Original Saints Row design director Chris Stockman is talking to the hellgods at Embracer Group about making a prequel open world game, possibly set in 1977 and containing absolutely no dildo bats. This comes almost two decades after Stockman left Saints Row development studio Volition, and a couple of years after Embracer closed Volition amid wider cuts.
Stockman is currently studio director of VR outfit Bit Planet Games, creators of The Battle of Sol and Ultrawings. He’s been bigging up the idea of a Saints Row comeback for a few weeks, publicly asking Embracer to get in touch in an October interview with Esports Insider. “I can bring much of the old band back together who worked on Saints Row 1,” he told the site at the time. “I could turn that IP around with a decent budget. They don’t even have to fund it. I could get other outside people to fund it. I could turn the franchise around. I know I could.”
Embracer have now taken the bait, or at least, expressed an interest in hearing the full pitch. “Guys and Gals, I have hopeful news!” Stockman wrote on Reddit last Friday. "I’ve been asked to create a pitch for a Saints Row reboot! “I can’t say anything more than that but my dreams for this game just became a little more than just dreams!” He added in an update that the pitch is not for a VR game. PCGamesN have separately confirmed with Stockman that the people asking him to share more are Embracer.
Mafia 3 is a “grounded” open world game set in the 70s without a dildobat.
Be original, Not-Volition. Keep the dildobat.
Yeah that was my instant thought.
“I’d have taken it into a different direction so you’re not competing with the modern-day GTA games,” he added. “You’re zagging when everyone else is zigging, so to speak.”
My dude all you’re doing is going from ripping off Rockstar’s San Andreas, to ripping off Rockstar’s Mafia games instead.
I’m so confused. The article says the news comes from the original Saints Row design director, but then the image is from the failed reboot.
If the 70’s idea is more grounded with the apathetic humor mixed in like 2 then I’m mildly interested.
He’s referring to the first game though which really is a just okay when it came out budget GTA clone.
a dildo bat could still be 1970s gangster flair, just saying
GTA6 is almost done and they pitch this… How do these people tie their shoes in the morning?
What bearing does GTA6 have on a game that’s not even beyond the talking-about-making-it stage? If this project happens at all, it’s still years away.
There are people who don’t want GTA VI
Those people aren’t going to want this either.
They may not want what it’ll likely be if it ever got made but they likely want what it could be.
I don’t follow. Why do you think a game like this years after gta6 couldn’t be a financial sucess?
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