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achillesforever6 posted:Chip is busy with Volition stuff announcing Saints Row (which looks good despite all the bullshit people gave it for that trailer) The new game's trailer/concept stuff feels really weird, but oh my god the nuclear meltdowns the usual suspects are having over it is another level entirely.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:23
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Yardbomb posted:The new game's trailer/concept stuff feels really weird, but oh my god the nuclear meltdowns the usual suspects are having over it is another level entirely. Is there anything these large adult children are not enrgaged over these days? These people are a high blood pressure medication manufacturerer's wet dream. Also probably diabetes and high cholesterol for good measure 
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Aug 31, 2021 17:49
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If something exists, someone on the internet is mad about it. And if something doesn't exist there's probably someone on the internet that's mad about that too. It's such a rote observation at this point that you might as well be calling water wet.
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Aug 31, 2021 17:57
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Super Bunnyhop did a video about Cruelty Squad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMmw03kISS4 I'm not surprised to hear that the game's artstyle is the result of the creator knowing his stuff and deliberately working against it.
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Aug 31, 2021 18:19
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Yardbomb posted:The new game's trailer/concept stuff feels really weird, but oh my god the nuclear meltdowns the usual suspects are having over it is another level entirely. Honestly what blew me away wasn't the usual suspects (I thankfully have no way of being exposed to that radioactive waste on the regular) but the dumb as hell Kotaku article declaring that silly games are dead because...the Saints Row trailer wasn't obnoxiously in your face cah-razy?
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Aug 31, 2021 19:32
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Yardbomb posted:The new game's trailer/concept stuff feels really weird, but oh my god the nuclear meltdowns the usual suspects are having over it is another level entirely. What's weird about it, what I've seen of it seems to be hitting the SR stuff pretty well. Is it just that it's a reboot that doesn't seem interested in doing a lovely retelling of the original story? Because that's one of the things that make me actually interested in it. Let the Third Street Saints rest, their story has been finished for a long time.
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Aug 31, 2021 19:38
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Yardbomb posted:The new game's trailer/concept stuff feels really weird, but oh my god the nuclear meltdowns the usual suspects are having over it is another level entirely. They had to almost trip over themselves to yell there would be character creation because some people went all the entire way out of their drat minds that they might be playing a black woman, who could possibly be thought to be the MC from the trailer.
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Aug 31, 2021 19:59
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Hel posted:What's weird about it, what I've seen of it seems to be hitting the SR stuff pretty well. It came off really, to use a dumb word, 'twee' to me I guess? That's just what came to mind from the little I've seen, game will likely still be fun, but it felt odd. Dawgstar posted:They had to almost trip over themselves to yell there would be character creation because some people went all the entire way out of their drat minds that they might be playing a black woman, who could possibly be thought to be the MC from the trailer. Yeah that's dumb people got all wound up about some poo poo like that, though as a positive to goofier character stuff, I'm alright with being Crime Urkel. /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69775704/05.SAINTS_ROW_Self_Made_Lineup_4K.0.jpg)
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Aug 31, 2021 20:27
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it looked like watch dogs 2
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Aug 31, 2021 20:28
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Twee seems like a good word for it, they seem to be leaning into the startup culture aesthetic thing so I'm curious where it goes. I do hope it's more than just 'tech startup but gangs' though
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Aug 31, 2021 20:34
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the people who were like "it needs to have stuff like the dildo bat!!" should realize that (a) that stuff will probably be in the game because it's still the same people making the game as SR3/4, and (b) their favorite cartoon character is GIR from invader zim probably
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Aug 31, 2021 20:35
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I'd trade the dildo bat a thousand times over for the cane to return.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:40
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Srice posted:If something exists, someone on the internet is mad about it. And if something doesn't exist there's probably someone on the internet that's mad about that too.  People are mad as gently caress in the comments, holy poo poo. I didn't look at them at all when I first checked out the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjH6lZrTas Weird to have everyone have the nuance to recognize that they're fun characters to shoot people as but not someone you'd actually want to hang out with, usually you have to pierce that hard shell of ignorance with a pickaxe to start getting that point across.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:46
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Did people not play 3 and 4? This feels right in the spirit of those games (which had a radically different tone than 2).
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Aug 31, 2021 20:51
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i have one complaint which is that my friend is right and that everyone in the advertising is skinny and beautiful when saints row is famous for having one of the most robust character creations in games for its time (and now?)......get wild with it guys...show off the good stuff
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Aug 31, 2021 20:52
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RareAcumen posted:People are mad as gently caress in the comments, holy poo poo. I didn't look at them at all when I first checked out the video. Saw at least a couple further down circlejerking about one of the developers in the video having the name Bernstein, for some mysterious reason I could only wonder.  fun hater posted:i have one complaint which is that my friend is right and that everyone in the advertising is skinny and beautiful when saints row is famous for having one of the most robust character creations in games for its time (and now?)......get wild with it guys...show off the good stuff This is also true, gimme the crazy lookalikes and horrible monsters that creator's awesome for. Nioh 2 along with being a fun game has gotten a ton of praise for how much you can do with it's creator as well, people love that stuff.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:56
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The promotional stuff shown for Saints Row has been bad. I rather see all this stuff in gameplay footage rather than be told by aging Gen Xers what they think are millennial power fantasies.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:56
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fun hater posted:i have one complaint which is that my friend is right and that everyone in the advertising is skinny and beautiful when saints row is famous for having one of the most robust character creations in games for its time (and now?)......get wild with it guys...show off the good stuff Yeah, I looked at 3 and 4's trailers and it's pretty standard video game stuff. Oleg's in the 3rd one but everyone else is either 'standard female video game model' or 'Batman Arkham Asylum male peak male' I don't know where these memories of the trailers having the PC rapidly shifting through randomized character models came from.
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Aug 31, 2021 21:04
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah, I looked at 3 and 4's trailers and it's pretty standard video game stuff. Oleg's in the 3rd one but everyone else is either 'standard female video game model' or 'Batman Arkham Asylum male peak male' I don't know where these memories of the trailers having the PC rapidly shifting through randomized character models came from. There's a quick montage in the Real Muthaphukkin Gs trailer for SR2, but that's it.
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Aug 31, 2021 21:36
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I really don't get what you mean with twee, but I'd probably say SR4 would be more fitting of that from how I understand it. Honestly I feel like the startup thing works because it's a contrast to how the old games played with corporate crime and business speech, going through Ultor in 2, the sellout Saints-Ultor in 3, up to the Saints as US goverment in 4. And it signals that you are back to being up and comers rather than being at the top like the last few games.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:13
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New saints row just looks generic honestly
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Aug 31, 2021 22:24
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I feel like the later Saint's Row aesthetic really stood out when they first came out, seeing as a lot of their competiton was incredibly self-serious and drab; GTA IV being the standout example there. But it's been 7 years from the last mainline saints game, and the broader vibe of the industry has moved on and in a lot of ways hews closer to what they were doing back then, and so a lot of what made the series stand out is a lot less impressive.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:36
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MiddleOne posted:Did people not play 3 and 4? This feels right in the spirit of those games (which had a radically different tone than 2). My first experience with the series was 3 and it felt like it got the balance right. 4 just went overboard and lost itself in the super power and simulation nonsense, and going back and playing 2, eh I liked it but it felt incomplete compared to 3. Really, the time for a fifth Saints Row game of any stripe was five years ago to capitalize on the possibilities that either the ending to 4 or Gat Outta Hell left for the series and Volition chose to do Agents of Mayhem instead, which... oof. Right now I'm at "Eh, that's nice, I don't care" with the series, having lost interest in it a long while ago. Getting mad about it seems intensely dumb, but then again hospital ICUs across North America are currently packed triple-high with people literally dying mad because they couldn't bring themselves to do a simple thing most normal people thought was a no-brainer so what was I expecting.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:40
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Business wise Ithink it makes a lot sense to release it now because the only competing games in the modern open world crime genre is GTA5 which is 8 years old and Cyberpunk 2077 which is a mess. There has to be a pretty big untapped audience there, especially with Yakuza going full JRPG. If they are still up for it remains to be seen but their position is pretty strong, especially with an established brand and developer.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:01
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The 7th Guest posted:the people who were like "it needs to have stuff like the dildo bat!!" should realize that (a) that stuff will probably be in the game because it's still the same people making the game as SR3/4, and (b) their favorite cartoon character is GIR from invader zim probably Jumping off from this, I feel like people have just...totally forgotten how dire some parts of SR3 are.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:26
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RareAcumen posted:I don't know where these memories of the trailers having the PC rapidly shifting through randomized character models came from. i dont either. is that a thing people are claiming??
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Aug 31, 2021 23:27
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John Murdoch posted:Jumping off from this, I feel like people have just...totally forgotten how dire some parts of SR3 are. Hey, anybody else remember the mission where you rescue human trafficking victims only to traffic them yourselves? And that was the good option.
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Sep 1, 2021 01:49
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Scorched Spitz posted:Hey, anybody else remember the mission where you rescue human trafficking victims only to traffic them yourselves? And that was the good option. Everything around Zimos was awful. The autotune voice box thing was funny but the character is just repulsive due to the stuff he had you do. I'm really glad we didn't get the actual Enter the Dominatrix given the cut content that became an SR4 dlc.
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Sep 1, 2021 01:55
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah, I looked at 3 and 4's trailers and it's pretty standard video game stuff. Oleg's in the 3rd one but everyone else is either 'standard female video game model' or 'Batman Arkham Asylum male peak male' I don't know where these memories of the trailers having the PC rapidly shifting through randomized character models came from.
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Sep 1, 2021 02:20
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Mokinokaro posted:Everything around Zimos was awful. The autotune voice box thing was funny but the character is just repulsive due to the stuff he had you do. Yeah Zimos as a character aged incredibly poorly on top of the fact that it was bad look to begin with. Same with giving a major role in the game to Hulk Hogan. That was a bit of a blooper in hindsight.
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Sep 1, 2021 02:21
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saints row 3 is in a really weird halfway position where its story is way goofier than 2 but it still kind of attempts to take itself seriously in a way that actively makes the rest of the game less fun completely changing shaundi's appearance and personality to the point where she's genuinely unrecognizable as the same character is kinda funny in how baffling a change it is, but the writing doesn't even do anything with the concept until 4 (not to mention how they kill a main character offscreen in a way thats so anticlimactic i spent the rest of the game expecting him to come back, only to be confused when a mission started off with the characters screaming "how dare this gang crash his funeral" when no funeral was shown or mentioned beforehand lmao) at least saints row 4 committing to going full zany bullshit let it do some fun stuff with the characters
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Sep 1, 2021 02:33
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saints row 3 was a very, very bad game that mainly consisted of volition trying their best to work around the demands of their failing publisher. the cast was far worse, its wackiness was overstated and often cruel, it lacked any of the contrasting pathos SR2 had, and the gameplay was unremarkable and somehow even more repetitive than SR2's side-mission grinding SR4 was basically a giant apology for 3 and would have ended the series on a high note if not for the wet raspberry that was Gat Out of Hell
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Sep 1, 2021 02:33
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Saint's row 3 is way better than Saint Row 2 which felt like an ever so slightly more wacky Grand Theft Auto rip-off, but lacking the polish.
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Sep 1, 2021 02:44
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I was a pretty big fan of SR3 when it came out but looking back at it... oof. Plenty of jokes that didn't age well and others that I probably should have been side-eyeing even 10 years ago. Charging through enemy goons to save your friends while Holding Out For A Hero blasts at full volume still holds up though.
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Sep 1, 2021 02:57
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the part where 'power' plays is the only part in sr3 i remember fondly tbh well oleg was fine too probably
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Sep 1, 2021 02:58
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Acute Grill posted:Charging through enemy goons to save your friend
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Sep 1, 2021 04:03
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Saints Row 4 just felt like a goofy, but wholesome game that didn't take itself seriously and was about being in one big family of cool people. (Plus the end credits of everyone singing "Just a friend" with Michael Clarke Duncan showing up at the end since he was going to reprise his role  )Rebooting was the right move because didn't the main creative lead with Volition leave after 4?
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Sep 1, 2021 04:26
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Saint's row 3 is way better than Saint Row 2 which felt like an ever so slightly more wacky Grand Theft Auto rip-off, but lacking the polish. What in the goddamn...
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Sep 1, 2021 04:29
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah Zimos as a character aged incredibly poorly on top of the fact that it was bad look to begin with. Same with giving a major role in the game to Hulk Hogan. That was a bit of a blooper in hindsight. getting hulk hogan to voice a luchador named Angel de la Muerte had to be a rib or a THQ decision
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Saint's row 3 is way better than Saint Row 2 which felt like an ever so slightly more wacky Grand Theft Auto rip-off, but lacking the polish. I mean, at least cars handle better than they ever did in SR2, but they still weren't amazing. Even Watch_Dogs 2 had better driving cars and the cars drove like rear end in that game.
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Sep 1, 2021 05:04
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