Saints Row thread

[Mega Black]

Nahali is the bad guy. Figures. Also 23:04 is cringe.
>I have alot of practice and pent up rage.
You can tell a 30yo white woman wrote that line.
>The VTOL still works, Marshall biometrics for the Boss are still in system, they didn't try to recover this piece of expensive military hardware.
Put it this way, every time the US lost an Abrams in Desert Storm, they made sure to either intentionally destroy or recover it. Marshall would not leave a working VTOL at the ranch like that.
>Why is Kev wearing a shirt?
Because the writer wants her boy-toy shirtless, duh.
Why does the Milkor grenade launcher launch flares and not grenades?

>FINAL BOSS FIGHT IS NAHALI IN A HELICOPTER.
Hope it was worth the $60 $70.
>Western standoff for no reason, cause New Mexico.
>MORE MUGMOSAS.
Only good part from this shit game. Release the SR2 Patch you fucks.
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Can you tell which ones were the diversity hires?
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This thing was the train wreck we all knew it would be.

I like that Nahuali says to the protagonist that "I'm just a better version of you." Before being killed by our new and improved socially aware Boss(tm)

He's ruthless, practical, and willing to murder someone at their highest moment for power. Everything SR2 Boss was. Move over old man! As if their contempt couldn't be clear enough lmao.

And holy fuck, 2022 in the year of our lord Heysus Christo and a modern game unironically ends with a helicopter boss battle and a QuickTime event. Volition isn't just making games that look like they belong on the PS3 anymore, they ARE making a PS3 game. But instead of being based its cringe.

I will never understand how Volition managed to screw this franchise so hard over being called GTA clone lmao.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the lead dev of SR1/2 totally different, with a different team? The guy who has headed the franchise since 3 has made no secret that he actively dislikes SR2.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

To be fair, Volition is quite ballsy; making game based on wrong premise ("let's make criminals relatable” >criminals >relatable) and sticking to it to the end is a move which average troubled company are not doing

Too bad that’s gonna bite them in the ass, but is their fault

 

[The Last Stand]

Fuck Volition, the only cat they should be advertising is Professor Genki (god, I don't want to know what they'd do to him these days...).

Now they're trying to compete/jab at Stray. Fuck these people.

 

[TVB]

Volition is still big cringe. Fuck 'em.

 

[Vault Boy]

"Look everyone, the gang loves to play boardgames together! #Relatable #Family #Mugmosa #Snickerdoodle"

The only games a gang would be playing together would be a video game, dominos, or shooting craps, not this cutesy-tootsy animal nonsense. Go shove that boardgame up your asses, you fucking hacks. I hope your game crashes & burns so hard that Deep Silver shuts your studio down, salts the earth, and hand the IP off to another studio that know what people actually want in an open world crime game (and has the humility to listen to them instead of "believing in their vision").

 

[The Last Stand]

"Look everyone, the gang loves to play boardgames together! #Relatable #Family #Mugmosa #Snickerdoodle"

The only games a gang would be playing together would be a video game, dominos, or shooting craps, not this cutesy-tootsy animal nonsense. Go shove that boardgame up your asses, you fucking hacks. I hope your game crashes & burns so hard that Deep Silver shuts your studio down, salts the earth, and hand the IP off to another studio that know what people actually want in an open world crime game (and has the humility to listen to them instead of "believing in their vision").

"You just HAD to buy the snake expansion!"

Is that supposed to be a jab at DLC? If so, okay. I won't buy your product PERIOD.

 

[Slav Power]

Now that I have finished Saints Row 2 after I managed to get it to run decently I must say, I've missed out on a lot of good stuff by never playing it and only playing SRTT and SRIV before. The more serious tone is definitely much better than the overly humorous tone of the third and fourth installment, especially with how the Boss handled Shoko and Maero, that was some fantastic stuff, 10/10.

In terms of gameplay, I do like that you can layer clothing and how you could customize more than just the color. It's nice that every activity has a dedicated into cutscene, something that was missing in later installments, probably due to lower budget. But overall it was pretty fun, albeit frustrating at times. It's a damn shame the PC port is this broken, though I've managed to get a crash only twice or three times during the entire playthrough and not once did my save corrupt. Also worth mentioning, I was playing with the Gentlemen of the Row mod, for the sake of fixing issues, even though the GotR mod adds and changes a lot of stuff in the game itself.

 

[Neil]

Here's the ending.
I was very wrong about the raid, I must have derped.

This is incredibly awful. I haven't paid attention to this game since it's disastrous reveal at E3 but I didn't think it could get this bad.

Yeah,

THESE are threatening gangsters.

A San Francisco leather club doing cyberpunk Mad Max roleplay and a white female games journalist/"nerd culture writer"? I would run in fucking fear.

The straightest Bay Area resident and his boyfriend, some Urkel lookalike bowtie wearing hipster faggot who would've gotten bullied to death by literally any of GTA San Andreas's cast?


I am shitting myself in fear, this guy is so terrifying.

 

[Snekposter]

Gay dying and it having no impact on The Boss was the most bizarre fucking decision, the actor even said he had nothing else going on so what the fuck were they thinking? I don't even mind Gat dying but it should be what sets TB off, not be a weird footnote at the start of the game with a death you don't even get to see.

You know, speaking of Gat, I had a terrible idea for a waffle-maker joke in SR3. What's his-face is Belgium, so for a mission that has the Saints break into his house only to find he's gone to ground elsewhere, Gat decides to steal his ultra-fancy handcrafted Belgian waffle-maker because "fuck that Belgian waffle-making prick". And then back at the crib he tries to make waffles, fails terribly, and after a bunch of shade getting tossed his way from the crew about his culinary skills. everyone agrees Gat should just stick to simple and easy things like killing people.

That is how The Boss gets an expensive-as-fuck waffle-maker: its stolen not because its a valuable item but because its intended to piss off someone who doesn't even have the decency to come out and die like a man.

 

[Buddy Booth]

Jesus fucking Christ that boss fight is some scripted garbage. He stops taking damage until he phases, throws his smoke bomb and runs to the next spot. In the final bit, before the scene transitions. the boss is literally immune to all damage until the player approaches him, at which point he runs away and the walkway collapses.

Absolutely embarassing, prehistoric, bottom of the barrel gameplay design, lifted up straight from 2006 or so.
The helicopter finale doesn't even deserve to be discussed. What is it with Western devs being incapable of making good boss figthts?

Also the whole thing has 0 energy to it, the Boss' voice actor sounds bored out of his mind.

What a shit show.

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

Boss fight looks like ass, which was pretty much my expectation.

Dakar 2022 just got a release date, so I'll decide tomorrow whether or not I'll be getting this or if that spare PSN cash I have is going towards Dakar. Going to wait on some of the more trusted game reviewers once the embargo drops, not some Kotaku or IGN bullshit

My big draw here is gameplay. I've a buddy who received the physical copy early and he said the gameplay outside of the scripted stuff is really solid and fun, but that all the scripted parts are cringe and ass. He said it "plays more like a Just Cause game than Saints Row".

If I do end up getting it I'll do a full breakdown and review for you guys. If I don't, well I guess I'll just be waiting until October for Dakar

 

[Vault Boy]

This is a man that should've been bullied much more in school, fucking hipsters would kick the shit out of him for dressing like that.

In their attempt to make the series "wholesome" and "relatable", Volition has created a shit stain that will forever haunt Saints Row. Even if they close down, the series gets handed to a different studio, and that studio goes out of its way to bury this game (worse than how Capcom treated DmC, as a few elements of that one did carry over to Devil May Cry 5), this cast of chucklefucks will make people wary of future games just like all those lousy Sonic games did for that series.

 

[werbwub]

Does this garbage have denuvo?

 

[Slav Power]

Does this garbage have denuvo?

Denuvo AND Epic Games Store exclusivity.

 

[Autistic Monkey]

Here's your Saints Row reboot devs. A bunch of woke-looking hair-dyed she/hers.
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At least they're honest women presumably

 

[Articles and Nudes]

I've been rewatching the SR3 power trailer, and man I remember how excited it got me for the game. I didn't have any real passion for the franchise, but that got me fired up like nobody's business, and also did a great job of establishing the characters in a few seconds - you can tell who the leader is, you can tell Gat would die for him even without knowing their history, Kinzie doesn't give a shit while she's on the computer, Pierce show boats, etc.

I've watched Nu Saints trailer few times and could only tell you anything about the characters because of leaked footage. "Get the fuck away from my friends" is such a dumb line, especially when you dickheads picked that fight to begin with!

Just give me another five minutes of Oleg throwing goons off a roof.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The old games were really great at setting certain songs to gameplay bits. The Power song playing while assaulting a rooftop penthouse, the car karaoke, the I Need A Hero drive to save your crew, Don’t Want To Miss A Thing while climbing a rocket…solid music sync up.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I fucking hate the state of modern culture so fucking much I can't even put it into words.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Can you tell which ones were the diversity hires?

Here's a larger image in case you want to find out which one's the diversity hires. But it's mostly hambeasts and soyboys.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Which one's the hipster?