#for how scammy Disney usually is

[winemom-culture]

Me, kinda broke, looking at Disney passholder program options

[6ad6ro]

i gotta be honest, the new saints row game really doesn't look awful to me. i hadn't even heard there was gonna be one until the game awards, so i was genuinely kinda excited? esp since i thought the company was bankrupt and series was DEAD, u kno?

i had to spend time lookin up why ppl were hating on it. it really didn't look bad? it looked great imo. yeah the char design wasn't anything special, but imo it never was to begin with (i do love how 3 looked tho, besides maybe the dubstep aesthetics). and i was actually glad they toned it back from 4.

4 was... a mess. besides the fun writing, it was actually a bit terrible. def something that shoulda been dlc for 3 rather than it's own game. and they wrote themselves into a corner. heck, they put themselves into a corner with the MECHANICS too. so i'm actually totally okay with them just dropping everything and starting over. i feel like i woulda done the same. i really don't want time travelling superheros ever again.

i want "silly gta" which is exactly what this new one once again looks like. it reminds me more of like sr3 (by far my favorite of the series). i hear the devs are saying they're going for a vibe in between sr3 and 2 (2 is my second fave so that's cool).

but it seems like people are mostly complaining because they say it seems "censored"? like they all want sr2 back (idk why, the edginess was the worst part of sr2 and i'm glad they fixed it in sr3). but sr hasn't been like that in a million years. did they just forget everything after sr2 ever happened?? what's with this "they look like fortnite artschool tweens"??? like hate to break it to you, but that's how sr has looked for the past 10 years or so.

if people are complaining about cartooniness, why are they ALSO wanting the old characters back? it doesn't make a whole lotta sense! sr was more or less an adult swim cartoon by the time sr4 hit. the series was already drastically less edgy (for better or worse) than it was in 2. idk! idk.

maybe i'm missing something? but the game looks fine to me. i understand the whole "2020 era fiction is getting oversanitized by corporations pretending to be pc" complaint. i understand why people would be bothered by another game with the shitty disney pixar fortnite aesthetic. but i'm... just not sure it really applies here. this just looks like more saints row to me. and it looks closer to my fav games in the series, rather than the insanity that sr4 brought.

while i'm usually happy that fans nowadays are so critical of big companies churning out unfinished, overpriced trash? or being scammy etc? there's def a bit of a weird side effect where sometimes fans are just nerdraging for really stupid reasons. and like we saw with, say, the more recent star wars movies. even if fanhate obv stupid and sexist and based on HORRIBLE taste? can still cause a good thing to get RUINED.

yes i'm talking about how episode 8 was actually a pretty good movie and WAY better than 7, but then shit fans scared disney higherups to fuck up things SO bad that 9 was just laughably awful (tho still better than 7 bc at least i was laughing).