Dragon's Dogma

[Havok]

Man, it is boring, but I like it.

Give my pawn some cool stuff guys.

The world is awesome and looks great. I love the scope even though it is relatively small, but considering the apparent lack of horses, understandable.

My guy looks like Conan. My pawn surprisingly, doesn't look like a complete prostitute, although she has the most pantyish looking thing on I can find so far for pants go.

Speaking of prostitutes, Fable set the bar pretty fucking high with gang bangs and this damn game doesn't have one woman to have sex with my studly Conan dude. I mean, there is the flirty merchant and I was all, "man, she is gonna give it up for the escort and probably some rare item.". NOPE!. Oh Bioware, where have you gone?

Anyway, pretty good so far, but I suspect using Los and Stark's pawns if fucking up the grading curve just a bit.

Give my pawn cool stuff.

[Alkaloid]

Dude, you're already buying slaves, do you really need to up the anti with sexual assault and running a protection racket?

[Havok]

Well duh.

[Ford Prefect]

Man you can romance a guy that literally dies as part of the plot ... after he dies.

[Havok]

Well don't spoil it. Also, as Conan, there will be no romancing of guys. Only crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentation of their women.

[Havok]

Thanks to whoever gave me 22,000 rift crystals.

[Stark]

Nobody gave them; they're apportioned by the cosmos when someone uses your pawn to do stuff. If someone uses your pawn for ages and ages, when they release it you'll get ridiculous piles of rift crystals.

[Havok]

Ah I see. Well is saw her used before and I only got like 100.

You and Los are probably gonna get a lot of rift crystals then.

[Stark]

We've already got millions so it's no problem. :V

I'm prolly going to restart for hard mode, and I believe the reward is by 'progress' (ie exploration, quest completion) so I could handicap myself by taking your dude and get you asstons. Not that you'll ever need to pay for pawns anyway - ones from your friends are free.

[Havok]

Yeah, that is actually kinda lame. Running around the world with a a 79 and 89 level character takes away a lot of the difficulty. You should have to pay for them.

Give me cool armor and stuff man!

[Losonti Tokash]

The game does lower your XP reward if you use hilariously overpowered pawns but it's barely noticeable if you're not looking for it.

[Havok]

Anyone got Ophis' Badge of Amenity? I killed her stupid cyclops and can't finish the quest.

[Stark]

Why do you even want it?

[Havok]

Why do you try to get inane achievements for shit games?

[Stark]

Way to get what you want, dumbass.

It does basically nothing and is only involved in one sidequest everyone breaks by killing the cyclops because completing Ophis' requirements is poorly explained. You're not missing anything.

[Havok]

I know that, but I like to complete shit. It is just sitting there in my my quest que, or was. I just finished the game. Pretty underwhelming.

[Losonti Tokash]

Did you actually beat it beat it or did you only kill the dragon?

[Havok]

You mean did I become all powerful GAWD, (which you clearly aren't) and spent about 2 minutes wandering around Cassadiris and Grand Soren as a ghost picking people up and throwing them before I got bored and killed myself so that my pawn could steal my credit rating? Yes.

Both "endings' where underwhelming.

[Lord Woodlouse]

I just wish it had more than 2 honest to goodness settlements and the actual settlements had more to them. The insides of nearly all the buildings are pretty spartan, which is a shame when the overall game world looks pretty lush.

[Havok]

Yeah the world certainly gets smaller as you continue to play. I look at games like Saints Row and GTA and remember the world expanding as I play not shrinking.
Hopefully the upcoming expansion rectifies this somehow.

[Havok]

So I saw some articles and screen shots from Dark Arisen.
There is a big Gandalf wizard hat and something that looks like a Bane mask (The Dark Night Rises) at first glance as there is talk about a lot more equipment. Also they said it would be available in May 2013 in Japan and that while on disc in Japan it is expected to be DLC in the States. They said that since the game had a worldwide release date that it was probable the expansion would as well.

[Zinegata]

Cool. More incentive for me to stop being lazy and finish this game .

[Havok]

Hey Starkles, you gotta check out my pawn now. Ultimate Schwarzenegger Conan.