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What is the best Dragon's Dogma 2 Vocation?

What are the best starting and advanced vocations in Dragon's Dogma 2? TheSixthAxis break down all the options available to players in Capcom's ambitious open world RPG sequel.

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WolfSeed69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

These type of articles just ruin the experience and have a special hate in my heart.

"How to get the best weapon!"
"Where to find these rare materials!"
"How to unlock all secret endings!"
"Here is John beating DD2 in 45 seconds!"
"The best archer build!"

Disgusting. Let people think and explore for themselves.

LucasRuinedChildhood69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

I get your dislike for the examples you provided but when creating a character, I do like to have a proper understanding of the classes if there's no class switching mid-game.

Reading this article, I wanted to check if you can change vocations on the same save. It's good to know you can. So if you pick one you don't end up liking, you're not going to have to restart the whole game. Only have a certain amount of time to play games these days.

A lot of big budget RPGs that don't have class switching could benefit from a training room letting you try out all of the classes before committing.

If I do get this game (leaning towards skipping it), I'll be waiting for it to be heavily patched and for a steep price cut if the monetisation isn't changed, but this info is good to know.

Extermin8or3_69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

The monetisation stuff is absolute FUD. I played the first game and the elements such as fast travel crystals are intentionally scarce. A major gameplay mechanic is the travelling from point A to B and the risk Vs reward of avoiding travelling at night or getting stuck out in the wilderness in the dark. The micro transactions added to the steam store have not impacted the games design at all. Everything is fairly easily attainable in-game (I mean I got 300;RC points last night alone - and I did nothing. It's something your lawn passively acquired for you by being chosen by other players to assist them. They are essentially the option to buy cheats or shortcuts for real money. If others want to spoil the game for themselves then they can do that but ultimately their decision to waste money million

Also on;ps5 I'm not seeing significant performance issues. Frame rate was even sustainable last night when two war Cyclops attacked me and a griffin decided to come get involved along with a load of goblins. It was absolutely insanely hectic and the frame date remained pretty stable considering.

anast68d ago

I'd say it's a $10-$20 game with MT's and Celebrity pawns. These two things cheapen the product. It's like buying a PewDiePie shirt at Walmart, which is a shame because it looks like the devs put a ton of good work just to have it printed on mugs right before the checkout line.

anast68d ago

They have to write this stuff because they do not have the ability to write about the nuances of gaming culture.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Gets DLSS Frame Generation: 77% FPS Gain with Broken Shadows

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has received a new title update that adds Frame Generation for NVIDIA RTX 40 series users (only). Unfortunately, the vast majority of gamers on RTX 30/RTX 20 and Radeon GPUs will have to keep waiting for an FSR 3 implementation of frame generation. There’s another tiny issue with the update.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Has Sold 3 Million Units In 2 Months

Dragon's Dogma 2, Capcom's latest JRPG, has reached a new sales milestone, rolling over 3 million copies in a span of two months.

isarai3d ago

Hands fown my game of the generation so far, definitely has some flaws and buggy quests, but damn is it good, and surprisingly flexible in how it allows creativity and different approaches to resolve quests and reacts accordingly.

banger883d ago

I just picked this up for PS5. I'm going to hold off playing as long as I can though, in case they decide to add a new performance mode. I don't want to play this at 30 fps unless I absolutely have no other choice (PC isn't a choice for me). I have a dozen other games in my backlog so I'm good.

VincentCastle2d ago

I have it on ps5 and pc and it plays as actually pretty well on PS5. The uncapped frame rates works best for the game then the newly added Max 30fps version.
The only town that gets the frame rates down between 25-35 ish is the first big city, but you won't be that much in it to be fair - I spent from 50 hours about 3 in the city and the rest exploring and the second main town which has better fps.

-on pc with my 3080 and 10700k CPU, the fps outside is better for sure as it can do stable 60fps... But it's the same or worst for the main city. I had fps between 20-50ish and the drops were really noticeable. But the same, most time was spent outside.

Nerdmaster3d ago

Really tried to like the first one, started it like 5 times, but it didn't click with me.
I'll try the sequel someday, but I'll wait for a good (like 50%) discount.

Cacabunga2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It will end up on PS+ extra someday.
It is good devs release the game first and release it months later on PS+ to give it a second life.
If it was on sub service day one it would have sold 300.000 Max

ravens522d ago

Just curious, does this count as successful?

jznrpg2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

For a sequel to a niche game from the PS3 days I would think 3 million is very good. But I don’t know their sales expectations so I can’t say for sure.

EternalTitan2d ago

I . . .dont know.
AAA companies are weird. It depends on their fiscal stuff.
I would guess its successful because the first game sold way less in the same time frame.

EternalTitan2d ago

Knew the game had long legs. It had some disappointing issues like performance, dumb microtracsanctions at the beginning. There is a DLC coming. Wonder what that will add to the game.

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Stellar Blade has sold more physical copies than Dragon's Dogma 2 in Japan, despite PS5 exclusivity

By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.

Hugodastrevas7d ago

Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!

BrettAwesome7d ago

More than it got? It got tons, by everyone except the sad wankers who's idea of a sex life, is pulling on their dicks while watching big fake cgi titties 😂

gerbintosh7d ago

Don't see the difference between cgi titties and fake boobs. Also no difference to wanking it to either one of them since both aren't physically there

RiseNShine7d ago

Salty that the game is doing well hm? ;) I suggest some cheese with your whine.

Skuletor6d ago

So you're saying the people that like watching CGI tits didn't praise the game? An educated guess is you meant the opposite.

BrettAwesome6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

@Risenwhine
What the fuck are you talking about? I think it looks like an awesome game. I don't get the sentiment that it didn't get as much praise as it deserved. The only ones who's been shit talking it, are sad wankers with no sex life. Am I whining? How? 😂

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Cacabunga7d ago

I think we can safely claim that Stellar Blade 2 is confirmed!
I got it day one, i have some backlog due to RDR2 i just platinumed.. i will get to Stellar Blade in the near future

shinoff21837d ago

Same but I'm hitting yakuza right now. Stellar blade looks cool though.

neutralgamer19927d ago

Capcom really dropped the ball with DG2. They had easy success on their hand but instead with their stupid decisions ruined the games success

Stellar blade is an amazing game and deserves all the success. For all the artificial hate it got from people who had no interest in the game to begin with this shows if you make a good game it will sell. The so called 1st party drought from PlayStation has meant 4 exclusives in 2024 so far. Other companies need to learn how to run a business and plan for the future

H97d ago

Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one

Redemption-647d ago

DS2 sold 2.5M in a little over a week, what the hell are you talking about?

H97d ago

"there", that's Japan, this article is about Japan, the bad word of mouth is about Japan

Hereandthere7d ago

Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.

The_Hooligan7d ago

How dare you speak common sense!!??

jznrpg7d ago

It would if they added a lot more combat and didn’t focus on graphics

XiNatsuDragnel7d ago

Stellar blade is great excited for 2

anast7d ago

They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.

shinoff21837d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Said that dd2 was missing things the first one did,like mass effect 2? I haven't played it so I'm really asking.

spss117d ago

I've played both and I have no idea what people say when they claim it's "incomplete". I've only noticed new things in comparison to DD1 (I would give a list but spoilers). Sometimes I wonder if some people actually played DD1 or maybe they remember it differently. Anyways, if you liked the first one and want more of that, you'll probably like DD2.

anast6d ago

Yeah, the content, combat movement is slower, less vocations, the armor system, it's more simplified, and dungeons are lacking. It's like they rushed it out or something, but didn't forget to add in youtuber pawns and micros. At least ME 2 upped the content.

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