Soys Row 2022

[d1r]

Was there a single joke in that trailer? Do they even know what genre of game this is supposed to be?

I find this especially infuriating because at the end of Gat out of Hell they have

Spoiler

all the characters recreated in various parallel universes where they're in different situations. Like one where they're cops.

I assumed that one of those was how they were going to reboot the franchise for the next game. But I guess they've gone 100% all out to appeal to zoomers, and you can't make jokes around a zoomer because someone's feelings might get hurt.

The trailer really looked like an alternate and shittier version of Watch Dogs Legions.

 

[Ravielsk]

Chief creative officer Jim Boone says that it’s, broadly, a “contemporary” millennial “power fantasy.”

So its going to be a game about getting a stable well paying job with pension after 20 years of work and saving enough to buy a nice two story house for 120k? Because last time the shit they have shown was "contemporary" and "millennial" was in 2014.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/saints-row/new-tone

I feel like I've heard this language somewhere before...

Then why even make a Saints Row game in the first place?

 

[Fedora Master]

Then why even make a Saints Row game in the first place?

As long as it evokes name recognition, it WILL be used up and spat out.

 

[Nutria]

And this is where the marketing people really fucked up. There hasn't been a major Saint's Row release in 8 years. The zoomers they're targeting would have been around 10 years old back then.

 

[Zeem]

And this is where the marketing people really fucked up. There hasn't been a major Saint's Row release in 8 years. The zoomers they're targeting would have been around 10 years old back then.

About the right age to enjoy Saints Row 3 ad 4 unironically.

 

[JamesDixon]

Compare that crap with say this



or this



and you see how much this reboot sucks. It has nothing to do with what made Saints Row it's own thing.

 

[JamesDixon]

One of my favorite YouTubers on it.

 

[JamesDixon]

On the official trailer YouTube page it had 17k dislikes to 12k likes.

 

[Latro]

Rockstar hasnt released a single player GTA in 9 years. All you had to do was make wacky GTA, modern Saints Row 2. And you'd have your money printing press

It’s so easy to see I’m surprised volition is still operating because it’s clearly piloted by people who don’t know their own industry

 

[vonAchdorf]

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

One of the questions raised in the roundtable with the game’s developers was that of cultural appropriation. The six people made available for interview were all middle-aged white men, creating a game set in a region where a significant proportion of the population is Latinx or Hispanic. Creative director Jim Boone said that diversity was important, and there was an explicit focus on making the team producing the game as diverse as the characters in it.

We have a thread telling stories about colorful characters and a chaotic fun time "in a region where a significant proportion of the population is Latinx or Hispanic" in this very forum. They should come here for inspiration.

 

[Roguey]

Curious_Tongue If a small group of white guys want to lord over a larger group of brown people, that's their business. No identity-based agenda that wasn't already a part of the series showed up in the trailer itself.

Why are they calling it a reboot at all? Just say that you are doing another SR game.

Because those previous games aren't canon to this one. This about a group of zoom zooms creating a gang called the Saints in the current year.

 

[J_C]

Curious_Tongue If a small group of white guys want to lord over a larger group of brown people, that's their business. No identity-based agenda that wasn't already a part of the series showed up in the trailer itself.

No. It just had shitty characters I want to punch in the face.

 

[Roguey]

No. It just had shitty characters I want to punch in the face.

Right, but an attempt to pander to zoomers != woke

 

[J_C]

No. It just had shitty characters I want to punch in the face.

Right, but an attempt to pander to zoomers != woke

I can't really decide which one is worst tbh.

 

[RangerBoo]

Chad original SR3 gang:

Oh! The female character has cleavage and sex appeal. We can't have that. Female characters need to look as ugly and flat chested as possible as not to offend the ugly androgynous ham beasts on Twitter. If there is one thing those ugly miserable cunts hate more than men it is beautiful feminine women.

 

[Roguey]

I can't really decide which one is worst tbh.

Woke is worse. If I'm too old to enjoy something that's fine, young people need things of their own.

 

[DeepOcean]

Man, I dunno about those zoomers they are aiming for because the ones I know, the women arent as ugly or the men as affeminate like those on this shit trailer. I mean, the cast look like a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly.

 

[JamesDixon]

Man, I dunno about those zoomers they are aiming for because the ones I know, the women arent as ugly or the men as affeminate like those on this shit trailer. I mean, the cast look like a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly.

Admit it that you're a fan of subhuman filth that is Kpop.

 

[Nutria]

a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly

I see I'm not the only one who remembers HEART2HEART.

 

[DeepOcean]

a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly

I see I'm not the only one who remembers HEART2HEART.

Man, I googled this and I was making a joke then I realized the joke is real.

 

[JamesDixon]

a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly

I see I'm not the only one who remembers HEART2HEART.

Man, I googled this and I was making a joke then I realized the joke is real.

Your inner love of K-pop came out and you enjoyed it!one1

 

[J_C]

a reject western k-pop band that failed on the korean market for being too ugly

I see I'm not the only one who remembers HEART2HEART.

Man, I googled this and I was making a joke then I realized the joke is real.

Bloody hell, they DO look like the characters from this game.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

 

[Curious_Tongue]

https://www.pcgamer.com/au/the-saints-row-reboot-wont-be-as-edgy-as-its-predecessors/
The Saints Row reboot won't be as edgy as its predecessors

Volition wants to tell a "contemporary" story that people can relate to.

 

[RangerBoo]

https://www.pcgamer.com/au/the-saints-row-reboot-wont-be-as-edgy-as-its-predecessors/
The Saints Row reboot won't be as edgy as its predecessors

Volition wants to tell a "contemporary" story that people can relate to.

Going the nu-D&D and Bioware route I see. I hate "contemporary" stories. I don't care about a story about some fag coming out as gay, trans, non binary or why all cops are racists or how everything is racist and sexist or how hard women have it in the West because a man eye humps them or tells them to smile. Fuck that! Fuck everything! These talentless hacks in the West deserve to be humiliated by the Japanese.