Dragon's Dogma

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I was talking with a friend of mine who's been playing a lot of DD2 and he says it's really fun. I guess all the DLC is stuff you can just adventure for in game? It sounds like they just put in a paywall for journoscum who don't want to actually play the game. Sounds kind of based if you ask me.

Still though, if they get shit on hard enough it might hit 50% off next summer sale and I might pick it up then.
 
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.
There's an option to zoom the camera out further in the menu.
 
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.
People who have the most powerful hardware currently available have said it still runs poorly and by all accounts it runs like a dog on PS5, too.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
 
People who have the most powerful hardware currently available have said it still runs poorly and by all accounts it runs like a dog on PS5, too.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
I have some idea of what I'm talking about, actually. I'm not here to slapfight with people over this. I'm more interested in troubleshooting the problem so people can hopefully get the game running better. I agree that it needs work done, particularly in the main city.
 
Oh dear, this is the Cyberpunk launch fiasco all over again, isn't it? "No u see, a lot of people have it barely running and like shit despite top tier hw, but works fine in my machine and it fun!!!!"
 
Oh dear, this is the Cyberpunk launch fiasco all over again, isn't it? "No u see, a lot of people have it barely running and like shit despite top tier hw, but works fine in my machine and it fun!!!!"
You're misremembering. Cyberpunk ran fine on PC at launch, it only ran like shit on PS4 and Xbox One. The problem with that game is that it was terrible.
 
Oh dear, this is the Cyberpunk launch fiasco all over again, isn't it? "No u see, a lot of people have it barely running and like shit despite top tier hw, but works fine in my machine and it fun!!!!"
Cyberpunk's problem wasn't just the performance, it was also filled with game-breaking and immersion-breaking bugs.
I've yet to find any bugs in this game. It's only performance issues.
 
You're misremembering. Cyberpunk ran fine on PC at launch, it only ran like shit on PS4 and Xbox One. The problem with that game is that it was terrible.
I was there when it came out, it was a buggy and badly optimized POS everywhere. It didn't even look that good to require overly high (for that time at least) requirements. Even the postings are similar. Only time will tell if they fix the issues
 
I was there when it came out. . .
OK, did you test it for yourself? Because I did, and it ran fine for me on a fucked up Threadripper 1900X system with a 2080Ti. Much of the grousing about DD2's performance seems to be coming from people who are proud of having never run the game on their computer, speaking on behalf of people who supposedly have "the best hardware". Forgive me for trying to cut through the bullshit to figure out what the actual problem is. I don't have every possible hardware combination at my disposal to diagnose it. I can only report my own experiences, and like I said:
1% lows in the city stay between 30-50FPS for me consistently with constant stutters on the frametime graph.
I don't consider this acceptable, but it seems entirely isolated to that one area from what I've seen so far.
 
I'm more interested in troubleshooting the problem so people can hopefully get the game running better. I agree that it needs work done, particularly in the main city.
Same, which is tricky because people who have similar hardware seem to have varying performance. Some people who don't even have the best hardware (like you for example) are getting better performance than people with top of the line hardware, even heard some folks on console are struggling in certain places.
"No u see, a lot of people have it barely running and like shit despite top tier hw, but works fine in my machine and it fun!!!!"
Not going to call anyone out on this thread but outside of it I've seen a headache inducing amount of people say shit like this for years. The defense of people who don't value their money and instead just throw it at the latest shiny hardware. Only for some of them to struggle running it anyway. Sunk cost fallacy won't let them admit they should have waited so I can see people just say "nah it's fine, your PC just sucks" so they feel better.
You're misremembering. Cyberpunk ran fine on PC at launch, it only ran like shit on PS4 and Xbox One. The problem with that game is that it was terrible.
I think the performance of Cybershit was in the middle on launch. I saw people with "decent" specs run it well around low-medium, but serious tweaking needed to be done, not to mention other areas being laggier than others. Setting everything to max and shit would go south obviously. On last gen console, like you say, it was just...awful. My brother got it as a gift and nearly just returned it to them within the first hour or so. Oh, and that game was, and still is, dogshit. The foundation is the problem.
It didn't even look that good to require overly high (for that time at least) requirements
Fucking, thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought it-while good-didn't look so good as to require the specs I've seen to even run it at "high." The atmosphere was nice, but only in specific areas, least for me. Yet people contributed those specific areas to the rest of the game to drum up hype. This is the same problem for DD2, the game doesn't look that good to justify the performance issues. What's also similar to 2077 is the NPC related issues. 2077 removed the massive crowds before launch and made the render distance for low poly objects relatively short because of the lag it would cause, meanwhile DD2 said "fuck it" and-despite having not that many NPCs for a city-it would lag to shit. So much so that I hear people would mass kill the NPCs just to get back performance.
 
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Same, which is tricky because people who have similar hardware seem to have varying performance. Some people who don't even have the best hardware (like you for example) are getting better performance than people with top of the line hardware, even heard some folks on console are struggling in certain places.
To be clear, I'm very GPU limited on a 2080Ti. What I'm not experiencing is an obvious CPU bottleneck. Within the city, neither GPU nor CPU are at 100% utilization despite the poor performance. In the city, I also get tons of NPCs "fading in" when running around. My best guess is that the game isn't allocating enough memory and it's constantly streaming from storage.
 
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.
Nah. I'm playing a sorcerer and I can't see shit most of the time as the camera goes even further up your ass while casting. I just watch my stamina and health bar while the game auto-targets for me and I see lightning and explosions.
 
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Gameplay related, fuck me that sucks. The only defense I've seen from the first 2 images (1 post) was "hurr durr you posted this in another thread." Blind shilling and fanboyism, not even once.
 
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Jesus Christ, i encountered three Drakes today just chilling on the side of the road, taunting me to attack them. its like they knew i would not do shit and just there to annoy.
 
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I thought the first game sucked ass because you could run for a whopping 3 seconds before having to walk again or watch a 5 second long animation because fantasy warriors apparently chain-smoke. Enemies were damage sponge boredom factories, the first quest was a terrible escort mission which takes 30 minutes to finish, and the story was boring nonsense. Did they fix any of this at all or is it a continuation of Itsuno thinking spectacle makes up for lack of meaningful player interaction?
 
Gameplay related, fuck me that sucks. The only defense I've seen from the first 2 images (1 post) was "hurr durr you posted this earlier so it's invalidated." Blind shilling and fanboyism, not even once.
I don't really agree with any of that. Most of those complaints seem to just be bitching about minor differences and acting like it's the end of the world. No holy or dark enchantments? All the enchantments did in the original game is give you a particular damage type, removing them makes no difference other than that when you fight zombies, your pawn will give you a fire enchantment instead of a holy enchantment. Big deal. I like the combat a lot more; it's similar, but feels more refined. I've only really played the fighter vocation, but I feel like the feedback when swinging a sword is really good. In the old game, every attack would sort of move your character forward, so there was a lot of tedious repositioning. In this game, if you just spam the attack button, your character will stand in place, swinging his sword. Enemies get knocked into different states, and using different attacks when they're staggered will give you special contexual animations like execution attacks when they're knocked prone. The only thing that doesn't quite feel as good to me is climbing on enemies, but I might just have to get used to it. The story and characters were never a high point of the first game.
It does very much feel like a "do-over" more than a brand new game, but I'm mostly pleased with what I've played so far. I doubt I'll be rushing back to play the original any time soon.
 
>comments are now very negative and that's what hurts
Then maybe you should quit and fuck off. You're richer than the average person, pretty sure you were gifted the PC that can play it on top of that because of your privilege. People have a right to be pissed if they can't play the game because they're not rich enough or connected like you. They shouldn't need top of the line just to play the game. Glossing over that is gonna make them angry. Fuck, even Asmongold knows that much, holy shit.
 
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