No one even needs a review for this, its basicly "Ubisoft: The Game", every major mechanic of every other Ubisoft game is in here without much adaptation so you better love climbing spots to have your map updated.
Watch Dogs Review - No Hack Job
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All i know is it's really fricking ugly on the 360! I didn't expect it to be as shiny as next gen versions but i thought it would/should be on a par with GTA 5 or even Just Cause 2. Maybe the colour palette in Watch-Dogs doesn't help.
Thank you, Mr. Enraged Panda-Man. That was quite informative, and an easier read than what I got while doing a quick search on screen refresh rates, frame rates and buffering.KingsGambit said:
Also, your forum avatar is quite amusing.
OT: No matter what the reviews say I'm still going to give Watchdogs a long wait, so that AMD might get some decent drivers out and the DLC surge is done, before I give it a try. Because despite all the performance issues being reported right now, the game does look like one I'd enjoy - provided I can get it to run satisfyingly on my PC.
So you can play, great. Now check the webs for 3min and start counting how many AMD user can not play the game.NLS said:
I've hard core blue screens which i haven't had in.. probably 10 years as soon as i click the start button. And before anyone asks, of course everything is up to date, patched and even re-installed + repatched just for the sake of it.
Does not work. It's Ubishit all over again. There's a reason the last game i bought from them was RB6:Ravenshield back in 2003. Ah not true. The first AC in 2007, pretty repetitive but at least it worked. So maybe they'll see money in 2019 from me the next time.
And about the last part: This is acutally the most prominent problem we have in this industry. If i buy a god damn [Any item] and it does not work at all i gonna bring it back and demand a refund. That's customers rights. I'm not talking about the servers, even though i'm 100% sure that basically all companies only use minimal efforts for their servers because people already are accustomed to shitty service anyway.
It's not harsh, it's just no tolerance for bullshit and the AAA industry fabricates bullshit every other minute. Some people are fine with that and so be it, but i'm not.
EA hasn't seen a penny since i bought DA1 for 5 bucks somewhere in a discount box and before that only ME was an expection of the rule - because it was brilliant. Bought the 2nd, never bought the 3rd.
Nintendo? Uh.. Smashbros in 2007. 0 games since. Though these games are usualy complete and work.
MS hasn't seen a penny since Freelancer.
Leaves Bethesda, Rockstar and Valve who usually deliver great stuff, some of them bug-ridden but at least you know what you get.
And the trend continues. The AAA can die in a fire for all i care.
A pleasure. And in an interesting case of coincidence, Experienced Points discussed just this subject in today's column [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/experienced-points/11507-The-Great-Framerate-Debate]. There's some more info there that might be of interest also.Kerethos said:
With framerate being the "holy grail" as it were, the ultimate goal of any game and gamer, getting it high is, as mentioned a case a compromise. Compromise on resolution, graphical fidelity or pre and post-processing. Personally, I don't compromise on resolution; it's 1920x1080 or bust, and I'll lower/disable other things if needed to maintain the resolution and framerates. A friend of mine would trade resolution without hesitation however, if it was the difference between Antialiasing on or off (his no compromise). Thankfully, I buy the top end cards so I don't have to compromise. I'm of the opinion that since LCD screens have a fixed number of pixels (ie. native resolution), displaying an image at a lower resolution results in a blurred image with clever pixel doubling and technical voodoo.
In honesty, I can play a game at 30fps without issue, though I prefer 60. 30fps won't detract from enjoyment as is perceptibly smooth enough to me, despite that 60fps is perceptibly better. I think it's a little sad that the console versions of WD had to compromise on everything though. They not only had graphical fidelity lowered, not only had resolution lowered, but all of that and it's still 30fps. On the PC, I'm getting steady 1080p, 60fps and all the eye candy (though it does have some issues).
The AMD (lack of) optimisation is pretty harsh and despite being in the nVidia camp, I think it's downright out of line if AMD are being kept from being able to update their drivers. This game really isn't next-gen, but it is a good sandbox, shy of greatness. You'll be well served by waiting as you suggest and picking up an "all in one" version later in the year.
Yeah, the character design + uber generic revenge backstory pushed this from a pre-order to a "maybe if it goes on sale" for me. I'm sick of that shit and if I keep buying it that's all the industry is ever going to make.Zydrate said:
I was really hyped for this game.
Spent $84 on a special editon, waited 9 hours for it to download.
Now I can't even get past the first loading screen without it crashing.
It's completely unplayable.
Spent $84 on a special editon, waited 9 hours for it to download.
Now I can't even get past the first loading screen without it crashing.
It's completely unplayable.
Watch Dogs looks more promising now. At this rate, however, I'm still just going to wait for the GOTY edition. I don't want to buy it and then actually get absorbed into it and realise that I've been held back on quite a bit of content.
Ubisoft does have a gift for huge games, don't they?
Ubisoft does have a gift for huge games, don't they?
It's great that this game turned out to be good. I've been eyeing it for a very long time now. I've been hearing some pretty bad things about the PC version though regarding constant crashing and performance issues so I'll wait until those are resolved before I buy it. I have Dark Souls 2 to give me my open world fix so I should be good until then anyways.
Post on some forums, make some calls. Do what you can to salvage your investment.coppah20HE said:I was really hyped for this game.
Spent $84 on a special editon, waited 9 hours for it to download.
Now I can't even get past the first loading screen without it crashing.
It's completely unplayable.
You actually can't do 1080p/60 on Ultra. A lot of people have been posting benchmarks all over the internets and so far none of them have been able to do it. TotalBiscuit did a video on this as well, and his 5k$ rig couldn't do it either. So nope.Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
Well, I'm loving it so far.
The gunplay's fun, the hacking's fun, it's just pretty fun in general; driving could use some tweaking but eh, whatever. And this game has done something no other game has ever done: Made me care about the little side things. I think it's because it takes less time than real side-quests, they're quick and easy, but I don't know. Normally I truck through a games main story then go back for all the little things but I'm really drawn into the side-things here.
Especially hacking into people's webcams, I'm a snoopy little guy.
The gunplay's fun, the hacking's fun, it's just pretty fun in general; driving could use some tweaking but eh, whatever. And this game has done something no other game has ever done: Made me care about the little side things. I think it's because it takes less time than real side-quests, they're quick and easy, but I don't know. Normally I truck through a games main story then go back for all the little things but I'm really drawn into the side-things here.
Especially hacking into people's webcams, I'm a snoopy little guy.
Since they apparently didn't spend much time on PC port optimization (and given Ubisoft's history with PC, that's sadly unsurprising) it's already a no-sell for me. I've had it with obnoxious technical issues stemming from this stupid shell-game of console bias.
Given that continuing trend of "High Reviewer score, Low user score"", the content of the review is worth far more than the score.
"Been there, done that"
That's about right, since until something else penetrates the gaming Zeitgeist and becomes massively popular, there is no way that Ubisoft (or any major publisher) is going to risk the kind of scratch they have doing anything actually new: "Evolution, not Revolution".
Given that continuing trend of "High Reviewer score, Low user score"", the content of the review is worth far more than the score.
"Been there, done that"
That's about right, since until something else penetrates the gaming Zeitgeist and becomes massively popular, there is no way that Ubisoft (or any major publisher) is going to risk the kind of scratch they have doing anything actually new: "Evolution, not Revolution".
way to ignore the TERRIBLE PC support, the graphics looking far worse than they did in the trailer, only giving the games massive tedium a small mention (and apparently not impacting the score), the terrible controls that barely even include mouse support.
But I guess all that is not noticeable to the ADD afflicted tards on their consoles who actually think this game looks "good"
You know it's racist because if you swapped out "white" with any other race then there would be a shitstorm going on.
But I guess all that is not noticeable to the ADD afflicted tards on their consoles who actually think this game looks "good"
That's racist.penthesilea180 said:
You know it's racist because if you swapped out "white" with any other race then there would be a shitstorm going on.
While I always enjoy reading your content, Jim. I cant agree with you on this article.
This is one of the most boring games I've played in quite a while, I just could not get into any aspect of it, even though I avoided the humongous hype train and was just looking forward to it. The whole thing just felt sterile to me, no real fun, no real atmosphere and some endless car chases. Maybe Ubisoft just spoiled me with Black Flag and its grand sense of adventure.
I'll give you 4.5 stars for your writing though.
This is one of the most boring games I've played in quite a while, I just could not get into any aspect of it, even though I avoided the humongous hype train and was just looking forward to it. The whole thing just felt sterile to me, no real fun, no real atmosphere and some endless car chases. Maybe Ubisoft just spoiled me with Black Flag and its grand sense of adventure.
I'll give you 4.5 stars for your writing though.