Why Saints Row Failed

I genuinely believe that you should be able to own games without developers being able to keep you from playing them. I do this by purchasing my games through GOG - a solid company that I wanted to work with for this video: bit.ly/roboGOG

Crazy how they could've just remastered SR 1 & 2 and had many successful years of joyful gamers, instead they made zoomer gangsters

It wasn’t creative, it wasn’t unique, it definitely didn’t try to push any boundaries gameplay or comedy wise. It didn’t know what it wanted to be. It had nothing the old games had

Saints Row 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time. Shame how the series ended

"How did the parent studio go under because of one failed game?" - It didn't. It went under because of a series of poorly managed choices. The talent that used to exist were gone, or have moved beyond their interests in the past. They then wanted to make games they wanted to create, but players didn't want to play. Lack of leadership and so on. What actually killed the studio was that the Saudi investor pulled out last second which lead to the collapse. They had mismanaged the company to the point the investor was the only hope they had.

any time theres text: WOOSH click WOOOOOSH click

It's clear you put a lot of time into researching this one, but MAN those bright shutter flashes gotta go

Let's be real the saints row reboot appealed to no original fans regardless if they preferred old saints row 1 & 2 or fans of sr3 & 4

You went way overboard with the click noises, wooshing logos and single word visuals. Really annoying to watch

I remember the Devs saying it gets better after a while trust us. So I thought and hoped that maybe the trailer was a miss direct, maybe after the first mission the camera pulls back and it's Shaundi playing a video game, throwing the controller saying "This sucks" or something equally as witty, but that never happened. I didn't mind the idea of a reboot, I was even prepared for new characters, I just wasn't prepared for these characters, or the story, or the writing.

Short answer: Cuz its a half baked potato

short answer from my point of view: Studio did the exact opposite of what the fans wanted and when it flopped they pikachu faced

11:00 “Appeal to Millennials”, hmm… How old are Millennials again? 28 to 43 years old?

If you buy games you dont own them. Meanwhile... on the pirate bay.

Saints Row V felt like Watchdogs 2, but no hacking and somehow worse.

I was planning to actually watch this one (as opposed to listen to it in the background like I do with most video essays on youtube, haha) but for some reason I find the editing style in this video very jarring. I'm only 4 minutes in but the fact that every 30 seconds there is a sequence where you just show a single word at a time over a moving background while you talk is giving me a huge headache. Really unfortunate because I have some truly amazing and terrible memories playing this series and I was looking forward to seeing some nostalgic footage. 😅

My saints row wish list Bring Saint Row I to PC Fix Saints Row 2 on PC and include all the Missing content/DLC make the multiplayer work again on the old ones for local play or something like that and after all of that lets the series rest in piece, cause we got all the best things preserved

I don't want a new saints row, I just want that saints row 2 official patch to finally come out

please no flash cuts. cant watch rhe video at night because of this

You make a good film but then mess it up with all the click click click.