@alenth As robbie said, in a fast-paced action game, you need to be able to do those hacks with a single button. It wouldn't make sense to have the player perform a combo while speeding through an intersection.
@snk0610 It depends how you define an 8. How you define a 9. How you define an 8.2 in comparison to an 8.3. The number is pointless if it doesn't have a definition. The words Gamespot uses to describe the number rating is far more important than the number on its own.
@alenth @liquidbutter The only time you hack in Deus Ex HR is when you are using a terminal. If you're going to compare it to that, Watch Dogs does have a hacking minigame that is similar. Sometimes when hacking a ctOS terminal you are presented with a kind of Pipe Dream type of game where you have to direct a flow of electricity to directional circuits. in a proper patterns and such.
@snk0610 it's pointless. Then you're sitting there arguing why it doesn't deserve 0.1 lower or 0.1 higher. it's not really accurate anyway, as the number is not the thing that best describes the value. The description of the score is much more meaningful.
@Auriken @liquidbutter GTA is just so massive in scope. If you were to make a checklist of all the features and things you can do in a GTA game vs what you can do in Watch Dogs it would be laughably lopsided. However, a game is more than just the sum of its parts.
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