I mean he's not wrong. The sentiment is repetitive and spergy but the Nu Saint's aren't talking about drinking beer and hunting so it's very clear what the favored ideology of the writers and devs are. Do you think radical centrists or Republicans wrote this game?
Yes he did, he was the one that asked to be banned by hal freeman discord mod.
again, what a /v/ reddit reject would say granted he visits threads with polposters that are subtle, even the "i hate the antichrist" and "you will eat ze bugs" jokes he makes....
Of course it was Eli's idea. I wish we could've let him bleed to death.
Yeah honestly I can see the repetitive nature of his arguments being annoying but he's not wrong even a little bit. Volition is next to a prominent college, I've no doubt they source a ton of their talent right out of the school. No surprise that eight or so years on from the last game, right when there's tons of new graduates and fresh talent to pull from, we get a game that's technologically incompetent and full of liberal pandering out of the studio.
They wanted to have their cake and eat it too, pretty much. The whole game is just a hodgepodge of ideas that aren't cohesive and don't tie together. The Saints being a purple-themed street gang makes sense in an urban center clearly inspired by street-level gangs like the Crips and Bloods of the late nineties and early two-thousands. If you take the setting away you take away The Saints' entire style. Now, a ballsy reboot would probably be willing to do that, I think radically changing The Saints into more of a Cartel than a streetgang would be a good way to modernize them, but they didn't.
The rival gangs feel like such an afterthought it's weird. For a series initially built on the concept of gang warfare you don't really seem to take the fight to the other gangs, until you get a random mission where you go and kill the leadership for no real reason. The final boss is just some guy you were trying to be friends with. It doesn't make any sense.
It really feels like it. Between that and youtubers getting behind the scenes builds that they said didn't look anything like what we eventually got. I think something happened in the last year or so that caused them to rebuilt a lot of work they'd previously done, or they just spent five years pissing around and trying to rework an Agents of Mayhem sequel into a Saints Row game.
That was my favorite part of SRIV. Well, one of them. Who wouldn't want a wife waking you up with breakfast and kisses? Especially from that era.
This is actually a really good point and something I've thought about as well. Nu SR looks a lot Like Fortnite and Agents of Mayhem which in an of itself was an attempt at a Fortnite clone. There are other things too like some of the special abilities like the flaming fist being an ability that is identical to a power in AOM further suggesting this was originally a sequel or expansion that got retooled.
But most of the new Row's team was white and non-troon. Give troons some credit theyre great programmers
tbf even SR4 was doing that as an ironic bit, but it was done with a lighthearted tone and wasnt like battering you over the head with 50s BAD 50s BAD. It was just being absurd and poking fun, I dont think the reboot could do anything like that, building all those assets for one mission and I dont think it could hold its tongue like SRIV did for the sake of fun
Agents was also really shoddy on a technical level when it came out, and had lots of shitty open world design like peds not reacting to you at all and physics getting all retarded. If it didn't start as an Agents of Mayhem game they definitely reused the engine or the code or something. It just doesn't add up.
It's weird that they didn't use this series as a chance to retool the classic characters anyway. I think they genuinely just hate the entirety of the old games and the cast by extension. They wanted to replace it outright. The fact that there isn't even a passing cameo of Gat is ludicrous to me. The franchise went from sucking his dick nonstop and asking for more to pretending he flat out doesn't exist. If he doesn't appear in the DLCs I will be flabbergasted.
I think sometime back Jim Boone confirmed that this game ran on an upgraded version of the AoM engine, so yeah, its true.
so it's basically SRTT:R then, even that no-meds youtuber pointed it out.
He has minor references like a few decals you can decorate your guns with, an arcade, shirts, also a leg and lower stomach tattoo.
This is the type of level of journalism we're in ever since the past decade. My god, this is why the western civilization is collapsing.
