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[april6e]

the data suggests that they have had more success with the route of SR3 and SR4 and critically the PC version of SR4 is the best rated with SR3 being the most even.

And where did the "success" of catering to the broad casual audience with Saints Row 3 and 4 get us to? The series is on life support which is why the devs are rebooting it into something that somewhat resembles Saints Row 2 which people mostly loved.

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

And where did the "success" of catering to the broad casual audience with Saints Row 3 and 4 get us to? The series is on life support which is why the devs are rebooting it into something that somewhat resembles Saints Row 2 which people mostly loved.

Well first off, it's not on life support because SR3 and SR4 failed.
Second, there are also a lot of people that love SR3 and SR4. It's not like all fans want it to be like the first two games.
Third, did this trailer scream SR2 to you?

I was thinking Watch Dogs when watching this.

 

[Little Chicken]

I just feel like playing SR1 again now, lol

 

[TLZ]

Saints Row?

More like Saints Woke.

 

[eyesabitdull]

None of these characters are cool and I'm fucking annoyed.

Thats the only thought in my head

 

[Dabaus]

This game is going to flop and be half off in a month. Screen shot this.

 

[RavageX]

These devs just don't fucking get it. I hated Saints Row 3 and 4. They just can't stick to a coherent vision for the game. Saints Row 1 and 2 nailed it. They had the right idea then and should've just built on top of the world they created.
How fucking hard is it to see what worked, go back and expand on those ideas. Surely they must have the hard data on hand to see the series falling from its high in the first two entries.
Then you have to question why its falling out of favour with gamers.

Thing is, these devs probably aren't even the same crew from the first two games. I think those guys/gals have moved on from the company.

That would explain the trash games after the first 2, especially story wise.

 

[JayK47]

I'm willing to give it a try. Seemed odd to me that is has been so long.

 

[eastcoastkody]

that first game was truly a masterpiece. But it came out right before PS3 launched. And nobody was ready to admit how great that game truly was.

 

[Stephen Curry]

"We worked really hard to build on the diversity of the characters"
"You have Nina, who is this muscle badass and is driving around in her cars."
"You have Eli, who loves his podcasts."
"You have Kev, who loves to cook and that's his biggest thing, he loves to cook.

No Johnny Gat.. The Saints now have a podcast and love to cook! - Twitch

This being real is insane lmao

 

[yansolo]

johnny gat doesnt cut it in 2021/22, too offensive

 

[BadBurger]

I'm willing to give it a try. Seemed odd to me that is has been so long.

Didn't the original publisher lose rights by going out of business or something, and then it was sold to someone else?

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Anyone else think Nina (woman on the right) might be a good character? She makes me think of Shaundi and Kenzie.

 

[Stephen Curry]

Anyone else think Nina (woman on the right) might be a good character? She makes me think of Shaundi and Kenzie.

This picture is straight up embarrassing

 

[Chiggs]

Cringe.

 

[GymWolf]

"We worked really hard to build on the diversity of the characters"
"You have Nina, who is this muscle badass and is driving around in her cars."
"You have Eli, who loves his podcasts."
"You have Kev, who loves to cook and that's his biggest thing, he loves to cook.

No Johnny Gat.. The Saints now have a podcast and love to cook! - Twitch

I thought that your quotes were fakes...jesus christ this thing is gonna be terrible...

 

[RavageX]

Anyone else think Nina (woman on the right) might be a good character? She makes me think of Shaundi and Kenzie.

No.

 

[RavageX]

I thought that your quotes were fakes...jesus christ this thing is gonna be terrible...

I thought the same thing till you said that, then I went to see for myself. I think I'm going to have to leave this thread and pretend this game doesn't exist. The more I hear and see, the worse it gets.

WHO IN THE HELL THINKS SAINTS ROW GANG MEMBERS SHOULD LOVE PODCASTS AND COOKING?!? GTFO WITH THIS BS.

WTF IS GOING ON????

 

[Artistic]

If it's still Saint's Row at its core, I guess it won't be too bad(as far as the humor in the game).

Seems like it's going to be a flop with each passing second.

 

[whyman]

If the gameplay is intact I guess it could be mindless fun. But this game needs to be pushed and story reworked.

 

[Hypereides]

I really don't understand why Volition can't just go back to making a caricaturistic game based around thug life/hood gang culture with some satire thrown into the mix. They got the opportunity to catch GTA with its pants down and they aren't even trying. This should've been more like Saints row 1 or 2.

I guess this is another one of those attempts trying to appeal to new youth.

Not the direction I wanted.

The gameplay looked okay I guess.

They went from wacky to that "edgy" style that so many other games are doing now.

Its not even "edgy". Its the finest premium of tryhard cringe that money can get you.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Man, whatever. Nina is alright. She's the driver. It's just the other characters that don't look like they fit in this kind of game.

 

[Artistic]

I really don't understand why Volition can't just go back to making a caricaturistic game based around thug life/hood gang culture with some satire thrown into the mix. They got the opportunity to catch GTA with its pants down and they aren't even trying. This should've been more like Saints row 1 or 2.

I guess this is another one of those attempts trying to appeal to new youth.



Its not even "edgy". Its the finest premium of tryhard cringe that money can get you.

I feel Saints Row The Third is the best in the series. Only completed the Third and IV though. Gangster isn't necessarily attached to the Saints Row series.

Difficulty spikes in 1 and 2 made it unplayable at times.

 

[Shakka43]

This gonna be the most progressive and inclusive gang wars of all time y'all!

 

[thismeinteil]

And where did the "success" of catering to the broad casual audience with Saints Row 3 and 4 get us to? The series is on life support which is why the devs are rebooting it into something that somewhat resembles Saints Row 2 which people mostly loved.

From the data we have, 3 and 4 were successful. If anything, the reason it's being rebooted is because it's probably new woke devs working on this game and you know the characters and the humor of the OG games won't fly with them. Just like many of their ilk, they like to ruin old franchises with their politics and shitty self insert characters.

This picture is straight up embarrassing

They really look like woke hipster versions of the old characters. You got Johnny Gat, Shaundi, Pierce, and Kenzie. But they're totally the devs own original characters.

 

[DustQueen]

Oh no...

 

[M1chl]

"We worked really hard to build on the diversity of the characters"
"You have Nina, who is this muscle badass and is driving around in her cars."
"You have Eli, who loves his podcasts."
"You have Kev, who loves to cook and that's his biggest thing, he loves to cook.

No Johnny Gat.. The Saints now have a podcast and love to cook! - Twitch

This is the most tragic thing in gaming I have seen.

 

[TLZ]

"We worked really hard to build on the diversity of the characters"
"You have Nina, who is this muscle badass and is driving around in her cars."
"You have Eli, who loves his podcasts."
"You have Kev, who loves to cook and that's his biggest thing, he loves to cook.

No Johnny Gat.. The Saints now have a podcast and love to cook! - Twitch

What the actual fuckery have they done? This is the polar opposite of what it is! Such a far cry. You hand the game to snowflakes and this is what you get. It's just not Saints Row anymore.

Why do these fucks insist on sabotaging and replacing things? Create your own cooking and podcast game and call it whatever else the fuck you want.

 

[kiphalfton]

Another game ruined by androgynous looking female characters.

 

[kiphalfton]

What the actual fuckery have they done? This is the polar opposite of what it is! Such a far cry. You hand the game to snowflakes and this is what you get. It's just not Saints Row anymore.

Why do these fucks insist on sabotaging and replacing things? Create your own cooking and podcast game and call it whatever else the fuck you want.

The irony is Saint's Row is a game about gangs. I know devs have to be somewhat mindful what they put in a game, especially since gang life in the past was generally portrayed pretty explicitly... but this doesn't capture gang culture in any way, shape, or form.

I guess the closest we'll ever get to that is GTA San Andreas and older PS2 and PS3 era stuff.

I just can't believe they expect us to believe these god-awful characters are in a gang. Looks like we'll need a reboot of a reboot when this SJW era ends.

This is what happens when you let people who can't handle serious, real-life issues develop a game. God forbid there ever be a game about the cartel. Can only imagine what kind of "creative liberties" would be taken in order to skirt around insulting anybody.

 

[YCoCg]

What annoys me the most, Saints Row was already diverse! Fuck they even created one of the best Asian-American characters in gaming with Johnny Gat!

So why the fuck are they blowing themselves about designing the new gang to be full of "diversity" when it looks like every stereotype currently in gaming??

 

[kiphalfton]

Anyone else think Nina (woman on the right) might be a good character? She makes me think of Shaundi and Kenzie.

This picture is straight up embarrassing

Never thought I'd see Urkel in a gang.

 

[Ammogeddon]

The only acceptable female haircut right now.

 

[Diddy X]

That short hair on girls fashion is so ugly tbh, go back to feminine women ASAP world.

 

[BusierDonkey]

Saints Row reboot be like

Seriously what the fuck are these characters?

 

[Vaelka]

Part of me is just kinda annoyed too how they have a shirtless hot dude, we all know how it'd be if he was a woman people would be flipping out about the game '' oversexualizing women ''.
I mean I don't like his design, but at least he has SOMETHING going for him.
The other characters looked so uninspired and frumpy.
Not like the old characters at all.

I hate Western game characters so much they're so bad...
They look so forgetable and kinda just all blend together they might as well be random NPC's roaming the map.

That short hair on girls fashion is so ugly tbh, go back to feminine women ASAP world.

I don't even mind it, people complained a lot about Skarlet in MK11 to the point the devs even gave her longer hair.
But I actually really liked her short hair.

But it's so on the nose that's what feels cringey about it to me.
The main protagonist in particular it felt like they were trying too hard to make her look '' strong '' in the trailer and it kinda just made her boring to me.
Even the black guy with the glasses had more personality in the short scene he was in than the main protagonist...
Just looking smug and beating people up doesn't make you a good or appealing character.

It reminds me a little of how Disney treats female characters nowadays it's so obvious what they're doing and feels so unnatural.

 

[lh032]

to be honest, as long we can customize our own character, should be fine.

 

[Vaelka]

to be honest, as long we can customize our own character, should be fine.

Something tells me it won't be as indepth as it was previously lol.

 

[UnNamed]

Looks like an unfinished generic open world game where at some point someone has decided to put the name Saints Row on it.

 

[nani17]

Video stands at 11k dislikes wow. This is certainly not what they expected

 

[lh032]

Something tells me it won't be as indepth as it was previously lol.

i saw from certain sources, the dev said this game will have the deepest customization system ever.

Not sure true or not though.

I really hope its true because im tired of GTA V

 

[hussar16]

kind of sad they could have went for a cool west gangster story based on the border,drugs etc a realstic take to saints row where you create your gang etc and its open world with many worlds instead it looks like saints row 3 in a desert

 

[TLZ]

What annoys me the most, Saints Row was already diverse! Fuck they even created one of the best Asian-American characters in gaming with Johnny Gat!

So why the fuck are they blowing themselves about designing the new gang to be full of "diversity" when it looks like every stereotype currently in gaming??

Because it's not their exclusive version of diversity.

 

[TLZ]

Never thought I'd see Urkel in a gang.

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[rofif]

2 was the only good game in this series....after that it got retarded.

What? 1 and 2 are great but 3 is the best one. Such a good characters and humor while still core saints row. 4 was also good but undercooked. People forget sr1 moment in 4 or the 2d beat m up

 

[Lupingosei]

Glad this is the case, the actress saying she voiced the character made it sound like that was our only option.

Can you also chose your pronoun and what gender you are?

 

[SJRB]

At least this piece of shit trailer is getting ratio'd to hell.

What the fuck were they thinking...

 

[Hypereides]

I feel Saints Row The Third is the best in the series. Only completed the Third and IV though. Gangster isn't necessarily attached to the Saints Row series.

Difficulty spikes in 1 and 2 made it unplayable at times.

Personally, I thought the third got off pretty well. Then it progressively took a nosedive somewhere around the middle and became too whacky for its own good. It had some good ideas though.

 

[TLZ]

Man how we went from being ecstatic about it being a SR1 remake to this farce

 

[DAHGAMING]

I love the Saints Row games just a nice cocain fueled bit of fun. Im all for a new direction but will be forced to play as this SJW ?