Saber Interactive CEO says Saints Row had to die because the games were too expensive
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Skifi28
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I'm sure they exist.....somewhere. They just don't like to play games.
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That includes marketing, and AAA games typically have marketing budgets equaling the development budget.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Nah the later ones are crazy dumb fun. Even the last one had potential, the opening is dumb and fun but then you meet the rest of the cast.
Esppiral
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There is no audience then....
Skifi28
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RafterXL
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Such bullshit. Revisionist history doesn't even begin to describe it. They knew exactly what they were making, and exactly who it was aimed at. They were even smug little shits about it whenever confronted on the fact that no one asked for, or wanted, this change for the series. The games weren't too expensive, they just made the wrong choices and paid for it. Now they don't exist...good riddance!
simpatico
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Sure, but that scope and quality if put through a Saints Row lens would have made a game that people would have bought via word of mouth. I bet LTD Sleeping Dogs did great. Just not in the window Squeenix was expecting/hoping. The point is, it's completely possible to make a solid AAA game with half the budget these kids are blowing.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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All they had to do was go back to the formula of Saints Row 2, but nope.
It's still insane they took the small but dedicated following the series had and didn't realize it's the last audience you want to tell fuck off, surprise surprise no one else was going to support them.
It's still insane they took the small but dedicated following the series had and didn't realize it's the last audience you want to tell fuck off, surprise surprise no one else was going to support them.
This is such a pure example of the swagger culture used to have only to be replaced by the watered down, lame bullshit of today, what the actual hell happened to society?"They didn't know what they were building. They didn't have any real direction. It couldn't last"
No shits, the characters in the 2022 game surely look like the one that would have been bullied by the OG characters.
Paperboy
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What? Space Marines 2 was in the works long before Saber was sold.
MiguelItUp
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Yuuuuuup, this is when they essentially killed off their fanbase, even the ones that were willing to give the new game a chance. They're a great example of how you shouldn't turn your back to your fans and fanbase. The whole too expensive thing is just a huge excuse, lol.
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
He was in charge of Saber the whole time.
Toots
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1, 2, 3, 4 Were awsome games!
Never said they weren't
Saint row 2 is is in GOAT category, for the radio stations alone
Hypereides
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I'm honestly impressed in a way. They built a specific dedicated fanbase only to tell them to buzz off and imply they weren't wanted. That's the last thing you want to do as a business. Talk about hubris. Its something many current day game development employees could learn a thing or two from.
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Dr.Morris79
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They so should of just stuck to remastering that. They would be damn heroes by now.
SmokedMeat
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Saints Row died because the last game was insultingly bad.
Shadowstar39
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These asshat bean counters and idpol numbskull dimwitts are to blame. Modern Audiences means less sales when you shit on an existing fanbase.
Whoever greenlit turning Gen X/Millennial? characters that belonged to a street gang into gay reddit/Reset Era sjws needs to be shit canned, now!
Seriously whoever thought that was cool and people would relate lives in a fucking bubble.
What is crazy is these fools are all for diversity and idpol, but the origianl cast was way more diverse. Only to these fools minds diversity just means fuck striaght and white folks, they get excluded.
?Islander- gay?, LatinX - gay?, black, Latina-gay?
Seems like a bunch of gay/bi? girly men and a lesbian latina. Not very diverse, and not very hardened gang like. Compare to the originals:
Saints row 1 - 4:
Way more diverse, black, whte, asian, latino (no "X), some hot and some badass. You want to play as them.
You don't want to play as lecturing woke feminist who applied to UCLA and now owes 300k in debt (their choice) .
As soon as I seen the modern audience change this game, a game that I have played every version of , went off my wish list, immediately.
Whoever greenlit turning Gen X/Millennial? characters that belonged to a street gang into gay reddit/Reset Era sjws needs to be shit canned, now!
Seriously whoever thought that was cool and people would relate lives in a fucking bubble.
What is crazy is these fools are all for diversity and idpol, but the origianl cast was way more diverse. Only to these fools minds diversity just means fuck striaght and white folks, they get excluded.
?Islander- gay?, LatinX
- gay?, black, Latina-gay?Seems like a bunch of gay/bi? girly men and a lesbian latina. Not very diverse, and not very hardened gang like. Compare to the originals:
Saints row 1 - 4:
Way more diverse, black, whte, asian, latino (no "X), some hot and some badass. You want to play as them.
You don't want to play as lecturing woke feminist who applied to UCLA and now owes 300k in debt (their choice) .
As soon as I seen the modern audience change this game, a game that I have played every version of , went off my wish list, immediately.
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