SR2 had deeply dark humor (after SR1's po-faced SRSness) and heavily leaned into the characters being aggressive dickheads while still having a real story and some decent missions. It really worked, especially compared to where GTA was at at the time.

If I’m remembering correctly... the lady involved had it coming. I believe it was the wife of a major gang leader who was just as bad as him (and kept pushing him towards violence) and caused the horrible dragging death of a close friend to the protagonist. Plus I think the monster truck was driven by her husband who…

Yes, of course. People will still care about EGS for as long as EGS keeps buying exclusives.

In SR4, the Bos—sorry, the President was omnisexual. You could have sex with everyone in your crew, including a floating robot sphere drone.

But Gamers told me that professional critics were all bought and would praise any “woke” game.

In my head-canon, I always thought the Saints and people of Steelport were just super-humans that could be fully heal from multiple gunshot wounds at any nearby hospital for only $500.

I’m still not sure that I understand the insistence that this chapter is supposed to be more diverse. Granted it’s been years since I’ve played a SR game, but I do remember there always being a fairly ethnically diverse cast. I don’t remember where the characters fell on the sexuality/gender spectrums though.

*cough*

Since it’s Epic exclusive for PC, I’ll pass.