Saints Row thread

Ita Mori said:
Reddit's retarded. An alpha build is going to be very close to the final build graphics-wise. They are not going to re-code the engine in 6 months, what gets changed/added instead are character designs, locations, cutscenes, and texture/sprite work.
Easiest example is the GTA V November 2011 announcement trailer. The game was more than 2/3 complete engine & asset-wise. The things that changed wasn't the graphics, it was character designs (Franklin & Michael look different in the trailer and Trevor doesn't even exist), map locations, and all the bugs and mission scripts that needed to be patched/completed. It's not like GTA V looked improved graphics-wise on it's 2013 release vs it's 2011 announcement.

Very bad copium for reddit.
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Yeah, i can support you with a another example, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The e3 2005 demo is probably a beta release before the official game came out. Graphics and gameplay are near the same as the final version.
And remember, in that time there's actual footage of real-time gameplay, not CGI shit like nowadays.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
How much you wanna bet the good guys use the word “Latinx” in the game?
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Volition already used that dumbass term in an interview, so the odds are fairly high of it contaminating the game.

God, this game is going to tarnish the Saints Row name so badly. Here's hoping it becomes a cautionary tale...
 
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The Last Stand said:
Which is why "woke" GTA would not woke in practice and execution. How would a woke criminal work?

Unless you're working in a bank.
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ZMOT said:
look which thread you're in. you're not a criminal when you fight the system to abolish your student loan or something. technically yes, but only bad guys can be criminals, and since you're fighting those bad guys that makes you automatically the good guy - which means you can't be a criminal.
same way antifa can't be fascist because they have "anti" in their name, see?
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Pretty much this, all the criminal stuff your character does is ultimately justified and 'good' since the enemy is unjust and inherently 'bad' in some way, usually being some institutional power (i.e. banker, millionaire/billionaire, government official, private militia, silicon valley tycoon). It literally follows the same textbook instance as Antifa and the 2020 Floyd riots.

Though it wasn't intentional, this message-gameplay disconnect was particularly jarring in a game like Watchdogs 2 and even 3, which IMO should have had the main characters unable to harm civilians, or maybe reward you for playing non-lethally. Heck, at least Asscreed had a desynch warning about killing civilians in it.
 
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Wonder if they'll pull the woke trope of writing the villians as safe as possible

Was thinking of this comic book about a fat superheroine, all the villians were what you'd expect - the authors' perception of the meanies in the internet... Yet somehow, not one of them dared to quip about the main girl's very visible gunt, no fat jokes, no insults...

Remember watching a vid couple days ago when some comic book author wrote a racist character's spiel as "INCREDIBLY RACIST STUFF!!!"

As annoying as the nu quirky writing is, i find the sanitized dialogue involuntarily hilarious
 
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Psyduck said:
Wonder if they'll pull the woke trope of writing the villians as safe as possible

Was thinking of this comic book about a fat superheroine, all the villians were what you'd expect - the authors' perception of the meanies in the internet... Yet somehow, not one of them dared to quip about the main girl's very visible gunt, no fat jokes, no insults...

Remember watching a vid couple days ago when some comic book author wrote a racist character's spiel as "INCREDIBLY RACIST STUFF!!!"

As annoying as the nu quirky writing is, i find the sanitized dialogue involuntarily hilarious
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probably, yeah.
in current year you can't have a competent villain whose motives make sense, it needs to be nondescript LE EVIL, featuring a cutscene where they torture babies for some hamfisted LOOK HOW EVIL IT IS, and then he gets defeated by the only slightly less retarded good guys™ tripping over a shovel and falling down a hole or something, send off with a quip.

 
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albert macdonald chan said:
I can’t believe I have to wonder about how a game like Saints Row™ will work if they have to add subtle instances of BLM and Antifa in their game. If anything, they could bite off more than they can chew, to the point that it could alienate everyone involve.
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Create a "peaceful diversion" on the streets so your gang can rob a bank.

That COULD work. And that'd be funny as hell.
 
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