The news isn’t as bad as it sounds though. The project is actually now shifted into Saints Row 4 with a projected 2013 release. Jason Rubin had this to say:
“When I looked at the Enter The Dominatrix expansion in production at Volition, I was blown away by the ideas and desire to expand the fiction of the franchise… I asked the team what it could achieve given more time, more resources, and a broader scope for the project. We all agreed we wanted to play that game. When it comes to Saints Row, it’s clear our fans want bigger, better, and even more over the top, and that’s why Enter The Dominatrix will now be incorporated into a vastly expanded, full-fledged sequel, scheduled for calendar 2013.”
I have to wonder if perhaps Rubin took all the outpouring of fan outrage to heart over his perceived slams of the series. I guess we’ll all find out next year. Of course, that all depends if THQ actually makes it that long before wheezing a shuddering death gasp.
This is… actually the best news I heard this year! I can’t wait for SR4!! Bigger, better and more over the top? Yes please, though I wouldn’t mind if they would add a bit more serious tone in the game like in SR 2. Hopefully they will add a playable Stillwater! Two cities! Stillwater and Steelport. I hope so! I so very much hope so!
Aliens in SR4? R.I.P. Saints Row.
Haters gonna hate
I agree they shouldn’t use aliens, but some sort of Deckers Extreme group or something. And the leader contacting Matt and Matt will join the saints against the new Deckers, who then would have raided some sort of high tech armory and want to take over the world with cyber terrorism and put the Leader in the virtual Steelport. And in that virtual thing could be aliens, as some sort of Deckers program to destroy the Leader. OR that the Leader wakes up in the Virtuel Steelport and you don’t know that it’s not real yet, and then the aliens attack. Would be a fun plot twist. And after a cool, long intro mission, the leader can get out again with help from the outside, but finds out that the new Deckers can only be defeated from inside the new world. But in the real world, two new gangs try to take over Steelport and three more gangs in Stillwater, so you have to travel back and forth between STeelport and Stillwater to do missions. And later in the game, you find out that you can keep some of the super powers you gained from the fake world and use them in the real world or something, as Enter the dominatrix is already a Matrix spoof, just make the Leader a bit like Neo, flying around, makeing a forcefield, perhaps something like a Jedi force lift and push.. xD I dunno, but if I was working in Volition, I would suggest those things. But I would also suggest a better chain of cut scenes like in SR2, one on the beginning of a mission and at the end. Not like in some missions in SR3 where you finish the last objective and you already get the completetion screen. And cutscenes with the activities. Also perhaps a more serious tone in the game, so when something really funny happens, it’s extra funny after you are used to the more seriousness. And a way to bring the old Johnny back. =( And make Shaundi more like she was in Saints Row 2. I should send this to Volition. xD
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’ve thought Saints Row has gotten better as the series has progressed – unlike GTA, which had its high point at Vice City, imo. I don’t really want/need yet another general, gritty gang/crime free world game/series and I enjoy the naked, over-the-top satire provided by Saints Row the Third.
This is a good thing. Now, we’ll have a new GTA AND Saints before the next gen consoles. This will of course allow them more time to work with the new consoles for Saints Row 5 and GTA6, as well as allow PC users to catch up with their hardware.
Good point.. Very good point. But I hope they’ll add many more extra’s to SR4 except the challenges like ( 150 headshots, travel 5000000 miles, etc), but more activities and a extreme difficult mode when you finish the game on hardcore. So that you can be busy for a long while before you completely finish the game, so you won’t have the feeling you had to wait long on SR5. xD
With it’s president now at least claiming to support it, the only real question is will there still be a THQ to release Saints Row 4 by the time it’s done?
I want the next Saints Row with more life in the city, like SR2. In SRTT you feel “alone” most of the times.
Agreed. Steel port was busy, but.. Not busy enough. They could do better. And as said somewhere before, would be fun if there were more different districts. Or more difference between the existing ones. Everything kinda looks alike. I also miss that your character dances in Night clubs, or does something when you stand still long enough. Would be fun if you had some sort of emote wheel, where you can do different things, like sitting down, dancing, smoking (for the smokers anyway), watching tv, use a stripperpole, lie in bed, play some sort of instrument. Also a better in game chat would be fun for co-op. Just press enter for the chat bar and what you say appears above your characters head in a text bubble, kinda like in Wow. Then you can have fun RP in that game. xD For the RP players out there.