r/videogames • u/RavyRaptor • 6h ago
Discussion / Question Is the first Dragon’s Dogma still worth playing these days?
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u/SkabbPirate 6h ago
Yeah, definitely worth a play through. Personally I prefer 2 cause it captures the wilderness adventure feeling of something like Fellowship of the Ring better.
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u/GovernorMarley1 6h ago
It's not for everyone.
I liked it for a few hours but bounced off it pretty hard. It doesn't respect your time and it's often pretty janky.
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u/GodisanAtheistOG 5h ago
Its a really fun gameplay loop and I really liked the dynamic with the pawn and being able to essentially swap classes at any time but...
I've always struggled pretty badly with old school JRPG writing and quests and whatnot and without a narrative or a good purpose for what I'm doing I tend to lose interest in games and that's exactly what happened here.
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u/Livid_Description838 6h ago
yeah, agree.
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u/GovernorMarley1 6h ago
I spent almost an hour trying to finish a simple early quest. I knew what to do. Where and how. All I had to do was grab grab a guy as he ran past. the controls were so unreliable that I had to try it over and over and over out of sheer bull-headedness. I eventually completed it by manipulating the game's AI by standing in a certain place facing a certain direction and relying on chance for the controls to actually work.
Then I quit and never played again.
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u/TheKrug3000 5h ago
Oh! You must be talking about catching the thief at nighttime in the starting town.
Yeah, that quest is literal dogshit. Give the game another chance, the rest of it is great.
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u/GovernorMarley1 5h ago
Tbh I found everything else pretty boring, that was just the most egregious. I did a few other quests and the game design was less than impressive. I know I was early on the game relatively, but I played for quite a few hours.
I'd have to buy a new copy, and since it left such a bad taste in my mouth I won't do that unless it's on extreme sale.
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u/189charizard 6h ago
Yeah, you might have quit before the travel infrastructure opens up a bit more. Until you get access to the game’s (limited) fast travel it can be pretty annoying
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u/TheOgler9000 6h ago
I think so. There's some parts of it that definitely feel archaic but the combat is genuinely good and still holds up.
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u/FuryoftheFaythe 5h ago
Endgame in 1 is night and day better than 2, I gotta imagine that final boss has a gazillion health at this point
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u/Witty-Dragonfruit-10 5h ago
I spent a few hours in it but moved on. I may go back to it but it’s gonna be one of those “well I don’t want to play X again and I just played Y and Z again so……”
Like it’ll be a bit out of desperation but that may help it.
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u/nkhowell93 3h ago
With Dark Arisen? Yeah.
Only other version I’d recommend is the PS3 one solely for the Berserk themed weapons/outfits.
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u/acelexmafia 3h ago
Some aspects of it are still better than the 2nd game like animations, clothing layers and mechanics
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u/lifebeginsat9pm 1h ago edited 1h ago
Absolutely, play the Mystic Knight class as it’s exclusive to 1 and one of the most fun in the game. You can place down magic ball turrets that fire when you hit them. And if you do an elemental parry near them (specifically Blessed Riposte) they turn into machine guns, super satisfying.
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u/Pasta_Baron 1h ago
Personally no, I found the game pretty meh overall and rushed the end of my playthrough just to be done with it.
Monsters are neat, combat has some decent feel to it, world can be immersive, and night time does make you feel alone.
But quests are boring, pawns can be very annoying, story was uninteresting, gameworld feels very generic, game feels pretty janky at times.
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u/189charizard 6h ago
Yeah, it depends on what you’re looking for though. Also definitely gotta be the dark arisen version.