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Watch_Dogs - Welcome to Chicago Trailer
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if they aren't fucking everywhere after 7pm 7 days a week, they haven't nailed Wrigleyville lol
i'm guessing it'll be very tame and safe, like most ubi stuff........now I want rockstar to do chicago but it would probably be too samey for everyone but chicago residents
Wiseguy basically said what I was thinking. It's gonna be a Chicago/"Chicago"(Canadian city)/Derivative Open World City. One thing GTAV nails is art direction and atmosphere and I salivate at the thought of Rockstar doing a full-bodied Chicago with tucked away places like Roscoe Village or the derelict blocks of Canaryville.
Yeah....no. Just no.
Important to remember infamous is made specifically for the PS4 and Watch Dogs is pretty much on old and new, although it shouldn't really be such a problem if the worked at it, I'm sure they could make it better with more effort
Saying infamous SS looks better graphically isn't bias, it's the truth.
Betta Lines
Member
It's also important to point out that Watch_Dogs has a fully dynamic time of day cycle, whereas Infamous uses some very carefully-chosen lighting conditions to show the engine in its best...um... light.
GHG
Gold Member
Yep. Whats even more annoying is that you dont even have any control over the TOD.
Sure man. Anything else you want to tell us about the Anti-Watch_Dogs agenda on NeoGAF?
Clockwork5
Member
Visuals look pretty good, for the most part. They lost me with all of the NPC AI bullshit. Those are the real promises that are never kept... I'm fully prepared for cardbord scripted inhabitants but please lay off the advanced ai nonsense. It don't exist.
Ok I see what you are saying now. that does look a bit odd, hopefully now the norm throughout the game.
Ways to get banned really fast: The Post.
The lighting and shadow effects aren't close to SS. I'm not sure why you're defensive, but why exactly do you think this? We were shown "next-gen" promises with Virtual Boy delivery. You can't just pull shit out of the air, say it will be in a game, and then release a game that looks vaguely similar to a last-fen game on the visual front. And to think we were being lied to almost all the way up to its initial launch date, it would've been a goddamn travesty.
They deserve all the flak they get, especially the fact that they're still being dodgy when asked ANYTHING about the game, other than what we've known since forever ago.
Well said haha...
I'm seeing a lot of people happily impressed with this trailer. You're probably just seeing negativity because you're expecting to see it.
It's an AR mini-game that you can access from your phone.
I'm still interested in this game and I hope Ubisoft delivers gameplay and story wise. Sure, graphics are also important and it's going to be disappointing, if they are really noticable downgraded, but as long as it looks good and plays well, it will be fine.
After watching this preview, I also think, that they should stop making videos, because they are giving too much away. It's not a good thing, that people know so much about the game, so early. Let them figure out stuff alone.
After watching this preview, I also think, that they should stop making videos, because they are giving too much away. It's not a good thing, that people know so much about the game, so early. Let them figure out stuff alone.
I can't stop watching the videos, please don't make new ones
I shudder to think how the car-insurance negotiations would play out with something like this.
Game looks fine. The major difference is now we have next gen games to compare this too. So its not as impressive as it was in 2012. Looks like have lots of different areas. The graphics are not hyper realistic so it hard to say how much it looks like Chicago. Looks like they changed the names of streets though which kind of sucks.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Are you fucking serious? You surely cant be serious. I'm too tired to show comparison shots but you need glasses, son.
Muffdraul
Member
Sounds like you have a beanie pulled down over your eyes.
So deep up the devs asses, you'll never find it.Where the hell did this go?
Insane Metal
Gold Member
WTF happened to this game
It could still be very fun... but it looks so bland compared to the initial reveal...
It could still be very fun... but it looks so bland compared to the initial reveal...
childplease
Banned
I'm from Chicago and that oddly does not look or feel like Chicago even though all the landmarks appear right.
Everything appears too clean to well kept up.
Everything appears too clean to well kept up.
Where the hell did this go?
Because of the behavior of lighting and reflections, a water-soaked nighttime scene tends to look more impressive than it would in other circumstances. I'd like to see those same situations in a closer-to-final version before putting my foot down either way, but I wouldn't count it out yet.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Where the hell did this go?
Good question, makes you wonder why they downgrade like they have in the past and then question why they get negative press. Bizarre mentality if you ask me.
Where the hell did this go?
What we're seeing now is way more realistic and a natural evolution of what we had last generation. It has better looking assets than last gen games, higher resolution, and hopefully better performance.
The leap from last gen to what's in the above gif is not realistic at all.
SJRB
Gold Member
It's not a 1:1 real life copy of Chicago, but more of an "alternate reality" sort of thing. In the game the ctOS system has drastically lowered crime rates and improved overall city environment.
A few Chicagoans (me included) have been having a side-discussion about it and basically it's like when movies or TV used to be set in "Chicago" but were actually a city in Canada, haha.
Green Yoshi
Member
There will be tears. ;-)
Please let Watch Dogs 2 be a Next-gen exclusive game. Sorry, WiiU. ^^
Please let Watch Dogs 2 be a Next-gen exclusive game. Sorry, WiiU. ^^
GavinUK86
Member
Where the hell did this go?
Where most early gameplay demos go. Remember Bioshock Infinite's first look? Final product looked nothing like it. It's always been the same. I don't know why people are treating this differently.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Remember when people were arguing that this was possible on PS3/360?Where the hell did this go?
I miss those days
Chicago was the murder capital of the United States in 2012 IIRC. Gang violence and general violent crime are still quite a problem in the poverty-stricken south side neighborhoods. A perfect example of the harmful effects of gentrification.
RMS Gigantic
Member
The first thing that would need to happen is for AAA developers to realize that watercraft larger than tugboats can actually move outside of fixed animations.
Maybe, once they reach that point, they'll start allowing players to do things like this outside of wholly scripted pre-determined animations:
Chinpoko_Master
Member
No. Infamous does actually look really good. Watch_Dogs looks like shit.
GavinUK86
Member
As much as I loved Infamous SS and agree that it's a beautiful game 90% of the time, it looks pretty rough in places. Like any game. Take a good long look and you'll see it too. (Not you personally, just people in general).
Muffdraul
Member
I was more disappointed in game play stuff from the early Bioshock Infinite videos that ended up on the cutting room floor. The graphics downgrade was nowhere this.
Chinpoko_Master
Member
Except with Watch_Dogs 90% of the game looks rough instead of beautiful.