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Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven was released in 2002 and was part of, what was it... the sixth generation of video game consoles, two years later when it came out for Xbox and Playstation.
Watch Dogs is marketed as a 'generation defining experience' - that generation being the current one, the eighth generation. You can handwave complaints about the game's performance and the quality of the graphics if you want and I wouldn't pay it any mind if it wasn't marketed as being the definitive eighth generation title. When a game developed for the 2002 market and almost every game after that has simple environment interaction like impact marks on walls and water, glass shards, reflections, non-restrictive stupid invisible walls... unless you want to tell me the new generation is one of regression?
I've lived in the city of Chicago my entire life. I have ridden L trains as often as any of you have ridden buses; they don't stop in a split second when they're going sixty miles an hour. They start slowing down almost forty five seconds before they even reach the platform because they go so fast. Hell, at one point Ubisoft had /ninety degree turn angles/ for the L system. Really.
Watch Dogs is in the spotlight not because people are eager to complain but because they put themselves there to begin with. Marketing, public relations, trying to be the 'big next generation game' - these all come with a myriad of expectations. They showed off a beautiful game with super lighting and reflections at E3 and then when the game comes out it's a half-assed bug-riddled pile of rubbish. When you tell people your game is definitive of the next generation and then deliver oversight after oversight, it makes them question the validity of your marketing. Sure, maybe the game is fun for a few people. No one is saying they can't have fun. But don't act like criticism isn't due, and that Ubisoft is completely blameless.
