Dragon's Dogma 2 is dropping in two days! The original is a favorite of obtusely designed fantasy video game sickos everywhere and I am very much looking forward to this sequel. Never finished the first one but always enjoyed my time in it. What are you looking forward to about it? Any worries or hopes?
Recommended reading: former Giant Bomb and Waypoint writer Austin Walker, probably the #1 Dragon's Dogma sicko out there, wrote a [fun article](https://remapradio.com/articles/four-thoughts-on-dragons-dogma/) about four different thoughts he has had about this new game.
I also want to make a list of Pawn IDs for the different platforms so we can all share Pawns! Show the community your little freaks!!!
My worry is that it wonāt run well on the steam deck as thatās my only PC gaming platform. Iām assuming itāll work as other RE Engine games run very nicely on it but until it's out I will have to wait.
Otherwise just excited for a sequel that took far too long to come out!
I am looking forward to it, yesā¦ however I do not like this bit:
While there is something to be said about being caught up in the moment and the conversation when something releases, I'm also tempted to just wait a bit and maybe catch it on a minor sale.
Besides, I have no shortage of other games I have and want to play already. I'm not going to artificially rush my _Pathologic 2_ playthrough, so _DD2_ probably will be delayed for me at least until I'm done there.
Which, selfishly, is fine by me. You can all have your pawns run around and learn all sorts of cool things and then they'll be able to help me when I invite them in to my world.
Sadly, [Eurogamer](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dragons-dogma-2-pc-performance-best-settings) just reported that the game's "rock-bottom quality settings only get the Steam Deck to **9-10fps**." Looks like those of us bound to the Deck are gonna have to sit this one out.
@tuxedomonk Iāve also seen some stuff on Twitter suggesting the console versions run with an unlocked, wildly fluctuating framerate that rarely if ever reaches 60fps so I might take this as an excuse to take a break from huge RPGS once Iām done with FFVII Rebirth and catch up on stuff like that new Prince of Persia and Ufouria 2. Canāt wait to play this whenever I can afford to build a new PC though!
I never played the first one, but I have been hearing enough about the design approach to make me think this is very much my thing. I donāt do a lot of Day One moment-sharing, but Iām letting myself do so with this, and my Xbox name is Salloumi9. See you(r pawns) out there!
The performance complaints sure are familiar from remembering the reaction to the first game. I think Dragonās Dogma on PS3 was the only time I have ever noticed a gameās framerate and thought āoh, I guess that's what people mean when they complain about this stuff.ā That still didnāt stop it from being one of my favorite games. Buuut all I have now is a PC that doesnāt even meet the minimum requirements, so yeah kinda worried.
carries forward the 8-bit feeling that the original was somehow able to elicit, meaning: itās not over florid in all regards (plot, dialogue, setting, visual overload, mechanics). Itās minimally directive. When you talk to an NPC itās about as terse and/or epigrammatic as talking to an npc in like Zelda II for instance. So far the game seems not have caught any of the Open World Disease thatās been going around. The only semi-annoyance is frequent tutorial popups, but by contemporary standards those seem minimal
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combat is fun and goofy. There's some physical weight to the bodies bouncing around so at times it feels almost like playing _Madden_ but everyone is armed
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OK I like the high five mechanic, but it needs to be patched. Terrific when it works like it should, but your pals sometimes initiate the high five from an unreasonable distance which makes it awkward. They need to tighten that range by several meters
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Nice to see some _Pathologic 2_ influence wrt to NPCs who need to talk to you will just chase you the heck down, and also the game has compounding damage penalties (reduces your health at both ends of the bar)
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Running the game on a Ryzen 7 / 4700 @ 1440 - Max settings (with DLSS) at steady 60 everywhere except the big city, which wavers down to feels like 40s at times. Not really an issue imo because when you're in town you're walking/talking/hanging out rather than fighting
@yeso Running the game on a Ryzen 7 / 4700 - Max settings (with DLSS) at steady 60 everywhere except the big city, which wavers down to feels like 40s at times. Not really an issue imo because when youāre in town youāre walking/talking/hanging out rather than fighting
What resolution are you playing at? (and which base resolution / dlss quality mode are you using?) I ask since I grabbed a new gpu last year and got a rtx 4070, but still have my 4-5 year old cpu which is an i7 8700K. That pairing has been _fine_ for me so far, but I think this year anything New and Big is likely to push hard enough that my cpu can no longer keep up even if the gpu is good enough. Curious how reasonable it will be to try and play DD2 on this pc.
