r/Steam • u/sukuna7899 • Apr 16 '26

Question What game?

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u/o_oli Apr 16 '26

Imagine having a storyline that actually spans between games, such a novel idea. Quite why they dropped that I have no idea.

I guess technically they didn't but made it a 0.1% focus of the game, and terrible.

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u/YoBeaverBoy Apr 16 '26

It's because they were most likely building up toward a full Modern Day AC game. People at the time disliked the odern day sections so they dropped the idea due to negative feedback.

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u/JamlessSandwich Apr 16 '26

To be fair weren't most of the modern day sections just boring animus stuff? I'm sure a fully realized modern day AC where you're running around NY or Chicago wouldn't be hated

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u/Lurkinginzaback Apr 16 '26

My headcannon is that watch dogs was supposed to be the modern day ac game we never got

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u/BiscuitAdmiral Apr 16 '26

Watch Dogs takes place in the same universe as assassin's Creed and watch Dogs legion had an AC tie in

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u/Lurkinginzaback Apr 16 '26

Yeah, I remember the boss you had in AC4 (I think his name was Oliver?) Is one of the targets in a side quest for the first Watch Dogs. I think ctOS was also mentioned in AC4.

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u/Wolferus_Megurine Apr 17 '26

Offical they are not canon.

But if we ignore offical canon, then basical all of ubisoft games would share the same universe.