Dragon's Dogma

[Stanley Burrell]

This will be the sleeper hit of the advent of video gaming.

Seriously though, for you OCD RPG some other three-letter-abbreviation type folks, buy this shit and play the fuck out of it. That's about it. If you do pick it up or are on it already, send me your main pawn's name and I'll gift you some awesome stuff.

[Reliel]

Is it worth the full price or should I wait for it to drop?

[TheEschaton]

I heard there was no fast travel and too much speech from the followers and bad "random encounters" which were always the same, but the combat was fucking amazing.

[Fallen]

Is it anything like Demon/Dark Souls? Or is it more like Devil May Cry or something of that nature?

[AnticorRifling]

The dude from Ctl+Alt+Del was raving about this one. Not sure if that means anything just something I noticed when I read those comics.

[Reliel]

I watched some of the game play and read some reviews. I guess the combat is the most solid thing about the game.

Time to wait for a price drop.

[Kaerika]

The combat is about the ONLY solid thing about this game. The world and art direction are incredibly bland and the quest log and map UI is total garbage. That would be tolerable, if not for the almost total lack of fast travel. The world is gigantic and you run so slowly across it. Plus, running depletes your stamina rapidly, so then you have to walk a while until it refills. Plus, little trash enemies are constantly spawning in your path.

It is nothing like the amazing Demon/Dark Souls, other than being a Japanese-developed fantasy game. I guess it's like a cross between Monster Hunter and Skyrim, but I love both those games and couldn't stomach more than four or five hours of this one. It's like Capcom looked at Skyrim and fixed that game's biggest problem (the trash combat), but then forgot all the little stuff that makes you want to explore in a Bethesda game.


I wanted to love it; Capcom is my favorite developer.

[Stanley Burrell]

I think it would best apply to GemStone players, making the grind, who aren't scripting. Again, reallly OCD, perfectionist, demonic numerology thrown in. The world is huge and merits exploring, imho. Except until you're ~100hrs into the game can you actually manage fast travel.

[Fallen]

Got the game and didn't care for it. Combat is indeed solid but the world does nothing for me. Can't say I wouldn't recommend it, it just isn't for me.