What scares me the most at this point is this, since Saints Row 2 basically, Saints row lost more features with each release, less, clothing, less customization, less weapons, less of everything. My biggest fear right now with the new game is, are we still going to have character customization, are we still going to have most if not everything (aside from our own character) from SR3 and 4 in this one? I mean, we can't have character customization when you're playing as a set character in the franchise, to me it feels like a really off way of dropping yet another feature. Character customization, heck generally speaking, customization makes a game great. Saints Row4 pushed it with removing items and vehicles as it is since Saints Row 3, and if this one is going to remove major features like character customization, then I'll pass on this one and keep playing Saints Row 3 and 4.
I feel one shouldn't ever remove features from a game, it is a bad idea to begin with, adding is nice, I can understand when a game is moving to a new game engine, but so far, Saints Row 3, Saints Row 4, and Gat out of hell looks exactly the same, game engine wise, thus far from what I could make out of the trailer, that aside, it is a cool idea, don't get me wrong, but I feel this is going even further down the path of running this fun franchise into the ground, I play SR, because at least in this one, I'm given some free will and some great customization to play the game my way, unlike games such as GTA, where customization isn't even quarter way on the same level as Saints Row. I can play the game my way, that is what I like about it.
That being said, for example, looking at the items you had for instance in Saints Row 3, were or removed, or forced into a non-customizable item in Saints Row 4, it really puts me off seeing less and less, and yet we're still to expect the same standard for each game. I love these games, but they're being stripped after each release more and more, and I feel it really needs to stop removing content, and instead add upon what is already done.
Don't mean to be rude, Saints Row is by far the coolest damn free roam game I've played in a while, that isn't set in medieval times or a distant future.