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The Good Queen Clitoris
May 11, 2008

You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, bravo sir!

Bussamove posted:

Hm, the girl in Melve I bought the medicine for was supposed to give me a specialization book when I found her in the capital apparently? Because she totally didn't.

She gave it to me after I talked to her dad the potion seller. Don't know if that's a necessary step.

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Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Bussamove posted:

Hm, the girl in Melve I bought the medicine for was supposed to give me a specialization book when I found her in the capital apparently? Because she totally didn't.

Have you talked to her grandpa? He's hanging out somewhere in the Merchant quarter.

Vitamean
May 31, 2012

https://twitter.com/vitaminohm/status/1771449202008051834

Noise Complaint
Sep 27, 2004

Who could be scared of a Jeffrey?

this except its signs for my simple pawn

she wants me to read *everything* and won't shut up about signs and papers and poo poo

Shyrka
Feb 10, 2005

Small Boss likes to spin!

Noise Complaint posted:

this except its signs for my simple pawn

she wants me to read *everything* and won't shut up about signs and papers and poo poo

My pawn insisted there was 'aught of use' to reading a piece of paper outside the tavern in the slums.

It was a racist hate screed against beastren.

Also what's up with the big statues that all have a bit of paper by the bottom saying how the view's great?

Draven
May 6, 2005

friendship is magic
Walked back into the capital after a lengthy time spent in the wilds, as soon as I walk into the fountain area I'm met with a minotaur just absolutely beating the poo poo out of all the guards.

I also got attacked by saurians as soon as I left the Inn.

I love this game.

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Did a wide circle in the open world to revive my pawn after he got killed by bandits that were 10x as powerful as the bandits directly next to them. just as I reach him a random pawn on the road vacuums me into dialogue and my pawn has timed out by the time I've skipped out of it. big fan of every single random thing taking away your controls

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

Owl Inspector posted:

Did a wide circle in the open world to revive my pawn after he got killed by bandits that were 10x as powerful as the bandits directly next to them

lmfao these dudes hosed up me and all my friends, we found them all within a few minutes of each other

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Owl Inspector posted:

Did a wide circle in the open world to revive my pawn after he got killed by bandits that were 10x as powerful as the bandits directly next to them. just as I reach him a random pawn on the road vacuums me into dialogue and my pawn has timed out by the time I've skipped out of it. big fan of every single random thing taking away your controls

ah return of

Sloober
Apr 1, 2011

Owl Inspector posted:

Did a wide circle in the open world to revive my pawn after he got killed by bandits that were 10x as powerful as the bandits directly next to them. just as I reach him a random pawn on the road vacuums me into dialogue and my pawn has timed out by the time I've skipped out of it. big fan of every single random thing taking away your controls

I can't stand those random pawns that proposition you, I wish there was a setting to turn it off

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"
Was doing a long rear end escort quest where the NPC suddenly tripped and disappeared and I got a Failed Quest notification for it

Tried to restart from the last inn/safe spot thinking the multiple loving camp spots I took along the way would surely count as a "safe space"

Nope, boots me back to an inn save about 1.5 hours back

why, just... why

Sloober
Apr 1, 2011

MechaX posted:

Was doing a long rear end escort quest where the NPC suddenly tripped and disappeared and I got a Failed Quest notification for it

Tried to restart from the last inn/safe spot thinking the multiple loving camp spots I took along the way would surely count as a "safe space"

Nope, boots me back to an inn save about 1.5 hours back

why, just... why

Campfires aren't safe, you can get ambushed and your camp gear destroyed

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!





This is about to be something

Lamare
Mar 7, 2014

TheMostFrench posted:



This is about to be something

Holy poo poo I just did that 20 minutes ago. That fight was loving rad.

e: You can actually wait for the bird to leave giving you about 5 minutes to kill the golem before it comes back.

Lamare fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Mar 24, 2024

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



So I made a character, but after seeing him in game I don't really like how he looks. Can I remake him somehow?

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
holy gently caress quickspell owns

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

Communist Thoughts posted:


the big monster fights arent quite like anything else in videogaming, its closest to monster hunter but you can grab monsters legs and pull them off balance or toss a teammate onto a cyclops' head to stab its eye, or you get onto a minotaurs back and it starts bucking like a bronco flinging you around as it knocks down trees. at one point i fought a mini dragon and it decided it had had enough and flew away with my rogue partner still clinging to its head and stabbing wildly as it flew into the distance

My pitch to my buddy earlier, who isnt gonna care about most of the reasons I like the game, I just focused on the part he would like. It's like Monster Hunter if they just wanted you to have fun fighting monsters and jump on em and do crazy attacks with a gang of weird idiots.

Tbh the reason I bought a used PlayStation to play the first game is I saw on an honest to god magazine that you could grab onto gryphons to fight them and needed nothing else to go on. There's plenty else to love about it and presumably this one too as I play more, but the core thing I always appreciated the games for is exploring the gameplay premise of grappling onto monsters without trying to also make it into a puzzle or pain in the rear end.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

drat Dirty Ape posted:

So I made a character, but after seeing him in game I don't really like how he looks. Can I remake him somehow?

Yeah just deal with it for a little while and when you get to the big apple you can buy services to remake your ugly mug or your pawn.

Everdraed
Sep 7, 2003

spankety, spankety, spankety
I got real excited for a second after finding a dye merchant in Battahl



but sadly it's only for tattoos, hair, skin sorta stuff? and on doublecheck there is indeed no clothe dyeing options unfortunately. given pawn fashion they really shoulda leaned into dyes and cosmetic slots imo


on the plus side I got some nice green dye if I ever wanna turn ralsei into shrek

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



I made the classic mistake of making my character look ok from the front but from the side he has an overbite that would make Freddie Mercury take notice.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



It's raining in Vermund and this is maybe the prettiest I've ever seen a video game city

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

https://i.imgur.com/vo3TfpL.mp4

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money
My pawns, literally every single time I walk past the same ladder we've climbed before: "ARISEN, LOOK, A LADDER!"

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

recruit my big stupid woman if you want everything around you to die (I just added myself to the spreadsheet too)



also photo mode kinda sucks, can you really not move the camera more than in a circle around your main guy???

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





I ran into an ogre with some sort of boot/leg armor on and wasn't able to climb up his legs? Is that a thing or was I doing something wrong? My character kept trying to... I guess just grapple his leg when I tried to grab.

GruntyThrst
Oct 9, 2007

*clang*

How do I set a pawn quest other than "travel for a day and night"?

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Khanstant posted:

My pitch to my buddy earlier, who isnt gonna care about most of the reasons I like the game, I just focused on the part he would like. It's like Monster Hunter if they just wanted you to have fun fighting monsters and jump on em and do crazy attacks with a gang of weird idiots.

Tbh the reason I bought a used PlayStation to play the first game is I saw on an honest to god magazine that you could grab onto gryphons to fight them and needed nothing else to go on. There's plenty else to love about it and presumably this one too as I play more, but the core thing I always appreciated the games for is exploring the gameplay premise of grappling onto monsters without trying to also make it into a puzzle or pain in the rear end.

The monster hunter comparisons are why I've deeply wished for there either to be a monhun type game set/using Dragon's Dogma stuff or for Dragon's Dogma to be co-op. Throwing your friends onto monsters would be god drat amazing. Pawns rule, but co-operative mechanics are all over the game and they'd be so much fun to use with your friends.

I AM a little bummed at spellcasting. Still... maybe the best in an action RPG other than the first one, but the best part about it(having high/grand spells be triggered after extra incantation time, letting you decide whether to hold for a more powerful version or let the first stage off) is... gone. Alas.

Geomancing
Jan 8, 2004

I am not an egghead. I am well-read.
Do other enemies drop gear? I've gotten two pieces of armor from ogres, one being a class-independent blue flame skirt that's hands down better armor than any plate I've seen so far.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

GruntyThrst posted:

How do I set a pawn quest other than "travel for a day and night"?

that's the beginner/tutorial one, someone's got rent your pawn and beat it

Drunk Driver Dad
Feb 18, 2005
Most performance complaints I've seen are about PC, but any other PS5 users having any issues? I'm not a graphics expert so I'm not sure if it's frame drop or whatever, but the game sometimes is just..jittery? Not smooth? I don't know how to describe it, but it makes looking around with the camera feel bad. Sometimes it's not so bad, sometimes it is, and it doesn't seem to be related to amount of NPCs.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Babe Magnet posted:

recruit my big stupid woman if you want everything around you to die (I just added myself to the spreadsheet too)



also photo mode kinda sucks, can you really not move the camera more than in a circle around your main guy???

She looks rad, I want her wolf hat.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Hey so I found some guy named Brandon in a guard tower in the first town and he was talking poo poo so I picked him up and hucked him off the tower. I guess you can throw people farther than it seems because he basically went sailing off a cliff and into a lake. Is this uh, bad?

Also I got approached by a pawn named Dr. Milkers

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Babe Magnet posted:

that's the beginner/tutorial one, someone's got rent your pawn and beat it

Also note that you get news about your pawn being hired when you rest at an inn, I was all sad nobody had hired her until I just rested a minute ago and woke up to her handing me a tooth some other Arisen had given as a gift. Lol. Anyway yeah after that it let me choose other quests, though only a couple were available, presumably more open up as you progress.

Immediately after that rest I strolled out onto a nice balcony, saw there's a ladder behind me, climbed it, and immediately fell down a gap in the planks on the roof and almost died. lol'd out loud

Babe Magnet posted:

recruit my big stupid woman if you want everything around you to die (I just added myself to the spreadsheet too)



also photo mode kinda sucks, can you really not move the camera more than in a circle around your main guy???

:eyepop: I'd climb her like a cyclops

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013

Internet Explorer posted:

I ran into an ogre with some sort of boot/leg armor on and wasn't able to climb up his legs? Is that a thing or was I doing something wrong? My character kept trying to... I guess just grapple his leg when I tried to grab.

Did you try attacking them to see if it changed anything?

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



Internet Explorer posted:

I ran into an ogre with some sort of boot/leg armor on and wasn't able to climb up his legs? Is that a thing or was I doing something wrong? My character kept trying to... I guess just grapple his leg when I tried to grab.

Not a very big spoiler You can break the armour by attacking it and eventually it should break. Being metal I think it is resistant to strike and slash attacks but weak to lightning. If you grab large enemies who are off balance and pull them in a direction you can cause them to fall over. Usually they will be standing on one leg and it looks really comical and obvious

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

What's the deal with gear? Are vendor prices a scam or the primary way to upgrade?

External Organs
Mar 3, 2006

One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."
If you change vocations, do you lose the levels you got on your previous one?

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Thumbtacks posted:

Did you try attacking them to see if it changed anything?

TheMostFrench posted:

Not a very big spoiler

Oh boy I have a lot to learn. Thank you both!

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

External Organs posted:

If you change vocations, do you lose the levels you got on your previous one?

no, you can even still use the augments you unlocked on them.

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Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Google Butt posted:

What's the deal with gear? Are vendor prices a scam or the primary way to upgrade?

it's less "scam" and more that you're paying a premium for getting an item immediately versus finding it in the wild somewhere. not every item is in a chest, though a lot of them are, but knowing where they are is another matter entirely

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