WD1's antagonist, Damien, once perfectly described Aiden and the plot: "Stop overcomplicating things, Aiden."
My favourite example of this is that Ghetto apartment building.
Blow up the doors!
Ackshually, the hit was on Aiden himself and was carried out while Aiden was driving with his niece, but the niece died while Aiden survived, cue roaring rampage of revenge.
iirc you're supposed to sneak in, the game just allows you go full rambo since you get caught in the end anyway (to have a bossfight with iraq).
not that simple tho. aiden just wanted to know who ordered it (and why), arguably for revenge and thinking it will help with the survivor's guilt. his old mate wanted the blackmail stuff to get rich (who aiden blames as well since he didn't shut it down, partially causing the whole thing). on the other side there were actually 2 baddies, on one side not!google, on the other the local irish mafia being balls deep in local government, and him trying to dig through the whole mess to find the ones responsible. along the way he crosses path with not!anonymous and a smarter than average gang.
only played it long after it was fixed, but outside the technical stuff (which was mostly fixed) story and gameplay was ok. some of the side activities were pretty fun actually (with way too many chess puzzles for some reason). maybe it also helped it didn't expect it to be an actual GTA competitor (ffs it's ubisoft) and liked that it didn't try to ape it too hard with MUH WACKY MUH SATIRE. chicago was also pretty comfy too. but then everybody creams themselves over GTA5, so what do I know.
makes sense. its san francisco. they offload those jobs to illegal immigrants for pennies
Dude, why did they have to butcher this series? WD1 was my first Full Clear and Chicago was such a great place too. What a same that Ubisoft was the developer.
They've stopped the support because the game didn't sell well. Have they fixed the PC version? I've heard that it runs like shit.
Watch Dogs 2 did a better job with discouraging combat. Marcus is weaker than Aiden, but more versatile. Of course. I played on a harder difficulty so YMMV.
My idea is that there shouldn't be much shooting at all from the PC side. The gunshots(from the PC being discovered) would be like a flashbang to allow the PC to escape and change position or get out. *bang bang bang hitting nothing, could be directed at walls or ceilings* - gunfire, fall back!
Yep it was a flop. It's a game where there are no main characters, you literally play NPCs waiting for their update to #Resist and "fight the system". The whole story makes no sense.
Did Ubisoft just literally embrace the #NPC RESIST meme into a game?
I suspect more like MUH BREXIT, after that fell through MUH BLM, but that become a shitshow where people quickly got sick of it (and doesn't make much sense in london), hence the disjoint mess it ended up as.
