Trailers: Saints Row IV - Meet the President Trailer
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This is coming out in August, and GTA V is coming out in September. Why the fuck would I waste my money on this pile of crap? Saints Row The Turd was an abomination. The game wasn't fun for 3 whole minutes. It was actually irritating because of how hard it tried to be funny. And it was obvious. There was nothing to explore and discover in that game. Everything you could do was waiting for you on the surface. You didn't even have to try. Not to mention their glorious plan to have 40 weeks of DLC. They butchered that game. And I'm supposed to trust them that this one will be better after seeing this trailer? There is just nothing of value here.
1. I hate dubstep
2. America is not that great a place
3. All that considered, I'm buying this game yesterday.
2. America is not that great a place
3. All that considered, I'm buying this game yesterday.
Meh...this one smells too much of try hard. Watch this all just be some sort dream. No one actually saved the character at the beginning of the first one. That gang banger actually shot them, and this was all some near death hallucination that takes place in the few seconds before the character dies. It does blank out that brief moment when the shot is fired.
Seriously, I'd laugh.
Seriously, I'd laugh.
I agree with this.hazabaza1 said:
"Haha! Oh man, look at this! It's all unrealistic and cool! These fancy weapons, silly dialogue, man this is GOTY for sure!"
"GWAAAAAAGHGHG WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT GOD"
I love people.
[sub][sub][sub]inb4 I get quoted by 100 people not understanding hyperbole[/sub][/sub][/sub]
Moving on,
Honestly, I'm not a purist fangirl of Saints Row, though I do enjoy the series from SR2 on, and want to pre-order SR4.
I recognize they screwed things up here and there, and I have my gripes.
Lets be real here, though. Saints Row's gangster style vs GTA's Gangster Style? You really think Saints Row would survive vs the rampant fanboys, and the better publicity of GTA?
Saints Row understands it can't compete vs GTA, and I don't blame them.
I'm no fan of GTA myself for reasons I won't rant upon as it'd probably double the size of this post, but I recognize that they're far more the "name brand" of gritty sandbox shooting. Saints Row would be hard pressed to slug it out with them on that ground.
Besides, who knows, SRTT might be the matrix so to speak, and SR4 might be the fight out of it culminating in the Boss waking up in a more familiar Stillwater with a more gangster feel... or atleast above it in a space ship, then have to fight to get home as the ship will eventually be destroyed. The massive rich and fame being nothing but a dream...
And then we'll get to play in that world.
Oh, we might have to go after DEX! Since people prolly will still gripe about that loose thread.
And SR5 will return to it's gangster roots, and then get snuffed by GTA's higher fame, and being a house hold name, and all the people wanting SR to be gangster again won't care it returned to the gangster roots and play GTA anyhow. <.<
I bought all the Grand Theft Auto games because they were formative in my early days of gaming.Rebel_Raven said:
I bought Saints Row the third because it was on special on groupon. (Saved 15 bucks)
I didn't buy the past ones because they seemed like cheap knock offs of San Andreas without Samuel L Jackson.
I laughed at the over the top fuckoff self parody in the game, I hope to see more of it in the next one.
I'll probably get the new one.
See, I would have said the same thing about GTA (except for the car handling- Driver has always been the genre leader there) up until GTA IV. Ever since that game, which was the very definition of 'sacrificing context and challenge', my faith in Rockstar has been shaken so soundly that I won't consider buying another GTA game until I've played it for a good 6 hours or so and decided for myself it isn't another GTA IV.TheRussian said:
Kind of racist isn't it? The trailer I mean.
There are enough people thinking that killing illegal aliens is a good idea that we don't need to encourage them.
There are enough people thinking that killing illegal aliens is a good idea that we don't need to encourage them.
'd say that if the joke about killing aliens from outer space who are "illegal" nevermind trying to harm people causes people to harm illegal aliens, or those they perceive as such, well, those people were messed up to begin with, and didn't need much encouragement.Mullahgrrl said:
Using games as a scapegoat is a bad thing.
Oh come on now, that's just something people who like games use to dismiss these completely valid complaints.Rebel_Raven said:
Clearly this game will corrupt our youth against the innocent alien population.
"America...HELL yeah"? Shouldn't that be "America...F--K yeah"?!?
I guess once once you've played a game in a series where you are beating people to death with a giant phallis (before Jim Sterling stole it), you might as well drop all sense of pretense for the next installment, eh? Well...that might have been a good move, because this does look quite awesome!
(If I wasn't into RPGs for the most part and could get into sandbox games.)
I guess once once you've played a game in a series where you are beating people to death with a giant phallis (before Jim Sterling stole it), you might as well drop all sense of pretense for the next installment, eh? Well...that might have been a good move, because this does look quite awesome!
(If I wasn't into RPGs for the most part and could get into sandbox games.)
...meh. Looks to me like they're over-doing it. And, again, if they don't bring back the level of customization from SR2, then Volition won't get my money.
Off-topic: dish can kiss my ass.
Off-topic: dish can kiss my ass.
Just because people want games to be seen as an art-form, doesn't mean that every game has to be some grand high standard masterpiece.M920CAIN said:
Just as that all art, paintings/drawings, literature, movies, etc, don't have to be clean and highfalutin.
There is such a thing as entertainment art, though really, all art in some way entertains.
And no, I don't think Saints Row is becoming bland and stupid. I just think the creators finally have set on what Saints Row is. It is a franchise that's key motivation is achieved through being just about parody and silly comedy.
I've played most of the first game and watched most of the other two games being played, and I can tell you that they went down the right path to set themselves apart. The first one feels like it was just trying to be a GTA clone, thought it has just enough flare to set itself far enough apart, but after that the franchise has evolved into something more.
The developers did what they should have done; they found ways to set the franchise apart from the competition(GTA). I played GTA 3 and Vice City back in the day, and watched some of GTA 4. I have to say that I like Saints Row better because it has less of a serious tone and is more silly. The reason for that is that I don't play such sandbox games because I want to be serious; I play them because I want to mess around and do stupid crap, to see how far I can push the world of the game.
And circling back to your comment about games as art, I don't play such games for how artistic they are.
....The hell was that? Now it's not even a wacky Crime sand box game it's just...*shrugs* Prototype with humour and color?
To be honest, you're very much over simplifying; Blood Dragon measures out the crazy carefully; Saints Row 1 did a good job of that too; Saints Row 2 wasn't as well crafted, but still managed to keep the crazy fun - Saints Row 3? Not really very fun - if a helicopter attack is available from the very start, it never really feels special...hazabaza1 said:
"Haha! Oh man, look at this! It's all unrealistic and cool! These fancy weapons, silly dialogue, man this is GOTY for sure!"
"GWAAAAAAGHGHG WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT GOD"
I love people.
[sub][sub][sub]inb4 I get quoted by 100 people not understanding hyperbole[/sub][/sub][/sub]
Its like a meal; all dessert with no main course is unlikely to be good after the first ice cream sunday.
I disagree somewhat with you're assetment with regards to the direction the franchise has taken - its -nearly- the right route, but not quite. The over-the-top-ness is good to say "hey, we're different from GTA", but -playing- Saints Row 3, you feel like they just overdo it too early, and then the rest of the game is a disappointment because they can't really fine a good way to top themselves.Sonic Doctor said:
Honestly? I enjoyed 1 and 2, I thought both did the 'fun GTA' really well, (well, Johny Gat aside - he really just irrates me), but Saints Row 3 felt just blandly over-the-top; like it was trying way too hard. "Have a tank, unmanned drone, and so on in the first half an hour!""Ok, how are you going to top that in the rest of the game?"*SRIII shrugs*Garfy said:
"Ok, can I use the helicopter in any missions I want?" "Oh no, of course not, dumbass, you need to wonder around on foot even when a helicopter would massively simply something"
I'm not judging Saints Row 4 yet, but I have a feeling it'll be just "in your face"-bland, which while more interesting that Gears-of-grey-and-brown, is more frustrating. Looking forward to GTA 4 though.