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binary solo on 07 March 2014

PS4bone versions are up-ports of the PS360, which is always going to make the game look decidedly lastgen on the nexgen machines. If gfx don't matter as long as gameplay is great and story is reasonably good then what's the biggie?

Truly gfx only matters when it's a pissing contest between current gen consoles. Otherwise as long as the gfx quality isn't so bad it becomes a distracting element it shouldn't matter for a cross gen game. Leave dedicated nexgen games to be the games upon which gfx are judged. Rasheed talks about Ryse, Shadowfall and The Order and they are not valid comparisons because they are dedicated nexgen games. Compare WD to CoD:Ghosts, BF4, TF and the like. It'll probably scrub up OK with that comparison.



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Augen on 07 March 2014
kitler53 said:
if that rumor of a 70+ million dollar development cost is true they should be scared.

watch dogs will sell a lot of copies,... at $20.


Yeah, it went from $60 to $50 to $40 and now a $30 buy for me, but I could see it slipping to $20 depending on what I see once released.  Amazing how hyped has died off past six months.



BeElite on 07 March 2014
fleischr said:
This has more to do with the fact that "next-gen" really doesn't provide THAT big a leap in visuals.

Similar uproar will occur comparing Titanfall between X1 and 360. And many others.


BS

i played some Killzone 3 last night and it was brutal Compared to shadow fall... a freaking launch title.  Forza 5 shits all over F4 graphically.  Its clealry a generation difference and that was a rushed launch title with features missing the next one will have.

There there is this game called infamous, also big open world and actually looks like a gen above unlike wdogs.



Slimebeast on 07 March 2014

The gameplay doesn't look that good. The hacking looked boring from the very first reveal. It's an artficial mechanic. Who wants to walk around and hack devices all the time? The whole thing, the setting with all devices and societal thingies being connected and hackable it feels artificial, it feels forced.

I think it willl disappoint in both reviews and sales. Maybe 6 million lifetime copies spread on all platforms and will be a disappointmen to Ubisoft and hardly make profit. It mite be a sucesful francise in the long run though.



mibuokami on 07 March 2014
Veknoid_Outcast said:
pokoko said:
It's not a next gen game, it's cross gen. Personally, I don't give a rat's hindquarters as long as the game-play is fun. It looks completely fine.

Completely agree. "Next-gen" has become such a counter-productive buzz word. Like "hardcore" and "AAA" before it, the term focuses the conversation on all the wrong things.

I'm not terribly interested in Watch Dogs, but it has nothing to do with how many pixels it has or how smooth the animations are.

I would agree if Ubisoft themselves didn't bullshot the shit out of their product. Watchdog 2012 looks amazing, and the currently trailer I am seeing is a pretty big down grade.

Hopefully the game is still successful, because at least Ubisoft is willing to try new IP.