Wesley Copeland of VGI writes...
"Normally I would welcome a difference of opinion. People holding their own ideals on what makes a game great is often a compelling read. I love hearing people's different thoughts and feelings, especially when it contradicts that of my own. Whether that be reviewers or everyday readers. After all, no one single person's opinion is more or less valid that someone else’s.
My problem with these so called “objective reviews” is that many of them are wrong."
Although the sequel is on the near horizon, the original Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen remains a fantastic action RPG, still worth playing.
A lot of the quest lines in Skyrim are good(not all and they don’t add up as a whole if you do thieves guild mage fighters guild etc) The dragons are very lame after the first few times and the combat is clunky as it always has been. The stupid sprint button is ridiculous.
Overall I agree DD is the better rpg game.
Both have theirs strengths and weaknesses but Skyrim should be so much more being the 5th game in Elder Scrolls series.
Excited to see what they add on to DD 2.
Unfortunately all they have done to Elder Scrolls since Morrowind is take things out (minus the sprint button which is so lame because you can kill dragon god like creatures but can’t run for more than ten seconds without getting tired)
I liked the vampire questline and the return to Morrowind was okay, but the problem with Skyrim was the lack of consequence. There is almost no point in the quests. After I realized this, I started messing around with the mods and then quit playing. Though, I did spend 300 hrs. on modded content, but this is telling of how bad the game kind of is.
If DD was the size or close to the size of Skyrim, It would have been the primer fantasy game back then. I hope they up the size with DD2.
Daman Shelley from NoobFeed writes - Dragon's Dogma is truly a one-of-a-kind game, and there really is no other game like it, but there are a few that come close. Whether with their fantasy settings, the ability to climb mountains, or just with the overall same charm as Capcom’s iconic RPG. Here's a list of games that will hopefully scratch that Dragon's Dogma itch.
I can still hear the title screen music in my head after nearly 12 years. Loved every minute of it.
I have no issues filling my time til DD2.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Infinite Wealth and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will probably me more than enough.
More terrified I won't be done in time.
Try not to burn yourself out before the game releases. This is going to be a long and immersive RPG like the first one.
The games in this article are all great and I believe the people who are excited for Dragons Dogma 2 probably already played most of those games.
For now, I recommend you prepare yourself for long play sessions if you will be picking up Dragons Dogma at launch.
Dragon’s Dogma achieved its highest concurrent player count in over six years over the weekend.
Excellent game spoilt by grindy combat and no fastbtravel the stones travel system was rubbish
I'm doing my part to contribute to this. Found out my pawn had been a busy bee while I was away.
when i found this game i loved it and played the hell out of it, got to the demon in the expansion and after feeling pretty good at the game he wiped the floor with me, fatigue set in, but i need to get back into this i think, looking forward to 2 for sure.
+1 this article.
So what your saying is if you want an "honest opinion" (clearly something this site doesnt believe in)then we should come to you, VGI (who?) for our honest opinion right?
Do we really need, articles covering IGN (or other big sites) reviews? Can we not read and decide what to think of it for ourselves? Are you so in need of something to write/complain about?
Somebody crying because a reviewer had a different opinion? Now THAT is being ignorant.
He might be whining , but he's not completely wrong . There something weird about some of those reviews , without feeding into conspiracy theories .
I chalk it up to the usual level of incompetence of big sites like IGN ALONGSIDE a clear bias toward blockbuster games .
Those guys have been constantly comparing smaller , lesser known and plainly obscure titles to powerful counterparts that actually got nothing to do with the games being judged .
Case at hand Dragon's Dogma . It is in very little way or shape like Dragon age , and hardly similar to Skyrim . If roaming a land freely is enough for that crap , they bring on some red dead redemtpion vs skyrim .
Worse , even if we were to accept on their premises those faulty comparison , it even get unfair .
All of the those big titles , Skyrim again in this instance , had reviews usually in the range of perfect 10 scores , glossing over their flaws however big or minimal they might be , or even ignoring technical issues that are apparent to common players .
And suddenly they wanna do the job properly and find the flaws in titles like Dogma .
Basically they give free passes to most big titles , and vent their frustration onto smaller ones
Great Point. I think what is going on these days is that big review sites like IGN and a few others reached a point where its no longer about playing a game and giving honest to good feedback to us the gamers. no instead, if a game developer doesn't give them what they want,(free stuff, money, etc) they bash their game to possibly damage the sales. I mean
every gamer with common sense knows that a games difficulty isn't something to whine about, especially when it doesn't hold you back from exploring the main story/quest of the game.
and while I love Skyrim, I can't deny that the game came filled with bugs that took a lot of the fun outta it. Yet still, we don't hear them complain so much about that and if they do they still give it a 9-10 score. Where is the sense in that?