Dragon's Dogma 2 was shown off for the first time at last week's PlayStation Showcase, here's why you should be excited for this unexpected sequel.
The PlayStation Showcase last week was packed to the gills, the gameplay reveal of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, an announcement of new hardware in the form of Project Q, and the reveal a remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 (my personal favourite game ever made). Despite all of this, there was one reveal that I'm still thinking about above all else almost a week later – the gameplay reveal of Dragon's Dogma 2.
Capcom over the late 2000's and early 2010s was trying to make the Monster Hunter series as popular outside of Japan as it was in Japan, with games like Lost Planet 2 and Dragon's Dogma being attempts to transfer that formula to genres popular in the west (like shooters and open world RPGs respectively). While Dragon's Dogma didn't help Monster Hunters popularity (turns out simply releasing a console version instead of locking it to handhelds was the trick there) it was a major success in it's own right selling 7.2 million copies to date and even got it's own anime adaption on Netflix, however it didn't quite have the interest that other RPG's released around that time had.
