Dragon's Dogma

[ZPE]

Anyone keeping tabs on this open-world fantasy RPG from Capcom? It's being made by the creators of Resi Evil 4 and DMC 4 for the PS3 and XBox 360 and due out at the end of May, this year.

I've seen plenty of game-play for the game and it looks great.

Summarised mainly from Wikipedia:

+ 9 vocations announced so far: Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Knight, Strider, Ranger, Assassin, Mage, Sorcerer and Magic Archer (all customisable in appearance and gender)
+ MC accompanied by three AI-controlled party members
+ Climbable bosses!
+ Features a large city with over 200 NPCs, all with their own unique behaviours
+ Estimated play-time of 30 to 100 hours
+ The shadow element is interesting where it goes pitch black at night or in caves and you have to use lanterns to see your way around.
- No multi-player co-op (a shame really)

Official videos:

Progression Trailer #1 (Pawns and their uses)-

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Progression Trailer #2 (Pawns and strategy)-

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Progression Trailer #3 (Pawns and paths) -

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and more to follow later

Official site: http://www.dragonsdogma.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank

Just hope Capcom don't kill off the game's appeal with on-disc DLC and/or day-one DLC which lock-out recruitable characters/classes. Really wanted someone else (with a better history of treating it's customers like humans rather than cash fodder) was in charge of published this game, oh well.

[thulfiqaar]

That looks alright actually I'll have to keep one eye on this.

[Kreax]

If Dark Souls, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Shadow of the Colossus had a child...

Looks really cool and fun. I really dislike how they call team members pawns... sounds really condescending.

[gengis]

nice post ZPE. I hadnt even heard of the game. Looking through the trailers it definitely looks like one to keep an eye on. Nothing like some good min\maxing to keep gengis happy

on a side note, i just got an email from Capcom with an invite to their Affiliate program So Ill put the links up to their store soon too inshAllah.

[roketfiq]

Ive been watching since its debut and I thought it was amazing looking. The animations were so good. Im hoping its as good as it looks and that the story is good too.

[mjk]

After watching the OXM previews (below, I suggest you check them out) I am really pumped for this game. Its coming out at the same time as Max Payne 3 so I will probably get it after completing the game unless the reviews are really bad.

Watch on youtube.com

Watch on youtube.com

Watch on youtube.com

[gengis]

It will be interesting to see if all these games and companies that have shifted focus to console will make the shift back at any stage? For a while there console became the main game and then the PC became the port. This isn't even releasing n PC..

If Dark souls sells well i can see some shift back to PC games again throughout the next year or two.

[asfandyar]

NO!!!!! No PC version! Drat...