A Brutally Honest Review of Watch Dogs: Legion
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- The no BS review of Ubisoft's Watch Dog: Legion
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla review coming in early November.
*Additional review information:*
-Gameplay captured on PC, i7 7700k, 4.7ghz, GTX 1080ti.
-Average frame rate 48 on "High Settings" with Direct X 12 enabled and texture resolution set to "Medium". Ray tracing and motion blur disabled.
-Performance issues and framerate issues were constant, however a day 1 patch will be available that may fix these issues. For me, they were kind of a pain.
-# of crashes: 4, straight to desktop.
-Time to complete game: 17 hours. Completed all story content, recruited around 30 people total
-Did not participate in bare knuckles fighting (not a fan of the melee, even though it's nicely improved from WD1 I think) or Parcel Quests. Found them pretty boring.
-A distinct lack of actual side quests is a problem. I think this is because there aren't actual pre-defined characters outside of the story to feature. Everyone you play and recruit is procedurally generated, so there's not much to explore narratively speaking. I talk about this in the video as one of my main issues.
-Game plays nice for what it is, sound effects are servicable, stealth works very good, and the game has an interesting take on detection. If you don't use guns, guards won't alert other guards... which is very nice. You can get caught, fight it out, or disable them and you can carry on with stealth. *Great feature.*
-Loading screens can be annoying because they are frequent, but they aren't very long. It's annoying to have to have a loading screen when changing characters.
-Car handling is good, and in line with it's competitors.
-Customization options for weapon skins and especially clothing is very good. Lots of clothing to buy, everything looks pretty good.
-I wish there were some collectibles outside of money and EFT, which is used to buy skills. Masks are really cool to collect, but once you find them all there's really nothing to hunt down. Love the mask system.
-Overall, the gameplay is fun for a good 8 to 10 hours, and then it starts to get repetitive as you realize most of the recruits you bring into your team don't play all that differently from what you already have. The novelty can wear off pretty quickly if your looking for substance, especially in terms of characters having deep personalities and stories (they don't).
-If you don't care about characters in this regard, this is probably a review that might skew you the wrong way. If you just want to romp around an open world and form a dream team of characters regardless of how different they play, you'll like Legion.
-I was extra hard on this game as I was given a chance to play the game twice prior to this review and expected a lot.
*Final Takeaway*
I was first not impressed with Legion with the demo I played a couple months ago, as it was full of standard early game quests and tutorials. However, when I got to play it a second time in early October, I was ecstatic for it. This is because that 4 hour demo had the single best slice of gameplay in the entire game. It was basically a chunk of the story mid-way through the game, and it was definitely the most exciting bit. I guess this is the danger of playing a pre-release version of a game. If it's great, and you say it's great, you hope the rest is just as exciting. Sometimes it's not. In this case, the rest of the game was not as good as that demo. Not bad. Just not as fantastic as what I played that day... for all the reasons I went over in the video.
Great Review man, you covered the points I wanted to know about most.
ehm, why texture medium? Texture resolution will not impact FPS, just video memory
You’ve really improved on your analytical skills Tonald! Excellent work, loved the video
Okay video, but I would have put the points in this comment in the video itself. Even if you need to delay a video to add more detail, I would it’s worth the trade off.
Did anyone think this game was similar to State of Decay 2?
As an English person who lives near London, almost every accent in this game is over exaggerated and cringe.
As someone from the north, y'all sound exactly like that haha
@@andtodaypodcast7768 you say yall, you’re not from England
@@andtodaypodcast7768 "y'all sound exactly like that" Well, that's exactly how the developers from ubisoft toronto think about english people, and just prove how a generic searchs and stereotyped concepts sounds so cringe, boring and slightly offensive tbh
cringe worthy not cringe
It's like the BBC trying to do their best Stormzy accent
The characters all look like they have parent issues.
It would have been cool if the job of the characters affected their lines and missions more. It would be cool if the hitman type characters would be more dangerous and hard to please, like maybe you have to fight them at first.
What do you expect they're English
@Plazmatron I hurt your feelings? Sorry.
Doesn't everyone?
That's because they look like Antifa.
All these games that try these lofty "Do anything" "Play as anyone" type things always end up like this. As wide as an ocean with the depth of a small puddle. Less is more people. Quality>Quantity.
Yeah, thats what i just commented up there as well. Ubi employees are killing the company, or the company is killing themselves. Ubi company is no longer serious game maker, its more like a community now if u see their uplay news.
Quality>Quantity - the antithesis of Ubisoft
How many games do the "Play as anyone?!"
I cant think of State of Decay and... um... ammm..... uuuhhh..... nothing else. Im probably missing a few games, but this isn't like a schtick or a bad trend. it's a good attempt at innovation.
And in games where you can do anything you can do far more than a game like COD. the difference is that a scripted linear "Do only what we want you to" game is doubling down on what you do and force you into spicing things up. so they have you do a night mission, then a stealth mission at dawn, then a driving-racing mission, then a high action shootout that ends in a helicoter flight.
In none linear do-anything games, like the ill accepted GR:Breakpoint or the better GR:Wildlands, you can have the exact same variety in gameplay mechanics, only you can choose the approach yourself. Same with WD:L. I often get very varied missions - some stealth, some high action, some are just hacking, in some I kick ass and in others I nearly die. it can be very varied because there are so many mechanics.
So it's not really shallow, imo. Not how i see it.
But, i completely agree that when there are too many characters, it gets shallow in the story department, and story\characters is never something you want shallow.
The play-as-anyone thing contributes a lot if you play with permadeath on, but when it's off, then it doesnt add as much.
Mostly because gamers will never be satisfied about anything if it's not 100000% perfect
I'd rather play State of Decay 2 than this total shit. SOD2 may be shit, but this...
When everyone is unique, no one is.
Voicely speaking, that is! :P
I mean jobs. Reaction to different people like Klan Kelly and Albion. Yeah no uniqueness at all
You’ve obviously never played siege then
I assume you’re talking about the Hipster Mad Max rejects?
@@baptisedindirtysprite3593 siege is a different thing.
I am surprised that nobody has talked of the horrible lip sync of the game
It's mentioned & demonstrated in the video.
also what about the graphics? They look like they're from 2017 (or this dude wasn't playing with ultra settings)
@@JawzX yes but almost no RUclipsr has talked about its like, if they wanted to uncover it
@@SnrubSource game is poorly optimized haha i am using gtx 1650 super and i am playing rdr2 med to high settings. And on this game all low but got stutters.
@@aintcappin patch tomorrow should help. All though 1650 is pushing it for this game
The game world was the real selling point for me. So disappointed there is nothing to do in it. Honestly I would have preferred they just gave us a team of characters with different abilities, each of which we can completely customize with age, gender, skin colour, voice etc. Give us a good team of our own creation, one which we actually get attached to.
When the multiplayer comes out I think that’s where it’s going to be good
That ain't gonna happen lmao
@@Panda-ju3vz they have a whole map planned out and mp is going to have a lot of unique stuff to that sp doesn't have so i mean something is definitely going to happen which i think is going to be good but its your opinion so just what you want too.
@@Snow-mp7zz from what I've seen, the multiplayer looks identical to watch dogs 2, so don't get your hopes up.
Exactly that would have been great or have us be able to customize the npcs however we want and change more than just clothes
"It's a Ubisoft open world game" would be sufficient for a review
Yeh but that really does Watch Dogs 2 and some of the AC games a massive injustice. Watch Dogs 2 was a beautiful open world with so much variety and atmosphere. It unfortunately was passed over by so many - my advice, go give it a go now and you'll see how much more polished it is than Legion.
@@Cirias I meant to say modern Ubisoft open world games, I played watch dogs 1 and it wasn't as bad as people say, I wasnt a fan of the second game because I didn't like the characters and atmosphere.Same with assassin's creed, in my opinion it almost became another call off duty.
@@friendlyreaper9012 I also preferred Watch Dogs to Watch Dogs 2 for similar reasons. I didn’t care at all about Marcus and his friends. Aiden, with all his flaws, was someone I could get behind in a sense because I understood his plight. He stumbled into something while doing a job that had fatal consequences for his niece. Seeing all of it play out was a satisfying ride and the game had everyone’s favorite Asian assassin in a pink suit. 7/10 game tbh, but enjoyable nonetheless.
"it's an Ubisoft game"
@@friendlyreaper9012 how is AC in any way similar to cod
Why is everywhere has graffiti art, and every person need to be have piercing and punk style hair..
A mixture of inner city London grunge, and that they’re rebel hacktivists so need to look ‘edgy’.
Ubisoft committed 100k to BLM, so seems they love stupid punks.
What’s wrong with graffiti
This is why Watch Dogs 1 was so interesting. It was a realistic example of what the ctos system would actually be like. The city and people looked real. WD2 and Legion are not realistic in any way, everyone wears technology and punk clothes. Too bad because the hacking systems have gotten more interesting since WD1.
@@Leynad778 or, if your own brain wasnt so far shoved up own over political ass, youd know that a game with fucking HACKERS would obviously subscribe to many punk stereotypes.
Aiden and Marcus suddenly look like prettttty good characters now, don't they? In comparison to this character salad bowl that Legion randomly churns out.
xD
By the way, there's a dlc that allows to play Aiden, right? So if I take it i get some character development and charisma, right?
@@Soundwave1900 wrench is returning aswell idk if he is playable tho
I always liked Aiden though lol.
@@DivineeTray He will be.
Well people liked aiden as far as I know
So they sold the game on this "play as anyone" mechanic, but then dumbed it down to the point where it doesn't matter? Yep, sounds like Ubisoft
Did you really think they were gonna make a game world full of people where everyone was different? Yeah a different skin and voice actor...
I don't think "Dumbed Down" is the right Phrase. It's more just that certain Standard Gameplay Systems need to be Open to everyone, like Hacking/Driving/Shooting. I think Ubisoft's Mistake was not restricting the Player enough. For example, what if Old People couldn't drive Cars, what if the Professional Hitman couldn't hack at all (or maybe just some very basic Hacks), what if the Construction Worker was the only way to Pilot of Construction Drone. They didn't do this in Fear of putting People off and as a result most Characters can play very similar.
@@andybagles4156 That's why I called it "dumbed down". When there is only minor differences between any given character, you don't have to think about who to choose for diff missions, nor need be on the lookout for potential recruits with certain skill sets to round out your crew. Just seens like a lot of potential for some deep and interesting crew management waisted
@@hardromeo436 waisted😭
@@hardromeo436 certainly has such wasted potential if only they hadn't dumb it down. I was expecting the hackking and stealth restrictions when I saw the trailers but they changed it to let anyone hack. If they were afraid of locking out a mission because you need a certain npc ability to progress, they could've added alternative routes to take albeit a more difficult route.
For some reason i feel like this is a modded version of The Division
Yhh looking at the graphics. Watch dogs 2 looks better than this. It seems Ubisoft keep retrogressing.
Look at Assassin's Creed unity back in the days and look at assassin's Creed Valhalla it's just sad
@@Emma_madison right, at times the whole screen turns brown in Valhalla like a title from 10 years ago. This is next gen?
@@Emma_madison Well for the comparison with Unity and Valhalla,
Unity is not as massive as Valhalla.
@@moneyprinter7773 Unity had a story you could actually follow without being sidetracked into meaningless side quests that have nothing to do with the core story any more. The map may be massive, but the quality of the content in it dwindles as the game's size grows. I played through Odyssey's last 20 hours hoping it would end, and I didn't even bother with Valhalla.
@@ShinXero he’s talking about the graphics compared from Unity to Valhalla and I replied that Valhalla is a big map compared to Unity small map so the graphical difference shouldn’t be a surprise. But yes I agree with you that Unity’s story was far advanced but Valhalla is more of an RPG meanwhile Unity was more of a playable movie. Basically we were talking about the graphics.
The recruiting and "playing as anyone" mechanic is an awesome idea but I think it would have been better as a secondary part of the game. If the story was based around a few characters with the ability to recruit extras to help you out for certain things would be way better.
I feel like that’s how the game will feel once the season pass characters and their stories come to the game
Because all 4 of them are getting a unique story linked to them
@@ceoofpownage1656 Yeah, but I felt the DLC in Watch Dogs 2 was not worth it. Just mini-missions. I don’t have any faith in Legions DLC.
@@BaseStation watch dogs 2 was a far less ambitious game in general
i saw live demo last year and they can bot fix this problem... a year later not a surpise...
I miss the days that Ubisoft made compelling stories.
Farcry 5 , Origins and Oddysey were decent , But i guess it's just another generic '' i remember when''
far cry 3 ac brotherhood and 3 hands down best games ubisoft dropped that (I) have played.
@@Pieceless assassin creed 2
prince of Persia 1 & 2 . Splinter Cell
Beyond Good & Evil
so the voice acting is like in skyrim but with a bigger cast
"You're finally awake"
But over a thousand times
@@Propaganda9999 you were caught crossing the border right same as that thief
wow dont you dare insulting the perfect voiceacting in skyrim
i found a twenty something year old woman that sounded 90 it’s hilariously bad
@@TilDrill I dont know oblivion might be better,lol
It just doesn’t look like a 2020 game tho. The clothes details and characters look pretty bad imo
I dont think he is playing on max settings. It totally looked different for me.
The E3 demo for the OG watch dogs still looks better than legion. Don’t get me wrong legion is a good looking game but the facial animations are crap, and Ubisoft just doesn’t seem to innovate much visually
@@farragun3131 No it doesn't the character models are really bad playing at ultra settings is not going to change anything. It the same problem dirt 5 has
You can heavily tell that this game was made for ps4 and xbone and not next gen
@@jessicaabel3481 ?
Without a lead character there is no emotional connection. Everything fall flat
I wish they let us play whole story with Aiden
I honestly don't mind
@@alvaromendonca4518 uh
I mean you could after Aiden's dlc comes out
@K Brunson I felt alot emotion with him, maybe you just had a bad time with him
@K Brunson I think you like only Lucky guy protagonist
finally someone tells the truth. everyone keeps saying each character has their own unique story and play style that is different from the others.
zero it does, this reviewer didn’t bother playing this game it appears
@@callisto537 yea that's what i've been saying it's like he looked at the game for a little played it for a couple hours getting characters only and now says it isn't good which if all you do is hunt characters of course it's going to seem like their not unique because there is not going to be a infinite number if characters he just didn't do it justice but no hate on him it all just goes down to opinion.
Snow I am not hating, it’s just what he said is simply not true: for ex., older characters have issues with performance, and when you play on permadeath tryin to recruit a valuable assets through its relative and die because your grandma couldn’t escape when she didn’t jump high enough and you lose the whole side story arc then you start paying attention to pros and cons of each character
@@callisto537 oh no man i agree with you like completely i was talking about the reviewer like i wasn't hating on him or anything it just doesn't seem like he played the game at all.
Snow oh ok, sorry
"I'd rather have a game an inch wide and a mile deep than a game that's a mile wide and an inch deep." -Abraham Lincoln
Hahaha! I swear people attribute random quotes to any historical figure.
"Nothing is as painful as eating a hotpocket and finding out the middle is cold." - George Washington
"only nerds play videogames"-Darth Maul
“David did you forget to bring the monkey again” - Batman
“Pee comes from the balls” - Sun Tzu
"DMV is a garbage service"- mahatma Gandhi.
I’ve noticed that you need a big imagination and willingness to make your own story / subplot with most open world Ubisoft games. When people talk about how bland their games are, I forget they aren’t playing the same shit I made up in my head.
Looks like Ubisoft ist trying to automate game development
They barely develop anything anyways. Todays Ubisoft doesn't even know what "original idea" even means and just uses the exact same engines with the exact same gameplay but with a different yet boring world and yet another badly written story.
If the engine works well its obviously fine to reuse it but there is always room for improvement or new gameplay ideas and Ubisoft is having none of that.
“Damn right, mans ready to tear it up” NPC Pumpkin quote
Never fails to make one cringe
"fuckin banger!"
"Yah, ready to expose the bastards in charge eh?"
Other games: Character Creation
Watchdogs: Play as anyone!
0:23 Got no hit markers because the driver is on the other side. Remember it's London XD
😂😂😂 same reason I keep crashing into cars head on
@@benbeumann6547 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
I can imagine that so perfectly
“World doesnt feel that big because of fast travel points”- thats just london though cos of the underground. U can get anywhere in like 40 mins max hahaha
Max immersion
Ok
Bruh that’s like every major city
@@squigglygull1795 u been to london?
Every 40mins? I don't think so. I lived in London for some time used the tube alot and even on a less busy day the Piccadilly line to Heathrow terminal 3 from Cockfosters to heathrow takes at least 1 hour and 40 minutes and that's without ever changing once lol. The Metropolitan line is also huge and extends 50 miles out of London right into Buckinghamshire. Tbh if you know London well enough you'd know that you can easily walk 45minute train journeys in 5. But some lines you have no options and are around 2 hours end to end.
I feel like this series was the best when it was a simple Techno-Punisher thing. Wish they had kept the tech angle simple like that and stayed in that spirit of things rather than making the setting insane.
Some parts of wd2 were okay, but it was a complete tone shift from the original and it felt very wrong in a way. Following these tone deaf kids running around with guns pretending they were hipster deadpool was really aweful.
@@ಇLiv
At least Aiden, for how emo he was, was a believably lethal dude. I bought it when he would run around headshotting mercs. I do not buy Marcus and his yoyo getting into protracted firefights.
@@ModuliOfRiemannSurfaces I kinda liked that about him, using hacking, drones, his "yo-yo" and a taser for most of the game. It certainly was probably one of the more fun non-lethal stealth experiences I've had in a game.
@@trissc6855
For the nonlethal angle I totally agree. Using guns in that game feels completely off. The first game it feels quite justified with the traffickers and such.
It’s so strange, I genuinely thought that the game would take a more serious approach after wd 2 due to the ending revealing the London location. I thought “Cool! An open world with less guns and more tech” but boy was I wrong. Why though? Why does every serious title turn into goofy shit for kids? WD, GTA, Saints Row, so on and so on.....
imagine if some characters after doing their objective to recruit them , you go back to him but are instead ambushed by police force and have to escape , and oh man , if you play on permadeath (as you should tbh) that's raise the stakes and your choice in recruiting people
should've been a lot more fleshed out
Note: This story is a location based narrative not a character based narrative so don't expect much personality
Seems they just didn't want to spend as much time writing actual characters/motives like they did for Watch Dogs 2. Thanks for the no BS review.
Its weird cause in some parts like the combat and shooting it feels better but then there are animations and hacking things that are a step back. Its really a weird game.
I personally love all 3 WD games but i feel like this one gona be a hit or miss for ppl
@@LittleLightIsaOnce exactly it gets me confused
Watch dogs 2 has terrible characters (living stereotypes) and just as bad motives. Ubi can't write anymore
But the writing in watchdogs 2 wasn't good.
@@jorgeloredo100 Too much antifa influence. :( But I'm still enjoying the game overall, and I expect to like it a lot more after the story/character dlc comes out.
I knew this would be the case from a mile away. Ever since they unveiled the gameplay with that Random Contractor Guy, I saw the system for what it was, a gimmick. The characters would behave mainly the same and have minor changes to how they engage those missions.
They made a huge mistake of going for this procedurally-generated mess, instead of creating a character tier system, with a select few being the main stars, which means actual characters you play with, with a lot of other recruits that could've been used in a party system, in which you could choose your recruits for form a perfect crew to tackle the challenges.
Did it really feel like a Legion when everyone is mainly going solo and each and everyone of them is being a Batman wannabe with hacking powers?
@dear justice letter Well, you are on the Xbox, so no wonder you haven't had fun in months.
@dear justice letter That's not what he was getting at... The point went straight over your head lol
While I agree that random-generation will always have issues compared to crafting assets, this seems like a good dry-run to a play as anyone formula. With some fine-tuning (such as not randomly generating the voice, keeping skillsets unique, etc.), this may work in future titles.
For now, I haven't played the game yet, but I'm certainly looking forward to doing so.
@@blair5475 what’s wrong with Xbox?
@dear justice letter That's why you turned this into a dick measuring contest when he never even mentioned other hardware...
I am going to play this game when they give it to me for free in about 5 years, same way I got watch dogs 2.
@Awais A it’s called not wasting your money. Has nothing to do with being broke.
got wd2 for free, played 45-50 mins max and uninstalled. it was pretty shit tbh. it looks like wanna be gta5 but sucks in every aspect of it.
@@emre30489 I got the Ubisoft monthly thing so I could play Valhalla and Legion. Just finished both of them, I’m glad I only spent $15 for the first payment of the Ubisoft connect, I just cancelled it. Legion was mad irritating In many ways, I only used 3 characters from beginning to the end of the story. Meaning the “play as whoever you want” is ridiculous. They really should’ve focused more on better physics & graphics and dropping the pointless things
Games not even worth a free price. They should pay YOU to play it. Yes, it is that bad.
@@charliegraff9614 Lmao i would wait for them to come on ps now. And then i will get a free 7 day trial in a dummy account.😂
Let me create a character. Then let me clone anyones digital credentials and spy on them to learn their skills and abilities. Then level up said abilities by using them.
You find a person like a secret agent. Hack his schedule, see he has a mission. Watch him through cctv on said mission observing his skills then bump into him later and clone his credentials to get access to his safe house, cars, guns etc.
Oh and you can learn through watching because you have a neural link.
Genius lol
a much better idea in 4 lines of random comments. Are you reading this Ubisoft?
I think the game you’re looking for is cyberpunk 2077 lol
@@bentoncircle1643 nu uh lol
Let’s be real though, Ubisoft is not willing to put in the work or give their team enough time to make something like this happen.
God this game looks so dated already
Especially it's cringy voice acting
@@EmpireZzzz you’re new to Ubisoft games?
@@Qaben Not all Ubisoft games had cringy acting tho...
@@amarson2322 most
@@Qaben Far Cry 5 had really good acting
So basically ubisoft didn't learn from their latest entry to Tom Clancy ...
Ubisoft hasn’t made a good game since 2013, same as EA. I don’t know why people praise these two companies as titans in the industry. IMO every one of their games feel really unpolished.
@@mitchellpaulson7837 They do get a lot of hate to make up for the praise though. Doesn't change how the casuals eat it up though.
@JoaK I thought AC Origins was pretty good but then i again ill play just about anything
At least there isn’t gear score
@@moth8569 yea I liked origins but the rpg is system is stupid
"spoiler free" shows footage of the last mission lol
I for one applaud ubisoft for trying something new here. The permadeath and recruitment mechanic is exactly the shot in the arm this stale formula needed. Having said that, they could have leaned into it more with more challenge and demand for specific skills in certain scenarios. As it is, the game just isn't very challenging or demanding enough to warrant all the abilities you have. Even with permadeath on, you're still basically a god, running around bullying everyone. You basically have to play as a granny for this game to have any bite at all.
Soooo typical Ubisoft cover to cover open world game with generic to below average story.. ‘Gotchu’
Facts
Well as he said, the story is pretty good, but the character recruitment system is the main issue that brings the game down
@@ArtistiqueMusic look I guarantee you that games story has nothing you can’t find out of a indi dev or other forum of media.. it’s Ubisoft we’re talking about here
@@ArtistiqueMusic Thing is that they falsely advertised the legion mechanic as creating unique challenges which they clearly couldn't follow through with OR execute properly.
Gatcha betch
This game would have really benefitted if ubisoft worked with monolith to get their hands on the shadow of war Nemesis system
True.. Shadow of War Nemesis system is one of the best. Specially in the second one. Boy do I have a story to tell about a Urk who i shamed but who i tracked down again and complained about how everyone hates him, So i killed him and he comes back and complains about how i killed him. But yeah its those things that create amazing stories in Shadow of war
@@pyramidruler66 yeah tbh I replay the game alot on the insta death mode just to keep me on my toes and to always get new war cheifs and all and I dont play story much just the sandbox is good enough for me
There needs to be another game with the Nemesis System. That was revolutionary.
A pumpkin spice late and a copy of watch dogs sounds like a lovely way to spend my autumn indoors
The other watch dogs are way better
Only the first one
@@kalin1786 fair enough
This is kinda the reason I stopped playing Ubisoft's games a while ago. They make a game and then spawn multiple reskins of it, *ehm* Assassins Creed, I'm looking at you.
Anyway, I really liked the video, good stuff.
This game just sucks, melee system is too simplified and you can't pick up guns as they want to try to force you to use multiple characters which makes the game feel constricted.They should've went back to the roots and made Aiden Pearce the main character or a mentor to a young man that is ex yakuza which becomes his protege after being rescued from a life or death situation in the past, preferably a professional martial artist with multiple styles that could be incorporated into gunkata.
@@mrwayne425 I'm assuming you're talking about Kiryu-chan?
@@jerkycow1777 Naw, a brand new character that is similar to jordi but with a serious tone.
@@mrwayne425 Ah, I see. So Kiryu-chan
@@mrwayne425 sounds like a you problem
"NPC have no real background and are bland"
Ha! Jokes on you i activate my trap card!
IMAGINATION!
PS: Yeah the recruit system could have been more polished
Soo fucking true, it all about creating your very own back story. My professional hitman with a roadmap accent is friggin hilarious.
Basically had amazing potential, a unique great setting and storyline but a standard pathetic Ubisoft attempt
Atleast we can mod it by people that Y’know, aren’t Ubisoft
@@ebikeomaha280 true that but do these mods involve getting 144fps with the best hardware on the planet?
That’s my main problem with the game. Runs awful on my high end rig
I love the game, I think it's because I'm from the U.K and I love London, the only problems for me are:
1) Not enough cars
2) It's a bit glitchy and all around seems unfinished
3) Character recruit missions and dialogues are a bit too reused
I was curious to see how Legion would pan out after getting a feel "of sorts" with permadeath characters in ZombiU, disappointed to hear that the concept doesn't play out that differently here. It also sucks to hear that this game still has an issue of side content, it feels like the original Watch Dogs is the only fleshed out one in this regard with the ARG minigames and such.
Will probably wait till it's $20 or it goes for free on Uplay years down the road.
Im done with fetch quests too😕.
Yea imma wait for when it's on sale, imma get ac first
Now zombiU/zombi that's a great game I miss it so much wish it got another game shame it didn't continue...
@@giuSE2004 I almost waited for the sale on both, but they added WD1 to the pot on PS4, so I went ahead and bit on Legion. I don't regret it so far, but I'd honestly lean towards 'wait for the sale' if I'm giving advice. But target the "ultimate edition" if you do buy it, not the base game alone. Having some unique characters makes a big difference, to me at least, and the story dlc will majorly improve the game overall, I think.
i honestly recommend it, been playing non-stop since. got a hitman and a getaway driver almost always as my mains. also recommend playing with perma-death on and ironman mode. unless u don't like realism and the risk of loosing operatives.
Honestly, as a game dev myself I just have to wonder what Ubi was thinking. I could expect this idea from a dev new to the scene, a la No Man's Sky, but by now they should know that if you either procedurally generate your world or your characters, there's not going to be much of an attachment for it from the player.
If I would've been in charge of such a system I'd have put the limit on something much lower, like you can recruit 20 people or something like that (maybe more, maybe less, depends on budget and time). Still a substantial amount if (and only if) all of them then have distinct personalities, voice acting, abilities etc.
It's a novel idea, and fits the world of Watch_Dogs just fine, but executed poorly. Not due to any ill will from the devs, I'm sure they were very invested in the project, but I think they just gave themselves too large a scope.
The characters we follow in such open-world games, and the environment we follow them in, are two of the most important features of such games. If the world sucks or the characters suck, it doesn't matter how good your story is.
You're wrong, I totally got attached to my characters that I played with in this world. And I found it fun playing a non traditional non super hero character. I even found a character that looks a lot like I do in real life and he has zero skills, but I can play him just as If it was me in that situation and how i'd deal with it in real life if i had cool Deadsec hacking tech to use, and a sweet kickboxing skills from god.
@@crazedzealots 🤣🤣🤣 MyGod, So easy to please.
Underrated! Bruh you just gotta give your characters their own backstory and just have an imagination, no different than making a character in Skyrim
@@kaiolsen8425 a game has the power to make an imagination true, no need for me using my as if I'm reading a book🤣
Underrated! Did you just ignore my entire point on Skyrim? You need to create a backstory for your character in that game in order to fully enjoy it and people love it
1 hour for the entire story, rest of the time is wasted. Rubbish game.
I actually felt quiet attached to my characters lol
Yeah same, although I tried to look for a lot of people who were incredibly different rather than just recruit a bunch of withering old grannies.
I got attached to mostly 1 of my characters and I customised his hair & clothes and pretty much he looks like my original character (OC)
same
Really great review Tone. Short and concise too. Really stepped the content up!
Well, it's progress. From wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle, it's Wide as a pond, deep as a puddle.
This game needed a longer list of proper perks and randomly generated perk trees for each character. That way it actually hurts to lose a levelled up character and they could feel much more unique.
'Brutally honest review' is a good way to say 'from the perspective of someone who isn't desperately trying to defend the fact they preordered the ultimate edition and are secretly upset they got an incomplete game but don't want to admit that it was their fault for preordering it'
I learned to never preorder a game the hard way:
Fallout 76
That’s how I felt after Cyberpunk
I think this is a good review and all your points are valid. However I think me and you have a completely different mind set when we play games. Honestly all the negative points you seemed to make had to do with the fact the game didnt hand you a mind blowing narrative experience. For me it seems like they were not trying to do that and are leaving a lot of room for imagination and role play which a lot of other reviewers seemed to recognize and take advantage of, you can see it in their reviews. You seem to have a very Min-Max no imagination mindset to playing video games which to me is not fun at all. I plan on playing on the hardest difficulty, with perma death on and switching character often even if they are not good at combat.
yeah rry the perma death On
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Ok karen
@@md-oz8te i dont get how he's a karen at all... he actually makes a good point
@@dominicrkent because some people form their opinions based solely on what one review channel thinks
I'd prefer a single protagonist in wd 4 again
It would make this game more special as the game that allows you to play as anyone
Instead of
The first game that allows you to play as anyone and caused the overused game mechanics in the sequels
I appreciate them for trying something new. Kinda tired of the same mechanic and storytelling we see in every game
@@djandreal they need to move on and make new IPs that are completely out of their element and put some real effort into it, their current franchise's are copy and paste at this point.
Idk how it's gonna be, but I always thought this game to be a spinoff, like ac brotherhood, or bf bad company or gta San Andreas.
And the next game will be watch dogs 3
@@madrid_seu yeah me too but i didn't want some people to get confused by me calling it wd 3
I´d say make 5 characters playable with a narrative story arc for each character then the game may have merits on enjoyment for once.
Always rings alarm bells when someone has to put "brutally honest" in the title , it's like a taxi driver adverstising himself as a totally safe non drunk driver.
Ubisoft games just seem like: Enter this restricted area, kill/knock out enemies, complete objective but with different themes
I hear there will be a Day One patch. I’ve been having soo much fun with the Borough Takeovers, Side Missions, and Recruitment Missions, once I fix all the boroughs I’ll start the story, I’m playing on Hard and Permadeath and honestly its scary as hell because you have to calculate your movements or you’ll be dead and gone.
But the only glitches I’ve run into were the fame crashing very few and far in between. And when you switch from one character to another the previous character will revert to their default clothing, as if you didnt customize them. That goes for all recruits you dont play as at the moment.
But im sure some of the stuff will be ironed out with the Day One patch.
Theres an ambitious Roadmap for the game though and Ubisoft seem to be ALL IN after 2 delays and a bunch of Marketing. This must be their Magnum Opus for sure, they’re taking a bunch of Feedback and listening to what the players want in the game.
thank you everyone is being so negative and not even giving it a chance it makes me really sad because this game just looks so fun.
So the game is worth it? Yeah I'm definetely getting the game
@@MrBossFML yup, been playing everyday since Saturday. Definitely not burnt out yet.
@@itsmjq9391 Saturday? It came out 29th Oct. You are a boot licker.
@@sterlingarcher2366 I had got a early copy from a store that sells games a a week to 4 days before release, you might wanna delete that comment bruv.
I’ll forgive you 🤡
Lets be honest: we all wanted playable pumpkins in this one.
Playable pumpkins ?
Watch dogs 1 and 2 had the ability to create city wide black outs, traffic jams, gadget crafting, gun buying, etc. Watch Dogs Legion has literally none of these.
This franchise has so much potential. Really hope Ubisoft doesn’t give up on it.
I knew that it would be like this. They should of never went the route. They could of still had it but have a main set of character that the game revolves around. Instead it just gets washed down and they just become whatever there job is instead of actual character you grow with and watch develop.
YISSS, keep up the good work, Tonald! Hope your hand is healing good
Watch Dogs 1-2 were developed by Ubisoft Montreal while Watch Dogs Legion is developed by Ubisoft Toronto.
In-case you were wondering.
Thank you so much for this review. I loved Watch Dogs, & liked Watch Dogs 2. Some of my gripes about Watch Dogs 2 are that all the car-focused missions went away and there were too many fast travel points. AAAAND after invading the 30th red-zone, it all started to feel repetitious. I hated that hacking cars was a thing. I saw these “features” seeping into Legion, and you just confirmed my suspicions. I’ve watched various WD:L reviews on RUclips, and yours was the most informative and honest. Thanks again! Gonna be a while before this one goes on sale, but I’ll wait. :)
I wish they just went back to how the first Watch Dogs was and just build on it. That's when Watch Dogs was at it's best. No silly gimmicks and premises of 2 and Legion.
Naw Watch dogs 2 was cool
Watch dogs 2 is the better open world game, but watch dogs 1 has the better campaign
@@FaposaurusRex69 but Evan than wd 1 story was really generic
literally why i’m not getting this i’ll wait for a deep sale cause the characters you play as seen too generic and from the first entry to the second you had characters to follow. randomness and permadeath(which they tried to remedy I making it a toggled option) you cant get attached to any one or few protagonist
😕 its certainty not worth the 78.89 their asking for it here in Canada.
@@dsilverleaf4668 yer 99.95 in Australia might as well wait a month or 2 for cyberpunk
I feel like it's a bad comparison of what you do. Based on that in "Call of Duty all you do is shoot and kill people all the time, there is nothing unique about the story". In pretty much every sports game again you do the same. Soccer/Football, you just try to score over and over again. This doesn't make those games less fun. What matters to me is, does it feel like a chore like in "Red Dead Redemption 2" or not? I don't mind doing roughly the same thing if it's fun to do it.
Ubisoft: how do we save this game??
Also Ubisoft: you guys think Sam fisher would still be alive in this year?
This “A Brutally Honest Review Of Watch Dogs Legion” video was as delicious as a pumpkin pie, thank you for making this! 😉
My Love Is Winter
You’re weird
@@Mrgomodefr why am i weird?
@@Mrgomodefr 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Mrgomodefr You’re accurate.
Idk why Ubisoft is trying so hard to make Watch_Dogs not be Watch_Dogs. Just take the first game and fix it's issues and everyone would be happy. I don't want this cool but unnecessary "Legion" experiment and I don't want Watch_Dogs 2's "haha memes" story and tone. Just grab Watch_Dogs 1, add the hacking from 2, give me a better story and more side missions and voila
The fast travel is no problem in the game as you can choose NOT to fast travel.
This feels like Saints Row The Third without the wacky stuff. The world is completely dead though. Walk in a sidewalk and you’ll see what everybody is just an endlessly walking NPC with no other actions; compared to WD1 or 2 where the characters felt alive
Our celestial lord Tonald Loke gifts us with another video, PRAISE BE!
7:45 Wait, who's Laura?
Plus, should I not sleep on this game like your other video says, or wait for a small sale? You're confusing me, mate.
check out the skillup and acg reviews to get yourself a definitive answer. those 2 are top 5 game reviewers on youtube easy
my man this is a really bad review in my opinion like no hate to him or anything but he just seems like he doesn't even know what he's talking about ubicentral is pretty cool and has played the game a lot you might want to check out him or what gavin said above me
I was wondering that too, I know Aiden and Marcus but who the fucks Laura?
I ran into a lawyer and thought he'll talk fluent and he called me fam😑 haven't played since
No offense dude, but fast travel is a part of almost every game. Just because its there doesn't mean you HAVE to use it
Other games have fast travel but limit its use to motivate exploration. Rdr2 and witcher 3 are good examples of how fast travel should work. Legion removes the incentive to explore by having fast travel points literally everywhere on the map.doesnt help that the driving mechanics sucks which makes people use fast travel more
the fast travel is usually locked until a certain point in most games this is open instantly you enter a new zone, also each zone has about 4-5 fast travel points, also each zone isn't that big compared to let's say rdr2, sure I get your point about you don't have to but most people will and IMHO it ruins the whole concept of open-world.
Well get that point but new issue, I can't even run the damn game without it crashing
Didn’t even think Rockstar really pulled it off with GTA V. At the end of the game, I didn’t care much for any of them.
Gta5 is literally the most overrated game ever, honestly
@@gilachi I really agree with you... Far cry 3 was much better than GTA v
@@gilachi lmaooooooooooooooooooo
@@doctorkumarpriyadarshi395 how can a game be overrated when they set the standard and every other developer still fails at doing an open game
@@irshadtyo still doesn’t change the fact that far cry 3 was better
Solution: Put a face mask on all characters.
Praise to the Pumpkin Loke
You missed the part where the main character says, "We are here to watch dogs" then looks at the camera. That's when I stopped playing
I did like the extra feedback you put in these comments though. Funny how I got an ad for Legion at the end of the video lol
4:19 if there was ever a face that didn’t fit a voice....
I knew this game was gonna be trash. Watchdogs has 3 games and not one can claim to be great....
The first one with Aiden.
@@NihilistGhost was a broken glitchy trash fire
@@tracymorgansbelly3322well, at least the storyline was good
Idk what your talking about I had so much fun playing watchdogs 2 over the summer it’s not like gta but I argue it’s quite enjoyable
@@randybutternubs7820 the thing is WatchDogs 2 and 3 are more like a game from the Saint Row series than watch dogs. Ubi took a completely different path when they didn't need to.
Mtx in paid games is already no go. Hell already showing so called dlc too
i feel the first game is subjectively the best and objectively the best in side content
In game my phone can hack everything but, for some reason, it has no flashlight. Oh wait: in the future there are so many drones that nobody needs a flashlight in a pitch dark room.
After finishing the main story I can say this is the most boring open world game Ubi made so far!
I will get the game when it drops half price after Christmas
Probably way before that
What mainly locked me out of wanting to get the game was the fact it wasn't on steam, since that's where I have all my games and money. Just getting a million launchers is a space-hoarder to me.
Loved the game but bigger complaint was inability to customize any of the characters really (or at least it’s WAAY into the game past where I am at). Graphically stellar and gameplay is honestly better than the first two but definitely it was a little too close to single enemy vs wd2 had lots of different ‘enemies’ which was cool and real life.
Characters' random generated voices sound like they're speaking through pumpkins
We need Aiden Pearce sequel 😭😭😭
he has a DLC in Legion tho
This would've been 1000 times better if bloodline was the main story
I really like the game. i hope they add a “pumpkin “mask near halloween
I dont know it seems like this game has so many potential, instead goobisoft make the game as generic as possible to make board member happy
This was a really well done review. I like how you explain things and you tend to mention extra small details other reviewers either don't notice or don't care to share. New Subscriber earned ;)
I highly reccomend not getting many tech upgrades
other than the guns profiler upgrade and gadget upgrades
I think the whole recruit anyone thing wouldve worked if they didnt allow you to recruit so many characters. They should've made it so you could only have 5 or 6 characters on the team at one time and each character fills a role and a personality archetype within the story so while you can still grab any random npc, they are individualized enough to have some character development. I find it hard to believe a clan kelley operative would conduct themselves the same way as an albion or sirs operative
although I enjoyed the vid, I disagreed on the playable character system, Legion is about breaking away from the simple copy-paste open world gameplay design. games are about GAMEplay, thats why we DON'T need a collection of voice actors and deep likeable characters contributing to this amazing storyline with twists and turns, all we need is fun and innovative gameplay. (Great vid though, just thought i would voice my opinion)
This isn't really a review of the game. Just a critique of the infinite playable characters feature.
Good vid nonetheless
Yea everything else I’ve watched talk about how it’s good and pretty fun this just seemed like he said game was fun but then talks about characters system and that’s it which I feel just ruins the video
I think that was a review of the game, most of the game is the character feature. Everything else was just average. The one thing that was “unique” to the game is not good at all and poorly implemented.
@@pennym2052 thats the thing though he is the only youtuber thats talked like this and all the mechanics in the game are really cool actually and barely talked about them every other review i have seen that were either harsh or not said the game was really fun and finding characters was really cool but can get tedious but that should be expected then they would talk about the cool combat and shooting has improved a lot and feels good and the driving has to my main point is i think he talks a little to much about the character choosing i know its the main staple in the game but thats no all there is to the game and thats what he makes it seem like it is. but i dont know he just makes the game sound really negative and bad and a lot of people are saying this is one of ubisofts best games in a while.
@@Snow-mp7zz wat
Everyone is ugly, full of huge tattoos, piercings, unnatural hair, etc. No matter who you recruit.
Common looking back at Watch dogs 2 it looks like it's just evolving backwards.