This was a game I knew nothing about. None of the hype, none of the trailers, none of the controversy and not a single review. Yes I was in my senior year and living under a rock with nothing but classwork on my mind just to keep my head up. Frankly, this was one of the most enjoyable experiences I had in that extremely tough year. I think this shows how negative mindsets going into games kinda dooms the experience before you even boot the game up.
I had been bitten by so many bad games, I never thought the finished game would look as good as the initial trailer anyway, so I wasn't disappointed or surprised.
@@PinkFloydFan74 I didnt even know the trailer thing nor what people think about this game until this year bruh... I have been playing this game since 2013-2014
If there's something I really appreciate, it's a feature added in the Living City mod, where Aiden can choose to DONATE money to people in need via hacking it into their bank accounts. It adds a kindness to him that I wish was in the original game.
Wait, THERE'S MODS? I'd hate to give Ubisoft any more money than absolutely necessary (they have a few good releases that I occasionally will buy) but I NEED TO SEE THIS MOD!
@@I_Cunt_Spell Uh yeah, I have the game on PS3. Big oof. I don't know if I want the PC version because my hard drive is getting full, but I may check it out! Hopefully I'll get a call from a potential employer with good news today, so I'll make some money. Buy an unnecessarily large SSD for like $2000 or some insane shit like that, then I'll never worry about storage ever again!
After all these years I still find it so fucking hilarious when you're in an intense action sequence and your hud profiles some random enemy like "Diagnosed with STD"
Pubius Caeser I’ve replayed it 4 times for the story purposes alone. Cozy is the perfect word to describe and its the only PS4 disc I don’t ever plan on trading in.
It feels so good to have people finally acknowledge that Watch Dogs, despite its flaws, was pretty damn good. If it weren't for bad marketing with impossibly high expectations, this game would be remembered as an absolute classic. You can tell that the developers put their heart into it, and they had nothing to do with the bad marketing. I hope this video encourages more people to appreciate this game for what it is.
The fact is that people are already starting to recognize Watchdogs as a classic. Watchdogs 2 was a improvement to 1 but it lacked many features like mini-games and reputation system. Now as Ubisoft has taken a new direction to Watchdogs: Legion, people would be more acknowledging Watchdogs 1.
I don't know. I just replayed it recently after not playing for years. It starts out fairly strong, sneaking through the baseball stadium. Then it all goes downhill from there. It's not terrible, but it really doesn't feel like it has its own identity. It feels like a weird mix of Splinter Cell Conviction/Blacklist, Assassin's Creed, and GTA, and it never really comes together. The hacking feels more gimmicky than anything. Then there's the jarring ludonarrative dissonance. Supposedly he's an anti-hero vigilante, but he robs people's bank accounts, threatens witnesses to conceal his identity, and he has no problem wiping out entire gangs, but he absolutely CANNOT kill the gang leaders, for some reason. The whole thing is a bit of a mess. And that's not even getting into the boring, cliche "killed family member" motivation. All in all, it's at best a mediocre experience.
Rahul Sar idk I prefer not to have reputations systems in games like this, it takes a lot of the fun out of free roaming. You can’t go on rampages or God forbid accidentally hit a civilian with your car or people start calling the cops on sight. Then to get your reputation back to even the middle ground have to waste 30 min doing a bunch of side missions
@@KingOfCurses-309 You can see why he refused though. Dedsec for all its claims of benevolence are very misguided. In WD2 they get pissy when people say mean things about them and they aren't above commiting the same crimes they expose. They are a time-bomb and Aiden realised that.
ShadowFiend898 To be fair Aiden does the same thing is them. He complains about how the system monitors every thing but uses the system for his own good. Dedsec while still flawed for stealing took the system down themselves. And the reason they got pissy is because unlike Aiden Pearce they are borrowing processing power from the public. If a hacking group says and talks shit about them they could loose followers, which means less hacking power which means less of a chance of control for taking down ctOS
Hope it was worth the wait! Three quick things. Firstly, this video used to have a NordVPN sponsorship in case you're wondering about the weird edit at the start. As far as I knew, their recent incident was nothing to worry about. But until I know enough to make a solid judgement, the segment is cut. Sorry for the inconvenience. Secondly, if some of the clips look odd, it's because I had to recolour them myself. My Shadowplay has decided to be colourblind. Thirdly, it's worth mentioning that I think Watch_Dogs' reputation has gotten worse with time, which I would have liked to bring up in the video. In 2014, the nukes were indeed dropped, but there was also a considerable group who quite liked the game. Over time, I think the louder words of those who hated it have stood the test of time and created a sorta negative feeback loop. In multiple ways. That's just an observation, but I think it's a common phenomena with "disappointing" games, especially Dark Souls 2.
NordVPN is not trustworthy. They deceived people for year to hide what happened. If I want a secure service, I will use the one which will actually warn me if my data was compromised. Still a great video, though.
Having just beat Watch Dogs 1 and trying to do the "wick style" combat, I can now understand just how impressive this gameplay is. This play style is extremely hard and it is difficult to gain an appreciation for just how hard it is without trying it.
I played this game when I knew nothing about it and I loved it was fun but then when I saw all of this I was so confused why people hate it the whole game is a 9/10 my only problem was the shading was on the Xbox also I live in Chicago and the game and city are very similar
I loved Bad Blood. That moment where T-Bone pleads to the families, and they don't forgive him... It always hit me hard. I agree, I've never met another person whose played it, but it's great, and I'm glad you showed it the love it deserved. Watch Dogs as well, but I feel Bad Blood got particularly ignored
I played it because it came with the complete edition of watchdogs (which I was going to buy but came with my preorder of legion) and my biggest gripe is how short it was
I played it because I wanted to get all achievements, and it was all I had left to get. I got it for $5 on sale one day. Now I've been waiting to do the same thing with watch dogs 2, but for some reason, the season pass for that game never goes below $20, which frankly just isn't worth it for gamerscore lol
@@shinyrayquaza9 It actually comes with the season pass, meaning if you buy the season pass (like I did, but I bought the ultimate edition) you get Watch Dogs 1's complete edition
13:50 "for some reason CtoS can't use this to find you, but people on the street do." This got explained actually. Adian found a backdoor to stop the CtoS automated face recognition system from identify him. He still need to convince the general public they didn't see him though.
@@Whitelight his entire body is pixelated too. Not just his face. His phone probably sends out a signal that activates whatever program he set to scramble his entire form, when a ctos camera is pointed at him. Also you probably addressed this somewhere in the comments but the surrender blackout animation does happen but only if you have one star/less than two full stars. When they get closer Aiden lifts his arms like the trailer but you can do whatever you want, including blackout and focus shooting the police. If you do nothing, you get arrested
Especially as a non native speaker I, for some inexplicable reason, can’t help myself but to view the way you choose to articulate yourself as incredibly pleasing and beautiful
I wish Ubisoft had taken more time to burrow to the core of what would make this IP iconic. Rather than GTA in an Anonymous mask and generic edgelord trenchcoat, they could’ve focused on the techno-John Wick or open-world Mr. Robot. If it was the world of the Alone side missions or Pearce was more of an assassin than a hacker, I think it would’ve gone over better
@No Faith nah I have a bit more faith in legion then I did in 2,I'm much more in favor of the dark gritty atmosphere rather than the milennial bullshit of 2
I liked both. I loved the second when I played it in 2017. But I truly, truly believe that a light hearted tone was not the way to go. I hope Legion finds a reasonable compromise.
Sort of the Assassin Creed 2 effect? Taking a flawed-but-promising baseline, and then massaging it by committee into something more enjoyable, but less engaging?
Probably because the map isn't Chicago at all....it's a map called that. Landmass is totally different to the real place. Driver 2 got it right, I don't know why they made a city that's completely different. It's a nice map, but it isn't Chicago.
If you pick up and listen to the audio logs you actually get some of the backstory behind Maurice and why he did what he did. He really was much more like Aiden then you started off thinking, just trying to protect family. I thought that the revelation, and acceptance, that Maurice was a victim too, and deserved a second chance, as Aiden finally accepted that he too deserved a second chance, was a great piece of storytelling.
I agree, but curiosity got the best of me. If you fire the gun, even if it isn’t at Maruices head, it’ll count. I reset the save and got the ending I wanted, but still something I wanted to point out.
26:30 it only displays Aiden's face if you are playing in red reputation. Cannon is that Aiden hasn't gotten into red by then so that's what the story assumes - and that's why Nikki doesn't know. It's a weak explanation, but better than none imo.
And also the fact that by the time they start mentioning aiden in the broadcasts Nikki had been in captivity for like a 2 or so weeks (or however long the time is from Nikki’s abduction to her escape) and had no way of seeing or hearing those broadcasts. honestly my only problem with that whole thing was the delivery from the actress, it just felt a bit off but i can’t really articulate my thoughts on it
Best in the series by far. Idk how more games don’t have the John wick gameplay. The simple detail of aiden holding his gun behind his back to hide it a bit when not aiming goes a very long way.
I remember getting in a garbage truck in multiplayer with random guy driving. It's incredibly rare and cannot be ordered through your smartphone. Essentially this is the only vehicle that can provide full cover to people. We were driving around shooting everything in sight for an hour straight. We couldn't be stopped really. It was really hard to get away after all the mayhem we caused, but the driver was pretty good and with us constantly controlling traffic lights, garage doors and other environmental hazards we managed to escape. It was one of the most intense experiences in the online games that I've ever experienced
@@EggLike_Spectacle Oh its fucking TERRIBLE on Realistic with John Wick playstyle and its actually the best. You will die a LOT. or im just bad. But it hads up replayability which the game lacks, so to me its a no brainer. Go for Hardest.
@@frogglen6350 *cough* *cough* Dark Souls is an easy game since all you have to do is play the boss twice and remember the patterns. Once you know the bosses its only a matter to remember what to do if A or B happens. Watchdog 1 has terrible mouse control, and i do not play with a controller, even than, running in the open air with 4 ennemies able to shoot at you when 4-5 bullets kill you ded that are 💯 accuracy to perform the John wick melee kill is much harder or difficult to set up than beating any DS boss. The game is easy if you just abuse the time slow and stay behind cover. Which, is the total opposite of that. If you want to prove me wrong, simple. Record an uncut video of you going trough a fight heavy mission without a silencer (or even with it) but since ur so gud and play Dak Suul you should do it without a silencer. Killing every single with a melee gun shooting finisher kill without dying once.
@@Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang Still more challenging than Watch Dogs Remember. DS sold more and has higher review scores than WD ever will get. And it has a bigger following
Honestly, I really enjoyed the car chases in Watch Dogs 1. I don't know why, maybe it was the "weight" of the cars, but they were really enjoyable for me.
Despite how many people trash this game. I’d still much rather have an Aiden sequel then this new comedy, not serious series that Ubisoft has turned watchdogs into.
- MightySpriteKnight - yeah I don’t get why they did that this watch dogs told a story had a mysterious and gritty tone to it then suddenly we get watch dogs 2 and now watch dogs legion were they suddenly shifted to all the focus to dedsec and even in the first game they were kinda introduced as a mysterious hacker group like anonymous now they’re some kind of punkish rebel type of hacker group, that being said though I don’t hate the new games I just wished they kept the same tone as the first game
If they can get both I'd think it's perfect. Both games had redeeming qualities wd1 was great in story and gameplay, etc wd2 had good music........... and some funny jokes..... it looked better? It was still good
I know this is an older video, but one thing you might've messed up on: coming out too early and scaring the potential criminal away doesn't award reputation because the public has no idea that the criminal was, in fact, a criminal. They hadn't committed a crime yet, and for the most part, only you knew that they would. However, if you intervene in the middle of the crime, it's obvious to the public that you saved someone because the criminal was waving a gun around. The rep system shows how the public views you, not how you view yourself. Mind you, I'm not saying that the rep system is good. It's incredibly annoying. But people often get confused with the crime intervention scenarios. Also, I heard was that the original graphics are possible to unlock on PC, with some file tweaking. For some reason, they disabled it, whether that be for performance or just so that the consoles and PC would be identical.
"Watchdogs went trough all the trouble to create an interesting concept and then proceeds to do everything it can to be as uninteresting as physically possible." This pretty much describes Ubisofts philosophy on making games. Cool on paper. Generic in execution. I do buy some games they release and every time it feels like I've played it before. I am never surprised by anything that happens. Its obvious they put a huge amount of work and dedication in them(I was kind of blown away by the detailed city in The Division), they are mostly polished enough for open world games, but f*ck me, its just a looter shooter with no sense of completion after you beat its "campaign missions". I did not care about a singe character in that game. Its so f***ing mindless. Great video, by the way.
The only reason I even like the first "The Division" game is due to the very convincing and detailed NYC setting (I'm born and bred New Yorker). Well, that and the gameplay is solid, but I am otherwise bored by looter shooters and their mechanics, and The Division in that regard bores me to no end. That's why I will never purchase The Division 2.
I guess the only Ubisoft title I can say that goes against the grain there in recent history that I can _think_ of is Rainbow Six Siege. But does that even count?
Bebx Ubisoft has really turned themselves around. Almost every game they’ve released recently has been amazing and they have become one of the more respected companies in the industry. But fuck breakpoint
Im one of the very few that loves Aiden as a protagonist. He literally knows what he wants and stops at nothing but his family to get to it. And even at that, he sends them away to give him power to not slow his conscious down. Im very much looking forward to him being in Watchdogs legion.
You and everybody else are hyper critical. Cdpr deserves nothing more than a raised eyebrow, not having their shit hacked and their info sold on the black market. They deserve a few questions about why they werent forthright with what they were cutting out of the game, not having their game taken off of the PS store and losing billions in stock. They deserve some time to get their shit together, not have their entire legacy shat on by a mass of babies who can't manage their expectations nor emotions.
@Rav thank you kindly for that very, very educated and informative comment😁 I can tell you put a lot of thought into being as reasonable as possible. Seriously, I'm now enlightened; you have given me some very deep insight and it's making me absolutely rethink everything I ever thought on the subject. I'm speechless. Wow. Kudos my guy
@@mentiquebakabila4254 wdym? Ubisoft never abandons their games, even if they're poorly recieved. In especially bad scenarios, they'll make planned paid dlc content free to make up for a bad launch.
I gotta say the GPS map was surprisingly accurate. I went to where my uncle's restaurant by Navy Pier would be and the building layout was accurate. Minis the restaurant of course.
the problem is the stupid coat and cap and hacking trough cellphones is a weird concept to get into, it goes there very fast. should have a few non hacking missions in the beggining because the audience is used to GTA for thousands of years.
Thank you for covering the soundtrack! A lot of people don't talk about it, but the soundtrack is absolutely amazing. The bunker mission was i think also the only time you could hear aiden laugh. Good game. could be better, but I loved it.
@@jamsanator0511 And the game music itself, if you hear it, your gonna get goosebumps and vibes. I didn't notice before but the game music used in watch dogs helped me feel the enviorement of watch dogs.
So Ambitious (Victorian Halls) Ms. Crumby (The Audition) Sparklers (Gemini Club) I have these 3 in my playlist and love listening to them all the time.
I remember playing the hell out of Watch Dog’s multiplayer races. I don’t know why but I really liked the driving physics despite what everyone else says
Playing with keyboard, in watch dogs you press the arrow key, the tires start to turn so the car doesn't do a big turn at the first moment. If you hold the arrow key a longer time, the wheels then get a bigger angle and you feel the car turning more dramatically. It takes time to get used to it (when I started to play i thought it was a delay about the input). In GTA this movement is more regular, you tap the arrow key and the car do a more intense move to the side, it's easier to do quick small corrections, but it's less realistic. I think this is what happens, but I can be wrong, I don't know.
So glad that you mentioned amazing music and strong DLC. And yes, Aiden Pearce is a compelling madman, I love him. I think more and more people find out about Watch_Dogs after the fact and they don't really care about the pre-release claims, so they get to enjoy the game as it is. I have played it in 2019 as well, it was a stand out game for me, and I have only heard about the release scandal only after I have spent 100 hours in Watch_Dogs.
Well, one of the consistently strong aspects of Ubisoft's games is their sound design. I tend to wear headphones anytime I play one of their games (Splinter Cell Blacklist) because the sound design is so damn great.
it bugs me to no end that when hacking defense it's best to turn all the music off but my goodness is that sound design gorgeous a futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic....
I'm really glad someone has finally gave this game a second deep look, it surely got more hate than it deserved, yet it was quite an original game with its dark take and new concepts, I even prefer it to the 2nd entry. Though I have 2 remarks to make about the video: - The surrender-blackout mechanic does exist in the game, you can perform it up till Act 3, after that the cops directly shots without notice (I believe it is tied to the story but i forgot the details of it). - The E3 graphic settings does exist hidden in the PC game files, the early mods just activated them back. And by the latest updates of these mods, I can argue that the results looks fairly similar if not better than the demo (except from explosion effects which were better on the demo) Again, thank you for this enjoyable video, I hope you will give us a same quality ones for other overlooked games such as AC Unity, Watch Dogs 2 and plz one for AC Origins.
The intro of this video is brilliant. You made the right decision by using "Collateral" in your intro. 6:19 Tbh, first half of 8th gen felt like a remaster of 7th gen to me. 8th gen would be 7th gen with a prettier face and higher resolution If PBR material, volumetric lighting, checkerboard rendering (PS4 Pro and Xbox One X), and TAA weren't a thing. 7:26 For some reason this sounds exactly like Dutch Van Der Linde's infamous "We need money." quote. 8:42 You can still take enemies down even without utilizing QTE in chases, just time it well. Ubisoft should've completely removed hacking QTE and risked "criticism" from new players. Looking forward to the day someone manages to remove hacking QTE from the PC version of WD1. 12:59 The handling is alright in my opinion, the handling can sometimes be a bit twitchy and unresponsive. Also, the sense of speed is fantastic considering it's not even a racing game. 15:00 _"Aiden is a man of _*_focus,_*_ commitment, and sheer will, something Damien knows very little about."_ I have no idea why Ubisoft didn't show some John Wick style gameplay in the marketing material alongside usual social hacking. Also, John Wick came out after this game came out. And VC made his first WD1 JW style gameplay video before the first John Wick released, but one of his 2017 videos popularized this playstyle. 17:55 WD1 is one of the few open world games where it's possible to detonate a grenade mid air by shooting it. 28:43 I would've agreed with you before finding Lucky Quinn's audio logs. Turns out he was the one who funded ctOS program. 30:53 -Police- E3 Bandwagon who should have moved on a long time ago instead of whining about WD1 not being a "GTA Killer", those people hyped up the game with unrealistic expectations and decided to do a 180. I'm glad that WD1 found it's own fanbase and most of the E3 bandwagon moved on since then. 37:54 Criminal convoys could've been made even better if you were given an option to speak to the NPC targeted by the bad guys and take him/her to a safe place (and maybe get a conversation that sheds light on why he/she was targeted to begin with). Also, have only one criminal convoy happen per 24 hour in the open world (and unlimited, obviously). 48:48 This circular search zone system could've worked if the number of circles of doom were reduced to a maximum of 2 and restricted to the borough where the crime was originally committed (with the freeways being exempt from these circles of doom) 50:56 WD1 became more popular since you posted this video because WD fanbase consists of people who never stopped playing and players new to the series. Also, WD1's multiplayer is the only multiplayer I really enjoyed. 51:54 T-Bone wants to know your location. 53:52 This is why I consider you to be one of the best retrospective videogame reviewers alongside Raycevick. 56:51 So, Raycevick was doing some voiceovers for Ubisoft before he started reviewing games? 57:41 It's possible in the final game in Act 1&2 ua-cam.com/video/bWf8QalPP7w/v-deo.html 1:03:44 The pre-crime system demonstrated in this mission should've been applied to free roam as well, would've made profiling NPCs more interesting. 1:03:55 So, shooting an NPC in the nose isn't lethal. 1:09:41 At least you get to keep the collectibles instead of mindlessly visiting 50-100 places for a checklist. Also, WD1 implemented audio logs pretty well, you can listen to them anytime you want without going to a pause menu. John Wick's world reminds me of WD1 where anyone might be a fixer willing to kill Aiden Pearce at any moment (assuming you are playing with internet turned on). Tbh, Ubisoft should have given us the option to have AI controlled hacker fixers attack Aiden every once in a while. Watch Dogs 1 is one of my favourite video games of all time despite the overblown criticism it gets from "most people". Thankfully I wasn't on the hype train when it was released and only learned of this game's existence when it was already out for a while. "most people" is a small group of people that managed to change the general consensus without letting people give the game a proper chance. (people on the internet does not equal people outside the internet and the ones who are simply enjoying the game). WD1 has plenty of fans, but they aren't as vocal as the ones who do not like this game. Ubisoft (publisher) and Ubisoft Montréal (developer) aren't the same entity. *Ubisoft Montréal* is the developer who made the game and *Ubisoft* is the publisher that created the hype surrounding the game and created unrealistic expectations through its overambitious marketing tactics. Ubisoft deserves the backlash for how they treated the then brand new IP, not the developers. Ubisoft saw this as an opportunity to set this game as a "GTA killer" while the developers wanted to create a unique open world game with the idea of controlling a city through hacking. Developers work hard only to be given an unrealistic deadline by the publisher, and end up creating a game that falls short of expectations. Ubisoft had 4 games in their 2014 release schedule: ACU, AC Rogue, FC4 ,and WD1. While Rockstar had a remastered version of GTA 5 in 2014. Rockstar involves *every studio* into one project at the risk of *bankruptcy,* Ubisoft does not do the same since *diversifying* resources into different projects reduce the chance of bankruptcy even if one game is a disappointment. Ubisoft operates like a *business,* treating games like *products.* WD1 *maybe* would've had a chance against GTA if Ubisoft launched no other games during 2014, and a better development schedule was used with every studio working on WD1. No, this game would have *never* beaten GTA 5 even if we were handed the E3 2012 build as the final game. E3 version's NPCs were completely scripted, same goes for NPCs in the final game. GTA will be more popular than any urban open world game made by other publishers because GTA is a monopoly in the urban open world crime game market at this point. GTA offers something for everyone and the stories are simple enough to be understood by anyone (which definitely helps boost sales). And the fans of Rockstar games have the power to turn facts into opinions and opinions into facts. WD1's PS4, XB1, and PC versions contributed 66% of the total sales, meaning PS3/360 versions should've been canceled in the first place. This game had a $68 million development cost, a large amount of that money went into building a new game engine, a brand new WD universe, and the game was developed for 5 platforms at launch. WD1 made around $400-450 million *assuming* the average price was around $40-45 per copy (it would be foolish to assume a $60 average price due to the tainted reputation at launch, a heavy discount was obvious) with 10 million copies sold by December 2014. The game needed around $140 million (3.12 to 3.5 million copies sold) to break-even, marketing costs are usually equal to development cost. The game would've still turned a profit even with 66% of the sales. ($268 to 300 million) GTA 5 was developed at a cost of $265 million (development cost was over $137 million) and made $1 billion in 3 days and sold 16.7 million copies assuming they were sold at $60 per copy (no reason for R* to discount the most hyped game of the year in only 3 days). It needed 4.42 million copies sold to break-even. GTA 5 developers had a mature engine (RAGE evolved during GTA5 development) and only had to build off of GTA IV. It was made for 2 platforms at launch and they spent a lot of time adding to HD universe, something GTA IV devs already built from the ground up. While WD1 devs almost had to start from the scratch. FC's AI system, Driver SF handling's tweaked version, and parts of AnvilNext were used for WD1's Disrupt. AC4 Black Flag *apparently* had a $100 million budget (found on the internet, might not be true) compared to WD1's $68 million. AC4 was built off of AC3 and simply built a new world with existing tools. WD1 and NFS Carbon are on the same boat IMO. Both games were hated by a certain group of people at launch, the ones still come back to "correct" and shove down their opinions on the people who liked these games. In NFSC's case, people who joined social media back in 2005-2007 are the ones who come back to express their dissatisfaction over a dead horse. In WD1's case, it's the E3 2012 hype crowd. Both games didn't live up to expectations (since the expectations were sky high). Both games somehow managed to be on my favourite video games list even though they shouldn't be according to that "certain group of people". Both games are actually good but are treated like some kind of "one of the worst games of all time" and stand between 75-80 on Metacritic. WD1 deserved a better publisher than Ubisoft. If you decide to do a retrospective of Watch Dogs Legion, please remember to point out the absence of train in that game. *UPDATE (4-1-2024):* Whitelight spent around a minute criticizing WDL's lack of trains in the WDL 3 Years Later video. 10 million copies sold is impressive by itself (many games couldn't even reach half of that), but I still think that WD1 was a disappointment in terms of sales, it should've sold at least 15-20 million copies to justify the hype it created. Many newer games from the late 2010's and early 2020's sell nearly twice that figure. Ubisoft is secretive about its sales, so I'm not sure if we'll ever know if WD1 reached 15 million copies over the years. We're heading for a future that is very similar to what WD1 and Person of Interest demonstrated, so WD1 SHOULD have been more successful. I wish that you brought up Person of Interest in this video. Excellent video!
I come back to this video every couple of months, honestly, your script delivery, editing style & ability to TELL a games story (something designed to be experienced) so entertainingly is ridiculous. You truly are one of the greatest to ever do it
I get what you mean by becoming John Wick, the cover vault kills, gun melee, stumbles and rolls make moving quickly and closing gaps very, very satisfying. I’ve felt like WD and WD2 has always struggled with weapons. The marketing and sickass takedowns makes me think WD1 was supposed to have pistols be the main tool, but instead you get ARs, shotguns, and snipers. WD2 suffers from this way worse - it’s clearly supposed to be a breakfast club hacker teen movie, but you can whip out an assault rifle and gun down dozens of cops, despite your goal literally being good PR. That, and the addition of the taser and having electric traps and melee being explicitly nonlethal makes it clear to me that combat was supposed to be limited. In my mind hacking is necessary since the taser has one shot and takedowns take time, but instead I can whip out a shotty and delete people. Ubisoft’s execs clearly had their fingers all over WD combat. Should’ve let WD1 be John Wick. Should’ve let WD2 be a feel good nonlethal teen movie. Both would’ve been great, but AAA will be AAA. Dunno what Legion will want and fail to be.
Ganjack Bogle Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about, it was planned to be just a pistol but someone higher up probably forced them to add in rifles and explosives. And I’m pretty sure if someone actually went out and slaughtered dozens of cops with a grenade launcher in S.F. they wouldn’t be portrayed as a hero lol
Astolfo Yeah, and we’re saying you can kill every gang member, civilian, and cop and no one reacts any differently. I think if the story wants to be as light as it was they should reflect it in the gameplay.
I didnt know anything about the hate it got, i went in as a blank slate and i loved the game. The story, his personality the realistic over surveillance issue. It was AWESOME
@@kingalastor936 I liked the graphics more, my mom wouldn't buy me gta so this was my gta and the online mini games were honestly so fun. I was so retarded 😂
I finally came back to this game, started over and beat it in 2021 years after it came out. To be completely honest, I really like Aiden as a character, the story is cool and yes a little odd and the gameplay is kinda wack at times but I’m glad I got to beat it and I wish I could play as Aiden more
No idea why this was on my recommended, no idea why I clicked on it... 5 min into the video and I'm already thinking to myself: wow why I'm suddenly so interested in watchdogs? Great video so far bro - im totally subscribing to your channel lol
The ending of watch dogs specially after Aiden delieved his speech about protecting everyone punishing the bad once made me remind of Light Yagami (the main protagonist from Death Note) who also thought like this after getting the death note. Both these guys felt like god after recovering something powerful. Aiden got the entire CTOS network control in his hands and Light got the entire death note control in his hands.
DUDE I'm so glad you actually went into detail with the game and spoke about Alone. That was literally my favorite mini-game and I probably played that (and Spidertank) more than the actual game itself. There was so much to the atmosphere and mechanics of the game that I enjoyed that I seriously considered getting Watch_Dogs for my Steam account just so I could mull through the story until I could play that trip again. What was really cool was that the game never forced you to actually succeed in Alone. After I beat the trip half a dozen times or so, the next time I booted it up I just sort of wandered around. I had just completed the first sector, and when the night turned to day, I started running towards the next one until I stopped and just felt like going the other direction. Funny thing is, the game's entire map is free to explore in Alone. The city is full of empty cars, and the dark zones are full of robots, but aside from that the map is completely devoid of life and activity. Drive to any part of the city and you can reach the other end undisturbed. In a game full of hyperactive technology and people living their artificial lives, the world just feels so atmospheric and melancholic compared to the rest of the game. My favorite thing was driving my car up the stairs and onto the train tracks and just driving all the way around the island rails. I was even able to use that to my advantage at one point and wheel myself really far into the dark zones and kill a bunch of the robots from above before jumping back down and freeing the zone. Between that and the uniqueness of the invasion mechanic (where other players look like pedestrians to you, and vice versa, spread out in an entire open world map) I wonder if we'll ever get anything like that in a AAA setting again.
@@aayushdas19 Yeah, I'm really worried about it. The gunplay looks like it lacks any impact or punch. Despite being worried, I do have faith in CD Projekt Red though.
I can't imagine a more perfect song for the theme and mood that this game presents. Kid Cudi is from the Chicago area (Many other featured artists are as well). And Chicago itself feels perfect for this song to be playing while cruising around. Day n Nite and Sparklers. Those two are my jam because of Watch Dogs.
the reason why i love this game so much is the animations. every single animation in this game from walking to reloading feels so weighty and realistic. Gives it much more replay value for me
I had zero expectations when playing this game and i loved it! I didn't know much about it to begin with. You felt very powerful, more like a legendary hitman that also had some hacking abilities. I missed feeling this strong in the second one. One thing i really liked was FEELING like the main character. Underrated game.
I have a soft spot for this game, one of my fav series Ubisoft has done. Sure it had flaws, and sure they're milking it now like Assassins Creed, but I'll always love the original.
@@morgan0__o wheres beyond good and evil 2 or other new IPs? That's all I'm saying. Thankfully they don't release a watch dogs every year like they did assassin's creed
Awwww come on, Watch Dogs 2 was still beautiful and has amazing gameplay. I personally enjoyed the multiplayer and did multiplayer most of the game. I think most of us can all agree that it has some of the most beautiful graphics of all time.(or so I think so)
Same. I'd rather have fun being chased with the cops in watch dogs then being continued to be blown up by 12 year olds who beat there meat every other hour on an oppressor mk2
53:53 The music is so good glad you brought this up! The track that plays during the act 4 mission where Aiden and Damien meet up face to face and he reveals Aiden's face all over the loop. The track that plays really makes you feel like everything is on the line and there is no where to hide, funny enough during this mission no matter how many Jam comms you use the police are scripted to always detect you with the green ctos circle. It really throws the idea out there that the man who is somehow able to hide in plain site despite being dressed very conspicuously now has no where to hide!
This is by far the best look at WD I've seen I still love this game, online hacking and decryption is enough to keep me playing, we still have new strategies and techniques being created even today. There's a few things you said I disagree with, but you still did an amazing job. And what really sucks, is that there will probably never be another WD1
@@yobrodude1284 the only way that would be another game like the first one is if they intentionally left bugs in or mimicked the bugs by having secret glitch parkour skills you have to unlock.
I'm so happy you talked about the digital trips. They were so much fun to play i even unlocked every clothing from each minigame. Just remebering alone and madness made me want to buy watch dogs again. This is one of the best( if not the best ) review i have ever seen on the game. You covered so much on side missions, minigames and dlc and i can't imagine the work you went trough to make this . This video is really old so i don't think you are going to read this but i felt like i needed to make this comment. Amazing work
I have to say that I found Aiden's character very compelling, despite him spelling his name wrong. Then again he's the only character I can think of with the name Aidan.
@@chadkingoffuckmountain970 lol, yeah, but I've had a couple run-ins with dudes of that spelling who have called out my spelling as weird. Grudge-holdin' to the max.
It's not like there's the possibility that names can have different spellings. All being correct. try googling Aiden and Aidan. You wont get corrected. Both are legit.
I feel the game is less dark and very dramatic, fast paced. It has some dark themes but it really goes nowhere or never goes far enough to truly be dark, dwelling on the line of edgy and dramatic. Watchdogs 2 may have been more comedic, but it went all the way so it feels more coherent when you play it. Watchdogs brings up a lot of stuff like human trafficking but it feels more like. Side note then tied to the story. Movies like the dark knight are dark because they have themes of terorism and stuff but they go somewhere, the story is tied to those stuff. Watchdogs falls to do that and instead tosses it away or rushes through it. Human trafficking could’ve made for a very dark story. Imagine instead of Nicky being captured by Damien, she was caught by the mob and sent to an auction. That would’ve made Aiden going after Iraq and Quinn, more coherent and feels like there’s an immediate threat
Part of me wants to make a Watch-Dogs-ish game where, when you’re hacking into something, your phone actually has some sort of Unix-y command line shell (probably bash (common in Linux) or zsh (I think macOS uses this)) that you have to use to actually hack, while you use (say, the mouse on PC) to defend yourself while hacking. Well, on another note - if you want some good hacking, there is a PC game called Hacknet that focuses exclusively on the hacking - there’s no open world - you can’t even see what your character looks like, just a network of computers to hack and a clientele of people who want you to hack them. To do so, you use a combination of both a graphical user interface and a Unix-like terminal.
There's actually quite the variety out there if you sniff around enough, but nobody's really managed to package both physical presence and cyber access together into a sandbox where both prove equally engaging. Quadrilateral Cowboys and Else Heart.Break() both play with hacking and interacting with the world, but the former has a very small scope and the latter lacks the awareness to notice when you're really messing with it. NITE Team 4 covers a number of authentic techniques, but again lacks the physical presence that more personal attacks like social engineering and refuse interception (dumpster diving) so much fun. Off Grid looks like a next possibility, but I've noticed it's been sitting on my wishlist for quite some time without releasing, so I don't know the if/when on it yet.
I played this game earlier this year or at the end of last year. I usually wait a couple of years before I buy and play a game because by then it usually has a goty edition, the bugs have been fixed and some walkthoughs exist for puzzles that are not intuitive to solve. And I enjoyed the game a lot. It was like most open world games fraught with side missions that look similar to one another, but the city and the ambient was amazing. I've never been to Chicago so I can't tell, but the lighting of the city was pretty much like the lighting of cities in the north part of the planet I've been (Paris for example), so I needed only launch the game to leave the tropical city I live and be in chilly, windy and rainy environment. The game has a lot of heart, it's sad the marketing machine behind the launch tainted this all so much. Try the drinking game with the local drunkards on each part, you forget you're playing watchdogs and get transported to some other game. And that happens with so many mini games of the game, you get transported to so many places and forget you're on the game, it's like buying some 10 games on a bundle. Also I learned to play poker on this game so there is that.
Same, I forgot it existed until I was trying to complete the skill tree and thought "What the hell is 'focus'?" I did also play the game stealthily the whole way though.
That montage of action movie carnage is also why I highly recommend not playing the game on hard because while it's not much of a difference if your playing it like a cover shooter it does make those stylish plays prohibitively risky to pull off.
People are talking about PS2 games that do this in the comments, as well. Surely, there's gonna be something on PS1 that did this as well... somewhere. It's not that crazy a feature. It's basically a long, moving platform.
You should edit this comment my friend cause in your ancient console games the only think you can do with the trains is watching them. And also GTA SA you can only watch cj walking into nothing and then teleporting where you wanted to.
@@theodor_o the fuck are you talking about lol . I've been playing on PC for years fool . What I play on PC and console but you only on pc ? Then that's YOUR problem mate
When i played through this game for the first time i tried to play it as stealthy and pacifist as possible. I honestly never knew you could play this game like John Wick, as the story implies stealth. But let me tell you, the sense of accomplishment you get by infiltrating warehouses full of Fixers without being seen or firing a shot once is amazing. That constant pressure of moving and hacking your environment to not get seen needs tactical thinking (lures are for noobs) and that is what i remember this game for. That is also the reason why my reputation was always fairly high, giving me absolutely no benefit (except that pedestrians make photos of you). But there is another part that i find both good and bad about this game. That is the Audio Logs. Audio Logs can be found by many people and even Aiden himself has made some. They give the characters a great background and help to build the world much more in-depth than it has. Like Aiden giving reasoning and an explanation about his psychological manipulation. And to be honest, these were kinda missing in the review (excluding the ones from the QR Codes of course). And the side missions where you track down a serial killer or human trafficking are things that i wish would have been discussed. Their biggest flaw is simply that they are optional collectibles. Why would you make the thing that helps the player immerse in the world of Watch Dogs an optional collectible to get? The history of Quinn, Maurice, the bunker and Raymond Kenney himself, hidden behind some collectible Audio Logs that only few people even care to check out. I love them, but the fact that they are just optional make them kind of a bad addition. Still, Watch Dogs 1 stays my favorite one of the two, simply because of the vigilante, story and setting. Watch Dogs 2 was a bit too colorful for a world where humans get sold, everyone gets spied on and that data also gets sold to the highest bidder. The dystopian yet almost realistic feel of the first one is what makes Watch Dogs for me.
"You're being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine. It's spies on you every hour of every day, I know because... I build it." - Person of Interest ( aka Watch Dogs the TV show. ) 14:30 really? Is it truly DOA? Funny how I managed to complete the entire game by being in the blue the entire way through all the way to the top. Hell I even have footage of the damn thing from back then. Maybe it was just how I played it that made it that much easier. I didn't need to drive like a psycho or shoot everyone on sight or whatever, I played it as if I was playing Splinter Cell and the only true way to play that franchise is to be a ghost. But that's just me.
Yeah, I got full blue pretty much at 25% of the story, I actively searched for crimes at first because I hated being chased by the police since I didn't know how to escape without killing them and shooting their tires while moving like GTA wasn't and option
This game was despised on release. Even I was disappointed by it. But I loved almost every second of it. I finished the story and never played it again. But I had fun. A games reputation destroyed because it shot its self in the foot.
@Uhhh It was the marketing and false propaganda that destroyed this game, The game was never intended to be what the marketing was pretending to make it out to be.
"Aidan is like hacker batman"
1. Batman is sortof already a hacker
2. Aidan DOES have batmans voice
In the russian version of the game the actor voicing Aiden voiced Christian Bale (batman) in the Dark Knight trilogy. Just realized that yesterday.
I say he is more Rorschach with a gun than Batman.
@@Roach6195 What?
* Aiden *
3. Bat man has broken voice
"What happened to Watch Dogs is exactly what Ubisoft deserved. It's just not what Watch Dogs deserved."
Incredibly succinct
still hurts to this day, Watch Dogs was one of my favourite games...
"Well yes, but actually no." Is the perfect answer to "are you a Ubisoft fan?"
not what chicago deserved
You could say the same thing with Unity. However, Unity found redemption with time, Watch Dogs didn't.
@@unc54 Yeah but Watch_Dogs is mostly loved now (in my experience) since the only people who play it probably have their expectations shot to 0.
This was a game I knew nothing about. None of the hype, none of the trailers, none of the controversy and not a single review. Yes I was in my senior year and living under a rock with nothing but classwork on my mind just to keep my head up. Frankly, this was one of the most enjoyable experiences I had in that extremely tough year. I think this shows how negative mindsets going into games kinda dooms the experience before you even boot the game up.
same man i just saw it in gamestop and thought the cover looked cool so i bought it and i have never once regretted it
Well said
True
I had been bitten by so many bad games, I never thought the finished game would look as good as the initial trailer anyway, so I wasn't disappointed or surprised.
@@PinkFloydFan74 I didnt even know the trailer thing nor what people think about this game until this year bruh... I have been playing this game since 2013-2014
If there's something I really appreciate, it's a feature added in the Living City mod, where Aiden can choose to DONATE money to people in need via hacking it into their bank accounts. It adds a kindness to him that I wish was in the original game.
Wait, THERE'S MODS?
I'd hate to give Ubisoft any more money than absolutely necessary (they have a few good releases that I occasionally will buy) but I NEED TO SEE THIS MOD!
@@lsswappedcessna
Just type "Watch Dogs Living City Mod", download and enjoy.
@@I_Cunt_Spell Uh yeah, I have the game on PS3. Big oof.
I don't know if I want the PC version because my hard drive is getting full, but I may check it out! Hopefully I'll get a call from a potential employer with good news today, so I'll make some money. Buy an unnecessarily large SSD for like $2000 or some insane shit like that, then I'll never worry about storage ever again!
@@lsswappedcessna
It's 300 megabytes tops.
@@I_Cunt_Spell I literally just said I don't have the game on PC.
Aiden doing an edgy, gravelly voiced narration on how to make banana bread is so ridiculously adorable.
Sauce?
@@earlyjackie5564 No I meant sauce for dude's account picture lmao
@@Arunnejiro my bad lol
Sega, take notes
Ironically, cyberpunk combat, especially stealth, didn't click for me until I realized "think watch dogs"
Despite the flaws, I played Watch_Dogs, and I loved it. I actually got really attached to Aiden as a character.
HyperBean same was really bummed that he didn’t come back in the sequel
@@EthanRom Thanks. He did come back in side mission in Watch_Dogs 2 though. You get an achievement and Aiden's outfit for completing it.
HyperBean yes to my knowledge that mission is called something like the fox?
@@sebthederg5459 I don't know what it's called I forget.
OH MY GOD, DUDE SAME JSNSKFJJDID
I hope he gets back somehow :(
After all these years I still find it so fucking hilarious when you're in an intense action sequence and your hud profiles some random enemy like "Diagnosed with STD"
Had never thought of that actually wtf
Even coldblooded hired killers can be uncaring enough to not use protection!
I still have the screenshot saved of that one time I was going through a criminal hideout and found out one of the armed goons is a furry, lol.
@@Roler42 bruh bout to go fight with the mickey mouse cosplay (HO HO seems my suprise tool is needed here!)
@@Roler42 lmao
the game felt just so... cozy to play. It's one of the few singleplayer titles i've replayed again and again
Yes. The atmosphere was amazing and I loved the gameplay in it. I prefer the first game over the second actually.
Pubius Caeser I’ve replayed it 4 times for the story purposes alone. Cozy is the perfect word to describe and its the only PS4 disc I don’t ever plan on trading in.
Do you know anymore cozy games like the first watch dogs? I need a game i can play when my friends arent on and just play campaign
@@willymart0335 RDR2
@@willymart0335 literally any exclusive that ps4 has put out is better than watchdogs
I remember getting inside a car and hear the song Day n Night
Senpill I would fast forward on the radio so many times just to hear that song lmao
those were the good days gentlemen. I might just have to re download it now
That was the only car song I liked in the game so I disabled all of the other songs that could play in the car. Day n' Nite every time lol
That song and also Sparklers by gemi club Idk why for some reason loved that song and it’s on my playlist whenever I go and skate
I bought the game on ps4 just to listen to that shit
This whole series feels like one really long Nord VPN ad.
That's a very interesting theory
Whitelight I mean one of their servers got hacked.........oh no
Mr. NPC most of the time you are safer using them than not. Although there not a full proof method.
Or maybe IP vanish or Tunnel Bear since nord VPN did an oopsie
Jack yeah, usually better than nothing, but you *can* go to greater lengths if you sacrifice convenience
It feels so good to have people finally acknowledge that Watch Dogs, despite its flaws, was pretty damn good. If it weren't for bad marketing with impossibly high expectations, this game would be remembered as an absolute classic. You can tell that the developers put their heart into it, and they had nothing to do with the bad marketing. I hope this video encourages more people to appreciate this game for what it is.
The fact is that people are already starting to recognize Watchdogs as a classic. Watchdogs 2 was a improvement to 1 but it lacked many features like mini-games and reputation system. Now as Ubisoft has taken a new direction to Watchdogs: Legion, people would be more acknowledging Watchdogs 1.
I don't know. I just replayed it recently after not playing for years. It starts out fairly strong, sneaking through the baseball stadium. Then it all goes downhill from there. It's not terrible, but it really doesn't feel like it has its own identity. It feels like a weird mix of Splinter Cell Conviction/Blacklist, Assassin's Creed, and GTA, and it never really comes together. The hacking feels more gimmicky than anything.
Then there's the jarring ludonarrative dissonance. Supposedly he's an anti-hero vigilante, but he robs people's bank accounts, threatens witnesses to conceal his identity, and he has no problem wiping out entire gangs, but he absolutely CANNOT kill the gang leaders, for some reason. The whole thing is a bit of a mess. And that's not even getting into the boring, cliche "killed family member" motivation. All in all, it's at best a mediocre experience.
Rahul Sar idk I prefer not to have reputations systems in games like this, it takes a lot of the fun out of free roaming. You can’t go on rampages or God forbid accidentally hit a civilian with your car or people start calling the cops on sight. Then to get your reputation back to even the middle ground have to waste 30 min doing a bunch of side missions
THIS!!!!!!! This game felt like a passion project not a money printer like ubisoft's other games
@@HugoStiglitz88
South Park Stick of Truth did it better
10:30 Are we gonna ignore how that npc fell perfectly inside the trucks back trunk
I KNOW RIGHT?!
I was looking for someone to notice lol
He literally stopped and came back to confirm that exact thing
What are you talking about “ignore”?
I was about to comment about it hahaha
best three-pointer I've ever seen
Aiden takes down multiple ctos towers dedsec:
Marcus takes down one dedsec:
👁️👄👁️
MR. panich dedsec tried to recruit aiden at the end tho and he refused remember
@@FarhanNahin If I remember they only asked for some time to put a backdoor in CToS systems, but yeah, aiden refused to
@@KingOfCurses-309 You can see why he refused though. Dedsec for all its claims of benevolence are very misguided.
In WD2 they get pissy when people say mean things about them and they aren't above commiting the same crimes they expose. They are a time-bomb and Aiden realised that.
@@Marco-bb7vd he ain't wrong
ShadowFiend898 To be fair Aiden does the same thing is them. He complains about how the system monitors every thing but uses the system for his own good. Dedsec while still flawed for stealing took the system down themselves. And the reason they got pissy is because unlike Aiden Pearce they are borrowing processing power from the public. If a hacking group says and talks shit about them they could loose followers, which means less hacking power which means less of a chance of control for taking down ctOS
Hope it was worth the wait! Three quick things. Firstly, this video used to have a NordVPN sponsorship in case you're wondering about the weird edit at the start. As far as I knew, their recent incident was nothing to worry about. But until I know enough to make a solid judgement, the segment is cut. Sorry for the inconvenience. Secondly, if some of the clips look odd, it's because I had to recolour them myself. My Shadowplay has decided to be colourblind. Thirdly, it's worth mentioning that I think Watch_Dogs' reputation has gotten worse with time, which I would have liked to bring up in the video. In 2014, the nukes were indeed dropped, but there was also a considerable group who quite liked the game. Over time, I think the louder words of those who hated it have stood the test of time and created a sorta negative feeback loop. In multiple ways. That's just an observation, but I think it's a common phenomena with "disappointing" games, especially Dark Souls 2.
Whitelight! Whitelight! Will we get a halloween video or is this your halloween video?
NordVPN is not trustworthy. They deceived people for year to hide what happened. If I want a secure service, I will use the one which will actually warn me if my data was compromised. Still a great video, though.
@@Zomana9 Got a Shadowkeep video coming out the day after Halloween if that counts!
Wow, love this video definitely worth the wait
@@Whitelight very excited to here you talk shit about something I love nice rap btw
Having just beat Watch Dogs 1 and trying to do the "wick style" combat, I can now understand just how impressive this gameplay is. This play style is extremely hard and it is difficult to gain an appreciation for just how hard it is without trying it.
I played this game when I knew nothing about it and I loved it was fun but then when I saw all of this I was so confused why people hate it the whole game is a 9/10 my only problem was the shading was on the Xbox also I live in Chicago and the game and city are very similar
@@HaloofWar35276same here. The game is really good if you're not reading Twitter posts about it before playing.
The four wheels on the shopping cart like:
Madness Psychadelics
*SPIDERTANK* Alone
Only one is truly Good
And that one dlc that adds a extra digital trip must be a secret wheel on the cart
"what you got man?"
"ah man good new stuff bro i got this stuff called Madness, Psychedelics, Spidertank, Alone"
"Yo wait what was that last one"
must be a perfect working cart
Alone was honestly kind of enjoyable in its own weird way.
10:28
are we just gonna ignore the lady that got kobe'd into the truck
was about to comment that
She's not in helicopter
rip kobe since im the first i can say, suck it bitches im first
Holy shit that was amazing
RIP
I loved Bad Blood. That moment where T-Bone pleads to the families, and they don't forgive him... It always hit me hard. I agree, I've never met another person whose played it, but it's great, and I'm glad you showed it the love it deserved. Watch Dogs as well, but I feel Bad Blood got particularly ignored
Yeah watch dogs was popular but not that much and way less people bought bad blood
I played it because it came with the complete edition of watchdogs (which I was going to buy but came with my preorder of legion) and my biggest gripe is how short it was
i played bad blood too! the story was great but it was too short sadly and not much had it
i met a few people online because i invaded their worlds
I played it because I wanted to get all achievements, and it was all I had left to get. I got it for $5 on sale one day.
Now I've been waiting to do the same thing with watch dogs 2, but for some reason, the season pass for that game never goes below $20, which frankly just isn't worth it for gamerscore lol
@@shinyrayquaza9 It actually comes with the season pass, meaning if you buy the season pass (like I did, but I bought the ultimate edition) you get Watch Dogs 1's complete edition
I actually played poker in Watch Dogs
I just shot them up after I lost a quid
actually poker is easy cheese, go into a 10k stakes match and just bet 2k everytime, they will fold and you will win till they run out of money
Same
Good move
@Bill Ball Wait a minute, Is that for real? Or you are just kidding?
Making realistic poker AI is rEaLLy hArD
Actually it probably is wtf do I know
13:50 "for some reason CtoS can't use this to find you, but people on the street do."
This got explained actually. Adian found a backdoor to stop the CtoS automated face recognition system from identify him. He still need to convince the general public they didn't see him though.
In the very first mission if you look at Aiden through a camera his face shows up pixelated
Was talking about the clothes.
Whitelight ikaw yung b0b0 pakyu
Ben Andrei lmaooo glad I can understand that 💀💀💀
@@Whitelight his entire body is pixelated too. Not just his face. His phone probably sends out a signal that activates whatever program he set to scramble his entire form, when a ctos camera is pointed at him. Also you probably addressed this somewhere in the comments but the surrender blackout animation does happen but only if you have one star/less than two full stars. When they get closer Aiden lifts his arms like the trailer but you can do whatever you want, including blackout and focus shooting the police. If you do nothing, you get arrested
Especially as a non native speaker I, for some inexplicable reason, can’t help myself but to view the way you choose to articulate yourself as incredibly pleasing and beautiful
Agreed
It also helps that his voice is deep and soothing, honey straight into my brain.
GO WITH HONG KONG
@@king.savagekingdom9929 Shut the fuck up, it's fucking tiring. Keep politics out of this and just enjoy the fucking video.
@bed tundy There is a de-esser on it. If was any harsher with it, it would make me sound like I was speaking through a sock.
Aiden was finally an interesting character from Ubisoft and they just threw it away for some generic dude.
Aiden wasn't Ubisoft first interesting character. Sam Fisher, Edward Kenway, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad etc... Aiden just happened to be their last one IMO.
@@namesclassified7422 maybe mention a Ezio aswell :)
Well luckily he will be back soon
@@safwatwaleed4165 Aiden was only uninteresting bc he hides his personality. It states that at the end of the game.
Honestly I love both Aiden Pearce and Marcus Holloway for their own reasons. Both are awesome characters.
I’d always had a love for this game despite its many issues. Glad to see this game covered. Thanks for the many videos and the more to come man.
I had so much fun with the original.
Same although I felt the sequel was genuinely awful
I wish Ubisoft had taken more time to burrow to the core of what would make this IP iconic. Rather than GTA in an Anonymous mask and generic edgelord trenchcoat, they could’ve focused on the techno-John Wick or open-world Mr. Robot. If it was the world of the Alone side missions or Pearce was more of an assassin than a hacker, I think it would’ve gone over better
@@Inali097 Here's to hoping 3 is better lmao
@No Faith nah I have a bit more faith in legion then I did in 2,I'm much more in favor of the dark gritty atmosphere rather than the milennial bullshit of 2
I honestly like the original more than 2. Something about Chicago felt more fun than San Francisco.
I love the first one so much, and I love the second one, too..as long as I don't play through the story.
I liked both. I loved the second when I played it in 2017. But I truly, truly believe that a light hearted tone was not the way to go. I hope Legion finds a reasonable compromise.
@@Whitelight It was like watching a cartoon. Completely bonkers. I can't wait to see what you say when you review the second one...
Sort of the Assassin Creed 2 effect? Taking a flawed-but-promising baseline, and then massaging it by committee into something more enjoyable, but less engaging?
Probably because the map isn't Chicago at all....it's a map called that. Landmass is totally different to the real place. Driver 2 got it right, I don't know why they made a city that's completely different. It's a nice map, but it isn't Chicago.
If you pick up and listen to the audio logs you actually get some of the backstory behind Maurice and why he did what he did. He really was much more like Aiden then you started off thinking, just trying to protect family. I thought that the revelation, and acceptance, that Maurice was a victim too, and deserved a second chance, as Aiden finally accepted that he too deserved a second chance, was a great piece of storytelling.
I agree, but curiosity got the best of me. If you fire the gun, even if it isn’t at Maruices head, it’ll count. I reset the save and got the ending I wanted, but still something I wanted to point out.
26:30 it only displays Aiden's face if you are playing in red reputation. Cannon is that Aiden hasn't gotten into red by then so that's what the story assumes - and that's why Nikki doesn't know. It's a weak explanation, but better than none imo.
And also the fact that by the time they start mentioning aiden in the broadcasts Nikki had been in captivity for like a 2 or so weeks (or however long the time is from Nikki’s abduction to her escape) and had no way of seeing or hearing those broadcasts. honestly my only problem with that whole thing was the delivery from the actress, it just felt a bit off but i can’t really articulate my thoughts on it
57:55
I recently went back through the game, and at one star you can attempt a fake surrender and trigger a blackout
You can with one or two stars up until act 4 I believe
No bruh. At one star they immediately shoot you
“A guy is not a guy he is a : foot fetishist furry” welp time to use Nord VPN
Wait...
I'm not a furry
Not gonna matter anyway after the leak lmao
The worst and best part is that I'm dating a foot fetishist furry
Use mullvad instead.
Best in the series by far. Idk how more games don’t have the John wick gameplay. The simple detail of aiden holding his gun behind his back to hide it a bit when not aiming goes a very long way.
YESS you're so right 😩😩🔥
I remember getting in a garbage truck in multiplayer with random guy driving. It's incredibly rare and cannot be ordered through your smartphone. Essentially this is the only vehicle that can provide full cover to people. We were driving around shooting everything in sight for an hour straight. We couldn't be stopped really. It was really hard to get away after all the mayhem we caused, but the driver was pretty good and with us constantly controlling traffic lights, garage doors and other environmental hazards we managed to escape.
It was one of the most intense experiences in the online games that I've ever experienced
who else is going to re-install this game to relive the bad ass action.
Cheetale i was just doing that lmfaooo, i’m doing both 1 and 2
I reinstalled it, modded it, then came here
I was playing 2 again but I can't stay interested in it because I couldn't give a shit about anyone in it..
Destie The master nah trash
Destie The master theres watch dogs legion coming march
The John wick playstyle sounds like I need to replay this game
@@EggLike_Spectacle Oh its fucking TERRIBLE on Realistic with John Wick playstyle and its actually the best.
You will die a LOT. or im just bad. But it hads up replayability which the game lacks, so to me its a no brainer. Go for Hardest.
@@Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang
Yeah. You just suck at the game. Maybe it is easy for me because I play games like Dark Souls.
@@frogglen6350 *cough* *cough*
Dark Souls is an easy game since all you have to do is play the boss twice and remember the patterns.
Once you know the bosses its only a matter to remember what to do if A or B happens.
Watchdog 1 has terrible mouse control, and i do not play with a controller, even than, running in the open air with 4 ennemies able to shoot at you when 4-5 bullets kill you ded that are 💯 accuracy to perform the John wick melee kill is much harder or difficult to set up than beating any DS boss.
The game is easy if you just abuse the time slow and stay behind cover.
Which, is the total opposite of that.
If you want to prove me wrong, simple. Record an uncut video of you going trough a fight heavy mission without a silencer (or even with it) but since ur so gud and play Dak Suul you should do it without a silencer. Killing every single with a melee gun shooting finisher kill without dying once.
@@Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang Still more challenging than Watch Dogs
Remember. DS sold more and has higher review scores than WD ever will get. And it has a bigger following
@@Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang in WD all you gotta do is shoot a guy in the head and do an unrealistic hack to lose the cops. 👀
Honestly, I really enjoyed the car chases in Watch Dogs 1. I don't know why, maybe it was the "weight" of the cars, but they were really enjoyable for me.
Despite how many people trash this game. I’d still much rather have an Aiden sequel then this new comedy, not serious series that Ubisoft has turned watchdogs into.
- MightySpriteKnight - yeah I don’t get why they did that this watch dogs told a story had a mysterious and gritty tone to it then suddenly we get watch dogs 2 and now watch dogs legion were they suddenly shifted to all the focus to dedsec and even in the first game they were kinda introduced as a mysterious hacker group like anonymous now they’re some kind of punkish rebel type of hacker group, that being said though I don’t hate the new games I just wished they kept the same tone as the first game
From all the material that has been released already it would appear that Watch Dogs Legion is making a return to that gritty undertone.
Yes and no, from what I've seen it seems to combine both WD1 and WD2.
If they can get both I'd think it's perfect. Both games had redeeming qualities wd1 was great in story and gameplay, etc wd2 had good music........... and some funny jokes..... it looked better? It was still good
@@thousandsofclowns true, but it's too cyberpunkish
I know this is an older video, but one thing you might've messed up on: coming out too early and scaring the potential criminal away doesn't award reputation because the public has no idea that the criminal was, in fact, a criminal. They hadn't committed a crime yet, and for the most part, only you knew that they would. However, if you intervene in the middle of the crime, it's obvious to the public that you saved someone because the criminal was waving a gun around. The rep system shows how the public views you, not how you view yourself.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the rep system is good. It's incredibly annoying. But people often get confused with the crime intervention scenarios.
Also, I heard was that the original graphics are possible to unlock on PC, with some file tweaking. For some reason, they disabled it, whether that be for performance or just so that the consoles and PC would be identical.
Ok, now I want a dedicated John Wick game based on Watch Dogs' gameplay.
Just play watch dogs then😂
@@SantoshKumar-ws2qz but you have to play watch dogs...
Imagine arkham style combat but you use guns to finish combos or in lieu of heavy attacks, like a gun kata version of that combat style.
@@moparboi420rochr8 what's wrong with that
@@ToxicBastard Man Id buy that
I like that badblood directly laughs at aiden for being edgy
"Watchdogs went trough all the trouble to create an interesting concept and then proceeds to do everything it can to be as uninteresting as physically possible."
This pretty much describes Ubisofts philosophy on making games. Cool on paper. Generic in execution. I do buy some games they release and every time it feels like I've played it before. I am never surprised by anything that happens.
Its obvious they put a huge amount of work and dedication in them(I was kind of blown away by the detailed city in The Division), they are mostly polished enough for open world games, but f*ck me, its just a looter shooter with no sense of completion after you beat its "campaign missions". I did not care about a singe character in that game. Its so f***ing mindless.
Great video, by the way.
The only reason I even like the first "The Division" game is due to the very convincing and detailed NYC setting (I'm born and bred New Yorker). Well, that and the gameplay is solid, but I am otherwise bored by looter shooters and their mechanics, and The Division in that regard bores me to no end. That's why I will never purchase The Division 2.
I guess the only Ubisoft title I can say that goes against the grain there in recent history that I can _think_ of is Rainbow Six Siege. But does that even count?
Bebx Ubisoft has really turned themselves around. Almost every game they’ve released recently has been amazing and they have become one of the more respected companies in the industry. But fuck breakpoint
The Survival game mode is brilliant, though ...
@@brmlpez_6699 The Far cry series is not really looking any better... They should go back to Africa, and make a Far Cry 2 as gritty and open.
Im one of the very few that loves Aiden as a protagonist. He literally knows what he wants and stops at nothing but his family to get to it. And even at that, he sends them away to give him power to not slow his conscious down. Im very much looking forward to him being in Watchdogs legion.
right he's so cool and smart I even wear cap and scarf like him bet he loves linkin park and rick&morty just like me
58:06 replace watchdogs with cyberpunk and Ubisoft with cd project red and it’s true all over again
Exactly.. crazy considering how interchangeable it is. And that the hi-tech low-life themes are so similar.
You and everybody else are hyper critical. Cdpr deserves nothing more than a raised eyebrow, not having their shit hacked and their info sold on the black market. They deserve a few questions about why they werent forthright with what they were cutting out of the game, not having their game taken off of the PS store and losing billions in stock. They deserve some time to get their shit together, not have their entire legacy shat on by a mass of babies who can't manage their expectations nor emotions.
@Rav thank you kindly for that very, very educated and informative comment😁 I can tell you put a lot of thought into being as reasonable as possible. Seriously, I'm now enlightened; you have given me some very deep insight and it's making me absolutely rethink everything I ever thought on the subject. I'm speechless. Wow. Kudos my guy
At least CD is willing to fix it, where Ubisoft just switched to focus on the next games
@@mentiquebakabila4254 wdym? Ubisoft never abandons their games, even if they're poorly recieved. In especially bad scenarios, they'll make planned paid dlc content free to make up for a bad launch.
being read the recipe for banana bread in a semi batman voice is something I never knew I needed until now
I gotta say the GPS map was surprisingly accurate. I went to where my uncle's restaurant by Navy Pier would be and the building layout was accurate. Minis the restaurant of course.
This game doesn’t deserve the hate this masterpiece not perfect but still underrated and under appreciated
Yup
This is one of my favorite game I wish I could forget everything to replay the game
Watch Dogs is literally a trilogy at this point - I don't think the series is hurting.
the problem is the stupid coat and cap and hacking trough cellphones is a weird concept to get into, it goes there very fast. should have a few non hacking missions in the beggining because the audience is used to GTA for thousands of years.
@@badtuber1654 so a game about hacking should not have hacking because of gta??? And the problem with the game is the coat?? Wtf man, make some sense.
Thank you for covering the soundtrack! A lot of people don't talk about it, but the soundtrack is absolutely amazing. The bunker mission was i think also the only time you could hear aiden laugh. Good game. could be better, but I loved it.
Watch Dogs always had a good rock and punk soundtrack, shit Watch Dogs 1 is what introduced me to Spitalfield, my favorite band now.
So true
@@jamsanator0511 And the game music itself, if you hear it, your gonna get goosebumps and vibes. I didn't notice before but the game music used in watch dogs helped me feel the enviorement of watch dogs.
So Ambitious (Victorian Halls)
Ms. Crumby (The Audition)
Sparklers (Gemini Club)
I have these 3 in my playlist and love listening to them all the time.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Sameee 3 too!!!!!
36:32 “Because it was wide as an ocean, but as deep as Paris Hilton.”
Alone was one of the greatest side-content I've every played in a game.
Damn I miss Watch Dogs now.
“There’s also an Anti-Mat rifle, which is perfect for disabling the police.” I know he means cars but god damn out of context that sounds bad
Not inaccurate though
@@Magnitude7 on a person? Idk if dead counts as disabled.
@@ToxicBastard I don't think a shot to the knee counts as fatal
@@alexanderwamsley5846 with a heavy calibre high powered sniper rifle you likely wouldn't have much leg left, that's fatal asf
@@ToxicBastard huh didn't think about that.
I remember playing the hell out of Watch Dog’s multiplayer races. I don’t know why but I really liked the driving physics despite what everyone else says
I hear it was developed by the guys who made Driver San Francisco.
Same i liked the car pyschics more
Playing with keyboard, in watch dogs you press the arrow key, the tires start to turn so the car doesn't do a big turn at the first moment. If you hold the arrow key a longer time, the wheels then get a bigger angle and you feel the car turning more dramatically. It takes time to get used to it (when I started to play i thought it was a delay about the input). In GTA this movement is more regular, you tap the arrow key and the car do a more intense move to the side, it's easier to do quick small corrections, but it's less realistic. I think this is what happens, but I can be wrong, I don't know.
Same here. Online Decryption was amazing. People really overlooked this game.
Especially the motorcycles
So glad that you mentioned amazing music and strong DLC. And yes, Aiden Pearce is a compelling madman, I love him. I think more and more people find out about Watch_Dogs after the fact and they don't really care about the pre-release claims, so they get to enjoy the game as it is. I have played it in 2019 as well, it was a stand out game for me, and I have only heard about the release scandal only after I have spent 100 hours in Watch_Dogs.
1:15:43 and no mention of the fantastic sounddesign. my favorite thing in watch_dogs was blowing up cars and having an eargasm
Well, one of the consistently strong aspects of Ubisoft's games is their sound design. I tend to wear headphones anytime I play one of their games (Splinter Cell Blacklist) because the sound design is so damn great.
Replaying the game this year, I realised that Aiden's phone ringer is just Dokkaebi's calls from R6S, but longer.
do you know the song ? at 1:15:00
@ShevNR thx
it bugs me to no end that when hacking defense it's best to turn all the music off but my goodness is that sound design gorgeous a futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic....
I'm really glad someone has finally gave this game a second deep look, it surely got more hate than it deserved, yet it was quite an original game with its dark take and new concepts, I even prefer it to the 2nd entry.
Though I have 2 remarks to make about the video:
- The surrender-blackout mechanic does exist in the game, you can perform it up till Act 3, after that the cops directly shots without notice (I believe it is tied to the story but i forgot the details of it).
- The E3 graphic settings does exist hidden in the PC game files, the early mods just activated them back. And by the latest updates of these mods, I can argue that the results looks fairly similar if not better than the demo (except from explosion effects which were better on the demo)
Again, thank you for this enjoyable video, I hope you will give us a same quality ones for other overlooked games such as AC Unity, Watch Dogs 2 and plz one for AC Origins.
the "E3 Graphics" are far from E3 Graphics
The intro of this video is brilliant. You made the right decision by using "Collateral" in your intro.
6:19 Tbh, first half of 8th gen felt like a remaster of 7th gen to me. 8th gen would be 7th gen with a prettier face and higher resolution If PBR material, volumetric lighting, checkerboard rendering (PS4 Pro and Xbox One X), and TAA weren't a thing.
7:26 For some reason this sounds exactly like Dutch Van Der Linde's infamous "We need money." quote.
8:42 You can still take enemies down even without utilizing QTE in chases, just time it well. Ubisoft should've completely removed hacking QTE and risked "criticism" from new players. Looking forward to the day someone manages to remove hacking QTE from the PC version of WD1.
12:59 The handling is alright in my opinion, the handling can sometimes be a bit twitchy and unresponsive.
Also, the sense of speed is fantastic considering it's not even a racing game.
15:00 _"Aiden is a man of _*_focus,_*_ commitment, and sheer will, something Damien knows very little about."_
I have no idea why Ubisoft didn't show some John Wick style gameplay in the marketing material alongside usual social hacking.
Also, John Wick came out after this game came out. And VC made his first WD1 JW style gameplay video before the first John Wick released, but one of his 2017 videos popularized this playstyle.
17:55 WD1 is one of the few open world games where it's possible to detonate a grenade mid air by shooting it.
28:43 I would've agreed with you before finding Lucky Quinn's audio logs. Turns out he was the one who funded ctOS program.
30:53 -Police- E3 Bandwagon who should have moved on a long time ago instead of whining about WD1 not being a "GTA Killer", those people hyped up the game with unrealistic expectations and decided to do a 180.
I'm glad that WD1 found it's own fanbase and most of the E3 bandwagon moved on since then.
37:54 Criminal convoys could've been made even better if you were given an option to speak to the NPC targeted by the bad guys and take him/her to a safe place (and maybe get a conversation that sheds light on why he/she was targeted to begin with).
Also, have only one criminal convoy happen per 24 hour in the open world (and unlimited, obviously).
48:48 This circular search zone system could've worked if the number of circles of doom were reduced to a maximum of 2 and restricted to the borough where the crime was originally committed (with the freeways being exempt from these circles of doom)
50:56 WD1 became more popular since you posted this video because WD fanbase consists of people who never stopped playing and players new to the series.
Also, WD1's multiplayer is the only multiplayer I really enjoyed.
51:54 T-Bone wants to know your location.
53:52 This is why I consider you to be one of the best retrospective videogame reviewers alongside Raycevick.
56:51 So, Raycevick was doing some voiceovers for Ubisoft before he started reviewing games?
57:41 It's possible in the final game in Act 1&2
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1:03:44 The pre-crime system demonstrated in this mission should've been applied to free roam as well, would've made profiling NPCs more interesting.
1:03:55 So, shooting an NPC in the nose isn't lethal.
1:09:41 At least you get to keep the collectibles instead of mindlessly visiting 50-100 places for a checklist. Also, WD1 implemented audio logs pretty well, you can listen to them anytime you want without going to a pause menu.
John Wick's world reminds me of WD1 where anyone might be a fixer willing to kill Aiden Pearce at any moment (assuming you are playing with internet turned on). Tbh, Ubisoft should have given us the option to have AI controlled hacker fixers attack Aiden every once in a while.
Watch Dogs 1 is one of my favourite video games of all time despite the overblown criticism it gets from "most people". Thankfully I wasn't on the hype train when it was released and only learned of this game's existence when it was already out for a while.
"most people" is a small group of people that managed to change the general consensus without letting people give the game a proper chance.
(people on the internet does not equal people outside the internet and the ones who are simply enjoying the game). WD1 has plenty of fans, but they aren't as vocal as the ones who do not like this game.
Ubisoft (publisher) and Ubisoft Montréal (developer) aren't the same entity. *Ubisoft Montréal* is the developer who made the game and *Ubisoft* is the publisher that created the hype surrounding the game and created unrealistic expectations through its overambitious marketing tactics. Ubisoft deserves the backlash for how they treated the then brand new IP, not the developers. Ubisoft saw this as an opportunity to set this game as a "GTA killer" while the developers wanted to create a unique open world game with the idea of controlling a city through hacking. Developers work hard only to be given an unrealistic deadline by the publisher, and end up creating a game that falls short of expectations.
Ubisoft had 4 games in their 2014 release schedule: ACU, AC Rogue, FC4 ,and WD1. While Rockstar had a remastered version of GTA 5 in 2014. Rockstar involves *every studio* into one project at the risk of *bankruptcy,* Ubisoft does not do the same since *diversifying* resources into different projects reduce the chance of bankruptcy even if one game is a disappointment. Ubisoft operates like a *business,* treating games like *products.* WD1 *maybe* would've had a chance against GTA if Ubisoft launched no other games during 2014, and a better development schedule was used with every studio working on WD1.
No, this game would have *never* beaten GTA 5 even if we were handed the E3 2012 build as the final game. E3 version's NPCs were completely scripted, same goes for NPCs in the final game.
GTA will be more popular than any urban open world game made by other publishers because GTA is a monopoly in the urban open world crime game market at this point. GTA offers something for everyone and the stories are simple enough to be understood by anyone (which definitely helps boost sales). And the fans of Rockstar games have the power to turn facts into opinions and opinions into facts.
WD1's PS4, XB1, and PC versions contributed 66% of the total sales, meaning PS3/360 versions should've been canceled in the first place. This game had a $68 million development cost, a large amount of that money went into building a new game engine, a brand new WD universe, and the game was developed for 5 platforms at launch. WD1 made around $400-450 million *assuming* the average price was around $40-45 per copy (it would be foolish to assume a $60 average price due to the tainted reputation at launch, a heavy discount was obvious) with 10 million copies sold by December 2014. The game needed around $140 million (3.12 to 3.5 million copies sold) to break-even, marketing costs are usually equal to development cost. The game would've still turned a profit even with 66% of the sales. ($268 to 300 million)
GTA 5 was developed at a cost of $265 million (development cost was over $137 million) and made $1 billion in 3 days and sold 16.7 million copies assuming they were sold at $60 per copy (no reason for R* to discount the most hyped game of the year in only 3 days). It needed 4.42 million copies sold to break-even.
GTA 5 developers had a mature engine (RAGE evolved during GTA5 development) and only had to build off of GTA IV. It was made for 2 platforms at launch and they spent a lot of time adding to HD universe, something GTA IV devs already built from the ground up. While WD1 devs almost had to start from the scratch. FC's AI system, Driver SF handling's tweaked version, and parts of AnvilNext were used for WD1's Disrupt.
AC4 Black Flag *apparently* had a $100 million budget (found on the internet, might not be true) compared to WD1's $68 million. AC4 was built off of AC3 and simply built a new world with existing tools.
WD1 and NFS Carbon are on the same boat IMO.
Both games were hated by a certain group of people at launch, the ones still come back to "correct" and shove down their opinions on the people who liked these games. In NFSC's case, people who joined social media back in 2005-2007 are the ones who come back to express their dissatisfaction over a dead horse. In WD1's case, it's the E3 2012 hype crowd.
Both games didn't live up to expectations (since the expectations were sky high).
Both games somehow managed to be on my favourite video games list even though they shouldn't be according to that "certain group of people".
Both games are actually good but are treated like some kind of "one of the worst games of all time" and stand between 75-80 on Metacritic.
WD1 deserved a better publisher than Ubisoft.
If you decide to do a retrospective of Watch Dogs Legion, please remember to point out the absence of train in that game.
*UPDATE (4-1-2024):* Whitelight spent around a minute criticizing WDL's lack of trains in the WDL 3 Years Later video.
10 million copies sold is impressive by itself (many games couldn't even reach half of that), but I still think that WD1 was a disappointment in terms of sales, it should've sold at least 15-20 million copies to justify the hype it created. Many newer games from the late 2010's and early 2020's sell nearly twice that figure. Ubisoft is secretive about its sales, so I'm not sure if we'll ever know if WD1 reached 15 million copies over the years. We're heading for a future that is very similar to what WD1 and Person of Interest demonstrated, so WD1 SHOULD have been more successful.
I wish that you brought up Person of Interest in this video. Excellent video!
I come back to this video every couple of months, honestly, your script delivery, editing style & ability to TELL a games story (something designed to be experienced) so entertainingly is ridiculous. You truly are one of the greatest to ever do it
I haven’t loved a rainy city in a game in the way I love this one since halo ODST.
I get what you mean by becoming John Wick, the cover vault kills, gun melee, stumbles and rolls make moving quickly and closing gaps very, very satisfying.
I’ve felt like WD and WD2 has always struggled with weapons. The marketing and sickass takedowns makes me think WD1 was supposed to have pistols be the main tool, but instead you get ARs, shotguns, and snipers.
WD2 suffers from this way worse - it’s clearly supposed to be a breakfast club hacker teen movie, but you can whip out an assault rifle and gun down dozens of cops, despite your goal literally being good PR. That, and the addition of the taser and having electric traps and melee being explicitly nonlethal makes it clear to me that combat was supposed to be limited. In my mind hacking is necessary since the taser has one shot and takedowns take time, but instead I can whip out a shotty and delete people.
Ubisoft’s execs clearly had their fingers all over WD combat. Should’ve let WD1 be John Wick. Should’ve let WD2 be a feel good nonlethal teen movie. Both would’ve been great, but AAA will be AAA. Dunno what Legion will want and fail to be.
SorryBones in beta it was planned for the only gun in wd1 to be the spec op 1911. Also only idiots like cops
They changed the feeling of the second game due to people complaint how dark the first game was.
Ganjack Bogle Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about, it was planned to be just a pistol but someone higher up probably forced them to add in rifles and explosives. And I’m pretty sure if someone actually went out and slaughtered dozens of cops with a grenade launcher in S.F. they wouldn’t be portrayed as a hero lol
You know you can complete the whole game without killing a single soul in watch dogs 2. I do not why why you're complaining.
Astolfo Yeah, and we’re saying you can kill every gang member, civilian, and cop and no one reacts any differently. I think if the story wants to be as light as it was they should reflect it in the gameplay.
I didnt know anything about the hate it got, i went in as a blank slate and i loved the game. The story, his personality the realistic over surveillance issue. It was AWESOME
Because it mostly copied the world and non hacking mechanics from gta.
@@kingalastor936 I liked the graphics more, my mom wouldn't buy me gta so this was my gta and the online mini games were honestly so fun. I was so retarded 😂
"aiden pierce is the punisher of video games"
isn't there a game about punisher from like 2004 or something?
Yes and was amazing imo
Original X box Version was the best.
A modern day punisher
@@1dayatatime..180 it was good but it wasn't amazing, still good though.
i was just playing it a week ago, so yeah, it exist alright🤷🏻♂️ even Tony Stark is in it lmao
Still one of my all time favorite games ever.
It was a great game I beat it maybe 3 times and was a beast on the online but the massive downgrade just straight up hurt my feelings
I liked the e3 version it was more detailed
@@okaytherebuddy6804 so what jesus,
@@gertsandersilm874 ???
Yep!
I finally came back to this game, started over and beat it in 2021 years after it came out.
To be completely honest, I really like Aiden as a character, the story is cool and yes a little odd and the gameplay is kinda wack at times but I’m glad I got to beat it and I wish I could play as Aiden more
No idea why this was on my recommended, no idea why I clicked on it... 5 min into the video and I'm already thinking to myself: wow why I'm suddenly so interested in watchdogs? Great video so far bro - im totally subscribing to your channel lol
The ending of watch dogs specially after Aiden delieved his speech about protecting everyone punishing the bad once made me remind of Light Yagami (the main protagonist from Death Note) who also thought like this after getting the death note. Both these guys felt like god after recovering something powerful. Aiden got the entire CTOS network control in his hands and Light got the entire death note control in his hands.
That's what I thought too.
11:00 Nice hit and run, you even got bonus points for that.
one at 10:27 got me too
DUDE
I'm so glad you actually went into detail with the game and spoke about Alone. That was literally my favorite mini-game and I probably played that (and Spidertank) more than the actual game itself. There was so much to the atmosphere and mechanics of the game that I enjoyed that I seriously considered getting Watch_Dogs for my Steam account just so I could mull through the story until I could play that trip again.
What was really cool was that the game never forced you to actually succeed in Alone. After I beat the trip half a dozen times or so, the next time I booted it up I just sort of wandered around. I had just completed the first sector, and when the night turned to day, I started running towards the next one until I stopped and just felt like going the other direction. Funny thing is, the game's entire map is free to explore in Alone. The city is full of empty cars, and the dark zones are full of robots, but aside from that the map is completely devoid of life and activity. Drive to any part of the city and you can reach the other end undisturbed. In a game full of hyperactive technology and people living their artificial lives, the world just feels so atmospheric and melancholic compared to the rest of the game. My favorite thing was driving my car up the stairs and onto the train tracks and just driving all the way around the island rails. I was even able to use that to my advantage at one point and wheel myself really far into the dark zones and kill a bunch of the robots from above before jumping back down and freeing the zone.
Between that and the uniqueness of the invasion mechanic (where other players look like pedestrians to you, and vice versa, spread out in an entire open world map) I wonder if we'll ever get anything like that in a AAA setting again.
The game soundtrack is also amazing. Try walking down the sidewalk at night while listening to a song, its immersive
I think Watchdogs was the most hyped I've ever been for a game.
I'm seeing the same pattern for Cyberpunk. I hope that game does well.
Sadly that was its downfall too much hype
@@aayushdas19 Yeah, I'm really worried about it. The gunplay looks like it lacks any impact or punch. Despite being worried, I do have faith in CD Projekt Red though.
Another Ubisoft game for me, Assassins creed 1.
Vanilla Coke were you disappointed? I sure was
5 years of watching dogs
It's you
I see you everywhere
Huh, so I do find you everywhere
He mostly is in gaming videos
I always see you
Driving at night in the forest part of the city while listening to day n night by kid cudi was such a vibe I miss this game
I can't imagine a more perfect song for the theme and mood that this game presents. Kid Cudi is from the Chicago area (Many other featured artists are as well). And Chicago itself feels perfect for this song to be playing while cruising around. Day n Nite and Sparklers. Those two are my jam because of Watch Dogs.
Just replay the game at some point. I did like a year ago and have no regrets
@@shiveshsingh3169 Lol my other jams were winter in chicago. Because as a guy living near Chicago I liked to hear that song when it snows.
The opening to this game was amazing. You can tell how much passion was poured into the game.
the reason why i love this game so much is the animations. every single animation in this game from walking to reloading feels so weighty and realistic. Gives it much more replay value for me
I had zero expectations when playing this game and i loved it! I didn't know much about it to begin with. You felt very powerful, more like a legendary hitman that also had some hacking abilities. I missed feeling this strong in the second one. One thing i really liked was FEELING like the main character. Underrated game.
Let it be known, i got this in my recommended and i am proud to be checking this 10 minutes from release!
Thx for the heart
I have a soft spot for this game, one of my fav series Ubisoft has done. Sure it had flaws, and sure they're milking it now like Assassins Creed, but I'll always love the original.
No they aint, they only made 2 games, and an upcoming one lol
@@morgan0__o wheres beyond good and evil 2 or other new IPs? That's all I'm saying. Thankfully they don't release a watch dogs every year like they did assassin's creed
2 games ain’t milking shit
“milking” lol
Still one of my top 5 games tbh
Awwww come on, Watch Dogs 2 was still beautiful and has amazing gameplay. I personally enjoyed the multiplayer and did multiplayer most of the game. I think most of us can all agree that it has some of the most beautiful graphics of all time.(or so I think so)
10:29 That AIM though!. That's some GTAV stuff right there.
I still play this game in 2020... I uninstalled GTA5. Watch Dogs 1 and 2 are more fun for me than the repetitive grind-fest that is GTA Online.
Same. I'd rather have fun being chased with the cops in watch dogs then being continued to be blown up by 12 year olds who beat there meat every other hour on an oppressor mk2
Cool story bro
I could never get WD 2 to run very well on my PC. Could run RDR2 well but not WD2
Watch Dogs is sooooo fun to screw around with friends, if you have a buddy who has watch dogs 2 play it with them, it’s gonna be worth it.
Yeah but GTA 5 story is so much better. I just played the first watch dogs again and it is fun, but it’s also a very flawed game.
53:53 The music is so good glad you brought this up! The track that plays during the act 4 mission where Aiden and Damien meet up face to face and he reveals Aiden's face all over the loop. The track that plays really makes you feel like everything is on the line and there is no where to hide, funny enough during this mission no matter how many Jam comms you use the police are scripted to always detect you with the green ctos circle. It really throws the idea out there that the man who is somehow able to hide in plain site despite being dressed very conspicuously now has no where to hide!
Decided to rewatch this for a third time now that Aiden got confirmed as a DLC character in Legion
"supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle twat" - A+ for creative insults.
6 years later and the soundtrack in the game still hits hard
This is by far the best look at WD I've seen
I still love this game, online hacking and decryption is enough to keep me playing, we still have new strategies and techniques being created even today.
There's a few things you said I disagree with, but you still did an amazing job.
And what really sucks, is that there will probably never be another WD1
Wasssssssup!
Agreed.
Ok i dont want to be that guy but... pf course there wont be another watch dogs 1 there cant be watch dogs 1 and then after another watch dogs 1
@@yobrodude1284 the only way that would be another game like the first one is if they intentionally left bugs in or mimicked the bugs by having secret glitch parkour skills you have to unlock.
54:30 You know you live in a society when shivaxi will be creditied for making a watchdogs soundtrack edit, but not for making rlcraft.
Or that Grid 1 mod. To everyone else, Shivaxi is just the "Ooh Shroud skin" guy.
@@paritoshd Yup. Hell I was subbed to him a year and a half ago, and I watched rlcraft videos but didn't know he made it until I watched his videos.
@No Faith True, true. This is yet another reason why White light quickly became one of my favourite game critics.
@@0uttaS1TE yeah. He has a fairly recent video on it. He made the mod back in '09 maybe. It was for particle effects.
I'm so happy you talked about the digital trips. They were so much fun to play i even unlocked every clothing from each minigame. Just remebering alone and madness made me want to buy watch dogs again. This is one of the best( if not the best ) review i have ever seen on the game. You covered so much on side missions, minigames and dlc and i can't imagine the work you went trough to make this . This video is really old so i don't think you are going to read this but i felt like i needed to make this comment. Amazing work
15:45 _"Now this guy right here, is the killedest guy of all time"_
*- Dom Dom*
I have to say that I found Aiden's character very compelling, despite him spelling his name wrong.
Then again he's the only character I can think of with the name Aidan.
As a real-life Aidan I have to say it's painful that both this and the upcoming Dying Light 2 spell the name in the weird trailer-trash form.
@@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90 dude it's just an E.
@@chadkingoffuckmountain970 lol, yeah, but I've had a couple run-ins with dudes of that spelling who have called out my spelling as weird. Grudge-holdin' to the max.
It's not like there's the possibility that names can have different spellings. All being correct. try googling Aiden and Aidan. You wont get corrected. Both are legit.
@@jmh1189 Deary me, I never would have realized. I'm glad you let me know people can be legally named by practically any spelling one desires.
I feel the game is less dark and very dramatic, fast paced. It has some dark themes but it really goes nowhere or never goes far enough to truly be dark, dwelling on the line of edgy and dramatic. Watchdogs 2 may have been more comedic, but it went all the way so it feels more coherent when you play it. Watchdogs brings up a lot of stuff like human trafficking but it feels more like. Side note then tied to the story. Movies like the dark knight are dark because they have themes of terorism and stuff but they go somewhere, the story is tied to those stuff. Watchdogs falls to do that and instead tosses it away or rushes through it. Human trafficking could’ve made for a very dark story. Imagine instead of Nicky being captured by Damien, she was caught by the mob and sent to an auction. That would’ve made Aiden going after Iraq and Quinn, more coherent and feels like there’s an immediate threat
Watch dogs: a noir hacker story about revenge, and an underated masterpiece.
I've been thinking about going back and playing Watchdogs again all these years later. Very fortuitous to find this video.
Part of me wants to make a Watch-Dogs-ish game where, when you’re hacking into something, your phone actually has some sort of Unix-y command line shell (probably bash (common in Linux) or zsh (I think macOS uses this)) that you have to use to actually hack, while you use (say, the mouse on PC) to defend yourself while hacking.
Well, on another note - if you want some good hacking, there is a PC game called Hacknet that focuses exclusively on the hacking - there’s no open world - you can’t even see what your character looks like, just a network of computers to hack and a clientele of people who want you to hack them. To do so, you use a combination of both a graphical user interface and a Unix-like terminal.
There's actually quite the variety out there if you sniff around enough, but nobody's really managed to package both physical presence and cyber access together into a sandbox where both prove equally engaging.
Quadrilateral Cowboys and Else Heart.Break() both play with hacking and interacting with the world, but the former has a very small scope and the latter lacks the awareness to notice when you're really messing with it. NITE Team 4 covers a number of authentic techniques, but again lacks the physical presence that more personal attacks like social engineering and refuse interception (dumpster diving) so much fun. Off Grid looks like a next possibility, but I've noticed it's been sitting on my wishlist for quite some time without releasing, so I don't know the if/when on it yet.
Play Welcome To The Game 2 it’s really good and checks most boxes in your list
I played this game earlier this year or at the end of last year.
I usually wait a couple of years before I buy and play a game because by then it usually has a goty edition, the bugs have been fixed and some walkthoughs exist for puzzles that are not intuitive to solve.
And I enjoyed the game a lot. It was like most open world games fraught with side missions that look similar to one another, but the city and the ambient was amazing.
I've never been to Chicago so I can't tell, but the lighting of the city was pretty much like the lighting of cities in the north part of the planet I've been (Paris for example), so I needed only launch the game to leave the tropical city I live and be in chilly, windy and rainy environment.
The game has a lot of heart, it's sad the marketing machine behind the launch tainted this all so much. Try the drinking game with the local drunkards on each part, you forget you're playing watchdogs and get transported to some other game.
And that happens with so many mini games of the game, you get transported to so many places and forget you're on the game, it's like buying some 10 games on a bundle.
Also I learned to play poker on this game so there is that.
This game got me into chess
@Samuel i also learned how to play chess and poker and what not to do so i can avoid losing in a real chess,poker game.
Bruh, I also learned chess because of this game. This was back when mobile chess games were not that popular.
I realy never used the slowmotion feature xD
Same, I forgot it existed until I was trying to complete the skill tree and thought "What the hell is 'focus'?"
I did also play the game stealthily the whole way though.
@@anon8740 i realized that was the thing , near the end of the game
i use it while it while i drive so i don't hit civilians
The game that forced Ubi to stop lying with their fucking demos...
@@AgentDigits did they stop though? The rainbow6 E3 gameplay was HEAVILY downgraded and so was the division
That montage of action movie carnage is also why I highly recommend not playing the game on hard because while it's not much of a difference if your playing it like a cover shooter it does make those stylish plays prohibitively risky to pull off.
4:20 " TRUE NEXT GEN" ? Dude .... the train have been there since infamous 1 on ps3 . LOL But great video
People are talking about PS2 games that do this in the comments, as well.
Surely, there's gonna be something on PS1 that did this as well... somewhere. It's not that crazy a feature. It's basically a long, moving platform.
Daniel Castaneda since gta san andreas
You should edit this comment my friend cause in your ancient console games the only think you can do with the trains is watching them. And also GTA SA you can only watch cj walking into nothing and then teleporting where you wanted to.
@@theodor_o the fuck are you talking about lol . I've been playing on PC for years fool . What I play on PC and console but you only on pc ? Then that's YOUR problem mate
@@danielcastaneda4975 Console? Happy 60 fps bro ;)
When i played through this game for the first time i tried to play it as stealthy and pacifist as possible. I honestly never knew you could play this game like John Wick, as the story implies stealth.
But let me tell you, the sense of accomplishment you get by infiltrating warehouses full of Fixers without being seen or firing a shot once is amazing. That constant pressure of moving and hacking your environment to not get seen needs tactical thinking (lures are for noobs) and that is what i remember this game for. That is also the reason why my reputation was always fairly high, giving me absolutely no benefit (except that pedestrians make photos of you).
But there is another part that i find both good and bad about this game. That is the Audio Logs.
Audio Logs can be found by many people and even Aiden himself has made some. They give the characters a great background and help to build the world much more in-depth than it has. Like Aiden giving reasoning and an explanation about his psychological manipulation. And to be honest, these were kinda missing in the review (excluding the ones from the QR Codes of course). And the side missions where you track down a serial killer or human trafficking are things that i wish would have been discussed.
Their biggest flaw is simply that they are optional collectibles. Why would you make the thing that helps the player immerse in the world of Watch Dogs an optional collectible to get? The history of Quinn, Maurice, the bunker and Raymond Kenney himself, hidden behind some collectible Audio Logs that only few people even care to check out. I love them, but the fact that they are just optional make them kind of a bad addition.
Still, Watch Dogs 1 stays my favorite one of the two, simply because of the vigilante, story and setting. Watch Dogs 2 was a bit too colorful for a world where humans get sold, everyone gets spied on and that data also gets sold to the highest bidder. The dystopian yet almost realistic feel of the first one is what makes Watch Dogs for me.
Make sure he check your comment because this might make him evaluate about the story a little
Hold up, where do you find these audio logs? I sometimes get them from hacking ppl but besides that idrk
Watch dogs also invented a genre surprisingly, the hack em up genre which I've only seen used in the watch dogs games
The breakdown of how the combat is and feels is perfect and I've felt this way for years, and couldn't have said it better myself.
I’d say the aggressive play style is not just a John Wick style but also a Max Payne style with the slow-mo.
15:15 thanks for reminding me how good this game’s soundtrack is
"You're being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine. It's spies on you every hour of every day, I know because... I build it."
- Person of Interest ( aka Watch Dogs the TV show. )
14:30 really? Is it truly DOA? Funny how I managed to complete the entire game by being in the blue the entire way through all the way to the top.
Hell I even have footage of the damn thing from back then.
Maybe it was just how I played it that made it that much easier.
I didn't need to drive like a psycho or shoot everyone on sight or whatever, I played it as if I was playing Splinter Cell and the only true way to play that franchise is to be a ghost.
But that's just me.
Yeah, I got full blue pretty much at 25% of the story, I actively searched for crimes at first because I hated being chased by the police since I didn't know how to escape without killing them and shooting their tires while moving like GTA wasn't and option
Trying to do the Hideouts with minimal to zero contact with anyone except the targets was really challenging and fun for me also!
I like how the bring up how many people he's killed in bloodline dlc
“Watch dogs is like dark SoulS, it only has one S in the title”
Congrats, joke has been found
dark soul player: "Saw a 3rd person game with melee & ranged combat"
also dark soul player: Omg look! It is another dark soul game
This game was despised on release. Even I was disappointed by it.
But I loved almost every second of it. I finished the story and never played it again.
But I had fun. A games reputation destroyed because it shot its self in the foot.
@Uhhh It was the marketing and false propaganda that destroyed this game, The game was never intended to be what the marketing was pretending to make it out to be.