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It's more immersive. Honestly I haven't had the issues some of you guys are having... the Pawns tend to give you a lot of hints on where to go and you always have an idea of where you should be looking for stuff because the highlight the general vicinity. It's refreshing to not have quest markers telling you where to go from one mission standpoin to the next. Like I had a mission where I had to investigate this village... just talked to a bunch of folks, found a letter or two and the quest was completed... just from exploring and playing the game. It's one of the joys of this game in my opinion... the sense of discovery It's what I liked about he first and what I like about this one. This game has a better story and better quests than the first one though.

You should talk to as many people and read as much as you can like old school RPG'S... otherwise you'll get stuck like some of the posters in this topic. One thing the first game had that they got rid of in this one is that the would identify people you should talk to with different colored talk bubbles. They completely took that away in this game.

I did that quest with no problems. If the guards see you some place you shouldn't be they will attack you on sight. It's actually a pretty cool quest. I just wish they handled stealth better in thhis game. There's no crouch walk is there? There another quest where you have to sneak into an offical's office and I got discovered by guards and gang banged until they threw me in prison. No idea how they even saw me.

Everytime I fight a griffen, they run when I start to really put the hurt on them.

It's not like most modern RPG"s you have to read stuff and pay attention to what the game is telling you in order to progress. A lot of hired Pawns will take you through quests if they've done them before as well.

Been saying this shit for years.

It's an intended mechanic i think. my pawns have been warning about this plague since I started the game.

Found a rifstone with just fat pawns

You have four pawns? I thought we could only have three... your main pawn and two hired ones.

Yeah but so far none of the weapons I've come across are stronger than the maxxed out daggers I have. I can't enhance them any further, but I'm using them until I come across some thing better. Same way i played the first game.

Usually it will tell you the gamertag of the person the pawn belongs to... at least it does on Xbox. One of the pawns I got from one of those broken riftstones is a Capcom created pawn because it says so. I'm level 19 btw... you level up real fast in this game. People should know that leveling up only affects your base stats for you and your pawn. To make weapons and armor stronger you have to enhance them at blacksmiths.

Is he an actual pawn from a player or one you got from one of the rifts in the wild? There are premium pawns and capcom created pawns out there so he could be one of those.

I'm not far in the story but I fully expect it to get better. Choices seem to have real consequence in this game I've heard.

Maybe you can't grab him, but holy would have definitely made short work of it.

Holy magic would have made that fight a lot easier... I don't think any of your pawns had any. Also you weren't using your quick commands on the D-Pad. I think by default a couple of the stronger healing potions are assigned to the D-pad but you should be able to switch them out. I noticed when you were using your abilities you never used a potion and always went into the menu to use herbs or berries wich don't heal as much. Can you grab this guy? i feel like you should be able to jump on him and grab him and bring him to the ground. Otherwise I was surprised you stuck it out and killed him. But yeah undead and skeletons are very weak against Holy magic.

I think eventually you do get items and spells that restore missing health. It's good to keep camping kits on you so you can rest out in the wild though. I discovered if you die and use a wakestone all of your health is fully restored. I was holding off on using them but sometimes it's worth it. I think I have three now.

Which one of you assholes mistreated my Pawn? She came back from the rift complaining of mistreatment by the other Arisen

Hang out in the rift... you'll see those bastards.

Oh I've seen some HIDEOUS pawns... straight up nightmare fuel.

The open world looks good... it's the character models that look a little rough. Not ugly, but not quite current gen. Like last gen upscaled or something. The character design, gameplay and everything else make up for it though. I started watching Shogun last night on FX so it made me really want to get into this. I played a little more last night and aI just got my horse so I'm probably about where you are. I'm definitely going to be dividing my time between this in DD2. Fortunately there are no other game coming out anytime soon that I'm interested in day one.

Finally started this tonight, Rise of The Ronin is the perfect companion game to this show. Only about 20 minutes in and MAN it is beautifully shot.

I'm guessing last night's episode was the season finale? Tozawa is shaping up to be an all time great TV villain.

Found my first seeker's token... don't know what it does yet.