I remember someone saying “these Saints look like people the old Saints would bully.” After screenshots of the characters were first posted a couple months back. Man they were so right.
To be honest, the worst part is that you have a fucking meter that needs to be filled before you can do takedowns, when one of the funnest things about the last three games was the ability to do the most outrageous melee takedowns freely on enemies. A shame honestly.
The fact that they were scared to call a shop in the game "Rim Jobs" Even though it's SAINTS ROW and In the 2nd game had a second hand store called Sloppy Seconds.....this is such a Weenie ass game
I'm pretty sure Sloppy Seconds was in the first game, along with Rim Jobs and Freckle Bitches. They also had a drive thru confessional called Forgive and Forget that became a scientology parody in SR2!
Another thing is, in my SR experience, the game is meant to satirize and poke fun but still genuinely good. This game is only funny because it's shit not because it's making fun of shit
The fact they have the option & then didn't hit up at least some free music libraries or hell, even some music from the `2Øs or something... I guess they had YT streamers in mind?
yea what i also didn’t like is how useless the ps5 version is because there’s literally no haptics or adaptive triggers. like did they forget to make it next gen?
@@ryanreylondsthesecond2796 I’m pretty sure they made next gen as an after thought. Plus the so-called “haptic feedback” options are currently broken when you try to switch it on it would also switch on inverted movement controls. This game is completely rushed and lacks polish
I absolutely hate the trend of making absolutely unlikeable and quirky characters in modern games. Especially when it betrays what made the older games so likable. BF 2042 tried it and it is a soulless shell of its former self, now the same has happened to this dumpster fire. Don’t take yourself too seriously but “CaN yOu PuT tHaT iN mY pErFoRmAnCe ReViEw?” In the middle of a gunfight is absolutely cringe in its purest form.
Crazy to think that in SR4 we literally had superpowers and were fighting aliens with dildo baseball bats, and in this game we're paying off student loans lmao
This is the problem with so many TV shows, movies, games today - writers lack the depth or imagination to write anything but self-insert characters. And since they typically spend half their waking life on Twitter, this is what they insert.
Problem is, people complained about that going too crazy from SR2. Now this one went to far off the wrong way. People are gonna be angry regardless anymore it seems.
I played the entire game and the "there's no music" claim is active throughout the ENTIRETY of the game, even with DMCA music on, I've counted only 4 or 5 missions where there was music Remember in SR3 you jumped out of a skyscraper while blasting Power by Kanye West? Yeah the only music you get here is 4 80's tracks and 1 actual game song and that's it, they completely forgot to add music
@BardiX Official lots of Hispanic names have Arabic origins you should look into shit before you complain for no reason... raul... I mean like come on its obvious.
I knew the writing would be trash as soon as I read some interview where the devs complained that the old Saints were "too mean-spirited" or some crap like that. These people shouldn't have been in charge of rebooting Saints Row, they don't even like the kind of tone or attitude that is core to a video game series all about organized criminals.
Idk what they expected when their entire story line involves rival gangs, drugs and strippers.. at that point, you may as well go all out. Not take away from it. Idiots
Maybe the High Point of this turd is going to be the Multiplayer...? Maybe the Community can prevent Speeding and Cussin' in Game and make this town a reasonable and legit Diverse Safe Space?
A Saints Row game where "rimjobs" is too "offensive" to be mentioned, is like a GTA game where the cops don't try to murder you if you steal a candy bar.
@@evanblake5252 Almost everyone who made the old GTA games what they were are long gone from Rockstar, even the main writer since GTA Vice City. If GTA Online is any hint of modern rockstar dev mentality, it would be foolish to expect anything but steaming manure.
Not only does the game feel like a game Saints Row would have made fun of ten years ago. It actively DID. This exact plotline is something the old games actually made fun of. It's weird how the old games kind of predicted this one's decline
You know what's the kicker? I was talking with a friend about characters, and discussion went towards Kevin. Me: "He's this shirtless dude who keeps talking about gym and other crap" Friend: "So kind of like Brucie?" Brucie in question was Brucie Kibbutz from GTA 4. And then, it hit me. Brucie was a parody. Kevin is supposed to be legit.
@@couchman-sw6jy no. cant compare this to saints row at all. this is not saints row. a completely different game with saints rows name attached to it to build hype for this wack garbage
This is what happens when the creatives get abused by greedy corpo scum, forcing them to leave the business. The empty soul of the original art is used like a flesh mask on a mentally ill sociopath trying to emulate the original idea while completely missing the topic. Unfortunately, the market is so saturated with extremely stupid people and small children that they can make anything and be successful as long as they avoid too much negative press. Long story short, Charlie is doing the opposite to help stop this by showing the game and promoting it, even just by criticizing it. If you want this shit to stop, don't talk about the game, don't buy it, and don't acknowledge it's existence.
I cant believe that I was worrying about the "wokeness" of the game. I should've worried more about the actual gameplay. Not to mention how bad the graphics are, I legit thought Charlie was playing at the lowest possible graphics settings.
Saint-Row 1: mostly serious satyre/rip-off of GTA San-Andreas, serious story, serious universe Saint-Row 2: satyre of the GTA franchise with humour focusing on over-the-top action and gap between serious scenes and it's absurde/cartoony universe saint-row 3: parody of itself, family guy type of "ahaha funny", filled with references, everyone is a cartoon character living in a cartoon world saint-row 4: parody of a parody of it's own-franchise, ahah dildos and funny BDSM jokes, everyone is a cartoon character, gave-up any ambitions of building a serious world i can't even begin to imagine what saint-row 5 would be
I feel bad for this series. I grew up with it, and it's a real shame seeying how it became the very thing it swore to be different from. Saints Row wasn't the equivalent of The Pepsi of the GTA-like games, it tried to be different. Now it's just like the others.
It feels like one of those made with Unity, obscure, zero download games. The camera, models, lighting and more is worse than my very shitty self made 3D games in pygame xD
"Hey team, we're making a new Saints Row! Remember how we made GTA clones, until we said fuck it and made a bonkers game with aliens and the matrix and superpowers and everyobody loved it? Well get excited, because we're making a GTA clone! A really bad one!" -Real quote from very smart man at Deep Silver offices.
Oh no, SR3 and 4 were not loved as much as you think. Many people were upset that the series went off the wall. While 4 has seen some more love as the years go by anyone that loves the first two games just, want to see the series return to it's routes. And this game is not that.
Saints Row was always shit and I feel like the developers thought the same thing and embraced it. Still fun for a couple of minutes, it's like a gta mod.
27:48 "why does everyone want to die in this city?!" I mean... if I was an NPC stuck in this hellish excuse for a game, I'd certainly be looking for a way to off myself too
The sight of Charlie driving his car right underneath a monster truck followed by him standing amongst his flattened vehicle like nothing happened just about broke me.
I love how the developers thought turning to a life of bloodshed and crime was relatable just because the characters are doing it to pay student loans. I can't believe they thought these people would be likeable
You can have make awful people relatable on some level, but this definitely isn't it. The biggest issue is the fact that they all talk like Big Bang Theory characters and obviously despise one another. Maybe if they actually talked with one another and did shit because they thought it'd be fun they wouldn't be so despised. Take the waffle maker scene as an example. It's just a bunch of petty assholes insulting one another and acting like absolute cheapskates over a fucking waffle maker. Why are they even insulting one another and refusing to toss in money for a waffle maker? Why the fuck are they even buying one? They're criminals. Just have them shoplift one together.
@@kingtut5520 Okay thank God I wasn't the only one confused by the waffle maker scene. It didn't make sense at all. They're all so casual about stealing cars and killing people (and don't believe in doing business with "morally corrupt corporations" such as Marshall's) but we definitely need to legally buy a $300 waffle maker? Sure I guess. Just makes the characters motivations confusing and make them unrelatable.
I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in forever. Especially just the driving sections where all the AI just caused crashes, went off the road, or that part where they committed suicide with the monster truck completely unrelated to what the player was doing
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
In the old games there would've probably been a mission where you deal with an imposter gang and it's these chucklefucks. And Gat or Pierce or somebody would ask, "Yo, do we really sound like this?" Followed by the cockney accented reply, being, "maybe we do, but at least we can back it the fuck up."
I watched an interview with Tony Hawk on his skating games. He was talking about how he makes “real” money when his games hit “classic” and drop down to $20 a game. This game could be a way to drive sales of the MULTIPLE games they have in classics (whether intentional or not).
Ah, the same strategy automakers use in the US to justify not selling wagons in the USA, and the strategy Nintendo uses to justify not making games with non A-list IPs
“I’m just trying to be part of a private military sector so I can pay off my student loans! Are we gonna make rent?!” Such ridiculous writing. They’re criminals who steal and make a shitload of cash, and they’re talking about making rent like it’s soooo totally relatable to the current generation. I cringe so hard hearing the dialogue that my anus collapses in on itself like a neutron star.
It would actually be hilarious if it wasnt terribly written. Like, theres something golden about hardened criminals just tryna make ends meat. Like rome in fast and the furious.
There could be something funny there as satire; that even hardened big criminals can't escape the all consuming hole of privatization and rent, similar to how in Robocop corporations having control over the justice system for a dollar. But like in Robocop it requires a lot of cleverness, wit and soul in the writing to make it work: something the writers for this game evidently lack.
Blackwater mercs apparently make $9k a month. It might have worked if they made it a kind of dystopian cyber-city, where life is cheap and death is common, but then they wouldn't be making a Saint's Row game and these annoying brats still wouldn't fit in.
The old saints row games would mock this new game. It’s so sad how we went from upcoming new saints gang member, trying to take back stilwater and revenging Aisha, getting revenge for Johnny and taking over this new city filled with crazy new mechanics and missions, becoming President but fighting off aliens, shooting Satan in the face. To what paying student loans? The Boss and Johnny would tag team beating these new saints to the ground. Disgusting.
bro the new saints barely got alive robbing a country side bank for a small payoff while the OG saints get asked for autograph while robbing a major rival gang bank and almost went away with a whole ass vault chamber
"This is like the game Saints Row would have made fun ago ten years ago" It seems inevitable for just about every single Triple-A developer. Rise to power, fall farther than you ever climbed.
This game is not made by anyone that made the original games. It's literally a rip off by corpo scum executives that are so extremely disconnected from reality they didn't realize the franchise was satire.
The thing about Saints Row... the story WAS meant to be serious with some wacky under/overtones, and surrounded by side content that was just downright insane. The Devs seem to have forgotten that after Saints Row 2 and just leaned almost all in on the "wacky" side of it without having the seriousness to balance it out.
The tonal shift between the second and third game is really noticeable and even though the third was fun, it started the series trend of trying to cram every over powered weapon and raunchy joke in the following games effectively leaving no room for sequels because they overstimulated their audience. Honestly, they could have brought back the series with the reboot if they took inspiration from the first two games and put a new creative spin on it
@@telecentric2103 i do agree...but i will say, it's not sr3 as a whole to blame, i'd say that it was that one mission where you have temporary powers that is the big culprit. along w/ the humor of that mission, it directly contributed to sr4 existing. even then, sr4 had at least a small bit to like about it compared to this game, which i wouldn't even call it a saints row game.
none of the devs of this were devs of any previous saints projects or any AAA release ever. everyone in charge of this only made mobile games prior to this
SR2 was the perfect amount of goofy and serious, and definitely the only game out of them that was a serious GTA competitor. 3 and 4 felt like they were written by a teenager with unmedicated ADHD, fun but pure cringefests
I love how they thought the word Rimjobs might offend someone, but killing people by the thousands is absolutely fine. Not only is the game not finished, i don't even think the people that made it are finished... brain wise.
It reminds me when Borderlands changed midgets to tinks in Borderlands 3. It was a *completely* unnecessary change that offended absolutely nobody to begin with.
God, I’m glad none of the old characters are in this piece of shit game. The disrespect that would’ve been done to them is something I don’t want to think about.
Idk why he didnt notice this but its for low end PCs who cant render things super fast. Which idk why a low end PC should be running this game if it cant even run on a high end one BUT oh well im just a gamer what do i know
Johnny Gat: Literally on death row for a murder count so high it would make Ted Bundy scared, yet laughs in the face the judge and escapes his sentence in a firefight to build up his gang once again to gain back his street cred, respect, and city with his psychotic boss. SR 2022 Boss: I’ve gotta pay my student loans, so here I go to crime city!
Now that's just unfair, how could you compare anyone to Gat? He's Johnny mother fucking Gat. Compare them to the boss. Who gets their ass kicked and gets rescued by a member of the saints. Not as cool as Gat, but still more interesting than the new boss.
Judge: Mr. Gat you've been convicted of over 300 murders do you really expect this appeal to work? Johnny Gat: I'd figure with the Statute of Limitations it should really be closer to 250. Judge: There is no Statute of Limitations for murder! Johnny Gat: Why the fuck not? Judge: Watch yourself Mr. Gat. Johnny Gat: Or what? You'll hold me attempt to court? You're already planning on giving me the chair; You think I give a shit about you not liking me? Fuck off. Judge: I'm curious if you can keep your cavalry attitude with two thousand volts are running through your body. Johnny Gat: Oh yeah? And I'm wondering if you can keep acting like a douchebag when I shove that gabble up your ass.
@@arcanefire7511 A bunch of zoomers robbing and murdering thousands of people because they need to pay their loans and working is for capitalist losers is so much more relatable.
The comedic timing of Charlie making comments only to immediately be proved wrong by AI Kevin is great. Also, the police car missing that turn and the two monster truck incidents had me crying
Saint's Row (2006): I need to get jumped into a street gang so I can be protected in my neighborhood from all the other street gangs who are at war. I'll have to kill people, traffick drugs, and commit other abhorrent acts to survive. Saint's Row (2022): I'm just a quirky kid looking to get involved in that always wacky street crime so I can pay my student loans and achieve my dreams of being a chef. Just like all the other average inner-city gangsters. This is what happens when you ask a Fortnite kid to make a GTA rip-off.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
I actually would've given a shit if the game was just well-made "College students join a gang to pay off their loans" sounds funny enough. But they forget to make the game fun, the characters likable, and polish the graphics and animation
@@nabs7741 because 4 was literally created as DLC for Saints Row 3 and was just made into its own game because the DLC was big enough to be sold as one. This is common knowledge about the game dude
@@tucomeslculo yeah, even the worst of reddit still have more of a back bone than this game made for literal tumblristas and people who unironically call themselves anarcho communist on twitter.
I remember trying the character creator demo for this and wondering how the hell they managed to make a bunch of options completely worthless. Like there's like 10 faces you can switch between parts of and then barely adjust with sliders, but none of them work unless they're alongside the other pieces of that same face, and only one face really fit the head itself, so it was basically just a waste of a customiser unless you wanted to make your character look intentionally horrific. Lol, the original Saints were borderline unhinged, all of them. These ones look like if someone hit their car they'd angrily post about it on twitter and do nothing else.
The boss put radioactive waste in Maeros tattoo ink so it would burn his face. Then put maeros girlfriend in the trunk of a car at his monster truck rally. Meaning Maero crushed his own girlfriend to death. the boss then chucks him the keys and says "should have offered more than 30%". BADASS.
I won't lie, I didn't have that issue and managed to really make some nice looking characters in the Demo; but it was insanely limited for what they promised.
@@carcosanative666 Was that with the male character mostly? Because I realised I didn't actually end up trying that side much after just starting to screw around and make monsters. I know i may have exaggerated about them all being useless, but the main issue with most of the face parts was that they were like 20% deeper or wider than each other resulting in them looking like some weird glued on clay blob rather than facial features. The old games weren't exactly perfect, but they were leagues better than this.
@@TuffMelon oh nah it was still Mid at best, I fucked around with the Male first as I tend to always play male, then female in games with character customization. The female side of things deff highlighted the shortcomings for me, as all the faces seemed to be just slight edits of one another. Tbh I always am let down when devs claim “ground breaking customization!” And it is just sliders. I think, even though it was a pretty mid game; Fallout 4 ACTUALLY had a very in depth system where you can make basically anything. I 100% agree that each option was just a bit wider or narrower but; I tend to spend an obnoxious amount of time fiddling due to OCD and my love for making decent looking characters.
The car physics are crazy too. Its def fun to drive in this game. They had everything right to make a good game they just handed off the script to some kid in the bay area
I found a better solution: You just pirate the game, bypass the launcher entirely. It also fixes a bug where $60 suddenly go missing from your RL bank account.
@@eddiebell9486 honestly, i was sceptical cause of all the people bashing on it. But after playing for 2 hours. I really got into it and honestly, I am enjoying myself.
This series had a DLC weapon that literally shoves a probe up someone's ass until they die from it... Yet the words "Rim Jobs" was too offensive to be in this game?
Its entirely possible in current year. Like Arthur Morgan said. "This...this is over." All the real talent is long gone, now the hacks "learned to code."
One of the main reason why I enjoy Saints Row 2 so much is the same reason why I enjoy the Yakuza series: the main narrative and story takes itself seriously with all the drama and action, while the side missions and stories are all light-hearted and shows off the game’s goofy side. And unfortunately seems like Volition decided to go all goofy. Sure, goofiness is nice but we need some down-to-earth sections to get players relaxed inbetween missions.
SR3 and 4 still felt like they had a good balance between goofy and serious, SR4 moreso but the simulation part opened up a lot of the possibilities to be as goofy as they want, and honestly it really did suit the game because there was still a story to be told. they just wrote themselves into a corner...
I’m enjoying it. I think people are just upset it doesn’t have 90’s gang culture anymore, which I understand because you’re drastically altering the image of the series, but I’ve had nothing but fun playing it so far and I think the characters are pretty funny if you don’t have a stick up your butt.
It's amazing how much this game misses the spirit of the originals. Better off making it an entirely unrelated game with a new name and no connection to the franchise.
Good thing I won't buy this game thanks to review from gamer like our man , skill up and so on. Those writer behave like far right idiots since they don't know how to write proper story and character development.
@@kanthanesankandiah760 Are you serious? They outspokenly decided to be on the opposite of what you claim, all i can say is "it hurts itself in it's confusion!"
When I heard we were getting another Saints Row, I was excited. When I heard it was a reboot, I was worried. Here we are a few years later. I was right to be worried.
I'm not surprised that it's bad at all, I'm more so surprised an angered by how little it even resembles a Saints Row game. Literally nothing about the plot, characters, setting, or humor feels like the earlier SR games. If the gameplay were dogshit but they at least got the world/tone right I'd be less upset, but this isn't a Saints Row game outside of the branding and minor lip service. Hell, the fact they changed jokes after being *afraid to upset anyone* just shows how out of touch they are with the series.
It boggles the mind how large Dev teams can work on games for years and still put out stuff like this. Even if it wasn't a buggy mess, it would still be a horrible, horrible game.
@@TaoScribble To a degree maybe. But every dev team still is a corporate ladder from devs to team leaders and executives. It's hard to believe that none of the people responsible saw that this was a complete train wreck. There's people who have very large paychecks and bonuses riding on the success of projects like this.
it could have worked but you're 100 percent right, they just did it because haha desert were drive car haha. it makes it easy to justify long flat stretches of land for open world driving. They just wanted to pump this shitshow out.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
7:10 Am I the only person that thought. “You’re criminals! Why do you need to pay back your loans?” When this game came out. Since, that’s the whole motivation for the story.
I’d like to point out the fact Volition said they would give Saints Row 2 a proper fix almost 3 years ago. Only 2 people were working on it and sadly NinjaIdol died (the other person working on the patch and made Gentlemen of the Row mod.) meaning only 1 person is working on it. So while 1 guy is trying to fix the best Saints Row in the series Volition crew or heads of Volition decided to waste their time making this game, insult players who criticize the games direction (players who are long time fans) and leave behind some iconic Saints Row stuff like the names of the companies for the sake of being more “sensitive” and leave the “edgy” past behind.
Them changing rimjobs is so baffling. Like who in their right mind would get upset by that when playing what's supposed to be a saints row game of all things. It's just as confusing and makes as little sense as rockstar saying they're getting rid of or toning down the edgy jokes, or dark humor and stereotyping, and etc for GTA 6 when that's literally a large part of what makes GTA
Not to mention they straight up got rid of the old african american voice actor. Like that voice was iconic since Saints Row 2 and they axed him like he was nothing. Fuck Volition.
So the patch is still in the works? I thought it was just the guy who passed away working on it. Volition basically, in promoting this turd, disowned the original games as games they wouldn’t make now. So I don’t have much faith in them wanting them fixed or remembered. Let alone what we should’ve got instead, a remaster of 1 and 2. But now I wouldn’t trust them to do that as they’d sanitize the hell out of them
What a shame. I played the hell out of Saints Row 3 on the PS3, was one of my favorite games. So much so that when they remastered it for next gen consoles I bought it again just so I could reminisce. I’ve always loved the adult humor in the Saints Row series, it’s what kind of set it apart from other games in the genre. Soon as I heard that they were making a Saints Row game for 2022 that was reflective with “the times,” I knew it was gonna be terrible. The entire point of the series was to be over the top and inappropriate. I remember there being a mission in SR3 where you break into a BDSM club to free a pimp, have a shootout, and flee in chariots pulled by gimps. Or who can forget the classic Penthouse mission where you skydive out of a helicopter into a pool at the top of a skyscraper and fight prostitute assassins to Kanye West’s “Power.” RIP Saints Row. 😔
Everyone knew this game would be cringeworthy sanitized version of Saints Row from the trailers and developer interviews... but somehow it actually managed to be even worse than expected thanks to being a buggy mess on top of all the cringe XD
I liked when the Monster Truck, you know, a notoriously loud type of vehicle, is nearly dead silent when opening the engine up on a desert highway. Must be the new electric model.
If there wasnt a sea of speds who buy garbage like this just for nostalgia bait it wouldn't happen, they just re-make a game and totally destroy what it once was and even though its happened again and again for years people still pre-order this trash, MW2 will be the next example of this.
@@jamesglovecrazy If you unironically use the term ableism you're a shallow husk of a brain and you should get off that high horse of yours and quit sniffing your own farts. Create a term for everything you find offensive if you must, to force others to abide by your ridiculous crybaby rules is a sign of a complete narcissist, if you had any real struggle in your life the word "sped" would not have the power to offend you, you ruin the internet in hopes of proving yourself a good person but we all know its a façade.
There’s one quote that has stuck with me since saints row two and that quote is, “The Saints used to mean something, the only ones that seem to know that now is me (the playa), and Johnny!”
the moment I saw the studio and some rag publications talk about how positively "inclusive" and "diverse" this game was I knew it was going to be trash. Those buzzwords are red flags at this point. Flags signifying that they put out a stinker, they know they put out a stinker, and they need to find SOMETHING to cover up the smell a little.
@@gohanlopez5330 nah its not so much that really its just that when I see that stuff I get ghostbusters reboot vibes. Like they know they put out a stinker and they're trying to cover up the smell by getting moralizing terminally online twitter folk to go to the mat for it.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
Just like Assassin's Creed and Shadow of Mordor. Christ, between that and several other things about this game, are we so sure it wasn't actually made by Ubisoft?
if theres one thing I can't complain about this game, at least in my country, is the price. Here in Brazil a new game is usually R$250, this one was R$127.
The character creation for women feels like an afterthought. In SR4 my friend and I were strutting down the street in stilettos and fishnets twerking on top of cars. Where is that in this game? There’s not even a feminine walk style so my lady character walks like she always about to punch you in the face. Also that triangle body slider has always been awful but at least in the older games they had *some* hips and boobs. We can’t get that invested in the gameplay because we aren’t connected to our characters.
It is 100% intentional, especially considering the presets. It's like they were trying really hard to stop players from creating attractive characters.
I wish they had sliders to make better female body shapes for my character. They create a character lacked that when it was being improved in other saints row games.
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@@jackjohnaroni3 really hasn't aged well. Replaying the remaster I got about 3 hours in and found it incredibly bland. 2 on the otherhand minus the piss poor port has held up well.
I don’t feel bad for Volition, after people criticized the trailer and they just said “fuck you” and “trolled” their fans on Twitter who had concerns about the game. Don’t feel bad for them if they go bankrupt because they made a game for the type of people who don’t play games yet are offended by them.
Volition also literally told people straight up, "We remastered Saints Row 3 before 1 and 2 because it sold well" and told fans to fuck off. They only respond to money, so I stopped giving them money for their shit personalities.
Some people just like being wrong, they live as a good, respected companies, like Blizzard or Volition, and one day it's just a "i want to be wrong... it's boring being successful" mood, you know?
Whoever decided that this voice was good enough to add to this game should never be allowed to work on anything other than a silent film for the rest of their career.
I remember saints row being about gangs and drugs and seriousness. Creating bonds with characters and they die so you’d get revenge. This look family friendly😂
It was never really serious but the first two did an amazing job combining humour and self awareness with serious moments and great fleshed out characters. They didn't take themselves too seriously and focused on fun and humour, while taking themselves seriously enough that you could get invested and deliver some hard hitting moments.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
They don’t care anymore it’s just a cash-grab. In this day and age your better off buying indie games like Ready or Not, Squad, Ground Branch, etc. The only game studio I have any faith left in anymore is Rockstar.
@@mammoths_4229 ah yes Rockstar, the guys who are still beholden to Strauss "recurrent consumer spending opportunities" Zelnick. you might as well just get it over with and call Tencent the last bastion of video gaming the world over.
@@mammoths_4229 why the fuck would you have faith in Rockstar? they took rdr2 multiplayer out into a field and executed it like a dog for not printing enough money from brain dead children and man children through buying in game money. Not to mention most of the original talent that made the gta games we know and love left because of how awful development was on rdr2.
"Is this game worth buying?"
"Ah I see you're watching the stream with your eyes closed"
That sent me
Where to?
@@I_quit_trolling_now I'm better than kavetion
I mean I'd buy it, looks fun to me. Idk why everyone says it sucks
@@user-10021 if you played any of the other ones you'd understand
@@user-10021 are you sure you're watching it with your eyes open?
I remember someone saying “these Saints look like people the old Saints would bully.” After screenshots of the characters were first posted a couple months back. Man they were so right.
No they weren’t. Except for MAYBE Gat, all of these new characters are better versions of the old ones
@@gehrig0026 “better” how tf🤣 the game has lost all its originality and character. Load up SR1 or 2 and compare it to this kiddie bs.
And those coments were shat on, people complained about criticisms and they were completely right
I’ve seen this comment word for word left on multiple videos about the game lmao
@@gehrig0026 zimos solos all of the new characters
To be honest, the worst part is that you have a fucking meter that needs to be filled before you can do takedowns, when one of the funnest things about the last three games was the ability to do the most outrageous melee takedowns freely on enemies. A shame honestly.
we'll never get those old saints row 2 moments back
Sr2 remastered is a dream
Also not being able to do them on anyone but enemies
@@Brainhorn woke targetting systems lmao
@@lenol0315 oh man I couldn't handle it
The fact that they were scared to call a shop in the game "Rim Jobs" Even though it's SAINTS ROW and In the 2nd game had a second hand store called Sloppy Seconds.....this is such a Weenie ass game
I'm pretty sure Sloppy Seconds was in the first game, along with Rim Jobs and Freckle Bitches. They also had a drive thru confessional called Forgive and Forget that became a scientology parody in SR2!
@@devonaveii2675 the classics
As we all know everyone praised the Saints Row series for it's restraint and maturity next to GTA...
Weenie ass game hahah
Weenie? Lmao comes free with your Sunday at weenie hut juniors
Saints row isn’t meant to be taken seriously but it’s definitely supposed to be taken seriously by the developers 💀💀
Another thing is, in my SR experience, the game is meant to satirize and poke fun but still genuinely good. This game is only funny because it's shit not because it's making fun of shit
@Based B0t settle down
@Based B0t a bit harsh, but I can't say I disagree
@Based B0t Parent*
The people that made this game definitely don't have fathers.
@Based B0t I hate liberals too but it’d be worse with republicans frankly lol
Charlie’s fake excitement whenever he encounters a turret section is always funny
weeeeeeee
Dude he has me crying every time
man got four bots in a row 💀
my name❤️
Fake?
The game with absolutely 0 soundtrack feels like a bad sitcom with laugh track removed, full of soulessness
The fact they have the option & then didn't hit up at least some free music libraries or hell, even some music from the `2Øs or something...
I guess they had YT streamers in mind?
There is a common bug that makes cars make no sound, that's probably the case
yea what i also didn’t like is how useless the ps5 version is because there’s literally no haptics or adaptive triggers. like did they forget to make it next gen?
@@ryanreylondsthesecond2796 I’m pretty sure they made next gen as an after thought. Plus the so-called “haptic feedback” options are currently broken when you try to switch it on it would also switch on inverted movement controls. This game is completely rushed and lacks polish
Trust me the soundtrack sucks so hard its even better like this
I absolutely hate the trend of making absolutely unlikeable and quirky characters in modern games. Especially when it betrays what made the older games so likable. BF 2042 tried it and it is a soulless shell of its former self, now the same has happened to this dumpster fire. Don’t take yourself too seriously but “CaN yOu PuT tHaT iN mY pErFoRmAnCe ReViEw?” In the middle of a gunfight is absolutely cringe in its purest form.
You just summed up my feelings about the whole Borderlands franchise
@@CroatInAKilt Thank You! I feel the dialogue in BL3 got excruciatingly horrible and it made me just not like the BL2 Character Zero anymore.
They're incarnations of the game developers.
Unlikable and quirky characters have been added into games since Life is strange. Only LIS had the decency to be its own franchise.
Yeah if you relate to these fools you are a vile dreg
"You just open and close it until it accidentally lets you play this pile of shit" might just be the best Charlie line yet.
Report the bots in the comments please
I read this as he was saying it lmao
It’s not
@@mpsins that will most likely do nothing
666 likes
Crazy to think that in SR4 we literally had superpowers and were fighting aliens with dildo baseball bats, and in this game we're paying off student loans lmao
Both suck
I’d take saints row 4 anyway over this reboot
This is the problem with so many TV shows, movies, games today - writers lack the depth or imagination to write anything but self-insert characters. And since they typically spend half their waking life on Twitter, this is what they insert.
Go woke...go broke effect tbh.
Problem is, people complained about that going too crazy from SR2. Now this one went to far off the wrong way. People are gonna be angry regardless anymore it seems.
I played the entire game and the "there's no music" claim is active throughout the ENTIRETY of the game, even with DMCA music on, I've counted only 4 or 5 missions where there was music
Remember in SR3 you jumped out of a skyscraper while blasting Power by Kanye West? Yeah the only music you get here is 4 80's tracks and 1 actual game song and that's it, they completely forgot to add music
Maybe it’s a bug? I heard music in plenty of missions.
@@MyAccount217 DMCA music u dummy
Maybe music is DLC 😂😂😂
@@benf2682 $40 for "open world" music DLC pack, $5 per mission for all the rest.
Wow talk about an unfinished game
Something about modern hipsters becoming gangsters just feels out of place. I hope the main villain of this game wins.
@@BardiXOfficial and he just wants friends. That’s his whole motive
@@BardiXOfficial im guessing his name is based on nahual which is a mesoamerican folklore creature
Hipsters who your supposed to believe are vicious gang leaders while simultaneously living together as roommates trying to pay student loans
@BardiX Official lots of Hispanic names have Arabic origins you should look into shit before you complain for no reason... raul... I mean like come on its obvious.
@@firmfire2385 Is it?
To think it was actually a time when GTA vs. Saints Row was a real debate.
Honestly at least SR released games withing the decade lol even though this game is mid is dumb fun IMO
@@clockyaaron683 I miss when the games were fun and not "dumb fun" lol that doesn't say much
@@clockyaaron683 it was nine years since the last saints row AND the last gta
Chances are when Rockstar releases its new GTA, it will also be a dumpster fire
GTA killed saints row with the oppresser mk2 and jetpacks n shit
I knew the writing would be trash as soon as I read some interview where the devs complained that the old Saints were "too mean-spirited" or some crap like that. These people shouldn't have been in charge of rebooting Saints Row, they don't even like the kind of tone or attitude that is core to a video game series all about organized criminals.
Wow really? I mean SR1 definitely wasn’t, the tone fit with the subject. You could argue that for 2 maybe. 3 was pure sociopathy.
Idk what they expected when their entire story line involves rival gangs, drugs and strippers.. at that point, you may as well go all out. Not take away from it. Idiots
"Yeah, our game is centered around criminal gangs, but we can't have them hurting people's feelings!!"
@@AmericaTheSimpleMinded maybe because it's a PEGI 18 game about criminals? Ever thought about that?
@@supahalexx4086 Devs shouldn't be allowed to have accounts to defend their choices that are ruining games
"I swear everyone in this city is desperate for a citizen's arrest."
Well, have you seen the police taking any action?
Spot on lmao
I literally stole a police car from the cop while he had someone stopped in the highway and didn’t do shit lol
Bad programming, but the devs will spin it and say it's """political commentary""" and do nothing.
Lol just like in real life
Maybe the High Point of this turd is going to be the Multiplayer...?
Maybe the Community can prevent Speeding and Cussin' in Game and make this town a reasonable and legit Diverse Safe Space?
A Saints Row game where "rimjobs" is too "offensive" to be mentioned, is like a GTA game where the cops don't try to murder you if you steal a candy bar.
It's only going to get worse from here lol,if you think gta6 will be anything like the past games you're gonna be very disappointed
@@CrashoutsDaily Only time will tell.
@@evanblake5252 The present is very telling already
@@evanblake5252 Almost everyone who made the old GTA games what they were are long gone from Rockstar, even the main writer since GTA Vice City. If GTA Online is any hint of modern rockstar dev mentality, it would be foolish to expect anything but steaming manure.
@@cbl1199 Alright.
Not only does the game feel like a game Saints Row would have made fun of ten years ago. It actively DID. This exact plotline is something the old games actually made fun of. It's weird how the old games kind of predicted this one's decline
You know what's the kicker? I was talking with a friend about characters, and discussion went towards Kevin.
Me: "He's this shirtless dude who keeps talking about gym and other crap"
Friend: "So kind of like Brucie?"
Brucie in question was Brucie Kibbutz from GTA 4. And then, it hit me. Brucie was a parody. Kevin is supposed to be legit.
The writers clearly do not understand where the series came from
actually if there was an ACTUAL SR game right now they would still make fun of this
Hasn’t saints row been like this since 3?
@@couchman-sw6jy no. cant compare this to saints row at all. this is not saints row. a completely different game with saints rows name attached to it to build hype for this wack garbage
I like how this series went from parodying other games to becoming a parody of itself
This is what happens when the creatives get abused by greedy corpo scum, forcing them to leave the business. The empty soul of the original art is used like a flesh mask on a mentally ill sociopath trying to emulate the original idea while completely missing the topic.
Unfortunately, the market is so saturated with extremely stupid people and small children that they can make anything and be successful as long as they avoid too much negative press.
Long story short, Charlie is doing the opposite to help stop this by showing the game and promoting it, even just by criticizing it. If you want this shit to stop, don't talk about the game, don't buy it, and don't acknowledge it's existence.
I cant believe that I was worrying about the "wokeness" of the game. I should've worried more about the actual gameplay. Not to mention how bad the graphics are, I legit thought Charlie was playing at the lowest possible graphics settings.
Saint-Row 1: mostly serious satyre/rip-off of GTA San-Andreas, serious story, serious universe
Saint-Row 2: satyre of the GTA franchise with humour focusing on over-the-top action and gap between serious scenes and it's absurde/cartoony universe
saint-row 3: parody of itself, family guy type of "ahaha funny", filled with references, everyone is a cartoon character living in a cartoon world
saint-row 4: parody of a parody of it's own-franchise, ahah dildos and funny BDSM jokes, everyone is a cartoon character, gave-up any ambitions of building a serious world
i can't even begin to imagine what saint-row 5 would be
@@Rise65487 ahem..not to forget about.. Saints Row: Gat out of Hell.. which was a cheap reskin of SR:4 but apparently way worse
@@Azuimiku wasn't it just a shitty DLC?
I feel bad for this series. I grew up with it, and it's a real shame seeying how it became the very thing it swore to be different from. Saints Row wasn't the equivalent of The Pepsi of the GTA-like games, it tried to be different. Now it's just like the others.
It feels like one of those made with Unity, obscure, zero download games.
The camera, models, lighting and more is worse than my very shitty self made 3D games in pygame xD
"Hey team, we're making a new Saints Row! Remember how we made GTA clones, until we said fuck it and made a bonkers game with aliens and the matrix and superpowers and everyobody loved it?
Well get excited, because we're making a GTA clone! A really bad one!"
-Real quote from very smart man at Deep Silver offices.
To be fair GTA V's online copied alot from SR
Oh no, SR3 and 4 were not loved as much as you think. Many people were upset that the series went off the wall. While 4 has seen some more love as the years go by anyone that loves the first two games just, want to see the series return to it's routes. And this game is not that.
Saints Row was always shit and I feel like the developers thought the same thing and embraced it. Still fun for a couple of minutes, it's like a gta mod.
27:48 "why does everyone want to die in this city?!"
I mean... if I was an NPC stuck in this hellish excuse for a game, I'd certainly be looking for a way to off myself too
And the irony is they created a game where you're in hell and it's nowhere near as bad as this
Same
@@TheEtherealEscapist LMAO 💀💀💀
The sight of Charlie driving his car right underneath a monster truck followed by him standing amongst his flattened vehicle like nothing happened just about broke me.
I know XD
12:20
bro i was crying
@@allanv.7519 You saint
"A monster truck?"
i laughed so hard at every part where kevin jams his hand through the window and starts killing people at random.
Student Loans will really make a mf just break a window and start killing…
Kevin a menace
Positively hilarious
...& in front of her hubby! Oh the huge manatee...
only two instances ra
I love how the developers thought turning to a life of bloodshed and crime was relatable just because the characters are doing it to pay student loans. I can't believe they thought these people would be likeable
Omg they're just like me!!
You can have make awful people relatable on some level, but this definitely isn't it. The biggest issue is the fact that they all talk like Big Bang Theory characters and obviously despise one another. Maybe if they actually talked with one another and did shit because they thought it'd be fun they wouldn't be so despised. Take the waffle maker scene as an example. It's just a bunch of petty assholes insulting one another and acting like absolute cheapskates over a fucking waffle maker. Why are they even insulting one another and refusing to toss in money for a waffle maker? Why the fuck are they even buying one? They're criminals. Just have them shoplift one together.
@king tut nah shoplifting? Your fucking insane id rather go murder people for the money to buy one legitimate
@@kingtut5520 they rob banks right? Why are they buying it, just steal it! It’s not like the police can do anything cuz they are incompetent.
@@kingtut5520 Okay thank God I wasn't the only one confused by the waffle maker scene. It didn't make sense at all. They're all so casual about stealing cars and killing people (and don't believe in doing business with "morally corrupt corporations" such as Marshall's) but we definitely need to legally buy a $300 waffle maker? Sure I guess. Just makes the characters motivations confusing and make them unrelatable.
The writers of this game never had real life human interactions in their life.
Agreed
It's even worse than you think...these are based off their own human interactions. These are just the types of people they are surrounded by.
To busy paying off their student loans you know 😂😂😂😂
@@SuperKillJoy15 That's horrifyingly sad because this game's dialogue feels like it was written by a space alien.
I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in forever. Especially just the driving sections where all the AI just caused crashes, went off the road, or that part where they committed suicide with the monster truck completely unrelated to what the player was doing
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
Same. Been a while since I laughed this much at a yt video
і hатe иіggeѓѕ because i make beter viideos 🥚🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂
Just a TW maybe u could use su*cide instead of the word. Some people have major trauma and maybe accidentally reading it can trigger that 🤍
@@mayavil there is a bot saying the hard N word above you and that what you're concerned about?
Every "saint" in this game seem like the type of NPCS the boss would run over in the old games.
@Ankha Rule 34 real shit?
When people make bots to make fun of other bots
they look like woke twitter liberals
@YeaMan Yeah, but I bet his English is better.
*Page not Paige
In the old games there would've probably been a mission where you deal with an imposter gang and it's these chucklefucks. And Gat or Pierce or somebody would ask, "Yo, do we really sound like this?" Followed by the cockney accented reply, being, "maybe we do, but at least we can back it the fuck up."
This feels like they purposefully made a bad game to use as justification that no one wants a new Saints Row in the future.
Which is sad because we DID want another one….but this was the sabotage of their own series
I watched an interview with Tony Hawk on his skating games. He was talking about how he makes “real” money when his games hit “classic” and drop down to $20 a game. This game could be a way to drive sales of the MULTIPLE games they have in classics (whether intentional or not).
Ah, the same strategy automakers use in the US to justify not selling wagons in the USA, and the strategy Nintendo uses to justify not making games with non A-list IPs
@@Fhwgads11 exactly-it’s big money to sell outside of our measly 300 million population. It’s basically like all major branding in the US, really
that's probably literally what happened
“I’m just trying to be part of a private military sector so I can pay off my student loans! Are we gonna make rent?!” Such ridiculous writing. They’re criminals who steal and make a shitload of cash, and they’re talking about making rent like it’s soooo totally relatable to the current generation. I cringe so hard hearing the dialogue that my anus collapses in on itself like a neutron star.
Well, he'd hate to be a mass murderer with bad credit...
Yeah a PMC operator worried about making rent… even when they try to be relatable it don’t work.
It would actually be hilarious if it wasnt terribly written. Like, theres something golden about hardened criminals just tryna make ends meat. Like rome in fast and the furious.
There could be something funny there as satire; that even hardened big criminals can't escape the all consuming hole of privatization and rent, similar to how in Robocop corporations having control over the justice system for a dollar.
But like in Robocop it requires a lot of cleverness, wit and soul in the writing to make it work: something the writers for this game evidently lack.
Blackwater mercs apparently make $9k a month.
It might have worked if they made it a kind of dystopian cyber-city, where life is cheap and death is common, but then they wouldn't be making a Saint's Row game and these annoying brats still wouldn't fit in.
The old saints row games would mock this new game. It’s so sad how we went from upcoming new saints gang member, trying to take back stilwater and revenging Aisha, getting revenge for Johnny and taking over this new city filled with crazy new mechanics and missions, becoming President but fighting off aliens, shooting Satan in the face. To what paying student loans? The Boss and Johnny would tag team beating these new saints to the ground. Disgusting.
Peaked at SR2
Some one whoooo understands
@@anthonyalvarez2037 I like the one where you spun around anybody necks but yea sr2 is burned in my mind imma play that and wait
bro the new saints barely got alive robbing a country side bank for a small payoff while the OG saints get asked for autograph while robbing a major rival gang bank and almost went away with a whole ass vault chamber
@@super_dj2006 thanks man it’s just facts really sad facts at that
Why tf did the humour in saints row the third actually age better than the humour in this game?
Because they actually tried with that game,
The humor in this is even worse than four.
Because that game had some soul left
Cause they cared back then now it's just about $
It makes 4 look good and 4 was where they went off the deep end like lemme climb this rocket 🚀
"This is like the game Saints Row would have made fun ago ten years ago"
It seems inevitable for just about every single Triple-A developer. Rise to power, fall farther than you ever climbed.
Doubt any of the original developers of SR1 to 3 even still exist at volition.
This game is not made by anyone that made the original games. It's literally a rip off by corpo scum executives that are so extremely disconnected from reality they didn't realize the franchise was satire.
@@Hords Believe it or not, the only guy that's the same is the Creative Director or something like that. One fucking guy.
The only triple a developers that i still trust these days are id and fromsoft.
@@MrcreeperDXD777 Bethesda game studios, fromsoft is trash.
The thing about Saints Row... the story WAS meant to be serious with some wacky under/overtones, and surrounded by side content that was just downright insane. The Devs seem to have forgotten that after Saints Row 2 and just leaned almost all in on the "wacky" side of it without having the seriousness to balance it out.
The tonal shift between the second and third game is really noticeable and even though the third was fun, it started the series trend of trying to cram every over powered weapon and raunchy joke in the following games effectively leaving no room for sequels because they overstimulated their audience. Honestly, they could have brought back the series with the reboot if they took inspiration from the first two games and put a new creative spin on it
Saints row the third was amazing
@@telecentric2103 i do agree...but i will say, it's not sr3 as a whole to blame, i'd say that it was that one mission where you have temporary powers that is the big culprit. along w/ the humor of that mission, it directly contributed to sr4 existing. even then, sr4 had at least a small bit to like about it compared to this game, which i wouldn't even call it a saints row game.
none of the devs of this were devs of any previous saints projects or any AAA release ever. everyone in charge of this only made mobile games prior to this
SR2 was the perfect amount of goofy and serious, and definitely the only game out of them that was a serious GTA competitor. 3 and 4 felt like they were written by a teenager with unmedicated ADHD, fun but pure cringefests
I love how they thought the word Rimjobs might offend someone, but killing people by the thousands is absolutely fine. Not only is the game not finished, i don't even think the people that made it are finished... brain wise.
Also pretty wild that they kept Freckle Bitch's by rebranding it to FB'S, that seems way more likely to offend anyone
We live in a society
It reminds me when Borderlands changed midgets to tinks in Borderlands 3. It was a *completely* unnecessary change that offended absolutely nobody to begin with.
@@wesleyward5901 Jesus christ that's stupid.
Yeah. It was totally unnecessary. That helped solidify my concern for this game
Charlie's character is a pretty good representation of the writers of this game.
How does Charles make money from YT while Cussin'
BuT.
Some of my RUclips Favourite Swearing Professionals have to Beep their Shit out to get paid?
@@greatestytcommentator huh
@@greatestytcommentator cuz he has a contract w RUclips so they’re more lenient w him
@@jay2416 I am almost positive that is the case.
I got blocked from Facebook for typing the word "Fart" 3 days ago
@@pokeystar101 Which part of the properly constructed sentence were you applying your, "huh" bomb to?
God, I’m glad none of the old characters are in this piece of shit game. The disrespect that would’ve been done to them is something I don’t want to think about.
It would have been worse than what SR3 did to Shaundi
Apparently they named coffee or drinks after them in a shop
@@lonewolf9578 i like the design but it be better if it was a new character
Thank god , they aren't here. This would've been total disservice towards these characters.
@@InternetMouse RIP Johnny Gat 🕊 and Shaundi because she was bad
This is what games are now, soulless cash grabs. In a game where you literally kill people who cares about offensive names or jokes.
the way Kevin sticks his pistol out the car window and calmly assassinates civilians is beautiful
Thought you were talking about CallMeKevin for a second
@@semisolidsnake7103 him too lol
a damn no look out the window😂
@@semisolidsnake7103 callmekevin would rather use a rocket launcher then a pistol
The parts with Kevin killed me 🤣
“Why would they allow you to limit the speed to something so abominably slow” as he wrecks over a rock and power line 😂 that killed me
Idk why he didnt notice this but its for low end PCs who cant render things super fast. Which idk why a low end PC should be running this game if it cant even run on a high end one BUT oh well im just a gamer what do i know
@@DexGen2002 absolutely nothing
@@ChazZen shutup homeless ass Sami Zayn
@@ChazZen you didn't have to do him like that 🤣💀
@@blakbear6528 don't ask questions you don't want the answers to
Johnny Gat: Literally on death row for a murder count so high it would make Ted Bundy scared, yet laughs in the face the judge and escapes his sentence in a firefight to build up his gang once again to gain back his street cred, respect, and city with his psychotic boss.
SR 2022 Boss: I’ve gotta pay my student loans, so here I go to crime city!
Now that's just unfair, how could you compare anyone to Gat? He's Johnny mother fucking Gat.
Compare them to the boss. Who gets their ass kicked and gets rescued by a member of the saints. Not as cool as Gat, but still more interesting than the new boss.
Judge: Mr. Gat you've been convicted of over 300 murders do you really expect this appeal to work?
Johnny Gat: I'd figure with the Statute of Limitations it should really be closer to 250.
Judge: There is no Statute of Limitations for murder!
Johnny Gat: Why the fuck not?
Judge: Watch yourself Mr. Gat.
Johnny Gat: Or what? You'll hold me attempt to court? You're already planning on giving me the chair; You think I give a shit about you not liking me? Fuck off.
Judge: I'm curious if you can keep your cavalry attitude with two thousand volts are running through your body.
Johnny Gat: Oh yeah? And I'm wondering if you can keep acting like a douchebag when I shove that gabble up your ass.
The latter isnt inherently less interesting. Not all games have to be a psychopathic power fanatsy
@@arcanefire7511 but considering saints row is a game about a psychopath living out their power fantasy I’d say it needs to be.
@@arcanefire7511 A bunch of zoomers robbing and murdering thousands of people because they need to pay their loans and working is for capitalist losers is so much more relatable.
The comedic timing of Charlie making comments only to immediately be proved wrong by AI Kevin is great. Also, the police car missing that turn and the two monster truck incidents had me crying
Saint's Row (2006): I need to get jumped into a street gang so I can be protected in my neighborhood from all the other street gangs who are at war. I'll have to kill people, traffick drugs, and commit other abhorrent acts to survive.
Saint's Row (2022): I'm just a quirky kid looking to get involved in that always wacky street crime so I can pay my student loans and achieve my dreams of being a chef. Just like all the other average inner-city gangsters.
This is what happens when you ask a Fortnite kid to make a GTA rip-off.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
Bruv, even gta could pull off something as dog shit as that with the writters they have.
This is what happens when you let a Twitter Lifer SJW make a Saints Row game. They got too offended at all the old jokes they removed them 💀
Hey that's disrespectful to Fortnite Kids, it's what a person THINKS what a Fortnite Kid wants in a GTA rip-off.
@@ZeroNeedsCoffee thanks man that was nice to read.
It’s just mind-blowing how a game from 2022 looks so outdated and plays so outdated compared to some other games in the same genre from early 2010s.
Saints Row 3 looks and plays better than this it's weird
@@JohnSmith-tg9wc Heck even Saints Row for Xbox 360 looks and plays better than this.
nice rock collection
yeah I seriously don’t understand why they’d make the game like this? it’s like goat simulator just with better shaders
Welcome to 2022. It's all devolving
It's shame that Saints Row will never be as good as it used to be
I think it’s fun so far
Was it ever fun?
@@boldone66 1,2 and 3 were. 4 had superpowers, but that was it.
3 at least had the dildo sword.
Pretty sure this was Vol's last attempt to revive the franchise less they get shut down in this department lol
It never was
Saints Row 2: Turning the Saints from a dying gang into a mega-conglomerate.
Saints Row Reboot: Paying off student-loans.
I actually would've given a shit if the game was just well-made
"College students join a gang to pay off their loans" sounds funny enough. But they forget to make the game fun, the characters likable, and polish the graphics and animation
Of all the accessibility options a game could have "adding a speed limit to all the cars" is a fucking buckwild choice
I thought it was a feature in 3 and 4, but nope. This is a first and last for this series because this definitely isn't getting a sequel.
@@Shay_Mendez I think you might be thinking of the cruise control option that you could activate while driving a car in 3 and 4
@@TheFallofTheEleventh saints row 4 didn’t have that and I don’t think 3 did either that was saints row 2 that had that
@@GLRTECH I know for a fact 3 has it. And I’m almost 90% sure 4 DID have it too since it’s basically the same game as 3.
@@nabs7741 because 4 was literally created as DLC for Saints Row 3 and was just made into its own game because the DLC was big enough to be sold as one. This is common knowledge about the game dude
This game reminds me of all the super obvious fake "badassery" stories on reddit. Always epic and everyone claps.
this game is a redditor's wet dream
@@tucomeslculo nah, it's twitter socal developers wet dream. They totally forgot about the gang feeling and went all twitter bullshit instead
@@tucomeslculo yeah, even the worst of reddit still have more of a back bone than this game made for literal tumblristas and people who unironically call themselves anarcho communist on twitter.
Spot on
@@tucomeslculo Reddit hates this game.
I remember trying the character creator demo for this and wondering how the hell they managed to make a bunch of options completely worthless. Like there's like 10 faces you can switch between parts of and then barely adjust with sliders, but none of them work unless they're alongside the other pieces of that same face, and only one face really fit the head itself, so it was basically just a waste of a customiser unless you wanted to make your character look intentionally horrific.
Lol, the original Saints were borderline unhinged, all of them. These ones look like if someone hit their car they'd angrily post about it on twitter and do nothing else.
Dude, these are the types that would freak out on twitter because you said "demon self" isn't a valid pronoun .
The boss put radioactive waste in Maeros tattoo ink so it would burn his face. Then put maeros girlfriend in the trunk of a car at his monster truck rally. Meaning Maero crushed his own girlfriend to death. the boss then chucks him the keys and says "should have offered more than 30%". BADASS.
I won't lie, I didn't have that issue and managed to really make some nice looking characters in the Demo; but it was insanely limited for what they promised.
@@carcosanative666 Was that with the male character mostly? Because I realised I didn't actually end up trying that side much after just starting to screw around and make monsters. I know i may have exaggerated about them all being useless, but the main issue with most of the face parts was that they were like 20% deeper or wider than each other resulting in them looking like some weird glued on clay blob rather than facial features.
The old games weren't exactly perfect, but they were leagues better than this.
@@TuffMelon oh nah it was still Mid at best, I fucked around with the Male first as I tend to always play male, then female in games with character customization. The female side of things deff highlighted the shortcomings for me, as all the faces seemed to be just slight edits of one another. Tbh I always am let down when devs claim “ground breaking customization!” And it is just sliders. I think, even though it was a pretty mid game; Fallout 4 ACTUALLY had a very in depth system where you can make basically anything. I 100% agree that each option was just a bit wider or narrower but; I tend to spend an obnoxious amount of time fiddling due to OCD and my love for making decent looking characters.
The biggest fail of this game is the fact that heists involve you sitting in a car waiting for npcs to do all the meaningful work 😂
😂😂😭🤣
the best part of this game was when that car willingly drove under Charlie’s monster truck and crushed itself
I would have continued to grab cars and flatten them while maniacally giggling that killed me
Honestly
that driver had just finished playing saints row 2022
That’s how I felt furring the hillbilly Stevie griffin intro
The way the one paused after it smashed the front then slowly finished the rest killed me
“God Of War is a Masterpiece”
24 Hours Later:
“Saints Row is Horrible”
Fr💀
he does a lot of reviews lol
Lmao
Deserved
if you like this game and think its good you have the iq of a potato
“This shit is haunted” cuts to Charlie driving a hearse.
You can literally set people on fire in this game, give them the worse possible death anyone could have, but not say the word "Rimjob."
How did Saints Row went from being about badass and morally questionable gangsters to Twitter activists
Saints Row 2 is still peak
@@MILDMONSTER1234 yooo DDS pfp
I remember when pearl clutchers were freaking out about the dildo bat and now we have.... nothing.
@@trenchfogger1391 peak
@@MILDMONSTER1234 nice to see a shlt mega tltty fan here
Honestly, the car shit is the highlight of the game. I love how EVERYONE is unhinged behind the wheel and it's always chaotic.
Yeah, that is hilarious. I might get the game just for that. I would be laughing my ass off for years.
The car physics are crazy too. Its def fun to drive in this game. They had everything right to make a good game they just handed off the script to some kid in the bay area
@@anakinlowground5515 don’t give them your money
Realizing Johnny would murder all these pretenders in one minute of hearing anyone talk in this game.
Bro even Pierce or Matt could kill these clowns
@@dogfellow3848 *Shaundi has entered the chat*
Even the people walking on the sidewalk in the old saints row games would murder them
Veteran child would solo them nevermind the player
@@bobjohnson5557 Old pothead shaundi too, not efficient murder machine shaundi
5:50 is literally just Montgomery McQueen saying "I'm stuck in hillbilly hell! I'm becoming one of them."
I find it arbitrarily hilarious that Charlie's character is a genetic funbag mix of Megamind's looks and Chris Chan's voice accent.
If he could up the pitch on the voice like in SR4 it'd be spot on for Chris-chan's voice
*Insert distasteful 'yo mama' joke here.*
Game is trash
It does sound like Chris Chan lmao
I thought it sounded like a texan mac miller.
I found a better solution: You just pirate the game, bypass the launcher entirely. It also fixes a bug where $60 suddenly go missing from your RL bank account.
Bold of u to assume this game is worth pirating
@@eddiebell9486 honestly, i was sceptical cause of all the people bashing on it. But after playing for 2 hours. I really got into it and honestly, I am enjoying myself.
@@eddiebell9486 Yeah my bad, turns out the game is so broken I literally wasted 70 GB of drive space, sorry.
@QUAD849 Get to the point?
how do you pirate a game?
Gotta love how sorrowful Charlie sounds whenever he accidentally kills/Kevin straight up murders 💀
What a true "gangster"
Kills/straight up murders Kevin
@@erso_returned2530 gangstar
This series had a DLC weapon that literally shoves a probe up someone's ass until they die from it... Yet the words "Rim Jobs" was too offensive to be in this game?
Im convinced this game is just a parody, i refuse to believe a game studio looked at this and said "yup thats some quality shit right there"
Its entirely possible in current year. Like Arthur Morgan said.
"This...this is over."
All the real talent is long gone, now the hacks "learned to code."
Keyword shit
I mean, it literally is "quality shit" a bit too literally, wish it was game and fun instead of shit
@@chilomine839 Felt this comment to my core. Crazy how bad games have gotten, 2000-2013 were the golden era of Gaming and we didn’t even know it.
Lmao
One of the main reason why I enjoy Saints Row 2 so much is the same reason why I enjoy the Yakuza series: the main narrative and story takes itself seriously with all the drama and action, while the side missions and stories are all light-hearted and shows off the game’s goofy side.
And unfortunately seems like Volition decided to go all goofy. Sure, goofiness is nice but we need some down-to-earth sections to get players relaxed inbetween missions.
SR3 and 4 still felt like they had a good balance between goofy and serious, SR4 moreso but the simulation part opened up a lot of the possibilities to be as goofy as they want, and honestly it really did suit the game because there was still a story to be told. they just wrote themselves into a corner...
14:22 charlie: “im gonna go for a wild stunt here”
Car: “flips and fails”
Charlie: “dope”
The car didn't flip and fail, he crashed into a tree. That's on him dude
@@HEARTLESSKAMUI but still, “dope”
It honestly sums up this game pretty well.
@@blockade4961 it does
the top speed thing is almost certainly an accessibility feature for people with bad reaction times
or bad PC's not being able to load in assets quick enough
This hands down has to be the most soul-sucking sad video game I have ever seen. It's truly impressive how draining it is just to watch.
Dead Rising 4
ong bro fr
Nah man that title rightfully belongs to AC odyssey
That's most Ubisoft games and it's only fitting that this game's graphic reminds me of Ubisoft titles lmao.
I’m enjoying it. I think people are just upset it doesn’t have 90’s gang culture anymore, which I understand because you’re drastically altering the image of the series, but I’ve had nothing but fun playing it so far and I think the characters are pretty funny if you don’t have a stick up your butt.
It's amazing how much this game misses the spirit of the originals. Better off making it an entirely unrelated game with a new name and no connection to the franchise.
They sorta did with agents of mayhem, that also flopped
Good thing I won't buy this game thanks to review from gamer like our man , skill up and so on. Those writer behave like far right idiots since they don't know how to write proper story and character development.
@@kanthanesankandiah760 the developers are left? So no this is the opposite of anything a “far right” person would make lmfao
@@kanthanesankandiah760 Are you serious? They outspokenly decided to be on the opposite of what you claim, all i can say is "it hurts itself in it's confusion!"
Yeah
I really wasn't expecting Dr. Disrespect to be the first enemy in this game.
@DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE OK I won't now fack off
@@I_quit_trolling_now no you're patrick
@DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE ok i wont
@@ethancobb4002 easy
@Based B0t Damn bro you good?
2:57 What good manners. The other guy just stands there patiently while you murder his friend as slowly as possible
ive never seen a character look so dried out and wet at the same time, Mr. moist is truely an iconic character of saints row
Dry and wet would that get us droist “?
Driost
The budget went into the character customization, then slowly dwindled with everything else
Half the tattoos I put on my character don’t even show 😭💀
@@trixiepuffman285 lmao, correction, the budget went into the copyrighted music used in the game
@@notadaytrader wtf are you talking about correction?
@@notadaytrader wtf are you talking about correction?
@@trixiepuffman285 he probably meant to reply to the original comment but pressed your comment accidentally instead
When I heard we were getting another Saints Row, I was excited. When I heard it was a reboot, I was worried. Here we are a few years later. I was right to be worried.
We was ALL worried...we expected that result.
Especially after the devs said years ago: "sarkeesian is right about gaming"
A reboot of what? I don’t remember a slack jog Stewie Griffin in any of the previous games
To be fair the games were never actually that great. They've aged terribly. This was a series that probably deserved to just die out.
I'm not surprised that it's bad at all, I'm more so surprised an angered by how little it even resembles a Saints Row game. Literally nothing about the plot, characters, setting, or humor feels like the earlier SR games. If the gameplay were dogshit but they at least got the world/tone right I'd be less upset, but this isn't a Saints Row game outside of the branding and minor lip service. Hell, the fact they changed jokes after being *afraid to upset anyone* just shows how out of touch they are with the series.
It boggles the mind how large Dev teams can work on games for years and still put out stuff like this. Even if it wasn't a buggy mess, it would still be a horrible, horrible game.
Something tells me the QA team was ignored, or the devs weren't given enough time/communication to fix what QA found.
@@TaoScribble agreed. It even had an escort mission for fucks sake in 2022
@@TaoScribble To a degree maybe. But every dev team still is a corporate ladder from devs to team leaders and executives. It's hard to believe that none of the people responsible saw that this was a complete train wreck. There's people who have very large paychecks and bonuses riding on the success of projects like this.
they probably were on drugs
Bugs can fix the technical issues and performance issues but not the game.
Why would they set this game in a desert? That just sets you up to have the most bland looking environment possible
it could have worked but you're 100 percent right, they just did it because haha desert were drive car haha. it makes it easy to justify long flat stretches of land for open world driving. They just wanted to pump this shitshow out.
because city maps are played out
I actually like the town design reminds of one and two
Deserts can be done great, San Andreas and GTA V are both good examples. Those deserts feel real
I suspect they wanted to do a Fury Road parody and made a whole game around that one idea.
I never knew Charlie had the guts to play mobile games for 30 minutes, more power to you man
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
Bruh he plays stable guys
@@King_epic_face that game is actually fun tho
7:10
Am I the only person that thought. “You’re criminals! Why do you need to pay back your loans?”
When this game came out. Since, that’s the whole motivation for the story.
I’d like to point out the fact Volition said they would give Saints Row 2 a proper fix almost 3 years ago. Only 2 people were working on it and sadly NinjaIdol died (the other person working on the patch and made Gentlemen of the Row mod.) meaning only 1 person is working on it. So while 1 guy is trying to fix the best Saints Row in the series Volition crew or heads of Volition decided to waste their time making this game, insult players who criticize the games direction (players who are long time fans) and leave behind some iconic Saints Row stuff like the names of the companies for the sake of being more “sensitive” and leave the “edgy” past behind.
Them changing rimjobs is so baffling. Like who in their right mind would get upset by that when playing what's supposed to be a saints row game of all things. It's just as confusing and makes as little sense as rockstar saying they're getting rid of or toning down the edgy jokes, or dark humor and stereotyping, and etc for GTA 6 when that's literally a large part of what makes GTA
They legit shot themselves in the foot for GTA 6 to takeover the genre for next couple years again lmao
Not to mention they straight up got rid of the old african american voice actor. Like that voice was iconic since Saints Row 2 and they axed him like he was nothing. Fuck Volition.
So the patch is still in the works? I thought it was just the guy who passed away working on it. Volition basically, in promoting this turd, disowned the original games as games they wouldn’t make now. So I don’t have much faith in them wanting them fixed or remembered. Let alone what we should’ve got instead, a remaster of 1 and 2. But now I wouldn’t trust them to do that as they’d sanitize the hell out of them
@@trial_with_an_error9687 dude was actually in it since sr1
27:28 had me crying, never have I ever seen AI willing to literally die while driving that often 😂
What a shame. I played the hell out of Saints Row 3 on the PS3, was one of my favorite games. So much so that when they remastered it for next gen consoles I bought it again just so I could reminisce. I’ve always loved the adult humor in the Saints Row series, it’s what kind of set it apart from other games in the genre. Soon as I heard that they were making a Saints Row game for 2022 that was reflective with “the times,” I knew it was gonna be terrible. The entire point of the series was to be over the top and inappropriate. I remember there being a mission in SR3 where you break into a BDSM club to free a pimp, have a shootout, and flee in chariots pulled by gimps. Or who can forget the classic Penthouse mission where you skydive out of a helicopter into a pool at the top of a skyscraper and fight prostitute assassins to Kanye West’s “Power.” RIP Saints Row. 😔
"I threw that dude from his own car into their car and they do not give a fuck."
Ah, these police are former San Fran PD I see.
Everyone knew this game would be cringeworthy sanitized version of Saints Row from the trailers and developer interviews... but somehow it actually managed to be even worse than expected thanks to being a buggy mess on top of all the cringe XD
That's what happens when you hire based on pronouns instead of skill.
@@billywashere6965 unnecessary homophobia is so pathetic
@@doobore I'm assuming that might be a bad thing if it actually was a thing.
@@billywashere6965 are you saying that homophobia isn't a thing?
@@headofvengarl8893 LOL no one is afraid of them, hombre.
I liked when the Monster Truck, you know, a notoriously loud type of vehicle, is nearly dead silent when opening the engine up on a desert highway. Must be the new electric model.
its a shame how these companies put such small effort in games nowadays.
If there wasnt a sea of speds who buy garbage like this just for nostalgia bait it wouldn't happen, they just re-make a game and totally destroy what it once was and even though its happened again and again for years people still pre-order this trash, MW2 will be the next example of this.
@@tommysanchez4757 on the money about MW2.. these big companies are fucking everything up
@@tommysanchez4757 "sea of speds" The ableism was uncalled for.
@@jamesglovecrazy If you unironically use the term ableism you're a shallow husk of a brain and you should get off that high horse of yours and quit sniffing your own farts. Create a term for everything you find offensive if you must, to force others to abide by your ridiculous crybaby rules is a sign of a complete narcissist, if you had any real struggle in your life the word "sped" would not have the power to offend you, you ruin the internet in hopes of proving yourself a good person but we all know its a façade.
This game feels like doing your homework the morning its due
There’s one quote that has stuck with me since saints row two and that quote is, “The Saints used to mean something, the only ones that seem to know that now is me (the playa), and Johnny!”
Yup, fucking hardcore mother fuckers that were psychopathic killers and conquerors in modern times.
They weren't this...cringe bullshit.
“At least he’s invincible so he’s got that going.” *seconds later* “JESUS KEVIN!!! We already got his car…”
i love kevin
Kevin showed no mercy
26:32
To be fair on the missing music, EVERYTHING is DMCAable these days, even if you literally own the music, so the only SAFE option is to make it silent.
I wish someone could sue dmca company or some shit
I heard Tribe's I Lost My Wallet in El Segundo??
@@joshgroban5291 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is what DMCA stands for. Hard to sue a law sadly.
@@MrDeadpool78 Had to check the comments just to make sure someone had acknowledged it lmao. Great song, love Tribe
How would your own music be DMCA’d. Would you DMCA your self????
the moment I saw the studio and some rag publications talk about how positively "inclusive" and "diverse" this game was I knew it was going to be trash.
Those buzzwords are red flags at this point.
Flags signifying that they put out a stinker, they know they put out a stinker, and they need to find SOMETHING to cover up the smell a little.
At this point they need to hire a different CEO who doesmt bow down to PC culture.
@@gohanlopez5330 nah its not so much that really its just that when I see that stuff I get ghostbusters reboot vibes. Like they know they put out a stinker and they're trying to cover up the smell by getting moralizing terminally online twitter folk to go to the mat for it.
they've just turned the whole game into the free guy game in all of the worst ways
I love how the enemies just sit there while you kill everyone and wait their turn
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
Just like Assassin's Creed and Shadow of Mordor. Christ, between that and several other things about this game, are we so sure it wasn't actually made by Ubisoft?
"Games should be 70$"
-the game they want 70$ for
I hate paying 60 dollars for every game 😭
I see what you’re going for but this game only costs 60.
if theres one thing I can't complain about this game, at least in my country, is the price. Here in Brazil a new game is usually R$250, this one was R$127.
@@ggr. 60 is still way too much for a game like this
@@ggr. New ps5 games are usee 70 so i assumed, also yea the point still stands. i would def pay 70$ for someing actually good
At 11:57 the person sitting at the table gets sent to the moon
The character creation for women feels like an afterthought. In SR4 my friend and I were strutting down the street in stilettos and fishnets twerking on top of cars. Where is that in this game? There’s not even a feminine walk style so my lady character walks like she always about to punch you in the face. Also that triangle body slider has always been awful but at least in the older games they had *some* hips and boobs. We can’t get that invested in the gameplay because we aren’t connected to our characters.
@@billywashere6965 That's not what we're talking about, take your weird politics elsewhere
It is 100% intentional, especially considering the presets. It's like they were trying really hard to stop players from creating attractive characters.
@@cubicpsychotic5616 It has to do with that. The developers don’t want to offend anyone by making women look too feminine
I wish they had sliders to make better female body shapes for my character. They create a character lacked that when it was being improved in other saints row games.
Saints row 4 fucking sucked as does this game.
Never in my life i felt so ashamed to be a Saints fan.
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Eh, I stay with 2 and 3, also Gat out of Hell is pretty decent from my memory. it's been years since I played that one
So what do the fans hate about it? I played the first one recently and its garbage
this is Saints Row in name only
@@jackjohnaroni3 really hasn't aged well. Replaying the remaster I got about 3 hours in and found it incredibly bland. 2 on the otherhand minus the piss poor port has held up well.
I don’t feel bad for Volition, after people criticized the trailer and they just said “fuck you” and “trolled” their fans on Twitter who had concerns about the game. Don’t feel bad for them if they go bankrupt because they made a game for the type of people who don’t play games yet are offended by them.
I find it ironic that in Saints Row 1 and 2 they insulted this type of game. Now it’s all they know how to make.
Volition also literally told people straight up, "We remastered Saints Row 3 before 1 and 2 because it sold well" and told fans to fuck off.
They only respond to money, so I stopped giving them money for their shit personalities.
It's a real shame though. I would pay double price for a proper SR2 remaster. This game had such potential. Then the trailer dropped.
@@dontreadmyprofilepicture5552 loser
Some people just like being wrong, they live as a good, respected companies, like Blizzard or Volition, and one day it's just a "i want to be wrong... it's boring being successful" mood, you know?
Whoever decided that this voice was good enough to add to this game should never be allowed to work on anything other than a silent film for the rest of their career.
The voice was the best part of the game imo
@@stfu7203 only because it’s so bad that it adds comedic value to an otherwise valueless game
@@sn0wmankuro exactly lol
I remember saints row being about gangs and drugs and seriousness. Creating bonds with characters and they die so you’d get revenge. This look family friendly😂
Saints Row was never serious.
It was never really serious but the first two did an amazing job combining humour and self awareness with serious moments and great fleshed out characters. They didn't take themselves too seriously and focused on fun and humour, while taking themselves seriously enough that you could get invested and deliver some hard hitting moments.
Even the original writer wanted nothing to do with this lmao
@@halo10001umm did you even play 1 & 2?
sr 3, 4 and gat out of hell fans hate this as much as 1&2 fans do
12:28 That was some actual Tom and Jerry levels of cartoony wackiness lol.
to anyone who is reading this I hope whatever you're going through ends up being alright and whatever you're struggling with ends up being okay. you got this!
That was amazing
This went from hilarious to sad real quick. This is so bad it's shocking. It's like they deliberately tried to kill their franchise.
They don’t care anymore it’s just a cash-grab. In this day and age your better off buying indie games like Ready or Not, Squad, Ground Branch, etc. The only game studio I have any faith left in anymore is Rockstar.
@@mammoths_4229 Rockstar?
The one that ignores their newest game in order to frantically pump life support into an old one?
That Rockstar?
@@mammoths_4229 ah yes Rockstar, the guys who are still beholden to Strauss "recurrent consumer spending opportunities" Zelnick. you might as well just get it over with and call Tencent the last bastion of video gaming the world over.
@@mammoths_4229 why the fuck would you have faith in Rockstar? they took rdr2 multiplayer out into a field and executed it like a dog for not printing enough money from brain dead children and man children through buying in game money. Not to mention most of the original talent that made the gta games we know and love left because of how awful development was on rdr2.
@@mammoths_4229 damn you must play some dogshit games if rockstar is the only devs you respect 😂
>Charlie turns speed limit down to 50
>Who is this for?
Game journalists, Charlie, they are the ones that need all the help they can get