Anon played Watch Dogs
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Hyper669@reddit
No one hated Aiden Pearce, the game just wasn't that good.
I personally enjoyed it but not anywhere near as much as I enjoyed GTA V, which Watch Dogs was advertised as a direct competitor (or even a replacement) for.
Spaciax@reddit
I didn't go into it with the expectation of it competing with GTA and honestly I liked it. Better than whatever shit ubislop puts out nowadays.
oldmonty@reddit
Dude, the game was mid but then they added this insane level of auto-aim (even when you turned it all the way down it was still there).
Like you'd aim towards someone and it would automatically move your cursor 500 ft past the guy and you'd have to like slowly move it into place.
It made a decent game into something that was totally ass.
hagamablabla@reddit
I'm still mad about the trailer.
Dontgersococky@reddit
It didn't exactly lie, you can access those graphics by tweaking some ini files
julysniperx@reddit
No one hated the characters, no one hated the graphics, no one hated the gameplay. People only hated it for the downgrade gameplay/ graphics compared to the e3 trailer.
I remember when the e3 trailer first came out back when I was in middle school, I immediately copied aiden's style ( only wearing a football cap thou ) and learned parkour just because of how the game looked badass af.
The game was too overhyped by its trailer and when the game didn't deliver, people hated the game for it.
Watchdogs 2 fixed some of the problems but the switch from edgy adult character to a funny wanky kids just does not appealing to me.
Rowger00@reddit
I liked it a lot, more than gtav. weird, I know
NineThreeFour1@reddit
Watch Dogs 2 creative gameplay and good graphics with the story of Watch Dogs would be perfect GTA clone for me. Watch Dogs had good hacking/driving/fighting mechanics, but Watch Dogs 2 made all of them even better and more versatile. Just the story and characters in Watch Dogs 2 felt too unserious.
I played through GTA V once and it was okay. I don't really like the Rockstar drunk walking style. It had almost no replay value due to the incredibly long loading times each time that you want to replay a single short mission. And after playing Watch Dogs 2 for so long, it just felt boring to drive around a city without being able to interact with it. Getting away from cops is just a matter of getter a fast car and not hitting other cars on the road. In Watch Dogs you can hack to lay traps, disable helicopters, hack the infrastructure to hide, and other online players can join the manhunt when you reach a high wanted level.
csizzy04@reddit
I liked the game too but it was like Forza Horizon 2 at generation change. That game was properly made to the new XBOX One but there was a version with half the features and map with twice the bugs and worse graphics for the old 360. Now, Watchdogs 1 felt like I was playing a 360 version of something that was made for One.
DinoMastah@reddit
Because he is not a White figure on morality. I wish we could get more morally questionable characters, because they are much more interesting than Mr goody 2 shoes.
Marik-X-Bakura@reddit
I can count on one hand the number of “morally questionable” protagonists that have had anything deep or interesting about them
Deadlymonkey@reddit
There’s a eurojank game from like 2006 called Neuro that unironically nails this (though whether that’s intentional or not is up for debate)
The MC is morally gray because he’s genuinely fucking stupid and incapable of seeing the bigger picture and ends up doing a ton of horrible things in the pursuit of making the universe a better place.
It’s like if Forrest Gump was in space, his love for Jenny was replaced with a love for doing the right thing, and Lt. Dan was secretly a double agent.
SevenLuckySkulls@reddit
That actually sounds fucking killer lol. An intellectually inept but somehow highly competent buffoon being bamboozled into getting a planet glassed or something.
PeasantoBoi@reddit
There's a video about Neuro on YouTube by a guy called Tehsnakerer in case you or anyone is curious.
finicky88@reddit
Spec Ops: The Line comes to mind.
Praetorian_Panda@reddit
Idek if Walker counts as Morally Grey he might just be evil and obsessive lol
disappointingdoritos@reddit
"No one ever does, Walker"
Slide-Maleficent@reddit
I hate all those 'every bad guy thinks of himself as the hero' sayings.
For real, there are absolutely people who not only think of themselves as the bad guy and unironically evil - they fucking get off on it too.
WayneZer0@reddit
walker is mentaly so broke that i dont think he is truely evil. hus action certianly are
anti-gerbil@reddit
You don't need them to be deep, they just need to be entertaining.
letthepastgo@reddit
Max Payne comes to mind
homingmissile@reddit
There's nothing grey about him. In fact I'm pretty sure he was totally black and white in the cutscenes 😏😏😏😏😏
Kriegsman__69th@reddit
Kratos
bitt3n@reddit
Pac Man. eating disorder, OCD, does drugs, but returns ghosts to the shadow realm
Irgendwer1607@reddit
Rorschach
Ill_Leave9530@reddit
Luigi
avengeds12345@reddit
My boy CJ is up there on the top
Tomachian@reddit
zombieGenm_0x68@reddit
idk, the main cast of final fantasy 7 is kinda like this and that game is decades old
0shawhat@reddit
Give Drakengard and Nier a try. Yoko Taro loves his fucked up world building
arealundead@reddit
Drakengard leans more towards morally bankrupt territory imo, but hard agree on Nier.
guigs44@reddit
People are downvoting you but you're right.
I_am_Reptoid_King@reddit
The_Meemeli@reddit
Give me some sugar, baby
Rambozo77@reddit
First you wanna kill me…
Introman_18@reddit
Then you wanna be with me
Hmccormack@reddit
Hail to the king baby
Scarytoaster1809@reddit
Groovy.
Pingushagger@reddit
You’re giving Ubisoft writers too much credit here. Nothing about AP was different from any generic action movie main character.
HellaCopter-@reddit
Nah they were onto something, WD1 and Far Cry 3 both explored themes of violence and how they affect the ppl around the mc. Intentional or not, they were far more interesting than anything they’re putting out now.
Thefancypotato@reddit
Jason in FC3 was so fucking good, man. "Good/regular young man resorting to violence due to circustance" is nothing new at all, but they made it feel so refreshing by not portraying who he ends up becoming as good, portraying that he didn't need to become that violent, and actually showing how it affected the people close to him.
That segment where he tortures his own brother to "keep up an act" and then realizes he went way overboard with it was great. A game so good they tried to make it again for about a decade.
Pingushagger@reddit
You can’t compare the two, Jason’s body literally changes as the main character gets stronger. He is a completely changed guy from the start of the story. The final voice lines are about how a part of him has never really left that island.
Aidan is the same grumbly action movie badass throughout the story, there’s no change, hardly any emotion, I don’t think he even raises his voice. A loved one being sad that their badass relative is doing revenge for them they don’t want is unoriginal and the outcome is absolutely predictable everytime, Aidans family are just plot devices.
Don’t get it twisted I love the first two Watch Dogs, I feel like the criticism of the edgyness in the first caused Ubisoft to make everyone into a bland MCU quip machine who isn’t Wrench or Marcus.
I will agree that these games are miles better than anything Ubisoft is putting out rn, they need to revive Watch Dogs.
Rex__Lapis@reddit
idk about that one. verso from e33 has the most questionable morale in years and everyone thirsts for him, including you and me
IrinaNekotari@reddit
Tbh Verso is hot. Like extra super hot. Almost burning inside a burning house hot
whyUdoAnythingAtAll@reddit
Yeah people really want a black and white world, he was not a "good" character and that's why he was different unlike every other game where bad guys are bad and good guys are good
systemmm34@reddit
day n nite what i look for peace but see i dont attain what
Lord0Trade@reddit
Because the game overpromised and was over hyped. I enjoyed it myself. But I’m glad I got it on sale instead of preordered it.
thegrodyknudclump@reddit
Because ppl named Aiden are weird
AnDanDan@reddit
I played through the entirety of the game, was literally in a car chase as a part of the final mission, and just turned it off. The entire game just felt like so much nothing, it me all at that point, I didnt even care anymore.
meove@reddit
people talk about how bad the graphic is
"man, this game look so ultra realistic even with medium setting on my cheap ass hardware" - me in 2014
UnhappyStrain@reddit
Autism rizz is not real. You just have no standards.
element-redshaw@reddit
Because he wasn’t the funny autistic like dedsec in watch dogs 2
RedSander_Br@reddit
Still to this day, the best revenge story ever, fuck you Neil, revenge is totally worth it.
Cue Huey saying revenge!
HellaCopter-@reddit
Except its shown in both here and the bloodlines dlc that revenge has ruined Aiden's life and he lost everyone because of it but sure kek screw u cuckman
Dontgersococky@reddit
No, what ruined his life was the death of his niece
DinoMastah@reddit
In his revenge "lost" his family, but killed everyone who wronged him, dismantled 2 mafias, exposed a corrupt mayor by leaking a huge scandal and stoped a psycotic serial killer.
Revenge is good and get fucked cuckman.
thr33beggars@reddit
RagnarokOfLight@reddit
anti-gerbil@reddit
What a dogshit card wtf
CeraphFromCoC@reddit
Same reason the Sleeping Dogs devs went under. Sued for false advertising.
Mesarthim1349@reddit
Wow. Completely forgot that game existed
Camulus@reddit
Unironically one of the better GTA clones.
Still wish they stuck with True Crime though. True Crime NY was peak.
Shot_Policy_4110@reddit
True crime was so good. Spent so many hours playing that shit with the homie
Spoon_Elemental@reddit
I fucking loved that game.
bobmarely707@reddit
same. you could pull shotguns out of the police car trunks and i never saw that in any other game and thought it was the coolest shit ever as a kid
DangyDanger@reddit
Police cars in GTA give you weapons when you enter them
It's not the same obviously, but it kind of is a thing.
freezerwaffles@reddit
This is what happens when you don’t eat your pork buns.
leaderofstars@reddit
I wonder why
Mesarthim1349@reddit
I mostly remember it for this banger
LemonnlovesLain@reddit
All the songs from 24herbs on the radio also so fucking cool
memefarius@reddit
That Dawg's been sleeping on it!
Nottan_Asian@reddit
Most of the game is about making a Dog(eyes) sleep permanently. Seems fair to me.
shiftlessPagan@reddit
"I can't see a thing, I'll open this one"
ChattyDog@reddit
THIS.
Hawaiian_Shirt12@reddit
the name is "watch underscore dogs"
Organic-Ad-9120@reddit
Guess we were supposed to fill the blank
AntagonisticFetus@reddit
That’s some hard hitting shit
zombieGenm_0x68@reddit
but were there dogs?
MrCattsDad@reddit
Its nothing to do with his character, the game was just dogshit.
notorious_jaywalker@reddit
I loved the hacking mechanics in this game, but the vehicle controls were SO terrible I stopped playing after the first car chase sequence.
THEzwerver@reddit
This game was so unrealistic, the hacker wasn't even a furry or trans...
ender89@reddit
Where are his programmer socks? 0/10 for unrealistic portrayal.
BumblebeeNo2870@reddit
He wears them under trenchcoat
Psychast@reddit
Check his Steam? Didn't even have 300 hours in FNV. Pathetic.
makomirocket@reddit
That was the sequel
Ilikeporkpie117@reddit
Didn't once wear any programming socks smh
owowhatsthis123@reddit
Wdym you didn’t see the Aiden Pierce secret furcon cutscene?
MisterBobAFeet@reddit
Didn't even call the hacker group 4chan... Literally unplayable garbage.
Lord_Hubner@reddit
I liked it a lot, but i guess a lot of people expected some sort of GTA-like experience whereas the driving mechanism was very uncommon (i got used to it but i understand why some wouldn't). The dark atmosphere of the game is very nostalgic to me and it's online hacking was very unique. I remember the tension at the last moments just before successfully hacking someone.
TrungusMcTungus@reddit
A lot of people expected a GTA like experience because it was advertised as a GTA killer
AbortionBulld0zer@reddit
A lot of people were wondeting where graphics from presentations left.
Lord_Hubner@reddit
Apparently into Watch Dogs 2.
ender89@reddit
The crazy part is you can totally walk around and pull up all the information on someone you pass on the street now.
Conquiescamus@reddit
I actually prefer WD1 over WD2
TNH_Nightingale@reddit
Watch_Dogs 1 is the closest we’ll get to a modern day assassins creed.
ThrowAnon-@reddit
Game was really fun Ubisoft had promised some crazy physics,gameplay, & graphics that for even todays standards is barely becoming the standard. They even made some pre-rendered “gameplay” and told evryone that was the game.
ListlessLink@reddit
He also robbed a fuck ton of people and caused a lot of vehicular deaths from those barriers he'd raise
rousakiseq@reddit
Normies didn't like the guy? People bought garbage that was Watch Dogs Legion and its shitass DLC just to play as him again, only YouTube reviewers didn't like the guy
Beowolf736@reddit
I loved the game. I understand why some of it got hate but it was a lot of fun.
Borgorb@reddit
Normals only gave a shit it played like GTA
Zestyclose-Golf240@reddit
It's a good game but Ubisoft over-promised a lot so people turned on it immediately when it came out. It's one of those games people discover years later and say "why wasn't this more popular?" but those same people overlooked it when it came out because of what other people said, like Crowbcat.
S4l47@reddit
I like him
Why don‘t unautistic people like him??
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Now do depression or adhd.
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People want to be seen.
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LordOmbro@reddit
The game was the problem
The sequel was a much better sandbox with the right tone considering how stupid the premise of the game is lol
HawasYT@reddit
The plot was dumb but the premise itself isn't really stupid. Smart cities and IoT are a real thing, Austin, TX wants to spend millions on AI-powered cameras around the city and as we all know 'S' in IoT stands for 'secure'. Like, the ingredients are all here to make it basically a reality. It's like Knight Rider, the further technology develops the more real the premise becomes
Ne0shad0u@reddit
I was put off by his small ass mouth.
Why it so smol?
Otherwise, decent character.
JuanHernandes89@reddit
He ain't got nothing to say
SweetTooth275@reddit
He didn't care about his family, he didn't have one. What he did was tried to act husband figure for his sister which is quite common for incest minded normies. Also he was as bland as porridge. And the rest of the game was shit.
cae37@reddit
The game wanted you to like hime even though he really did nothing that made him likeable.
His whole deal is that he became a criminal using his hacking skills, which ended up biting him in the ass after a bad job+his accomplice betraying him. Which lead to the death of his niece.
GTA protagonists are assholes, but they’re generally likeable assholes. Aiden took himself too seriously to be likeable, so he just came across as an asshole to me.
Ekillaa22@reddit
I mean he’s the whole reason why his niece got killed anyway sooo I can see people not liking that
KnownAsAnother@reddit
I like his E3 demo personality better.
Mikes_Movies_@reddit
Been replaying this game with mods, makes it a lot more immersive!
BluBlue4@reddit
Anything specific?
Much_Ambition6333@reddit
I think there’s a living city mod that adds in a LOT features that were removed for time
There’s tons of graphics mods so I can’t tell you which is best, so best for you to decide
absoluteboredom@reddit
Fun games for sure. But above everything else in them, the driving mechanics were liquid ass. Been a long time since I’ve played but I distinctly remember it being completely different from every other game with driving.
GreenRiot@reddit
Because the game was barely playable on launch, Ubisoft didn't fix it so nobody cared about the sequel. And as far as I know if it's still barely playable if you don't use some kind of mod fixes.
The idea is cool, apparently is connected to the assassins creed universe but ngl, it looks too much of a hassle for an old game. And it's still expensive on steam in my country.
toxicgloo@reddit
Not making Watch Dogs 2 about Aiden or having him be a major supporting character was a bad decision in my opinion. I'm not going to say Watch Dogs 2 is a bad game, it isn't. But it's very different from Watch Dogs which caused a rift in the community of people who liked the first game and wanted more of that and people who liked the 2nd game and wanted more of that.
Then they came out with that 3rd game and...holy shit. One of the things I didn't let from the 1st to the 2nd is that the weapon selection was significantly more limited in the 2nd game than the 1st. In the 1st you had that weapon wheel with every weapon you purchased in it and all the weapon types available, really gave that unstoppable vigilante vibe. I'm the 2nd one you could only choose a couple of weapons from the 3d printer at once. But in the 3rd..my god. Half your characters don't have guns and they were limited to whatever weapons they came with when you recruited them
ExistentialJew@reddit
Fun Fact I used to be in the top 1% of Watch Dogs Online players back in the day.
Lot of pot and missed classes to achieve that
flakweazel@reddit
It kinda took itself too seriously
Codacc69420@reddit
Funny bc watch dogs 2 did the opposite
Kriegsman__69th@reddit
Inst Watchdogs 2 considered the best one ?
WorldofCannons@reddit
No
Codacc69420@reddit
I think so, the hacking was way better and people preferred the characters. They completely ruined the gunplay though
DrBollox@reddit
I liked this one more than 2 or whatever legion was supposed to be
nage_@reddit
the 3rd person view, the movement, and the brainless npcs all made it feel like a generic gta knockoff with random tech powers that seemingly only helped when you were driving or unlocking a door
great idea, rough execution
dendofyy@reddit
The ONLY thing that annoyed me about this is that a side mission thing and unlocked a fucking anti-tank rifle that made the game mega easy… “stop that car” “say less fam”
BluBlue4@reddit
I liked the game and Aiden but it did seem unfinished. IIRC there was some changes made so he wasn't the dad of the family but instead the uncle and that might have been why the family scenes had a odd feel. Him not really responding or reacting to the Chiraq boss fight dialogue. Giving the player the option to non-lethally take down a group but the cutscene says I killed them bugged me. The mini games and odd police chase game you could play vs someone on a phone were weirdly good. Never played the dlc or sequels
I do see how some may have felt AP was dull. Especially compared to the hitman. Focused villian protag with a introvert personality isn't common in games
macuser007@reddit
best part of the series imo
Chodor101@reddit
Tbh its not hard to be better than garbage
KebabLife2@reddit
One of the best and most realistic police mechanics. Escaping from police was actually satisfying.
BigKingKey@reddit
Because the game wasn’t what we were promised
Lone-Frequency@reddit
Because Aiden was a bit of a psycho with a hero complex?
The game makes it abundantly clear that he continues pushing and pushing despite undeniably making life more dangerous for his family members. He has a guy tortured for days on end for what ultimately wound up being a complete misunderstanding of events.
Also, Well I am certainly not against anti-heroes, Aiden was just sort of...dull?
clydefrog89@reddit
The online invasion mode in this game was the funniest shit back then.
RaceEnthusiast@reddit
It was a decent game, I enjoyed it but it wasn’t great or anything
manny011604@reddit
Because he’s super morally gray to black
VonDukez@reddit
Because it appealed to anon