Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

sh33pst3r said:
I got mine from an Nvidia new card purchase. Nothing sitting in my uPlay yet :-(
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Yes, seems to be a general issue with free game keys, AMD free games have had the same issue in the pass, forget what game exactly(maybe more than one). Seems these companies tend to treat the free game lot like second class citizens. So many times the game companies delay giving out keys or don't let you unlock same time as others, bizarre and irritating for the users effected.


In general the game seems both very repetitive(which GTA V was) but with a much less interesting missions. But the story, acting, dialogue has been weak.

The side missions which seem constant, yet completely unnecessary, are all easy/boring/same thing over and over. The rewards, as far as I can tell, aren't particularly enticing to make you want to do them either. Loads of conversations to listen in on normally or through hacking but none are interesting, well 1 in 50. It's very non adult, and doesn't have much humour. I've heard one fart joke and that is about as funny as it got. Lacking the cutting edge wit or more adult/normal banter it's all a bit tame and neutered.

Performance issues are also making it pretty horrible to play, driving is hilariously awful both because of low frame rate and awful control.

It's killing time but really not drawing me in. Has next to no progression feel in it as (afaik) every gun, every car, it's all available straight away


It's not all bad, if I could pretend it was running at 120fps smooth, then it looks decent enough, it's not brilliant. The really only good effect is water on ground + lighting on water, day time/night + no rain all look a bit drab.

No punishment/bonus for stealing money off certain people is a huge mistake. You can just run around getting loads of money straight away. There is no "hack too many people and police come check the area" mechanic. Also despite giving everyone a job/story/name, there is no effectively karma mechanic which they could SO easily have done. IE hack the bank accounts of a single mother who works for a charity... people in the world dislike the vigilante, hack a rich wall street banker, or a rapist, or murderer, and the people in the world like you more. There is a name/back story for every hacking target yet it's irrelevant.
 
My key doesn't work with UPlay from CJS and its a very short key, what gives?

Edit sorted, but how long does it take for uplay to show the game?
 
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you figured all that out quickly, DM. I barely had time to get past the first mission.


seems ok to me, runs well on my i5/7950. Dont have any more time to play it tonight :)
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yes, seems to be a general issue with free game keys, AMD free games have had the same issue in the pass, forget what game exactly(maybe more than one). Seems these companies tend to treat the free game lot like second class citizens. So many times the game companies delay giving out keys or don't let you unlock same time as others, bizarre and irritating for the users effected.


In general the game seems both very repetitive(which GTA V was) but with a much less interesting missions. But the story, acting, dialogue has been weak.

The side missions which seem constant, yet completely unnecessary, are all easy/boring/same thing over and over. The rewards, as far as I can tell, aren't particularly enticing to make you want to do them either. Loads of conversations to listen in on normally or through hacking but none are interesting, well 1 in 50. It's very non adult, and doesn't have much humour. I've heard one fart joke and that is about as funny as it got. Lacking the cutting edge wit or more adult/normal banter it's all a bit tame and neutered.

Performance issues are also making it pretty horrible to play, driving is hilariously awful both because of low frame rate and awful control.

It's killing time but really not drawing me in. Has next to no progression feel in it as (afaik) every gun, every car, it's all available straight away


It's not all bad, if I could pretend it was running at 120fps smooth, then it looks decent enough, it's not brilliant. The really only good effect is water on ground + lighting on water, day time/night + no rain all look a bit drab.

No punishment/bonus for stealing money off certain people is a huge mistake. You can just run around getting loads of money straight away. There is no "hack too many people and police come check the area" mechanic. Also despite giving everyone a job/story/name, there is no effectively karma mechanic which they could SO easily have done. IE hack the bank accounts of a single mother who works for a charity... people in the world dislike the vigilante, hack a rich wall street banker, or a rapist, or murderer, and the people in the world like you more. There is a name/back story for every hacking target yet it's irrelevant.
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Hmm.. Interesting.

What is you PC spec DM? What resolution is your monitor? I was on 2560x1600 until recently it broke and now I am back to 1080p again until I get me a nice 4k panel later this year :)
 
Idleman said:
I'll unsubscribe from this thread, as it has just got to many repetitive posts and hardly any feedback on the game itself.
Seems to be more of a debate on the graphics compared to GTAIV/V, neither of which I have played or will likely to.
I buy a game to play, not sit and look at it. A good story/plot helps, a decent AI and to get immersed in the game, the quality of the graphics is a bonus, not the be all and end all. What's the point in pretty graphics if the game sucks.
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Most of the negetive reviews are to do with the ai, story etc
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yes, seems to be a general issue with free game keys, AMD free games have had the same issue in the pass, forget what game exactly(maybe more than one). Seems these companies tend to treat the free game lot like second class citizens. So many times the game companies delay giving out keys or don't let you unlock same time as others, bizarre and irritating for the users effected.


In general the game seems both very repetitive(which GTA V was) but with a much less interesting missions. But the story, acting, dialogue has been weak.

The side missions which seem constant, yet completely unnecessary, are all easy/boring/same thing over and over. The rewards, as far as I can tell, aren't particularly enticing to make you want to do them either. Loads of conversations to listen in on normally or through hacking but none are interesting, well 1 in 50. It's very non adult, and doesn't have much humour. I've heard one fart joke and that is about as funny as it got. Lacking the cutting edge wit or more adult/normal banter it's all a bit tame and neutered.

Performance issues are also making it pretty horrible to play, driving is hilariously awful both because of low frame rate and awful control.

It's killing time but really not drawing me in. Has next to no progression feel in it as (afaik) every gun, every car, it's all available straight away


It's not all bad, if I could pretend it was running at 120fps smooth, then it looks decent enough, it's not brilliant. The really only good effect is water on ground + lighting on water, day time/night + no rain all look a bit drab.

No punishment/bonus for stealing money off certain people is a huge mistake. You can just run around getting loads of money straight away. There is no "hack too many people and police come check the area" mechanic. Also despite giving everyone a job/story/name, there is no effectively karma mechanic which they could SO easily have done. IE hack the bank accounts of a single mother who works for a charity... people in the world dislike the vigilante, hack a rich wall street banker, or a rapist, or murderer, and the people in the world like you more. There is a name/back story for every hacking target yet it's irrelevant.
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Its like you read my mind, have exactly the same thought on it.

No wonder they delayed the launch from just after gtav, it wouldn't sold well at all.
 
Sigh using an nvidia promo code thing and an hour later it still doesn't show in my game library on uplay. Such a slow service!
 
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