I love the game too. I played the game everyday when it came out. I replayed it dozens of times. But I gotta acknowledge the lack of polish and bugs when this game launched. The downgrade to visuals from E3 trailer was disappointing.
I feel like Watch Dogs is the closest we'll ever get to a modern day Assassin's Creed. Shame Ubisoft kinda killed the series with Legion even with the AC crossover. I hope they bring it back with the darker tone and more serious characters
The "multiplayer" aspect of the game was cool to me. Another player invades your game and you have to hide from them for a couple minutes in a limited area.
Yes! Some of my favorite memories of this game are the moments where you're frantically running around to find a good hiding spot without leaving the circle, just hoping the timer will run out before the other player finds you.
@@johnnylattarulo6735its one 2 and Legion, and 2 u can invade 2 people, or ppl in ur own session. in legion u can swap characters while hacking.... so yeah. its odd. 1 is probably the best in terms of tension but 1 and 2 have good ass invasion modes
I just recently played and I loved it so much but had to disable bc I hacked so many people that I was getting hackers every 2 minutes in my game lmao. I remember I felt like I was being followed so I walked into a parking garage where no NPC ever goes and then I took cover by a car and waited. 10 seconds later when the hacker walked in I knew and shot him. Then another time I was walking and heard a commotion on the corner and knew it was a player who couldn't drive and hit something so I went sprinting, saw the car, parkour(ed? Lmao ) over the hood of another car and then emptied a clip into the windshield of the player's car. When you get to the point of finding and killing the hacker before they even find you or start the hack then that's when it gets really addicting. Really had me paranoid too 😂 which probably helped immerse me even more in Aiden's character. Got to the point where if something went wrong and I wasn't sure if it was just the AI being off, a bug, or my imagination then I would end up killing an innocent lol. Old man walking my way a bit too fast?? Better safe than sorry....lol. I adored the time I spent in this game's pvp.
I definitely loved the Chicago setting. Being able to go to Water Tower Place and seeing the detail in the bricks, and Millennium Park feels like I'm actually there. It was nice to see my hometown represented, not enough of them out there.
10 years later and Watch Dogs is still my favorite video game of all time with my favorite protagonist of all time. 10/10 from me. It's perfect in every way
@@trenaceandblackmetal5621 Well yes but that's mainly because the Ubisoft higher ups wanted to have versions of the game for Nintendo Wii U, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. Had they focused on just PS4, Xbox One, and PC we probably would have gotten that version, or not most AAA game releases back then and now don't live up to their gameplay demo reveals.
Both AC unity and Watch Dogs performed terribly. I like them(infact i love unity), but that isnt the way to make a next gen game. Look at something like Infamous 4, how good it looked as well as performed well enough too.
I don’t care what people say, WD1 is amazing and holds very well even if compared to today’s games. The only thing it lacks in is graphics, but if it was remastered with today’s graphics it would be perfect
The Watch Dogs series had such a promising premise. It was new, had a fresh take on open-world games, introduced an interesting concept of hacking. They had a brilliant idea. Even the idea of Watch Dogs Legion - anybody can be the hero - was a great idea. However, the execution and the handling of the whole series could've and should've been much better. It is sad to see the series in destitution now. I hope the movie will be good and will reinvigorate people's interest in the franchise.
Definitely my favorite Watch Dogs game. The story was fantastic. WD2 was also good, a worthy sequel and had some things you could do with the hacks that are among my best memories but the story on the first was the best. Far and away. Although I was enormously excited for Legion, the simple fact is that it's strength was also it's biggest single weakness. How much story can you have when all the characters are interchangable. As far as the way the first has aged, well, I just finished my fourth playthrough. Had a blast as always. Good vid
I literally just replayed Watchdogs, and actually finished Legion the past two weeks. The first is my favorite, love the story, Aiden Pearce, Jordi (who was okay in the second game), Chicago, the fact that game devs still had the audacity to kill off such an important character (as well as make an urban legend not so legendary). Maybe it's just a me thing, but it'd be interesting to see Aiden Pearce as an assassin
Watch Dogs came bundled with my PS4 when I got it, accorfing to my PS5, it is the game, by a substantial margin, which I have put the most time into, it is still probably my favorite game. I love both 1 and 2, couldn't say which one is my favorite, honestly I can say which one I like least, but I can never really say which one I like best. Legion is... okay, I definately see the argument about the lack of distinct personality by the recruits, but I still enjoy certain aspects of the game, as a barely travelled person, with London being one of the few places I have ever been (and one of about three places that would ever get a game set in it) I enjoy being somewhere in the game whereI've actually been.
Watch Dogs 2 doesn't hold a candle to 1. No gun takedowns, went from 30-50 guns on you to 2 and a bunch of non lethal methods that was built to feel how it was played, like gunplay (60% of open world crime games activities include gunplay) was never a main focus and is nothing but insult worthy, a terrible story with an even woke group of "friends", and it was made with the backlash from the original living in the developers heads rent-free. As good as 1 was, they took the backlash and made a game somehow in the same series feel like the opposite of the original. We never got a sequel to Watch_Dogs, only a few games after the original that thought if it made these changes it'll be a game changer (a GTA competitor iyw) but ofc Ubisoft never realized they had a gem that could've easily been one.
This is such embarrassing comment. Aden is just as cringy as Marcus, with his edge lord attitude and laughable Batman voice. Watch Dogs 2 dramatically improved on the gameplay, which matters way more then “oh I like edgy characters.” So lame
@@Indigo_1001 taking away key elements that made you different than the other games and listening to your core audience in the wrong way is not "drastically improving" a single thing let alone does it compete with the original. Riddle me this, if it actually improved how did it do sales wise compared to 1? My original point being when you actually improve in a game series, as long as you didn't completely f'd the game up, you'll pull more sales especially in the OW genre (examples being SR2 sold more than 1, San Andreas crushed any GTA in the trilogy, and GTA 5 to 4?? Everyone knows)
@@t-bird4738 Firstly the video above is wrong. Both games sold a similar amount despite Watch Dogs 1 existing for longer than Watch dogs 2 (and there false advertising WD1 had). Secondly you can absolutely have a sequel do financially “worse” and still be a better game then it’s predecessor. I.e. FF7 rebirth. Secondly the one unique thing that made Watch dogs 1 stand out was its hacking element. Not the edge lord protagonist that so many other games had, not the dark tone ether. The hacking. And that’s what Watch Dogs 2 DRAMATICALLY improved. The gameplay went from a generic third person shooter with a hacking gimmick. To an actual stealth shooter with hacking being a core aspect of the over all experience. You could do non-lethal runs in WD2 or even complete a mission without stepping inside the mission area. You don’t have this level of freedom in WD1. Plus controlling cars in WD2 was so cool and unique for that game
The first game felt like a book or movie you didn't want to end. It felt like you were playing a spy thriller. There was this addictive voyeurism to it of playing a character capable of taking on the underworld. It puts you in the shoes of a character that feels powerful, but in a grounded way. A good example is one of the first missions where his sister is getting pranked called by some creep. That would scare most people, but as Aiden you have the ability to find this person. I won't spoil, but its sets up the game from there. Every time I stopped a crime taking place, I would always execute the person when they are on the ground. It just makes me feel like I'm dishing out hard and swift justice. The soundtrack is also very underrated and the game can get pretty intense. I remember that mission where you had to track down hacker Defalt. It felt satisfying to catch him bc he seemed like a better hacker than you.
I really want to see another WD game in the style of 1. A grittier, more violent, game with a more personal story and antihero type character. Even Legion was a pretty good immersive sim style game and had things to like, but the ‘play as anyone’ mechanic and lack of protagonist just did not work. Legion is far better if you have the Season Pass that lets you play as Aiden or Wrench through the whole campaign. Bloodlines was a step in the right direction as well and there is still a lot of potential here. I hope they don’t fully bury the IP and reconsider it’s future.
Ubi should focus on remaking this game, like making a next-gen update or a E3 version. The plot and the story of the first one is amazing, i remember at the start when confronting the person who killed Aiden's niece, he lets him go, but if you are a person who likes collectibles you can find audios that explain how he regrets killing her, at the end of the campaign you can decide whether to kill him or let him live. Such a good touch
Watch Dogs has a pretty rare feature that Ubisoft games nowadays don't. The protagonist has a pretty sister in Watch Dogs. However, the Ubisoft games nowadays: Every woman is ugly.
I liked almost everything about this game except for the driving. I also liked how it tied into Assassin’s Creed Universe despite them saying it was only Easter Eggs.
the first games i got with my first gaming computer (which was a laptop) were Watch_Dogs and AC: Unity, which came as a two-pack. my love for these games may be due in large part to nostalgia, but i really do adore them. people say that Aidan's boring but he's just not over-the-top (same with Connor). as someone whose expressions of emotion are also fairly muted, i always found him pretty compelling. the story and characters are all great, just again muted in comparison to what people seem to like. i've never been to the US, but Watch_Dogs' Chicago is familiar to me as someone who grew in Northern England: outwardly drab, while teeming with life. i think that, in general, it's a fairly grounded game, and that that seems to have been a point against it. the characters aren't all incredibly loud and obnoxious; the story is largely focused on one man and how his very personal quest for revenge hurts the people he loves; and the city isn't populated entirely by hysterical stereotypes. i love the whimsy of Watch_Dogs 2 and i definitely find the concept of its story more interesting, but a story about a hacktivist group was never going to be done properly in a AAA game by a major studio and it came out toothless. then they doubled down on the "aesthetically political but practically toothless" idea with Legion while stripping it of 2's whimsy to leave a disappointing mess with few redeeming features
It’s one of my favorite games, one thing I wish they did was make one after bad blood that had Aiden , Ray and Tobias doing something before they all went to California
Watch Dogs 1 is really good because of its dark setting. It’s the closest game to being similar to 2008’s GTA 4 so it needs to be cut some slack. But Watch Dogs 2 has really fun gameplay and Watch Dogs Legion may have the worst story out of the trilogy but it does have the best combat and customization and some extremely fun gameplay when playing with friends in Online.
Maybe like 2 months ago i bought watchdogs on instant gaming for something like 5 dollars and I DEVOURED everything they served me. It was so good I even made my friend buy it XD, but right after finishing wd 1 I bought wd 2, which I still haven´t finished. Wd1 just had its athmosphere, the characters, the animations (I even started training with and telescopic baton, not knowing that its NOT a silent weapon, you literally have to smash in the ground with the top of it, not just collapse it by hand like Aiden does), and mostly, THE BLACKOUTS. Such a cool feature, but I think Ubisoft won´t be able to make a wd game as good as the original. But one of my favorites games surley.
Thanks for making me feel like that one Matt Daemon gif from Saving Private Ryan. I'll still stand by and say that Watch_Dogs was my favorite game. Obviously, preference changes over the years. But I still look back on it fondly.
I didnt play it back in the day, and I just started to play it like a month ago, love this game, love the story and gameplay, its increible that Ubi made this, this game became one of my favorites, im planning to get WD Legion just because of the Dlc✌
I'm playing it for the first time rn since it was $1 on steam like two weeks ago & I've been fucking loving it so far. l'm glad i decided to go with the first one cus the whole series was on sale but I've only ever heard negative things about the other two. just as you said the tone, storytelling, and the sandbox hacking mechanics are things you just simply don't get in games nowadays.
What negatives things you heard from Watch Dogs 2? There was WAY more negativity around the first one in its launch. Watch Dog 2 improved the gameplay dramatically in every way. It isn’t just a third person shooter with a hacking gimmick. It was THE hacking stealth action game. You mention “hacking sandbox” that’s WS2
I’m replaying this game now because it’s the 10 year anniversary and with Ubisoft basically confirming that watch dogs is not profitable enough to continue, it’s almost warranted imo
I remember my friend introduced me to this game back in 2015 and as a GTA player I got into it pretty quickly, surely the optimization for average PC at that time wasn't great, started replaying this game on Xbox One X last year and I was still having a blast
I really think you can do both tone wise, in bloodlines you have the dark tones, but wrench also brings the upbeat tone swing how they react is really cool. I think a sequel should stay in London, and follow Aiden, and Jackson. Plus wrench (which if he needed it could mean Marcus, Josh, sitara and even t-bone. Plus they could set up some properly cannon dedsec characters
I'm probably going back to watchdogs 1 later today bc star wars outlaws is disappointing me so badly so far. Idk how they have fallen so far. I can't decide between this and Division 2 though.
I recently picked up Watch Dogs on a steam sale, really cheap, playing through it again at the moment. I originally played it on the Ps3 when it came out.
I've just finished the game today (only focused on the campaign), the story is pretty good, the gameplay is suprisignly good, but the missions can be annoying and repetitive, go here, hack this, elimite/escape enemies, repeat.
I haven't played it actually! I never felt interested in Watch Dogs, but then my sister made me play Legion when I was at her place and I had SO much fun, so I immediately told my boyfriend about it and he ordered it for me on Black Friday, which was super nice of him and then we played it for soooo many hours, it's a HUGE game and we played it for weeks whilst having covid (rip, my dad had to take care of us - two fully grown adults, during those weeks...) and it's a huge part of 2020 for me, that game made a huge impact on me. So I just bought Watch Dogs 2 actually! It's fun, I'm definitely enjoying it, but I really loved how Legion was made, every part of that story as well. Watch Dogs OG looks really cool as well, I do hate family drama though and have had enough of both that and grief so that part is a bit off-putting, unfortunately, because the main character himself seems great.
Dude watchdogs 1 and 2 both sold 10 million copies i believe. Also i went back and beat watch dogs legion and that game was good as well. It had a terrible launch and it never recovered. People simply never gave it a chance. Can't be too upset many games suffer the same fate.
2014 was the last amazing Ubisoft year to me. They still had great Games that i love after that. But they where on a roll bringing out banger after banger from 2007 to 2014.
My fifth favorite game. It's actually a great realistic superhero game if you play it like that (which I always do). It's a shame that both of the sequels were atrocious, but this game will always be one of my favorites. I love driving the Scafati GT (Lamborgini Aventador) around and the gun selection is great.
@@loadshedding_ Watch Dogs 2 was horrible. It was completely tone-deaf and so cringey that I couldn't play it for more than a few hours. It destroyed what could have been a staple series in gaming. The first game is the only Watch Dogs.
@@TheFirstCurse1 My dude the first Watch Dogs is also cringy as fuck with this edge lord protagonist with his Batman voice, it’s embarrassing Watch dogs 2 isn’t much better but they dramatically improved on the gameplay in every way. It wasn’t a generic third person shooter with a hacking gimmick
Still one of my favourite games ever, hard to believe Ubisoft would drop the ball on such a unique concept... you get a fix for so many things all at once, stealth, combat, the hacking element, side challenges, the digital trips, driving missions, all in a dark urban fantasy setting that is relatable because it's grounded in reality. The characters are also so fleshed out, and the story pulls you in. They were bold to tackle heavy subjcts like organised crime and human trafficking and still did in in a way that isn't exploitative or vapid, it makes you feel something when you face these things in the game knowing they're part of our reality. Another thing I love is the vigilantism aspect, personally I feel better slaying criminals than playing as one, and as much as I love GTA it kind of glamourises crime, whereas WD1 looks at it the way we usually do IRL.
I thought it was so cool and hardly noticed the visual downgrade on PS4 at the time. Felt like gta but a hacker batman as the character. Give us another one like 1 or 2 with some of the positives of Legion and I'd take it over GTA tbh. Ik that's like sacrilege in the gamer community lol but I like watchdogs, JustCause, and the older Saints Row games so much more than GTA. I have online but GTA V irritates me with how we never really got any extra post launch support or content for the single player which is where I prefer to spend my time. Watchdogs has probably my favorite online ever and it's just a simple tackon and I NEVER like pvp. Apart from some cheap tactics and sore losers who quit the game when they're losing it's perfect. One time I thought I was being followed so i went into a parking garage bc I never see NPCs there and I took cover by a car and shot the first person I saw walking in knowing it was a player. It really is such an immersive game. If I'm walking down the street and hear a big commotion then I take off sprinting bc I know it's a player who can't drive 😂. Honestly anyone who hasn't done the online, try it. I played 1 about 4 months ago I think and it was still active on PlayStation.
I really liked the original. Being in my 30's now might have something to do with it, but I related to Aiden more than other characters. Also, I really dug the hybrid singleplayer/multiplayer thing where someone could "invade" your session and you had to scramble to find them. The City also had a charm to it, it's hard to explain but it just had more character and a stronger vibe. I did buy and play Watch Dogs 2 on launch, and while IRL I love the geography of San Fran (outside their current issues), the in-game representation felt empty and didn't have the same charm as the Chicago map. Also sometimes in Watch Dogs 2 it felt like I was playing through what I imagine a Gen Z'er or emotionally-stunted Millennials fantasy would be. Just seemed corny sometimes.
I do believe that despite none of the protagonists of Legion (apart from Aiden and Wrench) having a true set-apart personality, they did have 'culture', so to speak. Many characters come from different area's or ethnicities, and this makes it so dialogue in cutscenes is different depending on your character's 'background'. The Birmingham male voice will have a different way to say "Alright, I'm on it", than the Irish guy. There were times when it made certain cutscenes funny, because you already played the game, and a certain mission with one character, and are replaying it with another, and then they say something unexpected. In a sense, it does add some semblance of personality, but like I said, in a more 'cultural' way. There is something, however, that the Bloodlines expansion showed, which is that the game's setting is a pretty good one for a Watch Dogs game. I've said before that I felt that Legion went back to the dark and gritty origins of the franchise, with a dystopian 2030, where we almost live in a cyberpunk/biopunk society, with shady corporations running the society itself, and corrupt members of government, etc. The DLC proves that if you can manage to create one (or two) single lense through which to focus the experience of this world, and actually making a way to connect the character(s) to the world and story in a personal manner, it would have worked. Like MasterAssassin said, it really should have been a game about Aiden. I'm just imagining if they had made the game exactly as it is, but simply made Aiden the protagonist, with Bloodlines being the beginning of the game, then flowing over to 6 months later in the main story, where you experience it from the perspective of Aiden Pearce trying to piece everything together.
I love this game more than GTA.Of course I was also unaware of all the controversies.But the game in itself should be a big step up and game changer for Ubisoft Studio.Unfortunatly it did not end well.I love this game then and now.I also recommend this game for all the gamers for it's great story and gameplay.Thank you Ubisoft.
I really enjoyed playing it was amazing i don't mind if people say it bad i enjoyed hacking into stuff and it was really funny doing it to NPCs and how they reacted
I just realised Watch Dogs 1 released on my birthday
Hbd. Your videos are amazing
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LOL. Belated happy birthday, brother. I hope you had fun!
Happy birthday!
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That game was awesome and holds a special place in my heart and the original had a darker tone than the second.
idc what any1 says i love the game
I love the game too. I played the game everyday when it came out. I replayed it dozens of times. But I gotta acknowledge the lack of polish and bugs when this game launched. The downgrade to visuals from E3 trailer was disappointing.
For me Aiden Pearce is hands down The Best Character in Ubisoft!
I feel like Watch Dogs is the closest we'll ever get to a modern day Assassin's Creed. Shame Ubisoft kinda killed the series with Legion even with the AC crossover. I hope they bring it back with the darker tone and more serious characters
Watch Dogs 1 atmosphere is unmatched to this day! What a game bro!
Really?
No game since 2014 had better atmosphere then Watch dogs 1, give me a break
The "multiplayer" aspect of the game was cool to me. Another player invades your game and you have to hide from them for a couple minutes in a limited area.
Yes! Some of my favorite memories of this game are the moments where you're frantically running around to find a good hiding spot without leaving the circle, just hoping the timer will run out before the other player finds you.
I wish it were on Watch Dogs Legion too... I don't know about Watch Dogs 2.
@@johnnylattarulo6735its one 2 and Legion, and 2 u can invade 2 people, or ppl in ur own session. in legion u can swap characters while hacking.... so yeah. its odd. 1 is probably the best in terms of tension but 1 and 2 have good ass invasion modes
I just recently played and I loved it so much but had to disable bc I hacked so many people that I was getting hackers every 2 minutes in my game lmao. I remember I felt like I was being followed so I walked into a parking garage where no NPC ever goes and then I took cover by a car and waited. 10 seconds later when the hacker walked in I knew and shot him. Then another time I was walking and heard a commotion on the corner and knew it was a player who couldn't drive and hit something so I went sprinting, saw the car, parkour(ed? Lmao ) over the hood of another car and then emptied a clip into the windshield of the player's car. When you get to the point of finding and killing the hacker before they even find you or start the hack then that's when it gets really addicting. Really had me paranoid too 😂 which probably helped immerse me even more in Aiden's character. Got to the point where if something went wrong and I wasn't sure if it was just the AI being off, a bug, or my imagination then I would end up killing an innocent lol. Old man walking my way a bit too fast?? Better safe than sorry....lol. I adored the time I spent in this game's pvp.
I definitely loved the Chicago setting. Being able to go to Water Tower Place and seeing the detail in the bricks, and Millennium Park feels like I'm actually there. It was nice to see my hometown represented, not enough of them out there.
This Game was way ahead of its time.
The graphics were good too.
People had unrealistic expectations from this game.
In what way was it ahead of its time.
Imagine saying this back in 2014, people would clown on you
Could've been a true gta challenger if it wasn't made by ubisoft
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Bruh you sure those expectations weren’t set by the fake ass E3 demos?
@@bharath2508ppl always do
10 years later and Watch Dogs is still my favorite video game of all time with my favorite protagonist of all time. 10/10 from me. It's perfect in every way
Bro how…
Elaborate..plz
Gotta love Aiden, imo great character, dnc what anyone says
Righteous, you & I feel the same way about the first Watch Dogs. I too want another entry in vein of the original.
Watch dogs 1 isn't knock off GTA. It's modern day assassin's creed
Watch Dogs 1 with Aiden Pierce is it for me. I don't know why they didn't continue with Aiden Pierce.
because consoomers dont like deep troubled characters who require analysis to understand
It's funny U drop this cause I finally decided to give Watch Dog Legion a shot. I am enjoying the Aiden Pearce DLC.
How did it go?
@@bibscalacar3856 other than some frustrating trophies that are still glitched, the game is fun.
still waiting for a true watch dogs 3 :( loved the first game so much!
2014 Ubisoft must've done some Blood sacrifice black magic rituals For these games to look This good
Oh they did, didn't you see it in the making of Watch Dogs developer video?
They downgraded Watch Dogs graphic from the E3 showing
@@trenaceandblackmetal5621 Well yes but that's mainly because the Ubisoft higher ups wanted to have versions of the game for Nintendo Wii U, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. Had they focused on just PS4, Xbox One, and PC we probably would have gotten that version, or not most AAA game releases back then and now don't live up to their gameplay demo reveals.
Bro no one would agree with you back in 2014
Both AC unity and Watch Dogs performed terribly. I like them(infact i love unity), but that isnt the way to make a next gen game. Look at something like Infamous 4, how good it looked as well as performed well enough too.
Marketing absolutely ruined WD1, this game is the reason as to why people don't trust demo gameplays anymore.
At this point, I've played Watch Dogs 1 for more than 10 times. It's my favourite Ubisoft game, the writing is just so good
I don’t care what people say, WD1 is amazing and holds very well even if compared to today’s games. The only thing it lacks in is graphics, but if it was remastered with today’s graphics it would be perfect
The Watch Dogs series had such a promising premise. It was new, had a fresh take on open-world games, introduced an interesting concept of hacking. They had a brilliant idea. Even the idea of Watch Dogs Legion - anybody can be the hero - was a great idea. However, the execution and the handling of the whole series could've and should've been much better. It is sad to see the series in destitution now. I hope the movie will be good and will reinvigorate people's interest in the franchise.
Definitely my favorite Watch Dogs game. The story was fantastic. WD2 was also good, a worthy sequel and had some things you could do with the hacks that are among my best memories but the story on the first was the best. Far and away. Although I was enormously excited for Legion, the simple fact is that it's strength was also it's biggest single weakness. How much story can you have when all the characters are interchangable. As far as the way the first has aged, well, I just finished my fourth playthrough. Had a blast as always. Good vid
I literally just replayed Watchdogs, and actually finished Legion the past two weeks. The first is my favorite, love the story, Aiden Pearce, Jordi (who was okay in the second game), Chicago, the fact that game devs still had the audacity to kill off such an important character (as well as make an urban legend not so legendary). Maybe it's just a me thing, but it'd be interesting to see Aiden Pearce as an assassin
The game is just so good.idk why but this game just has something the other 2 watchdog games doesn’t have. This game is just perfect in every way.
Watch Dogs came bundled with my PS4 when I got it, accorfing to my PS5, it is the game, by a substantial margin, which I have put the most time into, it is still probably my favorite game.
I love both 1 and 2, couldn't say which one is my favorite, honestly I can say which one I like least, but I can never really say which one I like best.
Legion is... okay, I definately see the argument about the lack of distinct personality by the recruits, but I still enjoy certain aspects of the game, as a barely travelled person, with London being one of the few places I have ever been (and one of about three places that would ever get a game set in it) I enjoy being somewhere in the game whereI've actually been.
Watch Dogs 2 doesn't hold a candle to 1. No gun takedowns, went from 30-50 guns on you to 2 and a bunch of non lethal methods that was built to feel how it was played, like gunplay (60% of open world crime games activities include gunplay) was never a main focus and is nothing but insult worthy, a terrible story with an even woke group of "friends", and it was made with the backlash from the original living in the developers heads rent-free. As good as 1 was, they took the backlash and made a game somehow in the same series feel like the opposite of the original. We never got a sequel to Watch_Dogs, only a few games after the original that thought if it made these changes it'll be a game changer (a GTA competitor iyw) but ofc Ubisoft never realized they had a gem that could've easily been one.
This is such embarrassing comment. Aden is just as cringy as Marcus, with his edge lord attitude and laughable Batman voice.
Watch Dogs 2 dramatically improved on the gameplay, which matters way more then “oh I like edgy characters.” So lame
@@Indigo_1001 taking away key elements that made you different than the other games and listening to your core audience in the wrong way is not "drastically improving" a single thing let alone does it compete with the original. Riddle me this, if it actually improved how did it do sales wise compared to 1? My original point being when you actually improve in a game series, as long as you didn't completely f'd the game up, you'll pull more sales especially in the OW genre (examples being SR2 sold more than 1, San Andreas crushed any GTA in the trilogy, and GTA 5 to 4?? Everyone knows)
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Firstly the video above is wrong. Both games sold a similar amount despite Watch Dogs 1 existing for longer than Watch dogs 2 (and there false advertising WD1 had). Secondly you can absolutely have a sequel do financially “worse” and still be a better game then it’s predecessor. I.e. FF7 rebirth.
Secondly the one unique thing that made Watch dogs 1 stand out was its hacking element. Not the edge lord protagonist that so many other games had, not the dark tone ether. The hacking. And that’s what Watch Dogs 2 DRAMATICALLY improved.
The gameplay went from a generic third person shooter with a hacking gimmick. To an actual stealth shooter with hacking being a core aspect of the over all experience. You could do non-lethal runs in WD2 or even complete a mission without stepping inside the mission area. You don’t have this level of freedom in WD1. Plus controlling cars in WD2 was so cool and unique for that game
AC unity is almost 10 years old too
And from a graphics standpoint (also world design) I would still play that over any AC games released after it
This game is one of my childhood favorites. I still replay it as an adult
The first game felt like a book or movie you didn't want to end. It felt like you were playing a spy thriller. There was this addictive voyeurism to it of playing a character capable of taking on the underworld.
It puts you in the shoes of a character that feels powerful, but in a grounded way. A good example is one of the first missions where his sister is getting pranked called by some creep. That would scare most people, but as Aiden you have the ability to find this person. I won't spoil, but its sets up the game from there. Every time I stopped a crime taking place, I would always execute the person when they are on the ground. It just makes me feel like I'm dishing out hard and swift justice.
The soundtrack is also very underrated and the game can get pretty intense. I remember that mission where you had to track down hacker Defalt. It felt satisfying to catch him bc he seemed like a better hacker than you.
Btw WD1 can be played for free if you have the ps plus extra subscription its has been added 5 or 6 days ago to the cataloge
This game is so underrated. The gunplay in WD1 is the best out of the 3 games.
I really want to see another WD game in the style of 1. A grittier, more violent, game with a more personal story and antihero type character. Even Legion was a pretty good immersive sim style game and had things to like, but the ‘play as anyone’ mechanic and lack of protagonist just did not work. Legion is far better if you have the Season Pass that lets you play as Aiden or Wrench through the whole campaign. Bloodlines was a step in the right direction as well and there is still a lot of potential here. I hope they don’t fully bury the IP and reconsider it’s future.
Ubi should focus on remaking this game, like making a next-gen update or a E3 version. The plot and the story of the first one is amazing, i remember at the start when confronting the person who killed Aiden's niece, he lets him go, but if you are a person who likes collectibles you can find audios that explain how he regrets killing her, at the end of the campaign you can decide whether to kill him or let him live. Such a good touch
Use mods.
One of my favorite games ever. Just beat it again recently. Awesome. The Bad Blood DLC is incredible.
Aiden Pierce is my favorite gaming Character beacuse he's Batman.
Watch Dogs has a pretty rare feature that Ubisoft games nowadays don't. The protagonist has a pretty sister in Watch Dogs. However, the Ubisoft games nowadays: Every woman is ugly.
I just started it. Ive owned it for years
I liked almost everything about this game except for the driving. I also liked how it tied into Assassin’s Creed Universe despite them saying it was only Easter Eggs.
I was not a fan of the driving, either
Yet to play watchdogs, got it downloading now!
This game was A masterpiece
the first games i got with my first gaming computer (which was a laptop) were Watch_Dogs and AC: Unity, which came as a two-pack. my love for these games may be due in large part to nostalgia, but i really do adore them. people say that Aidan's boring but he's just not over-the-top (same with Connor). as someone whose expressions of emotion are also fairly muted, i always found him pretty compelling. the story and characters are all great, just again muted in comparison to what people seem to like. i've never been to the US, but Watch_Dogs' Chicago is familiar to me as someone who grew in Northern England: outwardly drab, while teeming with life. i think that, in general, it's a fairly grounded game, and that that seems to have been a point against it. the characters aren't all incredibly loud and obnoxious; the story is largely focused on one man and how his very personal quest for revenge hurts the people he loves; and the city isn't populated entirely by hysterical stereotypes.
i love the whimsy of Watch_Dogs 2 and i definitely find the concept of its story more interesting, but a story about a hacktivist group was never going to be done properly in a AAA game by a major studio and it came out toothless. then they doubled down on the "aesthetically political but practically toothless" idea with Legion while stripping it of 2's whimsy to leave a disappointing mess with few redeeming features
Watch_dogs + Living City Mod is one of the best game ever.
It’s one of my favorite games, one thing I wish they did was make one after bad blood that had Aiden , Ray and Tobias doing something before they all went to California
Watch Dogs 1 is really good because of its dark setting. It’s the closest game to being similar to 2008’s GTA 4 so it needs to be cut some slack. But Watch Dogs 2 has really fun gameplay and Watch Dogs Legion may have the worst story out of the trilogy but it does have the best combat and customization and some extremely fun gameplay when playing with friends in Online.
Maybe like 2 months ago i bought watchdogs on instant gaming for something like 5 dollars and I DEVOURED everything they served me. It was so good I even made my friend buy it XD, but right after finishing wd 1 I bought wd 2, which I still haven´t finished. Wd1 just had its athmosphere, the characters, the animations (I even started training with and telescopic baton, not knowing that its NOT a silent weapon, you literally have to smash in the ground with the top of it, not just collapse it by hand like Aiden does), and mostly, THE BLACKOUTS. Such a cool feature, but I think Ubisoft won´t be able to make a wd game as good as the original. But one of my favorites games surley.
Thanks for making me feel like that one Matt Daemon gif from Saving Private Ryan. I'll still stand by and say that Watch_Dogs was my favorite game.
Obviously, preference changes over the years. But I still look back on it fondly.
Got this game from my friend for the ps4, cant wait to play it next week when i get my ps4🎉
I didnt play it back in the day, and I just started to play it like a month ago, love this game, love the story and gameplay, its increible that Ubi made this, this game became one of my favorites, im planning to get WD Legion just because of the Dlc✌
Fun Fact
Shares the universe with Assassin's Creed 4
The races in this game remind me of splitsecond
I'm playing it for the first time rn since it was $1 on steam like two weeks ago & I've been fucking loving it so far. l'm glad i decided to go with the first one cus the whole series was on sale but I've only ever heard negative things about the other two. just as you said the tone, storytelling, and the sandbox hacking mechanics are things you just simply don't get in games nowadays.
What negatives things you heard from Watch Dogs 2?
There was WAY more negativity around the first one in its launch.
Watch Dog 2 improved the gameplay dramatically in every way. It isn’t just a third person shooter with a hacking gimmick. It was THE hacking stealth action game. You mention “hacking sandbox” that’s WS2
I platinumed this game and I give it a 9/10 I loved doing it minus the bloody songs
Wait, you’re from Chicago too?!
I’m replaying this game now because it’s the 10 year anniversary and with Ubisoft basically confirming that watch dogs is not profitable enough to continue, it’s almost warranted imo
Absolutely awesome game, and still great to this day (currently playing through it again). Makes it even sadder to see how far Ubi has fallen today.
I remember my friend introduced me to this game back in 2015 and as a GTA player I got into it pretty quickly, surely the optimization for average PC at that time wasn't great, started replaying this game on Xbox One X last year and I was still having a blast
This game has incredible combat and stealth. The perfect John Wick simulator
I really think you can do both tone wise, in bloodlines you have the dark tones, but wrench also brings the upbeat tone swing how they react is really cool. I think a sequel should stay in London, and follow Aiden, and Jackson. Plus wrench (which if he needed it could mean Marcus, Josh, sitara and even t-bone. Plus they could set up some properly cannon dedsec characters
I still enjoy playing the games
i played through this game 5 times.
Damn u just made me realize how my top favorite games were published and GUTTED by Ubisoft. First Splinter Cell then Watch Dogs
I'm playing through WD1 again right now, with a graphics mod added. It's still an amazing game :D
One of the best games I've ever played
This game was truly ahead of its time. Still one of the greatest story modes in video game history
I'm probably going back to watchdogs 1 later today bc star wars outlaws is disappointing me so badly so far. Idk how they have fallen so far. I can't decide between this and Division 2 though.
They need to make a vr game of watch dog
WD 1 and 2 are awesome! Among my favorite games. They're not superhero games, but i sure feel like some kind of superhero when i play it.
I recently picked up Watch Dogs on a steam sale, really cheap, playing through it again at the moment. I originally played it on the Ps3 when it came out.
I've just finished the game today (only focused on the campaign), the story is pretty good, the gameplay is suprisignly good, but the missions can be annoying and repetitive, go here, hack this, elimite/escape enemies, repeat.
so your saying i was playing this game as a 9 year old 10 years ago already time flies yall love your family and most importantly yourselfs
OMG Just played one month ago and once again felt like kid and really loved the first one!
I haven't played it actually! I never felt interested in Watch Dogs, but then my sister made me play Legion when I was at her place and I had SO much fun, so I immediately told my boyfriend about it and he ordered it for me on Black Friday, which was super nice of him and then we played it for soooo many hours, it's a HUGE game and we played it for weeks whilst having covid (rip, my dad had to take care of us - two fully grown adults, during those weeks...) and it's a huge part of 2020 for me, that game made a huge impact on me. So I just bought Watch Dogs 2 actually! It's fun, I'm definitely enjoying it, but I really loved how Legion was made, every part of that story as well. Watch Dogs OG looks really cool as well, I do hate family drama though and have had enough of both that and grief so that part is a bit off-putting, unfortunately, because the main character himself seems great.
I remember being disappointed with the graphics and wished the customization was better but still liked the game.
Loved Watch Dogs 1 and 2. Theres no other game of its kind ;Hacking and stealth in it was fun. Really hope they keep the series going.
Dude watchdogs 1 and 2 both sold 10 million copies i believe. Also i went back and beat watch dogs legion and that game was good as well. It had a terrible launch and it never recovered. People simply never gave it a chance. Can't be too upset many games suffer the same fate.
2014 was the last amazing Ubisoft year to me.
They still had great Games that i love after that.
But they where on a roll bringing out banger after banger from 2007 to 2014.
@JosephCasimir-ci5bf Yeah i used to get excited hearing about a new AC, Far Cry or Tom Clancy Game.
Now i am just skeptical when i hear Ubisoft.
Imagine telling gamers back in 2014 Watch dogs 1 and AC Unity were “bangers
AC origins alone is much better then both those games
@@Indigo_1001 AC Origins is the best of the RPG AC's yes.
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And much better then Watch Dogs 1 and most other Ubisoft games
@@Indigo_1001 I 100% agree that it is better than Watchdogs and most of the newer Ubisoft Games.
I am still kinda sad that Bayek never got a sequel.
Also with "Living City" mod installed, this game is surely much better in terms of replayability
My fifth favorite game. It's actually a great realistic superhero game if you play it like that (which I always do).
It's a shame that both of the sequels were atrocious, but this game will always be one of my favorites. I love driving the Scafati GT (Lamborgini Aventador) around and the gun selection is great.
Watch Dogs 2?
Atrocious?
@@loadshedding_yeah really what did this man play 😂
@@loadshedding_ Watch Dogs 2 was horrible. It was completely tone-deaf and so cringey that I couldn't play it for more than a few hours. It destroyed what could have been a staple series in gaming.
The first game is the only Watch Dogs.
@@BlazerPandaI A stupid piece of shit sequel that was so cringey and tone-deaf that it felt like a Deadpool comic.
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My dude the first Watch Dogs is also cringy as fuck with this edge lord protagonist with his Batman voice, it’s embarrassing
Watch dogs 2 isn’t much better but they dramatically improved on the gameplay in every way. It wasn’t a generic third person shooter with a hacking gimmick
I had the best memories playing this game with my friends
I heard Ubisoft is in early development for Watch dogs 4 set in Boston with a dark setting.
Still one of my favourite games ever, hard to believe Ubisoft would drop the ball on such a unique concept... you get a fix for so many things all at once, stealth, combat, the hacking element, side challenges, the digital trips, driving missions, all in a dark urban fantasy setting that is relatable because it's grounded in reality. The characters are also so fleshed out, and the story pulls you in. They were bold to tackle heavy subjcts like organised crime and human trafficking and still did in in a way that isn't exploitative or vapid, it makes you feel something when you face these things in the game knowing they're part of our reality. Another thing I love is the vigilantism aspect, personally I feel better slaying criminals than playing as one, and as much as I love GTA it kind of glamourises crime, whereas WD1 looks at it the way we usually do IRL.
I thought it was so cool and hardly noticed the visual downgrade on PS4 at the time. Felt like gta but a hacker batman as the character. Give us another one like 1 or 2 with some of the positives of Legion and I'd take it over GTA tbh. Ik that's like sacrilege in the gamer community lol but I like watchdogs, JustCause, and the older Saints Row games so much more than GTA. I have online but GTA V irritates me with how we never really got any extra post launch support or content for the single player which is where I prefer to spend my time. Watchdogs has probably my favorite online ever and it's just a simple tackon and I NEVER like pvp. Apart from some cheap tactics and sore losers who quit the game when they're losing it's perfect. One time I thought I was being followed so i went into a parking garage bc I never see NPCs there and I took cover by a car and shot the first person I saw walking in knowing it was a player. It really is such an immersive game. If I'm walking down the street and hear a big commotion then I take off sprinting bc I know it's a player who can't drive 😂. Honestly anyone who hasn't done the online, try it. I played 1 about 4 months ago I think and it was still active on PlayStation.
Best setting and game out of the series IMO! Would be cool to have a other setting like Chicago in another Watchdogs. Maybe NY or some city similar
I don't care what anyone says, I LOVE the first Watch Dogs the most. It feels so nostalgic, and I hope they go back to that direction
U can play Watch Dogs 3 as Aden if u get the season pass.
I really liked the original. Being in my 30's now might have something to do with it, but I related to Aiden more than other characters. Also, I really dug the hybrid singleplayer/multiplayer thing where someone could "invade" your session and you had to scramble to find them. The City also had a charm to it, it's hard to explain but it just had more character and a stronger vibe. I did buy and play Watch Dogs 2 on launch, and while IRL I love the geography of San Fran (outside their current issues), the in-game representation felt empty and didn't have the same charm as the Chicago map. Also sometimes in Watch Dogs 2 it felt like I was playing through what I imagine a Gen Z'er or emotionally-stunted Millennials fantasy would be. Just seemed corny sometimes.
I played this game FIVE times in a row when it came out.
I do believe that despite none of the protagonists of Legion (apart from Aiden and Wrench) having a true set-apart personality, they did have 'culture', so to speak. Many characters come from different area's or ethnicities, and this makes it so dialogue in cutscenes is different depending on your character's 'background'. The Birmingham male voice will have a different way to say "Alright, I'm on it", than the Irish guy. There were times when it made certain cutscenes funny, because you already played the game, and a certain mission with one character, and are replaying it with another, and then they say something unexpected.
In a sense, it does add some semblance of personality, but like I said, in a more 'cultural' way.
There is something, however, that the Bloodlines expansion showed, which is that the game's setting is a pretty good one for a Watch Dogs game. I've said before that I felt that Legion went back to the dark and gritty origins of the franchise, with a dystopian 2030, where we almost live in a cyberpunk/biopunk society, with shady corporations running the society itself, and corrupt members of government, etc. The DLC proves that if you can manage to create one (or two) single lense through which to focus the experience of this world, and actually making a way to connect the character(s) to the world and story in a personal manner, it would have worked. Like MasterAssassin said, it really should have been a game about Aiden. I'm just imagining if they had made the game exactly as it is, but simply made Aiden the protagonist, with Bloodlines being the beginning of the game, then flowing over to 6 months later in the main story, where you experience it from the perspective of Aiden Pearce trying to piece everything together.
bro your from chicago too ? id love to link up and kick it some time i stay in roscoe village off of bell and and roscoe lets link sometime
Such a great game, basically the closest thing to a John Wick simulator ever made.
1 is dark and gritty vs 2 is bright and sunny and clean
Hey did you read and what do you think of AC books?
I love this game more than GTA.Of course I was also unaware of all the controversies.But the game in itself should be a big step up and game changer for Ubisoft Studio.Unfortunatly it did not end well.I love this game then and now.I also recommend this game for all the gamers for it's great story and gameplay.Thank you Ubisoft.
I love watchdogs one in fact that's the first watchdogs game I've ever played
Honestly my favorite game I played it so much it's the first game I ever 100%
Started playing watch dogs 1 just a week ago and cursing myself for not playing it earlier❤
So much hate for this game. Still felt this was a solid game and needed a proper sequel after WD 2
Wd 1 and Wd 2, altough diferent from eachother, are PEAK Ubisoft🔥
Video request: rank all assassin's creed games by which one is your favourite
WD1 was awesome and I'm gonna miss this series, Legion just missed the mark on everything that people actually enjoyed about the series
Hope they’ll make a remastered
I really enjoyed playing it was amazing i don't mind if people say it bad i enjoyed hacking into stuff and it was really funny doing it to NPCs and how they reacted