Gareth from Laserlemming Writes
"I honestly think that the quality of Watch_Dogs isn't the reason that it has now been moved to spring, which is, by the way, already looking pretty packed with the releases such as Wolfenstein, The Evil Within and iNfamous: Second Son, and that's just off the top of my head. Ubisoft wouldn't have moved Watch_Dogs from a guaranteed smash hit at Christmas to the busiest spring gaming has ever seen if they didn't think it could handle it. Which in my mind says they either know it would sell regardless of quality, in which case why delay it?"
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The only Ubi title that deserves a faithful remake right now is Splinter Cell 1.
All 2014+ Ubi titles are just underwhelming. Especially ones from 2016+ are just cancer.
Seriously, are we so far removed from Ubisoft actually making good games that people now praise Watch_Dogs in retrospect?
"Watch_Dogs has remained one of my favourite games of the last ten years." Jesus Christ.
I remember being so disappointed in Watch Dogs when I played it at release. It was alright, but I think I fell for the hype and I needed a game to play on my new PS4.
This is what happens when mediocrity gets praised as good.
Standards are slipping across the whole entertainment industry.
What was once considering rubbish is now considered as OK, what once was OK is now being praised as good etc etc.
Everyone has their own likes. I liked it a lot myself. I played through it twice and liked the car chases and the open world with fairly decent environments and missions. It suffered from the whole downgrade thing where they showed graphics that weren't actually there. No game will appeal to everyone but it was still ambitious for it's time.
For certain! AC1 was brilliant at the time but with new graphics and gameplay it would be amazing! Do you prefer old combat or new though?
I'd say a reimagining of AC1.
I direct AC1 remake would be a bad idea. It'll need better story pacing and significant better world building.
Old. Let it play like how it did with AC2-Syndicate style gameplay but refine the setting and story.
It would need a lot changed for it to be enjoyable again as even back in 2007 on launch we were all complaining about it's repetitive gameplay go here perform one of three side quests repeat then assassination now do it over and over until a big battle with a unforgiving checkpoint system.
I'd prefer it didn't. Ubisoft would make it so bloated, it wouldn't be anywhere near the original
As a fan of the franchise legion was garbage and I regretted my purchase for the first time in the franchise the entire thing felt like an experiment in NPC behaviour and released without the writers input on what makes a good story.
I don't think I'm alone in that feeling though as wrench and Aiden are brought back and the campaign was rewritten to fit them.
I am tempted to buy the season pass to play it again with Aiden but fool me twice shame on me I'm waiting for a deep sale
Agreed. Despite the annoying hipness of the characters in part 2 I thought it was a really fun game. I was extremely disappointed and surprised at how many steps back they took with Legion. You'd think it was made by an entirely different team. Or was it?
It was just so devoid of fun.
Honestly one of my biggest annoyances with Legion is that they took out the camera views for the driving. I mean the behind the car view that they stuck us with is near unplayable. I always used a first person driving view. After two releases why did they take OUT features? I don't get it.
The fist watchdog game was the best by far
After that they weren't weird and annoying with that hipster stuff. Aiden was a badass.
I thought so at first too. I got used to it and it ended up being good after some play time. I just had to give it a chance.
From VG247: "When cars slide, they leave tyre marks. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn. But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate direction of travel – long after the car itself has vanished into the distance."
Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.
Assassins Creed 2 showed Ubisoft how to make money and Far Cry 2 showed them that gamers don't like complex ideas. Now Ubisoft just turns out games that are just variations of the same thing.
A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.
Yes. This one. A definite remake of the first without adding any ridiculous fluff. The first game had great physics and sound for its time. The start of the car in the beginning cinema I watched constantly. My father and uncles were big muscle and classic car freaks. Only thing crazy about the game was the relentless cops in the last level. Insane the way those police cars were and launched at you.
Bleemcast made it look better just like PC emulators. But would definitely take a remake.
So true. I don't get people trying to defend the decision to move it, saying how such a good idea it was when really it wasn't.
I mean especially when Amazon and other game retailers doing Watchdog PS4 bundles are having to scramble around to find a way around this.
If Ubisoft really knew it wasn't going to be polished in time then they should of said something a while ago, the fact they've hyped this game up at every gaming event and even were confident to show this off before next gen was even announced (5 years in the making apparently) then you should be able to work out this isn't because of quality control.
I expect to see new features, more missions and at least an expanded map if they are getting until Spring, 5-6 months from now. Maybe some air vehicles ?
they want to avoid open world gamer fatigue after the massive GTA V, it's like having having 2 big meals back to back, the 2nd one will always be ignored
or if anyone here watch wrestling, releasing watchdogs at launch 2 months after GTA V is exactly like what happened at Wrestlemania 29 with the Triple H vs brock Lesnar match, the match was good but the crowd was completely dead and the reason is because it came right after the epic undertaker vs cm punk match
i say Watch Dogs was delayed because of that, a good gap between GTA V and watchdogs will give watch dogs its deserved attention
the reason isn't AC4. It is GTA5, they don't want their next gen game to be inferior to a current gen game. Hell even Kojima said he didn't think he could make a game better than gta and seeing how gta like MGS is shaping up to be makes me think he is also trying to improve things before its release
ape007 no i'd say your assumption is as good as anyone's its just a theory, its not like ubi will ever give a definitive answer.
But the lines at eurogamer were far bigger for watch dogs than anything else. including cod and battlefield.
It was an odd decision to release two somewhat similar heavy hitters so close to each other in the first place. I'm not surprised this happened.