Saints Row is 'dead' and will not get another title, according to the design director of the first game Chris Stockman says the series' publisher Embracer has no interest in the franchise
>>733772184Good. Volition was given FOUR chances since 2011 to make a good Saints Row game. Fuck 'em, nobody to blame but themselves.
>>733772184It's even worse when you learn the original game idea was going to be a proper Saints Row 4, with a balance between SR2 and 3 in terms of humor. THQ Nordic poopoo'd the entire idea and the reboot is the result.
Saints row has always been a steaming pile of shit
>There is literally nobody attempting to make 90s street thug open world games anymore>A market rife for the pillaging since GTA has went full boring and refuses to do anything interesting, with VI just looking like more of V with a new world>Nobody wants to step up and fill the gap
>>733772551>Nobody wants to step up and fill the gapBecause everyone will call your game a GTA clone, much like what happened to SR 1 and 2. Volition deviated from street gang shit because they were tired of the constant comparisons between SR and GTA, and that's how we got SR3 and 4.
>>733772508fpbp
>>733772184All that had to fucking do was rerelease the second game for modern systems. I don't care that they lost the source code, if they can make a game, they can remake 2 from scratch.
>>733772637They got the source code back thanks to IdolNinja. They could have ported the game to modern systems if they gave him some additional manpower while he was working on the PC patch. Now the patch is dead and Mike died for nothing.
>>733772504lmao what is this cope. the saints row reboot we got was shit in every way, thq didn't peek over the shoulders of the devs "no the combat is too good make it worse. we need more flat characters with no personality. people are complaining there's no good rewards, put a shitty love shack music video in there"
>>733772184Thank god for that, it was diminishing returns after 2.
>>733772632>f
>>733772937That is quite literally what happened.https://x.com/SynthPotato/status/1962204453500551604
>>733772625>Because everyone will call your game a GTA clone,It's been 20 years since San Andreas, and not once has GTA dabbled in stereotypical gangster warfare since, and it did it once (1 time).
>>733773258This shit was the biggest cope I've ever beheld. I cannot BELIEVE people are so fucking gullible >Yeah uhhhhhh it was actually the publisher's fault. Here's what the game would have ACTUALLY been [insert every sr5 wishlist copied verbatim]
>>733773341It's literally taken from the same Discord as above from the developers.Never forget that Halo 4 was going to be very similar to Halo 3, but Microsoft literally rejected the project and intentionally hired people who didn't like Halo to become 343 workers.
>>733772508Pretty much. It was what you played waiting for the next GTA to come out. Considering the GTA development cycle is now 13 years Volition really squandered a chance to grow their brand but pushing faggotry was just so much more important than making games people want to play.
>>733773453>Pretty much. It was what you played waiting for the next GTA to come out.That's funny, because half the reason Saints Row 2 boomed in popularity is because a good chunk of people despised the direction GTA IV took. I certainly did, I remember getting the game on release and trading it in a week later. After a year, I thought maybe I was too harsh on it, so I bought another copy of GTA IV, and I STILL fucking hated it.
>Idol Ninja spent his last days alive working on the remaster of 2>was promised his successor would be allowed to work on it>the remaster was quietly locked away to make room for the reboot>his successor was probably never even allowed to touch it
>>733772184Every franchise is dead in the year 2026.
>>733773341look i know you guys have this weird mental image of studios being infiltrated by commies or whatever, but in the real world it's publishers that call the shots and yes they're often every bit as stupid and out of touch as they sound
>>733774018Oh my sweet summer child... if something sounds too good to be true: it always is.
>>733772184>Saints Row is 'dead'Good.Also deserved.
I'm not a SR2 cultist like some people, but the franchise really died with the turd that was 3. 4 was just the nail in the coffin. I'm glad it's dead. Put it out of its misery.
>>733773341this. all of >>733775501 wasn't from the publishers. >>733773415>Microsoft literally rejected the project and intentionally hired people who didn't like Halo to become 343 workers.you mean that thing that 343's leads were bragging about in interviews? that thing the studio actually didn't mind?
>>733773415>Halo 4 would've been just like halo 3 if it weren’t for all the people that were hired to work on itNot exactly beating the cope allegations with that one
>>733772184I got a chance to speak to some members of the team behind saints row games specifically publisher side. They're basically all sad about what happened to the last SR like we all are, it wasn't their call.
Everything that isn't the next Fortnite is dying. We're in a pre-WW3 economy, none of this shit is coming back, and the current industry is creativly and technically incompetent to make it a good game.
