Everything Wrong with Dragon's Dogma 2

Dragon Dogma 2 boy am I excited to talk about this game there is a lot to unpack here I've played almost 100 hours of the game given 10 of that is probably in the Character Creator and from the title of this video Everything Wrong With Dragon's Dogma 2 you probably think I hate this game which would also be wrong the original title for this video was why Dragon's Dogma 2 sucks but also kind of rules but then General Sam's video came out called This is what makes Dragon Dogma 2 suck and I feel like he kind of claimed dibs on suck and now I'm kind of wondering if we're 7 seconds into this video because I'm saying suck a lot and I'm wonder if YouTube is thinking I'm saying [ __ ] the weird thing about Dragon dama 2 is even with all the problems that we're going to talk about today I still actually liked Dragon's dma 2 and that's actually kind of the most frustrating part I liked it I didn't love it and I have a feeling that most of the people that are going to play the game are just going to like it key words there being play the game because it kind of depends on if you can get the game to run properly on your PC but regardless this game had the capacity to be an outstanding game that the majority loved but with all the baffling decisions that the game developers made in my eyes I think it failed to do so this is everything wrong with Dragon's Dogma 2 gosh that other title would have hits so much harder damn you Sam before we dive in I want to thank the sponsor of this video oper GX does your browser have zero personality then let me introduce you to oper GX a browser that's built for gamers that's oozing with creative potential have you ever felt like your 87 tabs of YouTube videos might be having an effect on your gaming oper GX can limit how much RAM CPU and network usage the browser takes up and that could save you from making a fumble on your next clutch play oper GX is fully customizable and even now has mods created by some of your favorite content creators like 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I'm not your enemy in this game he play is the Arisen a person whose heart is ripped out and eaten by a dragon I see you've met my ex-wife the Arisen has the power to command human-like beings called ponds which we'll get into they basically agid you on your quest to find and kill the dragon that ripped your heart out you might have also noticed that dragons dama 2 is a sequel its last game came out 12 years ago and if you're wondering if you need to get caught up to play a second game there's no need because the second game is the same exact story as the first game that that's not an exaggeration you play as the Arisen your heart gets ripped out and eaten by a dragon and you have the power to command pawns on your quest to find and kill that Dragon good great I played a little bit of the first game but then I ended up watching a playthrough to get caught up with the story whenever the Dragon Z 2 trailers dropped which got me really stoked for the sequel the graphics looked insanely upgraded the combat looked Punchy and satisfying the world looked realistic and not just environment like with your armors and weapons which I thought was kind of unusual for a Capcom game and their games are usually fighting with like cartoon siiz weapons like SpongeBob and Patrick fighting over who Dirty Dan is which which I personally abhor and the thing that got me the most fired up about dragon's dma is seeing those shadow of Colossus like elements where you jump on a giant monsters to take them down besides some scuffed looking lip sync that I saw in multiple clips I see you desire one of my masterpieces I was sold and then the game came out to a catastrophic release which is just par for the course for any game that I look forward to nowadays love that Trend and I can't stress this enough this catastrophe could have been so easily avoided for Dragon so too and I really do want to talk about the game here so I'm going to make this whole section as fast as I can here's the three major issues of the release number one they took a page out of ubisoft's cursed handbook and put microtransactions in a single player game which is such a toned deaf Choice how can you be a game designer and not know that this is going to get your game set on fire online the weird thing about this is all these microtransactions are easily attainable in game like $3 for a camping kit they're all over the place and you know what they all have in common they're cheap I think the majority of the hate that came to them on release was because of this and it was all for what a couple extra bucks on the back end do you realize how many people didn't buy your $70 game because it has mixed reviews on Steam because of your $1 microtransactions that being said I actually do agree with Asen Gold's opinion on some of the microtransactions in game so the microtransactions is like it's obviously bad there's nothing good about it there's no upside for the player there's nothing that's positive that is in any capacity related to it it's just 100% bad uh now does it ruin the game no it does not ruin the game it doesn't really make a big difference doesn't really matter a lot yeah it didn't ruin the game it didn't affect my gameplay whatsoever I just can't believe that Capcom would I can believe that Capcom would shoot itself in the foot like this number two was that the game launched with some crucial mechanics missing AKA there was no new game button which I find extremely bizarre for a game that has such a strong character creator yes there is an item in the game that you can purchase to switch your character's appearance but it's kind of expensive really on and when the game first launched it only had two uses so you can only switch your appearance and your main Pawn's appearance one time before you were out of uses then you would have to buy the $2 microtransaction there's still a problem there though let's say you did what I did which was I made my character a ven first this item can't change you back to a human and there's no new game button so I just want to ask the game director what were you supposed to do there like make another Steam account and buy the game again just so you're not a cat a couple days in they updated the game to include a new Game feature and they made the item that changes your character appearance have 99 uses which you know good job I'm glad you listened to your community but man what an oversight I mean no new game feature what are youing [ __ ] number three is an issue that I honestly don't know how easy of a fix this is in their engine but the game is drastically unoptimized Little Nerd here talk real quick I have a 4070 TI an i7 13700 K i7 processor and 64 GB of RAM and I also play games at a 2K resolution most new games that come out today that look even better than dragons dama 2 in my opinion I get more than 100 frames on high or Max settings in dragons Dom 2 I'd say I averaged 40 frames a second the entire game now there's Nuance there which is out in the wilderness I mainly got 60 frames a second which isn't killing me I'm not like a Die Hard 120 frames guy what did kill me is anytime you go into a town in this game it would drop consistently below 20 frames a second that was killing me I don't know entirely what's going wrong I've heard that it's the CPU is being utilized more than the GPU but I've also heard your performance is tied to how many NPCs are on screen which I think is painfully hilarious because one of the main components of this game is bringing around three NPCs with you everywhere you go that's like making a firstperson shooter where you lose frames the more magazines you have also this game isn't exactly state-of-the-art when it comes to towns and cities it's not like a thousands of people walking around it's like 15 in your general vicinity most of the time and most of the time you can see them fade in and out of existence right in front of your eyes right in your walking path this game has a few graphical bugs that are pretty rough like around the grass and the water I don't know what artifacting is going on here but I know that they need to fix it in order for me to stay immersed in their world I just think all these problems are so blatantly obvious like who tested your game was it not clear as day that this game is not ready for release and with the first two problems it's like Capcom it's 2024 wake up you ad okay so that's the release now let's talk about the actual game and we can start on a positive note their character creator is fantastic and if you don't know me I'm a sucker for good character creator there's so many tools it goes so in depth and there's a lot of subtly important things here like I love when a game has hair physics not just on long hair there's short hair hair physics in this one too they also have some hairstyles I've never seen before I'm just going to call this one the Super Saiyan 3 there's a ton of tattoos and scars you can put them all over your body there's an in-depth eye color customization I tried to get my eyes to be as blue as they are in real life it's a tough task I couldn't get there but we got close you can change your teeth and I don't mean like making them gold or adding grills like in cyberpunk I mean you can select how many tooths are actually in your head like how much schuma is your character smoking I do think it's kind of a random feature to include in this game a game where your character does not speak or open his mouth but I'd say the best feature in the Character Creator something I totally almost missed was how you can change your character's walk and posture this feature can tell such a story of your character like is he a brave bold Knight or is he a decrepit sorcerer that cast spells from ancient tones sorry for the voice after a brief I'm not kidding 3 hours I was finished with my character and then I was released out into the open world I ran down the road fought some goblins got to my first Little Village went up to a rock and was sent right back into the Character Creator to create my main pond so another hour and a half later I was released back into the open world one thing I hate about the Character Creator and this is specifically for the ponds is your voice choices I hate when games give you the illusion of a bunch of different voices you can choose from but really what they're doing is they hired four different voice actors and just Twisted the pitch up and down on the voices the people here are evacuated the people here are evacuated and it makes so many ponds voices so bad I'm sure we'll find a purpose for it in due time we could make the fruit rebant not like a feast to get you ready for bed I've got Wares of every El bro is this guy like chocolate rain developers stop using this feature in your game yes it might make the voices sound deeper but it also makes them sound like they're talking in slow motion Yes master how can I serve you it's [ __ ] weird and I also made the oversight of once I made Dante I gave him a voice that I ended up hating dude we bur all elves a pat on the back overconfidence is an enemy in and of itself let us instead strive to better ourselves with every battle Yeah I really wish I gave Dante a different personality he's he's like the teacher's pet that's so annoying we should actually learn to not have too much confidence but to better ourselves every day speaking of ponds this is where the trouble begins like I said earlier it's a main component to the game ponds come into your world through a riftstone and Aid the Arisen on their Quest they serve you day and night they follow every one of your commands and they do it all all free of charge they're not like they're not like that it's not like that you get the ability to create your main Pond who's basically your partner through the game I made my pond Dante who is basically our Mage most of the game what's up pipsqueak if you go to the roof Stone you can hire two more ponds and it connects you online to other players games and you hire their main pond in the riftstone most of the time it's an absolute freak Show what is this dude I see you recognize my wor I suppose I should consider myself H Nigel see not even the Arisen could resist my charms I shall be proud to serve you very well a your cause trade take me as your Shield some people have these as their main Sidekicks that's crazy in a way other players are trying to get you to use their pawns because they get paid RC in the game so characters are usually trying to make you laugh I shall be proud to serve you gosh that's a favorite one I've seen that's so badly make you hard why do they do this dude this is so funny though there's a lot of guys doing this they take off the pants I shall lend you my Aid a famous character discipline your company lacks that is amazing is that Gand it is G or in very rare cases just a regular guy I ended up hiring a couple of these humulus talking about you puberty and withered I am confident and may act independently I want him sign him this guy's name is PU to PI from to the team shall we discuss tactics now or later oh we hired you as a joke and they are awesome and there's part of me that kind of wishes I got to continue using them throughout the game but you and your main Pond level up while the ones that you hired don't so as you progress through the game you have to continually swap them out for new pawns which is a cool idea it gives you multiple opportunities to switch up the group dynamic whether it's the class the armor or the personalities personalities it was just kind of sad when I had to say goodbye to somebody like puberty where I fired him and gave him a severance twig and send him on his way I dare say I've accomplished a few Feats to be proud of at least sure I kind of wish him or granny could have joined me on the rest of my adventure here's a big issue with the ponds their personalities are dog [ __ ] your ponds repeat themselves all the godamn time you're like to grow overburdened if you keep picking up every little trinket you find you're like to grow overed over of to to much to be getting on every cor I'll collect that I'll collect that I'll collect that one might confid resounding Victory overconfidence is an enemy in and of itself overconfidence is an enemy in and of itself that was well fought overconfidence is an enemy in and of itself in itself this is generally used as a material generally used as a material is generally used as a material we find you're like to grow over burden if you keep picking up every little trinket you find hey puberty if you tell me that one more goddamn time you're off theing team their dialogue is also brutally uninteresting I'll carefully conserve my strength and Endeavor to survive every battle by way of sound strategy and defensive tactics he's all business Dante is all business you got that's one thing you got to know about him good sleep is the key to a good Adventure a lot of the time the lines just don't make any sense either you would gather materials here monster can we really afford to carry more can we everyone's light and sometimes they talk too much and just annoy the [ __ ] out of you they's stairs how can you not walk up on oh I don't know about you master but I'm worn out mightn't we have a rest hey tiberious how about you [ __ ] shut your mouth maybe I should go left sir maybe you should shut up Ryan base of fire and the worst part is they just seem like a robot they don't grow or change or adapt you could complete all the quests in the game and their personality would still be the same as when you started the game there was one time in my 95 hours of playing the game where I thought there was actually a pretty decent line between two pawns come to think of it have you always pursued your current vocation in your service to the Arisen well there was a time I served our Master as a mage I can scarce believe how far I've come since then that was like the first good line of Di like I've seen so far from the NPCs and then No Lie 2 minutes later you know what he said well there was a time I served our Master as a mage there's an interview I saw that's only two months old with the game director Heidi itsu and I'm looking in the comments and it's nothing but support for this guy in there and hey I like the guy he seems really ambitious about his game him and his team have clearly worked hard on the game and there is a lot of good stuff in the game and we'll get to that but he also kind of No Man's sky overpromises here quite a bit like he talks about stuff that is definitely not in his game he talks about these NPCs like they have live outside of the players's world which they totally don't it's new says that we wanted characters who live in the world and act according to their goals we wanted them to make decisions for themselves bro what decisions what goals there there's there's no goals here this isn't like the camp in radio Redemption 2 these people don't have hours and hours of dialogue of interesting things to say all the NPCs in the game are just like the lowest tier of AI when you're in town and you pull out your weapons everybody freaks out including the people that are selling weapons there's also a really weird thing that he says in this video and it might be a translation issue but it's this [Music] somebody might come over to your house to play what the [ __ ] game do you think you made this isn't the Sims 2 I'm a 47-year-old Adventurer that comes home once every 2 weeks to sleep for 2 seconds and then go back out on the road who's coming over to my house to play in this whole situation where he talks about two characters fighting over their love for you this never happens and I don't even think can happen I tried to find gameplay of anybody experienced in this online and found nothing here's the last thing I'll say about the pawn system why why why does this game not have optional Co-op here is another game with a companion system perfectly fit to have your AI be switched out with one of your real life friends and it would change literally nothing except you could experience it with your friend now why in this interview Ito even says that he was inspired to make the pawn system from playing online with his friends but the thing with online play was that your friends would have to meet up at the same time and sometimes your friend would have to go to the bathroom for a couple minutes so to negate these minor inconveniences what if we made a game where your friends create characters that you can use as AI companions that way it'll make you feel like you're playing with your friends all the time here's the kicker no it does not you know what it feels a lot like like I'm playing with AI we haven't talked about the combat yet but co-op in the combat could have been so cool like fighting a cyclops and your friend puts up a shield so he can spring jump you up onto the Cyclops and you can stab it in the eye and take it down that would have been so sick but instead you can't command your pawns to do moves so you just have to wait for them to like randomly do the spring jump thing which my guy had the ability and he never did There's also times where you'll find like a door that only an Archer can shoot open and you can't command your pond to do it but you know who would have been able to do that a human being I don't know it's probably a stupid idea probably a stupid idea that I would incentivize people to buy the game in group groups and sell you more copies but still that's not worth investing in all right now let's talk about something good here this game does exploration incredibly well you are constantly rewarded in this game for going off the beaten path and finding treasure left and right there's tons of groups of Monsters and Men just roaming around the world I love the character movement in this game this is a weirdly specific thing but I really love the run in this game it's like the perfect speed and animation cycle some games kind of do this weirdly like breath the wild Link's Sprint is so [ __ ] but I kind of like it for that game but in some games it can feel really slow like a Toren walk in World of Warcraft there's also a lot of climbing in this game not just on enemies but just like climbing up the Earth around you and it's really sweet how you can combine that in your combat like one of my favorite moments in the game was seeing a harpy fly around and I was a thief a melee class so I couldn't shoot it down but I found a ledge and just made a leap of faith onto the harpy and grabbed onto it I got one oh my gosh it worked like dragged this thing to the ground took it down and slaughtered it with my friends that Discovery was one of the sickest I've had in gaming when the game's logic just allows you to pull off something super badass that is just just one thing I also love about the movement is the fact that you can like grab things you can grab explosive barrels but you can also grab people and I just love tossing people especially when it's into the water and they get eaten by the lowf frame rate water aliens we'll get to that I will say the controls are pretty clunky like RB was their choice to shoot the arrow not right trigger like literally every game in the world and I don't know whose job it was to make the controls but whoever made the decision to make the examine button which is another word for loot they have a lot of weird word choices in this game whoever made the button for examine and Sprint the the same button uh you should be fired so if you're not directly over the loop when you hit B you'll Sprint past it talking about the weird word choice by the way like when you're in conversation with somebody instead of saying leave conversation at the bottom it'll say cancel I cancel this conversation and sometimes people will be talking to you and they don't offer you anything but it'll say decline offering I also weirdly like in the game when you take consistent damage you start to lose your total health [Music] barom ow and in order to get it back you have to rest at camp or sleep at an inn and I kind of love this for an adventure game when you have to take a beat slow down camp with their squad and all gather around a fire to cook a real life 720p video of a steak what it just shows stock footage of a meal what a choice they actually put this into their video game it's like in SpongeBob when they all go out of the ocean and they all turn into fish on sticks it's very bizarre there's a few style choices in this game that just make no sense to me the old English that's so weirdly cobbled together my happy old recall all of import there what and there's also film Grain on flashback scenes like what they have a medieval camera back then I don't know there is a thing about the world that's kind of weird and that's the activities that you can do but the thing with the activities is they're useless you can buy around a beer for 2,000 gold and get a 4 second cut scene that was cool no buff or anything you can go to the spa hang out with some old naked guys no benefit you can give donations to the poor nothing changes you can have your fortune told for 50 gold nothing is revealed there's wildlife in the game but they barely react to the player a haircut costs 10,000 gold and you can have sex in this game for 20,000 gold I'll take this one no no and that gets you this 6C sex scene and I can show it in its entirety without getting demonetized yeah look they're they're like fully clo not fully closed but you know what I mean [Music] I think it's going to be like literally like nothing are you serious hope I near see that wretched Patron again wow an she insulted the [ __ ] out of me no bonuses no Buffs No Effects and no orgasm it's crazy why did you add any of the [ __ ] into the game there's a couple different biomes it's mainly forest and Canyon in the game and I will say there is a sweet Elder BR like reveal when you finally get to the desert part of the map but you know would have made this reveal way better if there was any [ __ ] music in the game like you don't constantly need to be playing music but when you get to the desert it's just like wind like how much more badass would this be if you had like the finale track of Game of Thrones [Music] playing if you told me that they got all the battle music from this game off of epidemic sound I would have believed you and I have a feeling that some people are actually going to try to defend the music in this game and if you're going to do that real quick hum me the theme of Dragon's domma 2 check and mate now let me touch on maybe the strongest part of dragon dma which is the combat this game's combat is just fun there's a great sense of progression there's a great sense of power gained there's a bunch of different classes to try out and the game actually encourages you to try out multiple vocations vocations or classes in the game and here's one thing I'll say right off the bat which might confuse some people I think they should have unlocked all the vocations from the start hear me out this game does an atrocious job of how you gain new vocations I'll give you an example the mysic spear hand is one of the coolest classes in the game you basically become a medieval Darth Maul Jedi and the way you get it is you go and talk to this guy and you know the force that's it I'll thank you to keep your distance oh I just need to say hi none of them have cool Quest and here's the biggest issue I didn't unlock two of these vocations until after I beat the game and the reason is because you don't get to the island where you can unlock these vocations until organically at the end of the game and I know that there's a way to like cheese your way onto the island early but I didn't do that and I just think this is such a weird Choice from a game developer standpoint like imagining making a full class that you have pride in all the abilities and passives and then implementing into the game where a large portion of your player base is never going to experience it so if you're not going to put any effort into the Journey of unlocking these locations then just unlock them from the start there's also 10 classes and for some reason you're pawns can only use six of them and I truly don't understand why they can't use the other four besides like laziness from the developers so let's jump into these classes you got the fighter which is your Classic Soldier with a sword and shield this class you'll feel the awesome impacts that dragon's Domina 2 has to offer just Shield bashing people off of Ledges fighting up close and personal they also get this awesome move that's like an impale move where you just stab your enemy over and over and over again like your freaking Batman don't let them get the I'm Vengeance the Mage is a combination of a destructive and healing spellcaster where they have the typical Elemental moves like a giant flamethrower they can call down lightning they can cast a huge blizzard but they can also heal the team and enchant their weapons the way you aim as a mage is also same as an Archer where you kind of like go over the shoulder I had Dante mainly play this class because I could choose his abilities that he uses so I had the proper heals and enchantments to my weapons you also unlock cool passes with each vocation like Mages get a levitate if you hold a the Archer is pretty cool it felt a little weak compared to the other classes but I could totally be wrong here all the abilities of the Archer look really cool and the Archer also made me realize that your movement affects your attacks as well so if you're sprinting and hit X as an Archer you'll slide on the ground and shoot like a powerful Arrow it can look really sick in combat you also have a really powerful arrow that you have to time right to get its Max benefit you also have a rapid fire arrow that you can shoot and you'll feel just like legless it's awesome the thief class is the class I played the most kind of surprisingly cuz I don't always play as like a rogue character and stuff in games but I was drawn to this class because I had a feeling that it was going to be the class that clim the most onto enemies and stabbed them over and over there's this really sick move called like Gore it up where you stab a large enemy and like really dig your knife in and slash it out and it does a massive amount of damage had so much fun as a thief they attack really quick their Y is a quick execute you're just constantly jumping on enemies and stabbing them it's fantastic those are the main four classes the next one that you have is the sorcerer which is basically like the Mage but they have no healing spells and they have a few more destructive spells one of them is really good it puts like an elemental ball on an enemy and the more your friends attack it the higher damage it'll burst onto the en you can kill big enemies ridiculously fast like this I killed the Griffin in like less than a minute when my sorcerer used this ability the next I have a feeling is a favorite among a lot of players which is the warrior the warrior uses a two-handed weapon and they attack very slow but they put out a ton of damage when they strike you can just blast through enemies like you're a Goliath with a two-handed sword it's very satisfying in a lot of ways and once you unlock its passives it becomes a juggernaut of damage the next class is called the trickster and you might be thinking is this some kind of like shadowy Phantom damage take on the thief boy I wish it was the trickster I was so excited to get because I had never seen a class in a video game that looked like it it's very Middle Eastern looking I love the outfits and the weapon choice I really wanted to like this class but it just sucks how do I do I don't know how to use this guy it's basically the pacifist class so you raise a spirit that enemies can attack and you use your smoke to like boost your allies and also damage them and as far as your attacks go you can use the smoke canister to hit an enemy but it's basically the equivalent to an old lady just hitting him with a handbag I wish they had added some cool attacks to this character like an A lowy Move That Could like pull the spirit out of an enemy and your allies attack that and it deals bonus damage to the enemy or maybe some sort of like smoke choke Soul drain move I don't know just something like that the next two classes are the ones that I didn't get to use until after I beat the game and honestly after I beat the game I didn't really want to play the game anymore but I got them anyway so you have the magic Archer which if you can guess it's basically the Mage plus the Archer combined and you shoot magic arrows it has a lot of cool abilities I didn't really play a lot of this class so it it looks generally cool it getes it gets a thumbs up from me and the last class I actually did experiment with which is the Warfare this is what I would call the classless vocation because it allows you to use any abilities from your other vocations that you've learned you only catch as one of your ability slots is taken by the rearmament move to switch between the weapons to use the certain abilities I decided to combine a Mystic spear hand and a warrior class and that dealt plenty of damage and I really like the outcome it's the coolest class in the game buy a long shot I know we all want to deny it I'm a thief main I want to deny it it's clearly the coolest class you basically have a force jump stab you can teleport above your enemies and strike down and you have an ability in your right hand if you charge it up you can shoot it at a group of enemies and slow them all down just everything about this class the movement to is just so sick play it it's super powerful you'll feel awesome it's really fun things are very satisfying with the combat in the game the only qualm I have is it gets it's really messy especially with having three other teammates the effects are big the blood effects are big a lot of the times you lose your character in The Badness especially when you're like grabbing on a something and being flinged around on a positive note after battles a lot of the time you get a high five from your teammates and that's really cool one thing I will say about the combat is there's not a ton of creature variety which I'm very surprised by because while looking at a lot of the Dragons DOA one footage I realized most of the creatures in Dragon Zama 2 are in Dragon Zama 1 and barely different looking and I wasn't Die Hard Dragon Zama one player and I wonder if you guys are Dragon dama one players out there were you disappointed by the fact that like you're just kind of fighting the same enemies again like I feel like I would have been bummed if that was the case I know the game had 12 years to make but I think it was only really in development for like five of those years but I don't know I would expect a little bit more variety the last thing I want to mention before we talk about the story is the user interface and I know it's not the sexiest subject so we'll get through it pretty quick I don't understand Japan sometimes Japan puts out some of the coolest Cutting Edge design stuff whether it's cars or fashion or photography art whatever it is but when it comes to video game user interface they have just been stuck in like 2003 like any fromsoft Dark Souls Elden ring terrible user interface death stranding terrible user interface it might look flashy but it's not good it's not intuitive it's not functional is Nintendo the only company that can get this part right Dogma 2os is atrocious so I got to go back in the menu because I got to go unequip this then I go out of that menu then I go talk to him again skip this dialogue organize deposit put this cape in go out go to withdrawal let me go get another Cape it's all the way over here sorry I'm losing frames I'm going through these menus too fast can't equip it from there Jesus all right goe out of that menu cancel skip through that text okay I go back into my menu let's give it a second and then go here equip now I look cool why do I have to spend hours in your good games in your inventories and why God why I have the autohide function on my user interface but unless I'm standing completely still does it ever disappear why do you have to have every little widget on screen completely spelled out with it text at all times let me see your beautiful world it's not that hard cut the fat you don't have to like have everything look super intricately designed to match the theme of the medieval game it's like no just give me simple UI it's like good CGI it's working well when you don't notice it and it's not just Japanese developers that have bad UI it's just a trend that I see in a lot of their game like the attack on Titan game I played sometime last year that had terrible UI Fire Emblem is still stuck with their terrible UI it's just there's a lot that needs to be updated there okay so now let's talk about the story where to begin and I kind of wonder if the Dragon Z 2 developers knew where to begin because I don't think they made up their mind there's like three false starts to this game and the first time I played the game I didn't know what the hell was going on oh is this me and also in those first three false starts you don't mean a single main character which is the first critical problem with the story of Dragon's dma 2 there are no main characters it's crazy in my personal experience I'm not kidding I had to Google every single character name for this video and if you think it's because I didn't pay attention enough in the game that's partially true but why didn't I because they didn't matter this game suffers from three main things number one there are no main characters in this game number two is the story suffers from people being at the right place at the perfect time and number three is that there is missing context for almost everything in this game that means lore that means logic that means character motivations all of it most of it isn't there let me just give you a brief telling of the introduction the game starts with what seems to be you being King and then you pass out and then you wake up in a desert prison cell you meet a guy named Rook a Medusa shows up a ghost shows up it sends you a griffin you and Rook escape on the Griffin as you're over a forest a woman shoots a giant crossbow at the Griffin and it kills it and you cra land and pass out when you wake up your friend Rook is being eaten by lowf frame rate water aliens sidebar that's called the brine apparently there's not much l of this I've looked into it let's read between the lines here it's definitely just an excuse to avoid making a swimming mechanic anyway Rook says don't worry we'll see each other again we don't Knights instantly appear where you land they take you to their Outpost as you walk up instantly all these ponds are like pouring out of the gate you also don't know that they ponds at the moment I thought these would be main characters you never see them again and you never see these Knights again after the camp one of these knights with crazy icons contct another sidebar the eye contact faces and lip sync that characters make in this game are insane he says I have no memories of how I got to where I am he says it because my character can't speak he says how about you go to the last town that the dragon attacked and maybe that'll drag your memory you go to the town and what do you know you start having memories and the visions of how you became the Arisen and at the perfect time the woman that shot down the Griffin is walking by as you're having these visions and after the Visions you wake up in her house with her with your attempted murderer I'm not kidding at this part in the story I really did think this woman was my enemy not only is she not my enemy there's like some weird sexual tension in this room this is the second time I've watched over you like this isn't it the chemistry is palpable it could also be tensioned from the fact that this woman shot me 1,000 ft out of the sky and expected me to live right here you also get the classic like over the shoulder hero look of like I'll see you on the flip side sweetheart and then she gently says this damsel line good luck Arisen like was that supposed to mean something I don't know who this woman is also the editing and pacing of the story is so weird there wasn't any scene of me actually passing out I just have visions and then wake up in her bedroom and then when I leave her house I'm immediately just talking to a group of men also Capcom developers I wouldn't make this guy s Gregor look exactly like a later on villain in the game make them a little bit more indistinguishable these guys take me to the city of vermund because they've heard Rumblings that the new Arisen has appeared and that's me but the problem with that is that there's currently an Arison sitting on the throne and there can only be one Arisen at the time and whoever becomes Arison has claimed to the throne so one of us is lying you meet Brandt chief of the city guard he starts off really mad at you being really speculative once you're in private he's like yo I actually totally believe you I know that the queen has gotten a fake Arison to sit on the throne but in order to take her down we got to have a strategy so I'm the Arisen chosen by a dragon have my heart ripped out queen daa found another guy with a chest wound that claimed to be the Arisen and they started working together so he's on the throne until her son Sven Becomes of age to sit on the throne brance wants to take Queen diesa down because his Allegiance is to the Arisen and and I don't know what this has to do with the dragon but who doesn't want to be king and that's pretty much the whole beginnings all right so number one there are no main characters I think I played an hour and a half of this game until I met brand and I would argue that he's the only main character in the game and it's because you get the most Quest from him outside of that there is no one that is ought of import and he might say like well queen diesa and the false ariser kind of main characters right spoiler alert surprise surprise at the end of the game you fight the dragon and the game ends queen daa and the false Arisen story don't end they just disappear and I've even looked at their wikis and there's nothing what happens to them once you kill the dragon it's just solved you're just the king and you don't see anything that happens to the people that were against you that's it this part isn't really a spoiler but it involves the end of the game depending on who you spent the most time with like the most quote unquote affinity for that character will appear in the cinematics at the end of the game and I'm going to say my guy I had no [ __ ] idea why he was becoming like a main character at the end of the game like I was like why is this guy like we've talked twice there's a decision that you can make where you can like sacrifice them and I know joke almost did it because I was like I don't care about this guy when it comes to the characters being at the right place at the perfect time I already kind of Ed the example of my attempted murderer showing up at the right time in Mel but let me use another example that also kind of pertains with the no context thing so you sneak into a party at the queen's castle and with no context included the guards are alerted that there's a suspicious person lurking about and that's me so I make a dash and I end up in this brothel where the brothel lady in charge is just waiting there for me randomly she hides me in a room and then guards walk up to her and say Where's that guy that's clearly hiding in the room behind you and she with her charm tells them to go away you are excused and they just do and the next part is ridiculous which is she comes back inside and then she shows you this peephole and when you look through it it just so happens that the fake Arisen is in this room and he's drinking and he's with these two prostitutes and everybody's fully clothed because this is a rated M game but it's made by Capcom and nude bodies are just crossing a line for some reason he's just relishing and being the fake King and while we're looking through this whole the queen barges in and scolds him you would do well to remember that your role Demands a certain degree of dignity I trust you understand your position your majesty nay I mean I as you say and he just kind of listens to her and gets sober and leaves after he leaves a mysterious masked man comes in and he even Reveals His identity Lord Faus and we don't know who the [ __ ] it is I get this was supposed to be a moment the way this is all acted out in this like 30 second window that I just happened to be looking at the people at this perfect time it's like what is this a [ __ ] play also here's my perfect example of no context they try to paint queen diesa as this like evil Tyrant but there's nothing that shows her like evil rule like the city's not spiraling into chaos she seems to be doing pretty fine and there's no context to show why she's a feared ruler I think they could have done something cool here the fake Arisen in her to start working together and you find out later that the reason he has a scar has like nothing to do with really anything that could have been a cool context moment but he just made it a random injury like I think a cool way they could have built up daa's character is when brand is originally telling you about her and they have those film grain flashback scenes if you showed us a scene where she was talking to a young man that has no scar on his chest and she's convincing him to become the false Arisen by tempting him with like royalty and wealth and he ends up accepting like what's there to lose and she's like great and as she leaves the room she turns and says oh by the way I need to make sure your heart is is in this and then two guards just like grab him and pin him down to a table and start carving into his chest the fake Arisen Scar and it cuts to an exterior of him like screaming into the distance like that would have been a cool way to show her power that would have added context to the reason why the fake risen leaves the room right away when she asks it would show that she has control over him you meet disa's son Sven while you're snooping around the castle and he's next to be king but for some reason he just like is a good guy and he sides with you immediately and like hates his mom and wants to stop her plan diesa is probably doing this for you little [ __ ] probably I don't know they don't show one character motivation in this game what do you even get when you become king besides vague power I don't I don't even want to be king I just want to run through the forest and kill creatures that's what this game's good at it's a terrible at telling a story and let me just skip to the end okay spoiler alert again when the dragon finally shows up it's a long fight between you and the dragon I killed it and then you become king daa fake Arisen story completely vanish except there's the ghost there that saved you in the beginning and after you talk to him the game starts loading and then it loads you onto the back of the Dragon on your way to fight the dragon again and at this point I was really pissed what what is this doing what what why am I am I about to fight this [ __ ] Dragon again yep give me give me more [ __ ] Exposition I love this this is very interesting this dragon's not Dull and vapid at all I just hate this like what would you do if you could rule the world like over and it's like I don't care I don't care I don't care about any character in this game I don't care about the world I don't care about the civilians I don't care about the NPCs nobody has an interesting story stop putting me through this [ __ ] waiting through dialogue [ __ ] wh what is this what is this I thought it was a glitch and then I looked online and everybody's like yeah what the hell that's like a really weird way to do this ending yeah I beat the game why am I fighting the dragon again I thought this was a glitch I'm just confused about what the gamees wants me to do this whole ending behooves me this is [ __ ] this is actually that's this the dumbest way to end this game apparently you're supposed to like not talk to The Ghost and you can get an ending that way but who's not going to [ __ ] talk to the ghost he's a glowing blue guy at the end of this ending what you're supposed to do is take out the godsbane sword that you got and stab yourself in the chest and you'll kill the dragon and yourself and you guys will fall into the brine man I have the same terminal velocity as a dragon and the brine will like take over the world for a month and you're passed out during that month you wake up and the entire world has changed it looks like stranger things upside down took over or like Calamity Ganon was just let loose on all the land and this would have been really cool if I cared about a single [ __ ] character in this game like the world has ended that'd be cool but I don't care about this world you might also notice that your main Pawn is missing and you're like [ __ ] is he dead and then you get word that he's been in a state of unconsciousness this whole time and so you go and try to find him and once you get to him he's just awake and saying hey what's up man there's no meaningful cut scene no like holding hand like you're going to be all right buddy nothing cool you basically just have to kill like three giant blighted monsters around the world and then you get the real ending where a dragon absorbs the blight I also didn't realize this wasn't this is a different dragon and it starts talking and I was like so confused also the dragon's talking God you you [ __ ] dragons can talk for a while huh and I don't know who's talking at this time is it the dragon or is it just a voice anyway I end up like skydiving and stabbing this dragon in the heart and a bunch of clipping goes through my chest and I guess the developers were like cool with that being center stage of their main ending and after you do that the world world is saved the climate is healthy again and the game just kind of ends and I was [ __ ] pissed off I will not be there to watch it I don't know who the is talking I don't know it's just so like it's so [ __ ] full of itself it doesn't it's wild like like pissed because you don't deserve this you don't deserve the soft piano ending oh get the [ __ ] over yourself you didn't deserve that at all you don't you don't deserve this song Get get out of my head why is the elf like a [ __ ] main character all of a sudden every when gamees put in a cut scene and it's like it seems to be using their in-game engine but it's like they recorded this at 720p and compress the [ __ ] out of it oh give me a break am I supposed to care about this guy the [ __ ] insane dude The Hermit on the cave no no you don't get that that's [ __ ] [ __ ] dude Capcom go [ __ ] yourself I just think it's wild that they had 12 years to come up with a story it retold Dragon zomo one and apparently he says that he's been working on the story for like 20 years this is what you came up with dude [ __ ] lie don't tell people that you made the story it is worthless again the game has a lot of great features about it it just doesn't have a story to tell or anything to care about and I was thinking about I'm like man if they had added Co-op I would have been like at least like well there's no big story but at least I have the story of me and my friends running through the forest like we're in The Fellowship of the Ring and speaking of I think this whole gameplay Loop could have made an awesome Lord of the Rings game like running through the forest chasing a pack of Uruk Kai as different classes gimle legalist and Aragorn like I love the exploring and if we were running around the world of Middle Earth it it could have been really sick obviously they don't have the rights to Lord of the Rings and stuff but it could have just been such a great setting like I recently just played all of the two towers game because I thought I was going to make a video on the Lord of the Rings games but I didn't and those games still kind of hold up especially the co-op and the Return of the King a co-op Lord of the Rings game like this could have been something else but it isn't what they made what they made is is a pretty good PS3 game with one of the worst stories I've ever heard thanks for watching my video guys if you got this far I appreciate it as always there's probably going to be some comments on this video disagreeing with my takes and I totally welcome it let me know what you thought of or think of Dragon Dogma thank you again to oper GX for sponsoring this video and supporting my channel oh and I got to show you one more thing I just woke her up from from a nap but guys look at this I got a little kitty named Ruby this is Ruby I'm not a big cat person man but she has stolen my heart like the heart of the origin she'll probably make a bunch of cameos in future videos so I'm sure you'll see more of her all right thanks guys I'll see you in the next one bye [Music]

Channel: Jack Sather

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Length: 45min 22sec (2722 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2024