We were lied to about walking in the game.

[falloutgod13]

Yeah, there's stuff to explore, the FIRST time you trudge through a zone but after you walked every digital inch it's generally the same path it was before, barring a few notable exceptions where game states change. For the most part you're just seeing the same road back and forth, wasting precious time out of your day. The only benefit is you may run into a big monster in the area as you walk along, assuming you haven't killed one there recently. Other than that, there's no real benefit to walk the map if you've already looted everything. Not to mention that you're often going to be walking along the same paths to get to where you want for side quests, it's not like you'll see anything new along them once you walked them 10 times for side quests. At a certain point the low level mobs become nothing more than a hindrance, providing neither useful material nor worthwhile experience. They exist only if you want to grind out some new vocation ranks. Beyond that, they serve no purpose but to waste our time and patience.

I don't know what I was expecting, but if you're gonna tell me that walking in your game is fun to justify your lack of fast travel I expect you to deliver. Not put up fast travel related mechanics up for sale and make traveling on foot as bland of an experience as it is in every other semi open-world game. Because there really isn't anything here that sets it apart from other games. What more, it was bold to compare it to GTA when I haven't seen anything remotely interesting filling the world here. The only things I've gotten are random monster culling quests, and the random escort quests - which I naturally turn down because it's not worth my damn time to walk for 10 minutes to get 1-3k gold.

[アゼム]

There's 3 things that would fix it
1. An eternal ferrystone. It doesn't have to be easy to get. Lock it behind a high level challenge
2. Enemy variety with less density. It's incredibly annoying running into a copy paste pack of saurians / goblins / harpies / wolves every 10 feet.
3. Better rewards for exploring. There's nothing to really find. Finding gear that isn't immediately purchasable in shops is extremely rare, and every time I did find something unique I had already outleveled it. They need more unique stuff for upgrades to find in dungeons

[Lancebringer]

its definitely not a 10 minute walk, and if you walk the exact same path every time to all the points on the map, youre definitely to blame here.

Based on your "reviews" on other games, im convinced you like to blather on about nonsense, to what end is anyone's guess, but you clearly dont have a good point of view with any of your rants you leave.

I'm fully convinced you dont have that many hours, never mind that much progression, into the game.

[Ryvaku]

The more you play the more you see the flaws. This is why you can't trust any short term reviews.

[Elric of Swoleniboné]

The one thing this joke of a game accomplished is to show how good we had it in the first one.

[Lancebringer]

Originally posted by Ryvaku:

The more you play the more you see the flaws. This is why you can't trust any short term reviews.

I dunno, im 22.9 hours in and lvl 27, ive a good portion of the area explored around Vernworth and each time i take the road theres a TON of encounters with a ton of different stuff, i go down little nooks and crannies and find new things each time. There's definitely a LOT to the world, and for someone to say there isnt, is just outright lieing

[♂eat CHICKEN♂]

I was motivated to check out the entire map and explore every cave I found at the prospect of finding a cool weapon or armor, but always ended up finding something I couldn't wear or a weapon that was slightly worse than something found in a shop. the loot is really rucking boring in this game.

[falloutgod13]

Originally posted by Lancebringer:

its definitely not a 10 minute walk, and if you walk the exact same path every time to all the points on the map, youre definitely to blame here.

Based on your "reviews" on other games, im convinced you like to blather on about nonsense, to what end is anyone's guess, but you clearly dont have a good point of view with any of your rants you leave.

I'm fully convinced you dont have that many hours, never mind that much progression, into the game.

You seriously make a profile to trash talk? You can see my game play time and progress based on achievements. Steam really needs to start blocking posting privileges on new accounts.

[falloutgod13]

Originally posted by ♂eat CHICKEN♂:

I was motivated to check out the entire map and explore every cave I found at the prospect of finding a cool weapon or armor, but always ended up finding something I couldn't wear or a weapon that was slightly worse than something found in a shop. the loot is really rucking boring in this game.

I agree. Only wakestone shards and ferrystones have been good finds, but extremely rare. Other than that I found quite a few seeker tokens.

[bunny de fluff]

Beware of speaking the truth, defenders of the game will attack you with personal insults rather than with logical arguments.

[Ω]

Originally posted by falloutgod13:

Originally posted by Lancebringer:

its definitely not a 10 minute walk, and if you walk the exact same path every time to all the points on the map, youre definitely to blame here.

Based on your "reviews" on other games, im convinced you like to blather on about nonsense, to what end is anyone's guess, but you clearly dont have a good point of view with any of your rants you leave.

I'm fully convinced you dont have that many hours, never mind that much progression, into the game.

You seriously make a profile to trash talk? You can see my game play time and progress based on achievements. Steam really needs to start blocking posting privileges on new accounts.

That'd be a welcome change to Steam for sure.

But, you gotta admit, your reviews are pretty garbage.

[falloutgod13]

Originally posted by Ω:

Originally posted by falloutgod13:

You seriously make a profile to trash talk? You can see my game play time and progress based on achievements. Steam really needs to start blocking posting privileges on new accounts.

That'd be a welcome change to Steam for sure.

But, you gotta admit, your reviews are pretty garbage.

Some are serious and others are just me being silly. I don't get paid to write reviews so the effort I expand on them is minimal.

[Razorblade]

Doing pretty much every side quest, I have found I always have enough portable Portcrystals and money for Ferrystones to reasonably fast travel to most important locations.

Despite having a sufficient fast travel network to cut down on tedium, I would agree the world isn't all that fun to explore. It's a bunch of linear roads through valley or caves, littered with trash mobs, or the occasional large trash mob if you're lucky. It was bold of the head guy to state that "you'll be having too much fun exploring to need fast travel."

I make excessive use of fast travel, because traversing the world is not all that interesting. At least in something like an Elder Scrolls game, you have the occasional flavorful random encounter (and a horse). DD2, meanwhile, has the equivalent of early JRPG random encounters; just a mob of the same 3 enemies once per minute.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Elric of Swoleniboné:

The one thing this joke of a game accomplished is to show how good we had it in the first one.

Judging strictly by your achievements. You don't look like you enjoyed the first one. So why call the second one a joke if the first one didn't catch your fancy? O.o

[durundallives]

Originally posted by falloutgod13:

Yeah, there's stuff to explore, the FIRST time you trudge through a zone but after you walked every digital inch it's generally the same path it was before, barring a few notable exceptions where game states change. For the most part you're just seeing the same road back and forth, wasting precious time out of your day. The only benefit is you may run into a big monster in the area as you walk along, assuming you haven't killed one there recently. Other than that, there's no real benefit to walk the map if you've already looted everything. Not to mention that you're often going to be walking along the same paths to get to where you want for side quests, it's not like you'll see anything new along them once you walked them 10 times for side quests. At a certain point the low level mobs become nothing more than a hindrance, providing neither useful material nor worthwhile experience. They exist only if you want to grind out some new vocation ranks. Beyond that, they serve no purpose but to waste our time and patience.

I don't know what I was expecting, but if you're gonna tell me that walking in your game is fun to justify your lack of fast travel I expect you to deliver. Not put up fast travel related mechanics up for sale and make traveling on foot as bland of an experience as it is in every other semi open-world game. Because there really isn't anything here that sets it apart from other games. What more, it was bold to compare it to GTA when I haven't seen anything remotely interesting filling the world here. The only things I've gotten are random monster culling quests, and the random escort quests - which I naturally turn down because it's not worth my damn time to walk for 10 minutes to get 1-3k gold.

Dont forget that the monsters you might run into are basically the same 4 kinds - so not only is the trek samey, so too is the crap you have to deal with. So you are more or less constantly backtracking and running around for some of the most 'who gives a crap' level side quests, because on top of that even the quest writing is 'meh'.

I was really hoping they would grow beyond the first DD and use the success to propel themselves into something better. Instead its just more of the same, but over a decade older.

[cimerians]

I played the first game for about 200 hours on steam and finished it on both the PS3 and the Xbox. The original and dark arisen. Got all the achievements and appreciated the infinite ferry stone an additional port crystals we got with dark arisen.

All I can say is I'm thankful I experienced the first game. 20 plus hours in and I'm almost done playing this one. Yes I'll beat it but I have no drive to do any quests other than the main quest. It's beyond ridiculous what a time waste this is. In fact I'm wishing there was no overworld map just a series of Dungeons and I'd be happy.