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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Comes to PC This January
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Emperor_EL
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Did Dark Arisen add more big monsters to the field? In the og Chimeras & Cyclops had multiple spawn locations but mostly everything else only had 1.
Okay, please re-read my complaint regarding port begging.
I expressed my desire for a PC version of Persona 5 in a thread about an Atlus representative answering a question related to PC, but yeah nice to know that my posts are getting noticed on GAF.
GeordieMark
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Finished it, and then went and bought Dark Arisen too. Got both on release. It started off great, but soon moving around the world became very repetitive, fighting the same mobs in the same places, and hearing the same dialogue over and over. Having very limited to fast-travel until late in the game was a bad idea.
There is a solid foundation for a sequel to build on, but the original game is flawed in my opinion.
Fine. Still, the way you immediatly jumped on those who were port begging still irked me.
Why does it irk you? I think it is a perfectly reasonable complaint. There is a difference between what I did and derailing a thread dedicated to a specific platform. This type of behaviour is deemed unacceptable elsewhere, I am not sure why it shouldn't apply to this thread.
Damn, it looks awesome!
Damerman
Member
omfg i can't wait!
Exactly what I wrote.
Seriously dude, just stop. You're the one in the wrong on this one.
Damerman
Member
Bruh, you and others asking for console ports are derailing a thread about a PC release. The guy you went detective mode on talked about a Persona 5 PC release.....in a thread about an Atlus rep discussing a Persona 5 PC release. You're quite a bit in the wrong here, just chill out.
Damerman
Member
if this happened i really wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Yeah..... That you don't see the need to play it again doesn't mean other people don't want to play it at a superior IQ and more importantly, a stable frame rate. I've had gaming PCs and several consoles of various makers and generations side by side for over 15 years. I'm happy having options to my gaming hobby.
That1BlackGuy
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Fantastic news, Dragon's Dogma is one of favorite games of last generation and happy for it to get in more gamers hands. Any chance Capcom could convince Sony/Microsoft to transfer save data on to the PC? I mean I am happy it's coming to PC, but on the other hand... that's 500+ hours of Dragon's Dogma for nothing :/
Is the PC version version missing DOF effects? I know some people hate DoF, but I thought they were put to good use in Dark Arisen and worked well given the longer distance asset quality (something I doubt will get too much overhaul). I'm not talking about the softness inherent in the image quality on PS3 that really was atrocious due to the resolution, but the actual DoF effects.
Damerman
Member
even if it's cheezy as hell and jarring when you consider the genre it's used for.. i want it. the song is still good.
EDIT: man, my mind is going through my first time playing that game... so fucking awesome. I'm gonna play the shit out of this come January. Fuck every other game(yes, even uncharted), i'll save them for summer drought.
EDIT2: I hope we get native DS4 support on PC...
EDIT3: man, I'm just so happy with this announcement.
I doubt an official save conversion tool will be released, but this might be doable with modding. The save file for Dragon's Dogma (on xbox 360 at least) is a compressed xml file. So if the save format stays similar, it would be doable to make a converter.
R10Neymarfan
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If it is we can always use reshade and input some good bokeh
I doubt there will be official support for transferring saves from PS3/360, but I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising players figure out how people can do it on their own. There are a number of cross-platform games (Fallout, Skyrim) that people where able to transfer their saves over. Hopefully there will be a Nexus Mods community set up for the game where stuff like this can be collected and easily found.
derExperte
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To be fair a dev posted earlier in this thread so a few asking for console versions isn't quite as bad as it was for example in the XCOM 2 threads where it reached embarrassing levels.
OH MY GOODNESS YOU GUYS.
Really though I've been waiting to play this at 60fps for so long. This game was amazing and held back by it's poor performance.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Dark Arisen adds a new dungeon that's pretty massive. There's also a bunch of quality of life fixes (more teleport-stones, etc).
Works out to an additional 20+ hours on top of the 50+ in the main-game (not counting replays, hidden side-quests, etc).
Only complaint I have about DA is that the grind for better gear is kinda aggravating. You'll need some good stuff to scratch the bosses in the expansion's dungeon.
nailbombxx
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I will agree with you that the first stages of the game can be a bit dry past the novelty of seeing everything for the first time. This is especially apparent when doing NG+. That could have been done better. BUT I love the endgame stuff and how it rectifies many of the complaints you might have before that point (weak enemies, same enemy placement, underwhelming loot, etc). Its hard for me to complain.
Dark Arisen is one of the best games of last gen easily.
Best combat in an ARPG by a mile.
My hype is ridiculous right now.
Finaika
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Better than Kingdoms of Amatelur?
Omega Kirby
Member
Absolutely.
Good variety of different classes, god-tier combat with natural flow to the action and options that are usually only present as QTEs, (one of) the best application of traditional fantasy battle magics by visuals and actual effects both. They main story goes nowhere fast, but when it resurfaces there is some really good stuff there. There is some outstanding voicework in the game, especially that of the Dragon.
The game has some jank to it and some of the NPC/Pawn chatter will get tiresome. It can get repetitive and grindy (you mileage may vary a great deal here, and skipping easy encounters in the overland areas is simply a matter of running past them) and some dislike the relatively limited fast travel options (far improved from vanilla DD however). The "romance" system is pure ass and can easily lead to some unintended hilarity. The inventory management is passable at best and you can accumulate a lot of useless trash.
That should about sum it up, methinks, but in the end, this is the Word:
Almost forgot: A brilliant day/night cycle with the night being actually dark and oppressive. You really need that lantern of yours and a completely new set of face-eating gribblies crawls forth at night.
dark_inferno
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Well here are cons and pros:
+Incredible Combat. Fluid and insane. Tactical and visceral. Everything about the combat is simply perfect.
+Nice arisen companion idea. AI is clever and sometimes they act like humans.
+Fucking Huge
-Story can be meh
-No coop
-Monster design can be meh for people expecting Souls like design
-Fetch quests
-Boring level-up-your-weapon system
If we get mods then a few cons will probably be modable. Coop would easily make this 8/10 game to 9.5/10.
witchedwiz
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yes!
this is the game western rpg lover deserved, but never managed to get..
this is the battle system that elder scroll should reach at a certain point, in a better alternate version of our future :L
bask our eyes in the glory of dragon's dogma...
ready for another run on pc this time!
monster design is good, just not japanese-souls-good :|
but i can live with that
this is the game western rpg lover deserved, but never managed to get..
this is the battle system that elder scroll should reach at a certain point, in a better alternate version of our future :L
bask our eyes in the glory of dragon's dogma...
ready for another run on pc this time!
monster design is good, just not japanese-souls-good :|
but i can live with that
Damerman
Member
Kindom of amalur is like ketchup. Its for 5 year olds.
Dragon's dogma is truffle mushroom oil. the real fucking deal.
Pyros_Eien
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I would assume it happened because they had to port the engine for DD:Online to PC in the first place, and since the game seems to massively reuse everything from the original, I guess it wasn't too hard to make a PC port of the original, which will let them both make money and test the waters for a western release of DD:Online(which sadly so far looks kinda garbage, especially if you've played the original already since it reuses everything with very few new things and a lot of things removed). I don't feel it's a coincidence this is being released only a few months after the DD:Online japanese beta started.
The good thing is the PC client isn't too bad for DD:Online, from what I've seen. I don't customize graphics stuff too much though so take that with a grain of salt, but the game ran well and didn't have any really weird features that some port have, at least that I've noticed. I guess it had a 30FPS/60FPS toggle with no other options, so 60FPS might be the best you can get, but that beats 20FPS on PS3 anyway(or 5 if you played a mystic knight in combat).
Really looking forward to this, I played through the game twice already(vanilla then dark arisen) and I've played almost every class, but I guess I'll just revisit it again. Just need to figure out a class. I kinda hope they add some balance stuff to the game also but not holding my breath.
I thought the traditional mythological monster design was a fresh breath of air. Too many games try to "innovate" on top of iconic designs, but end up with something blander.
Not talking about Souls monsters though, they're legit awesome.
CadetMahoney
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Nah, ppl will be like "ain't got time for dat", *tilde key*, "all_items" whilst running around with their nude 4-team fournival mod 1-shotting everything. :-0
