Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-24204513-20131123105225/@comment-94.140.84.108-20131125135503

don't know how game is on xbox, might just be better than on ps3. on ps3 game has way too many bugs to be mass hit. collision engine is simply terrible, area popping is sloppy. so, at best you could call it sleeper hit if you say that they shouldn't work when sleeping.

don't missunderstand, i'm not saying game is bad. it is AAA title with some of the most sloppy coding/planning mistakes (talking about ps3 version as i said, can't speak for xbox. as most of those were probably rush sacrifices on small amount of ram and non optimized disc loading and xbox doesn't suffer there as much on both fronts). personally, i'm a coder and quality differences between game parts deserve for some ppl that made this game to be shot. on 90% game is absofuckingfabulous, the 10%... well, let's say even ZZZ games wouldn't think about affording those. if i ever made product as wonderful as this one and then i saw those 10% quality differences... i'd commit sepuku, i swear.

i can't help my self but to love/hate this game. love it to death, then suffer 2 or 3 deaths based on coding failures and hate game for next 2 hours

not to mention that DLC did nothing but expose all those failures as they didn't really put any work in that. if game was rushed... DLC was done by 3 drunken monkeys over one weekend. nothing in DLC or DA talks DD amount of planning

- hard mode was nothing but afterthought where they put 0 efforts into getting balancing right

- badly set enemies

- enemies set into places where collision engine failures are totally exposed

- enemy AI without any AI

- completely rehashed existing things

- sensless additions in DA. not only it completely overrides all DD gear, they didn't even put enough time to make lot of things to make any sense. novelty 3 (once you get lamp, best thing you can do is Discard as all scrolls can be purified cheaper from novelty 2). all novelties being more or less useless. armors having effects which make 0 sense for vocations. not to mention 2 randomizations... 1st you need to godsbane to death to get item which is 99% useless to you or you have 10s of them

personally, i'll take time to decide if i will buy DD2 even though i consider DD one of the best RPGs i ever played. truthfully, not only the best it was also one of the most infuriating (collision engine, godsbaning... well, i don't really have problems with that now as i more or less only play original DD with eternal ferrystone as soon as i would be getting into rage state with DA). if game still has godsbane randomization, same collision engine... i will not buy it