Saints Row The Third Catch-All

So this one is story missions, unlike Genki Bowl?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

So this one is story missions, unlike Genki Bowl?

Far as I understand it, yes!

I'm all over it in that case.

I finished it tonight. Did both endings. Lots of fun & surprises all the way through. I'm not sure if I did right by trying to take over the city on my own before doing the story missions. I think I had 100% control before I earned 3 of the cribs in the story. Plus I hit level 50 respect, and had infinite ammo for everything with several missions still to do. I had every perk bought except I didn't get any of the 100% immune to "_____" damage ones, since I felt it would be too much like cheating running around invulnerable. I also didn't do the city takeover perk, as I did everything on my own for that.

Ending spoiler:

Spoiler:

The first time through I saved Shandi at the statue, then I did the kill Killbane route. If I go back into the game after I've saved it at 100% complete, which ending will it follow now- or does it not really matter?

Finally, does anyone know if they'll do a complete DLC pack sometime? I'd get the season pass in a heartbeat if it included the other extra items packs- some of them look fun- but it doesn't. It just seems too expensive to get the season pack plus all those $2-$3 items on top of it.

Tscott: I think, considering that the next DLC pack is "Gangstaz in Space", that the first run you did was the "true" ending.

I just finished it as well, and the entire ending made me giggle with glee.

The entire package(hehe) is just so juvenile, but it works as a parody of everything Rockstar has done lately. Absolutely hilarious writing and performances, decent controls, and the licensed music was just perfect.

The one thing that turned this into my 2011 GOTY is a random comment from a beat cop. The character said something along the lines of:

I never got my damned hardboiled egg.

It's a reference to Terry Pratchett's Night Watch.

Wow, Pratchett and Saints Row 3. That just shot it up in my estimations.

Steam is such a tease. When I right-click on SR3 in my library and view downloadable content, Gangstas in Space is listed, but when I launch the game, there are no new missions.

I'm guessing it will drop sometime today.

MeatMan wrote:

Steam is such a tease. When I right-click on SR3 in my library and view downloadable content, Gangstas in Space is listed, but when I launch the game, there are no new missions.

I'm guessing it will drop sometime today.

Noon CST, I think?

It was on 360 this morning. It's a lot of fun, but it's only 3 missions long.

3 missions for $7 seems high, although if I wasn't neck-deep in Reckoning I'd probably do it today.

LobsterMobster wrote:
MeatMan wrote:

Steam is such a tease. When I right-click on SR3 in my library and view downloadable content, Gangstas in Space is listed, but when I launch the game, there are no new missions.

I'm guessing it will drop sometime today.

Noon CST, I think?

A little past 4 PM CST, and it finally dropped. I just saw the pop-up saying Saints Row: The Third has finished downloading.

Now I just have to wait until I'm done working to check it out.

I just finished the "Gangstas in Space" DLC (on the PC, if it matters). It definitely was not what I was expecting -- not by a long shot -- but it ended pretty strong. One very welcome bit about Gangstas (as opposed to GenkiBowl VII) is that The Boss has entirely new voice-acted lines... LOTS of them.

Edit: Forgot to mention that there's a Flight of the Navigator reference.

Edit the Second: What I was expecting would have been completely unreasonable and illogical in the SR world (if that's even possible)... as it is, this fits in with the world.

I like the dialog, the film grain effect, the story arc, the backstage stuff, basically all the window dressing (I was never a big fan of the "retro alien" look but I can tolerate it). Unfortunately they pad all that with fairly basic and straightforward combat and it all goes on about 3 times longer than it should.

Quality of the dialog aside, it really doesn't seem very in-character for the leader of the Saints to give encouraging pep talks to an aspiring actress. This was someone who (in SR2) held a guitarist's hand over some stage pyrotechnics so that he could never play again, for no real reason other than "f*ck that guy." A real psychopath.

LobsterMobster wrote:

I like the dialog, the film grain effect, the story arc, the backstage stuff, basically all the window dressing (I was never a big fan of the "retro alien" look but I can tolerate it). Unfortunately they pad all that with fairly basic and straightforward combat and it all goes on about 3 times longer than it should.

Quality of the dialog aside, it really doesn't seem very in-character for the leader of the Saints to give encouraging pep talks to an aspiring actress. This was someone who (in SR2) held a guitarist's hand over some stage pyrotechnics so that he could never play again, for no real reason other than "f*ck that guy." A real psychopath.

True, but SR3 is full of instances that show that while the Boss is still kind of a hardass, fame has caused her (in my case) to mellow a bit. I could definately see her stepping in to defend the aspiring actress from the d*ckface director, because the Boss seems to hate that more than anything else.

Xeknos wrote:
LobsterMobster wrote:

I like the dialog, the film grain effect, the story arc, the backstage stuff, basically all the window dressing (I was never a big fan of the "retro alien" look but I can tolerate it). Unfortunately they pad all that with fairly basic and straightforward combat and it all goes on about 3 times longer than it should.

Quality of the dialog aside, it really doesn't seem very in-character for the leader of the Saints to give encouraging pep talks to an aspiring actress. This was someone who (in SR2) held a guitarist's hand over some stage pyrotechnics so that he could never play again, for no real reason other than "f*ck that guy." A real psychopath.

True, but SR3 is full of instances that show that while the Boss is still kind of a hardass, fame has caused her (in my case) to mellow a bit. I could definately see her stepping in to defend the aspiring actress from the d*ckface director, because the Boss seems to hate that more than anything else.

Yeah, that's the vibe I was getting. I wonder if it "read" differently in the various other Boss voices, perhaps?

Just wrapped up the DLC, enjoyed it. Again, do wish we got more for our money. That being said, it was fun and funny, and I never felt like my Boss was out-of-character much. But that's me.

Enjoyed it more than GenkiBowlVII, but it's not like I didn't like that one. This was definitely more connected in comparison.

Agreed. I enjoyed the brief time that it took to play through this new DLC (about 90 minutes), but just as it was with Genki Bowl, if you didn't buy the season pass, I would highly recommend waiting for Gangstas in Space to appear on sale for about half price. Neither GB or GiS are worth $7 on their own in my opinion.

I don't know if that was worth $7 but I paid for the season pass so at this point it feels like free.

I wish it were longer but I wish the main game was longer because I love every minute of every part of Saints Row The Third and this part is no less as great.

I played with the white girl voice and it felt like a fun girl power flick.

PS-The MUSIC was terrific.

More DLC coming for you... The Bloodsucker pack.

Please fall under the season pass banner....please?

I don't believe it does.

What exactly does it include? The fact that they're throwing all that bonus money/respect stuff makes me wonder if that isn't what it is, just another cheat pack. Or at the very least not strong enough to stand on its own.

Just wondering for when SR3 turns up on sale again, how does the DLC so far compare to just the main game? From what I've read people were really enthusiastic about the core game, but a bit luke-warm on the extra content.

The core game is fantastic. The season pass has been decent, it's just more game - nothing drastically different. If that hits a sale price, I'd recommend it.

I'm confused as to how the season pass is going to save people the promised amount of money.

As far as the base game, completely awesome highest possible recommendation lovefest.

trueheart78 wrote:

I don't believe it does.

Ugh. And that's my problem with season passes.

If they had included all the DLC for maybe a $30 pass, I think that'd be decent enough. Having separate packs for everything is a little much, especially when the extra missions are the only season pass items allotted, barring the bonus that is the Nyteblade DLC pack.

Jumped into the GiS DLC, got into the first mission, realized that my character really wasn't looking her movie-star best, so I backed out of the mission, made the rounds to the plastic surgeon to touch up my character design, clothes shop to get kitted out in some action-movie gear, the works.

Around this time Steam's screenshot feature stopped working, so I turned on the in-game screenshot feature until I got that figured out.

Decided to take a break, quit the game. Once I was back out to my desktop, I realized why Steam wouldn't take any screenshots: the drive that Steam was on was out of space (had uTorrent running in the background, that's why).

Deleted some stuff, started the game up again... and all my save files are gone. There's no "continue campaign" option, and when I go to load game, the list is just empty.

Checked my save file directory, all my save files are there on the drive, but when I load up the game they don't show up.

Checked around some forums, found some people with the same problem, but the solutions that worked for them (restarting Steam, restarting their computer, going into offline mode and then online mode, disconnecting and then reconnecting to the THQ community servers, copying their save files elsewhere, deleting them, starting a new game, stopping a new game, then copying them back) didn't work for me.

God damn it, SR3. You don't glitch a lot compared to something like Skyrim, but when you DO glitch, damned if they aren't just the most infuriating glitches imaginable.

Don't have the patience to deal with this any further, and I'm fresh out of things to try, so unless someone can think of a solution I haven't tried yet, I'm inclined to say !@#$ this noise and jump into something else for a while. I really did want to play that GiS stuff, too. Nuts.

That sucks hbi2k. I've got no suggestions, but I hope you find a solution.

trueheart78 wrote:

If they had included all the DLC for maybe a $30 pass, I think that'd be decent enough. Having separate packs for everything is a little much, especially when the extra missions are the only season pass items allotted, barring the bonus that is the Nyteblade DLC pack.

Yeah. I opted not to get any DLC for this. The $1-$3 ones keep popping up and add little to the game - usually some costumes and a weapon. I would have gotten the season pass if it had been a true catch-all for all the DLC. Instead I think it saves you a dollar ($20 vs. $7 x the 3 DLC included) and gives some bonus costumes. I may pick up the DLC during a Steam sale and replay the game with the DLC someday, but they don't seem to be worth it at full price.

That video for the lastest DLC seems to be a prime example. It'll be couple dollars to be able to bite people on the neck (it doesn't even seem they added any costumes in this one) and then they add all those bonus money and rep stuff, when I had no problem getting enough money and maxing out rep with the vanilla game.