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Catherine Lewis

Dragon's Dogma 2 took 12 years because "the stars really had to align" for the "massive amount of resources" an open-world RPG takes

Dragon's Dogma 2.

Dragon's Dogma 2's release is right around the corner, and given that it's launching over a decade after its predecessor, there's no doubt that plenty of us are excited to see what the sequel has in store. 

To be exact, Dragon's Dogma 2 will reach our screens nearly 12 years after the original. After all that time, no doubt a question on many of our minds is why it's taken so long for a sequel to materialise in the first place. In an interview with GamesRadar+ (via an interpreter), Dragon's Dogma 2 producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi tells us that game director Hideaki Itsuno simply had a lot on his plate that had to be dealt with before he was able to return to the series. Namely, developer Capcom's constantly work on another major series demanded Itsuno's focus first.

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