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>>15145495

hi flippy

make more videos

>>15145495

Didn't they declare that they were insolvent?

It's too bad that Saint's Row had to die after 2. SR2 was so much better than GTAIV, then the series just went downhill from there. They could've really been a competitor to Rockstar.

THQ Nordic bought them. Nordic then implied on Twitter they were doing a Saints Row 1+2 remaster.

>>15145517

link?

When the fuck is THQ Nordic going to make their move? I'm desperate for the resurgence of Middle-market games. I appreciate them remastering and patching their back catalogue in the meantime, though.

I just want FreeSpace 3.

>>15145517

THQ Nordic did a fucking amazing job fixing Titan Quest

>>15145536

You're thinking of Sweden m8

>>15145543

Yeah, what are they doing? They're just buying up all these old IPs and doing nothing with them. Are they just gonna remaster them for cheap and then do fuckall?

>>15145570

The only major release on the horizon is the new Darksiders game.

>>15145528

https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/979335766479462401

>>15145599

Didn't Norway just pass a law that requires immigrants to assimilate or they'll be deported?

>>15145570

>Yeah, what are they doing?

Perhaps they're waiting for M$ and Sony to announce the PS5 and Next-Box before they begin to blow their load..

FREESPACE 3 WHEN?

>>15145495

lol they laid off Chip Cheezum too. Good, hopefully that makes him wake up that his "girl"friend is a disgusting whore who was only with him for money and attention.

>>15145611

At this point if they announce the next gen of consoles I don't think the normalfags will be too happy about that. At this E3 even the "content creators" were just cautiously optimistic instead being full dick-sucking retard.

>>15145536

Holy shit, this one is retarded.

>>15145627

Well that's because there was really absolutely nothing that was worth buying an 8th generation console for (Unless you like Nintendo games). Yes, you can find that one or two games like Neir Automata, Crimson Dragon, and Bloodborne, but there's nothing else really worth buying a PS4/XB1 for that you cannot find already on PC (Or even PS3/Vita).

>>15145655

It's called red faction because it is set in fucking Mars you idiot.And fighting a corporation or colonialists is more of an antijewish thing.

>>15145626

I forgot they hired them, this amuses me greatly.

I'm actually surprised they did it in the first place given that Chip is hair-deep in soylent and cringing away from adult content because of the feminist mole rat he paired up with.

>>15145513

You didn’t like SR4? The third was shit but I thought 4 was pretty fun.

>>15145670

And here I thought I was the only one that wanted a summoner 3.

>>15145703

>Israel is not a colonialist state.

Holy shit, mate.

>>15145670

>Summoner

Kino af

>Summoner 2

Not kino

>>15145683

SR4 took everything bad about 3 and amplified it. 4 was a fucking disaster.

>>15145683

You forget that Saints Row 1 and 2 were urban gangster games.

Saints Row 3 was just saying "fuck it" and going all out because they thought being outrageous drew a crowd, then they made Saints Row 4 from canceled DLC thanks to THQ.

>>15145703

Hey, I know you just found /pol/ like yesterday, but you need to try thinking before you post

>>15145495

Yeah, I don't expect them to make the next saints row. I do wonder what THQN has instore for the franchise though.

>>15145517

So like a resolution bump? or an actual remaster that upgrades the shitty driving and shooting.

>>15145546

>volition sneaks out freespace on their own terms after their split with parallax

>near bankrupt interplay sees the profits frespace pulled in

>goes max jew to try recoup their losses

>enforces < 1 year development cycle for freespace 2

>game still releases in decent shape

>interplay immediately sells volition to THQ

>freespace license gets thrown into limbo

fuck interplay i hope todd howard goes back and sues them again for all they are worth so they shutdown for good.

>>15145499

>Flippy

He's become a massive shill recently. He posted a video talking about how people need to buy Agents of Mayhem to convince Volition to keep making games and to make a Saints Row 1 remaster

He even accused people of killing chances of getting one by not buying it. As if Volition gave a fuck to begin with.

>>15145517

You're thinking of Deep Silver. Nordic bought the IP rights to Red Faction.

>Nordic then implied on Twitter they were doing a Saints Row 1+2 remaster.

Gonna need a source on that. All I've heard from Volition on the subject is shit like

>well we polled people and they said make more Saints Row 3/4 dlc

>we don't see the money in it so we made Agents of Mayhem instead

>more people jumped on board the franchise with Saints Row 3 so we're gonna make more games like that

I've never heard a single thing about them doing anything related to SR1/2

>>15145495

i was gonna buy AoM on sale at one point because i find the roller derby girl hot but then found out they made a few character dykes and fags and also mentioned other degeneracy so i didn't.

>>15145683

SR4 is a parody of itself

>>15146009

>He's become a massive shill recently.

How sad. The lengths one will go to justify getting another Saints Row 2 style game again.

>>15146009

I don't know about shilling, he's just a massive fan and really does love Volition. I don't really think there's anything inherently wrong with that but AoM really wasn't that great IMO.

>>15145499

He releases most of his videos on his webpage, rather than on his channel.

>>15146191

>he's just a massive fan and really does love Volition

>Literally tells fans off for not buying AoM because now we won't get a SR1 remaster

>Tells fans multiple times repeatedly to buy the game and that if only more people bought the game we would've gotten a sequel to it that wasn't garbage

Imagine if someone did this for something like Destiny or Lawbreakers nobody would put up with it.

>>15146009

Nordic bought Koch Media which owns Deep Silver.

>>15146009

>Gonna need a source on that.

>>15145582

>>15145627

Sales have flatlined and mid gen kikery didn't help much

They'll announce new ones in 2 years.

>>15145652

Nier isn't exclusive

>>15146002

So many IPs have come back from Limbo anon

Never lose hope for a new Freespace game

lose all hope for an actual good one however

>>15146009

Carlos died for this.

>>15145546

>>15145622

Well tell THQNordic to go buy it cause interplay still owns it and the IP has been on sale for years.

>>15146245

I remember one of the lead devs of Saints Row 3 said in an interview that they specifically avoided story elements like Carlos's death in the sequel because they saw it as "too mean" and like they went too far.

This to me is symbolic of why a lot of the story to SR3 is completely pointless.

>>15145521

Red Faction Guerilla remastered was published by THQ Nordiq and the remaster wasn't handled by Volition.

>>15146250

These people have no idea why their game was good. Carlos dying meant that the missions with the Brotherhood had actual meaning to them. Did I care when Killbain snapped that one random chicks neck in 3? No, because we saw her in a few cutscenes and never interacted with her. Did I care when Gat died in 3? Yes, because he was a constant companion since 1. Did I still care when he came back in 4? No, because he became a meme, "lol Johnny Gay kills people!!!" Like the Joker in modern media. No mention of what he did to that Ronin kid, just some lip service to Aisha that's immediately ignored.

And FUCK what happened with Dex. They seem to think people will be REALLY happy to "kill Dex" in Out of Hell, but it's the most hollow thing I've ever seen. For real. It's garbage.

>>15146202

I don't think he's saying that you should buy the game to get a SR1 remaster or a better sequel, rather that it's just a good game. I don't really agree with that and I think AoM was painfully generic and repetitive.

>>15146249

They might, eventually. THQ Nordic loves buying up a bunch of IPs for the future and seeing if they want to do anything with it.

>>15145730

>>15145513

Some fags will say "lol SR was never good" and SR2 did have wacky shit but there's a reason why it worked there - it was not only more fun than in the later games that emphasized superficiality, it clashed yet also blended well with the urban gangster aesthetic. Then Volition changed their people who'd completely misunderstand why it worked so well there and just made SR3 lol so wacky and random and advertised the whole game about it.

>>15146282

I love this one interview with the CEO of Nordic talks about how their games may not do billion dollar sales, but they, on average, make a few hundred thousand each. "Those may not be big numbers to someone like EA or Activision, but for us, that's ok", or something to that effect.

Really humble guy, seemed to be perfectly aware of the kind of bullshit that is killing modern AAA games. Don't fuck with the games or the audience=consistent sales.

>>15146282

>THQ Nordic loves buying up a bunch of IPs

Where the fuck did they get all the money to buy up so many things?

>>15146304

When THQ as a whole went under, they were the only branch that survived. So now they're grabbing at all the IPs their parent company lost.

>>15146309

>Source: My Ass

THQ Nordic has nothing to do with THQ you dumbshit, don't go around posting misinfo.

>>15146302

Yeah I know. I have followed Nordic for a while. They're really great and one of my favorite publishers since they support smaller devs and already have some gems like Elex and Spellforce.

>>15146304

Simple, they primarily buy smaller IPs from studios long gone. They can get cult classic series' for pennies, remember Joint Operations and NovaLogic? They bought out ALL their IP for dirt cheap and they have it all now, because NovaLogic was very inactive for like the past 10 years.

>>15146309

Uh, no. That's wrong. THQ Nordic used to be a publisher called Nordic Games, they primarily used to release just crap and shovelware with some gems like The Guild, and when THQ went bankrupt they bought out the THQ name and rebranded themselves as THQ Nordic, which turned over a new leaf for them and in the same vein as THQ they started releasing a ton of AA European gems and publishing stuff from smaller devs.

They also bought a bunch of IP from the THQ bankruptcy.

>>15146304

They were originally a game retailer in the Nord lands, then they moved to indie publishing, now they hit the (sorta) bigtime thanks to the low cost of living, and smart management. They're basically the GameStop of like, Denmark or some shit, but they weren't huge Jews.

>>15146358

Yeah, that's the one. I love how frank he is about it "I can't afford that", "we can make that game for way less", these would never come out of an EA execs mouth.

>>15146336

I really hope they do something with Novalogics IPs.

Something good

I also want to see if Biomutant turns out ok, even if heavily flawed I enjoyed Elex and Spellforce 3, so I hope the devs can deliver with their budget.

>>15146358

>>15146372

Seriously, the idea of endlessly increasing profit is stupid as fuck. Nintendo makes money hand over fist most years, but they have shareholders hounding them for more. EA actually tried being good for a bit, and the CEO got kicked out for it. Fuck shareholders, if you can cover costs you're a success, if you can grow you're a miracle. 50k in pure profit per franchise is great, especially when they've got like, 50 of them.

>>15146372

It's not like we can't see it in their godawful products anyway

Even normalfags can nowadays

>>15146358

Yeah that Koch Media stunt was pretty crazy. Didn't think that they would ever have the money for that.

>>15146373

It looks pretty nice so far and the devs seem like the creative types, and some of the concepts remind me of Spore. Looks interesting so far.

>>15146381

>the idea of endlessly increasing profit is stupid as fuck.

That's simply how it works for most companies, they just don't know what else they can do to do it and their profit margins get lower and lower as they waste more and more to try and capture a bigger audience.

>>15146268

Carlos didn't need to die he could've gone to a hospital, is the boss a doctor now? Can he automatically tell when skin grafts won't work?

>>15146404

>Guy gets dragged a few miles by a truck and is in near constant pain

>he just could've gone to a hospital

He was probably having internal bleeding at that point and would've been disfigured

>>15146404

They probably roughed him up in the act of capturing him and afterword, and he was being pulled around for at least a few minutes before your crew even tells you what's happening, and it STILL takes you at least 30 seconds to arrive to the scene, and another 20-40 to disable the truck, all in a tank top and track pants. He was hitting curbs at more than 50mphs, man, he was fucked.

>>15146410

>would've been disfigured

"You wanna be ugly or die?" Having the boss kill him is cheap drama that is underscored by the fact that if he really cared about him he'd do everything he can to try and save him but that makes for a longer and less impactful scene. You don't take your kid with cancer out back like old yeller, you go bankrupt trying to save him at the hospital.

Gat doing the texas funeral is a scene that's more realistic and impactful than the carlos murder.

>>15145521

Only game with such technology.

>>15145495

Only fun game in gta-genre besides SA and VC.

It's too bad they're didn't do good with AoM. All they needed to do is make optimized playable game and add more enemies like they did before. I don't know how could they fuck up a hero tps. They could make warframe-killer and ended up with shit.

>>15146428

>Only game with such technology

Too bad the game itself was half baked, at least they nailed the jetpack and the level design to accomodate it.

Seriously, both the missions and the travelling are boring as fuck.

Seeing a blue icon and a black star was a godsend as the whole game is fucking tedium.

Also needed sections where EDF are defending structures, and actually inside them, so that you could bring the ceiling to their heads.

But they only do that on the shitty hostage missions.

The puzzle missions at least were fucking fun as they weren't template low effort garbage.

>>15146432

I am the 0.6%

Is Agents of Mayhem really that bad?

>>15145499

Nah I only do them for fun.

Most of the talent has left Volition anyways. The guys who practically founded the company back when it made Descent and FreeSpace left to form another studio called Revival Studio, and they made Overload, which is basically Descent 4 and really fucking good actually. Everyone else has been goading them into making another spiritual successor for FreeSpace, which may not be that outlandish considering the main programmers and lead writer of FreeSpace 2 work there as well.

>>15145517

https://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/threads/remake-remaster-of-saints-row-1-2.16366/

>There is no way to do a remaster unless we can rebuild everything from scratch which is simply not feasible.

Agents of Mayhem is reallyfun though. I picked it up during the summer sale and had a blast with it. The driving is like Saint's row 2 and some of the characters have really fun powers. It's a shame it flopped because I wish there was a sequel with saints row style coop and character switching. My biggest gripe with the game is there isn't much to do in the open world, but it's still fun to explore and has a nice hand designed feeling to it, with many creative ramps and places to explore. Recommended pirate. It's pretty damn fun. With time I feel this game will become a hidden gem or something like that. I wish there was a custom character that was the main hero and you can upgrade him and switch between two sub heroes. Would have been a good sequel hook.

>>15150456

I too enjoy Agents of Mayhem™ fellow Anonymous gamer! I wish there was a sequel.

>>15151005

Why would I shill a dead on arrival game by recommending you torrent it? Are you fucking stupid, anon?

>>15149801

Nordic has made completely new ports (including PC ones) of unported games for their remastering before. Not impossible for them to do it for SR1+2, which really needs it for 2 anyways.

>>15149801

How the fuck are devs and publishers careless enough to lose source code? I'd treasure that shit as a piece of history and release the source code years later hwen when my games making no monies. I'm mad.

>>15149537

I can't even tell really it's shows like 5 fps for some reason. Never seen anything like this before. And graphics is like in fucking overwatch.

>>15145521

Nope, Volition had nothing to do with the re-release.

>>15145773

>So like a resolution bump? or an actual remaster that upgrades the shitty driving and shooting.

Given that the current release of Saints Row 2 bugs out if your GPU is either too fast or too slow, crashes constantly, has broken lighting, and has broken audio because the version of the audio middleware they used for the game was a trial version, they don't really have much choice there.

>>15145967

>game makes a gag out of its command console appearing in one of its missions

>the game's actual command console was completely removed from the public release of the game

>Volition made a fucking livestream out of showing off to the public the command console and all its functionality that they were deliberately keeping away from the public

>>15146304

>Swede with AA studios: I am growing stronger.jpg

>>15146381

>50k in pure profit per franchise is great, especially when they've got like, 50 of them.

I think that's the business model of THQ Nordic Games, they finance some AA studios, buy cheap franchises and not lose money on all of that, so they can keep doing it. Especially if they're some niche games, they don't need to spend much on advertisement and compete with bigger fish.

>>15152292

That's our industry - exactly as you suggest, they just don't give a shit. Maybe it comes from the dissolution of responsibility of working in a studio with hundreds of other people who are supposed to be able to make up for you not giving a shit, but who in all likelihood aren't going to give a shit if you don't give a shit. Maybe it comes from our industry generally being hostile to talent and to innovation. Maybe it comes from the effect Valve once discussed of "A-level employees hiring A-level employees who'll help contribute to the company, and B-level employees hiring C-level employees who'll help prop up their personal agendas."

O-oh, I've quadruple-posted now.

>>15152292

in Japan they do it to prevent code and content theft by rivals. It's one of the reasons why Princess Crown translation never ever (PSP version was an iso and game-specific saturn emulator)

they've lately been better about it though

the strange part is that if you compare it to Japan's animation industry, the animation companies keep their master material. This is so they can later do a high definition release, but if you think about it they are waiting a hell of a long time; There's stuff from the 70s that got saved. They wouldn't have even been sure if VCRs would catch on

>>15152633

>in Japan they do it to prevent code and content theft by rivals

It's like they're expecting their country to turn into Ancapistan any second.

>>15152640

they're very paranoid about free agents turning corporate spy. You rarely hear about a Japanese corporation firing someone because there is some dishonor in doing so. A bitter ex-employee might steal shit

everything is dead

>>15152758

yep, that the truth alright

>>15145773

The Saint 2 driving is amazing, what are you talking about? Shooting could use a little work, yes, but that was never the focus so I'd just prefer they leave it as is to avoid fucking it up. Just bump the texture and model resolution, and fix that FUCKING frame drop during the boat section of the prison escape. It's the only frame drop I've ever gotten in that game, and I can replicate it 199 percent of the time. That's wack.

Saints 2 PC Port had awful input lag thats what they are on about

Volition lost many of their key designers, writers etc

Saints Row franchise creative director joined Valve by the way (Steve Jaros)

>>15154244

I wonder why they decided to include so much footage of you playing as characters you never get to play as.

>>15146233

This. They've been dead since 2011 when they decided all their games need to be "lol so random".

>>15154306

>After F.E.A.R did amazingly well most of the devs jumped ship to better companies

No, that only happened after Condemned

>>15155416

They should just do Saints Row Vice Kings (with stylized blingy V). No need to do a full on reboot when a prequel would do, especially when the best GTA likes are all set in the past anyways.

That or Saints Row 2.5, where you're some random Saint sent to take over a new town between the end of 2 and start of 3. One of the side missions has you find Dex, lock him in a box and ship him to Stillwater.

>>15155416

They should've made 3/4 a spinoff series instead of keeping the same name since they're way too random.

>>15146244

>Never lose hope for a new Freespace game

Right now, I actually hope no company ever touches Freespace again. How long do you think FS2 Open and Hard Light Productions will survive once the people currently running the industry get their hands on the IP? Those greedy fucks sure as hell won't want their garbage "Freespace" game to have to compete with over a decade's worth of improvements and high-quality free content for a game that's actually good. Not to mention the fact that the FSPort mod means no one ever has to actually pay for Freespace 1 anymore.

>>15155717

Yup, all of this.

>>15149552

Do they have to deal with a publisher? Because if they do, I can't imagine them being able to convince them to let them make a true spiritual successor to Freespace. Overload (and Descent before it) is arguably just an FPS with a twist, but you're not going to be making a space sim with 26 different targeting controls and a free, full-featured mission editor in 2018 unless you don't have to answer to anyone.

The problem with Saints Row is that there is no rules, you're a fucking superhuman, you're super best and shit goes awry quickly and you run around with no consequences, impact or challenge in the world. It feels cheap. Worthless and not worth the time to play.

>>15159292

a lot of people like to play games like that. see: fags who play with cheat codes on at all times, and people who use trainers for offline games

>>15159292

Are you talking about 3 and 4? 1 and 2 were a bit cartoonish in some stuff like the minigames, but in normal play you followed the same rules as anyone else.

>>15146358

This guy seems pretty cool. Have THQ Nordic made anything of note though?

>>15169830

They're publishers focusing on AA scale developers, so depends on what you're into. They have a lot of RPGs and strategy games: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_THQ_Nordic_games

They've been picking up the pace a bit after they grabbed THQ and Koch Media (which owns Deep Silver)

Agents of Mayhem is like $10 at my local game store is it worth it?

Saints Row 4 and Gat Out of Hell were such lazy cashgrabs I'm glad they're dead.

>>15173512

It can be found cheaper on kinguin/G2A/plati

>take parody of GTA

>make it shit

>make it your flagship franchise

>add some bullshit tie in with Red Faction and Saints Row for literally no reason other than muh lore

>make a genuinely terrible 4th game that may as well be a DLC

>go bust

what a shitty company.

Hopefully Volition let's Saints Row rest for a while longer. They drove that series into the ground and I don't want them to touch it unless they have a clear idea on what they want it to be.

>>15145711

>Summoner 2

>not kino

end yourself my lad

I wanna bang the blue chick tbh

>Mediocre game packed with gimmicks from other mediocre games fails.

IMOGEN

MOI

SHARK

The digital jew is incapable of learning

>>15146009

Never even heard of this game. This is pretty interesting, so many absolute blunders these days.

30yr old "out of touch" boomer here who doesn't play modern games.

>>15146009

That Flippy faggot sounds like such a massive crybaby cuck

>wah you killed any hope of a saints row remaster!

>there will never be an Agents of Mayhem 2!

>poor widdle SJW cuck employees were laid off!

>I dont wanna read someone saying this game sucks ever again!

All this for not buying drivel nobody wanted that appealed to absolutely nobody

Someone get him on suicide watch

or actually don't, him killing himself would be a positive

>>15152251

In nu-/v/ that has been completely invaded by cuckchanners everything is shilling. Only games that you can enjoy and post about without being accused of shilling are second grade jap shit.

>>15154237

>Steve Jaros

He's making the soyboy grimace in his background with some predictable tweets, wew:

http://archive.is/CQzqp

>>15181947

Its GTA with a character creator (where you can play as a girl, for some reason this is rare), drugs that you can use anywhere, better online play at the time (and good co-op too), planes with wings that could fall off (if I remember this correctly) and more clothes/jewelry/customization. Basically doing what R* refuses to do because they want to have their pop culture inspired melodramas with fixed characters instead.

Also at the time GTA IV was the only other new game in town and it was too serious, focused on wasting your time (no fuck you, you need to call up Roman or someone and drive around for 10 minutes to get drunk!), and realistic to be much fun, with something like a quarter of the map that is basically mostly inacessible without a helicopter (tops of buildings) and the draw distance was so limited that you couldn't even snipe the people below on tall buildings and cranes most of the time, so what was the point? And no fucking planes either because laziness/muh 9/11.

As for the present day competition, GTA V is an uncreative blob of a map outside of Los Santos, and Los Santos is really just a 1:1 recreation of Los Angeles. Gore/large fires are basically gone other than some polite bursts of blood and blood pools for the sake of performance, in the same series that used to let you blow up peoples heads and limbs (GTA 3 did anyway).

There's demand for a GTA-like this customizable, especially if it gets on the PC with mod tools, but nobody is going for it at the moment (unless Cyberpunk 2077 ends up filling that niche, but that's a first person RPG). I guess AA devs aren't really around to do it and small devs/indies are only capable of making pixelshit/hot garbage games made in a week in Unity (that put your GPU at 100% load every time).

>>15149801

Now that's a fucking retarded excuse if I've ever seen one. If source code is lost, a retail copy could be reverse-engineered in order to port the game to more systems (i.e. how Bluepoint ported Ico, SotC and MGS).