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[wkureservedp2]

I can't recall ever being more disappointed by any game.

 

[ocean]

It was generally deceived as highly disappointing and not great around here. It also happens to be my personal opinion that while the game had some good ideas and nailed some aspects, you'll usually find yourself wishing you were playing GTA V instead.

Bear in mind: this is a forum where popular opinion is drastically different from the market at large. Stuff like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, FIFA, Madden and the like are looked down upon as lesser titles by many folks around here despite being the most popular and successful stuff out there.

 

[Chaos17]

Now, GTA5 and Sleeping Dogs, that's some overrated games in GAF. Writing only helps you so much when the base game isn't very good.

Edit : overrated Sleeping Dog ?
Nope.

 

[red731]

Soulless, but OK.

Who would have thought that music and actual radios are the bane of modern open world game.
Playing music without any ads and stuff is just...soulless.

 

[DistortionOfReality]

Completely inoffensive. I don't get all the vitriolic hate. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it was a solid game with decent mechanics and a cool concept.

 

[Amneisac]

I didn't hate it, but I just found it really boring. Very hackneyed, generic, completely uninteresting story and characters. Bland gameplay.

Just really banal, boring, and completely unremarkable.

 

[ldcommando]

The best open world game I've ever played. The best.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Didn't catch my attention and boring.

 

[Anos Voldigoad]

Spoiler

Enjoyed

it for awhile. Absolute rubbish

 

[Fury451]

I don't think much of it at all.

Shooting felt excellent though.

 

[martino]

OP, be honest you like and are looking for hyperbole ?

 

[Setsuna]

You wont find a better game out there in terms of combat traversal and gadgets to handle almost any situation you get yourself into

People say it was bad compared to GTA5, but Gta5 is complete ass in terms of actual gameplay and mission design. Gta5 pretty much only has a better map story and character customization but the base gameplay is horrid

 

[TriniTrin]

The most boring open world game ever, and it looked so much worse than it was hyped up to be. This is the game that basically told me game devs would lie and BS about how a game looked worst than initial trailers.
Gameplay was stale and the few cool ideas that I did like we're mostly mp based. Half of the game you play though camera hack view. The story was some stupid try hard shit too.

Also, worst Protagonist since tommy in prey, I hated him the whole time.

 

[Grimgrillz]

Burned

 

[kraspkibble]

I actually quite enjoyed it to be honest. It wasn't amazing but it wasn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. There is a lot of room for improvement and I'm most likely gonna play the 2nd one whenever it comes out.

 

[grosvenor_92]

The story and characters aren't great niether is the driving but I enjoyed the variety of missions and the found some of the side quests to be interesting

 

[MajorTom]

A solid 7.

 

[PseudoViper]

It was given to me as a gift... played it for 30 minutes. Never played again.

 

[DomsPlaying]

I'd say give Witcher 3 or Batman a try before Watch_Dogs. Personally, I didn't mind WD but it's certainly not a great game by any means.

 

[derwalde]

Worst game i bought on PS4 together with shadow of mordor.

 

[Rhaknar]

who's neogaf?

 

[OccamsLightsaber]

I generally liked the atmosphere of the game. The hacking made the world feel a little more real.

Spoiler

Even more so than GTA

I got my Platinum and sold it.

I hated, the stealth system. They give you 40 guns are you'll ever only really need the silenced pistol. You get rewarded for killing and if you complete your object without killing anyone you get NOTHING. It pissed me off.

It felt like a mish mash of ideas that really didn't mix together nicely.

 

[Sojgat]

Loved it.

My GOTY.

 

[MCN]

It's not a bad game, but not a great game. It's just a game.

 

[Africanus]

It misrepresents Chicago quite grossly.

The Sears tower was misshapen, Navy Pier became some random pier rather than a major tourist attraction.

There was The Great Chicago Mountain Range.

Lake Michigan always looked a murky black rather than varying shades of blue, green and brown.

No variety in boats. Chicago has one of the largest amounts of docks, piers, and harbors in the world and all I saw were 2 types of speedboats.

No beaches, despite Lake Michigan having a large coastline.

No police boats, despite there being quite a few.

No airplanes! Despite Chicago having the busiest airport in the world in O'hare, and a second large one in Midway.

I could go on, but this game was simply a horrid rendition of a city I know very well, amongst its other problems.

I did enjoy the online hacking though, that was the highlight of my experience. Pretending to be a regular pedestrian while going un noticed is great.

 

[Meier]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Sothpaw]

I didn't dislike it. Main issue I had were the hackers you work with with all the face piercings/tattoos/dreads/etc. Maybe one like that, but both of them? Seems a bit off to me. To be honest the main story didn't drag on me like the GTAV one did. After about 1/2 way through GTAV I just wanted it to end already.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I like it a lot more than most, it had it's fair share of problems, but I really enjoyed playing it (I think I put it at 9 or 10 on my 2014 GOTY list as a matter of fact), I would love to see a sequel improve on the first.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Good for a couple of hours. Driving is shiiiiiiiiiiiite.

 

[shimrra]

Personally, I liked it. Watch Dogs isn't a perfect game but something about it just was interesting. Also I never followed this game at all, when it was first announced at E3 was the only trailer I saw for it and at the time I didn't like it. So ever since then I never watch the trailers or even read/listen to the reviews. So how did I get it, well for some odd reason my son bought me this game for father's day last year. I gave it a shot and I ended up really liked it. Again its not perfect but I found this game more interesting than GTA3 (which I could never get myself to finish).

 

[Kurdel]

Multiplayer was super dumb and fun.

The coop where you would empty your grenade launcher to ragdoll the other coop guy for like 2 minutes was hilarious.

 

[RealityCheque]

It can be completely described in a single noise:

Meh.

 

[platocplx]

I enjoyed it. Platnumed it, Before the drinking game patch(let me tell you it was pure hell to completed)

It has a lot of good parts(enjoyed hacking, being able to hack entire buildings and never fire my weapon,gang hangouts, some of the storyline) some bad parts(hated driving missions so much, kinda dumb that as soon as you hit the water there was no pursuit by police,some puzzles got repetitive over time) but overall it was pretty enjoyable to me.

online i had a hilarious moment here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoabiz97KA

Overall I think it has great potential they tried to do too much and became a jack of all trades but very little mastery. however I cant wait for them to announce the next version. Im glad they didn't try to make it annualized it so it means they will come out with something hopefully even better than the first.

 

[MizzouRah]

It was bad.

 

[scitek]

Bad story, good gameplay.

 

[TechOne]

Hated it. Most regretted purchase this gen.

 

[JustenP88]

The game was fine. It could've done a lot better, but it had enough to keep me engaged to the end. First entries of new, big IPs often fail to knock it out of the park. There's a good deal of potential in this one, I think.

 

[GusZamboni]

i liked shooting and driving ... hacking system is way too flawed and history sucks balls, but if you can grab it for like 15 bucks is a good deal.

oh, the hacker invasions on your game is kind of cool.

 

[Neverwas]

i thought it was a soulless, joyless "checklist" game, with zero likable characters, and a piss poor rendering of Chicago.

 

[luxarific]

I enjoyed it, but Aiden is one of the most unsympathetic player characters ever created. It feels like you're playing a sociopath. I would much rather have played as a certain female NPC in the game (you'll know who I'm talking about once you play it).

Would be great if Ubi makes Aiden into the big bad in the next game, but that would require admitting they really screwed the pooch when they came up with Aiden and his characterization in the first game.

 

[Yasae]

Very average with some nice ideas (seamless multiplayer invasions/tailing). Basically they're gonna have to pull an AC2 for the next game.

 

[Justified]

Worth one playthrough,

 

[Setsuna]

I enjoyed it, but Aiden is one of the most unsympathetic player characters ever created. It feels like you're playing a sociopath. I would much rather have played as a certain female NPC in the game (you'll know who I'm talking about once you play it).

Would be great if Ubi makes Aiden into the big bad in the next game, but that would require admitting they really screwed the pooch when they came up with Aiden and his characterization in the first game.

Aiden isnt a sociopath if anything hes a psychopath and that's ONLY because he sees people as pawns in a game. But other than that hes nothing like them since he feels guilt for his actions

Secondly he wasn't supposed to be sympathetic he's supposed to be colder and more detached. Hell, he even installed cameras into nickis house without her knowing so he can watch over them as he handles his buisness

 

[TemplaerDude]

Hot garbage.

 

[Muffdraul]

A game that didn't live up to the hype, but was backlashed against way worse than it deserved. Not a bad game at all. The hacking aspect is a fun gimmick.

 

[luffxan]

Driving was amazingly trash like wow I hate driving in Watch_Dogs....gunplay was ok (nothing super special), hacking worked as a nice gimmick, and characters/plot didn't add anything

 

[TheFNEffecT]

Bad story, good gameplay.

Came to post this, it was a good experience. Not enough to merit playing more after the main game was completed.

 

[Ban Puncher]

I traded Watch Dogs on uPlay for a copy of Sakura Spirit.

I regret nothing.

 

[HighResTomato]

Most regrettable purchase in the last 4 years.

 

[Psyrgery ES]

It was bland and soulless.

Thr campaign dragged on and on, I completed it and uninstalled it right away

Nevertheless, I think the franchise has potential.