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Let's Play Watch Dogs - First Two Hours

Interested in how Watch Dogs plays? How the story starts? Whether or not it is any fun? You found the right place. This Let’s Play will cover the first two hours of the game, so enjoy!

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morganfell3663d ago

And the worst driving in any title in a decade.

Stapleface3663d ago

Doesn't bother me at all. I don't go into a game like this looking for racing sim like driving physics. If your after realistic driving, they make racing games for that. I like the floaty cars that can crash into things a thousand times before you have to ditch it. It's very arcadey, but these games while they are getting to where they look better, are not supposed to be 100% realistic. If they ever lose their arcadey feel to them, then they will lose a huge part of their fun (open world games in general).

morganfell3663d ago (Edited 3663d ago )

It's not a matter of expecting racing mechanics. If that is what you read into my remark then you did just that - you read into it and your intepretation of my meaning is completely off the mark.

Here is a rule for game developers. Unless the AI have some special skill - such as a superhero that flies, etc, you do not let them perform actions that are forbidden to the player character. Yet police cars have mystical designs and driving capabilities. All vehicles in this game float and flit around with no sense of weight. Disagree if you like but it only tells me you have not played the game.

The developers want to force police evasion through hacking - they even stated this in an interview. They removed any real tactics to force you to use the one they want. Skinning a police car to plow into an 18 wheeler will not stop that police car from backing up slightly and coming right back at you. But hack a redlight and let that police car strike a compact car at half the speed with which it struck the semi and magically the police car is disabled. Complete crap design. Believe blindly in this game if you want but titles such as GTA V and Mafia II make driving in Watch Dogs a farce. And those two games prove everything you just said to be untrue. Period. Argue if you like but millions of fans make me right on this and you wrong. It is game design from 8 years ago.

Army_of_Darkness3663d ago

I wish the guy doing the commentary would just shut the F@%K up already. had to actually mute the damn sound cause he was so annoying.

marioJP873663d ago

This game is boring as hell and look last gen.

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The entire WatchDogs series is 87% off and it's not even Black Friday

If you are looking for a bargain, check out the huge discounts across the entire WatchDogs series on Steam.

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Watch Dogs Deserves A Remake, More Than Ever

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.

RaidenBlack1044d ago

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.

LucasRuinedChildhood1044d ago (Edited 1044d ago )

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.

HankHill1044d ago

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.

obidanshinobi1044d ago

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.

LamerTamer1044d ago

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.

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gantarat1044d ago

assassin's creed 1 should get a remake.

ExBee1044d ago

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?

RaidenBlack1044d ago

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.

BlaqMagiq11044d ago

Old. Let it play like how it did with AC2-Syndicate style gameplay but refine the setting and story.

Profchaos1044d ago

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.

BlaqMagiq11044d ago

Absolutely. It needs it. The only AC I truly didn't enjoy.

chicken_in_the_corn1044d ago

I'd prefer it didn't. Ubisoft would make it so bloated, it wouldn't be anywhere near the original

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smolinsk1044d ago (Edited 1044d ago )

Absolutely, this watch dogs legion was terrible boring.

Profchaos1044d ago (Edited 1044d ago )

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

camel_toad1044d ago

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.

LamerTamer1044d ago

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.

TheSinsibleOne1044d ago

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.

LamerTamer1044d ago

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.

TheEnigma3131044d ago

Remake the PoP series from xbox/ps2/gc era

RaidenBlack1044d ago

They are remaking Sands of Time.

TheEnigma3131044d ago

That's good news. Hopefully it's done right.

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Inside the Driver game that died so that Watch Dogs could live

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."

vallencer1109d ago

Different spellings in different parts of the world friend. Tyre is a correct way to spell it.

Pridefall1109d ago

Dunno why you got downvpted when tyre is correct in Australia.

mikefizzled11108d ago

The mystery that is En Fore Gee

neutralgamer19921109d ago

Give us driver San Francisco remastered

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen1109d ago

Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.

Gameseeker_Frampt1108d ago

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.

WeAreLegion1109d ago

Best driving mechanics ever made. Nothing has come close.

Gardenia1109d ago

A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.

ApocalypseShadow1109d ago

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.

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