Better than part 1 or worse? Tell us about your impressions.

[777]

I played part 1 before part 2 and I liked it, there were interesting solutions there. What can you say about 2? Are there bits of realism that slow down gameplay? Varied enemies? Does character creation affect gameplay? Is the music good? The first part was interesting.

This means the DDDA PC version, I don’t know what DD1 is.

I'm just wondering whether to buy the game or not.
Those who have not played part 1, do not write anything.

[Fractured]

Map is far bigger. Biomes are generally more interesting. Dungeons and loot is far more common.

Fights are too common imo. I'm fighting Cyclops, Ogres, Dragons on the constant. They are no longer epic fights, they are almost tedious to me now, considering how often I run into them. Before I seeked them out, now I sigh.

Sorcerer was why I liked in DD1, it is a shell of its former self for SO many reasons in DD2.

Fighter/Warrior/Thief are all significantly better.

Quests are near the same. I'd say less information, which I'm not a fan because its often not realistic. Like "Hey there was a person who knows about this in the town". Friggn who? Its a town of 20 people, you don't know who it was!? And it was literally about your best friends son who got carried away, and you didn't pay attention to who it was!?

The reduction to 4 skills, instead of the full 6 is a HUGE loss for me. Putting in some core skills certainly helped some classes, but absolutely not all of them.

DD2 is gorgeous.

DD2 has quite a few bugs, performance issues, and a lot of pawn pathing issues.

Pro's in cons for both. If I've never played either, and had to choose. I'd pick DDDA up instead, combat was just more fun. Definitely more to do in DD2, but I just had more fun in DDDA.

[Cuddle_Rat]

the world is in my opinion very interesting. I love the cultural shift between the two countries, however, and this is a big one, I feel the story is inferior to the first. The main characters are very forgettable, with the exception of my elf bro and his sister or as I know her my GF. The plot is also very meh, totally abandoning the first half of the game in favor of ending it.

[Fractured]

Originally posted by 5P3K73R:

DD1: Dark Arisen is both longer and an overall better game, regardless of what the game director says. All DD2 has going for it are improvements to environment, graphics, and game mechanics.

I think DD2 and DD1 main story is about equivalent in length, if thats all you do. Not sure why people keep thinking DD1 story was much longer. If you ignore BBI (Which was an expansion), DD1 could be beaten rather quickly.

[suksas]

I think it's better but I haven't finished this game yet. work shift started, no time to play for four days. But so far I had plenty of fun. Story feels better. more to explore. World is larger.

In regards to enemies. Yes and no. Trash mobs are everyhwere but you often run into unique monsters as well. Aside from goblins, wolves, lizards, bandits I've also met phantasms, skeleton warriors and mages and zombies at night. Ogres, Cyclops, minotaurs, chimera and griffin so far, and I'm still in early game, though past starter zone.

Combat is fun so far. Game doesn't hold your hand. It will tell you where to go but you need to find path there yourself. It's very hands off with you unlike something like skyrim.

Some people seem to have technical issues and Capcom has promised a patch. I played just fine. 1 crash in 12 hours.

Microtransactions exist but they are a waste of money. RC is pretty much meaningles and portkey is a recall placer, you still need ferrystones which you can't buy with mtx to teleport anywhere.

Expect a lot of exploration and walking.

[suksas]

Originally posted by 5P3K73R:

DD1: Dark Arisen is both longer and an overall better game, regardless of what the game director says. All DD2 has going for it are improvements to environment, graphics, and game mechanics.

DD1:Dark Arisen is main game and the dlc.

[777]

I'll move the post up.

[777]

I'll move the post up.

[Silverlight]

Some aspects are better like combat weightiness and animation, some are worse like vocations depth.

[Vega]

This type of question is asked so many times, but I'll answer it nonetheless, in a summed up way.

Current state:

Dragon's Dogma II > Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen > Dragon's Dogma II

When the performance issues are fixed:

Dragon's Dogma II >> Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen = Dragon's Dogma II

When performance issues are fixed and it gets more love over time, and a DLC

Dragon's Dogma II >>> Dragon's Dogma & its expansion

[777]

Originally posted by Vega:

This type of question is asked so many times, but I'll answer it nonetheless, in a summed up way.

Current state:

Dragon's Dogma II > Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen > Dragon's Dogma II

When the performance issues are fixed:

Dragon's Dogma II >> Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen = Dragon's Dogma II

When performance issues are fixed and it gets content and DLC over time

Dragon's Dogma II >>> Dragon's Dogma & its expansion

You wrote crap. I didn't ask that.

[Vega]

Search the discussions or wait for a pin point response that's been stated lots of time already then.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Better in every way unless you only love one monster.

[Magic Spazm]

Dragons Dogma had better dungeons

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Magic Spazm:

Dragons Dogma had better dungeons

Lol no.

Dragon's dogma had only one 'good' 'dungean' and that was BBI.

You arnt going to tell me the quarry passage way was 'good' or the catacombs where 'good'.

They where the most boring dungeans out of that damn game.

Even the short dungean up north that you have to slide water slides with was better then 99% of the 'dugneans' in DD.

[PandaSav]

far far better, but need more monsters and weapons