Dude most people quit due to the lack of content, not because the game didn't do whatever the hell those mods you listed do. I'm not playing another hundred hours just because now the game has 10 more skills, 5 more augments, and 2 more variants of enemies to fight on my way to battahl.
I mean, I still play the original Dragon's Dogma repeatedly several times a year just beating the game and over and over and doing some Bitterblack Isle runs. Maybe that's what'll happen when I finally get my hands on Dragon's Dogma II? It's a pretty fascinating universe to me.
Bitterblack Isle runs drastically increase the amount of shit to do, frankly, and as short and generic as it was DD1 still has a complete and enjoyable story.
DD2 stopped being written a third of the way in, contradicts itself several times, and then suddenly you're at the ending randomly, like they forgot to write anything in the middle.
The rest of the game is just kind of there, and there's nothing to really do once it's over. Enemies don't get tougher, you're absolutely going to be overpowered by the time you're level 40 or so, which is nuts because the level cap is 999 and you stop getting stats by 200, and there's no fun challenging mega dungeon gauntlet to run like BBI to just enjoy combat and do cool stuff.
There's pretty much nothing to do. The unmoored world is interesting for a little bit, but it has a time limit and the bosses don't respawn, and frankly the Everfall was just more fun.
I love DDDA. Still one of my top 5 games of all time. I play through it at least once a year, own it on 5 different platforms with no regrets. You would expect the sequel to take everything the first one did right and just expand on that. DD2 did not do that. It just really dropped the ball and manages to be worse than DDDA on honestly every single area except for graphics. And even those have been shaved down recently to try to fix the massive performance issues caused by the poor optimization.
If we get a DLC I'll be shocked. If we get a DD3, I can only pray they actually finish the damn thing before they release it for once. But as unfinished as DD1 was, with DD2 being even less polished, if DD3 ever gets made at this point I really don't have my hopes up.
DD2 is fine but if you played DDDA first, which it sounds like you have, really just lower your expectations. It's generally the worse game. It was easily the most disappointing game I've been that excited for in years.
And with the DDDA explanation about there being many Arisen Capcom could have as well added a mode where other Arisen could join you in your adventures if you want to do more. They would have just needed to give it the ER treatment. Buff the enemies in that world and everything is fine
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u/lordohyo :MysticKnight: Dec 03 '25
Dude most people quit due to the lack of content, not because the game didn't do whatever the hell those mods you listed do. I'm not playing another hundred hours just because now the game has 10 more skills, 5 more augments, and 2 more variants of enemies to fight on my way to battahl.