Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: tendoboy1984 on August 10, 2013, 10:56:01 AM
Title: Saints Row: From Gangsta to WTF?
Post by: tendoboy1984 on August 10, 2013, 10:56:01 AM
I don't get what happened to this series. It used to be a competent GTA clone about the gangsta life (basically San Andreas in HD). Then the folks at Volition took some huge hits of LSD and turned the game into a cartoony over-the-top chaotic mess with SR3 and SR4.
WTF happened between SR2 and SR3 to warrant such a huge shift in tone?
Title: Re: Saints Row: From Gangsta to WTF?
Post by: magicpixie on August 10, 2013, 12:58:37 PM
I dunno, but I like it.
I read an interview with one of the devs a while back, and they were discussing this topic. They felt that GTA was such an enormous IP with a huge team and huge resources, that competing directly with them was stupid. I think they felt that GTA does what GTA does, and they needed something to help them stand out from the crowd.
And I love that Saint's Row IV is going to be even crazier.
Title: Re: Saints Row: From Gangsta to WTF?
Post by: RABicle on August 11, 2013, 12:42:11 AM
They felt limited in the people tehy could market to. (http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215548996_cdCeq-L-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Saints Row: From Gangsta to WTF?
Post by: Shaymin on August 11, 2013, 08:23:34 AM
They saw the road GTA went down - hyper serious, so far up their own ass they get through their intestines - and decided to be the exact opposite.
