If I ever have a free moment, I play Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Dogma is a game that has a noticeable lack of content but is just so much fun to play
You can just tell that this was a game that the game developers had been dreaming of making since their childhood and there is just so much love in it I don't even know where to begin.
Think of your "idea" fantasy party and the roles that they play. In this game it amplifies them to an ungodly amount
Ranger - Can fire 10 arrows in rapid succession (You literally fire a shot gun), you can snipe, and charge up a single shot that cracks the silence like a gun shot
Strider - Can climb huge enemies (Shadow of the Colossus style), even flying enemies faster than every other class and you literally rip them open with daggers
Sorcerer - Rain meteors showers, Summon Tornadoes that bounce enemies in the air, unleash a Glacier that impales a north pole into enemies
Mystic Knight - Think of a Paladin that acts as a tactician you apply buffs, lay down traps, and when you time a perfect block on an enemy with a buffed magic shield.... time stops, the ground shakes, and the frame rate goes negative.
Oh and most importantly, the game is actually hard and so you have to use those skills "skillfully".
I guess all the experience in Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry payed off for Capcom.
There's no co-op but to compensate, a frustratingly annoying AI pawn system that you eventually get used to. They never shut up but they grow on you after all those well-timed meteors as well as adapting to your play style the more you play a certain class.
The game still has a community after all these years in the Xbox Gamefaqs Forum and it's pretty tight. There's an online raid for the Ur Dragon hunt and some of the skill videos for that make you wonder how many decades you would have to sacrifice in order to pull those tricks off.
It is a game that is a janky mess at times but is just too much fun. They announced a free to play MMO version of the game without a western release and that sort of pissed me off. But to be able to swing around monsters (Like in Attack on Titan), summon tornadoes, unleash Arrow fed Artillery... but with friends
Looks like I found my new home for the next two years and I'm happy Capcom didn't forget they still had this IP under their belt.
