Dragon's Dogma

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is the first game for this month's Humble Monthly!

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Gee thanks Anonymous! I'll be sure to subscribe! What a great deal!

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I could care less if you pirate it, even tho the online of this game is pretty useless i actually have friends that play it.
More importantly, is this enough to play it?
My PC is ancient.

Dragon's Dogma really isn't that good
It's basically japanese skyrim

It does run amazingly well though.

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You can run it as well as the PS3 could anyway. If you could run DMC4SE you can run this, same engine.

I tried a pirated DMC4 and despite the "graphic test" would run at smooth 60fps, the game had MASSIVE slowdowns on what i can only assume were the loading of the enviroenment.

Even at lowered settings? That might not bode well then, since DDDA is open-world. Pirate before you buy

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Well, the thing is that my gf absolutely loves the game and is gonna buy it if i don't (we have steam family share) and she has little money lately…
Spoiler for blogpost

For comparison I got it to run on a laptop with slightly better specs, but the framerate wasn't really tolerable at anything over 800x600

So I think we all know what really has to be asked here folks. Who is best waifu, and why is it NOT Aelinore?

gotcha

Should i buy it only for the online? I already have the pirated version and was wondering if the pawn sharing (that's the only online feature i know) was worth it

Not the humble bundle of course, i mean a 11 $ steam key

all the online does is lets you share your pawn with other players and you'll get randomly generated pawns offline anyway

You can get lucky with NG+ pawns for your early game if you get other player's.

Selene for headpats
Mercedes for lewd
Inez for alcohol and food

Mein negger

Are pawns shared freely or you have to be friend with the other players to have the pawns?
AIso i suppose the only difference with the offline ones is that you'll find more silly looking pawns that have (if you are lucky) better builds isn't it?

No, you should only buy it if you want to support the developers. If you've already pirated it and played the shit out of it, you know whether or not you like it and think that experience is worth 11 dollarydoos.

Well i like the game and i don't mind taking it to support the second game, but if there aren't any chances of finding online pawns because there aren't a lot of players or because the sharing is limited i don't see the reason to buy the game

Pawns stay online forever, and they're "free", but locked to your level range or lower unless you're friends with a person, in which case you can hire pawns beyond your level all the way up to cap, and have them just beat the game for you.

Also your pawns can actually unlock monster strategies from other people's pawns (like climbing on an ogre's face so he knocks his own helmet off), which is extremely useful when skilling up.

Got it. thanks user

I think we all know who the best choice is.

So I've gotten to level 50 in this game on both my main and my pawn, but my characters feel like they do jack shit in terms of damage compared to the other classes. I have my level 50 pawn as a fighter, me as a Mystic Knight, a level 184 fighter and a level 86 sorcerer and I still cannot beat the Ur Dragon even with buffing the party. What can I do to salvage my shit build and actually beat this thing for once?

As in pawns that you've hired? Don't rely on shit pawn AI to take down the Ur-Dragon or any other enemy, you can't know for certain if they've been trained appropriately, even if they have 3-star knowledge on the quest.

Make sure you're taking advantage of your vocation and have good equipment (Bitterblack equipment), Mystic Knight should be able to take down the Ur-Dragon with holy-infused Great Cannons with no difficulty. Your Lv. 184 Fighter pawn would have to climb the dragon to reach all of the hearts and that's a fucking accomplishment for a human player, even more so for a computer.

Minmaxing comes second to having good equipment, just get better equipment.

Yes, they're friends pawns so I hired them for free. The level 184 wrecks shit and can stunlock the dragon fine, but the sorcerer hasn't been aiming for the hearts or weak spots at all. I'm stuck on the wing knuckles right now and while I can buff myself with holy and whack at a holy buffed great cannon it does so little damage.

Plus in addition I haven't been able to beat the dragon in a single run yet and I'm up to the third encounter.

Yep, you've got a dumb pawn on your hands

You're aware you can stack up to four Great Cannons at a time? Stack that with 4x Salomet's Secrets and Silverwheat Pastes.

This game is fucking awful. There is not a facet of this game that is done right: combat, story, atmosphere, character progression, quests, dialogue, world-building etc., it fails at everything it tries. The only thing this game does "right" is the fact that it happens to be made by gooks. Don't be like me folks, Holla Forums can be pretty useful for game recommendations, but if it's made by gooks you should do a bit more research because there are some people on Holla Forums who will eat anything Japan shits out regardless of quality.

You can shit on DD for many things, but you dare say its combat of all things is bad and you're a doublenigger.

You take that back you slut.

By the time I slam down the 4th cannon the first one is disappearing. That and if I put down a ruinous sigil the dragon ends up avoiding it and further wasting valuable time.

Haven't found a vendor in Gran Soren with anything like those. Even the party buffs Fournival is supposed to have aren't there either. Going to guess that it's due to the inventories resetting in early game.

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Ruinous Sigil should be your last step if that's the method you're going with, and it really only works if the Ur-Dragon happens to be stationary and you're standing between its legs. 3-4 Great Cannons are still a devastating method since the bullets will automatically lock on to the nearest available heart.

No, he doesn't have those party buffing items unless you're in the post-game (post-Grigori), assuming you got him to live past the trial. If he didn't there are also vendors down in the Everfall that sell party buffing items, just not in the quantities Fournival can.

they only give 5% to charity, OP

So you're dumb on top of having shit taste, huh?

It's a discount, nigger.
Go ahead and either feed the jews websites that commerce in old keys, giving nothing to both charity or the devs, or pirate and fuck off.

this pathetic weeb right here, he has such shit taste. Ignore all weebs everyone, weebs should always be disregarded.

I know, but I'm in NG+ and I was under the impression that the inventories stayed the same. All of Caxton's equipment is there from last playthrough.

dragons dogma 2 when

Should have figured since you wouldn't be fighting the Ur-Dragon otherwise, my mistake. Are you sure he doesn't have them? They might be listed under the Tools tab instead of Curatives


Never

i want to believe

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Jesus fucking christ.

Jesus DD fags are the fucking worst. Don't get me wrong, I like the game, but it has massive fucking flaws. Shit escort missions and the fact that I have to UNLOCK the ability to dodge. Don't get me started on the slowshit traveling speed.

Achieve competence

Nigga I didn't say that the game was difficult without it, it's the fact that I have to unlock a move that is the equivalent of taking cover in a Gears game.

wew

DD is not a souls game. Dodging is not a required mechanic, and if you got gud you wouldn't need an iframe crutch.

Entirely optional
Like any other ability
Irrelevant if you know what you're doing with ferrystones and portcrystals

Weak bait attempt and the Trump makes it obvious, kill yourself


You think that's bad, look up other footage of DD on console and check out the screen tearing

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see
If you understood the game at all instead of coming off as a massive newfag to video games in general, you would have realized DD is completely different in how its combat works and that dodging is a very optional very niche combat action limited to a few vocations in the game for their playstyle that incorporates dodging as a mechanic. Surprise motherfucker, dodging isn't part of the playstyle for every vocation.

Gain proficiency

Good luck with that shit on hard mode, or on Bitterblack, or both, Warrior is only easymode for the trash mobs during the main campaign.

You faggots truly are unreal, defending this easymode dark souls shit. Like I said, I enjoy the game for what it is, but you're seriously telling me that the combat is meant to be piss easy and simple, and that travelling should be slow as shit until I spend money and travel a fuckton just to unlock it.

You're telling me that escorting the damn caravan in the beginning of the game is optional? The one to get to the castle shit? Are you sure about that?
please dont do this

yeah the one at the beginning that takes ages is optional
rolling on the ground is now an ability that a warrior needs to learn apparently, completely forcing me to play a certain way with some cunt shield from the getgo
stop making excuses for the game, moving around is pathetically slow

nah

you seem to be the massive newfag defending the need to use shield
jesus christ you faggots might actually be redditors defending criticism of the game with git gud. the game is fuck easy.
I shouldn't be forced to use some faggot ass shield

Yeah, it is.
Dodge rolling is a dagger skill, so no, a Warrior isn't going to be learning it.
You can literally teleport from almost any location to any other location if you had even a small amount of foresight.

A Trump image and a Sam Hyde image, what do those have in common? Why would someone try to derail a thread with those images and some weak shitposting…

Where did I mention anything about shield? Shield is just like dodging, a very optional very niche combat action limited to a few vocations in the game for their playstyle that incorporates shield as a mechanic.
Become adequate

>WELL IT'S OPTIONAL SHIT
I love the game, but that's not a fucking excuse.

Did I ever once say that I was a warrior? I'm not.
Money and the idea that I have to travel slow as shit just to get the damn stones
They're both generic reaction images? Like anime? Do you remember where we are?
The fact that you're calling criticism derailment, saying generic reaction images is shitposting, and placing "…" at the end of your statement like some faggot redditor trying to imply "lol ur just a troll because you disagree" makes me believe you don't belong here, my friend.

You're telling me I can not get damaged as a melee character without having to dodge or use shield? On normal humanoid enemies? I want to remind you that I have no intention of using arrow or magic bullshit.

i would not recommend buying this game EVER pirating it though is a-ok
because the technical problems you will run into will make you question why you payed for a shit port (but the game is fun so pirate away)

Typical politicuck isn't good at video games; maybe you should stick to arguing on reddit or jerking off to cuckporn.

You're the only one inserting words into other peoples mouths. I'm telling you it's perfectly easy to play, and succeed at the game without dodging or using a shield.

Do you want to be able to win the game naked and fistfighting everything? Sorry buttercup, not everyone gets a medal. Maybe you're just shit at video games.

Can you read? You said warrior.
They don't even cost 500G apiece and you should have the Eternal Ferrystone anyway.
The fact that you're trying to use Holla Forums memes to fit in, are throwing whatever you have against the wall to see what sticks (like the Dark Souls comparison) and the fact that you can't even remember what you said ten minutes ago tells me you're backpedaling. Go ahead and backpedal all the way out of the thread.


There's some familiar phrasing
The escort missions are exactly like playing normally with one more person there who can also aid in combat, what's the problem? You don't even have to escort them because, again, you can just teleport straight to wherever they need to go.

THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG

It is when those side missions represent only a fraction of what the game has to offer and can be 100% avoided with zero consequence to the player. If you don't like the MMO-esque side missions stop going out of your way to do them. Either skip them, or just grab the kill quests which will be completed organically as you progress through the game.

I actually enjoy the side missions, even the escort ones, as most of my time with the game from early up until mid-game is spent just roaming and treating it like the big fantastic sandbox it is.

So now you're telling me the game is designed to be so piss easy that I can just walk away and then attack? You do realize that in the process of nullifying my specific argument, you're trying to prove that the game is still shit, right?
Yes, that was completely obvious and totally telegraphed to the player that I had to damage the thing I was to protect to keep it at a reasonable pace
Ah, so I still have to spend money on temp items like its some sort of shit MMO just to move at a reasonable speed?
Nope, I make sure my shit is stashed or sold and have little load so I can carry shit I pick up. Try again.
Travel on foot, still slowly.
I think MDE and Trump are funny dudes, I'm not really in it for the politics. Try again.
Conversely, how's it goin, leftyshit?

Then why the fuck would I want to play it if I don't even need to dodge or use shield? Why the fuck would I want to take the easy route? Are you serious right now?
he's still using the git gud meme as a defense, and he didn't even finish my post saying that I have no intention of playing the playstyle that he wants me to
Gee whiz, it's like a standard way of communicating to someone that the game can still be criticized by a fan.

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Are these post being written by two different people or are you just schizophrenic? You can't got a few seconds without contradicting yourself.

That's a good question. Why are you playing a game you clearly don't want to play?
____Git gud fgt

Moot point, all escort missions have been universally shit.
That's because it's locked to certain classes and I suppose on some level you could blame consoles for this for having so few usable buttons
I don't recall the speed ever being slow tbh

The game does have some major flaws none which you have mentioned but comparing it to souls just outs you as a massive faggot.

You made it political by assuming I was, don't turn this on me, faggot.
Repeating what I said isn't an argument. Simply running away requires 0 skill. If I wanted to run away I'd play COD and crouch behind barriers to regen health. Running requires no skill, I want to actively fight the enemy with more than just running to defend myself. I can go down to harlem and uppercut a nig and run in real life, I don't need to do it in a game.
Nice job trying to take shit out of context like a faggot. My full statement was: "but you're seriously telling me that the combat is meant to be piss easy and simple." I was saying that you really are trying to tell me that this game is supposed to be that simple, and I now agree with you. Try again, faggot.

Do you read, at all? In my original post I said I really did like the game. I like the idea of an open world monhun. The reason my criticism is coming out now is because people are responding with points against said criticism. I think the game does a lot of things great and a lot of things that I've been asking for for years now, but the combat seems to be abysmal in how easy it is.
Clearly not if I can simply walk away from fights, what exactly are you getting at?
Everytime you faggots tell me this shit you're just screaming that the fanbase is filled with retards who have no other way to defend the shit parts of this game. Once again so everyone can see
git gud isn't an argument, and not once have I said this game is hard in combat, merely that traveling is slow and I don't get to roll unless I unlock it

Hey Mark change the board heading to say "Dragon's Dogma > Dark Souls" again


You think you're pretty fucking clever with the Molyneux image, don't you?

Use a shield.

So why does the game have them? You're admitting to me that the game is shittier because of them.
That's an excuse, you're not disagreeing with me here. Having to unlock the option to roll on certain classes is fucking stupid.
What the fuck is the point of even saying that? If you're just trying to tell me you simply disagree, that's fine. I have no problem if you're willing to overlook what I personally view as issues. I certainly do for the most part.
Again, what is the point of your post here?
I can't even compare it to dark souls because I can't even roll. I just use dark souls as an example because it's the most relevant at this time. Excuse me for not bringing up some shit like Nightmare Creatures to appeal to your faggot autism.

I do. I'm only posting it because most of these things I'm disputing aren't even arguments.

Read the thread, I said that shield is also too easy. I simply want to roll because it requires timing. It shouldn't be hard that I want to play the game using an ability that is available in pretty much every game like this from the getgo. Why are people defending locking basic movements behind levels like this? My character is an assassin, if I wanted to use shield or walk away, I'd pick a bulky character.

I love the game, it's one of my favorite of all time. That said it sucks dick and I could complain about it for days.

reasons DD is a shit:

Man how does this game suck so much despite being incredibly good and well made? I just want DD2 or a spiritual successor to fix all of these glaring issues. Crapcom has the potential to make a truly absurd amount of money just by doing so. DD1 had a ginormous amount of problems preventing it from being successful at launch but somehow it still did okay.
Despite all of these factors it still was reasonably profitable. Holy shit crapcom just make a sequel with none of these, give out mod tools, market the fucking game, and steal Bethesda's entire audience in addition to appealing to Monhun fags and soulsfags.

When motherfucking NINTENDO is copying your game in the new LoZ because you have shown no sign of capitalizing on the ideas in DD I think it's safe to say that you are gigantic retarded faggots incapable of making a remotely good business decision.

/rant

IIRC the first escort mission and i think that's the last mandatory one is a nighttime run. It's the games way of telling the player that nighttime is more dangerous.
It's just like any other ability, that has to be unlocked. An opinion which only you share ITT.
Well in short, I disagree with you. I've ran up and down the map countless times and never really felt "why am I so fucking slow" to me it seems like you're just trying to add reasons to why the game is shit.
I'm saying what you're complaining about isn't actual REAL problems with the game, it's things you don't like.
So why on earth would you call it an "easymode dark souls". To me that's putting darksouls on a plateau like every other faggot that compares X game to it.
see as a good reference for complaints.

Marketer detected.

I was with you up until there, "competent" is pretty insulting considering how closely it follows Miura's style

what

Do you know anything about Berserk?

On a technical level it's incredibly good, I love the way a lot of the monsters look, especially the Chimera. However, there is almost no creativity since it's all derivative of well-established fantasy monsters.

Also the animations are some of the best I've ever seen, they did a great job of making each of the enemies feel like real beasts. But again, I'd rather they make up their own monsters rather than just copy/pasting generic fantasy ones.

No I don't read weeb shit

It might've been intended for that but I did it midday- twice.
Rolling isn't an ability, I can get a five year old to roll. What's to say there isn't anything wrong with needing to upgrade just to swing a sword? If a child can do something, or if games generally allow you to do x amount of things on a new game, then this game should adhere to those rules and not fuck someone over to a playstyle they don't want until they spend x amount of hours playing a shitty playstyle. That's the MMOF2P idea of game design, and it's awful.
Wrong, as the user you point out later also agrees that it's behind an arbitrary wall. You also can't tell me my opinion is invalid simply because nobody else here has it.
I'm not. The combat and the slow traveling are my only real issues with the game, I think it's pretty great outside of those things so stop making up bullshit. Again, I don't care if you do disagree with me, I wanted to know why you did. For my sake, so I can question my stance on said problems with the game. I'm really trying to mean well here by adhering to the point of discussion. If there was nothing to learn from discussion, I wouldn't bother even going on the internet in the first place.
What the fuck does that even mean? You can't invalidate my argument by calling my stance an "opinon" and yours "facts." What the fuck are you doing right now?
Like I said, its the most relevant at this moment. I'm not going to compare it to games I haven't played, stop focusing on such a generic insult that I threw at DD.
Fuck off, I had 2-3 complaints, one of which he agrees with. I have no idea where you're trying to go with this shit. You're not even trying to tell me what makes his different from mine. I worded my complaints differently. That's it.

Because bestgirl exists.

That's sort of the point, when was the last time you saw an anatomically-plausible muscle structure on a dragon? They studied real-life creatures to make fantasy creatures more believable, and there are some exotic ones like the Gazer.

Assuming we're not talking about the possessed pawns or bandits anyway. Why can they animate fantasy creatures well but not humanoids?

I must be maturing or some shit because this is the first time I legitimately can't be bothered.

Dislike the flaws until your hearts content user.

It is Capcom
They wouldn't be able to create a good business plan even if it hit them in the face, I'd bet MonHun is the only thing keeping them alive

It is hilarious that a partly finished game with next to no marketing managed to be far better than what it was competing with, and still has one of the best character creators/waifu creators out there
They took that and made a region locked MMO with it

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eh, kys. Don't bother refuting if you can't be assed to refute.

How have they still not realized by now that noone wants to buy shitty western made adaptions of their games? DmC had abysmal sales despite the marketing and (((Journalists))) and the only western DR game of the 3 to sell okay was 2 because most people didn't know it was made by different devs than 1.

I swear it must be bery dihonorabru in nipland to make decisions that increase your profits because there is no other explanation for this tomfoolery.

You obviously don't. Just stop playing it.
Holy shit you're retarded.
Make up your mind, or learn how to play video games, you fucking casual shitstain.

just get the humble bundles, no the monthly shit and give everything to a non jew charity you fucking retard.

I'm actually playing it right now, still enjoying it despite the problems I have with it.
Not an argument. It's a cheap comparison, don't try to start by saying it's wrong when any fucktard can see its extremely similar.
When did I say this? I said I don't want to use shields because I find them to easy.
Filtered, DD is easy as shit to the point where I have to make it harder by using dodge. Google bridges in your area and do what you need to do.

What fucking world do you think gaining a dodge will make the game harder? Obviously dodging makes the game easier.

If you want the game to be harder then try hard mode, or speedrun mode, or go to BBI underleveled. Joke's over, you can stop pretending to be a drooling retard any time now.

M8, you're that faggot who compares DD to dark souls, your comparisons hold no weight to be taken seriously by anyone here.
You already said the game itself is meant to be easy. Are you actually schizophrenic?

p.s. git gud

Sorcerer here, you fucking suck at this shit. I didn't get shields OR dodge and still managed to whoop ass all over this game. Either gain proficiency or stop fucking bitching, virtually everyone in this thread has finished the game no problem except for you. Start approaching it differently or stop playing it, but whatever you do stop fucking posting about how unfair it is

user, he said he refuses to use magic. He's not going to use any of the options in the game because he doesn't like them, he wants a different game.

But the melee combat is peanuts compared to the magic and ranged and hybrid vocations

But it's TOOOO EASSSSYYYY!
It's also UNFAAAAIIIRRR that skills have to be unlocked!

user, no. I got to the second form of Daimon with the warrior, and let me tell you this:
That big guy will fall faster than you can skip the cutscenes.
But the catch with this class is how much limited your movements are.
Even fighters can do some maneuvers to get everywhere, but Warriors are stuck to the ground.

At what level do I have a chance of actually doing damage to the Ur-Dragon? I'm in my 60s right now as Mystic Knight and I'm blasting his shit with multiple holy magic cannons and spamming magic ripostes and it's like his health bar doesn't even move.

I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my Ninefold Bolt and Richocet Seeker

By "peanuts" I didn't mean unviable anyway


Are you sure you're standing close enough for the cannons to hit?

Are you fighting him online?
He has a ridiculous raid boss amount of health at this point, I'm sure.

Yeah, I'm fighting the online version. Should I just fight the offline version of him?

The rewards for Ur-Dragon, offline or online, aren't worth it. You get one or two light enchanted weapons, and enchanted weapons are trash.
If you really want to, switch to Ranger, stack as much strength-boosting augments and periapts as you can, and go to town on him.

This
Especially now that he's gone through so many generations

It's a pretty quick way to get 20 wakestones

not already having DD:DA
go away shill

what


The online Ur Dragon has a megahuge health pool that is shared between every player so even min/maxed ultra high level players wont really be able to notice damage they're doing to it. If you really want to kill it, you either have to go offline or just keep track of when it enters the grace period (when one player lands the killing blow there is a 20-100 minute grace period where anyone can go in and one shot each of the hearts).

That's not even actually charity. They just give money to their friends tax dodge non-profit "charitys". That give money to the next of the same kind, and so on. That shit has gotten so out of hand it's disgusting.

Been trying out the focused bolt, is it supposed to feel this shitty? On the wiki page it says that holy with focused bolt is pretty much aimbot tier, so how come buffing holy with focused bolt results in the balls going whichever way they want most of the time or missing their intended target before vanishing?

By the way, were is the link for Pawn sharing? That might be useful.

You're charging it, right?

dumping off my autistic wall of text
list of actual problems with the game:


All that being said, I have spent many hours on the game and love it dearly. Despite the issues with pawns and BBI I find myself spending the most time there. I love the dungeon crawl feel of it. The main game puts me to fucking sleep though, save for opening the ogre shortcut and the Devilfire Grove drake.
also, aelinore a shit

It does run amazingly well. But it just feels so empty compared to any other RPG I've played, and the lack of a soundtrack while adventuring just makes it worse.

I lost the motivation to play after getting to the castle town. I tried exploring, but it's basically a giant cock-block until that dungeon comes up in the main questline.

Nailed. Gameplay wise it's better, but the story is so weak I only play to do cool mage stuff and quit after killing something, its really boring

Actually, I found it was more because my magic was overall pretty low. I tried sorcerer and used it to get my first Ur Dragon kill and over the entire day I've racked up kill after kill after kill and went from around level 51-52 to level 100 since that post.

no thnx. mercedes is the only choice. she literally goes home to hang up her sword and learn to be good wife for you if you choose her.

If they rolled out a sequel with focusing on this it'd be amazing

I honestly think Skyrim is much better

Postan best song

HUMBLE MONTHLY BUNDLE!
IT COULD BE ANYTHING!

wew fucking lads, I ran into an Elder Ogre in Bitterblack for the first time and got seriously fucked up. When it grabs you it doesn't fuck around at all. I used almost all of my healing items as it ate through my health bar 5 or 6 times before he finally threw me away. This game is kind of strange with how the difficulty ramps up. One second you're tearing through undead, skeletons, goblins, and whatnot; the next some big mother fucker runs up and nearly 1 shots you. It is a lot of fun though. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Usually 1 out of 5 of the games are good. Really nice if you never buy anything new on Steam, but then you're very late to threads about said game.

Is this game well optimized? Will a toaster handle it or does it need a potato expansion?

Wasted.

It's really hard to break from grabs from the new enemies, eliminators (the armoured minotaur dudes with hammers) are like the worst because they do all damage at once if you can't waggle out of it in time so you can't even eat healing items to survive. I have never tried the augment that is supposed to make it easier though, I need to check how much of difference it makes.

And yeah, Bitterblack Isle is a bit weird with difficulty.
When you first get to it at like level 60 as you are "supposed to" after playing the game through once or twice it's pretty easy because it's mostly normal enemy types so they die quickly. New enemies like the poison fat bastards and big undead and skellies are massive damage sponges at this level but they can be dealt with with enough mashing, but than they throw the big nigga at you and it fucks you up. Lot's of XP if you push it into a pit though, like the one that attacks you on the bridge.
Gorecyclops (not the chained ones) or Garm (the giant dogs) are easier to kill and give a lot of XP so you'll catch up in time.

the augment to help with breaking grapples allows you to break free from CGC grabs which are the hardest grabs in the game.
poisoned undead, garm, and eliminators can be memed on with petrifaction.

It has been almost a year and I still haven't finished it. I don't even dislike it or anything like that.

I had a couple months break when I killed the dragon a second time and was starting out Bitterblack Isle. Now I killed Daimon the first time, I got all the way back to the bottom again but can't kill his second form, don't do nearly enough damage for that fight to be reasonable, I could technically do it because I’m doing some damage but it would take like an hour of not getting hit/eating curatives like a scrub and I ended up taking a break from grinding again

You're definitely not wrong.

Not to mention

The only real redeeming parts of the game are that you can play how you want, the cutscenes are pretty cool, and it runs like silk even on toasters.

Confirmed for not playing it, there's bits of green in places.

Biggest disappointment about the game for me was there's only one big town. At least it isn't just 6 houses and a castle in the middle like most games, but the rest of the world is really lacking.

A+ post.
DD is a jewel so rough it looks like goddamn charcoal.

It literally isn't

They made a god awful MMO that's on Life Support from whales right now.
It's hilarious