Poll: GTA5 Vs. SR3

[CannibalCorpses]

Shit...i was too late!

Saint's row 3 is utter shite. A game where when fully upgraded you can only die if you are leaving a vehicle when it explodes is no game at all...challenge? FUCK THAT! Our players don't want challenge, they want to have god mode without having to 'bother' cheating. That said, it was ok until i got the invulnerable to everything upgrades, then i might aswell have watched a let's play and pretended i'd played it

GTA5 is another notch in a long line of heavily detailed games with depths within depths...but quite a bit easier than it's predecessors (it has modern game syndrome i.e lowest-common-denominator cancer). The story is good, the gameplay is easy and yet hard to master, the music is terrible (just like a real radio) and the city is full of twats (like a real city).

If i do a comparison...

GTA5 gave me well over 100 hours of gameplay with lots of replaying to gold all the missions aswell as all the random side mission stuff. The alternate options on the heists gave me a second full playthrough just to see what i could change.

SR3 took me around 30 hours to fully complete with very little replay value and no reason to dick around (I was godlike after all, no point starting fights that are impossible for me to lose).

One last thing...Saint's row 4 came out way too fast for my liking...it's almost as if they don't even try anymore...and the game suffers for it

 

[timeformime]

It's not necessarily SR3's fault for not trying the same things, and being made two years earlier, but SR3 was much shallower and shorter-lived in my memory than GTA V, which is R*'s crown jewel as far as I'm concerned. It was a one-two-knockout from Red Dead to Max Payne 3 to GTA V, three excellent games for very unique reasons. Maybe it's because I genuinely love crime drama, satire, and the GTA series already, so V just hits all the right notes.

Some of the satire is just mean spirited and hits as subtly as a club, I will give you guys that, but come on, there's still some hilarious dialogue in there. You have to admit, if there's any place in consumer America that deserves this kind of skewering for its general absurdity, it's freaking LA, the seat of Hollywood. There are plenty of wonderful things about it, but quite a few moronic things that go unsaid. It's not the best satire in the world, but it's an interesting exercise.

Of course the density of this world and the breadth of what you can do is just absurd, which is really why people (outside the games industry) can play GTA for years on end and will do the same with this one. I took an hour long bike ride once up Mt. Chilead just because I could.

 

[Samael Barghest]

I'm going to have to go with SR. I have yet to finish a single game but I have always found myself having fun while playing it. Which is something R* seems to have forgotten to include in their games while trying to write a dramatic story that is actually pretty dull. You can't make me feel sorry for the wacko murderer when he's finally put down when all he's been doing is killing people and wrecking their shit. R* got it right with Vice City and San Andreas (hell Red Dead Redemption was fun as hell and had a good story) but GTA 4&5 has seriously been lacking.

 

[j4c0b1]

My vote goes for saints row.

I can't remember anything that happened in the story of GTA4, and iv not even been able to finish GTA5 (i'v only not completed 3 other games in the last 10 years). The world, stories, and characters of the newer GTA are just entirely bland and forgettable.

Saints row on the other hand had much more memorable characters, and was willing to go increasingly mental, while GTA tries to go more realistic and boring.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

Gta5 offers way more and i'll never understand that this game feels empty for some. No other openworld game features the insane amount of details and features.

SR3 is the most dissapointing game i've ever bought.
If you want to play a badass gangster go get the second SR. It's stuffed with double the content and feels way more polished than SR3. SR 2 has the best character and clothing editor. The side activities are fun and steelport is a great place to roam around. Pedestrian placement makes sense since not every place needs to be overrun by gimps, hookers or mascots. There are three campaigns compared to SR 3 with having like 4 or 5 grand cool looking main missions while the other missions are poorly disguised side activities.

SR 4 is a fun superhero game but it gets boring way to fast. Maybe wait for the goty edition if it's not to late. At least i liked it way more than SR 3.

 

[DataSnake]

However, it's all in a city that looks shit-brown more than I'd like(seriously, whenever it's nighttime the sky has this baby-shit greenish-greyish-brown look that makes me sick, as seen in the screenshot)

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As opposed to Saint's Row 3's more gorgeous color pallate:

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There's actually a mod [http://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/threads/enhanced-graphics-shinobu-fix-for-saints-row-2-beta-feedback.6574/] to make the color palette more SR3-ish. It's pretty good.