Dragon's Dogma getting expansion, hard and speedrun modes

Capcom recently added an easy mode to Dragon's Dogma, but if you wished for the opposite, you're in luck. In a bumper Dogma-o-rama at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced that not only is the action-RPG getting a hard mode for free, a title update will also add a special speedrun mode. Oh, and a whole expansion named Dark Arisen, which we don't know much about.

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Capcom recently added an easy mode to Dragon's Dogma, but if you wished for the opposite, you're in luck. In a bumper Dogma-o-rama at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced that not only is the action-RPG getting a Hard Mode for free, a title update will also add a special Speedrun Mode. Oh, and it's making an expansion named Dark Arisen, which we don't know much about.

Speedrun and Hard modes will offer shiny equipment as rewards--Speedrun for completing the game quickly, and Hard just for surviving the tougher enemies.

All Capcom has to say about Dark Arisen, though, is that it's coming sometime in 2013. Whether it's a physical release or DLC, we don't know. What it adds, we don't know. But do expect dragons.

So, onto the media dump. As well as some screenshots of Dark Arisen, we have a teaser trailer:

And a trailer for the title update adding Hard Mode and Speedrun Mode:

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    September 21, 2012 6:00 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Dragon's Dogma getting expansion, hard and speedrun modes.

    Capcom recently added an easy mode to Dragon's Dogma, but if you wished for the opposite, you're in luck. In a bumper Dogma-o-rama at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced that not only is the action-RPG getting a hard mode for free, a title update will also add a special speedrun mode. Oh, and a whole expansion named Dark Arisen, which we don't know much about.

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      September 21, 2012 7:14 AM

      HELL YES!

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      September 21, 2012 7:21 AM

      Awesome

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      September 21, 2012 7:24 AM

      Such a good game. I'm really looking forward to where they might take this series.

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      September 21, 2012 7:58 AM

      Hard mode? I can't get even get by the most basic of enemies :(

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        September 21, 2012 8:09 AM

        After a certain point though, the game becomes very easy. Last time I played I was able to 2-shot a Drake, a creature that initially took me the better part of an hour to kill, and I'm not even anywhere near the level cap or have all my gear fully upgraded.

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      September 21, 2012 8:09 AM

      cool, now release it on PC :(

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        September 21, 2012 8:51 AM

        I would be okay with the PC taking longer to be released if it means we get the DLC/Expansion included with the base game.

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          September 21, 2012 10:12 AM

          I would be okay with this.

          Really, though, I just want the game on PC, period! The game would benefit hugely from the power of a good PC. Better shadows, high-res textures (the texture resolution on the console versions is just plain awful), better image quality, 60 FPS...

          Oh, gawd, I'm making myself sad just thinking about it. :'(

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            September 21, 2012 1:33 PM

            Agreed. Although ports sometimes mean 720p locked to 30fps.

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              September 21, 2012 3:29 PM

              AFAIK only Dark Souls has done something like that.

              But besides that, the game runs on the MT Framework, same as all of Capcom's other games, so it should be dead-easy to port it!

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      September 21, 2012 10:14 AM

      That's great! I'm glad I waited to start the game. I think I'll just play on hard for the first time.

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      September 21, 2012 12:13 PM

      I would much rather have a fix for the stupid black bars at the top and bottom of my TV that are not removable throughout the entire game. Are they purposely trying to cause burn-in on my TV?! WTF Capcom?!

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