AusGamers caught up with Ubisoft Montreal's Kevin Shortt to talk about how their open-world ticks.
The full interview discusses a range of things such as hard-fail scenarios and dynamic play, collecting cars, building a HQ with safe-houes, the in-game economy, side-missions, interiors, weather and much more.
From the interview:
"Wind is definitely a part of the game. What’s cool about this engine (Disrupt) is we have a full wind simulation. Now it doesn’t change the way you play, but what it does is it really brings some extra… like, the wind is dynamic, right, and it just helps to pull you in."
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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.
Why would Ubisoft release Watch Dogs and AC IV at the same time? I really want both but most definitely cant afford both. I guess I'll just have to wait for the reviews.
I'm waiting for snow as part of the weather in a open world game
Like the start of gtav
But part of a cycle
I also am a bit disappointed that there is no snow in watchdogs. I think it would be very cool if we could actually get seasons and random weather patterns in the game. But understand that adding snow adds a lot more headaches for the developer. Because then you have to take in to affect slippery surfaces for driving, footprints, building realtime depth, melting, etc....
Just a whole bunch of headaches I'm pretty sure they didn't want for their first game of the next generation. It was probably just enough to get it out for launch... as is.
Though, that doesn't stop me from wanting the snow in the game. I love snow in real life and love to see it while I'm gaming. We never had a game where snow realistically got deeper as the snow progressed. That is something I hope we see this generation. It adds a sense of reality to the game world and could actually change the way we play the game due to all of the issues that snow can cause.
It's not a gamebreaker, and I figured that we wouldn't have snow because we haven't seen any pictures or video of it up to this point. But a small part of me really wanted to see it and was hoping for the best.
One question that nobody ever asks in interviews, how persistent will the world be? If we kill a civilian in a dimly lit alley in the first five minutes of the game or destroy a billboard or something, will we come back 40 hours later and see that civilian lying dead or pieces of the billboard on the ground? Or will they just disappear like they do in this generation? Do any of our actions cause reactions in the game world? Beyond the reputation system, which seems to have little effect on the outcome of anything in the game.