Why the hell did nobody tell me Dragon's Dogma was so awesome?

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

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C-Dawg gives no fucks at all about the gaping maw 3 feet from his shop

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

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The rantings of an upjumped shop keep make for tedious listening.

[Aldurin]

Man, I just love this game the more I play it. I made the mistake of trying the quest to regain the Shadowfort when I was level 22 (Strider with Fighter, Strider and Mage as my pawns). Which basically came down to running the fuck away from ogres, and then taking the last stretch to the fort in the middle of the night, which meant promptly running the fuck away from the dragon when it showed up. I then went into the fort quest and basically ran all around doing shit to open the gate while going "oh shit oh shit" since half of my pawns were dead between the two cyclops. After those guys were downed I spent several times running up and down the stairs of the main section because the third ogre kept knocking my pawns off the edge.

After that I upgraded my personal pawn to warrior, swapped my strider pawn for a warrior, got a better mage and switched to ranger. The next ogre we saw suddenly got piledrived by my pawns for a battle that made me question if it was the same monster that would have forced me to run in other scenarios.

My only real issue with the game is travel, since a lot of time is spent walking way too far to get to locations, then using expensive ferry stones to get back to the capital to avoid the shit I straight-ran ran past earlier.

[Arcanum]

The more things you run past, the less you level up, the more you have to run past things. Plus the truly great fights are the ones that take a while and have a significant risk of death.

Also, tip for Ogres: Hit their head. Everywhere else is very resistant to practically all types of damage. Technically this tip is true for basically any monster, but the Ogre's lack of elemental weaknesses makes it especially crucial.

[Solid Snake]

Just decided to spend the last $60 I have on gaming for some time on Dragon's Dogma over (a used copy of) Persona 4 Arena.

NOTE: I will hold you assholes directly responsible if P4: Arena is amazing and Dragon's Dogma is not.

NOTE 2: I guess it won't be entirely your fault as I read on Kotaku that apparently the designers of P4: Arena have a horrible reputation for releasing subsequent 'upgrades' to their games yet not releasing the new versions as DLC, effectively requiring you to purchase newer versions of their titles to get the new add-ons.
...That's kind of weird.

NOTE 3: Also, Atlus' sheer stupidity in managing criticism on their forums has me so irate Gamestop doesn't even deserve my used sales purchase monies.

[Aldurin]

Quit whining about Atlus and get back to stabbin' ogres, Snake.

Now that I think about it, you will probably flip your shit when you find out one of the special details about ogres.

I don't know about you other veteran dudes, but I am loving Ranger, if only for how horribly OP Ten-fold Flurry is (especially with elemental imbuement on). I'd still be using him right now, but I gotta play one of the redder classes for a bit so I can get the Sinew augment.

Like, Ten-fold is so nuts that I was fighting two ogres at the same time in the middle of the night using the ogres as impromptu torches as I spammed their faces out with fire arrows. Basically anything bigger than me is royally fucked, and my only real worry is around things like bandit swarms and actual dragons.

[Arcanum]

I'm content with fivefold flurry that my assassin gets, with the added bonus of still being able to use daggers in addition to swords and shields.

e- also if you care about min-maxing, look up "Stat Growths" on the DD wiki. Depending on what class you are when you level up (an actual level, not a vocation rank level thing) your stats (hp, stamina, phys attack, mag attack, phys defense, mag defense) increase by different amounts.

But don't feel obliged to play as a certain class, because everything dies the same in the end-game and NG+, and it's mostly for min-maxing (i.e. people who want to kill the Ur-Dragon online nonstop, or one-shot everything, which makes the game lame in my opinion).

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Aldurin;1208317Q

I don't know about you other veteran dudes, but I am loving Ranger, if only for how horribly OP Ten-fold Flurry is (especially with elemental imbuement on).

Yeah, it's definately one of the more enjoyable classes rapetrain-wise. Rangers are weaker than they feel though simply because using any of your actually damaging abilities drains your stamina like you wouldn't believe. Although I do remember a certain point in the storyline where I met a cockatrice rampaging the city, and basically shot it a few times in the head with tenfold and it died before it could attack.

I almost, in the same voice, said Lilith's "That's it, it's dead?" quote from borderlands when you curbstomp a boss.

I'm loving strider at endgame, though, simply because you get the best weapons (Daggers) along with the double-speed grappling. Cloudburst Volley is hideously damaging and up there with tenfold arrow but is a shortbow manuver and costs less stamina. Definately helps vs the Ur Dragon to climb around like mad with your heaven's keys and use raining arrows on the wings.

[Marc v4.0]

Dire Gouge or bust, losers

[PhoenixFlame]

I want to like dire gouge, but it's just strictly inferior to hundred kisses when grappling.