Watch Dogs 2 Won't Have Ubisoft's Formulaic Tower Climbing Mechanic

Yes but will it have Ubisofts formulaic lack of content?

The tower thing has worn out its welcome for sure, although in watch dogs it didn't seem too contrived.

It sort of became a lazy design though, so I'm glad they didn't just go with it for WD2. There's plenty of ways to present and open up content in an open world that would be more organic.

it's totally because they figured we have caught on to their nonsense and after getting exposed for having no talent they decided to do something else instead

stick to your shitty scripted mp demos btw

So you're replacing one formulaic mechanic, with another; just one less well defined than go here, climb this, unlock that.......

First one was way over-hyped, didn't deliver and worst of all was extremely boring, started a bad year for Ubisoft doing that for several other games, glad to see at least ONE of their consistent designs not make it into the game, i hate tower climbing strictly due to them and how it makes all of their games feel the same regardless of franchise.

Still going to be incredibly skeptical and critical of WD2, maybe it'll be a surprise but, lately it Ubisoft doesn't inspire much optimism.

Oh thank god!

It's one of the things that made the Far Cry games seem so dull.

Good! That crap was annoying in far cry.

Wouldn't even make sense in this game anyways.

> It's not a game where you open your map and everything's there.

FTFY:

> We're going to make it a pain in the ass to collect the game's 526 collectibles.

Hopefully they wont force me with rap music the whole game? Sorry guys, I am not a rap music guy :(

I have only played a few Ubisoft open world games, but I noticed this tower thing was a trend early on. Hopefully more of their open world efforts deviate away from this.

I don't believe them.

Despite that, i hope that will have a very good parkour system and able to climb buildings. That will be cool...

Until I see some semblance of a decent story. I will wait it out. Never got Watch Dogs for that same reason. Its now obvious I have not missed much. I might pick it(WD) up when it hits the $10 bargain bin.

Best decision from the franchise, never understood placing in artifical walls/FoW-type of design in a title like this, makes no sense. Hopefully this is the start of a seachange on their other franchises (AC, FC, ect..) as well.

In the ad that has been playing non-stop with the God-Awful music for WD2, that quadcopter lifting a 48U server rack makes me LOL. One of those things, fully loaded, weights well over a ton. Almost 1.5 if you throw some decent UPSes in them.

The more and more I hear about this game the more it sounds like Ubisoft is finally learning from their mistakes. Fingers crossed on this game being everything the first game should have been and more.

I'm not a fan of this hacking stuff and having my game screen full of waymarkers and other hud-markers, but i definitely appreciate getting rid of that old mechanic. it's had its time, it has been good fun at the beginning and was implemented in just slightly too many games and it's a good time for it to rip now.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Using it as a general rule to follow in all the big IP's from a publisher is probably not the best idea. Ubisoft used to be my favorite publisher back in original Xbox days and into the Xbox 360 days, but late in that cycle and into this one the annual releases and rehashed mechanics really killed it for me. I really wanted to like Watch Dogs, so I hope this iteration helps set them back on the right track.

It was also used in Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor because WB want to ape Ubisoft's open world design for some reason.

the towers in far cry are good

Finally... It was fun the first few assassins creeds because that was a game about climbing, but it actually made me sick of far cry 3 and I never finished it. It was so tedious climbing up those satellite towers.

in all honesty i never really thought the orginal watchdogs was a bad game, it simply wasn't that good. its negativity was more to do with its PR and how with was shown to be really good looking when it actually had a massive downgrade. aiden pearce was simply not likeable and the games had some simply flaws that never really did get fixed. tho i still think for an open world its was still fun and good to kill time with.