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Watch_Dogs Welcomes You to Chicago

Nowhere in this video did I see a single Portillo's location. Truly, this is a place of dystopic nightmare.

Mar. 27 2014

Posted by: Alex

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"You may be forced into the darker corners of Chicago..."

<instant camera change to black gangbangers>

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Still looks pretty cool, though the narrator is definitely not as good as the Rockstar one.

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While the overall excitement for this game has seemed to drop off, I'm still really looking forward to playing a game set in my sweet home of Chicago. I trust Ubisoft will make good. And yes Patrick, I will also be looking for a Portillos.

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"hyper connected" Online DRM for no reason except being Dark Souls-esque.

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If nothing else, their fake cars that look like real cars are on point.

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Is it me or is this game looking worse with every trailer release? I hope that Tom Clancey game doesn't go the same way.

No it's not just you. I think everything about it is generally starting to look less interesting on both the graphic and gameplay level. Maybe it's just taking too long since the reveal and our minds are playing tricks on us, but I remember that despite the somewhat average quality E3 live stream, this game looked amazing. Now it's looking mildly interesting at best, and pretty boring and ugly at worst.

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@bigd145 said:

"hyper connected" Online DRM for no reason except being Dark Souls-esque.

This game doesn't have always online DRM, stop making things up.

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Hmmmm...feeling more positive than the last trailer, which really lowered my expectations. If they can pack enough variety into the world and not make it get too over the top and silly this could be good.

The PvP stuff also sounds as if it could be really interesting,I have always wanted someone to make a game where you could slip into other people's worlds without them being informed, leaving the player to work out who is who. Hopefully they can get it right. - Really want this game to be the reason I buy a PS4 - still waiting for the game.

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mm, i liked the other trailers better. i feel like i already knew all of this.

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Portillos locations are not as plentiful around here as one would hope.

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I know everyone is still sitting under the open world shadow of rockstar taking notes, but this was a little much for me. I love rockstars games, but I don't want every urban open world game to try to be a Gimmicked GTA.

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Am I the only one who feels like this game is just somewhat of a beta for The Division? I expect that it will be a quality game and all, but it just feels like a "Person of Interest"/GTA version of what we'll get later with the more FPS-style of The Division. I guess I just don't see the need for the two games here, other than defraying development costs by selling two versions of what appears to be a similar game. I know Ubisoft is using two "different" engines with "Snowdrop" and "Disrupt", but I imagine that they share a whole lot in common. I may just wait on The Division, provided they don't bump it to Q4 2015 or some crap. Maybe Watch_Dogs will be excellent in its own right.

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Now I want Portillos

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I love the afterthought text "Oh yeah also coming to Wii U I guess."

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Ain't no windmills in the windy city. Or cliff faces, or mountains, or a dam, or large bridges crossing large bodies of water either. Seems like they took some extreme liberties with the areas outside of downtown.

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@notnert427: One is a coop, MMO-ish, RPG third person shooter set in an instanced New York. The other is an open world crime game with a linear narrative and Deus Ex sensibilities of choose-your-approach in gameplay. Aside from both games looking great and being third person shooters, I don't see very many similarities.

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It's entirely possible that I'm just trying to justify only buying one of the two because I'm cheap.

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Watch Dogs Welcomes You to Chicago
Again...

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It's like a Rockstar video preview up in here.

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@hatking said:

It's been a few months since I've made it up to the city, but I don't remember mountain ranges.

EDIT: Guys, there's some weird shit hidden in those images that flash by at the end.

Like a giant fucking spider mech.
Like a giant fucking spider mech.

Also this one

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@chaser324 said:

I can appreciate that this might look technically sharper than last gen games, but everything about this just makes it look like a second-rate attempt to create an atmosphere on the level of GTA V. Even the format of this trailer seems like a second-rate Rockstar trailer.

Exactly what I was thinking for the entire trailer. If a GTA VI logo appeared at the end, I would have thought it just as likely as the Watch_Dogs title. That's by no means a bad thing, and I like the friendly shoves W_D has given V. (Assuming this is another one of those)

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Somehow it never occurred to me that you'd be able to hack into all the drawbridge controls. I'm weirdly more excited about the possibility of jumping the Michigan Avenue bridge during a car chase than anything else I've seen from these previews.

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@krullban: I saw that too. I'm suddenly more excited for this game knowing that there is some bizarre shit hidden in there. I hope they handle it well.

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Day 1. This stuff looks great, the drawbridge, the freaks, oh man

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Portillo's is some tourist shit. Get after some Murphy's or Gold Coast dogs.

Portillo's is the Giordano's of Hot Dogs-good, but mainly consumed by visitors who don't know any better.

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Graphics look so shit, can only hope the PC version looks better.

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Sleeping Dogs looks better than this?

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That doesn't look so good, especially compared to the E3 stuff we saw a few years ago. What the hell happened?! Graphics aside, please let this be good. If this just ends up being another bad GTA ripoff I'm going to be really bummed.

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Portillo's is some tourist shit. Get after some Murphy's or Gold Coast dogs.

Portillo's is the Giordano's of Hot Dogs-good, but mainly consumed by visitors who don't know any better.

I so, so wish there was a Giant Bomb user named @threeonetwo who could jump in right now and clown on your poser-ass area code.

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@scaramoosh: How is looking on par with GTA V or Infamous Second Son "Shit"?

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@itssexytime: The fact it looked better when it was running on PC when it was first demo'd

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Are they saying that every single NPC is living a real life you can watch, exploit, and effect? How many NPC's would they have to create an entire back story for, and then have them carry out their days and nights? That seems like an insurmountable amount of work, not to mention the programming involved.

Am i missing something or misunderstanding what the narrator said?

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@kevin_cogneto: Scurry on back to schaumburg now. It's late, and your mom is worried.

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All this needed was a female voice and it was pretty much the welcome to Los Santos GTA V trailer.

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Looks like a bustling metropolis of well-spaced people and cars.

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@rebel_scum: Considering the PS4 demand is still allegedly outstripping supply, I wouldn't count on any discounted bundle any time soon.

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Is this narrated by Stephen Dorff? Or just a guy doing a not-so-great Stephen Dorff impression?

It's still crazy how much worse this looks than before. That is not to say it looks bad...just less amazing.

I can understand that may have been the PC version they were showing then, but history has shown that often when these multi-platform games come along every version suffers from the developers chipping away at the visuals to get it running smoothly on the least powerful hardware. Rarely is there enough scalability to bridge the gap unless it's on an engine designed with that in mind.

I can't help but wonder if that's happening here. If so, it sucks. Because even as much as I value gameplay and not just visuals, this was promising to be a visually stunning game.

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I'm most interested to see how the multiplayer works. If other players can affect the world while you're playing in it, it could be cool. As long as they find a smart way to mitigate the griefing, other than just not playing multiplayer.

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Well I know for sure they nailed that dealership on Western Ave.

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Looks like the graphics were scaled back in spots, I remember last year's footage looking better

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Can't get over the huge visual downgrade since the e3 unveiling. They were too ambitious and had to start over. Regardless, I hope this game is good.

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Holy fucking try-hard batman.

If it didn't say otherwise I would assume that this was a Rockstar trailer for GTA Chicago.

This is no accident. Ubisoft are trying to pull in some of the casual GTA market who don't know or care much about who publishes what. This is kind of cheap, I would rather see watch dogs trying to do it's own thing and let people make their own comparisons.

Trying to take GTA head on has proved to be pretty risky in the past. Ask Driv-three-r.

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The PS2 version they showed in this trailer looks pretty decent. Can't wait to see the X1/PS4/PC versions!

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@krullban said:

@hatking said:

It's been a few months since I've made it up to the city, but I don't remember mountain ranges.

EDIT: Guys, there's some weird shit hidden in those images that flash by at the end.

Like a giant fucking spider mech.
Like a giant fucking spider mech.

Also this one

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Deckers.Dogs

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How disappointing.

This was one of the most anticipated games during E3.

Now it looks like its going through development hell.

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Please be good.

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@scotto: You mean the Vertical Slice Rorie linked to that looks nothing like the game being released in this trailer? It's hard to tell what's honest or not with Ubisoft trailers these days

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Some of the "camera work" in the trailer looks real bad. I don't like how they're trying to mimic Rockstar's style of narrated trailers.

Yeah, I don't know how they thought opening your trailer with shots captured by someone jacking the camera around with a controller was acceptable.

Still, I hope this is good.