I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this new Christmas-themed level sucks. It is EXACTLY the same as Paris but with added Christmas decorations and two new targets added. No new opportunities, no new trophies/achievements, very few new challenges added. Margolis, Novikov and Kruger all behave the same way they did on the regular Paris map. Such a disappointment. I know it is free and all but this could have been amazing. Anyone who knows this level well can easily beat it and Silent Assassin it within 15 minutes and be done with it.
There's a new OSW Review out. First time I've ever watched it...and I don't get it? Is this just a bad episode and these guys are normally hilarious? 15 minutes in and I really just don't understand.
They rely too much on inside jokes have been established years ago and they think everything is hilarious. I started watching three years ago so I do know most of the stuff they're talking about but even then, I've started to lose patience with them and I don't enjoy their videos as much as I used to. They lost a lot of credibility with me when they said that the Lesnar vs. Orton match at SummerSlam was "great."
@vod_crack: The one thing I'll say is that if they're trying to emulate modern Bay Area hip-hop stations, then they're right to exclude almost all local acts. Bay Area hip-hop has always gotten the short end of the stick on KMEL. I don't listen to it anymore, but it always felt like they only jumped on local acts well after they blew up nationally.
As someone who doesn't actually live there, I really appreciate this information and this helps me understand why they went in the direction they did. Thanks for popping in Jeff!
I thought Ubisoft would go for this. It seems like an obvious choice. I only visit the Bay Area a couple of times a year but I still hear this remix on the radio.
I bet Jeff is disappointed as well.
Oh yeah should have had that on there probably but oh well! Thanks though.
Man, as a GIGANTIC fan of Hip Hop, this is a bummer to hear. I feel like Bay Area fans are real hardcore about their rappers, and it does seem weird to not AT LEAST have a little E-40 on there!
I still wanna play this game, but I feel your point, and agree wholeheartedly that in these types of open worlds, the soundtracks can help to immerse you a great deal. Also, I just nerd out over that stuff!
(For the record, DIzzee Rascal sucks and always has, LISTEN TO SKEPTA)
Yup, E-40 is a massive omission. They could have just went down the obvious route and put "Tell Me When To Go" on there and I would have been happy.
Yeah, this is a good point too! I am not saying JUST put Bay Area stuff in the game, variety is the spice of life after all and it makes sense to also put in whatever is big in the charts at the moment. GTA V had two separate stations, one that focused on 80s/90s West Coast Hip-Hop and the other one focused on more modern stuff. This would probably be the ideal route to take.
Yeah fair point. If WD3 was set in Manchester I'd be a bit annoyed if there wasn't any Levelz on the tracklist, but lets be real, it'd definitely just be full of London artists cos apparently thats the only city in England ha.
@humanity: He's saying it's the wrong music geographically. It's not that OP doesn't like Dizzee Rascal, which as you say is subjective. It's that hearing a London rapper in a game based in San Francisco seems like a wasted opportunity given that the Bay area has its own hip hop artists who aren't being fully represented.
Yeah, but are we saying that hip-hop radio in the bay is exclusively playing artists from the area and never anything else? I'm sure you'd hear a lot more E-40 out there, but I guarantee that shit like RTJ is played on those stations.
Yeah, this is a good point too! I am not saying JUST put Bay Area stuff in the game, variety is the spice of life after all and it makes sense to also put in whatever is big in the charts at the moment. GTA V had two separate stations, one that focused on 80s/90s West Coast Hip-Hop and the other one focused on more modern stuff. This would probably be the ideal route to take.
@vod_crack: no that actually IS the point. You can't say that it's the "wrong" music. If it was an all classical strings soundtrack then I might be inclined to agree that it's a rough fit for this game, but you can't really argue that it has the wrong type of hip hop because some people might live Dizzee Rascsl or Lady Sovereign or just grime in general and think "man finally a mainstream game got the hip-hop right!"
I get what you're saying to an extent but we are just going to have to agree to disagree on that one. I am not a fan of that grime genre but hypothetically, if Watch Dogs 3 was set in London and it had Dizzee Rascal, Lady Sovereign, Big Narstie and whoever on the soundtrack, I would not complain because that actually makes sense and shows that the developers have put some thought into their soundtrack. Hell, I half expect that music in the game, even though I don't like it.
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