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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen for Nintendo Switch |OT| Wolves Hunt On The Go, Arisen!
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There's no other way to play it, unless you're talking about your AI party members.
Yes, the game is a solo game. You can hire pawns (AI) that follow you and help you out.
It is a single player game - there's no multiplayer as such, you make use of CPU servants called Pawns who can do other roles like tank/heal/magic etc. These are either ingame or from other people uploading their pawns online to be used by others. EDIT - beaten twice :V
I am tempted to get this, seems like a great game to have on a portable for them long journeys and I've never completed it (got it for both PS3 and PC but never progressed further than Gran Soren meself). It's only available digital in UK? Shame really, might import a physical copy in that case.
I am tempted to...*counts* triple dip on Switch. On one hand, I might wait for a small price drop since it's Capcom, on the other hand TIME IS RUNNING FREE I FEEL LIKE LETTING GO JUST LIKE THE DANGAN.
The X360 demo sold me on Dragon's Dogma in less than 10 minutes, it felt AMAZING. However, I never bought it because I sold my console two days later. Can't believe I'm finally playing this.
Aside from the novelty, is there any particular reason to use a friend's pawn instead of random ones?
Aside from the novelty, is there any particular reason to use a friend's pawn instead of random ones?
You can hire a friend's pawn for free, regardless of level. Also, hiring a friend's pawn will give them rift crystals, which allow them to hire better pawns themselves, as well as quest/monster knowledge.
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Seems to stick to that stable 30fps reading all the different impressions in the other DD Switch threads.
played the game way back during the PS3 days and always wanted to buy the PS4 version but now that there's a Switch version I need to decide which one to go for. The Switch version is nice because of its portable mode, but the PS4 version has trophies ^^'
I'm guessing the Switch servers start with fresh Pawns?
I'm guessing the Switch servers start with fresh Pawns?
My advice is to spend some time without any pawns and just fight by yourself. Throw your main pawn off of the nearest cliff, it's OK they will come back at the next riftstone. Then once everyone else is gone it will be easier to get a handle on the combat flow and all of the options available to you, without 3 pawns chattering away and doing their own big huge sometimes screen filling moves. That stuff can be a real distraction, especially early on when you're trying to figure out how to play without just button mashing.
I do, reached the Season 3 content on PS4/PC w/English patch.
It's not very good. The combat still feels like DD, but it's much more rigid from a tactical perspective and the progression is absolutely awful.
It's a F2P game through and through, and all of the stuff you can pay for is lootbox/lottery-based.
Same here. I didn't enjoy it way back, but nowadays, I'm enjoying more offline single player stuff. So far, I'm really digging it. Can be surprisingly hard. Got ambushed by some bandits and one of them sent me packing.
My advice is to pay attention to your pawn's inclinations and those of the pawns you hire!
Challenger, scather and mitigator are the good ones
Avoid pawns with guardian!!
For god mode and easy min maxing
Start off with mage but avoid leveling past level 10
Switch to sorcerer until lv 200
Mountebank makes the best romance partner in the game
But fournival is slightly better on your first play through
Challenger, scather and mitigator are the good ones
Avoid pawns with guardian!!
For god mode and easy min maxing
Start off with mage but avoid leveling past level 10
Switch to sorcerer until lv 200
Mountebank makes the best romance partner in the game
But fournival is slightly better on your first play through
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Third game I actually bought for Switch since launch. I'm supporting this game as much as possible to see a sequel. I'm also going to have a top leaderboard pawn this time!
This will be my 3rd time buying this game lol, would be nice to play at work on fridays. Never tried mage/sorcerer build before so I will try that out for sure.
Can't wait to see what kinds of weird pawns you all come up with.
This will be the 4th time I'll be playing it through (though my PC playthrough wasn't fully complete). If anybody has any specific questions about classes or starting out (or annoying things early in the game) feel free to ask!
It doesn't play songs about wind pushing you though, that was only ever featured on the original PS360 releases of the original game (no Dark Arisen).
That is, assuming it was a serious question :)
This will be the 4th time I'll be playing it through (though my PC playthrough wasn't fully complete). If anybody has any specific questions about classes or starting out (or annoying things early in the game) feel free to ask!
It plays a remix of the main theme, variations of which also featured during the opening sequence and end credits.
It doesn't play songs about wind pushing you though, that was only ever featured on the original PS360 releases of the original game (no Dark Arisen).
That is, assuming it was a serious question :)
Capcom's always had solid performing Switch ports. I don't remember any of their games having framerate issues.
It has, according to play asia. Subtitles: Japanese, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese
Oh boy, that's not a rabbit hole you want to go down. What is seen can not be unseen. The PS3 version is absolutely horrendous in comparison to the current gen version. Really blurry (720p* with low precision FXAA and bilinear texture filtering), constantly shimmering low res dynamic shadows and a framerate that regularly drops into the teens. The 360 version is alledgedly a little better (better texture filtering and a slightly better framerate) but it's still pretty bad.
The Switch version is a huge improvement in that regard.
*Technically the resolution was actually sub 720p on last gen systems due to the "cinematic" letterboxing, though that wasn't a direct contributor to the blurriness. Still another way the current gen version improved over the mess that was the original release.
it is.
This is not how you do quick cash-ins. They're making an anime.
Capcom only does global SKUs.
They are making an anime and probably Itsuno next project is Dragon's Dogma 2, he already started on this project.
He wanted to make DD2 and DMC 5 and went with DMC 5 first.
I want this game really badly but I've been so busy with work lately that my existing backlog is barely getting touched.
Is it the type of game I can just lower the difficulty setting and enjoy an hour at a time in a Skyrim/exploration/world type way?
Or is the challenge of the combat and putting the time in to get better at that the main "point"?
Is it the type of game I can just lower the difficulty setting and enjoy an hour at a time in a Skyrim/exploration/world type way?
Or is the challenge of the combat and putting the time in to get better at that the main "point"?
Yes.
That said, there's an annoying missable quest early on that will lock you out of a (small) area if you don't complete it quickly.
The path to said mission has strong enemies, which makes people put it off... only to get a "mission failed" message shortly after.
The mission name, I think, is: Witch Hunt or something, it's to do with the witch wood
The game is not hard
Yes there is
Yep
Hell you can play it with no pawns at all
There are even benefits for doing so
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That's awesome, then it's probably worth a try for that price, cheers.
I guess that kind of happens when all you are doing is porting old ass games. :P
Around noon EST in the US if that's where you are is when third-party eShop games usually go live unless the publisher decided to go for something different.
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The whole game is on the cart, no additional download needed.
Sweet! I always have to ask this question before I buy any Switch game but now it's time to buy this game for the 3rd time now.