The Baffling Design Decisions of Dragons Dogma 2 | Design Delve
Added 2024-04-12 15:03:47 +0000 UTCThis week's episode of Design Delve is now available!
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I agree and disagree with your opinions at the same time, which fits DD2's weirdness perfectly. I agree that DD and DD2 go often out of their way to break all sensible design rules, but I think the resulting experience is awesome... So long as you accept to play by its rules, and you don't try to play the way you'd go about playing any other game. Take your health reduction example: imho it's there because if you fail at something and die, the game does not want to encourage you to try it again and again until you do it. Its core rule is "everything has so much friction because we want you to feel invested" if you're close to death the game wants you to flee, not accept death to retry. I do agree that the combat is too messy, especially with camera angles and magic lights, and I wish they could have gone for a more Monster Hunter type of deliberate actions, though!
iani_ancilla
2024-04-14 18:16:42 +0000 UTCNo disagreements here. I'll just note that there's a way to b bypass the reinforcement loop from the save system if you choose to go back to the title screen and only then reload. Also, where's my option to shut the pawns up?
Rodrigo Seves
2024-04-12 20:36:53 +0000 UTCI started playing it, enjoyed it until I got to a point where there was a big fuck-off cliff in front of where I needed to go and no clear way round it. At that point I realised I wasn't that invested and started playing Ghost of Tsushima instead (finally) which has really hooked me, despite some baffling design choices of its own.
elnombre91
2024-04-12 17:29:11 +0000 UTCI just would love it if it didn't treat my CPU like an all-you-can-eat buffet. Like most of the sins I can forgive. But 70$ for a game they want you to pay even more for to skip and chews through your hardware for an experience you can get faster/sleeker in other titles is a high asking cost.
Robert Louis Stoll
2024-04-12 15:39:02 +0000 UTCLove this video (even without plans to play DD2) and this series! With the new redesign, focus, and work it feels like the potential I always saw in those first few essays has been unlocked.
William Alexander
2024-04-12 15:16:15 +0000 UTCI've been absolutely loving DD2, sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who thinks so haha. For all its faults, I like how the game feels so different from the mould of other RPG games.
The Hungriest of All Hippos
2024-04-12 15:10:35 +0000 UTC
