Dragon's Dogma

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I find it hard to believe sometimes that, despite everything this god-forsaken industry has shown us, you all still got excited when you say your favorite game getting a sequel because "Capcom can't do wrong with this! They know their fans."
I've made my peace with the fact that a large segment of gamers are like battered wives and will never stop going back for more. You just laugh when they get punched in the mouth yet again because you know they're doing it to themselves.
 
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Something is amiss here
 
1% lows in the city stay between 30-50FPS for me consistently with constant stutters on the frametime graph. I think it might be an asset streaming issue? I have a Samsung 980 Pro. I'm thinking about testing it with an Optane 905P that I have.

Could be, I have the game installed on my WD Black SN850x, and perfmon shows occasional read spikes, one of which i saw at 100 MB/s and the disk latency even pinged up to 2ms, which is a really rare sight for a drive that is usually sub millisecond response times. Purely a content drive as well, so no other processes hitting it.
 
Again, not defending. However, it seems this time around the game is using a different engine. It's the RE Engine, right? Was that thing really designed for open world big ass amount of things? I wouldn't be surprised if everything is worse because they had start over from scratch.
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s the RE engine. Graphically in the intro cutscene it looked exactly like re4 remake.
 
Are chimeras cut? I watched Synth stream this for about ten hours and he fought probably twenty cyclops and a dozen ogres but no chimeras.

If I remember correctly chimeras were one of the common big/miniboss monsters in the original game.
I found a chimera inside a cave on the mountain, just off the path on the way to the border camp, found a lich there too and died to 4 slimes. Don't let them stack up on you, i found out.

Probably because the people who actually played the game are starting to review it.
 
I've had a couple friends ask if they should get the game who haven't played the first game and i said no. I'm having fun but I grew up playing games on a shit box, so caping the frames at 30 doesn't bother me too much BUT I shouldn't have to do that on a top of the line system. The performance issues are bogus and it's interesting seeing people trying to make a bigger stink about the mtx than the poor optimisation. It almost feels inorganic, like it's some 4d chess move to discredit the people raising issue with the game.
 
Noticing quite a number of troll threads to farm clown (and other) awards, what this game deserves really:smug:
Crapcom has gone completely woke some time ago, we first found out about it in their leaked internal memos. Ever since then, every single game of theirs has been pozzed and every single game onwards will be as well. They hired the spheretroon, true, but they also got actual drag queens doing marketing for them as well, it seems they've completely lost their minds and the USA branch is fully on board with this.
Posting this again for good measure, never forget what modern day Capcom stands for:
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This is only going to get worse from here, both game quality wise and games being more pozzed.
See, I knew a bunch of this information before, but...not all of that. It's worse than I thought, far worse.
More people are finishing up their playthroughs and leaving reviews, either willfully or unknowingly ignoring the issues the game has because "they had fun so that's all that matters." To parrot Sseth for a moment:
"I get, you have two kids, you're in your mid-30s, and you have time for exactly 3 games a year. It's immune to criticism because the people you're arguing with don't have that much time or investment. They see a crater, they soy-pog, and then they leave." The average person doesn't have the time or want to point out shit in a game and engage in discourse on the internet like we are. They want their jollies and distractions from their mediocre life before they to turn in for the night/day and do their 9-5/school when they get up, eventually living their life until natural causes, unnatural causes, or taxes take them. Avid Gaymers are a minority afterall, and not a well liked one.
 
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>returning to the city after clearing a dungeon for a quest
>plenty of resources spent and with half max health remaining
>suddenly a fucking Minotaur in the middle of the road, first time seeing one
>"fuck it", charge at him like a retard
>I get a clutch victory after fighting for 5 minutes, using every health recovery I had and ending at basically no max hp left.


This game is fucking great, the most fun I've had with an action-adventure game since Sekiro in 2019.
 
The microtransactions are obnoxious and the performance issues are unfortunate, but I'm not going to participate in reviewbombing it because of that. When DD1 came out it was console only and letterboxed and it still didn't run great. PC gamers have grown accustomed to playing games targeting ludicrously weak console hardware with 5400RPM hard disks for 15 years, and now any time they don't get 120+ FPS in a game they whine that it's "unoptimized". There has never been much correlation between "good video games" and "well optimized software". It's the nature of the hobby.
 
now any time they don't get 120+ FPS in a game they whine that it's "unoptimized". There has never been much correlation between "good video games" and "well optimized software".
There's a difference between complaining about a game running poorly when you're on "ancient" (by tech standards, even then that's debatable) hardware and complaining about a game running poorly when you're on the best hardware available, well above the recommend specs. That's not even mentioning the many other cases where people on great hardware have stability issues with the game because it's just poorly optimized. I can't say I agree with that last statement either.
I've been having fun tallying up all the "I'm having a blast" comments in YouTube and Steam reviews.
Like I said earlier, "I'm having fun so who cares!" is rather common amongst normies.
I thought "hey, I recognize that name, I wonder what's going on with Sphere Hunter"
Either keep that name in your noggin (along with Sue Lightning) so you remember to ignore him until the end of time, or just cut to the ignoring part because he will never have anything important to say, just as much as he'll never be a woman. Also, just read the comments, the amount of jerking off is hilarious.
 
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What really annoys me about this game that I’ve noticed is that the camera is zoomed right up the arisen’s asshole. Istg I absolutely hate how so many games zoom in the camera like it’s god of war 2018. It doesn’t feel good at all. Maybe I’m just misremembering, but the original dragons dogma had a far more zoomed out camera.
 
What really annoys me about this game that I’ve noticed is that the camera is zoomed right up the arisen’s asshole. Istg I absolutely hate how so many games zoom in the camera like it’s god of war 2018. It doesn’t feel good at all. Maybe I’m just misremembering, but the original dragons dogma had a far more zoomed out camera.
Speaking of the camera, the fact that there is no free cam in the photo mode makes it actually impossible to get good action shots without zooming up a griffin's arsehole. All my screenshots look like shit because I cant zoom out enough.
 
There's a difference between complaining about a game running poorly when you're on "ancient" (by tech standards, even then that's debatable) hardware and complaining about a game running poorly when you're on the best hardware available, well above the recommend specs. That's not even mentioning the many other cases where people on great hardware have stability issues with the game because it's just poorly optimized. I can't say I agree with that last statement either.
I don't have the best hardware to test if I can get it to run without any issues, but the game has been mostly fine for me with a 3+ year old CPU and a 5+ year old GPU. Truth is that a lot of people have fucked up CPU/RAM configurations because games until relatively recently were targeting the PS4, which has the single-thread CPU performance of a Core 2 Duo from 2006 and high latency GDDR5 memory. I anticipated that the PS5 with its Zen 2 cores would be a shock to the PC gaming community years ago, and that appears to be what's happening with many recent releases. This is just going to keep happening, and people are going to keep bitching about "poor optimization", because they can't accept that a $200 Dell Optiplex with a $300 GPU isn't enough to crush console ports anymore.
 
From what I've seen the people who played the game seem to genuinely enjoy it but it is obvious that the games PC release needed another few months of development time to better optimize the games PC port. A Steam user brought up something interesting in that Capcom probably rushed out this game in order to make money before the end of the fiscal quarter as most of a games sales in in its first few weeks. If anybody wants to buy the game I recommend waiting till April 1st. It will send a funny April Fools message to Capcom as the fiscal quarter ends March 31st.
 
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What really annoys me about this game that I’ve noticed is that the camera is zoomed right up the arisen’s asshole. Istg I absolutely hate how so many games zoom in the camera like it’s god of war 2018. It doesn’t feel good at all. Maybe I’m just misremembering, but the original dragons dogma had a far more zoomed out camera.
No, you're right. The camera was fairly zoomed out most of the time. When it's not it's usually in a confined area. Now that I think about it, the camera was pretty close to the character when not in combat. Or at least not with your weapon out...
 
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