So Dex's story will be left in a cliffhanger now? Way to piss off the OG fans even further.
TBF I accepted they would never finish that storyline by SR4. This hit hard back then beacuse I remember pre-SR3 rumors were all over the place and some alleged leakers were saying that SR3 would be all about the Boss' hunt for Dex, but (s)he would go alone and volition's idea of spicing things up would be that the Boss would have to befriend new people and pick which local gang to back in order to gain influence in whatever city it was Dex ran off to. I hyped myself up too hard and was let down by 3 and battered by 4, Only then did I reach the fifth stage of grief.
BTW that pissant of a cameo in GOH doesn't count. It's not even a unique NPC nor is there any interesting dialogue or resolution. Seeing the easter island from SR2 captured on a ship in SR3 was more of a follow-up than what GOH did with Dex.
Iirc Dex was killed off in some cancelled spinoff game they had planned for mobile, i think. Dont know if they added any story to it, but i remember you do snipe his ass out
Saints Row :Money Shot was a planned game meant to hold people over and hype them for Saints Row 3, but got scrapped due to THQ's big brain.
Volition has since claimed that due to it being cancelled it wasn't canonical, so the actual lore is Dex died along with the rest of the Earth when Zinyak blew it up.
If the game fails and the series gets another reboot (after Volition dissolves, two flops in a row wouldn't end well for them)
Lol if this game flops the franchise is dead forever.
No major studio is going to care enough to buy it off Deep Silver and Deep Silver won't waste another dime on it again. It's not a hot IP; to the majority of 'gamers', this franchise is a GTA clone; there's plenty of other dead IPs they could buy for cheap instead.
Why buy one that has it's legacy as 2 good ones with average mechanics, 2 tight-controlling yet polarizing ones, and 2 absolutely shit ones?