Video: Saints Row Drops A More Extensive Trailer Following Fan Backlash

Actually looks good, wasn’t a fan of the originals, this looks more up my street

I like the direction so far.

Yep, looks like a Saints Row reboot to me, which is to say another rags-to-riches storyline involving a bunch of small-time criminals taking on their infinitely bigger and better equipped rivals via the means of excessively violent, totally mad and gloriously over the top mayhem.

Not sure what people were expecting, to be honest...

(Insert outraged comment here)

Also I like the look of this

A reboot was absolutely the right thing to do.
This trailer was good.

It looks like a Saints Row game to me, something between two and three, pitched about right, one was too primitive and four was just not very good at all.

A side note, I actually enjoyed Gat out of Hell. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I thought it looked good, but seeing more is always welcome.

Looks like it might be good it’s just not saints row. If they would have called it anything else but saints row I think the reaction would be better because it is essentially a new ip with all these changes.

If it is anything other then "South Park ft GTA" I want nothing to do with it.

The whole draw of the original games were a GTA like experience but in a package that didn't take itself seriously.

To add to this, the first one took itself rather seriously and was pretty much a sleeper you never heard of. When 2 came out, and wound up being the bombastic show it was, that is when Saint's Row became a known name.

I mean one of the side quests is driving a sewage tanker and literally spraying the town, brown.

When they stated the tone would be different, that was when the red flags popped up and sirens went off. If it is going to be another generic open world game I might as well stick to the hundredth release of GTAV.

Hope there not above putting another secret sex doll dungeon somewhere.. and still give me streaking missions.

@InterceptorAlpha @Gr81 That's exactly it. The OG trailer just looked bad/generic. This looks good/generic. But it doesn't belong in the Saint's Row franchise, it looks like it's own thing. "That other GTA knock-off from Volition." SR built its own identity aside from being a GTA knock-off. This looks like it actually takes itself seriously the same way GTA does. Heck, because of that it'll probably sell better than SR. But don't call it SR if it's not.

Plus the Fortnite art direction is so obnoxiously blatant. If that didn't come out of a focus group, I'll eat my hipster beanie hat. If the art direction was more unique I might even be able to overlook the generic parts of it.

This trailer salvages it from looking like a totally bad game, but it still doesn't convince me it's part of Saint's Row. And the combined GTA+Fortnite cloning makes it come off as a corporate amalgamation to have Deep Silver's version of "what the kids are playing these days."

@TimG13 “Not sure what people were expecting, to be honest...”

Purple dildos.

I’ve never played the series — the free copy of Saints Row 3 I just nabbed on Epic Games Store will be my introduction — but the identity of the series from the outside is just that.

I was neutral on the reboot, but the more I read into the complaints and developer comments, I completely understand their point of view. The game looks more like Watch Dogs 2 by way of Fortnite than a Saint’s Row game, and the developers seem to have contempt for it’s diehard fans. I don’t think “woke” is the right way to frame it at all, but it’s definitely looks like they’re trying launch a “metaverse” style brand off the backs of the fans they’re a little too happy to be leaving behind.

It still looks like Saints Row: Hello Fellow Kids.

This reboot is fueled by the same thinking that created the Devil May Cry reboot with their apparent embarrassment of the source material, and I am expecting this to meet the same fate.

I can understand people not liking the looks of the new Saints. Saints Row 3 and 4 - my favorites - already had some ridiculous members with guys like that emo dude and gangs of kids with neon-trim on their club jackets and whatnot, but (and I realize this is entirely subjective) I can totally see "the line" being crossed when you start having Steve Urkel-looking hipster dudes and guys who are cooks because they watch Food Network in your gang or whatever they're pitching as "relatable" here.

That being said, it's simply not enough to go on yet to get a really good idea as to the tone of this one plays out over a whole game length yet. Though it says a lot that the rival gangs like the Idols seem to be more "Saints Row" than the new Saints...

Overall though, it looks quite a bit blander thanks to the more realistic characters/aesthetic a bit. Mostly though, the new setting looks bad. Going from the big, East Coast-style city to a sun-bleached, empty, Southwest Desert City is freakin' lame. It's the same way I feel about Cyberpunk; that original trailer (with that ♪Bullets song by Archive) made promises of a Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell nature that the actual game did not fulfill. Instead it was about running around future SoCal getting involved in the affairs of gangs of cyber latinos. The discussion around that game was rightfully dominated by bug reports and the sorry state it was in, but even BEYOND that, it's a disappointment exclusively because of the setting.

This too looks like a location that's poor for the source material. Its just not a Saints Row kinda location, which is a shame when there's SO MANY cool cities and locations out there to take advantage of - this definitely seems like a direction that's much worse than previous settings. Just can the "travel agent speak" about sunsets and buttes, Volition. I will never understand the appeal of people wanting to go to places like this in real-life or setting movies/games there in fiction; it's too hot to the point where states like California burst into flames annually, it's too boring, yet it's too densely populated, and there's zero interesting culture. Ugh, there's nothing good about this kind of location. Why would we want to go there in video games? Unless it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland you're after (so you're good, Fallout New Vegas). Saints Row is about taking over a city, but like... who wants this city? It looks like a dump in the middle of a desert!

Agents of MAYHEM was a really, REALLY flawed game, but at least the setting of a futuristic Seoul was a really cool, fresh idea. Open world games need more of that. Sleeping Dogs taking us to Hong Kong, Watch Dogs 3 taking us to London, Yakuza 6 taking us to Onomichi - we need more of that kind of variety. Where are the open world games set in Sydney? Amsterdam? Rio de Janeiro? Moscow? Can we just cut it out with the boring California-inspired deserts for a good, long time?

The gameplay here looks fine though, I admit. It's nice to see that instead of stupid, pre-rendered trailers that show nothing. It's just the stuff wrapped around it that's harder to swallow with these tiny glimpses - it's gonna remain a question mark until it releases and people can get some serious impressions as to how it plays out. Regardless of if people are onboard or not by then, let's just hope it all ships in a much better state than the undercooked and disappointing Agents of MAYHEM.

"We created a group of characters you would want to invite in your living room everyday"

I actively try to avoid weird people like this everyday. The only way they get in my living in on the nightly news as they report the destruction in Seattle.

To me, this is as much of a Saints Row game as DMC is a Devil May Cry game. It might be a good game, maybe…. But it just isn’t the sequel I was waiting and hoping for.

On a that note, I’ll continue to hold hope for a Saints Row 5 that continues at the end of 4, or at the end of Gat Out Of Hell, just like we ended up getting Devil May Cry 5.

I loved the last part with super powers.
I'm not sure about this one.
So many great games coming out.
When i receive the steam deck, i will play this game.

Looks good to me. The people taking issue with the reboot need to look at a calander.

Yeah as a fan of the old games I'm going to skip this. The old games subverted expectations because it looked like GTA but was way different. This looks like an Ubisoft game trying to convince you no no no we are different and cool.

I loved agent's of mayhem. Just sayin...

that saints row reboot trailer looked fantastic. looks like far cry and GTA had a baby. this might be a day one buy for me

The last game had an Alien Invasion with Matrix themed superpowers and a dubstep gun so anything less seems like a step backwards in ambition.