Watchdogs (Official)

RodsterBG · Feb 10, 2014

I'm not really sure about this game. It looks good and fun, but I just don't know if it's going to appeal to me. I'm not even sure why. Maybe it's because they've shown so much of the game already. I'll still get it and play it like crazy.

sfbloodbrother · Feb 14, 2014

RodsterBG said:
I'm not really sure about this game. It looks good and fun, but I just don't know if it's going to appeal to me. I'm not even sure why. Maybe it's because they've shown so much of the game already. I'll still get it and play it like crazy.

They showed bits and pieces but not the full game or the story.

Shotgun84 · Feb 15, 2014

This game has me written all over it. Personally I'm not a huge fan of fps (half life and Red Faction (original, although the third person open world, Guerilla was my favourite) are the exception) so I love my open world third persons. This seems to be a change to the standard third person open world which I've played numerous times so I really can't wait for it to mix the shit up a bit.

sfbloodbrother · Feb 19, 2014

Agree. I think this may win game of the year, but its pretty early to tell.

alostpacket · Feb 23, 2014

I'm really looking forward to this game.

I just hope it doesn't get too caught up in it's own interface like Deus Ex: Human Resources.

It looks to be good fun from the gameplay vids though.

Wilkas · Mar 6, 2014

Game in the UK has leaked the release date, 27th may here in the UK and western Europe

sfbloodbrother · Mar 8, 2014

Wilkas said:
Game in the UK has leaked the release date, 27th may here in the UK and western Europe

Awesome... Do you have a link by any chance?

Wilkas · Mar 9, 2014

Ubisoft confirmed it later on the day I posted that mate, you can go on any site and see the release date now.. Wii u is the only platform that it isn't coming out on that day.

Wilkas · Mar 9, 2014

The new story trailer

alostpacket · Mar 9, 2014

Is that an iPhone?

This game needs to be modded to fix that

Gmash · May 27, 2014

It's almost here. This is the first game that is tempting to go new-gen for. Still too many PS3 games to finish, though. I'll get to it eventually.

Wilkas · May 27, 2014

Well I'm still waiting for my copy, bloody royal mail!!

trophynuts · May 27, 2014

anxious to see some real people feedback. The one review I read on the Verge today basically said it sucks.

Gmash · May 27, 2014

So far it has a Metascore of 82 averaged from 49 pro reviews, with a wide disparity of positive and negative. Even the more negative reviewers seemed to have fun playing it, though. I think pre release over-hype hurts the review scores sometimes. I haven't read every review, but it sounds like a fun game to me.

Watch Dogs for PlayStation 4 Reviews - Metacritic

tearfulrelic86 · May 27, 2014

Its really good

alostpacket · May 28, 2014

Gmash said:
So far it has a Metascore of 82 averaged from 49 pro reviews, with a wide disparity of positive and negative. Even the more negative reviewers seemed to have fun playing it, though. I think pre release over-hype hurts the review scores sometimes. I haven't read every review, but it sounds like a fun game to me.

Watch Dogs for PlayStation 4 Reviews - Metacritic

Those PS4 reviews definitely look better than the PC reviews.

Watch Dogs for PC Reviews - Metacritic

pro: 80/100 out of 9, user: 4.4/5 out of 970

Anyone here playing on PC? I'm tempted to hold back until the standard ubi launch bugs are patched heh.

Gmash · May 29, 2014

alostpacket said:
Those PS4 reviews definitely look better than the PC reviews.

Watch Dogs for PC Reviews - Metacritic

pro: 80/100 out of 9, user: 4.4/5 out of 970

Anyone here playing on PC? I'm tempted to hold back until the standard ubi launch bugs are patched heh.

Lol those user reviews are brutal. Seems like the people who don't like it, REALLY don't like it.

thicks56 · May 29, 2014

Only just started playing it on PC and its brilliant, the scope of it is just unreal and its so easy to get hooked on its ridiculous,

Personally I cant understand why its not getting higher review scores, they seem to all be abit low across the board.

I was struggling on a chase mission last night and rather than giving up spent almost the whole night trying again and again and again :mad:

Anyways any other game and I would have moved back onto wolfenstein after half a dozen attempts

Also nothing more satisfying that hacking the lights to green and destroying the police car behind you in the pile up

NYCHitman1 · May 29, 2014

From the few people that I know that own Watch Dogs, none of them have had anything bad to say about the game. With that said, I can't wait to have this title in my lineup come Father's Day.

Demache · May 29, 2014

thicks56 said:
Only just started playing it on PC and its brilliant, the scope of it is just unreal and its so easy to get hooked on its ridiculous,

Personally I cant understand why its not getting higher review scores, they seem to all be abit low across the board.

I was struggling on a chase mission last night and rather than giving up spent almost the whole night trying again and again and again
Anyways any other game and I would have moved back onto wolfenstein after half a dozen attempts

Also nothing more satisfying that hacking the lights to green and destroying the police car behind you in the pile up

People are a bit mad that the marketing was misleading. "The graphics are hardly next-gen", "you can't hack everything", "story is generic", are some certain ones I've heard. I think some people feel cheated because it was so hyped. So now, they feel they need to point out every single flaw in the game in order to justify their anger then find those that have similar opinions ie. misery loves company.

I have the PC version. It actually looks pretty nice on Medium in 1440p @ 40-ish FPS on a HD 7870. I also drive with the keyboard and mouse (its actually not hard once you understand the car physics).

Personally, I'd give it about an 7/10 right now. Mainly because of bugs. There are dozens of them, especially with multiplayer and Ubi's servers and performance issues across all platforms. When the game is running properly though, its great, and everything I expected it to be. I love the sense of humor the game has with its enviroment and its great fun just messing around. Just fix the glaring bugs and it will be pretty solid.

I just think some people just got way too hyped for the game and Ubi's marketing is partially to blame. I paid very little attention to the marketing other than the E3 trailer. So I didn't have particularly high standards, so I'm very satisfied with the end product.

alostpacket · Jun 8, 2014

So I have played a few hours now and here is my take:

The game is pretty fun so far. Story is not half bad. The character models are wonderful, and voice acting is excellent. The sounds FX are OKish. Theme/mission music is good. Have not listened to the car music yet.

The biggest drawback are the console-like controls are just embarrasingly terrible. BUT, you can get used to most of it and the driving is not really that bad. Reminds me of GTAIII.

For PC, I suggest playing on low or medium graphics if you want 60fps -- the game is completely un-optimized. But low actually looks good -- the characters still seem really detailed, you just dont get some of the eye candy FPS killers like certain types of AA/SSAO and reflections, etc.

The multiplayer stuff is hilarious. It's awesome fun when "l33tdude2000" enters your game and you get to kill 'em while they try and hack. I had two guys try to hack and killed both heh. It was very fun and original for multiplayer.

The biggest stain on the game is uPlay. Holy smokes it's worse than Origin and Battle.net combined. I did not think that was possible. It's full of ads and frequently fails to sync your game files and makes you manually click to sync them. I dont know how all these guys think they are going to beat Steam with vastly inferior platforms -- platforms that are literally designed to be customer un-friendly.

Anyways 7/10 from me (so far), and 1/10 for uplay.

Digital Controller · Jul 2, 2014

Has anyone tried the crack to get the good graphics? I did it and before I had to run on like Low/Medium to get the game to even run that great.

My PC:

CPU - 4770K OC'd to 4.5GHz
GPU - 660ti OC'd to 1200MHz
Memory - 8GB 1666

My PC can more than handle this game...however, as soon as I did the crack for better visuals in the game it worked really well and the game didn't lag.

alostpacket · Jul 2, 2014

I have seen the videos of that -- seems really interesting, and looks pretty awesome too. And my rig is a lot like yours would like to see the game run a bit more smoothly. Thought the DoF seemed really strong.

But I noticed that some of the objects in the distance were heavily blurred by the depth of field effect.

Can you toggle that? Is it a problem gameplay-wise?

After reading the developer reply as to why they changed those settings I noticed that some street signs and other important stuff seemed blurred in the videos of that mod. It kinda made sense that some people may have found it annoying if some important graphics for gameplay were really blurred out.

The reason I bet it performs better is due to that DoF blurring so much it may have less level of detail (LoD) to render at some distance. That's just a guess though. I remember some games used to show this same behavoir where turning on a fog effect actually helped performance because it hid some objects in the distance.

I haven't been playing much W_D lately though -- I am bouncing back and forth between Dues EX:HR, Diablo 3, and Don't Starve. (Yeah I cant really settle on a game lately!).

PC:
3770K i7 @ 4.6 GHz
EVGA GTX Titan 6GB / mostly @ 950MHz (Rarely OC'd to 1200MHz)
RAM 24GB 1333
Samsung 840 Pro for Windows
Samsung 830 for Games/Steam
Resolution 2560x1600 <--- this makes a huge difference for fps and is actually higher than I wish but is native for the monitor

Digital Controller · Jul 2, 2014

alostpacket said:
I have seen the videos of that -- seems really interesting, and looks pretty awesome too. And my rig is a lot like yours would like to see the game run a bit more smoothly. Thought the DoF seemed really strong.

But I noticed that some of the objects in the distance were heavily blurred by the depth of field effect.

Can you toggle that? Is it a problem gameplay-wise?

After reading the developer reply as to why they changed those settings I noticed that some street signs and other important stuff seemed blurred in the videos of that mod. It kinda made sense that some people may have found it annoying if some important graphics for gameplay were really blurred out.

The reason I bet it performs better is due to that DoF blurring so much it may have less level of detail (LoD) to render at some distance. That's just a guess though. I remember some games used to show this same behavoir where turning on a fog effect actually helped performance because it hid some objects in the distance.

I haven't been playing much W_D lately though -- I am bouncing back and forth between Dues EX:HR, Diablo 3, and Don't Starve. (Yeah I cant really settle on a game lately!).

PC:
3770K i7 @ 4.6 GHz
EVGA GTX Titan 6GB / mostly @ 950MHz (Rarely OC'd to 1200MHz)
RAM 24GB 1333
Samsung 840 Pro for Windows
Samsung 830 for Games/Steam
Resolution 2560x1600 <--- this makes a huge difference for fps and is actually higher than I wish but is native for the monitor

I noticed the Blur as well. I don't know what it would take to tweak it, but you might be able to.

Don't Starve is a great game though, I could see how you are addicted to it atm

I have been usually bouncing between Skyrim, Dota 2, Minecraft, and as of late W_D

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