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[IbizaPocholo]

Watch Dogs: Legion Isn’t Set in the US “To Make the Watch Dogs Brand Bigger” – Creative Director

gamingbolt.com

While the first two games in the series were set in American cities, Watch Dogs: Legion is set in London, and according to the game's creative director Clint Hocking, that's been done to make the brand bigger and more global. According to Hocking, the developers wanted to tackle problems in the world outside of the United States, and decided to do so with a London setting in Watch Dogs: Legion.

"To make the Watch Dogs brand bigger, you don't need to stick to the US, you need to approach the world more," Hocking said while speaking at the recent UBIDAY 2019 Tokyo event (via Famitsu). "There were also problems in various parts of the world, so I thought it would be interesting to focus on it."

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

In Clint Hocking, We trust, isn't that right brian0057 ?

 

[Shai-Tan]

Not the only reason obviously. London fits well thematically with the series wrt mass surveillance . I'm interested in seeing where they go with the "post brexit" dystopia but it's an Ubisoft game so I imagine it's not going to say anything of substance beyond narrative flavor for the typical video game authoritarian bad guys.

 

[DeliciousDoc]

UK is also the closest to being hong kong without being hong kong.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Watch Dogs: Legion: Ubisoft (almost) forgot about left-hand drive in London, and why the game probably isn’t actually 100 hours

www.eggplante.com

 

[Mr Hyde]

The setting should have been a remote village in the deepest parts of Tasmania. How about that for mainstream appeal.

 

[Birdo]

It makes sense to set it in shittiest, crime-infested place in the UK. London is perfect.

 

[Arun1910]

It makes sense to set it in shittiest, crime-infested place in the UK. London is perfect.

Birmingham says hello

 

[Shifty]

Ubisoft: Tackling world problems one non-political AAA game at a time

 

[Arun1910]

Ubisoft: Tackling world problems one non-political AAA game at a time

Idk, The Crew and AC games aren't political. The only ones that are that I can think of is Watch Dogs 2 and Far Cry.

 

[Damien Crowley]

Idk, The Crew and AC games aren't political. The only ones that are that I can think of is Watch Dogs 2 and Far Cry.

WUTNAU?

Oh, and what about everything Tom Clancy?

 

[D_Dark]

Ubisoft: Tackling world problems one non-political AAA game at a time

Clint Hocking said in an interview Watch Dogs Legion is definitely political unlike the rest of Ubi games.

 

[Lionel Richie]

I think they fucked up this one. Just make a regular game where you play a single protagonist. Make it the GTA London sequel we have all been waiting for.

 

[GAMETA]

Unbiased leftist developers shove their agendas into players on their brand new non-political political game.

 

[ZeroGravity]

Creatively that's probably the right call, but I dunno, I just don't find London interesting so the game is much less on my radar than the previous ones.

 

[plushyp]

My problem with the setting is that Ubisoft didn't justify the narrative progression to sell me on the idea that things have gone this bad in just a single game. This is like jumping from AC2 to AC: Black Flag in the sense that I feel like the storytelling of 3 games is missing/skipped.

 

[jadedm17]

Set In The Us?
OH... US... like USA.
Yea. This Is Why Talking Like This Is Dumb.

 

[EDMIX]

Clint Hocking said in an interview Watch Dogs Legion is definitely political unlike the rest of Ubi games.

Never mind them, they love taking anything out of context to fit a agenda. From what I've read, they never said anything about their games not being political, simply that they themselves don't take any stance. So I guess they must repeat the out of context stuff to get attention or something. smh.

I don't even know how you create something like this without being political, the thing happening is based on policy in the first place. I guess we are dealing with Mario gamers that can't stay up at night to watch West Wing or House Of Cards.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

WUTNAU?

Oh, and what about everything Tom Clancy?

When was the last time a game actually based on Tom Clancy's work was made? I'm honestly kind of surprised they didn't go with "Tom Clancy's Watch_Dogs"...or how about "Tom Clancy's Assassin's Creed"? Oh, oh..."Tom Clancy's The Crew"...

 

[jshackles]

 

[Boss Mog]

I predict it will be even worse than 2. Knowing Ubisoft they'll probably add their shitty RPG system of gear lvl that they added to Ghost Recon Breakpoint for no reason.

 

[RainblowDash]

That's fine with me, it should have been in a place with actual surveillance anyway...

 

[ruvikx]

So if it's in London, do we get Muslim extremists, black gangs & far left "extinction rebellion" attacking normal commuters just trying to go to work & live in peace whilst the cops & courts use camera surveillance to make sure no one trespasses against the Politically Correct neo-religion of our era? Probably not.

We'll get "evil old white men who're evil because they're for law & order + national sovereignty". Hello Ubisoft, your gender, racial, religious & sub-80 IQ diversity has been duly noted.

 

[EDMIX]

I'm happy to see the series go else where as this opens up lots of possibilities for them in the future. I'd love to see them go to a near future Japan and tackle the effects of AI, automation etc.

 

[DeliciousDoc]

I'm happy to see the series go else where as this opens up lots of possibilities for them in the future. I'd love to see them go to a near future Japan and tackle the effects of AI, automation etc.

If it's set in Japan it will be about a woman going against a patriarchal world keeping her down, tentacle jokes and other "funny" observations about Japan 30 years ago.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Watch Dogs Legion Will Allow 20 Characters at Max at a Time

Watch Dogs Legion won't limit your playable characters to one when it releases. We know for a fact that you'll be able to recruit and play as anyone in

segmentnext.com

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Set the next one in Hong Kong, then I'll believe you.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Interview with Watch Dogs: Legion Team Lead Narrative Designer Kaitlin Tremblay

Lead narrative designer Kaitlin Tremblay took the time to sit and chat with TheGamer about what lies ahead for Watch Dogs: Legion.

www.thegamer.com

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

That's cool, I'm down.

Will Watchdogs 5 take place on Mars?

 

[Little Chicken]

Watchdogs 2 was really good, shame this has been delayed.