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Music 05-27-14 06:03 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
What the hell was wrong with V?

The driving seems fine to me for the type of game it is. :shrug:

rocketsauce 05-27-14 06:26 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by Decker (Post 12118875)
To this day, the best thrill I ever got in gaming was playing Test Drive Unlimited online with my buddy and driving a race from my street, past his place and on to Aloha Stadium on their reasonably recreated map of Oahu.

That's awesome. I'm hoping to have some sort of the same experience here. I know they can't/didn't recreate every building, but because Chicago is made up of a bunch of very unique neighborhoods I'm hoping to have fun just exploring.

There is a slight chance my condo building is in the game as it's a registered historical landmark.

slop101 05-27-14 06:43 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by Rival11 (Post 12118936)
(but come on, it has to be better than V right?).

Yeah, what the hell are you talking about? V was one of the best, if not THE best, urban sandbox games ever made. I'd be stoked if this was half as good.

Decker 05-27-14 06:47 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
I have to assume he meant to type IV instead.

dsa_shea 05-27-14 06:53 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
V>>>>Watch Dogs = IV

Decker 05-27-14 07:00 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
That's a bummer. I take it you don't like it much, shea? Because it looks like the sort of game that would appeal to me.

dsa_shea 05-27-14 07:08 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by Decker (Post 12118996)
That's a bummer. I take it you don't like it much, shea? Because it looks like the sort of game that would appeal to me.

It's fun but not amazing.

Rival11 05-27-14 07:10 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
lol it's nothing personal, V was a huge let down for me, three main leads suck, game is just well...boring to me.

dsa shea - that's actually good news if it's like IV as IV is my favorite GTA title.

RichC2 05-27-14 07:45 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by Rival11 (Post 12119007)
lol it's nothing personal, V was a huge let down for me, three main leads suck, game is just well...boring to me.

dsa shea - that's actually good news if it's like IV as IV is my favorite GTA title.

Exact opposite for me, GTA IV put me to sleep, V was a lot of fun.

discostu1337 05-27-14 08:20 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
Ugh, I can already see myself wasting a ton of time in this game. I have played for about 4 hours now and MAYBE 30 minutes of that was story missions. I just keep running around scanning people to steal money and beating up bad guys. There are so many dots on the map of crap to do that my ADD kicks in and I run all over the place.

Side note: I'm playing on Xbox One and the little IGC cutscenes look horrible. I'm guessing they are ripped from the 360/PS3 versions of the game. Screen tearing galore. The actual FMV's looks great, and the gameplay itself is fine.

Music 05-27-14 08:21 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by discostu1337 (Post 12119063)
Ugh, I can already see myself wasting a ton of time in this game. I have played for about 4 hours now and MAYBE 30 minutes of that was story missions. I just keep running around scanning people to steal money and beating up bad guys. There are so many dots on the map of crap to do that my ADD kicks in and I run all over the place.

This! :thumbsup: (although I'm probably at 8-10 hours)

mattysemo247 05-27-14 08:46 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
I'm only an hour or so in and am liking it a lot so far. I think the interface flows quite nicely with the gameplay. And thumbs up to Best Buy with the preorder bonus, I got the email right after I picked up the game.

Michael Corvin 05-27-14 08:46 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by discostu1337 (Post 12119063)
Ugh, I can already see myself wasting a ton of time in this game. I have played for about 4 hours now and MAYBE 30 minutes of that was story missions. I just keep running around scanning people to steal money and beating up bad guys. There are so many dots on the map of crap to do that my ADD kicks in and I run all over the place.

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by discostu1337 (Post 11872531)
Well, that pretty much kills any interest people had left in this game. After GTA V this game looked less and less appealing. I'd be willing to bet it will sell around half of what it would sell launching next month. Sad, I was originally anticipating this game quite a bit.



:lol: on the first part, we'll have to see on the sales.

On the plus side, glad to hear it's entertaining.

dsa_shea 05-27-14 08:51 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
I like the game and I hope that it is the start of a series where we will see improvements just like GTA, AC and other series. Now, I'm not sure what else they can put in the next game that you can hack as it seems they have already covered the entire spectrum.

chuckd21 05-27-14 09:22 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
I did the opening mission then nothing but random fuckery for 3 hours.

dsa_shea 05-27-14 09:36 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by chuckd21 (Post 12119141)
I did the opening mission then nothing but random fuckery for 3 hours.

This is exactly what I have done but for about half that time. I have busted 4-5 criminals and stolen close to a hundred grand from various victims. I've also picked up a few loot drops from listening in on criminal conversations.

stingermck 05-27-14 10:18 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
Bought from PSN on PS4, and right as I am leaving the stadium the game begins to install. Currently going slow as hell. Others in this thread talking about it. UGH

http://community.eu.playstation.com/.../td-p/21459079

foxdvd 05-27-14 11:05 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
Maybe 4 hours in...game is fantastic..

Problems. Graphics are not that good in the daytime. Police Chases seem unfair. Online games are glitched and favor the host way too much...

That being said, the stealth overtaking of compounds (taken from far cry 3) the use of your phone to take enemies out (taken from splinter cell) are amazing. Also, this is the most alive open world game I have ever played. Even the gta's have never done such a good job of making you feel like the npc characters are living breathing people.

On top of that many of the side missions are actually fun, and trying to figure out how to get into areas by climbing and jumping and hacking can be a game by itself (a bit of portal puzzle like situations)

Easily worth the purchase in my mind.

Deftones 05-27-14 11:06 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by stingermck (Post 12119194)
Bought from PSN on PS4, and right as I am leaving the stadium the game begins to install. Currently going slow as hell. Others in this thread talking about it. UGH

http://community.eu.playstation.com/.../td-p/21459079

Conversely, the Xbox One version installed more quickly than any game I have played. It also allowed me to start playing after only about 30 percent install.

mattysemo247 05-27-14 11:13 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
I played the spider tank sequence. Holy shit was that fun and challenging. It took me a couple times to finally get through all 15 objectives, but it was worth it. If you see a shady looking guy on the street that asks you if you want to go on a digital trip, do it :)

Decker 05-27-14 11:15 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
Wow, my Best Buy order shipped on the 23rd, is currently in Fontana CA some 220 miles away and according to the website, they're giving me an estimated delivery date of June 3rd? WTF? Did someone hack UPS?
I hope that's really, really wrong. I want to play this game.

TheKing 05-27-14 11:16 PM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by dsa_shea (Post 12118825)
It is not actually Wrigley but I'm quite sure that the locker room in the game is nearly identical in size to the one at Wrigley Field. However, the stadium itself and everything else is much nicer.

Now, hurry up and get that plat!

HA! I haven't even looked at the trophy list yet.

So I had a good say at Target. I got the next to last PS4 copy they had (plenty of all other versions). Got My PS+ Card, so now I'm good until July 2016. Got my 10% discount from Cartwheel via the printout, and I even got the $5 gift card from reserving the game back in November (when I bought one trying to get that Buy 2 get 1 free coupon to print). and everything I bought fit on the gift card I got last week for selling off 3 games.

RocShemp 05-28-14 12:04 AM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
For those that claim that AC4 hasn't dropped, it's currently $24.95 on PC: http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Cree...ins+creed+4+pc

musick 05-28-14 02:33 AM

Re: Watch Dogs
 
played for 5 or so hours and am not highly impressed
the game (like many open world games) kind of suffers from the opposite of inFAMOUS ... instead of there being too little to do there is too much to do ... and while I know you can pick and choose it still is almost overwhelming (even down to the controls and menus, etc)

as the story began I tried to focus on it but instead I was bombarded with all these NPC profiles .... it was just overkill so much that I didn't bother reading any of them and they just distracted from the storytelling

the hacking is getting monotonous with no consequences for doing so

I actually am not bother by the driving, it certainly isn't perfect but isn't as bad as it was made out to sound

graphics are not impressing me at all especially the cut scenes as noted above

I'll continue to put more time into the game but thus far this is a major disappointment


ps. I was waiting for my challenger to barf in the drinking game contest to no avail

nickdawgy 05-28-14 04:57 AM

Re: Watch Dogs
 

Originally Posted by mattysemo247 (Post 12119251)
I played the spider tank sequence. Holy shit was that fun and challenging. It took me a couple times to finally get through all 15 objectives, but it was worth it. If you see a shady looking guy on the street that asks you if you want to go on a digital trip, do it :)

I just did it from the phone.

But yeah it was great. The game is a lot of fun. I'm not even noticing any tearing or bad graphics. Oh and the water and flames look great.


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