I recommend: Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Review)
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March 20, 2026
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A year later, and Dragons Dogma 2 is the closest you can get to having your very own fantasy adventure akin to something like Lord of the Rings. Your party can be unique and varied and very fantasy core type stuff. There is no cooler feeling than fighting a dragon or a Chimera and your party is up close distracting it while you sit back and cast spells like earthquake and meteor. Or being a mystic and making yourself an invincible spellblade while your party does archery or support spells or more unga bunga. The gameplay and how it involves your pawns in your play style is really, really good.
I just wish there was a good story and impactful choices and stuff. Maybe multiple choice based endings. Idk. Mass effect really spoiled that section of my brain that ignites at the thought of having to make critical choices that change future events in meaningful ways.
I appreciate you trying to stand up for this game and show some of it's great aspects but respectfully, you had needed to go play DD:DA before making this.
To this day you write my favorite game essays. Thanks for all you do! Very informative, honest, and entertaining!
All the game needs is more monsters and bosses. Maybe some more dungeons to explore.
I don't like when reviewers bring up other games to compare. Is this a comparison review. What if other people don't like Elden ring but love Dragons Dogma 2. If i wanna know about elden ring, i would have clicked that games review. I'm not trying to play another elden ring again. I want to know about dragons dogma as it is.
This is an objectively mediocre rpg with shameful performance, but somehow… I have never felt more immersed as a character in a fantasy game world. 300+ glorious hrs played after release. Going back in for more now, and hooked all over again.
This game was so bad and overrated.
So it seems like an iterative sequel, some of the fans even say it's more like a remake. I was considering playing this one, but maybe I'll wait for the next one. I already played the 1st one & it was a kind of game that I can only endure once, more of the same isn't what I want.
people they don’t care about a good story ruin video games
Sounds like a podcast game
25:36 No interesting movesets? Even the base enemies have a more varied moveset than most compareable games. Besides the too many lizards argument, I can agree with, these monster designs hold up longer than all other compareable games.
That's why I don't get the "not enough variety" lie. No, I don't say argument, because it's objectively a lie. Did you know that a chimera's roar can crumble you? Did you know that a cyclops can throw and re-collect their weapons? Some have armor, ogres do dropkicks and can grab you, normal goblins can grab you and throw sh*t at you with properties. They all can jump and reach areas I wouldn't expect them to do. Summon, warn, bite you, pin you down, put you to sleep, ect.
When I go through my first hours of Elden Ring there's mostly dude with sword, just does damage, differently coloured dude with a different sword, does also damage. Gameplay-wise DD2's enemies have a lot of variety and I never get tired fighting the next minotaur or griffin.
And these were only a handful of examples the enemies can do "to you", but can you blind or put to sleep some a**hole in Elden Ring? Climb on their heads? Knock them over? Throw them from cliffs? Put them in a whirlwind? No, you hit and do damage. No concept of counters or using hit stun or super armor in a tactical way. Enemy makes damage, you make damage, caveman brain satisfied. Not here, in DD2 there are so many ways to have fun, even tie up a flying griffin's wings, so it crashes to the ground, gets stunned and you are able to set its wings on fire so it can't escape! Because that's something they also do.
This basically sparked a discussion what makes a game good. A game like Dragon's Dogma 2 with excellent core gameplay but lackluster things around them or (compareable) games like Elden Ring, Witcher 3 or Elder Scrolls, which have horrible, broken, lackluster and unfinished core gameplay, but doing good with the nice to have, optional things around that.
I'm going with option one.
11:23 You’re wrong here. This NPC actually has her own very interesting questline once you max out affinity with her
That games sounds like it's barely worth it in the first place, but then you add allllll of these baffling design choices peppered in and I get an immediate headache
The "real" ending made me hate whoever created this game
2:18 Clicked off the video right away….
There's something to be said for a game that would be amazing if only they did x, y, z. In that way, these janky half-baked yet super immersive rpgs spark your imagination in a way a game with more polish never could. Your mind fills in the gaps, just like when you were a kid reading a book, or playing with friends using a Wiffle bat as a magic sword and tennis balls as fireballs. When a friend asked me to describe DD2 to them, I said "it doesn't play anything like Morrowind, but the vibe is EXACTLY like Morrowind". He knew exactly what I meant. The magic is in the jank.
Elden ring is dragons dogma+skyrim
This game would have been a hell of a lot better if I didn't play the original. Huge missed opportunity in the sequel
Bethesda Games are Cheecks, I dont who would play those garbage games
Dogma Balls
If you had played the first game you would almost certainly have an entirely different opinion on it.
This game was a massive disappointment in nesrly every way.
My one problem with the Wither 3 was also the fact that you could walk into anyones home or store and if there was something that could be looted then you were welcome to loot it with absolutely zero consequences 😐
Absolutely no game does a fight like DD2. You can start a fight with your 4 person party vs a pack of wolves, and by the end of it there could be your squad, the traveling cart and guards, 2 wandering pawns all vs the pack of wolves, a pack of goblins, some bandits and a griffion. Its the best
34:08 I totally spoke to that guard standing about where you were, and another guard tackled me from behind and arrested me while I was still being told I shouldn't go near that door.
I was always mixed about Dragon's Dogma 2. I loved the gameplay, but what i really wanted was more incorporation from Dragon's Dogma Online. I found myself doubting Itsuno's vision. However, Punk Duck's video on DD2 has convinced that this game is a masterpiece.
Knowing that this game is Itsuno's final work with Capcom just serves as the greatest and most Japanese way to be passive aggressive with your employer.
this game is hot garbage
Towards the end you mention that npcs/towns are full of Chuck E. Cheese automatons. My headcannon is that this is westworld and I get to just drop in and have fun lol like it’s immersive but not real
Who's here after the Punk Duck vid trying to remember if Ralph ever actually made it to Dragons Dogma 2? 👀👀
Okay… has anyone gotten to Part II? I'm pretty sure Ralph didn't, and I can't find any comments that reference it from a cursory glance
Ok well done skill up
insane this got a recommend and avowed didnt. you are so full of shit
ShiIIup, stop shiIIing this game
Long have I called Dragons Dogma “The Best Worst Game,” and now here we are with…… more of the best worst game. And I love it.
At the end of the day this game is lazy but tries to convince you it's not, with pretty visuals and flashy combat. The same re skin enemies over and over, limited fast travel to increase game length, billions of enemies that you are basically forced to engage instead of puzzles, interesting NPC's, or decent loot, stealth quests but no stealth system whatsoever, boss difficultly based on bloated health, and the story is about as interesting as watching already dried paint.
I’m hella late to this review bc I recently found ur channel but bro this game was amazing ur review on all this bad is just crazzzy to me
i don't understand why is called DD 2 when is basically DD1 remaster….:(
its about the smae feeling i have playing dragons dogma dark arisen it is fun, but it could have been the best
It is worse than the first one but still great.
Also: i will pretend i didnt hear you say you havent played DD1. I mean wtf
Please Capcom, No-Man's-Sky this game.