Dragon's Dogma 2

TL;DR: A more refined version of DD1, definitely worth on sale for any RPG fan. [h2] The good [/h2] [list] [*] you can freely switch between classes, and unlock all the skills. Every class is different, you can often change your playstyle if you get bored. [*] a lot of stuff to find in the open world. For the masochists (like me), all the seeker tokens. [*] bossfights are cool early in the game when you can't one shot boss with 8 health bars with a single ability. [*] overall, a more improved and refined version of DD1. [/list] [h2] The bad[/h2] [list] [*] Combat can get stale if you keep the same class. [*] Pawn AI is kinda stupid [*] controls on keyboard are.. meh. I can clearly see the game was made primarily for controllers. [*] I would welcome dodge for all classes, not only thief. With that being said, I can understand why it is only for specific class, so just my preference I suppose. [*] Class balancing is a bit off [*] Enemy variety is... limited [*] Optimization is kind of meh, was getting between 30-50 FPS depending on location on high settings, you can see my specs thanks to steam's useful feature. [*] no real romance option. You can raise NPC affinity, they will blush, but nothing changes except for slightly different dialog. [/list] So overall, despite the game having it's issues, it was quite enjoyable 78 hours I spent, worth the price on sale.

Ótima experiência, apesar da pouca variação de inimigos e a falta de possibilidade de cooperação online, o jogo tem seu charme, principalmente quando o assunto é combate, vale dar uma chance.

20 hours in as of now and it's a solid 7/10* ( 2 years waiting for the fixes + removal of DRM [ main reason I waited 2 years to buy the game ] ). Combat is fun and changing vocations to experiment with different playstyles paired with exploring the map without any guides or external sources of information is an amazing experience, the community pawns helping point out POIs is really nice. Game runs reasonably well and mostly free of bugs ( small stutters while running in open areas and NPCs still load just a few feet away from the player inside cities - 2 Saurians spawned at the center of Vernworth but that only happened once and it was pretty funny so I guess I can let that one slide ). Will keep an eye out on the DRM situation since Capcom added Enigma to other games after removing Denuvo ( changing a product to a state in which a consumer would have avoided the purchase is a pretty important part of consumer right here in Brazil so I am making it as public as I can - I only purchased the game due to the removal of DRM ). Edit: * - 7/10 is good almost great - one more big patch to fix those minor stutter and increase NPC "draw distance" and it's a 8/10 ( that to me is 1 point short of games such as Witcher 3, HiFi Rush, Baldur's Gate 3). Good on you Capcom ( thou it would've been better to release the game as it is right now in the first place ).

"All roads lead to Gran Soren"

With its many quirks and problems (design wise), I still love this game. Maybe just a guilty pleasure, but it has plenty of strengths and charms.

NICE

After owning this game for a year or so I came back to it to try to play it, only.. it will not launch. Anything I do from redownloading to verifying files, to running in admin mode dos not work. Fix your game please.

They made the performance much better over the course of my playthrough with the new patch. So performance is not an issue for me anymore. Gameplay is awesome, it is a lot fun, although loot is meaningless everywhere except towns. They need to make that better in the DLC, because adventuring is fun, but pointless for equipment and treasure. Be careful that if you go too far into the main quest, it also locks you into the ugly red epilogue world, which was a sore to look at, despite the enemies being fun. So make sure you do all the side quests and explore everything you want to before progressing. The story is very bad, most of the quests are very boring and most of the characters have the most boring personality and dialogue I've ever seen. The middle English verbage is also annoying and repetitive. The ending tries to justify the poor quality of the story and characters that with some badly executed metanarrative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ which is even more badly written. Seems like the writer was whining about the state of fantasy stories, but they did not have the skill to come even close to executing it properly. If I wanted that, I'd play Undertale. I have seen countless mediocre triple A and indie games with mediocre or boring stories, but Dragon's Dogma 2 takes the cake for actually being able to piss me off by the end of it. Pathfinder is also the biggest ♥♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen in any videogame. I won't say "play if you don't care about writing and story in videogames", because the story is very intrusive, and the pawn dialogue also gets very annoying throughout it. So in that sense it isn't something you can ignore. Buy the game only if this unique gameplay still makes you want to play despite all the rest of the game being completely bare bones. If you can wait for when the DLC itself gets a discount along with the main game, that'd be the best time to get it.