Dragon's Dogma: Grapple a Griffin, Slay a Cyclops, Climb a Cow, Pitch a Pig

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Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I can't help it, I'm going to get it at midnight, even though I promised myself I would never do that again. I'll probably fall asleep before I can play it though, it's way past my bedtime.

Good thing it came out after finals, because I don't think it's going to be off for very long at a time for the next few weeks, despite its flaws.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:11

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:29

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

VDay posted:

Yes.

That's pretty weird, was it to reduce processing load or something?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:18

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Count Uvula posted:

There's also a pack of hair-dos

drat, I suddenly want it. Is there a giant 80s hair explosion and a tall-rear end flat-top in there? My Grace Jones and David Bowie avatars are fine except for that.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:21

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

Post the Bowie recipe, drat it. I need to know whether my Pawn buddy is gonna be Guts the Black Swordsman or The Thin White Duke.

Is there some pre-established format for that? And I can't say my Bowie is perfect yet, I'm always working more on him. None of the makeup choices are nearly wild enough for him.

Also is there a way to take screenshots in the demo?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:26

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Nahxela posted:

You can just input the numbers on the scales for the different features and people can figure stuff out.

I have no idea how to import my demo dudes. Send help.

edit: naw, I just don't want to, it's a pain. Just go find a picture of Bowie and do what you can. You'll probably do as well as I did. Anyone who wants to look up my pawn, just find this user name, I'll be on the PS3.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:43 on May 22, 2012

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:37

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Ledneh posted:

Well this game looks excellent. Thinking I'll pick it up this weekend, assuming D3 can get its oily claws out of me.

Any guesses/insight on difficulty so far? I feel like looking at some of that video it might be pretty Dark Souls in difficulty: soul-crushing at first, then quickly easier with some attention and learning.

_{^{Was that Two Steps from Hell music I heard in the Gametrailers review? Is that in this game?}}

Unlike Dark Souls, it seems that enemies wander around even when you haven't "activated" them yet, that seems like the biggest difference in terms of difficulty.

edit: vvv I think there are a buttload of choices in how to choose pawns, including only friends' pawns.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 05:59

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Gyoru posted:

New Game+ is worth it.

Why do you say that? One of the first reviews I heard made it sound not so exciting.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 06:26

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

A BLACK PRESIDENT posted:

Question for those who have it already: do the large monsters(cyclops, chimera, etc.) respawn? I never saw that explained so I am kinda curious.

Reviews said they do, they all have a certain territory staked out and reappear in it after a while. Dunno how long.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 07:51

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Scott Bakula posted:

I hope people can give their opinions on the different classes by Friday so I can make some sort of decision on what I'm going to play.

My decision on the first time through an RPG is always easy.

"Swords, not words!"

# ¿ May 22, 2012 10:16

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I have no idea how you are supposed to import the demo characters I made into the game. Someone said they're supposed to appear as the default, but...no?

edit: Oh yeah, I played the Japanese demo...

# ¿ May 22, 2012 11:36

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I want to get those DLC hairstyles and remake my character, but isn't that expensive? And where do I do it?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 20:51

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

iastudent posted:

You do it at the barber in Gran Soren. To just change your hairstyle is 500G I think.

Oh, cool.

And yeah, there is a lot of walking back and forth between known locations in this game, I can see how that could get boring.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 20:56

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Where is the barber?

Also this is a game for people who like capes and cloaks and stuff to put on top of your armor, holy poo poo.

# ¿ May 22, 2012 21:59

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

iastudent posted:

Southeast of the marketplace. There's a scissors sign above the door.

Oh, I found it. Are there any other shops in Gran Soren that aren't in some obvious central place?

# ¿ May 22, 2012 22:21

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Awww the saurians look so cute sunning themselves on rocks before you come along.

edit: I like how the game basically always gives you a choice between human enemies (on roads) and non-human enemies (off roads).

# ¿ May 22, 2012 22:55

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

OmegaZultan posted:

Can you vocation change at will at some point a la Dragon Quest?

Also how do you get new moves/ put skill points in stuff? I'm level 10 and have like 4 vocation ranks and I've not seen anything with regards to upgrading my dude. (maybe I shouldn't have turned off those annoying tutorial messages.

Yeah, not so early on. You have to do that at inns.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 00:26

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

DrManiac posted:

I think as soon as you get to the capital.

You get/set skills at the inn.

No, you don't need to wait that long, you can do it at any inn including the one in your hometown and the one in the encampment.

Come to think of it, why do you have to stay at an inn in your hometown? It's only 50 gold there but still. Is there no free way to advance time?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 00:33

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

NESguerilla posted:

I'm hoping this will change when I can hire better one, but so far pawns have been nothing but an absolutely goddamn worthless nuisance. they just die every 5 loving seconds and then get me killed when I trying to revive them.

Really? Even pawns at the same level as you? At the moment all my pawns are about the same level as me and they are no more or less prone to dying than I am.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 00:41

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

iastudent posted:

Is it just me or for the Captain's Armor DLC did they leave it as having a women's breastplate?

Yeah, this game isn't like most games where armor magically changes shape based on the gender you put it on.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 00:59

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Just had my first run in with invisible river lizards pretty far west of the capital. I'm trying to take captain what's her name on her mission to somewhere southwest of the capital, but no matter what route I try I run into something that kicks my (and more importantly, her) rear end.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 02:33

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Can my main pawn read a spell tome, or just my main character?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 03:19

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I just survived my first trip through the forest, just a short half-mile or something between paths, since the curve of the path was littered with too powerful bandits. That was maybe the tensest half-mile hike I have done in a game.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 04:55

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Okay so uh...one of my pawns just got dragged into the lake kicking and screaming with massive amounts of blood flowing out into the water, and then she was gone. The water was only like two feet deep.

This game takes the cake in the "everything will kill you" category.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 05:08

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

It looks like your pawn didn't practice constant vigilance enough Those Brine play for keeps, even in the kiddie pool.

What happens to that pawn in terms of its owner? Does it return and say "sorry I died"?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 05:12

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

This game makes the best use of physics in an RPG ever, no contest. I love how, for example, goblins run and jump at you like a human cannonball trying to knock you down.

edit: goblin cannonball

edit: oh god when you have your sword enchanted with fire and do that grapple move where you wiggle your sword around inside them it sets off firey explosions inside their body.

I've been working on an escort quest for the last FOUR HOURS and I'm still enjoying it. Escort quest. Four Hours. Still enjoying it.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:30 on May 23, 2012

# ¿ May 23, 2012 05:24

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I've never seen a game where paths and roads are more important to your survival, other than maybe some parts of Zelda 2.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 05:41

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Oh good, there are shortcuts through the world, like in Dark Souls. They're full of monsters though...

Finally back in Gran Soren. That escort quest felt like more of an adventure than all of the Kingdoms of Amalur I played combined.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 05:49

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Manatee Cannon posted:

Oh, god drat it game. The least you could do is tell me when you're going to give me quests that expire.

There are so many quests (and 100 more to come by DLC?!?) that I don't think you should worry so much about failing any one quest.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 08:33

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

yulia tymotebow posted:

How "MMO-ey" does this game feel?

This is a highly, HIGHLY physics and action-based game. There's no way it could have been done online reliably, which is why I now understand why they went with the pawn system. Stuff like shield-bashing a goblin so hard that they fly back and hit a tree, killing them, is a common occurrence.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 09:21

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Renoistic posted:

Does anyone of you have the PS3 version? Is the frame-rate so bad it sinks the game, or is it just a minor annoyance?

Minor, minor annoyance. It's never interfered with combat. The camera has though, getting stuck with trees and stuff between the camera and my character.

Are there an infinite number of enemies at night? I'm seriously thinking that. I must have killed 30 dire wolves and zombies before finally cutting and running. Also there should be an achievement for just surviving an entire night outdoors, I have come close but not done it yet.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 10:18

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Ziggy Starfucker posted:

How much variety is there is with armor styles? I'm thinking of picking this game up, but only if there's something resembling a Spanish Conquistador helmet so I can make a Don Quixote & Sancho Panza duo.

I think once you start you'll find that you need to choose your equipment based on practicality, not looks.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 19:03

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

My rift points are seriously piling up, since I never take out a pawn higher level than me. What should I use them on?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 19:23

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Rascyc posted:

Wait what? RP generation is based on the level of pawns you take or do yo juts mean you spend so little?

I didn't really get a lot of RP when I played last night. Is everyone just getting RP on their pawns getting hired?

I am, yeah. I haven't spent any yet on anything. And the initial 2000 or so I got from the pre-order, and getting them from enemy drops.

Policenaut posted:

Cosmetic items. I just bought a pair of silver glasses and pink hair dye

Where'd you get them?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 19:31

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

A man named Johnathan at the Embankment north of Cassardis sells them. He's the old man in the robe next to the Rift stone.

A word of warning: his stuff is pretty expensive. My pawn's new silver glasses set me back 30,000 RC (and there's one item that sells for 1,500,000 !)

Oh okay, then I don't have anywhere near enough yet, I only have 8500RC. Man, money numbers go high in this game.

edit: haha, the premium ring that costs 1.5m RC says right in the description that it does nothing other than make you look like you're rich.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 19:41 on May 23, 2012

# ¿ May 23, 2012 19:36

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

It sure seems like most people I rent pawns from don't know how to turn their chatter down, or they like them to babble endlessly.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 20:17

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Am I right in thinking that there is no way to load your game from your last manual save (not from a checkpoint) other than dying? So say, if you lose your escort on an escort mission, the only way to do it again is to either commit suicide or restart the game?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 20:56

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

iastudent posted:

The announcer in the Guilty Gear games calls it "Romantic" whenever you roman cancel but it's just been shortened over time to make it easier to reference.

Yeah "romantic" is often shortened to "roman" in Japanese. There are even Chinese characters for it, 浪漫. They have the same root meaning in English too anyway.

edit: what is it in this shallow, clear water that slaughters whoever steps into it? Flesh-eating amoebas or something?

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 21:48 on May 23, 2012

# ¿ May 23, 2012 21:39

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Rascyc posted:

The Brine. Evil spirits.

I just saw it happen to a skeleton too. Where did the blood come from?

Role Play McMurphy posted:

Where's the path to the Shadow Fort begin? I don't have to go through the waterfall cave do I? Got an escort and no idea where I'm going.

The easiest way is probably through the ancient quarry (just northwest of Gran Soren), but I say "easiest" very, very relatively.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 21:55

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I can't decide whether to go assassin or mystic knight, now that I have maxed out fighter. Also is there any reason not to just do the straight upgrade to my mage pawn? It seems odd to me, the rogue and warrior paths seem to have choices to make but mage just goes to better mage...or am I misunderstanding?

# ¿ May 23, 2012 23:04

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:29

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Yeah, my mage is almost entirely about buffs and healing, that's kind of the way I like it. Maybe I'll try some AoE spells though.

edit: what about enemy status effect magic? I love blinding enemies. The saurians in particular scurry around so adorably when they're blinded.

# ¿ May 23, 2012 23:14

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