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Ubisoft Looks To T-Bone To Salvage Watch_Dogs After Aiden Fails To Impress

In a day and age where character development and emotional connection to that character is just as important as great graphics. It is no surprise that Ubisoft are slowly trying to introduce a new protagonist into the world of Watch_Dogs, especially after Aiden Pearce's lack-luster performance.

Frankskint3514d ago

I thought T-Bone was the worst character of them all.

LightDiego3514d ago

To be honest, all the characters are uninteresting.

CloudRap3514d ago

Especially emotionless wannabe batman

amyortega1313514d ago

I kinda liked old braid chin. Here's hoping for a Jordi DLC too.

Christopher3514d ago

Exactly. If there was one huge problem with the game, it's that no one in it was at all interesting or worth expanding upon.

WeAreLegion3514d ago

At this point, a legitimate Watch_Doge game would be a heck of a lot more interesting.

N4g_null3514d ago

Who still plays watchdogs? What happened to making a game that is fun to play game play wise. Shallow game design. Must be a next gen feature. Hopefully you guys can turn this ship around before it comes into port fully set aflame.

elninels3514d ago

They were all pretty bad.

we're talking about a fully grown white male calling himself t-bone, rocking grey dreads and piercings. What

DragonKnight3514d ago

Uhh, have none of you met this guy?

http://img2.wikia.nocookie....

Behold the best character in Watch Dogs.

Conzul3514d ago

Jordi was great, but sadly we didn't see enough of him...

ShinMaster3514d ago

Jordi was the better character!

Although he did steal Kazuma Kiryu's clothes...
http://i.imgur.com/wqlNLXg....
lol

DragonKnight3514d ago

@Conzul: That's what I'm saying, he needs his own game. He oozes personality. I mean, they could make a game with Jordi that could compete with Hitman if they did it properly. His personality is very different to 47, but I found him to be hilarious.

@ShinMaster: Damn, you're not kidding. Jordi is nearly identical looking to Kazuma. Ubisoft's slacking.

crxss3514d ago

there's only one character that needs salvaging... but spoilers prevent me from mentioning that person.

gamer4lifeyo3513d ago

Agreed. I was so disappointed in the story. It utterly failed in getting me to care about any of the characters. Who ever wrote the story should receive 10 lashes at public square, it was that awful, lol. I'm still pissed I bought digitally, for 60 fuckin dollars! I'm stuck with it forever!

christian hour3513d ago

Every character just screamed "focus study". It was horrible. The games characters were just an absolute joke of trying to recreate something that may have sold successfully in the past without actually trying to figure out or understand what it was that made them sell in the first place. PR is a joke.

This kinda stuff always reminds me of the Labia opening scenes to Monkey Dust (please tell me SOMEONE has seen the show, Monkey Dust?)

bixxel3509d ago

Jordi is hands down the best character of WD.

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AngelicIceDiamond3514d ago

I never played it but I heard the supporting cast was better than Aiden.

I heard Aiden was a fun as watching a snail race.

Chicago's big I'm sure they can find a new lead role to take Aidens place.

Frankskint3514d ago

Aiden was as bland as they come. His voice felt forced, like he had a frog in his throat, and i just didn't buy his distraught after his niece died story.

This is DLC is nothing but a cash grab.

LamerTamer3514d ago (Edited 3514d ago )

There seems to be allot of hate but I beat the game and I don't think the characters were that bad. Not saying the best ever but none of the characters were as terrible as you would think by reading the comments. As far as Aiden being boring, I don't really see it. YOU are the character and what you do is what is fun or not. You can be as exciting or as boring as you want mostly.

I thought some of the car chases etc were fun. Driving was hard when in 3rd person but if you switched to bumper cam FPV during a chase it was actually pretty easy.

If being chased by cops and you can't shake them I found driving to shore and getting in a boat was a sure fire escape, I guess there are no police boats.

Grenade launchers against fixer vehicles was good fun, lots of 'splosions and wreckage.

I thought I would hate WD but ended up liking it more than I thought.

Flavor3513d ago

I would play as the rat face hacker Defalt.

ThatOneGuyThere3513d ago (Edited 3513d ago )

I want 2 things from Watch Dogs:

1) Multiplayer for the mini games (digital trips)
2) More digital trips.

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3-4-53514d ago

Whoever they hired to create these characters should not continue doing so.

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FullmetalRoyale3514d ago

The only thing that even made me slightly raise an eyebrow is when he promptly whoops you when you meet him for the first time, after he gets you drunk, and in spite of the fact that Aiden uses his nightstick. I thought it was sort of interesting, but that is genuinely one of the peaks for me, and that is simply ridiculous.

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EdnaJones973514d ago

i am so picking this up. T-Bone reminded me of an old hill billy neighbor that used to live around the neighborhood. He had all these do not disturb signs outside his barbed wired gate, to keep us meddling kids out. LOL

Won't be surprised if he was a hacker like good ole T-Bone steak.

CloudRap3514d ago

Got 30$ off Destiny for it, dont regret it one bit. It really made me appreciate GTA.

FullmetalRoyale3514d ago (Edited 3514d ago )

I swear I'm not raggin on Watch Dogs, but when I was playing it earlier today(I got to the part where you meet T-Bone) I legitimately had *the thought "This actually is making me want to purchase GTA when it comes out." My recent time with Watch Dogs has actually got me fondly remembering Los Santos, and I am not a huge GTA fan myself, but that world they built is impressive, and I think I'll be visiting again.

Christopher3514d ago

They have a requirement to put out DLC for a specific amount of time to meet season pass, or whatever it's called, subscribers.

Capt-FuzzyPants3514d ago

I'm still trying to beat it. I just got to T-Bone. I'm playing it in a bout 3 1 hour spurts a week.

alvinmiller923514d ago

I don't know if it was a combination of the bad driving, or just aiden that put me off this game.

ArronNelson3514d ago

Aiden wasn't so bad. Though he did sound like a raspier version of Batman.

thricetold3514d ago

As soon as I realized that the driving wasn't going to improve I stopped playing. Gave it about an hour or two to get used to it, but nope, it still sucked.

LamerTamer3514d ago

Have you tried using bumper cam FPV? I hated driving till I did this. The downside is for some reason you can't look around in FPV, so I navigated the city in 3rd person then when the action started I switched to FPV, seemed to make the control easier.

zeuanimals3514d ago

Open world Ubisoft games really piss me off. They always follow the same formula now, and it's just not fun at all. Climb or get through a tower/building and/or do puzzle to unlock areas of the map or to unlock fast travel points. Have a bunch of random side activities that just feel like chores and also have a bunch of collectibles throughout the map.

I'd prefer if they made Watch Dogs linear and just focused on polishing the missions, stealth, and overall gameplay than adding all of this useless crap. Max Payne 3 is very enjoyable and all you do is go through a linear story and shoot people, there's literally nothing else but the mechanics and gameplay are satisfying enough to carry the game. The mechanics in Watch Dogs was not enough and the side crap was just filler.

Rebel_Scum3514d ago

Couldn't agree more. I'm playing though it now and focusing solely on main missions which for the most part are really good.

It is a poor mans GTA in terms of overall quality though. Watch Dogs 2 should be a really interesting improvement.

henrythomas2843514d ago

Why is the RC truck called Eugene?

edwardhuff6633514d ago

Because Eugene is the name of his grandaddy when they used to make moonshine together and sell it illegally on the back of his pick up truck.

danniellelewis3514d ago

Is this true? Sounds like something Ubi would make part of the Bad Blood DLC script.

edwardhuff6633514d ago

@Danniellelewis i was actually joking though honestly speaking this could make for a better backstory than what was currently offered on Watch_Dogs

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The entire WatchDogs series is 87% off and it's not even Black Friday

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Watch Dogs Deserves A Remake, More Than Ever

With the world of information and technology, privacy and security growing every day, Watch Dogs deserves another chance in the spotlight, now more than ever.

RaidenBlack994d ago

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.

LucasRuinedChildhood994d ago (Edited 994d ago )

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.

HankHill994d ago

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.

obidanshinobi994d ago

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.

LamerTamer993d ago

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.

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gantarat994d ago

assassin's creed 1 should get a remake.

ExBee994d ago

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?

RaidenBlack994d ago

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.

BlaqMagiq1993d ago

Old. Let it play like how it did with AC2-Syndicate style gameplay but refine the setting and story.

Profchaos994d ago

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.

BlaqMagiq1993d ago

Absolutely. It needs it. The only AC I truly didn't enjoy.

chicken_in_the_corn993d ago

I'd prefer it didn't. Ubisoft would make it so bloated, it wouldn't be anywhere near the original

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smolinsk994d ago (Edited 994d ago )

Absolutely, this watch dogs legion was terrible boring.

Profchaos994d ago (Edited 994d ago )

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

camel_toad994d ago

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.

LamerTamer993d ago

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.

TheSinsibleOne994d ago

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.

LamerTamer993d ago

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.

TheEnigma313994d ago

Remake the PoP series from xbox/ps2/gc era

RaidenBlack994d ago

They are remaking Sands of Time.

TheEnigma313994d ago

That's good news. Hopefully it's done right.

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Inside the Driver game that died so that Watch Dogs could live

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."

vallencer1059d ago

Different spellings in different parts of the world friend. Tyre is a correct way to spell it.

Pridefall1058d ago

Dunno why you got downvpted when tyre is correct in Australia.

mikefizzled11058d ago

The mystery that is En Fore Gee

neutralgamer19921059d ago

Give us driver San Francisco remastered

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen1059d ago

Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.

Gameseeker_Frampt1058d ago

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.

WeAreLegion1059d ago

Best driving mechanics ever made. Nothing has come close.

Gardenia1059d ago

A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.

ApocalypseShadow1059d ago

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.

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