So, this game, Watch Dogs - Wikipedia, has an interesting premise of vigilante hacker/assassin in a free roam city. Sounds like GTA meets Assassin Creed.
Anyone thinking of buying and wondering if it’s worth the 60$ as I am? Anybody actually tried it? If so, how did you find it?
In transit per Amazon. Gettin’ the PS4 version. A few lucky gamers were already streaming on PS4 Twitch. Looks like it’s gonna ne a winner. Ubisoft’s biggest pre-order ever.
I pre-purchased it a while back for the PC but haven’t gotten to install it yet since it just released this morning. Early reviews seem to put it in the GTA/Saints Row family with the “hacking” and magic phone unique enough to make it worth its own game.
I’m interested to see how accurate a map of Chicago it is. Can’t do $60 now, I’ll wait for a steam sale.
Looks awesome. $60 is expensive; it’ll go way down during some sale at some point. Besides, my computer probably can’t handle it anyway.
I’ve seen some reviews praising it as an innovative game and others saying that it feels several years old. I’m going to wait until opinions have solidified a bit.
Sounds like Deus Ex.
From the gameplay videos I’ve seen, it’s a good bit fictionalized Chicago. It’s not like Project Gotham where the streets are modeled exactly after the city. It has the feel of Chicago, but the geography is not literal. The video I remember had a car going down something that looked like Cermak/Chinatown, then heading north into a highway reminiscent of both the Dan Ryan or Kennedy and Lake Shore Drive, going over a long bridge that doesn’t actually exist with water on both sides, driving into the Loop. Lots of artistic license (which is fine with me.)
Oh, here’s the video I was thinking of. Start at 7:00 to see what I was describing.
Picked it up tonight on ps4. It feels like a hundred other good open world gta type games. Meaning it looks and controls nice, seems like the story is decent etc… Notice I said good games, because it is a good game. The problem is if you’ve played many of these types of games they all start to feel the same after a while, which doesn’t make each game any worse, but cumulatively it feels like I’ve played it all before.
The Steam reviews are currently pretty hilarious. It looks like it has major crashing problems, especially on AMD cards. Not to mention the Uplay servers are borked.
Well, crap.
Tried to play it from a friend’s Steam account - Windows 32 bits not supported, won’t run. Really wanted to play this one too, looks like Assassin’s Creed meets Snow Crash. Fuck. I moved to Windows 8 like six months ago *specifically *because too many games didn’t run on XP any more ! Why do you do this to me, PC gaming ?! WHY ?! I’ve loved and trusted you my entire life, I’ve learned to craft ingenious marvels of config.sys just for you, I was 13 and you were my first and THIS is how you thank me ?!
Bitch.
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Not to mention the Uplay servers are borked.
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Well, yeah. When are they not ?
AMD is releasing new drivers in a day or two which supposedly give a 25-30% boost to performance. Watch Dogs is some Nvidia linked title and AMD wasn’t invited to the party ahead of time to help get the game optimized.
Download off Uplay was so hella slow anyway that I just set it on pause and will wait a day or two to try it. I only pre-purchased because I found a 50% off deal and figured I’d likely be waiting 6+ months before I saw it better than that anyway.
PC version looks pretty good. And runs well for me so far.
Uplay was having issues for everyone yesterday. PS4 people couldn’t log in, Xbox people couldn’t save the game. PC people couldn’t play for a brief period of time. Gotta love Ubisoft.
The game itself is hella fun. Reminds me of Sleeping Dogs. I’ve been playing the game as stealthy as I can, and in that way it feels like an open world Splinter Cell.
The open world activities are for the most part interesting and varied. You can hack CTOS towers, which usually involves a bit of environmental puzzle solving, occasional stealth/combat sequences. You can stop crimes as they are being committed, which usually involves tailing suspects/possible victims and sometimes break out into a chase through crowded streets.
I’m definitely having fun with it.
That was my fear and why I didn’t pick it up. It looks fun, but I already have GTA.
I’m waiting for more reviews and a sale. Right now I’m receiving mixed messages.
A good game with Uplay is like a really hot chick with herpes, it’s never worth it.
:smack: We have some good news and some BAD news!
The new AMD drivers were released so I installed those last night and started the game. It’s fun in the same usual open world crime game genre. If you liked stuff like GTA, Saints Row, Sleeping Dogs and Mafia II then it’d stand to reason that you’d like this. The “magic phone” hacking stuff is new and works well in the game; changing traffic signals or raising security bollards on the fly is amusing and so is listening in on phone calls or draining the ATM accounts of child molesters. Faux-Chicago feels appropriately “alive”. Driving is about the same as in SRTT/SR4. The plot itself is nothing special and you won’t build any attachments to the protagonist.
The city feel Chicago-ish but with some major geographical oddities (apparently at some point the South Side fell into a new river) and weird naming conventions I assume were partially for trademark reasons (“Magnificent Mile” becomes “Mad Mile”, etc). Sears/Willis Tower is represented along with a something sorta like the Hancock building, Navy Pier is there and a few other buildings you’d recognize if you lived there. Major absences are the Art Institute, Museum Campus, Soldier Field and both baseball stadiums were consolidated into the generic “May Field”. The general feel is there though and it’s a lot better than Hitman: Absolution’s depiction.
Anyway, anyone who bought it early has nothing to be ashamed of (it ain’t no Aliens: Colonial Marines) and anyone who’s waiting for a major sale isn’t really missing out.
Well, it seems that Glenn Beck isn’t a big fan of the game. Reading his crazy is a pretty solid selling point for the game.
BRB, need to press A to hack into Glenn Beck’s bank records real quick.