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Good. Fuck IP. Make new things, not nostalgia bait.
Rename the franchise to something like Devil's Row, reuse the 1st game's story and just change names around. Nobody will complain, especially as the 1st game is the only one that hasn't been re-released
I would buy that.
I felt like it jumped the shark when 3 came out. I did not enjoy it at all.
Three was enjoyable, definitely had some shit moments but overall a fun game with absurd over the top moments left and right. Four on the other hand felt like it should've been a dlc for three, and was pretty awful.
don't worry, GTA6 will have you covered for semi-edgy open world crime satire.
Nah. Fuck Rockstar.
I just need one of those GPUs that costs $4000
There's always Goat Simulator 3 if you can be happy with gaming culture satire and way fewer guns.
I fucking hate Zimos.
Very sad, I liked that series quite a bit.
The reboot just shat the bed.
The reboot was a perfect example of why you should just let some series have their satisfying ending and leave it at that
I too liked the series but I dont think it's sad that it's over, some things should be left to lie no matter how good they were.
Yeah the escalation of 3->4->GOOH was already crazy over the top and overdid it, but hey, that was actually kinda fitting for Saints Row. Fine.
But I wasn't unhappy at all that it ended there. It was a fine franchise, it's alright.
Reboot coulda just been a shitty spinoff
Pretty sure the franchise was cooked when
Spoiler
They blew up Earth
I mean where TF do you go from there? And the reboot sucked. So yes. Yes it is.
I mean clearly you go to hell.
Which we did. And won that one, too!
Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.
For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.
Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.
They had options.
I like the time travel idea. No one likes "it was all a dream" endings, so the second one's out. The way the fourth one was, going back into the history of the Saints and all their relationships and problems, might have been better explored in a time-travel story. So it would be hard to do that again. Good points though.
that would be fun, traveling through different eras, or like hickmans comics you can have a new world made in one dudes image that they eventually get rid of to restore reality to how it was, could even just go forward to go backwards like futurama, I enjoyed the saints row superhero and scifi stuff.
Tbh I thought this too but retconning would actually have been completely accepted i think
Alternate realities/timelines. It ain't over until they destroy the whole universe, and even then it's probably still not over.
How would a prequel even work? The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2. The original leader of the Saints, Julius, even has your character assassinated at the end of the first game (you get better) because he didn't like how violent the gang was getting.
A game set before the Boss joined where Julius is still calling the shots sounds boring. Unless they mean a prequel to the reboot, but why make one for a game that was poorly received and instantly forgotten upon release?
The first game had a phone number to call, that would bring back dead characters as zombies.
The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2.
Statements like this give me always a sensible chuckle. Compared to the rest of the franchise the first one is pretty grounded. Thats true. But it still is such a goofy game with over the top comedy. The very first cutscene is so stupid already. As is everything else. It still is a GTA parody. 'gritty street-level crime drama' lmao
Maybe you can play as Julius in the 70s when it was all wild, and then he chills out by the time of first game
If GTA came out more frequently then this game would also. You can’t parody what isn’t there.
Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.
I made my character a giant, and I'm pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.
I wish SR 2 was available as a technically okay version. I have the GOG edition, but that suffers from the horrendous music quality and I believe frame rate issues. I seem to remember that it's one of those games where they tied physics to hardware clock speeds and it would never run right if you couldn't play it on the PS 3 or X 360. I will have to look into that because I would love to enjoy all those fantastic cutscenes once again.
One of the top SR2 modders was working on a patch for the PC version. He already had so much notoriety that Volition hired him to make the patch official.
Then he tragically passed away before anything could come from the partnership. RIP IdolNinja.
You could also do that in SR3, also upgrade the throw distance which made for really funny throws during missions in high places