NO Fast travel....buyer beware.

[karmazyn1]

IGN said that to fast travel you need to use some sort of crystals, these cost 10,000 each and are very, very expensive. Carts will take you from place to place, but these are fixed and wont take you everywhere.
This might be an negative for some so I have thought that I will put it out there just in case someone is hoping for Fallout / Skyrim / Cyberpunk and Witcher type of fast travel system.

[Seryph]

Isnt the whole style around dragon's dogma is that its one of those games that doesnt hold your hand? I hate to be "That Guy" but Dragon's Dogma seems to follow the same path as Dark Souls and Elden Ring where it just throws you in and says "Figure it the ♥♥♥♥ out"

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buyer beware dragons dogma 2 is like dragons dogma 1! news at 11.

[Ryuji]

Originally posted by Seryph:

Isnt the whole style around dragon's dogma is that its one of those games that doesnt hold your hand? I hate to be "That Guy" but Dragon's Dogma seems to follow the same path as Dark Souls and Elden Ring where it just throws you in and says "Figure it the ♥♥♥♥ out"

except that even games like DS and ER have fast travel. being inconvenient doesn't equal hard. it was so annoying in the first one that they added an infinite teleport item later on. honestly not a fan of that. having no easy fast travel is just a waste of time and nothing else

[TōshiR0]

Thanks for the reminder that this is, in fact, a gameplay mechanic and a welcome one too!! Buyer beware = this game is not for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!

[gryphonv]

This is a design mechanic. In my eyes limited fast travel is a positive.

They also mentioned how the world will have random encounters throughout. I'm willing to guess they will be scaled to your level as well. So that no matter where you are traveling you will always be challenged.

[That Fish Guy]

Originally posted by karmazyn1:

IGN said that to fast travel you need to use some sort of crystals, these cost 10,000 each and are very, very expensive. Carts will take you from place to place, but these are fixed and wont take you everywhere.
This might be an negative for some so I have thought that I will put it out there just in case someone is hoping for Fallout / Skyrim / Cyberpunk and Witcher type of fast travel system.

It's also a single player game that you can save anywhere and no real money purchasable currency (the day that happens in a AAA single player game is the day I flip a table), this is either excellent rage baiting, or the worst take.

[karmazyn1]

Originally posted by That Fish Guy:

Originally posted by karmazyn1:

IGN said that to fast travel you need to use some sort of crystals, these cost 10,000 each and are very, very expensive. Carts will take you from place to place, but these are fixed and wont take you everywhere.
This might be an negative for some so I have thought that I will put it out there just in case someone is hoping for Fallout / Skyrim / Cyberpunk and Witcher type of fast travel system.

It's also a single player game that you can save anywhere and no real money purchasable currency (the day that happens in a AAA single player game is the day I flip a table), this is either excellent rage baiting, or the worst take.

If I can save anywhere and am not restricted to some save points, magical crystals or sprinkling fountains, it is good. I like exploring but I dont like grind.

[Galu228]

Oh no!

You have to ADVENTURE in an ADVENTURE game?

How DARE they!?

[Vic]

Limiting fast travel just isn't good. It feels the same as making cutscenes unskippable, there's no good reason for it other than being antagonistic to the player themselves.

You could argue that it is 'more immersive' and aims to make the world feel larger and to make you feel like your journeys between one place and another were more meaningful with the trials along the way.

I say that at level 100 when I want to just get to a unique store that there's not at all challenging about that journey and its just busywork. But by then, I do in fact have port crystals and an eternal ferrystone.

When you realise the difference in experiences between a new player starting out, and an older player who has seen those places repeatedly, the progression of the fast travel system in Dragon's Dogma starts to make more sense. You want the new player to engage with the content that they presumably haven't seen before and its possible night and day variations in enemies, and by the time that gets old, you are just about to receive a port crystal that you can use to simplify things.

When IGN says fast travel is limited / rare, take that with a grain of salt, because often what seems daunting to the average gamer and reviewer is in reality a trivial thing for people who are good at the game and play it for longer than 10 hours. Chances are the system limitations are just overblown compared to how its actually going to be in the real world.

[Siaxopes]

"NO Fast Travel!!!"
"There are items that allow you to fast travel in game"

[Coils of Light]

@OP: I'm starting to think you're not actually trolling and now I feel bad for making fun of you in the first place...

[karmazyn1]

Originally posted by ButrillAZ:

@OP: I'm starting to think you're not actually trolling and now I feel bad for making fun of you in the first place...

No worries. I just want to create threads based on information I have heard or seen. I dont want these threads to be seen as troll post, more like my take on what I have found out about the game. Like I said, I will buy this game day one but there are some things about the game which need to be mentioned. Something which might seem obvious for some, might not be obvious for others.

[Coils of Light]

Originally posted by karmazyn1:

Originally posted by ButrillAZ:

@OP: I'm starting to think you're not actually trolling and now I feel bad for making fun of you in the first place...

No worries. I just want to create threads based on information I have heard or seen. I dont want these threads to be seen as troll post, more like my take on what I have found out about the game. Like I said, I will buy this game day one but there are some things about the game which need to be mentioned. Something which might seem obvious for some, might not be obvious for others.

I mean you're dead wrong about the performance dips and now about fast travel as well, but I think you can't be making this stuff up, you sincerely believe these fallacies, that is why I feel bad.

[karmazyn1]

Originally posted by ButrillAZ:

Originally posted by karmazyn1:

No worries. I just want to create threads based on information I have heard or seen. I dont want these threads to be seen as troll post, more like my take on what I have found out about the game. Like I said, I will buy this game day one but there are some things about the game which need to be mentioned. Something which might seem obvious for some, might not be obvious for others.

I mean you're dead wrong about the performance dips and now about fast travel as well, but I think you can't be making this stuff up, you sincerely believe these fallacies, that is why I feel bad.

Thats quite alright. I feel bad for everyone who is ignoring physical evidence. This is called cherry picking. Like one user stated here, if you are lvl 100 you would not like to waste time on travel. Traversing the same path after 1000th time is not something anyone will be looking forward to. If they did they would be lying, just like people lie about performance dips reported after seeing official video as not an issue.

[CupCupBaconBox]

Fast travel is cancer, so this is good news.