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[Dragonmaw]

Fuck Skorem.

Fuck Mr. Warrior Tres.

Saint's Row 3 in the house.

In all seriousness, I'm really enjoying it. Good dialogue (surprisingly not forced!), satisfying gunplay, and a lovely setting and atomsphere to top it all off. Only an hour in, but I'm loving it already. Anybody else pick it up?

       

[C.A. Silbereisen]

never played a saints row game. how do they compare to gta?

[Gimym JIMBERT]

on crack

[Dragonmaw]

Saint's Row was a mediocre GTA clone that was elevated to hilarity thanks to a bevy of crippling glitches. It had a pretty interesting story, though, about a gang founded to clean up the streets of other gangs.

Saint's Row 2 took the glitchy goofy angle and rolled with it, and turned into a ridiculous action-fest with clcihe but well-written characters. Johnny Gat is especially funny. The most infamous part of Saint's Row 2 is obviously the "shit truck" missions where you spray shit on buildings to devalue them.

Basically, Saint's Row 2/3 are like gangsta-themed versions of Just Cause 2. Destruction and action goofiness on an epic scale.

[TeeGee]

Saints Row is like GTA made fun.

Where GTA makes you do chores for your girlfriend/uncle, SR has you spill poop on suburban villas. Where GTA gives you a world to mess with and then punishes you for actually doing so, SR awards you points for pretty much every stupid thing you do. It's like when you are having fun messing with GTA outside of the missions, only here it's actually the goal of the game. Also, crazy customization possibilities.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

Saints Row is like GTA made fun.

Where GTA makes you do chores for your girlfriend/uncle...

Well only the later GTAs do that, 4 esp.

[TeeGee]

I think San Andreas started the trend, though I don't really remember the older ones that well. Maybe except the first two. Point is, where GTA is focused on providing a linear story with open world as a background (and to mess around with when you are bored), Saints Row focuses on the messing around part. It's a stupid-but-fun game that doesn't try to be anything more and does it remarkably well.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

I think San Andreas started the trend, though I don't really remember the older ones that well. Maybe except the first two.

That's a shame because GTA3 is really fucking excellent. The best in the series imo.

[TeeGee]

Unfortunately, there's a gap in my gaming education. It was a period of my life where I hardly played anything, had no console or gaming PC. I tried playing it much later, but it aged too much.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

you did something more productive than playing vidgams all day that's nothing to be ashamed of lol

[AshfordPride]

Just beat the game.

It was pretty fucking amazing.  They should have slowed down my ability to play the story missions, because I was always so pumped to play the next one I plowed through the main game in about sixteen hours without really doing much of the secondary stuff. 

I hope the DLC turns out to be cool, I have no problem with getting forty weeks of DLC if it's all neat stuff. 

[Derek]

Saint's Row was a mediocre GTA clone that was elevated to hilarity thanks to a bevy of crippling glitches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_YN-yRCVY

I'm looking forward to Saint's Row 3.

[Core Xii]

The game is titled Saints Row the Third, at least get the name of the game you're praising right.

Saints Row is like GTA made fun.

And this sums it up so accurately. If one were to describe it in as few words as possible, "Like GTA but fun" would be them.

Personally I liked Saints Row 2 better... The main character in SR2 was a psychopath. If anyone fucked with him he absolutely flipped out and made their life as miserable as possible, regardless of danger or consequences. This new guy... Ehh. He's a pussy compared to SR2's protagonist. Sure he still makes somewhat crazy maneuvers but he's mostly passive and never has an original idea; It's always your gang coming up with the plan and you're just giving the go-ahead (and on certain missions, reluctantly even).

I also can't help shake the feeling that SRtT is more like a remake of SR2. It has an almost identical plot. Take out rivaling gangs, ultimatum with high-tech corporation (previously Ultor, now Stag). Yes, SR2 desperately needed a performant rehash unlike the terrible console port it was, but SRtT doesn't quite feel like the sequel I was kind of expecting.

A few bugs notwithstanding, it's still a damn good game, however.

[deathtotheweird]

I can't run the game and get more than 10fps on decent settings. I can lower the graphics and get around 30fps but it looks worse than a Playstation game. the intro ran pretty well and was fun, but once I got in the city it was a slideshow. I've been meaning to upgrade/get a new computer soon but I was a bit surprised I could run Skyrim on high and can barely run this on low. Oh well.

it's on my steam list waiting for me though.

[Falmil]

I played this with a few friends and it seems like some of the storytelling was off. There were a few plot related deaths where it wasn't entirely sure whether certain people died or not because the events surrounding them ended so abruptly.

[Dragonmaw]

You do realize that SR3 has the same protagonist as SR2. Also, there are several missions where your character takes matters into his own hands rather than suggestions from his people (usually the most ridiculous missions).

Oh and the SR formula has been the same since the first game. Take out three gangs, showdown with non-gang forces (cops, ultor, and stag), end game.

Also, Saint's Row The Third, SR3, same difference, don't be a pedantic moron.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

but if core stopped being pedantic he wouldn't be core anymore

[Core Xii]

You do realize that SR3 has the same protagonist as SR2.

Citation needed. Nowhere did the game say so that I noticed.

Also, Saint's Row The Third, SR3, same difference, don't be a pedantic moron.

As you wish, Dragonupperdigestivetract.

[AshfordPride]

You do realize that SR3 has the same protagonist as SR2.

Citation needed. Nowhere did the game say so that I noticed.

...Really?

In the second game, you are the commander of the Third Street Saints.
In the third game, you are the commander of the Third Street Saints.

You'd like us to assume that some massive off screen usurping happened and now the Saints have a new Boss, which was never brought up or mentioned?

[Dragonmaw]

You do realize that SR3 has the same protagonist as SR2.

Citation needed. Nowhere did the game say so that I noticed.

Viola DeWynter specifically mentions the events of both games ("three dead friends") and the coma that spans the gap between the first and second game ("a coma"), and your character acknowledges that she is correct ("Fair enough").

So, you're wrong.

Oh and then there's the fact that all of the characters have banter with you that references the events of the second game, so...