Yup, it?s a playground.
After having thoroughly immersed myself into Skyrim and all the while constantly worrying if some choice (or some glitch) would interfere with what I wanted my heroic Skyrim tale to be, I needed a break. I decided I wouldn?t care about ? wouldn?t get OCD over ? Saints Row the Third.
Yeah, I did. I created a relatively generic female character, imagining that she?d be some amorphous lump that I?d play around with, eventually becoming something weird -- a fat green dude, a mussel-bound gladiatrix -- but I actually ended up liking my character.
I had obsessed about my secondary character in Skyrim; I had struggled with whether to quit and restart after I realized my Wood Elf?s eyes were plagued by guyliner. In my opinion, if you?re going to spend even three hours with a character, then there had better be some connection.
With the excellently unambitious writing and the inimitable Laura Bailey?s voice acting (it?s weird hearing her in a natural [-ish] voice; I kept hearing bits of Rasperyl and even a hint of Shin-Chan), I couldn?t help but relate to my character. If you were Batman in Arkham City, then you?re the Joker in Saints Row the Third.
There are many reasons to dislike the game. The most salient is its treatment of sex workers as inhuman commodities ? but it?s just a dumbass game, right? I wish they?d been more cautious in their treatment of such a serious topic ? but this is a different world; this is a sex and violence world. It makes more sense to complain about the world-war-level of people you?ll end up killing in the game than whether it?s ethical (or un-!) to ignore women?s rights.
This game ignores human rights. That?s part of the charm. It flexes the inhuman muscle we all try to ignore. Chaos can be fun ? maybe not in the real world, but it fits perfectly into a playground.
After having thoroughly immersed myself into Skyrim and all the while constantly worrying if some choice (or some glitch) would interfere with what I wanted my heroic Skyrim tale to be, I needed a break. I decided I wouldn?t care about ? wouldn?t get OCD over ? Saints Row the Third.
Yeah, I did. I created a relatively generic female character, imagining that she?d be some amorphous lump that I?d play around with, eventually becoming something weird -- a fat green dude, a mussel-bound gladiatrix -- but I actually ended up liking my character.
I had obsessed about my secondary character in Skyrim; I had struggled with whether to quit and restart after I realized my Wood Elf?s eyes were plagued by guyliner. In my opinion, if you?re going to spend even three hours with a character, then there had better be some connection.
With the excellently unambitious writing and the inimitable Laura Bailey?s voice acting (it?s weird hearing her in a natural [-ish] voice; I kept hearing bits of Rasperyl and even a hint of Shin-Chan), I couldn?t help but relate to my character. If you were Batman in Arkham City, then you?re the Joker in Saints Row the Third.
There are many reasons to dislike the game. The most salient is its treatment of sex workers as inhuman commodities ? but it?s just a dumbass game, right? I wish they?d been more cautious in their treatment of such a serious topic ? but this is a different world; this is a sex and violence world. It makes more sense to complain about the world-war-level of people you?ll end up killing in the game than whether it?s ethical (or un-!) to ignore women?s rights.
This game ignores human rights. That?s part of the charm. It flexes the inhuman muscle we all try to ignore. Chaos can be fun ? maybe not in the real world, but it fits perfectly into a playground.
