PP: From crackhouse to penthouse, where else could the Saints go?
The wait for GTA 6 is painful, but for less than $6 you can pass the time with the overhated Saints Row reboot on your Steam Deck right now.
This was free on something at some point, so I decided to check it out. It's definitely properly rated.
Some of the biggest success stories in the history of gaming have happened during this generation of gaming. At the same time, some of the biggest flops in the history of gaming have also happened during this generation of gaming. To this end, a few games particularly stick out as, unfortunately, disastrous flops for those who made the games, sold the games, and ultimately, for many that played the games.
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What a strange, short list. There have been many more games that arrived DOA, were never released, didn’t make their budget back, etc. Why cherry pick these games? Is this list based on the size of internet hate boners?
Replies(2)Skull and Bones gets my vote, at this point just completely remake AC Black Flag. If the Concord developers had made the game free to play, and toned down the in your face messaging via the mods and design choices, this game could have been serviceable eventually. I never understand why pandering to 5% of your audience and giving the finger to the other 95% seems like a good idea to these people. They never seem to learn. Disney has lost 1/3rd of its value and they keep doubling down on political messaging. I don’t get it.
Some of these companies are paid huge amounts of money to do this stuff. They get truck loads of money to give “the message”
By blackrock and vanguards and multiple other venture capitalists even though it’s been proven over and over they fail.
Saints Row made its debut nearly 20 years ago, and while the game has aged its still worth playing on modern consoles.
Back when games had balls. Now they still have balls, but also lipstick and a dress.
And they claimed this place was one of the outhouses for Gamers™ and gamerGate Incels. Pfft! But look at bangerBro99's amazing display of Homo-eroticism. How far we've come.
So proud of you, bud. Now you go grab them balls and have all the fun. 👍
Outstanding!
🥲🥲 someone needs to buy this ip and watch dogs, give those franchises a proper treatment sheesh
First 3 games were great. Then 4, Gat out of Hell and the Reboot were flimsy in comparison. Aliens, demons and a weak reboot in terms of intensity made the games forgettable.
But even 3 ventured into rediculas territory with zombies and stag. Zombies in 3 to me was just a hey you know what's popular zombies let's do that
The endgame of 3 did get stupid but the game held together at the end. 4 was just annoying all the way through.
I love all the Saints' Row games, but I'm in the minority in that I'm partial to 3 and 4 (4 being my favorite). I loved the complete absurdity and how OP you could become. I think you can always go more and more crazy if you're creative enough. That being said, I'm still not too disappointed in this b/c in the end I'm getting more Saints' Row.
I loved 1&2, 3 was just okay and 4 ruined the series for me. I hope this is in between
Why not leave the franchise in the past five it a new name try and tell their fresh story without banking in the success of the franchise.
Sure 4 ended in a impossible way to continyeithout retconning the 4th game but still most fans would of accepted that.
It's clear that violation think the game isn't strong enough to stand in its own that it can't just be a new IP they need to tie it to a moneymaker like saints even if the series was "from another era" as they describe it.
To me this wasn't a saints game it's another ip it had a right to succeed on its own but volition took that chance wrapped it up in a known and loved IP that drastically differs from what we see here and managed to disappoint and leave fans saying WTF kind of after school special was that.
This new "gang" look like they just need Scooby doo and they are all set to go out solving mysteries.
I would prefer Saints Row 5 based on time travel
I would have started Saints 5 after part 2 and you pull out from the ending of 4 to see that they are playing a Saints video game in the actual story that was made by one of the members. They would have commented that it was good but it got a little too wacky and then we start the actual Saints 5: Undercover. Going back to a bit more serious tone and doing something like a The Departed story where you start undercover and make choices choosing ultimately to side with the police or the Saints.