Volition Job Post Hints at Saints Row 4?

By Brian P Rubin | 12 December 2011 | 8 Comments

We already knew that THQ’s Volition was working on the next installment in the Saints Row franchise, but a new job posting on Volition’s website offers the teensiest, tiniest hint at what could be in store for Saints Row 4.

The posting for Senior Mission Designer is one of a slew of such posts on the website, but there are two tidbits that help this one stand out from the pack. Up at the top of the post, the listing explains what they’d like out of potential candidates, saying, “Experience with open world games is a plus.” No surprises there—open world games are huge right now, and it’s likely this is Saints Row because a) Volition lists it as one of their two major credits, Red Faction is dead, and barring a new IP, Saints Row is all that’s left; and b) the Saints Row franchise is basically all THQ’s got going for it right now, following their poor financial outlook from last week (more on that in a minute).

The other interesting bit from the posting comes in the qualifications portion, where it says that candidates should have “A broad knowledge base of console games and RPGs.” So, given our calculations above that Saints Row is THQ’s biggest and safest bet right now, especially considering how risky it is to launch new IPs, I’m going to speculate wildly: Saints Row 4 will offer RPG elements, featuring +1 dildo bats of frost and stuff. Sure—why not?

If nothing else, the job postings themselves show that something is going on at THQ, since they’re slashing jobs in other divisions. A Gamasutra post from this weekend explains that 30 employees from THQ’s Play division were laid off. This is the division of the company responsible for the uDraw Tablet, which the company has decided is the main culprit for its shortfall in profits this year.

What’s going on at THQ? The game is afoot…

Via Volition and Gamasutra

8 Comments

Posted by Crichton on 12 December 11 at 11:18am

Well the U-Draw Tablet is a terrible idea.
- Posted by Brian P Rubin on 12 December 11 at 11:20am
  
  I don’t think it was a TERRIBLE idea, but maybe basing your entire hopes for year-end profits on it was not super wise. Like I said in my review, the tablet had some really interesting and actually fun applications in games–but it wasn’t anything that was going to save the company.
Posted by JGByron on 12 December 11 at 1:05pm

I honestly didn’t know about the U-Draw until I saw a review on the blog. I didn’t see a single ad for it on tv, websites, etc. That may explain its short coming.
Posted by epic tiger on 13 December 11 at 10:32am

well they already said they are making a 4th part hopefully it is more fun than saints row 3 was
Posted by JohnStephen on 13 December 11 at 4:23pm

@JGBryon What channels do you watch? There were ads for it every ad break for me, but maybe it was just Ireland/England.
Posted by sebbie on 19 December 11 at 5:19pm

SAINTS ROW THE THIRD IS BEAST!!!
Posted by Josh on 26 December 11 at 9:10pm

Ok so I’ve past all of saints row the third game.. Will there be A saints row 4?
Posted by Lee on 08 January 12 at 4:55am

I think much wilder than the lingerie-clad nurses will be good, but most important is add more missions, more cinematic scenes and more conversation and try bring back the character from SR3 and 2 of the player’s character ” first male and second male character and all these will be AWESOME !