Watch Dogs.

It looks to me like we can't be happy anymore if a game isn't photorealistic, a flawless world simulation, and populated with sentient AI.

 

I imagine the game is one of the titles that NV worked on for the 337.xx driver CPU optimization effort.

 

From the camp that thinks blur that hides = better graphics? Character clearly is nearsighted.

 

The flaws shown in that video are a lot more than that, man. Don't be disingenuous. It's got serious design flaws and it's clear the game was not developed for long enough. The delay bought it some time, but not enough. It seems like a project that did not manage its time well enough originally, or was rushed by Ubisoft's publishing arm...

 

I don't think it feels rushed. It's not unstable or particularly glitchy. My impression is it is a semi-Deus Ex take on a Far Cry 3 / Assassin's Creed formula. Formulaic is what it is. Stale, hollow and somewhat generic. Like most open world games feel actually. The Youtube video highlights lots of little things and some arguable aspects but I think it misses the big picture. Though when I think about it I'm not sure what is needed to make it "amazing". Seems like the team didn't have vision to make it really distinctive, or yeah there were business decisions like cloning gameplay aspects of popular franchises.

 

Useless thing, as it shown so well on Watchdog ... with SSD do you really thing this important ? .. i will tell you something, if Nvidia was belive in it, they will do all a marketing tricks about it instead of put a poor line in a driver release note..

As for the game, after have compil everything i can from review and comments ( specially the bad comments ), i can allready tell it is a good game.. not a revolution, but a good game to spend some time.. with some flaws ofc, ofc it could have been better, but it seems it is a good game.

Peoples are now asking for compare it with SleepDog... SleepDog have not been a success at start, but then it have start to be really known.. and SleepDog is a good game... it could have been more revolutionary, but it was not, but i think everyone who have play it have got a good time with it...

Many peoples have point how this game should look better ( specially when we watch what it require for played on ultra high end PC ... ( do i need to buy 2 W9100 16GB for play it tomorrow ( i will try instrall it on my 2x W9100 Pro 16GB system than i can work on, could be fun .. who know, but im not sure my boss will ( we have some ... rules ) .

 

Try to compare it with AC1...
Now that game was proof of concept, this is a real game.
It's not revolutionary, it just has some good ideas.
As with everything Ubi lately, the next one will be an actually great game...

 

Yeah, I had already said this, if WatchDogs ended up turning out like AC1 (which it sounds like it kind of did, but not as badly) that's not a terrible thing. Skip it and hope for WD2 to be as great as the second AC was.

 

As I understand it, they are bypassing the requirement to re-compile shaders every time you load a game (and sometime during gameplay itself). So this isn't really about the time it takes to stream data from the HDD into memory but more about the CPU time spent compiling those shaders. So even with an SSD this should be beneficial as you're saving CPU time rather than loading time. In fact with an SSD you may see the most benefit from this as the pre-compiled shaders are being loaded from the disk.

 

Watch Dogs Config tool
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=389769

and the results:
http://youtu.be/BVu50vpXVAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uNW1DF4RIw

EDIT:

Watch Dogs modding tools in the works http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11534&sid=c4d7a0eb53237f37c04be6e9f77e78bc&start=105

 

The game vanished from my Uplay account today. I've submitted a support ticket about it.

 

watch dogs super ultra xml mod

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=389848
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvn93v_IC4k

 

Yet, the cast from the cars' headlights remains absolutely dreadful and breaks the otherwise well executed night-time rendering.

 

What did he tweak other than get different gamma levels and a few LODs?
Objects still don't cast shadows and that's still distractingly bad for a big-budget 2014 game.

Maybe people should just accept that this was made as a game with mediocre visuals, regardless of everything else.

 

The fact that car headlights don't cast shadows is strangely unsettling.

 

Apparently Ubisoft has banned a lot of keys purchased by Amazon shoppers like myself. Still waiting on support's response....

 

That is brutal. So much to: it did basically not change!

 

I hate the controls, driving especially feels wonky. There's some mouse acceleration hardcoded also.

I need a patch!

 

The motorcycles are hilariously simplistic to drive. Though really I didn't really come to this game looking for a driving sim so what's there is good enough for me.

One thing I think is cheesy is the automatic reputation effect of killing random people. Very artificial. Most of the talk about how this game would be a new level of attempt at open world city simulation was nonsense. The game just seems limp and bland to me overall.

 

Sounds like typical Ubisoft bullshit. Far Cry 2 was like that (with the paper map you could bring up and it behaved like a GPS.

Regarding the driving: I don't want it to be a sim, but it should try for a certain level of sanity. GTA does it well, Sleeping Dogs did it well, this game need to be like that if not better.