Dragon’s Dogma 2
Set forth on your grand adventure, Arisen!
Dragon’s Dogma is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG series that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more. Now, in this long-awaited sequel, the deep, explorable fantasy world of Dragon’s Dogma 2 awaits.
On your journey, you’ll be joined by Pawns, mysterious otherworldly beings, in an adventure so unique you will feel as if accompanied by other players while on your own adventure.
All of these elements are elevated further through physics technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and the latest in graphics, to create a truly immersive fantasy world in Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Action that challenges your creativity
Wield swords, bows, and chant magick. The vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 give you the ability to approach combat the way you want.
Company in your single-player experience
Players can customize their own main Pawn, who will always accompany your Arisen, and enter a covenant with up to 2 additional Pawns from other players through the network.
Facing the monsters in this world
Beyond the town borders, you will encounter diverse monsters that inhabit the lands. You will need to decide between engaging in battles or finding alternatives; so be aware of your party’s setup, the terrain around you, and the monsters you face.
Inhabitants of this world
Travelers, merchants, soldiers and other folk go about their daily lives. Preoccupied by their own objectives and motives, they all exhibit different emotions. At times, they may lead you to a quest by approaching you and asking for a favor.
Steam User 852
You'll never wonder where a ladder is again
Steam User 574
The game is actually pretty fun and what i expect from dragon dogma series. That being said, the performance issues may hinder your enjoyment, and having bunch of microtransactions in addition of US$70 pricetag does leave bitter impression despite most of the items are obtainable in-game.
There's however, some tips to improve your fps:
Option 1 for NVDIA user: Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Global Settings > Shader Cache Size > change to Unlimited (or if you cant find it on global setting, just go to program setting and add dragon dogma 2)
Option 2 for NVDIA RTX40 series: use DLSS3 Enabler >
Option 3 for psychopaths: massacre bunch of random NPCs so the amount of NPCs and the fps balanced as all things should be
Option 4: save yourself and dont buy the game, at least until devs fix this problem, because you dont deserve being treated like this after paying $70.
Steam User 1036
As a preface, if you have not played DD:DA, you might be better off getting it for $4 and waiting for DD2 to get optimized and/or on sale.
Lots of fun, exactly what I've been missing for years. Played the shit out of DD(:DA) on PS3, for sure will play the shit out of this one. They delivered on the front of keeping it Dragon's Dogma.
Performance is rightly criticised, especially in the city. Playing on Linux (working day one!), on (is it considered budget build now?) 3700X and 6700XT, 20-45 fps in the city, but 60 with some dips to 50 in open world. Perfectly playable, but not something to be settled with/accepted. Sincerely hope they give it their all in optimization, otherwise it doesn't bode well for MH Wilds and future of RE Engine in general.
The amount of shit if gets for other things is quite baffling, took a peek at some popular streamers and found it ridiculous.
Some kept saying you can only use fast travel or make a new character by paying, one even claimed (to his 10k+ viewers) you can't manually save and somehow people believed it. If they don't make it up on the fly to ride the (deserved) performance issues related hate train then I feel bad for their regular viewers.
Might be controversial, but people are blowing microtransactions out of proportions. They are a complete waste of money since you can get all actually useful items in-game (yet somehow it clearly works since Capcom keeps adding this kind of mtx in their games). I don't buy mtx, find them bad in general, but if you get milked buying this, quite frankly you deserve it.
Steam User 2499
It's just DD1 ... but better! Also protip: don't buy any of the microtransactions, ALL of those items are readily available in-game.
About performance: DD2 is a very CPU-heavy game it seems, try going to Task Manager -> Details -> find DD2 and set priority to High. Anecdotal reports say you can gain anywhere from 10 fps to double or triple fps in the city areas.
Steam User 3918
Me:
Butchered all the NPCs to boost FPS
My pawn:
'Twas sound judgment, Arisen. This was the only way.
Steam User 2207
If you enjoyed the first game, you will love this one. They have taken everything the first game did well and improved upon it. That being said, there are still some issues with the game. When you enters large cities such as Vernworth, you will lose frames. I consistently drop from 60fps to 30fps within Vernworth. I have seen many creators say this is a memory leak issue that can easily be patched later, but I am unsure of the truth of that claim.
In regards to the micro-transactions: It is unfortunate that they exist, however, every item apart from the character edit item is extremely easy to obtain in game. By simply walking around with pawns you will receive wakestones. You can find port-crystals throughout the game, and they respawn in new game+, allowing you to place one at every location you could ever want to travel to.
The gameplay is top-notch just like the first game. It has exciting combat, fun to fight monsters, and the pawn system is extremely fun to use. If the fps issues are a deal-breaker for you, I would wait a while before buying the game to see if they fix it. But the items you can buy through micro-transactions are entirely unnecessary and you are wasting your money if you buy them. If you are worried about messing up how your character looks, download the free character creation tool and spend as much time as you want perfecting it. The character and pawn you make there carry over to the game. If you are worried about choosing the wrong class, don't be, because you are meant to try out every class and you can swap at vocation guilds.
TL;DR: Gameplay is great, there are some fps issues that need to be fixed, the micro-transactions suck, but all the items you can buy with them are unnecessary to the game.
Steam User 5310
You do NOT have to spend 1.99 to change the look of your character.
You spend 500 RC (Which you get from killing monsters or pawn-related things) at the pawn guild vendor to get an item that you bring to the barber, who gives you the option to change your appearance with it. Yes, change anything about your character.
I don't agree with the MTX. I hate the performance issues. And it's scummy for them to just drop all this MTX without mentioning it before. But reviewers are wrong about the 1.99 appearance change.
--- I am editing this to add more context now that I've played more of the game, and have seen that the comments on this absolutely blew up. And I never apologized for anything. People calling me an apologist after I said I don't agree with the MTX? These are the people you don't need to be listening to. Critical thought and nuance is not in their capabilities.
Came back like 24 hours later and saw this blow up. Jesus christ, people. Let me clear some things. And because this got nearly 300 comments in under a day, idk if I'll read any responses, cause I got Horizon FW, this game, South Park Snow Day, and Helldivers 2 to play.
1: I still enjoy the game. I have not and will not spend a dime on the microtransactions. If it wasn't for Steam listing it on the library page when you go to launch the game, you would not know MTX were even in this game. There are 0 indicators in the entire game that there are any microtransactions. I can support the game without supporting MTX by simple not buying the MTX. This is an extremely basic level of nuance that any sensible person can understand. If you can't understand it, then you're not being sensible.
2: The performance is probably the thing that pisses me off the most. I played Jedi Survivor and was heart broken at it's performance. However, this is better than Jedi Survivor. If you get into a town, you'll get drops. But you'll rarely ever get into a fight in a town. And if you do, you can just run away.
3: This game is likely founded on the same principle that DD1 was: They want you to run New Game Plus. That might be why they thought you didn't need several saves, because you would just keep running the game over and over. Animal Crossing did the same thing with only one save on the ENTIRE SWITCH, and yet didn't receive a fraction of this outrage. I'm not excusing it, but this one doesn't affect me at all, so I'm not going to sit here and say I'm outraged by it, because I'd be lying. It just doesn't affect me, or my experience.
4: Since people are REALLY confused as to why I still put positive review, I'll mention the things I like. I'm loving the combat (obviously. I'm a DD:DA fan), and I've already maxed out Mystic Spearhand along with getting it's master vocational skill. I've also played a lot of the other vocations, and each one plays differently and uses different strategies. I absolutely LOVE that you can grab the legs of monsters and push them off balance, and your pawns will come up to help you push. There's a bunch of cool added features like that in the combat. Quite simply: If you enjoyed DD:DA's combat, you're gonna love this one's combat. The performance issues really aren't a problem outside of towns/NPC heavy locations. But I'm running a 3080ti and 5800x. So while I don't have top hardware, the game still runs perfectly fine at mostly maxed out settings (With DLSS on quality and RT on) outside of NPC-heavy locations. Even when I'm fighting a dragon and an ogre at the same time, the frames are flawless.
Last note: I agree Capcom needs to do better. But I had all of this rage that you all are showing LAST YEAR WHEN HOGWARTS LEGACY AND JEDI SURVIVOR LAUNCHED TO ABSOLUTE DOG SHIT PERFORMANCE ISSUES, but none of you cared enough to make the scene you're making now, and they didn't care to fix them. THAT was the time to make this an issue out of the industry, but you all slept. So I'm not riding the rage-wagon anymore. I'm just enjoying the gameplay.
Oh, also: I didn't say that it doesn't have a 1.99 appearance change DLC. I just said you don't have to buy it to change your appearance. But some people having reading problems I guess.