people towards making a purchase. These things benefit the consumer in no way. I find it deeply disturbing that a seemingly large number of gamers support this behavior in a 70$ single player game.
$85+tax is you got pre-order like I did which wasn’t even worth it.
They are shooting themselves on the foot, a game that could have longevity as a frnachise and a big fanbase waiting for future releases, now all filled with hate and bad reputation for a quick buck, hope its worth it...
That's what DIE/ESG does to a company. First game was excellent, now pawns have to apologize for Ogres potentially misgendering characters
The hate they’re getting is massively undeserved tho. It’s been fuelled by straight up lying and misinformation being spread online.
@@kanrakucheese Why would anyone care about an ogre misgendering people, and not the ogre potentially eating people?
Yeah the game had BG3 levels of hype, but the greed decisions turned it into damage control for Capcom. While dd2 still got good numbers their next release is doomed to fail hard now.
And this was almost a day one purchase for me, damn shame
The auto captions did not do well with the word "pawn".
Love Shad's love for fashions dogma! Itsuno said he wanted to simplify the armor system and wanted people to look different in the endgame, but alot of people are using the stargazer armor for their female pawns. If monster hunter could have transmog/layered armor, I don't see why Capcom couldn't put it in Dragon's Dogma 2 before launch.
Because it’s not monster hunter 🤦♂️
Yeh Itsuno has failed pretty dramatically if he wanted there to be more armour/gear verity but that was honestly to be expected, not only did they reduce the amount of customization you have but there is like 3 sexy armours in the game and even for the male pawns everyone is basically choosing the BiS gear because that what happens when you have gear that is just objectively stat wise without a transmog system.
It wasn't _just_ the launch day surprise microtransactions for single use items.
It was also the double drm, including the much hated denuvo.
The lack of a new game option.
And the performance issues, enhanced particularly in and around towns.
Then there is the sub _20 hour_ main story in a _70 dollar_ game.
Oh, and the lack of enemy variety, as well as the apparent underpowered sorcerers.
Capcom drink the kool-aid years ago and it is only getting worse due to their games like so many other AAA games being garbage.
3:52 let me guess, less armor slots makes your pissed? Me too
The problem with Pay for Convenience DLC is when the company wants you to buy more the make the game WORSE on purpose and they Sell you the solution and they can make it worse AFTER you have BOUGHT IT. It ALWAYS goes that way because the tasty tasty cash to to tempting for EVERY greedy Publishers, Once they start down the dark path forever will it dominate their Destiny Consume them it will, like did (insert almost any publisher name here)
The most useful "pay for convenience" items in DD2, can, quite literally, be farmed while afk.
Hire 2 low level pawns, letting the game run for a full in-game day rewards 2 wakestone shards (3 makes a full wakestone). Endlessly repeatable so long as you switch out the pawn hires each in game day.
You earn RC (the "premium currency") whenever someone else rents out your own pawn. Post your pawns code to you social media of choice and anyone who rents it will earn you RC without you playing the game.
@@pscully608 I think you're kind of even making this sound like a bigger deal than it really is. You get this shit while playing normally, there's no need to farm for anything and you can't even buy more than four wakestones with real money so it's not like the game has been designed with these DLCs in mind. This whole outrage is ridiculous and mostly kept up by people who are either misinformed or just don't know anything about the game.
@@InkyMuste I agree, but what better way to show how preposterous the arguments those uninformed people are making than to outline exactly how you can get those items >without< playing the game.
There is no 'pay for convenience', that's just shill gaslight bs that far too many people bought into. It either affects gameplay or it does not. You can make a spectrum for P2W, but it is P2W.
@@MordethKai It does not affect gameplay. UNLESS you specifically buy Riftcrystals (which are limited to one purchase for each listed DLC) with the express purpose of hiring higher level pawns. But then you're now playing an autobattler, with no real gameplay outside of a walking simulator.
And the same can be accomplished for free by simply adding someone to your friends list who has a high level pawn - friend pawns can be summoned for free regardless of level difference.
Hey, remember when you had to pay for save solts in Metal Gear Survive? How long before you have to pay to strat a new game?
Me: "Hey, Capcom, didn't I already pay $70 for this game?"
Capcom: "Yes, you paid $70 for the ability to download and install the game. Now, you have to pay another $5 to start it."
I could actually see them doing that.🤣
After that, the next thing is they'll charge you per install.
It’s amazing how exaggerated the drama for dd2 is.
Didn't the new Like a Dragon game do that? New game+ was DLC.
Either I need to have my hearing checked, or Shad has a very interesting way to pronounce 'pawn'. 😁
Also, TH-cam looks to be playing tricks with the notifications again. Although I see your review in the sidebar, I never received a notification for it. If you hadn't mentioned it, I probably wouldn't have noticed it in the sidebar, and missed it completely.
What I find odd is that you can purchase 500 rift crystals for a dollar to buy in game art of metamorphosis but two dollars to purchase as DLC. That some underhanded cash grab if ever seen.
/*me wondering why Shad suddenly starts talking about "his porn" near the end.
"pawn" in an Australian accent does not go well with autocaption
Can't wait until 2037, when the next Mega Man game comes out and you have to pay ten bucks to play each individual Dr. Wily stage.
That's coming in 20X6. Or maybe by 20XX.
Wait, I thought there was dye in the game? The pawns guild in bakbatahl sells dye, do they do nothing? I haven’t tried them.
It's dye for character editing/barber only, not for armor. It's still nice to have, expands the options for any aspect of the Arisen and Pawn that can be colored; hair, tattoos, makeup, skin.
The game is amazing, kids are just crying about stupid things like always. The only thing I find bad, is the Denuvo bs, this should had been banished into the darkest depths since ages ago.
They're just advertising for Indie games. Which are usually better anyway.
Most indie games are follow the leader trash. Plenty of good ones, but 90+% of them are still awful.
Shad, you mentioned you did a review for the game, but I can't find it. I am interested to hear your thoughts, as it was your videos that convinced me to try the first game out 😊
Was really looking forward to this game for a long time, but have also learned my lesson when it comes to pre-orders and now wait for at least a couple of days after launch so that any performance issues and scummy tactics that aren't made public prior to launch get revealed before deciding to purchase.
As soon as I saw that they included Denuvo, this got pushed back to my "wait and see if they remove it" list, but with the nature of the MTX on top of that I'll wait for this to go on sale in 2 years time with all of the MTX included as part of the discounted price.
There's enough Indie titles offering much better value for money while providing a similar or better experience and we should be looking at supporting and rewarding those companies instead.
Even on sale the game won't be worth it. It's not even worth the disc space.
1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women
2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose.
3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use.
4: Runs like absolute garbage
5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5.
6: No option to delete save file and start again
7: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos who have golden nameplates so you can't ignore them. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge.
8: Worse enemy variety than the original game
9: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide.
10: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything.
11: Fewer equipment slots.
@@kanrakucheese Have you tried the game?
1: isn't true. You have "masculine" and "feminine" and they're locked to male and female bodies.
2: You definitely can. I've got a short character in one of my saves that I backed up.
3: You can very definitely do both of these as well.
4: This one's true for lots of people though not universal. I haven't dropped below 30 FPS once.
5: denuvo being malware is a stretch... It's trash and it shouldn't be there but it's not malware.
6: this is also legitimate though obviously you can manually delete your saves (or even back then up to have different characters) but will be fixed in the future.
7: no idea what this is about. Evidently you can ignore them 'cause I've never seen any of that.
8: Not quite. The issue is that it feels like it has the *same* amount of enemy variety as the original game. Meanwhile it's a much larger game. Part of this is because many of the mob enemies are too easy to beat so the differences between the variations don't come into play at all. Part of it is that it really does need more enemy types to feel right.
9: Speak for yourself. For me I saw the tutorial pop up first time I got a plague-infested pawn and it told me what to look out for. It's been very obvious since then. Haven't needed a guide. It's also extremely extremely rare.
10: I felt that warrior was in a good state. Fighter felt worse to me, but I was crushing things with warrior.
11: this is definitely true. And the explanation didn't make sense at the time. Turns out the reason was basically "we're making outfits locked to classes so you'll have to change them which means we're giving you less slots to have to change" in other words, because of a dumb design decision they decided to make another dumb design decision...
@@kanrakucheeseYour talking points are for the most part obscure and not representative of actually playing the game. This devalues actual criticisms pertaining to denuvo, mtx, and performance. You're a wierd geek with a chip on his shoulder and you come off as abrasive and insufferable. Settle down.
One of my favourite things about DDDA was the armour and how it a layered together and stuff, shame to hear they've removed it. I was hoping for some sort of transmog system too the Bitterblack Isles gear looked like ass for the most part.
They removed lots of things people loved about the original. Short characters were removed *after* being fully programmed in (you can access them with memory pokes and they can be seen in a video preview videos). Capcom made this game bad on purpose.
It doesn't matter if you can get these things through playing. It's still scummy to try and squeeze more money from customers like that. Saying it's not *that* bad is justifying the basic idea of the scummy practice.
this isnot DLC in my opinion.. this is BLC buyable locked content
Dragons Dogma 2 Expansion is and have already been in work for years. The title for the next expansion is The Dragon Princess, 29.99$/€+ expansion planed for November.
> Title: Dragon Princess
> DLC is considerably bigger than Dark Arisen "expansion for Dragons Dogma 1"
> DLC isn't planning to alter content from the base game.
> New Area is Swamp and Tundra of a country called Galacyia, based on European Northen Countries.
Is there a eternal fairy stone? That’s a good deal why dark arisen is better
Performance is way bigger issue.
I have 70 hours in the game though, it's a solid 8.5/10 if you can run it relatively well.
The Art of Metamorphosis is part of the Digital Deluxe edition, if you have the pack you can't buy the individual version. Something that you could do in the original that you can't is this one is changing your equipment directly from storage and when you change vocation, it's really annoying to me. The Berzerk dlc was a console exclusive and it was removed from the PC version for licencing reasons.
Fuck DLC and microtransactions. Wait for a "complete" version, with patches to fix stuff and cheaper too.
Patches won't fix it. A lot of bad choices as very basic levels sunk the game. The minimum height in character creation is more than the real world *average* height, even though the game supports shorter characters with memory edits. Capcom programmed in support then deliberately cut it. It's just garbage and can't be fixed.
@@kanrakucheese I'm just talking about games in general.
Your pawn fits in nicely in my party Shad so im showing him around while you wait for a new graphics card :D
Did anyone else find those old live streams years later? I came across them on accident and they rocked!
That secret lab gaming chair is looking a little worn down. Have you considered giving it a gambeson, or maybe even leather armor?
The director downplaying the armor changes is what made me give up on this game. I'll get it when it's a complete edition discounted.
Don't even bother then. The game is just overall poodoo even without the microtransactions. Complete edition won't fix the character creator with random options made inaccessible, the stupid dragonplague "read a guide LOL" mechanic, the the lack of enemy variety, etc.
the 2 other big issues, bad performance in part caused by denuvo and the fact that since there is no in game new game option you ahve to delete the save file but that in tern makes the denuvo malfuntion are not helping the game either
3: The character creator is worse than the first game because Capcom fully implemented stuff from the first game then purposefully cut it. Game fully supports all these options but Capcom disabled the fully implemented options.
Performance issues have nothing to do with denuvo. It’s a gpu issue nothing more and it only exists in cities.
The Denuvo malfunction thing is a myth, people have tested and debunked it.
@@kanrakucheesethe character creator is not worse than the first game, why are you lying?
@@zzodysseuszz Can't make a female character. Can't make a short character. Can't make a flat character. Can't make a large breasted character. Can't make a character with long hair. Can't select voice (it's locked to personality). It's 100% worse. Stop being so pathetic you defend giant companies making bad games.
Hell no.
Not supporting this, not one cent.
This is one step closer to paying for bullets in your shooter games.
Im in full gatekeep mode for gaming.
Vote with your wallet, there is plenty of great games.
If they drop the Denuvo in 6 months then I'll look at the game. Micro transactions don't bother me for cosmetics, but if they design annoying features into the game and then sell mitigation of the annoyances that would be scummy.
Don't bother even then. Even if the game ran fine and had no micro transactions it's still terrible. They made the character creator worse *on purpose* . Basic options need a memory poke to access because Capcom made them inaccessible.
None of the micro transactions are worth buying. You can easily get all of them. I have rare dps drops other than that it runs fine. The game is good they cut a couple of important things like the complexity of the armor system. They could have done more with Pawns also. It feels more like Witcher than the original does.
@@acendiatmedia8747 It does not run fine.
Weapon and clothing/armour customization was a nice feature of Neverwinter Nights. The variety of dyes was ok, but if you want colour options you must create them yourself (take some time).
Dragon's Dogma 2 has bigger problems than just microtransactions and optimisation. This game is largely the same video game from 12 years ago, but a bit more pretty. Everything is the same, to the point this game has the very same mistakes as Dragon's Dogma 1. This is a shame, because after 12 years, I execepted some of the improvments, but after some little research turns out, there was diffrent director of a game, for the Dark Arisen expansion.
I have been anxiously waiting for this video! :)
The complaints about the microtransactions are 100% overblown. A lot of people frame it as "You need to pay money to change your character appearance" as if there's not 2 in game that resets at least on NG+ (might restock after a few in game days but I haven't had to buy one). They also like to frame it that the inconvenience of travel was implemented as a way to sell their microtransactions when it's more of a "People won't like this about the game so maybe people will be willing to buy this". I have found more ferrystones than I think in an entire playthrough of the first game and I haven't even made it to Batahl, and have only used 1 because I got stuck outside an invisible wall from being yeeted by a minotaur. People forget that there were almost identical microtransactions for the first game before Dark Arisen and I think most people who love Dragon's Dogma started on Dark Arisen. Now the performance and other stuff are legit problems, but once the performance is fixed I'll probably end up leaving a positive review.
I was disappointed about them getting rid of the layered armor system too... My immediate thoughts were "Damn, this is gonna limit looks so much"... I believe this decision was made to save time/money more than setting up for selling more armor sets/monetization.
So you're saying Capcom is running a scam?
The microtransactions are one of TWELVE read flags I found before I even finished the tutorial. The MT aren't necessarily a big deal, but until and unless proven otherwise, I'm going to assume that their are much worse things elsewhere in the game that I won't find until after 60+ hours when refunding ceases to be an option.
An annoyance I have is the downgrade of armor customization. Now it seems that there is more exclusivity in armor for vocations, and a lack of layering, such as an undersuit and top of armor.
In times like these, the wise words of Daimon come to mind... Ahem:
*SLAVE TO A BROKEN ORDER.*
*DARE YOU LOOK UPON THE TRUTH?*
If You don't push back it will be worse in the future. It always is.
The same people who will tell you that in-game MTX can be just ignored and dont affect gameplay are the same kind of people that wont be able to ignore off-game comments criticizing them.
They also don't understand how developers alter gameplay to push people toward the microtransactions. So, the gameplay is affected by the presence of microtransactions.
@@G360LIVE except that you can clearly see that isn't the case in DD2 because the systems people are talking about are either exactly the same has DD1 with zero mxt or more convenient (oxcarts being a thing not in DD1).
You might have a point in some other game, but it holds no water here.
@@G360LIVE i had the same arguments during 2017 when shadow of war put lootboxes in a single player game. people just didnt believe they were throttling the game to "encourage" you, even though every video about farming XP always started with "redeem an xp booster", a perfect example of how the game was balanced.
NOBODY would have complained if they put em all together as a starter pack like ALOT of games do. People are only pissy bc it looks like a lot. It’s single purchase shit that is literally worthless after the first 10 hours. The amount of misinformation about the game that spread was outrageous. There is NO throttling in this game.
@@PistolReaper01 well. my comment is also literally worthless after 10 hours. but here you are complaining about it. and im not even charging you money for it
I waited years to play this game for years and now I can't touch it because I have standards I refuse to break. :(
The original game had DLC of the exact same type, so I don't really understand the logic.
@@NDenizenbecause extortion shop is not only problem with second game. 1 save , 2 DRM plus how unoptimised it is , just to name few things . its bad .
@@devilsmessanger so clearly you didn't play DD1?
@@NDenizen when I bought Dark Arisen I don't remember there being any DLC for save points and the like. If there was it was removed by the time I bought it or I never would have purchased it. Are we talking about the same thing? I'm confused.
@@NDenizenthey removed most of the microtransactions when dark arisen expansion came out
GPU should not die after 3 years if you are cleaning it a few times a year (assuming it's not sat next to a smoke machine/etc) and if you have a few fans inside. Possibly the thermal paste inside was not applied properly or something like that.
ALSO check out the 4090 launch, it was infamous for destroying people's computers (literally exploding the GPU). Nvidia's practices are partially why I switched to AMD about a year ago, have been enjoying the extra VRAM at the lower cost.
The 4090 launch problems were related to people not pushing the new power cable all the way into the card causing it to melt. Nothing exploded. Stop spreading lies.
Also if you need to clean your card multiple times a year you should get a better case. Simple sheet of fine metal mesh stops most of the dust from getting inside.
Its literaly imposible to have a badly applied paste on a GFX card. Its done by a machine and its not even the regular paste its a face change material that melts when heated ensuring a perfect contact.
Mods make DLC meaningless.
I would probably ignore the DLC if the game didn't have other red flags
I can't ignore Denuvo
I can't ignore that Capcom thinks that 30 FPS (occasionally lower) is adequate performance on the recommended system (see system requirements)
I can't ignore a broken save system and no built in ability to start a new game.
Too bad - the game seems interesting, but its going to join the list of things to evaluate when it is 50 percent off, is patched and has Denuvo removed
It wouldn't be worth $1 . It's just inferior to the original in all aspects, and many of them were worse on purpose like the fan favorite character creation options that were fully implemented but Capcom decided to block from player use unless you memory edit.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided did the same thing back in 2016, and it wasn't an excuse to call it a small issue. These DLCs are there because someone will want to pay to win.
Although, in DE:MD, there's a Credits check very early on for 35,000, which is impossible without paying for boosts. And if you're dumb enough to pay that, you get told you'll get nothing.
Ruined? No no no. The game itself is fantastic. Even Asmongold, who criticized the FK out of the game for the MTXs and stability/optimization, gave the game a 9.5 after he beat it. I've got about 40 hours in it so far. It's literally amazing. The old English speak, the little details like needing to learn a language in order to speak to a certain people, the big enemy battles. It's just the first one but better.
MTX is bad. Yes. The optimization is bad. Yes. but the game itself is cracking. Capcom execs are just boneheads. The devs are awesome. Most of the "mtx drama" was between content creators (Asmongold vs FightinCowboy for example) But yes, Capcom needs to STOP PUTTING MTXS IN GOOD GAMES but the game is still good.....Times like these I miss TotalBiscuit. He had extremely extensive reviews and no bs. RIP my good man.
100%
interesting Mortismal didn't have a ton of nice things to say.
Of course he gave it a 9.5: Capcom *literally put him in the game* . He's completely untrustworthy on scoring this.
My pushback to this is :
How are you going to prevent MTX creeping in from becoming an industry standard if you wait until there are no good games left?
I'm exaggerating a bit, but it's far easier denying ground than reclaiming it.
I might sound overdramatic, but the "enemy" is coming and I don't know how long we can afford to hold fire until it's too late not to be overrun.
@@thomaslacroix6011 Agreed to a point. I think it's already here. They are literally putting MTX in single player games. All you can do is just boycott or review bomb. Specifically I would do those to the MTX themselves.
We also need reviewers to do the same. RN they don't.
Great now my wife is going to ask me why “Shadow Pawn” is in my search history 😤
Shad the point here is that accepting such scummy practices sets a PRECEDENT that makes the company push the line even more next time
Except that dd1 had worse mtx on release. So the new precedence is rolling back mtx and making them essentially worthless to the average player.
Your argument was valid 10 years ago, the fact is that the time to stand up against MTX came and went and there wasn't enough resistance so its now industry standard.
love dragons dogma so much. I own 5 copies of the game: original for PS3, DA PS3, PS4, Steam, and Switch. Biggest crime of the game is NOT HAVING A RANGER CLASS and taking away daggers making them assassin exclusive.
The other problem with DD2 was Denuvo, which it grabs your frame rates by the balls and drops them
I understand it's anti-piracy, but can you really beat pirates? I have doubts
Gabe newell said it best about combating pirates, its a service issue, you want pirates gone, then offer a better service than them.
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue, The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting anti-piracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates."
From what I've heard Denuvo unironically creates more piracy issue than it solves just be the fact its so shit.
It's a timing thing. Capcom has been doing this type of useless monetization on their games for awhile now. Look at DMCV and monster hunter. Nobody really cared for those but the climate against monetization stuff is pretty hot right now.
At least for me, Starfield was a turning point. My tolerance for BS is at an all time low.
I'm glad you explained that you can get the stuff in game without micro-transactions. I was refusing ro buy it because the things I was hearing is you had to pay for every little thing. I refused to support that. It looked so cool and I was so disappointed. Now with this information, I am more inclined to buy it.
Yea, the microtransactions are actually pretty worthless. There's no point to them. Very easy to ignore them.
The is terrible aside from the microtransactions.
1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women
2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose.
3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use.
4: Runs like absolute garbage
5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5.
6: No option to delete save file and start again
7: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge.
8: Worse enemy variety than the original game
9: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide.
10: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything.
@@kanrakucheese Thank you. I wanted the game before it launched and then I started hearing about the micro transactions and wrote it off. Thank you for your breakdown, I appreciate it.
I think I'm going to hold off on purchase for a little while and watch some reviews before I make a decision. If I do decide to purchase, it will be when it's on a significant sale. Again, thank you. I appreciate getting more information.
6:29 You can't buy Ferrystones via Microtransaction, only a Portcrystal, it's also worth mentioning each Microtransaction is a one-time Purchase
I still haven't played it yet but a change in Dragons Dogma 2 that I am very skeptical about is the ability to change your class at any point. To me it just sounds like a to pick up the slack for pawns not doing what you want them to, however, while I think the pawns in the first game could be a huge pain in the butt having the player be able to do their job for them goes against one of the games most prominent mechanics. I would have massively preferred it if they gave you a way to give more direct orders to your pawns instead.
I'm fairly certain the method of changing your class is practically the same between both DD1 and DD2. Basically you do it at an innkeeper or guild NPC. Only difference is advanced classes are locked behind a short quest, and hybrid classes are locked behind finding and befriending specific NPCs that basically "teach" you the class.
As for pawns, they drastically simplified the inclination system with just 4 basic inclinations, but added a bit more control to it with a new system that lets each pawn specialize in one certain bonus action - like foraging, using consumables, giving a bonus to your shop prices, distributing items between party members to maximize carry weight and limit encumbrance, etc.
Also, as far as I know, the pawn order commands from the first game returned, but they >do not< screw with your pawns inclination long term anymore, it seems to work as intended for on the fly behavior changes.
@@pscully608 ok that's good to hear I guess what I heard about changing classes on the fly was a miscommunication.
@@fizz576 There is a single hybrid class - Warfarer - that (from what I've heard) sacrifices one of their active weapon skills to switch between three weapon types (and thus classes - each weapon type is otherwise bound to a specific class). But it also has slightly lower stats across the board - a jack of all trades, master of none situation.
Not really. I believe people were more pissed about the optimization. I was pissed, and I have a 4080, so I'm one of those who just installed the DLSS 3 "mod" (more like a bypass). Some people weren't even able to play it at 60 fps.
Btw: I know you can use an FSR 3 mod too, but I don't know how well that works.
We should have held the line better with the horse armor. Given how Capcom is going for grind or pay. I am so tired of it. For the folks who bought it have fun, but I will die on this hill and not being able to even delete a character to start over. No thanks
The only current way to do it is NG+ after you beat the game.
Ah dragon dogma 1 I keep getting messages on how Kara keeps one shoting death but she never does it for me 😂
Why do the microtransactions have to be "aggressive" in order to be bad? People have legit been saying "B-b-but they're not mandatory!" What is this, 2008? Y'all know better. Just sell us the game and then make and sell the expansion packs. It's that simple.
I'd buy the game and all DLC if it wasn't woke, but capcom has been issuing DEI statements for years and I've seen what they did with their other games. As much as I loved the original, this one is a hard pass.
They're so woke they removed the ability to play as a female character from the game.
If all dlc was like borderlands 2, no one would complain....
You mean the bad writing and cringe characters Borderlands always had?
@@Wicked061 Why does complaining about some of the worst writing in gaming history equate with not having friends?
@@endlessstrata6988 The only good Borderlands character is Handsome Jack, because the voice actor dropped the trash scripts the writers gave him and improvised all the lines.
@@Wicked061borderlands dialogue is actually pain to listen to.
I'll wait until the expansion bundle is released.
Don't even bother then. Capcom is so on the eee ess gee train the ogre dialog had to be changed from the first game to be trans inclusive.
@@kanrakucheese Thanks for the heads up. I'll probably avoid the game altogether then. Too many red flags. Worst case I'll go back and replay my SNES/Playstation JRPGs. Back when the issue with the translation was the bare bones speed rush that they got.
@@kanrakucheesethey literally didn’t do that though. Why are you fucking lying?? The ogre is described for having a penchant for women. Where does it mention trans?
So Capcom was doing really well with Monster Hunter, in that both World and Rise had transmog added later and was free, both also included some paid cosmetics as well but weren't amazing and some of the best looks you could get were still through mix n matching armors already in the game.
I don't know if they'll keep that pattern or change it for all the extra money that could, or likely would, generate.
Ooo you got the Princess Bride on your desk?❤
INTJ- i have found dyes in game, desert area town next to rift crystal
Some of the things in the microtransactions for DD2 are rather odd. I've never liked them to begin with and now companies are really getting creative about what they'll turn off in the game just so they can sell you to them as "extra" content.
Remember when Larian removed DOS2 easter egg gears so they could sell it as DE content?
From what ive heard of performance problem it's a cpu bottleneck and npc using so much cpu performance.
I think we need to distinguish DLC from microtransactions: A DLC is when the player pays for content or expanded systems which are then always available, a microtransaction is when the player pays for something that can be purchased repeatedly (some season passes, in game items, one time use cosmetics etc).
I'm largely okay with DLC (though there are exceptions) but I'm adamantly against microtransactions and never ever buy them unless the game is free to play (and even then ONLY if the game was fully playable and enjoyable without them).
Based on what I've seen DD2 has microtransactions, not DLC. However as you point out there appears to be a way to obtain these items in the game. So while I'm not happy that they exist in a $70 game, it won't stop me from buying the game when it's on sale if they fix the performance issues (and preferably ditch Denuvo though they're at least using the lesser form of that abomination).
EDIT: Corrected a typo.
I love Capcom games, they are a premium developer. But I despise their business practices. That's why I buy every Capcom game for 20 bucks or less.
MTX for a full paid game is a huge no from me. Path of Exile is the only game I've ever been willing to buy MTX and only just $10 for a currency stash tab a 2 extra regular stash tabs. But thats a free to play game, the MTX is not pay to win, and I've been playing for 10 years so $10 seems the bare minimum I can do to support at least the server usage I've done.
But paid games are out of the question. I want a full experience, not a gutted game at full price that demands more for simple things.
Comparing DD to Conan exiles is a bad take. Conan is a live service multiplayer DD is a single player game.
But Capcom gave it microtransactions as though it were one.
i just like how dark souls 1 was made 13 years ago and you can teleport for free
People need to fight NOW because we didn't fight hard enough against horse armor and look where that lead us
Shad: "They have [a new innovative pawn system]."
Closed caption: "They have new innovative porn system."
Boy, that escalated quickly.
Is Oz coming back?! Love nathen too but Oz in the mix is a nice dynamic mix up.
To be honest, what makes me the saddest about dragon's dogma 2 is the missed potential. They could have kept all the classes that were in dd1 and come up with more and then some.
They removed vocations and spells and they didn't really add new enemies to the game?
I was honestly expecting quite a large addition of enemies along with what we had in DD1. There's really nothing new that I've come across yet except the slimes and big minotaursI think.
I was really hoping for some big new multi-health bar monstrous enemies.
Like, what did they do for all of these years besides the map and the NPCs? There are some new spells but why did we have to lose old ones.
Where is the everfall or something like that? Perhaps I'm not far enough in the game yet?
They scrubbed the game for ESG and DEI points. Short characters? Gone (despite being fully programmed in and usable with a memory poke). Female characters? Gone so it can be "trans inclusive".
I want to buy Dragon's Dogma 2 but I have 2 problems with it. First is DeNuvo which is a complete crap. The other thing is that even if you can get things in game that the dlc provides I still see it as a blatant cash grab and a way to move the goal post.
There's a lot more issues. Here's only a few of the many, many issues
1: Can't play as a female character. Character creation has to be trans inclusive and thus anti-women
2: Can't play as a short character. This was fully programmed in, but locked from player use. You can literally enable it, fully functional, with just a memory tweak. Capcom made the character creator worse on purpose.
3: Can't play as a flat chested or big breasted character. Again, fully programmed in, but locked from player use.
4: Runs like absolute garbage
5: Has malware program on it and a major cause of 5.
6: No option to delete save file and start again
7: Microtransactions
8: Bunch of streamers with forced cameos. Among their picks are a guy who gets off on wearing skirts on stream and showing people his bulge.
9: Worse enemy variety than the original game
10: Dragonplague adds absolutely nothing to the game but spiting players who didn't check a guide.
11: Warrior is even worse now, losing their few fast options and now just being plain old too slow to do anything.
This kind of DLC was in DD1, and has been pretty much the same low-effort fluff that every one ignores for 12 years. I guess nobody remembers that.
@@NDenizen I can't say anything about that because I bought the Dark Arisen version which most probably is all-in-one type. Still no matter where I see such things I don't like it or to be more precise I loathe it.
@@kanrakucheese well thanks for the info. I will happily wait until Capcom gets a bit smarter about making money which might never come.
I’m disappointed with this game. There are zero side quest all that matter fact, all of the freaking quest in this game suck. yeah the fighting cool but that got old after a couple days I’m out