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Shima Honnou posted:My copy gets here tomorrow (Pre-ordered from Newegg since they had a code that cut $12 off the order; they didn't ship it to arrive here on release day, though). What's the overall impressions of it so far? I love Dark Souls and I've heard tell that this is somehow similar although not as wonderfully difficult, but I've avoided too many spoilers to keep that 'new RPG' experience once it goes in the disc tray. What can I expect for my money? It's kinda Dark Souls meets Shadow of the Colossus, combat-wise. No giant glowing weakpoints, but you can climb all over monsters and hack them apart limb by limb if you so choose. The world doesn't quite have the foreboding mystique Lordran did, but it kind of makes up with it in sheer... Weirdness, I guess.
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Man, everytime I load up that title screen I feel things I've never felt before... o-oh god, I think I enjoyed a jpop song in a certain context.. what's happening to me? Verror fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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May 23, 2012 13:32
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Is there no way to advance time outside of staying at the inn? I keep messing around too long and getting caught afield when night falls and it's scary out there. 
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May 23, 2012 13:41
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Fizzil posted:I switched to mystic knight when i maxed the fighter ranks, i was hoping i would get to mix some fighter skills because enchanting your magick shield and bashing it in someones face would be far more useful than trying to black an attack. At least now i know the only thing you can take are shared skills and keep your previous vocations augments. To clarify, are you saying if you switch vocations you lose access to all previous vocation-unique skills other than augments? I was planning on maxing out my ranks in Strider before switching to Assassin, but if I'm just going to lose all my swanky Strider skills I guess it would be kind of pointless.
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May 23, 2012 13:58
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MUMMYMTN posted:To clarify, are you saying if you switch vocations you lose access to all previous vocation-unique skills other than augments? I was planning on maxing out my ranks in Strider before switching to Assassin, but if I'm just going to lose all my swanky Strider skills I guess it would be kind of pointless. Only skills that don't share with the class you'll lose out on. For instance Assassin and Ranger will share some of the dagger combos with Strider, but not all of them.
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May 23, 2012 14:00
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Emong posted:Also, turns out if you wait too long, that lost and found quest expires, so look out for that. But... I just got to the capital. I have to go all the way back though that gauntlet... 
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May 23, 2012 14:06
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Wolves actually attack in packs and will use one dude to distract you as the others sneak up from the back. gently caress wolves.
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May 23, 2012 14:09
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Okay, my copy was delivered yesterday but I've been traveling and working... I'll officially kick this off tonight. Three day weekend should make for some good power leveling. Gamertag is OK Octopus if anyone is looking to add people.
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May 23, 2012 14:11
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ChibiSoma posted:Seriously, if you can make it through the first minute of part 3 and not want to dropkick him, you're a better person than I. *twenty seconds in*  Did he just say...gently caress no, not doing that.
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May 23, 2012 14:15
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OK Octopus posted:Gamertag is OK Octopus if anyone is looking to add people. You have an Ultros avatar, friend request sent. This may be the first game in years that I actually go out and buy the strat guide for. There is just so much going on and the game doesn't ever really tell you what to do (like the Catch the thief quest in the first town. I stood in the inn for 10 minutes waiting for a thief to show up. It never told me to go catch a guy running around). Love the game, and it can be hard at times, but I've gotten into the habit of saving my game ALOT. I've been running around with Mill Village and Hackan Slash's pawns. Hackan's pawn sounds like a post op female tranny with a deep rear end voice and TinyTitus just runs funny with those little legs and fat body  Gamertag is BEAR OVERDRIVE is anyone wants my super-aggressive Rastafarian Mage pawn Orion to be rude to them. Edit: In case you didn't know you can filter pawns by friends on the riftstone in the Rift. I dicked with it for 20 minutes before I figured that out. Manxome Foe fucked around with this message at 14:34 on May 23, 2012 |
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May 23, 2012 14:32
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GT is the same as on here. Got a level 7-8 Mage pawn if anyone needs her.
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May 23, 2012 14:38
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Stupid UPS just delivered this a day late. Now I'm stuck at work all day and all I can think about is getting home and playing.
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Hobo Siege posted:It's kinda Dark Souls meets Shadow of the Colossus, combat-wise. No giant glowing weakpoints, but you can climb all over monsters and hack them apart limb by limb if you so choose. The world doesn't quite have the foreboding mystique Lordran did, but it kind of makes up with it in sheer... Weirdness, I guess. Sounds good to me. Out of curiosity, are there any curved swords in Dragon's Dogma, or is it all straight swords? I love stuff like falchions, scimitars, tulwars, etc, so I'd prefer to use something like that just from a style perspective.
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May 23, 2012 15:13
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I haven't seen any curved swords (well, I think there may be a katana in the game somewhere because I swear I saw one in an item list), but if you like off beat curved weapons you may want to play with some of the daggers in this game. They take the heads off polearms like a voulge or glaive and dual wield them. It's pretty cool.
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bear is driving! posted:You have an Ultros avatar, friend request sent. I'll have this waiting at home when I'm back from vacation. Can't wait to see how terrible your pawn looks.
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May 23, 2012 15:23
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The combat in this game is just amazingly... I'm not even sure how to describe it. Amazingly physical. It feels like you're interacting in a way games normally don't. I had a situation where an enemy wizard was stomping all over my pawns for some reason and I ended up just picking him up and tossing him off a nearby cliff. It felt completely natural and reasonable as a combat option.
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May 23, 2012 15:33
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Jeez. Is there any way to see what kind of level range you should be in for any given quest, or is it a 'try it and come back later if you die' scenario? I thought I was doin' pretty good in this Everfall quest I got right after entering Gran Soren, but then that Cyclops came and beat my team up but good. I jumped on his back and tried attacking his neck, motherfucker jumped into the air, spread his arms and legs, and fell on his back. Which is to say, on me.  No way I'm tacklin' that bad boy again! We weren't doin' squat to his health. The undead were hitting sort of hard, but my mage pawn can do the holy magic enchant, so we were tearin' through those. Woof, man. It's rough, but it hits that spot Dark Souls left when I finished it. Good times! E: Less good times. This Negotiation quest sucks cyclops nut. Where the hell are these people? So in this massive-rear end town, I'm supposed to find this dude's wife and kid? Well they certainly aren't marked. And the spot Pip apparently ran to? He's not here. There's a barn with a red circle on it, but there's gently caress-all here. I've waited a day already and nothing. The hell do I need to do to complete this? ChibiSoma fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 23, 2012 |
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May 23, 2012 15:33
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Bandits in Witchwood are pretty tough, the fighter bandit can 3-shot my Strider main. What do I have as options to evade before getting Roll? Just keep jumping/sprinting around?
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May 23, 2012 15:40
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bear is driving! posted:You have an Ultros avatar, friend request sent. I somehow completed that quest by grabbing him in the exact spot the game spawns him in. I found out that its not a good idea to carry the person you're escorting during an escort quest. They pound on you and slowly whittle away your health. This also drains your stamina really fast.
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May 23, 2012 15:45
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I would just like to say the song that plays on the start and main menu is loving awesome. And that this game is loving awesome and probably the best thing Capcom has released in a while. And that I cannot for the life of me find the loving book that priest in the first town wants. Edit: It was on a loving roof? Count Bleck fucked around with this message at 16:00 on May 23, 2012 |
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May 23, 2012 15:50
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How bad are the one-shots in general? Usually that sort of thing really pisses me off although I did trudge all the way through Demon's and Dark Souls falling off cliffs many times, but the frustration from one-shots mostly comes down to how quickly I can retry. If you can load manual saves made from anywhere in the world it wouldn't be so bad, but I've heard completely opposite things about how that works--Can you manually save anywhere and then load from that save so that you don't get 40 minutes into a quest and then have to do it all over again, because one fight at the end one-shotted you and the game never autosaved before then?
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May 23, 2012 15:53
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...The gently caress did I just get arrested for? I found that rear end in a top hat Pip on the roof of the barn, and I was jumping around trying to figure out how to get to him. Suddenly, a guard goes 'It's no use struggling' and here I am in jail. This is some poo poo.
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May 23, 2012 16:09
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Gestalt Intellect posted:How bad are the one-shots in general? Usually that sort of thing really pisses me off although I did trudge all the way through Demon's and Dark Souls falling off cliffs many times, but the frustration from one-shots mostly comes down to how quickly I can retry. Usually you get a good idea whether or not an enemy's dangerous when it kills a pawn on you. You can save anywhere outside of combat but you only have that one manual save slot
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Expiring quests are really annoying. It makes you want to try to complete every quest you get the moment you get it, but the game doesn't tell you if you're ready for it yet. If you attempt it now you could get slaughtered, if you wait too long it could disappear.
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yulia tymotebow posted:How "MMO-ey" does this game feel? They're mostly just excuses to reward you further to do more crazy and zany things. Shima Honnou posted:Sounds good to me. Out of curiosity, are there any curved swords in Dragon's Dogma, or is it all straight swords? I love stuff like falchions, scimitars, tulwars, etc, so I'd prefer to use something like that just from a style perspective. Rascyc fucked around with this message at 16:18 on May 23, 2012 |
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May 23, 2012 16:16
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Are healer mages pretty much mandatory? And how important/flexible does party composition seem so far?
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What's the skill breakdown for magic knights? Sword attacks on right bumper and magic spells on left bumper? Do they still wear a shield and can you still slot shield skills on the left bumper?
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May 23, 2012 16:24
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Which items are generally safe to sell? Played some rpgs recently where they had you hold on to some starter equipment to craft weapons later in the game. I just don't want to trash something that might be important later.
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I just got going on that Witchwood quest, and I bumped into a pack of wolves on the way. I shot one with a flaming arrow and it caught fire, and I was like "Holy poo poo, there's a wolf running around on fire, this is awesome." Then it stopped, looked at me, laid down, and rolled over. The wolf put itself out. Wolves know stop, drop, and roll.  Game of the year.
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I've just taken the liberty of adding my pawn to the goon list, make sure to recruit her and give me lots of nice things! 
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May 23, 2012 16:30
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Mike Haggar the pawn was hired three times last night, and everyone commented on his impeccable style. GOY.
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May 23, 2012 16:33
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At what point in the game are you allowed to switch Vocation?
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Eddain posted:At what point in the game are you allowed to switch Vocation? Level 10. Should be around when you arrive at Gran Soren.
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Hey yo can someone advise if I should scrounge and get the EN version instead of JP of this bad boy? I don't really wanna hunt around in Akihabara for the EN version if I don't have to. All the voices seem to be in english regardless so my question is how much stupid dumb story crap is in this and do I need to like read it carefully. Can I just slam through the quest dialogs and have a rough idea of what to do? Imagine a semi-retard is playing the game and he can only understand the easy words. And how about pawn personality changes; mostly text or some voice too? I just wanna knock some dudes off cliffs here but I guess quests are cool too or whatever...
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May 23, 2012 16:40
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Only got to play this for about an hour or so last night, but man that first fight against the orge is awesome; I climb on his back, he flips me off and kills me. Second try I try to run behind him, he spins and one-shots me. Third try, I hamstring him and he falls off the cliff to his death.  Two questions, though: Can I redesign how my character/main pawn look after they're created, or am I stuck with them? Can you change your main pawn's class later, or are you stuck with what they start as? Also, can pawns learn the advanced classes, or are they stuck with fighter/strider/mage?
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Spiking posted:Can I just slam through the quest dialogs and have a rough idea of what to do? Imagine a semi-retard is playing the game and he can only understand the easy words. And how about pawn personality changes; mostly text or some voice too? I just wanna knock some dudes off cliffs here but I guess quests are cool too or whatever...
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Evil Mastermind posted:Can you change your main pawn's class later, or are you stuck with what they start as? Also, can pawns learn the advanced classes, or are they stuck with fighter/strider/mage? You can change your main pawn's vocation as soon as you can change your own, and they can be any of the classes.
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Does anyone know where I can find the snakeskin purse for the Lost Cause quest? I've been wandering around in and out of Granys and cant find a goddamn thing.
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Sub-Actuality posted:You can change your main pawn's vocation as soon as you can change your own, and they can be any of the classes. Oh, sweet. But can I change his design? I made a big burly Norse-ish dude to be the tank for my Strider, but now I think I want an angry dwarf instead because it's funnier.
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Sweet, looks like UPS delivered a day early. I'll be able to get some playtime in today instead of tomorrow.
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