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Speaking from the other end of our dozen-video backlog, I think this is a perfectly decent game that suffers from being forced into an incredibly bland mold. You can see flashes of unique ideas and fun concepts, but it's all drowned out by Things Open World Games Have For Their Own Sake.
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Waffleman_ posted:Probably to make it easier to reuse the store assets so people don't wonder why there's like 5 Vito's Grocerys. Vito is a powerful man. Do not cross him.
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TheLoser posted:This game also completely ignores one of the most important details that makes its setting. Chicago is by far the most racially segregated city in America. The whole place is made up of super homogenized neighborhoods established in a long-running history of the city shafting minorities. This brings up a really good point. When I get bent out of shape about the city's physical terrain, it's because it's a product and a reflection of its human terrain. Mashing some things together, cutting most of the city away entirely, and filling in the map with bland inventions of your own erases everything about the city that makes it interesting or worth telling stories about. for example, like your article's source points out, the south and west sides are the black belts of Chicago. They grew in separate waves of migration from the south and met different housing policies, and the difference in character between, say, Garfield Park and Bronzeville still reflect that. Watch_Dogs' west side is where they put the north side neighborhoods, and its south side doesn't exist. Going into all this takes more time than we have between stuff to talk about in the videos, and isn't the sort of light-hearted fun it takes to counterpoint Aiden the Awful Uncle, but just keep in mind that when I complain about things that they changed, it's because the way it is in reality means something.
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Magnetic North posted:It will be nice to see how bad this game really is, since Ubisoft is no longer allowed to have my money. Also: Chicago has every football team right now and it's why I can't take the buses I want this weekend.
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May 3, 2015 21:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1nGjGM2p8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDp-ABzpRX8
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May 5, 2015 22:51
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Somebody has done some amazing things with the game world. I think it must be some sort of machinema mode they hacked in: http://msalisbu.com/Calax posted:So... can anyone explain why the MUSIC store has the pizza sign in it's window? I know there's a pizza place next door, but they put the sign in the Music store? It's a new retail concept.
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May 8, 2015 03:57
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chitoryu12 posted:I am completely okay with this idea and really hope I'm home from work in time! Volition does repost their streams to their Youtube channel. If you check it out now you can meet your new best friends, Distant Human and Skinballs.
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May 8, 2015 22:16
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Patter Song posted:People's screen names aren't reflective of what they actually are? You may speak to me now. My purple light is on.
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May 21, 2015 04:14
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Roaper posted:I wonder if Aiden live tweets his vigilantism. He seems like someone who would. The reputation system requires some way of getting the information out to make sense, and he clearly doesn't have a brand manager to do it for him.
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May 23, 2015 23:43
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Me, my wife, and our marriage are cute as gently caress.
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May 27, 2015 04:13
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I think I remember mentioning that I'd put together a small album of pictures for people to see some of the things we mentioned, but whether or not I did, here it is: http://imgur.com/a/58cP3
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VoidBurger posted:I love that Aiden wakes up in a random alley after digital trips. He must have been hazily wandering around Chicago, yelling "PEW PEW PEW KILL 20 COPS gently caress YOU I'M A SPIDER" at pedestrians until he got tuckered out and took a nap in a gutter. Since he starts the trip by passing out at the dealer's feet I think someone called an ambulance but as soon as the paramedics recognized Aiden they dumped him somewhere and fudged the paperwork.
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Exclusive footage of Aiden's brief time as a police officer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9O0r5MclgQ
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Patter Song posted:I kind of love that with all the Chip-bait announced at E3, the one game that wasn't was Beyond Good & Evil 2. How soon folks forget I'm the only person on the internet that still uses a BG&E avatar.
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Ada posted:People were talking about Sleeping Dogs earlier in the thread and if anyone's interested, it's 75% off on Steam right now. People have been talking about anything even vaguely similar to Watch_Dogs as long is it's not actually Watch_Dogs for as long as this thread's existed. I'm shocked people haven't been sharing pictures of their own dogs just to kill time.
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 I thought people who don't follow us on twitter should see this too: https://twitter.com/platjuke/status/618542298629033986
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SlothfulCobra posted:Serial killer collectables really fits in with this game's tone of never having a consistent tone. If you imagine the emotional palette as a color palette, it's just a muddy, dingy mess.
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I have a tabletop actual play podcast that is also posted in this very forum. I don't cross-promote often, but this is a special case. Our latest very special guest is Chip!General Ironicus posted:
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So I heard you wanted to Watch_Some_Dogs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8mbR7hOBUU
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Garrand posted:Also apparently the illiterate guy spends enough time on social media to profile the fact that he's illiterate. His tweets have awful, awful spelling.
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If you'd like to check out the raw responses for the bit of research involved in the first segment, I compiled those in this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yW3znuXawCap-TRPN_-OjvwhdjexihuRAkiH8n4H7sU/edit
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Whizbang posted:For every minute of content, Chip spends 3 hours not having any fun. ... which are later compiled as Chipod Ironicast.
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bobjr posted:I wonder what's it's like living in a city where a game portrays it as violent and corrupt. Or is that a Chicago joke? The Blue Angels flew about 200 yards above my head while I walked home from the beach today. It's all right.
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Chip Cheezum posted:Aiden's as deep as the ocean blue.......... Note: the ocean is technically not blue
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There's an upcoming mission that's really good for taking a sideways approach, but I think it only worked because we broke it.
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The newsstands were on my mind because I had just walked through a location shoot for Chicago PD the day before where they were setting one up where one doesn't exist. In that case I blame Law & Order specifically, rather than the more general Manhattan hegemony. So from what I'm reading the amount goes: Manhattan>Watch_Dogs>Actual Chicago (total)>Actual Chicago (in use). The set was also full of free local magazines and newspapers stocked as if for sale, so that's one way to get cheap props.
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The closer you get to the Loop, the more it feels like Chicago. The legally distinct lookalike buildings grab the character of the originals, and it has a familiar feel. Moving outward, some places combine too many things and are either laughable (The one stadium that looks like all the stadiums) or unrecognizable. The plentiful warehouses and boat yards come off more like "things we need for an open-world crime game" than anything you'd actually encounter here. Pawnee is hours away and has no mountain. Tourist Chicago is pretty square, and the River North of Watch_Dogs comes off like the near-future the cyberpunk plot would suggest it has to be.
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Sep 6, 2015 00:52
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Someone may have lied to me, the rear end in a top hat.
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Of course they're married. Why else would they be that bad at having sex?
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Even high-roller sex clubs have coupon day.
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Sep 22, 2015 23:33
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I went to Navy Pier for the first time in a great while today and learned the truth of the stained glass museum. One of the galleries is still there, which means it's at least 80% not there. That sucks.
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"The Healer" is the toy Jacks got for his birthday back in the beginning. It's a callback.
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UNRELATED! I'm going to be haning out at ValorCon in Chicago on October 16-17 representing my other main project, the Six Feats Under podcast. They released their final schedule today, so here's a post I put together with all the information you'll need for my schedule, and suggestions for other things: http://13questions.tumblr.com/post/130368378253/six-feats-under-at-valorcon Come on out and eat banana pudding with me. I promise you'll like it.
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Actually his heart grew three sizes that day.
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Bruceski posted:That "listening to music" privacy intrusion was clearly porn. Guess I listen to better music than you.
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Crowetron posted:Ironicus, I hope your new character Bloodthirsty Prospector makes an appearance in Six Feats Under at some point. Cootsen has a number of hobbies he failed to mention to the party.
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I'd like to thank Youtube comments for pointing out these two people caught t-posing:
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Rhavviepoodle posted:Very neat history lesson from Ironicus! I have been going under the assumption that Chip does the editing for the regular videos, so I've been wondering who does it for these history lessons. Are they done totally by Ironicus, or is it more of a collaboration? I do the research and write the script, then I send Chip the audio I record along with a script annotated with sight or audio gag suggestions and a bunch of images. He puts that all together and makes it actually work.
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PFlats posted:I'm pretty sure the shape name you're looking for re:the new building is a frustum (a truncated cone/pyramid). I wasn't even awake enough to remember Will Ferrel's name. There's no way I was gonna pull the word "frustrum" out of my rear end. But yes, that's exactly right. Thank you. Here's the architect's page for the building. I invite everyone to click around there because Studio Gang is incredible: http://studiogang.com/project/vista-tower General Ironicus fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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Accordion Man posted:Soldier Field and the Museum Campus haven't either. Wrigley and US Cellular Field got fused into the home of the Chicago Chicagos but no sign of the rest. Chicago Stadium is more of a fusion of Soldier Field and Wrigley, in the United Center's location, with Cellular Field's team. The game starts you out in the clearest example of its whole amalgam thing.
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