Ubisoft Montreal pledges 'ambitious' plans for Watch Dogs' future

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/477260/ubisoft-montreal-pledges-ambitious-plans-for-watch-dogs-future/

 

Watch Dogs released in May 2014 to a mixed critical reception. Commercially the title has been very successful for Ubisoft, shipping 8 million copies by July 2014, but certain elements of the game such as its narrative and campaign have faced criticism.

Speaking in a recent interview, Ubisoft Montreal's vice president of creative, Lionel Raynaud compared the game's reception to that of the original Assassin's Creed, telling CVG that although the game has its flaws, he feels that it succeeds in establishing "a brand and promise" for the future.

He said: "The reception has actually been pretty close to Assassin's Creed [1]. With the first one we didn't have such a good reception, and it was fair.

Ubisoft Montreal's VP of creative, Lionel Raynaud

"We had a lot of flaws in the replayability of gameplay loops and you could feel that the game was a first iteration. At the time, there was clear potential but it was not easy to know it was going to become the franchise that it is today.

 

Much surprise about this? Seem to recall the CEO saying they won't make a new game, 'less it can turned into a franchise. Where next (city, country) would you like to see next? I'd love to see any city in Canada - probably because I am Canadian.

[Avcn42]

Won't play another crappy game, honestly. Ubisoft, we're tired of your sh*t.

[Sexy Vanilla Freshness]

ubisoft can be ambitious about sucking my dick on that one

[menendez1293]

I would consider playing another Watch Dogs. 

[nj4ck]

Well, maybe they somehow manage not to ruin the next one, who knows... 

[Guest]

Burlington, Vermont.

[thebennyboy]

Well, maybe they somehow manage not to ruin the next one, who knows... 

 

LOL, that's quite unlikely. 

 

[MercFX]

Sure Ubisoft, sure.

[zanduh]

If ubisoft focused on delivering quality games when they were ready rather than based on arbitrary deadlines then I'd believe them

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[StingBull]

Ambitious plans = More DLC.

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

untill WD is given to me or GOTY for $1,i'll play it not going to be part of a major problem.

[Trik'Stari]

untill WD is given to me or GOTY for $1,i'll play it not going to be part of a major problem.

Lol I gotta say, I think we've found something worse.

 

That being said, fuck Ubisoft.

[Captain_Slow]

Watch Dogs only shipped 8 million copies because everyone got it with their GPUs for free.

 

Honestly it's the most un-optimized POS ever.

[Jaybird]

Rule one about press conferences. Never say your real thoughts unless it's truest good. Now that said, I in his position would state the same thing to avoid media backlash that would potential harm he companies name.

[frostin1990]

The original assassins creed was far better than watch dog.Ubisoft should be taught a lesson by the PC gamers by boycotting their overhyped games.It's like they spend 75% of their budget on marketing look at that far cry4 everest event.I wonder what happened to that?  

[razor767]

I'll believe it when I see it. 

[Humbug]

i don't mind them makin another one if they fix the flaws. Better narrative is important. Also please make it run properly this time. The game couldn't manage it's own texture budget in the available VRAM. When Tom's hardware benchmarked it they refused to use ultra textures because they cause nvidia cards to run out of VRAM and slow down. So they were benchmarking the game's performance on high end cards like the 780 and 290 with texture settings not maxed lol. Ubisoft after all these years should understand how to optimize a pc game.

[Trik'Stari]

I was disappointed with the story, I never really got any background on aiden, never cared about his niece or family members, the whole thing just seemed contrived. They could have done better.

 

Seriously, how did aiden become a hacker/complete badass? was he ex cia or something? what?

[ACatWithThumbs]

If Watchdogs 2 has no technical issues I will buy it.
It was a good game overall but it was more broken than Battlefield 4 on release.
 

[Syntaxvgm]

Ambitious trailers, nerfed final game.

Unless you run amd hardware.

Then just fuck you. No game for you

[Notional]

I do agree with Raynaud. But personally I think that Watch Dogs was a very enjoyable game. Love the looks of it, love how it was a more "realistic" version of GTA, where you were kind of a good guy. Loved the gameplay and the story was a lot better than people give it credit for.

 

Like any new open world sandbox GTA clone, it pushes the hardware to the limits, especially vram and CPU. I truly believe Watch Dogs recieved a LOT of unjustified critique; most of it seemingly based on people being pissy that their oldish computers could not run this game at max with high fps. At the end of the day, there is no open world GTA type game on the market, that looks remotely as good as Watch Dogs does on ultra, yet people claim it only ran bad because of the lack of optimization? Come on, this is exactly what Crysis took flak for back in the days. And just like Crysis, the critique was way over the top, and for the most part unjustified. I actually feel bad for all the devs, who made this game and had to look at the shitstorm of critique that both WD and Ubisoft has gotten. 77 on metacritic? Come on, that's ridiculous.

 

The attack on Ubisoft has been farcical at best. Sure we can criticize a company for doing dumb things, but the attack on Ubi lately, both by the general internet, but also Linus and Luke themselves, has been way over the top. The farce then continued with the most retarded mod I've ever seen. The Worse mod, I like to call the Mr. Magoo mod, that turned Aiden Pierce into a short sighted old man, who could never pass a driverslicence test with the worst eyesight in the history of gaming. What a load of shit.

 

As for the next Watch Dogs, I look very much forward to it, but hope for a certain someone to not have died in the first game.

[Swndlr]

all of my friends said that watch dogs was a huge bust with an insanely predictable story, i didnt even waste my time or money on it when they told me

[EChondo]

They've been saying this for years now.

 

"We love PC gamers!"

 

"Who cares about PC gamers?"

 

"Sorry PC gamers, we are going to make it up to you!"

 

"Lol, jk"

 

My advice: Don't buy anything Ubisoft branded, either published or developed. Nothing. Zilch. 

[zacRupnow]

 Watch Dogs the mod for GTA 4 is better than Watch Dogs the ubEAsoft game.