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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this

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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
flaxknuckles said:
Wait, you can't get your actual money back? That's still monumentally shit. I don't buy games just from Steam.

EDIT: lol, even Origin just gives you your cash back. Steam sucks at this customer service shit man
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I got my money back once for a preorder with a support ticket before this policy was even in place. But if you bought Watch Dogs from steam for full price I would imagine you to be the kind of person for whom $60 in your Steam wallet wouldn't be the end of the world.

Regardless, whatever you think of Steam you are not stuck with the purchase as you implied :-/

edit: god his approach to that control center was embarrassing :p
 
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sjay1994

Member
Gaz_RB said:
I'm wondering what the people who are disappointed in the gameplay expected.
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I'm thinking they expected something a bit more methodical. When you look at how the e3 demos were played, they are slower paced, where as most of the new footage is fast, run and gun, almost GTA.

I am hoping the game turns out well, and is more than GTA with hacking. I really don't like the GTA games.
 
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Lord of Castamere

Member
chickdigger802 said:
only suckers preorder games. Thats what my marketing friend calls those people lol (although he does other electronics not games)
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Eh, I just shift around 5$. I had MGS:GZ preordered but no plat made me skip it, so I switched it to bound by flame, decided not to get bound by flame so I'll switch it to Last of us next time I go in to Gamestop. Rinse and repeat until I actually purchase a game. People act like preordering games is a blood pact with Satan, Another huge advantage with not going digital his gen I guess.
 
Razzorn34

Razzorn34

Member
sjay1994 said:
I'm thinking they expected something a bit more methodical. When you look at how the e3 demos were played, they are slower paced, where as most of the new footage is fast, run and gun, almost GTA.

I am hoping the game turns out well, and is more than GTA with hacking. I really don't like the GTA games.
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Exactly. It came off more as a thinking man's GTA type game. Making you have to use your hacking skills to finish missions, escape, etc. I expected more reliance on it being that is what we were shown most of the time. So far, it looks like GTA with some hacking thrown in. Definitely not what I expected.
 
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Gaz_RB

Member
sjay1994 said:
I'm thinking they expected something a bit more methodical. When you look at how the e3 demos were played, they are slower paced, where as most of the new footage is fast, run and gun, almost GTA.

I am hoping the game turns out well, and is more than GTA with hacking. I really don't like the GTA games.
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I think the problem is the players we've been watching. They mostly haven't been doing missions and stuff, and have mostly been just driving around trying to show as much as they can of the game. When I play, I plan on taking it a lot slower and more methodically.
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
sjay1994 said:
I'm thinking they expected something a bit more methodical. When you look at how the e3 demos were played, they are slower paced, where as most of the new footage is fast, run and gun, almost GTA.

I am hoping the game turns out well, and is more than GTA with hacking. I really don't like the GTA games.
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I gotta say, based on this stream, the pace all seems pretty set by the player, and I don't think "GTA with hacking" is going to be an adequate description at all. Actually I think anybody expecting that will wind up pretty disappointed it. As specified by one of the dudes in the stream, the "core gameplay loop" appears to feel a lot more similar to Assassin's Creed (not that shocking) than GTA, but it also looks sufficiently different from either to hold my interest.
KingSnake said:
I don't know, hacking to be more than QTE, for example.
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I personally am glad the hacking isn't even QTEs... :p
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
switching to the IGN stream. :)

edit: Oh this is so much better without the dumb faces in the corner.

AHAHAH suicide.
 
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chickdigger802

Banned
flaxknuckles said:
The deluxe version was $30 on Origin, I couldn't resist. Otherwise, I agree with you.
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thats slightly different. Heck I bought a nvidia code for $28, so that is pretty much 'preordering'. ;P

Lord of Castamere said:
Eh, I just shift around 5$. I had MGS:GZ preordered but no plat made me skip it, so I switched it to bound by flame, decided not to get bound by flame so I'll switch it to Last of us next time I go in to Gamestop. Rinse and repeat until I actually purchase a game. People act like preordering games is a blood pact with Satan, Another huge advantage with not going digital his gen I guess.
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GS is better because you can actually cancel. Digital on pc usually is 'prepurchasing' as in they charge you when you preorder or some bullshit, which makes refund a hassle.

I just don't ever see a reason to preorder at full price unless its some niche softcore porno game on vita or some other niche limited copy stuff. preorder goodies have always been garbage (except for that one sniper rifle in mass effect 2). And its highly unlikely there will be a shortage of watch_dogs at your local shops at launch or amazon.

Wait for reviews/impressions, get the game!
 
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Gaz_RB

Member
KingSnake said:
I don't know, hacking to be more than QTE, for example.
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My issue with that is that the allure of this game is hacking quickly and in reaction to events. When you're driving fast escaping cops and you want to hack the street light to slow them down, how else would you want to do that, other than holding a button? I don't think anything in the 2012 trailer or otherwise gave the impression that the impromptu hacking would be more in depth. In addition, there are more in depth hacking mini-games when infiltrating the areas.
 
lucius

lucius

Member
IGN stream is so much better than Gamespots which I was watching on Twitch which might have made a diffierence, but even on Twitch I have seen much better quality streams than that one. Game actually looks good now
 
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TalonJH

Member
IGN's stream's video quality is a much better. They also just realized that they can't show spoilers so they had to quit a mission.
 
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flaxknuckles

Member
Gaz_RB said:
My issue with that is that the allure of this game is hacking quickly and in reaction to events. When you're driving fast escaping cops and you want to hack the street light to slow them down, how else would you want to do that, other than holding a button? I don't think anything in the 2012 trailer or otherwise gave the impression that the impromptu hacking would be more in depth. In addition, there are more in depth hacking mini-games when infiltrating the areas.
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From the E3 demo you had a hacking wheel so you had to manually choose whether you wanted your phone in "hack traffic light" or "hack L-train" mode. It was stupid. One-button hacking ftw
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
really really dug that hacking sequence. So this UFO abductee they got to spy on is just a total random out in the world somewhere?

edit: rainy streets look pretty gee-orgeous to me
 
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