Dragon's Dogma 2director Hideaki Itsuno has shared that the game's most devastating feature was being considered as early as the series' 2012 original.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Map Size Compared To The First Game & Dark Arisen
22.03.2024 - 17:21 / screenrant.com / Hideaki Itsuno / Garrett Ettinger
has just been released, and along with it comes a large, open-world map filled with content. The original, released in 2012, took place on the sprawling island of Gransys, which was quite big in its own regard. That said, ups the ante and features an even larger map, taking place in the two new regions of Vermund and Battahl, with a host of other new locations and towns added to the game.
In the original game, Gransys is located in the eastern region of the Liogran Peninsula, the main setting for the universe of. Though the area from the original title felt huge, it was just a small part of the overall game world found in the lore. The setting in the second game is similar in that sense, as it doesn't cover the entirety of the massive Liogran Peninsula but is much larger than both the original as well as its expansion, .
According to an interview with DD2's Director, Hideaki Itsuno, 's map is about four times the size of the original game. However, the game creator goes on to state that the development team believes the overall size of the map is actually even larger than that, though they haven't officially measured it. offers one of the larger open-world fantasy maps compared to other games, and provides an experience that feels much more immense than the narrow corridors featured predominantly in the first game.
It's this style of level design that makes calculating the first map actually quite hard, but some anecdotal estimates online have pegged the size of the first game's map at around 50%-60% of the size of 's map, which has been calculated to be a little more than 14 square miles. Using this logic, it would make DD2's map anywhere from 28 to 33 square miles, though this is just a general estimate and may differ once the total area of the game is measured. Though not as big as other open-world games like the map in , it's still impressive, especially considering the depth of content found in that game.
was an expansion and re-release of the original Dragon's Dogma that debuted in 2013 and included a new region called Bitterblack Isle. This large underground area added to the total area of the game, and while the winding dungeons of the expansion did add to the overall area of the map and introduced dozens of hours of additional gameplay, it's generally a much smaller area than the overall section of Gransys that was featured in the base game.
[The following reveals minor spoilers for Dragon's Dogma 2's endgame.]
In, there are multiple endings people can achieve, with the True Ending resulting in what equates to 's version of New Game Plus. This also has the effect of changing the map in the game, thus opening up even more potential than what was possible through the earlier stages of a
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