One of the most common complaints from critics is the “repetition” of Watch Dogs, but why single out this open-world game?
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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.
I wouldn't say Watch Dogs is being chastised for being repetitive (I mean the average on MC is 80+), but that different people expect different things from games and sometimes that goes against the nature of the game. For instance, a lot of Monster Hunter like games will get called out for the lack of monster diversity. I saw people do it for Toukiden, Ragnarok Odyssey, God Eater and Lord of Apoc, it just happens and it's understandable that some people don't want to do 30 quests and kill the same monster 8 different ways / places.
However, in this end this is all perception and not limited to how a person plays. Some people will simply look at the tasks on a fundamental level and declare the game repetitive, which again, is something you see in the MH genre a lot. On the most basic level, you load up a mission, work your way to the objective (typically killing something or finding something) on map thats probably used on like 20 - 30 missions, clear the objective, go back to the base and repeat. When you put it that way, no matter what you're actually trying to do (protect someone, kill something, finding an item), it sounds very bland and redundant. Some games handle this better by adding more dynamic elements to it (God Eater 2's Kyuubi is a great example of this), but others don't and ultimately, it really boils down to how much patience the reviewer actually has.
This game has some of everything in it. And that is it's main problem. Watch Dogs is trying to be something different to everyone who plays it. Whether it succeeds in that attempt or not depends on how well a sequel sells. Right now, if the game has a sequel cut from the same mold as the original, I would have to pass.
any game should be criticized for being repetitive. WD isnt the exception.
Give me one game in every genre that is not repetitive..
I picked it up for PS4 and like it a lot. It's very polished and I actually enjoy driving from the first person view in this game as it has an awesome depth of field view to hit and it's so awesome crashing and hitting pedestrians. I have been having fun just wandering around hacking everything and doing random side missions. I'm not sure what platform most are playing on but I almost didn't pick this up for PS4 because of the obvious troll/fanboy reviews but then I watched IGN, GameTrailers, and Gamespot reviews which made me know this game was for me. Some people just can't be objective and it's so pathetic. Most gamers are morons anyway, myself excluded of course so honestly I expect nothing less, which is why I read actual customer reviews and watched objective video reviews from reputable sites with no blatant agenda. Glad I picked it up, it's fun and I'm enjoying it more than Infamous on PS4.