I genuinely do not understand the appeal of Dragon's Dogma. I've started and dropped this game 3 times at this point. Usually with these "cult classics", even if I don't enjoy them, I can see what makes it fun for other people. The only thing mildly good about DD is the combat, but that can only take you so far. I also like the graphics just because of the nostalgia I have for PS3 era games.
It has a poorly written story and an excessively slow pacing. I don't even know what was happening most of the time, but unlike say Dark Souls, the world isn't interesting enough to carry it's mediocre narrative setup. The only dialogue bits that I remember from this game is the mind-numbing chatter by the pawns. Also, this is a petty complaint but please DD, stop using the word "aught" so much. It's super annoying.
The gameplay design is aggressively boring. It has a vast open world filled with monsters just standing around doing nothing. There's barely any reward for exploring. There's a stamina bar that depletes when you run so you're constantly walking around empty plains very slowly. The quests feel like AI written radiant quests from Fallout 4. The level design consists of very long corridors after very long corridors. It's just plain bad. It almost feels like an MMO that somehow forgot to add the multiplayer.
2/5
It has a poorly written story and an excessively slow pacing. I don't even know what was happening most of the time, but unlike say Dark Souls, the world isn't interesting enough to carry it's mediocre narrative setup. The only dialogue bits that I remember from this game is the mind-numbing chatter by the pawns. Also, this is a petty complaint but please DD, stop using the word "aught" so much. It's super annoying.
The gameplay design is aggressively boring. It has a vast open world filled with monsters just standing around doing nothing. There's barely any reward for exploring. There's a stamina bar that depletes when you run so you're constantly walking around empty plains very slowly. The quests feel like AI written radiant quests from Fallout 4. The level design consists of very long corridors after very long corridors. It's just plain bad. It almost feels like an MMO that somehow forgot to add the multiplayer.
2/5