Review: Watch Dogs
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- One of the most marketed, leaked, pirated, berated and praised games of this year finally falls under George's watchful eye. Who watches the Watch Dogs? We do.
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11"39 Translation "It's like one half of the game was written by fairly smart game writes who knew what they were doing, and the other half was written by Ubisoft."
Buying Watch_Dogs on day one was LIKE BEING IN A NIGHTMARE YOU CAN'T WAKE UP FROM
+TheTrueChuster That's the hype-train talking. Maybe if you get off it you'll stop seeing games with extreme praise or hate.
triedge763
I managed to get out of that derailed train years ago, boyo.
+Eh, Canadian Gamer What does the hype train have to do with experiencing game breaking bugs in a game you purchased on day one?
+kanimo24 I've never understood why people say "get off the hype train" because people always say shit like watch dogs is great, it's just a product of over "hypedness" even if it wasn't hyped it would still be a mediocre game. Saying that it has been overhyped isn't an excuse for a crap game
Snap out of it
I think the game would have been better if it were a linear experience instead of Open-World. More time could be spent on the level design and the gun effects.
Ah I wish I could find it now but there was a reddit post about the railway system and how one of the people working on that part of the game wanted it to make more sense but Ubisoft wouldn't let them change it even though they had a huge amount of time before release.
Oh, I saw that thread, I can't find it in my history neither. :(
I remember seeing it early like 2-3 days after watch dogs came out. I can't find it at all but I remember the guy talking about the L trains and how certain things didn't make sense at all and Ubisoft not letting them change it at all.
Oh Yep thanks for the link! ***** I found the original reddit post just by doing a image search on google.
www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/26qo0b/watch_dogs_development_problems/
yup, remember reading that.
yeah it was something about they used to have the L-train taking 90 degree turns and it looked stupid, so they changed it when they delayed it but didn't take out the tracks, which is why that is still there.
I just finished Watch Dogs for the first time since it came out. I tried playing it two times and I would immediately just forget about the game after the first 2 missions. It just didn't pull me in. So this time I was forced into playing it and it's surprisingly really good, once you get past all of what keeps you from playing it. Aiden gets enjoyable later as you grow attached to him. But there's so many parts of the game where you just want to facepalm. The buildboards, tv screens and radio talk show hosts talking about you, and naming you, then the game acting like you are still undercovered and noone knows your identity is puzzling.
But anyways, the license soundtrack... my god it's horrible. It's like syncing your ipod and getting U2 free songs that you never asked for and wanted.
>19 year olds on 4chan
B-bunnyhop I'm so sorry...
More like 15 years olds on 9gag
Ew
***** and I'll have you know that we don't fucking care.
*****
The fact that you felt the need to defend 4chan like that probably means you should find another site to post on kiddo. ;^)
HAHAHAHAHA
Police do cruise the streets, though. You should add an annotation fixing that statement. Yes, they're extremely rare, and there is no foot patrols, but you do see cars from time to time. They are also marked on your radar as a typical car enemy (even though you're not wanted)
Doesn't really need an annotation fixing something that is barely changed. They don't pull over and try to stop criminals. And you said it yourself, they are rare. They are so rare that it could be forgiven to think there weren't any at all.
Just for the sake of being objective. I'm not defending watch dogs.
>first 10 seconds is a game-breaking glitch
Oh, this is gonna be good...*grabs popcorn*
The thing that frustrated me the most in this game was that I actually tried to beat it without killing anyone, but in the cutscenes the other characters are like "YOU ARE A MURDERER!" and aiden is like "yes, i am..."
wtf ubisoft, I'm trying to be a good person
Just wanted to point out how this game is sloppy that in 14:16 when he shoots her with his Kalashnikov his fucking safety is on, where the rifle can't chamber or fire lol.
He's not chubby... he's just wearing so many pieces of clothing that he *looks* fat.
like Mei
Now this bitch is fat as fuck.
Slightly chubby? I don't see it. Great vid though.
I suppose he means not ultra buff.
MelliO Games Im suprise he didnt hate Aiden Batman/Alex Mercer smokers voice
Yeah, I really started laughing when he was talking about how he remembered his niece in the beginning of the game. It was played up to be an emotional scene with sad music, but he sounded ridiculous.
Tarantel666 i'm pretty sure you're right in assuming it was mr.hop making a joke, however i've not seen the original intro myself. =]
Mitch M. yeah that comment confused me too? I guess the reviewer is a ultra thin tooth pick looking guy?
I've said it many times before and I'm sure I'm going to have to keep on doing so, seeing how things are going. Business is ruining games.
You either have the funds and resources to make the game or you get executive medling. Choose your poison.
***** Of course! Games arent made for charity (unless deliberately, see Desert Bus)
Business isn't the problem, it's people. Businesses respond to supply and demand - they have to turn a profit or go out of business. The problem is people WANT unpassionate Ubisoft games and will defend them and businesses thus respond. In the end, it's up to the general audience as to whether we will receive revolutionary games or the same old, same old. Unfortunately, it does not seem like people will change, but there are rare occurrences. Square, a company just as bad as Ubisoft, finally saw the light when they saw people wanted games as good as Bravely Default and did not want games like Hitman: Absolution.
*****
I think a better term would be "Corporate" instead of business. You make a valid point, games always were a business. The difference being that the the people that used to create games generally were gamers that were unimpeded by corporate meddling and focus groups and anything else that comes with modern gaming caveats.
There's a world of difference between the landscapes of the 80s and 90s and 2014.
Scrustle I'm sure you've had a bunch of people tell you about business being necessary in some shape or another, so I'm not going to repeat all those points, that's unnecessary
Business in general isn't ruining games: antiquated, ludicrous, and yes, sadly occasionally greedy Business !Practices! are ruining media in general, and quite possibly economies of entire countries, not just games.
You said his name right once messed it up the rest of the whole time
Eight years have passed and the closing words are still describing the state of Ubisoft franchises
I bought this game and its DLC for 15€. The first day I played I was actually very pleased:
- I really liked the city and how lived it felt, even more than Los Santos to be honest.
- The story seemed ok, I mean it was another Ubisoft Revenge Plot™ nothing too bad nor too god. I think that It would've been better if Lena had been Aiden and Nicky's daughter and that they broke up after the toll the death of his daughter put on the relation but that's a personal opinion.
- The driving was alright, it wasn't the boats of GTA IV nor the Formula 1 cars of GTA V.
- The hacking was simple but fun to use and see.
That was the first day but the more I played the less I liked the game due to all the chores it had. You see, I'm that kind of player that needs to complete everything he sees on the map or that has some way of tracking progress and that ruins Ubisoft games for me. It happened when I decided to give Assassin's Creed IV and Oddisey two chances to win me back: the first days I was enjoying myself but after that I was just scratching chores from a list.
To complete the progression of one of the side missions you have to do 40 fixer contracts. 40! The game has 39 main missions! And that's not counting 15 gang hideouts, 20 crimes, 20 CToS breaches, 20 QR codes, 20 privacy invasions... these last three are specially bad since they have you running around looking at walls like an idiot searching for cameras and fuse boxes. When the gameplay is just ok, you need to give the player some context to actually care for what is happening, in Watch Dogs you have missions were Aiden says "this guy beat a woman, I'll make him pay for that" so you'd expect maybe some trashy dude and a couple of his friends, maybe he's from a gang or something but nope, the mission consists in ambushing a 5 car convoy full of guys with heavy military weapons and armor. Logic. He says he's a vigilante but most of the fixer contracts involve helping criminals. Three missions in the first act of the game revolve around finding a witness and making sure he doesn't reveal your identity, going as far as getting yourself arrested and thrown into the prison were the guy is being kept. Then you hear how the radio speaks about how "people seem to side with vigilante Aiden Pearce". So your identity isn't as secret I guess...
I've completed all of the side content available at the moment in the game but just 7 main missions and I'm at 70% completition. What the fuck is this? Ubisoft needs to learn that 3 missions copy pasted 30 times each is not content is bloating a game with stuff that adds nothing to it.
this game taught me to never get hyped for a game and wait for reviews before you spend $60. I was excited for destiny but after this game I decided to wait for the reviews. I still haven't bought the game to this.day
Rule of thumb: Just don't buy Ubisoft
Achmeron Hasn't always been the case. It started with WD & unity. FC4 is still a great game. They have to show with Victory that they will not go down this road. Victory will show where Ubi is going.
The Joker Its a cycle. They pump out a game with more radical ideas or a newer engine that notably changes the existing game, (AC1, AC3, Watch Dogs etc.), but its poorly executed and generally falls below expectations. Then they pull out a sequel with better writing, gameplay, and stability that is far superior to the game it is based off of (AC2, AC Black flag, likely the inevitable watch dogs sequel), due to feedback and more experience with the new engine. This is quickly becoming a trend where all new ip's and engines are pumped out as a beta test for the better games to come. However, this is slowly occurring in a downwards trend of overall quality, likely due to more vocal sharing of negative opinions and reviews, causing stockholders to become concerned and put more pressure on the company, which causes them to rush out the game/s, leading to a gradual overall decline in quality.
The Joker After refusing to buy Ubisoft products, I treated Far Cry 4 as a chance to regain lost trust. First mission in, I fell through the world. Fuck Ubisoft.
Nison545
That's unfortunate. I had very few issues personally & I got it day one.
Josh Stevens
You're not wrong man. It's a sad state of affairs. but, something will have to change (for better or worse) eventually. It's a shame that that CD Projekt Red is the rare exception with The Witcher 3 in how they treat consumers & develop/sell their game.
Aside from the splinter cell series (because I've never played it) has Ubisoft ever designed an actual rewarding stealth game? Isn't it sad that Bethesda designed a better stealth game? I'm not dismissing Bethesda, it's just that was never their area. Oh wait they've actually developed plenty of open world games and didn't see the need to do that for Dishonored. Ubisoft, if it weren't for Rayman Legends and Child of Light in these last years you would be the most uninspired AAA developer.
You know I might be the odd one out but recently I just picked up watchdogs for half price and I think its actually really fun. Yeah story is nothing but honestly the rest of its actually quite enjoyable.
I never really noticed the complaint in games about upgrading anything via EXP, but now that you've pointed it out, it sticks out like a sore thumb. And the real shame is that it's so, so easy to get around - just add vendors.
Take the Souls games for example. Your currency is what you exchange for goods and services but it's also your experience. How does the game get around this? By tying your use of souls to particular points. Need to ascend a weapon? Well, you have to go to a blacksmith - an appropriate blacksmith who has the appropriate ember, and the embers they accept match their personalities. Level up? Go to a bonfire, something that is kindled by the undead and hence has a special link to them. Or to the Maiden in Black or Emerald Herald, both of whom can manipulate souls.
Vendors and NPCs, no matter how shoehorned, always can be used to justify (to some degree) exchanging points for improvements, it gives the game an internal logic. Big Boss has his R&D team, Spider-Man has comic book stores, XCOM soldiers have promotions. Even Dante has a justification in that red orbs are crystallised demon blood which has to be traded with the statues. Whereas Geralt, Aiden, and so many other open world protagonists just get really good at pulling things out of their ass.
EDIT: Even the Elder Scrolls abandoned their way out of this trap! Until Oblivion, you levelled up after increasing your skills and the game explicitly says you go to sleep in order to rest and *reflect on what you've learned*. In Skyrim you just...pick a star even if you're in the middle of nowhere.
Hey yo George! I argree with almost everthing you said. However, I got the game on the ps4, and a lot of the issues you had with controls, connectivity, and glitches never happened to me. The bullets reacted with the environment and the only glitch I ever encountered was an AI walking in circles during one mission, but that was it. I played the game on the hardest difficulty, and I found being stealthy was easyer then shooting it out. I think the big issue here is that, like a lot of multi plats these days, the devs put most of there effort into making it work best on consules. Also, pre ordering it gets you missions where you work with the hackergroup, so I think that part where you work with them near the end was going to make sence before they moved it to preorder exclusive. I agree with everything elce you said though. (Except you pronounced Aiden wrong. Its A-den not I-den.)
One of the best video reviews I've ever seen. So much useful information and detail. Thanks, George.
Anybody know why the vid only loads in 240p now? Watched this yesterday in HD...
"memes! we need more memes in the game!"
The only problems I had with Watch Dogs was the initial login to Uplay and the occasional auto alt tab issue. I should say that I didn't update my GFX card drivers when I played through the entire game.
For someone who absolutely HATED Far Cry 3 and all Assassins Creed games past the second one, Watch Dogs was very enjoyable. I think I enjoyed it because it felt like a balance of Yakuza and GTA that hasn't been done before. It has GTA's gunplay and driving with the side distractions of the Yakuza franchise.
***** Terrible characters, basically nothing to do besides the outposts, and the terrible soundtrack.
Hey George, will there be a video on the outrageous marketing for this thing?
So the camera-on-screen thing was Stylistic Suck on purpose, right?
I don't see what you were looking at with the texture not attached to the sign? Now I'm curious what I missed
As he moves underneath the sign, the black text becomes invisible, like a sheet of paper seen from the side. The sign it's supposed to be attached to (yellow) can be seen to be a foot or two behind that plane.
Since this comment was 8 months ago, 6:58 for reference.
Great review! The beginning with the ominous music LOL.
Where can I get that music?
Thank you for articulating the reasons why this game is not worth it, in a much better way than I could have.
I can understand the complaint of "what's my motivation for running around and collecting all these things?!?" complain in open world games but I have never once asked myself that.. I do it because it's there and if I don't do EVERYTHING.. i will never finish the main story. It's totally psychological on my part and it's also a problem. I spent like 10 hours in The Witcher 3 collecting plants before I convinced myself I had to stop because I had several hundred of each common plant... I just instinctively ran around collecting things that showed up on my minimap. My point is, I never have trouble caring about collecting all the stuff because I have a psychological need to collect all the stuff. It's not OCD, I hate it when idiots say they have OCD when they don't. My need to collect all that stuff doesn't interfere with my life.. I can function just fine without doing so. But I play games to decompress and the repetitive action of collecting pointless virtual shit does that for me. funny because I hate having pointless shit laying around in real life. I could fit all of my stuff minus my furniture in my car.
Watch dogs is a low budget gta game
do you know the gta 5 budget
$265 million
Watch Dogs was a failure of a prototype... a stepping stone with a Huge Price Tag.
Just coming here to enjoy the video again after George's viral tweet and how almost a decade after this game things have only gotten worse in the AAA space.
I'm hesitant to make a statement this extreme, but I'm coming to actually believe it:
You are the greatest living video game reviewer.
I don't know how, or why. I don't know why you're so obscure. I don't understand any of this.
But there it is.
I'll just be a year late. I'm cool with catching up with SNES and CRPGs while AAA gets its shit together.
I know what you mean man. Resting comfortably behind the curve is what I've always done.
+Nicholas Nelson ...not like... the SNES or NES has any bad games or glitches....
Nazistazia the German Princess Not like you can release a broken SNES or NES game and patch it later either.
Nicholas Nelson actually they have!
This is easily the best, most well-rounded and in-depth review I've seen on this game. Very nice job. I'll definitely check the game out WAY down the line, hopefully when I can pick it up dirt cheap during a Steam sale or something.
Keep up the great work, George. *thumbs up*
Anybody know the name of the song that plays at 16:12 ?
This game symbolizes everything wrong with the Triple A industry right now. It's a game that doesn't want to be a game, it wants to have a gripping story and have that filmic look to draw in the casual audience. But... it's Ubisoft, so it still is _made_ to be a game by tacking on all the other stuff we've all done before in Far Cry and Assassin's Creed. It's just soo soo sad, it's at it's most fun when it's gamey, and it tries so hard to not be. For some of the missions I felt like I could see the bored expressions and understand the devs as they made the maps and side missions.
It's a game that tries to be everything, and succeeds, but everything is half assed. These games need to choose what they want to be. An openworld sandbox game with little to no emphasis on story, such that players can either A) discover it for themselves or B) just make one up themselves. Or, a linear stealth game similar to Deus Ex. Games need to be more gamey, I get really REALLY angry when I can sense that the game desperately wants to be _The Wire_ or some other thing. Those are other types of media, other genres, they _aren't games_. STOP DOUBLE DIPPING. I want to play a goddamn game. It's sad, and honestly, it wreaks of insecurity and attempts to justify gaming as something to be respected. It get's no respect from me when I'm trying to enjoy something and I sense the developers are ashamed of what they're working on.
And finally... PC gaming. Oh PC gaming. I play on PC and console. They both serve their purpose. But the whole "PC master race" just blows up like the Hindenburg when confronted with reality and the first minute of this review. TB can bang on about good PC ports from now until the end of time (and he should! They should be playable/functional!) but it never ever seems to happen! So, what's that middle aged dad supposed to do when he get's home from work and finally has time to play the game he's been waiting weeks for? When he's eaten dinner, spent time with the wife, put the kids to bed and finally has a few hours to himself? Watch Dogs on PC? Come the fuck on. He attempts to get it running on his master race machine... to no avail. Or, he can run it on a console and be playing the first night, while suffering through the dreaded 30fps... ooohh no!!!! That's it. That's the argument. That's all the justification people need to buy a console. It's what the majority of those 4 million people thought when they purchased the game.
Great review, George. Seriously, great job.
Very good review. Your style really reminds me of Rock Paper Shotgun which is basically my favorite video game review website.
Keep up the good work.
This guy needs like 10 ten times more viewers at the very least. The reviews are just so well worded and this review, despite it's unusual length is just worth the time.
You didn't mention how ridiculous the car crash effects were; how it looked like all the cars were coated in explosive paint that shot smoke and sparks out in a fifteen foot radius whenever you even tapped another vehicle.
The makeshift smh at 11:42 was genius.
OH BOY! Can't wait for the next 5 sequels!
Hey Bunny Hop, I would love if you would make like a top ten games worth getting into list. Your opinion is pretty much the only one I really respect when it comes to video games.
16:19 Does anybody know what this song is called?
Is it weird that I got a Watch Dogs 2 ad before this?
probably not, youtube's ad logarithms looks at the video your watching and is basically like: "oh you're watching a video about Watch_dogs? that must mean your interested in watch_dogs, so heres the ad for WD2"
I remember the extreme hype over AC3. A lot of the problems you identified for Watch Dogs REALLY applies to AC3. Identity crisis, a convoluted plot that also is also split, a lack of polish in some areas and a huge amount of polish in other areas. It all feels like the negative side effects of huge budget games expected to be perfect.
Can you make a critical close up of "no more heroes" and its sequel? I mean it's a video game about video games. Also i kinda wanna hear your opinion on this whole competitive super smash bros debate
Thank you for not hating on the game but simply pointing out it's flaws (which it obviously has). I like my time with Watch Dogs but I also see why some people would and will not buy the game and I totally respect that.
whats sad, is even though this game was created around the idea of using a cellphone for everything.. i usually approached every situation guns blazing and taking full advantage of the cover system instead of hiding in a corner and hoping from camera to camera to get the objective (unless it made me, of course.. there are a couple of missions where they forced me to sit through camera feed after camera feed, or needing to unlock doors with a switch that was 20 stories above me and i didnt feel like trying to climb those 20 stories)
It is even more obvious how Bland "Watch_Dogs" was compared to the 2nd.
and the sequel was rushed and lacks proper optimization... even though it was superior.
Ubisoft finds a way to fuck anything up... even when it turns out to be good.
Is it possible that the gunplay is way better with a Dualshock 4 over a mouse and keyboard? I know that its a sign of laziness and bad devs and GTA5 free aim isn't exactly the greatest gunplay to compare and contrast with when I first played it but I was getting genuine enjoyment out of the gunplay and felt it made for pretty decent stealth/action gameplay.
Guys, I need your advice. Should I get Watch_Dogs or Dishonored: GOTY Edition for the Xbox 360? Dishonored is $25 on Amazon and I can only get one game.
You planning to do something about E3?
Was that Nathan narrating the intro sequence?
The big problem I have is the progress losing bug for example I unlocked the golden tommy gun and I couldn't use it also I bought the season pass and got none of it's content
Great review. Very funny and so true. I personally only enjoyed the story parts with lucky quin. Everything else was boring or utterly predictable.
The best part of the game for me is the Online Hacking mode and for that you really have to give some praise for most of the level and city design with its multiple levels and hiding possibilities.
Wow. When you said to me that the glitches in Watch Dogs were bad, you weren't kidding... well, that just seems to be a thing now for big budget triple-A games nowadays. And also, great review, George! This review really helped with my temptation to buy this game on Steam, and telling me that it was a bug-riddled mess also helped, too.
Absolutely brilliant, well-written review that was both insightful, as it was surprising. And it also had a neat message compacted into this review; never but triple-A video-games at launch on PC. Keep in mind that the problems shown were just PC-port problems and not console problems, and if there are also problems on console, they probably would've been already sorted out by the time I own this game on the PS4.
And if you're reading this, George, I hope you get that review copy of Wolfenstein: The New Order, mate! Good luck!
Weird. I got some pretty terrible mouse-lag, but after I switched to my gamepad I didn't have any issues whatsoever with the PC version, other than what I would say is probably less than fantastic optimisation, but I'm not too bothered by having to run a game on 'high' instead of 'ultra'. I haven't experienced a single issue launching the game or had any crashes.
I mean, the game was certainly a complete thematic mess, but I didn't really have any technical issues.
Can someone please explain to me why mouse acceleration exists in games? It makes no sense.
Good review and your points are correct, although the shooting mechanics are bad with a mouse, they're really good with a controller. Personally I liked it more than GTAV, all of the on foot mechanics were better and the missions felt more open than linear in comparison, kinda ironic since R* are supposedly the kings of open world gaming.
Anyway, seems like you placed heavy emphasis on the context behind its setting and storytelling, which is fair enough, personally I'm just enjoying the gameplay, but I agree with the bugs, glitches, lack of polish and cliche story that lacks cohesion.
I started worrying about Watch Dogs when they showed more and more trailers with Aiden getting into firefights, and then seeing that he could carry a ridiculous arsenal with him at all times. I was hoping it would be more like Sleeping Dogs, where having a gun was the exception, not the rule (although even that kind of messed it up towards the end with increasing numbers of huge shootouts).
love your videos, man. Your commentary is always insightful
Jokes on you. That goth hacker chick actually does appeal to me, a 19 year old kid on 4chan.
It's mainly due to the fact that these Triple AAA games get a ridiculous amount of marketing that people bash this game. This game was plastered over various gaming sites for months as they claimed it to be the next gen experience we were waiting for. The same thing happened to Titanfall and nowadays no one talks about it because they got bored of the multiplayer only experience so quickly. We get that the game wasn't a bad one, but we were told numerous times by various sites, magazines, and video game reviewers that this was to be the killer app that every gamer must have. This was gonna be like Halo to Xbox, Smash Bros Melee to Gamecube, Last of Us for PS3, and what did we ultimately get? A good sandbox stealth game that deserves maybe a 7.5 or an 8 at most.
Hm this was recommended 6 years later, I remember when this game came out and every magazine and forum was full of downgrade evidence and stuff...good times. I'll enjoy this video
Beautiful icon you got there
Just wanted to confirm what you said about the non lethal playthrough, as that was what I did on my first playthrough, I managed to complete thr entire game without firing a single gun. pretty difficult at points, but still super fun. it's like doing nuzlocke, added difficulty for a more enjoyable experience.
I will never understand people who buy into hype. I can only assume it comes from ignorance.
I have the game still in shrink wrap. I don't know if I should play it or leave it in a drawer and wait for a sequel...
It swaps out one set of cliches for another set of cliches? Why does that sound familiar, gaming industry in the past five years?
My main problem with it is the finite of cool side missions the random crime between 2 people that is rare is just not enough I want infinite gang hideouts and criminal convoys and fixer contracts
I've not played Watch_Dogs, but I was kinda swept away under the media hype and was kinda looking forward to it. At it's basic fundamental level, it's got a great concept, and with plenty of things being fixed, not just from the gameplay side of it, it's got potential to, in my eyes, be a great franchise.
+DiscoClam Could be like the ac franchise but taking place in modern day and each game either further ages this character or adds a new character from amodern day story couuld be the modern day assassins creed franchise
Informative review.
Liked your snake voice at 10.10
Yeah, the licensed music REALLY sucked save for Alice Cooper's "Dangerous Tonight". I also felt that more could have been done with the parkour to make traversal more fluid, like running diagonally into a wall to help give a boost to climb a fence or something. Honestly they would have been better off making a game with a better "morality" meter or something. I really wish I could direct the sequels to games like this that show potential and that I really like, but are also plagued with flaws and oversights.
I think I can explain the lack of patrolling cops. As you play the game, it becomes clear that security cameras are EVERYWHERE and the CTOS system is designed to detect possible crimes on its own through all of those cameras. In a world like that, it makes sense for the cities budget to be allocated away from manned patrol cars.
Its a really strange thing to see many games that are just "ok" or even under that, getting a sequel and thats the grand game all wanted! Its a little like early access, where you come to so many problems and share that with others only to give the developers the right tips how to make their games right.
Great video george!
One of my friends thinks Watch Dogs is an awesome game, even though he never played it.
He's like "It's awesome because it's GTA with HAX, GTA is awesome, HAX are awesome, Watch Dogs is super awesome"
"How many videogame heroes wear a baseball cap?"
Ness: *Okey intensifies*
I felt the same conflict in myself. It was not as polished as promised with very little advancement in the genre, however I still enjoyed playing the campaign and the multiplayer is fun, including the use of the Ctos App to play against my friends.
We played the game in order to add to our own channel content and player requested reviews on next gen, especially with the delay of ESO on consoles, so there were no expectstions or hype at HQ about this game. For us, this turned out to be a fun game to play, with better graphics than its GTA counterpart on old gen consoles.
Watchdogs on PS4 7/10, when you learn how to drive like a pro in the wishy washy mechanic set up.
The reason watchdogs sold so well is because of pre orders and Its one of the few triple A games that was not a sequel or remake
The only label song I liked from this game was "Help Is On The Way" by Rise Against, so much so it's now one of my favourite songs, but besides that, I played this game for the story. After tgat was done, I played ita little more for the online and the collectables but really only as a GTA replacement, so after getting GTA V, I have yet to touch this game again. It's gotten me some Uplay points to use on Far Cry 4, but Uplay isn't even that good so now I can only entertain the idea that I now have a golden Desert Eagle in Watch Dogs, even though I hate golden guns in general (Call of Duty made me realize my dislike of golden guns very quickly). I only pull out the GDE to show it off to other players, like, "Hey, look what I have" only to re-equip the P-9mm.
11:33 are you fucking serious.
Yamaha Keyboards he might of exclaimed that statement in disbelief of the game as opposed to the critique. At least that makes the most sense to me.
ed case This.
IM going to point to Assassin's creed 1, and Assassin's creed 2, and the difference and HOW intense the improvement was, and how AC2 is often considered one of the best games of the last generation.
Im willing to give a new series the benefit of the doubt.
This game looks like it could have huge modding potential. So I'm going to wait a year or two to see if it's more worth the money then (when it's cheaper).
Woah. I could just imagine George wearing Aiden's outfit while being out and about doing a secret journalist job.
Ubisoft did the same thing with Far Cry 3. Exhausting the most interesting villain half way through the game then dumping the player back into the world to pointlessly wrap up loose ends. To the credit of Watch Dogs Far Cry did it far worse because the secondary villain in that game didn't get much of an introducing to the player and it felt like we were killing that man because the game said so not much for story purposes.
Why are you recording your screen with a camera? Or was that footage taken from other channels? Either way, sloppy.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the game should have ended where it ended.
I also think that open world games just break more often on PC than any other type of game or platform. I had absolutely zero issues outside of Uplay with my PS4 copy of Watch Dogs but my PC copy of Sleeping Dogs had me falling through the world just like your intro and hardlocking my PC half the time.
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He avoided the crash, only to crash.
Very nice a well thought out review.
this is why i like this channel its not just about whether or not the second to second game-play is fun its a deep analysis of the game's mechanics in a way most people might not notice if they're just playing and not thinking. keep it up
Great review. Very informative! Thank you very much :)
That second clip... Must've been a hell of a crash...
Why did you think Jordi died when Aiden looked over the ledge at the solid ground where Jordi was supposed to be and he wasn't there?
I honestly wanted this game to be 'HBO Show - The Game' (or City of God in Chicago), like it was marketed to be. That's why I was disappointed. If Aiden had died or been arrested cos he realized he needed to, or some shit like that, it would've made it much better.
For the PC. why not just use a 360 controller?
in my experience 3rd person shooters dont work well with mouse :(
***** I always found movement awful with a keyboard and using one for a game with a lot of driving is a bad idea, also considering that the shooting mechanics contrast between using a mouse and gamepad, he should've used the latter to judge it better.
Any games that puts a gun in your hand is better with a mouse, get real.
11:33 These memes have aged better than memes relevant in 2014 would. Many elements of this game, from the clothing characters wear to the soundtrack to the cars really feel more akin to the late 00's rather than the early 10's which is frankly odd.
I was drawn into this game by the ballpark spectacle beginning, expecting the stealth to continue. And then I had the mission that began in a construction site, where I realized that nope, no stealth for me. :( Such lost potential
Thanks for the review.
I was/am very conflicted about this game. I still can't tell if the main character is supposed to be a good guy or not and I'm about as anti-surveillance state, pro-vigilantism as a person gets.
It does sound like two games sandwiched together. With the gameplay as bad as you're saying, I'll probably give this a pass.