Saints Row The Third Catch-All

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The second-best damn game ever made was released on Nov 15, 2011.

I am really, really, really, looking forward to this. Really.

Loved Saints Row 2. Plus they've got the best character creator in pretty much any game out there. This will be on my holiday wish list for sure.

Saints Row 2 is possibly the most fun game I have ever played. I will not only pre-order The Third, I will be at the store the day it opens and I will take the day off work for it. I will spray townhouses with feces, set a college campus on fire, and club people to death with a giant, rubber dildo. Hopefully, all those will happen only in-game.

The insurance fraud mini game should be stand alone on Ipad somehow.

A) That trailer is garbage. 34 seconds long, and 32 of those seconds were filled up by logos and disclaimers. WTF?
B) Dumb trailer notwithstanding, I am super excited for this.

That's kinda the point. They're making fun of teaser trailers. By punching us in the balls.

I love me some Saint's Row 2. Don't we have a Goodjer who's actually working on SR3? Not that he'd be allowed to tell us anything, but still...

On another note, CheapyD of Cheap Ass Gamer did a fair bit of voice work for this game. Just civilian NPC stuff and if memory serves it was part of some contest rather than Volition's deep affection for his dulcet tones but still. How come YOU couldn't do that, Certis!?

Blind_Evil wrote:

That's kinda the point. They're making fun of teaser trailers. By punching us in the balls.

And seriously, what would you learn from a 2-minute trailer of things blowing up and people saying mean things to each other? This trailer shows us that you can punch people in the balls. Ball-punching: CONFIRMED. If you don't think that's significant, maybe you should watch this review of Saint's Row 2:

That Game Informer article has me really confused about the tone of the game. There're so many conflicting statements. The Saints are the conquering heroes of the city! But they still rob banks! It's a light-hearted, fun-loving romp! But you steal a boatload of immigrant girls and pimp them!

I don't know. I feel like GTA is more my kind of game. Evil, but consistently evil.

gains wrote:

That Game Informer article has me really confused about the tone of the game. There're so many conflicting statements. The Saints are the conquering heroes of the city! But they still rob banks! It's a light-hearted, fun-loving romp! But you steal a boatload of immigrant girls and pimp them!

I don't know. I feel like GTA is more my kind of game. Evil, but consistently evil.

GTA isn't "evil" though, and that's the problem; it spends all this time brooding about the idea of "evil" and getting all self-reflective about its characters. The Saints Row games basically point out that the whole idea of a crime-based sandbox game is utterly ludicrous--I mean you run down a few civilians in GTA and the police get angry. Hey, paint your car, all done! There's a goofy, silly undercurrent to GTA that it refuses to fully acknowledge, but SR2 utterly embraced it. SR2 treated itself like an over-the-top action movie full of ludicrous stunts, insane violence, and pure stupidity. It was just plain FUN. It's not trying to be logically consistent or rational or tell a story. Every single step of the way it's like the developers were asking, "Are we sure this is as much fun as you can have in this situation?"

Saints Row 2 (and I hope 3) didn't pretend to be real. They're basically making fun of themselves, and having fun doing it. The tone of the game is "CRAZY SUPER-AWESOME ACTION HAPPY FUN BLOW UP STUFF TIME".

Also, you apparently get to club people to death with giant rubber dildos. Which pretty much says it all.

After the last two, they have me pretty well sold. I'm looking forward to more Saintly fun!

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
gains wrote:

That Game Informer article has me really confused about the tone of the game. There're so many conflicting statements. The Saints are the conquering heroes of the city! But they still rob banks! It's a light-hearted, fun-loving romp! But you steal a boatload of immigrant girls and pimp them!

I don't know. I feel like GTA is more my kind of game. Evil, but consistently evil.

GTA isn't "evil" though, and that's the problem; it spends all this time brooding about the idea of "evil" and getting all self-reflective about its characters. The Saints Row games basically point out that the whole idea of a crime-based sandbox game is utterly ludicrous--I mean you run down a few civilians in GTA and the police get angry. Hey, paint your car, all done! There's a goofy, silly undercurrent to GTA that it refuses to fully acknowledge, but SR2 utterly embraced it. SR2 treated itself like an over-the-top action movie full of ludicrous stunts, insane violence, and pure stupidity. It was just plain FUN. It's not trying to be logically consistent or rational or tell a story. Every single step of the way it's like the developers were asking, "Are we sure this is as much fun as you can have in this situation?"

Nods in agreement.

I don't know if I can cope with the idea that Johnny Gat won't be in SR3. Like, for real.

Steam sale purchase

With GTA4, Rockstar picked their path and Violition picked theirs. Grand Theft Auto has become the more "serious" series, which has some craziness in it but is mostly about telling a story. Saint's Row is about hitting people in the balls. There's room for both of them.

There's also more room for some serious storytelling in a crazy world than crazy nonsense in a serious world. Just ask Gat. Politely.

I'm more of a ball hitter.

GTA IV is a game in which you are expected to murder app. 1/3 of the NYPD for the sake of a bag full of money that you can't even spend on anything besides more weapons, yet stop to agonize over the 'moral question' of murdering the handful of people who helped ruin your life.

I respect what GTA IV accomplished in certain technical areas and I enjoyed quite a few of its missions (and I really liked Lost and Damned a lot), but as a story, I feel like it's a clusterflop. I'll take the thoroughly goofy Saints Row over the accidentally goofy GTA any day.

I think the biggest problem with GTA is that Nico came to America for a fresh start, and almost immediately started murdering people again simply because he was asked politely.

I saw this in Game Informer and got all giddy. I loved and beat saints row 2x-one with cheats for the story the other with out-GTA4 is fun but not as much fun. Its the serious type of fun which is good for some times but if you want to just pick something up and kill people Saints Row is for you. If you want to sit down for a story and killing and fun cars the GTA 4

GTA is the type of a game that should support world persistence. Saints Row is the type of the game that benefits from infinitely respawning cars/people/baddies.

MoonDragon wrote:

GTA is the type of a game that should support world persistence. Saints Row is the type of the game that benefits from infinitely respawning cars/people/baddies.

I'd play a persistent GTA, just for the chance to see Will Wright doing his morning bike ride.

LobsterMobster wrote:
MoonDragon wrote:

GTA is the type of a game that should support world persistence. Saints Row is the type of the game that benefits from infinitely respawning cars/people/baddies.

I'd play a persistent GTA, just for the chance to see Will Wright doing his morning bike ride.

Day one purch.

LobsterMobster wrote:

I'm approaching my 40's and was in tears watching that "review". Clearly I have some growing up left to do.

Also, I need to get back in to SR2.

Hella new screenshots at Rock Paper Shotgun. Really liking the new style.

Possibly my favorite of the pics:
IMAGE(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/11/apr/sr3/sr12.jpg)

Shlong Sword?

c*ck, labia, got one.

The girl reminds me of Joanna Dark.

CptGlanton wrote:

The girl reminds me of Joanna Dark.

Yeah, she knew how to handle a giant wang, too.

There's a new video out, along with some new information. Links are NSFW, and it looks like an easy contender for Game of the Decade.

I was kind of thrown by the freaking ALIENS-style dropships hovering around at the end. I wonder if that's a continuation from the Red Faction crap they've thrown in over the years or if they're just saying, "yeah, it takes place in the near future, deal with it." And then sunglasses descend.

Does that mean anything for the kinds of vehicles you'll see driving around, or the kind of weapons you'll find? Or is it tightly restricted like it was in Saint's Row 2, where there's one company with a couple prototypes they've built and everyone else is still using contemporary tech?

IMAGE(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/26/1799525-sr3_bankgatheads_super.jpg)

Also, giant Gat heads. Just wanted to point that out.

CptGlanton wrote:

There's a new video out, along with some new information. Links are NSFW, and it looks like an easy contender for Game of the Decade.

Pretty much..

My #1 series of all time since i finished SR2 the first time through. I've played it a few times and will play it again before the 3rd releases.

Am dyin for SR3 here!

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