Saint's Row IV

[Azazel]

Makes good business sense - they have a good name, a well-regarded franchise, a strong following. Why not stop? 

[Sky]

If sales are still strong for the SR franchise, maybe allow the vets to skunkwork out a new franchise while pumping out the ridiculousness for SR.

I don't see buying any of their new stuff after playing SR4.

[Ragnoros]

SR4 was amazing. You are all broken.

[HaemishM]

I thought that SR4 was going to be the last one and that they were going to work on a reboot or a new IP.

[Sky]

I thought so, as well. Apparently the milk cart is not going to get spilt. If they beat the devil this time, maybe next time they kill god. I have a feeling they're in a corporate mood of thinking anything more over the top is better and will continue to push it as far as they can.

Like I said, it must be working for them still; but I wish they'd split out a second dev cycle for a more traditional open world crime sim.

[Kail]

I thought that SR4 was going to be the last one and that they were going to work on a reboot or a new IP.

THQ went bankrupt partway through developing it, and I don't think Deep Silver bought the rights to the IP just to give it a proper burial.  Given that Silver's catalog of recent releases is a parade of wonders that currently runs something like "X: Rebirth" "Dead Island: Riptide" and "Ride to Hell: Retrubution" I'd be surprised if they weren't trying to get some positive name association for once with Saint's Row 5 colon r-something.

[Azazel]

Gat out of Hell seems more like Undead Nightmare than SR5. Especially, since, you know, we know it's not SR5. You might call it Substantial DLC. We used to call them expansion packs and they'd hit retail 6-12 months after the main box.

[Bunk]

Gat out of Hell is just a really big DLC - they aren't charging full price for it. They plan on bundling it with SR4 for next gen boxes at regular game price for both.

Oh, and its a parody of Disney Princess Movies. It has musical numbers throughout it.

[Sky]

Reasons 84 and 85 to ignore it!

[Bunk]

Different Strokes. SR4 was one of my top 3 games for that year. It was stupid as hell, but it was fun.

[Paelos]

I liked SR4 until about 50% into the game. Then it just, I just couldn't...

It wasn't fun to finish some of the mini-games. Which is really the whole damn point of the game.

[Soulflame]

Some of the mini games did suck the enjoyment right out for me as well.

[Paelos]

Some of the mini games did suck the enjoyment right out for me as well.

Guardian Angel is horrible. I really disliked the tower stuff. Snatch missions are horrible and heli assault was bad too.

[Mattemeo]

Just finished SR: The Third, which I started when it came out and then periodically poked at every now and then till this week where I thrashed it from 30% completion to 100%... I don't know what put the bug in me to do so, but I'm very glad I did. I have SR:IV in my library and I'm raring to go, but the character upload/transfer feature is totally dead at the moment, has been for months and doesn't look like it'll be operational again for a while. I really do not want to start SR:IV with a new character. Way too invested in the one I made for The Third.

[cironian]

You could just write down your SR3 face slider positions and reenter them in 4. They use the same values and it's not like the import transfers any decisions you made in the previous game.

[Mattemeo]

Ahh, that might be the best answer for now then; I hadn't counted on the character builder being the same in IV. Thanks.

[Lantyssa]

Yeah, the only reason I bothered was so I could get my outfit and massive number of tats to transfer.