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A Reminder That Saints Row IV Is Made By People

With only a few weeks until the new Saints Row drops, Volition opens up about its ridiculous development process.

Aug. 2 2013

Posted by: Patrick

In This Episode:

Saints Row IV

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Crazy people.

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I love you, you beautiful stupids.

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Yup, still looks super dumb. Can't wait.

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Oh god, giant saints row mascots shall forever haunt my sleep.

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Totally ready to strap it on again!

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This seems like something a marketing intern planned and executed.

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Why do they sound so levelheaded?

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The fact that he's wearing a Samoa Joe t shirt made me respect him even more.

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I just saw that eagle plane thing and I was like...damn! This game looks great!

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Steam pre-purchase done, can't wait.

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I can't wait for IV. SR3 was AWESOME.

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"Without Saints Row 1 and 2, there'd never be a Saints Row 3. Without Saints Row 3, there'd never be a Saints Row 4."

Wait wait, let get my TI.... yup, his math checks out. It's good folks.

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It's made of by people!

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This seems like something a marketing intern planned and executed.

In which case they did a great job.

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Holding money right in front of the monitor now, game looks great Volition, release SR4 already :P

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that eagle jet fighter just made the eagle noise while shooting missiles.

FUCK AC4 WHEN I WHISTLE MY EAGLE SHOOTS MISSILES!

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Eagle jet? With talons? FUCK YEAH MURICA BAY BAY

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"It takes a lot of work to make something this beautifully stupid" could be the Giant Bomb motto.

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That eagle jet is amazing

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Rated 'I' for Immature, surely... and long may it continue to be.

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Good to see that the Rift Inducer from Ratchet and Clank got work.

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"It's take a lot of work to create something this beautifully stupid."

More proof that Saints Row is pretty much Giant Bomb: The Game.

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@white said:

Why do they sound so levelheaded?

The crazy ones are always the ones you never expect to own a dubstep gun.

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@rowr said:

@incapability said:

This seems like something a marketing intern planned and executed.

In which case they did a great job.

Indeed. i was going to wait for a price drop and pick this up, but out of all of the trailers this was the one that finally made me pre-order

And $10 amazon credit helped a little also.

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i love steve jaros. i love this game. i love lamp.

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Oh god that Eagle Jet.

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"when saints row 1 came out there wasnt many open world games out there" are you fucking kidding? come on jim boone every other game has been open world sense gta3

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@lego_my_eggo said:

@rowr said:

@incapability said:

This seems like something a marketing intern planned and executed.

In which case they did a great job.

Indeed. i was going to wait for a price drop and pick this up, but out of all of the trailers this was the one that finally made me pre-order

And $10 amazon credit helped a little also.

I agree, but if I was a marketing guy I would have had a woman say somethings also, and also be in one of those fake meetings.

So, you are right, but they totally could have gone further with the psychological marketing thing.

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holy fuck eagle jet?!

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Saints Row IV is a love song.

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I appreciate the carefully constructed stupidity Volition has crafted. Dumb shit at it's finest.

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GET HYPE

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Guy has a Samoa Joe shirt on and that's awesome.

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I am patiently awaiting the Volition-produced Giant Bomb FMV game. It is a match made in heaven.

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Not that I don't think the Volition people deserve their time in the spotlight, they do... but wasn't this whole talking-trailer thing THQs bad idea? They did the same with Spacemarine and DoW and stuff. Can't we just have real interviews or something now that THQ is gone?

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EAGLE V-TOL????!!!!

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Oh man, that eagle jet is pretty dumb. Also, I think a solid black bar is much classier than pixelation.

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Volition kicks so much ass. I remember going through Red Faction: Guerilla and becoming convinced that open-world games can be super fun and play well.

I'm really hoping for a Geo-Mod 3.0 appearance next gen. Doesn't even matter what they use it in, I know the game will be fun.

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Man, they should put Samoa Joe in this game. They had a wrestler boss fight last game, just sayin'

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"It takes a lot of work to make something this beautifully stupid" might be the best description of the saints row series I've heard.

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Smart dumb is my favorite kind of dumb.

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Awesome shit.

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I hope this is the Assassin's Creed II or Uncharted 2 of Saint's Row. Now that they've finished engine work and basic outlines they reel in the technical potential and fill it with content.

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Man, they should put Samoa Joe in this game. They had a wrestler boss fight last game, just sayin'

Apparently Rob Van Dam is voicing a character in this, so maybe he'll be playing a wrestler character like Hogan did in the last one? I'm pretty confident there's going to be more wrestling moves you can do though, just got a feeling. :D

Shout outs to Steve Jaros for wearing that Samoa Joe shirt. FYI, Joe gave a "RIP Ryan Davis" on twitter shortly after Ryan's passing.

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Yeah, a dubstep gun will make this game wicked.

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Thing is, Saints Row original was still labouring until the "GTA-clone" label. From Saints Row 2 onwards, and especially with The Third, they've been able to become there own thing completely separate from GTA.

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@gbrading said:

Thing is, Saints Row original was still labouring until the "GTA-clone" label. From Saints Row 2 onwards, and especially with The Third, they've been able to become there own thing completely separate from GTA.

Agreed. To say there wasn't a lot of open world games at the time Saints Row 1 came out is insane. GTA's game designed was whored out till oblivion, especially in the previous console generation. I will however accept there there wasn't a lot of good open world games at the time of Saints Row 1.

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@gbrading said:

Thing is, Saints Row original was still labouring until the "GTA-clone" label. From Saints Row 2 onwards, and especially with The Third, they've been able to become there own thing completely separate from GTA.

Agreed. To say there wasn't a lot of open world games at the time Saints Row 1 came out is insane. GTA's game designed was whored out till oblivion, especially in the previous console generation. I will however accept there there wasn't a lot of good open world games at the time of Saints Row 1.

I'm not sure, wouldn't 2006, when the original Saint's Row came out have been after the GTA 3 fueled open world craze, where the genre had started to settle down? I think 2003 or 2004 would've been the peak, so I think they may be correct in saying that "there wasn't a lot of open world games coming out the same year as Saints Row 1". But I guess Just Cause, Gun and Bully came out the same year, and the stellar Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was released just one year earlier.