Deepsilver wants you to pick the bonuses that ship with Saints Row 4
Remember this year's Saints Row(opens in new tab)? Volition would probably prefer that you didn't, which might go some way to explaining why the studio recently decided to upgrade everyone's copy of Saints Row 4(opens in new tab) to its full-fat Re-elected Edition, containing all the game's story and cosmetic DLC and even introducing cross-play between Steam, Epic, and GOG versions of the game.
Unfortunately, that upgrade seems to have backfired, and players now report a myriad of bugs with their new version of SR4. Both the Saints Row Steam forums(opens in new tab) and subreddit(opens in new tab) are filled with players complaining of broken saves, crashes, and mods failing to function. It's also received a few hundred negative Steam reviews(opens in new tab) since the update. If it's succeeded in washing the taste of Saints Row (2022) out of players' mouths, it's only because it tastes even worse.
I wonder if Volition's getting reorged under Gearbox impacted the quality of their release.
When it comes ranking the Saints Row games, there are a couple of weird ones you have to consider, though this is Saints Row after all.
Juan at SwitchWatchTV got his hands on Saints Row 4 Re-elected for Nintendo Switch. Check out his review here and see what he thinks.
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Sadly, I think this game will do well. People(like me) who wanted the game to step BACK its roots and be more like SR2 will be/are already disappointed. Some of us might get the game regardless. Me, if I do it will not be at full price and it will probably be used.
There are a lot of people who seemed to enjoy SR3(seems to be young kids or people who hadn't played the previous games) I don't know which of these groups(those who like/dislike)have the higher numbers, but I guess we'll see soon enough.
Saint Rows to me could be compared to Scary Movie and how their sequels evolved. First one was good, second one was ok, third one was just over the top stupid and 4 just ran out of ideas being even more over the top than the last without little to any real direction.
That is exactly how I feel about Saint Rows. I have no idea how it became what it is today.. I guess they just ran out of ideas.