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Watch Dogs ‘Social Lubricant’ Achievement/Trophy Punishingly Difficult

"Watch Dogs has left achievement and trophy hunters in a fit of rage. One of the trophies you have to unlock is called ‘Social Lubricant’ it’s a bronze trophy (15 gamerscore on Xbox One and 360) that requires you to complete 30 levels of increasing difficult challenges. It’s a lot of hassle for such a minute reward.

Gamers are rallying for Ubisoft to issue a patch that will decrease the difficulty of the drinking games. One person has even started a petition on change.org to have it patched and it has quite a significant amount of supporters already."

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admiralvic3992d ago

Makes sense. So an achievement is difficult to the point where it feels like an actual achievement, which obviously needs to be patched to the point where it's a joke / easy to do. -rolls eyes-

I miss the days when people persevered and kept trying until it worked. I know things like this can be annoying, but there are a lot of extremely difficult trophy / achievements that give you a real sense of reward accomplishing and are much more fun to earn than "get X of Y," "vanquish Z boss" or "beat blank story stage."

PurpatraitorMGS3992d ago

The mini game isnt on par to the rest of the game.

plus, its a bronze.

admiralvic3992d ago (Edited 3992d ago )

"The mini game isnt on par to the rest of the game."

A lot of games are like this.

"plus, its a bronze."

So? Its not like there aren't good and bad aspects to it being bronze instead of gold and vice versa. On one hand, since it's only worth 15 G / bronze, it has very little impact on your overall total completion percent and you're not missing out on much if you just walk away. If they were to raise the value, then your completion would drop (it would go from approximately 98% to 91% if it went from bronze to gold on the PSN) and you would be more inclined to deal with it. Furthermore, a lot of games have disproportionate value to the difficulty attached.

Few random examples...

Wolfenstein: Beating the game is gold, beating it on hardest is silver.
Don't Starve: Build the Accomploshrine is gold, beating the story mode is silver.
Spelunky: Beating hell is gold, completing the journal (this requires you to do everything in hell) is silver and unlocking all the secret characters (final one is unlocked by beating hell...) is bronze.
Declassified: Surviving 13 waves is gold, getting 4 double kills on OPS M.I.A. is silver (trust me, this is harder than literally anything else I've ever seen in a CoD game).
Catherine: Beat the game is silver, completing obelisk is bronze.
etc

I could probably list another 100 examples if I had to, but I'm just saying that this is fairly standard.

DragonKnight3992d ago

Who the hell cares? It's just a meaningless trophy?

Honestly, this obsessive compulsive need to measure each other's ePenises is just ridiculous. You gain literally nothing from trophies except bragging rights, in which case amounts to "I won a fictional drinking game."

Wow. That's quite an accomplishment.

liquidhalos3992d ago

It's an achievement, therefore it should feel like an achievement.

alexkoepp3992d ago

Achievements were great for me at first. But as time has gone on I found myself doing grueling tasks and generally gaming, not for fun, but to get an artificial award. You would find people trying (myself included) trying to accomplish meaningless achievements in multiplayer matches, ruining the game for other people by not playing the game in the intended way but doing stupid things for achievements. Achievements should have always been kept to single player only, or at least not have you distracted from playing multiplayer the intended way.

Now I don't even look at or care about achievements, and I have a lot more fun gaming.

wsoutlaw873992d ago

I have fun competing with my friends with trophies and think it can challenge you to do something you wouldnt have tried, but if it isnt fun and its just grinding why would i do it.

chippychan3991d ago

I agree that trophies/achievements should be kept to single-player campaigns. I avoid multiplayer ones because I don't want to waste another player's time just so I can get a particular trophy when I don't even want to play online to begin with.

I personally enjoy trophy hunting, but I've learned not to obsess over platinuming a game with multiplayer trophies that I have no interest is obtaining.

XiNarutoUzumaki3992d ago (Edited 3992d ago )

Lol I got this trophy and the platinum already. It was a pain in the ass for sure, but C'mon people... Don't be pussies.

snake91823991d ago

Same, it isn't even that difficult if you just think about it. Level 6 in Pawnee is the hardest but all i did was pause when each event came up and got my bearings and it was so much easier.

Lwhit63991d ago

Sir, I kindly thank you for giving me this piece of advice.

yeahright23991d ago

Eh, a lot of us don't have the time to sit for hours on end to try and grab this trophy. I myself work 55 or more hours a week, got a wife and two toddlers at home, not to mention I also enjoy reading, watching some TV, and other hobbies. But all of those hobbies take a back seat to the kids.
All in all, I get about one to two hours max to myself each night. This is the last trophy I need to platinum watchdogs, and after three night of trying nothing but this, I've decided to let it go. I'm sure if I had the time and dedicated myself to it, I'd eventually get it, but that's just not an option for me.
I know the majority of gamers don't have the same scenario as me, so I won't gripe too much about it.

In the end, the game should be fun, and spending hours doing the same thing over and over isn't fun. So I'll just move on to the next game.

MaxwellBuddha3992d ago

Change.org: where whiners go to whine.

AndrewLB3992d ago

Exactly! And considering how Obama is doing everything EXCEPT leading the country, there's a good chance he might address the self entitled whining complainers. I mean... what the hell is that guy doing anyway? ISIS, an even more evil group than Al Qaeda has taken over half of Iraq and is heading for baghdad, executing thousands of innocents along the way. We've got tens of thousands of illegal alien children flooding across the border and nobody is stopping them, in fact... they're being allowed to stay. The IRS is still being used as a weapon, not a single person has been brought to justice for Benghazi, our government illegally traded 5 of the top level Taliban commanders for a deserter who tried to join the enemy, and our veterans are waiting 6-9 months for a doctors appointment and are dying by the hundreds because the government is neglecting their job (And soon we'll all be stuck with government run health care because of Obamacare).

Oh yea... he's playing golf out here in palm springs while the nation and world are falling apart. I've said for years that all his actions point toward someone who is intentionally trying to destroy this country. The doubters of that are dwindling quickly.

thereapersson3992d ago

Great comment, AndrewLB. Glad to see someone who is awake and not another partisan slave. Have a bubble!

ITPython3992d ago

Superb comment Andrew, bubble for you. Sadly though I have found that most gaming sites, if not all of them, are full of hardcore Obama worshipers who believe he can do no wrong. And these people are blue in the face with the crippling mental illness known as liberalism. It's a shame, but your comment has fallen on mostly deaf and spiteful ears.

OT: I do enjoy getting the platinum trophy in games when it is reasonable, as this helps me enjoy every part of the game to the fullest. But if I come across trophies that seem a bit ridiculous to get, I just move on don't even bother. Unlike some gamers, I am not a glutton for punishment and don't understand how some people enjoy getting stressed out and ticked off in games. IMO the whole point of playing a video game is to have fun and to enjoy yourself.

Lucreto3992d ago

Wow I don't know where to start.

How is he meant to lead when you have an entire party dedicated to make sure he doesn't. He wants to do something even if it was the other party platform the previous year is now a socialist program. The Iraqis don't want boots on the ground just weapons and support the last time they did that they were used against them.
The illegal immigration is a problem but most states turn a blind eye as they use these people to do jobs no one else will do. One farmers crop withered in the field as he couldn't get Americans to pick they for almost nothing. No party is willing to do anything because votes.
Benghazi is a hard case to prosecute as who is to blame. The Ambassador refused to leave, the confusion on the Intel or the certain party who defunded the embassy security money.
The veterans are better off now than before again a certain party is refusing to work with Obama to fix the situation. In most countries health care is a human right. Obama has played 200 since he took office while a senate minority leader and leader of the house have played 100 games a year.

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matrixman923992d ago

it took me a long time, but I got it. It was a pain, but very do-able

sic_chops3992d ago

I think the complaint is because it's only bronze /15 points. If it's that hard it should be silver or gold and more points

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

If you are looking for a bargain, check out the huge discounts across the entire WatchDogs series on Steam.

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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.

RaidenBlack1392d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood1392d ago (Edited 1392d 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.

HankHill1392d 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.

obidanshinobi1392d 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.

LamerTamer1392d 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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gantarat1392d ago

assassin's creed 1 should get a remake.

ExBee1392d 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?

RaidenBlack1392d 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.

BlaqMagiq11392d ago

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

Profchaos1392d 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.

BlaqMagiq11392d ago

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

chicken_in_the_corn1391d 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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smolinsk1392d ago (Edited 1392d ago )

Absolutely, this watch dogs legion was terrible boring.

Profchaos1392d ago (Edited 1392d 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_toad1392d 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.

LamerTamer1392d 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.

TheSinsibleOne1392d 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.

LamerTamer1392d 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.

TheEnigma3131392d ago

Remake the PoP series from xbox/ps2/gc era

RaidenBlack1392d ago

They are remaking Sands of Time.

TheEnigma3131392d 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."

vallencer1457d ago

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

Pridefall1457d ago

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

mikefizzled11456d ago

The mystery that is En Fore Gee

neutralgamer19921457d ago

Give us driver San Francisco remastered

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen1457d ago

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

Gameseeker_Frampt1456d 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.

WeAreLegion1457d ago

Best driving mechanics ever made. Nothing has come close.

Gardenia1457d 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.

ApocalypseShadow1457d 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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