dude, did u ever consider using the resurrection stones? They literally refill you to full health and you can carry a bunch. Its a major game mechanic, why wouldn't you use that when a drake kills you?

I apologize I have only 1 thumbs up to give you.

Man. You pointed out many of the reasons it is lackluster and many of these are true from the regalia staff and sword to the garbage of Warfarer class but the true issue no one talks about is just how watered down the game is in comparison to the first. If you ever play the first you will realize that this game is missing like 20 different spells, spell targeting is worse now and armor has been significantly watered down. There is no longer under armor and more customization, the magic knight class is just straight up missing, you actually only have four abilities instead of six per character and worse the mage or sorcerer with only four abilities will use other spells that would normally be situational far less. Additionally spells in the first game were epic. You could actually charge the from basic, high and then finally GRAND for a truly spectacular spell - That is just gone here and its disgusting. Every class from Dragon's dogma 1 has been neutered EXCEPT the warrior who has got on just fine. I could go into hours long tangent about just how bad its gotten. But a final point to make is-items are straight up missing from game 1 that made it more of an rpg. Spring water, flasks, buying arrows instead of them taking up a whole damn slot that should've been reserved for some cool ability in pair of a special arrow and the like. Coinpurse of charity, gone. Special outfits, gone. Underarmor, gone. Like 20 spells, gone. Less abilities per class. Throwblast, gone. Orbs, gone. etc etc. Just as Dragon's Dogma 1 player you can see how BAD this game is. I dont mind the story because it makes sense but everything that made Dragon's dogma 1 good, has been severely undermined in favor of shortcuts.

Its so goofy man HOW DO YOU FUCK THIS UP TWICE

@@Zenny-KZfaq It's always so damn funny seeing others get Fournival or Feste as their lover that's kidnapped in the first game 🤣

And just like the first game, it can be a random child. It's so weird.

ahh great not like i went through hours spent making my arisen look like my main oc and their mane pawn the oc's lover

Ironic that a creature that LITERALLY eats your heart out, can't figure out that the person you gave a ring to just might be the love interest.

It's gonna be double the amount of animation for the next one.... so wish me luck

@@Zenny-KZfaq oh man that sounds like a lot of work but also I am SUPER looking forwards to it

And here I am skipping it all. Still, great work man lol

@@steppin-razor man....

@@Zenny-KZfaq Don't listen to him I love how innovative this is! I thought it an odd choice at first but it has its own little charming niche visually. Almost forgot to listen instead of studying the render tho lol

I guess they assumed it was part of the games identity!

They are doing it on purpose. They've literally said they don't care, they see it as an "adventure" literally ALL of the port crystals are placed in a way that, the only people complaining about it are the ones that just want instant fast travel to any and all parts of the map. ALL of the port crystals are placed in central parts of the map, unlike the first game, they are all purposely placed so that your not walking miles upon miles to get to places. Ferry stones are easy as hell to come across and ferry stone shards literally can be turned into ferry stones.

@@lutherheggs451yeah Harve village is a totally convenient spot that definitely isn’t in a completely irrelevant area. Two port crystals in the entire map..

@@lutherheggs451it’s not a very good adventure when so many quests require time away, forcing you to come back in short notice in order to make progress. See the conundrum? That doesn’t mix well with no fast travel.

​@@lutherheggs451 what i find funny about this excuse is infinetly more sucessfull rpgs like elden ring or witcher 3 dont have to do this kind of thing to force the players hand

The legacy of DS2 strikes again

You just need to quit to main menu and load game from there ;)

Now that would if been sick. Maybe in the dlc

⁠@@Zenny-KZfaq Funny you say that. The original game “dragons dogma” didn’t have the eternal ferry stone. The DLC “dark arisen” added the eternal ferry stone. Hopefully it’s as easy as it is in our storage like the first game instead of actually getting it by earning it because we suffer enough having to pay 10,000 gold for one ferry stone

PC mods save the day once again for this title

@@cbbeng I guess us ps5 players will just suffer.

Don’t worry they’ll charge you for a dark arisen version and give you that in like 2 years.

Eh, I don't really agree. In the first game, the local lord is also more concerned with holding on to his power than dealing with the dragon, and the "machinations" you speak of were basically a plan to prevent the stopping of the dragon so that Gransys would be devestated by it, presumably because they thought the dragon wouldn't dare cross the border and attack anyone else. The only people talking about it were Salvation, but for the total opposite reason. The dragon is basically a non-entity for nearly the entire game. However, I always gave the first game a bit of a pass because it was a small game with a limited budget; this game really should have emphasized the dragon, maybe have it obliterate an entire major city.

@@billjacobs521 Sorry but: you missed the mark by quite a margin... Including character motivations and worldbuilding. But lets focus on the dragon being a "non entity": In DD1 every character in the story is either deathly afraid or motivated into action by the dragons arrival in Gran Soren. Even random NPCs will comment on how the world has gone crazy because of the dragon. His presence is tangible throughout the entire game even without it being shoved into the players face every 10 minutes. In DD2 no one cares about the dragon except for the antagonists who see the dragon as a tool they can control to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Infact people seem to see the dragon just as another everyday monster like a minotaur or cyclops... not even worthy of smalltalk. Heck the beastren for example are more concerned with discriminating against pawns instead of being scared shitless that the mother fucking dragon has reapared.... Thats how little respect DD2 has for the titular dragon...

@@billjacobs521 The difference though was that the Duke's goal was tired directly in relevance to the Dragon. He only used you to fight the monsters and get rid of Salvation to save face, but hoped you'd die at some point and didnt expect you to actually fight the dragon because he didn't. He only became an immortal Duke because he picked the selfish deal, and kept offering his arranged wives to keep his power under the dragon while a slave to it and terrified of losing it proving the Dragon right about humans, while the Duke thought you must have took the deal to usurp him yourself and didnt think anyone could kill the Dragon due to its prophetic scale and stature. He underestimated you and it was a simpler an clearer. DD2's story feels like it doesn't really have anything to do with the Dragon's bargain being the moral focal point and just contrived medieval social politics that were expanded unnecessarily without relevance to the core factor of how the Dragon' presence influences who is in power.

@@GeteMachine Agreed. And then there is Salvation itself: A Doomsday cult started by the ramblings a dying madman. A cult that worshipped the dragon, that wanted it to destroy the world and were trying to help it through acts of sabotage and terrorism and necromancy. The Dragon itself even acknowledged that they were deluded fools, tiny in the grand scheme of things.

@@GeteMachine Actually the duke only sacrificed his beloved once, namely when he was given the choice to accept the dragons deal, Grigori killed his loved one (Elanor was her name i think?) and left. With the dragon gone Edmund claimed he had slayed the beast and was crowned Duke of Gran Soren. Grigori hadnt returned to the world till the start of DD1 where the player becomes the new arisen. Knowing the truth about the dragons deal Duke Edmund tries to get rid of the arisen by sending him out on dangerous quests with little to no support. And after that doesnt work he wants to send the arisen away on a long journey. All in order to keep the arisen away from the dragon because he fears that our arisen will also take the dragons deal.. wich would be a direct threat to his reign. But yeah the rest of what you wrote is on point. The Dragon in DD2 has basically no influence on the world or the people within it.. no one seems to care that there even is a dragon... i mean what did he do in dd2? Burn half a village? A pissed off cyclops or chimera could have done that.. heck i bet a goblin warband could have done asmuch damage. BTW. The dragons deal is just another test to see if the Arisen is a worthy candidate. A easy way out so to speak. If you take it youre not worthy of becomming the next seneschal

If you are enjoying the animation you are going to lose your shit in the next video. It's going to be insane!

@@Zenny-KZfaq Now i am beyond hyped! Cant wait!

Same here

Hahaha he was down BAD and that dragon bloody knew!

He is, Sigurd love your ass if you help him out on his quest line

Before you get confused, allow me to explain what a walkable city is.... 😂

Maybe he'll explain running for us dumb Colonials next time.

Thank you so much. Since the starfield video I've been shown so much love and it makes all of this so worth it. Also I'll let pierce know! He's gonna be so pissed

I have the same complaint about the story. Thier is no real payoff in any part of the story and main story NPC feel like side background NPC.

I realize this is an old comment but, since I stumbled upon this video, here goes: 1. You are correct about Disa, but one part missing is her goal of making Sven a Sovran goes alongside Phaesus' plan to control the dragon. No need to actually kill a dragon if you can just control one. 2. For Phaesus' motive, you can find a lot of documents in the lab which point to him being very well aware of the true nature of the world and the Endless Chain (basically cycle involving Arisen and Dragon), even addressing Pathfinder directly even though he can't see them. Basically, his goal aligns with the player's in a sense that they both want to break the Dragon's dogma. Which is where actually most of the confusion with the story lies, because helping him is a reasonable idea, but your character treats him like an evil villain. 3. The crux of the evidence revolved around exposing Sovran as the false Arisen, which would have worked until he was shown to be able to control pawns which dismisses all allegations, leading to Godsbane investigation. Do agree that the shift from one to another is bafflingly quick. 4. 100% agree about Battahl, that city barely has a storyline to it. 5. For the Talos, we do know what it is: Brine controlled construct made to "fix" anything that goes wrong within the cycle (including making the Dragon do its job if it refuses). Most of that comes from talking to the crazy grandpa at Harve village.

That's really not what happened... Like, at all. Understand that in their mind, there was no problem to fix; There was no "Wall", no hurdle, no obstacle to get over. Their intention was to have the player WALK. Now you see a wall here, but the devs saw a straight open road. You understandably don't like it, but this is 100% their intention. Critique it, be vocal, maybe they will listen for whatever DLC they have planned... Or use mods, on PC they have a tendency to alter perceived developer mistakes.

@@Flopdoodle A mount would still have players walk but not a snails pace anymore. Just because you intend on wasting players time doesn't make it a good idea. You are just still wasting the players time. Sorry. I should have said they saw a solid block of Titatnium and sped up 10 times into it while screaming "We intend to drive against it. Trust us. This is definitly not a boneheaded move." They also intend for you to have only one save and only be able to save in certain cases. Does it make the save system magically better? No. Intention never matters when it comes to the actual outcomes of the actual thing. Just because devs are delusional doesn't mean I need to feed their delusion.

@@briandprice1981 Someone could shit on your plate and you would say "Well the chef wanted to make the meal this way. Shut the fuck up and eat shit." You guys really defend every stupid idea there is out there. I won't even engage with the other comment cause the answer should be pretty clear what I would think about another braindead system that wastes players time. I even forgot to mention that in DD1 you had also the whole stamina thing so you couldn't even run all the time. Just because some brainrotten idiot thinks it is a really great idea to it this specific way it doesn't make it good or special. It just makes it idiotic and brainrotten.

@@CarlolucaS Yep.

@@Flopdoodle why don’t modders just get together, and make the games, since apparently developers get to be tone deaf and wear it like a badge of honor. I would say traversal in dd2 is cheap padding, and without it you never enjoy the 1 part of the game everyone unanimously enjoys, combat… Capcom thought they’d have another mh success story, but their next go around is just more capcom laziness w a new coat of paint

Studios thing gamers are stupid, inadvertently making them look stupid

Unpopular opinion: maybe those companies has a point, at least partly. Look at how many people still pay for EA games and all of their exploitative schemes, like the "surprise mechanics"! Look at how many people still support and get excited for them games that coming from shitty companies, after they have fucked the gaming communities over and over! Look at how much money those Gatcha/mobile games! And much more. People defending shitty companies/shitty practices all the time. So at least a (large) part of the gaming community is actually stupid! And often a lot of people in the community are afraid to call that part out for their stupidity for various reason: such as afraid that they got also called out because they might participate in some of that stupidity here and there, or afraid of the backlash (especially for the KZfaqrs/influencers/streamers) because they might get cancelled or losing view,...

I will never understand why Japanese game devs are bad at telling a good story in their Western fantasy RPGs when games like the Witcher 3 do a better job than most.

@@doclouis4236 I mean asians think that westerners are dumb, so we don't need good stories

I am interested to get opinions on which games invite exploring their worlds while not enforcing it. Giving a bonus for doing so even if that is just satisfaction. I don’t have a Switch but I understand that in Breath of the Wild you can just run straight through the world if you choose but can unlock extras for discovering.

Gotta tease your Audience 😋

that seems right

Sounds about right

Nah just trash. Like how does a game have shit story, shit world, shit enemy design, arguably shit combat, shit optimisation AND STILL GRT CALLED MASTERPIECE🤯 I'm alright with the gameplay but I saw alot critique it's "spam the op ability" or "you can't use many of them since they lack a dodge or block option that's viable"

​@@meshman4236 Did you played the game? If yes, we played a really different game. The story is very good, if you payed attention, the director tried something different and more subtil, it`s hard to capture. That are some parts of the story that I only understood in the third playthrough. And only after these I was able to understand the value of it. To say that the world, enemy design (enemy variety should had been better for sure) and combat are shit I mus completely disagree. They`re awesome, but certainly it`s not for all people, you`re probably one of them. All of these elements have something nearly impossible to describe, but they`re not even bad, let alone shit. Optimization was really bad for PC, and in my case was random. My poorer performance where in places completely empty, not in the cities. The director of the game tried to do a different game, it takes a little more work to get then other games. And to me what makes trash too is the fact that I needed more then a hundred hours to see the masterpiece in the game. This is not aceptable and because of it is trash too.

@marducms the story is the only game I've ever seen that forgot its narrative straight away. The Queen plot is thrown away, the slave master and Queen who KNOW YOU, fail to recognise you when you talk to them. I don't even know who the batahl Queen is because she had 1 sentence. There a like 5 enemy types in the game and you mostly fight goblins, bandit or birds, the world is literally run around and loot a wooden or sometimes metal chest that will either have gold, material or VERY RARELY, a weapon. Hell while we're on the world aspect, it's rules don't make sense, the secret ending had the world stripped of water for a month but somehow everyone survived, somehow you can just walk into a Palace. The world promised using the environment but that barrel thrown at rock debris when fighting the troll is the only time it happens. The only unique area in the game was the misty area with the sphinx and that was it. You are either running area to area, skipping the sprint then walk whilst sprint recharges, with a carriage or are running into a small empty cave/mine with a chest of gold That is such an awful design Now for combat. The only classes I used was warrior and thief. They were the only good classes for every fight by far. Every other class like spear have no block/dodge (mystic spear does bad damage and doesn't stun bigger enemies). Fighter has a block but you'll find yourself block locked unlike with thief due to dodges or warrior due to hyper armour. The only class I didn't play was mystic archer and it was because the buggy ass game didn't let me do the quest to get it. The combat is spam thief ability or warrior light attack combo until the enemy is dead. That is awful game balance and tedious game design. Pawns are important to the combat. However 2 of the 3 you can't even customise or grow attached to since they don't level with you, and the one you have doesn't get noticeably better with gaining skills or weapons/armour. Pawns are so stupid that their team skills never work but that's a different conversation. The only people I can see this appealing to is players that aren't looking for anything beyond the bare minimum. This game falls way too short in every aspect that qualifies a game for good, nevermind masterpiece. I strongly recommend watching feeble Kings review on it. It will show you alot of the points I haven't mentioned.

Yeah I've been seeing alot of people saying the same.

Honestly I don't see the point of a third. In most regards THIS game was just a remake of the first game with the same start and end. Just an altered middle. If they can figure out a new dynamic to the destiny sure! If not then they need to move on

dd3 would be a cool game in the next like 10 years. I like dd2, but man it took forever to come out and like you said the execution held it back. Even the director said that this was a remake of dd1, but god they could have improved every way, but didn't.

Nope. They already set a precedent. They sell idiot literal sh😂T and idiots buy now they will not even try to put an effort and sell us all something even sh😂ttier than dd2

The fact that he's so angry about the way the game was created is exactly what the devs wanted; to weed out the ticktock brained INCELS.

@@briandprice1981 ok

The next videos animation is already in the works and it's going to be INSANE

That's such a good point that I didn't even consider, I genuinely remember no one but brant

The godsway makes a bit of sense considering that the dragons are usually pawns or other Arisen

Dragons are very much connected to the Arisen, to control the big dragons is to control the Arisen themselves.

Having to overthrow the power hungry tyrannical queen regent, her puppet ruler of a son, and their army of mind-controlled pawns and maybe an undead or a homemade vat-grown dragon that they planned to use to fight the Royce Dragon and/or conquer the world would've been pretty awesome.

lack of monster-variety aside, the Unmoored World is WAY better than everfall. Everfall was a boring slog. You see the unique monsters once and you still traverse the same old boring hallways to fight them. It was simply not good. Unmoored World is way better in the exploration aspect but fails in the unique-monsters, but overall an improvement. Whatever Dark Arisen equivalent they have planned, I really hope it's not just a single lengthy dungeon but a new zone with new towns and lots of dungeons.

No being able to buy to/sell from inventory is criminal.

You're the only person I've seen comment that did the same! I am no longer alone!

HAHAHA OMG you got shafted harder than me with the affinity system

They picked the blacksmith girl in batthal for me. Didn’t gift her anything or buy anything from her. I literally did 2 escort quests for her because they were actually really close and it made her a priority over everyone else in game.

Forger for me, I died laughing when it happened lmao

Don't think I've seen a comment on my editing before but regardless thank you!

That's actually pretty damn cool

The upgrade scene has to be the most fun I've had making a video

Very intentional! So glad someone noticed

@@Zenny-KZfaq I'm very hyped for where Algorithm goes. At first I thought it was a strange choice to have a self created overarching narrative between video essays, but I gotta say, it's paid off in my eyes.

Cheers my dude! Always a joy seeing comments enjoying the videos 😊

I'd never expect square enix of all companies to manage thier games better than most

@@Zenny-KZfaq To be far its a branch of Square that is actually competent unlike most of the company. CBU 3 is goated. (Creative Business Unit III) If only the name was as creative as what the team does.

Cheers man! The animation stuffs been a ton of fun! Next video is gonna blow everyone away!

They're not rare whatsoever they're avaliable in every hub and village every single one has a trade that has a ferry stone for sale all you have to do is stock up to 3-5 and then maintain that amount it's a slight inconvenience and an item you have to keep in mind but they're not rare in the slightest I've sat on 10 ferrystones and it only dropped when I consciously choose to use them up in quick succession

@@spartan02elite your perception of this might depend on how much you use them. i also have a pretty solid supply but i travel the old fashioned way a lot, even on paths i've explored already.

Well with enough money I'd be sure to make it happen!

@@Zenny-KZfaq if u ever need ideas for plots, I have a few :)

This comment was such a joy to read thank you so very much. I'll be sure to get more videos out for you to enjoy soon! Also!! It's so funny that you remember that from the starfield video. Being remembered for an actual line in a video is so heart warming. Thank you for this comment. It truly made my day

@@Zenny-KZfaq 😍wow you actually read it thanks never happend to me bofore 🤣 that someone answered my comments, im happy that you liked it :D im actually binge watching your videos again at the moment :D

Don't tell him that I told you this, but he might be like 60% right... BUT DONT TELL HIM THAT.

That's kinda of the problem with travel, the world is super cool to discover! So many cool things to see and do!... once

Video games as a whole hate me and I can prove it!

Whenever meteor was activated or pending I always pressed follow me. It may even show up in the footage. Sadly the response from the ai was a tad too slow and just didn't work out for me

I'm aware the first game had plenty of arisen, I'm more referring to the active arisen, not so much the retired/failed arisen

The fact that I still long to play this game again after all this time TELLS me it's good. But then I remember the walking..

Alot of KZfaqrs just want a quick video idea to grab them views. I strive to show you EVERYTHING worth actually talking about

I've been growing nicely over the last year! Getting there slowly but surely

@@ShrekThaOGEE the rule of cool nearly always wins

God the story is shit. If there's anything that makes me seethe it's the wasted potential.

It's nice hearing someone say they like the balanced approach to the criticism. Helps me cement my vision for these videos. So thank you!

100k seems more possible every day!

@@Zenny-KZfaq you got this man, you got the good content

We are getting there!

She is so so cool. I was in shock when I found her!

@@Zenny-KZfaq It's a shame the last bit of her questline sucked :(

That game drove me insane at so many points that the video got delayed by a 2 weeks until I got my voice back I'm order to record hahahaha

It's only gonna get higher and higher

The amount of travelling required was always frustrating

@@Zenny-KZfaq I agree but only because the density of the enimys is too high and because the quest "rewards" could literally not be any worse

Thank you for letting me know. I'll sus the edits tab and see if i can lower ads

Fingers crossed that it'll be when my next video goes up!

It's heart breaking to see so many dd1 fans be let down by the Sequel. Feels like they designed the game for new players over fans

My partner pointed out the 2 edited gags I made that I forgot to put in the video. So alot of revision was needed on the final render haha

Oh sweet first time viewer. Looks like the algorithm is plugging the video a little that's awesome! Hope you are enjoying yourself! Not ad much animation in this one compared to my last 2 videos but that will be changing in the next one!

@@Zenny-KZfaq I've also seen your other videos! They really are very interesting to see, especially because of the lore added between sections, first time I've seen that. You are quite unique in the way you criticize and review things. I wouldn't be surprised if you are being blessed by KZfaq's algorithm rn, you deserve it to be honest. You will be very big someday!

@@man3451 the lore has been such a passion project for me. Naturally there are those who hate it. But it's so fun for me

@@Zenny-KZfaq Naturally, that's how things are, unfortunately. The good thing is that there are many people who support you in this, and the lore introduced in the videos is quite interesting. It's like those minigames that are inside games, basically the same thing, but in videos. It gives one more reason to watch the video, not only because you are criticizing a game, but also to see how the inside lore plays out in them.

Excellent video, and I certainly agree with everything you said. I was able to save scum decently 99% of the time, but even then, I would have to completely exit the game to the start menu (which takes longer than loading the game from its save state), and that's just too much of a hassle. The worst part about this game is that there are game-breaking bugs that still exist that completely soft-lock the entire game. I had 86 hours into it and, despite everything, was having a blast-then I happened to decide to participate in the wrong side quest and completely ruined my game. I had to start all over, and despite quickly making it to the level I once was, I could not bring myself to play anymore. I hope that the definitive edition smooths most, if not all, of the issues I had. I desperately want to love this game because, if nothing else, the exploration and gameplay are even better than the definitive edition of the first, but what the first game also had been its unique atmosphere. DD certainly borrowed its theming around bad fate and unimaginable power from Berserk, but it also carved its own fairytale-like way. With DD2, instead of expanding upon that world, it doubles down, desperately trying to be a Dragon's Dogma game instead of a true sequel-if that makes any sense at all.

Dd2 felt alot of the same in regards to the first game. Did alot of things better but when you say it borrowed things I couldn't agree more!

Cut scenes in this game are so cool. There needed to be more

@@Zenny-KZfaqMuch so i feel like each of the meisters needed to have like a ATLEAST a good 6 part questline with cutscenes so you get to know them better and major chars as well those things would of help The main story needed at least to be a good 40 quests but shockly its short and done really shocking the only time i thought the story got good was when you talk to the last you know who in the you know where in water ITs just so odd to me how everything goes by so god damn fast. plus only 10 classes is only 1 more then dd1 and why no beholder eye or hydra in 2

These videos take so damn long to make, so it's incredibly uplifting seeing these kinds of comments, cheers man

No problem ^w^

Figuring out who he is before the reveal was such a thrill!

Dragon's Dogma 2 is very flawed but it still has that magical spark the first one had. Plus I've been getting great amusement throwing pawns off of bridge when I even suspect Dragon's plague.

Hope you have a blast with it!

Same here. I got about 25 hours out of it 🤷.

Dragons Dogma's strength has always been the combat for both games but the story is just eh.........

Ying and yang

I think masterpiece is an egregious hyperbole. It’s fun, but you have less enemy diversity than the fucking odyssey. Vocations seem unfinished. Exploration doesn’t yield any significant rewards. Progression is entirely locked to gold. Even the fighting is tbh kind of clunky, trying to climb in the direction you want to go doesn’t work consistently. The various vocation abilities are a mixed bag of either useless or broken. Etc.

@@bigsweetz9384 12 years to arrive at Dragon's Dogma .8 instead of 2 is a miraculous disaster.

Yeah it's so dumb. The enable infinite stamina when you are in the 2 cities. But then you leave and remain out of combat and your stamina starts draining. So dumb

I've never had a comment about my voice before, this is so sweet

From what I can see from those who played both in my comments so many people keep saying this is just a remake with afew minor alterations, which kind of makes me understand why I enjoyed the game more than most, what I experienced was all new, something not every player had the privilege of

Couldn't agree more

I agree, sadly capcom have been putting these micros in ALL thier games for the last 5 years. They won't be stopping anytime soon. It's a shame

Truly have no idea in regards to the game! I know I wanna do a starwars outlord video later this year, but before that I'm not sure

The game does attempt to do this with the portcrystals. But clearly doesn't hand you enough so I agree

There is good and bad to the system, that's why I speak on both arguments of the point. It can be annoying and bullshit. But it can also be quite pleasant to not have the fast travel available early. Once you've started discovering many places you wish to return to? By then you'll have money, ferrystones and port crystals that may aid in allowing for fast travel. When you don't know the world you are forced to travel it, but once you've experienced plenty, fast travel becomes faster and accessible

@@Zenny-KZfaq Right, yet that's exactly the same way I would describe Skyrim, but without having to deal with ferry stones and port crystals. Again, your argument is why fast travel shouldn't be available for places you haven't been to yet, not what fast travel should be locked off entirely early on and gated later.

The games VERY similar to the first both with gameplay and story. And it's weird because most times that would both me story wise, but I kinda don't mind it here. Sure it did the royal stuff worse, but the dragon was handled super well

There is an unlimited ferrystone in the dlc of the first game. They will eventually add the item to dd2 aswell, they just cannot add it now, as dd2 dlc would lose its designed pacing if players went in with thier unlimited ferrystone.

Videos still young! We shall see

In my experience taking away fast travel on a map large enough to need it just makes a boring game

@@jakel2837 Honestly. I only explore to do the quests and leave, so taking away the fast travel hasn't made me explore more.

Nah that's rose-tinted glasses dude. DD2 has way better combat and pawn system. The pawns in DDDA requires you to play 200 levels to become semi-competent, while DD2 is competent out the gate. Considering the pawns are what make these games, it's not even a contest. If the dungeon-delving and character-leveling is your jam, there are WAY... WAY BETTER GAMES for that.

​@@Flopdoodle I wish it was "rose-tinted glasses", but no. It's just that DD2 is a step down completely. Combat? Less weapon skills, weapon selection per character, in-vocation strategies than ddda. Story? Simplified to fanfic status. Open world exploration? Rofl, over bloated with same fauna that we fought in the first game and miss the actual point that was wrong with it; that enemies like hydra only show up ONCE and you never fight it again until END GAME, dd2 devs just decided to removed enemies like that from the sequel. Also, that the lacking enemy variety wasn't the whole issue, the small numbers of enemies and bad group compositions hurt them the most, there's no reason to get excited about fighting like 15+ goblins at lvl 25-40 if that's all I've done up to lvl 20. I could go on, but to cut it short. DD2 basically is DD1 with better "Gransys" open world in the size of it alone and nothing else. With a worse story, combat and combat movement/flow, bad end game, less in-vocation strategies. Next, until there's a Bitter-Black Isle DLC place in the game, I'm out until then. I still play ddda almost every week since I've got it in 2020, and it is just leagues better and somehow has the same flaws, but has ways around them. DD2 doesn't, they literally unlearned the fixes they made in ddda from dd1. That's the most impressive thing about DD2.

@@Flopdoodle I play DDDA solo- no pawns.

I had both houses. One in battahl and on in vernworth. My issue isn't with the spending money to save per say. It's the fact that you have to walk to specific builds to save at all is dumb

@@Zenny-KZfaq Maybe it's a generation gap thing. I'm so used to saving at inns in rpgs and save points in general that I didn't even blink at it. Same for the class specific armor. I do agree that choosing to split what look to be complete fashion sets between vocations was fairly irritating though.

Oh you ain't seen NOTHING yet!

It's makes for very eventful play sessions! It's rare that you get a game where you wanna tell your mates about moments at the pub

Like every open world game?

@@billjacobs521 Many of them, not all of them.

Witcher 3 at least had quests that were worth doing.

Me? Over Hype a video? I would never 👀

Cheers man! Rigging that thing was a nightmare... but it turned out so well! Gonna be putting it to the test in the next video that's for sure!

Here's hoping man!

I do agree, when leveling has no substance behind it, it can start to feel worthless. A time sink

Agreed. What's the point in a big open world to explore when the things in it are just bland NPCs with poorly written very short stories _at best?_

@@DJWeapon8 Either if you are doing it with friends in MMO's or if you are a kid experiencing RPG's for the first time. I spent a ridicules amount of time as a child playing Might and Magic 6,7 & 8(The RPG series, not the strategy ones). The games have a very shallow story now that I look back, but they were amazing during those years to play. If I'll try to play them now, It'll be like having a second job.

I still don't understand how the game doesn't deliver any story beats until the end of it all. Like.... how?!

@@Zenny-KZfaq and it barely delivers those as well. Like, I thought we would use Sven and Wilhelmina to play with the nobles in a lesser version of Game of Thrones, but nope. All that for nothing. And don't get me started with Talos...

The first game has the story grind to a halt when Grigori arrives for the second time to tell you that everything you've done so far, with Salvation, the rebellion, Fournival's trial, the Duke, helping Selene etc., has all been pointless in the grand scheme of things, and the only thing that matters is you and him. The sequel doesn't even give you that honor. Story lines just fade away at various points for no reason, and fighting the dragon feels more like another thing to check off on the to-do list, and we don't even get to know his name

@@LowResCatExplosion pain. Just pain. if the game didn't talk about the dragon every 2 min I would forget about him easily. It's the same problem that Far Cry 4 has. An amazing concept of a villain that is never used. Pain...