Watch Dogs Is An Underrated Gem - Watch Dogs Review
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- There have now been a handful of Watch Dogs games but I've never really had much of an interest in them before now. I was always told that the first Watch Dogs game was bad and that Aiden Pearce was just a bad character. Now that I'm a little older, I decided to take a change on this game and try it out, especially with the news that they added Aiden Pearce to Watch Dogs Legion and also put an Assassin's Brotherhood character (Darcy) from Assassin's Creed in Watch Dogs Legion. I played Watch Dogs on Xbox Series X with FPS boost enabled and the game ran fantastically. I really liked a lot of the supporting cast including Clara Lille and T-Bone and I found the world of a futuristic Chicago to be very interesting and engaging. #watchdogs #assassinscreed #ubisoft
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I love this game. I wish they gave Aiden a trilogy.
His character isn't strong enough for that.
@@nickneal8676
Allright, looking at Legion shows how his character could have been improved.
I still stand by the idea that he couldn't support a trilogy, but maybe a sequel.
100% would have been a better idea.bloodline should have been the main games story with more detail instead of what we got in legion.
True, it would be great if he would be in the fourth watch dogs game
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 he could support a trilogy what the hell are you talking about?
watch dogs 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. Open world games that are rough around the edges like prototype 1 and 2 are just always a great time for me.
I loved playing Prototype 1 along with Infamous for the PS3. Fun as hell
@@ReVita. ikr!
This game is the best Ubisoft game to me... Aiden is an amazing character
Watch dogs is very well written
It's crazy that you say "modern assassins creed" because the game actually has easter eggs that connect it to that franchise if I'm not mistaken
Yeah, there was a side mission involving an Abstergo Entertainment employee from AC IV Black Flag. They even have an Easter egg about it in AC Origins.
I’m so damn glad I found your channel dude. I have been saying this for yeaaarss, I got the game when it originally came out and this is one of the few games aside from uncharted that I’ve replayed the story 2+ times. I think video game/pop culture fans usually just always have a huuuge Herd mentality thing going on when people start hating on something everyone else joins in on it just to fit in and as it escalates more and more people will make videos ripping trying to scavenge for any of the smallest imperfections you could think of. This game was a whole lot of fun and I’m glad someone finally made the video to do it justice.
Dude I replayed this game after getting seeing the second one one Xbox Gamepass. (Got the first one free as a Gold member in the past). Playing it as an adult who's been through shit, makes this game 10x more relatable and fun to play. As opposed to when this game first came out, and I was a baby in freshman High School lol. (FPS boost probably helped a ton too)
What I'm saying is, give the game a second chance. Seriously, I've just started Watchdogs 2 and I liked that games silliness better in the past. But now... I kinda like the tone, revenge plot, and seriousness of the first game more XD! (Gameplay improvements are still better in the 2nd, but ofc it's a newer more thought out gameplay wise.)
I’d love to see you talk about more games that you like and review of them
Man I'm only 4:26 into the video and you're speaking so many facts.
Watch Dogs I really liked so I never saw the major flaws others saw in it (except overselling the graphics on the demo), the character made sense for me.
I kinda think people were mad about the demo thing and just built stuff around that anger to justify it, rather than the other way around.
Honestly still annoyed Aidan was given a very clear middle finger in the second game. Id love for them to do another full game with him set before blood line especially some of the places other characters said head been in blood line
Also honestly Aiden is one of my favorite Video games Vigilantes
I would love to play a sequel to the first Watch Dogs where you'd play as Aiden's nephew Jackson. Or maybe something similar to what Ubi did with AC3 with Haytham and Connor where you'd play Aiden in the first chapters of the game and then play as Jackson.
So if you play the Bloodline DLC of Watch Dogs Legion, there's a mission in which Aiden falls in coma and Skye makes Jackson get into Aiden's Brain, and then it goes into a Silent Hill PT type loop in Nicky Pearce's house which actually shows why Aiden was that way , why he became vigilante. So the game actually makes more sense after adding the context of that mission for Bloodline DLC.
I love buying games without checking what people say about it so i can either genuinely enjoy it or be disappointed. I loved this game and I know personally I wouldn't buy it if i had seen all the negative reviews
I just completed watch dogs. It's great actually. I dont know why no one recommends it
Huh. That intro just told why I love the game so much. It has a personality just like mine.
I highly recommend the DLC Bad Blood, which takes everything good from him in the main game but with him as the protagonist
Excellent examination of the game, its characters, history, and the Ubisoft situation which detracted from all of it.
I too love this game, and have tried to get more folks to give it the chance I think it deserves.
Great video. Thanks for posting.
I bought it on Ps4 for 5 Euros way back in 2016, but out of 3 missions never touched it again, then i got it on Pc when Ubisoft gave it for fre a few years ago, and it wasnt until now that im playing it seriously, having zero expectations that i'm enjoying it a lot!! It is really a good game! I even bought WD2 and Legion on Steam now that they are currently on sale.
Sometimes it is best to have zero hype for a game, to fully appreciate it for what it is.
So as an fyi ubisoft said they wanted bank account hacking to be a punishmentless crime, they wanted you to decide if you felt like taking from people or not, though to an average gamer i doubt anyone considered this.
Also if you don’t know you can play moat of the game no lethal if you shoot arms and legs, helps when shooting cops to take them non lethally.
Ghost recon future soldier, Splinter cell conviction & This game are my best Ubisoft games. The stories & characters are very complex ,the A.I was great too(especially the bodark, these guys were suppressing and flanking long before The Division's LMB), they knew how to corner & intimidate you, the one's in conviction got angrier and louder the more you picked off their buddies & the ones in this game were very lethal and human(to me that is; Killing fixers ,I'd wonder what they'd told their wives & kids they'd be doing the night they got sent out to 'fix' me. I used Aiden's hands to create heaps of corpses without hesitation or remorse, how does he feel about that? About these people who he knew partially via their ct os profiles, does he dehumanize them, is that how he keeps going?
Aside from the Assassins creed games, I always enjoyed the first WD. How he turned into a vigilante to avenge his niece’s death. Like I’m hooked. A killer who goes after bad guys, and has god tier hacking skills 🤙🏼 Ubisoft’s best game.
I do love watch dogs !!! One of the best and most interesting games I’ve ever played, very very underrated! ok there’s the downgrade of graphics stuff etc, typical of ubisoft but I do love it, I remember back to early 2015 i got completely hooked on it!!! It’s a very dark game, very serious but we got some funny characters like Jordi, T-bone,etc. i love the weapon system(many many guns to hold) Even though it’s a cliche story of revenge, like the punisher whatever, I love the story, love the soundtrack, characters, and the hacking system is amazing, also like the graphics!! The vigilante bar system kinda annoys me lol. The physics is kind of bad but I don’t care. Some side missions are ok and the liberty is not the same of gta but separated it’s a great game!!! WD 1 is my fav of the trilogy BY FAR! I also do enjoy WD2 a lot !!! Despite i got some problems like the weapons system is garbage and some characters are not so interesting and i prefer aiden over marcus but like both, now WD legion........ BAD game despite really good stuff can be found on it and i got many fun parts but for example worse weapon system(literally the opposite of WD1) and lack of interesting story and characters and mostly the lack of a protagonist despite at the same time I partially enjoyed the system of recruiting people,etc. but overall i really love the universe of WD as a whole!!!! Hope we get a 4th game one day. Great video!
I genuinely love this gritty and dark tone of this game. I revisit it at least once a year
Remember when I preordered this game and being so excited for it. For me it lived up to everything I hoped it would be. I felt people cared too much about graphics and I feel that on top of Ubisoft being dishonest about the graphics it made people more upset because it was supposed to be a next gen title and people felt like the game didn’t live up to that. This game is so much more than its graphics. The story is fantastic, the world is vast and alive and has depth to it. Also I love the gameplay as well and the game mechanics. 9/10 for me. Played on PS4 for years now playing on PS5 and it runs great
Huge fan of watch dogs games and franchises watch dogs 4 when will be happening in future realsed date when Announced this game please make more videos of this game this days news and wishlist information ideas please answer question 🙂
What an awesome review I love your style and the way you break things down. This was one of the games I slept on but after watching this I'm gonna give it a try
I do wish games would get assessed based on what they are instead of what they were promised to be. Ubisoft should have been real with people and it's a damn shame that they weren't. The reception and discourse was robbed of all hope.
Side note: Funny enough, this game still looks pretty good!
The way you're discribing it sounds like the story of Trevor from Taxi Driver.
I loved Aiden's character, cried at the and when he got some kind of closure. Great game.
I said “wtf you mean? There were lots of non edge lords, and Aiden isn’t like that the entire time, I thoroughly connected with him, due to the fact of trust issues and loss, lost of loss
I played this as a 14 year old and easily fell in love with Aiden.
I can relate and understand why he is the way he is.
I never understood why people hated him.
Hell I don't understand the hatred against edgy.
People love edge.
Just the right kind.
I think Aiden is up there with people like Vergil from DMC or Alucard from Hellsing
I can honestly say I never knew WD1 got so much flack until now. I absolutely loved WD1 and hated everyone after. To gimmicky and lame. WD1 was perfect and the people who hated it was…idk lame 😂 enjoyed WD1. Especially the ending. The last gun shot. Come on now.
I personally love the 1st game it came out when I was like 14 and I remember playing it alot I’ve beat like 10 times it’s a good game
I love the first two, and Legion is okay. I platinumed all three so I did enjoy them a lot.
I just started it, my only real complaint is the driving. The cars are too slippery
Never, ever understood the unwarranted and forced hate on this game. The first time they showed it at E3 got me super excited, then playing it made it even better. Loved the seriousness of the story, loved the gameplay, just loved the game.
Ubisoft has been making bad decisions over the past 10 years now. Not sure who is advising them or what their process is, but they really need to go back to making those super high quality/great story and great gameplay games again. Their fall from grace is almost as bad as EA.
I think this game would of been a classic if it was advertised as it was
i wasn't disappointed by this game because i never saw trailers or anything i actually played 2 first and wanted to play the first game because i enjoyed 2, and LOVED 1 way more than 2. i need to play through 1 again.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT i hate that games underdeliever and downgrade (sometimes really badly) but it shouldnt take away from the main experience, if regrardless of downgrading and other things game is still pretty good than it should be treated that way. Many games have that fate and so many people wont give these games a shot. Yeah companies shouldnt get away with it but having that dirty stain forever and it scaring of new people is also sad to see.
the one thing i don't understand is why ubisoft don't make their games more like GTA. in term of realism GTA feels like a simulation compared to assassin's creed and watch dogs feeling more like arcade.
I found the driving fun, it required skills and preplanning, the cars have weight and a physical presence. It feels authentic and provides a challenge to traversal. Having to brake and control both throttle and brake inputs adds an extra layer to car control
I agree, never understood the hate for the driving, now they've changed it for Legion (and I assume 2, I didn't play it) and it feels actually terrible.
@@nickelakon5369 feels to floaty and fake
Where can I find all these FMV scenes of Aiden? You see a liitle at the main menu but I never seen half of what shown in this video. I want to watch them.
This game should've been legendary, I think. But people did not give it a fair chance. I didn't hold high expectations after seeing the E3 footage because I had already been burned before by E3 with things like the Halo 2 E3 2003 gameplay. Yet, despite all the criticism regarding graphics and the story, the game has a lot to offer and functions the way I think Ubisoft intended for it to. I haven't played Legion, but I did play WD2, and I was disappointed that they decided to drastically change the tone to more loose and upbeat, as well as turning the sequel's characters into something I don't think they should have been. Tell me which sounds cooler: a man out for revenge because he lost a family member in a tragic incident that did not need to happen, but happened anyway OR a kid who has a negative opinion on corporations/governments and chooses to become a hacker for the "lulz". I dunno about you, but I found shutting down illegal crime rings by any means necessary more appealing than a small hacker group that decided to highjack a car from a movie set to spray paint their logo all over it just to drive it around the city and wreak havoc.
Playing through it now and absolutely love it. Cranked up at 4k it’s a good looking game as well.
bro i just played it and enjoyed it when it came out . was amazing .
the only thing i dont like about it is the load times after a game over and the driving haha xD
The driving is better in watch dogs 2 with the boost function helping turns a lot
i recently bought watch_dogs and idk if i should play it
I download this game 4 days ago and i just loved, Ubi actually did what they did to the first Whatch Dogs with literally all their games, Far Cry 3 is probably their greatest success and it is not even close to the game they presented at E3. Just sad that this game make not much success as it should, it is a cold blood game, a serious history about all that is wrong with our society and how real vigilantes work, psychology side and real crime combat, love Aiden and he become a legend in the Watch Dogs universe being the most wanted hacker in history
Foh underrated. This game notoriously over promised with it's trailer then dramatically downgraded on launch. It was like cyberpunk before cyberpunk. Maybe it seems good now because the bar is so low
I think that back then the reason it floped was we where to spoilt for choice unlike now every new game is a dumpster fire
After loving the driving in WD2 I am HATING the driving in Legion.
Watch Dogs 1 has the story
Watch Dogs 2 has the gameplay
Watch Dogs Legion is just there
I haven't played legion yet, just watched from the outside, I was going to ask you personally did you play it since they added in Aiden or the Assassin's Creed character? I heard that both of those characters helped improve the narrative and that you could play as them through the entire story if you wanted to as well. But again, I only know information from the outside I'm kind of working my way through the series.
@@DegenerateJay I’ve only played the base game. It’s fun for a few hours recruiting a bunch of people but after a while it gets boring. I think it’s because there’s no real main character the gameplay seemed like a downgrade from 2 and the story was kinda boring
I found Legion to be OK, but the first game is absolutely fantastic in my opinion.
I liked Legion but it is the weakest in the series
Legion is legitimately one of the worst games I have ever played. Watch dogs 1 and 2 on the other hand are criminally underrated and all Ubisoft had to do was combine the incredible gameplay and freedom from watch dogs 2 with the gritty and weighty style of 1. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with legion. If anything, I guess you can give them props for taking a risk and trying something different but boy did it not pay off.
Oh man do I love this game. It's my favourite out of the trilogy, and I'm so happy it's been getting more love in recent times.
There's a 3rd game? Who knew lol
I wish I had checked it out earlier on but also at the same time I feel like I'm playing the best possible version of the game now with the FPS boost and everything else so I'm pretty happy with when I played it but it is too bad that this game got so much flack early on. Ubisoft really set themselves up for it though.
There was a 3rd game? I thought there were only two.
Because it's on huge sales and people like me are finally able to afford it. The whole complete edition + watch dog 2 bundle on steam is just 15$
Then who hated it in the first place?
It was underrated by someone
I thought I made a wrong decision of buying it but everyone likes it then how the f it flop
I was a kid when this game came out and all I knew about it was that you play as a badass hacker in a gta like map with missions
So I bought it day 1 and absolutely loved it
Didnt even know people are dissapointed in it until a long time after that
I hope that one day ubisoft will get back to making games like this
Ubisoft been making games exactly like this ever since, that's the problem with them. This had the "ubisoft formula" early on, back then wasn't such a big deal but after this every game from them is just like this.
@@RegularJohn53 i think even though the new games follow the same formula, they’re less innovative, less focus on story, and more on big open worlds that lack life. Watch dogs 1 had a very good story and side content, games like oddysey are filled with mindless missions and unpolished gameplay.
I want a Watch Dogs 1 remake
@@negawatt359absolutely
@negawatt359 watch dogs 2, while lacking an actual reason to care for the story has an open world full of life, there is so much that npc can randomly do in 2 that you can walk around for 10 minutes watching the npcs and see the everyday life of most of them
You cant expect aiden to be a fun, extroverted guy considering his sad story and how it changed him.. and I like his personality anyway. It added a more serious tone to the game
I enjoy how he's actually quite manipulative, maybe not a sociopath but defo traumatised or hardened
Agreed I always rode the bike and pretended he was Batman cause it looks like a cape and I love the idea of being a vigilante I wish the put more time into it or expanded upon it in a sequel
I completely agree with everything you've said. This is one of my most favourite game I've played, but it does have its problems. I'm glad that it's getting more appreciation. I hope more people try playing it and enjoy it as much as I have
I actually have one funny memory from this game. I think it was my 3rd playthrough, was just chilling out while being bored and tried to obey real life traffic laws (yeah, I'm one of those, who do that when they got bored while playing). Was slowly making my way towards the bar, where you can start one of the missions related to the gang, that has taken over the big appartment complex. Only, I didn't know, that at some point some other player had started one of those shadowing missions you can do to shadow (or hack) another players.
Well, I got to the bar, parked my car at the back alley and went in from back door of the establishment to start the mission. Of course, me being shadowed it didn't let me start it. At this moment, mind you, I had completely forgotten that you can do said missions, I just stood there thinking "huh, that's weird. Must be a bug". Started to wander back to my car at the same moment this person shadowing me came through the same backdoor I had used.
When I saw that, I was like "huh, since when has NPC's walked into various shops in the game?" Obviously still not remembering, that the shadowing the other players missions were a thing.
Now, I know, that at that point the other players game informed, that he just got caught. Don't remember what the game says to you when you get caught, it's been quite long since I last played it. But he bolted, fast. That was when I remembered those missions. I let them get away, because that must of been confusing (and probs annoying too) to shadow me stopping at every single red light and otherwise being a slowpoke. 🤣 That, and they stole my way faster car, than what they had used. No way I could of caught them.
@@1989SupraGuyFINWait a goddamn minute… that wasn’t just me that had one of those at the WORST time?
@@genericwhitedude apparantelly not. Still haven't played it, as no way am I going to pay Sony those rates they are asking from PS+.
@@1989SupraGuyFIN$60 a year isn't really bad, especially considering you get free games every month, and some of those free games got me into completely new genres. slay the spire was one of those free monthly games that got me into the deck building genre.
some months the free games are shitty, but so far i've gotten enough good games every year to make it more than worth the $60 a year.
Everyone loves Aiden now haha. The reaction to his return in Legion was really well received. It’s like it took the irritating hipsters in 2 and the faceless nobodies in Legion for people to actually see that Aiden was actually a cool character who was unfairly dismissed due to a graphical downgrade (and it wasn’t that big of a downgrade either, the game still looks beautiful).
I agree. Even though I went into the game blind of the controversy, when I found out, I just rolled my eyes. So what the game isn't exactly like the E3? It's not ugly, either. It's pretty good to look at, so what is there to complain about?
Ikr, people downplay how story and atmosphere can sometimes substitute graphics. I love walking or driving in the rain in watch dogs because it just fits the story and Aiden's siutation in that game.
@@an-animal-lover fr, it's still a really good looking game combined with the atmosphere
@@kwc0435 exactly
Dedsec was cool they're not irritating
I really love this game. I played it in 2021 with no context to the graphics and disappointments. and it's one of my favourite games. I love aiden pearce. i played all of legion with him and wrench. because I love superheroes. but I love the vigilante types like punisher. this is essentially a punisher game. I love the grounded takes on vigilantes that aren't superhero stories per say. like unbreakable. this is very realistic though. I love aiden. people who say he's edgy confuse me. people love batman, punisher, john wick. this dude is the same
Dude you're a fan of unbreakable? You're my kind of person. Nobody knows about Unbreakable and that is seriously in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. I'm still slightly butt hurt at the ending of Glass but overall I like that whole trilogy a lot.
I was going to ask, since you're the only person I've seen here who actually talked about playing as those characters in legion, does it.make the game better? There's not a lot of information about the update so bear with me, my understanding was there is a dedicated story-based DLC to Aiden and Wrench But that they also added voice lines throughout the entire Game of legion for Aiden so that the story is better if you play as him and Wrench through the main story as well. I guess I'm just wondering is that actually true or is that something that people have sort of hyped up beyond what it is? Because I thought it would be really fun to play that DLC and then play through that game as those two and even play some as the assassin girl but I just have not gotten to it yet and I'm sure I'll play the second game first but I wanted to get someone's opinion who actually played it and could break it down for me without me like frantically googling and not understanding what I'm reading. Thanks a ton for the feedback and the kind words by the way I really appreciate it.
Playing as Aiden and wrench in legion is really the only way to do it and enjoy it imo lol.
Always thought I was the only person who actually liked Aiden
Well, you're not. I liked him as well.
Nope, Aiden's a favorite of mine.
I think a lot of the negative perception of Aiden is down to the mainstream game journalists not liking him and them pushing the narrative that he was a dark brooding edge lord who players didn't relate to or like. The quirky hipster characters that ubisift introduced in Watch Dogs 2 seem like an attempt to pander to said journos and it worked as WD2 got better review scores and more praise if I recall correctly. It's very refreshing and nice to see so many people now showing support and giving the deserved praise to Watch Dogs and the character of Aiden Pearce. Would love to see him get another WD game or perhaps a similarly well written character in a darker more nuanced story akin to Aidens.
I dislike how the sequels took away the serious tone. I love serious crime games.
Honestly I love the young free running parkour and the outfit customization of the second one but not a big fan of the villain. The first one I like a lot but it could use some stuff to make it more fun I guess
@@HuskeyYT yeah the sequels had more customization and doing a non lethal run in Watch Dogs 2 was fun. I just wish the story kept the serious tone. It's the same reason I love GTA 4 and Sleeping Dogs.
@@UranousImpala GTA 4 and sleeping dogs are amazing games but they weren’t 100% a serious tone. They both had a lot of funny moments while watch dogs 1 I can’t really remember anything funny from it
@@HuskeyYT "Not the Pizza guy."
@@UranousImpala nope
People seems to complain about "dark" characters that experienced traumatic experiences. I found weird when I read on the internet people disliked Connor because of that, and didn't paid much attention to Altair for that same reason. And how people loved young Ezio, where in AC II I always felt he was pretty much a "playboy" (best Ezio for me is the one from Revelations, mature and badass at the same time).
Cool review, Jay. Now I really want to try out WD. Are you going to review WD 2 as well?
Revelations is underrated. Such a good game that had me hooked with its reveal trailer when Ezio “sees” Altair about to do the leap of faith.
@@ReVita. That trailer is amazing! Being able to play as Ezio and Altair was so good.
Altair has more to him than just that. He starts out as a borderline sociopathic and narcissistic hothead and by witnessing the horrors of his creed, he gets insight into the type of person he turned into over time, thereby becoming a wisened and enlightened person in the process. His redemption arc and the fact that he starts out as a completely terrible person, not just a morally grey character, is what makes him special.
Connor was two dimensional and ultimately didn't convey any point or meaning.
Aiden was just your typical, "I'm doing this for my family" asshole. All of his misfortunes are caused directly by him being a self-righteous idiot.
Agreed. I really liked Aiden and Connor. Niko Bellic and Max Payne are also favorites of mine. There's some light-hearted characters I enjoy too.
@@ReVita. personally revelations has been my favorite since I first played it
The serious tone in WD1 was pretty great. Honestly reminds me of Max Payne too or GTA 4. Since similar games like GTA 5 & Saints Row at the time were leaning more towards the "fun & crazy" aspect of themes. WD1 is a good contrast and its serious theme could have been better fleshed out aside from the misleading marketing/trailers, there are some flaws in it like in some story elements, character aspects, gameplay features & choices etc. I like the serious nature of Aiden Pearce. He's got that presence of vengeance and controlled chaos to him. I thought that was cool. Really fits the game. I just wish he could have been even more fleshed out in the story.
WD2 on the other hand was a total different direction though good in a many aspects too but it kinda feels weird that the characters there generally act so casual, hip, and like college kids yet you can murder people left and right so easily. Even though you can use non-lethal ways to dispatch enemies, it just feels so disconnected. Would have been a nice sequel for Aiden Pearce and retain that awesome serious tone but maybe mixed with some lighter elements here and there for some people who would like to have some fun.
Completely agree Ubisoft really messed up on the marketing. It's a shame because if expectations were lower I really think more people would have enjoyed the game. They made the thing look like a late PS4 game when we were in the PS3 and 360 generation and then didn't deliver on that which is frustrating and it was a trend with games at the time that watch dogs took the fall for.
honestly growing up, I NEVER saw promotional material or commercials for Watch Dogs, I just saw it in GameStop once, thought it looked cool, and bought it
zero expectations and it was a fun experience, I had like 3 total playthroughs of the game. I remember being a huge fan of the digital trip mini games (Mecha spider and Robot Takeover were my favorites)
@@itsClaptrap bought the game randomly because it’s on sale didn’t know anything about it except i remember wanting to play the game so bad back then (because i’m a huge fan of open world city) but i don’t have any device when it was came out i was 13, i didn’t expect anything from it in 2023 because of ubisoft current reputation. But godamn this game is so good, the game doesn’t feel repetitive like almost every single ubisoft game, the npcs are incredible, they’re talking doing their normal activities, and i love the dark tone of this game it gives me breaking bad vibes for some reason, i just love the game surprisingly.
@@itsClaptrapBest games that don’t have any marketing at all.
1. WATCH_DOGS
2. Hitman (dont quote me on that.)
I honestly think they did deliver. Even today, the game looks beautiful and runs incredibly well (atleast on ps4).
@@genericwhitedude assassins creed: odyssey
Being too serious and edgy's not a fault ..it's one of it's strong points ...the seriousness is what made u invested in the story ...I just hoped they showed more of Aiden, how he thinks, how he feels, his philosophy, and understand him more...uk
Honestly his character I think is very relatable to some of us who have experienced trauma and know just how much that can change you as a person and not for the better. I can imagine there isn't a day that goes by he didn't think about her. Blaming himself. Maybe considering not being alive. The shame and perhaps self hate. Becoming overly protective and stuffing out anything that could be considered the slightest threat. That pain turning to anger and now he's out for blood. I have PTSD and I think that he shows signs of mental illness aswel. At the end of a game you get to make a choice. And Decide how he will be going forward. Can he forgive himself? Can he move on from her death? Looking at the game like this makes me personally connect with him. Edit: Removed ending spoiler and spelling
7 months ago and I hope life is treating you well, you put into words why I connected with Aiden Pierce's character and articulated it far better than I could, I've got complex PTSD as well my friend so I know what you are struggling against, I'm an Irishman, ex BAF three combat tours amongst many other combat drops in many other places I cannot mention here for obvious reasons, no one forced me to sign up so it's on me, my poor family deserve far better than me that's for sure, if I had a pair I'd put myself out of my misery and free them from the burden that is me, thanks for writing what you did, I bought this way back in 2014, I never finished it until recently as it had the fps boost on SX and I started from scratch, just playing the Bad Blood dlc, I bought WD Legion (bloody soulless game) just to play Bloodlines with Aiden again and maybe try base game with him as my character, he's lost his niece and blames himself i understand that feeling as I've lost brothers right in front of me, sorry mate, I seem to be throwing a pity party 🥳 here, time to put my mask back on and pretend I'm OK, mad that with a mental illness people can't see it so they expect you to carry on like normal and I'm trying but my life is unravelling, I know out of all the people here you understand what I mean by that, thanks for even taking the time to read this and I'm sorry I've taken time out of your day, respect and wishes for your wellbeing from Ireland 🇮🇪🤝🇬🇧🤝🇭🇺🤝🇸🇪🤝🇯🇵🤝🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸🤝🌎
I couldn't shoot Maurice in the end, it didn't seem to fit Aiden's character, nor mine 😄
@@greengrugach1984 yeah i spared him too. He just did a job and when you found the audio logs you even find out that he didnt even want to do it but that was his only way out of the game.
And yes, it made sense on why he came off edgy. Not his niece's death, but also the fact he thought he was the cause only to find out he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just acted as the ultimate blow. And then on top of it his love interest clara betraying him and then dying when he was going to forgive her, his old hacker buddy Damien kidnapping his sister, his sister looking at him like he's a monster and even freaking jordi getting ready to put one in your head for money. By the time that final choice went by to kill maurice, i felt like at that point letting him live felt like the most fitting ending because after everything had happened and you learned the truth about everything, shooting maurice would've made Aiden's character arc seem almost pointless.
@@SaintDiaz I think you spared him because you have honour, I know it's a video game but for some bloody reason I can't be horrible to nice NPCs or defenseless ones, real lifes the same, I always playing thinking "oh next time I'll be bad" but I never do....wait I tell a lie, in ME even though my Shepherd was a good guy I had enough renegade points to 👊💥 that reporter lady right in the face, finished it a few times when I should be playing the other 100's of games I've bought, all the best to you from Ireland mo chara 🇮🇪🤝
I got this game from a friend... I have never understood what the game did to deserve the level of disdain it had from the gaming community beyond the E3 f*ck up
watch dogs is one of my favorite ubisoft games and i thought i was the only one who loved it
I think people issue with Aiden is that so many of his problems are caused directly by his actions and nobody really calls him out on it.
No that's definitely true he does cause a lot of his own problems and solves them as well but he certainly is also a source of a lot of issues he has. He's very dysfunctional person in a lot of ways for sure.
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Somewhat off-topic but did you know according to the writers of this game he supposed to be the "Heisenberg" of video games that was the idea behind his character.
Supposedly anyway they only said this after the game actually released and people were criticizing his character which makes this clarification suspect.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 I think the issue with that is we never really got to see Aiden as what he was like before his Niece died, if we even saw his gradual decline I feel like people wouldnt just say he's a 2edgy4me hackerman
but since all we really got was a cutscene of him smiling while driving that van, and assuming he was normal then, we cant entirely connect to him on that "Heisenberg" level
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The issue with that is, according to the backstory for Pierce.
The man always was a morally ambiguous violent person.
Even as a kid, as the wiki says and I quote.
"As a young adult, Aiden became a member of a criminal gang."
"He purchased lessons in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship and weapons all of which contributed towards his career as a thief."
"He also operated as a fixer which provided him deep insight of the criminal underworld."
There was also that time he murdered a gym teacher for noticing the injuries he got from his "job".
"In 2005, Aiden was nearly arrested by a gym trainer who had noticed his injuries, and unable to afford the risk, he swiftly eliminated him."
So as you can see the man already was kind of a Heisenberg right off the bat, so there's nothing for him to transition too.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 well that's all well and good, but that wasn't really present in the game. At least, not somewhere easily accessible to people to learn more about him, I certainly didn't know about his past until I read this comment just now.
Granted, I didnt run around and collect pick ups around the map that might've given lore background for him, but I don't think his story should rely on esoteric details that can be parsed through a wiki. It really should've been showcased in the game more directly
Super underrated game. Even though it might not of lived up to expectations, I still loved this game when it came out.
The reaction to this game was insane. What Ubisoft did pales in comparison to what is happening now in the gaming space.
Playing as Aiden (to me) felt like the closest we'll ever get to a modern day Punisher game
Damn, a Punisher game would be awesome
Mafia 3 too, very fun gameplay
@@lucamenanibro fuck mafia 3, wtf?
@@lucamenaniliterally ruined mafia franchise, which may I add was my damn childhood, I played mafia 2 in like 2011 on a shitty computer, and it was awesome
@GeraltOfRivia- mafia 3 is actually pretty decent game play wise, but it's not a good mafia game
If you like the psychological side of Aiden you'll love the bloodline dlc in legion it really goes into his trauma
People who complained about tone and adian character(even those he literally just batman) actively made what I enjoyed about 1st game worse
People only want protagonists like Ezio and Nathan Drake, ignoring heavy themes and being a medicinal jokester. Even when it's completely nonsensical. Very childsh really.
@@Frogman1212 it’s why I’m worried about moon knight, The MCU makes all the characters jokesters even though he’s never been one in the comics. He’s always been twisted and dark.
Thank you so much for making this video,I love watchdogs so much, honestly really one of the best games and I think the franchise should go back to the original feeling
I haven't played two or three, so I'm only saying this as someone from the outside, but from what I've watched because I have watched some gameplay and the promotional material, it seems the two tried to be much more light-hearted than the first one. Watch dogs 2 seemed like it was directed at a light-hearted approach and humor versus the serious approach of the original one and then the third game looked to me like it was supposed to be more experimental with letting you play as anyone but from what I've read and what I've seen it made it so that nobody had any sort of emotional attachment to any character because they were all pretty disposable. Now that they've added in characters like the Assassin's Creed character and Aiden I'm definitely excited to play that one as well much more than I would have been say when it launched.
@@DegenerateJay playing the third game as Aiden or wrench during the story in my opinion is alot more fulfilling especially if you play the dlc first and then the story, that way it really does feel like the ending of a trilogy rather than a brake from form,also if you play the story after playing the dlc and you play as Aiden and don't kill anyone sort of showing that Aiden might have realized that to be a hero you don't need to kill everyone, bringing back elements from the first game,it is an interesting way to play instead of just offing everyone
@@DegenerateJay but yeah man love the video, super excited to see more about this franchise from you, and I definitely will be subscribed for it
This game made me never preorder a game again. After being mad at the game for over a year I finally played it and it was a very good game. I don’t understand the dislike for Aiden because what do you expect from a dude who’s nephew died because of his own actions? Be cracking jokes whenever he sees his sister? Your comparison to the Punisher was accurate. I could not play more than 2 hours of WD2 because of how hipstery and non edgy it was lol, I don’t know why I am so opposite of most people.
I loved watch dogs 1. The sort of humorous route they went with the sequel was just cringe inducing. Also watch dogs 1 felt like a John wick simulator at times which was sick.
I couldn't agree more with you, its very refreshing to see somebody defending Aiden Pearce and Watch Dogs 1. I got the Dead Sec collectors edition for a good price a few months after the game launched and ended up thoroughly enjoying the game and even platinumed it on PS4. A large part of the reason why I loved it so much was the character of Aiden Pearce and how relatable he was in a very dark and mature revenge story. We all know that there are no bounds as to how far most of us will go to protect or avenge those we love and care for, its human nature and a tale as old as time. I even enjoyed the side content, especially the assassination mission that involved a certain abstergo entertainment employee since I loved the Assassin's Creed games too. I really wanted to like Watch Dogs 2 but the shift in tone was far too jarring and the San Francisco hipster characters and setting were completely unrelatable to me. Would love to either see Aiden get a full sequel or for them to try a similar mature story with a new well written character. Keep up the good work with your channel Jay.
I wish watch dogs 1 would be remade with next generation graphics then continue aidens story I love the darker tone
This video convinced me to redownload this game. Never got very far in it, gonna try to get lost in it now. Thanks man
What a cool coincidence that I just played again last night, I love watch dogs 1, a total gem
i think the most interesting part about the game's world that not many talked about is how it presents the concept of the control of information, interconnectedness, and safety at the expense of privacy. im happy that you talked about it for a bit here
can you watch dogs in this game?
Lucky if you play on PC you can make the driving much more reasonable with a simple mod. One of the biggest issues of the game so it helps make it a solid experience
That's certainly good. Yeah I played it on Series X that's one of the great things about PC in general. It's sort of a double-edged sword because obviously they don't deserve a pass, not that you're saying they do, for not fixing it themselves but at least somebody did it. I kind of feel the same way about fallout and the elder scrolls and other games like that. It's like if we're reviewing the game as is they have their issues but it's nice that the community went out of their way to fix them on purpose on that platform when the developer didn't.
I loved this game too. I do agree about some of the criticisms about the “downgrade” and the moody main character.
I did find I enjoyed the first Watchdogs moreso than 2 or Legion, Watchdogs 2 felt very... "hipster hacker"? While Legion was ok but the story felt way too short and it definitely suffered from a lack of connecting with a main character. I mean, I enjoyed having a random character that I made my own in Legion, but not having any backstory, not knowing if they have family/friends/enemies, etc etc, lowered the stakes. Aiden just had that driving force of vengeance that made you want to take on a whole city.
The Bloodlines dlc for Legion really felt like a good course correction and a return to form, the story felt like it should have been Watchdogs 2, haha. Seeing what Aiden thought of himself, as some kind of bloodsoaked killer haunted by the voice of his niece, moved me more than the entirety of Legion's main story. And there's a great reference to PT! Bloodlines did their own version of Silent Hills and I'd be totally ok with a full game ;-]
Playing Bloodlines then all of Legion as Aiden is the closest we can get to an Aiden Pearce Watch Dogs sequel. It makes me really wish we had a true sequel to the original.
I love the first Watch Dogs. Got it close to launch but that was before I was in to following gaming news and stuff, so I had no idea of the negative reception it was getting because of the "downgrade". I just jumped in and enjoyed it for what it was. And yeah, I loved the gritty story and darker tone (dealing with drug running and human trafficking and all sorts of nasty stuff). To me, it's really a shame where the series has gone from there though. WD2 plays much better (especially the driving) but the tone was miles away from WD1 and it never really clicked for me. And Legion just looked like a hot mess so I never even bought it
I played trough sleeping dogs recently and i think that sleeping dogs is underrated af. Could you review sleeping dogs? Would be great ❤️
When I first played this game, I knew nothing about it and didn't know about the tech demo issues or any of that, so when I found out people didn't like it, I was quite surprised
Definitely an underrated game, I actually played this on the WiiU when I got one
This was on wiiu? Wiiweird.
It’s honestly the only good one. You have a character who faces the question of morality, takes it, and comes out the other side saying fuck it Idc about morality im out for revenge and does it twice. It’s why et the end I always shoot the guy, because unlike watch dogs 2, Aiden recognizes that yes, high up corrupt people are using it against the common man, he TOO is using it for his own immoral gain. It makes him a complex character that’s fun to play. Is the game play not super interesting and somewhat repetitive? Sure. But I’d play the same thing over and over again for interesting characters any day.
I agree that this game is underrated, and that the marketing for it was kinda misleading. Even so, the game still looks pretty nice today and it's not that bad of a game. Its biggest strength is its story and the gameplay isn't that bad either. I definitely prefer the darker and more indepth story of the first game compared to the second's goofy and more juvenile story. Legion's story is half-baked as hell and not interesting in the slightest.
The Watch Dogs games aren't that bad in my opinion, except Legion. That one wasn't very good.
It's near perfect, I give it a 9 out of 10, but I would give it a 10 if you could turn off the mini map, turn off enemy outlines and turn the auto aim fully off. The next gen version looks far better, the PS3 version didn't even have heavy wind, grass, first person view while driving, and lots of other smaller details. The game does look way better at night. I play it on Series X now, it's a solid 60FPS. I also think this game is 1 of 4 of the last great games the Ubisoft ever made before going to crap, the other 3 would be Blacklist, Far Cry 4 and Ogrins.
never really got into watch dogs got it for free in 2022 put 50 hours into it got the platnium and 100% plus all dlc tropies might be one of my top games gameplay is so addictive!!!!
21:16 that's not an npc, it's a player that looks like an NPC
I think it would be so cool if they implemented the karma system like Sony and Sucker Punch did with the infamous series. Like you said with the money and that would've been cool getting consequences and that
I mean there kind of was
The reputation system was basically the morality system. Do bad things, cause collateral damage, don't save people, etc. and your rep goes up or down.
It's just severely under-utilized.
@@nickelakon5369 it serves as a tool for immersion and fighting cognitive dissonance, if you have bad rep, civilians will call the cops on you if it's neutral not much, if it's high you'll have civilians recognize you and news stations mentioning the vigilante.
I completely agree with you Jay! This is my favourite game of all time and it doesn’t get enough love as it deserves.
What’s the difference between Aidan’s edgynes vs Batman who also is a very serious and stoic character, why do people connect with Batman but him
Don't compare them please, Batman has tons of iterations and lots of other aspects that add to it on an emotional level
I remember hearing that the game didn’t live up to promises so I just cut myself off from any info about the game past being a vigilante hacker, and I loved it, I just experienced the game as it’s own thing not bogged down by the expectations, I also do like Aiden even tho Conor isn’t someone I like, I still like this series and hope it isn’t done yet tho I doubt it will continue sadly
This is also one of my favorite games of all time. I've had so many good experiences with this game and this franchise. I love the plot and characters and I agree with probably everything you've said in this video. I'm so glad you liked the game
The only good watchdogs game, I found 2 and legion to be cringe af
Really solid game imo, finished it 4 times already