Another thing is, in my SR experience, the game is meant to satirize and poke fun but still genuinely good. This game is only funny because it's shit not because it's making fun of shit
The fact that they were scared to call a shop in the game "Rim Jobs" Even though it's SAINTS ROW and In the 2nd game had a second hand store called Sloppy Seconds.....this is such a Weenie ass game
I'm pretty sure Sloppy Seconds was in the first game, along with Rim Jobs and Freckle Bitches. They also had a drive thru confessional called Forgive and Forget that became a scientology parody in SR2!
@BardiX Official lots of Hispanic names have Arabic origins you should look into shit before you complain for no reason... raul... I mean like come on its obvious.
I remember someone saying “these Saints look like people the old Saints would bully.” After screenshots of the characters were first posted a couple months back. Man they were so right.
To be honest, the worst part is that you have a fucking meter that needs to be filled before you can do takedowns, when one of the funnest things about the last three games was the ability to do the most outrageous melee takedowns freely on enemies. A shame honestly.
A Saints Row game where "rimjobs" is too "offensive" to be mentioned, is like a GTA game where the cops don't try to murder you if you steal a candy bar.
@@evanblake5252 Almost everyone who made the old GTA games what they were are long gone from Rockstar, even the main writer since GTA Vice City. If GTA Online is any hint of modern rockstar dev mentality, it would be foolish to expect anything but steaming manure.
I absolutely hate the trend of making absolutely unlikeable and quirky characters in modern games. Especially when it betrays what made the older games so likable. BF 2042 tried it and it is a soulless shell of its former self, now the same has happened to this dumpster fire. Don’t take yourself too seriously but “CaN yOu PuT tHaT iN mY pErFoRmAnCe ReViEw?” In the middle of a gunfight is absolutely cringe in its purest form.
The fact they have the option & then didn't hit up at least some free music libraries or hell, even some music from the `2Øs or something... I guess they had YT streamers in mind?
yea what i also didn’t like is how useless the ps5 version is because there’s literally no haptics or adaptive triggers. like did they forget to make it next gen?
@@ryanreylondsthesecond2796 I’m pretty sure they made next gen as an after thought. Plus the so-called “haptic feedback” options are currently broken when you try to switch it on it would also switch on inverted movement controls. This game is completely rushed and lacks polish
27:48 "why does everyone want to die in this city?!" I mean... if I was an NPC stuck in this hellish excuse for a game, I'd certainly be looking for a way to off myself too
Crazy to think that in SR4 we literally had superpowers and were fighting aliens with dildo baseball bats, and in this game we're paying off student loans lmao
This is the problem with so many TV shows, movies, games today - writers lack the depth or imagination to write anything but self-insert characters. And since they typically spend half their waking life on Twitter, this is what they insert.
Problem is, people complained about that going too crazy from SR2. Now this one went to far off the wrong way. People are gonna be angry regardless anymore it seems.
“I’m just trying to be part of a private military sector so I can pay off my student loans! Are we gonna make rent?!” Such ridiculous writing. They’re criminals who steal and make a shitload of cash, and they’re talking about making rent like it’s soooo totally relatable to the current generation. I cringe so hard hearing the dialogue that my anus collapses in on itself like a neutron star.
It would actually be hilarious if it wasnt terribly written. Like, theres something golden about hardened criminals just tryna make ends meat. Like rome in fast and the furious.
There could be something funny there as satire; that even hardened big criminals can't escape the all consuming hole of privatization and rent, similar to how in Robocop corporations having control over the justice system for a dollar. But like in Robocop it requires a lot of cleverness, wit and soul in the writing to make it work: something the writers for this game evidently lack.
Blackwater mercs apparently make $9k a month. It might have worked if they made it a kind of dystopian cyber-city, where life is cheap and death is common, but then they wouldn't be making a Saint's Row game and these annoying brats still wouldn't fit in.
The thing about Saints Row... the story WAS meant to be serious with some wacky under/overtones, and surrounded by side content that was just downright insane. The Devs seem to have forgotten that after Saints Row 2 and just leaned almost all in on the "wacky" side of it without having the seriousness to balance it out.
The tonal shift between the second and third game is really noticeable and even though the third was fun, it started the series trend of trying to cram every over powered weapon and raunchy joke in the following games effectively leaving no room for sequels because they overstimulated their audience. Honestly, they could have brought back the series with the reboot if they took inspiration from the first two games and put a new creative spin on it
@@telecentric2103 i do agree...but i will say, it's not sr3 as a whole to blame, i'd say that it was that one mission where you have temporary powers that is the big culprit. along w/ the humor of that mission, it directly contributed to sr4 existing. even then, sr4 had at least a small bit to like about it compared to this game, which i wouldn't even call it a saints row game.
none of the devs of this were devs of any previous saints projects or any AAA release ever. everyone in charge of this only made mobile games prior to this
SR2 was the perfect amount of goofy and serious, and definitely the only game out of them that was a serious GTA competitor. 3 and 4 felt like they were written by a teenager with unmedicated ADHD, fun but pure cringefests
This is what happens when the creatives get abused by greedy corpo scum, forcing them to leave the business. The empty soul of the original art is used like a flesh mask on a mentally ill sociopath trying to emulate the original idea while completely missing the topic. Unfortunately, the market is so saturated with extremely stupid people and small children that they can make anything and be successful as long as they avoid too much negative press. Long story short, Charlie is doing the opposite to help stop this by showing the game and promoting it, even just by criticizing it. If you want this shit to stop, don't talk about the game, don't buy it, and don't acknowledge it's existence.
I cant believe that I was worrying about the "wokeness" of the game. I should've worried more about the actual gameplay. Not to mention how bad the graphics are, I legit thought Charlie was playing at the lowest possible graphics settings.
Saint-Row 1: mostly serious satyre/rip-off of GTA San-Andreas, serious story, serious universe Saint-Row 2: satyre of the GTA franchise with humour focusing on over-the-top action and gap between serious scenes and it's absurde/cartoony universe saint-row 3: parody of itself, family guy type of "ahaha funny", filled with references, everyone is a cartoon character living in a cartoon world saint-row 4: parody of a parody of it's own-franchise, ahah dildos and funny BDSM jokes, everyone is a cartoon character, gave-up any ambitions of building a serious world i can't even begin to imagine what saint-row 5 would be
Maybe the High Point of this turd is going to be the Multiplayer...? Maybe the Community can prevent Speeding and Cussin' in Game and make this town a reasonable and legit Diverse Safe Space?
I knew the writing would be trash as soon as I read some interview where the devs complained that the old Saints were "too mean-spirited" or some crap like that. These people shouldn't have been in charge of rebooting Saints Row, they don't even like the kind of tone or attitude that is core to a video game series all about organized criminals.
Idk what they expected when their entire story line involves rival gangs, drugs and strippers.. at that point, you may as well go all out. Not take away from it. Idiots
I actually would've given a shit if the game was just well-made "College students join a gang to pay off their loans" sounds funny enough. But they forget to make the game fun, the characters likable, and polish the graphics and animation
I played the entire game and the "there's no music" claim is active throughout the ENTIRETY of the game, even with DMCA music on, I've counted only 4 or 5 missions where there was music Remember in SR3 you jumped out of a skyscraper while blasting Power by Kanye West? Yeah the only music you get here is 4 80's tracks and 1 actual game song and that's it, they completely forgot to add music
The comedic timing of Charlie making comments only to immediately be proved wrong by AI Kevin is great. Also, the police car missing that turn and the two monster truck incidents had me crying
I feel bad for this series. I grew up with it, and it's a real shame seeying how it became the very thing it swore to be different from. Saints Row wasn't the equivalent of The Pepsi of the GTA-like games, it tried to be different. Now it's just like the others.
It feels like one of those made with Unity, obscure, zero download games. The camera, models, lighting and more is worse than my very shitty self made 3D games in pygame xD
"Hey team, we're making a new Saints Row! Remember how we made GTA clones, until we said fuck it and made a bonkers game with aliens and the matrix and superpowers and everyobody loved it? Well get excited, because we're making a GTA clone! A really bad one!" -Real quote from very smart man at Deep Silver offices.
Oh no, SR3 and 4 were not loved as much as you think. Many people were upset that the series went off the wall. While 4 has seen some more love as the years go by anyone that loves the first two games just, want to see the series return to it's routes. And this game is not that.
Saints Row was always shit and I feel like the developers thought the same thing and embraced it. Still fun for a couple of minutes, it's like a gta mod.
In the old games there would've probably been a mission where you deal with an imposter gang and it's these chucklefucks. And Gat or Pierce or somebody would ask, "Yo, do we really sound like this?" Followed by the cockney accented reply, being, "maybe we do, but at least we can back it the fuck up."
I'm not surprised that it's bad at all, I'm more so surprised an angered by how little it even resembles a Saints Row game. Literally nothing about the plot, characters, setting, or humor feels like the earlier SR games. If the gameplay were dogshit but they at least got the world/tone right I'd be less upset, but this isn't a Saints Row game outside of the branding and minor lip service. Hell, the fact they changed jokes after being *afraid to upset anyone* just shows how out of touch they are with the series.
The sight of Charlie driving his car right underneath a monster truck followed by him standing amongst his flattened vehicle like nothing happened just about broke me.
This series had a DLC weapon that literally shoves a probe up someone's ass until they die from it... Yet the words "Rim Jobs" was too offensive to be in this game?
Its not like we did not see it coming... 1. Insulting fans 2. Ignoring actual feedback and criticism 3. Consulting an activist for the game 4.Censorship 5.Bugs 6.Terrible writing and characters 7.Reboot
Not only does the game feel like a game Saints Row would have made fun of ten years ago. It actively DID. This exact plotline is something the old games actually made fun of. It's weird how the old games kind of predicted this one's decline
You know what's the kicker? I was talking with a friend about characters, and discussion went towards Kevin. Me: "He's this shirtless dude who keeps talking about gym and other crap" Friend: "So kind of like Brucie?" Brucie in question was Brucie Kibbutz from GTA 4. And then, it hit me. Brucie was a parody. Kevin is supposed to be legit.
@@couchman-sw6jy no. cant compare this to saints row at all. this is not saints row. a completely different game with saints rows name attached to it to build hype for this wack garbage
I watched an interview with Tony Hawk on his skating games. He was talking about how he makes “real” money when his games hit “classic” and drop down to $20 a game. This game could be a way to drive sales of the MULTIPLE games they have in classics (whether intentional or not).
Ah, the same strategy automakers use in the US to justify not selling wagons in the USA, and the strategy Nintendo uses to justify not making games with non A-list IPs
the moment I saw the studio and some rag publications talk about how positively "inclusive" and "diverse" this game was I knew it was going to be trash. Those buzzwords are red flags at this point. Flags signifying that they put out a stinker, they know they put out a stinker, and they need to find SOMETHING to cover up the smell a little.
@@gohanlopez5330 nah its not so much that really its just that when I see that stuff I get ghostbusters reboot vibes. Like they know they put out a stinker and they're trying to cover up the smell by getting moralizing terminally online twitter folk to go to the mat for it.
I love how the developers thought turning to a life of bloodshed and crime was relatable just because the characters are doing it to pay student loans. I can't believe they thought these people would be likeable
You can have make awful people relatable on some level, but this definitely isn't it. The biggest issue is the fact that they all talk like Big Bang Theory characters and obviously despise one another. Maybe if they actually talked with one another and did shit because they thought it'd be fun they wouldn't be so despised. Take the waffle maker scene as an example. It's just a bunch of petty assholes insulting one another and acting like absolute cheapskates over a fucking waffle maker. Why are they even insulting one another and refusing to toss in money for a waffle maker? Why the fuck are they even buying one? They're criminals. Just have them shoplift one together.
@@kingtut5520 Okay thank God I wasn't the only one confused by the waffle maker scene. It didn't make sense at all. They're all so casual about stealing cars and killing people (and don't believe in doing business with "morally corrupt corporations" such as Marshall's) but we definitely need to legally buy a $300 waffle maker? Sure I guess. Just makes the characters motivations confusing and make them unrelatable.
I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in forever. Especially just the driving sections where all the AI just caused crashes, went off the road, or that part where they committed suicide with the monster truck completely unrelated to what the player was doing
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
I love how they thought the word Rimjobs might offend someone, but killing people by the thousands is absolutely fine. Not only is the game not finished, i don't even think the people that made it are finished... brain wise.
It reminds me when Borderlands changed midgets to tinks in Borderlands 3. It was a *completely* unnecessary change that offended absolutely nobody to begin with.
I remember how I used to love to play saints row w my brothers on our living room console the lag was beautiful I couldn’t tell you how many times the bikes would transcend through the buildings and take you to a different empty rectangle dimension
Back in Saints 3, my favorite thing to do was to drive to the airport and blast danger zone over the ingame music … I’d fly to my objective like it was it’s own mini mission to me every part of that game was fun
7:10 Am I the only person that thought. “You’re criminals! Why do you need to pay back your loans?” When this game came out. Since, that’s the whole motivation for the story.
The old saints row games would mock this new game. It’s so sad how we went from upcoming new saints gang member, trying to take back stilwater and revenging Aisha, getting revenge for Johnny and taking over this new city filled with crazy new mechanics and missions, becoming President but fighting off aliens, shooting Satan in the face. To what paying student loans? The Boss and Johnny would tag team beating these new saints to the ground. Disgusting.
bro the new saints barely got alive robbing a country side bank for a small payoff while the OG saints get asked for autograph while robbing a major rival gang bank and almost went away with a whole ass vault chamber
Whoever decided that this voice was good enough to add to this game should never be allowed to work on anything other than a silent film for the rest of their career.
God, I’m glad none of the old characters are in this piece of shit game. The disrespect that would’ve been done to them is something I don’t want to think about.
"This is like the game Saints Row would have made fun ago ten years ago" It seems inevitable for just about every single Triple-A developer. Rise to power, fall farther than you ever climbed.
This game is not made by anyone that made the original games. It's literally a rip off by corpo scum executives that are so extremely disconnected from reality they didn't realize the franchise was satire.
Idk why he didnt notice this but its for low end PCs who cant render things super fast. Which idk why a low end PC should be running this game if it cant even run on a high end one BUT oh well im just a gamer what do i know
Saint's Row (2006): I need to get jumped into a street gang so I can be protected in my neighborhood from all the other street gangs who are at war. I'll have to kill people, traffick drugs, and commit other abhorrent acts to survive. Saint's Row (2022): I'm just a quirky kid looking to get involved in that always wacky street crime so I can pay my student loans and achieve my dreams of being a chef. Just like all the other average inner-city gangsters. This is what happens when you ask a Fortnite kid to make a GTA rip-off.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
@@tucomeslculo yeah, even the worst of reddit still have more of a back bone than this game made for literal tumblristas and people who unironically call themselves anarcho communist on twitter.
@@nabs7741 because 4 was literally created as DLC for Saints Row 3 and was just made into its own game because the DLC was big enough to be sold as one. This is common knowledge about the game dude
I remember trying the character creator demo for this and wondering how the hell they managed to make a bunch of options completely worthless. Like there's like 10 faces you can switch between parts of and then barely adjust with sliders, but none of them work unless they're alongside the other pieces of that same face, and only one face really fit the head itself, so it was basically just a waste of a customiser unless you wanted to make your character look intentionally horrific. Lol, the original Saints were borderline unhinged, all of them. These ones look like if someone hit their car they'd angrily post about it on twitter and do nothing else.
The boss put radioactive waste in Maeros tattoo ink so it would burn his face. Then put maeros girlfriend in the trunk of a car at his monster truck rally. Meaning Maero crushed his own girlfriend to death. the boss then chucks him the keys and says "should have offered more than 30%". BADASS.
I won't lie, I didn't have that issue and managed to really make some nice looking characters in the Demo; but it was insanely limited for what they promised.
@@raymondkubiak1044 Was that with the male character mostly? Because I realised I didn't actually end up trying that side much after just starting to screw around and make monsters. I know i may have exaggerated about them all being useless, but the main issue with most of the face parts was that they were like 20% deeper or wider than each other resulting in them looking like some weird glued on clay blob rather than facial features. The old games weren't exactly perfect, but they were leagues better than this.
@@TuffMelon oh nah it was still Mid at best, I fucked around with the Male first as I tend to always play male, then female in games with character customization. The female side of things deff highlighted the shortcomings for me, as all the faces seemed to be just slight edits of one another. Tbh I always am let down when devs claim “ground breaking customization!” And it is just sliders. I think, even though it was a pretty mid game; Fallout 4 ACTUALLY had a very in depth system where you can make basically anything. I 100% agree that each option was just a bit wider or narrower but; I tend to spend an obnoxious amount of time fiddling due to OCD and my love for making decent looking characters.
Its entirely possible in current year. Like Arthur Morgan said. "This...this is over." All the real talent is long gone, now the hacks "learned to code."
Johnny Gat: Literally on death row for a murder count so high it would make Ted Bundy scared, yet laughs in the face the judge and escapes his sentence in a firefight to build up his gang once again to gain back his street cred, respect, and city with his psychotic boss. SR 2022 Boss: I’ve gotta pay my student loans, so here I go to crime city!
Now that's just unfair, how could you compare anyone to Gat? He's Johnny mother fucking Gat. Compare them to the boss. Who gets their ass kicked and gets rescued by a member of the saints. Not as cool as Gat, but still more interesting than the new boss.
Judge: Mr. Gat you've been convicted of over 300 murders do you really expect this appeal to work? Johnny Gat: I'd figure with the Statute of Limitations it should really be closer to 250. Judge: There is no Statute of Limitations for murder! Johnny Gat: Why the fuck not? Judge: Watch yourself Mr. Gat. Johnny Gat: Or what? You'll hold me attempt to court? You're already planning on giving me the chair; You think I give a shit about you not liking me? Fuck off. Judge: I'm curious if you can keep your cavalry attitude with two thousand volts are running through your body. Johnny Gat: Oh yeah? And I'm wondering if you can keep acting like a douchebag when I shove that gabble up your ass.
@@arcanefire7511 A bunch of zoomers robbing and murdering thousands of people because they need to pay their loans and working is for capitalist losers is so much more relatable.
I found a better solution: You just pirate the game, bypass the launcher entirely. It also fixes a bug where $60 suddenly go missing from your RL bank account.
@@eddiebell9486 honestly, i was sceptical cause of all the people bashing on it. But after playing for 2 hours. I really got into it and honestly, I am enjoying myself.
The car physics are crazy too. Its def fun to drive in this game. They had everything right to make a good game they just handed off the script to some kid in the bay area
Some things are better left alone than strung along by soulless corporate execs for a quick buck. The way I feel about SR is the same with Halo after Bungie closed the book on it with Halo Reach, its legacy should've been left alone instead of transformed into something unrecognizable. You see this happening with a lot of tv/movies/books being rebooted or adapted as well to be "brought up to modern standards," the result is you get amateur schlock seemingly made by people with no actual experience writing and directing quality movies only to be defended by the most fringe communities on Reddit/Twitter. If you go to the SR Reddit you will find people saying "If Volition goes bankrupt, it's bad for all of us"... No, if they go bankrupt it's literally the result of them driving their only good franchise into the dirt for years.
It's amazing how much this game misses the spirit of the originals. Better off making it an entirely unrelated game with a new name and no connection to the franchise.
Good thing I won't buy this game thanks to review from gamer like our man , skill up and so on. Those writer behave like far right idiots since they don't know how to write proper story and character development.
@@kanthanesankandiah760 Are you serious? They outspokenly decided to be on the opposite of what you claim, all i can say is "it hurts itself in it's confusion!"
One of the main reason why I enjoy Saints Row 2 so much is the same reason why I enjoy the Yakuza series: the main narrative and story takes itself seriously with all the drama and action, while the side missions and stories are all light-hearted and shows off the game’s goofy side. And unfortunately seems like Volition decided to go all goofy. Sure, goofiness is nice but we need some down-to-earth sections to get players relaxed inbetween missions.
SR3 and 4 still felt like they had a good balance between goofy and serious, SR4 moreso but the simulation part opened up a lot of the possibilities to be as goofy as they want, and honestly it really did suit the game because there was still a story to be told. they just wrote themselves into a corner...
