Zero Punctuation: Saints Row 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Precisely my thoughts...
SR1 added innovations to the whole crime sandbox genre that made it better than GTA:SA, to which the GTA fanboys replied "Oh yeah? Well just wait until GTA4!!"
And then it arrived as a sort of really good version of GTA3...completely forgetting the awesomeness that was Vice City and San Andreas.
SR added an insanely simple yet perfectly functional garage system (No cramming cars into a garage or yellow box, just stick it in and the game SAVES it for use later, and if you blow it up, you just take it out again!)
It gave you the ability to replay any mission at any time you want after you'd completed it, something I was waiting for GTA to do ever since GTA3 when I had about 10 saved for all the missions I enjoyed doing.
Just overall SR stayed fun, while GTA4 had the gritty story and lifeless world full of meaningless distractions.
SR1 added innovations to the whole crime sandbox genre that made it better than GTA:SA, to which the GTA fanboys replied "Oh yeah? Well just wait until GTA4!!"
And then it arrived as a sort of really good version of GTA3...completely forgetting the awesomeness that was Vice City and San Andreas.
SR added an insanely simple yet perfectly functional garage system (No cramming cars into a garage or yellow box, just stick it in and the game SAVES it for use later, and if you blow it up, you just take it out again!)
It gave you the ability to replay any mission at any time you want after you'd completed it, something I was waiting for GTA to do ever since GTA3 when I had about 10 saved for all the missions I enjoyed doing.
Just overall SR stayed fun, while GTA4 had the gritty story and lifeless world full of meaningless distractions.
Was it the intent of this review to make me want to run out and buy this game? Prior to watching it I never realized I had such an interest in jumping out of helicopters onto old ladies.
funny, very funny. But seriously, review dead space there are some things in that game that scare the shit out of me. too much old lady bashing
I KNOW YAHTZEE WE NEED BETTER SAND BOXES BUT I WOULD THINK OF ONE WHERE SOMETIMES ITS OKAY TO DIE OR GET YOUR ASS KICKED CUASE THEN IT ADDS ON TO THE STORY
Have never played a Saints Row game, but some observations.
Why should ALL game makers either produce games based on fun or realism? I like GTA4 BECAUSE it feels like I am in a different world. One where I can do shit, and not get punished for it in real life. It does not feel like playing a game, but that is the point. It feels like virtual reality. It is not for everybody, but some like it. If Rockstar wants to make the most realistic game ever, GREAT! There will be others to make the cartoony type stuff as well.
Also, you all can think what you want, but in terms of sheer quality, not many games stack up to GTA4. What was that, Yahtzee? 'Games as art'?
Why should ALL game makers either produce games based on fun or realism? I like GTA4 BECAUSE it feels like I am in a different world. One where I can do shit, and not get punished for it in real life. It does not feel like playing a game, but that is the point. It feels like virtual reality. It is not for everybody, but some like it. If Rockstar wants to make the most realistic game ever, GREAT! There will be others to make the cartoony type stuff as well.
Also, you all can think what you want, but in terms of sheer quality, not many games stack up to GTA4. What was that, Yahtzee? 'Games as art'?
One of the funnier reviews you've put out in the last year. Good stuff. And a sandbox game where you get to run around as the Riddler would be farking AWESOME. There'd have to be a mini-game where you get to choose your henchman's uniform and decide which ones come with you when you go to steal the Giant Pharaoh's Diamond (or something) at the Gotham Museum and which ones get to stay behind and work on new gadgets to throw at Batman.
i totally agree i went out and bought it the day it came out... ive played it soooooo much that the health bar found a way 2 burn itself into my screen so now everytime i watch tv i wanna play saints row XD
... there goes my 1000$ TV
~tomany2
Xbox gamer tag ~ TCF Tomany2
... there goes my 1000$ TV
~tomany2
Xbox gamer tag ~ TCF Tomany2
Amazing how many people didn't even consider touching SR2. You may want to lay off pretending to hate everything as you probably think Yahtzee does. The first SR isn't AS fun, in depth, as SR2, but it was alot more polished. (I can't tell if that's not saying much or a lot.) I had tons of fun playing SR2 and I still am, I figured Yahtzee would also. Although online is more annoying as ever. I don't know which is done more, everyone spamming pipe bombs all over the map or little kids/"wangsters" screaming the n-bomb and swear words.
What I found more funny was that I had so much fun playing SR2, I thought to myself "Hey! Great idea! Let's... POP GTAIV right back in!" ROFL, talk about a brick wall of difference. Everything was blurry and filtered, I was expecting health regen, it was harder moving around as slow as sin, I got arrested several times within the first 10 minutes, and killing 1 cop gave me an unexpected 12 stars.
What I found more funny was that I had so much fun playing SR2, I thought to myself "Hey! Great idea! Let's... POP GTAIV right back in!" ROFL, talk about a brick wall of difference. Everything was blurry and filtered, I was expecting health regen, it was harder moving around as slow as sin, I got arrested several times within the first 10 minutes, and killing 1 cop gave me an unexpected 12 stars.
Is that 787 that the granny is being hurled into at the end of the video?
If it is, then, sorry, no turbines to be hurled into yet.
If it is, then, sorry, no turbines to be hurled into yet.