In an interview with GamesRadar, Dragon Dogs 2 game director Hideaki Itsuno revealed that Three Men and One Dog had been his inspiration during the game's development**.
I was inspired by Three Men and One Dog, which combines a variety of emerging game systems into a satisfying experience that gives players the freedom to choose what to do. ”
In "Three Men and One Dog", many events can happen at the same time. The game doesn't crash because of this, and it doesn't force you to break away from one thing and then do another. It just makes everything come together in a natural way. Of course, sometimes this can be chaotic, but it seems that this sense of chaos is also intentional. ”
When Three Men and One Dog came out, I was incredibly impressed with this emerging gameplay and open-world design concept, and it's an experience I've been working on for in Dragon Dogma 2. ”
In fact, in an interview with VGC last September, Hideaki Izuno expressed a similar sentiment when he said that he "appreciated the way they created a world where NPCs really felt like they were living their lives independently." ”