Earlier this year, Yves Guillemot of Ubisoft told the Dutch gaming website InsiderGamer that Watch Dogs was being built for PC, and scaled back onto every other major platform:
“The team is developing it on high end PCs and next gen, after that other teams are looking how they can make it fit for the older generation. So the first approach is to see how they can take full advantage of the next gen consoles.”
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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.
You know I don't think people will get this, but this is actually how you want your games made... -(built for PC)-
PC First, then scale it down to hit consoles. People may not like that because if your on console and you version is going to make up the majority of sales, then you might prefer that the game was designed for your system..
But When you go PC first, Gamers are actually getting a better game. Because Your getting the game the developers are dreaming of making with all the ideas and no limitations.. -then after it's made you try to find a way to make it run on lower hardware...
What you don't want is a game designer working on the game and saying, "oh well the system can't do none of that so those features are out"
So Crytek's Cryengine 3 is a great example of understanding the problem Game companies face, and I'll try not to make this too long..
( When Crysis 1 came out it was the baddest thing on the planet and even high-end PC's at that time were brought to their knees. -Because they just made the game they wanted without limits-
-But It also put it out of the hands of a huge amount of gamers because they could not even run it or play it.
-So the question becomes does it really need such high detail can we tone that down a little so I can get it to run?
And here is the Balance of what Cryengine 3's real talent is -(Cryteks game engine used for Crysis 3)- Make a rock look really good but then re-do the rock so it still looks good but the graphics card does not have to cry to show it to the player..
-you the player really don't care about the rock you just want it too look good. And you don't want, it to give you a performance hit.. -So if the game has to slow down the shooting because the rock is at such high detail, then you want the rock toned down big time... (But you still want that rock to look really good, but more important you want the game to play fluid, with no slow down)
This is the best of both worlds, and this is why Crysis 3 looks really good on PC and that same game looks really good on Consoles.. This hit the balance of the two perfectly.. It's all about scaling it down in the right way.
WatchDogs seems to be on that same level - were the PS4 version will come so close to the high-end PC it will be hard to tell the difference... (This how we will get the best games possible)
And don't be fooled this is how all Third party games are going to be designed, PC first and then scaled down. -And then they will try to add things that maybe that console does well, but more likely they will just port the PC version. -NOT BAD BECAUSE these new consoles will be just like PC architect.
But for current gen consoles it won't be as good as they are not really designed as low end PC's
-Ok this went on way too long... LoL - I should have just made a blog post. But to sum it up it will be amazing on PS4 and Nex Xbox, but not so much on current gen.. sorry
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isn't atleast as a big issue compared to last gen, next gen is more pc like architecture
This game is good for crossfire or SLI build PC.. Looking at the vfx of this game, it looks stunning indeed.. We'll be needing a powerful PC hardware to run this game on 60fps all setting tweaked to ultra high.
Scale down to the upcoming next gen consoles. This is a powerful statement for those who insist on thinking that the ps4 will come close to a high end PC
Try not to get caught up in pr talk...