Topic: Watch_Dogs officially delayed... on Wii U

[Ceric]

The driving is squirrely, but I find driving in most open world games to be less than great.

When I hear Driving and Open World.  Its never good.  Its like Vehicles and FPS.

[ShyGuy]

Breaking: DedSec was hired by North Korea to hack the Sony CTOS system.

[ShyGuy]

Watch_Dogs PRO TIPS:

If you are escaping a gang or the cops and want an easy way out, jump in the water and swim to a boat. Escaping in the water is the easiest way to do it.

Second easiest way to do it is to get on the elevated train tracks with a vehicle or by catching a train. It will get you out of the search area fast. You can drive a motorcycle up the steps to a station platform.

Best skills to unlock are: blow up steam pipes, and disable helicopters. It would be hard to beat the game without them.

Best weapons: The full-auto shotgun chews through all but the heavy armor enemies, and the grenade launcher will take care of the heavies and blow up cars real nice.

Sometimes it's best to hide and wait if you can't get out of the area easily. However, some story missions will not let you do that.

[ShyGuy]

Congratulations to Watch_Dogs, Giant Bomb's 2014 Most Disappointing Game of the Year!

[Shaymin]

Dude, spoilers.

[ejamer]

So it's $30 at Walmart (Canada) now. That didn't take long to drop and the pricing is now roughly in line with the other consoles.

I thought about buying for a minute... but $30 still seems kind of high considering it lacks the best bits of DLC, didn't review well on any platform, and has been crucified for poor performance.  (When hitting fewer than 20 frames per second apparently isn't a rare occurrence, the crucifixion might be warranted?)


Anyone want to convince me otherwise?  Is it better to grab Watch Dogs at $30 than Tekken at $20?  Both games look vaguely interesting with opportunity to disappoint.  My biggest concern with Watch Dogs is that I won't be playing for a while anyway, and it'll buying now will be an overpay because it might continue to drop in price.

[ShyGuy]

There is no rush to buy Watch_Dogs. You can probably get it for $20 online in the next few months.

Do you buy DLC? I've bought one piece of DLC in my entire life. I just don't care about it 99% of the time.

[ejamer]

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Do you buy DLC? I've bought one piece of DLC in my entire life. I just don't care about it 99% of the time.

It depends on the game, what the DLC is, and whether it seems like a good value.


Bad Blood wouldn't have been an automatic buy... but it would be something to consider. Given how few open world games Wii U will get, the option to buy more content (even for a mediocre game) would be nice.  Not having the option is disappointing, especially since reviews suggest that Bad Blood is the best part of the game and much better than the other DLC available.

[Stratos]

Just go back and play Godfather on Wii. That was a great game. I still need to pick up Scarface too.

[ejamer]

Just go back and play Godfather on Wii. That was a great game. I still need to pick up Scarface too.

Ah, good suggestion!