The Death Of Saints Row

[@officerwalter8877]

Saints row was undeniably a video game that exists

[@CrimsonBladezz]

better then elden ring

[@EGGPLAYUH420j9]

Just like morbius

[@nasbukhari696]

@@CrimsonBladezz obvious troll

[@maxxpheonix8470]

I liked it

[@officerwalter8877]

@@maxxpheonix8470 ok

[@captainamedeus7047]

As a wise man once said. “These new characters look like people the old gang would kill”

[@mimictear6788]

Honestly, they seem like the quirky underbosses for a gang that's just a worse version of the Deckers.

[@jonasdeitrich3290]

Maybe that should be the sequel. The Real Saints never hear of the phony Saints and think they can move in to Stilwater. So the Real Saints set out to kill them.

[@Weiswolfe]

@@mimictear6788 yeah, thisg group looks more like millenial fans of the saints row gang trying too hard to look alike and act like the real thing, and failing

[@NicholasBrakespear]

Correction: These new characters look like people the old gang would kill accidentally on the way to a side mission.

[@billsmith30]

They wouldn't even be killed by the main cast. You'd see them getting stomped in the back of cutscenes by some random Saints jobbers

[@LowGneru]

to me, the best part of the whole saints row debacle was the ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE shown by developers when talking about this game lmao

[@maysonstorm4956]

That shit was awe inspiring, wasn't it?

[@therealgamer619]

@@jonatanrobledo9812 they also sold these stored farts to people which is called new saints row, they totally destroyed the franchise's name and reputation.🥲

[@irshadtyo]

The AUDACITY they had 😂😭

[@MuthaFuckaJones.]

And the shills oh my God

[@grayearly3116]

Or the community director who privated her account after calling the whole community terrorist.

[@Reezy884]

I just don’t understand. They literally had the blueprint! We EVEN tried to warn them with the first trailer they released. But nope…….they didn’t listen

[@Sethasss]

woke idiots think theyr god and they know evrything better .

[@tipanca10]

Tbh by the time the trailer released it had to have been a few years into development which is too late to start a new

[@GeteMachine]

@@tipanca10 Which is what made it worse, they did it all early, enclosed, with no opinions outside of their own, ignoring fan feedback, and then used that as an excuse. "well we cant change anything now".

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

They didn't just not listen, they actively mocked and insulted the fans who were basically begging for them to not release a garbage game.

[@ItsLelingTime]

@@nigeltheoutlaw That damn “Hater gonna hate” gif….

[@SynthLizard8]

Why does everyone over-look the fact that they are struggling for rent and yet the shirtless guy wants to buy a very expensive waffle maker, Neenah is working on building a custom car and the protagonist just buys a hundred knives on the TV show?

[@chriscormac231]

Because it accurately reflects the customers the devs want, people with no self control who can't think past their own impulses while railing against capitalism while too stupid to do something as basic as budgeting

[@LoneWandererCollin]

@@chriscormac231that’s a shitty way of story telling. Gangsters should not have to worry about stupid first world problems.

[@GeteMachine]

Nobody is overlooking how stupid the game's plot is. As someone who really liked SR1-2 for its story and its well done understanding of the politics in the story, I am well aware of how unbelievably ignorant, and generally stupid the reboot's plot is. This game is about people who live in condos thinking not having a top price waffle maker is a struggle. Turning Saints Row into Friends is right. Like what crime drama even out today would have a plot and characters like this?. The game feels like just a mashup of tweets that they told each other, and wrote out for their plot or something. Like their writer and director can tell you they didn't know what they were doing without telling us they didn't know what they were doing. The plot isnt even bad for its genre, it doesn't make a lick of sense for whatever it was about let alone it being a poor representation of gangsters, even if they were deconstructive. Gangsters come from poverty, but this game isnt about that. There is no way it could have been that hard to just research shit instead of just trying to appeal to journalists and twitter.

[@palladiamorsdeus]

And it goes from 'I can pitch in twenty!' to 'Lets go rob a store!' in the span of about a minute. At this point in time at least two of you have reputable jobs and the store is a block from your house, no one wears masks and you literally murder the police who come after you. The game has no sense of pacing at all.

[@mariokarter13]

There's a joke in here somewhere about a Starbucks barista complaining about their student loans from the latest iPhone.

[@catrionasloanei6847]

The nail in the coffin calling your critics who are fans terrorists, and thanking mods in the end credits who made rape jokes and helped people dox critics of the game.

[@thesmolbean488]

Damn that’s actually pretty fucked up, didn’t know they stood that low

[@zacharyallbrook5162]

Wait they even had mods literally doxx people for criticising the game how can they call us terrorists when they doxx people and then credit those same mods in the games credits. what the frying are you fucking kidding me

[@nousername2942]

I love how their "Community Manager" has been cowering behind a private account for months now after saying that.

[@Devilsblight86]

I knew about the terrorists comments and the devs thanking the Discord mods, but I didn't know the mods helped dox people! Also the rape jokes, did they hope people get raped or did they make fun of critics who turned out to be rape victims? Either way, that's fucked.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@nousername2942 what did that manager say?

[@Bryan21381]

Ah, the game that killed a studio & absorbed the remains into gearbox. I'm certain randy pitchford is gonna have fun with that new talent from the dead volition.

[@thegamingprozone1941]

This game and new tales of borderlands are literally the same.

[@Bryan21381]

@@thegamingprozone1941 in defense, least gearbox is still around unlike volition.

[@Toostupid2read]

@@Bryan21381 a fate worse than death IMO

[@TayRich93]

@@Toostupid2read lmao I read that in mimirs voice from god of war

[@mgshock]

Probably put them to work on another "blink and you'll miss it" online shooter, then dump the lot of them.

[@Butter625]

I’ve never seen a game unite the entire fan base to hate it. (Edit) i know about other games I’m just being stupid

[@FreeAimDog]

well there was diablo immortal

[@RagingCookie127]

@@FreeAimDog I could be thinking of Diablo Immortal but I'm sure it's older, wasn't there an E3 or something yeaaaars back where Blizzard hyped up a game then it turned out to be a mobile game or a card game and someone asked "is this an early april fool's prank"?

[@badatmathhh]

Fallout

[@Butter625]

@@FreeAimDog oh yeah

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

Resident Evil? Devil May Cry? Fallout? Really never seen it?

[@thatisemtile1314]

The Saints Row reboot looks like Saints Row tried to parody Saints Row and then forgot what they were making was SAINTS ROW.

[@thesmolbean488]

That was a perfectly accurate description lol

[@breathlessdynasty9928]

Bro u x buggin 3 and 4 were good Gat out of hell was a spin off, what did you expect ? Also they did exactly what Gat said in the opening of part 3 “ traded in there dicks for pussies” how appropriate gaming is fucked from here on out barring a few exceptions but as far as everything that’s a huge corporation is pretty much done for because they are using games to be divisive rather than just making them fun. The people who are fans of the series aren’t the same people they are trying to cater to. Saints row is a spoof or parody of GTA, that’s the identity and they scrapped it. Also why would u be a gang to pay off debts??? Gangsters don’t pay debts they run off on the plug like what??!!

[@BigYates]

This is actually accurate lmaao

[@hawken796]

I love how this video came out just after the news that Volition will be shut down. Perfection.

[@crowfather0249]

They're being shutdown? I thought they were just switching publishers. Then again, depending on who it is, it might as well be the same thing.

[@hawken796]

@@crowfather0249 they are gonna be renamed and absorbed into gearbox. Which is also owned by embracer. So legally they're being shut down.

[@crowfather0249]

@@hawken796 Oh. Well they only have themselves to blame for that.

[@_______________2001]

💀💀💀 damn

[@bnk3rmk259]

@@hawken796 OOF

[@ravipathak4614]

Saints Row didn't just die, it was murdered

[@addgame7961]

It was then reanimated by a necrophilia, to act as their lover.

[@AWholeLegionary]

Right on. But I think it has more to do with the corporate hierarchy that helped murder saints row. Volition is on the bottom of the food chain due to how many companies had owned it so... Saints Row wasn't just murdered, it was assassinated.

[@mgshock]

It should have been left for dead after SR4.

[@km-js7ws]

@@mgshock tbh with gat out of hell they had the perfect opportunity to reset the series to any point in the story, hell they could've rebooted the OG saints row series with updated graphics etc.

[@BxPanda7]

@@km-js7ws Imagine if the SR reboot was a merge of SR 1 & 2 with updated graphics and more polished gameplay, they would have made billions.

[@sarahjamesinasarah6423]

Genuinely never been happier not buying a game…

[@UserXIII7]

That 60 was better spent elsewhere

[@aaronlabombard1768]

you must have not gotten the new modern warfare

[@fransiscoh9450]

@@aaronlabombard1768 that game is fire wym! Literally all the bros online are playing that game n have others abandoned I haven’t touched gta V even with all the special events

[@sinnermanxr]

@@fransiscoh9450main story is boring af

[@fransiscoh9450]

@@sinnermanxr tbh the story really was mid😂 definitely been better

[@nillypc42]

Saints Row is basically what happens when a company goes bonkers with game ideas and then proceeds to kill a franchise with bad decisions. Little Timmy will like it, but the old fans will miss the brain power that was slapped into the game.

[@prezmil4282]

He won’t.

[@breathlessdynasty9928]

Bro u x buggin 3 and 4 were good Gat out of hell was a spin off, what did you expect ? Also they did exactly what Gat said in the opening of part 3 “ traded in there dicks for pussies” how appropriate gaming is fucked from here on out barring a few exceptions but as far as everything that’s a huge corporation is pretty much done for because they are using games to be divisive rather than just making them fun. The people who are fans of the series aren’t the same people they are trying to cater to. Saints row is a spoof or parody of GTA, that’s the identity and they scrapped it. Also why would u be a gang to pay off debts??? Gangsters don’t pay debts they run off on the plug like what??!!

[@GeteMachine]

Its becoming a trend now. Boarderlands is doing the same thing with the same type of "creative direction."

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

Saints Row is what happens when you hire progressives who hate the game and its fans to make a reboot of the game for the fans.

[@bigfatcrocodile3271]

@@breathlessdynasty9928 i liked 4, that is if the game wouldnt crash every 5 seconds

[@Dabajaws]

My dad raised me up on the first two games and we played 3 and 4 and thought they were okayish but not as good of the previous installments, when we heard about this game we got a little excited. Fast forward to release day and my dad buys it and we both play it and we kept our expectations low because we heard about the backlash and it was something.....we beat the game to get the full verdict and my dad then says to me "this is hot fucking trash" and i agree. Thankfully saints row 2 was on games with gold so we fired that up and let the title screen music run and let the good memories erase the trauma of this experience

[@lienomzekon4763]

your dad sounds amazing

[@Dabajaws]

@@lienomzekon4763 he's a bit of a clean freak but i wouldn't trade him for anyone else

[@wellsshady]

3 was easily on the level of the first two

[@starkiller007]

@@wellsshady No it wasn't. The map is bland and there's barely any activities. Enough with the gaslighting. 3 was a bad game.

[@keifujitora6587]

@@starkiller007 This reboot makes 3 look great in comparison

[@lordofgeese2739]

Embracer just merged Volition with Gearbox which means this is the third time the Saint's Row franchise has been killed off.

[@breathlessdynasty9928]

3 and 4 were good Gat out of hell was a spin off, what did you expect ? Also they did exactly what Gat said in the opening of part 3 “ traded in there dicks for pussies” how appropriate gaming is fucked from here on out barring a few exceptions but as far as everything that’s a huge corporation is pretty much done for because they are using games to be divisive rather than just making them fun. The people who are fans of the series aren’t the same people they are trying to cater to. Saints row is a spoof or parody of GTA, that’s the identity and they scrapped it. Also why would u be a gang to pay off debts??? Gangsters don’t pay debts they run off on the plug like what??!!

[@jordandennis6794]

Good. I hope it never comes back

[@GeteMachine]

@@jordandennis6794 I don't trust them to make anything good at this point.

[@bnk3rmk259]

Perhaps it's for the best for the franchise to die, It's never in good hands when the devs attacked their old fanbase for wanting it to be like the old games again.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Saints Row devs: *gets completely different and more "marketable" characters in a bid to make more money* Also Saints Row devs: *antagonize the fanbase that they want to get more money from*

[@MLASELU]

I wanted the story to continue. Traveling through space and time with Santa Claus and the Saints seemed like fun.

[@BxPanda7]

Then the boss wakes up in a hospital bed and realizes this whole ordeal was just a drug fueled coma after being nearly murdered, the whole gang is in shambles and you have to rebuild your empire from scratch. There, fixed it.

[@Leonfei]

@@BxPanda7 Oh my god, that's the perfect lead in to a reboot of saint's row 2. The rest of the series was a literal fever dream after nearly getting blown up. And I say that as someone who enjoyed 3 and 4,and even GooH

[@GTAVictor9128]

@@BxPanda7 Or maybe it was all part of the Gangstas in Space movie they were shooting at the end of SR3...

[@GeteMachine]

NO.

[@donaldw3231]

The animosity that so many movie/tv/game makers have for the people that would purchase their products is bizarre.

[@somebrokecollegeguy]

And now for another edition of "How much did Alex suffer to make this video"

[@AlexWebb101]

Been living off monster energy and 3 hours sleep for the past 2 weeks

[@somebrokecollegeguy]

@@AlexWebb101 Your videos are always worth it. Some of the best I've seen on youtube.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

@@AlexWebb101 lol that’s crazy Glad my boy uploaded, been craving this more than freaking crack

[@chetankalyanreddyarabandi2818]

@@AlexWebb101 please make a video for review of more spidey games just like you are a massive fan of spider man I am a massive fan of you

[@kingkilla777]

@@AlexWebb101 Dude sleep

[@Larry]

Well Volition was absorbed by Gearbox and now have Randy Pitchford as a boss. A fitting punishment!

[@thebudgetgamer]

Larry Bundy!

[@klaussone]

I don't know, I feel like this is like the concept of hell: An infinite punishment, for a finite crime.

[@franklindean8593]

I love that I can go to a random video and see Larry Bundy in the commits

[@MazTheOriginalGod]

@@klaussone I wouldn't say it was a finite crime.

[@spectre.shadows]

A fate worse than death.

[@EternalStorm796]

Are we really in a time where Street Fighter has better character creation & customization than Saints Row...

[@playathesaints9599]

No but we are in a time where tha games is more culturally accurate to the gangster subculture than Saints Row

[@lostforever773]

No

[@Thor-Orion]

@@playathesaints9599 what?

[@playathesaints9599]

@@Thor-Orion Street Fighter has been more like the gangster culture than the Saints Roe has been for a decade.

[@Evanz111]

This just isn’t true though

[@anthonypellegrino9845]

Sometimes it pays to just give the fans what they literally ask for instead of doing the opposite

[@Fenrize]

"Sometimes"?

[@CatNigga]

@@Fenrize Sometimes the community is stupid. Sometimes the community is right.

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

@@CatNigga Name three times a company listened to fans and it backfired on them. Because I can list literally dozens of cases of them ignoring, mocking, and insulting fans while promising to ruin the thing they can love, and it failing miserably.

[@jakerockznoodles]

​@@nigeltheoutlaw Pretty much every bad game where they didn't mock or ignore fans? Like most game developers try to listen to fans and probably around half of all games are pretty bad. It's harder to come up with specific examples because people trying to listen to their audience don't say that's what they're doing, it's usually what companies say after they've already done the opposite and they're now doing PR damage control.

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

@@jakerockznoodles No examples is about what I figured I'd get.

[@Hepheat75]

RIP Saints Row, I wonder what other game franchises will be ruined next.

[@NeroLeMorte]

Gta next then future arkham games after suicide squad.

[@3adir_]

Fable franchise, the upcoming fable reboot is being written for "modern audiences" Splinter cell franchise, the upcoming remake is rewritten for "modern audiences" Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic franchise, the upcoming remake is being rewritten for "modern audiences"

[@thegamingprozone1941]

@@3adir_ oh no not good poor Sam

[@YoungBasedChefBeezy]

@@NeroLeMorte nah I have faith in gta

[@riven4121]

@@YoungBasedChefBeezy I don't. Everyone that made GTA as a series what it was left the company years ago including one of Rockstar's founders and the main writer and co producer for all of Rockstar's games, Dan Houser.

[@thebigquack6945]

8:45 They can take away physics, take away the saints, and retcon the story. BUT I DRAW THE LINE, at not being able to hit a fucking stone cold stunner on a random civilian anymore

[@damascusasticus4691]

I just find it funny that Saints Row, A LITERAL SLANG FOR DRUGS Is being targeted towards kids for lasers and hipsters. 10/10 would marketing again

[@playathesaints9599]

That's not what it means though

[@damascusasticus4691]

​@@playathesaints9599 Not anymore. That meaning's long gone now.

[@haddenthebarber4634]

Anyone here after Volition announced they were closing up? This really was the death of Saints Row.

[@WumboJumbo96]

You know you done f**ked up when you make Gat Out of Hell look good by comparison.

[@GeteMachine]

Considering that game was cringey to go that far. Whre the writers thought Shakespeare being a DJ and hum to wheels on the bus was peak comedy.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

​@@GeteMachine well that in tone with Saints Row 4, do they was at least consistent. Also their Shakespeare is sold his soul to the devil for his talent, and are badass spymaster. Also flight mechanic is amazing so i wouldn't call Gat Out of Hell bad (i had fun), its just barren, like early beta - some key mechanics are there but most of the game is not.

[@thebigquack6945]

The saints row franchise suffered the same fate as the Dead rising games What was once a great franchise falls flat

[@GeteMachine]

And boarderlands. Just ran it into the ground.

[@JereMecchia]

They both suffered what I like to call "Shrek effect". When first is good, second is even better and third onward is just downhill.

[@bnk3rmk259]

Just like Terminator!

[@water_doggo]

DR1 remake is on the way and I hope the history won't repeat itself

[@Slosten]

I had a good laugh last night when I went to see how people were reacting to Volition merging with Gearbox and saw that they had released a major patch for the game just hours prior. I laughed because literally every comment I read was either "they didn't fix X or Y" or "Z is now even worse after this patch." The most significant example was the aiming; I dropped the game before finishing it because of how fucking awful the aiming acceleration was, and apparently now it's even worse. I don't know how that's possible but I have no desire to reinstall the game and find out.

[@MartinMorning2]

No matter how hard volition tries they'll never be able to polish the turd that is saints row 2022

[@GeteMachine]

That as the funniest shit I read too. They were like "we went hard on this one. Bright future" and the game is still shit. Now some people saying all the NPCs are gone from their game. Delayed for 6 months and changed nothing, game is still a mess on release, 200 patches now post release, and its still busted. Where did they seriously find these programmers? Or were their priorities just way too absorbed in their stupid marketing, or thought their younger fans would just care about the customization? Like this reboot way too much money into optics, messaging and trying to shutdown feedback than actual work into it being a good game. Even non fans think its mediocre.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@GeteMachine dude I think the create a player was added last minute because of how negative the reaction was to all four characters in the trailer. Because the editor is nearly the exact same as 4 only with less options.

[@hertzwave8001]

@@Thor-Orion this is my conspiracy theory as well, they made such a ruckus with that mental-illness haircut character that was obviously supposed to be an actual person in the game

[@hertzwave8001]

@@GeteMachine it would have been funnier if it came out when elden ring did, we can make fun of western devs even more

[@FanBoyyyyyyyy]

I love how you can tell what show alex was watching when making these videos by looking at the edited clips

[@aldobobber7422]

I don’t watch Alex Webb but now I’m so confused. This is a direct copy off of the formula that Internet Historian has.

[@burningsexuality1540]

@@aldobobber7422 formula? It’s called editing. There’s no “copying” here. Anybody is allowed to edit memes into their videos.

[@aldobobber7422]

@@burningsexuality1540 not saying it is. I’m just saying it’s glaringly obvious as of who’s editing he is using. He makes good videos but it makes him look like a copycat

[@kriskater]

@@aldobobber7422 I mean I think it’s just a new style a video that includes moment to moment editing to match up with the scripts yes Internet historian is a big part of pioneering that but it’s everyone’s format to that they should be able to use

[@calvinmatthews1527]

THIS truly is the death of Saints Row. It's been a slow & very painful process 😔

[@fansee1368]

The only way I can see them turning this around is with *another* reboot, or a sequel with completely new developers. And the intro has to include the entire reboot cast getting fucking destroyed like Johnny Klebitz after meeting Trevor

[@Fenrize]

@@fansee1368 That seems way too good to be possible unfortunately

[@Strykerx31]

@@fansee1368 a Fucking escape pod lands on the crew, Johnny, The MC, and everyone just walk out.

[@GeteMachine]

Their arrogance with the fandom attitude caught up with them.

[@anothernobody1804]

@@fansee1368 nope. Just let the series die. It’s for the best

[@chickencurry420]

It's almost as if they would've been better off just giving the fans what they want instead of fighting us

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Insane managers live in a world where twitter zombies are their actual audience that buy millions of copies of the game, and fans of the previous games (and quality in general) are tiny vocal minority Turned out they can't actually bring money from their imagined world into this one

[@keylime1237]

kiss the franchise goodbye, boys.

[@erso_returned2530]

Never cared about this franchise anyway but it's sad to see this woke shit ruining games.

[@keylime1237]

@@erso_returned2530 it's not woke. it's just terrible in every way possible

[@erso_returned2530]

@@keylime1237 It's definitely woke, don't even try to deny it cause it's just obvious.

[@keylime1237]

@@erso_returned2530 woke this woke that, i think it was the least of the problem with this game. everything about this game is terrible, you can tell it was someone's self insert fantasy.

[@erso_returned2530]

@@keylime1237 If it wasn't woke would it be good? Hell no but wokeness make it much much worse.

[@emmyjr1231]

Your videos feel like crack to me. Exciting, unpredictable and i can't get enough

[@AlexWebb101]

I will not be paying for your rehab bills

[@ryanwaignwright6857]

As a crackhead I will say most crack is actually pretty predictable

[@ryszakowy]

they literally ruined everything cheracters - shit taking over the city - literally gone cool story - non existent enemy variety - not in a good way weapons satysfying to use - yeah no you think ultor ruined saints? you think saints sold out? you think planet was blown to shit? no, this game should get sued for copyright infringement because i refuse to believe it isn't a fucking rip-off using official saints logos

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Gritty criminal story or insane unhinged fun with ever escalating violence from international conspiracies to fighting Satan? No, our today's lesson its that you can't trust white dude, white dude is a traitor even if he appears as bro wonderful, such deep and fun story, fucking thanks Volition, i spit on your grave as a thank you

[@Simluk42]

Bruh there’s so much bad shit with it. 1. Even glitchier than ever 2. You only have 3 homies to call upon to help you 3. The story is so fucking short 4. The “crew” is completely useless, they just sit in your church doing nothing can’t even call home is for backup like in the old ones or anything 5.the story was very half assed I got this game off the ps monthly as I wanted to give it a shot but damn… somehow this game is just so much worse

[@mikeythompson]

This was never meant to be a saints row game

[@sirjarko8762]

The only way I see Saints Row being successful is by some sort of remaster for SR1 and SR2. Starting over again isn't really an option, The good will is completely gone, The faith is gone, As far as the general and casual consumer is concerned Saints Row isn't a franchise to be invested in, The fans are upset and dwindling away and the devs ARE SO CONFIDENT of there vision its actually insane.

[@GeteMachine]

I'd only accept a remake of SR1 and 2 as an apology. Everything is just going to be gimmicky kiddie stuff for the reboot, that I'm not interested in.

[@LazyCreepypasta]

I for one would love to get a remaster of the first game

[@richardtouchstone5508]

I don’t think we should get a remaster since they will probably change stuff like remove lines or edit scenes.

[@sirjarko8762]

@@richardtouchstone5508 Oh I meant good remaster and only good. Keep the DNA intact. If they censor or whatever else they can piss off.

[@rjramun]

They really should combine a remaster of SR1 and 2. Whether it's the same game or a bundle, the stories lead perfectly into eachother.

[@Milty2001]

The best part of the whole saints row 2022 is that the developers called their fanbase terrorists yet all they did was criticize the game for how poorly it was made 😂

[@KnightBoyo_]

Wild that this reboot failed so badly that Volition is being rolled into Gearbox of all studios

[@arrhythmiticd8089]

The developers are to the Saints Row franchise as Ozymandius is to Dr. Manhattan.

[@StikAnimationsYT]

I mean, If Im gonna be honest. Saints Row the Third was solid in my opinion. I absolutely love Saints Row 1 and 2, but Third was a nice little change. Saints Row 2 had a very dark tone to it within its story mode, and It was one of the best stories I ever played through (I havent finished Saints Row since It was on Xbox and at the time I had a PS3) Saints Row the Third was a nice little change with its story, as well as the overall humourous tone of it. Saints Row IV and Gat Out of Hell are total barrel fires. Saints Row Reboot? I haven't played, but I will give it a try (Once the price drops) I made it this far in Saints Row, and I will suffer through and play the new one just for the story.

[@cursedex80]

Testing likely happened, and with a tester who had "working eyes"; but the moment that is set and done, the list of bugs goes to a corpo who just takes a quick look at it, asks how much time and money it'd cost to fix all that, and then asks again but for only fixing the bare minimum that'd allow the game to not crash in the first two hours to avoid Steam refunds.

[@23baydonny36]

The best I could ever say about this game is that it's mid. Even so, I wasn't willing to play more of it or even finish endgame after completing the story. Not worth the time for me.

[@Luigiscoutman]

I keep pausing to appreciate how every frame in the video is detailed .

[@deadlyninja112]

This is the SAME thing that happened with the Devil May Cry series

[@UserXIII7]

That reboot one? I hear people hated that one but I also hear there were others that loved it so I have no clue but all I know is DMC is amazing.

[@deadlyninja112]

@@UserXIII7 yeah Capcom tried us with that bs reboot

[@Level-39]

remember that was the time when Keiji Inafune was still working within Capcom and he was pushing to make their games more "western"

[@SmokeyOwOs]

Tfw the gameplay in the redux of the DMC reboot wasn't bad at all

[@deadlyninja112]

@@SmokeyOwOs that doesn't matter!!! Noone hates that superficial stuff we hate the blatant character assassination attempt and disrespect to the fans !!!!

[@alec2000]

Truly great to see you back, homie. While it sucks this game wasn’t good, I’m happy to see you back and well, delivering fantastic content.😁

[@slapbass8723]

I know I was kinda hoping this game could have started making other triple A games sweat a little and start doing the best games they could

[@EGGPLAYUH420j9]

Rip saints row the game that was on life support as soon as the fourth one started development honestly this game feels like a mercy kill tbh kinda like the lad from saints row 2

[@dunethewanderer8944]

As a native New Mexican, I can confirm that putting any game in it needs to understand that it is fucking dead or boring literally everywhere but Albuquerque (whereas there you'll just end up dead)

[@astrobat1638]

Saints Row is truly dead now that Volition committed suicide. Pay respects.

[@kola_mc]

5:34 Alex missed a perfect joke to parallel the characters to himself after buying this game

[@prezmil4282]

Was skeptical the moment I saw the main character,and confirmed when they gave us details and game play. 😒 Game was D.O.A and deserved it.

[@GeteMachine]

I was mad when I saw that dinosaur statue, that cat helmet, and how bad the game models look compared to the CG trailer.

[@Raulit0000]

I remember loving saints row 1 & 2. Should have kept to being what it was best at…being a gang street game

[@rjramun]

The best thing about this game coming out is it inspired me to replay SR2

[@bobbyshewan4229]

I admire you for trying to have hope like me, Alex. I’m only sorry you were just as disappointed as me

[@FLEEKAZOID]

Goofy ahhh game, but VERY BASED VIDEO. GREAT WORK.

[@jinxysaberk]

As a person who likes saints row 3 and 4 it’s actually painful to see how bad this game is. Ik those two games aren’t perfect but they’re fun. How did this forget the fun.

[@TheSMR1969]

3&4 are awesome

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Third one my beloved so much nice characters, badass situations, fun side activities, it matches level of funny insanity of SR 4 without any sci-fi or magic in it SR 4 and Gat Out of Hell much less polished and filled with content but nonetheless undisputedly fun

[@truthbetold9092]

I have to give credit where credit is due, these developers were very confident that hipsters were going to be intimidating.

[@saschamaritz]

This is what happens when you try to approach a "MODERN AUDIENCE"

[@UserXIII7]

Splinter cell said it's going for a modern audience approach so now my hopes are in hell

[@chesterstevens8870]

Volition killed Saints Row, literally. They're a part of Gearbox now, Volition no longer exists as a studio.

[@IzLidk]

I feel like Volition should give up on this game, figure out what made the first saints row games great, remaster saints row 2 ffs, and then reboot the series with a new story to replace the timeline that the third created. I really hope they make another saints row game, and I hope to god that if they do it isn't another hot mess like the reboot.

[@Alex8609BrindyJames]

I have to believe that the Saints Row 2022 developers were having seriously bad days while working on this game regardless of the arrogance they displayed on Twitter being very defensive of the game and aggressively attacking the fanbase. It is absolutely mind-blowing.

[@buddygettingnutty8351]

You know you have a professional team, when your manager decided to call anyone terrorists, because you dare say the game is bad.

[@khristian625]

Truly one of the video games of all time

[@Bombastic_daioh]

The worst thing about this is how the devs were so confident they atacked some of their worried fans on Twitter with the obligatory *"haters gonna hate"* just because they weren't fans of the new direction the seires is heading....and now that the game is out Velition has COMPLETLY destroyed their reputation even more, and now they had to be merged with Gearbox for the company to not be closed down after the terrible sales of rebbot. This must be the saddest way to completly kill such a amazing franchise in gaming history!

[@RedRhino49]

Well now the series is officially dead. Volition Games shut down. RIP saints row

[@NikoloPictures]

Great video, now back to the waiting game of Alex finally reviewing WWE SvR 2009

[@niceshady5617]

This just gets sadder when you find out that Volition defuncted

[@dennisbowen452]

Saints row is to gta as Alex webb is to Internet Historian

[@Custer_X]

This video came out when Gearbox bought Saints Row. I heard from AJTS, Gearbox is gonna help Volition work on Saints Row now.

[@manukau5271]

It’s hilarious that Volition is now relegated to Borderlands expansions

[@michaelknox3715]

Borderlands fan here. They better be good.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

A reboot straight to death

[@mattgthomas8620]

If you actually also look in the games credits, mainly the writers you'll also find that none of them have any history with the saints row franchise.... So none of the writers from one or two had a single part in the creation of this atrocious crap fest of a game, not even 3 or 4 writers were involved... These writers don't even know what actually made saints row such a popular game... R.i.p saints row...

[@JacksonLane02]

1:43 yeah Marc Spector played by Oscar Isaac going insane and slapping himself repeatedly feels like the perfect reaction to the reboot in general from the Fans of the franchise. The reboot feels like GTA at home, yes the series had kinda done that til the tater entries but this one feels like one of those bootleg GTA games just it's not a bootleg and doesn't have as much swearing and M for Mature stuff as GTA

[@Senumunu]

Gat out of hell is fun actually. Its clearly a Saints Row IV DLC scaled up but it has its moments and mastering the movement is just as fun as it was in IV

[@AtticusKarpenter]

nah for me its much better that in IV its literally best movement system in the series and one of the best i seen in games in many years, maybe i should try some jet simulator games if i had such fun, idk (jet can't run up the walls tho) its a shame that this wonderful movement system confined in pretty empty map i want back-port of this flight mechanic to the IV and III goddammit! also i want this movement in the next Prototype game, because bioweapon-man using wings he grew on the spot is much more fitting than whatever the hell way of flight protagonists of first two games used

[@jarodk1294]

I liked all Saints Row from 1 to 4 and while I agree that 4 went little bit too far into Sci-Fi territory, I still liked it. I am sad that this new game effectively killed franchise. While it is possible for it to return, since this game sold poorly it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Maybe it’s for the better too, since if next Saints Row game was made nowadays, it would more than likely be a failure and not “real” SR game if you know what I mean.

[@playathesaints9599]

Just a "little bit too far" 🤨

[@AtticusKarpenter]

​@@playathesaints9599yeah well it have ties with older plot, it have SR gameplay canvas, so you can see that its made by the same studio as previous games, they just not confident to repeat success of the first ones so they got silly, and while its not a continuation that series deserve, its fun product in its own way. Would be nice as a spin-off (same thing with DMC reboot) while SR reboot is very bad fanfiction

[@teaguejelinek4038]

They said "ignore the haters... The haters are our fans. Ignore them." LMAO

[@kingjamesbond4009]

I swear when you showed pyrocynical when talking about breaking bad I almost choked on my food.

[@LightCrib2]

Pyrocynical making his millionth breaking bad/dark souls reference I still like pyro tho

[@firemario8126]

I'll say this. This whole video was more funnier than the actual game.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

I won't even pick it up for a dollar I'm currently replaying the best of the series saints row 2.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

Word. People (not hardcore fans) prefer Saints Row The Third for its' fake-ass action movie and Hollywood vibe but forgot the game was as half-baked because Volition shat their pants thinking GTA V would get released in 2011. No mission replay, too much flashy celebrity tropes, and the loss of gangsta roots that made the first two.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

@@thientuongnguyen2564 i hated 3 enjoyed 4 for what It was a super hero game not a saints one all we wanted was another saints row 2 or even a proper remake but nah they couldn't give us bare minimum

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

@@wilfredwayne7139 In essence, the whole "Saints Row 2 source code" was a total fucking lie, as the gameplay clearly shows it's from 3 and 4, not 2 or 1. Not only Volition stood proudly on that hill to die pointlessly, falsely marketing the product, insulting old time fans, but also quadrupling down on the mocking. If anything, I only feel bad for those that had not left Volition before this entire shitshow.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

@@thientuongnguyen2564 same here I've seen them for what they are for a long time now not worth anybody's time.

[@lukamilic]

Volition was literally shutdown and the staff were moved under another studio after this disaster... Can't say I'm not surprised

[@Divergence]

I couldn't get past the tutorial. The writing was just too cringe. Litterly the scene, where the bad guy was going up the stairs. Was like "don't you go up those stairs, ahah I warned you, don't you do it!". I was like wtf is this crappy writing I paid $60 for this shit. I literly uninstalled and refunded the game.

[@The_Demon_Beelzebub]

The joys of having it in steam

[@cinemahorizon5109]

7:36 Me: "Excuse me, good sir. How much for the milk?" Him: "$666" Me: "Damn. That's a good deal" *buys* *one hour later* *drinks "milk"* Me: "Is milk supposed to be this sticky and salty?"

[@claytonrios1]

Or Taints Row as Angry Joe called it. Which is actually a fitting name.

[@playathesaints9599]

I call it Aint Row

[@williamhuntr]

i like how in this game they have things like robberies on their record, when gat had 387 counts of murder by the second game

[@chevychevelle8685]

I am so glad volition got what they deserve

[@erikurizita6702]

That ad transition was the chefs kiss.

[@powcod7455]

I just did another playthru of Saints Row The Third and as I played it I compared to the new game and a game from 2011 has more detail and better story than the brand new game it's just sad that they didn't listen to their loyal fans. That's why I'm replaying the old games

[@DarkArms17]

This video aged like wine.

[@_______________2001]

Saints Row should just take the GTA approach and have a different protagonist (boss) in each entry

[@Blackmorerainbowcatch]

Gta didnt have a reboot till gta 4

[@_______________2001]

@@Blackmorerainbowcatch My apologies, I was wrong

[@IamaPERSON]

Idk, I don’t think it would have worked as well. Could you imagine how strange it would be, having the Saints be the only gang with constantly changing leaders? Plus, one of the rival factions could take advantage of it, and dismantle the Saints from the inside.

[@djwolfenstein]

Funnily enough Volition has officially been folded into Gear Box and is officially dead

[@chris_player2995]

you know what the "guy has no shirt" joke worked with? Trailer Park Boys

[@ninjapancake9]

It only works with fat dudes, any character that's ripped is going to seem immediately off-putting and douchey if they refuse to wear one and their bare chest is only going to serve as a reminder of that first impression.

[@LoneWandererCollin]

That’s a good show

[@chris_player2995]

@@LoneWandererCollin hell yeah

[@Blackmorerainbowcatch]

The fact that some people defend this and cyberpunk still makes my jaw drop, man our expectations of a good game from a triple a studio have gone down significantly

[@lienomzekon4763]

you can't compare this to cyberpunk, ain't no way in the hell. I RATHER FUCKING PLAY THAT THEN THIS SHIT!

[@boranvikdaree1277]

Ehh.. CyberPunk had performance issues in the beginning, it wasn’t really the game mechanics itself that was bad. This on the other hand is just crap.

[@Blackmorerainbowcatch]

@@boranvikdaree1277 yes I get that, but still people nowadays don't expect a finished product they say "oh they'll patch it soon! No worries You can't expect a game to properly work on lauch! "

[@highoctanesynx7950]

Hot take: the chad British alien is the best villain in the series

[@takeshikovacks6708]

“I was wrong” yes

[@Coreisus]

I know a few of the people who play this game. And the common thing between them, they don't really have tastes and preferences. They're too busy working to care about being super into specific IP's. They're just buying whatever the newest game is and going to the theater for the newest movies. Ie, consoomers. They didn't care about Saints Row 1 to 5, probably didn't even know about them. They just saw this advertised as the newest city sandbox game, and got it on a whim. None of them even beat it. They don't have time. So that's who this is for. This was made for the average consumer, who doesn't have time to think too much about little things cuz they're just tryna live life and only ever want to blow off steam for an hour or 2 when they have free time. Not fans. Not "gamers". Just ppl who could take or leave any given activity(games included) in their little bit of off time.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Ironically people who actually live are ruining games by buying this shit

[@Beaula2]

My guy, I almost never sub to new channels for entertainment, cuz I already sub to a lot that cover similar content well, but, I Gatta say, on a topic that’s already been retread 100 times, the story, the video content, and the editing had my full attention, the whole time, great stuffs, keep it up.

[@cellophanezebra4663]

The editing and jokes were spot on in this

[@IcyTorments]

Been waiting on this, as I expected you to release one on saints row

[@Mr-Clark]

It’s not too late to save this game. Release an update where you get to play as the bad guy and your goal is to eliminate the current protagonists.

[@michaelnajor3738]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING ANOTHER VIDEO WE MISSED YOU!

[@boranvikdaree1277]

Still can’t believe it’s people who really saw this game and expected anything else

[@robertsoto5713]

My mom used to live in New Mexico. So I’ve seen the towns they are empty just like the game