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Dragon's Dogma

Dragon's Dogma Presents: The 'Ur-Dragon' Event Mode Challenge
Written Wednesday, May 09, 2012 By Richard Walker
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Some dragons in Dragon's Dogma can be slain by you and your Pawns, but Capcom has today announced a dragon that can only be brought down by the might of the Dragon's Dogma community combined. A legendary and immensely powerful dragon, the Ur-Dragon (stupid name) appears in the Everfall beneath Gran Soren, awaiting adventurers and their Pawns.

Playing as your own bespoke version of the game's hero 'The Arisen', you and your Pawns can compete collectively online with other players and their parties around the globe in "an asynchronous encounter" to fight the Ur-Dragon via Xbox Live. The combined effects of yours and the rest of the online players' attacks will accumulate as you attack the Ur-Dragon, but the scaly beast is so damn powerful, that it'll take several encounter to bring it down.

Should you be the one to deliver the final, fatal blow, you'll receive a massive reward, while all players can collect a host of common and rare items dropped by the Ur-Dragon when they deal out damage against it. If you're playing Dragon's Dogma online, you can still tackle the Ur-Dragon solo, but you'll get different rewards.

Anyone who participates in taking on the Ur-Dragon will have their names and play times recorded in the Dragon's Dogma hall of fame, for other players to try and beat. Dragon's Dogma is out on May 22nd in North America and May 25th in Europe.







 
 

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Comment #1 by SlippedCircle
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:40:09 AM
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This game looks really good and interesting, but still so many other games to play. I just need a week of nothing to do and play games only to get caught up.

I will pick this up one day though.


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Comment #2 by SgtAwesomesauce
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:42:48 AM
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What a brilliant idea! Shame they didn't put as much thought into the name of the dragon :oS


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Comment #3 by Komrade Kayce
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:46:38 AM
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Hey, not all things that start with Ur are stupid. Look at the Ur-Quan. They almost had the whole galaxy.


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Comment #4 by Daiphyer.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:49:59 AM
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So basically a raid. That should be interesting.


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Comment #5 by Slayinfool
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:52:59 AM
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But I don't wanna play the game with you stupid annoying people.


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Comment #6 by THC BLUNTED
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 10:58:48 AM
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#1 Same here!


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Comment #7 by GhostMaker 343
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:00:05 AM
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http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=116745

aww yeah


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Comment #8 by ThaMyth
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:28:37 AM
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stupid name, great idea!


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Comment #9 by ThaMyth
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:30:34 AM
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#7 - now it makes sense, thank you


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Comment #10 by WilRonward
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:30:41 AM
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That trailer looks very Dark Soul-like with the outfit that warrior is wearing, the shield, the ridiculously huge boss... and the 1 hit death from the dragon breath!


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Comment #11 by Killerspieler
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:54:49 AM
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Ah, the Japanese and the they're passion for half-german half-english word or sentence mixtures ;) "Ur" means "Great" in english. Stupid wordbillard but funny ^^


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Comment #12 by SyndicateKing
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 11:58:38 AM
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@5 no-one wants to play with you either, bye bye.

anyway day1 purchase for me


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Comment #13 by TRAGICTRIXIE
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 12:12:20 PM
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I thought the demo was good and all but I'll be caught up on ghost recon once this game is out, picking it up on day one but wont play it until a month later at the least.


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Comment #14 by Wing X Custom
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 12:33:27 PM
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Or... how about real drop in drop out co-op? I mean the games mechanics lend themselves to the idea. Way to be cheapshits yet again capcom..


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Comment #15 by Sarcastro
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 12:39:53 PM
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I love this type of thing. It's more icing on the cake.


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Comment #16 by BBowles
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 12:49:18 PM
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@14 Get the fuck over it -_- This is NOT going to have co-op, it is not balanced for such a thing. Co-op would break it, guaranteed. Its designed for AI teammates, and adding even 1 co-op partner would DESTROY the balance of the game and make it too easy. Likewise, if they designed it for Co-op, NOT having a partner would make it too hard. AI partners will never be on par with Human partners, and the game has to be designed from the ground up with 1 in mind.

They made the right choice.

OT: Interesting idea no doubt. I rather like the psudeo-multiplayer aspect. Keeps the balance of the game intact, does NOT require you to have a partner at all times, but still gives the sense of a community.


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Comment #17 by Akatsuki Sw1tch
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 01:01:33 PM
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Just do a Monster Hunter & we can actually fight it together in co-op, You know what co-op actually means don't you Capcom?

Still looking forward to this but not having co-op is just backwards.


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Comment #18 by Xero Shinobi
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 01:03:40 PM
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This looks incredible, the boss looks insanely powerful. I can't wait for this game, I honestly can't.

@14 - Get over it for fucks sakes. It's an RPG, it doesn't fucking need it, bloody hell.


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Comment #19 by Rixiden
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 01:40:45 PM
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This sounds freakin awesome!

stuff like this really wishes for a good xbox MMORPG. Yes I know about FFXI. i said, wish for a "good MMORPG" on xbox 360. Like one designed for it exclusively. I wouldnt mind paying the extra cash on top of the xbox gold subscription either. Community events like this and like the mass effect 3 ones are great, dont get me wrong, but would be good to be able to play with an entire community of ppl at the same time instead of just small groups of people


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Comment #20 by Zim
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 02:53:02 PM
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Wow this is actually a refreshingly unique idea. A boss so powerful no one player can beat it. It's kinda like the community challenges for ME3 but rather than it being killing 1million banshees it is just one big thing that has a shared health pool.

I can only imagine that when it gets to low health a HUGE amount of players will each be trying to land the finishing blow.


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Comment #21 by Gentleman
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 03:59:59 PM
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Okay, fuck it, this has just sold it for me. Definitely buying this now.


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Comment #22 by Floodclaw
Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 02:09:00 AM
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@11: The prefix 'Ur' comes from High German 'the first' or 'original'. So what you're fighting is 'The First Great Dragon'. I don't think that's a stupid name at all. It's, in fact, a great title for such a behemoth.


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Comment #23 by TheGreyMan
Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 05:48:30 AM
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@22 You beat me to it :-) But I agree. That naming convention is not exactly widespread, but has been adopted by some Fantasy writers, such as Stephen Donaldson in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, e.g. ur-Lord, ur-viles. Shame people have to disparage something just because they don't know what it is.


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Comment #24 by L3G1T H4MST3R
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 01:44:29 PM
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I hope they don't let North America attack this boss before its released in Europe. I don't mean it in a bad way but if they have a extra 3 days headstart then they might kill it before Europe even gets the game. Unless it respawns of course, if so let them kill it.


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Developer:
Capcom

Publisher:
Capcom

Genre / Subgenre:
RPG / Action

Release:

US: May 22, 2012
Europe: May 25, 2012

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