Watch_Dogs

I have a very strange fantasy: I intend to play through Legion as Aiden Pearce the entire game and adopt an incredibly violent murderous Antihero persona completely at odds with my usual way because that's who Aiden is. I am also going to record gameplay for the first time so I can make a music video set to Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around."

Its a moment inspired by the Blacklist but just the idea that Aiden is like, "Fuck it, let's just stop Blume with guns now."

Mind you, it might make the final confrontation with Zero Day a bit more hollow.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jun 18th 2021 at 9:53:36 AM

Never been that big a Cash fan, but that is a lovely song.

Finished the "Bloodline" DLC and man, for the first time ever Aiden Pearce seemed both sympathetic AND interesting to me. Lots of good character moments for him.

Wrench, on the other hand, couldn't be more annoying if he tried. He reminded me on how much I hated the entire Watch Dogs 2 cast.

Is it just me or has the gameplay taken a serious downgrade? It feels a lot more like Saints Row 3 than Watch_Dogs.

Mind you, I'm playing Bloodline first.

The options seem a lot less.

Okay, now I'm playing the main game with Aiden and Wrench and I'm having a much better time.

I will say that the Sky Larson bit with the spiderbot dog gave me nightmares.

Everything else? Fine.

Spider-bot dog is traumatizing.

New stuff dropped. Ultra hard campaign mode, Legion of the Dead(because every other game released nowadays has to have zombies. *rolls eyes*) and some Assassin's Creed inspired missions, leading to an actual assassin joining your crew. With the hood and the hidden blade and everything.

Nice to see that Ubisoft’s ten years behind the rest of the industry on that one. The trend of adding zombie modes to everything was more so an early 2010’s thing, like with Red Dead Redemption 1 or Yakuza 4, and it’s really only Call of Duty that still does it that much anymore.

There was a zombie survival mode in Watch Dogs 2. In-Universe it's an AR game.

Edited by Fighteer on Aug 24th 2021 at 10:15:57 AM

There's a zombie mode in a game about hacking into corrupt corruptions.

How.

Wait, no. Tomb Raider did this too.

Just played the Assassins Creed DLC. It was quite fun, lots of call backs to AC Syndicate, and I'm excited about this new agent.

But for some reason, Ubisoft still doesn't want to call it an official crossover and just deems ist a non-canon fan service. I just don't get it.

Edited by Forenperser on Sep 19th 2021 at 11:50:01 AM

I mean its probably a good thing not to make a shared universe. But the problem is that the AC DLC is probably the best AC content in a very long time. It also puts to lie the idea you can't do a modern game.

I mean, I don't see the harm in it. Shared Universe doesn't have to mean constant crossovers. Small ones like these would totally do. It's not the only one either, remember the footage of Aiden killing Olivier Garneau in AC Origins (and the deed itself in WD 1)?

But then doing it and still saying it doesn't count? Either shit or get off the pot, that's my opinion.

Has anyone seen these messages?

WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical.Watch Dogs Legion:

"A message will pop up for gamers recruiting too many members of either gender into their DedSec in an attempt to shame them into gender balancing their group."

...

It's presumably not this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/watch_dogs/comments/im60h9/what_you_trying_to_say_ubi/

Edited by Malady on Sep 21st 2021 at 5:37:36 AM

It's an in-game pop-up. Not the email ad.

I am dramatically confused how either of those stats can be correct unless there's a MASSIVE Gender-Neutral option in this game...

Which there isn't because I remember playing Legion a year ago.

Welp, that was fun. I apparently have the "if you cough twice the map turns hostile, every enemy knows where you are, stealth is impossible" bug. Shit like this is why I didn't bother with permadeath; I'd be mad if this cost me operatives I really liked.

Anyone have any advice for resistance mode? Just got into the safehouse, and all I can say is DON'T GO THROUGH ROADBLOCKS.

I had a lot of fun roleplaying when to turn lethal. Aiden Pearce generally only used the Stun Gun as did Wrench. However, I switched to my pistol when assaulting the organ thieves and in the mansion of Clan Kelley's leader because, well, fuck slavers and organ thieves.

I also went lethal in the assault on Nigel Cass because I figure anyone siding with him after the revelation was a card-carrying fascist.

Here's a question. Trying to figure out how permadeath functions in Watchdogs Legion: if an operative dies, and you turn off permadeath after, do they come back to life injured or do they still remain dead?

Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 7th 2022 at 7:46:04 AM

I believe they remain dead.