Support NeoGAF

[Anteater]

An all mage team or all archer team would be destroyed quickly. The cannon fodder enemies will pose no threat, but boss creatures would destroy you quickly because your defense will be weak and you can't nuke them since most bosses will have multiple health bars. You need a tank in your group to draw creatures attention so your mage/archers have time to do their thing.

An all warrior team would not work as well, because then they would have no rang attacks, thus flying enemies like harpies would be tough to fight. You need a balanced team to do good in this game.

It depends what skills there are in the game, and what the mages could do together, different classes have different assistance skills, though I have a feeling they will probably die quick against bosses, I'm not sure how they will balance that.

We've yet to see what mages can do if they exploit enemies weaknesses, for example for the small enemies that's weak against fire, some of them will roll on the ground if you burn them, there might be ways to stun bosses with spells like melee characters could when they poke a cyclops in the eye. Perhaps darkness or light spells could blind them.

Warrior has a skill that allows you to launch other characters up in the air, so does fighter, so maybe there are more we haven't seen.

 

[Slayven]

have they explained this yet? I level up a pawn and put him out into the ether, will only one person be able to hire that pawn or can everyone get their own copy?

 

[Anteater]

have they explained this yet? I level up a pawn and put him out into the ether, will only one person be able to hire that pawn or can everyone get their own copy?

I would assume everyone gets their copy since they said you could benefit from more people using it, would suck if some lvl10 guy hogs it and give you grapes in return everytime lol

 

[ScRYeD]

have they explained this yet? I level up a pawn and put him out into the ether, will only one person be able to hire that pawn or can everyone get their own copy?

They mention it on the Dragon Dogma's Stream click link to see and hear.

 

[AKingNamedPaul]

Just woke up and read this as "Dragons dogma face sitters"


Kinda let down.

 

[RiderKairuu]

Just woke up and read this as "Dragons dogma face sitters"


Kinda let down.

Can't unsee damn it!

 

[AgentOtaku]

Man, it touches my heart to see that this thread is STILL going

(^____^)

I'm soooo proud of you guys!

 

[Perkel]

looking amazing.

 

[Anteater]

I don't know why the JP and NA site seems to have different stuff, the JP site has all of the classes on there since forever and the NA site are releasing those information slowly, but there seems to be more skills information on the NA site.

Here are some screen caps of what pawns can do with you from their official site:

So you could probably deal with aerial enemies without range to a certain extent since you could hold enemies, etc.

I don't know japanese so I don't know what the captions says for the 2 mages below
Maybe someone could take a jab at it

 

[Deleted member 20920]

I don't know japanese so I don't know what the captions says for the 2 mages below
Maybe someone could take a jab at it

By timing your button presses correctly, you can dual/combo cast with another pawn. Hence the double tornados in the pic.

 

[Anteater]

By timing your button presses correctly, you can dual/combo cast with another pawn. Hence the double tornados in the pic.

Thanks! It doesn't say anything about extra effects?

Yea I see the double tornados, I just thought it might have some bonus effect or something other than just getting 2 of them lol

 

[putarorex]

Thanks! It doesn't say anything about extra effects?

Yea I see the double tornados, I just thought it might have some bonus effect or something other than just getting 2 of them lol

Dual casting also shortens the casting time according to the text.

 

[Anteater]

Dual casting also shortens the casting time according to the text.

Ahh I see, thanks!

 

[Zeliard]

Are pawns also able to do some of the cool climbing stuff, like getting on top of enemies? Has anyone seen that in a vid yet?

 

[Truant]

So this game is sub-HD?

 

[Anteater]

So this game is sub-HD?

Don't think we know yet, we'll find out when they releases a demo, there are 720p screenshots going around and there are smaller ones too, so we don't know if the 720p shots are bullshots or not (they have ps3 buttons on screen).

Edit: Though I don't think they make bullshots this ugly lol:

Are pawns also able to do some of the cool climbing stuff, like getting on top of enemies? Has anyone seen that in a vid yet?

Yeah, they can climb, I don't remember them doing it in a video, I remember a preview talks about how pawns can run up and climb it if you tell them to be aggressive or something.

 

[Monocle]

Wow, sold. Possibly day one.

 

[ironcreed]

Are pawns also able to do some of the cool climbing stuff, like getting on top of enemies? Has anyone seen that in a vid yet?

At about 22:03, you can see the main character launch a pawn into the air off a shield and it grabs onto a golem. Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimwPf0Fr3A

 

[moozoom]

My first impulse would be to play a strider, as I usually play ranged classes, but magic looks very cool... as do the tank classes. Luckily you seem to be able to change during the game, but I wonder if it resets everything, or if you keep your levels between classes like in FFXI.

I'd like to know the date of the demo... can't wait to create a character.

 

[Santiako]

I usually play ranged characters, but I'm almost set on playing a Mystic Knight this time. Maybe the demo will change my mind.

 

[Anteater]

My first impulse would be to play a strider, as I usually play ranged classes, but magic looks very cool... as do the tank classes. Luckily you seem to be able to change during the game, but I wonder if it resets everything, or if you keep your levels between classes like in FFXI.

I'd like to know the date of the demo... can't wait to create a character.

You keep the skills, some skills actually carry over like augment skills I think.

I think they let you switch because they want you to experiment with different classes.

 

[Zeliard]

At about 22:03, you can see the main character launch a pawn into the air off a shield and it grabs onto a golem. Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimwPf0Fr3A

Haha holy shit I like how he also uses a pawn's head to jump off of.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me

Sitters gonna sit.

 

[ironcreed]

Some of the best footage for me thus far is this quest to slay a Griffin at the top of a tower. The atmosphere has a Shrine of Storms sort of vibe once they get to the top and just looks great in general.

The fight at the end, where they finally get the time to cast meteor is amazing. Unlike a generic meteor spell where you just see some flaming rocks falling straight down from the top of the screen, you actually see meteors streaking in at an angle from the atmosphere. It looks killer.

The quest starts at 1:34:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimwPf0Fr3A

For the record, I know many of you have seen most of this footage, but many have not.

 

[1stStrike]

Some of the best footage for me thus far is this quest to slay a Griffin at the top of a tower. The atmosphere has a Shrine of Storms sort of vibe once they get to the top and just looks great in general.

The fight at the end, where they finally get the time to cast meteor is amazing. Unlike a generic meteor spell where you just see some flaming rocks falling straight down from the top of the screen, you actually see meteors streaking in at an angle from the atmosphere. It looks killer.

The quest starts at 1:34:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimwPf0Fr3A

For the record, I know many of you have seen most of this footage, but many have not.

Yeah, that fight and spell is cool. It kept pissing me off during the fight how they would keep using the wrong spell, cancel it out, start using the wrong spell again, and then cancel it out and start over. I was just like "PICK THE RIGHT FUCKING SPELL" *rage face*

 

[xextil]

A detail that I haven't read anywhere is that, according to what Kinoshita said in a interview with spanish press, some quests only can do it if your character is a woman or man, in that case you can disguise of opposite sex and do the quest! In the same way, some locations will only be accesible if your character is short or tall.

 

[Anteater]

A detail that I haven't read anywhere is that, according to what Kinoshita said in a interview with spanish press, some quests only can do it if your character is a woman or man, in that case you can disguise of opposite sex and do the quest! In the same way, some locations will only be accesible if your character is short or tall.

I hope there are ways around the location thing, the cross dressing part makes me wonder if you have to buy the gender specific version or you get both in 1 (and just pick an option to switch between the 2).

There's a scan for berserk armor for females so that's actually kind of cool

 

[ironcreed]

A detail that I haven't read anywhere is that, according to what Kinoshita said in a interview with spanish press, some quests only can do it if your character is a woman or man, in that case you can disguise of opposite sex and do the quest! In the same way, some locations will only be accesible if your character is short or tall.

Interesting bit of info. If such is the case, then I guess it only encourages you to keep on playing the game with new characters.

 

[xextil]

Interesting bit of info. If such is the case, then I guess it only encourages you to keep on playing the game with new characters.

Maybe a solution can be have a specific pawn in your team to access that locations and open a door from the other side or something like that.

 

[ironcreed]

Maybe a solution can be have a specific pawn in your team to access that locations and open a door from the other side or something like that.

A possibility. They do pretty much everything else anyway, so why not?

 

[Data West]

A detail that I haven't read anywhere is that, according to what Kinoshita said in a interview with spanish press, some quests only can do it if your character is a woman or man, in that case you can disguise of opposite sex and do the quest! In the same way, some locations will only be accesible if your character is short or tall.

Works for me. I intend on making a dwarf anyhow

 

[alr1ght]

So this game is sub-HD?

It looks like they're going towards not rendering the whole frame (hence the letterbox, 1280*608) instead of rendering the whole frame at a lower res and upscaling it.

Is this the first game that does this this gen? There were a few last gen (BG&E, RE4). It's going to suck for the SD plebs.

 

[Wazzim]

The world in this game is really diverse, love it.

 

[Meccanical]

This is probably the first game where I ant to play all the classes.

They all look so fun to use.

 

[Dr. Acid Avatar]

Loving this game in so many ways but with Diablo III releasing in May as well I'm having trouble deciding how I'd be able to juggle both games at the same time.

 

[Schwabe]

what about enemy variety. i saw goblins, bandits, golem, cyclops, hydra, griffin, drake, this lion-snake-goat, spiders, lizards .... what else? i really hope the game got more enemies and not all are shown yet in the streams and trailers...

 

[Jo-El]

 

[Anteater]

That confirms it
I'm never traveling at night.

I'm such a wuss with that crap, I don't even travel at night in skyrim and it's not even pitch black in that, I remember getting scared by fucking witches and bears, fuck that.

what about enemy variety. i saw goblins, bandits, golem, cyclops, hydra, griffin, drake, this lion-snake-goat, spiders, lizards .... what else? i really hope the game got more enemies and not all are shown yet in the streams and trailers...

I remember reading gamefaqs and someone said there are about more than 20 giant monsters and 50 medium size, I can't confirm it though, since it was in a spanish interview:

http://www.hobbynews.es/videos/dragons-dogma-nos-muestra-su-mundo-35659

I think Itsuno says there are less than 100? or something, so it might be close to the truth, but I don't know whether they're actual different types or palette swaps of the same cyclops =P

 

[Greyvvolf]

This game came out of nowhere for me. I remember hearing some information about it and thinking I might buy it when it eventually becomes cheaper. Now with all the newer information and videos, I will buy this game as soon as it comes out. So hyped right now.

I remember seeing a video of the combat and the archer actually pinned a smaller enemy (a Goblin, I think?) to a rock with his arrow. It was awesome. I don't know what class I will use, but they WILL use a bow and arrow.

 

[Leucrota]

Anyone know of a pic or vid which shows the size/scale of the world?

 

[Anteater]

Anyone know of a pic or vid which shows the size/scale of the world?

They scrolled around the map in this vid (at 6mins):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P55pMd1y30#t=06m

 

[xextil]

what about enemy variety. i saw goblins, bandits, golem, cyclops, hydra, griffin, drake, this lion-snake-goat, spiders, lizards .... what else? i really hope the game got more enemies and not all are shown yet in the streams and trailers...

In addition to these, in this vid it can see Cockatrice, Ogre and Beholder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW-HXQQ7kII&t=5m14s

I remember reading gamefaqs and someone said there are about more than 20 giant monsters and 50 medium size, I can't confirm it though, since it was in a spanish interview:

http://www.hobbynews.es/videos/drago...su-mundo-35659

I think Itsuno says there are less than 100? or something, so it might be close to the truth, but I don't know whether they're actual different types or palette swaps of the same cyclops =P

Yeah, I was who posted that info. I hope that number is realistic and isn't exaggerated.

 

[Anteater]

Yeah, I was who posted that info. I hope that number is realistic and isn't exaggerated.

haha awesome

 

[1stStrike]

That confirms it
I'm never traveling at night.

I'm such a wuss with that crap, I don't even travel at night in skyrim and it's not even pitch black in that, I remember getting scared by fucking witches and bears, fuck that.

I suppose you wouldn't like Skyrim with the realistic lighting mod.

No candlelight:



Candlelight activated:



Forces you to use magic like candlelight or carry around torches when traveling at night, and as such you never know when you'll wander into something nasty.

Looking forward to reproducing that feeling in this game.

 

[Dresden]

"welp, I'm fucked"

 

[KorrZ]

"welp, I'm fucked"

My thoughts exactly. What's the penalty for dying in this? If it's at all severe, when night comes I'm camping out in one spot and waiting for that motherfucking sun to come up.

 

[Meccanical]

Lichs?

Man this game just has everything doesn't it.

 

[disappeared]

Here are some screen caps of what pawns can do with you from their official site:

Pawns can assist you with reaching higher ledges? That offers a shitload of potential when it comes to exploring the world.

 

[Anteater]

I suppose you wouldn't like Skyrim with the realistic lighting mod.

Forces you to use magic like candlelight or carry around torches when traveling at night, and as such you never know when you'll wander into something nasty.

Looking forward to reproducing that feeling in this game.

Yea... no mods on ps3

Without it it was scary enough for me, I didn't use candlelight and torches because I was too lazy to switch between them too (and needed space)

 

[1stStrike]

Yea... no mods on ps3

Without it it was scary enough for me, I didn't use candlelight and torches because I was too lazy to switch between them too (and needed space)

Yeah, Skyrim is a game that really needs to be played on PC IMO. The mods are just amazing.

I also hotkey my spells and weapons (1 - 8 number keys) so it's a cinch to change between them as necessary.

I'm fine with this game being on console, though, as it looks like they did a great job of making it so that you don't need mods to enhance it. I'm really looking forward to actually being scared of the night in a game.