Blog:Why BagOfGames is garbage and I don't recommend

WARNING: As the writer isn't wandering any contribution anymore for a long time, don't harass anyone in this article since it's not meant as an intentional attack to the writer, despite the madful claims for criticism. Just like some last time, you know why I punish anyone who put this type of article as a review, so why is this so harmful? Well in this case, don't expect any potential on this article, the writer doesn't even give people a chance, if the game rocks or sucks, the writer even claimed his review as a "gaming journal parody", but got too far to be a "parody" when satirizing.

The major objective of this blog is to debunk every shitness the writer went on his review (don't try to build cancel culture in here, there will be only criticism).

Your Review Is The Worst I Have Ever Read
BagOfGames: "I’m just going to go ahead and say it. Dragon’s Dogma is the worst game I have ever played." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Sure, why not?

BagOfGames: "Even my most hated of games like BioShock, Prototype, Red Dead Redemption and Might and Magic: Dark Messiah at least have some semblance of charm and character. But Dragon’s Dogma is just empty." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Just fucking say that again, this thing is gonna real down the toilet!

BagOfGames: "The game starts surprisingly abruptly as I play as some random man walking around in some ruins to apparently fight a dragon, for some reason. I see a dragon, it talks (which was pretty cool actually) and then we fight some goblins and a Chimera. So far I’m not as hooked as I expected, but that dragon is pretty cool I guess. I’m getting sick of games that just have dragons being the size of big cars." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Read the loading screen text, man. The guy is looking Grigori for his revenge.

BagOfGames: "The Chimera battle was more of a sign that this game was bad than I first thought. After six hours I’m kicking myself for not just quitting then and there." AlvaroNovaes-BR: "The battle is so much fun, this claim doesn't make sense, but go on.

BagOfGames: "Combat in Dragon’s Dogma is monotonous and messy. It didn’t start off so bad since I was using a sword, shield and there weren’t many enemies, but the Chimera takes a huge amount of damage and I was never really sure if I was even hurting it at all." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Stiff just for you, but to be honest, you're going down in disgrace, in every goddawn game, the combat never get able to be intuitive and clean, Batman Arkham Series and this game does a great job of balancing and implementing the combat system, 6 hours is too short, pal.

BagOfGames: "I resorted to climbing on its back like an overly friendly toddler and moving my body around. It kinda looked like I was stabbing the beast, but because many of the melee animations look like pieces of paper crunching up against each other, I couldn’t really tell. My allies also die very quickly, which is easily fixed by me just going over to them and pressing B, so the whole battle made me feel uncomfortably invincible." AlvaroNovaes-BR: You have freedom of climbing on any type of beast, this other claim just doesn't make sense, what the fuck are you talking about?

BagOfGames: "It also didn’t help that my allies were shouting “The lion is weak to magic”, despite the fact that I didn’t have anything magical on me to use." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Have you ever pressed Left or Right from the D-pad? that makes your pawn to help? also getting close to Morganna? Every Mage/Sorcerer pawn in the entire game constantly gives you enchantments, this fucking dumb as shit.

BagOfGames: "So, some unexplained door opens and the game cuts jarringly to a character creation screen. Wait, that wasn’t my character? What the hell was the point of all of that?! Is it supposed to be a flash forward? If so, my four foot tall hobbit character really grew up." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Hear the dialogue, that is Grigori opening for you to finally battle him, despite being predictable and it's a prologue, you have to now start the adventure, that's it!

BagOfGames: "I wake up in my room, alive somehow, and the dragon has vanished…after doing nothing to this village except kill several people and scare the rest. Worst. Dragon. Ever. But now its voice is in my head, telling me to find him and get back his heart." AlvaroNovaes-BR: This is just outdated, if you understand the difficult lore (similar to FNAF), the dragon that got your heart was a fallen arisen that failed to defeat the Seneschal.

BagOfGames: "My character sprints at 70 Miles an hour, which never ceases to look ludicrous" AlvaroNovaes-BR: The character sprints like this due it could be incredibly sluggish to go around, as the game doesn't have horses.

BagOfGames: "At first I thought they were going to have some kind of slavery theme flowing through the story, since Pawns apparently aren’t even human and essentially act as your ‘combat slaves’, but they’re just ‘people’ who fight with you. Nothing else." AlvaroNovaes-BR: The pawns are species exclusively for people that got relation to the Wyrm, they do absolutely nothing usual without a Arisen, more on that, they can live forever. What about Tails from Sonic?

BagOfGames: "This destroyed my Fable-esque decision of making my character a child, because I’m given people who will follow me everywhere, which makes the whole game one big escort mission, as well as making your journey feel depressingly impersonal." AlvaroNovaes-BR: The power of friendship comes to hit in this game and I can't see any evidence of constant escort time unlike the real optional escort missions... Oh god, I hate them.

BagOfGames: "On a side note, to exit my village I had to walk up and push B on a closed gate. A CLOSED gate. That is so unintuitive. Why would I assume a closed gate would lead me out? A door I can understand since it can be opened and closed easily by one person. But this is a portcullis. Anyway, moving on." AlvaroNovaes-BR: What you're talking about? Resident Evil 4 does the same logic as this game, there's also a guy in the watch tower that operates this mechanism, both games doesn't show any animation of them due to the engine, stop caring this stupid nitpick, it's just dumb as bag of rocks (no pun intended) and hurts the main objective for this review.

BagOfGames: "My attacks consist of swinging my staff, which is too slow and weak to ever be worth using, and shooting out several magical blue balls that shatter like tiny ice cubes on enemies. Rook can enchant my magical ice cubes with fire, which appears to do more damage, but since every enemy takes such a gratuitous amount of damage it just looks ridiculous seeing a goblin take dozens of fireballs and just keep coming. This is not engaging. You can’t just slap more health onto an enemy and make them more difficult, you have to advance their AI." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Man, you just choosed the worst starter vocation in the game, that's why you wrote this article, if you're a playing a RPG, the biggest thing is to level up to be stronger, that's what the genre works, you can't say that, that's the same thing as jumping is tiresome for a platformer.

BagOfGames: "The lack of attacks wouldn’t be so bad except for the long time every enemy takes to kill. Even at level 13 it took me 30+ fireball attacks and my entire ensemble of warriors to take ONE bandit down, yet I can kill a wolf in about four seconds on my own. Apparently bandits are made out of diamonds and titanium, and wolfs are made out of tissues." AlvaroNovaes-BR: I'm just interested, you don't know how to talk inn keepers that actually gives you ability to learn new skills, haven't you listened to the game's information boxes, you know, the same mechanic that works in most GTA games? Get better armor from stores.

BagOfGames: "And here is one of the worst things about Dragon’s Dogma. There is nothing going on with my character. He doesn’t talk and is completely blank, yet everyone is praising me for something that, by the game’s own admission, I know virtually nothing about. AlvaroNovaes-BR: "Link wants a word from that, also for Claude and the GTA Online protagonist, most Pokémon trainers and nearly every FPS protagonist in the entire world.

BagOfGames: "At this point the combat is trying to be intuitive by having your allies heal you and enchant your weapons, but these moments are blessings within a constantly tedious situation. You don’t even do that much damage with enchantments and I die in 1-2 hits from anything, so when my Pawns help me it’s just a brief moment where the game becomes slightly less horrible and is on its way to becoming tolerable." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Nothing to say here just like I meant previously, get better equipment and shut up.

BagOfGames: "And now, I have nothing to do. I have no quests or objectives of any kind. So, what, I’m supposed to just stand still and do nothing? Where’s my incentive?" AlvaroNovaes-BR: Don't make me laugh, you just reached on a city full of people with new ideas. Now do that in real life how do you make a quest.

BagOfGames: "I venture out and walk in the direction of the objective on my map. Because the map is so small and scarcely detailed I constantly end up on pathways that curve away from the marker, forcing me to backtrack to find another opening I could travel down. And because my Pawns keep reminding me that the way I’m going is overly dangerous, it’s like the game is pushing me around just to make me hit another dead end." AlvaroNovaes-BR: "Designing a map isn't always easy, you have to work on the models, collision, textures, lore, enemy placement, it takes time and money to do. honestly, the game has a bunch of stuff scattered every side of the map, remember this game was released before Far Cry 3 and didn't tried to inspire that game whatsoever, never rush games with big maps, because bugs and glitches will be rampant, the game suffered budget cuts thanks to greedy-ass Capcom.

BagOfGames: "Is this really all the game is? This doesn’t seem like the Main Story, even though there hasn’t really been that much of a Main Story in the last three hours. I thought I was looking for a dragon. It made sense at the start, since I was locating a group that were also looking for dragons. But now, cults? Strongholds? Where has the story gone?" AlvaroNovaes-BR: Listen up, this is not you expect for a medieval game with fantasy elements, if you played Elder Scrolls, you know that Dragons are not an easy task to defeat, you have to practice, learn and work various external jobs to give the advantage, I wanna tell, did you ever played any game like Zelda, Pokémon, GTA, Far Cry or any disgrace to make upgrade your character's power?

BagOfGames: "I’m totally sapped of enthusiasm at this point. I’m walking up a ledge and a bandit shoots ONE arrow at me, and I die. One arrow. Before the game even recognizes that I’m dead, I turn the console off, sit down at my computer and begin writing all of this." AlvaroNovaes-BR: Very pathetic are you, isn't? You have to play difficult quests before your character become strong, nice workaround. :P

Writer's Bullshittery

 * 1) I literally feel stupider after all of that.
 * 2) The story is basically non-existent
 * 3) Combat is the dullest and most infuriating I’ve ever experienced
 * 4) Save spots are too far apart, so I was saving after anything that even resembled a fight
 * 5) There’s barely any customization for my weapons and armour
 * 6) The map is close to useless
 * 7) Traveling anywhere takes forever
 * 8) The Pawns may as well be robots
 * 9) I found no use for picking up anything that didn’t simply restore my health
 * 10) The graphics are surprisingly bad
 * 11) The text is too bloody small. I was constantly ‘see-sawing’ on my chair just to read
 * 12) The voice acting is generic and annoying
 * 13) Villages and towns look lifeless
 * 14) Enemies are monumentally durable
 * 15) Objectives are incredibly boring, if there are any

AlvaroNovaes-BR's Answer Catalog

 * 1) So why you did have to say that? or even play the game?
 * 2) You have no love in story-telling whatsoever, even you played games from Rockstar.
 * 3) Don't make me loath you, play Batman Arkham Series and compare to Dark Souls.
 * 4) Just pause the game and press "Select" to save, even a 9-year old kid know how to do that.
 * 5) I give you a 1/10 for your playthrough, you can't even buy stuff from stores? amazing.
 * 6) Prepare to get crushed to bits by a professional map designer.
 * 7) After you nearly finish Griffin's Bane, there's a Portcrystal in the summit to mark your own locations. Man, use a ferrystone.
 * 8) So try making a game with this type of advanced technology, if you want to make it realistic.
 * 9) Rule 1: Explore the world.
 * 10) I don't know about this, possibly you're playing on a Xbox 360 with no HD texture pack addon installed, this isn't Uncharted 3, this is a open-world game! There's nothing into with, this is the game's art style.
 * 11) You might reference the previous pointer, but it's possibly you're using AV cables or a really bad TV. Did you played GTA V on 480i? You wouldn't see jack shit what the text is showing about.
 * 12) "Wolves hunt in packs" and "They're masterworks, you can't go wrong" is litterally loved by everyone in the entire community ever.
 * 13) I strongly disagree, play the Far Cry games and you see.
 * 14) Stop using shitty un-upgraded rusty weapons!
 * 15) Well, you're not wrong in some cases, but nothing defeats A Fortress Besigied and Griffin's Bane.

Conclusion
For the most part, this how incompetent the writer and the entire website is, playing for the first time for just 6 hours in a RPG game is a lawsuit, because most RPG games or even some adventure games take so long to play. It caused several problems to the game's revenue, overshadowed by this disgraceful entity, bashing someone's opinion is quite harmful but this one doesn't aliviate anything, this gave me suffering from my childhood during the entire 2010s and this shit is still there for ten years.

I despise this entire website, for not just throwing shit in my favorite game, but also Red Dead Redemption, which is my first PS3 game I ever played and made me get a PS3.

Please, don't call me a sociopath for making this blog, this hurted my mental state during my childhood.

Original Source
BagOfGames - Dragon's Dogma Is The Worst Game I Have Ever Played

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