Dragon's Dogma is an open-world action game from Capcom

by Christopher Grant on Apr 12th 2011 11:10AM

Announced during Capcom's Captivate event – in Miami this year! – Dragon's Dogma is billed as "a unique action experience that blends exciting and fulfilling combat with the freedom to explore and interact in a rich, living and breathing world." Oh, that world is also "open." Your party of three must "track down and destroy a mysterious dragon," but there will be plenty of other critters to slay on your journey.

It shouldn't be a surprise that Capcom is tying DD's lineage to two of its most successful action titles; the press release says it's from "the creators behind some of Capcom's best action games" including Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 4. Those creators include producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and director Hideaki Itsuno. The new game is being built on an "enhanced" version of the company's already impressive MT Framework engine (think: Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2) and will track down and destroy your Xbox 360 or PS3 some time in "early 2012."

Dragon's Dogma

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Tags: Capcom, captivate-2011, Dragons Dogma, dragons-dogma, DragonsDogma, microsoft, playstation, ps3, xbox

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Awesome. I absolutely love open world games. Hope this turns out well

@SteveoftheGods TRAILER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qbLBlTr4o&feature=player_embedded

@Evin Looks fun to me! Officially on my radar

@SteveoftheGods

A year away and they've already shown game play footage of an epic battle with a Hydra? Capcom, you officially have my attention.

I guess I can skip Skyrim now that Capcom is making a Medieval game rite?

@Jack Kevorkian

Wat

@Jack Kevorkian

Yeah right.

@Colin i need another timer right up to the release date

@A Sandwich japan dragons > usa dragons they invented them

@Jack Kevorkian

You sir speak blasphemy

But it's not a new Dino Crisis :(

@Jawmuncher Makes me sad also. They really should make a RE4 with dinosaurs.

What about PC? :(

@vmenge

Console master race, etc.

@vmenge
Capcom seems to be showing more love to the PC than it has in the past. Or at least thats how it has appeared over the last few years. I could see this getting tossed onto PC as well, though it might be down the road.

Am I the only one that noticed the terrible framerate of this video? Im suspecting that has something to do with this game running at 30fps.

@Draugdraugr It could show incredible love by localizing Monster Hunter Frontier.

@Draugdraugr Capcom could show incredible love for the PC by localizing Monster Hunter Frontier.

@Draugdraugr
It's probably less that they are "showing the PC more love," and more that they made sure their MT Framework engine really works well across PC, PS3, and 360. From what I've read, there is basically no effort to make a game across all three platforms with the engine. In fact, I think the way it was described was more like you don't make a game in this engine for one platform and then port it to the others, you just make a game in MT Framework and it already works on all three platforms, no optimization needed.

The only thing they'd have to do (if I'm not mistaken, of course) is add customizable controls for the PC versionx

Translation: this is our big budget, HD version of Monster Hunter.

Dont want this. Want more mvc3 fighters.

@raeloneq
This is the definition of a worthless comment.

It's like posting "don't want this, want more Mario Kart games" on a post about a Zelda game.

Not Breath of Fire?

Not interested.

Yeah, I was about to post the same thing. F you Capcom, for treating us BoF fans like waste. There's like a billion Capcom characters in MvsC3, but nothing from BoF. And then this whole thing. It's like a kick in the balls to us. It's like we don't even exist to them anymore.

In fact I bet there was some guy there at Capcom going all "hah, let's get their hopes up with some new dragon-related game with a BoF-ish logo, those suckers". Argh. So pissed off.

This totally doesn't sound like Skyrim at all!

That hydro looks nice.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is
Hydro Hydra?!
Blastoise now has competition.

Well this is a first you usually see small European developers make these kind of games. Oh and I hope to see some cameos from MH in this game.

hopefully it will be like Monster hunter in that it'll have co-op, bringing down giant monsters is just more fun with your friends, its a fact

Wow this game looks better than dragon age 2. I will keep my eye on this game.

I like new IPs. This looks cool.

Is like monster hunters + demon's souls.

@AriesWarlock

I read that with a russian accent

@PSN StaticShock rofl

So its not Breath of Fire 5?

Damn it. What was It thinking.

@Leafhopper
Dragon Quarter was Breath of Fire 5, it just didn't carry the 5 over with it from Japan. I hate it when companies do that.

Honestly I just want to kill Dragons , that's all

Love the premise, and Capcom makes good games, but I'm a but skeptical because Capcom games are usually arcade-ey in feel. It's hard to imagine them doing a truly open world fantasy game, but here's hopinh it turns out as good as it sounds.

dont know why, but looks like dragon age + demon soul + elder scroll..

Too "western" for my taste but the gameplay looks fun somehow

@eilegz

Yes, if only there were any good Western games I could understand how this has the potential to be decent.

/s

Go figure. People bitch and moan about DLC for exisiting franchises. They bitch and moan about too many sequels. They bitch and moan about the lack of new IP's.

Capcom announces a new IP, and people bitch and moan that it's not a sequel to Breath of Fire.

Hey, us BoF fans have every right to bitch. We've been waiting for a new game for 6 years now, but Capcom insists on pretending the franchise never even existed. Every insignificant character from every game they've ever made has gotten a cameo in MvsC or TvsC, but nothing from BoF. It's like they spit on us, and now they get our hopes up with some dragon game, and again, nothing.

Conclusion: Bitch-and-Moan is the Internet's favorite hobby.

@Elranzer

I think it's safe to call it a "past-time" by now.

It's been around long enough.

The only problem I have with this is that Capcom is calling Devil May Cry 4 one of their best action games... Wake up Capcom. Hopefully it's fully playable as a single player game because multi-player interests me not.

Omg...Could this be a more mature version of Monster Hunter? If it can blend the feel of MH with the fully open world that would be an incredible experience. Hopefully it's Multiplayer and not just you + 2 NPCs

I hope this game has multiplayer.

@Dukeun The game plays a lot different than any other game. It looks to have 4 player multiplayer AT LEAST. Combat is fast paced, no auto attack, proper animation (not like oblivion or fallouts tank like movement), Many many creatures to hunt (I'm sure we'll see more and more as time gets closer). Bottom line is this game already shapes up to be epic as hell. I was thinking it was going to be a BoF game to which I thought was awesome, but this game totally exceeds my expectations by FAR.

So HERE's my soul, $60, and maybe a fierce handy J to go along with it Cappycom!!!!!!!! =D

impressive vid, lets just hope its not as boring as the Elder Scroll games console games

I was 'Meh' until he climbed up on that gryphon all Shadow of the Colossus style. I am officially interested!
The second video impressed me too, apart from when he was eaten, fell out and seemed to have no animation between falling and walking backwards while shooting. But that should be fixed later, I assume.

Looks nice, let's see how it turns out.

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