Interactive Friction: Watch_Dogs: Episode 16: The Titular Words Are Hard

First off, I actually made a mistake in this episode. “Titular” is a word meaning “in the title”. For example, Garrett the Master Thief is the titular “Thief” of that franchise. However, “eponymous” is the other way around. It is used to describe a thing named after an individual. For example, “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” is Tony Hawk’s eponymous game franchise.

What that cleared up, this episode is another one where neither Sam nor I have much to say about Watch_Dogs. This is where we basically give up and do a podcast in the middle of our Let’s Play series.

Lastly, since one of my favorite pass-times is pointing out how far down the rabbit hole this filler crap goes:

• Aiden Pearce’s main objective is to find the person who ordered the hit that resulted in the death of his niece. He has already deduced that it has something to do with his last big heist: The Merlaut job.
• To that end, he traced the IP address of the other person who hacked into the hotel’s systems that day. It led him to Iraq’s compound.
• Aiden Pearce hacks server in Iraq’s compound and partially downloads the data that was stolen, because that will apparently help us track the person who ordered the hit?
• Clara gets the data, but can’t hack it because it’s encrypted. Instead of relying on her friends at Anonymous HQ, she figures that the only person who can break the encryption is Raymond Kenney, who created it.
• Aiden Pearce goes out to the middle of nowhere to find Kenney, and gets beat up in a bar. 🙂
• Kenney, now T-Bone, will only break the encryption if we do him a solid and hack into Blume’s systems.
• We have to acquire the materials and the access codes to break into Blume, to help Kenney, so that he will decrypt the data, so that we can read the data, and HOPEFULLY get one step closer to the man who ordered the hit on Aiden Pearce that accidentally killed his niece.