Dragon's Dogma Demo

Was meh.

It's not sh1t or anything, but there's nothing to the game. It's not as janky as it looked at E3 last year, but it's so simple. The basic enemies aren't really a threat to you, and fighting the bosses wasn't even that cool.

Like the game wants you to grab on to your enemies, and go for specific spots(think Shadow of the Colossus, but on a smaller enemy, and more "hit the wings' and not glowy spot) but really you can just grab the boss and wack at them all day. Like I killed the griffin without ever really cutting the wings off. I just grabbed on and mashed x.

Mechanically there isn't anything broken or wrong with the game, but the demo doesn't really give you much to flex with here. The combat seems basic mashing, and the enemies in the demo really don't require you to do much blocking. The boss fights were mad simple and straight forward. The whole demo just lacked any intensity, and kind of shows that the combat is shallow. Also why doesn't your dude have a dodge move? That is something so basic.

Plus the pawns should clearly be coop players, and from what I'm reading at neogaf the game is solo only.

Glad you made this thread so I didn't have to. :o

Those were pretty much my thoughts as well.

I liked the scale of it and the art design, but I didn't really feel challenged. Admittedly, the character creator is nice and the lack of challenge may be fixed in the real game, but I never felt like I was in danger of dying, and when I'm fighting big scary sh!t, I feel like that should happen. 

I also wanted a more in-depth look at the game's systems. There was no way to manage your weapons/armor/skills in the demo, so I was curious how all of that worked. I mean, when I can not really understand what I'm doing aside from grabbing onto something and stabbing it to death, or what my party members are doing (they were making my weapons all glowy and all sorts of crazy sh!t and I didn't really get how or why or what have you), and win... that's not good.

I dunno. I'm still interested in it, but that demo was pretty sh!t. I feel like the combat system and the pawn system have serious potential, though.

And if they are going to be constant companions, and there's no co-op... smh. 

Glad you made this thread so I didn't have to. :o

Those were pretty much my thoughts as well.

I liked the scale of it and the art design, but I didn't really feel challenged. Admittedly, the character creator is nice and the lack of challenge may be fixed in the real game, but I never felt like I was in danger of dying, and when I'm fighting big scary sh!t, I feel like that should happen.

I also wanted a more in-depth look at the game's systems. There was no way to manage your weapons/armor/skills in the demo, so I was curious how all of that worked. I mean, when I can not really understand what I'm doing aside from grabbing onto something and stabbing it to death, or what my party members are doing (they were making my weapons all glowy and all sorts of crazy sh!t and I didn't really get how or why or what have you), and win... that's not good.

I dunno. I'm still interested in it, but that demo was pretty sh!t. I feel like the combat system and the pawn system have serious potential, though.

And if they are going to be constant companions, and there's no co-op... smh.

DarkLink77

Is there a kinect version so I can flap my wings like a dragon and spin around?

It was mehtastic. It looked nice, but the gameplay was just overly basic, and the combat just consisted of "mash X and Y to win". Also, some of the dialogue in the demo was hilariously awful.

It was mehtastic. It looked nice, but the gameplay was just overly basic, and the combat just consisted of "mash X and Y to win". Also, some of the dialogue in the demo was hilariously awful.

 

drinkerofjuice

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Felt the same way as you guys. The constant taking the camera away from the player to show your AI teammate doing something was incredibly annoying. AAllxxjjnn

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It was mehtastic. It looked nice, but the gameplay was just overly basic, and the combat just consisted of "mash X and Y to win". Also, some of the dialogue in the demo was hilariously awful.

 

Foolz3h

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Does anyone else feel kind of guilty about killing the "boss monsters"?

I mean, the poor thing is on fire and it has a bunch of people crawling all over it and stabbing it to death.  :|  

I liked the scale of it and the art design

DarkLink77

the art design was generic as hell :|

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I liked the scale of it and the art design

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the art design was generic as hell :|

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I liked the scale of it and the art design

DarkLink77

the art design was generic as hell :|

yeah, it wasn't even well-done traditional fantasy. it was so...bland.

It's getting fairly mixed reviews, will wait for eventual PC version. Capcom has at least been good at bringing most of their titles to PC, with excellent ports at that. That way the screen tearing of the 360 one and the low fps of the PS3 one should at least be eliminated. 110million

[QUOTE="110million"]It's getting fairly mixed reviews, will wait for eventual PC version. Capcom has at least been good at bringing most of their titles to PC, with excellent ports at that. That way the screen tearing of the 360 one and the low fps of the PS3 one should at least be eliminated. tagyhag

I just looked into that, it was kind of a stupid explanation "the pawn system makes it a bit difficult", I don't see how, it's barely an online feature in the first place. If they removed using other player's pawns and just let you use like offline ones, no one would really give a **** I imagine.  

Not sure if I'd get it eventually on console, maybe for like $30 at some point. 

Couple of hours into the game.

it takes a while but the combat really starts getting fun once you're past the learning curve 

Is the framerate better in the final game?110million