Continuation of Saints Row 3's plot. Saints Row 4 and Gat Out of Hell got retconned as a crazy in-universe TV show.
The plot is about how the Saints become an evil corporate empire similar to Ultor. You are playing as a new protagonist with a new cast to support you as you go against the old Saints cast. Main antagonists are old Saints, but also other gangs. One of them was a motorcycle gang called the Wolf pack. There are some story related choices you can make. For example, you can ally with a gang to go against the Saints.
All the old Saints are there except Gat who is kept dead, which is mentioned as part of the reason why the Saints became soulless corporate bullies.
The old boss (player character from previous games) now wears a cool looking mask that makes their voice muffled and tactical body armor, so their look is open to interpretation.
The game is set in modern Stilwater (the OG city from 1 & 2), but it's been massively expanded. It has way more countryside and new islands.
Tone is a middle ground between 1, 2 and 3.
There are no superpowers.
Game has a thing going on where it feels like you're seeing the old Saints from the perspective of an average NPC. Extreme versions of their SR3 selves basically. Old Saints never cared about hurting innocent people which pays a big role in building the Saints as this evil gang.
Saints Row V leak
Character customization is similar to Saints Row 2
You can wear clothing pieces in multiple ways.
Sliders are there for each body part this time, so you can go all the way in creating weird monstrosities.
Dick censorship is changed and this time, it's a black bar that has swinging physics (note from me: Volition actually wanted to do this with SR3 but couldn't because of coding issues and time constraints. Nice to see the real next-gen addition make its way in.)
Weapon customization isn't linear anymore like it was in Saints Row 4. You can put on different scopes and camos and switch between ammo types.
4 Player co-op, with difficulty scaling to number of players.
Multiplayer will be 32 player freeroam gang warfare with activities like Deathmatch activating dynamically in the world. So you can drive around the map and then get a pop up from the game that invites you and the rest of the players to participate in Deathmatch. If your gang wins Deathmatch, you'll gain small territory as part of a bigger region in this particular lobby. This won't be global, so each lobby will have different territories controlled by different gangs.
No destructable environments but physics felt a lot better. For example, ragdolls weren't floaty anymore like in Saints Row 4 and driving felt close to GTA V.
Coom
It's like Saints Row 3 Remastered, but better. Not cartoony at all. No destructable environemnts but physics felt a lot better. For example, ragdolls weren't floaty anymore like in Saints Row 4 and driving felt close to GTA V.
In a playable early state, Volition have invited tons of people from the Saints Row community and some YouTube influencers to check it out who are all under NDA.
They might show some trailers this year, but it's coming out in late 2021, or even 2022.
Don’t care, it’s probably censored to shit anyways
>censored
What the fuck makes you think this? There was nothing highly controversial in these games
Thanks for repost, was looking for the original thread but couldn't find it.
What are your hopes for the new game bros? For me I'm hoping they go back to a darker story, because SR2's story was godsend
>Continuation of Saints Row 3's plot. Saints Row 4 and Gat Out of Hell got retconned as a crazy in-universe TV show.
Stopped reading here. You're supposed to make it sound at least a little believable.
Completely believable in the SR universe
There was nothing highly controversial about the vast majority of games that have been censored, but it most likely won't be in this case since double standards are a genuine fact of the industry.
>black bar that has swinging physics
Can I have the censor bar go below my knees?
>t. Hasn't played saints row
This sounds like something they'd do no doubt. If something like Genki-Bowl exists in universe it isn't a stretch to think the saints made TV shows and Musicals about themselves, kind of like gangsters in space
Can't wait to pirate it since knowing volition, it will be EGS exclusive
What happens to the main cast? How do they explain people like Kinzie, shaundi or Oleg going bad?
Just because it would fit doesn't mean it could happen. Not buying it.
Why do people seethe at the fact that steam has a competitor? What’s the big fucking deal outside of having another launcher which Valve popularized in the first place? If you were really against this for whatever reason you wouldn’t have been supporting steam to begin with.
Don't care
I'm still buying Saints Row 5
>Just because it would fit doesn't mean it could happen
>Kinzie
Few remaining good saints left, but is even more of a neet now due her chosen group alienating her without MC. Lategame mission to recruit her.
>Shaundi
Rumours/lies/etc lead her to believe that some dumb conspiracy or something was the cause of Gat's death. Or you know, she's just kind of a cunt normally unless you're a Saint.
>Oleg
KGB experiment?
because they aren't giving you a choice whether or not you want it on steam or EGS. It's ONLY on EGS
So what?
That makes sense, shaundi did kind of freak out and become a bitch after Gat died so that isn't too far fetched
But how the hell are they gonna justify pierce???? Pierce?!? I know he's super loyal to the boss but at the same.time he isn't an idiot and would call out the boss for being evil
>So what
fuck off you're just being retarded for the sake of it
You're retarded.
Jej
Pierce is overseas shooting a movie with Josh Birk and has no idea what's going on. They'll appear either in the DLC or postgame, the movie they're shooting is a zombie film that needs some help with some violent scenes.
>Stillwater
>Multiple gangs (hopefully the lieutenant approach of SR 1 and 2 and not the shitty linear plots of SR3 and 4)
>Gang Wars back
>Tone not as wacky as SR3
>We're underdogs and not the OP Saints
Please tell me you're not shitting me, OP. This sounds like Volition's soul has come back.
Thank you user, even if this is BS it gets my hopes up just a little bit for the series to make a return,
anything else about the main saints you can tell us? How do they operate now? And what about the new player character/ their gang? Are they in a new gang or some offshoot of the 3rd Street Saints?
>people from the Saints Row community
does such thing even exist lmao
>keeping SR3 canon
Yeah it's still shit.
saintsrowmods.com
yes user we do exist
Sr3 was decent you mong
Would be cool if true.
Don't you have some Rick and Morty to binge watch?
>keep SR3 but retcon SR4
Why keep the worse game within the timeline. Just do some time travel, reboot or start at a post SR2 state. Starting post 3 makes no one happy