Enter the Dominatrix Dies So That a Full Saints Row Sequel Might Live

I'd much rather play a full sequel in a new setting than a 1-2 hour DLC for $15

@Demoskinos: In an age where most people don't buy $60 games at launch, can that argument really be used though? As I stated before, Darksiders, another great game, didn't catch on until it was in the $29.99 bin, SR3, went on sale really quickly as well. While both games were great, I really wonder at how much the retail copies actually made for them compared to the post purchase DLC.

Also, to everyone wondering about the Season Pass, it wasn't a real Season Pass, it gave you 2 additional campaigns and the Nightblade pack, not all the DLC, so even if Dominatrix wasn't a standalone, it wasn't going to be included anyways.

Is it a bad thing that I didn't care for the DLC of the game?

@believer258 said:

S4INTS ROW

with Jeff's proposed title as a subtitle.

Do it

@Demoskinos said:

They also must contrive some stupid way to bring back Johnny Gat its just not a saints game without Gat.

There is no such thing as contrived or stupid in Saints Row! If they want him back he'll be back and it's going to make as much sense as everything else! :D

I'm not sure how many more games the Saints Row series has left in it, so it's probably a good idea to churn out another sequel before having to switch gears towards next-gen development.

I honestly think Jason Rubin needs to do some damage control with his comments about Saints Row. This is currently their best IP/Franchise and he basically said it was not his cup of tea because of the dildos. Restricting it or making it more "real" takes away from what makes it unique. I could see Volition members just leaving THQ to form their own company.

*walks up to dude in Gamestop counter*

Can I get a preorder for "Saint's Row: TNGSitSRF"?

Saints Row:The Next Great Sequel in the Saints Row Franchise is going to be awesome.

would be pretty awesome if they actually called it that

I'm playing the second game right now because of PS+. I missed it when it first came out and experiencing it for the first time after Saints Row 3 really highlights how great SR3 was. I'm still enjoying SR2 a lot, but the writing, missions, and mechanics in SR3 all seemed to be so perfectly in the service of making the game as fun as possible. Yes, there's more going on in SR2, but I think the quality of everything in SR3 is much higher. I really hope they maintain that in this sequel and that it doesn't just get pushed out to capitalize on the great thing that they created.

I look forward to a misleading Brian Crecente headline over at The Verge.

Mixed feelings, played the shit out of the game but the DLC was bad, didn't want to pay $40 or more for this if it was anything like the other DLC, running out of things to actually buy and play this year. Oh well, it'll make Tingsitsurf that much better.

Now, THAT is a title!

That is the perfect name for a fourth Saints Row game. Long live the insanity!

I am happy and sad at the same time.

I want the sequel to be named Saints Row The Third- II.

@hagridore said:

I look forward to a misleading Brian Crecente headline over at The Verge.

SAINTS ROW FRANCHISE DYING OFF GAME BY GAME

Is THQ even going to be around this time next year?

Please changed the title of the game THQ.

Kind of surprising. I figured that THQ wanted some quick Saint's Row cash this year.

@rebgav said:

Hard to feel confident about a Saints sequel which is partially a scrapped expansion pack and being funded by a publisher with cash problems. Hope it turns out well for Volition.

Pfft. Their cash problems aren't so bad that they're just going to sink for (seemingly) no reason like Studio 38. They're hurting, but they ain't on the brink of death.

Oh, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 was also originally a "scrapped expansion," so don't you worry 'bout that. Why leave awesome shit to an expansion pack when it could be put to use in a full game? Waste of cool ideas, in my opinion!

If it means there will be a Saints Row Goes Fourth then yes please. Also, they can use that name for free. I'm sure Blackadder wouldn't mind.

At some point, when I am in the mood for an open-world game, I will pick this up.

@Pr1mus said:

@Demoskinos said:

They also must contrive some stupid way to bring back Johnny Gat its just not a saints game without Gat.

There is no such thing as contrived or stupid in Saints Row! If they want him back he'll be back and it's going to make as much sense as everything else! :D

Speaking of, how did Johnny Gat come back at the end of that last downloadable content pack?

Hopefully this will be good.

@Napalm said:

@Pr1mus said:

@Demoskinos said:

They also must contrive some stupid way to bring back Johnny Gat its just not a saints game without Gat.

There is no such thing as contrived or stupid in Saints Row! If they want him back he'll be back and it's going to make as much sense as everything else! :D

Speaking of, how did Johnny Gat come back at the end of that last downloadable content pack?

He was cloned as a Brute guy like Oleg. Also his name is Johnny Tag now.

@Yummylee said:

@Napalm said:

@Pr1mus said:

@Demoskinos said:

They also must contrive some stupid way to bring back Johnny Gat its just not a saints game without Gat.

There is no such thing as contrived or stupid in Saints Row! If they want him back he'll be back and it's going to make as much sense as everything else! :D

Speaking of, how did Johnny Gat come back at the end of that last downloadable content pack?

He was cloned as a Brute guy like Oleg. Also his name is Johnny Tag now.

What the hell?

@louiedog said:

I'm playing the second game right now because of PS+. I missed it when it first came out and experiencing it for the first time after Saints Row 3 really highlights how great SR3 was. I'm still enjoying SR2 a lot, but the writing, missions, and mechanics in SR3 all seemed to be so perfectly in the service of making the game as fun as possible. Yes, there's more going on in SR2, but I think the quality of everything in SR3 is much higher. I really hope they maintain that in this sequel and that it doesn't just get pushed out to capitalize on the great thing that they created.

This. This sums up my feelings on the SR2 vs SR3 thing. There's less in SR3, but all of it is way better.

@bingbangboom

I honestly think Jason Rubin needs to do some damage control with his comments about Saints Row. This is currently their best IP/Franchise and he basically said it was not his cup of tea because of the dildos. Restricting it or making it more "real" takes away from what makes it unique. I could see Volition members just leaving THQ to form their own company.

No. Read the full interview/listen to the bombcast.

@ZombiePie said:

Please changed the title of the game THQ.

Saint's Row: The Honorable Quartet?

Still think the Saints should go to war in 'The Saints Go Fourth'

@Nightriff said:

Good to hear, I thought the expansion idea was dumb and can't wait for Saints Row 4. Should be awesome

Just let him come in and focus test every couple weeks.

Also, don't hire any other focus testers.

Hey as long as it means more Saint's Row.

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

I want the sequel to be named Saints Row The Third- II.

Needs a subtitle too.

Saints Row 4 - Gat Attack

Seriously though, they better bring back Johnny Gat.

Hope they go to a diffrent city and not copy and paste steelport in sanits row 4 and more diverse areas.

BUT GLAD THERES ANOTHER ONE THIS GEN

@rebgav said:

Hard to feel confident about a Saints sequel which is partially a scrapped expansion pack and being funded by a publisher with cash problems. Hope it turns out well for Volition.

I feel the same. I mean i loved SR3 and all. But who knows how many more ideas they have a Volition besides "YO THAT EXPANSION WE WERE SUPPOSED TO RELEASE? LETS JUST MAKE IT A FULL GAME". I do remember hearing that the people responsible with writing/storyline decisions already had a pretty well-plotted out idea for The Next Great Sequel In The Saints Row Franchise(working title) . But who knows how many of those ideas had to be scrapped simply to ship a game as fast as possible.

@Baconbot: @Baconbot said:

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

I want the sequel to be named Saints Row The Third- II.

Needs a subtitle too.

Saints Row: The Third II: Electric Boogaloo

Good. That first game was hugely flawed especially the bits that were genuinely fantastic. Come back to us when you figure out how to pace a campaign and how not to ruin awesome setpieces by doing them 3 times with them all being way too long from the start. Fix the crummy side missions. Let more than two miserable players coop. I get why everyone adored the game, and in a shorter, less open world (the open world aspect had zero value beyond super fun driving making joyrides enjoyable) or more impressively open world, more focused game I would have loooooooved the game. Some parts were genius, some were just broken, boring, or dumb. And with how they did DLC in the past, I don't want more. I trusted them, bought the season pass hoping for more condensed awesomeness like the very start and the mars ending of the game. Instead I had a miserable, boring, short, but still dragged out experience every godamn time.

hope they take across some of the features they were talking about - super powers? shit like that, let's do it.

also destructible buildings but you know, that won't happen ever. but.

Okay sure, but I hope they don't take too much of that into the next game. I'm still hoping for the Saint's War story line

Best game name EVER ! I completely agree, they should totally keep that name xD

@kkotd said:

Fuck off THQ, Volition needs to bail faster than a virgin in a whore house. Seriously, THQ is digging their death bed, Dominatrix was going to bring them funds to survive and now they're waiting til 2013!?! They won't be financially alive that long! FFS why did Rubin even come to take this over if not to just run it into the ground? Because that's exactly what he's doing with these 'new company virtues' and 'trying to keep things respectable for the company's best interest'. Because we all know closing a studio the day before E3 and then calling another studio embarrassing in the same week is completely respectable and in the company's best interest.

The sales numbers from a stand alone expansion are probably so much less than a full release that it did not make sense. THQ is still 1 major release bombing from going bankrupt, so in the short term to medium term having slightly more revenue probably would not matter all that much (e.g. Darksiders II bombs and they are just as bankrupt with a 2012 stop-gap as if they trucked on to a full 2013 release, but this way they have a solid potential payback....).

SAINTS FOUR SAINTS WAR

@NowSayPillow said:

Was this DLC supposed to be part of the Seasons Pass? If yes, doesn't that mean a lot people just got dicked over?

It was stand alone expansion pack.

@Zippedbinders said:

@louiedog said:

I'm playing the second game right now because of PS+. I missed it when it first came out and experiencing it for the first time after Saints Row 3 really highlights how great SR3 was. I'm still enjoying SR2 a lot, but the writing, missions, and mechanics in SR3 all seemed to be so perfectly in the service of making the game as fun as possible. Yes, there's more going on in SR2, but I think the quality of everything in SR3 is much higher. I really hope they maintain that in this sequel and that it doesn't just get pushed out to capitalize on the great thing that they created.

This. This sums up my feelings on the SR2 vs SR3 thing. There's less in SR3, but all of it is way better.

Yeah I felt the same way. SR2 had a lot of good ideas but they were bogged down with bad design and poor implementation. SR3 might not have as much stuff or options but it is a far more polished and just plain fun overall. SR3 is a game that knows what it is and what it wants to do and just runs hog wild with it all the way! A prime example of cathartic gaming ^^

@Jeff The current working title for the game is "The Next Great Sequel in the Saints Row Franchise." Hell, they should just stick with that.

As long as it's not a subtitle but actually the full title, I agree. So much on the nose you can smell the 1950's Ford commercial... "it's a heck of a car"