Saints Row thread

[Buddy Booth]

This is still a game made and financially backed by a corporation and a corporation has one purpose which is to generate profit. Making maximum profit means you don't alienate and anger your customers. This whole game baffles me. Surly the marketing research team or whoever should have known insulting and attacking their fanbase was a bad idea, right?!

Fuck you white boy, you're not the fanbase we want anymore! You stupid fucks didn't make us the billions we wanted so we're going to appeal to a younger, wider audience!

A hip crowd that is going to relate to our new characters as they turn to organized crime to pay their student loans, because that's what younger people want in their videogames, right?

We're gonna make something so cool, so rad, you toxic males still fawning over SR2 will have to wallow in misery as the rest of the world enjoys our amazing game!

...

On a more serious note I think the budget for this game was basically peanuts and this is the kind of talent that could be afforded.
They grabbed epic's money and called it a day.

 

[Fougaro]

Speaking of replaying Saints Row 2, I will agree with anyone who swoons over Johnny Gat (him and Kinzie are my favourite agents in Agents of Mayhem), but I also want to give praise to my man Pierce. One of my favourite running gags of Saints Row are the duets between you and Pierce that end up being memorable moments. The second game, where it started, has one of my favourite missions where you shoot down a bunch of helicopters to intercept drug shipments from the Sons of Samedi to Pierce's cover of "So Sick" by Ne-Yo.

And some mad lad made a full version.

And if you still think that "So Sick" isn't the best drive-by shooting song, you're wrong.

From the third game on the Boss just embraced it, which I always found adorable as you can see how after all these years Pierce went from being your underling to being your friend.

And last, but by absolutely no means least, the Boss' and Pierce's duet of Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" was in my opinion one of the game's, if not the entire franchise's biggest highlights.

And Zinyak joining them to Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" always makes me kek.

TL;DR: I love Pierce.

 

[Toolbox]

Playing Saints Row 2 because there's more stuff you can do in that game than the new one. Only bad thing is the graphics aged horribly. It's closer to PS2 than Xbox 360/PS3 later years.

It really does feel way older than it is, early gen 360 and ps3 can be that way but it seems quite outdated versus other games from around it's time. I know that might be blasphemy here, but I preferred SR3 and 4's gameplay even if the story and characters sucked. Still were written better than the new one though.

 

[Mega Black]

It really does feel way older than it is, early gen 360 and ps3 can be that way but it seems quite outdated versus other games from around it's time. I know that might be blasphemy here, but I preferred SR3 and 4's gameplay even if the story and characters sucked. Still were written better than the new one though.

The moment to moment gunplay and movement was better in 3 but it came at the cost of a city that was worth exploring and dozens upon dozens of features that its hard to justify losing them for snappier shooting.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Speaking of replaying Saints Row 2, I will agree with anyone who swoons over Johnny Gat (him and Kinzie are my favourite agents in Agents of Mayhem), but I also want to give praise to my man Pierce. One of my favourite running gags of Saints Row is how you and Pierce and up singing in duets that end up being memorable moments. The second game, where it started, has one of my favourite missions where you shoot down a bunch of helicopters to intercept drug shipments from the Sons of Samedi to Pierce's cover of "So Sick" by Ne-Yo.

And some mad lad made a full version.

And if you still think that "So Sick" isn't the best drive-by shooting song, you're wrong.

From the third game on the Boss just embraced it, which I always found adorable as you can see how after all these years Pierce went from being your underling to being your friend.

And last, but by absolutely no means least, the Boss' and Pierce's duet of Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" was in my opinion one of the game's, if not the entire franchise's biggest highlights.

And Zinyak joining them to Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" always makes me kek.

TL;DR: I love Pierce.

And Pierce? Well who gives a fuck about Pierce?

He's the Meg of Saints Row and we love him for it lol

 

[Ruin]

4 had it's issues but Zinyak the Shakespeare quoting galactic overlord was an extremely underrated villain. His voice actor brought this weary exasperated response to your boss's antics that made me laugh every single time.

 

[Mega Black]

4 had it's issues but Zinyak the Shakespeare quoting galactic overlord was an extremely underrated villain. His voice actor brought this weary exasperated response to your boss's antics that made me laugh every single time.

I honestly feel like 4 is a better sequel to 2 in a lot of ways than 3 ever was. It reintroduces a lot of old characters and follows up on a lot of dropped plot points. The Boss also has a couple of moments where they come totally fucking unglued and you see shades of the old monster they used to be in 2.

Plus it has hot southern bell boss voice, if you can get past the alien shit it's definitely the better of the two games as far as I'm concerned.

 

[The Last Stand]

• The lead boss in the commercials is a brown woman. This is different than past Saints Row games which made the “default” boss in the commercials a white guy. Of course, in all these games, you can make your boss any race or gender or even like, Shrek. So this is really just a marketing call.

Never mind that the OG developers of SR were White and the mass majority of gamers are White. I remember seeing marketing that SR2's default boss was African-American.

 

[Random Autist]

For fuck's sake, one of the devs practically burst into tears during an interview because the reaction was so bad and she didn't know how to cope.

Are you able to find that? I want to see.

 

[Friendly Mudcrab]

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I’m confused and concerned on whether or not you were or were not forced to play this game.


Nice that you subtly admit that the old guard of Saints Row characters were more interesting than the current ones that no one will remember after a few months and change.


“Technical design”

That is a funny way to say that these people took all the fun away of sticking up people with robberies, and not having them learn consequences when you’re no longer allowed to do this.


Adding more word salad on top of more words still won’t change the fact that everything open world wise will always compare to GTA, and it will still be lackluster. No one cares about the fact that a woman is “brown” or that a guy is “white”; this game is just lifeless and bland.


If you chose to not look at Saints Row’s literal PR account made for Twitter where they disrespected all of the old fans and essentially pulled the “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it” routine, then that’s your own fault.

Just because Saints Row is not “woke“ in your eyes does not change the fact that we still have legitimate reasons to dislike this game, and it has nothing to do with politics or a person’s gender. Overall, this Forbes article was just pointless.

I can't believe Tassi is still around. He emerged ages ago on forbes shitty blog and redditors gave him credibility because they thought that forbes magazine and their site are of the same quality. Over a decade later and neighbor cattle still hasn't realized he's just an idiot blogger. Incredible.

 

[Local Degenerate]

Never mind that the OG developers of SR were White and the mass majority of gamers are White.

That's the part of this bullshit that hurts the logic part of my brain. Inclusivity, rah rah, what the fuck ever, but they're called 'minorities' for a reason, and it ain't a statement on their worth to society.

And yet, they're able to understand the concept of 'people want to see themselves in games'. A concept I see as consoomer grade horse shit, but, well, we wouldn't have people playing humans in MMO's otherwise I guess.

So, when you put these together, the majority, both of the dev team and the market, are going to be white. Therefor, the majority of the games, and/or marketing, should be focused on whites.

It's not fucking erasure, you faggots, it's simple logic.

Edit: I was going to say 'make your own game', and that made me realize. I have more fucking respect for the devs of Validate me, and that snoot game knock-off than anyone involved in the Reeboot (sic), because they did just that. They went out and made their own IP and game, and, sure, they fail every time, but they didn't fail and drag down something beloved too.

 

[The Last Stand]

Therefor, the majority of the games, and/or marketing, should be focused on whites.

Not even "focus," just don't alienate your core audience.

 

[The Last Stand]

And Pierce? Well who gives a fuck about Pierce?

He's the Meg of Saints Row and we love him for it lol

Even Pierce had more spine and balls than Eli.

 

[TVB]

And Pierce? Well who gives a fuck about Pierce?

He's the Meg of Saints Row and we love him for it lol

Speaking of Meg, Mila Kunis did provide her VA role in the first Saints Row game in 2006, making it the only game she's been in other than the Family Guy video games.

Her appearance in a Max Payne movie as Mona Sax does not count.

 

[Local Degenerate]

And last, but by absolutely no means least, the Boss' and Pierce's duet of Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" was in my opinion one of the game's, if not the entire franchise's biggest highlights.

And Zinyak joining them to Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" always makes me kek.

TL;DR: I love Pierce.

What makes that particular one even better is Kinzie abject refusing to sing along to Opposites attract, despite the boss trying everything to get her to join in. It really paints the Boss and Peirce as closer than anyone else in the crew.

 

[Maude Snew]

Minor updoot on my mini review. Le waffle shirtless dude is apparently canon bi not gay but I had no way of knowing this since all he did in my playthrough was drool over cock.

They bring it up maybe twice over the game in half sentences. It's blink and you miss it moments but apparently he's just supposed to be a colossal man whore who knows the entire city because he is actively having sex with the entire city. Now who does that sound like?

 

[Cactuar King]

They bring it up maybe twice over the game in half sentences. It's blink and you miss it moments but apparently he's just supposed to be a colossal man whore who knows the entire city because he is actively having sex with the entire city. Now who does that sound like?

Okay, so if Worse Urkel is Dex and Pierce, and Waffle Boy is Shaundi, who's Nina supposed to be a sub=par replacement for?

 

[Vault Boy]

They bring it up maybe twice over the game in half sentences. It's blink and you miss it moments but apparently he's just supposed to be a colossal man whore who knows the entire city because he is actively having sex with the entire city. Now who does that sound like?

So he's basically a really shitty version of Shaundi, I thought Volition wanted to "move on" from the old games to be "creative".

God, I still can't get over him wanting that dumbass happy meal toy. Those are the shittiest toys around, why can't he get over not getting one of them while in foster care? Either he had absolutely nothing to worry about back then, or something deeply traumatic happened that stunted his development to the point where he'd murder for one of them (and get tattoos of breakfast food, I don't want to know what Volition was smoking to come up with that idea).

He's the absolute worst Saints Row character (top 10 worst in gaming too), even Donny would want to cave his face in with a waffle iron.

 

[The Last Stand]

Speaking of Meg, Mila Kunis did provide her VA role in the first Saints Row game in 2006, making it the only game she's been in other than the Family Guy video games.

Her appearance in a Max Payne movie as Mona Sax does not count.

All I could think of is that: "this is what happens when you piss off Meg too much."

 

[Adamska]

Okay, so if Worse Urkel is Dex and Pierce, and Waffle Boy is Shaundi, who's Nina supposed to be a sub=par replacement for?

Whatever developer from the SR3 era who tried to self-insert herself as Kinzie IMO. Similar aesthetics and it was the very first thing I thought when I saw her.

But in all seriousness and thinking about what she can do; it's clearly Lin. She's the best driver they have, worked for another gang, and a real gearhead for cars. Exactly like Lin.