| Spade said: Saints Row is awesome, not understanding this woke shit so far that people were bitching about lol. |
Hmmm, I'm not sure how woke it is, as I skipped it. As far as I know the only things they made woke were they whole pronouns in character creator thing (the old saints row games already allowed you to make trans characters essentially by putting male voice on female body or vice versa, they just added tbe ability to change the pronoun other characters refer to you as in game afaik), and greatly shrinking the maximum breast size on the character creator relative to the old games. I haven't heard anything about the actual story being woke I don't think.
The reasons I skipped it were because a. I don't like the fact that it's all new characters, b. the game was a technical mess on release, and c. the humor in the reveal trailer and other pre-release trailers/demos seemed quite cringey to me, felt like they had abandoned the primarily millennial and Gen X fanbase of the original games to chase after gen Z gamers with gen z style humor.
I'm glad it flopped personally, as it increases the chances of Gearbox making them go back to the classic Saints Row cast. Hopefully they can nail the next game, bring back the classic cast with the reboot that Gat out of Hell setup, or do the time travel sequel that 4 setup or something.
Edit: Oh yeah, I remember now that they removed the dildo bat and renamed Freckle Bitches and Rim Jobs as well, as they were all considered to be too offensive for the modern audience. That was woke for sure.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 06 December 2022
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