GTA IV or Saint Row 2?

[Vrex360]

SAINT'S ROW 2

Most customisable options of any game I've ever played!!!!!!!!!


Sorry, sorry must remain level headed.

 

[theultimateend]

First of all, make a poll next time. You're about to be bombarded with Saints Row 2 fanboys, and a poll helps ease the pain, trust me.

As for your question, it depends on what you like.

If you want to play a game with a good story, interesting characters, and depth, get GTA IV.

If you want to play a game with a crazy story, wild physics and cartoon-like action, get Saints Row 2.

I don't care what anyone thinks, I love both games equally.

I know this is entirely subjective but I actually felt for the characters in SR2.

Frankly the only point that bothered me in the entirety of GTA IV was the very ending. Up till that point I was pretty Meh about everyone.

I liked them both for various reasons but I still think that even as ridiculous as SR2's story was, it was presented exceptionally well.

I know I'm about to be crucified, but I really didn't like SR2. I like games for their story and immersion, not a game that's trying to be Crackdown. GTAIV had a few issues, but things like horrid handling for cars made it that much more rewarding to pull off a high speed getaway. Its not it was hyper realistic, you can get a sports car like the Comet up to its top speed and ram into another car side on, and as long as you don't fly out of the windshield you wont have a scratch. Granted, if that sort of level of realism was to come into it the game would lose a lot of points in the fun department.

I picked up a controller playing SR2 at a friend's house, 5 minutes later I put it down to play pool by myself.

So you played a game long enough to get through about two thirds of the tutorial and felt that you had a solid understanding of the game. Omitting the fact that in 5 minutes you should have just left the character creator.

Makes sense to me.

 

[Buschmaki]

I'd say saints row 2 because even though GTA IV is a lot of fun it gets boring and you can't go out as a ninja get drunk and then light everyone in your immediate vicinity on fire while other members of your ninja gang drive around running people over with sports cars while shooting them.

 

[amazinglettera]

While this seems dated to me, Saints Row 2. GTA4 was just a bunch of mindless side quests to get the all powerful "100 Percent Complettion" diety title. I will give you a brief example. I read online that after getting all the secret packages (A.K.A. murdering innocent pigeons) I would be rewarded with an army helicopter that could rain death and murder and I dunno, herpes from the sky. I spent an un-fathomable amount of hours hunting down all the flying rat bastards only to come across a stunning revelation. The army chopper with all its guns and missles, is less effective then throwing peanuts at someone and hoping they are allergic to them! To shoot at the ground means you need to fly the chopper AT the GROUND! To to sum up, GTA 4 is if you to spend hours getting nothing done, or Saints Row 2, in which you can dress up like a clown, mug someones grandmother and then speed away in a flying saucer!

 

[Worgen]

Id say GTA4, saints row 2 is fun but its no where near as finaly polished as GTA4, in gta4 it can be fun just driving around, so far in saints 2 the driving is pretty boring altho I do miss the huge amount of customisation you can do in saints row compaired to a rather paltry amount in gta4

Saints row 2 is really toony, its got a realistic graphic style but totaly toony feel to it, gta feels more realistic

thoes are my random and poorly planned and lazy thoughts

 

[GodsOneMistake]

One mindless bullshit, the other A truly extraordinary game that reminds you how you got into gaming in the first place...

It might be kind of obvious but I enjoyed GTA4

 

[Donbett1974]

SR2 beats GTA4 in pure fun as well you still want to play it 2nd time though GTA4 you can barely play without falling asleep.

 

[Neurowaste]

I've beaten both but after a while i just started playing SR2 again, just cause it's so much fun, especially co-op, good for many a laughs.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

GTA4 was a great game in its own right but inferior to the other GTA games. Saints Row 2 has the right idea but it's executed in a way that wasn't very compelling to me, and while it was enjoyable as well, I thought GTA4 was better.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

I know I'm about to be crucified, but I really didn't like SR2. I like games for their story and immersion, not a game that's trying to be Crackdown. GTAIV had a few issues, but things like horrid handling for cars made it that much more rewarding to pull off a high speed getaway. Its not it was hyper realistic, you can get a sports car like the Comet up to its top speed and ram into another car side on, and as long as you don't fly out of the windshield you wont have a scratch. Granted, if that sort of level of realism was to come into it the game would lose a lot of points in the fun department.

I picked up a controller playing SR2 at a friend's house, 5 minutes later I put it down to play pool by myself.

I'm not going to crucify you...

I'm going to set you on fire and laugh as you beg for the fire extinguisher.

(I'm joking. I'm not a psycho. Please don't ban me/come round to my house and beat me up!)

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. You just made me reconsider GTA IV. You won't (or at least you shouldn't) get crucified on the escapist just for putting a point of view across, at least I've never seen it happen.

 

[Markers1713]

after playing both gta4 and saints row 2, i would recommend saints 2 over gta4. It's just funner and has a less serious tone to it than gta4. if your looking for realism and a story, go gta4. if your going for fun and 'the classic gta' feel, go for saints row 2.