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Watch_Dogs reviews
- Thread starter ComputerMKII
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Goddamn.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
That is a strong recommendation, Jim is a great dude.
Ubisoft payed him! Am i doing it right?
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
I'll see you guys later I'm going to go to sleep for like an hour and then I'll be back to witness this sludgefeast.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Vire
Member
That recommendation actually holds a decent amount of weight for me. Aside from his AC2 review.. I'll let that one slide.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Jupp, for me too. Even though he likes Dynasty Warriors.
EightBitNate
Member
A lot of GAFers like him, right?
Jim Sterling
Member
I am hard NOT to love. I'm the original Odd Couple.
8/10+ is more than above fucking average by any metric other than GameInformer's or overly cynical people online.
EightBitNate
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JesseEwiak
Member
You missed a reference to Dorito's or insinuating he's no good at games so nobody should trust his review anyway. Also, throw in a slight trashing his writing ability, while making a grammatical error of your own. Bonus points if you find a pedantic point that is insanely minor to build your argument he's a paid shill. Only then can you can be a true warrior against the games press.
Jim Sterling
Member
Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.Oh hey
How about some more impressions?
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Aces&Eights
Member
In all honesty, I'm looking forward to getting this tomorrow since there is fuck-all to play on my ps4 right now, anyway. If it looks and plays like ACBF then I'll be happy. The only thing I am dreading is that they somehow took "follow/eavesdrop/tail" from the AC games and implemented them into WD. Lawd, I HATE those goddamn missions.
Mech spider looks rad,though.
Can you at least give it a comparison to ACBF in terms of how it looks, runs, etc?
Mech spider looks rad,though.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Can you at least give it a comparison to ACBF in terms of how it looks, runs, etc?
lol
Oh hey
How about some more impressions?
Yeah, as a gaffer, not a reviewer!
-MD-
Member
Alright settle down.
Oh hey
How about some more impressions?
This.
I mean, you've already popped the embargo cherry. Might as well get it over with
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Is it on par with Air Control?
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Were you reviewing any specific platform?
I can get it for 54 Australian Didgeridollars on PS4 or 40 on PC digital (unfortunately on the cancerous growth that is uPlay). Worth it?
I wonder if this will help drive a good amount of sales for the game. Both current-gen consoles are desperate for games.
It is a little tiring to see though. 8 is good at worst, great at best, I don't think anyone gives out that score that doesn't enjoy a game a ton or at least recognizes it's pretty good. Hell, I may've brought up Game Informer but I think they at least mark it as Good and they're a bit harsher scoring wise than a 7=average would imply.
Jim Sterling
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I reviewed the PS4 version. Would have loved to have tried the Xbox One copy too but I am juggling WatchDogs, Among The Sleep and a late review of Drakengard 3!
KingItachi
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Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Does the Uibfication include the shitty car handling.
Aces&Eights
Member
Amen. People can rant how they only like to eat Kobe Tenderloin but if you haven't eaten a single bite in a week, that Big Mac will be the best thing you have ever tasted.
There's like 10+ counter examples within the last year alone. I've said it before: what's REALLY alarming is when a game isn't even sent out for review, or is sent out the day of release.
Waiting until post-release, even by a few hours, is stupid though.
ieatzombies
Member
Thank you good sir for the impressions.Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
TheXfactor
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Was he the guy that gave the original Assassins Creed a 55? or was that someone else from destructoid.
He defiantly seems like a polar guy, who either loves it or hates it
NexusGamer
Member
I can answer that one.. yes =[
I feel like I've mainly been cautiously optimistic, though somewhat cynical about if the game will allow what I REALLY want, which is dicking with a populated open world via hacking abilities.
KingItachi
Member
I don't see people eating crow over this game.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I don't know who he his.
Me either. The "Guess the Metacritic" thread seemed to have an average of about 80-82. I don't think this is really a crow serving situation.
So how should I read this as someone who already suffered Ubisofitis while playing Far Cry 3 and AC4? It's obvious from the review scores that game reviewers are a lot more positive about derivative padding than I am.Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
Thanks for coming in and sharing Jim! Can't wait to read your review.Biggest negative is it suffers from "Ubification" - Ubisoft's obsessive homogenization of mechanics.
However, it does them all superbly and the amount of content is crazy.
That is all I'll say until review time. I am rolling my eyes at this silly embargo situation, but I would rather my review get read by at least a few people.
VaultBoy101
Member
As a longtime fan of Jim Sterling, his approval of this game means more to me than anything else I've read so far. Wasn't planning on picking it up tomorrow, but that just changed.
On a legitimate ranking scale from 0-10, I would have given Assassin's Creed a 5. Destructoid is listed for giving the 55.
Seems like a lot of things from that review hold up in watch_dogs (same company, new concepts involving freedom, etc.) so if this game were to not get the best reviews (pro-tip: it will), hopefully we would get something along the lines of AC2 as a sequel.
Also my review of watch_dogs would be a straight 6 just throwing that out there.
Any review that gives this game a 90 rating or higher is lol worthy in my opinion. What we have seen from this game discredits that train of thought immediately. Graphics aside, there is a certain expectation of games that score that high. Watch Dogs which might or might not be good in its own right lacks the level of polish and attention to detail required for a game in that score bracket. This is why I find the 19/20 review to be outrageous. It's completely laughable and came out wayyyy before the review embargo. No game that has come out in 2014 so far is deserving of such a score. Mario Kart 8 might be the first AAA that deserves that score but it's certainly not Watch Dogs.
Orthogonal
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I cancelled my pre-order months ago, but I'm reconsidering now. Do I want to slog through my backlog or dust off my PS4 for something new. Hmmm... choices...