Dragon's Dogma 2 has some funny moments | Asmongold

In one clip from Dragon's Dogma 2, a player's entire party of AI-controlled pawns walks off a cliff in unison. In another, a pawn gets killed by a pigeon. In a third, a player returns to a major city to find every single NPC dead—murdered by their own pawns in a spontaneous uprising. Asmongold, reacting to a compilation of these moments, argues that this chaotic, emergent nonsense is what makes the game special—and that it is a shame the conversation around the game has been dominated by microtransaction drama instead.

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The core of Asmongold's argument is that Dragon's Dogma 2 generates genuinely funny, unpredictable moments that most games cannot replicate. The clips he watches are not scripted cutscenes or intentional gags; they are the result of the game's systems interacting in unexpected ways. Pawns—the AI companions that follow the player—are notoriously unreliable. They fall off cliffs, get killed by weak enemies, and sometimes just stand there while the player is being mauled. Asmongold notes that this behavior is far more common in the sequel than in the original game: "This shit never happens in the first game. At least it never happened to me. It's the second game, bro. Like the moment I've been waiting for."