OnlySP: "Volition will be stepping away from their popular Saints Row franchise with their next title, if a recent job listing is to be believed."
"When Volition and THQ pitched this game, at least some of the THQ executives came dressed in robes and had owls with them"
According to a LinkedIn post, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studio representatives will meet up with Deep Silver Volition employees.
That's pretty cool, but didn't they just lay of 10k as a whole. Reportedly some from the gaming division even.
Confused in pa.
This is called good PR. And an opportunity to hire veterans over scrubs.
Not to call them scrubs but yeah some veteran devs are more welcome than others with less experience
You can hire veterans all day long but it’s the talent Microsoft lacks.
It was mostly outside of gaming. Most of the game studios weren't affected besides 343i and Coalition from what I recall
But of course. Just look at the latest Saint's Row....that is exactly the level of quality and writing that Xbox strives for these days.
There u go. This is way more acceptable than buying up studios. Buy individual talent until you strengthen your already owned studios. 👏🏽
Today publisher Deep Silver took to X (formerly Twitter) to follow up on the announcement of the closure of Saints Row developer Volition.
Who knows...maybe we see a remastered SR2 after all and a new studio that makes good SR games again. Still..thanks a ton Volition for the excellent Punisher Video game
We will keep making money off of these by giving them to new teams with zero experience with them.
Not necessarily a bad thing having zero experience. Insomniac took a crack at Spider-Man and did it very well. Sucker Punch also made Ghost of Tsushima. Heck, some would say Ninja Theory did a great job with DmC.
jambola,
Perhaps we're looking at "new teams" differently. I mean handing it off to a different team (one with no experience in these franchises or types of games). I don't mean a newly formed team.
But even then...a new team doesn't mean they're new to game development.
I'd also like your input on where The Initiative stands. They're new in the sense they've yet to produce any games and formed relatively recently, but comprised of industry veterans.
I'd love another Saints Row game but I can't see it happening after the response to the reboot.
I enjoyed the Saints Row reboot and i hope we see more titles in the franchise.
I'm very happy to know the SR and RF franchises won't die. RF was a revolutionly fps at the time and loved the 4 og SR games.
The first one was really good. The second was not bad either. Then they stared to get lost in the silliness and lost me.
sr1 and sr2 were good, sr3 was ok, sr4 i hated it
with that being said, volition is a talented studio, red faction 1 was excellent, hope they make another red faction 1 type of game
I never played the original SR game as I've only ever owned PlayStation consoles but I really enjoyed both SR2 and SR3 for different reasons, never played SR4 though as the superpowers thing was just a bit too over the top for me, regardless I'm very intrigued by this news.
Agree with other posts. First 2 saints row were excellent, at that current time they were even better than GTA imo. After that thought, they just kinda gave up with the realism and went all nuts, and i did not like that at all. It was just kinda weird because the first 2 were so serious based, and all of a sudden they did that crazy world with powers and stuff but it was still called "saints Row".
Thing is Saints Row was the more serious one. If they wanted to go really, REALLY silly why not just create a new IP back then instead of ruining Saints Row
Saints Row 2 was fantastic