SR :The Third , where there 5 development teams working on this all trying to make it "funny"

[M-E-D The Poet]

I have started saints row the third, and what I've noticed is quite shocking
I know they were wanting to do things over the top.
But this game is just so over the top it's **** stupid
AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS SAINTS ROW GAMES
Now what my issues are , are quite personal by default
I'd say if I were 12 I'd be liking this game to bits

It started of okay-ish putting me in a scene that was a literal pull on Payday; The heist
The going in, the endless waves of swat, the lifting a vault up and fighting swat whilst it being lifted up by a helicopter... yeah...
That was fine

Now I was expecting some whacky with the old stereotyped saints row gangsta flavor.
Instead I got techno(main menu now features techno music, as do a few mission sequences) , genetically engineered enemies(Big bulking brutes), gravity hammers,dudes/gals with super powers(wielding those gravity hammers) and a main character insistent on either kicking people in the nuts or biting them in the neck, then I thought to myself :
Isn't this what I was doing in crackdown?
There's even the cartoony upgrade to the graphics and the black shading around enemies

That's when I decided everything might just be a dream, I looked around only to find the cops driving in cars that looked like lamborghinis to me, I nicked one and started driving
With the new physics engine and respect system I immediatly wondered if I hadn't changed discs and was playing burnout

I drove back to my " crib" and parked my car, then I saw from a totally different gang 2 cars pulling up with one of those genetically engineered brutes on the back

This is when I shut the system off and wandered off into the night a bit dazed

Now I would like to add that all this crazyness is extremely well executed, as far as I've seen
Only the skydiving fight sequence had some issues
The graphics suit for what they are doing (because they did too in crackdown)
The weapons work well and if you find this kind of humor funny still
You'll be laughing your asses off
It's a bit one of those frat boy games, something to play at a kegger maybe
TLR : Saints row the third is so much over the top it's not funny anymore unless you're twelve or a drunken frat boy

Opinions?

 

[Michael Hirst]

It's a completely stupid OTT game designed for the sole pupose of having fun. Nothing serious was ever in mind during development, just how much crazy fun there would be for a player to muck around with. One way of looking at Saints Row is that it has tried to be EVERYTHING people expected of the sandbox game for years, lots of fast, funny cheap thrills in a massive playpit that has almost no consequences to speak of.

I think it's a great example of how fun a game can be especially on 2 player without contributing anything serious or meaningful. It doesn't hide behind "the point" or try to elevate itself as art, instead it just goes all in with a very immature mentality and makes an outrageously fun game.

If it weren't for me being a complete ***** for Dark Souls and Deus Ex it would be a contedner for Game of the year.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The game's hilarious.


It's let go of any pretence of being serious and concentrates on why we play games in the first place.

Fun.

You remember fun right?

 

[M-E-D The Poet]

The game's hilarious.


It's let go of any pretence of being serious and concentrates on why we play games in the first place.

Fun.

You remember fun right?

Yeah but I guess I found the utmost critic it was of gangsters to be hilarious enough on its own

this is just too much for me

 

[Michael Hirst]

The game's hilarious.


It's let go of any pretence of being serious and concentrates on why we play games in the first place.

Fun.

You remember fun right?

THIS exactly THIS. Lots of people forget plain old fun. Nothing HAS to make sense really, Mega Man didn't make much sense, hell being a fat Italian plumber STILL doesn't make sense 26 years on and Mario is still great at being a fun game.

 

[putowtin]

loved the game, not sure on the ending(s) and
[spoileron't read if you havn't finished] What the hell did you do to Gat?! I mean seriously YOU KILLED GAT IN THE FIRST HOUR!?!?[/spoiler]

 

[OldKingClancy]

I had some trouble on one of the early missions (Taking back the city) which was ridiculously un-fun. But not long afterwards I started beating people to death with a purple dildo and I remembered why I loved SR 2 so much. The games are just a giant middle finger to game-hating media outlets saying 'We want to fuck shit up and you're not going to stop us.'

 

[mjc0961]

loved the game, not sure on the ending(s) and
[spoileron't read if you havn't finished] What the hell did you do to Gat?! I mean seriously YOU KILLED GAT IN THE FIRST HOUR!?!?[/spoiler]

Agreed. That was completely disgusting.

Spoiler

I kept waiting for the part where Phillipe was lying and they had Gat tied up somewhere and we go rescue him, but nope. Finally got to the ending and unlocked Zombie Gat for a homie. What the fuck, Volition? This game desperately needed Gat's personality to help it along. Instead, we're stuck with Pierce who only wants to play chess, Shaundi who is desperately trying to fill the "kill everyone" psycho role and sucks at it, Oleg who only seems to show up to tell us not to do the awesome ass kicking that the Saints would normally do, Zimos who has no personality and tries to get by on his stupid auto-tune gimmick alone, Angel the whiny little ***** who wants his precious mask back, and Kinzie the boring nerdy chick. It was pretty bad that Pierce managed to be the most interesting character with Gat gone.

And shit, they didn't even kill Gat on screen! Over a damn radio! AGH!

The story was disappointing in other ways too. It's padded with a bunch of activity introductions, and yet it's still too short. It reminds me of the ZP episode about The Force Unleashed 2: how do you pad out the game but it's still too short? BAH! There's thankfully plenty of side things to do. I find it odd that I've got 100% on the save screen even though I haven't finished hijackings, stunt jumps, barnstorms, and challenges yet, though.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

The game's hilarious.


It's let go of any pretence of being serious and concentrates on why we play games in the first place.

Fun.

You remember fun right?

Some people find a more mature experience more engaging and therefore more fun. There's sillyness and then theres just total immaturity. To be honest I think we're mostly passed that in games, and some people are happy games are becoming more mature (or at least, making more sense and being less simplistic)

Don't get me wrong, I'm playing SR3 and I'm enjoying it in short burts. But the series' major popularity and following in the gaming community saddens me a bit. I think it says a lot about the gaming community when all a lot of people want is to slap people in the face with dildos rather than enjoy something with a bit more substance and depth. I can play SR3 and have fun for a little while, but I find it utterly uningaging and lose interest in playing it after a short while, because to be honest its just too silly, and as a result of that it stops being fun to me.

I find the series to be filler games. They are there for me to play when I run out of better games to play and feel like having a bit of a shooting spree. But how grown adults can get lost into a game like Saints Row 3, hours upon hours of mindless unending violence with little reason or point behind it... Well, thats beyond me. That hasn't been "fun" for me since I was 14. To me, great games are experiences to get lost in, and a sandbox where things go boom and you strip off naked and run around the streets isn't exactly an experience to me, its more of an amusing time waster.

 

[Terminate421]

You know whats odd?

When people wanted a wacky sandbox experience they complained on GTAIV and loved Saints Row II, now Saints Row the Third has come out and they think its "Too Wacky"

Its pretty stupid.

I'm now intrigued and want to pick this game up now.

 

[Legion IV]

OH THANK GOD somone shares my veiw, i beat the game a week ago and am still f&cing mad!

What did they do to you saints row!! This game is bottom line the worst and most disappointing game i've ever played, not because the game play but because of how much i loved the series.

THEY RUINED IT. First of there's less customization, they completely streamlined Clothing and pimping cars. THe Story is SOOO short in length, theres 47 missions, at least like 3-7 of those are done within the first hour and at least 6-10 are just cop outs and ACTIVITIES? Are you high!?

The gangs also have zero development, In pervious saints games the missions built up the gangs and you got to know there style what they do and there leaders, One gang in this game gets offed IMMEDIALITY, the deckers start getting introduced then FOUR missions later you defeat them!. Oh my god i hate this fucking game.

The characters they give you here have zero development as well, Kinzie is the only one who gets some character development, Shaundi is either written poorly or just has a horrible voice actor as her character now is horrible. peirce is the only likable character here and even then they streamlined his character to just liking chess.

Also WHAT HAPPNED TO DEX?

This is the best way to describe the game, if you never played 1 or 2 this game will be average, if you played 1 or 2 as much as i did and actually loved the story and characters and customization you will be angrey like me. Just holy crap. This was one of the last Western gae and developers i realy trusted, just fuck this am sticking to the east for games from now on.

I'd love somone to try to argue me so i could prove them wrong and enlighten more people, theres really no defence to this game,its just garbage, utter garbage.

 

[2fish]

Still loving it. They did what they had to do, put me in a world full of stuff I can break and kill....and they keep score.

I have 7 hours logged and most of it is me running around being a sociopath hunting down all motorcycles and doing all the assassination missions.

I do miss some of the customization stuff from the older games but I can still make my guy have a similar look so it is cool.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

This game makes no sense whatsoever. I get that it's going for the whole over-the-top thing, but the story is all over the place and it sucks. Story was never the primary focus of the series, but at least SR2 had a decent story with some pretty good moments of storytelling. This is just ridiculous, in a bad way. And a lot of things that made SR2 awesome was removed and/or dumber down.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The game's hilarious.


It's let go of any pretence of being serious and concentrates on why we play games in the first place.

Fun.

You remember fun right?

Some people find a more mature experience more engaging and therefore more fun. There's sillyness and then theres just total immaturity. To be honest I think we're mostly passed that in games, and some people are happy games are becoming more mature (or at least, making more sense and being less simplistic)

Don't get me wrong, I'm playing SR3 and I'm enjoying it in short burts. But the series' major popularity and following in the gaming community saddens me a bit. I think it says a lot about the gaming community when all a lot of people want is to slap people in the face with dildos rather than enjoy something with a bit more substance and depth. I can play SR3 and have fun for a little while, but I find it utterly uningaging and lose interest in playing it after a short while, because to be honest its just too silly, and as a result of that it stops being fun to me.

I find the series to be filler games. They are there for me to play when I run out of better games to play and feel like having a bit of a shooting spree. But how grown adults can get lost into a game like Saints Row 3, hours upon hours of mindless unending violence with little reason or point behind it... Well, thats beyond me. That hasn't been "fun" for me since I was 14. To me, great games are experiences to get lost in, and a sandbox where things go boom and you strip off naked and run around the streets isn't exactly an experience to me, its more of an amusing time waster.

Rather the gaming community be known for being immature than artsy and pretentious.

The game doesn't take itself seriously, it's just a fun game to play.

Is the humour clever? No.

Is the plot deep? No

But not everything needs these things.

It saddens you that the game has a following that revels in being able to beat someone to death with a purple dildo?

Really?

Lighten up.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

Saints Row games are filler games. If you play them occassionally for a few hours at a time imbetween other games, you'll probably keep enjoying them. As long as you don't play for so long that the silliness of them wears of and stops being amusing, you should be okay.

It's a light sprinkling of silly to be draped over your free time, as long as it's only treated as an amusing distraction rather than a serious, time consuming game, it's charm should remain.

(Hopefully)

 

[Cazza]

I just finished SR3. I loved it. It's nice and refreshing to have a non serious game. All these MW3's and BF3's even Skyrim give me a break. I didn't even want a balance. I wanted over the top wacky fun. If I want some serious sandbox game I will play GTA:IV. You don't need to be twelve or a drunken frat boy to enjoy this game. Have an open mind and just enjoy the ride.


Skinny car surfing. How can you beat that?

I should state I played the other Saints Row games. Yes Im a little disappointed in what they took out but lighten up. Dont crush something good because of a few mistake. Well you my believe those were major mistake but I don't.

 

[lord.jeff]

People need to stop implying that someones sense of humor is the best way to judge maturity or intelligences, the idea that a person is immature just because they laugh at farts is just a retarded concept. I personally like over the top humor so I eventually plan to purchase Saints Row.