Watch_Dogs

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HAH, beautiful. He makes a good Let's Player. Not to mention he really makes it look like GTA with hacking.

 

Just thought I'd report in and let everyone know that the game is pretty rad. There's not a whole heap of things to hack, but there's also not a tiny amount either. The city is nice and big without being overwhelmingly large, and missions are spaced out so you can kinda go sight seeing on the way to the next part of the story.

 

I didn't buy the game nor do I plan to, but this showed up on my tumblr dash & I found it pretty entertaining.

Not sure if it's a case of someone looking for stuff that's broken or if the game is just... broken itself, but it's a good laugh.

 

As far as I'm concerned, I don't think the game is THAT broken (or maybe I didn't look close enough at each individual thing .-.).

 

I've had no technical issues at all. Isolated issues it seems and not a total fault of the completed game.

Fun game, almost too much to do in some ways. All the hacking has good feedback to it, you always feel like you can have control of a situation. Missions are good, repetitive, but I always look to try something different each time. Car chases whether being pursued or pursuing, just feels fun. Multiplayer is tense and very Assassin's Creed like blended with GTA. It's a very good new IP, still doesn't immerse or impress you as GTA does, but a fun alternative that's trying to do its own thing. Sequel will be terrific, when some verticality is added to the mixture like helicopters and such, as well as make some expanses to the hacking abilities and how you can manipulate the world with it.

Of note, the sex stuff is annoyingly common with its attempt at being funny just failing, leaving everything being a bit awkward. I mean you get several moments of guys masturbating or couples having sex or mention of sex toys without any reasons other than as a joke that that's all the internet is about and that's all that anyone does behind closed doors. That stuff works in GTA because it's a game completely about satarising American society. It just takes me out of the experience, I realise then that it's just a game and not a Chicago I can prowl around in and experience the world of a truly powerful and interactive hacker. I just feel like i'm watching the badly scripted sex bits in a tv show. The unfortunate result of a disjointed writing department, but that's Ubi for you. Good writing and characters here, but terrible stuff over there that distracts you from the good.

 

(About to play it for the record)

I've heard a ton of negative things about the PC version due to the fact that it is very poorly optimized (its more of a port, nothing more than that) so I am glad that I picked up the PS4 version.

Now unlike most people on the internet it seems, I am not going to go into this looking for every little problem (I thought games were supposed to be about having fun, not being an asshole) so from what I have seen I will get a decent amount of fun out of this game, which is fine by me.

 

They had the same issue with AC4, PC version of Ubi game is usually under par or difficult to deal with at launch. They usually patch problems.

 

Plan on getting this on Wii U first since it seems fitting to the gameplay. Too bad the release is "2014. Probably." for that. I get it takes awhile to port to Wii U and give the gamepad that level of power, but c'mon...

If I like it, I'll grab it for X1. Excited to hear from @Aiden Pearce that you can hack your way through missions. Really addresses the problem I've had with the Assassin's Creed series (you know that stealth series with no stealth)

Can't wait .[DOUBLEPOST=1401406475][/DOUBLEPOST]

Ha! No no, that's what the internet's FOOOOR. People to communicate about every game release and crap over it.

Trust me, I've been pushing that idea (just have fun you wanks instead of trying to all be yahtzee who they ironically hate idea) around here for awhile. Absolutely no one ever realizes that ten seconds after they say this because the big bad internet is being mean to something they like, they themselves go in a thread and harp on a different game. Not realizing they're pushing people to be the same level of defensive. Not realizing they've become a hypocrite. Not realizing that if they were never excited about it, then it's not in line with their taste but it will for others. Some people don't like mushrooms.

 

No they don't. Every Ubisoft game I've have ever owned runs shitty to this day. I have an overclocked 780 and I shouldn't be getting any problems.

 

Buying the most expensive parts doesn't = always good.

NVidia cards every now and again has a bad run in with games. Every few patches or so on League of Legends I (and other people with NVidia cards) get terrible frame drops. I can also recall Crysis 3 being terrible for anyone with an NVidia card (I have a 680)

 

Really? Could've sworn i've had patches before. For Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon at least, I mean i've not got AC4 or 3 on PC and I presumed their statements of releasing patches were true for them too. Not to say they ran better all the time, but the bugs were reduced a lot more. Crashed a lot less too.

 

They do release patches all the time, but they never fix optimization. Stuttering and framerate issues always stay the same, with maybe a few exceptions.

 

So someone actually seems to have found the original PC graphics that were showcased at E32012. Here's a link.

Here are some shots people got with the mod:

Spoiler

 

No it's not awesome, Ubisoft for whatever reason locked the E3 graphics out, whatever their reason, they intentionally downgraded their game

 

From what I've read about it, it was to (apparently) keep the graphics for the PC version on par with, or close enough to, the console versions. But yeah, I agree. It's still a silly thing to do imo because this doesn't apply for the PS3 version compared to the PS4 version. They shouldn't downscale one version just to be able to laud another as 'amazing next gen quality''.

 

That's the theory a lot of people are going with, but Ubisoft made no official statement.
Basically the options are that they were trying to make the console versions look better (whether the reason was to boost console sales, make console gamers feel better, or a deal directly with Sony or someone) or that there's some sort of issue with the new graphics that nobody has been able to find yet (nobody has seen any loss of framerate or any other performance problems so far)