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This is either very funny or a very desperate attempt for the slightest crumb of info. We're going to bet on the former and have a grin this morning.
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What kind of performance hit would it take? NPCs are baked assets to improve performance. Customization is a very heavy memory hit which consoles are limited. Ultimately is the player experience with this feature really worth it?
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It's an interesting idea, but let's think about this from a developer perspective. How much time and effort would that cost? Not just programming the feature but implementing UI which would need to be different from player creation. 1/2
As opposed to both players in a cutscene? It wouldn't make any logical sense story-wise. The player is THE Boss in the story. There are not two, and trying to account for both SP and co-op play with different cutscenes would be insanely expensive.
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The title came from one of the neighborhoods in the game. We talk about that (and a lot more) here:
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Gang design is a team effort, from writing, to artists, to gameplay designers. There is always a lot of fine tuning and evolution during development
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THQ owned us at the time, and the first Saints Row was a flagship title for them. It did not have a low budget by any stretch of the imagination. It was an early 360 exclusive, and the first open world title on the console.
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Steve Jaros was the lead writer (and eventual Creative Director) on all the existing Saints Row games. The later games may have had a different tone but they all came from the same person's vision and intent.
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If there is ever a specific actor, the agency we use would talk to that actor's agent and we go from there. For big names it usually comes down to our VO budget. Game dev is fluid, and we often have to adjust expectations based on reality of time and money.
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Flow would be in regards to cut story/missions. A vehicle or weapon being cut would generally be because there wasn't enough time to polish it to final or it wound up not being fun. Development is often experimentation. Some things work, while others do not.