No matter how much they mismanage Sonic, I'll give credit to Sega for not getting pissy with their fans complaining about it. Hell, they even listened to feedback and delayed the movie just to make Sonic look less nightmarish, I wish more devs did that sort of thing instead of telling their fans to eat shit or arrogantly go through with "their vision".
I think Volition thinks the best way to make the game successful is to appeal to the woke crowd, which will theoretically get it pushed harder by games journos and streamers, avoiding the attack articles they'd get if the game was edgier like the old ones.
But would any of that translate to decent sales numbers? AOM flopped so badly that it regularly goes on sale for $3, does Volition really think they have the brand power that Rockstar or Infinity Ward has, especially in light of them shunning the old Saints Row games? The whole thing feels like them trying to fly a plane with a damaged wing through a narrow canyon with their hands off the control stick.
I'm reminded of that one coked out architect that kept making stupid houses in California, which culminated in him building a 500 million dollar white elephant. He still postured and ooked and eeked even when facing absolute bankruptcy. I think the retards at Volition are in that same mindset and delusionally think this game will save them despite how bad their situation is.
You mean the people with the most disposable income? They want to piss those guys off?
IDK, maybe they think that making the game a political debate will make SJWs feel morally obligated to but it.
If there's anything that current year has taught me; it has to be that for some reason all these game/movie/TV/Comic companies think that insulting their potential customers (and oftenly, their only customers) is a good business strategy.
Not even worth that.
Not worth it. Very bland, pointless, and uninspired "story", open world has nothing to offer besides wasting time as you run/drive from mission to mission (the underground lairs were fun for about the first three I did, then they get repetitive), every character that wasn't originally a Saint is either boring, contrived, or SJW coping material, and it's still riddled with bugs from being pushed out the door early. The nicest thing I can say about it is Pierce's cutscene was an interesting "What If?" And if the whole game had been previous saints in an alternative universe where the Saints never existed, I think they could have done something pretty interesting.
Honestly wish they woulda just let the seires die. I would have been happier never receiving news than getting hopeful about the teasers before they released the announcement trailer. I know they'll continue milking it because it's the only semi-successful IP Volition still works, but the first two games are still among my favorite games and it sucks to see the series get the modern day Twitter treatment.
This. When Aaron Webber was at the peak of his powers he was picking fights with Jim Sterling and Mighty No. 9, not random fans. I miss those days when he was acting without SoJ approval, risking his job to give the account a little bit of Sonic's personality. Shame he devolved into just self-deprecating stuff and memes because the games that were coming out weren't good enough to back up the newfound attitude.
That can explain the drastic shift in tone, there's not enough of the pre-AOM veterans left to voice any disagreement or have any say.
Didn't Jim Boone leave for a while and come back? Might be thinking of someone else, maybe I mixed it up with when Steve Jaros left, but I figured with Jim there they wouldn't make another AoM level mistake. Another game like SR3 or 4 with barely any character development and just a bunch of wacky antics, I'd be disappointed but would probably still play it since I like Pierce, Johnny, Shaundi and Kinzie. A game where I need to take out a gang because they misgendered one of my "gangs" lieutenants? Hard pass.
