The irony in all of this is that GTA V was supposed to come out in March before getting delayed. It does make you wonder what Rockstar did in those 6 months. But they didn't wait until February to delay it.

You can't help but think that GTA made Ubisoft crap their pants. Flaws and all, GTA V raised the bar for open world games, and the expectations of people for a game like this, especially on a next gen console, are going to be inflated. Can Ubisoft match GTA V in 6 months? Probably not, but at least they won't have the burden of being a launch title released in the shadow of the last great game of this generation.

No less than what? Only one of us has spoken for all gamers and even the developer in a 24 hr period. I'm just saying if you're going to be all knowing in your posts then back it up.

I think he meant the people that work in the industry, disco, fumanstan, flashburn, etc.

I think you are right. I really do believe that most developers of open world games have a little stain in the back of their pants after seeing what GTA V has done in this current generation. I also think that the new systems are failing us by not guaranteeing 60fps and native 1080p.

I hope the delay is to improve the game and add content, not just for additional distance from GTA V.

After watching more gameplay from this game, I was probably a little harsh on page 2. I do think it looks pretty fun, but I am concerned by how transparent the mechanics are. Sure, it's really cool you can hack things in the environment, but are there only going to be five or six hackable objects you can use? And the implementation seems a little dull; like when the player is just driving around and hitting x through an intersection to scramble the lights. It will be boring if that's how easy it is. Hacking was one thing Deus Ex HR really did well, so I hope there is more depth to that system in WD.

I'm also worried about the variety of NPCs in game. I like that you can pull up personal data on anyone in the world, but how long will it be before we've seen the 10th Pro-Life Tobacco Lobbyist and the gimmick is old? Again I hope there is a lot of depth here and this information permeates the game.

One thing GTA does really well, and always has, is selling a believable world. This is another thing I worry about with a Ubi game. The sheer volume of activities in GTA V is staggering. The sports minigames, side missions, and entertainment (live and TV shows) - even if you never actually use them - add a huge level of immersion to the world. Just knowing that stuff is there makes it feel more real. I worry, as is the case in other Ubi games and open world games in general, that the city will feel barren, like a bunch of textured cubes that are "buildings" but nothing substantial to sell the world as a real place.

I now have my eyes on this one as well since the colossal disappointment I felt with GTA V.

I really don't mean to go way off topic here but what again is so groundbreaking about GTA V? I don't get what I'm missing. I thought IV, for it's time really raised the bar and that they were onto something big going into V but....V is just boring, broken, and literally empty - I don't get the hype at all.

I watched the Watch Dogs demo on my xbox and while I knew I was watching the game play for the xbox one version....I really looked past its nice looks into what they were trying to do with the game - I really hope it plays as smooth as it looks.

No shit... imagine how much better that'll look than on my 65" Panny 3D plasma.

You have a 65" Panny in the bathroom? CAUSE YOU CAN PLAY WATCHDOGS ON THE WII GAMEPAD ON THE TOILET.

/boom

oh shit! literally

While I think GTA 5 was an amazing game and one of the best this year, I actually agree with you. The game was better than 4 because they polished up some of the things that bothered me. (mission start checkpoints being the biggest) but I don't see it as groundbreaking. GTA 4, even as much as I hated it at times really did a lot with this generation and really was groundbreaking. Red Dead was the better game, but it also did so much for this generation and actually holds up very well to this day.

I am not sure what the problem with Watch Dogs is, but Ubi does not have to compete or compare itself with GTA. They have had almost as much success with their Assassin Creed games (even if a lot of people did not like 3) and Far Cry 3 was amazing. They know how to do open world games, and in fact many of them I enjoy more than what GTA has offered.

I really enjoy V (although I kind of stopped playing, waiting for PC and 1080p), but I kind of agree. I think the story is a lot better than IV, but BoGT... it's a toss up. I like the setting better in theory, but I think it lacks the polish, detail, and scope as in IV. I also much preferred some aspects like driving, vehicle/environment damage, and NPC logic in IV.

Really I think people prefer V because Niko and his story was kind of a downer. The characters and missions in V are much more in line with previous GTA games.

The interchanging between 3 protagonists during the same missions etc was ground breaking (Unless its been done before?)

Also some of the enviromental effects is the best I've seen in this generation (Water, Shadows reacting to the sun etc).

Boring? Maybe you were just expecting something different?

It looks like you will have to wait a little longer than the rest of us to play this one on your gamepad

http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/10/539...other-versions

That's one possible interpretation, I suppose.
Another is since Splinter Cell Blacklist sold dismally on the WiiU, maybe making a Watch Dogs port on the system isn't that much of a priority...

...plus Assassins Creed IV reportedly only sold around 11,000 copies on the Wii U in its first month. I'm glad that Ubisoft continues to support the Wii U, but the money sure doesn't seem to be there to justify it.

Watch_Dogs really does cry out for the gamepad, so I hope it pans out, but I'm kind of expecting an Aliens: Colonial Marines situation where a delay turns into a quiet cancellation.

That's not what Ubisoft is saying:

Ouch.

I hope the game doesn't turn into an Aliens : Colonial Marines situation!

And wow - 11K copies of AC IV? That's terrible (and a really great game to boot). Nobody's going to want to port games to that system.

Pfft, who needs 1920x1080 when you can have 854x480?

But then again





That was "first month" sales, which was realistically a few days. AC IV has sold something like 130,000 copies on the Wii U with all the $20 - $30 sales. It doesn't help that while the game looked slightly better than the 360 and PS4 counterparts, it ran substantially worse.

Official release date is May 27th.

Nice, hopefully I can finish AC Black Flag by then. Still need to start that sucker

After watching the newest trailer, I'm concerned that this has merely become Assassins Creed w/ a futuristic/hacker theme brushed over top of it.

I guess watching the original trailers for it, I got more of a you are a hacker first, fighter if need be vibe. This newest trailer looks like you can kick ass with the best of them and just happen to be able to hack.

Still on the fence for this one. I'm not a fan of Assassins Creed at all.

Do want.

Black Flag was the first AC I enjoyed so I'm holding out hope

STFU U B! w00t!

If this video is legit and they really downgraded the graphics like the video shows then I just might pass on this game. You don't delay something and then make it look worse than it did when you "showcased" it to us. The video on the right doesn't look any better than what we already have in GTAV and in some instances looks like the older True Crime games.

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