Soys Row 2022

[Bliblablubb]

"Will Saints Row be the next Cyberbug77? Which is worse and why, DISCUSS!"

 

[Fedora Master]

"Will Saints Row be the next Cyberbug77? Which is worse and why, DISCUSS!"

Nobody is anxiously waiting for SR.
This will come out and be forgotten in 6 months.

 

[Atlantico]

Nobody is anxiously waiting for SR.
This will come out and be forgotten in 6 months.

Who are you speaking for? Yourself and the voices in your head?

Your opinion is worth less than my shit.

 

[Caim]

Saints Row will no longer release on the originally announced date of 25th February 2022, instead it will launch worldwide on 23rd August 2022.

Our priority is to create the best Saints Row game yet and, if we released on the original date, it wouldn’t be up to the standards we’ve set ourselves, and that you’re expecting and deserve. The team just need more time to do our vision justice; we’re doing some fine tuning and there won’t be much change in the game outside of overall quality and polish.

In all honesty, we underestimated the impact COVID would have on our schedule, although everyone adapted very quickly to the working from home arrangement and continued to be incredibly productive.

However, due to the size and scope of our new Saints Row, it’s become apparent that to create the best game possible, we need to give our team longer to perfect their craft.

As mentioned when we announced Saints Row in August, this will be the biggest and best Saints Row game ever and, in order to achieve our goal, we’ve settled upon a generous, yet essential amount of time to realise our ambitions.

Rest assured, there will not be any changes to the story or the characters or anything that we’ve lovingly imagined over the last few years and already shared with you.

Over the past two years, all corners of the entertainment industry have been affected/impacted in one way or another. As gamers ourselves, we know what it feels like to have something delayed which you’ve been looking forward to; it’s frustrating and you feel disappointed. But we also know that when we finally get Saints Row in your hands, it will have been worth the wait. It’s our absolute priority to get this right.

Keep it strange,
Jim

Six months' worth of bugfixes, with no change to the story and the characters.

That is... imagine six months' worth of bugfixes. That's a lot of bugs, it's kind of impressive.

 

[deuxhero]

With the need to paste "pre-alpha" over every piece of footage, I have no idea why they expected to release in February in the first place.

 

[Caim]

With the need to paste "pre-alpha" over every piece of footage, I have no idea why they expected to release in February in the first place.

They would have were it not for the major negative reception to the footage.

 

[JamesDixon]

 

[Immortal]

this will be the biggest and best Saints Row game ever

Copium.

 

[Bliblablubb]

this will be the biggest and best Saints Row game ever

Copium.

My copium dealer ordered a new 100 meter yacht already. Business is booming recently.

 

[orcinator]

Damn, now I have to wait six more months for it to fall below my incredibly low expectations.
Wish sunset overdrive got a sequel instead/wasn't bad.

 

[anvi]

Surely they made it full of annoying phony woke pricks because that's what the mainstream gamer is now? People can't make places like reddit one of the most viewed websites in the world and promote that aggressively woke hivemind agenda, and then cry when they get exactly what they want.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

 

[Baron Dupek]

Delayed to August

What's the opposite of "erection"?

 

[Curratum]

Imagine hearing Delinquent Habits tunes in a woke game trailer!

 

[Curratum]

Surely they made it full of annoying phony woke pricks because that's what the mainstream gamer is now? People can't make places like reddit one of the most viewed websites in the world and promote that aggressively woke hivemind agenda, and then cry when they get exactly what they want.

If you had any idea of the amount of porn being shared and posted on reddit, you'd also know why it's one of the most viewed websites in the world too!

 

[baud]

Delayed to August

What's the opposite of "erection"?

impotence?

 

[Norfleet]

You know, I've always wondered something: If this game series was so great, why is it that I have never heard anything about it except for the occasional mention of the name in a list on PirateBay? What is it about, and why does nobody ever care to speak of it?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

because you're "no fun allowed" in person.

 

[anvi]

You know, I've always wondered something: If this game series was so great, why is it that I have never heard anything about it except for the occasional mention of the name in a list on PirateBay? What is it about, and why does nobody ever care to speak of it?

It is pretty big, they just stopped making them. The last one was 2013 and they were always underdogs, like a GTA copy with a twist but with a lower budget too. I only played two of them and hated one, loved the other.

 

[Norfleet]

because you're "no fun allowed" in person.

This does nothing to explain why no one else seems to have said anything about it either.

 

[mogwaimon]

because Saint's Row 2 was the last really great game they put out but the PC port was shit so it doesn't get enough play by normies and SR3 and 4 were mediocre to good at best, easy to forget in the sea of other mediocre to good open world games.

...plus it's always had a reputation as a GTA clone which it tried to shake with SR3 but ultimately failed to do so because they lost sight of why people liked to play their game and decided to lean into the wackier side of the games ultimately to the franchise's detriment.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

because you're "no fun allowed" in person.

This does nothing to explain why no one else seems to have said anything about it either.

Saints Row fills a niche area that rarely comes up in conversations on this forum.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I also think Saints Row doesn't really offer much that's truly unique. It shamelessly takes from other games. In a good way though.

 

[Bliblablubb]

because you're "no fun allowed" in person.

This does nothing to explain why no one else seems to have said anything about it either.

I guess everyone else then thinks SR games are... fun? Nobody in his right mind would tell you about something fun, it just makes you cranky.

 

[Caim]

You know, I've always wondered something: If this game series was so great, why is it that I have never heard anything about it except for the occasional mention of the name in a list on PirateBay? What is it about, and why does nobody ever care to speak of it?

It's a series of crimsims in the style of GTA: San Andreas. At least the first two were. Saints Row 1 is the most grounded of the bunch and the closest to San Andreas: a crime drama intercut with some wacky stuff here and there. The game's also only available on XBLA, which is why it's not widely talked about. Saints Row 2 cranks the wacky bullshit up quite a bit, which can result in you doing a mission that ends with an emotional cutscene in which you performing a mercy kill on one of your mangled homies... only to hop into a septic truck and spray shit on people's houses to drive down real estate value in the next. It's on Steam, but the port is one of the most legendarily shitty ports to still technically be functional and even fan-made patches won't do it any good.

Saints Row The Third cranks up the wacky bullshit even more and sees the titular Saints having gone corporate and become slaves to PR, only to be taken down a peg and ending up having to rebuild to face a powerful cartel of gangs and a security force bordering on being a PMC. It pretends to be a serious crime drama while having you compete in a murderous wacky Japanese game show and pilot flying motorcycles. Seeing the Saints forget where they came from, getting too big for their britches and suffering the consequences for it is an apt metaphor for what happened to the series, but the developers either missed out on the parallels or just didn't care.

Saints Row IV... well, it starts with the Saints sneaking into a foreign military base, the boss jumping onto a nuclear missile and defusing it while riding it into the sky while Aerosmith's "I don't wanna miss a thing" plays in the background. It works, the day is saved and the boss gets elected President of the United States for the trouble. Then aliens invade and shove you into the Matriix, which is the exact same city from the previous game. You manage to escape and now have to jack into the not-Matrix to rescue your homies and stop the aliens, all the while developing superpowers while inside. Note that this is same series that started with you being saved from being collateral damage in a gang shootout and you joining to make the streets a safer place in the first game. And don't get me started on Gat out of Hell...

Even though the third game sold the best, the first two games (especially the second) are held in the highest regard by the fans for being the best games in the series for being crime dramas with just the right amount of wacky. The third and fourth go way overboard, especially the fourth. And since we haven't had new games in the series for well over half a decade, discussion slowed down to a crawl until there was news of the new game, and... it looks like it's going to be a woke trash fire.