Dragon's Dogma Will Arise Again in April

[TwinBahamut]

Capcom's dark fantasy RPG will be getting even darker with the upcoming release of Dark Arisen. To survive, the Arisen may need more Pawns than you could find in a chess tournament.

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[hoktomaster]

Awesome birthday present

[Sam = Wise]

If fixing the awful FPS problems of the original comes under these new features I might consider buying it.

[Typho]

Day one purchase for me. I'm in love with this game.

[ghaleon80]

Although the combat was very fun in Dragons Dogma I found myself getting bored with the game overall and basically had to force myself to finish it. Not sure if i'll be purchasing the expansion or not. I wish Capcom would have just revived the Breath of Fire series.

[Jitawa]

This release sounds like a "Super" Street Fighter situation, where they release a new disc with the new AND old content on it, but no DLC equivalent (unless you count downloading the full game from a game-on-demand thing as DLC). So, the new content sounds good, but the fact I bought a friend a copy for around full price a month back (and I own it as well) and I'm looking at a full-price $40 expansion for a game I already own is a bit... unwieldy.

[GaijinMonogatari]

I'm kind of surprised they're not releasing an append disk version as well, like Atlus did with Persona 3 FES.

[TG Barighm]

I still haven't gotten around to playing the original.

[scorpio_7]

I found the original very painful to play.... not sure if I will go back to it any time soon. So I doubt I will be looking into this expansion.

[Bogrot]

Dunno about the states, but this is looking cheap in the UK- currently £13 pre-order at amazon. Given that it includes the full original content, looks like a good deal. By the way, if anyone's played it, does it feel like Monster Hunter with a more dark fantasy / western slant, or am I barking up the wrong tree? I presume the "open world" is more a large arena rather than lots of towns / quests like Elder Scrolls?

[GaijinMonogatari]

It really feels more like a bunch of guys at Capcom liked The Elder Scrolls series so much that they decided to try their hand at something similar.

[Pimpalicious]

This release sounds like a "Super" Street Fighter situation, where they release a new disc with the new AND old content on it, but no DLC equivalent (unless you count downloading the full game from a game-on-demand thing as DLC). So, the new content sounds good, but the fact I bought a friend a copy for around full price a month back (and I own it as well) and I'm looking at a full-price $40 expansion for a game I already own is a bit... unwieldy.

Dragon's Dogma isn't on the disc though, only Dark Arisen. It states that you can play Dark Arisen without owning the vanilla version.

edit: Actually looks like I read it wrong.