Watch Dogs Early Impressions

From Vault of the Gameverse:

"After nearly twenty hours, the first thing I want to say is that Watch Dogs is my new most absolute favorite game ever. I have a lot of favorites but this one is my newest #1. Bumped up the list topping Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, the Batman: Arkham games, even Beyond: Two Souls and more."

[TheUberAsian]

First impression To Me: This game has some very weird controls to it on the ps4!

[SuperBlunt]

if you played ass creed you should feel fairly familiar but i agree they are unique. Game is incredible doh

[Ken85]

Bubbling for "Ass Creed"

[Redrum059]

Has anyone else here suffered from the freezing @ 90% loading screen.?
I need help with this dilemma

[Germaximus]

Try changing the Texture option under Display to Medium and then go from there.

[forager]

Im a bit on the edge on whether or not to get the game, my concerns are the repetitive missions?
Is this game worth buying?

[moomoo319]

yes it is far from repititive there is so much content and most of it occurs naturally in the city. potential crimes, robbers, purse snatchers, 4 types of contracts, online hacking, gang hideouts, 14 ctos towers to infiltrate and hack. This game is truly unique and one of the best ive played.

[forager]

Awesome sounds great! Then whats with all the hate?

[moomoo319]

@forager

I dont know its silly and pretty frustrating

[SuperBlunt]

I literally cannot explain why people hate this game. i think its cause it doesnt look as pristine as the e3 2012 reveal. On ps4 its about 85% there during the night with rain

[forager]

but overall it looks good right? And last question, is the city saturated with NPCs or does it seem empty..?

[Shakengandulf]

@ forager
The city is far from empty, lots of NPC.

[SuperBlunt]

its crazy full of people and cars and it looks very good for an open world game imo

[Audiggity]

Hey forager,

From what I can gather - the "hate" is from a mixture of things as you read between the lines:

1. People's expectations were insanely high, to the point at which any game would be considered a let down

2. Those complaining about the repetition of the game don't realize that THEY are the limiting factor here. There's so much to do (as moomoo319 mentioned) that it's almost overwhelming... so, these people are either scared of change or* are too close-minded to appreciate just about any open world game.

3. Clickbait - plain and simple. People are actively researching Watch Dogs, so the negative reviews in some cases are clearly to drive traffic/ad revenue. (Some of the mixed reviews were so poorly written they should have just put up 6.5/10 to spike impressions and left the write-up out of it). Kind of sad really that they have to rely on cheap-shots instead of quality content.

Of course, just like the aforementioned hate, these are just my opinions. No game will appeal to everyone.

But this is easily worth $60 IMO, buying the Season Pass tonight in fact.

[Germaximus]

The hate is probably from all of the PC issues. It's super broken on PC.

[Fasttrack76]

Love it love it love it, enough said.

[bienio]

Im happy with Watch Dogs. I got what I expected, gameplay is fun and demanding..So 9/10 Easy:)

[zeeman]

Got it. love it. not sleeping enough. Dont hate it. bye.

[belac09]

iiiiiit's grrreat!

[Fasttrack76]

As tony the tiger would say, lol

[giovonni]

I think some of the concerns are valid. Watch Dogs is not a bad game, by any means, but it's not as great as many want to claim. This game, while good. Lacks memorable missions, and the idea of hacking in the world is a great concept, but tends to get very bland very fast. It does have a repetitive nature to it, as far as hacking is concerned it's the same story with hacking, being chased doesn't feel exciting even when you change a street light and cause a crash or lift a bridge, it's the same wash rinse and repeat form that came with games like Assassin's creed.

I feel The missions could have been more dynamic with there approach.(poss spoiler alert) take note to the Jail mission, and you may understand what I am saying, or getting the child before someone else does. great concepts but lacks in it's approach.

what saves this game is the many mission you can do, the unexpected hacking by other players, and npc hacked convo's.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

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