I miss volition

I miss volition

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I don't. They haven't released a fun game in 15+ years

I miss pre-reboot volition.

Why? They sucked even before the reboot. Don't tell me you miss Agents of Mayhem or Gat out of Hell? SR3 was their last good game.

Remember when they lied to a dying man

loved red faction

SR3

good

Actually, that can be blamed on Deep Silver.
Volition was legally obligated to focus on the reboot until it finished development (when the final DLC released), and after that they would've shifted focus to finishing the patch.
Deep Silver then dissolved Volition once said obligations were completed in regards to the reboot.

Really, Deep Silver is to blame for everything that went wrong with the reboot. It was originally pitched as a sequel/interquel set around the post-SR2 era if I recall, and publisher demands whittled it down into a new game, with a new cast, a new setting, new themes, a new look on gang life, and even a new set of colours for the Saints (teal instead of purple because it tested better). Whole thing was a shitshow.

I actually liked GOH and SR4

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Freespace 1 and 2 were their only good games.

i really liked summoner my first WRPG

they did it to Theyselves

i miss red faction

>SR3

>good

Come on. It was no SR2 but it had a pretty decent sandbox.

Volition themselves hated all of "their" old games at the time they were shut down. I can't imagine how bad a 2025 game from them would be, basically doubling down on the Saints Row reboot.

3 is still the best game.

It and SR4 both had very boring, by the numbers, Ubisoft like sandboxes, in addition to SR3 dropping a lot of 1/2's more humorous elements.

What's something relatively modern as good as Freespace 1 & 2?

Yeah this is the sad reality.
A lot of people view Volition as like this big entity that hated everything SR, when in reality corporate shit goes down bad. The guy running publicity typically has nothing to do with game dev which is where this perception comes from- that guy is just paid to advertise the game in ways approved by the publisher.
Like, if you want to know what actually happens behind game dev disasters like the SR reboot, look up what happened on Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. That's what it is.

Imagine you're slaving away in the code/model mines and you see that some stupid bastard paid to be on Twitter all day is intentionally antagonizing your potential customers

I miss real THQ

Volition themselves hated all of "their" old games at the time they were shut down.

What made them hate their own creations in the first place?

old guard leaves replaced by californian DEI

DEI hires are jealous old stuff is beloved and everything they make now is ass

shit on legacy of company they had no hand in elevating

many
such
cases

There was no fucking Volition all those years, the company was genuinely dead since Deep Silver-Embraicer acquisition. Why do you thin even IdolNinja wasn't in the team?

The "be miserable about everything" trend. Things guys like are le heckin' toxic and problematic, y'all. Do better.

destroyed my franchise to own the chuds

volition won, think about it. Did anyone ever call saints row 2022 racist or sexist?

What made them hate their own creations in the first place?

They hated the people who played those games more than anything. i.e the dudebro meatheads

Their old games were Descents and Summoner.

thread about Volition, I remember playing their games as a teenager, fun shit

reminder that Volition and THQ died painful deaths from the inside and killed by parasites

Pandemic executed by EA in a back alley, didn't even have the courtesy of having their corpse dumped in a shallow grave

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>old guard leaves replaced by californian DEI

>DEI hires are jealous old stuff is beloved and everything they make now is ass

I don't know why people will just make shit like this up when you can look up the credits and see the simple fact that a lot of the reboot's staff was oldguard. Again, the explanation is Here, I'll grab a selection from lead roles from the credits in the order they're listed, and you'll see

Deep Silver Volition: Art

Frank Marquart, worked on every Saints Row game.
Stephen Quirk, worked on every Saints Row game.
Mitri Vanichtheeranont, there since SR2.
Clay Mathews, there since SR3
William Tam, worked on every SR
Mike Haney, Red Faction oldguard (left for Insomniac and SP before coming back to Volition)
Sean Koske, there since SR2

Audio (only 5 staff so short list)

Brandon Bray, there since SR3
Brendon Ellis, there since SR2

Design

Brian Traficante, there since SR2
Jacques Hennequet, there since SR2
James Hague, Red Faction oldguard, on SR since 4
David Bianchi, there since The Punisher
Bryan Dillow, there since SR2 (and came from Postal)
Bill Sullivan I'm just including because he somehow went from Leisure Suit Larry to Dora the Explorer, to Agents of Mayhem.
Jeff Touchstone, there since SR3 (before that, The Godfather)
John H. Brunkhart, there since SR3

Production

Robert Loftus, Red Faction oldguard
Rojé DePaul Smith, SR2 oldguard
Kate Marlin-Nelson, on most volition games in general since Red Faction back in 01.
Robert Gable, there since SR2

And I could go on but I'm running out of space. This wasn't an instance of "the devs got REPLACED", this was entirely on Deep Silver as publishers. Even among the staff who weren't at Volition for of 15 years by 2022, there were a ton of just oldguard in general for the industry, there are guys in the credits whose careers go back to 1993, guys from Pandemic, guys who only worked on Red Faction before getting moved to SR, it's nuts.

Mass Effect 1

not mentioning 2

Faggot.

dudebro meathead mad

Many such cases.

criterion

rip 2004

How did they manage to make the best burnout game (which is burnout paradise) in 2008 if they were dead by 2004?

You're gonna have to wait for the star citizen single player campaign to come out.

Given they shat all over Mike's legacy volition deserved to burn.

implying dudebro is bad

His soul is trapped in this shit game and Volition never kept their word on finishing his work. I curse everyone involved in that dogshit remake.

they were fun as fuck.

How retarded.