saints row 2022 was an inside job 

If you watch the behind the scenes for the making of the game. You will see it was made by Geeks that got beaten up by Nerds.

My hate for Eli runs just as deep. I’m glad I’m not the only one who wants to shove him in a locker.

Imagine signing up for cinema studies class and getting nothing but musicals

To be fair about "larping" in South Park: the game is about children around the age of 10 playing around, pretending to be knights and wizards. Also its Hella good.

the game could have been about 4 middle-aged dads deciding to start a weekend gang operation as a way to escape their wives and it would have still been a better story than what we got

You know, in a way, it's almost impressive - Volition had a path laid out for them. Everything was in their favor - they had a whole ass decade of people telling them precisely what they want, loud, clear, and to the point. No beating aroudn the bush or anything, no, the community was as direct as it could get. Not only that, the timing and the circumstances couldn't be better - people are starved for the open-world sanbox crime-sim. There's no telling when GTA 6 will release, and the Defective Edition of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas was just laughable. Sentiment for Rockstar is starting to turn, and it's visible. And so, if they were to step in and offer the old-school style GTA-esque game, people would flock to it, that's how much they're starved. It couldn't be more perfect for them. And yet, with all that, Volition chose to throw it all away. They made the game that, seemingly, only they wanted to play, all the while antagonizing everything and everyone around them.

In the end credits, they actually list Reddit moderators and thank them for… being Reddit mods… Also southpark’s SOT is actually fun, it’s a bunch of 8 year olds pretending to be wizards and there’s actual abilities and shit, this larping is just giving you a weapon that still does damage and telling you “oh you aren’t killing them”, like the first level in hitman where they say they’re actors, despite throwing them off a building or blowing them the fuck up.

Best part of the whole game was the car customization, who ever was in charge on that part should have made the whole damn game lol R.I.P Saints Row. btw hilarious video bro you just earned a new subscriber!

Nu-Saints Row feels like it was made to appeal to pre-schoolers. Like the focus group was these kinds of parents who pecked away at anything even slightly dark or edgy resulting in nothing but the most sanitized product possible.

The craziest part about all this is that they had a chance to save themselves. They should've respected OG fans and realized we're the only portion of the fan base that would go all out for a real Saints Row game. Their was massive hype when they teased us and made it seem like they were "going back to their roots." They should've just delayed the game and did a complete overhaul then. They even had a second chance at this when they dropped the trailer and it got panned by fans. I guarantee a great Saints Row game like 1 and 2, would generate a bunch of cash in this era. I still pay the first 2 and is been almost 2 decades.

great video!

You know, this plot would've improved tenfold if they killed most of the characters off. Have it so the story ends with a very angry boss having lost the other friends as things progress, the gangs could've killed two of them, then leave a survivor who turns on the boss out of paranoia (possibly fueled by the Marshall asshat) which you're then forced to kill. That way you filter these Saints from whatever this was into a proper, scarred gang. It's amazing how much of an afterthought the Saints are in this Saints Row game.

At a certain point it really makes you wonder if they intentionally made a game so bad to make people view previous games in a better light 😭

Manga: Saints Row 1 & 2 Anime: Saints Row The Third & IV Netflix Adaptation: Saints Row (2022)

The idea of a bunch of modern college dropouts wanting to become gangsters is not terrible. Like imagine if the game was centred around their lack of experience, their overconfidence, massive reality checks where they almost die because they start tangling with real actual gangsters, you could have the DJ guys and the panteros acting as the initial no name enemies then introduce a real genuine gang that’s actually a threat too big. Then you can have the wannabe saints actually grow and change and develop. Get more grizzled by the end game, like a Jesse Pinkman style character shift. Then after credits you could have someone kick open the church doors and ask whose been using their trademark, revealing like Pierce, Shaundi, etc where you set up a potential sequel with both the new saints and old saints.

I would let the federal government pack me up if it meant everybody would get another SR2 style game, I be looking into the stars and I wonder, “somewhere in the void, there must be hope”.

The game so bad it killed the studio.

As of a week ago the studio is dead and the chances of us ever seeing the old saints is almost zero

When the amazing Spider-Man 2 has better writing than your game, that’s when you need to take a step back and think hard about if you should sell it for money

This is one of those games that are just sad all round. I miss Carlos. 😢

As a hardcore SR2 fan, one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. Thoroughly enjoyed SR1 and SR3 (even though I agree it was a dramatic departure from the first two). The reboot is such a disappointment / disgrace. And the worst part is, it probably cancelled SR for the foreseeable future.

as someone who was probably the exact target audience for this (a queer twenty something whos a dork) the way it managed to completely repulse the audience its meant for is honestly really impressive. not many games manage to do the exact opposite of what its supposed to

That car girl treats the car in this scene as if it’s a death scene.

hey, im not a bully or anything, never been one... but if i saw a person like who dresses, talks and acts like eli in real life i would make an exception, he just raises some primordial instinct out of me.

Eli could get bodied by Steve Urkel and replacing all of Kevin's dialogue with (Kevin says something stupid.) would improve the story by at least 20%.

I'm gonna openly admit. I watched the scene where that "King nerd" guy "dies" and I had a little chuckle. That said I only did so because I got the reference, and the reference itself is what made it humorous. Really that's...the only thing about this game that gave me any emotion other than scorn, anger, and disappointment. A bad rendition of an actually funny moment from somewhere else. My friends and I love to jokingly state we're "representing" whenever we wear purple in any other games because we loved this franchise. SR2 was my favorite for story, but SR3 was what got my closest friend and I cooping every game we could find. SR4...I'll just say it was fun for coop and leave it at that. When I heard Saints Row was coming back, I was so excited...then I saw the cast...then I saw the EGS exclusivity...then I saw the reviews...then I saw the Twitter posts from the devs attacking OG Saints row fans like me....Yeah. That wall was covered with writing. Big bold brown letters drawn with a turd. Supposedly we may be getting another Saints Row in fact. Not from Volition (thank God). Volition is going to Gearbox, while the Saints Row IP is sticking with Deep Silver. So...there's...hope...But at this point I'm keeping all hype levels as low as possible. Volition straight up destroyed this franchise and I don't know if Deep Silver will want to revive it any time soon - or ever.

9:16 They got money for expensive knives but not for Rent, food or that damn waffle maker that they could've stolen.

Im glad in every review everyone also feels that primal urge to hate Eli

When I heard the game flopped and Volition shut down, I did not feel bad at all; because of the fact that they dissed the OG Saints Row fans and acted all smug during their "haters gonna hate" tweet, it was so satisfying seeing them go up in flames.

"Like a Netflix adaptation" sums it up perfectly.

Super funny review, really well edited as well. Have watched many reviews on this game knowing it's bad hoping for someone to review it in an honest but also hilarious way. You did both very well. I was super surprised to look down and see only 1.47K subs! You have the demeanor of someone that's been doing this a long time. Love the jokes and format hope the YT algo works in your favor and I hope to see many more funny vids form you.

I've watched plenty of videos mocking the game already, but yours stood on its own, good job. Also f.uck that cat, what were they thinking. (I have to censor it, otherwise RU-vid won't even show my comment.)

These devs were so disconnected from reality and their fanbase to the point where its borderline demented behavior. Just gonna replay sr2/sr3 for the 10th time

They really mapped the crouch button in their modern 3d 3rd person shooter to the same button as Super Mario for the NES. Brutal.

For me, it goes 4,1, 2, and 3. SR2 is the best game, but the tone and story keeps reminding me of GTA. 3 is my favorite because it completely separated themselves from that GTA crime drama feel to nonsensical fun and satirical world that makes me wanna keep coming back. Too bad SR4 took an absolute shit all over that.

they refuse to make saints row 1 and 2 style games they just dont care what its use to be fans like

Fun fact I never did the LARP missions So Gwen just dissapeared from the story when I played and I had no idea what happened until after I regrettably beat the game

12:38 whats good about this scene is you actually get to know a personal thing about one of your roommates thus giving her a bit of depth the bad thing about this scene is this is the only one like it in the game and if you wanted to know anything about who they are any further its not in the game its on the website but im supposed to care about these people it feels like alot was cut out. also this is the first game where i hated the writing so much i felt compelled to look up what the writers did previously to make sense of why it was so bad.

man 2022 was a shit take on alot of games wasn't it. they let buzzfeed make a video game about gangsters and we ended up with hipsters of mayhem

The shirtless guy is gay? I thought he was the husbano of the writer

It’s absolutely wild that this game came out in 2022 and looks worse than GTA V. A GAME FROM ALMOST TEN YEARS PRIOR

I wouldn't even play Saint's Row ESG 2022 if it showed up as free to play on Game Pass Ultimate. Bye bye Volition. Get broke, go woke, croak. Excellent video, you saved me sixty dollars.

I think they knew they had crap on their hands, so they tried to make it so bad it's good, but when you intentionally try to make something like that it immediately disqualifies it. They tried to make the video game version of the room, basically. It did not in any work.

Larping has no place in a real saints row game

shit you were right, now i guess it really is the end of sr

0:01 opening discussion 2:40 story 12:00 filler missions 18:22 back to the main story 24:46 critique 27:48 conclusion 28:27 dlc 29:35 closing thoughts

this was a hard review to watch and not cause volition getting shut down this week and not anything to do with the reviewer BUT GOD DAMN SHOWING CUTSCENES this game sucks so hard I cant even get a omg thats bad giggle from it I just feel sad

turns out the final product was, in fact, an inside job but by the time you see this comment you'll already know

This review is better than the game itself. Sad times we live in.

Good news: This studio will NEVER be allowed to make another game. Embracer will liquidate them.

Saints Row 2022 is dumb, and you captured its flaws and banality perfectly. I've only liked it when I was screwing around and not doing the missions. I will say, I hate Neenah the least (for what it's worth), and have had many daydreams of forcing Kevin into a shirt and stapling it to him.

The Flowchart: Step 1: Target franchise with a passionate fanbase Step 2: Hire people based on diversity, not merit Step 3: Allow incompetent hires full control Step 4: Distort the vision of original creators Step 5: Butcher franchise to appease Twitter Step 6: Attack and mock the actual fanbase Step 7: Call paying customers racists and sexists Step 8: Deliver trash, kill franchise, then go broke

The most funny thing is the knife the boss gives to nahualli called judas knife lol its a bit on the nose but you know hes gonna stab you in the back lol

An amazing video. Hopefully when the game I’m working on comes out, I’ll be able to get RU-vidrs like you who actually speak their minds to talk about it.

I really hate how dumb they made the boss in this reboot, and the fact the plot is pretty much based on their failure from trying to be a class clown in the opening mission, when Gwen was telling the boss to stop being dumb. Yet even though their stupid actions are why they didnt get their raise.. as dumb as that plot sounds for a gangster already, the Boss being an idiot is why they had to become a gangster. Its just awful writing. I don't know who the hell directed this nonsense. They forgot their boss is military trained right after the first mission or something.

I’m glad this was in my suggested. Your humor and delivery reminds me of early 2010’s youtube. Great stuff.

Dude I thought you were some big time creator. You deserve so many more subscribers

Micheal Bay wouldn't even direct a stunt as stupid as Nina did lol

I have no idea how your video ended up in my feed but I'm happy it did. This was a legit funny watch and you have a gift for editing.

I do FULLY believe SR2022 was an inside job, like I resonate with the title of this video so much.

I gotta say its SO FUCK*N sad to see such an amaze franchise end up like this. From someone that had tons of fun playing SR3/SR4 i just gotta say i dont even want to do some piracy to play this game, its straight up bad.

3:00 I've probably seen this intro a dozen times watching reviews for this game and only NOW do I realize THERE'S A HOLE IN THE CAT'S GEOMETRY! A fairly large one for how small the cat is, almost deadass in the center of it's belly, and in the center 9th of the screen. Making sure you have no holes in your mesh is 3D modeling 101! If it's because it's an autogenerated LOD mesh that's even worse, what kind of crap autogen produces holey models, what kind of lazy arse doesn't check autogenerated outputs, and WHY ARE WE USING LODs FRONT AND CENTER IN A CUTSCENE IN 2020?! That's not even an "amateur hour" mistake, even amateurs don't make these mistakes just because they've at least experienced the medium before.

The LARPing could have been really fun if the boss was stoned and tripping the whole time.

The ECW transitions are a great touch

One of 4 people, what an honor? First video ive watched, good shit.

Here and found you just after Volition became a historical footnote. Great review and presentation, you have a perfect personality for this gig! I'll admit I ordered the game at release for full price and paid for the DLC expansions. I R E A L L Y wanted this to be at least good, great being unlikely...so good was acceptable. Literally from the first mission driving home my jaw was on the floor. I don't cringe easily but I can say that 80% of this game was pure cringe. Not funny, not ironic, not serious, not heartwarming, not entertaining - just glitchy, unfocused and cringy. There were a few missions that were fun and some of the business missions and side hustles were fun / original - but that's only 20% or so of the whole game and there is so much cringe to wade through to get to those little moments that I probably wont do another playthru again. The first DLC had a really cool final heist mission, but the intro and setup was a joke and it was entirely too short. Second DLC for the murder island was another decent idea that could have been REALLY fun if it wasnt served undercooked (a running & recurring theme for SR2022)- after a couple fun hours leveling it up I probably wont play it again. The third DLC....more larping...Yeah, I paid for it I guess...but I'm not going to bother.

Ironic. The Saints went to hell. Which is weird since this is the second time they have.

Ik 3 isn’t really good but you can’t deny that Oleg is fuckin dope

"I want to turn on my stove and french kiss it" I love that comment for playing this game. Anyone who plays through the entire game desirers a medal. Or maybe a real life Gat outfit.

to be honest. Neenah was the only interesting character in this game. Boss honestly felt like a weird reincarnation of Gat because he/she acted more like him than previous bosses. if they wouldve gave us actual thugs than what we got maybe i'd like it more.

It's like people have been saying, the new cast looks like some NPCs the old cast would bully and kill.

Thank you for keeping it real. Its impossible to play this game without screaming the F word I dont use anymore many hundreds of times at the screen. It has an A and GGs and a T.

I nominate we rename this to “Saints Blow”

Aight. The bravery to put fucking that fucking wizard lack-of-money gang refrence in there is worth a sub.

Great video Tyrone. I watch all your other ones, they're good too. Keep it up and the algo will pick you up. You appeared in my recommended.

Dude I was dying at the 18 minute mark 💀 Very underrated channel

Damn dude you deserve way more views/subscribers, your videos are really high quality 🔥

Some of them run outside of the mission area as well and one of the bugs that can happen during any of the big fights is your character can get Blasted through the map and all your weapons to messed up as a result

That car scene is making the Fast and the Furious series JEALOUS...

big credit for saying what you actually think about the characters. so fucking relatable

Not gonna lie, I actually liked those larping missions and dlc, not bevause they were good but because the main storyline sucked so much that I got much more invested in that whole larp subplot, they clearly tried to copy south park stick of truth except they sanitized it and made it PG

That focus group for the protagonist definitely all went to the same stsrbucks afterwards

After watching this I couldn’t agree more- the saints row reboot was a sponged down softened up take on the franchise, they nerfed out what saints row is- Saints row was a gritty, dark game mixed with humour and goofiness- just enough to keep you captivated and interested. The gameplay itself is horrific- the mass amount of bugs & the enemies themselves are essentially sponges, gun balancing is minimal, if not next to non. The graphics are disappointing. Comparing this cat to the one in stray- makes me wonder of volition was smoking crack during production. The characters in this game are mere teenage Netflix stars- that of: riverdale and others much like it. It’s a shameful game that tried to be trendy and hip, which ended up with low sales, bad scores and volition themselves now being out of business. As of writing this the game is now for free on PS4/5 as a monthly game. If that doesn’t show you how shit and disappointing this game is- I don’t know what will. For me Saints Row 3 was the last enjoyable and intruiging game- yeah there were a few blunders but the story was good, sode missions were fun & & the odd moments with piers were so iconic. I find myself replaying that than paying full price for the 2022 garbage remake

I love how much you hate Eli 😂😂😂

Funniest gaming content I’ve seen in a while, and that’s special since middle-length gaming content is probably the hardest to have an original voice in and even more so to be funny. Glad to see lesser known creators get attention and looking forward to your inevitable blow-up

The problem with the game is it was supposed to be geared for millennials that casually play video games. Us that's hardcore game legends can point out the cringe throughout the game. This is not a "Saint Row" game but "Fort Nite With A Cheesy Story". I actually heard rumor that "Gear Box" next year will be doing a sequel to this reboot.....OMG ! 🎮🕹️🎮🕹️🎮🕹️🎮🕹️

12:29 nah dog you didn't have to do Russell like that 😭. It should have been Ben Simmons

it's like if twitter's old HR department were forced to make a game about guns and murder

You’re one of the few content creators who made me audibly laugh multiple times, you’re hilarious bro

Amazing video man you need more subs asap, I made it maybe 5 minutes in and busted out laughing 3 times. “No I’m not gonna touch that, not the penis” ☠️☠️ this was awesome man. Keep doing what ur doing bro

Everything after SR2 was completly rushed and often bullshit. Speaks volumes that probably most memorable thing that happens in last decade is a musical number :/ I wish 3 and 4 were given proper content bolster in terms of curated missions in place of mandatory "optional" content. Partly because i really like Oleg and Zimos, hell even the twins could've been fun and partly because dev team probably gotten stuck in same predicament as guys who were doing Blood 2 - publisher being dicks to them and no real choice but to promote datadisc to "full" game. At its darkest we still got the dubstep / metal gun, sewer shark gun and iconic monsterously huge dildo from the two games. For the sparse good bits i am thankfull for the other bits i am well not so greatfull

I'm putting Saints Row (2022) in the same category that I put season 8 of Charmed and RoboCop 3: "Franchise Continuations That Technically Exist but That Everyone Should Ignore."

This entire review is just watching a CoD gamer pretend to be normal to appease youtube, I look forward to seeing what other stuff you've posted

Goddamn that was great, especially the money fight scene. 😆

You can also none of the devs knew spanish, because the correct spelling should have been Las Panteras and San Ileso.

12:21 developers should of left this part out 😂 good video by the way

love your reviews bro. it always makes me laugh when u re write the game way better in the course of the weeks u made this video

Brother, you're editing is on point! I love more videos from you!

The writing of this game stinks "Hello,fellow youth". And the performance/bugs stinks of development hell

These videos are so good you definitely one of my new favorite RU-vidrs