MWEB GameZone writes: "We take a step back and look at why Watch_Dogs’ failures are more unsettling in what it tells us about our culture and community than what it says about the game itself."
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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.
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.
What a brilliant read. We all know the danger of hype, yet it seems we keep on falling for it with the release of every big game. Then we get so mad at the devs for not delivering what we thought they would, that we turn into raging lunatics. It seems that the majority of gamers will always be suckers for the promise of next-gen" this or next-gen that.
Indie's where it's at ;)
I feel like the need to provide eye candy while letting players blow crap up is a far greater priority than real depth. Stories are mostly hacked together and presented as motivations for killing. We do alot of killing in games, I'll admit that - but having real reasons to do so is so much more immersive.
Also, Watch Dogs was pitched as deep and morally questioning. Therein lies the problem. If it were sold as a game that let you hack, shoot and blow up as much as you wanted (GTAV), wherever you wanted then this wouldn't be a problem. Marketing is the problem for me. Tomb Raider 2013 was marketed as a survival game with Lara steeped with dirt and scars, yet it turned out to be a fun killing simulator with guns, bows and explosives.
I wish that we'd get told what games are to start off with, then we'd avoid much of the emptiness that comes from hindsight.
Gosh dang, so many "Me" and "I" in this article it hurts
Nothing will ever meet peoples overly-high expectations of anything.
I dont know why people continue to "hype" themselves, when just a few weeks, or even days later theres a barrage of comments along the lines of "it was shit, returned it the next day, cant wait for the next game!", time and time again.
Its like gamers have a severe case of ADHD these days. I approach new games objectively, analyse what they offer, the potential it has, the underlying themes and the concepts theyre playing with.
Most importantly, the gameplay and how unique and or different it is to break the trend of derivative and copy-paste gameplay from one genre to another.
I honestly cant even begin to comprehend all this graphics controversy, seems like everyone and their dog complains about this "downgrade" debacle. Yes it looks slightly inferior to what was originally shown, but it doesnt look bad at ALL! Its still a beautifully rendered game and fully realised world.
Hype and Graphics isn't whats wrong with the industry, its how gamers and journalists react to them which is.
I was very disappointed with WD, but truth be told we should expect a fair share of crappy and unoptimize games from ubisoft, think about it ,why do you think dev companies like Nd, Bungie, and Cd projekt make great games because they dont focus on 10 games at once.A company like Ea, Activision, and ubi are more about quantity than quality thats why you will see more shitty games from the last three company's I mention!