• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Rename the franchise to something like Devil’s Row, reuse the 1st game’s story and just change names around. Nobody will complain, especially as the 1st game is the only one that hasn’t been re-released

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    Hang it up man, jesus. That last game in 2022 looked so cringe and terrible. Like tryin to mix saints row and fortnite. I haven’t played one since SR2 but that’s probably for the best.

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      Was that the reboot?

      I stopped playing fairly early, and I also didn’t buy that game at full price.

      It might have been part of a bundle…

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      I too liked the series but I dont think it’s sad that it’s over, some things should be left to lie no matter how good they were.

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        Yeah the escalation of 3->4->GOOH was already crazy over the top and overdid it, but hey, that was actually kinda fitting for Saints Row. Fine.

        But I wasn’t unhappy at all that it ended there. It was a fine franchise, it’s alright.

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    How would a prequel even work? The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2. The original leader of the Saints, Julius, even has your character assassinated at the end of the first game (you get better) because he didn’t like how violent the gang was getting.

    A game set before the Boss joined where Julius is still calling the shots sounds boring. Unless they mean a prequel to the reboot, but why make one for a game that was poorly received and instantly forgotten upon release?

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      The first game had a phone number to call, that would bring back dead characters as zombies.

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      The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2.

      Statements like this give me always a sensible chuckle. Compared to the rest of the franchise the first one is pretty grounded. Thats true. But it still is such a goofy game with over the top comedy. The very first cutscene is so stupid already. As is everything else. It still is a GTA parody. ‘gritty street-level crime drama’ lmao

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      Maybe you can play as Julius in the 70s when it was all wild, and then he chills out by the time of first game

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    Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.

    I made my character a giant, and I’m pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.

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      I wish SR 2 was available as a technically okay version. I have the GOG edition, but that suffers from the horrendous music quality and I believe frame rate issues. I seem to remember that it’s one of those games where they tied physics to hardware clock speeds and it would never run right if you couldn’t play it on the PS 3 or X 360. I will have to look into that because I would love to enjoy all those fantastic cutscenes once again.

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        One of the top SR2 modders was working on a patch for the PC version. He already had so much notoriety that Volition hired him to make the patch official.

        Then he tragically passed away before anything could come from the partnership. RIP IdolNinja.

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      You could also do that in SR3, also upgrade the throw distance which made for really funny throws during missions in high places