Kind of an ephemeral thing though, isn’t it? Saints Row 1&2 were deeply influenced by the contemporary hiphop scene and limitations in game development at the time. A constant issue with these attempts at remakes and reboots is they don’t do the work that is necessary to capture the feel of the time these games were made in. How could you make a game without the ugly mid-00s bloom feel like Saints Row 2?
I have to giggle, as an old fuck, because, once, this series was solid, but a purposeful offbrand niche of GTA. Since the corpos Skyrim’ed GTA there is an actual opportunity for the once, silly, to shine. Life’s a trip.
Solid?? I can accept Fun… but solid is not a word I would use. The game was falling apart on it’s debut. I had to go dig up one of my first youtube favorites:
