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From a technical standpoint it is one of the early games in the next big wave of hardware requirements so many players are unable to enjoy it. That and the DLC shop is pretty scuzzy, but you can easily avoid using it.
The game absolutely doesn't warrant the level of basement-dweller trolling/bashing it gets.
I've been playing it pretty much 24/7 since Wednesday last week and have had a great time.
Yeah, it's deserving of the mixed reviews.
I can't explain or understand the hatred this game has produced.
1. "this was a cash grab with it's DLC"
Completely optional purchases of in-game items to be in possession at game beginning. Only thing actually helpful was an extra port crystal.
2. "no saves"
One (1) official save system in-game - BUT - limitless saves on your hard drive.
3. "paid character customization"
Wut? All character customization is part of the game.
Buy it. You're really gonna like it.
This.
Btw, the 'mixed' reviews are going down now, it is getting better. The 'reasons' for the reviews are mostly misinformed nonsense or people with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hardware/software/skills (both in reg. to Computers and reg. the game itself)
To this day, people still believe the game contains mobile-game levels of monetization.
Here's the thing: 99% of people have beaten this game without even purchasing *any* DLC whatsoever.
Additionally, there is no "paid character customization". It works just like in the first game: you create your characters, buy stuff in the game with gold and with riftcrystals. That's it.
Just like in the first one, you get one save slot.
As you can see, everything works exactly like it did in the first game.
The reason for the mixed rating is mostly due to trolls looking for something to hate on.
I've honestly never seen so many people overexaggerate a game's flaws like they have done with this one, to the point of even making stuff up to keep people away from it.
People that have played the game will agree that the game has a rushed ending and it becomes too easy halfway through, but that aside the game is definitely one of the best games released this year. The gameplay is as fun as it was in the first one.
But this ain't even that, feel more like a sidegrade.
With the DLC that might bring this game to the DDDA level is nowhere to be seen to this day.
The complains about the one official save system is made by players who fail at understanding the exponential difference in size and volume that comes if that limitation wasn't in place.
Imagine the hell of fetching Pawns out of a system that would allows every player's individual characters' pawn to be stored all at once. What would happen if a player delete a character? Should character deletion be only allowed online because the server would have to know that the pawn is now deleted? People would then just delete the file and, damn, at that point it becomes a nightmare if the offline data is missing or changed while the online data (which might be days older) is still live. For example, let's say a player create a character named Bob and submit its Pawn to the online database for other to call upon it, then, 2 months later, delete that character and create a new character with the same name. To avoid complication, each save would requires a 2nd unique name generated on creation and those names would need to be stored locally and online... but what if another player somewhere else generate the same "unique" name in some way?
That's without the issues of fetching pollution, an issue you'll find in e.v.e.r.y. games that allows close-to-unlimited new entries. Imagine if the Pawn system would keep all pawns data of every character ever created by every players ever. Especially early in the game, you would find millions of pawns basically wasting server storage and the fetching would mostly be slow as hell unless the game would use some massive and expensive server infrastructure akin to Google's.
People either don't know or forgot what has happened with Dragon Dogma 1 with the pawn RC reward system. During the first year after DD1 was released, players would get stable RC (a special currency) from their pawn being used by other players and returned once said players reach point where that pawn in that point of time isn't useful anymore (as only the player's pawn level up properly while all the other pawns remains the same). Whenever a pawn in another player's party would succeed in a quest, they get RC. The more quests gets completed and the more difficulty quest are, the more RC is rewarded. It was also possible for player to invest RC to acquire stronger pawns which adds up to the RC rewards. Acquiring stronger pawns also came with the convenience of helps/tips for quests they have completed previously like calling out that a strong monster (boss) is close by or a treasure (chest) awaits somewhere nearby or that a place is rigged with traps or ambushes.
In the first years of DD1, I could net over 1,000-2,000 RC per day once my pawn reached a class level & equipment that made it useful. Nowadays, I'm lucky if I ever see 100 RC coming in when I play. That's because DD1 pawns server is just overfilled with useless pawns from all the characters created since DD1 release. It came to the point where DD1 pawns server now has scheduled wipe whenever the number of pawns exceed a certain number and the only way to renew a pawn is to play its master character and access the Inn.
By limiting each "account" accessing the Pawn server to a single save/pawn that gets overwritten whenever another pawn is registered over it, that limits the amount of pawns stored on the pawn server. If there's 1 millions players who register a pawn, that means there's 1 million pawns (on top of the default/basic ones) to choose from and not 3+ millions because each players has 3+ characters/pawns created.
Play for 40 hours, lose all your progress, then come back here and repeat your ? I have had 2 missions for no reason guards attack me and killed me.... yet nothing in mission description says why - others say online is bug.... but now what! All I can do it go do another mission and nope it lets me continue. Another mission I am supposed to go to room in castle, I hear talking , supposed to sneak in after cut scene, but nope, attacked immediately and put in jail and now mission seems to have locked door no matter what! So game over before begins......
This is one of those games you have to wait for year for them to fix all the bugs then try to play how should be..... even after sleeping and moving on, came back to area for ball and attacked in courtyard even though dressed properly and nothing extra..... I mean I am not even dressed the same. I was really liking the game till about this stage of game.... whole evening was one failed mission after another, obviously hit a bug somewhere and game seemed to have ended for me. For goodness save do an auto save or something so we can recover before a bug (rather lose 1 hour vs. 30 hours).
Also the graphics are very dated, the new witcher upgrade blows this out of water and that is very old game. It is really like playing the original, seems rather lazy design, even the layouts seem the same...... and the PC key design is very poor (tried to remap for single key to trigger spell, can't get to work, foolish to have to hold 2 keys then attack key to even start spell - 3 keys - really!) I payed $30 on sale, but if they would have made a better game would have payed $60+, they screwed up big time!! They gave all lovers of 1st game , waiting years for the next generation DD2, the middle finger and expected loyalty to be enough to turn over $60 for a DLC type improvement!!
If you liked the first game, you'll probably enjoy this one, but you will likely come to realize that Capcom learned nothing from the first game. The game kept most (not all) of the magic from the first game... but it also kept most of the bad too. It retreads a lot of what the first game did, but much more clumsily, especially as the story is concerned.
That's also wrong, DD2 map is larger, there are more enemies, there's more towns, there are more sidequests, the main questline is a bit more expansive, especially post dragon. The gameplay is far more balanced, the classes have been refined, the physicality of it all is superior, enemy placement is more thought out with better variety in any part of the map.
Compare DD1 on launch with DD2 on launch, coward.
You've been repeating this uber cope for 10 months. The patches keep coming.