I may have gotten a little too autistic with the Vocation breakdown section. Feel free to skip it if you get bored. Though quite a few of you seem to think otherwise, pointing out that I didn't mention a few minor mechanics/items: Allheal Elixir, Archer's jump kick and slide, Warrior's timed attacks, Thief "jumping" with the concussive blast, etc. Just because I didn't mention them, doesn't mean I don't know they exist. Also no, Mystic Spearhand's damage is not that good for the stamina cost. Try Thief with Blades of the Pyre + Skull Splitter and be blown away how broken it is. Hopefully that curbs some people's 'tism. Also, here's a soundtrack list, since a bunch of people asked for it. Don't say I never do anything for you guys. 0:00 Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen - Main Theme 1:12 Dragon's Dogma - Mortal Combat 3:23 Monster Hunter World Iceborne - Rajang 6:20 Kirby Air Ride - Item Bounce 7:43 Dragon Quest Heroes - Trial Isle Theme 9:46 Resident Evil 4 - Infiltration 11:20 Monster Hunter World - Rotten Vale Battle 15:34 Xenogears - Stage of Battle 18:18 Final Fantasy XVI - Battle Theme 21:02 Legend of Mana - Pain the Universe 22:51 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Marble Gallery 24:21 Monster Hunter World - Ancient Forest Battle 27:58 Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate - Deserted Island Battle 30:42 Monster Hunter World Iceborne - Brachydios Theme 33:30 Monster Hunter World Iceborne - Zinogre Theme 35:06 Crash Bandicoot 2 - Bear it, Bear Down, Totally Bear 36:18 Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate - Glavenus Theme 39:00 Elden Ring - Godskin Apostles 41:02 Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen - Battle to Know the Truth of the Eye 42:55 Hades - The Painful Way 46:12 Dragon's Dogma - Hydra Battle 48:06 Dragon's Dogma - Mortal Combat 51:30 Final Fantasy VII - Dear to the Heart 54:16 Final Fantasy X - Silence Before the Storm 56:18 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Lost Painting 57:56 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Wood Carving Partita 59:56 Postal 2 - Map 1:00:37 Pumped up Kicks (8-Bit Cover) 1:01:25 Pizza Tower - Gnome Forest 1:02:39 Baldur's Gate 3 - Down By the River (Instrumental) 1:04:28 Baldur's Gate 3 - I Want to Live (Classical) 1:05:24 Dragon Quest Heroes - Stormcloud Theme 2 1:06:41 Hades - From Olympus 1:09:08 Legend of Mana - The Wind Sings, For the Journey 1:11:07 Dragon's Dogma - Serena 1:12:20 The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Main Theme (Smash Version) 1:14:47 Legend of Mana - Cliff Town Gato 1:16:17 Xenogears - Desert City Dazil 1:17:21 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Tower of Mist 1:18:44 God of War 2 - Main Title 1:19:44 Metroid Prime - Magmoor Caverns 1:21:20 Dragon's Dogma - Decisive Battle 1:23:08 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Dance of Gold 1:24:13 Final Fantasy VII - Listen to the Cries of the Planet 1:25:35 Castlevania Symphony of the Night - The Tragic Prince 1:29:03 Final Fantasy X - Someday the Dream Will End 1:31:35 Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen - Abandoned City 1:34:19 Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen - Coils of Light
@ShaneRodrigues-jd9pd
4 ай бұрын
This is way 2 long
@ShaneRodrigues-jd9pd
4 ай бұрын
Doing an hour of vocations is ridiculous
@user-kb1su7mg1g
4 ай бұрын
@Ostrava_Of_Boletaria meow
@user-kb1su7mg1g
4 ай бұрын
thank uuu
@LHMDFedBoy
4 ай бұрын
You spoil us.
@PCGonline
4 ай бұрын
A black character isn't complete without it's very own Killmonger dread hair
@natediaz1863
4 ай бұрын
I always found it hilarious how kill monger showed how any ambitious man regardless of skin color can succeed in America... yet he hated whitey 😆
@Ozzystrayroo
4 ай бұрын
Even most black people that i know are getting sick with the haircut and called it dumb haircut
@Ozzystrayroo
4 ай бұрын
Even some people of melanin that i know and work with hate the haircut and called it super dumb haircut
@deandre6559
4 ай бұрын
That's drives me crazy seeing that style as the default on every black character no matter the setting or time. Especially being black.
@kemosabe1313
4 ай бұрын
Personally I call it the tarantula legs hairstyle
@bruhmanbruhmanzz
4 ай бұрын
Synthetic Man reviews are more fun because I don't have to listen to other reviewers saying "Now, it's just my opinion, but..., Now don't get mad at me about this but..." in every sentence because it's illegal to have an opinion without 20 minutes of sugar coating.
@NumbDigger22
4 ай бұрын
It's also fun how unlike with milktoast youtubers Synth's straightforward and honest opinions cause a never ending sewage in the comments.
@mattjindrak
4 ай бұрын
"I already covered that so I don't wanna see a bunch of shit about it in the comments"
@mrshmuga9
4 ай бұрын
And even when they try to make a point, they spend too much time meandering, or vague, or have few examples, or barely touch upon it. You don’t have to make a 90min review, but at least have some substance. Too busy pushing something out quick so they can schmooze up to another HR rep for early review codes, appear in official marketing, or some other benefit.
@kurayamik1
4 ай бұрын
@@NumbDigger22bro it's milquetoast 😂😂
@WildDogGamerBoy
4 ай бұрын
Angry Joe
@jerric1228
4 ай бұрын
All I want to know is; do they force you to romance the NPC you interacted with the most? I’ll never forget my best friend was so upset when the dragon kidnapped that Indian inn keeper who basically does everything from inventory to vocation upgrades, then he was forced to watched the gay sex scene after saving him. Was fucking hilarious, he tried to romance the French knight chick but the game interpreted his time spent in inventory management as something else…
@torrasque0151
4 ай бұрын
Hilarious.
@Latno-Ziroh
4 ай бұрын
It does. Synth's first romance was with the WE WUZ KNIGHTS guy because he only did the main quest on the first playthrough.
@ultradius7
4 ай бұрын
It happens to me too lol but in my case was with the blacksmith in Gran Soren, "Master works all, you can go wrong", it was super troll 🤣🤣
@LandofBrickForests
4 ай бұрын
I always ended up with ailenore in my playthroughs. I didn't even know at the time that side characters were romancable to that degree.
@daveinthemicrowave
3 ай бұрын
lol, happened to me in the first game with some rando merchant
@heretic0014
4 ай бұрын
Its not ESG anymore. Its BRIDGE now.
@didymussumydid9726
4 ай бұрын
Wots dat
@lurksnitchtongue8986
4 ай бұрын
@@didymussumydid9726I'm assuming the new term for ESG. They rebranded it.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
ESG is still a thing, BRIDGE is the replacement term for DEI. Slight differences. ESG is the practice of funding based on obedience, DEI/BRIDGE is the product/philosophy being pushed.
@Deadsmegma
4 ай бұрын
The hell does that have a place here
@heretic0014
4 ай бұрын
@@Deadsmegma Let the adults handle forced politics/piss poor ideologies in entertainment, child. Go back to sleep.
@AryanBoy15
4 ай бұрын
Dragons dogama balls
@golDroger88
4 ай бұрын
Dragons ligma balls.
@streptococo4735
4 ай бұрын
Dragons Godma balls
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
Drag’n’her’n’Dog’on’her halls
@husky6672
4 ай бұрын
PUAR😭😭😭
@npc1822
4 ай бұрын
dragon muh 2 balls
@Schizo2
4 ай бұрын
Napplers romances were a wild ride. Massive shoulders were stopping the stream getting age restricted.
@lanceelopezz223
4 ай бұрын
Nappler’s canon boyfriend. 🌚
@HunnysPlaylists
4 ай бұрын
What?
@ashersdad1755
3 ай бұрын
Hey man...the trickster is the best class to get rich....get a good group of pawns and then take the weapon from the sphinx...and wail on everything each hit gives you 10,100, or 1000 gold and does no damage so you collect gold each hit....great to use on bosses have your pawns stay back until your content and then kill it. I agree with most of this....number 1 being they added so many skills that would work well as combos....if there were more skill slots
@shoahkhan5670
4 ай бұрын
_>"dispose of the diversity problem"_ They won't make it easy... That's why Capcom are trying to go after modding -- _not_ because of the "coomer mods".
@TheDasErdinger
4 ай бұрын
Also Sigurd or Siegfried is literally a Germanic legendary hero figure and they made him black in this game.
@MrSpartan993
4 ай бұрын
We call that Blackwashing.
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
Technically most heroes are black, once you remove the white ones.
@HPLovesCraftsCat
4 ай бұрын
@@MrSpartan993🏴💦
@WhimsicalPacifist
4 ай бұрын
That would be like creating a white Shaka Zulu or Mansa Musa pawn.
@venomshake8187
4 ай бұрын
You’re joking right? Like this comment isn’t satirical?
@5.99USD
4 ай бұрын
I admire your honesty Synthetic Man. You don't sugarcoat things.
@spiritualsoul2711
4 ай бұрын
He sugar coated the microtransaction portion of the video. I Made a comment responding to that portion. He's doing a bit of bootlicking for capcom. Re 4 was finished and worth its launch price. Dogma is the opposite, not even a SEQUEL so that was a capcom lie. It's not even worth 40$ In it's current state lol. IT SETS An atrocious standard to AAA Gaming or Gaming in general.
@ExtremeMan10
4 ай бұрын
@@spiritualsoul2711He aint doing anything for Capcom, quite the opposite on stream he was heavily against DLCs for this game.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
@@spiritualsoul2711he literally said not to buy it full price.
@cristianr9168
4 ай бұрын
@@spiritualsoul2711before this video lauched he said on stream and in a community post that this game shouldn’t be bought at full price and he didn’t criticize many things on streams before this video even launched.
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
It ain’t sugar if you snort it
@banbrado28
4 ай бұрын
The clearest example of this game having lost its Japanese soul is that it has a half human half cat beast person romance option, and she didn't come out a catgirl.
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
I also wanted Japanese style cat girl too was upset
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
I'm glad the human side of Wilhelmina purged the cat side. Chad dad genes.
@darken2417
4 ай бұрын
Yep you know its Western Left when they remove lolis but add furries. And no nekomimi wtf lol, lmao even.
@Ekdrink
4 ай бұрын
The east has well and truly fallen bros
@oboroth51
4 ай бұрын
It's japanese soul was corny garbage anyways.
@KingMoon110
4 ай бұрын
The sequel being developed as a remake and once again being an unpolished, unfinished gem is rather poetic
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
Except its somehow even more unpolished and unfinished and the gem underneath isn't as shiny.
@MrREAPERsz
4 ай бұрын
They still somehow downgrade it
@tpbunghole420
4 ай бұрын
It's still a garbage game
@wserthmar8908
4 ай бұрын
@@GeraltofRivia22, the ending is better than whatever time cycle stuff they did in the first game.
@maks3311
4 ай бұрын
Is not garbage game But if you like hunt giant monsters Play monster hunter world or rise If you want fantasy game with good story play Witcher 3
@HPLovesCraftsCat
4 ай бұрын
IT'S FINALLY HERE, THE SYNTH DOGMA!
@Puxi
4 ай бұрын
I am German and I approve your profile pic.
@PSXman9
4 ай бұрын
Ich auch!
@dezmas9332
4 ай бұрын
Hilarious pfp
@UncleButterworth
4 ай бұрын
Friendship pinwheel!
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
Omg keep it down in here man, I’m trying to put my transitioning child to sleep
@sloopadoodle
4 ай бұрын
We can never have nice things, ever again.
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
Just have to go back to simple times ie old film games and books music.
@nordicwarriorgaming4953
4 ай бұрын
We can. Go to any second hand store and there are hundreds of old games to buy.
@How2EixistPranksandTutorials
4 ай бұрын
I don’t know if you know this but Shadow Raven Studios is under attack by woke KZitemrs like Xanderhal for speaking out against wokeness in the Fallout: New Vegas modding community. He is working with Allout Monte and Krimson Graey (two of the best writers in the Fallout community imo) on the formation of #FalloutGate a movement that will work towards a crusade and total purge of wokeness and the creation and support of more mods like Grounded Commonwealth for Fallout: New Vegas.
@honeybadger6275
4 ай бұрын
Well any modding community based around the nexus website is going to be extremely woke, that site has been run by communists forever.
@torrasque0151
4 ай бұрын
No way to purge them, Nexusmods and JSawyer are on their side.
@honeybadger6275
4 ай бұрын
Dang, my first comment got removed. Was saying that that website is filled with pinko moderators/staff, has been for the last 6 or so years.
@arkgaharandan5881
4 ай бұрын
"sigurd invented the mystic spear" Speaking of which i remember a documentary saying the atlatl was a spear extension device that was found in every continent except Africa. OOOF
@TheRealPsychoGeniusRevengeance
4 ай бұрын
GEEEG BBCposters in ruins
@Alexander-nc4vy
4 ай бұрын
Another loss for Afrocentrists.
@Ozzystrayroo
4 ай бұрын
History exist: The left: rewrite it! Rewrite it!
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
They may make up zero of inventions, but they certainly make up most of inventors and scholars
@faller006
4 ай бұрын
The bow was first invented in South Africa, which superceded the atlatl
@aerus3446
4 ай бұрын
Game lacks enemy variety, bosses, equipment and even items compared to the original, how can you think about a sequel for a decade with a much higher budget but bring less than the original and even less than the MMO where some great enemy designs are stuck there in limbo for eternity?
@sodafromteacups4029
4 ай бұрын
sounds like elden ring
@dontbothertoreply9755
4 ай бұрын
But muh new graphics.
@dontbothertoreply9755
4 ай бұрын
@@sodafromteacups4029 facts, however Dark Souls had some horror elements and the design was better overall.
@aerus3446
4 ай бұрын
@@sodafromteacups4029 Elden Ring had good enough enemy variety, the problem with ER is the bloated recycled bosses everywhere that hinder the game to be much more replayable (its the reason why so many really have problems replaying the game and make you go "uuuuugh not that again"), I would hardly call them bosses since most of those can die in very few hits. Some of those "bosses" were reused like 7 or even 8 times. ER could have been even better if those recycled bosses were cut and only placed once either as a random enemy or mini boss just before a major boss, and in the place of the recycled bosses a few unique, difficult bosses were added, and the items you got were more condensed through the map instead of drip feeding it too much through those boring fights.
@HPLovesCraftsCat
4 ай бұрын
@@aerus3446majority of the enemies in ER were recycled cut content from Dark Souls 3. and movement sets were also recycled from DS3, weapon attacks, and on and on.
@larrybobinski1257
4 ай бұрын
46:59 Griffin Gaming after watching your Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review...
@kabahr6517
4 ай бұрын
Man, I almost died laughing
@War_Magus
4 ай бұрын
In my opinion the difference between DD2/DD1 and Dark Arisen, is the director. Itsuno has some great ideas, that much is clear, as Dragon's Dogma and it's pawn system is a very unique and decently executed concept, but the world is lacking in a lot of the ways you mentioned, even in the first game prior to the expansion. Dark Arisen was Kento Kinoshita's debut as a game director, and though he was involved with the second game as lead game designer, I think his influence here was not as strong as with the expansion of the first. I'd be eager to see what he could do with the forthcoming DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2.
@falserazor
4 ай бұрын
6:20 The item bounce theme playing when you start talking about microtransactions LMAO
@natediaz1863
4 ай бұрын
🤣 I didn't even notice that. I love this dude
@megakoni1
4 ай бұрын
can anybody tell me why this track is associated with the juice?
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
@megakoni1 it's very hasidic music. A lot of Nintendo music actually is, even anime themes. For reference, go listen to The Happy Merchant or Hava Nagila.
@megakoni1
4 ай бұрын
@@stinkfinga4918 so no meme origin just similarities? Hava nagila sounds just like prince of persia lol
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
@megakoni1 what do you mean? The meme is the happy merchant, the happy merchant is them, when you play hasidic music over a criticism of predatory market practice, it's a clear and historically accurate meme. You need to level your noticing up.
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
It really is just a remake. All of the quality of life changes from Dark Arisen have been done away with.
@beyond-the-soul8651
4 ай бұрын
You don’t have to worry Capcom is going to be releasing a dark arisen remaster, or a gold edition of this game after all the expansions and DLC’s come out for this game
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
@@beyond-the-soul8651depends, the changes for Dark Arisen were made by a different director. The original who came back for this game clearly disagreed with those changes, which is why they were reverted for this game. So unless the director changes again, I don't see those changes coming back.
@squirtbrainz1219
4 ай бұрын
@@GeraltofRivia22I heard that Itsuno is moving onto another project so fingers crossed that the DLC will go into Kento Kinoshita’s hands again
@flyingpaladin617
4 ай бұрын
Nah
@MrREAPERsz
4 ай бұрын
Just realizing that you only get 3 skill blocks instead of 6 kills this for me. I'll wait some years for mods to come out
@learkenciel
4 ай бұрын
What is this? A guy in YT just talking about stuff he doesn't like without apologizing to everyone every 2 minutes? Subscribed.
@nosouponhead
4 ай бұрын
So basically we need to wait 3 years for a re-release that adds better endgame content, more enemy variety, better fast travel, and performance improvements.
@Sound557
4 ай бұрын
Expect disappointment and you’ll never be disappointed
@plainluke722
4 ай бұрын
Absolutely.
@TehParismio
4 ай бұрын
That's actually kind of sad. No need to put those kinds of expectations on a video game bud.
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
I keep saying this to my girlfriend, but even I’m disappointed
@SerbStar2011
4 ай бұрын
Its not sad its the opposite. The sad part is getting hyped like a dumb sheep then being disappointed @TehParismio
@impersonator4439
4 ай бұрын
Sadly you will anyway.
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, not wasting $70 to play the same game from 10 years ago but made for modern audiences.
@BoleDaPole
4 ай бұрын
Just wait a year or two and it'll be sold for 25 bucks which is probably closer to what it's really worth
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
@@BoleDaPole I paid like $10 for the original + the dlc. Why would I spend even $25 when I can just play the original?
@BaneofMills247
4 ай бұрын
Smart man. I noticed this right away also.
@MeltonCrest
4 ай бұрын
Wise choice, instead of playing this it made me install and play the original again.
@aerus3446
4 ай бұрын
You are being too optimistic. Dragons Dogma 2 has less content than the original, where the original would have given you some cool equipment in a densely packed zone, the sequel just throws portcrystals at you like its supposed to be a great reward.
@TANuclear
4 ай бұрын
The same mono-diverse cities everywhere in medieval settings are some of the most jarring and immersion breaking aspects of them all. If you need browns and blacks for your yew coins at least make them have their own city and/or part of the world. At least try to make the world believable.
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
They would of been slaves in those times I'm not being racist I'm being realistic.
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
@@OtakuBenny2210Those times? The one with griffins and dragons and chimeras? Yeah I remember those times.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
Exactly. At least put in the effort to make a diverse population if you need to have one. Create lore on where people are from, it's how you create epic stories and worlds.
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
@@stinkfinga4918 Considering their different accents and the fact that there's numerous countries, it's pretty strongly hinted at that different races come from different places. Been that way since the first game. And it's also strongly backed by the fact that there's no black Elves for example. Those are a pure European folklore people, and they were left that way to respect European folklore. Furthermore, it lends credence to the aforementioned point. The Elves in this game live in a very homogenous society that does not like or mingle with others. As such, they all retain a similar appearance.
@sinnednoiz
4 ай бұрын
but why tho, mason and mercedes’ didn’t need an explanation black people have always been in the game since the first one
@JediLordRevan
4 ай бұрын
So it sounds like, for someone who hasnt played DD1 or DD2, its better to just play DD1 instead of DD2.
@syzler8664
4 ай бұрын
nope, its better to play dark arisen
@jeezyyplays6234
4 ай бұрын
@@syzler8664dark arisen is the only version of DD1 now, at least on steam
@InkyMuste
4 ай бұрын
If you're not in a hurry I might just wait until this game gets actually finished when the dlcs/expansion drops and see how things are looking then, I'm personally liking it a lot more than the first one. Exploration is a lot of fun and the world in general seems much more lively and interactive.
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
@@syzler8664 This is what he means by DD1 as it is the only version of the game you can buy on Steam. Also its a fairly low engine requirement game at this point & anyone can run it, so yes anyone should play DD1: DA as Strider or Fighter, its a more fun game to beat than DD2 at this point & probably forever unless the DLC for DD2 is a master piece.
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
Yes, and then to play DD2 after because it's a flawed masterpiece that exceeds the original. Literally everyone here is just being racist. I don't pull that card, but this is just the truth. Synth is just a doomer who doesn't know quality if it dumps in his mouth. This guy can't enjoy Elden Ring 😂
@SourRobo8364
4 ай бұрын
It feels like we've been transported to a Bizarro World. Dark times are upon us.
@SIGNOR-G
4 ай бұрын
Dark times were ALREADY upon us for a while.
@jairesemccoy9779
4 ай бұрын
Helldivers 2 suffering from success.
@brianb152
4 ай бұрын
@@jairesemccoy9779and now they begin to embrace wokeness
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
It’s not properly Bizarro World until my main pawn marries you after our wedding ceremony - and the baby still comes out black
@Yakuze0
4 ай бұрын
@@brianb152 Take Mark Kern's balls out of your mouth and go play the game
@just_a_turtle_chad
4 ай бұрын
God I hate modern AAA and AAAA games.
@beyond-the-soul8651
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, I have been hating every video game recently and by that I mean the past 5 years or so. At this point, I kind of just wanna sell all of my systems and find a new hobby
@wuwei473
4 ай бұрын
and the antichrist
@fus132
4 ай бұрын
Not enough AAAAA's
@user-ju8hg9iq8h
4 ай бұрын
@@wuwei473 The anti-christ is Mr. Beast ... except people haven't realized it yet
@PCgamerChannel
4 ай бұрын
FF7 rebirth IS AMAZING. I liked dragon dogma 2 but now im playing rebirth and it blows it out of the water in every aspect. Hard mode is a fun challenge too
@grantlawrence4600
4 ай бұрын
This game is so unfinished that it's embarrassing at points. Sidequests feel like they are 40% complete in a lot of cases. It actually upsets me. Because I don't know HOW it can feel more unfinished than the original. With all the money injected.
@venomshake8187
4 ай бұрын
What quests feel unfinished to you? So far I’m not feeling this at all. Quests are a complete upgrade from DD1 base game with more variety quest outcomes
@grantlawrence4600
4 ай бұрын
@@venomshake8187 One example that I just finished was the Elf Village quest where you rescue the sister from the Ogre/Troll. You go into the cave, watch a bunch of "barely cutscenes" and then pick up the girl and leave. The ogre just sits there. You can kill the ogre or not. It doesn't matter.
@venomshake8187
4 ай бұрын
@@grantlawrence4600 that’s pretty much how dogma 1 was as well… I dig the janky charm of it. Wont be everyone cup of tea though Edit: better yet, that entire scene was one of the key quests they showed off during one of the showcases, so they knows it’s jank, real Dogma fans enjoyed the jank
@sirdrip1313
4 ай бұрын
My favorite part was when synth man picked up the goblin and threw it off the cliff Truly a fantasy come to life!
@Sgt.ArchDornan
4 ай бұрын
The jew theme at the microtransaction section kek
@RealAGuy
4 ай бұрын
Made me burst out laughing when it started playing
@callmecharlie0498
4 ай бұрын
"NOOOO KIRBY, THATS YOUR ALLY!!!"
@astreakaito5625
4 ай бұрын
KEK
@amadeusagripino6862
4 ай бұрын
Oy gevalt
@will2777
4 ай бұрын
Nice little touch 😂
@sinclair1392
4 ай бұрын
Synthbros, we are so back!
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
**so black**
@ShadeDraws
4 ай бұрын
@@epicplanetaryfaceplant BACK IN BLACK
@Ozzystrayroo
4 ай бұрын
It also cost the new 100 AUD price tag (equal with 70 USD). I had a massive buyer remorse with the game.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
Games need to roll back graphics and go back to overloading content. I dont know if it's a case of one or the other but somethings gotta give.
@HPLovesCraftsCat
4 ай бұрын
110 CAD
@akatsukicloak
4 ай бұрын
Key is 40-50, compared to the absolute slop that came out over the past two years with the exclusion of a few titles like BG3 I had fun, like Synth said the combat system makes it worthwhile.
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
yeah defintely we need to stop supporting inflation prices when it comes to games. It's bs that games used to cost 50$ even 40$ in the past & they were much more complex gameplay wise than they are now. The only difference is that now they take more electricity/time to render I guess.
@arkeshn729
4 ай бұрын
@@stinkfinga4918I'd take 360/ps3 graphics content rich games over photorealistic too big to fail copy paste games any day.
@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r
4 ай бұрын
Played about an hour of Dragon's Dogma 2 and I refunded it out of pure boredom. Went back to the original and not only did I have a much better time, but I actually fell in love the Dragon's Dogma universe thanks to the amazing world building and sharpness of the combat. Capcom just knew how to cook back then even if their older games had its fair share of imperfections
@minespatch
Ай бұрын
They better add back Fornival or Montebank in a later update as a apology. 🤣
@alexkogan9755
4 ай бұрын
Regarding the gameplay speed complaint, Devil May Cry 5 had lightning fast gameplay while running on the RE Engine. So either Capcom deliberately toned down the speed to match the “realistic” tone they were aiming for, or they could not get away with it due to the RE Engine being stretched to its limit to accommodate the open world. Of course the thief having a 100 mph saw attack flies in the face of all that so I dunno.
@alexkogan9755
4 ай бұрын
@Arisen_Again Meh, I didn’t think it was any slower or faster than the past DMC games, personally (maybe a tiny bit slower compared to 4 I guess but certainly way faster than the slug that was DMC2 or even the Unreal Engine 3 for DmC). That disagreement aside, I will say that Capcom has repeated the same mistake EA made with their Frostbite engine where they’ve tried to one-size-fit-all the RE engine for everything and clearly that has not worked.
@Greez1337
4 ай бұрын
I think it's the mo capping mixed in with the physics engine. Notice how you just get interrupted and slide on the slightest decline, like eveything's slippery? Uneven footing in DD2 is extremely frustrating.
@alexkogan9755
4 ай бұрын
@@Greez1337 Yeah. Ragdoll physics after death is one thing, but having to put up with my character tripping over himself over the slightest inconvenience is unwanted and frankly no less stupid than having your character in Dark Souls grinding to a complete stop because he stubbed his toe into a pebble.
@YoichiMutou
4 ай бұрын
Only RE Engine game that doesn't seem realistic is MH Rise
@alexkogan9755
4 ай бұрын
@@YoichiMutou True.
@t-wrecks9866
4 ай бұрын
It's simultaneously a testament to Synthetic Man's honesty, talent, and comedic prowess and a depressing reality of modern gaming that I am more excited for his reviews then I am for new game releases.
@ColonialT7
4 ай бұрын
It's a sign of the end of gaming as we know it
@t-wrecks9866
4 ай бұрын
@Icoloss well said
@venomshake8187
4 ай бұрын
You’re doing tricks on it lmao
@darylshort2729
4 ай бұрын
I scrolled down for this comment. Truth! 💯
@ThirstyTOAD
4 ай бұрын
The glazing is insane
@N-Soc88
4 ай бұрын
Pawn named "14Words"...BASED
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
It's because the main character (the arisen) is: Chudler.
@CookeiCutter
4 ай бұрын
In DMC5 they sold Infinite Devil Trigger mode as dlc. Nobody cared.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
Orbs as well. Pretty much negating the need to do secret missions and the entirety of dmd mode.
@JanstonCordell
4 ай бұрын
Did anyone care about DMC5 to begin with? It's always been a poverty franchise.
@thedog7494
4 ай бұрын
@@JanstonCordell Yes.
@Joutube_is_trash
4 ай бұрын
DMC fans have zero standards, they defend their out of date controls that require you to ruin your controller permanently holding one of the triggers
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
Well in the first Demonic Mother’s Creampie they sold an Infinite Text Messaging game mode with your mother in it. Nobody cared back then (except your father).
@theloniuspunk383
4 ай бұрын
these are all complaints I have of our nations capitol (Dublin)
@maks3311
4 ай бұрын
Ireland going down sama story going down
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
We wuz leprechauns
@theloniuspunk383
4 ай бұрын
@@stinkfinga4918 we iz and wuz cuz we also fought for our nation and people to be free and secure
@sb17899
4 ай бұрын
This is why I will always watch Synth's reviews. Even as a massive fan of the original, he rightly criticizes everything wrong with the sequel.
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
Same thing on Tinder, I rightly lambast anyone’s mother - no matter how much I love her - and they keep coming back.
@Mayhzon
4 ай бұрын
The gameplay depth really was better in the first including itemization. Was a small point when he brought it up, but whereas the first makes you choose between good armor values or resistances, the 2nd DD has straight upgrades for the most part.
@HHTwice
4 ай бұрын
@@Mayhzonthis is a nothing argument when armor in the first game hardly mattered as well lol you never had to consider resistances in the first game, at least 2 makes you choose between higher defense or knock down resistance
@lingricen8077
3 ай бұрын
GoW Ragnarok sucks
@bulldogmicro4279
4 ай бұрын
Played it thought it was a 6/10. Decided to boot up DDDA for memory and was SHOCKED how much smoother the gameplay loop, and the climbing felt. Can't believe we somehow downgraded in 10 years...
@GeraltofRivia22
4 ай бұрын
Welcome to modern gaming
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
That's literally the only thing DD1 did better. This game has the RDR2 curse of playing the game for you when it comes to all the climbing and sliding.
@divolg7981
4 ай бұрын
@@TheStraightestWhitest Really now? Climbing is the only thing DD1 did better? How about a main story that doesn't just completely shit its pants and forgets where it was going (what feels like) halfway through it? How about some characters that weren't a complete cardboard cutouts like in the ones we have in DD2? The court jester in DD1 has more character than pretty much anyone in DD2. How about equipment that was absolutely gutted in DD2? Only three main pieces of armor, instead of five like it was in DD1, and way less of it on top of that. Same goes for the weapons. Lazy fuckers didn't even bothered porting like half of the weapons from vanilla DD1. How about non-gutted vocations? 4 skills instead of 6, every vocation now can use only 1 weapon. In DD1, in case you forgot, most vocations used 2, and some hybrid ones even had multiple choices. That directly translated into more skills being available. How about dungeons that are varied and unique? At least some of them. You know, instead of the same cave copy and pasted about two dozen times like we've got in DD2. Those are only the things off the top of my head\what I got to re-experience replaying DD:DA after DD2.
@LargeInCharge77
4 ай бұрын
@@divolg7981 the story of dd1 is horrendous, but to each their own
@divolg7981
4 ай бұрын
@@LargeInCharge77 DD1 story is very mid, but it is leagues ahead of DD2. It's so bad that DD2 subreddit gets at least one upvoted thread criticizing it a day. That place is a borderline echo chamber where most of the criticism of the game, no matter how mild, gets shouted down.
@jackhazardous4008
4 ай бұрын
I genuinely would have been fine with them having taken the same story, maybe changed a few things around, and actually flesh it out
@quezcatol
4 ай бұрын
Lets not forget that Sigurd the dragon slayer is from viking mythology. That would be like taking an asian name and mythjology and turn him white. clearly ESG.
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
you just know that if there was a "Shaka Zulu" nordic tall pale blond man with cold blue eyes, black Twitter would complain about it & developers would fold & change it.
@GloriousGrunt
4 ай бұрын
So what I take from this is that buying Dragons Dogma Arisen cheap on steam is the better option?
@glaziumtck8593
4 ай бұрын
They are both amazing games. DDDA is ridiculously cheap, so if you see it and are interested in it, there's no reason not to buy it. As for DD2, you better have a decent PC or have eyes that somehow don't detect shitty fps.
@Left4Coragem
4 ай бұрын
This game got the Resident Evil 3 remake treatment. A half baked remake to fill a whole in between launches of (hopefully) better titles.
@Neptas
4 ай бұрын
I see Capcom is entering its Windows-era. Release 1 good game, then 1 bad game, and repeat.
@zaskiaalsakila7248
4 ай бұрын
Atleast in Re3 remake we got to see alot many hours of Jill's nice ass... And also some very cool looking Npcs, Nikolai and Carlos, wow those are really "memorable" dudes... And tats base Re3, when modded wow the Jill I played is literally in my dreams bro hehe...
@Karnickel93
4 ай бұрын
@@zaskiaalsakila7248 Least horny commenter on this video
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
@@zaskiaalsakila7248ah good taste sir Jill was fine in res 3 RM
@squirtbrainz1219
4 ай бұрын
One thing I think you failed to mention is the lack of good dungeons, I feel like one part of Bitterblack Isle that made it cool was the atmosphere of the place and how far the dungeon went. Also even the dungeons in the base game are better as there’s blue moon tower, the canyon, the crypt, the goblin fortress, the lead up to Grigori, and the Everfall. All DD2 really has is the misty forest, copy and paste caves and mines, that dragon tower, and that area that connects Battahl to the volcano place.
@forestflood5338
4 ай бұрын
@@SEXUAL-ABUSER nah DDDA did not feel lived in at all mate, it was an empty world.
@glaziumtck8593
4 ай бұрын
I honestly loved some of the dungeons in this game. They just kept going and getting more interesting the further you go in. Ofc, those were the few, not the many.
@flutebasket4294
4 ай бұрын
It took a little longer but Capcom is now officially in the crapper
@waffleman8053
4 ай бұрын
Average Synth vid runtime.
@kakiharamasao
4 ай бұрын
"I promise i'm ending the stream by midnight!!!"
@The_Jest2
4 ай бұрын
END
@chadwolf3840
4 ай бұрын
what was weird about the DD2 diversity is that is everyone is white or black. no asians, arabs or anything else, either african or british english white.
@johnryan3940
4 ай бұрын
no there's plenty of brown people
@kingalton10
4 ай бұрын
@@johnryan3940how are people forgetting this?
@slipperyquark3885
4 ай бұрын
@@kingalton10not sure, but I’d bet it’s the same reason people are forgetting about the diversity in DD1 lol
@user-hr4bo1zj1q
4 ай бұрын
@@slipperyquark3885as well as the rift crystal microtransactions
@kingalton10
4 ай бұрын
@@slipperyquark3885 nobody noticed it back then because nobody cared Remember there were blacks in Europe for 800 years (Moors) Valdimur Putin just released hundreds of photos of ancient painting of blacks It’s just that ESG (BlackRock) 👃🏻 have been slamming diversity down everybody’s mouth when it’s not needed
@TheAverageSheep
4 ай бұрын
My biggest problem with the game is that, everything about it is inferior to the original, which came out almost 11 years ago. There is nothing new and a lot of what was fun was taken out.
@Queggletank
4 ай бұрын
Here is what I still don't get after 40 hours of play. WHY ARE THERE ONLY 4 SKILLS?! Where we too spoiled in the first game? Was the button input too difficult? Could it ruin the fun to give more options in combat? Is it too difficult to put the rb skill to rb + any button you like? Why in the goddamn fuck do I need to tread a new skill, instead of getting giddy to try it as fast as I can. They should bring back the old skill system and don't skimp warriors again. Absolutely baffling.
@Constellasian
4 ай бұрын
The hints of ESG did make me roll my eyes a bit, but at least the Black characters, or any characters at all, don't preach to me about "oppression". There's also a desert region, so maybe it makes sense that one of the Black characters seemed to be from there. Perhaps Captain Brant was from there too. At least there are pretty women and skimpy fantasy armor in the game, unlike other ESG games where all the women are ugly and androgenous looking. I laughed at your "slut" clothing comment. It's true. So many female pawns were wearing the corset or stargazer outfits. It's gotten to the point of annoying. However, the corset does offer pretty good defense, so I guess that's another reason so many players have their female pawns wear it.
@MRYUTUTA
4 ай бұрын
Bruh, Unmoored world's homebase is literally Gran Soren (after all, all roads lead there)
@Leequidude
4 ай бұрын
And all the black characters have that same faggy hairstyle. Eddy Gordo from Tekken is one of thoe worse cases particularly because he didn't look like that. Publishers just have a thing for this hairstyle. It doesn't even look good, it looks like the black version of the karen hairstlye. Speaking of karen hair, Paul Phoenix....
@loganwayne7898
4 ай бұрын
They did Paul Phoenix way dirty with that hair style.
@MavethTheReaper
4 ай бұрын
"Faggy"? Ofcourse you have to be hateful
@SyndicateOperative
4 ай бұрын
I still think the running gag that Paul is now trans is hilarious. Hilarious in a "I'm fine with just playing tekken 3 and 5, thanks" way.
@flamebringer2546
3 ай бұрын
It’s the “swoosh” for black ppl. When u never have to worry about hair bc of lice and genetic MPB, you wouldn’t care either lmao
@kpsk8031
4 ай бұрын
Not again, when will developers learn: Don't waste resources on cinematics, use these resources to improve enemy variety.
@SladeSnakeissad
4 ай бұрын
Chudler is back to bless us again!
@thehiddenleafsamoan2898
4 ай бұрын
Not being able to sell items from storage is such a downer when there was already quite a bit of inventory/storage management in Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen.
@solomani5959
4 ай бұрын
I am a fan of the original. But glad I waited. The patient gamer gets more value. I’ll wait for a sale. Thanks Robot Man 🤖
@residentidiot5998
4 ай бұрын
Isn't it funny how the most anticipated sequel this year is a remake, and the most anticipated remake is a sequel?
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
It's not a remake. Stop listening to doomers who don't get the plot. Gran Soren is literally in the game.
@megakoni1
4 ай бұрын
@@TheStraightestWhitest why are you lying
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
@@megakoni1 Why are you blind? It's in the game. Not my fault you didn't see it.
@residentidiot5998
4 ай бұрын
@Cyber7777 Yup.
@vlad4o813
4 ай бұрын
Dragon's Dogma 2 is the perfect example of why I don't want sequels to any of my favorite games anymore. Because not only are they likely to be inferior to the original, but they also destroy the good reputation the original had. It's honestly a sad time for gaming when gachas are delivering a far better gameplay experience than anything in the AAA or indie market and somehow manage to be less greedy than the average AAA game.
@murderman8578
4 ай бұрын
I'm open minded to sequels
@panzershreck8077
4 ай бұрын
The worst part of sequels to me are when they're worse than the original/first game of a series. And yet people will think the newer games that do less than the bare minimum of what their predecessors managed to accomplish years ago are somehow better and that OG fans are just nostalgia blinded. Shit pisses me off so much. I can list so many series. Resident evil, halo, call of duty (specifically zombies), battlefield, destiny dlcs. I just fucking hate modern audiences so much.
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
That’s why I quit gaming and started gambling on marriage proposals to e-girls.
@murderman8578
4 ай бұрын
@@epicplanetaryfaceplant Go back to gaming You not going to find a wife
@HPLovesCraftsCat
4 ай бұрын
this hit home in an incredibly sad way
@vibemasterkorosu2469
4 ай бұрын
Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore space, born right on time to watch a Synthetic Man video
@battlecry75
4 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@darken2417
4 ай бұрын
Trust me you don't want to explore space its not science fiction. Space is death. You'd be better off sailing on an ocean of acid. As for exploring the Earth it was a mixed experience, by sea it sucked whereas by land it was tolerable but slow. It was far better to be the guy sent over to keep order in a new land once everything was established than to be the first guy there. Regardless the places in the world may not be new to humanity but they are certainly new to you, you can still explore them if you want and without all the scurvy or the malaria(mostly).
@An00n
4 ай бұрын
@@darken2417 Fuck off, life is romantic, exploring is great, it doesn't matter where it takes place, an adventure is always good.
@UnholyDarknessZ
4 ай бұрын
A few things to add on : Core Gameplay : * Portcrystals are easy to get for the 1st playthrough but any subsequent Portcrystals for NG+ could only be obtained through the Sphinx replication. * You could stand on enemies but you could no longer "tech" your jumps to avoid massive stamina drains nor leap to quickly reposition like in DD * Poison and burning are a lot more dangerous but every other debilitation are hardly prevalent * Dragon weapons could be obtained through dragon crystal trading rather than playing through the game dozens of times like in DD Vocations : * Vocations and skills were "rebalanced" to play a far more "specialized" role within the party - DD had overlaps but they were still distinct in their strengths and niche * Fighter stole the Assassin's Gouge sword move * Thief's Implicate can be used to topple large enemies when staggered and Smoke Bomb's actually pretty decent on Pawns since it could cause enemy to derp out for a few seconds * Mage's Celestial Paen's actually pretty neat on Pawns since you would have infinite stamina for the duration.... but it's terrible for post-game since you're blinded every time you climb on any of the bosses. Celerity's more consistent and could be used to increase your travel speed. * Why use Meteor when Augural Flare exists? * Seism can easily stagger ogres and cyclops. It could also be used to reliably kill Golems now. * Spearhand doesn't rely on skills for damage but it's core skills. It could potentially stunlock bosses with it's Vocation ability + raw DPS. * Magick Archer's Arctic Bolt can be used to harm Golems * The most effective way to use Wayfarer is to combine Sorcerer's Augural Flare with a physical Bow Pawns : * Pawns are more consistent in behaviour but are now allocated to rigid AI presets and lacks the notable "progression" they had in DD * You could see a Pawn melt a Drake's health in DD. You'd never see that in DD2. * Badge system is worse than DD's Knowledge RPG Mechanics : * Stat growth is completely sidelined by equipment - perhaps even more so than BBI. Normal enemies are inconsequential if you're of a higher level in DD's base game but you could get stunlocked by normal goblins as progression is tied to gear now. Open-world : * It's just a massive labyrinth of hallways my dude Story : * Beastren are "wacist" against humans from Vermund - not humans in general * DD had a mad man hinting about the "truth" as well NG+ : * Most Quest items are removed - there's very little way to prep for a NG+ blitz
@SyntheticMan
4 ай бұрын
I respect the autism so I'll respond to a few of these: Vocations : I agree with most of these points, I should've messed around with Sorcerer a bit more but the playstyle is insufferably boring. I didn't max out the class to unlock Augural flare but I'll take your word for its effectiveness. The restriction to skill slots makes your choice of ultimate spells much more important. So, there's really no reason to use Seism or Maelstrom if the others do twice the damage to virtually every enemy. Golems only show up a couple times and pawns should be able to handle them by Post-Game. Pawns : You COULD see a pawn do something, but in my several hundred hours in the first, only strider and Sorcerer pawns ever did any significant damage to the enemy. Drakes in DD2 are much more durable than in 1 so it's not that comparable. Open World : I'm not sure if you're a new viewer or not but I absolutely despise giant empty landscapes and will take hallways any day. I didn't even like Elden Ring or Red Dead Redemption 2's sandboxes. The illusion of a massive world is not in any way worth it if the quality of the content suffers. You'd think after 15 years of the sandbox genre being over-saturated, more people would agree with me. That said, DD2's open world still sucks, as I state in the video. NG+ : Absolutely agree. I considered adding a short section explaining why Speedrun Mode would never work in this but the video is too bloated as-is.
@UnholyDarknessZ
4 ай бұрын
@@SyntheticMan Vocations : Master Skills are, frankly, terrible for half the Vocations in this game. Seism's useful as a support spell since it has a strong knockdown effect, doubles as crowd control and is highly effective against Golems to boot. It could even down a Griffin in flight if it's flying low enough. Augural Flare's pretty much the go-to boss killer which pretty much frees what little slots you have for everything else. I do agree that Sorcerer's a complete borefest in DD2, however. Pawns : Pawns in DD with 2-3 star knowledge may occasionally surprise you through assistances like cauterizing a hydra's decapitated head. Pawns in DD2 would watch on with absolute glee as your Arisen's getting their heads gnawed off by wolves and ogres. I do think that Pawns are a lot more "consistent" but it does feel like most of the shenanigans that made these mindless drones charming were completely done away for something more "systematically reliable". Achieving a badge does very little to benefit the Pawn's competency as it seems to be just a matter of making them more proficient at exploiting opportunities to topple enemies. With DD, it's the equivalent of watching a special needs child developing important cognitive functions. With DD2, you're leading a band of average children that remains statically average throughout the game. Open World : I feel that DD simply had more memorable landscapes. The Bluemoon Tower, the Everfall, multiple ancient battle sites, the flat green plains that envelops Gran Soren, the Dragonforged's home etc. DD2 offered the player more to "find" but the entire world is an indistinguishable entanglement of hallways that's either green, black or a dusty brown depending on the region you're in. I had to pull out the map every few minutes because there were hardly any recognizable landscapes to gain a sense of direction from. Existing caves & "dungeons", if you could even call them that, were only marginally better than the average open-world slop and featuring dozens of generic caves over the experience offered by the Everfall or Bitterblack was just a massive downgrade. I do agree that content > world size but DD2's "content" hardly justified the boring landscape with an even larger map, more walking and a third region that feels like it's squeezed in on a budget. That said, great vid. I'm pretty much in agreement with most of the points of the video.
@Greez1337
4 ай бұрын
@@UnholyDarknessZ Healing springs being absent is sad face.
@akatsukicloak
4 ай бұрын
You can get portcrystals through pawn quests. If network feature is turned off, Capcom does pity hire and every once in awhile completes your pawn quests so in theory you can get an infinite amount of portcrystals that way.
@juanisaias8308
4 ай бұрын
I disagree with the pawn part. My archer pawn melts drakes. The knowledge is now based on the medal system.
@UncleButterworth
4 ай бұрын
Ah, Gina Coomz... my light, my muse. Synth, did you purposely choose good timing/appropriate music for this whole thing? The FFX and SOTN music seemed really fitting for a lot of it. Good work dude.
@Brutalcel
3 ай бұрын
What a massive downgrade from the first game, devs seem unable to create a good game nowadays
@MathOwz
4 ай бұрын
I genuinely believe the original is better in every way except graphically. I just don't have much interest in continuing my Ng+ playthrough.
@Shieftain
4 ай бұрын
On PC you can at least mitigate the graphical shortcomings through various mods, reshade, etc.
@MathOwz
4 ай бұрын
@@Shieftain that's true pal I did a magick archer run on the original about 2 months ago. It was amazing. I had way more fun that I did the sequel
@SyndicateOperative
4 ай бұрын
1:21:00 Buck broken
@Jerrysmith42010
4 ай бұрын
An actual review that isn’t a shill. Thank you Synthetic Man, stay based.
@Xfushion2
4 ай бұрын
36:00 What's worse is that there are some instances in the game in which if you are playing Trickster you are left _stranded_ in terms of gameplay since the class is completely useless without pawns: In Battahl there's an event in which you get jumped at a pub for walking around with pawns, the situation descalates but you end up in a 1 vs 1 duel, your pawns don't interfere so if you were running as a Trickster you get clobbered because you can't fight back. The Warrior maister quest also features a 1 vs 1 duel and in order to win you have to ring out your opponent, something the class can't do. There's an escort quest in which you have to guard a random noble, depending of how the quest goes you get separated from your pawns and need to navigate a cave full of enemies, it isn't that bad because you get paired with another NPC that can fight back but you cannot contribute aside from setting up the ghost because the rest of the vocation's buff only affect pawns, not other NPCs. The Talos fight is undoable, your best bet is to have a Sorcerer pawn with Malestorm and hope they cast it to demolish it, otherwise you can't do anything. Pawns won't enter into both goal (jails) of the game so if you start combat there you get beat up. I also found it extremely bizarre that the first promotional gameplay showcases were done with this class which is not only the most boring one but it's the one that less remarks the highlights of the combat system: it can't delete health bars, doesn't have any interesting movement, you can't climb on monsters and hit their weakspots. All it does is draw aggro. That's it. And the cherry on top is that the class is completely redundant because both Fighter and Warrior have skills both passives and active that also draw aggro into them but unlike Trickster they can actually fight back.
@glaziumtck8593
4 ай бұрын
This moment : "In Battahl there's an event in which you get jumped at a pub for walking around with pawns, the situation descalates but you end up in a 1 vs 1 duel, your pawns don't interfere so if you were running as a Trickster you get clobbered because you can't fight back." I randomly decided to unlock all the Vocations that i had not started leveling yet (because it might give an achievement) and every vocation you unlock gives a full set of that vocations starter gear, and the last one i chose was the Trickster. So as you might be able to immagine, i was actually overencumbered (walk, can't jump) because of the starter gear from every vocation and i stumbled into that event because i wanted to dump all of the trash the game just gave me... I was quite annoyed at that because the last save was also hours ago. Naturally i got beaten up and then Raghnall came in for the rescue and he got me in a 1v1 situation, in which i used the Help command to get my pawns involved. So basically i managed to try Trickster at the worst possible moment and even got to not have any sort of relationship/conversation/quests with Raghnall because i didn't honor the 1v1 that he "stuck out his neck" for me. Also this happened right after i f*cked up with the Sphinx and she lost interest in me. It was not a good moment in my DD2 journey.
@billybobby4637
4 ай бұрын
*Return of The King*
@lanceelopezz223
4 ай бұрын
*Kang (Nappler has a bl@ck boyfriend)
@adamshalashaska5698
4 ай бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that if you have an all MALE group, some Pawns depending on their personality will constantly remind you that the group is comprised of all men, and that i should change that. I know Kindhearted pawn personality atleast says "Dont make such of fuss" when someone says that but its still annoying.
@Neptas
4 ай бұрын
Now the real question. Do they say the same if it's an all female team?
@adamshalashaska5698
4 ай бұрын
@@Neptas I’d be curiosis too. I won’t be surprise if they don’t mention it since I get mostly female pawns walking up to me on the roads offering to join
@muscularman5985
4 ай бұрын
@@Neptasthe pawns imply that you're a pervert if your pawns are all female
@ziephel-6780
4 ай бұрын
Lmao, that's just hilarious. As if such pawns have any right to criticize the ARISEN's choice in team party.
@jase276
4 ай бұрын
@@Neptas I can confirm. When you have an all male group, the pawns will say to change that. But, when you have an all female group, they'll say "I don't see a problem with that" or "And, so what?". They don't even try to hide it anymore.
@cernunnos_lives
4 ай бұрын
Love your coverage here. You give a real look at something you actually care about. It's something we notice. Passion trumps everything else.
@bradskag3007
4 ай бұрын
Why doesn't this game have a real story? I mean Capcom made Breath of Fire they have written for rpgs
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
I miss that series
@mattjindrak
4 ай бұрын
@@OtakuBenny2210go play it
@twilightknight2333
4 ай бұрын
Because Itsuno is a hack who just wanted some of that ESG/DEI money.
@jong2359
4 ай бұрын
Waiting for PC in 5 years where we can mod it into the game it should have been.
@HeyArno1d
4 ай бұрын
It's on PC. And there are already lot of mods.
@jong2359
4 ай бұрын
@@HeyArno1d although you are technically correct, it has Denuvo and it hasn't been defeated yet... so the rights to play this game are available, but not the actual game itself.
@darken2417
4 ай бұрын
@@HeyArno1d By lots of mods you mean super basic mods that aren't even to the point of character customization yet (those all were destroyed by the full release). Its all boring stuff like spawning items or UI stuff. Real gamers only care about real meaty mods even moderate nice to have mods like more character models or armor or weapons will only increase enjoyment marginally. And it really looks like the Denuvo is currently hard blocking mod progress for even just those.
@HeyArno1d
4 ай бұрын
@@darken2417 There are few mods that makes game more enjoyable. Like 0 weight for materials and random loot from enemies and chests. It's fine for me.
@AstaIsAMonster
4 ай бұрын
Maximillian Dood again was shilling for this game like he was FF last year on his twitch and KZitem a few times. Then when this game got released he still was telling people to buy it and now he doesn’t play it after 1 time on twitch and that’s it.😂
@epicplanetaryfaceplant
4 ай бұрын
This brings me back to my days as a young man. Scouring the battlefields with my Anglo-Saxon brothers - slaying through orcs and goblins without a care in the world. Then the Panderers came. First they replaced my actual brother - he’s Hispanic now. Then they burnt my cousin alive - he’s black now - and he speaks funny too. Then they took my pregnant girlfriend (forgot to get married before the war) - placing our child inside of a surrogate, black muthah instead. Thereafter, they turned my girlfriend to charcoal and moved her to a more “tolerant” village ZIP Code. I thought it was all over until they replaced our King with a white woman. Not just any white woman, but one with what my new beautiful and brave co-patriots call a: “fiendus” - and specifically the kind of white woman born as a conjoined twin - half-Asian and black. Little could I bear all that was changing around me, so I begged the local witch to cast a “Urinary Replacement” spell upon me - until even the Griffins in the kingdom began sporting these new “kicks” - as they call them. Bestowed by the supposed goddess - “Nykey”. It wasn’t long after, four sudden barbecue meet-ups in fact, that our Griffins soon flew about our skies with long-curled dreadlocks in and across their hair. They too, began speaking funny. So much in fact that they began chirping and cawing to what my brave and beautiful bruthahs called a “Free Vibin’ Flow”. Not too long after, the occupants of the city buzzed with chatter about this “Song Cloud” of the Free Vibin’ Griffins. I was then compelled to address everyone by these odd prefixes - each derived of some make-believe identity and mostly each scorning me for my heritage and terribly good looks. Then it struck me, this review is not only a window into the past. It’s a window into my youth as a young boy finding his way in an Anglo-diverse world - WHERE MUH UPPITY, ORC-SLAYIN’ BRUTHAS WERE ONCE WILLY-NILLY, HOOWITE, TRICKIN’, RATCHET, GOBLIN BANGIN’N’SHIEEEEE…!!!
@sirdrip1313
4 ай бұрын
I'll never froget when Xando Calorian flexed on the witch feindus becky Rae. Truly the rightfully Kang of Wagandah!
@Magaskus
4 ай бұрын
Best comment . Godtier story , so many emotions and even ups and downs . Even the ending just CHEFS KISS in its poetic form and reflection of our nowadays soyciety . Take my like . Top tier comment here !
@smokey_novanacho
4 ай бұрын
They shoulda had you write the dragons dogma 2 story
@BooBooDaFoo330
4 ай бұрын
I agree with you on the diversity crap and I like making my characters accurate to the setting of a game. But that stereotypical view on how black folks talk wasn’t needed at the end, hella corny joke too.
@Shieftain
4 ай бұрын
@@BooBooDaFoo330 It wasn't needed, but it was oh-so-good. The fact that it makes you seethe makes it even better.
@Kousaburo
4 ай бұрын
I've noticed the wokeness also extends to the voice acting. There are White characters that are voiced by blacks and often in that ghastly MLA or Modern London Accent. Otherwise the game is good but not as good as the original.
@OtakuBenny2210
4 ай бұрын
Yeah the innt bruv black London voice of the vocation white guy in vermouth made me cringe it was so forced lol
@subtlemonk
4 ай бұрын
Lmao so black characters have never been voiced by white characters? Cry more
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
Game shits all over the first in every way except for the movement system.
@AnimeMangaKS
4 ай бұрын
It's not woke bruh. I think the voice acting has literally just been fucked. Go to that Beastren to get into Battahl and deny giving him the paper. Bro has an entirely different voice when he yells at you 💀I'm pretty sure this is the same case for one of the cart guys too[I don't remember which one] if you listen to the NPC then talk to them- 2 entirely different voices. The Warg also has the Garm model. As other people say, game seems rushed
@anr4139
4 ай бұрын
@@AnimeMangaKS you are delusional. it's modern capcom. they have a page for esg. they have guidelines for their devs that limits their creative freedom, telling them to avoid "problematic" content like stereotypes and offensive jokes, while pushing diversity and equality. wake up. using the skull emoji means you are a zoomer and your opinion is irrelevant btw.
@SomeCanine
4 ай бұрын
Capcom wanting that Blackrock DEI money with the woke character design.
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
I guess that was already the case in 2012 then, because they did the same with the first game...
@flyingpaladin617
4 ай бұрын
Which does not exist here, thankfully
@AnimeMangaKS
4 ай бұрын
You haven't either played the first game or just Capcom Games in general, because you'd easily know that's not the case lmao. Not only is there black characters in DD1, but you can name how many black characters Capcom has made on your hands 😂
@SomeCanine
4 ай бұрын
@@AnimeMangaKS Interesting how I say "Woke character design" and the first thing you people think of is tons of black people.
@lanceelopezz223
4 ай бұрын
Wuh kAhndaaa!! 🍉🍉
@indydriver80
4 ай бұрын
You really had some fun pawn names in the old game.
@JanstonCordell
4 ай бұрын
Dragon's Dogma re-imagined for a modern audience. I saw this garbage coming from a mile away. Gaming is truly dead. Expect any given new game to suck and you'll be correct 99% of the time. It'll take a crash and reboot of the entire industry before the art can be restored to the medium.
@honeybadger6275
4 ай бұрын
Don't forget prison for those that push esg.
@JanstonCordell
4 ай бұрын
@@honeybadger6275 Prison? Fuck that, I don't want my tax dollars keeping those traitorous creatures alive. Straight to the Goonchewers after the trial.
@jnetwork3232
4 ай бұрын
Yep stole the fkin words out of all of us true last gamers
@fzhs7030
4 ай бұрын
@@jnetwork3232 I pray to all that is holy that this comment is ironic because if you're calling yourself a true gamer simply because seeing black people on screen is somehow disruptive, you need help
@Fullmetaltracer
4 ай бұрын
The prophesied 1000 years of gaming darkness 😂 truly hell on earth
@loganrogers4560
4 ай бұрын
Breakers stream tonight to celebrate the vod drop?
@LHMDFedBoy
4 ай бұрын
This. Let's fucking go.
@Yayofangamer16
4 ай бұрын
One and a half hours of Internet Tism
@Neonmirrorblack
4 ай бұрын
I was saying months before release it looked like a remake. Especially because Itsuno kept saying it was the "completed" version of their original vision that they could not do with the first game due to budget. Nothing they showed in the previews made this look anything like an actual sequel. While I too did enjoy my time with it, it's a shame that it is not the real sequel we wanted, and hell, it's not even a remake of OG + DA, it's basically just the original game, warts and all without the quality of life improvements that DA offered. Then there's the nerfing of armor, the nerfing of the classes, the nerfing of the augments, the boring gear (95% of all the good items come from vendors). It's like they regressed instead of moving forward. I mean, the title doesn't even have a "2" in it until the very end. Also, stat growths are not random, and the info has been out a while now. The game gives you a flat number for specific stats per level up and your current vocation affects it via multiplier. Those stats through the multiplier are your permanent stats. Vocations have their own stats on top of it when you change to that vocation.
@_Just_John
4 ай бұрын
3:58 - Why to even fully load NPCs which are not visible or you are not interacting with? Many games have simplified NPC behavior loops in a dense areas to, unsurprisingly, lessen the CPU load. This is sheer inkompetence.
@glaziumtck8593
4 ай бұрын
They already made NPCs that are far away from you not load. Even NPCs that are close to you don't load, especially the filler NPCs that have zero function for the player. They may have overdone it, but it did improve performance a bit. It's still crap performance.
@unbearifiedbear1885
4 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I didn't buy a """""'next gen"""""" console 😂🤦♂️ We're culturally bankrupt - makes sense that mainstream creativity would follow
@BlackCatBehavior
4 ай бұрын
what's funny is that they could've made more sense with black characters being in the southern part of the map and rarely seen or never in the north. Even brant could've been explained why he was there. making him a defector from bathaal and is a confidant to the regency. giving him twists on his looks by incorporating bathaal culture into his armor. he would've stood out then. like synth said, why didn't they bother to add accents into the bathaal areas. Again, that esg money ruining interesting world building and conflict just make sure we have killmonger clones and ugly people.
@AbcDefg-zt8xy
4 ай бұрын
I have a theory that the guy behind trickster class in DD2 is the same guy behind adding V in DMC5 edit: even though I personally like brave ideas, I also understand why a lot of people hate that shit
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
Itsuno is a hack
@alandanger6285
4 ай бұрын
@@stinkfinga4918it's a fLag
@Qballiz2kool
4 ай бұрын
Honestly, that makes allot of sense.
@lolcatjunior
4 ай бұрын
@stinkfinga4918 He probably is, but also could be that Capcom hates him, considering that the team that worked on DD2 was 4-5 times smaller than the RE4 team. Less than 400 people.
@stinkfinga4918
4 ай бұрын
@@lolcatjunior Why wouldn't they? They straight up handed him Devil May Cry and kicked out the team that created it, and when he failed the first time they sunk millions into promoting his next attempt, and literally would not allow him to fail... then he kept failing anyway so they handed it off to another studio. That studio left for Microsoft regardless of the financial success that was DmC, and now DMC is back in Itsunos hands... RE2 remake was on record developed alongside DMC5. Which game has more bang for it's buck? Itsuno doesn't deserve a bigger team because he's proven to not have any actual innovation in his head. You can give him a team the size of Rockstar, all you'll get is watered down bullshit with more style than substance. He's a hack, but he's competent enough to shell out something basic and that's why he's still around. Also worth mentioning Resident Evil is Capcoms flagship franchise, theyre gonna give those guys whatever they need every time. It's lasted longer, and made more money than anything they've ever put out before. Dragons Dogma was always niche, Devil May Cry was sunk when he gained control and became niche immediately after 2. Itsuno is a walking risk factor.
@Greez1337
4 ай бұрын
Game is definitely a blast for 1 playthrough. I'm having trouble sticking with a second. Even modded in eternal ferrystone and still, can't be bothered to keep going again.
@CyberChud2077
4 ай бұрын
I’m most bummed that the game doesn’t open with an epic J-rock song on the menu screen, the way the first one does.
@thedude8526
4 ай бұрын
Me to. I was sad when they got rid of that song in the Dark Arisen DLC.
@jase276
4 ай бұрын
THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEE
@thedude8526
4 ай бұрын
@@jase276 Into the clouds again!
@Summerstitch539
4 ай бұрын
Just wanted to say this is the perfect example of being critical of something and enjoying it at the same time. Also, BIG UPS for the using the Raging Brachy theme
@xion0713
4 ай бұрын
One thing about the Seneschal is that in NG+ it was always the character you previously beat the game with sucks you cant really do that with this one
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
Yeah that detail is so cool.
@megamax898
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for pointing out how bad the MTX in RE 4 remake is, and that's without even mentioning how much more the game makes you work for Pesetas than the original. I was prepared for DD2 mtx to be even worse because of how many people defended it in RE 4. Yes, this comparison needs to be made. Resident Evil fans need to wake up to what's happening to their franchise. No more of these sweats telling us the game is fine because they have no sense of time loss.
@TheBossFighterz
4 ай бұрын
The title for this vid seriously had my jaw on the floor. Really hope you continue to review modern AAA games Synth, even if this was a major disappointment for you.
@DaedalusInc.
4 ай бұрын
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" E. Burke
@Marcara081
4 ай бұрын
1:04:33 - Pause video. Find you a man who looks at you like Synth looks a Nappler.
@yutro213
4 ай бұрын
You claimed in an earlier video that Dragon's Dogma 2 was your "Last Hope" for AAA games, and since this game is out and disappointed you (as a Sequel at least, you clearly expected better), I assume you think the future of AAA games is Bleak, right??
@ElDrHouse2010
4 ай бұрын
Yes.
@TheStraightestWhitest
4 ай бұрын
That's because he literally can't enjoy life. I'm kinda worried for him sometimes. Imagine not being able to enjoy Elden Ring or DD2. That's worrying. Especially since he's got a $4000 rig and has flawless performance on everything he plays. Meanwhile plenty of people are having the time of their life on a $500 console with mediocre performance. He can't appreciate life anymore.
@yutro213
4 ай бұрын
@@TheStraightestWhitest 🤯
@luxie8097
4 ай бұрын
@@TheStraightestWhitest yes, it's easier to appreciate things when you have incredibly low standards
@megakoni1
4 ай бұрын
@@luxie8097 same with people enjoying the matrix just because they can have some tasty fake meat and can be fake happy in a fake world.
@chrizzzlibear7107
4 ай бұрын
Despite being a fun game, I can't get over the unexplained diversity and the other flaws you mentioned. Next to gameplay I value believable world design, it doesn't have to be realistic or has to follow a certain theme, but the game world should follow the rules set by the game design itself if that makes sense.I'll just stick with the original on GOG until maybe Capcom makes the required changes and improvements.
@MavethTheReaper
4 ай бұрын
Let me get the straight, you admit it's not realistic, it's fantasy, dragons, goblins, like everything, we all agree, then why the actual fuck do you have an issue with diversity in one city, when did the game set any freaking rules, only time diversity doesn't make sense is if the game is steeped in reality perhaps which still we are diverse in reality, but in a fantastical game you guys legit are crazy af, diversity was by design because it's there world, they must be doing it to sell more copies right, freaking idiots
@deathwish_bigboss
4 ай бұрын
I was bored to death near the end of the game so I eventually just rushed to the Main Dragon to do a New Game + only to find out there was a Hellscape Endgame scenario and when I saw there were new bosses I got so excited thinking there'd be new enemies only to find out they were boring as hell and repetitive.
@Himmelvakt
4 ай бұрын
How has this channel not been terminated. 😂😂 I left a comment calling a girl a t............ hot and my comment was removed and I was forced into a screen where I had to accept my comment violated the tos, and was told my account could be terminated, before being allowed to access the app.
@luxie8097
4 ай бұрын
god i hate modern internet
@Marcara081
4 ай бұрын
It's because KZitem flags people like us but still wants our money. So it doesn't bother to tell us we violated TOS anymore but instead secludes us into our own little KZitem ghetto. I know this because my comments can only be seen on certain channels and I don't get TOS BS anymore.
@HadzabadZa
3 ай бұрын
My comments just disappear if any mildly... wrong words were used. I wonder if a new account would have this problem
@luxie8097
3 ай бұрын
@@HadzabadZa there is definitely some hidden flags your account can get like twitter used to have. i get the same problem as you, yet i see many other people using the same words just fine.
@HadzabadZa
3 ай бұрын
@@luxie8097 Tags/flags is exactly what it feels like. Oh well, such is life in the based club 😎😎
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