Saints Row reboot :|

[Himu]

https://saintsrow.com/

Looks gewd :3 Especially after the tone of SRIV!

[Human Snorenado]

Looks dope, apparently epic exclusive on release on pc tho

 

[Bebpo]

4 was super forgettable and I skipped 5, but both suffered by being low budget re-uses of SR3's city.

Saint Row Vegas with a new and unique city map sounds hot again. Excited for sure.

[Don Rumata]

Looks good, characters look bland compared to the old games, maybe because they're meant to be player characters.

[Don Rumata]

4 was super forgettable and I skipped 5, but both suffered by being low budget re-uses of SR3's city.

Saint Row Vegas with a new and unique city map sounds hot again. Excited for sure.

There is no 5.
You mean Agents of Mayhem? 

[Human Snorenado]

4 was super forgettable and I skipped 5, but both suffered by being low budget re-uses of SR3's city.

Saint Row Vegas with a new and unique city map sounds hot again. Excited for sure.

There is no 5.
You mean Agents of Mayhem? 

Probably means Gat out of Hell

I enjoyed IV and Gat ouf of Hell, map reuse aside.

[Great Rumbler]

Trailer looked garbo.

[Bebpo]

4 was super forgettable and I skipped 5, but both suffered by being low budget re-uses of SR3's city.

Saint Row Vegas with a new and unique city map sounds hot again. Excited for sure.

There is no 5.
You mean Agents of Mayhem? 

I think Gat out of Hell is titled 5?

[Don Rumata]

Oh i thought it was an expansion.


Anyway i'm happy they decided to tone it back down to SR2-3 levels, even if, as i said, the characters look kind of bland so far.

[Raist]

Looks good? What?


I thought we were done with 5mins long CGI trailers

[bork]

Looks good? What?


I thought we were done with 5mins long CGI trailers

Yeah- nothing to react to here.

[Don Rumata]

There was a snippet/montage of gameplay footage in the event, i meant that.
Looked like SR3 kind of.

[Bebpo]

Looks good? What?


I thought we were done with 5mins long CGI trailers

Yeah- nothing to react to here.

Ehh, it's enough to see that location-wise it's a new city with a vegas/desert theme which is exciting after a decade of the same damn city from SR3.

[Don Rumata]

Here's the gameplay i mentioned.

[benjipwns]

looks like saints row

[MMaRsu]

woke saints

https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicMistyNuggetsCopyThis-yn-SpJFwMJLPo7vF

[Himu]

Looks good? What?


I thought we were done with 5mins long CGI trailers

Because it's Saints Row and I love Saints Row and it has been almost TEN FUCKING GODDAMN YEARS SINCE GTAV and I'm so thirsty for a traditional sandbox game with GANGS and mayhem that this was like a cool glass of water in a fucking dessert covered in SHIT.

[pilonv1]

Looks good, but more like 3 than the first two. The second one was probably the best mix of tone out of the three.

I miss Stillwater.

[Himu]

This feels like a mix of 2/3 so I'm satisfied.

[pilonv1]

Agreed, better than being like 3/4.

[Borealis]

I'm liking the details about the game itself, but that CGI trailer leaves such a bad impression.

Get some gameplay footage out asap.

[benjipwns]

[Raist]

Looks good? What?


I thought we were done with 5mins long CGI trailers

Because it's Saints Row and I love Saints Row and it has been almost TEN FUCKING GODDAMN YEARS SINCE GTAV and I'm so thirsty for a traditional sandbox game with GANGS and mayhem that this was like a cool glass of water in a fucking dessert covered in SHIT.

Fair enough

[Rahxephon91]

I think it looks kind of lame honestly. Boring Fortnite mobile game nondescript cartoony look. It's a look whose inspirations inspire no character.

That said, I think it's neat its a complete reboot and not in Stilwater. It's been such a long time since we've had an urban city open-world game, I'd be down for anything. So them talking about the city and how it has all these districts is a good sign. By 4 with all the super powers and whatnot, it kind of felt like the city part of the open world was less important. So I'll keep an open eye.

[Don Rumata]

woke saints

https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicMistyNuggetsCopyThis-yn-SpJFwMJLPo7vF

Enough with the fucking Johnny Gat thing, they already ran that into the ground years ago.
Although her description of the new characters really sounds ghastly (a guy who loves to cook and one who loves podcasts? The fuck?)

[MMaRsu]

woke saints

https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicMistyNuggetsCopyThis-yn-SpJFwMJLPo7vF

Enough with the fucking Johnny Gat thing, they already ran that into the ground years ago.
Although her description of the new characters really sounds ghastly (a guy who loves to cook and one who loves podcasts? The fuck?)

Really dont give a fuck about Gat, but the new characters sound like the worst ever.

You have a girl who's really into cooking (??)
A guy who loves podcasts
Nina is a muscle badass who loves driving in her car (??)

Wtf is with Volition

[Don Rumata]

Yeah, i'm not into a panic about "muh wokeness", but it does feel like it's impossible to do comedy when you have to walk on so many eggshells.
I hope they can find some release from that, because so far that's the side that's absolutely lacking, even in the cgi trailer, there's just zero comedy.

[Svejk]

No dildo swords, No deal.

[who is ted danson?]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintsRow/comments/pbms2y/be_real_could_you_tell_the_difference/

Bonus: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintsRow/comments/pbwqlp/this_is_how_saints_row_logo_should_look/

[Don Rumata]

Yeah that hits the spot, tbh.

[MMaRsu]

Also lets be honest Agents of Mayhem wasnt that good either. Do they even have it in them to make a good game? It seems to me like Saints 1 and 2 were the sweet spots.

SR3 was ok and SR4 had some fun stuff but eh

[who is ted danson?]

I never played SR1, but I would like to check it out if I pick up an XSX or whatever in the future (I think it is BC enhanced right?)

SR2 I played for about 5 hours but the PC port was just too fucked up. Maybe it was paranoia, but I legit thought it was melting my PSU. Never had bad smells coming out of my PC like that before. Seemed like there was a good game there though. (RIP IdolNinja  ).

SR3 was really fun, don't have any complaints

SR4 I got bored after 5 hours or so. It felt like a SR3 DLC.

Agents of Mayhem always looked like a weak Crackdown. But maybe its actually OK considering CD3 was rubbish?

[Don Rumata]

The developers say that Saints Row’s focus is, at least early in the game, going to focus on the material concerns of its young crew. These disaffected millennials turn to crime to, for instance, put food on their table, feel part of a community and pay off their student loans. Chief creative officer Jim Boone says that it’s, broadly, a “contemporary” millennial “power fantasy.” It’s only later that the game’s focus switches to the sort of empire-building that, in the previous series, eventually saw your character becoming president.

https://www.engadget.com/saints-row-reboot-2022-200040315.html

 

Is that in between me spraying old ladies with feces, and pimp slapping hookers?

[Pissy F Benny]

this is a definite wait and see for me, it has so much potential to be terrible 

who's publishing it? the last few volition efforts have looked low budget and shitty imo

[Nintex]

Woke Row 

[Svejk]

Pour one out for The Row



Volition should just be bought up by the MS Hospice at this point.

[Don Rumata]

I wanna stay positive, because the few shots of gameplay looked like a fun GTA clone, but in terms of style, things look pretty grim so far. 

Like those 4 "main characters" look like what you can create in the THPS3 character creator, they paid a character designer to come up with those? 

[Pissy F Benny]

I suppose there's scope for it to be funny if they lampoon woke people, q distinguisheds and the overall nonsense of the modern day world, but then you run the risk of upsetting the soyboy betacucks in the games media and there being an agenda against your game

[Great Rumbler]

[Don Rumata]

I suppose there's scope for it to be funny if they lampoon woke people, q distinguisheds and the overall nonsense of the modern day world, but then you run the risk of upsetting the soyboy betacucks in the games media and there being an agenda against your game

I dunno, that type off satire is already stale in a way, because it's all you find on the internet, alt-right v woke, essentially.
Maybe why SR2 was the funniest, it had the "dumbest", less snarky kind of humor, and it felt more genuine, it straddled the line between serious and dumb well enough to make you think they were serious about it, which is the only way to be funny with that kind of material.

In other words, The Room is funny because it's trying to be serious, a The Room 2 where they embrace its mockery/legacy would be a piece of shit.
But Saint's Row never had biting commentary, it was toilet humor and references anyway.

[paprikastaude]

Saints Row 3 remake free on EGS 

[porkbun]

The protagonists are blah but if this is a move back away from the superhero/sci-fi stuff and it's set in "Las Vegas", I'm down. 

[Pissy F Benny]

I suppose there's scope for it to be funny if they lampoon woke people, q distinguisheds and the overall nonsense of the modern day world, but then you run the risk of upsetting the soyboy betacucks in the games media and there being an agenda against your game

I dunno, that type off satire is already stale in a way, because it's all you find on the internet, alt-right v woke, essentially.
Maybe why SR2 was the funniest, it had the "dumbest", less snarky kind of humor, and it felt more genuine, it straddled the line between serious and dumb well enough to make you think they were serious about it, which is the only way to be funny with that kind of material.

In other words, The Room is funny because it's trying to be serious, a The Room 2 where they embrace its mockery/legacy would be a piece of shit.
But Saint's Row never had biting commentary, it was toilet humor and references anyway.

it's also possible that we're all being dick heads for reading way too much into a shitty CGI trailer

[Nintex]

 



 

They don't even carry guns on cuck row

[BIONIC]

They got motherfucking woke Urkel up in here

[Svejk]

You can only make a good first impression once.    Keeping expectations tempered for now.

[Himu]

i saw lots of guns and mayhem in the trailer stop being a biaaatch

[Svejk]

Well, when they're saying stuff like this, can't say the brief gameplay snippets were achieving that feeling.

I know I'm dogging on it allot with too much still unknown, but the absurdity bar was raised so damn high with 3 and 4 it's hard not to feel a bit taken back by what they've shown so far.

[Don Rumata]

The absurdity bar being lowered back down is good, 4 was already stupidly out of touch with what made the series funny in the first place.
Doesn't excuse the complete lack of character though.

But again, i want to stay positive because the gameplay snippets looked nice, and they haven't shown much yet.
Usually a CGi trailer should at least sell a sense of style though, and it's not oozing much of it atm.

[MMaRsu]

Its just looking like hot kaka

[Don Rumata]

Now that i think about it, it looks like a Watch Dogs, tbh.

[Nintex]

The trailer on the PlayStation and Xbox channels are currently 50% and 54% positive respectively, while the one on the Saints Row channel is only 39% positive, suggesting the Saints Row fanbase is less encouraged by the reboot than the general video game community is.

Despite this, developer Volition has made it clear that it isn't going to change the vision it has for the game based on the initial reaction to the trailer.

After responding to a follower with a gif saying "haters gonna hate" and being told it was letting down the fanbase, the official Saints Row Twitter account replied: "We are not backing down on this game. We get it, it's new and it's a shock reaction to a reboot like no other."

https://twitter.com/SaintsRow/status/1431033051463786506

https://twitter.com/SaintsRow/status/1431031828840960000

 

[Don Rumata]

I mean changing direction now is impossible anyway, so that makes sense.
They haven't shown anything yet, so gamers panicking early as usual.

I don't think their social media "attitude" is really landing tho.

[Tasty]

I mean, SSX Deadly Descents apparently* turned out OK despite a massively-negative initial trailer and similar "We're changing the series almost 180 style-wise from the other games" vibes.

*what I heard

[Don Rumata]

I mean, SSX Deadly Descents apparently* turned out OK despite a massively-negative initial trailer and similar "We're changing the series almost 180 style-wise from the other games" vibes.

*what I heard

Yes and no.
It was an alright game in its own right.
It had nothing of what made SSX, SSX. So if you were a fan (i wasn't so whatever) it really didn't deliver on that.

A bit like Rainbow Six Siege you could say, it's a good competitive shooter, but if you liked the Red Storm Rainbow Six games, it really had nothing to offer you.

This one seems closer in general design, just the humor and style seem different, so even if you hate the style, you'll probably be able to somewhat enjoy the open world gameplay.

[Svejk]

I'll be honest, I am slowly come back around.... but that release date though...

[Don Rumata]

Pretty much confirms my first impressions, so far.
The game looks pretty nice, curious about the customization, the cast of the main 4 characters looks painfully bland and boring, like a watered down Watch Dogs (which is saying something).

[Boredfrom]

I dislike the trailer and I doubt this will attract the fortnite kids, but being honest this has always being what Saints Row was to me: juvenile trend jumper.

Saints Row 3 and 4 are my sweet spots, but I couldn’t never get into 1 because was trying to hard to be an edgier GTA clone (never play  2, seems to be a favorite of many other people). 3 was made in the right time to blow up as it did while 4 was during the beginning of the superhero craze.

[Don Rumata]

3 had the best gameplay overall, quite polished, but 2 is still the best one, in that it really nailed that balance between trying to be a GTA clone and trying to be crazy/funny.
Also the amount of customization in it was the most fun.

3 and 4 were too "self aware" for my taste, and 1 just played it straight.

[Human Snorenado]

I think the fact that different people have different favorite entries in the series (I'm actually with boredfrom in that I enjoyed 3 and 4 the most, I *liked* dialing the absurdity up to 11 and the gameplay in 4 where you have super powers in the matrix is my favorite) just kind of shows that if they do the reboot well, it'll be fine. I have enjoyed all the games in the series, I dunno why y'all fuckers gotta fight over dumb shit. If they put out a crappy game, we'll know when we play it, but for my money they haven't yet.

A 15 YEAR OLD SERIES WITH 4 MAIN ENTRIES HAS INSPIRED DIFFERENT REACTIONS IN DIFFERENT PEOPLE, NEWS AT 11