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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen has just been released on PC, and it’s fantastic. Our Jim Trinca loved the game on Xbox 360, but the PC version runs in 1080p60 (and higher, probably). It includes every piece of extra content released for the original, including the massive Dark Arisen expansion that you had to re-buy the game to get (which was a bit daft, Capcom, to be honest). Check out our review of the original game here.
It’s taken a long time for the game to make its way to PC, but the wait has arguably been worth it. The smooth framerate does wonders for the previously shonky combat, and there’s no more letterboxing (the original versions famously had black bars cropping the screen, reducing the number of pixels being rendered).
However, the texturing, character models and UI all seem to have been transferred from the 360 version untouched, and while it does support mouse & keyboard, its implementation is a bit rubbish, meaning that PC users need a controller to enjoy Dragon’s Dogma properly. We’re pretty sure most serious PC gamers do have a 360 controller sitting around, though. Pro-tip: the Dualshock 4 works great as a substitute.
It’s still very much a 7th-gen game, then, but by far the definitive version. Join Jim & Alice as they play through the beginning of this wonderful, weird saga.
