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Capcom has approached multiplayer and Co-op differently in Dragon's Dogma, allowing you to borrow other players' Pawns to help you in your travels, instead of having the players join you themselves. It's a good mid-point between pure MP Co-op and single player, especially since these Pawns will relay information about the world to you that they learned when fighting alongside their original owners.
Now we're finding out that Capcom has more plans to broaden this take by adding world events that all players can engage in separately...yet together.
Such an event is the Ur-Dragon. The idea is that the dragon is so immense that it takes the cooperative damage of all the players to bring it down. And this is exactly what happens. The dragon's health is brought down by the cumulative damage of every player fighting it within their own world. There are loot drops for everyone involved, but the player to land the final blow on the creature receives a special Epic item.
I'll admit that I was one of the people slightly dissapointed by the lack of real cooperative play in Dragon's Dogma, but those feelings have completely washed away the more I find out the kind of Co-op they are adding. Saying that it is a very Dark Souls-ey approach might be a bit redundant by now, but I think it rings true. And bears repeating.
You can watch the Ur-Dragon trailer below.
Comments
11 years, 11 months ago
I just got a loot boner.
I wonder how Brad will take this news.
11 years, 11 months ago
So damn excited for this game!
11 years, 11 months ago
Reminds me of dark souls events like ringing the bell and the way of the white proximity damage thing.
11 years, 11 months ago
Duuuuude....
11 years, 11 months ago
It's not co-op though..
All they are doing is tallying up the damage dealt per group. I am not impressed.
Neither am I all to happy about some random person getting the kill shot and getting the "best reward" because he/she got lucky.
11 years, 11 months ago
I am buying it.
11 years, 11 months ago
Why even bother to do a Co Op like that in the first place? That sounds needlessly complex for something that you really don't experience with other players. And wouldn't that mean that the dragon would just randomly die at one point?
11 years, 11 months ago
I was going to buy with game day one anyway, but this game just keeps getting more and more amazing. There is still hope for the gaming industry...and that hope is Dragon's Dogma.
11 years, 11 months ago
This game just keeps getting better and better.
11 years, 11 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec5JGtDZWvM&feature=g-u-u
Please make sure Brad sees this.
11 years, 11 months ago
Don't like it? Move on, look for something else. I think this game is amazing. :)
11 years, 11 months ago
I still think the funnest part of playing the demo is imposing challenges on yourself atm. Like not summoning the pawns & letting the pre-made one that tags along with you get downed so you can fight the Chimera solo. Grueling difficulty is it's own reward, and I hope these world-event bosses are just as challenging. :D
11 years, 11 months ago
Sigh of course a game that seems to have a fabulous single player experience needs a some from of co-op/multi-player mode to appeal to the mindless idiots who think games suck unless "they can play with their bro's" or "it doesn't have multi-player."
11 years, 11 months ago
Watching that trailer, all I can say is 'Holy shit'. I'm not to excited about the person that gets the final blow gets an epic item, especially if it's exclusive and if those bosses don't respawn.
11 years, 11 months ago
@Scaarecrow a very good point and well explained, I don't think all multi-player is bad
(i.e. halo, gears of war, COD) but I do believe there are certain games do not require a multi-player/co-op mode Dragon's Dogma being one of them. I feel as though this was a random feature they thought just a couple weeks before release to appeal to the gamers I was talking about. That said this will in no way shape or form "ruin" the game but to me I think it will feel like tacky and out of place of course that is simply my opinion.
11 years, 11 months ago
@Scarecrow
This game is very much like Monster Hunter so you might want to look at that game which HAS co-op but is entirely exclusive in japan...this to me just seems like another smack to the face since we have yet to have a game like Monster Hunter with co-op features. Also to everyone who keeps saying "this game doesn't need co-op and it would ruin the singleplayer experience yada yada" Single Player games have one giant flaw in them that constantly ruins the experience all in itself, lack of content. Games with Co-op have always had the ability to drag people back into the game specifically due to how things change so drastically with a 2nd 3rd or even a 4th person. Enemies become more difficult due to the fact you aren't drawing the most aggro, your allys can get killed in very dangerous situations that inturn can get you killed if you run to save them. These are just a few out of many instances that make co-op so desirable for a grand majority of people the experience alone is enough to make anyone upset if there isn't any co-op ESPECIALLY in a game as massive as this not to mention a game developed by Capcom to top it off who's Online Co-op experiences have been absolutly mind bogglingly fun~.
~Kitty