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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
- Thread starter Dawg
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All of the Twitch streams are. They are JTag copies. There was one PS4 stream earlier this morning but it got hit down rather quickly, but from a quick look I got it was much better than what we are seeing here. That is something I am okay with, and it seem Ubisoft tried their best with giving last-gen a good enough game buts it clear Watch Dogs is built for new-gen/PC what with features like in-car cam missing from X360/PS3.
flipswitch
Member
It's definitely 360. Framerate doesn't look that hot, tons of pop up and shimmering (aliasing). But again, maybe the video isn't encoded well. There is no way that's next-gen
.Bam Bam Baklava
Member
This looks really really not good right now.
Cuban Legend
Member
been watching the stream for 5+ minutes and have not seen a single NPC car on the streets, WTF.
kobe(beast)
Member
My god, it looks pretty awful to be honest.
Raitosaito
Member
I thought it was the other way around. Watching the ps4 stream it didn't look that much better than the 360. Maybe the compression is really hiding it.
Luckily it is just last-gen, and no where near representative of new-gen/PC performance.
xBladeM6x
Member
I'm pretty sure that http://www.twitch.tv/watchdogseng is playing on EDIT: 360. No matter what version, I'm just glad I chose the PC version. The game looks fun regardless of the graphics thankfully, though.
No, it's Xbox 360.
I almost wish I could be as dramatic as Aiden Pierce. Okay dude your family's dead, no need to be a big mass-murdering hacktivist baby about it.
Opens random stream and game is full pf NPC and vehicles.
The amount of shit this game is getting is unreal, like the post quoted above.
xBladeM6x
Member
Thank fuck. Good to be wrong in this case.
You got any evidence to support your supposition?
Yeah, I hope you can turn it off.
xBladeM6x
Member
I got corrected. -_-
chickdigger802
Banned
Most of the game i seen from the stream seems fine, safe, but fine, but why does shooting look and sound SOOO BAD.
If he's watching the one I'm watching, he's not lying, though funny enough shortly after it was posted there was about 5 NPC cars that spawned (5x more than I've seen in the past hour). Though I have plenty ghost lights in the background.
We'll see after the game is widely released if this is just a rare occurrence, but there really is an issue with vehicle spawning in the stream I'm watching. I've had it playing for a few hours and have seen maybe 15 total NPC vehicles. Twice the player has had to run ~600 meters to the mission marker.
I really don't think it's as much an issue of Watch_Dogs as much as it is an issue of Watch_Dogs on previous generation hardware.
edit: LOL, that's typically how it works. Much like the random bunch of cars that spawned earlier, after the comment there's NPC vehicles everywhere. I guess now that it's raining everyone is driving instead of walking. It looks like what I said earlier about the game being coded to limit/cease NPC vehicle spawns during missions might be correct.
the guns sound like ps2 era SOCOM.
maneil99
Member
Nobody has played it
Mr. PlayStation
Member
GTAIV was good for it's time, it wasn't the best looking game, but still an incredibly fun open world game.
flipswitch
Member
This is the only right answer now unfortunately.
UberTag
Member
That's due to the Xbox 360's inferior sound chip. Current gen systems will make the gunfire sound true-to-life and glorious.
Aiden will also now have a personality instead of being Mr. Monotone with a cool phone that does stuff.
All streams will be, as I said it will be JTag consoles playing.
People keep saying this in this thread and I just can't agree.
It looks horrid. Absolutely terrible.
And feel free to see my post history; I'm usually pretty easy to please, graphically, and have zero pre-launch hate towards Watch Dogs. However, I think the 360 version looks like a PS2 game in 720p (in regards to environment and car detail, plus horrible lighting... character models are solid). No hyperbole. It's what I see.
Very glad I'm getting the PS4 version.
RedAssedApe
Banned
time of day seems to matter a lot in next-gen due to lighting.
compare the different times of day in games like MG:GZ and Infamous. it should always been nightime and/or rainy
compare the different times of day in games like MG:GZ and Infamous. it should always been nightime and/or rainy
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Infamous looks good in the day though.
RedAssedApe
Banned
it looks good all around...but i think it looks the worst when its overcast after you beat the game. just like the overcast daytime mission in ground zeroes
adamantypants
Member
Anyone know what the PC download size is? I bought this on Origin and they're not doing preloading for it -_______-
Nobody can say for sure, but here are some tidbits gathered from Jonathan Morin's (Creative Director of Watch_Dogs) Twitter:
I'm in the same boat with a 3570k/280x and 8GB RAM. I'm running the CPU at stock now, but looking around it appears an OC to 4.2 can get it at/above a score of 9,000. So it appears that High should be possible and maybe even Ultra.
LookAtMeGo
Member
chickdigger802
Banned
yeaaah the shooting does remind me of GTA4 without the goofy euphoria physics.
i think the biggest ding the game has is the missions all look so boring generic open world stuff, and the characters aren't goofy or fun as gta.
makes you kinda wonder why this game exists as a AAA thing made by hundreds of dudes. Ubisoft thens to put their spin on stuff, but the phone stuff is kinda weak... but ill have to see when i get the game and see the less shooty approaches.
i think the biggest ding the game has is the missions all look so boring generic open world stuff, and the characters aren't goofy or fun as gta.
makes you kinda wonder why this game exists as a AAA thing made by hundreds of dudes. Ubisoft thens to put their spin on stuff, but the phone stuff is kinda weak... but ill have to see when i get the game and see the less shooty approaches.
Pops Maellard
Member
It's becoming difficult to figure out what is merely GAF hyperbole and what is actually concerning about the game. Does the shooting really seem that bad? Because I've only seen a minute or so of it and it seemed pretty standard.
adamantypants
Member
Ugh. Well.. yeah that sounds right lol.