I know exactly how they could fix this. To recreate Watch Dogs 1 and give us the game we always wanted. The original developer himself said that the game was NOT ready to release, but Ubisoft passed the deadline and they already made so much delays so they had to release what they have and cut so many features...
@@zer0_ner034 yeah and I was given some insight into it development by the good people on the watch dog modding server but I don't remember all of it but I do remember that like you said it was in development hell and that it used to be a driver san Fransisco game before turning into watch dogs
If they wanna fix it they could always disown Legion, make fourth game take place in the modern day and focusing on a single protagonist like the first two, and name it Watch Dogs 3.
Watch dogs needs a reboot, releasing Watch_dogs like E3 version with improved story, making it more longer and more deep, changing completely the secondaries and make them like watch dogs 2, using the hacking of watch dogs 2.
FR! like i actually wanna *SEE* lena and maybe even some missions before she dies. oh, and more defalt missions. he just wasnt in the game enough even tho hes supposed to be the "most famous hacker"
Watch dogs 1: great story Watch dogs 2: great gameplay Watch dogs legion: great story idea that went mid and gameplay that went mid.... Literally could've been the best of both worlds.
I absolutely love the first Watch Dogs and like to come back to it from time to time. I think it's the only game where I really enjoy to just walk around the city instead of running or driving everywhere. One thing that was missing for me was New Game Plus mode or being able to replay main missions. I tried twice to get into WD2 but I gave up both time and couldn't force myself to finish it, I hated the tone of the game and the characters there, I much preferred the darker tone of the first game and especially Aiden Pearce character.
Watch Dogs is my 5th favorite game of all time and I replay it every few years. It's a classic for me. But both of the sequels are trash. I can't stand either of them.
Watch Dogs 1 was amazing, and Watch Dogs 2 despite the lighter tone, was a lovely game with an immersive city and super fun. (I wish the would have kept Digital Trips from the first game, but I digress) I couldn’t even play Legion. They basically stripped it of most of the hacking and everything that made it good in the first place.
watch dogs 1 was amazing said no one ever the reviews speak for themself bad boring protag ugly graphics mid story mid stealth thats not even better than mgs 2 boring empty open world and these were all issues fixed in the much better and improved watch dogs 2 that wasent downgraded to hell n back
@@BabyGirlTiny dosent fix all the problems of watch dogs 1 he was the first character in the first game of course he was gonna come back it’s called money
The play as anyone gimmick soured any chance to forge a strong story from the dystopia. What the game couldve had was a dual protagonist concept of the young hacker vs the grizzled fixer. Each able to access parts of society the other cant, and their approaches to liberating London bringing both into conflict when they have to support each other.
If you have season pass you can play as aiden or wrench in the main story It does improve the story when you have established character but then again that literally undermine the play as anyone mechanic In short ubisoft fk up
@@noorulhasan4904 yep. bloodline couldve been the entire game or if they wanted to flip protagonists of different skills keep it to 4 to 8 recognizable people max and make em dependent on each other skill-wise with a flimsy working relationship for tension.
When they announced that one of WD3 features would be to play as any NPC, I saw the disaster right away. Underdeveloped story, very basic cinematics and generic dialogues written to be said tons of times in every situations. Coming from Ubisoft, it was too massive a concept to be done in a good way.
Ironically Ubisoft has done this before (sorta) with the perma-death rotating group of generic soldiers in the original Tom Clancy games like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon. However, those games also knew their limitation of only basic storytelling since you can’t have any sort of central protagonist, which was why they presented all their scenarios and stories entirely as if they were real counterterrorism or military operations. You sit down, get a briefing of the mission, select your team and your gear, do the mission, extract. But there’s no room for any sort of genuine storytelling. And it is notable that the first Tom Clancy game to try having more of a narrative and be more like a playable Tom Clancy novel rather than just a Milsim is Splinter Cell, and that game did limit you to a specific main character: Sam Fisher, who is a fleshed out character (Michael Ironside even providing a lot more detail and character himself to make Sam more interesting). If Watch Dogs Legion wanted to pull off the “play as any NPC”, then it had to make it more realistic and less cinematic and story driven. Instead, it tried to do the usual AAA cinematic storytelling people expect with this wacky idea that is fundamentally contrary to it and failed miserably.
Idc what ppl think about the tone of WD2 it’s definitely the best of the 3 and I cannot believe they didn’t do more with multiplayer . Multiplayer in wd1 was so much more fun imo Wd3 was horrible. Felt like one chore after the next. Recruitment process alone would take up hours of play time and not in the fun way . No bueno . And multiplayer was also regressed even further lol
@Kumorini Watch dogs 2 had the better open world and more original story. When it released, the hipster jokes and style felt a few years past their prime, however it's the superior game in every way.
@@dickensanthony agreed . I guess @kumorini 👆🏽can’t separate the tone of the game from the gameplay improvements i guess. Yea it was def too goofy as far as tone. But the gameplay easily made up for it to get through to the writing that was actually pretty good or funny when they did occur
sad i loved watch dogs 1 and 2 then i tried legion i was disappointed alot i hated the change like season pass sh*t and then the worst u had to recruit operators and u had limited lives it sucked a** yes i bought watch dogs 1 and legion i wanted to finish it but i was dissapointed in legion alot
Ubisoft didn’t deserve Watch Dogs! I swear if you give this series to any other reputable developer, they would’ve run circles around Ubi with just one game.
Also you didnt mention so many things got removed from first 2 watch dogs game.Like traffic light hack,Blackout,spikes,traps for police,garage doors,bridge,train hacks,helicopter hacks,in legion you will notice all the cars drives in same speed,but in previous game different car had different speed and they had more faster vehicles,jam comms,911 calls,call cops and gangs on others in wd-2 and see them fight each other or just create a distraction,better police system,slow motion, reputation system,big map size, countryside,phone ui,ability to listen music through phone,police search,better parkour animations,also good npc animations,Good motion captured cutscenes,random npc encounters like police chasing gang members or other npc activities,minigames like digital trips or racing etc. so many good things got just removed from the previous games.If they ever make a Watch Dogs-3.They have to make the game less futuristic and more about present day.Not a fan of futuristic take on it.Also they have to add all this features back to the game with a decent story to eve. Consider it a decent game.
I loved watch dogs 2 played it and replayed it multiple times. And when they linked it to assassin's creed I got super hyped. Legion might be the dreadful final destination but I definitely enjoyed the journey.
I’ve owned Legion since it came out, and I STILL have no finished the main story. That game is such a chore to play. They should have just made the game a create your own character kinda thing.
I know I’m late but the first video I saw of you was the hitman absolution breakdown. Amazes me how these videos don’t have millions of views, keep this up brother!
I had the weirdest glitch with Watch Dogs Legion, where I had to uninstall, reinstall, and log back into the ubisoft launcher just to play Watch Dogs Legion.
Nice video, enjoying the progress and increase of production of each video. By the way, are you still planning to make the video on the sniper challenge for the hitman 3 maps?
Watch Dogs: Legion was the first game I bought in the series. I enjoyed it, but it had a lot of bugs and glitches. There was one trophy that I had a bit of a hard time getting because it was glitched.
The franchise has all the potential to make a comeback, I love going back to Watch Dogs 1 and will probably replay Watch Dogs 2. If done right, Watch Dogs 4 can definitely sell well with the right direction and Ubisoft going back and seeing what made Watch Dogs 1 and 2 great
I really wanted to love WDL but after forcing myself to love it for about a month or so I just can't say too many good things about it. The few good features include the key feature of the game, the ability to recruit any NPC as a playable characters with a list of personal randomised traits. Another good feature is the different relationships characters can have; you can encounter a person you've sent to the hospital before, you can encounter a friend or a relative of a team member of yours, or someone you've saved previously and they'll hate/like you respectively. Last feature worth mentioning is the satisfaction of knocking out an enemy with a non-lethal weapon and then executing them with a lethal gun, but that's a feature many games have, like Hitman.
sucks how it flopped the e3 gameplay looked so fun i heard there was supposed to be more rpg like elements which would of made the game feel less boring
Honestly the order for me goes watchdogs. Watchdogs bad blood. Watchdogs bloodline. Watch dogs 2 and then leigon. I really think the darker tone works better and if they focused on aiden I think the games popularity would rise. Especially since bloodline did so well. I want them to make a watch dogs and have it with aiden again
You just earned a sub! I love watching your videos and you made very good points here. I loved WD 2, went into Legion expecting another great game and never touched it after 4 hours in.
The first 3 were great but Knight was a huge let down. For whatever reason so many people have forgotten how bad that game was and now love it. I think it'd be great to have another person tear it apart again and remind everyone.
Originally come for HITMAN Guides, i was blown away with your new direction and Film Quality and certainly vibing towards your future. Hope that your new Spirit & video would bring positive outcome for your Channel❤ Also a huge fan of your cool video on Previous Ambrose Island analysis
I remember the first time that I watched the Watch Dogs 1 trailer I was surprised and people were calling the "gta killer" well the rest is very well known.
it's just sad because legion has song 2 by blur but you can't access MP3 player because there are no functional phone and also there are barely any stores with interiors (excluding pubs)
When I play a single player open world narrative game, I feel like I am the main character, whether that’s geralt from the Witcher or link from Zelda. Having more than 1 plays ale character ruins the immersion for me
tbf they dropped the ball on the first game as well, as much as we all love the first game let’s not forget what we were supposed to get vs what we did get
I haven’t played watch dogs 1 in a long while. I have Watch Dogs 2 as my #3 favorite open world game of all time. #1 is Cyberpunk and #2 is Sleeping Dogs.
I just started playing watchdogs 2 and honestly it's one of the best games I've ever played. Good writing, fleshed out characters, extremely good concept, smooth movement and fun music.
The problem with Legion is the tiny and suffocating map and the unholy amount of missing features from previous games. Put the recruitment system into a game like Watch Dogs 2 and you got yourself the best Watch Dogs game ever created.
theres still alot of glitch in the game. like the world map that show where are other recruit at. their profile pic and buggy even in the team list. and they just abandoned the game without fixing it
One of the best things that could have improved the game by a large margin was the possibility to take other recruits with the player, like a gang see, but no it was always one guy vs the whole world, that is so terrible
really sad to hear this... loved this series and it will always have a special place in my heart. i hope it will comeback at some time during the end of the ps5 era
The Watch Dogs series suffered a lot of misfortunes, mixed with undeserved & Ubisoft messing it up. While Watch Dogs 2 was good, it robbed Aiden Pearce from Watch Dogs 1 of a proper continuation to his story as there's so much potential they can do with a his complex character, but because people at the time thought Aiden to be too boring & not easy to like despite having a good story & themes that compliment the character, we end having Watch Dogs 2 be a completely standalone sequel set in a completely different tone & with completely new & different characters. While Watch Dogs 1 & 2 are great in their own rights & show range of how the hacking world of Watch Dogs can be, from the dark grim rainy streets of Chicago to the bright colorful sunny scenery of San Francisco, we still didn't get a chance to properly continue the story of Aiden Pearce, could've either been in a DLC expansion of Watch Dogs 2 instead of being a small cameo or instead of doing the overly-ambitious Watch Dogs Legion, they make a Watch Dogs 3 focusing back on Aiden Pearce's journey as the Vigilante/the Fox given the ending of his story in Watch Dogs 1 left room for where he'll go. They could alternate the storylines between Aiden Pearce & DedSec SFO gang in each entry or if they want, just make a Watch Dogs 3 with Aiden & the DedSec SFO gang (essentially, Watch Dogs Legion Bloodline should've been the 3rd Watch Dogs game we got). And it sucks how Legion turned out cause the devs seem to know that Watch Dogs might be thrown away by Ubisoft & not properly learn their lesson after Legion, so they made Bloodline a send off for BOTH Aiden Pearce & the DedSec SFO gang (Aiden literally retires from being the Vigilante/the Fox & the DedSec SFO gang have already disbanded). Bloodline was great & the only reason Legion is worth a discount To be honest, it's a good thing I waited out till Bloodline to come out as playing as Aiden Pearce & Wrench in the base game story is what hard carried me in enjoying the base game despite how bland & boring the base game story is. With how Ubisoft messed the series over, we had a great time with the characters of Watch Dogs 1 & 2, but we never had enough time to spend & felt too short...
Far cry 6 and ghost recon breakpoint has a similar issue in where you can no longer just have all the skills, Not being able to have all the skill abilities and such all at once makes progression just feel.... less And not being able to have a vast range of abilities at once limits variety in combat and such, making gameplay more the same, tackling things more the same
For those of you STILL holding out even after watching this: There is ironically...one last thing that destroyed the Watch Dogs franchise once and for all and it is very ironic,since you started this video waking up as a reanimated zombie in a cemetery. That was the DLC to Watch Dogs:Legion. It was WATCH DOGS:LEGION OF THE DEAD! This game killed the franchise completely. It was supposed to be a live service Multiplayer zombie game in the London game world. But later,they abandoned it and it's a bare bones shell of what it once was. That one showed once and for all that Ubisoft can't make even a live service game right. Abandon this franchise for good. It's DEAD. 🪦R.I.P🪦WATCH DOGS.
Watch Dogs 2 is my favorite. It's so good that I dare put it in my top 5 favorite games. It has the most beautiful scenery, the best cars, the most cars. You have the most character customizations in terms of clothes and the open world just feels so real. Watch Dogs 1 was really good. Very good story and immersive gameplay but not much to do outside of the main missions and a few side activities. But Watch Dogs Legion.... I never really liked from the start. I played it again and got a slightly better understanding of the story but it still wasn't my favorite. I'm gonna play it again on PS5 and see if I feel any different but I doubt I will.
Is there something in the air that makes writers take perfectly written and powerful protagonists only to needlessly humble them and dumb down their character?
One thing you have to admit about watchdogs legion though is the final mechanic is way more of an improvement compared to watchdogs one and two even if it is a little bit repetitive
I usually can look past really cheesy diologue or cringy charcter interactions in a video game especially if the gameplay is fun... but watch dogs 2 was on another level. It was almost like ubisoft hired a bunch of 5th graders and told them to write the most annoying characters imaginable.
I will never understand the praise that Watch Dogs 2 gets. The characters are annoying and the gameplay is generic open world action game crap that doesn't do anything particularly interesting.
This….the only people that seem no problem with it was the younger generation so I couldn’t get mad I guess but this how they view millennials like they did in the reboot of saints row
@scottoliv737 the gameplay of 2 was SOO much better than 1. WD1 had THE most generic hacking gameplay imaginable. You can find the characters of 2 corny, but saying the gameplay is bad is beyond moronic
The first two games are tied as my 2nd favorite games of all time (#1 being RDR2) I've written like 5 essays about how much I love WD2 on other RUclips videos but they are absolutely amazing games and this could have been a PHENOMENAL trilogy but unfortunately Legion was a HUGE disappointment. The DLC Bloodline was excellent I'll say that much I loved Wrench & Aiden together and playing as Wrench for more than just one mission was the best. I'm currently replaying the trilogy and once I get to Legion I'm gonna do Bloodline first then play the main game as only Aiden and Wrench. I'm hoping the Watch Dogs movie does good and we get Watch Dogs 4 and Ubi realizes that this franchise still has potential.
techland also did this with dying light 2. As a HUGE fan of the franchise i was beyond disappointed to see what the trailer had (dark and gritty graphics that showed the world had ended). The release was washed out and bright colours with a yellow tint that didn't make the game look premium but rather a 2010-2019 type of game. even if we could download mods to help the atmosphere it still wasn't worth it since the game should come along with it
Ubi lied about graphics for the first one, made the third one better and then lied completely about the third and never made any changes or updates to overhaul it into the original vision
Watch Dogs: I beat it and I never touched it again. Watch Dogs 2: I loved it and return to replay it often. Watch Dogs Legion: Beat it and only returned because Wrench was in The Bloodline DLC.
It's like Whitelight said: Ubisoft got what they deserved. But it's not what Watch Dogs deserved. I still go back to 1 and 2. They're some of my favorite games. But the lies behind 1 cast such a massive shadow that completely veiled the series when Ubisoft decided to make Legion a glorified conceptional demo. The series a watch dogs 3 as a soft reboot, but considering this is the Skull and Bones quadruple A company, it's probably never going to happen if it it does, It'll just be another mediocre downgrade of a game. Excellent video!
10:41 Imagine saying, that BF Hardline's story was bad and comparing it to this soulless slop. I mean, it wasn't anything revolutionary, but it was interesting to follow and had it's moments (I particularly liked that the story was divided into episodes like some TV series) . Way better than BF4's and BF5's story and whatever is pushed out nowadays.
I wish Ubisoft Reflections would be able to make a new Driver game. It feels like they let the series die despite how comparable it used to be to GTA. But i think the team is probably far different now than the one that made Driver
Gaming companies should be forbidden of making deceptive trailers to push sales upwards. Either show what the players will get or don't show anything at all
Watch Dogs 1 was awesome. I still remember the hype around the game, the graphics were never gonna be as good as a demo, but the game was very fun. The missions were diverse and cool af.
I loved WD and WD2, didn't play Legion because now I only play VR, didn't know it was that bad. BTW, I just replayed WD in VR the last week with a mod, still good after 10 years
I thought that the whole watchdogs IP spun off from a cancelled unannounced modern day setting assassins Creed project. But then, when they started getting complaints about the game’s overall serious tone & the dreaded comparisons to their AC franchise & how the fans made them self conscious about it eventually they got the case of “the volitions” and tried to completely separate themselves from it in their next game. And while they did become successful, it was also criticised for their over course-correction steering the WD Franchise into being way too silly, then by the third game they just went into a completely aimless low effort direction basically giving up trying to make an attempt to give the franchise it’s own unique identity with the implementation of a “make up the plot and Headcanon in your head to fill in the blanks” type of direction with their recruit every NPC Mechanic where everyone you recruit is entirely disposable & interchangeable with eachother throughout the entire story, making it impossible for anyone to get personally invested into the story which made their very hollow phoned in narrative writing even worse to experience since there’s absolutely no characterisation whatsoever.. Even by the time they release the story campaign DLC’s with multiplayer DLC’s on top of that even the Official Assassin’s Creed DLC that flat out canonises it to the AC Franchise to embrace it’s roots as an old Cancelled AC Project to bring in more players by that point it was just too little too late since no one except for the handful of hardcore fans checked in and then Ubisoft decided to just completely throw their hands up, give up & abandon the IP altogether.. (& no I refuse to believe that it’s not canon, you don’t make entire story Crossover DLC’s & just take it back, especially when it narratively contradicts absolutely nothing & actually enhances both IP’s mythologies by being canon to each other’s universe, it’s canon, end of fucking story! Especially when the Watch_Dog’s IP has been Officially Permanently Discontinued so there’s no reason to keep both Franchises separate.)
1. Watch Dogs - Missions difficult 2. Watch Dogs 2 - San Francisco map is beautiful and many vehicles.some Missions difficult. Watch Dogs Legion - London map is beautiful, many vehicles, missions easy than previews Watch Dogs. I enjoying the Online. Game system is pretty good.
As someone who loves the entire franschise and somewhat enjoyed Legion (although it is my least favorite in the trilogy) I agree with most of your takes. However, I've played Legion on a RTX 2060 and had no problem with running the game. It may hvae been a problem when the game launched but I bought the Ultimate Version for like €29 1 year after launch...
Watchdogs 1 & 2 were really enjoyable for me, Legions had 3 main stories that were good but the recruiting any and everyone part of the game did drain me DLC had me even more immersed and by the time I finished it I was thinking why wasn't Aiden or Jackson the main protagonist for the main story or at least Jackson as he was older and was pretty much a programmer helping dedsec anyways. I've heard the rumors of number 4 being in Boston if thats the case then we need to see a darker storyline and if they're gonna do multiple characters then it at leasts needs to be 4 to 5.
legion really put the nail in the coffin for the franchise, WD1 is a fun game, even if you can feel that there's things missing, on thing i remember i was really excited for was the idea of being a more heroic vigilant or a more anti-hero means to an end, and how it would shape Aiden trough the story till the end, the city is also very nice to go, the train being my favorite way to traverse.
When a game company has a huge fail they need to throw out their release schedule for future games and fix what they just released redesigning as necessary which will prevent future game failures
What the game companies FAIL to understand is that the sales of a game are based on the quality of the PREVIOUS game in the franchise. Watch Dogs 2 sold less than 1 because 1 had that huge scandal linked to it. WD2 is light years ahead of 1 and especially Legion. WD1 = Liked it a lot. WD2 = Loved it, one of the GOAT. WD3 = A struggle to even finish it.
Dont forget they practically cut the hacking in half in legion although after beating all 3 all i need at this point is the distract hack and a police baton to beat the game
I know exactly how they could fix this. To recreate Watch Dogs 1 and give us the game we always wanted. The original developer himself said that the game was NOT ready to release, but Ubisoft passed the deadline and they already made so much delays so they had to release what they have and cut so many features...
I mean the game was in development for like 10 years if I remember(starting out as a driver san Fransisco sequel), how much is enough for them?
@@Patatras_5325Who knows. Afaik Watch Dogs was in development hell for a good chunk of its creation.
@@zer0_ner034 yeah and I was given some insight into it development by the good people on the watch dog modding server but I don't remember all of it but I do remember that like you said it was in development hell and that it used to be a driver san Fransisco game before turning into watch dogs
@@frogenthusiast4257 couldnt be said better🔥
@frogenthusiast4257that’s not even true in both cases.
Watchdogs deserved better than ubisoft
Yeah but ubisoft created it so it is what it is
Sony should’ve bought them out instead of Bungie
Imagine the old cdpr or obsidian making actual watchdogs game.
They U better pray that Ubi goes bankrupt and other/new publisher will make a reboot/remake.
@@akira17_samurai Yeah, but Max Payne was made by Remedy, and then Rockstar managed to make Max Payne 3, so nothing is impossible.
WD 1 : I loved it.
WD2 : I enjoyed it
WDL : I want to die.
The only one I have played was legion, but I enjoyed it a ton!! So much I got a season pass on discount and have yet to play WD1
@@TacitusKilgore12the season pass is partly why legion is so bad. It doesn't belong in a game like watchdogs they ruined it with greed.
i agree man that was completly accurate
@@TacitusKilgore12wd1 for me is more enjoyable gun sounds were top notch
@@ronan8834 i am gonna play it at some point, so I am excided lol
If they wanna fix it they could always disown Legion, make fourth game take place in the modern day and focusing on a single protagonist like the first two, and name it Watch Dogs 3.
Exactly
Watch Dogs is dead they aren't making those games anymore.
Take it back to San Francisco with todays graphics 🔥🔥
i want it africa. Japan or usa is too cliche
@@sterifteslmao no Africa is to many nuts Japan is way better 😂😂
Also Legion doesn’t have any way to pick a song it’s only radio
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Watch dogs needs a reboot, releasing Watch_dogs like E3 version with improved story, making it more longer and more deep, changing completely the secondaries and make them like watch dogs 2, using the hacking of watch dogs 2.
FR! like i actually wanna *SEE* lena and maybe even some missions before she dies. oh, and more defalt missions. he just wasnt in the game enough even tho hes supposed to be the "most famous hacker"
Not a reboot, just catching up with the first 2 games and making canon protagonists.
Yea…..cause reboots have gone great lately 😂
Nah, no reboot. Gimme another sequel.
@@BelHunterMusicthat would be a prequel not a reboot.
Watch dogs 1: great story
Watch dogs 2: great gameplay
Watch dogs legion: great story idea that went mid and gameplay that went mid.... Literally could've been the best of both worlds.
WD1 = Story
WD2 = Gameplay
WD3 = Online
I dunno the main protagonist was made fun of because he went around killing anyone tangentially related to his sister's kids death
@@xpflowexclusive4313 I'd prefer the co-op of wd2 instead
@@nikto7297 That's fine but the game literally centered around Online features better in 3.
@@ImmaLittlePip I mean people make fun of aiden then like hypocrites praise punisher who has done the same shit at certain points in the comics.
I absolutely love the first Watch Dogs and like to come back to it from time to time. I think it's the only game where I really enjoy to just walk around the city instead of running or driving everywhere. One thing that was missing for me was New Game Plus mode or being able to replay main missions. I tried twice to get into WD2 but I gave up both time and couldn't force myself to finish it, I hated the tone of the game and the characters there, I much preferred the darker tone of the first game and especially Aiden Pearce character.
Is that pic in your profile from Watchdogs? I've always wondered because I just know you as one of the Hitman bros 😂
@@jimmypeeps8471yes, it is.
Watch Dogs is my 5th favorite game of all time and I replay it every few years. It's a classic for me. But both of the sequels are trash. I can't stand either of them.
@@TheFirstCurse1 watch dogs 2 IMO isn't really a bad game the characters were funny and the gameplay was awesome but the missions was kinda boring.
@@MarioZboys I can't stand that game. It's so cringey and obnoxious.
Watch Dogs 1 was amazing, and Watch Dogs 2 despite the lighter tone, was a lovely game with an immersive city and super fun. (I wish the would have kept Digital Trips from the first game, but I digress) I couldn’t even play Legion. They basically stripped it of most of the hacking and everything that made it good in the first place.
watch dogs 1 was amazing said no one ever the reviews speak for themself bad boring protag ugly graphics mid story mid stealth thats not even better than mgs 2 boring empty open world and these were all issues fixed in the much better and improved watch dogs 2 that wasent downgraded to hell n back
@@Skyrim_Thalialmfao and that’s why Aiden kept coming back and why wrench is the most popular character in WD2
@@BabyGirlTiny dosent fix all the problems of watch dogs 1 he was the first character in the first game of course he was gonna come back it’s called money
The play as anyone gimmick soured any chance to forge a strong story from the dystopia.
What the game couldve had was a dual protagonist concept of the young hacker vs the grizzled fixer. Each able to access parts of society the other cant, and their approaches to liberating London bringing both into conflict when they have to support each other.
I found PermaDeath option so much more enjoyable story wise than WD2. While I agree... I could care less for the story of Legion.
If you have season pass you can play as aiden or wrench in the main story
It does improve the story when you have established character but then again that literally undermine the play as anyone mechanic
In short ubisoft fk up
@@noorulhasan4904 yep. bloodline couldve been the entire game or if they wanted to flip protagonists of different skills keep it to 4 to 8 recognizable people max and make em dependent on each other skill-wise with a flimsy working relationship for tension.
When they announced that one of WD3 features would be to play as any NPC, I saw the disaster right away. Underdeveloped story, very basic cinematics and generic dialogues written to be said tons of times in every situations. Coming from Ubisoft, it was too massive a concept to be done in a good way.
Ironically Ubisoft has done this before (sorta) with the perma-death rotating group of generic soldiers in the original Tom Clancy games like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon. However, those games also knew their limitation of only basic storytelling since you can’t have any sort of central protagonist, which was why they presented all their scenarios and stories entirely as if they were real counterterrorism or military operations. You sit down, get a briefing of the mission, select your team and your gear, do the mission, extract. But there’s no room for any sort of genuine storytelling.
And it is notable that the first Tom Clancy game to try having more of a narrative and be more like a playable Tom Clancy novel rather than just a Milsim is Splinter Cell, and that game did limit you to a specific main character: Sam Fisher, who is a fleshed out character (Michael Ironside even providing a lot more detail and character himself to make Sam more interesting).
If Watch Dogs Legion wanted to pull off the “play as any NPC”, then it had to make it more realistic and less cinematic and story driven. Instead, it tried to do the usual AAA cinematic storytelling people expect with this wacky idea that is fundamentally contrary to it and failed miserably.
Idc what ppl think about the tone of WD2 it’s definitely the best of the 3 and I cannot believe they didn’t do more with multiplayer . Multiplayer in wd1 was so much more fun imo
Wd3 was horrible. Felt like one chore after the next. Recruitment process alone would take up hours of play time and not in the fun way . No bueno . And multiplayer was also regressed even further lol
Watchdogs one was better, 2 was made for people with terrible reddit tier humour. The audacity to put it above one is abysmal.
@Kumorini Watch dogs 2 had the better open world and more original story. When it released, the hipster jokes and style felt a few years past their prime, however it's the superior game in every way.
wd2 was the best game ever
@@stealth2811 unfortunate how ppl pass it over . But I definitely agree
@@dickensanthony agreed . I guess @kumorini 👆🏽can’t separate the tone of the game from the gameplay improvements i guess. Yea it was def too goofy as far as tone. But the gameplay easily made up for it to get through to the writing that was actually pretty good or funny when they did occur
sad i loved watch dogs 1 and 2 then i tried legion i was disappointed alot i hated the change like season pass sh*t and then the worst u had to recruit operators and u had limited lives it sucked a** yes i bought watch dogs 1 and legion i wanted to finish it but i was dissapointed in legion alot
Ubisoft didn’t deserve Watch Dogs! I swear if you give this series to any other reputable developer, they would’ve run circles around Ubi with just one game.
Also you didnt mention so many things got removed from first 2 watch dogs game.Like traffic light hack,Blackout,spikes,traps for police,garage doors,bridge,train hacks,helicopter hacks,in legion you will notice all the cars drives in same speed,but in previous game different car had different speed and they had more faster vehicles,jam comms,911 calls,call cops and gangs on others in wd-2 and see them fight each other or just create a distraction,better police system,slow motion, reputation system,big map size, countryside,phone ui,ability to listen music through phone,police search,better parkour animations,also good npc animations,Good motion captured cutscenes,random npc encounters like police chasing gang members or other npc activities,minigames like digital trips or racing etc. so many good things got just removed from the previous games.If they ever make a Watch Dogs-3.They have to make the game less futuristic and more about present day.Not a fan of futuristic take on it.Also they have to add all this features back to the game with a decent story to eve. Consider it a decent game.
damn bruh ur vids are getting better and better quality every vid bro i’m proud of u
I loved watch dogs 2 played it and replayed it multiple times. And when they linked it to assassin's creed I got super hyped. Legion might be the dreadful final destination but I definitely enjoyed the journey.
I’ve owned Legion since it came out, and I STILL have no finished the main story. That game is such a chore to play. They should have just made the game a create your own character kinda thing.
Aidan pierce and wrench dual protagonist story should of just expanded into the main plot with the play as anyone mechanic ditched entirely
I know I’m late but the first video I saw of you was the hitman absolution breakdown. Amazes me how these videos don’t have millions of views, keep this up brother!
I had the weirdest glitch with Watch Dogs Legion, where I had to uninstall, reinstall, and log back into the ubisoft launcher just to play Watch Dogs Legion.
Nice video, enjoying the progress and increase of production of each video.
By the way, are you still planning to make the video on the sniper challenge for the hitman 3 maps?
I will make part3
Watch Dogs: Legion was the first game I bought in the series. I enjoyed it, but it had a lot of bugs and glitches. There was one trophy that I had a bit of a hard time getting because it was glitched.
That’s what ruin it
what was the trophy i also had a problem with one
@@stealth2811Piece de Resistance trophy.
The franchise has all the potential to make a comeback, I love going back to Watch Dogs 1 and will probably replay Watch Dogs 2. If done right, Watch Dogs 4 can definitely sell well with the right direction and Ubisoft going back and seeing what made Watch Dogs 1 and 2 great
It's crazy how much the living city mod improves the first game
Man, this video format suits you so well, you look cool! Are you going to make a video about another IOI greed ($5 for Sean Bean)?
I really wanted to love WDL but after forcing myself to love it for about a month or so I just can't say too many good things about it. The few good features include the key feature of the game, the ability to recruit any NPC as a playable characters with a list of personal randomised traits. Another good feature is the different relationships characters can have; you can encounter a person you've sent to the hospital before, you can encounter a friend or a relative of a team member of yours, or someone you've saved previously and they'll hate/like you respectively. Last feature worth mentioning is the satisfaction of knocking out an enemy with a non-lethal weapon and then executing them with a lethal gun, but that's a feature many games have, like Hitman.
It isn't a dead franchise yet. There is still a Watch Dogs Movie in production.
Really
sucks how it flopped the e3 gameplay looked so fun i heard there was supposed to be more rpg like elements which would of made the game feel less boring
Honestly the order for me goes watchdogs. Watchdogs bad blood. Watchdogs bloodline. Watch dogs 2 and then leigon. I really think the darker tone works better and if they focused on aiden I think the games popularity would rise. Especially since bloodline did so well. I want them to make a watch dogs and have it with aiden again
Sad thing is, I don't think I'll ever finish legion
It's one of my favorite games lol idk
It’s not bad, just extremely mid
"But, in the end, you have to let sleeping dogs lie."
Now I wanna see your thoughts on Sleeping Dogs.
The bloodline DLC also kinda shot down any chance at a better wrench and Aiden team up making them meet for the first time so far in the future
You just earned a sub!
I love watching your videos and you made very good points here. I loved WD 2, went into Legion expecting another great game and never touched it after 4 hours in.
Could you maybe do something regarding the Arkham games and how bad it has gotten?
The first 3 were great but Knight was a huge let down. For whatever reason so many people have forgotten how bad that game was and now love it. I think it'd be great to have another person tear it apart again and remind everyone.
Originally come for HITMAN Guides, i was blown away with your new direction and Film Quality and certainly vibing towards your future.
Hope that your new Spirit & video would bring positive outcome for your Channel❤
Also a huge fan of your cool video on Previous Ambrose Island analysis
Atleast the living City mod for 1 gave us most of the Watch Dogs Ubisoft failed to give us
I remember the first time that I watched the Watch Dogs 1 trailer I was surprised and people were calling the "gta killer" well the rest is very well known.
i thought u were joking when i said legion was ur most hyped game ever ☠️
it's just sad because legion has song 2 by blur but you can't access MP3 player because there are no functional phone
and also there are barely any stores with interiors (excluding pubs)
Yeah we should have been given mp3 so we can listen to music anytime anywhere, I wanna listen to bloc party rather than that shitty football song
@@LxstGalaxy2000 oh yeah forgot to mention bloc party is also great
The fact that I don’t even remember Legion coming out speaks volumes.
Bro there is a new Hitman 3 dlc
When I play a single player open world narrative game, I feel like I am the main character, whether that’s geralt from the Witcher or link from Zelda. Having more than 1 plays ale character ruins the immersion for me
I heard that there will be watchdogs 4 set in Boston with the choice between male and female protagonist, a dark and gritty storyline like Wd1 aswell
Your dad works at ubisoft?
tbf they dropped the ball on the first game as well, as much as we all love the first game let’s not forget what we were supposed to get vs what we did get
Hey WildGold. I bet you make great Hitman contracts. Do you make them and if so, could you share the IDs in a video or bio sometime?
I haven’t played watch dogs 1 in a long while. I have Watch Dogs 2 as my #3 favorite open world game of all time. #1 is Cyberpunk and #2 is Sleeping Dogs.
Good taste
Like WD2 than GTA, more alive
You deserve so much more fame for quality you put out!
11:21 Megamind spotted lmao
I just started playing watchdogs 2 and honestly it's one of the best games I've ever played. Good writing, fleshed out characters, extremely good concept, smooth movement and fun music.
underrated channel...
The problem with Legion is the tiny and suffocating map and the unholy amount of missing features from previous games. Put the recruitment system into a game like Watch Dogs 2 and you got yourself the best Watch Dogs game ever created.
Watch Dogs is basically a GTA with hacking abilities and real cities.
Gta has real cities just renamed
yeah watch dogs 2 is like gta san andreas but more realistic city (the san francisco map)
Watch dogs 2 is great because of how immersive it is. You really feel like you’re in it and the city is never empty and feels alive
At least it's one of the best benchmark games on PC for Ray Tracing. One of the few games ever where Ray Tracing works properly.
They need to reboot it like with a watch dogs 2 type of story keep the same element and less saint row vibes
Soo, Watch dogs legion is watch dogs 3? Or is it just a secondary entry in the series.
I received a copy of Watchdogs:legion about 3 years ago, and it's in a drawer somewhere, still in it's original plastic.
theres still alot of glitch in the game. like the world map that show where are other recruit at. their profile pic and buggy even in the team list. and they just abandoned the game without fixing it
Watch Dogs is the definition of wasted potential
That E3 trailer is always a reminder of what could of been
One of the best things that could have improved the game by a large margin was the possibility to take other recruits with the player, like a gang see, but no it was always one guy vs the whole world, that is so terrible
really sad to hear this... loved this series and it will always have a special place in my heart. i hope it will comeback at some time during the end of the ps5 era
Buying a new PC becouse of the hype for a game is not a fools move, is a long term investment this days.
The series was never all that well liked but it's so baffling that 3 just murdered the franchise when it was one of Ubisofts best series
The Watch Dogs series suffered a lot of misfortunes, mixed with undeserved & Ubisoft messing it up.
While Watch Dogs 2 was good, it robbed Aiden Pearce from Watch Dogs 1 of a proper continuation to his story as there's so much potential they can do with a his complex character, but because people at the time thought Aiden to be too boring & not easy to like despite having a good story & themes that compliment the character, we end having Watch Dogs 2 be a completely standalone sequel set in a completely different tone & with completely new & different characters. While Watch Dogs 1 & 2 are great in their own rights & show range of how the hacking world of Watch Dogs can be, from the dark grim rainy streets of Chicago to the bright colorful sunny scenery of San Francisco, we still didn't get a chance to properly continue the story of Aiden Pearce, could've either been in a DLC expansion of Watch Dogs 2 instead of being a small cameo or instead of doing the overly-ambitious Watch Dogs Legion, they make a Watch Dogs 3 focusing back on Aiden Pearce's journey as the Vigilante/the Fox given the ending of his story in Watch Dogs 1 left room for where he'll go. They could alternate the storylines between Aiden Pearce & DedSec SFO gang in each entry or if they want, just make a Watch Dogs 3 with Aiden & the DedSec SFO gang (essentially, Watch Dogs Legion Bloodline should've been the 3rd Watch Dogs game we got). And it sucks how Legion turned out cause the devs seem to know that Watch Dogs might be thrown away by Ubisoft & not properly learn their lesson after Legion, so they made Bloodline a send off for BOTH Aiden Pearce & the DedSec SFO gang (Aiden literally retires from being the Vigilante/the Fox & the DedSec SFO gang have already disbanded). Bloodline was great & the only reason Legion is worth a discount
To be honest, it's a good thing I waited out till Bloodline to come out as playing as Aiden Pearce & Wrench in the base game story is what hard carried me in enjoying the base game despite how bland & boring the base game story is. With how Ubisoft messed the series over, we had a great time with the characters of Watch Dogs 1 & 2, but we never had enough time to spend & felt too short...
I was just upset that in three full budget titles, there was no watching dogs smh.
Far cry 6 and ghost recon breakpoint has a similar issue in where you can no longer just have all the skills,
Not being able to have all the skill abilities and such all at once makes progression just feel.... less
And not being able to have a vast range of abilities at once limits variety in combat and such, making gameplay more the same, tackling things more the same
The best watch dogs was watch dogs 1
Watch Dogs 2 > Watch Dogs 1
Agreed, the writing and characters are way better than the cringe hipster story in WD2
For those of you STILL holding out even after watching this: There is ironically...one last thing that destroyed the Watch Dogs franchise once and for all and it is very ironic,since you started this video waking up as a reanimated zombie in a cemetery.
That was the DLC to Watch Dogs:Legion.
It was WATCH DOGS:LEGION OF THE DEAD! This game killed the franchise completely.
It was supposed to be a live service Multiplayer zombie game in the London game world. But later,they abandoned it and it's a bare bones shell of what it once was. That one showed once and for all that Ubisoft can't make even a live service game right. Abandon this franchise for good. It's DEAD. 🪦R.I.P🪦WATCH DOGS.
Watch Dogs 2 is my favorite. It's so good that I dare put it in my top 5 favorite games. It has the most beautiful scenery, the best cars, the most cars. You have the most character customizations in terms of clothes and the open world just feels so real. Watch Dogs 1 was really good. Very good story and immersive gameplay but not much to do outside of the main missions and a few side activities. But Watch Dogs Legion.... I never really liked from the start. I played it again and got a slightly better understanding of the story but it still wasn't my favorite. I'm gonna play it again on PS5 and see if I feel any different but I doubt I will.
Is there something in the air that makes writers take perfectly written and powerful protagonists only to needlessly humble them and dumb down their character?
One thing you have to admit about watchdogs legion though is the final mechanic is way more of an improvement compared to watchdogs one and two even if it is a little bit repetitive
I usually can look past really cheesy diologue or cringy charcter interactions in a video game especially if the gameplay is fun... but watch dogs 2 was on another level. It was almost like ubisoft hired a bunch of 5th graders and told them to write the most annoying characters imaginable.
I will never understand the praise that Watch Dogs 2 gets. The characters are annoying and the gameplay is generic open world action game crap that doesn't do anything particularly interesting.
This….the only people that seem no problem with it was the younger generation so I couldn’t get mad I guess but this how they view millennials like they did in the reboot of saints row
@@scottoliv737wd1 is a generic revenge story 💀
@scottoliv737 the gameplay of 2 was SOO much better than 1. WD1 had THE most generic hacking gameplay imaginable. You can find the characters of 2 corny, but saying the gameplay is bad is beyond moronic
The first two games are tied as my 2nd favorite games of all time (#1 being RDR2) I've written like 5 essays about how much I love WD2 on other RUclips videos but they are absolutely amazing games and this could have been a PHENOMENAL trilogy but unfortunately Legion was a HUGE disappointment. The DLC Bloodline was excellent I'll say that much I loved Wrench & Aiden together and playing as Wrench for more than just one mission was the best. I'm currently replaying the trilogy and once I get to Legion I'm gonna do Bloodline first then play the main game as only Aiden and Wrench. I'm hoping the Watch Dogs movie does good and we get Watch Dogs 4 and Ubi realizes that this franchise still has potential.
techland also did this with dying light 2. As a HUGE fan of the franchise i was beyond disappointed to see what the trailer had (dark and gritty graphics that showed the world had ended). The release was washed out and bright colours with a yellow tint that didn't make the game look premium but rather a 2010-2019 type of game. even if we could download mods to help the atmosphere it still wasn't worth it since the game should come along with it
Ubi lied about graphics for the first one, made the third one better and then lied completely about the third and never made any changes or updates to overhaul it into the original vision
Watch Dogs: I beat it and I never touched it again.
Watch Dogs 2: I loved it and return to replay it often.
Watch Dogs Legion: Beat it and only returned because Wrench was in The Bloodline DLC.
if they keep E3 settings on!
It's like Whitelight said: Ubisoft got what they deserved. But it's not what Watch Dogs deserved.
I still go back to 1 and 2. They're some of my favorite games. But the lies behind 1 cast such a massive shadow that completely veiled the series when Ubisoft decided to make Legion a glorified conceptional demo.
The series a watch dogs 3 as a soft reboot, but considering this is the Skull and Bones quadruple A company, it's probably never going to happen if it it does, It'll just be another mediocre downgrade of a game.
Excellent video!
10:41 Imagine saying, that BF Hardline's story was bad and comparing it to this soulless slop. I mean, it wasn't anything revolutionary, but it was interesting to follow and had it's moments (I particularly liked that the story was divided into episodes like some TV series) . Way better than BF4's and BF5's story and whatever is pushed out nowadays.
I only love the first Watch Dogs. Honestly, I prefer Legion over Watch Dogs 2.
Watch dog 1 remastered
Your videos are going crazy keep it up!
I wish Ubisoft Reflections would be able to make a new Driver game. It feels like they let the series die despite how comparable it used to be to GTA.
But i think the team is probably far different now than the one that made Driver
Gaming companies should be forbidden of making deceptive trailers to push sales upwards. Either show what the players will get or don't show anything at all
Watch Dogs 1 was awesome. I still remember the hype around the game, the graphics were never gonna be as good as a demo, but the game was very fun. The missions were diverse and cool af.
Online Decryption was an AMAZING online mode in the first game. I wonder why they removed it?
I loved WD and WD2, didn't play Legion because now I only play VR, didn't know it was that bad.
BTW, I just replayed WD in VR the last week with a mod, still good after 10 years
I thought that the whole watchdogs IP spun off from a cancelled unannounced modern day setting assassins Creed project.
But then, when they started getting complaints about the game’s overall serious tone & the dreaded comparisons to their AC franchise & how the fans made them self conscious about it eventually they got the case of “the volitions” and tried to completely separate themselves from it in their next game.
And while they did become successful, it was also criticised for their over course-correction steering the WD Franchise into being way too silly, then by the third game they just went into a completely aimless low effort direction basically giving up trying to make an attempt to give the franchise it’s own unique identity with the implementation of a “make up the plot and Headcanon in your head to fill in the blanks” type of direction with their recruit every NPC Mechanic where everyone you recruit is entirely disposable & interchangeable with eachother throughout the entire story, making it impossible for anyone to get personally invested into the story which made their very hollow phoned in narrative writing even worse to experience since there’s absolutely no characterisation whatsoever..
Even by the time they release the story campaign DLC’s with multiplayer DLC’s on top of that even the Official Assassin’s Creed DLC that flat out canonises it to the AC Franchise to embrace it’s roots as an old Cancelled AC Project to bring in more players by that point it was just too little too late since no one except for the handful of hardcore fans checked in and then Ubisoft decided to just completely throw their hands up, give up & abandon the IP altogether..
(& no I refuse to believe that it’s not canon, you don’t make entire story Crossover DLC’s & just take it back, especially when it narratively contradicts absolutely nothing & actually enhances both IP’s mythologies by being canon to each other’s universe, it’s canon, end of fucking story! Especially when the Watch_Dog’s IP has been Officially Permanently Discontinued so there’s no reason to keep both Franchises separate.)
1. Watch Dogs - Missions difficult
2. Watch Dogs 2 - San Francisco map is beautiful and many vehicles.some Missions difficult.
Watch Dogs Legion - London map is beautiful, many vehicles, missions easy than previews Watch Dogs. I enjoying the Online. Game system is pretty good.
The "Watch Dogs: Tokyo" comic gives Watch Dogs' fans some hope
honestly if they would just give us nexus it would restore everything
They are not bad games, it just needs better quality and less bugs.
As someone who loves the entire franschise and somewhat enjoyed Legion (although it is my least favorite in the trilogy) I agree with most of your takes. However, I've played Legion on a RTX 2060 and had no problem with running the game. It may hvae been a problem when the game launched but I bought the Ultimate Version for like €29 1 year after launch...
Off topic but how do I change my revolver camo in watchdogs 1
Watchdogs 1 & 2 were really enjoyable for me, Legions had 3 main stories that were good but the recruiting any and everyone part of the game did drain me DLC had me even more immersed and by the time I finished it I was thinking why wasn't Aiden or Jackson the main protagonist for the main story or at least Jackson as he was older and was pretty much a programmer helping dedsec anyways. I've heard the rumors of number 4 being in Boston if thats the case then we need to see a darker storyline and if they're gonna do multiple characters then it at leasts needs to be 4 to 5.
legion really put the nail in the coffin for the franchise, WD1 is a fun game, even if you can feel that there's things missing, on thing i remember i was really excited for was the idea of being a more heroic vigilant or a more anti-hero means to an end, and how it would shape Aiden trough the story till the end, the city is also very nice to go, the train being my favorite way to traverse.
When a game company has a huge fail they need to throw out their release schedule for future games and fix what they just released redesigning as necessary which will prevent future game failures
What the game companies FAIL to understand is that the sales of a game are based on the quality of the PREVIOUS game in the franchise. Watch Dogs 2 sold less than 1 because 1 had that huge scandal linked to it. WD2 is light years ahead of 1 and especially Legion.
WD1 = Liked it a lot.
WD2 = Loved it, one of the GOAT.
WD3 = A struggle to even finish it.
Dont forget they practically cut the hacking in half in legion although after beating all 3 all i need at this point is the distract hack and a police baton to beat the game