10 Video Games That Are Painfully Behind The Times

Volition’s Saints Row franchise began as a decent GTA clone, yet by the time of Saints Row IV and Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, it became a monotonously absurdist and unchallenging shell of its former glory. So, it was sensible to reboot the series with a fresh and innovative new spin.

Predictably, 2022’s Saints Row just wasn’t it.

Upon launch, its myriad glitches and bugs made it virtually unplayable, with everything from unresponsive button prompts and irregular frame rates to floating players and braindead enemies feeling inexcusably archaic.

Admittedly, the brazenly controversial humor and characters of prior games probably wouldn’t sit well with contemporary audiences. However, the bland Boomer humor and charmless new heroes (most of whom feel obligatorily, rather than genuinely and meaningfully, inclusive) aren’t exactly what fans were clamouring for.

Even when it works, Saints Row is substantially empty. Why? Because its shooting/combat is shallow, its missions are trite, and its narrative is ineffective. As a result, it’s an average at best entry that fails to match both its superlative predecessors and the majority of its stylistic competition.