SoraNoKuni
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It looks Fortnite like, I guess I am getting old but this looks bad.
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New Saints Row Trailer
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ripeavocado
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Anyone else think Nina (woman on the right) might be a good character? She makes me think of Shaundi and Kenzie.
Is this from the old games?
JonSnowball
Member
Everything about this sounds terrible.
www.pcgamesn.com
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
www.pcgamesn.com
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Spaceman292
Banned
They really should have made that obvious in the trailer. It's everyone's favourite part of these games.
JerryinSoCal
Member
I know the confusion for me came when they interviewed the actress after the trailer, if she had said she was one of the options for "the boss" it would have been fine but they just talked about the version of the boss that was on screen and it sounded like she WAS the boss. Apparently there are 8 voice options which is a nice amount.
kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
I actually don't mind the "wokeness", but I really can't stand these types of juvenile characters. Redfall lost me because of this same reason.
Is the rebooted Dead Island 2 going to have these annoying characters, too?
I won't blame Deep Silver if they wanted a piece of the fortnite cake. This is business.
Is the rebooted Dead Island 2 going to have these annoying characters, too?
I won't blame Deep Silver if they wanted a piece of the fortnite cake. This is business.
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Orthodox Gaming Dad
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TastyPastry
Member
Saints Row reboot be like
Seriously what the fuck are these characters?
let's do some gang banging guys but not before we had our daily rations of soy milk!
GymWolf
Member
Well, for people who was waiting for a confirmation that the game is gonna be a pile fo shit, here we are.Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
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GHG
Member
Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
Seals the deal then.
RIP saints row.
It's become abundantly clear these people don't really want diversity. What they mean by "diversity" is their kind of "diversity" and only their kind of diversity. You can see that in the fact that every single game that has been taken over by or influenced by these lunatics looks exactly the same.
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scoobidoo112
Member
Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
Welp, as a big Saint's Row fan, after watching the trailer and reading those statements:
I'm out.
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Soulja
Member
Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
I'm not sure if everybody else feels the same as me but I was really hoping it would be similar to the first saints row game.
FunkMiller
Member
I think it’s come to a point where we just all have to accept that this is the video games bandwagon at the moment, and nothing is going to change that for a few years.
Everything rebooted must be framed through the prism of current cultural politics in Triple AAA games - no matter what the original concept of the game was.
I am 100% behind more diversity in gaming, but the fact they are too fucking lazy to create new IP, and instead just decide to alter old ones, is where I have a huge problem.
Everything rebooted must be framed through the prism of current cultural politics in Triple AAA games - no matter what the original concept of the game was.
I am 100% behind more diversity in gaming, but the fact they are too fucking lazy to create new IP, and instead just decide to alter old ones, is where I have a huge problem.
The_Observer
Member
The only positive about this game is seeing the audience’s pushback for this lazy, generic, horrible, SJW, Fortnite-like garbage design. Fuck all these games and get out of developing them if all you care is your shitty crazy propaganda.
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Marvel
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Fuuuuck.Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
KormaChameleon
Member
Epic Games Store exclusive for PC... Fuck off Violation (and any devs who sign with Epic). I've had my Steam account for nearly 15 years, built up a large library. I have zero intention of buying from a different store and having a separate library.
Lupingosei
Banned
The original Saints Row games were always diverse, but not in a Tumblr / Twitter way.
The black characters were strong, the effeminate black geek stereotype that everybody is jumping on is hated by everyone outside the SJW circle.
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Boss Mog
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It's complete bullshit because they just released SR3 Remastered for PS5 and Series.Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
My reply to them: "We were able to have fun with your games back then, but this new direction is not something that we feel we even want to play today".
People bitch that R* keeps re-releasing GTA V, but I'd rather they keep re-releasing that game instead of releasing a woke GTA 6.
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ToTTenTranz
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Saints Row reboot be like
Seriously what the fuck are these characters?
No!
This is a white person. There are no white people allowed in the new crew.
Twinblade
Member
Will be that black girl with short hair.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
It's because people
Don't know why they bring BTS up.
They have a few catchy songs even their music is not my cup of tea.
Don't know why they bring BTS up.
They have a few catchy songs even their music is not my cup of tea.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I...that's the top or bottom pictures? Only BTS I know is the base transceiver station for Networking.It's because people
Don't know why they bring BTS up.
They have a few catchy songs even their music is not my cup of tea.
And yes I have Cisco CCNA certificate, yes I am that good.
Rocco Schiavone
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M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Sorry, I am not familiar with them, thus it more about appearance, from my perspective.Bottom picture is BTS. Boygroup from South Korea.
BTS- Dynamite is a well known song.
I would not shit on music makers, just out of the principe, that I also sometimes try to make music : )
Spaceman292
Banned
Haven't there already been several other characters from other games that have done that stupid expressive helmet gimic?
Also I hate that every character constantly has that smug one-raised-eyebrow dreamworks-movie-poster smirk on their face.
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Yup that's a 2021 game alright, bet it comes with a K-POP radio station, every cutscene starts with each character listing their pronouns and the safe house will be renamed the Safespace
If only they could re-release the first game for the PC, instead of it being a 360 exclusive
If only they could re-release the first game for the PC, instead of it being a 360 exclusive
Ammogeddon
Member
It’s being done with movies too unfortunately.
It doesn’t even come across genuine, more like a mandated box ticking exercise to avoid some perceived Twitter backlash.
MasterDerico
Member
Omg... What they did...
Yeah, it's inevitable! (You guys know what im talking about)
Yeah, it's inevitable! (You guys know what im talking about)
Heart_Attack
Member
Alienating the old fans to cater to a new audience with zoomer protagonists and mandated "diversity" will backfire horribly. Good thing i was never a Saints fan.
Roman Empire
Member
Is it confirmed there won't be character customization? If not, then fuck off. Plus, the old core cast was the star of the franchise and I'm not feeling those character designs. The gameplay looks good from the brief clip, more grounded than SR4 and SR3 but more diverse than SR2 (which was the last GTA carbon-copy Saints). Idk, the game looks like is trying to be too cool for its own sake to appeal to the younger audience but comes off as cringe to me.
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Boss Mog
Member
I laughed but to be fair BTS worked really hard to achieve their success whereas SJWs don't even know the meaning of hard work. Also those hairstyles and hair colors are part of the idol culture in East Asia, SJWs have appropriated it sadly (isn't that something they're supposedly against
).Don't confuse this:
with this:
Also let's not forget that the most badass Saint, Johnny Gat, was East Asian, and the only character to get his own DLC expansion.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I don't think that anyone confuses those two speciments. And to be frank I didn't know what BTS even is prior to this thread, I think it's just a simple "aesthetic" choice which team made.I laughed but to be fair BTS worked really hard to achieve their success whereas SJWs don't even know the meaning of hard work. Also those hairstyles and hair colors are part of the idol culture in East Asia, SJWs have appropriated it sadly (isn't that something they're supposedly against
Don't confuse this:
with this:
Also let's not forget that the most badass Saint, Johnny Gat, was East Asian, and the only character to get his own DLC expansion.
And if i should talk about myself, my gripe about all of this, is not even with how those characters looks...
Rhazer Fusion
Member
I think that all too common hairstyle represents “strong female” in the West or something. Want to make a strong female? Slap on that hairstyle and there you go. Dye it blue or another unnatural color to make it even more trendy.
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ricardo_sousa11
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looks even worse than the last ones
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Was this entire trailer CG? Looks like it.
Kadve
Member
This "Woke" trend really needs to stop. And judging by those YouTube downvotes we might finally be on the right track.
I mean, i understand that the superhero business wasn't for everyone and that you cant really go back to making another GTA clone. But could you at least add something that makes it feel like Saints Row?
I mean, i understand that the superhero business wasn't for everyone and that you cant really go back to making another GTA clone. But could you at least add something that makes it feel like Saints Row?
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Lukaku's First Touch
Member
Everything about this sounds terrible.
Saints Row’s new tone aims to deal with the struggles of modern life
The Saints Row series has been dormant for six years, and Volition says its tone needed to change for modern audiences
They should just really shut the fuck up about the game now. They're making it worse and worse. Ofcourse all the pink / blue haired manbeasts are defending this shit under their twitter.
wipeout364
Member
Not really a Saint’s Row fan but this looks really cringe, gives me a watchdogs 2 vibe but way worse. Volition used to be a decent studio, sad times.
Dorohedoro
Member
I thought it looked good on Judy from Cyberpunk at least...
The only acceptable female haircut right now.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
Exactly! Ironically THQ was reborn under the THQ Nordic name after going out of business. Here is the thing: Volition is under Deep Siver, Deep Silver is under Kock Media and Koch Media is under the Embracer Group which used to be called Nordic Games Publishing AB and THQ Nordic AB. This means that Saints Row is technically under THQ again.
What also many people forget is that Volition is only consisting of roughly 230 people. The devs behind GTA consist of almost three times as many people. The devs behind Watch Dogs consist of over 3500 (now they are working on several games and are split up into to several teams). Volition also has a much smaller budget than the other two. This plays a major role in their output. They already wasted their bullets last gen for Agents of Mayhem. There were no resources to make both Saints Row 5 and Agents of Mayhem and they decided to do the later. The last Saint's Row game was in 2013 (unless you count Gat out of Hell, but that's an add-on to SR4), so making a reboot makes sense to attract new customers. Reboots happen all the time, but not always because the series was failing commercially and critically (neither was the case for Saints Row), but also often because the last release was a long time ago. Time means relevance, relevance means prestige, prestige means name recognition which then can be marketed and lead to good sales.