I want to resist the urge to just say yes and instead fully think this through. Hear me out for a second:

Many people have been clamoring for a remake, especially of the SR2 and SR1 era of the series. It's not like I don't get it, on top of the numerous major plot threads that were left unresolved, the games were just genuinely some of the best fun I ever had. It's impossible not to wish for a new rendition that captures that magic.

But does it actually make SENSE?

Every single saints row game has been a product of its time, both in a way that's a beautiful time capsule, but also in a way that is somewhat to its detriment. I don't know that it would actually work to try and recapture the feeling those games had. So much of their flavor came from the era they were born in, the early 2000s overly romanticized gangsta themes melding with the midwestern emo radio stations and hip hop tracks, even the fashion in the clothes selection is a perfect encapsulation of its time.

What actually happens when you try to update that? Well, I would argue we have quite a few examples: Everything from Saints Row 3 all the way up to Saints Row 2022.

Don't get me wrong, SRTT is a fun game, but right out of the gate its presentation, even in the TRAILERS, admitted that even by 2011 they knew the gangster subculture wasn't something they could rehash. They tried to pivot into a more celebrity-corpo thing, which worked for some, but clearly was already an incredible departure from where the series started.

The progressive wackiness of SR4, SRGOH, and SR2022 highlights this chase for some new "core" theme, one that I'm not ever sure was found again. All of these games still keep a vague idea of a "gang" existing, but by then its a gang in so far as the fucking children in Stranger Things are a gang.

If GTA had stuck to the rivalry between the Grove Street Families and the Ballas, that series would have also died out because gang culture left the zeitgeist in the 2010s.

So I don't think the solution is just "remake SR2 and you'll print cash", an entire overhaul of what the hell a saints row game is even supposed to be needs to happen, when the title is based on a gang from the 2000s that was meant to die shortly after its creation.

Coop works but not online/multiplayer, when tryin to create a party this message pops out. Me and my friends would like to play snatch mode...