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CassandraCroft posted...

It is like this, After very valid criticism that the main game was too easy once you got to the really high levels and had the best weapons in the game even on hard mode Capcom came up with Bitter Black Island.

But instead of releasing it as DLC for Dragon's Dogma they decided to rip everyone off by releasing the full game again with BBI in the re-releae Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

And if you were late to the game and didn't want to buy a 2nd game to play the new game, fucked you over on fast travel, at least on PS3. Apparently later system ports to PS4 and PC don't have this issue.
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The game sets a recommended level of around 78 or higher for BBI but ignore that. I would wait until you are into the low - mid 100 before attempting it.

BBI is for experienced players only.

Ok, this is ridiculous. You can start exploring BBI in earnest around like level 40. Yeah, it's hard, but it's very achievable and you'll level up quite fast. I've done it, and I am definitely not that skilled a gamer. Hell, I've done runs at like level 10 multiple times to get the ring that doubles discipline point gain and managed (once I did it on a fresh game just to show a friend how it works, b/c apparently transferring save files doesn't work...). There's tons of videos of people doing "BBI only" games from level 1 (or the lowest level possible before you can reach it, I forget which level that is). BBI is a very interesting environment, it actually provides all the gear, tools, and resources you need all self-contained within it.

BBI is by far the best part of DD 1, and it pains me to see people discourage others from venturing in there until super late/post game. Both because it's not necessary and because I'm sure there's plenty of people like me who get sick of the open world shit and might consider dropping the game if going to BBI didn't ignite their love for this game.