I know that by now I should be used to Saints Row the Third being completely fucking absurd

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staika

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Excuse me my mind just blew from the pure awesome that this game looks like its going to be. Damn why does the video games industry have a grudge against my wallet being full of money D:
 

Slash Dementia

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I think that this might be the first Saint's Row that I buy, but I'm buying it once it goes down a lot. Everything in that game just looks insanely odd, that I can't help but wanting to try it.
 

Kekkles

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This game gets better and better by the video! Seriously, a perfect formula for a REAL sandbox getting better! SO HAPPY!
 

Arafiro

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Saints Row 2 was much better than GTA 4, and Saints Row 3 was looking amazing already. And now this trailer.
I'm literally anticipating this more than Mass Effect 3, and that's saying something.

Good lord Volition,
The_root_of_all_evil said:
 

EmzOLV

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Mixed responses - most of them along the lines of PURE AWESOME.
Yeah I'm gonna have to get in on this. It just looks to be so much fun.
 

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...well they've got wrestlers, hackers/tron/matrix people and a super government/gang known as the syndicate in SR3. Anyone but me expecting Violation to randomly throw in Alien worshippers or a Ghostbusters styled thing at some point in the game?
 

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SyphonX said:
Freakout456 said:
This seriously pushed me over the edge to WANT status, but sadly I will be enthralled in Skyrim the very week it releases.
Was thinking the same thing. Though by the time I'm done Skyrim, and start looking for something else to play, Saints 3 should be patched well enough for PC. So, all the better.
I got to say (not that Saints Row 2 was anywhere near glitch free but) that I have a strong feeling that Skyrim will be a lot more glitchy than SR3. Just a hunch...wait, no, not a hunch: that's based purely on experience.

Nice trailer though: infuse a little Tron into SR3.
I'm glad there's at least one game for me to really look forward to.
 

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Cheshire the Cat said:
Very classy

To avoid a possible low content post warning... oh hell, I cant think of anything else to say but:

GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!!

Didnt bother with the first game till I played SR2, no I love the series, and cant wait for the third.
 

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*sighs and throws his hands up in the air*

That's it. I give up. November will just be...impossible, plain ol' impossible. Just how am I supposed to experience all the awesomeness?!

It's just too much!
 

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SenorStocks said:
This looks absolutely dreadful. Every video just makes me want it less and less.
Why do you hate fun!? It's out there! Many of us are having it and it's a wonderful break of a life full of meh. You can be cultured, intelligent AND also have fun.

That said, holy mackerel this game looks so incredibly campy, it's oozing fun from it's stitches.
 

Mauso88

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It looks like Volition have just gone mental. I don't know what they put with their coffee, but I sure hope it doesn't get into the water supply.

Incidentally, Saints Row The Third > Fucking Absurd. You sir/madam are a poet. :>
 

evilneko

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Saints Row is what recent GTA games should've been. Screw this realism bullshit, go for FUN.
 

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Here's the thing about Saint's Row: The Third that worries me. The more they hype all of the wacky, zany, loony, over-the-top options that you can do here, the less they're sounding like options. Just because you offer a vehicle that sucks up pedestrians and shoots them out of a cannon doesn't mean I should have to use it.

Cridhe said:
Why do you hate fun!? It's out there! Many of us are having it and it's a wonderful break of a life full of meh. You can be cultured, intelligent AND also have fun.

That said, holy mackerel this game looks so incredibly campy, it's oozing fun from it's stitches.
evilneko said:
Saints Row is what recent GTA games should've been. Screw this realism bullshit, go for FUN.
Okay, I'm going to go off on a little rant here, so bare with me.

I am tired Tired TIRED of people that use the "fun" excuse as their argument. And that's what it is, an excuse that people trot out when they don't have an argument. Because they don't understand, or don't want to understand that what they're crying about us wanting to be taken away is THEIR VERSION OF WHAT IS FUN, NOT OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me inform you all of a fact that apparently doesn't register with some of you. All of the realistic touches that were added to Grand Theft Auto 4, the ones that supposedly sucked all of the fun out of it, these were the very reasons I bought this game. Yes, as much as you don't want to hear it, or in this case read it, the realism is what actually made the game more fun! I also enjoy the dlc until "The Cop Out of Gay Tony" came along.

I like the action/adventure games that care enough to interject realism into their games. Why? Because the realism adds a degree of difficulty that you have to factor in. Why did you think there were people that chose Splinter Cell over Metal Gear Solid? I love that in the Mafia and Driver games, cops will come after you for minor violations like running a red light, or driving over the speed limit. I love that in Mafia II that you can actually run the risk of your car running out of gas during a high-speed chase. Or if you return to a store you just robbed, the cops will be there and the cashier will identify you as the robber. I love that both Mafia II and Driver: Parallel Lines both have police that will initially chase you based on the car you drive and you can lose them by ditching the car without them seeing you. But if they do see you ditch the car, they will chase you no matter what car you drive. Even Scarface: The World Is Yours had a more believable method of using a minigame to attempt to talk your way out of trouble with the police that didn't completely go away until you paid them off. It's sure better than the "Let's Ram Our Way through a Drive-Thru Confessional and Magically Everything Is Forgiven" method.

Another GTA4 realism related bashing that infuriated me at the time was the whole "no airplane" decision. People said, "Well, they did it in GTA: San Andreas. They should do it here." Well, let me be the one to give you the definitive reason why planes make sense in San Andreas and not any other GTA game. Do you know what the key difference is between San Andreas and Liberty City? San Andreas is a state comprised of three fairly large cities, each separated by a forest, a desert, and highways. So it would make sense that each city and the desert would have their own airports as a method of fast travel between them. Liberty City, however, is just that, one city. It makes no sense for it to have more than one airport. I will give all the credit in the world to Saint's Row 2 for including planes and jets to fly out of their one airport just to show how stupid and useless they really are. Because this brought about the question no one bothered to ask, "Other than the airport, where are you going to land it?" Despite not having any remote training as a pilot, I learned through these games that the one thing you need when taking off landing a plane is a wide, long, flat stretch of land. Where else are you going to land, the street? Which are populated by cars, people, and buildings you'll be lucky to squeeze through? This is even more evident by the fact that The Third had to invent a fighter jet that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter.

So the next time you want to use the "realism takes away fun" excuse, tell that to the Forza and Gran Turismo fans. Tell that to the Civilization and Age of Empire fans. Go to operationsports.com and tell the NBA 2K fans and the NHL game fans that their game is boring because of all the meticulous aspects of realism that are going into it. Go to the forums at caws.ws and tell all the fans of the UFC and WWE games that the realism in their games is sucking out all of the fun. Get in-between a Madden vs. NFL 2K5 debate and tell them that neither game is fun because it's too realistic. Tell that to the Fight Night fans. Tell that to the Top Spin fans. Tell that to the Fifa and Pro Evolution Soccer fans. Tell that to any fan of Will Wright's games from Sim City to The Sims 3. Hell, tell the Battlefield 3 fans that less realism = more fun and see how many of them tell you to go to a Modern Warfare 3 fansite. Try and impose yourself onto them and see what answers you get.
 

evilneko

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goliath6711 said:
Cool story bro. Jumping from a helicopter into a top floor office is still better than watching TV with your homies. Jus' sayin.

That is of course, leaving out that everything else important was superior in Saints Row 2. Like, say, the controls for vehicles and such.
 

Cridhe

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goliath6711 said:
Here's the thing about Saint's Row: The Third that worries me. The more they hype all of the wacky, zany, loony, over-the-top options that you can do here, the less they're sounding like options. Just because you offer a vehicle that sucks up pedestrians and shoots them out of a cannon doesn't mean I should have to use it.

Cridhe said:
Why do you hate fun!? It's out there! Many of us are having it and it's a wonderful break of a life full of meh. You can be cultured, intelligent AND also have fun.

That said, holy mackerel this game looks so incredibly campy, it's oozing fun from it's stitches.
evilneko said:
Saints Row is what recent GTA games should've been. Screw this realism bullshit, go for FUN.
Okay, I'm going to go off on a little rant here, so bare with me.

I am tired Tired TIRED of people that use the "fun" excuse as their argument. And that's what it is, an excuse that people trot out when they don't have an argument. Because they don't understand, or don't want to understand that what they're crying about us wanting to be taken away is THEIR VERSION OF WHAT IS FUN, NOT OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me inform you all of a fact that apparently doesn't register with some of you. All of the realistic touches that were added to Grand Theft Auto 4, the ones that supposedly sucked all of the fun out of it, these were the very reasons I bought this game. Yes, as much as you don't want to hear it, or in this case read it, the realism is what actually made the game more fun! I also enjoy the dlc until "The Cop Out of Gay Tony" came along.

I like the action/adventure games that care enough to interject realism into their games. Why? Because the realism adds a degree of difficulty that you have to factor in. Why did you think there were people that chose Splinter Cell over Metal Gear Solid? I love that in the Mafia and Driver games, cops will come after you for minor violations like running a red light, or driving over the speed limit. I love that in Mafia II that you can actually run the risk of your car running out of gas during a high-speed chase. Or if you return to a store you just robbed, the cops will be there and the cashier will identify you as the robber. I love that both Mafia II and Driver: Parallel Lines both have police that will initially chase you based on the car you drive and you can lose them by ditching the car without them seeing you. But if they do see you ditch the car, they will chase you no matter what car you drive. Even Scarface: The World Is Yours had a more believable method of using a minigame to attempt to talk your way out of trouble with the police that didn't completely go away until you paid them off. It's sure better than the "Let's Ram Our Way through a Drive-Thru Confessional and Magically Everything Is Forgiven" method.

Another GTA4 realism related bashing that infuriated me at the time was the whole "no airplane" decision. People said, "Well, they did it in GTA: San Andreas. They should do it here." Well, let me be the one to give you the definitive reason why planes make sense in San Andreas and not any other GTA game. Do you know what the key difference is between San Andreas and Liberty City? San Andreas is a state comprised of three fairly large cities, each separated by a forest, a desert, and highways. So it would make sense that each city and the desert would have their own airports as a method of fast travel between them. Liberty City, however, is just that, one city. It makes no sense for it to have more than one airport. I will give all the credit in the world to Saint's Row 2 for including planes and jets to fly out of their one airport just to show how stupid and useless they really are. Because this brought about the question no one bothered to ask, "Other than the airport, where are you going to land it?" Despite not having any remote training as a pilot, I learned through these games that the one thing you need when taking off landing a plane is a wide, long, flat stretch of land. Where else are you going to land, the street? Which are populated by cars, people, and buildings you'll be lucky to squeeze through? This is even more evident by the fact that The Third had to invent a fighter jet that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter.

So the next time you want to use the "realism takes away fun" excuse, tell that to the Forza and Gran Turismo fans. Tell that to the Civilization and Age of Empire fans. Go to operationsports.com and tell the NBA 2K fans and the NHL game fans that their game is boring because of all the meticulous aspects of realism that are going into it. Go to the forums at caws.ws and tell all the fans of the UFC and WWE games that the realism in their games is sucking out all of the fun. Get in-between a Madden vs. NFL 2K5 debate and tell them that neither game is fun because it's too realistic. Tell that to the Fight Night fans. Tell that to the Top Spin fans. Tell that to the Fifa and Pro Evolution Soccer fans. Tell that to any fan of Will Wright's games from Sim City to The Sims 3. Hell, tell the Battlefield 3 fans that less realism = more fun and see how many of them tell you to go to a Modern Warfare 3 fansite. Try and impose yourself onto them and see what answers you get.
Wowee you sure have everyone on this planet figured out and you're not the lest bit cynical or bitter are you? Saints Row was made for fun, not for writing pretentious wall of texts about.