Why Saints Row is a reboot: 'Those were games of a time'

[Windows Central]

This is the part where you go back to your roots.
The big question out of the huge and bombastic Saints Row 4 was where the team goes from there. Deep Silver Volition had created a franchise where you build your own criminal empire, but that evolved into gaining superpowers, becoming president of the United States, and in a DLC, taking a trip to hell. There aren't too many places you can go from there, and the studio knew it.
"While we love the mechanics we came up with all the superpowers and everything, there just isn't a lot of runway to figure out where you're going to go past that," said Jim Boone, chief creative officer at Volition. So where do you go from there? You go back to your roots.

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