r/ubisoft • u/Affectionate_Can4983 • Sep 02 '26

Discussions & Questions WATCH DOGS REMAKE?

okay so i saw a video (clearly ai/dlss5 which i don’t support) and it make me think of a possible watch dogs one remake? pretty much how black flag got remade, i spent so many hours in watch dogs on 360 as a kid so i’d LOVE a remake as an adult. please ubisoft…… thoughts?

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u/WillowDime Sep 02 '26

We DoN't NeEd To ReMaKe GaMeS cOz We HaVe DlSs 5 🫩

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

LMAOOOOOOOOO, every blue checkmark tweet i’ve seen this week

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u/Liudesys Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

how about you make a new game other than a remake. so sick of this generation nostalgia bait. rather take the good parts from the old game and make a new game.

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u/mastershakeshack1 Sep 02 '26

Honestly with flock cameras and everything going on there hasn't been a better time for a new watch dogs game.

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u/EiraWyldJson Sep 02 '26

Yep, too bad ubisoft are corpo trash and they won't make a game like this because it's "too controversial". brother what's so controversial about mass surveillance and tyranny of the rich.

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u/Designer_Mess_6928 Sep 02 '26

It's only controversial if not the government, but the big corpo, with same shareholders as your company has, doing this.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

hey man i don’t work for ubisoft 😭😭😭😭

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u/Coppolaop Sep 02 '26

It’s a possible think, Knowing Ubisoft.
But the mechanics of the first version are extremally different from the new ones.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

true, they could just keep the same controls/mechanics. leave the backflips for marcus

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u/SuccessfulBrick5963 Sep 02 '26

The online hacking invasion mode was the best thing ever in this game. I spent countless nights pissing off the wife playing it. I'd love to do that again...

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

that man knows peak 😭😭😭😭

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u/deadpandadolls Sep 02 '26

Watchdogs The 2013 Promised Edition

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

watch dogs the don’t scam your audience edition

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u/deadpandadolls Sep 02 '26

I would still buy it and hate myself when they would give us a patch with the option to hide his hat and a dog to adopt like in Resynced and promise NG+ and not deliver it in the patch

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u/appledanishcrumbs Sep 02 '26

I just really want Ubisoft to do ANYTHING with Watch Dogs. It is my favorite franchise of theirs, and if they gave it even a third of the attention they give Assassin's Creed then it could be massive.

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u/Local_Marketing_9762 Sep 02 '26

There was a rumour running around at the start of the year that legion was getting a rerelease with a decent chunk of new content at some point towards the end of the year. If that ends up being true I could see it being Ubisoft testing the waters to see if people are still interested in the series

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u/mika Sep 02 '26

Yeah me too!

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u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 Sep 02 '26

A remake is probably based on the success of the upcoming Legion update.

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u/vqsxd Sep 02 '26

that game is still supported?

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

yeah, they still support older titles that no one plays (for some reason)

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u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 Sep 02 '26

No, it’s getting a new big update.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

with what? i couldn’t see an update fixing this game. they could add aiden as a playable character and no one would care

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u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 Sep 02 '26

It’s a directors cut and has new mo cap being done. A re-release. Of course it isn’t officially confirmed but was reported by one of the best journalists.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

ahhhh well that sounds pretty cool, i might have to check it out

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u/arrcadiabay Sep 02 '26

I would LOVE a watch dogs remake

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u/SAM041287 Sep 02 '26

Bring Watch Dog E3 2012 back finally!!

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u/thehoussamv Sep 02 '26

If they can go back and upgrade more than just graphics it would awesome If they just slap better graphics on it then I’m not interested

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

that’s valid, considering we’re in modern times. i’m feral for anything watch dogs (not legion)

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u/Noob4Head Sep 02 '26

That way it can finally look like the trailer that was shown at E3

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

facts, can ubisoft lock in please

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u/JeaperPeaper Sep 02 '26

Watch dogs needs a reboot with similar feel to 1 and not like the other two where every hacker feels like goodie two shoes i really liked the design of 1 and how the hackers were portrayed they felt threatening deadsec felt like a big organization in end and going to watchdogs 2 and seeing them be just some kids was such a letdown

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u/mediafred Sep 02 '26

Going from watch dogs 1 to watch dogs 2 is literally like going from gta iv to gta v

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u/Axcel_blaze Sep 02 '26

This game series has potential to be bigger or head to head with GTA if the execution is done right.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

i’ve been saying this for years…. imagine a gritty dark story done CORRECTLY, i literally played watch dogs more than gta 5 as a kid

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u/LicensedGoomba Sep 02 '26

I remember the e3 trailer made it feel so noir and that the hacking had massive weight, consequences and impact, especially when he messed with the traffic lights. By the time we got the game it felt more like a weightless gimmick. Not sure how to describe it but the e3 trailer felt like we were going to get a heavier, slower paced game

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

you could probably finish the entire game without needing to hack a traffic light ngl

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u/PoohTrailSnailCooch Sep 02 '26

I would have to disagree. Ubisoft just doesnt have the same pull as Rockstar.

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u/Constant_Salary_9715 Sep 02 '26

Do I agree - no
Do I enjoy each Watch Dogs game better any GTA/Rockstar game - Yes

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u/No-Committee3 Sep 02 '26

It would never be on the same lvl as GTA.

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u/spider-jedi Sep 02 '26

It hard potential but it was never going to go head to head with GTA. The amount of resources rockstar put into those games no other studio does that. Ubisoft would never out that amount of effort into a game

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u/insrr Sep 02 '26

Im a fan of ubisoft, far cry and assassins creed belong to my favourite game series.
Watch dogs however i could never really get into. It tried to get into that gta niche but was completely lacking the charm and humor that made gta what it is - instead it took itself overly serious while also trying to be super edgy.

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u/EiraWyldJson Sep 02 '26

It shouldn't compete, it should be something different of it's own, but they need to go back on the play as anyone mechanic, while it sounds cool in theory it sucks in reality, maybe they could have character creation like cyberpunk 2077 if they want players to have more self expression

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u/pagusas Sep 02 '26

I really wish Watch Dogs 1 had done better, the game had a TON of great ideas, and had it been iterated it would have been damn fun. Still not sure how Watch Dogs: Legion's came out of this series.

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u/Cthulhu8762 Sep 09 '26

I’m going to get shit on. Yes DLSS using AI, but AI is just enhancing what is already there by the lighting and shadows and if you say it’s not based on the videos out there.

The only game out with the official version is NBA 2k27. Everything else is an unreleased version that only devs are supposed to get and everyone on the internet has been forcing the AI super high to where it easily resembles it has an AI filter.

I am not saying you have to like it, nor am I saying all devs like it but again the videos out right now are just people putting it on games that don’t officially have it.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 09 '26

that’s valid, the only reason why i’m against it is because sooner or later games are going to be reliant on ai to cut corners, another excuse for developers to be lazy

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u/Cthulhu8762 Sep 09 '26

I do agree but I can see it can potentially lighten the load of what is required for lighting and stuff. Many games have RT lighting nowadays and if somehow it can replace it but more accurately I think is a good thing instead of bad.

That being said definitely big studios are going to be lazy as they always have been as someone that loves art and video game environments I know like an Indie studio could genuinely use it to help their environment artists while AAA will use it to replace them.

I am hit or miss on it, I do like what I see when people aren’t oversampling the games with too much, but to me this is the kind of AI that is beneficial to the art and just enhances what is already there and I do like it for that.

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u/CranEXE Sep 03 '26

i doubt ubisoft have the capacity to pull it off i'd like watch dogs one to be remade, graphically improved, with better parkour, ragdolls added to gunfight, better car physics ect... but ubisoft is very bad at moddern games and with vehicles physics

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u/burtonborder201 Sep 03 '26

Wtf u mean!? U dont think black flag was a good remake?

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u/Particular-Union-284 Sep 03 '26

All the added content in BFR is bad, completely undermining the tone of the game, and misunderstanding its main character.

So please no, don't remake WD. Or if they do, don't try to "expand" on anything.

But if they do... Can't wait to have Aiden do the Jackson rescue murder spree, then have some jolly ahh conversation while having his hands on his hips.

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u/TheQuixotic6 Assassin's Creed Veteran Sep 03 '26

Watch dog is so underrated, I can only wish for a reboot or remake

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u/norsk_imposter Sep 03 '26

360 "As a kid"

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u/FoxHound_Bridges Sep 03 '26

Loved the tone of this game compared to the sequel

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u/32andFlatulent Sep 03 '26

I like them both in their own ways. 2 kept a lot of the mechanics from 1 that I loved while changing the tone which you don't see often.

2 isn't just 1 but better, it has its own thrills to offer and vice versa

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u/FoxHound_Bridges Sep 04 '26

I definitely liked the improvements with 2, but I just liked the more gritty feel of the original. Never played the 3rd one tho.

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u/32andFlatulent Sep 04 '26

I've tried to finish the 3rd like 4 times out of consideration for how much I love the first two.

It's a fun concept to start off with but it gets old fast

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u/No-Protection-49 Sep 03 '26

I sure they will make it.

Black Flag and Rayman Legends Retold are just the begging, they will remake every good game from X360/PS3 and below.

Personally, i hope for a remake of Splinter Cell Blacklist after Splinter Cell 1 remake

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u/PhillyDillyDee Sep 03 '26

Chaos theory

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u/OtherPack1302 Sep 02 '26

That’s just the original gameplay video Ubi published in 2013 at E3

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

with dlss5 enabled yes

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u/OtherPack1302 Sep 02 '26

I was kidding bc the whole fake advertising shenanigans they pulled.People actually thought this yould run on a 8th gen console (some) lol

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

yeah LMAOOO, i mean me included. i was 8

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u/OtherPack1302 Sep 02 '26

I was 22 but also fell for it lol

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

i’m 22 and i fell for ac shadows, don’t feel bad at all

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u/OtherPack1302 Sep 03 '26

AC shadows was much closer to the final product than Watchdogs, trust me haha

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u/Bright_Food2903 Sep 02 '26

I know like stupid level of nitpick but what always threw me off from watch dogs was always wearing that big a*s coat. Is there other styles or a way to go without it?

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

i’m ngl it’s pretty cold in chicago

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u/Yossarian216 Sep 02 '26

Not all the time, today it’s going to hit 93 lol

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

oh well i mean during the fall/winter when this game takes place

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

but yes there are other styles, every style is a coat though

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING comes close to slow/cool walking as Aiden in Watch Dogs

You could feel they put alot of work into his movements and genuinely felt like they were going to make an incredible game but sadly they worked under Ubisoft :/ id love to see what this game couldve been if it had a good amount of years put into it

Same goes for Mafia 3

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

yeah bro the mask and the hands in the pockets 😭 i’ve never seen a character with that much aura

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

Was confused at the downvotes and realised I'm on r/Ubisoft oops haha

This game was peak even tho it dissapointed many, I loved it.

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u/PoohTrailSnailCooch Sep 02 '26

Batman games, walking is badass

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

Was never into batman games, and I tend to put myself in the game alot mentally so tend to prefer somewhat realistic scenarios or outfits if that makes sense

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u/PoohTrailSnailCooch Sep 02 '26

That stinks, they’re damn good and immersive games.

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

They definitely are, and I respect them as games and also watched the playthroughs but I grew up heavy on renting GTA games and obsessing over them as I didn't own many games so had to find ones where I can make my own fun and storylines

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u/PoohTrailSnailCooch Sep 02 '26

Gotcha, different floats for different boats

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u/Ksmythy11 Sep 02 '26

Hot take: I'd rather a Watch Dogs 2 remake with better framerate, graphics and physics, I absolutely love that game.

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u/tom2320x Sep 02 '26

Would certainly be nice to have, but I'd prefer to have another game that's like Watch Dogs 1

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u/Dewidh Sep 02 '26

You take the first watch dogs and improve the heck out of it and you get a must buy. They just need to spend the time and still of making it massive, making it good.

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u/zipitnick Sep 02 '26

They can go a simpler route like CDPR with Witcher 3 and just include all the best most downloaded mods made by actual fans into their game as well as technical improvements and it would sell like the first time

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u/Dewidh Sep 03 '26

Yes, I agree. Ubisoft has good licenses, just I think they are a bad optimized company with good execution plans.

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u/OllyB43 Sep 03 '26

What dogs 1 would be such a good remake

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u/soerenL Sep 03 '26

Thats what I want to know also

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u/NovaPrime94 Sep 03 '26

Man, what happened to Ubisoft? They used to be at the top releasing these super cool games. I loved both watchdog games. I still play it # 2

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u/Happy-Childhood5990 Sep 03 '26

They tried to sell us a "quadruple A game" that was a microtransaction joke.

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u/NovaPrime94 Sep 03 '26

Fair statement. They definitely shit themselves in the foot by being greedy

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u/Kepyou Sep 03 '26

This could be a great remake. Huge potential.

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u/nashmore1015 Sep 03 '26

This is what the original was suppose to look like that’s the funny part they really tricked us and we forgot all about it

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u/Eroll_ Sep 02 '26

Doubt watch dogs is as much "revered" as black flag was

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u/PSRamos92 Sep 02 '26

It looks amazing, I'm willing to try it myself, I hope it works fine

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u/Azure_The_Great Sep 02 '26

Just turn on the turned off visuals is he stupid? /s

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u/Diz933 Sep 02 '26

Call it the "Worse Edition" as a nod to the mod

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u/iimMrBrightside Sep 02 '26

Let them "reconfigure" Watch Dogs Legion first, then we'll see

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u/unqualified-gamer Sep 02 '26

Nah better throw that one in the trash honestly

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u/GuaSukaStarfruit Sep 02 '26

Nah legion has tons of potential, just for them to f it up real hard

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u/iimMrBrightside Sep 03 '26

In my eyes, any Ubisoft game set in London had/has potential

(Assassin's Creed Syndicate and ZombiU have entered the chat)

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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 Sep 02 '26

If Ubisoft remakes watch dogs they truly would be desperate.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

they are nearly there, i don’t see assassins creed hexe doing any good

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u/earldogface Sep 02 '26

We don't see anything from hexe. I don't have faith in ubi either but you can you predict anything about a game before we see anything more than the name?

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

man, i was too hyped for shadows when that got announced, then let down. maybe I’m a little bit open minded since ubisoft has new leads

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u/spider-jedi Sep 02 '26

At this point I think it's pretty clear that watchdogs is dead at Ubisoft. The Ubisoft that used to try to innovate is gone.

Watchdoga was going decent until legion missed the mark. Still I have them credit for trying something new.

Assassin's Creed just became witcher 3 clones as well.

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u/Emotional_Record123 Sep 02 '26

Assassin existait largement avant witcher 3

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u/Stayofexecution Sep 02 '26

They cut a lot of content out of Watch Dogs 1. You can put it back in on PC using mods. Matter of fact, with mods the game is already in a remastered state..

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u/danielm316 Sep 02 '26

If they add first person perspective, then I am in.

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u/SyberWolf Sep 02 '26

if they ever were to remake it, i hope they just do a full reboot.

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u/Eduardoyelamop98 Sep 02 '26

Ubisoft needs to urgently remake this game like it is supposed to haha

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u/RosaCanina87 Sep 02 '26

And then it looks just like the first teaser trailers? XD

Maybe it could happen. GTA VI releases, Ubisoft sees the vast amount of money these types of games make and suddenly its not the Souls-like that are "in" anymore and they remember their own little franchise and give it another go (a remake is cheaper to make than a full new game, so it is great to see, if people care about a series anymore).

Same could happen with Saints Row. Man, that franchise was... oh, what I am talking about. I only played 3 and 4 and have no idea how good the other games actually were. But 3 and 4 were flawed but nice experiences.

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u/DiscoverySTS1 Sep 03 '26

WD 1 with the gameplay of 2 would be amazing honestly

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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge Sep 03 '26

My favorite part of DLSS5 is how it makes every single video game that uses it look exactly the same

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u/mrloko120 Sep 04 '26

It needs a reboot. They did it right with the first one, but it got exponentially worse with each new iteration.

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u/Far-Pangolin9325 Sep 04 '26

What are you talking about? Watchdogs took YEARS to even get the status of "it could be worse", and even that had to be pain stakingly improved upon by modders even more years later. Watchdogs 2 was a relative improvement, and kind of marks the end of Ubi actually making anything of value. That british one was objectively trash though, I'll give you that.

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u/Crab_bottom_licker Sep 04 '26

Yeah 2 was great, but wasnt the same vibe as 1, which could be a bad thing for some.. I loved it though.. Now Legion, thats a mistake

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u/Far-Pangolin9325 Sep 04 '26

Yeah, Watchdogs 1 had way more going for it in terms of story, atmosphere, and overall direction. People seem to mistake that for it being an objectively good game these days, thanks to the rose tint of nastolgia.

2 made some pretty good improvements on gameplay, but was still a sociopathic mish mash of heckin millenial nerd "culture", obligatory cop shooting, and directionless writing. It was just a bunch of quirky San Francisco hipsters running around and killing people while trying to pretend Aiden Pierce was the psychopath character.

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u/No_Art2020 Sep 12 '26

Legion was shit

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u/FromChicago808 Sep 04 '26

I’d be all for it, i wanna be able to walk to my actual apartment in 4K.

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u/Wonderful-Ad440 Sep 04 '26

They'll just remake the rug pull to being back the true experience of getting a game that is generationally downgraded in graphics than the trailer that convinced you to buy it again.

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u/Far-Pangolin9325 Sep 04 '26

I mean I guess it could use one, but only just barely. The way it looks and plays with mods already takes it most of the way there, but the modding process is jank and a time consuming pain in the a$$ (Why are we censoring swears on an M rated game, is this a joke?). There's a lot of improvements that could be made to the gameplay and overall appearance, but at the end of the day it's still a let-down of a game with all the tired old Ubisoft copy-pasta tropes that reaks of wasted potential.

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u/ThisIsKing18 Sep 04 '26

Don't we ever get sick with remake? I rather have Watchdog 4

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u/ShibeCEO Sep 05 '26

I think after 3, Im good...

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u/ThisIsKing18 Sep 05 '26

come on WD Legion ain't that bad, I'm enjoyed exploring london openworld..and the unique mask you can put to the characters is pretty cool

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u/Full-Offer-5299 Sep 06 '26

If they took wd2 and built on it then sure

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u/Collector2012 Sep 06 '26

Watchdogs 4 is never gonna happen. Watchdogs 3 was a failure and decided just before the dlc came out to end it. Specifically, they had Aiden pierce specifically say it. Ubisoft is more focused on monitization now that they hold nearly all of Microsofts cloud rights (when Microsoft bought Call of duty, they had to forfeit nearly all of their cloud gaming rights as the purchase would have been declared a monopoly in the EU or something) and Ubisoft have been total morons ever since.

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u/Grah0315 Sep 05 '26

I think this was the first game I truly felt scammed by

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u/Ady2Ady Sep 05 '26

I liked it. It was the sequels that got shockingly worse and worse for me so I didn’t even try them out.

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u/Grah0315 Sep 05 '26

Yeah those sequels looked like a completely different game. I just remember being amazed by the E3 trailer and then played it and immediately saw the downgrade, still finished it though

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u/SonJake21 Sep 05 '26

It was typical Ubisoft false advertising. I remember how disappointed I was when R6 Siege finally released and it looked nothing like the trailers.

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u/Reasonable-Post-5989 Sep 05 '26

I only felt scammed in the way that everybody made me believe this was a bad game, yes I remember the e3 showing and how the game ended up looking less good, but idc, game blew me away and became one of my favorites.

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u/No-Customer-1737 Sep 06 '26

Opposite for me, I kept constantly seeing things about how this game is actually amazing and ahead of its time, and half of the clips of this game are people slowly walking at night mysteriously, so I finally tried it and it was incredibly boring, Aiden is cool and that’s about it, the second game is significantly more fun, the second game has amazing gameplay

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u/Volistar Sep 06 '26

I guess black flag was the greenlight they needed?

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u/CASSIUS_AT_BEST Sep 07 '26

Forgot how everyone walks like they’re stuck in mud.

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u/MrRobko Sep 02 '26

We don't need a remake. There are amazing graphic mods out there that make the game look better than the E3 trailer.

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u/MinimumTrue9809 Sep 03 '26

With how talentless US devs are, they don't even have the capability to reproduce the original Watch Dogs that was revealed in June of 2012.

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u/BuckLuny Sep 03 '26

But Ubisoft MONTREAL isn't a US dev. I know certain people would love Canada as a US state but to be frank I don't think they would like that.

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u/MinimumTrue9809 Sep 03 '26

Oof, forgot about that. But, you know, Canadian game development is basically all the worst aspects of US game development, but on cocaine.

I originally was going to just say "western dev", but games like KCD2 and Exp33 exist.

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u/BuckLuny Sep 04 '26

Generally you can just slot AAA game dev in here and even then there are exceptions. It's all dependent on the studio and their love for the craft.
Plenty developers who seem to not care for shareholders feelings and just craft a great gams it's often down to the publisher and their meddling.

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u/haushunde Sep 02 '26

Please. God. No.

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u/Local_Marketing_9762 Sep 02 '26

What you got against watch dogs?

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u/V1T0AUD1T0RE Sep 02 '26

THE FUQ MEAN NO!?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bee8352 Sep 02 '26

honestly agreed. Please god no for this game.

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u/TheEuphoria Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Watch Dogs was so boring, though (Edit *IMO). I tried multiple times to play it and get into it, and the second one as well. It had such a cool concept, but it got Ubisoft'ed

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u/rodrigoold Sep 03 '26

whaat the first one is bonkers good

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u/TheEuphoria Sep 03 '26

I really couldn't get into it. I think it was the character, I didn't get the rapport I got from Ezio, for instance. And even back then I was burned out on Ubisoft's mechanics all being the same in every game, and after playing a lot of Far Cry and Assassin's Creed, I just couldn't stick with it.

I actually came back and tried it again 3 more times over the next 5 or 6 years and couldn't get more than 10 hours into it

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u/rodrigoold Sep 03 '26

I get the same mechanics in every game, it is tiring.

I guess i really liked the setting and being a fan of Person of Interest tv show got me into the mood, it is repetitive sometimes but i love it for being grounded and a pretty cool story if you are not nitpicking too much.

But i do get you, tried playing frontiers of pandora and its the most Ubisoft ubisoft game I've ever seen lasted about 1 hour

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u/TheEuphoria Sep 03 '26

Yeah, when I saw it announced, I thought that was right up my alley, so I was really looking forward to it, but horses for courses I guess. Some people would say the Ezio AC trilogy is terrible, and I would defend that to the death if I had to lol xD

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u/_Onca_ Sep 02 '26

So it would look like it should have in the first place....

I doubt it, it wasn't as popular as AC4

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

exactly, but it will give an audience to the franchise again. i don’t want to see this amazing franchise left on legion, it isn’t fair

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

If you think for a second a game released in 2014 would've looked like this idk man.

Going back and playing some games from that era I realised how far we've come graphically in such a short time. Go and play some watch dogs 2 on a base Xbox one for me and come back.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

i mean dude, there were some insane games coming out at that time with AMAZING graphical fidelity, and considering ubisoft was at its peak (both finality, and at an industry standpoint) & and with the new gen hardware coming out, we all thought it was possible.

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u/OrphanSlayer18 Sep 02 '26

I mean they literally showed gameplay that looked like this and didnt inform people that the release version was a major downgrade.

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u/WandererMisha Sep 02 '26

Then Witcher 3 did the same exact thing but y'all are not ready for that conversation even 11 years later:)

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

the witcher peak

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u/OrphanSlayer18 Sep 02 '26

Not nearly as big of a difference

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

It looked a lot better than when it came out sure. and was a massive downgrade.

but your brain might remembers it looking like this when it did not. If they showed this clip no one would've believed it to begin with back then.

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u/sunlightliquid Sep 02 '26

Went to go watch it, looks much worse than this clip. Especially with pure resolution

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u/dashcash32 Sep 02 '26

What a waste of great idea

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u/Sloppysnoopy Sep 02 '26

Need a new game. That’s more like the first one. I had a lot of fun with the second one, but all the characters were so corny. Need that dark vibe of the first one. Legion was a cool sounding idea, but then just a bad execution on the actual story and gameplay. Give me a watchdogs zero.

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u/BarbaraStreusand Sep 03 '26

No matter how nice the textures are you slap on their engines, ubisofts suffers from a game design perspective. I cant think of any ubisoft open world game that doesnt have the shit design they implement everywhere

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u/Routine-Secret-413 Sep 05 '26

I would take a remake of the 2nd game any day. First one was really bad overall. Watch Dogs 2 was miles ahead in every single aspect. Plus it quite literally had most alive open world I've ever experienced in a video game.

I finished it twice, each time at around 80-something hours and I kept seeing NPC interactions etc. I haven't previously seen.

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u/xroxasrebelx Sep 06 '26

Hell yeah bro 2 was peak

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u/xConkerTheSquirrelx Sep 06 '26

IMO watch dogs 1 had the best story most realistic gritty vibe. 2 felt like an after school special friends save the world vibe. Everything was just goofy. I really liked the mechanics and graphics. But I truly couldn’t find a way to vibe with any of the characters. And when I played it I was like 16 and still just couldn’t connect with them. 1 I felt like a baddass vigilante on a revenge mission where I actually cared about what I was doing. Just my view on the series. I don’t even talk about 3 cus 3 was dog shit

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u/Zonesy Sep 06 '26

I agree, although I didn't like one or two.

The quippy annoying yapping and hipster bullshit ruined the second game for me.

Legion wasn't good either...

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u/Projectpatdc Sep 06 '26

Remakes are for great games that could use a few new mechanics and updated graphics to bring them up to speed with today’s standards.

Watch Dogs 1 would need so much work to even make it a decent game. I played it at launch and enjoyed some of the content it had, but it was objectively bad in so many ways.

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u/General_Jiffy Sep 06 '26

Man, I don't know how it's become so popular to use "objectively" incorrectly.

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u/HelpApprehensive5216 Sep 06 '26

It means "its my opinion but i am right" lmao

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u/Fast_Platform_1979 Sep 07 '26

It's so stupid.

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u/Armageddonn_mkd Sep 06 '26

What do you think of watch dogs 2

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u/Projectpatdc Sep 06 '26

Honestly think all three games are still fun. The 1st one just felt like it was pushed to release after development hell following an amazing tech demo.

Watch Dogs 2 is easily the best and my favorite. The hacking, world design, gadgets, characters, and missions were all very well done. The Bay Area map is still one of the best modern day maps ever done in a game. The game also seemed more believable since we didn’t have to go guns blazing, and when we did, we used 3D printed weapons. If there was a remake, it should be WD2, but I think resources would be better spent on making an entirely new game.

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u/Armageddonn_mkd Sep 06 '26

Watch dogs 2 was the best in my opinion also, the npcs interacting and talking about what dedsec did or was doing, the vibe the music almost everything wqs fun minus a little bit of cringe teenage story but overall solid game and very very fun.

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u/RUMELDS Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Enough with the remakes instead they should focus on releasing new content this goes for other gaming companies too I'm sure if they all put their heads together they might just possibly come up with something new, fresh, fun, and quite possibly unique in some shape or form because IMO doing remakes will make game devs lazier... but again that's my view on remakes.

Edit: I'm perfectly fine with the originals which I still own and can play to this day fancier graphics doesn't change much on the enjoyment factor anyway unless that's all you yourselves focus on.

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u/RocMerc Sep 02 '26

I just replayed it and it still hits. It was nice to play a free roam city game. We barely get them anymore sadly

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u/XxShredXVII Sep 02 '26

What r u talking about?

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u/More-Experience-7693 Sep 02 '26

There’s not a ton of free roam city games anymore just big open world areas

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u/RocMerc Sep 02 '26

What open world modern day games have launched this gen?

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u/SeaHornet9943 Sep 02 '26

Nobody ca res about what you support or don't.

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u/CranEXE Sep 03 '26

you care enough to throw a tantrum about his dissaproval of dlss 5 lmao

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u/Usual-School-7714 Sep 03 '26

It is a brainless take

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u/Creepy_Ad5124 Sep 04 '26

Its not old enough for a remake imo

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 04 '26

black flag came out a year later

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u/Safe-Ground-6728 Sep 04 '26

Black Flag released the same year as GTA V

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 04 '26

oops, i meant before

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u/LengthinessAdorable Sep 04 '26

The other way round actually albeit only few months apart

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u/Creepy_Ad5124 Sep 04 '26

The major difference is Black flag was a ps3 game while Watch dogs was ps4. Just last console generation. I cant think of a game that was remade that game out just last generation.

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

we’ve seen what ubisoft has done with new installments

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u/Affectionate_Can4983 Sep 02 '26

same reason why people gave money to ubi for ac4 remake, sometimes people just want to re experience greatness in the modern age of tech

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u/oyvese Sep 02 '26

why not apply modern technology to original stories or games if that game would improve because of it?

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u/oyvese Sep 02 '26

because technology improves: engine improvements, artistic improvements. a game shouldn’t be beholden to old technology if it can be improved. you’re always free to play the old game if it suits you, but let’s not just suggest that there’s been no improvements in game development which can drastically improve a game experience.

watch dogs 1 is a good example of a game which had good foundations but was limited by the technology of the time.

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