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Reading about Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom’s latest title that ventures into open-world fantasy territory, is like viewing the game through rose-tinted glasses. Capcom is clearly trying new things that seem inventive. I want to love Dragon’s Dogma. I want to be able to support a game that tries its hand at something new, and hope that other developers take notice of the potential for success that comes with being creative.
Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom’s open-world fantasy RPG that released yesterday, has been the subject of some controversy that Capcom fans are now well familiar with. On-disc DLC was the cause of consumer uproar when it was learned that Street Fighter x Tekken contained locked content on the shipped discs that could be purchased on launch day.
Capcom has taken heavy fire from gamers upset with the publisher’s tendency to ship some of its games with on-disc downloadable content. Physical copies of games like Dragon’s Dogma and Street Fighter X Tekken ship with content that you can only access if you dish out extra for the privilege.
We’ve been circumspect about Dragon’s Dogma, which is coming May 22 from Capcom. Totilo and Chris Person, the site’s video editor, have grown attached to it despite also calling it “one very messy, clumsy game, full of bad dialogue, cumbersome menus and annoying supporting characters.” But there are legitimately good qualities, they insist; this simply isn’t so-bad-it’s-good irony.
Meet Dragon’s Dogma‘s Ur-Dragon. He’s sort of like a video game kickstarter, except that he doesn’t need tons of gamers to fund him. He needs tons of gamers to kill him.
Here at Kotaku, we’ve fallen in love with the possibly-broken-but-who-cares-because-it’s-awesome video game Dragon’s Dogma. We have hopped on the bandwagon despite or because this is the kind of game that lets you fight a goblin who asks “who let the dogs out?”
We’ve been sceptical about Capcom’s upcoming knights-and-magic game Dragon’s Dogma for about a year. And then Capcom sent me a near-final copy of the game so I could play it. My scepticism increased.
