Saints Row thread

[Adamska]

Case in point:

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I can understand the first entry, but how is 3 and 4 "woke," besides the option to... create a male or female character with limitless options? It doesn't even explain what "subtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging" IS in context with the games.

AFAIK, Saints Row 2 had the choice to have a male voice with a female body and vice versa. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The dude basically is like Barneyfag, rocking and tisming and screaming woke while inventing excuses on why it's the case, a decent slew of them literally require some six degrees of Cultural Marxism mental gymnastics to get to. Actual clown who doesn't know shit.

 

[Buster Scruggs]

The first and second game are leagues away from what most would call “woke” nowadays. Minorities are portrayed as jokes or stereotypes, the only ones who aren’t are King in 1 and Johnny Gat, with Johnny being much more of a “fast and furious” type character. Lin gets killed in 1 for being an informant, with no special treatment for being an Asian woman. Pierce (the token black dude of the gang) is an actual idiot, who overthinks and is usually outsmarted by the white stoner chick Shaundi simply because she’s such a whore that she knows information about pretty much every gang due to sleeping around so much. The brotherhood bosses outright make racist jokes about Carlos that is for the most part treated as “okay” until they drag him behind a truck. Other than player freedom to play as whatever you want I’d say it’s pretty far from “proto-woke”.

 

[Slav Power]

The brotherhood bosses outright make racist jokes about Carlos that is for the most part treated as “okay” until they drag him behind a truck.

Not to mention that Maero, the big buff mullet having white trash leader of the Brotherhood, was voiced by Michael Dorn, a black actor. Shit like this would never fly in the current year and Dorn would only be chosen to voice a token black guy character.

Then again, you also had none other than Keith David voicing Julius and the late Michael Clarke Duncan voicing Benjamin motherfucking King, so Volition back then was unfathomably based with their choice of VA's for black characters as well.

Speaking of Michael, if you haven't cried by the end of this, you're not a real man.

 

[Cactuar King]

Keep in mind he only had Maero crush Jess with his truck as retribution for the brutal slaying of Carlo.
Dragging a man who had nothing to do with your newfound scar across town in a slow death is not equal to an acid tattoo.
The Boss proved he was not only not a person not to be fucked with, but that any attacks on their underlings WILL be returned tenfold onto yours.
It's psychotically brilliant; it shows your members that as boss you have their backs and will scour the earth to find and annihilate your enemies in revenge, and it shows your enemy that for as crazy and violent as you can be, the Boss is not only adept at playing the same game, but better at it than you.
Maero is so morally defeated he has to go ask Ultor for help. The Punk-Rock outlaw has to go look for the top exec suit to even the odds against the Saints and bring back morale to the Brotherhood.
Not even Gat got to 1-up the Ronin that hard following the death of Aisha. The Boss is the leader for good reason and no one will make a better crime protagonist again in contemporary game development.

I think a better argument for being an out and out psychopath would be how the Boss uses a bartender he was flirting with as human shield.

 

[The Last Stand]

Holy shit, the Saints Row Platinum Edition has been delisted. Meaning that you cannot buy the game AND obtain the SR3 remaster at once. If you took advantage of a sale, it would've been a great deal.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Holy shit, the Saints Row Platinum Edition has been delisted. Meaning that you cannot buy the game AND obtain the SR3 remaster at once. If you took advantage of a sale, it would've been a great deal.

And why i want the sr3 remaster? Og looks & still plays fine.

 

[Jace on ice]

I think it's really funny how corpos are absolutely obsessed with representation but if you have a D cup or above there is basically not a single modern AAA game where you can accurately portray yourself in the character creator.

Plenty of top surgery scars, vitiligo, and trannybulges though.

 

[The Last Stand]

And why i want the sr3 remaster? Og looks & still plays fine.

Performance bonus.

In all seriousness, it's a nice extra I suppose to entice sales. Playing Xbox 360 games upscaled on Xbox Series X can make them look pixelated. Maybe they are practicing work on an existing engine for future projects or to make the game more accessible. Depends how you look at it.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

I liked SR3, played through it, it was fun. Worked straight out of the box.

Tried playing SR2, this shit crashed on me ten minutes in. Three times in a row. It might be a better game than SR3 but it never let me find that out as it deemed me unworthy of playing it.

 

[Slav Power]

Tried playing SR2, this shit crashed on me ten minutes in. Three times in a row. It might be a better game than SR3 but it never let me find that out as it deemed me unworthy of playing it.

Re-read the last few pages. Nowadays it's pretty damn stable thanks to Juiced Patch and DXVK. Grab a GOG copy, pop in Juiced, pop in DXVK and experience the best open world game ever made.

 

[Slav Power]

All side activities? Done.
All tags? Sprayed.
All CD's? Collected.

Now I can finally move onto the story missions.

 

[The Last Stand]

I liked SR3, played through it, it was fun. Worked straight out of the box.

From what I remember, SR3 was incredibly easy compared to the previous two games. The city was generic compared to other open world games like GTA or its predecessor; you give me a landmark from The Third, I couldn't tell you what it is. It was a good time. I mean enough for me to beat it.

 

[Buster Scruggs]

From what I remember, SR3 was incredibly easy compared to the previous two games. The city was generic compared to other open world games like GTA or its predecessor; you give me a landmark from The Third, I couldn't tell you what it is. It was a good time. I mean enough for me to beat it.

literally the only thing I remember about Steelport is the big giant stripper screen in the middle of the city on that one skyscraper… and I guess the star island that you never really go to until one of the endings iirc.

 

[Cactuar King]

From what I remember, SR3 was incredibly easy compared to the previous two games. The city was generic compared to other open world games like GTA or its predecessor; you give me a landmark from The Third, I couldn't tell you what it is. It was a good time. I mean enough for me to beat it.

Steelport is such a bland city compared to Stilwater. I mean Stilwater has
-A cemetery
-A pier
-A pirate boat restaurant
-A prison island
-Well off suburbs
-A developed city-of-the-future
-A college campus
-A trailer park with rinky dinky homemade sculptures


What does Steelport have?
Well, it's got a small industrial kind of island, a bunch of skyscrapers in the middle of the map and a nuclear power plant.

You drive around Stilwater, you see plenty of variety, with Steelport, it all feels like the same bland cityscape, even when you're in the suburbs.

 

[The Last Stand]

What does Steelport have?
Well, it's got a small industrial kind of island, a bunch of skyscrapers in the middle of the map and a nuclear power plant.

It doesn't help that without the purple sheen and tint, the textures look uninspired.

-Well off suburbs

I remember Saints Row 1's suburbs because there was a side activity there where you'd be a suburban mom's driveby wheelman.

 

[moocow]

Michael Dorn

That dude seems like he's a really good sport. He's done some really goofy roles ("I. M. Weasel" comes to mind) and never seems to get uptight about things either.

SR3 was incredibly easy compared to the previous two games

SR3 is fantastic and fun if you accept it for what it is: absurdist over-the-top retarded goofing off with meme magic and lol-so-random humor in a fun sandbox that encourages you to beat random assholes (and random mascots) up with a giant purple dildo.

Expect nothing more of it, and it will delight you with its absurdity.

 

[The Last Stand]

SR3 is fantastic and fun if you accept it for what it is: absurdist over-the-top retarded goofing off with meme magic and lol-so-random humor in a fun sandbox that encourages you to beat random assholes (and random mascots) up with a giant purple dildo.

Which SR4 took it to hyperdrive by being a superhero game chockful of meta, self referencial humor.

I have reinstalled it to play it again after many years. I get why people despised it compared to the first two games, but as you said, it's fun in its own right.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

Re-read the last few pages. Nowadays it's pretty damn stable thanks to Juiced Patch and DXVK. Grab a GOG copy, pop in Juiced, pop in DXVK and experience the best open world game ever made.

If it doesn't work out of the box, I am not interested. I wont spend my time fixing issues the devs themselves never did.

 

[moocow]

Which SR4 took it to hyperdrive by being a superhero game chockful of meta, self referencial humor.

I have reinstalled it to play it again after many years. I get why people despised it compared to the first two games, but as you said, it's fun in its own right.

Yeah I thought SR4 was kinda dogshit. "Muh superpowers" was just an excuse to re-use the already lackluster SR3 map and completely eliminated the fun of using cars to get around town quickly (you were all but punished for using cars instead of the "easy traversal" superpowers).

SR4 should have just been "more stupid SR3 shit" with a different map and cast, maybe with some brief cameos.

 

[The Last Stand]

Yeah I thought SR4 was kinda dogshit. "Muh superpowers" was just an excuse to re-use the already lackluster SR3 map and completely eliminated the fun of using cars to get around town quickly (you were all but punished for using cars instead of the "easy traversal" superpowers).

It was meant to be DLC for SR3, but they shifted gears to make it its own title. I think it was a good choice. I do wish they would've established the president plot thread a bit more. It came and went as a quick gimmick.