Saints Row thread

[Dom Cruise]

They said that the reboot would be more "serious in tone" and "less whacky", completely forgetting that SR1 and SR2 does the same shit, rewatching the videos from both i saw that it has some real "dark" moments on them, especially 2 since the boss becomes more psychotic.

eww, you saw Abby handholding, yous a degenerate!

There was a lot of humor but the first two Saints Rows were still trying to be legit "gangsta" games, they weren't full on spoofs like The Third and IV.

I think it's understandable and forgivable that by 2011 no one could really take that sort of thing seriously anymore, but this shit a decade later is just embarrassing, at least when the series veered into spoof it was still funny and entertaining, not lame.

Does the fact that entertainment media, as a whole, is trying to go away from people actually enjoying them, and instead trying to force feed morality lessons, by killing off or shoving old, beloved characters aside, to push for new and unlikeable ones? It's as if the entire media world is trying to kill itself off on purpose.

The old guard of mass media is panicking because the internet has changed the game and shifted the balance of power, so entertainment has shifted into propaganda and brain washing as a way to try to counteract the fact that they no longer control the narrative anymore as much as they used to.

I can just as easily access websites that advocate for the systematic genocide of people who aren't white and Jews as easily as I can access the Huffington post or CNN, that scares the shit out of the powers that be, so now they use entertainment as just an extension of what they used to primarily use journalism for.

However trying to fight far right extremism by pushing far left extremism and infecting everyone's entertainment with that is counterintuitive and only making things worse, but they don't know what else to do, they're panicking and throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.

 

[The Last Stand]

i bet some are from ubisoft too since some jumped ship after that allegations, just like blizzard, the cancer goes into metastasis into a incestuous industry.

heh
more reddit cope, this time is about how gangs dress "in today's day"
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literally reminds me of a /v/ thread where people posted a pic of some faggot that said the same thing.
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oh, another redditor posted a more "sensible" picture of a gang that does look like a gang of the OG games.
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Say it IS a time thing, okay.

Why not make the reboot into the prequel idea of Ben King and Julius' friendship? Make a rough draft of how Stilwater got to where it is. There, you have a time period gangsta game.

 

[Dom Cruise]

i bet some are from ubisoft too since some jumped ship after that allegations, just like blizzard, the cancer goes into metastasis into a incestuous industry.

heh
more reddit cope, this time is about how gangs dress "in today's day"
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(this is so fucking retarded i ain't even going to quote it)
literally reminds me of a /v/ thread where people posted a pic of some faggot that said the same thing.
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oh, another redditor posted a more "sensible" picture of a gang that does look like a gang of the OG games.
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Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the idea of a Saints Row reboot being a mid 2000s period piece, why not go with that?

I'd love to see game with the aesthetic from back when "gangsta" stuff was still cool.

 

[ZMOT]

i bet some are from ubisoft too since some jumped ship after that allegations, just like blizzard, the cancer goes into metastasis into a incestuous industry.

unless you mean the #metoo screechers, that's not how it works.
look at all the people that left, usually cis white males from the "frat boys club" who have been with the company for years if not decades, meaning a lot of the good shit actually was their responsibility. then take a look who does the screeching and virtue signals on twitter like their lives depend on it: danger hairs, soibois, "allies" and generally underfucked women destined to become catladies - those are not the competent developers who got their job via merit, and the final product will be equally trash because they simply can.not.produce good games, not that they even want to, since they don't care about making a good game or even an acceptable entry in a franchise, it's all about prestige and clout, else they would become indies to "punch up" and "fight the system", not become part of it.

they are hacks, and their only memorable contribution will that they repeatedly produced shit games and bombed franchises.

 

[Sheogorath]

my theory is that a bunch of ancom faggots filtered in from other subs because they heard their aid was needed to combat the "incel Nazi chuds"

it's fags from r/gamingcirclejerk i don't get what's their deal they "like games" but hate gamers or something

 

[Thiletonomics]

The subreddit is pure fucking cope at this point, and having seen the original reaction to the reboot trailer there, my theory is that a bunch of ancom faggots filtered in from other subs because they heard their aid was needed to combat the "incel Nazi chuds" in the Saints Row sub. Predictably none of them will buy the game or play it, but they'll defend it because "people I don't like don't like it" and on goes the culture war.

Also: has anyone else noticed how just about every female character in games now has to have problem glasses and a giant fucking nose? What's the deal with that? Self-insert or what?

So what are the chances that the mods will end up censoring all negative feedback of the game, like how the TLOU, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones subreddits did? And then a spin-off subreddit is created where people can actually criticize the game, like what happened with those.

 

[Green Man]

So what are the chances that the mods will end up censoring all negative feedback of the game, like how the TLOU, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones subreddits did? And then a spin-off subreddit is created where people can actually criticize the game, like what happened with those.

I wouldn't be surprised if it did split-off, I've already seen people saying "gee-whiz with all these chuds around here we need r/LowSodiumSaintsRow" because when it comes to today's Internet everyone needs their own individual hugbox to circlejerk endlessly in, rather than hashing it out with people and tolerating people who have a different perspective. It doesn't happen exclusively on Reddit but it's more likely to happen there due to the voting system.

The funniest part is that all the people crying about "why you no like game" think it's just because "omg black characters and whamen" when the series itself has always had both but in earlier entries they were interesting, well-rounded characters. So then it becomes a political bludgeon, of course.

 

[Ita Mori]

more reddit cope, this time is about how gangs dress "in today's day"
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Ask these gangs their views on diversity and inclusivity... or their views on women ordering them around.

Also, ask veteran gangbangers what they think about today's sensitive crowd.
Last time I checked, they said the only men who wear tight clothes are faggots.

How the hell did Jack Thompson style political correctness win out in the end? Seriously, how did we wind up here?

Because:
- you stopped letting people get bullied
- thought welcoming all women into hobbies they neither care nor understand was a good idea. The tomboyish chick is not going to try and change what boys like, whereas the liberal landwhale who resents Stacey will insist the boys stop gawking at hot women, macho violence, and anything that offends her sensibilities.

I think it's understandable and forgivable that by 2011 no one could really take that sort of thing seriously anymore

Except they did. See GTA V and Sleeping Dogs.
No one has a problem with criminal open world games as a setting/story. Hell, when SR3's trailer with Ye's "power" came out in 2011, people were excited because it looked like more of the same, only now the Saints would start on top where they belonged.

I'd love to see game with the aesthetic from back when "gangsta" stuff was still cool.

You sound like tumblrites. Gangsta shit is still cool and a majority of people who liked it in the 00s and 90s still like it now. Cool is not dictated by what girls who listen to Billie Eillish think and listen to.
Today's mainstream hiphop culture is abhorred by pretty much everyone except people who like top40. It is the new Rock & Roll, and it will be whored out like Rock was until it died a pathetic death in the mainstream in the late 00s where bands stopped looking cool and started looking like boring fags who all wore the same uniform and had no stage presence and looked effeminate.

So what are the chances that the mods will end up censoring all negative feedback of the game, like how the TLOU, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones subreddits did? And then a spin-off subreddit is created where people can actually criticize the game, like what happened with those.

I don't think Saints Row is so popular it merits that level of astroturfing.
SR isn't anything compared to the franchises you listed, which have mostly become household names. My old man knows who Ned Stark or Yoda are, but he could not tell you what a Stilwater is.

 

[Marissa Moira]

This isn't an offensive enough of a reboot to widely bomb among the general public, but it isn't unique looking enough to actually stand out.

The use of Blue and the white lettering makes me think of Brink

People who were long time fans of Saint's Row tended to gravitate towards GTA online anyways since that was essentially the only game in town. It's looking like most of the stuff will be online only with the Saint's Row reboot and personally that's enough for me to skip it.

 

[SiccDicc]

It's kinda sad that GTA Online right now is more Saints Row than Saints Row will be.

It even coopted the hover bike from Saints Row 3; which I felt was the beginning of the end, but at least it held to its spirit.

 

[TVStactic]

It's kinda sad that GTA Online right now is more Saints Row than Saints Row will be.

It even coopted the hover bike from Saints Row 3; which I felt was the beginning of the end, but at least it held to its spirit.
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the whole sthick is that the Saints Row is joked to be as a movie on ETD and everyone is an actor.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

unless you mean the #metoo screechers, that's not how it works.
look at all the people that left, usually cis white males from the "frat boys club" who have been with the company for years if not decades, meaning a lot of the good shit actually was their responsibility. then take a look who does the screeching and virtue signals on twitter like their lives depend on it: danger hairs, soibois, "allies" and generally underfucked women destined to become catladies - those are not the competent developers who got their job via merit, and the final product will be equally trash because they simply can.not.produce good games, not that they even want to, since they don't care about making a good game or even an acceptable entry in a franchise, it's all about prestige and clout, else they would become indies to "punch up" and "fight the system", not become part of it.

they are hacks, and their only memorable contribution will that they repeatedly produced shit games and bombed franchises.

and from where these hacks are?

from modern universities which have mandatory "D&I" courses

and since it's too late to fixing academia, I can safely say boycotting games won't work

 

[Marissa Moira]

and from where these hacks are?

from modern universities which have mandatory "D&I" courses

and since it's too late to fixing academia, I can safely say boycotting games won't work

Everything is a product of affirmative action.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

Saints Row went from "Watch your back when you walk through the streets of Saints Row, nigguh!" to "kawaii cat helmet asian catboy uwu!!!!!"....I'm still trying to mentally process this.

 

[ZMOT]

and from where these hacks are?

from modern universities which have mandatory "D&I" courses

and since it's too late to fixing academia, I can safely say boycotting games won't work

don't really need to fix academia, the market will take care of that. you can only burn money producing shit for so long that no ones buys before you start to feel it, at that point you either change course and start hiring based on merit to produce good shit your customers actually want or double down and go under.
all those degrees are worthless when no one's hiring you afterwards, either because they don't want to or the companies simply don't exist anymore.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

don't really need to fix academia, the market will take care of that. you can only burn money producing shit for so long that no ones buys before you start to feel it, at that point you either change course and start hiring based on merit to produce good shit your customers actually want or double down and go under.
all those degrees are worthless when no one's hiring you afterwards, either because they don't want to or the companies simply don't exist anymore.

but what if there'will be no good programmers anymore?

 

[X Pac Heat]

don't really need to fix academia, the market will take care of that. you can only burn money producing shit for so long that no ones buys before you start to feel it

lol you really believe this? after the years of consumers just consuming for the sake of it no matter how shitty or nonsensical the product is?

 

[God of Nothing]

lol you really believe this? after the years of consumers just consuming for the sake of it no matter how shitty or nonsensical the product is?

You say that but Netflix has been going to shit after trashing what little good they had for woke points, the MCU is going to die a horrible death while everyone even semi-aware of what's going on knows it, Star Wars is well past dead, Gillette's profits went straight to the dump truck after their retardation, TLoU 2 sunk what little clout Naughty Dog had, Ubisoft is already a walking corpse, and people are going to think a dozen times before ever considering anything from CD Projekt after Cyberpunk. If Volition doesn't die from this, they will bleed for a year as a shell of their former self before collapsing into nothingness.
it's happening bruh

 

[X Pac Heat]

Everything you listed made or continues to make money and is still going. Gillette is about the only thing you got and it isn't even an entertainment product.

I hate to be that guy, but stop getting your info from FNT, Doomcock and other Youtube personalities grifters.

 

[Ita Mori]

but what if there'will be no good programmers anymore?

Then you go back to your old games that held up.
Is the idea of no more new vidya really so bad for people?