Dragon's Dogma 2 Review - A Modern Masterpiece

Set forth on your grand adventure, Arisen!

0:00 Intro
1:01 Combat & Vocations
7:31 World Freedom & Exploration
13:21 Story
15:35 Visuals
17:14 Audio
19:15 PC Performance
20:55 Potential for Improvements
23:05 Closing Thoughts

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.

Wield swords, bows, and chant magick. The vocations in Dragon's Dogma 2 give you the ability to approach combat the way you want.

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.

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.

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.

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All recordings and streams are done using OBS, an Elgato 4K60 Pro, and a Samson G Track Pro Mic.

All recordings and streams are done using OBS, an Elgato 4K60 Pro, and a Samson G Track Pro Mic.

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[FightinCowboy]

With launch there's a lot of misinformation going around surrounding the MTX so here's my thoughts:

1) Reviewers were aware of the MTX beforehand, they weren't stealthed in. I looked at em, saw a bunch of unnecessary shit and never thought about them again. Same as MHW, RE4, DMC5, etc. It's a bunch of pointless shit that you earn just playing the game. Yes MTX are shitty. No I don't give a shit about them.

2) "Fast travel is pay-gated" You get 5-6 port crystals in game and ferrystones drop frequently in end-game, nothing is pay gated.

3) "You have to pay to change your character" You get 2-3 changes at the in-game shop per playthrough and everytime you start a NG+ cycle. You'd need to do 4+ complete character overhauls in a single playthrough before you'd pay $$.

4) "Save is locked behind cloud" You can delete your save and restart, even though that is fucking dumb and shouldn't have to be the case.

I get people being upset about performance, and people are always gonna bitch about MTX as expected, but the blatant amount of misinformation being pushed around for shit that's false is whack. If you're mad that MTX exist I get you, but let's not spread fake news about shit that's not true.

[stevecomeau]

47 year old gamer dad here... Started playing Souls game because of you. Thank you. Platinumed Elden Ring because of you. Did all your Souls Walkthroughs... currently on Sekiro and just beat Genichiro first try yesterday BECAUSE OF YOU. Thank you. Will play this as well, ty.

[FightinCowboy]

Seeing a lot of people confused about me being a new game ++, I'm pushing through to do content I missed before and still uncovering new quest lines. If you're being thorough you're looking at probably 100+ hrs for a 100% style playthrough

[matticcusphynch]

Favorite part of the video: "just look how beefy this sounds".
Hard cut to Youtube ad: Paleovalley naturally fermented beef sticks.


Yep, that's one beefy-sounding weapon.

[mesadrums]

It feels like we’re finally getting all the stuff that artists have been cooking over the pandemic. Music, movies, games recently have been fantastic

[astroguster]

Hey, I'm 92 years old and I started playing souls watching you in my nursing home. Im currently shredding in this game. Shaka bra 🤙

[richardwhite]

The fact that a 4090 was struggling in parts is terrifying. Jeez.

[TheDoomballoon]

Do you think we'll see DLC like we did with Dark Arisen or is the base game more than enough to match it for late/endgame content?

[butterflap]

After dumping 80+ hours into this game I had to come back to this review and say I am struggling to understand how you came to the conclusion this game is a masterpiece.

The combat and world are cool just like the first DD but this game is a complete and utter broken mess on almost every level not even including the MASSIVE performance issues I have experienced on pc. With almost every quest I did in the game breaking and constant bugs and random glitches having me stop and look up what the hell was going on it continually became apparent that this game was shipped completely unfinished.

In just one of my many broken quests the npc randomly died at some point and I thought I was going insane trying to finish it as I had no idea who the npc was so I had to look all of this up on a guide to figure out wtf was happening meanwhile I have these random encounters throwing time based quests on top of the initial quest I’m trying to complete which I had to auto fail as I couldn’t travel where they wanted me to as I was too busy trying to find a dead npc to complete the quest. My entire quest experience throughout the game was truly awful and confusing to the point of frustration. Not that the quests really are good in the first place. The story starts off well enough and starts to turn into a bunch of convoluted nonsense all at once later making everything a confusing mess.

I still had fun with the different classes and pawn system as well as some of the exploration but outside of that the game is really a backwards step for this series unless they patch the living shit out of this. I think more people will come to this conclusion after finishing the game and I’m wondering why it is receiving such high praise at this time. It’s still fun combat wise and there is some enjoyment to be had but a masterpiece is far from what I would call this. I would call it a fun but overall disappointing sequel. I could not recommend this to my friends right now without warning them the game is mostly broken so how can it be a “modern masterpiece” ?

We are once again left with very cool ideas stuck in a complete mess of a game and this was how I felt about the first one tbh. It is a shame and the years of waiting don’t help anything so I feel pretty mislead having seen all the praise when other game companies would not get a pass on this. I will continue to hope major patches are incoming.

[KarlRock]

Sounds like a great time! I’ll add it to my list. I’ll probably play the original game first. Thanks for the review.

[jtf-peacekeepers]

I like how you can switch over to vocations and distribute your skills equally instead of commiting to them for different game files. Something I wish more RPGs would allow.

[KarthikeyanNagappan]

Hey like a 47 year old guy, I'm 66 and had been following your videos on souls game like a holy grail albeit 6 or 7 years later. Joined your community, should have done long back but better late than never. 24 hours to go for dragons dogma 2. I'm confident you'll be there to guide me through. God bless

[NorCalRide]

I loved this game when it first came out and no one I knew ever played it. It never got much attention. It's crazy there is a sequel and many eyes are now looking at the franchise.

[cultmemberr]

82 year old crippled geriatric Veteran here… started watching you play dark souls when I was in my 20’s. Absolutely sending this game right now. Although all the button mashing isn’t great for my arthritis! :D

[Jeradactile]

DD1 is one of my favorite games of all time. I am beyond excited to jump into this and put 20+ play throughs in.

[maxben]

Over a decade wait is finally over. Bliss. 🗡️ 🐉

[Kramswodahs]

We fans never thought we'd see the day, but we're so close now!

[jester]

I remember getting dragons dogma after a friend recommended it to me. The combat the story the world i had so much fun and yet it seemed like no one had heard of the gem. I hope this game gets the recognition that the first one deserved

[megning]

What is exactly that "modern" ?

[TSotP]

Lol, fucking hell. That Sorcerer pawn obliterated that Cyclops at 10:00 with that Bolide lol 🤣