Is Dragon's Dogma REALLY That Good?!

Quick tip. If you see a Pawn at the highest level, if you add the owner to your friends list you can use them free of charge.

For those who decided to give this game a go, try not to speak to npcs too much because they might end up falling in love with you. My first playthrough ended with me being with some balding shopkeeper... If you do get someone you don't want giving you goo-goo eyes, just unsheath your weapon a few times and their affinity for you goes down.

The pawn system is the defining thing about DD: some people love playing solo as an assassin vocation for max damage, but pawns actually learn to play better with time. Personally the first time I saw my pawn imitating my own attack patterns against a particular enemy, I was in awe. One of the best and underrated arpgs ever.

As a fan of The Elder Scrolls and Monster Hunter, Dragons Dogma is like a dream RPG bc its sorta ideas of those combined lol. I originally borrowed it from a friend and he had got me into it and he’s not with us anymore but always think of him when playing it

Dragons Dogma was one of those hidden gems back in the Xbox 360 days that you would just randomly pick it up at your local GameStop and be like “ hmmm this looks cool I guess I will buy it and try it out” then you get home and start playing it and your like damn this game is fucking awesome.

I heard about this game for years but only tried it out recently since the sequel is coming out. This is the most fun and unique game i have played in last 10 years despite the “outdated” graphics

Fun fact: The original Dragon's Dogma had armor sets of Guts and Griffith from Berserk. But due to copyright issues, they were taken out in Dark Arisen.

Portcrystals were available in the OG DD, but there was maybe only 2 available in a single playthrough. Plus the Ferrystone cost 30K a piece. Dark Arisen gives you an Eternal Ferrystone in your storage upon reaching Gran Soren which allows for unlimited, FREE fast travel. You can then also obtain 5 Portcrystals in one playthrough that you'd actually place anywhere on the map to choose your own fast travel locations, a NG+ run gives you the chance to obtain another 5 Portcrystals for a Max of 10 which if strategically placed, can have you fly through the game in less then 30 minutes for Speedrun mode. It's pretty sick.

Without too many spoilers, whilsy it's true it's lacking on lots of narrative and plot , the different endings to this game synergise well with each other and i felt that those portions do tell a story quite intriguing that essentially relates to cycles within cycles, concepts of fate and so on. And the Dark Arisen dungeon content and story doesn't truly do itself justice untill you've done a 2nd playthrough and it's story relates to those who try to defy their fate, basically showing that all Arisen are trapped.

The fact that you get to take other people's builds in your group with you and test them is simply a small part of the pawn system that is amazing

One of the most underrated games of all time. It´s easily top 10 for me

the thing about taking on a tough enemy and it being worth it is really true. I remember fighting an ogre and a chimera at the same time for real world hours. In game, it cycled from day to night and day, and during the night, those skellies came out and joined the battle (I never killed them, cos the battle kept pushing throughout the land that I ended up despawning them by day time, lol.) and then when I finally defeated them (I was waaayy under levelled mind you) I got tens almost twenty levels at the end, and I felt really satisfied.

Quick pawn tip. If you're making a sorcerer pawn don't upgrade their spells like gicel, bolide, comestion, ect. Pawns only cast the highest level version of things they have learned/equipped. There isn't much of a damage increase for the higher tier spells compared to the greatly increased casting time. Also don't teach them the magic agent skill.

The dmc team is just too talented. They make the best hack and slash game, and one of the best action rpg’s.

I have almost 100 hours in the game and I haven't even touched the main quest. Came for Warrior but stayed for Magick Archer.

Man, that original box art is so much better than the re-releases.

I've had this game in my Steam library for years. After watching the showcase today, I think it's finally time to jump in. I may fire it up tonight and see what all the hype is about

Dragon's Dogma is one of my all time favorite games. The world once it expands and you go out into the world, you just get lost in it. I really don't remember much of the story other than you getting your back. But I will always remember beating my first troll in a cave when I thought I was going to die. And the fear of fighting at night and knowing you have stronger mobs to face gave some challenge and excitement you rarely see now a days. You can have difficulty spikes without having controller throwing levels of difficulty. Dragon's Dogma found that sweet spot. And I loved the armor and how you would upgrade the armor. It made fighting enemies fun because it wasn't just about leveling but finding the one item you need to upgrade that axe or something into a badass upgrade. And the pawn system was revolutionary. The fact your pawns or the ones you got from others learned from battles was mind-blowing. I hope and pray that DD 2 just expands on this ability and doesn't fall prey to the live service trend of microtransaction and it stays the course similar to what BG 3 did. Great video by the way.

One of my favourite games of all time. Cannot recommend it enough. The combat is just on another level, Shadow of the Colossus scaling mixed with Dark Souls aesthetic and DMC combat is just 🤌 Grigori is such a badass. So stoked for the sequel. The anime is absolutely 🐕💩 however as it blatantly ignores the lore of the game.

So because it has been added to ps+ extra, i am playing Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisin for the first time. Never played it before in any way. Got to the part where you go looking for your friend that went to "witchwood" i believe it was, and got curb stomped by a bandit leader that was way stronger than his minions lol. I can already tell what kind of time im in for. Not giving up though.