Topic: Saints Row: From Gangsta to WTF?

[tendoboy1984]

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?

[magicpixie]

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.

[RABicle]

They felt limited in the people tehy could market to.

[Shaymin]

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.