[Vyse]

A great analysis video of the map development for Stilwater, showing the differences from 2003 when Saints Row was still known as Bling Bling for the PlayStation 2 with a small vertical slice of the city, to the popular Xbox 360 August demo three years later. As much as I loved GTA IV when it released, I remember first playing the Saints Row demo with a friend and it was my first taste of next-gen open world mayhem. And I also like that Stilwater was based on Midwestern cities like Chicago and Detroit. Now if only Volition would have ported the original to PC or remaster it for modern platforms.

Any Saints Row fans on D-Pad? Feel free to share your thoughts below.

 

[Kadayi]

Fascinating Doc @Grand Theft Scratchy cheers for the heads up.

 

[Boss Mog]

Interesting doc. Shame about the reboot though.

 

[Cravis]

I'm thankful we did get a remastered version of the Third. I started a play through when it came out but need to go back and finish it since they gave it a next gen upgrade.

Im anticipating the reboot to bomb so bad it kills Volition. One two punch of Agents of Mayhem and shitty Saints Row.

 

[Vyse]

Saints Row: The Third is still good. At the time, it was cool to see you and the other Saints take over a new city, playing with the different weapons and vehicles. Shaundi's redesign also looked better. Still, I would have liked if they kept the open-ended mission structure of the first two games, and wrote Dex into the story so we could meet up and kill him for a satisfying conclusion.

The series has been crap ever since Saints Row IV and Gat Out of Hell. And the fact that they cancelled Saints Row Undercover (which was set between the first two games) but went through with Agents of Mayhem made it worse. The reboot might as well be created by Ubisoft because that's what it looks like. I just pretend everything after The Third doesn't exist.

 

[Kadayi]

Saints Row: The Third is still good. At the time, it was cool to see you and the other Saints take over a new city, playing with the different weapons and vehicles. Shaundi's redesign also looked better. Still, I would have liked if they kept the open-ended mission structure of the first two games, and wrote Dex into the story so we could meet up and kill him for a satisfying conclusion.

The series has been crap ever since Saints Row IV and Gat Out of Hell. And the fact that they cancelled Saints Row Undercover (which was set between the first two games) but went through with Agents of Mayhem made it worse. The reboot might as well be created by Ubisoft because that's what it looks like. I just pretend everything after The Third doesn't exist.

I can't say I didn't enjoy IV, esp the callbacks to the earlier titles but they absolutely wrote themselves into a mess and I played all of about 2 hours of Gat out of Hell and noped the fuck out of it. I did pick up AoM on the super Cheap but haven't yet felt the need to jump in.

As for the reboot...Millennial Power Fantasy seems like Volition is 100% going to be chasing that Fortnite audience, which suggests to me that it will undoubtedly be an EGS exclusive, esp given Deep Silver are the publisher. Sad times tbh.

 

[TaySan]

Had no idea Saints Row was originally going to be a PS2 game. Going to save this video for later.

 

[Soodanim]

Might give this a watch later, thanks. The series has definitely seen some changes.

I own 3, but never played it because I heard it was a buggy mess on PC. I could always pick up the remaster. I've played 4, but stopped a good chunk of the way in (over half, probably) because it started CTDing. Never installed Gat Out Of Hell.