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Have the game play more like the first one with the increased abilities of the second and game will be dope.
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New Watch Dogs 2 patch teases possible location for the sequel
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Have the game play more like the first one with the increased abilities of the second and game will be dope.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Watch Dogs 3 in the Middle East would be fucking interesting and intense.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Damn right. Just about everything good about the first game was erased with the sequel. Was such a disappointment.
London is the perfect setting though. I definitely want that.
Hierophant
Banned
please don't change anything from watch dogs 2 that game was ace
Also please include the same level of Streetwear options in it, i like how Marcus dressed like an actual human id like to hang out with
Also please include the same level of Streetwear options in it, i like how Marcus dressed like an actual human id like to hang out with
Modern day Evie <3
ClayKavalier
Banned
South America would have been cool too. London would be the most boring of those three settings. Can't too anything too crazy though, a game with a bunch of foreigners walking around might not make it past the focus groups.
They weren't that bad.
They were also notably better in Europe, so I could see them setting it there.
dmix90
Member
What was the last time we had EU/Asia city on that type of scale in open-world games? Can't think of anything else other than awesome Sleeping Dogs.
Bring it Ubi!!!
Batman Arkham Knight - Gotham( Boston/New York )
Just Cause Series - South America(?)
Mafia Series - North America
Mad Max - Wasteland
Grand Theft Auto Series - North America
Forza Horizon - is pretty good but it's still mostly just landscapes not big cities( bring in Tokyo in FH4! )
Bring it Ubi!!!
Batman Arkham Knight - Gotham( Boston/New York )
Just Cause Series - South America(?)
Mafia Series - North America
Mad Max - Wasteland
Grand Theft Auto Series - North America
Forza Horizon - is pretty good but it's still mostly just landscapes not big cities( bring in Tokyo in FH4! )
What was the last time we had EU/Asia city on that type of scale in open-world games? Can't think of anything else other than awesome Sleeping Dogs.
Bring it Ubi!!!
Batman Arkham Knight - Gotham( Boston/New York )
Just Cause Series - South America(?)
Mafia Series - North America
Mad Max - Wasteland
Grand Theft Auto Series - North America
Forza Horizon - is pretty good but it's still mostly just landscapes not big cities( bring in Tokyo in FH4! )
Assassin's Creed Unity and Syndicate?
dmix90
Member
Ancient architecture so not really the same don't you think?
Always-honest
Banned
Sounds like a good match
WD2 had some pacing issues and could have had some more variety in its mission design, but the tone was absolutely on point.
I hope the next iteration will follow a similar path with regards to tone, likeable characters and being not-all-that-serious-and-gritty.
And i hope they go full non-lethal this time around.
I hope the next iteration will follow a similar path with regards to tone, likeable characters and being not-all-that-serious-and-gritty.
And i hope they go full non-lethal this time around.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
They won't have the balls to do it but a hacker game in China would be pretty great.
davidwhangchoi
Member
was hoping this was about WD1 convoy style side missions being added in.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
The tone was fine. It's just a shame the FANTASTIC gameplay of the first game was all thrown out the window for it. The gameplay balance of WD2 was virtually non existent. The game mechanics and level design were so poorly thought out in the sequel it's not even funny.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
A Portal 1 like ending change?
to be fair, i didn't play WD1.
What about the game mechanics and level design were all that poorly thought out?
The only thing i could think of would be the fact that it suffered from the "Arkham Asylum syndrome" of "always stay in detective vision".
Dirtyshubb
Member
I grew up in Streatham Hill which is right next to Brixton so this would be pretty cool.
Always funny to see local areas in games, when Croydon popped up in Assassins Creed that was a big WTF moment for me too
Always funny to see local areas in games, when Croydon popped up in Assassins Creed that was a big WTF moment for me too
Mr.Fletcher
Member
I would love to see Watch Dogs set in our capital.
However, I think you'd need a tonal shift from the second game to make it believable. The characters in Watch Dogs 2 would not fit in over here at all.
I essentially want Snatch with gadgets!
However, I think you'd need a tonal shift from the second game to make it believable. The characters in Watch Dogs 2 would not fit in over here at all.
I essentially want Snatch with gadgets!
aGuyInaBearSuit
Member
I was kinda hoping for Seattle since it's probably #2 for big tech markets in the US, but going overseas sounds good, too.
DAHGAMING
Member
Id love this, how well did they replicate San Francisco? Would love to go around London seeing places I know. Theres always going to be the big land marks but its the little details i apreciate the side roads ect, the fact that the teaser shows Brixton is promising for that reason.
On one hand yay for a non-american setting, and I suppose London makes sense with all the CCTVs they got. But on the other hand I feel like London is the go-to european city setting and once again english speakers. Why not Berlin, Paris, Kopenhagen, Vienna, Madrid, etc? Something truely new and different for once?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
London makes perfect sense. If they can inject the same humour into it as they did with the last one it will be a very fun game. How are the sales for WD2 looking now? It WILL get a sequel right?
Think you answered your own question there. London is probably the safest non-US city to use as a setting for an open-world game. It's been a while since it's been used like this so I'm fine with it personally.
Think you answered your own question there. London is probably the safest non-US city to use as a setting for an open-world game. It's been a while since it's been used like this so I'm fine with it personally.
meh, people like familiar stuff in their open world games, and London got plenty of recongnizable landmarks. Paris would work too, Berlin maybe.
London is also very diverse and you could have people talking english in various different accents in a natural way.
Like, how weird would it be to have a game full of people speaking with a Danish accent
What would seem super neat to me would be individual missions being set at various locations throughout major European cities. Like, imagine you need to infiltrate the Louvre; climb the Funkturm in Berlin.
Watch Dogs 2 was very 'heist'-y in its mission design, many locations were pretty much disconnected from the open-world (via elevators), anyways.
Technically they just did it in 2015 with AC Syndicate. Other time setting of course though, but still.
I'm not saying I'm negative on London, it would be a cool setting and different still, but it also has kind of a bitter taste considering how most of continental europe is usually ignored in videogame settings (especcially when it comes to open worlds).
That would be amazing, but since Ubisoft insists on open-world games no matter what it won't happen.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Yea that's specifically what I meant when I said 'used like this'. It's been too long since we have seen a modern open-world set in London, which is surprising considering how many movies and TV shows are set there. Also AC Syndicate didn't do much for me, I didn't like the game and the setting/time period had been recreated much more memorably in The Order earlier that year.
Not something you can fairly accuse Ubisoft of, even if they are set hundreds of years in the past.
In regards to current-day / at least 20th century openworld settings? Absolutely can. Sure some of the historic AC settings are set in continental europe, but for their times they were also rather safe bets. Setting a game set in the industrial revolution in London or a game set in the 1790s in France wasn't exactly revolutionary or particularly risky.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I wouldn't agree with that, in fact I think those risky settings where why the Animus/future setting were created in the first place.
FWIW as a European myself I would also like to see modern European cities recreated as open-worlds, as they have so much character, but I just don't see it happening. GTA hasn't even done it yet
Daffy Duck
Member
Would be a great location.
But that's not going to change by applauding them into a frenzy (not that you or anyone here is doing that) for a still very safe choice. Sure it's a step in the right direction and they'd deserve SOME credit for it (although it should be a normal thing), but there's still a lot of more representation to be had(and we're still JUST talking about continental europe).
I mean let's look at all the more or less recent 20th century+ open world games set in the US:
GTA 4 - NYC
GTA 5 - LA
Watch Dogs - Chicago
Watch Dogs 2 - San Francisco
Infamous - fictional NYC
Infamous 2 - fictional New Orleans
Infamous SS - Seattle
Mafia 2 - NYC
Mafia 3 - New Orleans
Prototype - NYC
Prototype 2 - NYC
Saints Row Series - fictional NYC
The Division - NYC
The Crew - whole US
Burnout Paradise - fictional US
Fallout series - US
The Godfather 2 - NYC
Homefront The Revolution - Philadelphia
L.A. Noire - Los Angeles
SuperRaddy
Member
I fully agree with you, i finished up WD2 last night (after this patch) and was an avid fan of WD1 too. I much preferred the premise of the character in WD1 as it is much more believable than the characters in WD2 (hacker group that does so much needless killing and violence). I thought the story in WD1 was much better and more coherent throughout the entire game. Parts of WD2 felt needless and a mess. The final mission was such a disappointment. The design of the missions was much nicer too in WD1, the stealth felt better.. For me WD1 is a better game.
Ooh, London would be fun.
Give me a protagonist like Moses, bruv.
Oh please, YES.
If they bring back Aiden, Belfast would make a lot more sense.