Watch Dogs fans have been talking about where Ubisoft should take the series next after Watch Dogs Legion, with players assuming it would be better to avoid American cities in future games and to steer away from GTA.
Redditor MichaelBonfanti asked Watch Dogs fans about potential Watch Dogs 4 settings, including the most intriguing location and time period. While some players want to see Ubisoft's take on modern New York, the community mostly wishes for the series to explore locations beyond the US, as Legion did. It's true that there are plenty of other games set in New York, and we already saw the city's post-apocalyptic version in The Division.
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Bolder ideas suggested that Ubisoft should turn down American locations to minimize the harmful comparisons to GTA. In case you don't know, Rockstar's iconic series is inseparably tied to American culture, therefore you shouldn't expect the company to suddenly announce GTA 6 set in Europe. This opens some suitable possibilities for Watch Dogs, as fans think the next chapter should be set in a technologically advanced Asian city like Tokyo, Singapore, or Hong Kong. Seems like it's not just us here who miss Sleeping Dogs.
Other popular suggestions include Barcelona, Budapest, Cairo, Paris, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, and even Dubai. As for the time period, many believe the devs should stick to the contemporary era. The first games were about "a theoretical scenario that could happen right now, without the need for futuristic tech," and fans wish for the series to go back to its roots.
As an argument for abandoning the US, one Redditor pointed out that not many cities are really involved in the
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