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Jesus Christ this piece of shit is even worse than I thought it would be, then again maybe I had some hope they'd fully overhaul the game.

A girl I know (an adolescent sperg dyke, the exact type of person they're pandering to) was obsessed with the SR series, went out of her way to buy an original complete in the box collectors edition of SR 2 & painted a purple fleur de lis on her wall. When she had a rough year a long while back, around Christmas my friends and I decided to be nice and had contacted volition to ask if they could send an e-mail to her which would auto-send on Christmas day, which to their credit they did. She ended up shooting a few e-mails back and forth with Mike Watson (this was before he died) and he personally attested "stay tuned, this game is going to be amazing and tailor made for true fans like you"

And even she, a person who they tried so hard to pander to, fucking despised it from the moment it was revealed.
 
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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
And a REAL annoyance is how big the blocking is on objects.

What's that? You're looking over something and wanting to shoot someone? LOL Nice fucking wish. You get to waste your ammo on the blockage that only comes up to your knees! What's that, you want to shoot at the ENTIRE LOWER HALF of the enemy visible under the sign? LMAO. Nope, because the hit box for the sign extends that far, oh, and it's indestructable.
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Yeah hitboxes are atrocious, not for enemies mostly but for cars/buildings/fences/whathaveyou. Will you be able to hit? Who knows, not you, they will know if they're able to hit you though and probably will and there's no leaning around corners or shoulder switching or any of that.

I just had a fight with a miniboss that's pretty much the sentry bot from fallout games, only it's completely invulnerable while it's not venting and then it has two things on its shoulders that are finicky to hit with the shit aiming and you don't have a lot of time to do it. Forget doing it if there's any support around, they will rush and punch you and you lose your window and will probably get shredded by the fucker as it comes back.

I have some more grievances with weapons as well. SMG are pretty much useless they do shit burst damage and may be strictly worse than your rifle choices and forget hitting anything that's more than a few steps away consistently enough for the bullet spray to stack up. Shotguns are really good but also have super limited range you have to hit with all the pellets to do good damage and the spread is kind of bad so damage falls of real quick. Pistols I don't really even use and I'm struggling to find enough ammo for my rocket launcher to use it as much as I'd like. There's a problem with ammo in general not in you can't replenish it because you can and turn up the slider even to get ammo, it's just that you can't really hold a ton compared to how many bullets it takes to take down enemies if you're not using autoaim or attuned to the shitty aiming in a way that lets you counteract weapon spread.

Big fights kind of devolve into me just spamming the ability to summon backup as it takes very few hits for you to recharge your energy pool called flow, think warrior rage from world of warcraft or combo points or whatever. There is also an ability that lets you leech health with attacks but it doesn't last long and it's a piddly amount to boot, the only other ability I've found so far that's worth a shit is the basic mine you get very early on, you just have to throw it somewhere it can take the few seconds for it to charge up and then get things to step on it.

Your weapon choices also kind of suck starting out, you do unlock more as you do activities and missions and shit but I haven't really checked back on those.

Oh right. Those Cutting Edge materials are nice but they're pretty much just Fortnite weapon wraps minus as in they just apply their shit all or nothing, you can't go color region by color region and it doesn't let you pick colors for anything. Booo.
 
ReasonablyRetarded said:
Jesus Christ this piece of shit is even worse than I thought it would be, then again maybe I had some hope they'd fully overhaul the game.

A girl I know (an adolescent sperg dyke, the exact type of person they're pandering to) was obsessed with the SR series, went out of her way to buy an original complete in the box collectors edition of SR 2 & painted a purple fleur de lis on her wall. When she had a rough year a long while back, around Christmas my friends and I decided to be nice and had contacted volition to ask if they could send an e-mail to her which would auto-send on Christmas day, which to their credit they did. She ended up shooting a few e-mails back and forth with Mike Watson (this was before he died) and he personally attested "stay tuned, this game is going to be amazing and tailor made for true fans like you"

And even she, a person who they tried so hard to pander to, fucking despised it from the moment it was revealed.
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I wonder if he's lying, if the game direction changed, of if he just thought the fans wanted this.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
You can’t rob places or shoot store clerks either, fyi.
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Games just keep getting fucking WORSE lmao! Pretty soon the latest releases will just be dynamic wallpapers you pay 70 dollars for. You can hit 'x' to spend 20 dollars to see a number go up. It doesn't do anything, but it's there.
Jack Awful said:
I wonder if he's lying, if the game direction changed, of if he just thought the fans wanted this.
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I think something happened, I remember one of the bigger Saints dedicated YouTubers damage controlling after the trailers started dropping and saying that the game he was allowed to see behind closed doors did not look like what they were set to get.

Either they had a big course correction a couple years ago or Mike was just blinded by promises of a 'less wacky' Saints Row.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I’ve seen gameplay. It would have utterly frustrated the hell out of you in 5 mins. And that 5 minutes would have still been the first battle. The game is hilarious in how pretentious it is and all, but the gameplay is a massive boring slog.


I was hoping someone would. Is that character creator still available? Where you just design the character and not pay for the game?
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the initiation station? dont think so. i think the connection to the servers to download other characters is gone too
Metamorpho said:
Do it and make sure you show us the end result (please).
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KINZIE IM YIIKING OUT
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doing this actually reminded me how much i hate the sr3/4 character custom system. i did two pics of different shirts because there wasnt just a plaid shirt option in the game, which is such a weird thing to not have but because the focus was on funny specific clothing items something as basic as that just wasnt an option. also a lot of the custom characters end up looking the same which could be a problem in saints row 2 but not nearly to the same degree. everyone just has the same build in the steelport saints row creator

enough sperging tho here's my cwc i made like a year ago with an extra peter griffin outfit
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I bet the writers/designers fucking love Community and wish they would be able to work on Community instead of making some shitty videogame but until then they have to settle for writing Community fanfiction on company time.
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I think this back and fourth from SR4 really illustrates the difference between the old crew and the new crew

Ziniak ~ You're an amoral psychopath

Boss ~ Puckish rogue!

Gat, the Boss, and the rest of the OG crew were true clinical sociopaths. They did not give one singular fuck about anyone but themselves. These new guys are like artsy sensitive people who care and feed orphans but also occasionally go on mass murder sprees against unarmed civilians?

The Saints being psychopaths made sense this does not, like at all.
 
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Really late quote due to the DDoS.
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Yeah, that's what I meant with it being their fanfiction. I saw that dustbowl video and it felt like they were trying to write their own paintball episode.
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Sad part is there's actually a kernel of an interesting idea there with missions like Dustmoot: a post-apocalyptic tribal LARP, paying homage to wasteland movies/games, specifically Mad Max and Dune, done in the same engine as the past games. You have to try really, really hard to fuck a concept like that up.

Instead: you shoot a couple guys who stand there doing nothing, a bulletsponge, shoot some balloons in the tapeworm and crawl out its ass. On top of that, the shit you gets not even all that good for what you'd have at that point in the game. It feels so empty.
 
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I think a big problem with Saints Row starting after the first released, is that the game tries desperately to differentiate itself from Grand Theft Auto by adding immersion breaking wackiness, which the original fans despise. The Saints Row series is another victim of Grand Theft Auto holding stupid sense of ownership over the open world crime genre, that and retarded devs.
 
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