Watch Dogs 35-40 hour long story

Sauce from our very own gamespot.

I am too. I have it all reserved and ready to go. So now let's just hope all this time wasn't wasted for nothin.

This isn't a discussion about the "downgrade" this is a discussion about length. So stay on topic please.

I'll give it a rent after Infamous.

inb4 "teh downgrade" !

Anyway how much padding can one expect (as open world games are known to do).

35 hours is pretty long. But the driving may not be as tedius as GTA's since Watch Dogs has mild Vehicular Stealth. Dodging Cops and Choppers maybe more fun than GTA's attempt to make driving less of a chore by listening to gangsters talk nonsense.

i have a little mixed feelings about this game. there are a bunch of interesting mechanics, but i'm not sure how far they can ultimately carry this whole game. will need reviews.

Who said length would make it good?

Watch Dogs was on my PS4 launch list before the delay. I can't say I am still as excited as I was then, but I am still looking forward to it. Length sounds good for the type of game. Still day 1.

I sunk 25-30 hours into FC3 so given that this is a Ubisoft game.... it should deliver on length.

Downgrade or not game looks fun to play. I'm picking it up.

Proof? All I see is a bunch of uneducated assumptions. Have you played the game before?

It will be watered down garbage for junior high students just like Assassin's Creed.

I bet it will be repetitive like Assassins Creed...no thanks. After GTAV I'm done with open world games.

35 to 40 hours isn't bad and they reckon 100 hours total game play, that's about a much as I spent playing Skyrim.

Still haven't seen anything to make me pre-order though, so I'll probably wait for a few reviews and PC gameplay videos to surface before buying it.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ground Zero already.

See people.... Multiplats are healthy ! :D.

Ubisoft has it;'s ups and downs but I think they make solid games. Black flag was pretty decent and Far cry 3 was a homerun

ah..! i couldn't quite find the right words, but yes, that is the vibe i'm getting from this game too. thank you, sir.

What does this even mean? You have to be a kid to play this game? Watered down garbage?

Where did you buy your crystal ball from?

Im not particularly excited for watch dogs either but claiming its watered down (which is meaningless) is silly without playing the title. Not to mention AC Black Flag is an extremely entertaining game.

Hope it is good, but got a feeling it is going to overstay its welcome at that kind of length.

This is still on my "buy" list, but that is very dependent on how it reviews. Also is this supposed to be 35-40 of main mission story? If so that would be pretty remarkable considering most open world games have main stories between 15-20 hours. I put over 60 hours into ACIV so Ubisoft is still good in my eyes.

I think all the footage we saw of this game is scripted. All the random events they talked about are just scripted events that trigger when the player is nearby like GTA V, at least that's what I think.

Not getting my hopes up for this game, It might be a let down just like The Last Of Us and GTA V.

I always find that developer estimates regarding length are always off but quite a bit, so I'll believe it when I see it. Still a day one purchase though, haters be damned.

Does anyone have any info on the Graphical Quality of the PC version, hope it isn't as gimped

Improved (in ways) since 2012 E3, and can render at native 4K. Looking forward to seeing it, personally. Even 1080p with 4x SSAA should look incredible.

Sleeping Dogs (PC) is still the best looking (unmodded) open world game, so it will be interesting to see if Watch Dogs can dethrone it.

This went from one of my most hyped games of 2013 to meh, I might get it somewhere down the line.

I have nothing against Ubisoft in general, just Assassin's Creed series. I know Black Flag supposedly fixed some things and turned them around, I don't deny it. I am yet to play Far Cry 3 (it's there on my HDD, as a part of my backlog), however.

That's more then I expected. Thought it was going to be around 15. Good news.

The amount of time I can spend with a game is only relevant if I am having fun.

I just hope its a fun open world game with lots of side activities... You see what I usually do in a open world game is shoot things or drive things and when I don't want to shoot I drive things into the things that I don't want to shoot.

35 hours of story... I call bullshit on this. That would make the game like 60 hours+ with side quests and messing about and collecting stuff.

Far cry 3 was really a surprise.

So probably closer to 20-25 hours, got it.

Wow 35-40hrs that is far to long, 12-20hrs had been better

I squeezed 35 hours out of far cry 3.

All hail long story games!!

Oh by the way, those bitching about the downgrade of Watchdogs, it's pretty obvious by now that the E3 2012 gameplay footage was done on a high-end gaming PC on max settings. The developers have promised that on the PS4 the game will look like the E3 2013 footage that was shown, now yes, it's still a downgrade from 2012 but it still looks very nice for a console game. I suggest those to check out that 2013 footage (not the latest footage that was shown). If it ends up looking like that I'll be a very happy man.

I don't care about the downgrade as long as it's fun and interesting.

My hype for this game has lessened dramatically ever since its delay. I'll pick it up eventually, just when it hits 20-30 bucks like most Ubisoft games a couple months after its release.

The delay really killed off any interest for this game. I actually forgot it existed until that crappy story trailer came out.

Oh no, I dunno if I'll be able to handle such a long game.

Will wait for reviews and sale.

35-40 hours of doing about 5 hours worth of stuff on repeat. I'd love to be wrong though.

Really hope this game turns out great. Love the concept; I think it meshes well with other well wrought traditions of the open world genre. Plus it will make for some epic chases and getaways.