Re: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

On 3/28/2024 2:37 PM, PW wrote:

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:16:44 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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On 3/27/2024 6:59 PM, PW wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:13:41 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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On 3/26/2024 10:13 AM, PW wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:27:28 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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On 3/25/2024 8:49 PM, PW wrote:

Not going to get Dragon's Dogma II Justisaur?

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Maybe eventually.  I'm finding 1 very repetitive at this point and
getting a bit bored with it.  90% of the game is fighting bandits,
goblins, wolves, zombies & skeletons which currently offer no challenge,
and leveling has slowed to a trickle.  I miss the variety and some of
the difficulty of Souls games (except ER which gets a bit repetitive.)
I suppose I could start over on hard mode, but that would just make it
harder not have any more variety.  I'm on the edge of quitting, but
trying to push forward the main quests now to get it over with or
somewhere more challenging & different monsters.
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The only real challenge in the last 10 levels or so has been the luck of
avoiding me or my NPCs getting picked up and dropped off cliffs by
fliers or pushed off to our deaths.
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At least with the changing classes every 11 levels that the build guide
I'm using that gives me some variety as I learn how to fight as a
different class, but the levels have slowed down considerably at 41
(there's 200 in total, I hope I don't have to go through all of them to
finish the game)
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Also 2 currently has some severe performance issues on PC that are being
looked into, and there's complaints it's littered with MTX.
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I'm thinking of giving Monster Hunter a third try again as there's
supposed to be a lot of monster variety, I don't know if I can get past
the apparently endless extremely cringe cutscenes though.

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Yes, some of the Steam reviews of 2 point out that the game barely run
on super computers so I doubt mine could handle it, even though it
isn't that old.

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Just saw another post about the sorcerer being nerfed to hell, There's
only 4 spells now, and even those have been nerfed.  I think that's the
last nail in the coffin for DD2.
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Which Monster Hunter?

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The only one I have is World.

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Don't know what that means.
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Just read that there is only one save game, just like Elden Ring.
Well, I put up with it with ER for hundreds of hours because I found
away around it, but this game is no ER.
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I would pick up and replay ER again if it wasn't for that one save
game file!

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DD:DA has no reason for it either.  It's not like ER/DS where you don't
really die, being undead, it also doesn't keep your save up to date like
ER/DS.  It only auto-saves at area transitions.   It just reloads your
last save, even if that was 30 minutes ago (had that happen once, my
save early save often reflexes kicked in after that.)
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It's also worse as you can only have one character on that save file.
Easily the stupidest and worst 'feature' of DD:DA is the save system.
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Fortunately I looked up where the saves are and made some backups, not
enough, and not early enough as I didn't save a backup of my first
character, but some.
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I actually somewhat appreciate the ER/DS saves as you can have 10
characters (still not enough for me, but workable with backups.)  You
don't ever have to worry about interrupting the game to save.  It's
still a good idea to make some backups of the save file in-case you get
yourself in a bad place (really not a problem except in DS1.)

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 Okay Justisaur.  I did just buy it any way.  I guess more of a test to
see if it will run on my system and if it struggles before the time is
over to refund it to Steam than I will!
 But I am already sick of it because I am stuck moving rock piles at
the start of the game.
 There is no way I am going to spend much time doing all the research
and spending so much money on toner and paper like I did for Elden
Ring! I probably spent about half my time researching and studying ER
as I did playing it!  I sure wish I could just pick it up and start
playing ER again but since I quit almost at the end I am afraid to do
so.  Plus, there is no way I have the energy and reflexes to get back
into it now.  It wore me out!
 If the game gets on my nerves then I will just quit playing it.
 

If DD2 is anything like 1 (and all signs point to it is) it's pretty easy after about level 15 except for dragons and some higher level areas.  It seems expected you do some areas over, and do a bit of exploring for xp, gold, and perhaps the odd item that's good.
I get the nerves with From games, it was really starting to get to me after I went back to DS3, and Bloodborne was all nerves even though most of the bosses I beat in 2 or 3 tries until the deep chalice dungeons (which aren't needed to beat the game.)  Getting too old for the twitch I guess.  The offer stands to co-op through the last of ER bosses with you if you ever decide you want to.
DD's combat hasn't been particularly twitch to me though, you basically just beat on bosses with normal attacks or one of the 6 skills you're allowed for a really long time (or climb/shoot to get weak spots.) Or get pulverized so quickly it's obvious you need to level up/get better gear.  The common enemies aren't even really a threat (other than if they can knock you off ledges) after around 15-20 compared to bosses.
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