Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Developers Explain Restricted Fast Travel Options
In a new interview with IGN, director Hideaki Itsuno has revealed details about the various methods of fast travel that will be available in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Much like its predecessor, Dragon’s Dogma 2 will offer limited forms of fast travel, with players instead being expected to make more trips across the game’s open world by themselves.
Itsuno talks about the decision to avoid adding too many fast travel options to the game, stating that the only reason people might think that travel is boring is because “your game is boring”. Dragon’s Dogma 2 hopes to avoid this by adding more interesting encounters that players might face along the way as they journey across the world.
“Just give it a try. Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring. All you have to do is make travel fun,” said Itsuno. “That’s why you place things in the right location for players to discover, or come up with enemy appearance methods that create different experiences each time, or force players into blind situations where they don’t know whether it’s safe or not ten meters in front of them.”
“We’ve put a lot of work into designing a game where you can stumble across someone and something will happen, so while it’s fine if it does have fast travel, we decided to design the kind of map where players will make the decision for themselves to travel by bike or on foot in order to enjoy the journey.”
For the sake of context, the original Dragon’s Dogma offered fast travel through the use of items called Ferrystones and Port Crystals, which players could put down at specific place and then fast travel to at later points. This more limited method of fast travel will also be available in Dragon’s Dogma 2, along with the addition of Oxcarts that can ferry players across specific paths.
This new method of fast travel will come with its own potential dangers, however. Itsuno says that their trip on an Oxcart has the chance to be interrupted thanks to different events
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