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Giant Bomb @ E3 2016 | WEED3

I like Watch Dogs......*RUNS*

A lot of people liked it. I can kind of see why. I do not agree, but I see how it might really appeal to people.

I don't think it is the worst game I have ever played, I just hated its guts. It wasn't even that I didn't have fun (though I didn't, to be clear), I was having anti-fun. It was actively grating to play it and it just kept getting worse. I have never disliked a character more than Aiden Pearce, though everyone else in the game is tied for second place for Worst Character.

Part of me hopes Ubisoft will pull a rabbit out of a hat and pull off an Assassin's Creed 2 with Watch_Dogs 2. I am not holding my breath, though.
 
A lot of people liked it. I can kind of see why. I do not agree, but I see how it might really appeal to people.

I don't think it is the worst game I have ever played, I just hated its guts. It wasn't even that I didn't have fun (though I didn't, to be clear), I was having anti-fun. It was actively grating to play it and it just kept getting worse. I have never disliked a character more than Aiden Pearce, though everyone else in the game is tied for second place for Worst Character.

Part of me hopes Ubisoft will pull a rabbit out of a hat and pull off an Assassin's Creed 2 with Watch_Dogs 2. I am not holding my breath, though.

Once I got the burst fire shotgun and started ignoring the story I enjoyed it a lot more.
 
Once I got the burst fire shotgun and started ignoring the story I enjoyed it a lot more.

I think that's part of the reason I disliked it. At some point, every problem was way more solvable with the assault rifle than it was with any other mechanic. It's not that I needed the game to be non-violent (killing someone by hacking a generator to explode (???) isn't that different from shooting them), it's that the game casts away the mechanics because they are almost always the worse option. It is faster, safer, and more active to just shoot everyone.
 
The idea for this game is really cool, but I'm afraid it'll get bogged down with the typical UbiSoft design decisions.

at least someones making a non-racing AAA game not about killing dudes.
 
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