Dragon’s Dogma 2 is an early however strong contender for GOTY – we stated that may be the case throughout preview, and we’re sure of it now. It’s a sport of uncompromised imaginative and prescient, and the place the unique appeared on the likes of Fable and Oblivion and requested “what does Capcom’s model of that appear to be?”, the sequel responds: “why don’t we make Capcom’s model of Dragon’s Dogma as a substitute?”.
The unique sport is filled with compromises. Content material reduce brief for time or RAM. A complete deliberate beast race that by no means made it in. Solely two inhabited settlements, considered one of them a tiny tutorial village. And squeezed onto creaking {hardware} that might barely run it. Effectively, the extra issues change, and so on. To anybody with an curiosity within the unique sport and its growth, it’s clear that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a labour of affection, and a vastly profitable do-over for an concept that didn’t fairly materialise on the primary try.
Which is why, as defined within the video above, I’m not satisfied by the circulating concept that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a few type of cynical money-grab. Sure, the microtransactions are silly, pointless, and opportunistic. But when they’re a dealbreaker, that’s an entire lot of child getting thrown out with the tub water.
