But seriously, what is it with 2012 and nonsensical and/or unsatisfying endings (I avoid the word depressing because some sad endings can be really good if done right…several anime and games I know have done this).

Mass Effect 3, Assassin’s Creed 3, and now Dragon’s Dogma? Seriously? (No offense to people who liked the endings.)

One thing that could have made this game really great is a strong main plot, cool NPCs, and endings THAT MAKE SENSE. (Only 1 ending kind of made sense, and even then all the stuff that happened in between killing the dragon and that was forced and convoluted. ) Also, make the teaching of your pawn something integral to the story? Maybe as time goes along your pawn acts more human and develops rudimentary emotions, creating a more dynamic relationship that could lead to a strong friendship or even a romance (which might be possible since there is no evidence in game to suggest it isn’t possible- at least in my opinion).

Which brings me to another point- and this is a spoiler, so skip the rest if you don’t like spoilers- apparently, you get a love interest who is kidnapped by the dragon and this person is based on who you have a high affinity with (personally I think they should have some sort of indicator of affinity), but there’s no way of knowing since if you have a lot of people with high affinity it might as well be random. I wish there was someway to lock in the love interest you want, and that more than two candidates had special dialogue (I’d rather have ten or so good candidates than pretty almost every NPC with nothing interesting to say).

Also, give us more chances to shape our character’s persona, even if they don’t talk, give them the opportunity to be asked questions by NPCs that change their opinion of you.

Maybe I am asking too much but I think that would have made the game a lot stronger- maybe even a favorite. And of course only having 1 save file and one character per profile…

Loved how my character looked in cutscenes, loved the customization system, loved the class system, combat is fun, day and night cycle is fun, and the concept of pawns and swapping them is awesome. And some of the basic plot elements, while not unique (having your heart stolen by the dragon, the dragon trying to weasel their way out of being an A**hole), and -spolier- dealing with other arisen who followed different paths, and how the world actually works and some of the history there.

But, what the whole thing turned out to be in the end left so much to be desired, and was as Joe put it, lackluster story wise.

Still, a promising start for a company not used to making western RPGs. If they make a sequal or a different game in a similar vein, they have their work cut out for them.

Kind of mad at EA and Capcom for other things. But, here at least Capcom tried to make something interesting.

I’d give it a 6/10 (decent but could use a lot of work to be better).

still it is a very cool dragon in its own right. it takes a design from mythology that i have rarely seen in dragons. i do forget the desgins country of origin though. i do know that they have that arrow like tongue though.

I mean stating “we can’t do it as DLC because we don’t have the coding to release it as DLC” and then Coming out with the original game + added content as the ONLY way to buy it? That seems super shady.