Its good to see some content coming out, the SDK is promising depending on how much people work on it, how many people hear about it etc. And I like seeing this new expansion to an extent. I do have some things bugging me though, and I'm super concerned about this being rushed.
Deep Silvers track record has been...unsettling to say the least. Beyond the disastrous RTH: Retribution, they also recently released Sacred 3 and Risen 3, both were a mess from what I heard. Sacred 3 is full of sex jokes (I cannot describe how much I hate these in games now) and apparently disappointed all kinds of fans of the series. Risen 3 is just... its just why? I don't get why its the third in a series, and still utterly broken.
There's also the Metro series they bought, and that looks compelling, but it was a purchase, and I have no clue if they helped development other than keep the team afloat to work on the project, which thankfully turned out well. Dead Island is a Deep Silver franchise I've actually played, and its just like... I like it, but the series so far is a complete mess, and for some reason they are making a MOBA, which does not seem to look good so far.
Deep Silver may secretly be good, and might prove they can hold their own by releasing good games (I have no clue about Dead Island 2), but so far, there's a lot of negative stuff associated with them, and I hope that doesn't carry over to Saints Row.
Saints Row 4 was generally, Ill be honest great, or at least the ideas behind it, mostly. I've played A LOT of it, somehow, so they are definitely doing things right, especially with me being excited enough to preorder. But I feel Good Game's review was the most affecting for me (they are an Australian tv show, very popular here), it highlighted what was good, but some parts of it struggled.
A horrible experience for me was the censorship, it was just, oh my god. I luckily (somehow) was given the uncensored version on steam, but the delay, I hated that so much. I HATED THE DELAY, waiting an entire month beyond everyone else to play something I was super excited for was just agony, ruined half of the game experience for me.
I felt really good about how satisfying a lot of it was, despite some nitpicking (freaking Philipe Loren underused again!). But the dlc, oh my god that was just awful, Enter the Dominatrix was just so disappointing, and it ruined my interpretation of the boss (temporarily thank goodness). I do not want to be teased about good things and then be given rubbish, and the rest of the dlc, gosh darn it. Buggy clipping one piece clothes are now my hatred.
OKAY so things haven't been perfect, my hope, was with Saints Row 4 selling so well, they would have a large enough budget to TAKE THEIR TIME making their new project, saints row not saints row I didn't care, as long as my personal preference of very customizable characters was fulfilled. Along with all these other fantasies I had on there being another game.
But then Volition announced they would reveal something at Pax, my first thought was, that was quick...their not rushing the development are they? I heard about it being an expansion, about its setting and characters, how my female boss will still have the exact same cutscene animation and deformity as in the previous game. I like the look of it in general to be honest, but I'm so hesitant, as I want to avoid disappointment.
I'm also not sure this is the kind of expansion I wanted, I wanted the pc version to be shined up, stop the FREAKING CLOTHING CLIPPING, smooth out animations, upgrade all the textures, add the ability to personalize your boss in the story a little, and not have them be an idiot with everyone CLEARLY being smarter.
I was unsure what I wanted with the open world, but here is the thing, all the main missions in saints row are great, except they aren't in the open world itself, that just sucked so much. I don't want these locations to all have so much effort into them, only for them to never be used again, or not be integrated into one location. This could have made Steelport not suck, have interiors, interesting locations, everything everyone wishes it had.
So new open world? Hopefully its better and more detailed, size doesn't matter since navigation is at a different pace, play as Gat or Kinsie? Gat is meh, I hate Kinsie IN RELATION to her conversations with the boss, but playing as her doesn't seem bad. Personally not the characters I would have wanted to be (In particular I like Asha and Shaundi). But not being able to play as the boss just ruins a lot of stuff for me, especially customization. (Oh and everyone still wears the boring space suits, yay nitpicking!). Also, its the worst thing in a game about customization to have all the npcs have better outfits than you. I'm jealous of Shaundi and Ashas outfits, and then with the Christmas dlc, Shaundi got a cool looking bionic makeover, and the boss? A buggy ugly sweater that doesn't fit in at all with how I want my female character to look, fun!
They also announced a revamped SR4 for next gen, and that damn well better be on pc in some shape or form! Saints Row 4 has an art style I like, so just increase the draw distance, make good lighting, make more npcs (oh god PLEASE make new npcs for once! And no not just generic demon ones you use once and never again), improve anti aliasing, improve player characters, and just make their cutscene animation not suck if you play as anyone except the default male!
Its great to see dedication and passion coming from this team and the modding community, but I'm of sick of having to hope for things, and never get them.
I really wished Volition didn't reveal anything for a while, and have long development cycle on their next project. I would rather have one amazing thing in the future rather than average/disappointing things within short development time from each other.
I'm probably going to buy this, I just reaally hope its good.
Wow this was a big rant.
Deep Silvers track record has been...unsettling to say the least. Beyond the disastrous RTH: Retribution, they also recently released Sacred 3 and Risen 3, both were a mess from what I heard. Sacred 3 is full of sex jokes (I cannot describe how much I hate these in games now) and apparently disappointed all kinds of fans of the series. Risen 3 is just... its just why? I don't get why its the third in a series, and still utterly broken.
There's also the Metro series they bought, and that looks compelling, but it was a purchase, and I have no clue if they helped development other than keep the team afloat to work on the project, which thankfully turned out well. Dead Island is a Deep Silver franchise I've actually played, and its just like... I like it, but the series so far is a complete mess, and for some reason they are making a MOBA, which does not seem to look good so far.
Deep Silver may secretly be good, and might prove they can hold their own by releasing good games (I have no clue about Dead Island 2), but so far, there's a lot of negative stuff associated with them, and I hope that doesn't carry over to Saints Row.
Saints Row 4 was generally, Ill be honest great, or at least the ideas behind it, mostly. I've played A LOT of it, somehow, so they are definitely doing things right, especially with me being excited enough to preorder. But I feel Good Game's review was the most affecting for me (they are an Australian tv show, very popular here), it highlighted what was good, but some parts of it struggled.
A horrible experience for me was the censorship, it was just, oh my god. I luckily (somehow) was given the uncensored version on steam, but the delay, I hated that so much. I HATED THE DELAY, waiting an entire month beyond everyone else to play something I was super excited for was just agony, ruined half of the game experience for me.
I felt really good about how satisfying a lot of it was, despite some nitpicking (freaking Philipe Loren underused again!). But the dlc, oh my god that was just awful, Enter the Dominatrix was just so disappointing, and it ruined my interpretation of the boss (temporarily thank goodness). I do not want to be teased about good things and then be given rubbish, and the rest of the dlc, gosh darn it. Buggy clipping one piece clothes are now my hatred.
OKAY so things haven't been perfect, my hope, was with Saints Row 4 selling so well, they would have a large enough budget to TAKE THEIR TIME making their new project, saints row not saints row I didn't care, as long as my personal preference of very customizable characters was fulfilled. Along with all these other fantasies I had on there being another game.
But then Volition announced they would reveal something at Pax, my first thought was, that was quick...their not rushing the development are they? I heard about it being an expansion, about its setting and characters, how my female boss will still have the exact same cutscene animation and deformity as in the previous game. I like the look of it in general to be honest, but I'm so hesitant, as I want to avoid disappointment.
I'm also not sure this is the kind of expansion I wanted, I wanted the pc version to be shined up, stop the FREAKING CLOTHING CLIPPING, smooth out animations, upgrade all the textures, add the ability to personalize your boss in the story a little, and not have them be an idiot with everyone CLEARLY being smarter.
I was unsure what I wanted with the open world, but here is the thing, all the main missions in saints row are great, except they aren't in the open world itself, that just sucked so much. I don't want these locations to all have so much effort into them, only for them to never be used again, or not be integrated into one location. This could have made Steelport not suck, have interiors, interesting locations, everything everyone wishes it had.
So new open world? Hopefully its better and more detailed, size doesn't matter since navigation is at a different pace, play as Gat or Kinsie? Gat is meh, I hate Kinsie IN RELATION to her conversations with the boss, but playing as her doesn't seem bad. Personally not the characters I would have wanted to be (In particular I like Asha and Shaundi). But not being able to play as the boss just ruins a lot of stuff for me, especially customization. (Oh and everyone still wears the boring space suits, yay nitpicking!). Also, its the worst thing in a game about customization to have all the npcs have better outfits than you. I'm jealous of Shaundi and Ashas outfits, and then with the Christmas dlc, Shaundi got a cool looking bionic makeover, and the boss? A buggy ugly sweater that doesn't fit in at all with how I want my female character to look, fun!
They also announced a revamped SR4 for next gen, and that damn well better be on pc in some shape or form! Saints Row 4 has an art style I like, so just increase the draw distance, make good lighting, make more npcs (oh god PLEASE make new npcs for once! And no not just generic demon ones you use once and never again), improve anti aliasing, improve player characters, and just make their cutscene animation not suck if you play as anyone except the default male!
Its great to see dedication and passion coming from this team and the modding community, but I'm of sick of having to hope for things, and never get them.
I really wished Volition didn't reveal anything for a while, and have long development cycle on their next project. I would rather have one amazing thing in the future rather than average/disappointing things within short development time from each other.
I'm probably going to buy this, I just reaally hope its good.
Wow this was a big rant.
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