Funny how the entire industry was so happy to work from home because according to them they were more productive.
Maybe next time don't hire an old childless woman as the lead writer...
Perhaps trying to fit "totes relatable" millennials into a gangsta game wasn't exactly the smartest idea.
Saints Row 1+2 had stakes with its grounded plot while having activities that tonally fit with its atmosphere. 3+4, while flawed, managed to carve its own identity by being a wacky alternative to GTA. The reboot succeeded in neither; the world felt too barren to be "over the top," the plot made NO sense given the bland character development, there was no investment to proceed or care what you were doing. It was generic as all hell at best.
A prequel to Saints Row 1 to develop the Vice Kings' rise in Stillwater with Ben King and Julius would've sufficed for new and old fans. Maybe bringing back the concept of playing as an undercover cop would've helped Saints Row compete as an open world crime game. Alas, those will never come to be anymore.
It's not uncommon to be devoted to a brand that helped build your favorite franchises.
That was the original plot to Saints Row 2:
(Watch the whole thing, it's actually interesting)
It's all fucking stupid
I hope Volition employees would have that sent to them upon receiving the TRAGIC news. Don't piss off your fanbase.
"Muh stupid Deep Silver!" Has been the latest cope spinning out around what can laughably be called the Saints Row 'community' and it's a total cope. It has been clear through every juncture, interview, and pre-release material that the dev team is hilariously incompetent and absolutely out of touch. The embarrassing misunderstanding of the material they were working with goes back as far as Saints Row 3, it's not Deep Silver's fault that the characters and millennial cast were dogshit awful, that should have been scrapped as soon as it became clear they couldn't make the characters likable at all.
This, it's clear the soy filled cuck former devs at Volition want to hold up their hands and blame troubled development but that doesn't explain why the core ideas themselves are utter dogshit, nor why they had to rebuild the game so many times from the ground up.
Yes, I enjoyed each of SR2, 3 and 4 on its own merits, I even enjoyed Agents of Mayhem for what it was.
Having a purpose to direct yourself can give you the strength to keep going. He might have died years before if he was slumped on a couch watching reruns.
plot twist: they're both shit. but you're correct that it doesn't absolve volition's retardation.
If only they knew how bad things really were
Usually I’d agree but the Saint’s Row 2 GOTR mod was a big passion project of his and what ended up getting him hired on, which iirc was in a limited capacity where they’d just sit him on an official PC patch and for help with adding official modding support in their games. It was less like “I’m sacrificing my life for you Volition-Chan!” and more like “might as well get paid for what I was already doing for fun”.
Considering multiple YouTubers were given access to the beta of the patch I could see it eventually gets leaked in some way depending on how ballsy some people are. I doubt he even really got to work on the official patch for long before being roped into the god awful plans for AoM and the new engine they had anyways, which despite being worked on for a few years still ended up shit in the two games Volition actually used it in. Plus GOTR already fixes pretty much all major bugs from 2’s launch and adds a ton of great content and was already practically finished before he died, so an “official” PC patch is essentially useless at this point if it just patches out bugs and nothing else.
I think they found the source code of SR2 from CD Projekt Red. With any luck now, it's probably lost again or tucked away because of Volition's closure.
Is it me or does every modern woman now look the same?
