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3xPaladin May 23, 2024 @ 5:33pm
Buy or Wait?
I was hyped when the game first came out but the reviews weren't very positive. Is the performance issue fixed? Or should I simply wait for discount like I did with DDDA?
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Originally posted by Raw:
Combat game mechanics is fun and even epic.

But the gap is big on other things that are foundamental nowadays to me.
My advice is it doesn't deserve the launch price unless you are a kind of DD1 and DDDA nostalgic.

2024 and Pawns AI quality is poor
Artificial fore sure we can feel it, intelligent not so much
The level consciouceness of danger or environement is low or even non existent
Member of your group that have a vocation to fight at range or the two feet on the ground will instead ride a dragon to try a take down.
They will trig useless ability in the worst situation like a long cast spell for a small and lonely target. Or even an ability to drop an ally to reach tall and epic monsters when you are fighting a dog.
Dialogues are always... always the same even if we are at the date of AI voice chat.

Quest design and mechanics is outdated an obsolete
It's flat.
No dynamic story arcs that fighting each other and where you can tilt the balance of the adventure from a side.

QoL is average
Inventory management is not smart and not well thought out

After that, optimisation... If your gaming experience is +60 fps you may have some frustration.

Wait the next discount :deadrat:
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Luxinae May 23, 2024 @ 5:44pm 
They didn't fix anything. Better wait for a discount. As you can see with the reviews, the game isn't that great and anyway, DD2 isn't going to disapear so you can defintively wait. Maybe before the discount they will finally patch the game.
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Sassy Robot May 23, 2024 @ 5:48pm 
I'm not sure there is going to be a "performance fix".
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Rainyday156 May 23, 2024 @ 6:55pm 
I would wait for a sale. Not sure if performance issues will ever be fully addressed for everyone. I didn't have too many issues but it seems a lot of people did.

Plus, this game is fun but there's not enough of it. The endgame really could be better implemented and there's little incentive to do NG+. They also oversimplified the badge system so roaming the world to grind for that stuff doesn't feel as rewarding as it should. There's a reason player numbers dropped hard after a certain point, and it's because you just run out of stuff to do. There's not much challenge later on, either.

So, wait for a sale or maybe even the expansion which I really hope happens at some point.
Last edited by Rainyday156; May 23, 2024 @ 6:55pm
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Son of Heaven May 23, 2024 @ 7:01pm 
Performance in cities is terrible. Wait for a fix if there will ever be one, it has been more than 2 months now with no patch fixing performance.
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[-iD-] May 23, 2024 @ 7:26pm 
2
if you find it on sale at a third party... buy it.
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Ducketz May 23, 2024 @ 7:27pm 
buy buy buy. this is a 2024 game of the year candidate, and will probably win. only other contender is maybe space marine or the new star wars open world coming august
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[-iD-] May 23, 2024 @ 7:29pm 
Originally posted by Ducketz:
buy buy buy. this is a 2024 game of the year candidate, and will probably win. only other contender is maybe space marine or the new star wars open world coming august
well ff7 rebirth got a good score and then persona 3r was popular who knows really.
would be nice if this won.
Last edited by [-iD-]; May 23, 2024 @ 7:29pm
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lefty1117 May 23, 2024 @ 7:49pm 
wait for final fantasy 16 port
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Jon May 23, 2024 @ 10:21pm 
If u can wait for a year to get the discount then wait because new games that are not out long usually got no discount for a long time. Developers are not stupid. They know there are haters who bad mouth the game with the intention to pull down the price so that they can buy it cheap & they usually ignore these people or adopt a wait and see attitude for many months. Discount is usually given when a game released for a long time and developer thinks can no longer sell without a discount. if you love dogma 1 and love this game then buy now. If u see the reviews and think the game will be very bad in performance then better don't buy to avoid the trouble of trying to get back a refund but fail. Lots of haters out there, thus think carefully before you buy because there are valid reasons people hate and love this game. For me I love this game.
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Pink Eye May 23, 2024 @ 10:29pm 
The game is nothing special. You're not missing out on anything by waiting - preferably a year or two when Capcom drops the complete edition with a steep discount.

Save your money for the big hits coming out in the upcoming months.
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ReconAT May 24, 2024 @ 12:46am 
I strongly recommend not buying this game for now
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Migromul May 24, 2024 @ 1:21am 
This is one of those questions, where 5 different people give 10 different answers...

I recommend to look up some gameplays. And look up about the "performance problems" deeper, than just accepting "litterally unplayable"-cries.
Then decide.

I - for example - would recommend the game at full price, if you loved DDDA and played it at least 100 hours, even after finishing the game after 30.... (e. g. just plaing the game, because you realy like the gameplay.)
But wait, if you finished DDDA and then continued to something else, never bothering agian about it.

The "performance issues" are most ntoicable, if you need to fight in the (main) towns. (e. g. Vernworth and Bakbathal.). Otherwise they're barely noticable and also irrelevant gameplay-wise - at least for me.
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WeaverDuck May 24, 2024 @ 1:24am 
Wait for some performance fixes, discount or both
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Traveler May 24, 2024 @ 5:49am 
I love the game but would wait till the performance is fixed, if that ever happens. If not just wait for a sale with the DLC whenever that releases.
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styx971 May 24, 2024 @ 6:27am 
i waould say wait.. even if there isn't a preformance fix often time capcom removes denuvo after its nolonger new which Should help performance that way. and yeah usually games after there new eventually go on sale or drop in price so thats always smart. i only grabbed it when i did cause it was under 50usd via fanatical otherwise there was no way i was buying it at launch
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