Recent reviews by Barrel-roll

a game without auto save and bosses after bosses shouldn't crash this much, 3 years after pc release
spec : 13700K RTX 3080 32GB RAM

over 10 crashes and 7 BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) crashes in 25h
the only games capable of BSOD my PC in 2024 was this and HellDivers 2
not even EA's worst optimized game Wild Hearts, BSOD my PC

update : seems like crashes stopped after the first update, changed my review to positive

my spec : i7 13700K RTX 3080 32GB DDR5 M.2 NVME SAMSUNG

also the game is unavailable in 180 regions because of PSN, even tho the game is single player, and multiplayer was a free update, people's per-order was auto refunded from steam and gmg, PLAY HAS NO LIMITS they say

Cute and Funny Bunny 😭😭😭

and even funnier puzzles, i keep dying 😭😭😭😭😭

BILLIONS MUST CREATE PLAYSTATION ACCOUNTS ( announcement after 3 months of release )
- SONY

more than 170 countries still can't purchase the game
the ban is still there

as we know no auto refund is issued to those people, both before 6 may and after 6 may

i will never make my review positive if they have the right to do this

SOMEHOW DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 FEELS JUST AS UNFINISHED AS DRAGON'S DOGMA 1

THE GOOD

gameplay, combat, graphics and animations are all great ( replayability 120% )

some side stuff has dark stories and i love this

vocation stats min-maxing is gone ( from DD1 )

you can buy your own house

warfare ( Arisen in japanese ver ) is a great vocation once you max your fav vocations

the dragonsplague is a great system and i love it, they could add more to it tho, like we fighting it after the apocalypse

THE BAD

story and quests are boring, indie games are better at this by far, i dare to say DD1 story is far better than DD2 story, and the quests too

vocations ( classes ) and skills are so limited, and you can only equip 4 skills

lets be real, the game is super easy to the point we all should agree that it's POWER FANTASY, why the limits then ? 4 skill slots is totally because the lack of skill

mob variety is not terrible but still bad, for 80% of the map it drops the same 3 type of enemies to you

bosses are great but availability of some are like only 1, at a specific place, they could mix bosses with mobs more

endgame is time-limited, and in NG+ you're forced to redo all the boring main quests to reach endgame again

there's no hard difficulty or enemy scaling for NG+ and NG+ adds NOTHING NEW

level cap is 999 but the real level cap is 200 (stats wise) there's no gain after that

The Sacred Arbor and Battahl don't have Portcrystal ( capcom really ? )

the amount of arrows you can buy from shop is 10 per each type, such a huge city should have hundreds CAPCOM

NO TRANSMOG is a joke, i like the look of normal looking gear more than endgame gear

class restriction on armors are so funny, you like a specific outfit BUT IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE FOR TRICKSTER OR MYSTIC SPEAR LIKE WHY ?

the romance system is as bad as DD1 from 12 years ago

pawns with full helm in riftstone stops you from checking their EYES for dragonsplague

mods are great and has shown great potential, still can't add more weapons/armors/skill-spells/monsters just reskins
( i also want mods to add more weapons in RE games, not reskins '-' )

for people fearing ban, you won't get ban ( which is a softban of your pawn not showing up for others ) unless you change your MainPawn stats or modified their equipment via mods, AND undoing your modification on MainPawn makes it available online for everyone again

VERDICT

i do not recommend this game in this state, it's too barebone

either capcom should fix this or mods will

i'll add more the more i remember play

if i'm mistaken in things i wrote, please leave a comment

update -

it's a great game if you install +30 QOL mods
still feels lackluster in terms of armor/weapon and skills/skill slot
and the story is 80% fetch quest and boring

needs a huge expansion to be something you can call GOTY
and a way to skip story for NG+, non of my friends are willing to play all that crap fetch quests again

update 2-

around 6 months before release DD's official twitter showed concepts of monk ( unarmed vocation ) and sage ( a mage/sorcerer like vocation yet different ) and said these are concepts that did not make it to the DD1 game

then there was an interview itsuno saying people can guess the vocations if they pay attention to the information we're sharing.

this could only mean we get monk and sage but boy we were so much in copium i guess

update 3-

you don't believe this, THERE'S A SPELL MAKER MOD
allows you to create your own spells in Dragon's Dogma 2

Virginity is Cool, Stay in School

one of STRONGEST starts i seen in early access games. so detailed and polished

two things i really want asap to be added in this game, keeping our character between servers/worlds and crossplay between steam and xbox ( PC / console ) ( which is confirmed as update )

and the addition of Workshop ( which is also confirmed as update )

so basically i want them to fulfill their promises/roadmaps

9/10 enslave your pals

Once upon a time square enix decided to make 3 big dlcs for FFXV that was like a main story reboot, happier ending, everyone surviving, fairy tail like

it got scraped half in the development ( sadly, and i hate square enix for this ), but the idea didn't

this FFVII REMAKE is a " WHAT IF " of original game, gonna be a happier ending, everyone surviving, fairy tail like
the downside is, you need to play the original game to fully enjoy this REMAKE, otherwise you'll be HELLA CONFUSED

the remake shows glimpse of original game as flashbacks, and flashforwards, without explaining much, which makes it even more confusing

and the original game is a " 1997 PS1 GAME " there's more than 30GB of mods to add voice acting and better graphics, but overall, it can't get better than a DREAMCAST like game

either play the original with mods, without mods, or watch on youtube, otherwise

I DO NOT RECOMMEND PLAYING REMAKE, BEFORE ORIGINAL

the amount of references this game has to the original is a LOT, and i meant it.

speaking of the remake story itself, it's the DISK 1 to the point you exit Midgar

they made a 15h story to a full 45h story, i did enjoy both story and side stories, and i really enjoyed the game

the normal difficulty is kinda easy, the hard difficulty is just " NO ITEMS " and is locked behind completing game

the modding community is great, also there's a cheat table ( cheat engine ) to swap controllable character outside combat

9/10 LOVED THE GAME

if leonardo dicaprio was a Forza motorsport player he would leave his cars when they reach level 26

update 1: Nvidia and AMD drivers released, 11 oct, performance got %5-10 better but none of visual and performance bugs got fixed

update 2: first game update released on 17 oct, none of the bugs and problems i mentioned got fixed, i experienced them all on the new version

update 3 : game's update 2.0 released, i did strike on things fixed, hoping for the fps halve bug to get fixed asap, i'm restarting my game every hour

update 4 : game's update 3.0 released, the game's so much smoother and the loading are faster, i would really recommend this game if it wasn't for fps halve bug still presenting itself


the game is currently unplayable, we BETA TESTER ( did cost $100 ) was hoping there would be day one patch or drivers to fix these gamebreaking bugs on 10 oct, but there was none, so here's the negative review

there's a performance bug that can -20fps to almost halve your fps, and it happens randomly after some races, most likely from alt tabbing, the only solution is to restart your game

if you're unlucky, the tracks, or sometimes the whole map, vanish completely, and it will happen in multiplayer too, a place you need to play safe to keep your safety rating up game update 2.0 fix

there's a high chance to occur bug that will happen after you finish a race and want to upgrade your car for the next race, you will get infinite loading,
game update 2.0 fix

the game doesn't save after finishing a race ( even after closing the result screen ),
so if by any chance you get a crash afterward, or get any kind of infinite loading, and you need to close the game to fix it ( like mentioned before ), you need to redo your race.
game update 2.0 fix

the not-game-breaking-but-still-bad

in multiplayer, if the second player crashes into the first so hard, that the first player loses it's position and cannot win, all the penalty the said second player gets is 2.5 seconds, and wins at 1P

premium crown is not available for steam premium users
game update 2.0 fix

also steam users cannot import their previous title liveries and vinyl, these both are STEAM ONLY issues

CarPG ( CarXP and CarPoints ) has more bads than goods it delivers

Career is single player only, and the cars you can select in each Builders Cup is VERY LIMITED,
even if you car had every aspect to be qualified but wasn't originally in that car class, ( like you need B class for race and you upgrade a C class car to B ) you can't use the car

the game's great and addictive, when it works properly

currently it's a 7/10
if they fix the fps halve bug it'll be a 8/10
if they remove CarPG too it'll be 9/10
if they add some kind of map editor ( like EventLab 2.0 in FH5 ) then it'll be a holy 10/10

my spec : i7 13700K - RTX 3080 - 32GB DDR5 - Samsung NVME2

[Not as Planned]

those who bought or gonna buy the dlc before it removes on 5oct will get all the current and future dlcs