Watch Dogs

[ubernoob]

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They're just planning a rebranding.

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Officially a Midnight Release purchase for me now instead of passing on it.

[PVarck31]

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Ubisoft has come out and officially said the game isn't cancelled. Still don't know what's with the name trademark abandonment.


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They didn't abandon the trademark. Someone claiming to be the CEO filed for the abandonment fraudulently.

[mestevo]

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Ubisoft has pushed the Wii U version of Watch Dogs back to "a later date".

http://kotaku.com/watch-dogs-delayed...i-u-1519955976

[LingeringRegime]

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Ubisoft needs to take their resources from this game and put it into Rainbow Six.

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So they can delay that more too.

[metalmilitia623]

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So I saw something saying this game has 110 minutes of cinematics. This kinda worries me. I mean the best part of a video game is the interactivity. I feel like overly cinematic games ruin that.

I really don't like this huge obsession with games trying to be like movies. Why try to be something that is sort of second best. Like a video game is taking the best of being able to see a movie over reading a book but adding in that sort of interactivity and ability to put your own twist on it that reading a book allows.

I think this is one thing really holding the game industry back especially in the AAA sector.

[ubernoob]

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I'd say that's just more a relic/remnant of the past era that hasn't worked itself out of developers systems yet because CGI/FMVs were the only way they could get legit graphics into older games.

[allBthere]

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So I saw something saying this game has 110 minutes of cinematics. This kinda worries me. I mean the best part of a video game is the interactivity. I feel like overly cinematic games ruin that.

I really don't like this huge obsession with games trying to be like movies. Why try to be something that is sort of second best. Like a video game is taking the best of being able to see a movie over reading a book but adding in that sort of interactivity and ability to put your own twist on it that reading a book allows.

I think this is one thing really holding the game industry back especially in the AAA sector.

Couldn't agree more. I have a background in film actually and have always enjoyed both mediums on their own terms. It's so funny to me that since videogames as an industry surpassed film in pure $ terms, they are trying harder and harder to be like movies. I don't want that either, it's just not what they are good at.

A game like Skyrim is amazing, and besides the standard elderscrolls beginning you don't really see 'cut-scenes'

Mass Effect does it well but because it's interactive and deliberatly feels like an old choose your own adventure book from the 80s.

[Blzer]

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So I saw something saying this game has 110 minutes of cinematics. This kinda worries me. I mean the best part of a video game is the interactivity. I feel like overly cinematic games ruin that.

I really don't like this huge obsession with games trying to be like movies. Why try to be something that is sort of second best. Like a video game is taking the best of being able to see a movie over reading a book but adding in that sort of interactivity and ability to put your own twist on it that reading a book allows.

I think this is one thing really holding the game industry back especially in the AAA sector.

How much does GTA have, though?

(I don't know if those count as cinematics in the same way, though)

[kingkilla56]

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I dont mind large amounts of cinematics so long as the gameplay time trumps it significantly. When I played MGS4 the balance was way off. 10 minute sections followed by 10 minute cinematics or more was completely unacceptable. It was a movie more than a game. Thats an example of cinematics getting out of hand for me.

[JODYE]

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I agree, I don't mind long cinematics. It is a good way to engulf you within the story and the environment. As long as they are done right, and the games length warrants them.

Like King said, MSG4 was absolutely brutal. That is the way NOT to to do it.

[Sgt_Carnage]

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Am I the only person who is kinda worried that there hasn't been any new footage of this game since before they delayed it? Or has there been some new footage and I just missed it?

[metalmilitia623]

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A game that so far I feel has done a pretty good job of that balance is Company of Heroes. It's got all the WWII battles you remember and each one is introduced with a short cutscene. For example D-day you see the view from the landing craft and as soon as you get on the beach the game seamlessly transitions from the cutscene into the gameplay.

I feel like that is how it should be pretty much for all games. Now the cutscenes in CoH do have one problem and that is horrible screen tearing because I forced V-sync off. The game itself is fine but the cinematics are horrible, in that sense.

GTA V I didn't think was too bad. I thought the story was a bit short but I was willing to accept that because the MP was supposed to be so deep but it just wasn't.

[Eman5805]

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Yeah, not gonna lie, it's a lil' bit distressing that not a lick of info has leaked. I wonder what the problem was anyway?

[Sgt_Carnage]

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May 27th release date


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[Picci]

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May 27th release date

This was my release day game with the PS4 for me. That trailer got me excited again. Hopefully, some stores will put it out earlier since it's the day after Memorial Day.