Poll: Problems with Saints Row 3 (as compared to Saints Row 2).

[Fwee]

After seeing how much DLC is planned and the Zero Punctuation review I have almost no desire to play this game. I loved Saint's Row 2, and might just draw a "3" on the cover and keep playing it instead.
I appreciated the insane amount of customization, the almost limitless quests and activities, and the fact that Volition actually made me care (even a little) about the characters. Every death of a friend in SR2 was actually filled with gravitas, and I was shocked that I was feeling anything at all for them.
SR3 seems like they've decided to give up on trying to make a good game or story and just force-feed randomness and giant dicks to their audience. Instead of just giving me the option to be completely weird they've handcuffed me to gimps, furries, zombies, and giant dicks, ordering me to be "wacky". It feels like an advertising executive trying to fit in with a room full of 11-year-olds. "Hey, you guys watch the YouTubes, right? Ell-Oh-Ell! I'm so hip!"
It's desperate, and lame. And the SR2 Saints would feed that man his own non-balls.
I wanted the newest installment to show the main character looking around him/her self and realize how lame all the other gang members were becoming and decide to bring them down and rebuild it all in their own image, not cat suits and unfunny octopus guns.

 

[Fwee]

And this is definitely the year that DLC ruined every game released. They give you 40% of a game at best for full price, then will charge you for all the extras until you've paid at least three times over. Thankfully I see this as a trend that will fail to catch on. If games continue in this fashion I'll probably just quit gaming altogether, with no regrets.

 

[drednoahl]

There are so many nickpicking things I don't like about SR3 in comparison to SR2. It's not much of a sandbox when half of the content you were expecting from the first game has gone. I want to like the game so much, but can't bring myself to play it anymore.

What I think is likely is that THQ wanted the game rushed out and Volition aren't in a position to argue. Maybe DLC will fix my issues with the game, but I doubt it.