This isn't to say that the level design in Dragon's Dogma is necessarily good, but it stays of the same quality throughout and the focus on large groups of enemies and larger climbable enemies makes the open empty spaces pretty appropriate. I love the first half of that game but Lost Izalith, Duke's Archives and Tomb of Giants are such a chore every subsequent playthrough. In Dark Souls, the combat stays relatively the same depending on build but level design takes a massive dip after getting the Lord Vessel. In Dragon's Dogma, the combat starts out extremely simple but becomes really interesting and varied once you start maxing out vocations and trying hybrid classes and party combinations. I think the way I see it, especially when comparing purely in terms of combat mechanics and design, Dragon's Dogma gets better and better the deeper you get, while Dark Souls (1 at least) gets worse in the second half. I recognize in a lot of ways Dark Souls is more 'polished' (aside from the combat, which Dogma has the edge in solely due to the immense depth within it), but I just have so much more fun with Dogma, and that's what should matter more in any game. I think classes are handled much better then in Dark Souls, each Dark Souls class feels rather same-y, while you can notice the difference in Dogma classes just by using them more then 5 seconds.ĭark Souls co-op was rather innovative, but Dogma's co-op was revolutionary in all the best ways. Dogma's dungeons are all expertly crafted, with almost all of them being massive wide-open spaces with tons of detail.Īs for music, I love Dark Souls, but it'd have to go to Dogma for me. BBI is easily one of the best dungeons ever put into a video game, but you could argue that, even being much larger then BBI, Lordran is one of the best 'dungeons' ever.ĭragon's Dogma's dungeons overall are far superior to many open-world RPGs, including Skyrim's, which favors quantity over quality in a lot of them. The way they handled it in DD was far superior.īitterblack Isle, imo, is weaker then DS level design, but certainly not by much. I also didn't really like the way lighting worked in Dark Souls, always a soft glow on your character, it felt unnatural. Plus the magic system blow DS out of the water. I feel even as is, Dragon's Dogma has deeper combat, there's just so much depth to it.

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