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Surprised there's no Watch Dogs thread on here already, i've searched around for a while and didn't see one. I had a question about the ending, but this could also serve as a Watch Dogs thread if anyone else wants to discuss this (getting older now) game, there's new DLC for it this month too.

 

My question is:

 

At the end, Jordi turns on you, then immediately afterwards tells you where your hostage is and seems on good terms with you.

Can someone set me straight on what happened there exactly?

 

Also, my thoughts on this, BRILLIANT game. People said it was overhyped and overrated, personally I couldn't wait to play it, when I realised I was on the last mission it made me kinda sad.

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Jordi struck me as a lunatic gun for hire. 

 

What he did at the end was simply business. That guy paid him a ton of money to kill you. He didn't get the job done, but you killed the guy who hired him in the first place. 

 

I liked the game a lot as well. It wasn't a blow away story, I didn't care for the voice acting choices in relation to Aiden Pierce, and the driving mechanics for all but a few vehicles is actually pretty terrible....

 

Outside of that that game looks great there is a lot to do and outside of the driving the rest of game play is solid and I personally really enjoyed making people explode inside a building while I patiently waited outside. 

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Yeah I'd recommend it. Nothing approaching GTA in terms of the sheer amount of things to do. I'm expecting a more expanded world in the second game but it has its charms. 

And I agree Niners Fan. The game looks really good, but not like the demo footage that was shown. I do believe there was a story not long ago about some PC players got into the code and realized that a lot of graphical improvements were still in the game but switched off. 

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Yeah I'd recommend it. Nothing approaching GTA in terms of the sheer amount of things to do. I'm expecting a more expanded world in the second game but it has its charms. 

And I agree Niners Fan. The game looks really good, but not like the demo footage that was shown. I do believe there was a story not long ago about some PC players got into the code and realized that a lot of graphical improvements were still in the game but switched off. 

Yeah when the game came out there was a heat on the developers about a bait and switch with the graphics between release date and E3. As for the game the instant fails when stopping crimes got very old fast. I think the game could have been better and a Watch Dogs 2 if done right would blow this game out of the water. I traded it in to get gift cards to use towards  when the new borderlands comes out.

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I put off buying an XBone so I have not gotten around to playing this yet.  I will get it on the cheap when I get my XBone either this Winter or Spring of next year.

 

Gotta get this townhouse built, son!  No unnecessary expenditures!

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  • 6 months later...

One day I will play this game on an XBone.

 

TheRadBrad's playthrough videos are re-selling this game to me.

 

 

The Spider Tank bit that starts at the 6:20ish mark is the best thing on the internet.  TheRadBrad's enthusiasm is so fucking infectious.

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I just beat it about a month ago - the first full retail game I played through on PS4.

 

I had a good time with it overall, though it does suffer from the Ubisoft cookie cutter open world design.  For the sequel, they should take down the amount of side activities - most of them are boring and have more story missions.  I put about 25 hours into the game and it felt like maybe 5 of that was in the story.  The car handling also needs to be improved.  But not much else.  I actually like the gun fighting here better than GTA, especially when you throw in the hacks/gadgets you can use.

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  • 2 years later...

My folks got me some cash and a $15 gift card to GameStop so I bought Watch Dogs 2 on the cheap.

It's installing while I am at work and I will start posting a game log in this thread for everyone to make fun of since I am the last person in North America to play this game.

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7 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

I have to pace myself

I hear that.  If you have as much displaced anger as my boo does on game day, I'm sure your wife would bash you in the head with a skillet or something.

If I forget to spray Febreeze after using the toilet following a Giants loss, I could be sleeping on the couch in hours.

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38 minutes ago, J.T. said:

My folks got me some cash and a $15 gift card to GameStop so I bought Watch Dogs 2 on the cheap.

It's installing while I am at work and I will start posting a game log in this thread for everyone to make fun of since I am the last person in North America to play this game.

Don't feel bad, it's been sitting on my hard drive for months and I haven't even touched it yet.  At the rate I play games nowadays (and the fact that for some reason I am playing through San Andreas yet again) I will probably get to it around the time my kid goes into middle school.

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JT PLAYS WATCH DOGS 2 LONG AFTER EVERYONE ELSE HAS (EPISODE 1):

  • Holy fuck.  Not only am I extremely rusty at this, they have messed around with the button scheme from the last game.  This is going to be a long learning curve to climb. 
  • Ubisoft has weird ideas about what constitutes "non-lethal."  I'm fairly certain that If I hit this security guard hard enough with this billiard ball attached to this bungie cord, I'll kill him.  At least I have a taser. It will suck to get shot with it but at least I won't murder any innocent people..... maybe...
  • They also have a weird idea of what "stealth" means.  I could sneak past an army in Skyrim without harming a soul or anyone even noticing I was there but just like in the previous Watch Dogs game, I'm probably going to have to KO everyone in this building in order to remain undetected.
  • Yeah.  Nethack mode is going to take some getting used to.  I am way too paranoid about someone discovering where I hiding when I am in Nethack mode.
  • Okay so I am an African American hacker wrongly accused of a crime in the past.  This game would be my fantasy biography if it weren't for the fact that I'd fucking kill myself flipping off of a roof like that.
  • That tutorial mission was painful. I need to get back to form in a hurry.  I really need to improve my parkour skills and get a better feel for the cover system and tagging enemies with hacked cameras.
  • The scary thing about the nightmare your metadata is worth more than you cutscene is that all of that frightening shit is not only true, it's happening right now in real life.
  • My team consists of the millennial version of Lord Nikon, a stereotypical tech genius with Asperger's, whatever the fuck Wrench is, and the girl must be the Punjabi Acid Burn to my African American Crash Override.  I can work with this bunch.
  • I fear for Sitara.  The last time I had a love interest in a Watch Dogs game, she got gunned down in a cemetery.  Aiden didn't even get so much as a single hug before Claire died.
  • The random jogger asshole can't be that random.  Future antagonist or he's original DedSec from Chicago.
  • God, I hope this woman whose floor I slept on the night before is nice... and unarmed..
  • Because I just stole her car to get to DedSec HQ.   I am terrible human being...
  • Nice.  Part of my free and redeemable Ubi Rewards package is a cash advance of $15K.  TIME TO GO CLOTHES SHOPPING~!
  • Run The Jewels and Hudson Mohawke are on the soundtrack.  YES~!
  • I can fast travel to the clothing stores!  UBISOFT LISTENS TO ITS CUSTOMERS~!  Now I realize that I did not need to steal homegirl's car in order to get around town. :(  I could've fast traveled to the stores to build my wardrobe and then just used the Ride Sharing App to spawn some wheels.
  • There is an achievement for buying the ugliest pair of shoes in the game.  At least the game designers have a sense of humor and they are obviously making fun of extreme customizers like me.  I'll bet some player somewhere wore those ugly wine colored crocs on the regular.
  • I will build my wardrobe around these four pairs of loose fit jeans from Plainstock because every other pair of pants in the game is way too tight in the crotch.  The rest of my gear will probably come from the DedSec hackerspace vendor.  I need to represent my clique stylishly.  I can't shout FUCK AUTHORITY while wearing dad shorts and wine colored crocs.
  • Except for the shoes.  I will buy some kicks from the "urban" store and hopefully this Punk Rock place has some boots.
  • I am fairly certain I will buy none of the clothing from the high end suit store unless a mission calls for a disguise or something.  I can't skulk through the underbelly of the city wearing a three piece suit and good shoes.
  • I loved Jordi Chin from the original game, but I'm not paying ten fucking dollars for a DLC for the privilege of a callback.
  • God, why are the fastest cars high end cars that are not subtle.  Why can't I just super tune whatever the game equivalent is for an Impreza WRX and let that be my Hacker Batmobile?

More to follow as I try to survive my first official mission as a member of DedSec..

 

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JT PLAYS WATCH DOGS 2 LONG AFTER EVERYONE ELSE HAS (EPISODE 2):

  • Okay, I decided to start a new game so that I could tinker with..... nah, that's a lie.... I really sucked at stealth during my first crack at the tutorial mission, so I wanted to try to commit some of the button scheme to muscle memory so that sneaking around feels more natural.
  • Okay, one guy tased.. and that guard saw me... AND I'M DEAD?  ALREADY???
  • Okay, I like this game because bullets matter.  Not like other games where you can plug a guy with a 9mm Pistol forever before he finally drops............... *cough* GTA V *cough*
  • Starting New Game... now..
  • Okay, this is more like it.  I'm getting better at hacking at distance and with a little patience, I've only had to KO two guards while infiltrating this server farm.  Extra cool points for me hitting the Shooting Star Press parkour move while jumping off this ledge.
  • I can automatically flag enemy locations with cameras while I am in nethack mode.  This is important knowledge..
  • I dig the difference between nethacks and physical hacks.  Doesn't take much to figure out that the RC Jumper will come in handy for dealing with the physical hacks in areas I'd prefer not to enter myself.
  • Eventually I am going to have to buy a firearm for the times I encounter enemies that I don't mind killing like the Russian mobsters in the Jordi Chin DLC that I refuse to buy.  For enemies like these Blume rent-a-cops, it's the stun gun and my trusty yo-yo thwomper
  • Oh, God.  cTOS has Marcus flagged for searching for "anime hardcore purple hair elf"  *sigh* He is one of THOSE....
  • Okay I like this game a little more.  The guards are not respawning.  They are recovering from the ambush assbeatings I gave them.  So my bungie cord hackysack of doom and my taser really are non-lethal in this game.
  • Aaand the guards are on higher alert because they know I'm here after being knocked the fuck out.  Shit.
  • Ha!  The game makes it a point to show me that shorting out the junction box and using it as a trap is a non-lethal attack.  These game developers have no respect for electricity.  No one at Ubisoft has ever had to take the stem from a broken lightbulb out of a lamp in their house..
  • PARKOUR FOR THE WIN~!  Shortest distance to the exit after deleting my profile is vaulting from floor to floor and staying aware of where the enemies are.
  • And there is exfiltration and Tutorial V. 2.0 Take 3 is a wrap.  I am much happier with that run and I will celebrate by buying some clothes.
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JT PLAYS WATCH DOGS 2 LONG AFTER EVERYONE ELSE HAS (EPISODE 3):

  • Steelers were on TNF and beat the living shit out of the Titans, so gameplay was limited for Episode 3.
  • No wonder I don't have that many apps on my phone.  I haven't done the obligatory talk to all of the NPCs thing yet.
  • This game is OCD Heaven and OCD Hell at the same time.  So many things to do.  BUT WHERE DO I START~???
  • You are near a ScoutX Photo Opportunity!  There is a new song available for you to capture with SongSteal!  I will never reach DedSec HQ because I am too easily distracted by peripheral shit.
  • I really should get these controls down so that I stop pulling out my taser in public when I mean to use my phone.
  • You can't be in San Francisco and not ride a trolley, but this one is going the wrong way.  I'm headed away from the HQ marker.  Mass Transit is shit in this game.  At least I got an achievement for taking a ride on the trolley.
  • DedSec's hackerspace hideout is underneath a pen and paper gaming / hobbyist store.  Why am I not surprised?  We as an audience have been skewered by Ubisoft's developers..... who are probably old school D&D nerds themselves....
  • Okay, so Sitara is our communications specialist, handles propaganda, and serves as our inspirational leader.  She is does indeed appear to be Indian by nationality.  It took me too long to notice that she wears a nose ring.
  • Sitara reminds me of the three Indian girls I have dated in my life and time.  Embraces Western culture fully and tries to prove that she does by drinking heavily and dropping as many F-Bombs as possible in conversation.
  • Wrench is Q Branch.  He is the hardware engineer.  I go to him for weapons and gadgets and shit.
  • Josh handles intel and is the resident code geek and network guru.  The REAL InfoSec guy in this unit.  It is a little annoying that this game kinda treats Autism like a super power, but I'll go with it for now.
  • Horatio is the actual leader and handles logistics.  I like this dude.  Hopefully I will not have to kill him later.
  • So instead of Experience Points, I earn followers through my adventures, exploits, and daring do who download DedSec's software so that they can contribute processing power to DedSec's botnet and this grants me my super powers.
  • So, I have to pay to use the 3D Printer and that is how I get weapons and gadget upgrades.  The prices for some of the weapons and the Quadcopter are fucking ridiculous.  What is Wrench doing with the money I pay to use the printer.  Financing the coup in Zimbabwe?
  • I have created my first firearm with the 3D Printer.  I did not check the color scheme before activating the 3D Printer.  The gun is bright orange.  Fuck.  Not exactly ideal for concealed carry.
  • The RC Jumper I created is jet black has the DedSec logo on it.  It looks pretty awesome.
  • The Nethack ability turns me into Neo or gives me Spider Sense or something.  Using it gives me cosmic cyber awareness so that I can spot the friendly orange I Need Help beacons that identifies NPC mission givers out in the world sandbox..
  • My first mission was use Nethack to find someone in need and talk to him in order to unlock a new mission.  Too easy.
  • Now I have my "real" first missions.  I think I will help out the embattled hip hop artist first and then we'll see what Cyber Driver is all about.
  • CLOTHING AS A REWARD~!!! But the outfit is a tribute to Claire Lille from the first game,  :(.  RIP homegirl.  I hate the skinny jeans and the beanie, but I'll definitely wear the mask, the black boots, and the bomber jacket with the black shirt that has the old badass DedSec logo on it.
  • This game knows how to fuck with your OCD.  I can clearly see the location of some special items, but I cannot get to them until I gain or improve my abilities.  There was an item (an Oaktown baseball cap for my wardrobe) under a palate of construction materials, but I could not get to it until I unlocked the ability to hack machinery so that I could remote operate the nearby forklift and move the palate out of the way..

Probably won't get a chance to play again until Sunday afternoon.  Now we try to help society fight against the Invisible Hand and look cool while doing it.

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This video helped me out a lot.  I've nabbed three of the unique vehicles so far, but some of them are in restricted areas where I am obviously not supposed to be able to break into this early in the game.

The Ice Cube is now my Hacker Batmobile but every time I scratch it while making a getaway from the cops, my OCD forces me to order a brand new vehicle with the Car On Demand app.

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JT PLAYS WATCH DOGS 2 LONG AFTER EVERYONE ELSE HAS (EPISODE 4):

  • Okay, so let's try a legit mission now.  I'm heading back to the Hackerspace to geek out over some movie trailer.... similar to what I do in real life here at work during the downtime in between training exercises.
  • This fucking trailer parodies everything from Knight Rider to every Stallone action movie ever made and even throws in a jab or two at the movie, Hackers.  Marcus comes up with the bright idea to have DedSec make a corny movie trailer of its own that parodies this parody so that we can get more followers to join up online, download our app, and lol and marvel at our misdeeds, so I'm off to engage in a bit of entertainment industry espionage.  The Cyberdriver Saga has officially begun.  I guess that shit with the Hip-Hop artist will have to wait.
  • On my way to the studio, I get a game alert about an approaching armored car.  It is GTA V all over again..  If I successfully pull off the heist, I earn a bunch of followers and maybe get some cash, so I figure what the hell?
  • ....Or not..  I don't have any explosives yet, so I have to resort to hacking the mag locks on the back of the van and I have to keep my vehicle in close proximity to the van until my virus does its job.   After following the armored car for what seemed like an eternity, the back doors finally swing open and the van comes to a stop.  Party time!
  • I bolt from my Hacker Batmobile aka the Ice Cube, grab the macguffin briefcase, and haul ass to my Tokyo Drift whip right before the security douchebags open fire. 
  • The Ice Cube is fast, but it ain't the most subtle of getaway vehicles.  At night, you can see the warm yellow glow coming from the neon ground effects kit.  Classy...
  • Now I have to avoid the fucking law until the tracking device on the package times out.  I almost got away, but my car takes so much damage that the engine fails and I rage quit and restart from another checkpoint before I am shot dead on the street.   I was soooooo close to unlocking the achievement for ditching a five-star wanted level.  Fuck.... 
  • I used my best wheelman moves.  What did I do wrong?
  • After my checkpoint loads, I proceed with the mission at hand and eventually arrive at the studio.  I immediately make note of the restricted area.  It doesn't take Einstein to figure out that this first mission is a tutorial on how to use the RC Jumper.  After a quick jog around the premises, I found some soda machines to climb on top of so that I could parkour my way to an ideal infiltration point.
  • Okay, little dude.  Let's see what you can do.
  • That's kinda awesome.  It can remotely open HVAC vents on the ground the same way I would normally hack open a door with the Profiler and it can also use a telescopic arm to access CC boxes... like the one keeping this door locked!
  • And, fuck.  If you drive it too fast, guards can hear the whine of the Jumper's electric motor and they will investigate the sound!.  Quick! Time to get gone before the guard discovers and smashes my new toy!
  • Fuck yeah!  He did not spot my RC Jumper's hidey hole behind this filing cabinet  Let us continue our good work... 
  • After unlocking the door I have to use to in order to physically enter the movie lot, I send my little friend into an adjoining office through another vent on the floor and I direct my robo-critter to access the desktop whose security I have to breach in order to get to get my hands on the movie studio's e-mails Sony hacker style. 
  • Objective One Complete!  I feel a slight confidence boost for showing some proficiency in the cybercrime via gadget arena of this game..
  • Now it's time to use nethack mode to jack into the cameras and see how many guards there are.  Only five.
  • So after retrieving my RC Jumper, I quietly snuck into the building and quickly tasered the poor bastard patrolling the immediate area. 
  • I also took the free 9mm pistol he dropped as loot.  Hopefully I won't have to use it anytime soon.  These guys are just rent-a-cops and their job is to protect the place I am currently trying to burgle.  I'm not trying to kill innocent people if I don't have to, but it still feels good to have a proper firearm on my person.  I am not fond of the bright orange DedSec pistol I crafted with the 3D Printer..
  • I go into nethack mode again and use the cameras inside to find my second objective aka a laptop containing the script for this movie.
  • Fuck.  Gonna need an access key from another cumputer to get into that room on the back lot.  Aha, there's one on that dude's tablet on the key grip loft!  I stay in cover, sneak up, and hack the tablet with no one being the wiser.
  • There are four guards on the lower area.  I sure don't want to go down there myself if I don't have to.  I wonder if..
  • YES!  I use nethack mode and the cameras to path my way down to a camera with a good vantage point of the room containing other machine I need to crack.  I remotely open the door to the room so that I have line of sight of the computer with the movie script stored on it. 
  • Now downloading.... and that's a wrap!
  • Objective Two Complete!
  • Now to get the fuck out of here.  Looks like I will have to check elsewhere if I want to find the prop car.
  • The dude I tasered earlier in the mission is still out cold, but he will come to pretty soon.  If I move quickly, I can get out the same way I got in before he wakes up.  I hold my stun gun at the ready just in case I have to zap his punk ass again if he shakes off the electro-torpor before I get past his position..
  • He stays down and I make a clean getaway.  If Master Splinter asks me, "Were you seen?", I can reply, "No, Sensei. I was no.," with 100% surety.
  • Success!  I have completed my first mission!  I feel another surge of pride because that was about as error freee of an operation that I have ever run in my entire stealth gaming career.. 
  • I wish I was more proactive and better at recording my gaming sessions, because that shit was Twitch worthy....
  • ..... Too bad that I'm not done with this story arc yet......
  • Sitara tells me that she has a contact with the paparazzi who knows where the location of the Cyberdriver prop car!  Naturally he's on the roof of a building, so I have to find a place where I can climb up to meet him.  I trade the juicy e-mail I downloaded from the studio in exchange for the nav point.
  • Luckily for me, the car is being kept on a studio lot about a block away.   Time to make the chimichangas.
  • This fucking restricted zone is swimming with SFPD.  My gamer brain goes into tactical mode and I start off my recon of the area by hacking the nearby traffic cameras so that I can tag the locations all of the patrolling police officers in the immediate vicinity.  
  • Next, I locate the junction boxes in the restricted zone that I can convert into prox traps.
  • And finally, I calculate just how much time I have before the shit hits the fan... Maybe a minute or so max.
  • Time to execute this master plan!!!!!!
  • Or not... For reasons completely unknown, two NPC bums randomly start fighting each other over a bottle of ripple or something a few feet away from me.  This prompts some other NPC to call the cops and every guard on the studio lot responds to go kick the shit out of the vagrants.  They have left the prop car completely unguarded.
  • Sometimes the best plan is not to have a plan.  Sometimes the best strategy is simply to take advantage of dumb luck.
  • I casually walk over to the tractor trailer, unlock the back door, and steal the car.  Too easy...
  • I was a bit disappointed yet thankful that electronic divine intervention got the job done for me.  I did not get to employ my strategy, but some of the SFPD in that zone were women.  I know that those digital ladies still had guns and could shoot Marcus dead, but I'd still feel horrible if I had to resort to the game's stealth tactics to reach to my objective and been forced to sneak up to a female officer of the law and smash her in the head with the Thunderball after garroting her with the bungie cord.
  • Okay, time to do this car chase thing again.  Let's see where I fucked up earlier..
  • The cops are just as relentless in this game as they were in the first........ wait..... I'm not playing GTA V.  I'm fucking playing Watch Dogs 2.  I cannot deal with the law in this game the same way I did in the other.
  • It dawns on me that (DUH!!!!) maybe I should start hacking steam pipes and traffic lights instead of trying to escape via pure driving skills.
  • And it works.  I shake my air pursuit and set a steam pipe to blow and boom, no more patrol cars chasing me.  I am a complete idiot..  Why did I not think to do that earlier during the armored car robbery getaway?
  • During the car chase, Marcus and the prop car have a conversation.  It seems that Watch Dogs KITT is a thing and this car really does have a functioning AI.
  • With cops shook, I take the prop car back to the hacker hideout and find out to my horror that Wrench has been fucking with me and posing as the car's AI during the chase.  I would slug him if he weren't such an awesome character.
  • I now have TWO whole missions under my belt and I feel like I am finally starting to climb the learning curve.  It's a good time to quit and knock out some Andromeda multiplayer before bed.
  • First order of business when I log back on is to change my clothes.  I have "worn" the same thing for two game days now.  I feel icky and in need of a bath just thinking about that.  I miss the days of GTA Online when you could shower off after a day's murdering, toss on your hanging around the crib clothes and a pair of flip flops, and chill out watching your huge flatscreen television set.

I'm going to have a shit ton of family over for Thanksgiving, so I probably won't even look at my console before Friday.  I'll try to get some gaming in before the weekend and then pick up on Sunday afternoon after I get my kid back to the ex's.  I'll post the log for any weekend play I get through next Monday.

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