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lionpetercarmoo on 06 July 2016
alrightiwill said:
Hivemind of the internet mostly. Bandwagon hate. Same thing with the mega-downvoting of the COD IW trailer.

It was a solid game if a tad mediocre. The graphics downgrade was a bummer but graphics a good game does not make.

Lol Infinite Warfare deserves every dislike



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SWORDF1SH on 06 July 2016
curl-6 said:

Because it was practically the dicitonary definition of insipid mediocrity.

Much like its painfully bland protagonist, the whole thing had all the personality of a cardboard box left out in the rain. Boring world, boring characters, boring missions, boring mechanics, boring everything.

Although this is the extreme version of my experience, this is pretty much why I didn't complete it. But like I said, for the scale of the game it's a pretty decent first entry. If WD2 doesn't build off the first then I will have an harsher opinion. We need more new IPs and sometimes they can't get it completely right straight away.



ArchangelMadzz on 06 July 2016

Bland character, story wasn't great and the controls felt way too heavy



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Natsu on 07 July 2016
Shadow8 said:

Meh, found the story and the characters bland and boring. Multiplayer wasn't anything special for me either. I did find the game play to be pretty fun though.

Edit: Keep in mind I did spend 60$ day 1 for it. Maybe for 10-20$ I would've liked it more. Just didn't feel like it was worth it for me.

I spent 15 on it so maybe that makes a difference, but I think I would still thought it would be worth it for 60.

 

But pretty much a lot of people didn't like it cause they downgraded the graphics? 



Natsu on 07 July 2016
SWORDF1SH said:
Was it hated that much? I can't remember it getting that much hate other than about the visual downgrade.

For me it was a decent first entry for a new IP.

I haven't seen anything really good about it. Maybe I've only seen the hate lol



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ironmanDX on 07 July 2016

I didn't hate it either! It did get a bit repetitive though. Story was... Ok. The download, as others have said... Certainly didn't help it's image...



daredevil.shark on 07 July 2016

Showed graphics that's not achievable not in PS4 Neo. And claimed its ultimate open world game with no mission structure. In the end it's Ubisoft with downgrade and their trademark boring tower by tower (CTOS) area capture story progression.



tiffac on 07 July 2016

I hated the side missions where you can't kill the target, only for that target to die by being run over by his henchmen and causing you to fail the mission aka game over.

There was also a time I got killed by a shot gun where the enemy was one block away.



Mr Puggsly on 07 July 2016

Watch Dogs was fine. It was an above average game with too much hype.

It was no Sleepy Dogs.



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SJReiter on 07 July 2016

I actually recently bought Watch Dogs and was very surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Really looking forward to the sequel.