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I'm hyped for this game. Anything I should do to prepare for it? I literally can't wait and want to do anything I can to get myself ready by the time it launches.
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Take time off from work.
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Jan 9, 2016 06:03
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need a mod to replace the music during the bitterblack end boss w/ into free
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Jan 9, 2016 06:09
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CrusherEAGLE posted:I'm hyped for this game. Anything I should do to prepare for it? I literally can't wait and want to do anything I can to get myself ready by the time it launches. A good start would be to reign your expectations. The game is a rough diamond, and after a bit of an initial "wow" with the prologue and first couple encounters, it can seem to lose focus for a long time. Additionally, a lot of the "wow" factor is supposed to be in the action. So instead of high speed cinematics or something, you only have the potential for cinematic encounters, not a guarantee. It may be a while before the combat mechanics and visual design elements come together in one of "those" moments. That, combined with it sometimes taking a good while for the character classes to hit their stride means you kinda need to enjoy what you can get before the game suddenly surprises you with mixture of action and visual design. Once you get "that" moment, you'll understand how the game is trying to play out like a badass fantasy movie where you're acting as both the hero character and director. So if prepare means anything, it should just be to give yourself enough time to let it sink in, and be ready to inject your own take on things. The plot in particular is very basic, and while the finer points aren't readily explained they're there. It can seem pretty lazy, the quest objectives in particular, but the perk is it gives you a lot of room to sort of write your character into the game world and come up with your own adventure, rather than strictly follow the "main" quest as the 'Arisen'. Then you get into the Dark Arisen Bitterblack Isle content and it basically throws that second paragraph out the window and is non-stop gently caress rad dungeon crawling. Kiggles fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Jan 9, 2016 06:39
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also the parts of the plot that are really cool are literally all shoved in at the very end
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Jan 9, 2016 06:49
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Blacktoll posted:I don't care about the song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoNWwhzh3M
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Jan 9, 2016 06:50
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Captain Novolin posted:also the parts of the plot that are really cool are literally all shoved in at the very end To be fair, it'd kind of ruin a chunk of it if it were any earlier.
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Jan 9, 2016 08:31
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Blacktoll posted:I don't care about the song. I think you might be playing the wrong video game, friend 
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Jan 9, 2016 08:38
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No worries, they just need to drink some iodine and they'll be right as rain.
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Jan 9, 2016 08:59
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You can now start preloading. 14GB download.
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Jan 9, 2016 09:54
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This game was up there with Dark Souls as one of the top gaming experiences I've ever had. The fights with the giant monsters always felt like such epic struggles, especially when coupled with the Sorcerers crazy as gently caress top tier spells that took up the entire screen.
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Jan 9, 2016 10:05
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Genocyber posted:http://blog.gib.me/ holy poo poo you're the gibbed guy oh man i'm so excited if you get your hands on this you'll split it open like a coconut
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Jan 9, 2016 10:13
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No, gibbed is the gibbed guy.
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Jan 9, 2016 10:20
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Baiard posted:No, gibbed is the gibbed guy. Who has posted in this thread regularly no less.
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Jan 9, 2016 10:23
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I played a bit of dragon's dogma on ps3 a long time ago but don't remember anything and didn't get very far. I'm trying to wrap my head around stat growths and such, and it seems like if what I want is to be an assassin my best bet is to start as a fighter and become an assassin later? I'm trying to completely ignore anything that isn't just character math so it's still somewhat blind going in.
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Jan 9, 2016 11:19
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Fighter is good to get some melee skills but you'll probably want to spend a bit as a strider, too, since you'll learn some bow skills that will be handy for an assassin. don't worry too much about stat growth since its pretty much useless unless you still want to be grinding the online ur-dragon in a year.
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Jan 9, 2016 11:22
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Captain Novolin posted:don't worry too much about stat growth since its pretty much useless Just play whatever you want, worrying about what stats raise the most from leveling up is just min max stuff and there's never a need to do it when just playing the game normally.
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Jan 9, 2016 11:32
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Just play whatever you want, worrying about what stats raise the most from leveling up is just min max stuff and there's never a need to do it when just playing the game normally. Hell yeah. This games is made just to play with whatever vocation you want. Min-max is something you do after you've exhausted all other options.
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Jan 9, 2016 11:44
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What you should check out when planning your character are the augments. These work as passive skills that you unlock by reaching a certain level in any vocation, but unlike the usual skills, you can use augments with every other vocation. For example, if you want to play as an Assassin, you will have more attack than defense. By playing as a Warrior for a while, you unlock an augment that increases your defense and use that when you switch back to Assassin. Strider and Ranger have some augments that increase stamina, climbing and mobility, and archery, the Fighter has augments that improve blocking with a shield, and so on. So by unlocking the augments you give your final character a lot more versatility. Notice that, at least in the original game, some augment descriptions are misleading, such as egression. http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Augments edit: Just realised that the Warrior's defense augment is available immediately as you first switch to that vocation. The rank 3 augment, however, is also pretty good for Assassins. sicDaniel fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Jan 9, 2016 11:49
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Max fighter, max strider, try warrior. If you like Warrior, max it. After that or if you don't like warrior, play assassin. That will get you the best augments and extremely good/solid stats.
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Jan 9, 2016 11:54
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Basically, you can try whatever you like- which is the whole point of being able to switch vocation just by changing weapons -but be wary that if you pick a color of vocation and stick with it, your stats are going to start being slanted toward it, which will make playing as other classes harder in the future.
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Jan 9, 2016 13:23
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Kiggles posted:A good start would be to reign your expectations. The game is a rough diamond, and after a bit of an initial "wow" with the prologue and first couple encounters, it can seem to lose focus for a long time. Additionally, a lot of the "wow" factor is supposed to be in the action. So instead of high speed cinematics or something, you only have the potential for cinematic encounters, not a guarantee. It may be a while before the combat mechanics and visual design elements come together in one of "those" moments. That, combined with it sometimes taking a good while for the character classes to hit their stride means you kinda need to enjoy what you can get before the game suddenly surprises you with mixture of action and visual design. Once you get "that" moment, you'll understand how the game is trying to play out like a badass fantasy movie where you're acting as both the hero character and director. This is a good post. Dragon's Dogma is a weird sort of game that resonates especially well with a particularly passionate (but mostly quiet) fandom. The thing that really made the game click for me is how reactive the game is. Not in a tired YOUR CHOICES MATTER marketing way, but in the little ways you can dick around with your character, NPCs, monsters, and objects in the game. Just something as simple being able to pick up and throw objects and/or people is part of how DD sort of feels like a game, as in a toy you play with, tinker with, and gently caress about with. It's ~emergent gameplay~ is just charmingly different from other open world games. When a pawn jumped on an ogre and sent them both plummeting to the bottom floor of a dungeon, I knew I was playing something special. Add to this the great music, the accidental charm of the East-Meets-West aesthetic, the hundreds of ways you can dress up and customize your character, the number of different classes, the flashy action combat, hiring random internet pawns and sending them back to their owners with lovely items if they're bad, collecting items like HARD BONE... it all just makes a really unique, fun package that's unexpectedly great while also being sorta janky.
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Jan 9, 2016 16:37
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Captain Novolin posted:also the parts of the plot that are really cool are literally all shoved in at the very end Doesn't really get much cooler than A giant dragon swooping in and literally eating the subplot.
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Jan 9, 2016 17:13
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Mung Dynasty posted:This is a good post. I think you hit the nail on the head. DD is amazing because it's very much a game, and tries very little to be anything else. No "meaningful" plot. No "innovative design" None of that buzzword bullshit that fills modern game design. The game starts with a deus ex machina, gives you a tiny tutorial, then lets you fly into free. Imho when someone says "spectacle fighter" I think of DD. DMC is to me a technical fighter with a high skill cap and lots of focus on the combat from the input side of things. DD is pretty simple and 100% about output. It takes three buttons to set yourself on fire and jump on a Griffin to set it on fire. It takes one button to send a meteor shower down upon hapless goblins. And god drat does it look/feel rad.
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Jan 9, 2016 17:47
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This game is good because you can romance a jester
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Jan 9, 2016 19:23
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Is there going to be a new thread for the PC launch?
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Jan 9, 2016 19:39
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pentyne posted:Is there going to be a new thread for the PC launch? I'm currently working on the OP for one. I'll probably have thread up by Monday (I'll also post the link in this thread).
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Jan 9, 2016 19:48
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Captain Novolin posted:This game is good because you can romance a jester The best part of this is that I wasn't even aware there was a romance system and then there's a little thing involving your most romanced (or if you're not specifically trying, most interacted-with) NPC and suddenly shop keeper lady just shows up. It was great. God I have the itch to play this so bad now. I've got it for the PS3, but it comes out next week anyway and unnngghhh...
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Saxophone posted:The best part of this is that I wasn't even aware there was a romance system and then there's a little thing involving your most romanced (or if you're not specifically trying, most interacted-with) NPC and suddenly shop keeper lady just shows up. It was great. I've been wanting to scratch the itch. Would it really be such a bad thing to get it for ps3 now instead of waiting for next week....
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Jan 10, 2016 00:55
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CrusherEAGLE posted:I've been wanting to scratch the itch. Would it really be such a bad thing to get it for ps3 now instead of waiting for next week.... get both 
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Jan 10, 2016 01:13
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:get both This. But if you're gonna get one, get the PC version so they see the uptick in sales and give us a sequel.
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Jan 10, 2016 01:43
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Saxophone posted:This.
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Saxophone posted:The best part of this is that I wasn't even aware there was a romance system and then there's a little thing involving your most romanced (or if you're not specifically trying, most interacted-with) NPC and suddenly shop keeper lady just shows up. It was great. my favourite source of internet outrage is all the people who burned through the game but maxed fournival's daughter because of the quest with her and who suddenly had a kid for their lover and were horribly confused im not gonna game vocations or skill points but oyu loving know im gonna grind out a good romance for my first playthrough.
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Jan 10, 2016 05:46
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I'm going to romance Feste like I do every playthrough finally got the game preordered, lets do this
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Jan 10, 2016 05:53
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i could never hook up with Feste even when i gave him the ring 
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Jan 10, 2016 05:55
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lets hang out posted:i could never hook up with Feste even when i gave him the ring the secret is you have to get the other npc's you've maxed affinity with down, so just find them and draw your sword in front of them or throw them around a bunch
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Jan 10, 2016 05:56
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Preload time.
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Kieyen posted:Preload time.  Captain Novolin posted:my favourite source of internet outrage is all the people who burned through the game but maxed fournival's daughter because of the quest with her and who suddenly had a kid for their lover and were horribly confused I was gonna go in blind, but I'm very happy somebody brought this up so I can avoid having a child bride.
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Jan 10, 2016 06:24
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:
Just FYI the court jester is the best beloved.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:I was gonna go in blind, but I'm very happy somebody brought this up so I can avoid having a child bride. With a few plot-related exceptions, I'm pretty sure you can romance literally any named NPC in the game. Like, meet J. Random Idjit who does nothing but wander the merchants' quarter to give the city the appearance of being crowded, give them presents until they get all blushy at the sight of you, and then bam! they are your love interest and the game will treat them as such in cutscenes. The problem arises because of Capcom trying to give the player hella freedom. See, your player character can appear to be nearly any age from about eight to about eighty, so Capcom lets you romance, well, everyone with a name. This includes small children. I guess it could be mildly cute if you were playing an eight-year-old, but not so much when your Arisen is definitely in his thirties, agh. They did adjust some (spoilery) issues with the romance system when they released Dark Arisen, but they left the child brides in.  Shalebridge Cradle posted:Just FYI the court jester is the best beloved. Well, fine, more Julien for me. 
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