Poll: GTA IV or Saint's Row 2?

[b3nn3tt]

Yeah, I like the fact that instead of some purely music stations and some purely comedy stations, they put joke adverts in all the stations, and you could customise your own playlist (but no adverts unfortunately).

Yeah, I very much liked that I could make my own playlist. Of the preset ones, I mostly listened to the 80s station, and Ultor FM (or whatever it was called earlier in the game), but with the playlist creator I could take my favourite songs from those stations and have them together, along with a few from other stations. Everyone wins! (By which I mean I win)

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

GTA IV, Saints Row 2 is full of gimmicks.

 

[Rewold]

Can't say yet. Buying SR2 next month. It really looks fun from the trailers.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I liked Saint's Row 2 more but, once I beat the story mode I stopped playing. Granted that was the PS3 version and I am an achievement hound...Once they release the Saint's Row double pack thing in a couple weeks I'm picking that up.

GTA4 was fun but, it tried being really serious and gritty and whatnot. Not necessarily bad but it wore on me. Also, night time seemed to last twice as long as daylight hours but that could have just been me.

 

[SturmDolch]

I played Saint's Row 2 on PC and GTA IV on Xbox 360. Saint's Row 2 was hardly playable while GTAIV had some solid controls.

Past the controls, however, GTA IV was one of the most boring games I've ever played. Players I don't care about, a world that feels dead, mandatory minigames for darts and stuff, the city is closed off at the beginning... Ugh, no thanks.

Saint's Row 2 was a lot more fun to play, just for the sheer variety. Still, the controls suck. It's poorly ported to PC.

I'd say they're both pretty crappy games but Saint's Row 2 is fun despite the crappiness while GTA IV is just tedious. I'll go for Mafia or Mafia II any day.

 

[Quid Plura]

How about both? I see no reason why having one excludes the other. Saint's Row has more fun in it, I think. On the other hand GTA IV clearly has the advantage of being the 6th installment in a series. Saint's Row's got some rough edges, and GTA looks better.

But I like them both.

 

[b3nn3tt]

I prefer SR2. Pimp slapping people across the map is awesome.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Saints Row 2 is a game.

GTAIV is a poor attempt at being a good one.

Basically, saints row 2.

 

[lawdjayee]

Never played GTA4...but I have a hard time believing there's a single radio ad as sidesplitting as the "Stilwater U" ad. "At Stilwater University, I'm not just a number...but I'm not quite an individual either...I'm Bethany 43!"

 

[Kelethor]

now, see, this one's weird.

By all accounts and reasons, GTA IV should be the better game. The plot is far more relevent in than SR 2 .And in GTA IV, the plot isn't simply "kill anyone who isn't wearing purple" the characters are far more realistic, and are more believable (many people above have stated that the characters in GTA IV are assholes. well, being a gangster doesn't exactly make you mister Sunshine. Nico is also a far better character than anything you can create in Saint's row 2. Nico Bellic is a bad, bad man. he's killed people, smuggled people, gone to war, and yet despite it all, it tries to be a good man. he tries, despite the fact that in this messed up city it will never work, to change. he's the kind of person who isn't shocked by what he has too do, because he's done it all before, but doesn't want to do it anymore. like a grizzled old veteran.

Also, the Voice over for Nico is just amazing. possibly one of the best VA's iv heard. SR 2's character on the other hand is voiced by a hilarious accent and a bunch of other voices I didn't bother to pick. the supporting cast in SR 2 meanwhile, is filled with Johnny Gat, an anger issue filled gangster who plays house with his fake-dead, soon to be dead girl friend Aisha, who get's STABBED IN THE CHEST WITH A KATANA, and refuses to die. now, I don't claim to be a master of the human body, but a katana is a blade of folded steel. you get stabbed with that, your not getting up. We also have a weed smoking Rastafarian girl, and a ***** who's name escapes me at the moment. and the only interesting thing about them was that the two of them shacking up together by the end of it caught me off guard.

So by all accounts, GTA IV should be the better game right? well, I haven't actually finshed GTA IV. the realism and the grit was all....too much. maybe it's the fact that im getting to old too invest the needed 10 hours a day of game play to beat a game like GTA IV. I will tell you that I beat Saints row. you know why? because if I ever got bored with the story or just wanted to stop dealing with the bullshit the story, or one of the many, many stupid characters was throwing at me, I just went and threw poo at someone's house. I think everyone should be able to at least once say, I shot poo at someone.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Saint's Row 2, no contest.

I preferred it when Rockstar made sillier sandbox games.

Agreed.
GTA 4 is too serious and got boring because of that.

 

[Drauden]

Easily Grand Theft Auto IV. While Saint's Row 2 was all about messing around and dicking about, I felt it was... I dunno, kitchy.

GTA IV is more fun to play around with because of the ragdoll.

 

[Lynxan]

To be honest, I'm not a fan of either. I like my gaming more strait foreword and would take Infamous over both these games. That aside, between the two I have to give the nod to Saints Row just for the simple fact I have finished those games. I've never felt up to finishing any of the GTA games and have gotten less further in them the more complicated they make them (I never made it off the first island in San Andrais). None of it is lack of skill, I just loose interest. in GTA 3, I opened up all the island and wasn't far from finishing, but just drifted away. I got a good way into Vice City, but not even close to what I did in 3, then in San Andrais I got a bit after getting thrown into the woods before I got board again.

I hoped that the time I've not played a GTA game would make it so I'd be interested again, nope. I got to the first choice of killing a guy for the story or not and then I went meh.

In both Saints Rows, I found that I would keep myself going a lot better, or at least I was enjoying the missions. Ultimately I think it comes down to just liking the Shooting mechanics better.

 

[Jesus Phish]

Saints Row 2 is what GTA4 should have been after San Andreas.

I liked both games, but SR2 definatly has more fun and replay/mucking about to it. Story wise for me its a toss up. GTA's is obvioulsy more serious and real, which was good. However I felt there was not enough of the old, gang styles. Almost everyone worked for some dying mob boss.

SR2 also didnt have your fucking cousin call you five time a minute.

I've yet to play the DLC for GTA though.

 

[Trebort]

SR2 has the brilliant customisation. If only it had GTA class or graphics. A combination of both games would be excellent.

 

[Cazza]

Saints Row 2. I just wish it had the final finish of GTA IV. It was a little glitchy for me but it's still overall better then GTA IV

 

[RicoADF]

I bought Saint's Row 2 a few months ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it really fun to play, and the story was engaging enough for me to care about it. I also like the city, I continued the game after I finished the story just to drive around and occassionally do some side quests

I've seen it referred to as the anti-GTA IV, as it completely does away with any semblance of realism, which is obviously one of GTA IV's main selling points. I'd been told that GTA IV was a really good game, so I borrowed it from a friend, and have to say that I actually found the realism worsened the gameplay. I'm used to GTA games where it takes quite a bit to actually kill you, and I found GTA IV quite difficult because of the realism in it, and enjoyed the game less

So my question is, do you prefer the realism of GTA IV, or the unrealism of Saint's Row 2?

I love both games, sometimes I want to muck around in a game that feels real so I jump in GTA IV, other times I want to play in a game with a lighter tone, so SR2 fits the bill. I have both btw .

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

Haven't seen this before.

Saints Row 2, fuck all those assholes saying the game is a rip off of GTA 4 (I'm looking at you Meta Critic and IGN.) It's everything GTA 4 was not.

i agree...did they NOT FUCKING REALISE SAINTS 2 IS OLDER?????

 

[Yopaz]

Asking this question on a forum which people only really post on because they found it via looking for Yahtzee is a little odd. Given the review yahtzee did and how he likes SR2 > GTA4 do you think there's going to be much correlation from the ridiculous sheep that watch his reviews? I think so...

Calling those who like Saints Row 2 sheep when the biggest crowd (counting reviews at least) praise GTA IV to the skies and say Saints Row 2 is mediocre seems a bit odd. How can you not be a sheep if you are one no matter which one you prefer?
As for me I dislike GTA IV for plenty of reasons and love Saints Row 2 for almost as many reasons. GTA IV got annoying phone calls, missions to get so drunk you would spend half the time falling over, one fourth of the time swearing in anger and one fourth of the time walking to get a car, 2 native Russians who for some reason only speak broken English because they don't know neither proper English nor proper Russian (I guess broken English is the language they speak in Russia) and of course crappy controls.

Saints Row 2 had a lot of customization, (cars, characters, gang), fun missions (sometimes good story too), insurance fraud, spraying crap on people, houses and cars, fun, annoying bugs, graphic flaws and much more.

Saints row 2 is far from perfect, but it did at least keep me entertained something GTA IV could not. I've tried several times to get into GTA IV and no matter how hard I try, I can't do it, it fills me with boredom.