[RUMOR] Watch Dogs Series Is “Dead and Buried”; “Fairly Original” Battle Royale Project Has Been Canceled

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The Watch Dogs is "dead and buried", as Ubisoft canceled multiple projects based on the franchise, according to online rumors.


Speaking on X/Titter, known leaker j0nathan revealed how the series is seemingly done. Legion's commercial failure brought the cancelation of multiple projects in the series, according to the leaker, including a "fairly original" battle royale project.


RIP Watchdogs, 3 different games in one franchise that didn’t tie together at all
 
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Watch Dogs deserved to die for how it was so poorly handled. It will no doubt get a Saints Row revival attempt a decade and a half down the line though.
 

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1 was understandably hated on but still a solid game. 2 was very good. Legion was absolute cheeks

I still think the idea behind Legion was dope and ubisoft doesn’t get enough credit for taking a risk with the concept. Their execution of ideas is still just too rooted in design by committee.

Another developer could have killed with the concept of “becoming anyone, recruit anyone, use their special talents to take down a corrupt government” <—-thats a dope idea

If they had better writers and gameplay mechanics
 

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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 :mjpls: . 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. :mjlol:

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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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 :mjpls: . 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. :mjlol:

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.

You just need a central and memorable commander type character. In X-com thats the role you play
 

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I only played the second one. I enjoyed it. When i found out watch dogs 3 was coming out i was interested in playing that one two.
But then Marcus wasn't even the main character anymore and i was like, meh pass.
Never bothered with the online content of Watchdogs 2 anyway and it seemed like they doubled down on it for the third game.
 
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Watch Dogs 2 was decent, one of my favorite open world games.

They dropped the ball with Legion, damn near every good feature in WD2 was removed.

When they brought back past characters for "Bloodline", they didn't even have the decency to bring back Marcus, SMH.

They should have made Watch Dogs 3, with a continuation/expansion of Marcus' story. Kept all of the improvements WD2 made over WD1, plus add new features and improve the driving, and open world.

I didn't mind Legion and played it, but it is inferior to WD2.

Plus the BS they pulled by bringing back "Wrench" and not Marcus, made me give them the side eye.

:mjpls:
 
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