Watch Dogs
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Vorph
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I can't remember the last game that didn't have a review embargo until release day. Hell, even Transistor had one until this morning and it got pretty much all 9's.
I ended up getting an nvidia voucher for $25 so I've set my expectations accordingly. Shouldn't be hard to get that much value out of it, and if it turns out to be as good as AC4 was then I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I ended up getting an nvidia voucher for $25 so I've set my expectations accordingly. Shouldn't be hard to get that much value out of it, and if it turns out to be as good as AC4 was then I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Xexx
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Vorph
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Review embargo can mean a ton of things, not all of them bad. Pretty sure this case is just that they sent out the review copies so late (confirmed by Ubi because their reps said that the retard "review" linked above could not possibly be legit because review copies had not even been sent out at the time it was published). In situations like that they put an embargo in place to prevent sites from rushing through the game in order to get theirs up before anyone else.
And like I said the other day, almost every game is embargoed at this point and there's no correlation at all anymore between that and the scores the game ends up getting. 54 (Bound By Flame), 80-82 (Transistor, Wolfenstein), or 91 (Dark Souls 2), it doesn't matter. They all were embargoed until the day of release. I can't remember a single game in 2014 that wasn't.
And like I said the other day, almost every game is embargoed at this point and there's no correlation at all anymore between that and the scores the game ends up getting. 54 (Bound By Flame), 80-82 (Transistor, Wolfenstein), or 91 (Dark Souls 2), it doesn't matter. They all were embargoed until the day of release. I can't remember a single game in 2014 that wasn't.
Lenas
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So far it's very similar to GTA. Drive / walk around the city and find random people to hack, crimes to stop, etc. Get to a campaign spot and start a highly scripted mission. Seems you can go to any part of the city from the start but you can't hack things until the storyline has taken you to that borough. You get 5 skill points to begin with and a 4 or 5 part skill tree. Unfortunately I had spent all of my 5 points in hacking before I realized there were other trees, lol. Skills do look fun though. You gain experience by stopping crimes etc and building your reputation with the citizens. Crafting takes a Last of Us approach where you pick up items and make things you need on the spot.
Saw the Conan gameplay, looks pretty boring IMO. Maybe if it wasn't released so close to GTA V I'd be more enthused.
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I'll give it some more time, but after just jacking around for a couple of hours this isn't particularly interesting to me. Cliched revenge plot, stereotypical characters, the "hacking" isn't that exciting (so far.) Again, admittedly I haven't played it much yet, so my opinion may change.
One really annoying thing, the cops just magically knowing wherever the fuck you are is just annoying as shit. No line of sight, no possible way they know where you're at, yet they're constantly on you.
For instance:
I just got some side mission where you're supposed to take a stolen car to some guy who sells them (really goddamn original.)
Right at the beginning of the mission, your character says "I'll need to take the back roads and alleyways to stay out of sight."
You first get into this car IN THE MIDDLE OF A GARAGE with virtually no line of sight to it just in some neighborhood somewhere. AS SOON AS YOU ENTER THE VEHICLE three cop cars magically appear in your vicinity and start chasing you. WTF. You never have a chance to "stay on back roads."
One really annoying thing, the cops just magically knowing wherever the fuck you are is just annoying as shit. No line of sight, no possible way they know where you're at, yet they're constantly on you.
For instance:
I just got some side mission where you're supposed to take a stolen car to some guy who sells them (really goddamn original.)
Right at the beginning of the mission, your character says "I'll need to take the back roads and alleyways to stay out of sight."
You first get into this car IN THE MIDDLE OF A GARAGE with virtually no line of sight to it just in some neighborhood somewhere. AS SOON AS YOU ENTER THE VEHICLE three cop cars magically appear in your vicinity and start chasing you. WTF. You never have a chance to "stay on back roads."
spronk
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yeah I played for an hour or two yesterday and wasn't feeling much love so far. The "hacking" is just dumb so far, just hold down a button and WHAM ITS HACKED. Maybe it gets more complicated later. I do like sandbox games and loved SR3/AC4 (all ACs) and GTA3/4, this game just feels ok so far.
The most fun I have is driving around, hacking traffic lights and seeing giant trucks smash into cars as they run all green light intersections.
PC version is probably gonna need a few patches so may wanna wait. Looks gorgeous at 2560x1440, but every now and then the game suddenly lags for a few seconds, especially when trying to spin in a circle or something. Character movement just feels off also somehow (playing on a 360 controller). It doesn't feel very optimized on PC, ultra textures claim they need 3gb of video memory which seems a bit ridiculous. I dropped it down to high since my video card only has 2gb
to early to make a real judgement call yet but so far it just seems ok, not terrible but not that great either.
The most fun I have is driving around, hacking traffic lights and seeing giant trucks smash into cars as they run all green light intersections.
PC version is probably gonna need a few patches so may wanna wait. Looks gorgeous at 2560x1440, but every now and then the game suddenly lags for a few seconds, especially when trying to spin in a circle or something. Character movement just feels off also somehow (playing on a 360 controller). It doesn't feel very optimized on PC, ultra textures claim they need 3gb of video memory which seems a bit ridiculous. I dropped it down to high since my video card only has 2gb
to early to make a real judgement call yet but so far it just seems ok, not terrible but not that great either.
Vorph
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It's pretty much exactly what I expected, which is to say that despite the setting it has more in common with Assassin's Creed than GTA. I haven't gotten too far into the campaign yet, since I will probably restart the game on Tuesday when my legit copy unlocks. I tend to get distracted by side-missions in sandbox games anyway.
I will say that the Person of Interest-ish crime-about-to-happen-somewhere notifications are getting to be almost as annoying as getting phone calls from assholes wanting to play darts in GTA IV. I was responding to most of them at first, but now I just ignore them all. My vigilante meter was maxed out and I've got enough skill points now that I can probably buy every single skill that unlocks in tier 2, and I still haven't even started the campaign really. Kind of feels like cheating to get that much xp.
The only other thing really bugging me so far is that the cops seem to be omniscient at times. Escaping from them can be a real chore even if you use hacking to wreck their cars. You cannot hide in my experience, which makes escaping on foot nigh-impossible. You simply have to outrun them and then get outside their search radius.
I'm having a hard time getting used to the controls too. Driving anywhere fast is not an easy task to say the least, and the mouse controls are pretty floaty even with smoothing shut off. You can switch from gamepad to mouse seamlessly, but I just don't bother because it's not any easier for me to aim my gun with the mouse.
Performance is solid and with everything set to Ultra except textures (I only have 2GB VRAM which is unfortunately not enough for 4k textures) it really looks nice. That's with AMD; Nvidia apparently requires beta drivers to run the game decently, and even then people seem to be complaining about frequent chugging that I very rarely see happen. You also need a pretty hefty CPU as well, as the game is not solely GPU-bound by any means.
I will say that the Person of Interest-ish crime-about-to-happen-somewhere notifications are getting to be almost as annoying as getting phone calls from assholes wanting to play darts in GTA IV. I was responding to most of them at first, but now I just ignore them all. My vigilante meter was maxed out and I've got enough skill points now that I can probably buy every single skill that unlocks in tier 2, and I still haven't even started the campaign really. Kind of feels like cheating to get that much xp.
The only other thing really bugging me so far is that the cops seem to be omniscient at times. Escaping from them can be a real chore even if you use hacking to wreck their cars. You cannot hide in my experience, which makes escaping on foot nigh-impossible. You simply have to outrun them and then get outside their search radius.
I'm having a hard time getting used to the controls too. Driving anywhere fast is not an easy task to say the least, and the mouse controls are pretty floaty even with smoothing shut off. You can switch from gamepad to mouse seamlessly, but I just don't bother because it's not any easier for me to aim my gun with the mouse.
Performance is solid and with everything set to Ultra except textures (I only have 2GB VRAM which is unfortunately not enough for 4k textures) it really looks nice. That's with AMD; Nvidia apparently requires beta drivers to run the game decently, and even then people seem to be complaining about frequent chugging that I very rarely see happen. You also need a pretty hefty CPU as well, as the game is not solely GPU-bound by any means.
Not ridiculous at all, unfortunately, for those of us with 2GB cards. Ultra textures are 4096x4096 which simply doesn't work for an open-world game at 1080p+ resolutions on a 2GB VRAM GPU. You can see the same thing happen if you mod Skyrim with 4k textures everywhere.
I'm watching this stream right now in High Quality.
This looks nothing like what they showed at E3. Just looks like another GTA clone.
Honestly, Infamous looks better then this game.
This looks nothing like what they showed at E3. Just looks like another GTA clone.
Honestly, Infamous looks better then this game.