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Jack Awful said:
You can intentionally move the mouse to miss but your dad just kills him anyways.

The game just isn't fun. Felt like you due too easily. That courtroom dream sequence sucks.
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The Courtroom is one of the worst FPS levels I've played in recent years, and since it's a dream so why would it even matter if you die? I completed TNO on Uber but had to dial right down to game journalist difficulty within a few levels as I was getting shredded so quickly I never even saw what hit me. Plus it has some of the most ridiculous tonal shifts I've ever seen - yuo can either be a serious look at the horrors of war or a zany over the top b-movie homage, not both.
 
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The Door said:
The most unrealistic gang is the idols. Because we know that self-styled anarchists shit their pants when faced with anything resembling force.

Though the fact that the anti-capitalist faction is the one that runs lavish dance parties makes me wonder if someone in volition was taking the piss.

I would pay, though, to have a mission chasing away some antifa knockoffs. Police shows up after you shoot a single person.
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The Idols were supposed to be Cyberpunk Techno Anarchists, but they already did that with the Deckers. So rather than an army of edge lord millennials hellbent on living Cyberpunk and Blade Runner, we get a Zoomer Post Millennial edgelords living up on Hedonism. The only funny part about the Idols is the fact that nobody seems to care what the leaders are actually saying. These guys are doomsday, death cult status, while their foot soldiers and commanders are like they're extras from a Batman movie, who just want to fuck, party and kill.

Now, you know what would have been cool? Rave to the Grave Techno Voodoo Occultists. Combine the Raver aesthetic with the voodoo aesthetic of the Sons of Samedi. God. I want to be the guy who saves Saints Row, but I don't suck cock and my asshole isn't for rent. Which seems to be the only way to "break into" these companies.
 
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Starved Artist said:
The Idols were supposed to be Cyberpunk Techno Anarchists, but they already did that with the Deckers. So rather than an army of edge lord millennials hellbent on living Cyberpunk and Blade Runner, we get a Zoomer Post Millennial edgelords living up on Hedonism. The only funny part about the Idols is the fact that nobody seems to care what the leaders are actually saying. These guys are doomsday, death cult status, while their foot soldiers and commanders are like they're extras from a Batman movie, who just want to fuck, party and kill.

Now, you know what would have been cool? Rave to the Grave Techno Voodoo Occultists. Combine the Raver aesthetic with the voodoo aesthetic of the Sons of Samedi. God. I want to be the guy who saves Saints Row, but I don't suck cock and my asshole isn't for rent. Which seems to be the only way to "break into" these companies.
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Basing a criminal empire on a specific race or nationality in current year is verboten.
 
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This game is actually a lot less woke than I thought it would be, but that’s because every single character is instead a massive hypocrite. The worst part is that I legitimately can’t tell if thats intentional or simply bad writing.

Kevin is part of the Idols, who are trying to build a post-capitalist utopia that has evolved beyond money, but he NEEDS $350 to buy a fucking waffle maker. Neenah aspires to be an art curator, but moves forged paintings in her spare time. She‘s going to preserve and cultivate art by making lots cheap copies. Eli is a business major, but his only plan to make money is to rob a cash advance place. Also, he complains about your carbon footprint and insists you drive a smaller, more efficient car for better gas mileage, but when he’s shot he’s like ‘fuck gas mileage get me out of here’.

And then there’s You. You are a psychopathic murderer, but also a cuddly best friend who would sacrifice anything for your roommates. I don’t think they ever even explain how you all got to be roommates (or if they do, I haven’t seen it), because something has to happen for a ruthless killer, 2 rival gang members, and a college student to not just live together but become ride-or-die best friends 4 lyfe.

as a side note, it really bothers me more than I thought it would that You aren’t The Boss. in previous games, whether you were a gang leader or POTUS a you called the shots, but now you’re merely part of a team.
 
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Los Pollos Hermanos said:
as a side note, it really bothers me more than I thought it would that You aren’t The Boss. in previous games, whether you were a gang leader or POTUS a you called the shots, but now you’re merely part of a team.
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But didn't you watch the ending? They don't need you, you need them. Well that made me throw up in my mouth a little.
 
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Zaryiu2 said:
who even is the 3rd gang?
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Marshall... did you read the previous 5 pages? you can get their attention by going into the greenish "rich" zone and wreaking havoc so if you want to farm gun mods that need marshalls killed you have to go there.
 
TheNathanNS (Rockstar Games-focused channel) put up a video of himself playing Saints Row '22, and how it kept dropping controller inputs mid-game:
 
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Starved Artist said:
It's just Saints Row 3 with a new skin, just like how Saints Row 4 and 5 were just reskins of the same game.

Interestingly enough, if you look closely at the map, some parts of it resemble Steelport and Stilwater, just like a few blocks of Steelport resembled Stilwater.
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Watched a stream of this shitshow and literally saw Grove Street from GTA. Cul-de-sac, houses in the same style as Los Santos, right turn just before an overpass on the way out. Don't know if it was an intentional reference, and the most subtle one at that, or coincidence, or laziness, but it was there and I was autistic enough to notice it.

The game is a buggy mess, far worse writing than anywhere else in the series, and just looks boring more than anything. 4 was kind of dull for me too but at least super powers mixed up the gameplay.
 
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you know, playing the reboot even if it was for a while until it killed my computer gave me a moment of clarity and in my desire to detox, i decided to pick SR3 and 2 again, beats playing that shit and the directx9 version of it works really well, until a explosion that is because a gt710 can't make miracles.
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and no, i cannot run the remaster because i get the same amount of frame rate as playing the reboot, which makes it clear that they reused the same engine without even upping the graphics quality even if by a bit, yesh.
 
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SAINTS ROW™ 2022 is the only video game I know where people think that an “anarchist anti-capitalist” cult known as The Idols is considered threatening. If anything, it’s about as threatening as that character Eli wearing a bow tie with a suit that looks almost way to small for his body.
 
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albert the programmer said:
SAINTS ROW™ 2022 is the only video game I know where people think that an “anarchist anti-capitalist” cult known as The Idols is considered threatening. If anything, it’s about as threatening as that character Eli wearing a bow tie with a suit that looks almost way to small for his body.
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Eli doesn't even know how to shoot in the beginning but they needed to have him as a companion for missions and on call outside of missions and they couldn't possibly go through the effort of making different AI for different people. So you have a five minute mission where you teach him how to shoot and I don't think it makes any difference whether you actually hit any of the targets or not as I briefly zoned out for the first round and hit nothing. I would check but there's no mission replay and no way I'm replaying the entire intro again.

This is the mission if anybody cares and if anybody indeed does and wants to check on if you actually have to hit shit I'm mildly curious.
 
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