I loved using beer cans, pizza boxes, and whatever trash I could find on the ground as a weapon. There's nothing more satisfying than hitting a running target in the back of the head with a beer can causing them to rag doll into traffic.
That's like the best thing about 2. The story is really good, but it's way more fun to just run around finding cool new shit to do.
Yeah, I was disappointed that they took out that feature in SR3, in addition to having fewer melee weapons. Also, I'm playing SR2 on the PC and I was pleased to discover that you can't use the Tow Truck like you're supposed to in a mission if you're using non-default keybinds so that kind of sucked. The object pop-up is also horrible even when contrasted to SR3 which makes driving fairly annoying at times.
SR3 is pretty okay, the only things that really bothered me in it were that there wasn't a whole lot to spend your money on, like money management was completely not there, and some of the side activities (Heli Assault I'm looking vaguely at your direction!) were either uninteresting or completely devoid of challenge.
Yeah and the Tow Truck could be again used for a side quest where you'd just tow trucks. Which was a central pillar to Saints Row was many of the things you were introduced to in missions were also part of the open world. Including the interior locations for those missions that you could revisit at any time.
This sort of veering outside of Saint's Row games themselves, but imho Saint's Row could do with a system where fielding backup powers/homies and so on costs money, not only the "support powers" you call in from the phone(Kind of like Mercenaries), but for example buying the Cribs/strongholds costs money, but so would decorating their interior, which would then attract more gang members to both hang around the base, but gaining more gang members would also mark a rise in support costs. Which would mean that the more income you're pumping into a gang stronghold, the more gang members available for recruiting would spawn around that area and so on. Gang hideouts left on low manpower would get attacked by enemy gangs and possibly taken over, which would encourage prioritizing a little and so on. I know that Saint's Row isn't exactly Civilization, but I think adding a little management aspect to the game would make the player feel like they're actually running a gang.
Saints Row 3 was apparently significantly more feature rich in development, and a great deal of it was cut out prior to release. (and by a great deal of it I mean apparently there were more features cut than actually implemented in the final game). A good example is that SR3 was apparently going to have a destruction system somewhat similar to Red Faction Guerilla. But that was scrapped because they felt it was too distracting and detracted from the experience overall.
I think the first Brotherhood mission comes first because it is supposed to be a diplomatic meeting for setting up a truce. Then the Ronin missions until Johnny gets injured then the rest of the Brotherhood missions followed by the last Ronin missions and finally the Samedi. I don't remember enough of the story details of SR 1 but I can agree to the gang order.
I kinda feel they all intertwine. Sure it could make sense for one of them to be last but if the boss ruled all Ronin and SoS turf and yet Maero thinks he is just a has-been who owns no turf, it could kinda feel off-putting, IMO. I just kinda feel its best to let them all intersect in some sort of way. I'd finish off the Ronin first and save the Brotherhood for last, with the Sons being second. I never played the first game due to not owning a 360 so I can't really say for the first game.
