It’s official: Dragon’s Dogma, the cult classic fantasy role-playing game, gets a sequel a decade after its release. Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno confirmed this during a live broadcast tonight, but did not share any details other than his name Dragon’s Dogma II and logo.
When Dragon’s Dogma was first released in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it did so with average reception. Kotaku’s Tina Amini described a game that is “full of potential” but “fails” due to a cluttered user interface, blurry visuals and a huge amount of side quests.
But Dragon’s Dogma has its ardent fans who keep the fire of the dragon alive. Four years after the initial review of Kotaku, Patrick Klepek reviewed the game for the site. Although he acknowledged his imperfections, especially his merits as an open-world RPG, he praised the battle. Over the years, other fans have come around praising the game’s creature design, its bat history, and its breadth and depth of class customization.
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In 2013, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, a major extension with a new, extremely difficult island dungeon to explore. This version made its way to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017 with improved visuals and again to the Nintendo Switch in 2019. A year later, Netflix released an anime adaptation. (I haven’t seen it. It’s supposed to suck, according to our Gizmodo colleagues.) There’s only Japan’s MMO Dragon’s Dogma Online, but we don’t need to talk about it. Capcom shut down servers in 2019
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Capcom is probably in no hurry to get Dragon’s Dogma II out the door, as the publisher has a number of other tents in the pipeline. Street Fighter 6 comes out next year and goes out into the open. Resident Evil 4 receives a remake that will be released next March for next-generation consoles and PCs. And then there’s Pragmata, a mysterious sci-fi game that was first announced two years ago in 2022, but was postponed last fall. It will be released next year.
No matter. Fans of Dragon’s Dogma, including Kotaku, should sleep well tonight, knowing that their favorite weird action-RPG is finally getting the sequel it deserves.
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