It's understandable to go in a different direction for a reboot, but nothing revealed so far seems to have any trace of what made Saints Row good.
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.
The characters in Saints Row were never likable but the over the top gameplay made up for it.
Eh, i'm excited for it, no drama here.
Should have been a new IP or at least a spin off imo. "Saints Row" is Saints Row because of the characters and stories etc as we know them, I just get BF Hardline vibes from this. If it was marketed the right way and just allowed to be judged as a game in its own right it wouldn't get half the criticism it's getting.
Making drastic changes to settings/characters and giving it a recognisable brand name that carries certain expectations is a difficult task no matter the franchise.
Saints Row gameplay made the game "good" imo. It didn't do any one thing exceptionally well, but had a lot of gameplay elements that were strong enough to make them an enjoyable package.
That said, I must be mis-remembering the original games because I dont recall ANY of the characters or humor involved being terribly memorable. Seems like the author is just overly adverse to change here honestly.
Im looking forward to seeing the end product
Remember when Volition made one of the best Marvel Video Games ever at the time it was released? (The Punisher on PS2, Xbox) ?