It's not a spoiler to say that Far Cry 4 is going to be set in the Himalayas, but this might not have been the case, as Ubisoft's Vincent Ouellette revealed in a recent interview.
"It wasn't like, bam, right on Himalayas. We were looking at the whole world at the same time. We were looking at South America, we looked at Russia - we looked pretty much everywhere but pretty early on we realised the Himalayas would be great."
The studio took the three aforementioned ideas to the Ubisoft hierarchy, who then guided the eventual decision: "not only did we have different ideas for locations but also different ideas for stories. There was a premise or story idea for each location that we picked. But the more we dug in each location the more we were sure the Himalayas were perfect for a Far Cry game."
Far Cry 4 is set to appear on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 on November 18. You can read our most recent preview of the game here.