| Leynos said: As someone who loves the first. Stay away. Esp on consoles even after all the patches it has performance issues. The game is incomplete. The story sucks ass. Dark Arisen is a much better game. DD2 took one step forward and 5 steps back. If you can handle 7th gen graphics just play Dark Arisen instead. Better game overall. Even has the extra cool dungeon that the more enemies you kill the more likely Grim Reaper will appear and chases you like the Gauntlet series. Has a really fun and tough boss fight at the end of the dungeon. This is no ordinary dungeon it's super long and might give you vibes of soul games. Gameplay no but vibe in there is great. DD2 is piss easy. Enemies are stupid. Lack of variety. World is huge but uninteresting. DD: DA is smaller but more interesting. |
I'm having quite a bit of fun. A lot of emergence. There is an insane amount of jank in Dark Arisen and painful quest like escorting the cart mission. I find this a step up, albeit the story isn't exactly grabbing me. It's serviceable but the general exploration is decent enough fun that it's carrying me through. I agree there is a LOT not to like here but since I've paid for it already and I'm having fun I might as well continue even if I get the impression I won't be completing this one.
People seem to forget just how bad Dragons Dogma was when it released, like practically a broken game. If it released today, even with modern graphics it would get less than 5's from majour critics for it's brokenness alone. Dark Arisen only polishes it so much too, it's still jank as fuck.
