cjtiger300
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That sounds pretty accurate to real life. You're not going to catch a Corvette in a Prius.....
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Watch_Dogs reviews
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That sounds pretty accurate to real life. You're not going to catch a Corvette in a Prius.....
TrickyDaddy
Banned
This is why I don't pre-order games anymore. If you relentlessly set up a review embargo, it's going to set off a red flag in my eyes.
Well, they are two entirely different games for one...
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Post porn before you do though.
blame space
Banned
the scores look about the same?
Infamous delivered on peoples expectations, Watch_Dogs did not deliver on people's expectations.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Can't play Wolfenstein at work. =(
GameRevolution - 4.5/5 - http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/watch-dogs
Shoot your boss!
This game has been getting a ton of unjustified and irrational hate for over a year. Some people were just itching to bash the game. I've been playing it the past few days and I find it to be a really great open world game. Probably my favorite next to Red Dead Redemption.
I'm playing right now and it's fucking delivering, Second Son looks pretty but thats it.
garginator
Banned
I mean should I still buy it or not
Both are open world games... Not entirely different. Second son got worse reviews but nobody seemed to care 7 average was fine. So even if it would be entirely different most people here where hating the game before it came out (after some crapy trailers) while most people loved second son before it came out. Just saying mayor negative bias for this game
Kssio_Aug
Member
I completely do. Both, when were shown the 1st time, blew everyones mind, but only one of them delivered the expectations. And of course, that one was inFamous.
CambriaRising
Member
Yeah, that's about what I thought.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Amazing response here haha
cjtiger300
Member
I thought Vanquish was meh as well. Opinions are just that, opinions.
Violence Jack
Member
As soon as I saw the live gameplay feeds last week, it looked like it would be decent, but nothing as groundbreaking Ubisoft would have you believe. That's about what I expected from the reviews, and it sounds like that's what we're getting. I'll wait for it on Gamefly or a Steam sale.
Only if you're posting from your new Nexus phone.
Well, to be fair, when I playing ACIV last week, as I was boarding ships out in the open sea, I thought: "You know what would make this game better? If every character had an iPhone."
Console exclusives always get more love due to fanboyism. It's hard to rally around a game that can be played on 5 different platforms. Some people will vociferously deny this, but it's the plain truth.
I guess people must have different expectations.
mario_O
Member
I know you're going for snark, but I thought it was nexus tablets they got.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
This is what I'm waiting for.
TangibleDream
Banned
I get where you're coming from, but this is where that thinking gets bad.
The level of score subtraction is directly proportional to how detrimental each specific negative is to the reviewer's experience. Inversely, the level of score addition is directly proportional to how beneficial each specific positive is.
So while what your saying makes sense on the surface, the truth of the matter is, every game problem, under the surface, does net a point deduction. Such deduction is subjective to each reviewer.
The point is, if you can list 50 things wrong with Skyrim, it's your job as a journalist, to write 50 or more things great with Skyrim so that 10/10 can make sense. You can't simply let us guess why even if you list 50 wrong things with Skyrim you still call it 10/10. Make an effort to convey the positives as well as the negatives, and that's something journalists often don't do.
I bet it'll be discounted at green man, or Amazon before steam, and it'll probably get a deeper discount at those two than steam as well.
AndrewDean84xX
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The uphill battle this game faces with some folk, while others games don't, baffles me. I'm not sure where the hate has come from.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I'm sorry but who was expecting side missions that shallow? I certainly wasn't.
Kssio_Aug
Member
And more hate, for the same reason. And I'm sorry, but that "truth" have nothing to do with inFamous. They delivered the game people expected to, of course some were disappointed and some were surpried as any other game, but that was a solid and beautiful game. Ubisfot is the only one to blame about the critics against Watch_Dogs, they should not have sold us that E3 2012 trailer like it would be the gameplay (when its nothing near that, even on PC).
More than that, I've decided I'm going to wait til I upgrade my GPU next year.
The game benefits massively from anti-aliasing, making it look legitimately impressive when down/super sampled. Hopefully with a 4-6GB, 20nm GPU, I'll be able to play this at 1440p+. Patches/driver updates will hopefully have improved performance some by then as well.
So I'll be able to buy the game cheap by then and have it look like I was hoping it would have looked from the get-go.
That sounds very graphics-whorish, but I'm not super excited about the game in general. Its a game I think I'd like to play, but its hardly anything I need to play.
Saying the game is 7 not 9-10 is not hating
The game has pros and cons.
It's not a bad game and it has a lot to offer, i simply stated that the story/characters/driving being the weak elements of the game, the stealth+combat is fun, same thing with exploring the city and some of the mini games
What you're really getting at here is that a review score means different things to different people -- some see it as a grade based on achievements; others see it as the summation of how a game feels -- and that review scores are consequently both meaningless and useless to everyone.
Crap, I jumped the snark.
My first thought after that comment as well, haha.
If Bioshock Infinite is the new factual consensus indisputable "mediocre," then we live in a downright splendid, amazing world.
Well said and, sadly, so true.
The Ubisoft Effect of open world games doesn't set in until 20 hours in when you've done the same mission 500 times and are working towards another useless upgrade.
breakfuss
Member
This. Second Son was exactly the game we expected. Whether that's a good or bad thing is a discussion for another day, lol. Watch_Dogs looks nothing like I remember from its initial reveal. Also... Bioshock Infinite was my GoTY 2013. Not sure when GAF decided to hate on it so hard but it saddens me.
Interfectum
Member
Yup. You can tell people were hoping this game would get thrashed in reviews and now that it hasn't they are digging through the cons and still bringing up the old E3 demo.
Get over it brahs.
Ignores the aspect of 'weighting'. One positive aspect may outweigh 10 negative aspects. Or vice versa.
I do agree that if you're going to score a game high and still have a laundry list of negatives, you should try and explain how it is those positives outweigh the negatives, though. Say what was so great about it that enabled you to overlook its flaws.
TangibleDream
Banned
Watch Dogs is certainly more 'arcadey' than GTA IV. But having played the game for a couple of days now, here's what I think:
Cars don't quite 'feel' like they have mass
Cars do have a slight feeling of weight transfer. Also, some cars feel heavier than others, but in my opinion its got less to do with mass than it is about their acceleration being slower to give that illusion. Turning certainly varies by car class.
Nope. Pretty much any car can corner, Michael Bay-style at excessive speeds, with little preparation.
In WD this is not necessarily the case. I think that's a good thing.
I think the driving is alright. It's not terrible, it's very serviceable. Then again, driving for me is not a dealbreaker.
LiquidNarwhal
Banned
For once Sean, I agree with you this game needs some serious AA solutions and the PS4 version just isn't cutting it for me. (especially after playing infamous I expect quality AA.)
Marvel
could never
However I'm guilty of loving every AC game so my taste is questionable I guess... aha. But I'm enjoying WD so far.