Watch Dogs is a great example of why having a protagonist people can latch on to is incredibly important.
The protagonist from the first game was essentially a meme for a while for being a distillation of the idea of the gravelly voices generic white dude.
Marcus from 2 was actually great, but you already know why some people didn't fukk with him
. But the problem was really the supporting cast. It was a bunch of younger people written almost like stereotypes of what a bunch of writers for hire think those people should be. I had to pause to recover from laughing when in the middle of the game, Sitara gets depressed about them taking a L, and says without a bit of sarcasm, "But that's my BRAND." They really had no clue what they were doing.
The idea of there being no main character in Legion is one of those things that sounds good on paper, but I'm execution ends up seeming directionless. There's too much left to chance when it comes to the player finding a character they can claim as their own. They would've been better off having at least the main character be someone the player creates, and then supporting characters could've been random NPCs.
But aside from all that, all those games came out during the height of Ubisoft's copy and paste map overload design. I ended up tapping out on Watch Dogs 2 just because the pure volume of random shyt spread across the map was just too much for me.
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