Let's Talk about the new Saints Row

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Chazore said:

So I just found out that it's also EGS exclusive. Seriously, that's the third SR game they've made exclusive with Epic. Volition is straight up dead to me.

Also from the Polygon article:

“When we would talk about Saints Row 4, we would talk about how you were coming from the crack house, to the penthouse, to the White House,” Jim Boone, Volition’s chief creative officer, mused in a preview livestream two weeks ago. “By the time you’re done with Saints Row 4, you are the ruler of the galaxy. If you were to think, ‘Where would we take it from there?’ — we went to Hell and conquered that, even, right? So there truly isn’t anywhere to go past that.”

Thus, it was “a pretty easy decision for us to go back to our roots,” Boone said, and that’s how we got Saints Row — no numbering or subtitling — launching Feb. 25, 2022 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC via the Epic Games Store. In the game, players lead a cohort of Gen Z crime impresarios in the takeover of an all-new city, the corrupt, Vegas-like playground named Santo Ileso.

“So this, with it being rebooted, is a completely new story; it doesn’t fit chronologically with any of the ones that we have done,” Boone said. “We have little nods here and there to some of our previous mascots and things like that, but it is a brand new story.”

So they really are just aiming for Gen-Z's, what a shitshow.

Can't even trust an old company like Volition to make one reboot faithful and non exclusive, no, gotta play it super "non offensively" safe and also secure some free cash in case you shit the bed. The lack of a spine they have is just depressing. Thank god I won't be buying from them ever again (3 strikes rule when you deal with Epic).

Edit: I think it's safe to say the rest of the net thinks the new game is trash, going by the comments section and dislike ratio:

Wow I was on a wait and see aproach to this game. But this puts it pretty clear what their target audience is. 

I just don't get the thinking of companies abandoning the current fanbase to try and chase a group that has shown zero interest in what you done before. I guess they are thinking of star wars where the fans and the new target all watch then the fans abandon it and they keep the new young audience. Because lets be honest fans are masochist and it took a few butchering of the franchise for them to be fed up. Thats a ton of money for the companies.