Dragon's Dogma

Dragon's Dogma is a 2012 action role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. An enhanced version known as Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was released one year later for the game's original consoles and later ported to various platforms. The game features an open world fantasy setting, in addition to hack and slash gameplay elements.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A large world with lots of locations to explore, there's many dungeons and stages that can be accessed around in Gransys, the world feels unique and memorable when you explore, most regions have their own distinction and feel.
 * 2) Many different varieties of enemies around the world, which could encounter skilled to ferocious enemies randomly between day or night, many enemies have their own set of movesets and weaknesses.
 * 3) There are many different dragons to fight, including Grigori (The main dragon), Ur-Dragon, Drake, Wyrm, Wyvern, Cursed Dragon, Firedrake, Frostwyrm, Thunderwyvern.
 * 4) The "Pawns" are sidekickers that follow you and help your journey, it is considered the biggest features in the game.
 * 5) Gran Soren, the capital of Gransys. is a large city with over 200+ NPCs that can be interacted it and moves about according to their own schedules.
 * 6) You can grab any person, enemy or object, cling large enemies and use advanced attacks.
 * 7) Great and realistic graphics, wet places shines around you during in the dark with a lantern.
 * 8) Many items can be crafted with various other materials, resulting improved or rare versions of the combined items, which grant more HP, ST or doubling your stats for a limited time.
 * 9) The gameplay is fairly similar to The Elder Scrolls and Monster Hunter series, it's easy to move and fight around.
 * 10) The game features 9 vocations with different sets, that you can choose your own style to give balance and support.
 * 11) There are 35 total sidequests in the game that rewards rare items and unlock shops, dungeons and rooms.
 * 12) It has over 150+ notice board quests with many hours of content, many quests are either monster hunt, fetch quest or escorts.
 * 13) The game was designed to be playable even by those who are not very skilled at action RPG games.
 * 14) The combat music has 3 versions depends the intensity and difficulty, which more stronger or tougher the enemy is, the music changes.
 * 15) Loads fast, even in the original, for a large amount of detail around the world between all the versions, it's very impressing for the engine.
 * 16) Large number of items including curatives, tools, materials and more. Curatives would heal you when you use it, Tools serve to interact, unlock, help or even improve your adventure and quests, such as the Oil Flask that refills your Lantern fuel and Materials serve to enchant weapons and armors, which increases the chance of forgery.
 * 17) Great soundtrack of the game, it's very emotional and beautiful which fits the atmosphere of the game, mostly the Main Menu music in the demo or Dark Arisen version/Post-game Everfall chambers music.
 * 18) Some pawn quotes like "Wolves hunt in packs!", were quite memorable (or memeable) for the community.
 * 19) The combat system is top-notch, many skills are powerful and great for the moveset, disciplines (which is granted by killing monsters and completing quests) are used to upgrade your skills to make more stronger and more durable in combat.
 * 20) The Dark Arisen version is a big upgrade compared to the Original Vanilla, it features a few tweaks from the original game, number of changes and new features that expanded more than the original version.
 * 21) You can transfer your Original Vanilla save to the Dark Arisen version (If the game detects an save file on your Xbox 360/PS3 HDD or Memory Unit), you will be awarded an Eternal Ferrystone, many DLC clothes and 300.000 RC.
 * 22) Amazing sound effects direction that is very pleasing to the ear. Such as the longbow, daggers, spells, Double Vault and splat sound.
 * 23) *The game also supports Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
 * 24) You can capture a screenshot in Photos/Share mode, it will save on your HDD and you can upload these photos to Pawn Community.
 * 25) The final battle agaisnt Grigori is epic and amazing, you fight him on The Tainted Mountain summit.
 * 26) The Affinity system makes any NPC like and respect you if you treat well, but if you attack, grab or harass any NPC, he/she will dislike you and possibly become hostile (for the bandits), reaching the maximum affinity on any NPC, he/she will become your beloved one until the ending of the game.
 * 27) Beautiful and heartwarming credits scene and your character and main pawn appears in the book.
 * 28) The caves and dungeons of Gransys are very memorable and unique.
 * 29) After you beat the game, you select Load Game which has a "New Game+" function, which starts a new game from the beginning, without losing your character, main pawn, your beloved one or NPCs with high affinity, weapons, armor, items (like curatives, tools and materials), pawn rating, Ur-Dragon leaderboards and more, only the story progression and Bitterblack Isle will be reseted. Which helps very much to increase the replay value.
 * 30) It features a built-in Speedrun Mode, which helps very much to speedrunners or veteran players to speedrun the game and even better, you can get random rewards after beating the game in any time period.
 * 31) You will get the Set of Duke's Clothing as a reward after beating the game in Hard Mode.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the pawns are interesting to hear the quotes, they are extremely talkative, which might get annoying after a while. Thankfully, there's a option to silence them via using the Knowledge Chair or turning off the Pawn Chatter in the options.
 * 2) The Warrior vocation can only have 3 skills, despite the Mystic Knight and Magick Archer vocations having only 3 skills for the staff and for the shield or bow, the Mage and Sorcerer vocations only has one staff and 6 skills, the Warrior vocation can only have one weapon, only 3 skills with no defense or dodging skills, which can be very difficult to fight long-range attackers and fast encounters.
 * 3) The entrance of Vestad Hills from Manamia Trail is notorious for having bandits that are familiated with Maul's gang patrolling just right at the summit of the area (the Pawns also inform you before going to the area for taking obsoluted caution when travelling around serious areas that can encounter intensive battles), also they are really overpowered, which can be almost impossible to early starters and unwarned/careless beginners (even low-level veterans) to fight them and survive, but you can easily pass through them by running fast and sliding off the cliff to escape through the hills.
 * 4) Some enemies are too powerful to fight like, Garms, Corrupted Pawns, Ogres, Maul's Bandits, The Dragonkin, Direwolves, Saurians, ETC.
 * 5) The original Dragon's Dogma was not digital, this is bad if the disc gets scratched or console has a disc player problem. Thankfully this was fixed in Dark Arisen versions.
 * 6) The online servers of the Xbox 360 version were shutdown on March 31, 2018. Aftermath, you cant anymore hire online pawns, upload your pawn in pawn community, update your pawn by resting in any inn or camp bed or fighting with online Ur-Dragon.
 * 7) Like other open world RPG games like Skyrim, there are some enemies that can trigger serious phobias, an example is the spiders that can be found in Gransys and Bitterblack Isle, and it is possible that when you see the spiders you may be scared due to their hideous face and its design, especially if you have suffered (or if you have) arachnophobia (fear of spiders).
 * 8) Some quests require alot backtracking such as The Watergod's Altar, where you have to find many Altar Slates in the dungeon and the infamous Honor and Treachery (but has a huge potential due to the Cockatrice battle).
 * 9) The game has one of the worst DLCs ever in a RPG game (''some DLCs are actually good, also this does not apply to the Dark Arisen version, which has Bitterblack Isle, which is a good expansion pack and for the DLCs to that version too, also isn't considered the worst DLCs ever in a videogame.

Reception
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The game has been well received in Japan, where gaming magazine Famitsu gave the game an overall score of 34 out of 40, based on four reviewer scores of 8, 9, 8, and 9.

Famitsu gave it a "Hall of Fame: Gold" award, praising "the game’s variety in combat, the effectiveness of working together with Pawns, the exceptionally fun sidequests, and the uniqueness of each vocation.".

In the Western world, Dragon's Dogma received generally positive reviews. Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 78/100, and the Xbox 360 version 75/100.

The game mostly praised by the community from the Subreddit, mh:rottenwebsites:FANDOM wiki and mh:freshwebsites:Pawn Community.

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Trivia

 * The first WIR pointer talks about all the regions and stages of Gransys in the entire game.
 * Suprisingly, like the apparition of the Berserk and Griffth armor in the original console versions (Original Vanilla or Dark Arisen PS3/Xbox 360/Classic if you call), the game has alot of inspirations from Berserk.
 * There's a glitch that you can clip through the walls by putting an wooden barrel and jump inside the barrel. This glitch also works in all versions of Dragon's Dogma, even the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.
 * In 2013, a conference to Hideaki Itsuno, the director of Dragon's Dogma, presented a talk behind the scenes of the development of Dragon's Dogma in 2008, that was based in a part on an original undeveloped proposal made in 2000 which incorporated the pawn system idea, from 2008 the game was developed under the working title: BBS RPG.
 * Dragon's Dogma also gained an anime adaptation on Netflix.
 * Before the release of mh:crappygames:Capcom ID, the Pawn Community website used Capcom Account system.
 * In the demo version of the original Dragon's Dogma, it's still possible to use the Barrel glitch to clip through the invisible barriers of the game.