Dragon's Dogma 2 PS5 Patch 1.060 Isn't the Update You're Waiting For

Really wanted to like this game. Utterly disappointed and decided not to waste my time anymore after 25 hours.

So many gripes with this game, it's insanely outdated

@Specky I'm with you, I put in 30hrs or so, I have to force myself to play it and try to like it, just isn't working, awful clunky combat, no lock on, hold assed fast travel.
Any1 known if you get mounts later or you forced to run across the land with encounters every 45secs of the same enemies for 175th time.

@Uromastryx
Same enemies with different colours every 5 steps, over and over and over again.
Pawns saying insanely dumb bs over and over and over again.
Storytelling is non existent, it's just exposition thrown at you again and again.
You have to trek back through the same areas again and again, encountering the same enemies again, I can go on

It's so tedious and they haven't improved all that much in a time where stellar RPG's have come out and they've taken zero notes

@Specky I just don't understand the praise, all the high reviews.
The game is junk, maybe passable at mid ps4 tier,
Having played this alongside Rise of the Ronin, I'm dumbfounded that game got slashed and pushed to the sidelines for what...a ps4 remaster with a 2 added on

Yeah, this feels like a janky WRPG, from 2007, but with modern graphics.
Personally I think the artstyle is incredibly generic.

Yet another overhyped game. I don't even understand the praise for the original, which also was janky and boring.

DD2 is brilliant in its own unique way. To all these angry moaners, please take the toxicity somewhere else or play another game.

@Uromastryx There definitely won't be mounts. The 1st was very much the same, but eventually, you unlock teleport stones that you can drop around the map, as needed, and warp to for fast travel. I think these stones were part of the mtx outcry, but essentially, you'd unlock then so your new game plus mode can be done much quicker, once you know where to put them.

@Silenos bad take.

a hater is someone who hates something regardless, all the commenters here have specified why they don't like the game and I find that very useful.

feel free to comment why you think the game is brilliant!

@Silenos They're allowed an opinion. Respectfully, if you can't take different ones to your own it may be you in the wrong place. We should never stifle discussion.

@Specky It's always sad when you buy a game, dump a buncha hours into it only to regrettably give up on it.

I’d like that phantom oxcart quest to be able to actually do it after screwing it up. How about Hugo actually doing something in his cell besides grunting.

Love the invisible walls, if you don’t want us to climb, then don’t provide ways to climb.

Interesting to hear the feedback of actual gamers who played the game. As expected, a very different experience from reviews in paid media. But the game sold well, mission accomplished, right?

I haven’t picked this up yet mainly because I was put off by the frame rate issues.

For me, I will always choose 60fps over graphics. I don’t even mind mediocre graphics if the frame rate is good (and I see no reason why this can’t be an option on all console games when PC has lots of scope for various graphics).

Hopefully they can fix that, but from the above comments it doesn’t look like a top priority.

@Silenos What’s the point of a forum or comment section then? Admins should regulate only happy things about anything can be talked about? Everyone should think the same things? All the criticisms above are perfectly valid opinions, even if I like the game. Please don’t misuse the word toxic, it’s already losing meaning with how it’s being applied.

Dd2 is amazing. Loved examine of my 100 hour playthroughs. Rise of the ronin is the one I wanted to like but had to force myself to play. After 20hrs with rotr im kinda done.

I love the game despite its numerous flaws. I fully understand and respect why people don't like it or feel disappointed but I knew exactly what I was going to get when I ordered this and its pretty much what I wanted. The first game is one of my all time faves and this is just much more of the same.

To the folks complaining about fast travel - this game hands out so many ferrystones and portcrystals that you can pretty much fast travel to anywhere of import. You can even decide where you think is the most optimal spot to place a fast travel point. No, you cannot fast travel willynilly, but that is the point. It's a more deliberate act and you can find some pretty hilarious solutions to quests via fast travel. There was a quest where I needed to deliver an item to someone, but couldn't fast travel while holding the item. Instead, I went to the person, picked them up and fast travelled back to the item! Hilarious!

@Michael2008ish I’ve accumulated well over 20 Ferrystones so far and like 5 Portcrystals. If you’re smart about where you place them, then you can get just about anywhere. Don’t put them where oxcarts travel, for instance.

150 hours played total. I'm playing new game plus and still loving it. Fantastic game, in my opinion.

@Michael2008ish Thanks for accusing me of lying - much appreciated. I have a portcrystal currently placed in Bakbattahl, at the Sphynx, at the Elven settlement, at the Volcanic Island Camp, and one not placed. That makes 5. Ferrystones are littered about the map in plenty of chests and are often a reward for completing quests.

@Silenos care to elaborate on why its so brilliant?? Or were you just hoping you'd have alot people join you on your comment, Toxic/haters..... please learn to use the words appropriately, Any hater had given their reason to why, yet you come here and tell them to go elsewhere...on a comment section on a forum about the game, the audacity of them,
If this was a new IP it'd be forgotten already,

@Michael2008ish Actually in the True ending post game, port Crystals are the only method of travel. Every single enemy that isn’t undead can drop a ferrystone. By the time I had gone to NG+ I had over 40 stones with 7 warp points.

You can take an Ox cart to travel between cities, ride a griffin to its nest. There are dungeons to avoid Headless Swordsmen at night.

I don’t like how others have used the term “outdated” to describe this game. For me outdated implies that a present state of something is superior. Like DD1, DD2 is an acquired taste. I’m pleased DD2 is more of the same. So for me I’m glad they didn’t go with the flow and make an RPG like everyone else whatever that means. They stuck to what they know just like Bethesda whom knows their core audience. RPGs are supposed to be unique and offer something different. As this genre of games isn’t the mainstream sector for gaming. Likely never will be. I like DD2 for what it is and appreciate it. I hope developers around the world do different things. As for reviews, one needs to know the tastes of the reviewer if one is to value the opinion. Just like I never value the opinion on beer from someone without knowing their preferences/standards.

@Uromastryx Respectfully, toxicity often comes down to language and not necessarily the information behind it. Hyperbole often leads to toxicity because you're diluting your argument with deliberately inflammatory statements; statements like, "The game is junk" or "if this was a new IP it'd be forgotten already."

This game obviously isn't for you and that's totally fine, but you seem hellbent on making sure everyone else thinks the game sucks too - even to the point of calling out @Silenos for enjoying the game and asking for details, as if he's somehow lying about his enjoyment?

@Michael2008ish Sounds like the game wasn't made for you. Unfortunate, to be sure, but I guess there's always the option to move on and let other people have fun with it.

Calm down, it took six months for Jedi Survivor to be decent

There is still a free ps5 witcher 3 upgrade to get my rpg fix..No need for this.

I only bought it about 10 days ago so am only around 10-15 hours into it. Frame rate isn’t as much of an issue as I expected. It’s not perfect, but it’s not game breaking either. There is some really nice lighting in the game. There are some game mechanics that are annoying though, like the loss gauge (where your health gets lower and lower until you rest at a camp/Inn). Having to constantly move inventory around between you and your pawns so you don’t get overburdened is tiresome. Then yesterday I heard about something called “dragons plague” which sounds like all kinds of annoying! Right now though, I’m still enjoying it.

@B0udoir Wouldn't say it sold well... yet (it has started well but if ROTR is expecting to sell 5 mil units, DD2 probably aims for 8-12 mil being on three systems). The drop-off in the PS store has been quite quick and in Asian markets is already almost out of the top 10-12 games. A game with this level of marketing/advertising would've wanted to have more staying power.

I do find the disparity between gamers and critics with this game to be surprisingly different. Maybe proof that there are too many critics cut from the same cloth/tastes and not enough who have unique voices/tastes?

@SgtTruth The funny thing is I'm playing Nier Replicant and the characters joke about having to keep killing enemies because they cannot fast travel for the first half of the game. That means this has been poor design for a long time. I understand what DD2 was trying to do, they just failed the execution.

Still, squashing bugs isn’t a bad thing

@Michael2008ish Yeah I was saying that the fact that Weiss and Nier joke about it just nails how much people hated backtracking even at the time that it was played for a joke. The beauty of Nier is the world is so small and you run so fast that you can be anywhere on the map in 2-3 minutes and massacre most enemies in the area.

Did the people complaining about this game even read a review on it? Every review I read was very clear on how the game was designed and what to expect.
And yes, the game does give out plenty of Portcrystals and ferrystones if you actually take the time to explore and play the game. Frame rate isn't as big of an issue for me as I thought it was going to be, and the only thing I have turned off is motion blur. 85 hours in and still enjoying it.

Lol I am on 130 hours. I’m not gonna notice any patches at this point. Haven’t had any quest issues either. Loving my time so far. It’s pretty much what I wanted in a DD sequel and I can’t put it down. Also love the little ways the game makes you question yourself. Like changing berries between playthroughs. Game had me confused over cranberries lol.
PSA: the price of berries goes up based on what is in your world. So if you have strawberries in your first play through and blueberries in your next, the strawberries are worth more (also two berry types make a unique item).

@Michael2008ish No the game gives out Portcrystals in addition to the two that are stationary as you can have 10 fast travel points on the map. Some come with quests and at least one you stumble upon organically. One you have to request from the game during a quest. I still prefer to walk or use ox carts (which are also fast travel) as I am still working on seeker tokens but I pretty much can hop all over the map at will and I don’t even have the maximum portcrystals yet. The game is pretty generous with them. I had 5 within my first 20 hours. (Not including the stationary ones… seriously the game gives you 4 of them in quests)

Ferrystones are sold by vendors in game, in chests and are quest rewards, and NPCs give them to you. Also they carry over to new playthroughs. So if you missed one or two you don’t start over. And after a point you have so much coin that you can buy them whenever you want. I just stack them whenever I run across a vendor. I never have less than 20 at this point. Fast travel isn’t an issue. But the game doesn’t hold your hand.

Anyone that mentions how plentiful items are isn’t misinforming anyone, we are literally telling you how the game works.

@Michael2008ish @wildcat_kickz actually wildcat_kickz is kind of correct in that you can buy ferrystones from vendors then wait a day or so then buy them again if you have the gold. Ferrystones can be found all over the place so he's not misinforming people at all.

@Steel76 I thought it was OK, even good, but it's obvious a lot of people won't enjoy it, it it literally a weird RPG from over a decade ago.

I think the issue was, pretty much every youtuber hyped this up so much, too much and then by the time they actually got their hands on a preview it was too late to back down...

@Kienda I own it but refuse to play until performance is drastically improved. I can't believe I was dumb enough to pre order two games this year, and dislike both as things stand (ROTR being the other. Hoped for team ninja's Elden Ring, and got an ugly ubisoft clone).

@zebric21 you know, I wanted to replay W3 as I'd not done a run since it first released in 2015. Started a playthrough a few weeks ago and got bugs where weapon appearances were cloning the previously equipped item, and the menu image of the weapon as well. I immediately uninstalled it, done with CDPR.

@Michael2008ish that's fine buddy. You don't like the game and it's okay but what isn't okay is accusing another person who obviously knows how to aquire port crystals etc of lying. You could have just apologised to that person like anybody else would of and accepted you were mistaken. The fact I love this game is not the issue here so don't use your dislike of the game as an excuse to be argumentative.

I find it funny that a few years ago, Capcom said that they were gonna focus more on PC and a PC release is in a broken state lol

@Vaako007 Im really glad that they didn't conform to ubisoft open world trash. They stuck to their vision and it came out great!

@Michael2008ish The game is plentiful with gold too. There is literally a quest that gives you 100k for showing up. A weapon that gives gold on each hit (and it’s random as I got 50k just for smacking a monster in the back of the head). Augments that increase your gold, treasure chests are everywhere and you can steal from NPCs. Anyone that plays the game should not be broke or having issues with fast travel even early on. And that is before you get into selling items (your pawns can even do that for you) or trading with other players. Multiple outcomes of quests also mean better rewards depending on your result. The harder items are upgrade parts (even though you can get a pawn specialization that marks harvest locations on the map) and even those are plentiful as many enemies respawn or you can set pawn quests to ask for items.

It’s fine that you don’t like the game, but you are misinforming users and using hyperbole when several of us are explaining the actual game mechanics.

Also enemy variants depend on where you go; I tend to run into saurians and harpies way more than the goblin variants. But I spend a lot of time in caves near water and on cliffs so that’s what spawns there.

@Ryu_Niiyama what weapon gives gold on hits? Name?

Honestly... I am sad. Had such big expectations and even bought deluxe ed... cannot force me to play it after 22hours any more. Performance, combat and story are all bad. Had 2 missions glitched out and cannot be completed. Deleted game now. Not worth my little gaming time anymore.

@Ammurphy612 Whimsical Daydream.

@Ryu_Niiyama nice. I got that in storage. I didn't look that closely to it because I had just gotten done maxing Trickster.

I actually enjoyed DD2 a lot more than I thought I would. I didn't play the first game and I had been smart by doing a but of pre purchase research on the single save mechanic, and the way that travel is intended in the game. I spent about 70 hours with the game and yes I did have some greievnces with it but overall I found it to be a very solid 8/10.

One game I have found to be very outdated - even more so and the biggest disappointment is Rise of The Ronin.

Without sounding too mean Rise of the Ronin is basically what GOT would look like if it was made by Xbox. It has outdated Ubisoft style fetch quests and PS4 graphics and performance. Rise of the Ronin is simply not of the quality an SIE published game should have.

The overall game has been decent but I find myself forcing myself through the rest of the story to get to the end. Just my subjective opinion of course but a counter balance to those who may favour this game over DD2.