DO NOT BUY Dragon's Dogma 2 - WARNING

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Dragon's Dogma 2 game, and as an avid fan

of the first game and action RPG games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. But unfortunately, so far it's been

kind of bland, boring, and lacking in a

certain kind of lustre. So basically it's

a very bog-standard action RPG type of

game. You've got warriors, you've got

mages, archers, that kind of stuff— very

typical classes in the game. And you've

got humans and these kind of beast men

with cat heads. Those seem to be the only

2 races that are playable in the game, so

you don't really get much options when it

comes to different types of variations of

races in the game. You're very limited and

bog standard, and the classes are

basically just shield and sword,

double-handed sword, archer, rogue with

double-handed daggers and kind of stealth

gameplay, or mage and magical attacks.

There's nothing really here that's gonna

blow you away if you're looking for

something unique, original, and new. It's

basically just every single RPG trope

rolled into one single game. And it

doesn't really do a very good job at doing

it either. The enemies you encounter in

the early part of the game are extremely

dull. I don't know if it gets more

interesting later in the game. Basically,

you just have to fight loads of goblins

and these wyvern things that fly around in

the air, and you can't really attack them

if you're a fighter or a melee-based

character. You kind of need a pawn that

does ranged attacks, otherwise you're kind

of screwed and they'll just set you to

sleep and then you need to be woken up.

The only way to take them down is when

they do attack you and then you can block

them. Do a counterattack and stab them

when they're on the ground. They're very

frustrating to attack and deal with. And

then you also get wolves and these big

Cyclops troll things, which are kind of

like bosses, and these larger beast kind

of things. Now it's kind of interesting

the way you can climb onto large enemies,

and it's kind of like Legend of Zelda:

Breath of the Wild in the way that you can

climb up— instead of being able to climb

up cliff faces, you can actually climb up

enemy legs and mount them and stab them in

the back of the head, which is kind of

interesting, but the mechanics of it are

kind of fiddly and clunky. The physics

system in the game is not perfect and it

does get very frustrating, especially if

you're going up against a troll. He

smashes you down to the ground. It takes

forever to get back up. And from what I've

seen, there's no way to roll or dodge.

You can just sprint out of the way. You

can block or just move out of the way. I

haven't yet found a way to dodge or roll.

So if you're expecting the gameplay to be

like Elden Ring where you're dodging and

rolling out of enemy attacks, I don't know

if this game is gonna be for you. So for

the most part of the game, you're just

gonna be running through the map. It will

say something like, we need to get to the

capital, we need to get to this village,

we need to get to this outpost, and then

you've got all your NPC followers

following you behind, and then you just

follow the path to the place you're trying

to get to whilst getting constantly

attacked and trying to survive with the

supplies you have. It gets kind of tedious

and boring because it just feels like

running through the countryside simulator

whilst fighting off monsters that keep

trying to harass you and attack you. It

gets very dull and boring, and the game

just doesn't really seem to have a lot of

depth to it at this point. You don't

really get any new gear. I got to about

level 7 or 8, and I was still using the

beginner shield and sword and armor, and I

never saw any kind of new loot that was

interesting. You can loot the enemies,

but all I got were things like goblin

fang. Goblin horn, wolf fang, or some

gold. I didn't get any cool weapons. I

unlocked a few chests, but they didn't

have anything interesting in them either.

The combat system is extremely basic. You

just basically spam left mouse button to

do a basic attack, and then you've got V

for impale, which is like a slower charged

attack that does more damage. And then if

you hold Ctrl and then left-click, you've

got like a charge attack. So I'm on level

8 or level 7 and I've only got 3 attacks.

One of them's not very useful and you've

got a dodge and a grab which doesn't

really seem to do much. So the gameplay

mechanics and the combat system feels

extremely basic. You just run towards a

big mob of enemies, hope that your allies

are following behind, and you just spam

the left mouse button over and over again.

You don't even need to block really in

this early stage of the game. Next we have

to talk about the performance of the game.

So the game is capped at 30 FPS, which is

probably for console reasons. Most console

games only run at 30 FPS, and it's usually

just PC enthusiasts that have good

hardware that can play games at 60 FPS.

But this should be a game industry

standard for these times, 2024. Still

playing games in 30 FPS is kind of lacking

in lustre. We should be playing at 60 FPS

right now, especially with the kind of

hardware and technology we have these

days. And for a game to release in 2024

and be playing at 30 FPS

is kind of rubbish. The graphics of the

game are not really up to my standards.

They don't really look that impressive.

The game looks like it came out like 5

years ago. So I had to run this game on

low to medium because my system couldn't

really handle high. The graphics settings

leave a little to be desired. There

weren't exactly huge amounts of options

that let you tweak with things, but you do

have quite a lot of sliders and stuff like

that, so you can tweak it for your

machine. But running on low to medium

graphics settings, the game looks really

boring. It's just brown and gray.

Everything's just kind of brown. The art

design is just like realism. You got

trees, grass, mountains. It doesn't really

seem to have a unique art style like Elden

Ring did or other games do. It's a very

boring looking game. I don't know who

designed the art for it, but it's, it's

really boring. There's like no artistic

flair to the game. The abilities and the

effects are really dull. There's just

nothing memorable about it. The enemies,

like these wolves for example, they just

look like brown wolves. There's nothing

interesting or scary about them. The game

just looks very bland, boring, and flat.

So unfortunately, I can't really give this

game a very high rating. I'm gonna have to

give it a 6.2 out of 10. I don't know if

the game gets more interesting later on in

the game, but I'm not going to stick

around to find out. The beginning of the

game just didn't really hook me, and I had

to quit the game because it was just so

boring. So I'm going to have to give it a

pretty lacklustre score. For £55, I would

expect much more from a game like this.

This is not really a game worth £55.

Maybe £20 or £30, then yes, I could say

for that amount of money, it's worth

giving it a bash. Unless you are a

hardcore RPG lover, I don't really think

there's much in this game to really keep

you entertained. I didn't feel

entertained, I felt bored just running

endlessly through the countryside to get

to some checkpoint. The combat didn't

really entertain me either. So yeah, I

think this game was a bit of a flop, bit

of a disaster, kind of rubbish. It's like

an inferior attempt of being Elden Ring,

and it just— it kind of sucks, to be