Saints Row thread

[Zaryiu2]

What's dated about them?

Once again. I have not said they are dated

 

[Adamska]

Only thing I would say is dated about Saints Row 1+2 is its progression. You need "rep" to advance and unlock story missions. It forces you to do side activities.

I once beat the game without doing side activities in SR2. Just drive like a stupid asshole down the wrong lane and it gets you pretty far by itself. If you can't quite get enough, just murder a lot of dudes. Not hard to get rep in these cases.

 

[The Last Stand]

I once beat the game without doing side activities in SR2. Just drive like a stupid asshole down the wrong lane and it gets you pretty far by itself. If you can't quite get enough, just murder a lot of dudes. Not hard to get rep in these cases.

Okay, SR2 remedied that issue. You're correct. SR1 was more "restrictive" in that regard. I still enjoyed SR1, it's just an artificial barrier between progression and replayability.

 

[Vault Boy]

What's dated about them?

The level of technology (like box TVs and flip phones) and maybe gangsta rap not being as big as it was when the games came out.

Other than that, not a damn thing since gang warfare still exists in some shithole cities (it's just that a lot of it gets under reported).

 

[Headshotmaster138]

One of the marketing images was this:
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which more or less sums up 2000s hip hop culture to a T. If SR2 were designed today, it'd feature some idiot with clown colored dreadlocks like 6ix9ine being about as intimidating as a cup of pudding and as smug as a globalist.

And other than that, I guess SR2's graphics were quintessentially Xbox 360 - as in, it still looks good today, but all the shaders are relatively primitive and it looks, uh, very Xbox 360-y, I'm not really sure how else to explain it. I looked up the Wikipedia article for ambient occlusion and realized I'd pretty much have to put in at least a few hours of studying to get at least the slightest idea on how shaders work and what exactly's different between now and 14 years ago. I'm just glad I'm enough of a boomer that I'm still impressed by a little guy running around in 3D space, and I can drive around an entire fully-rendered mini-city in video games, and tech's come far enough to where I can do that on a handheld while I'm on the john.

I fee like if SR2 was redone today in a non-PC world, I can see a lot of drill rap influence like chiraq into the game since Drill Rap is more much hardcore than the current shit they are pumping out. Not only that, but the drill rap look will actually fit the series like a glove.

I meant no one today has the balls to write something like Saints Row 1 and 2 not that they are dated

Those games were created in a much more better time where being offensive was the norm and nobody gave a fuck because everyone could take a damn joke. I don't know how shit fell off this fast in the last 10 to 12 years.

I hated that shit when it was current, but now it brings me back to a much happier time. Man, it was just impossible to envision what the future would actually turn into back then.

I used to hate shit like this when I was a kid and only listened to Metal bands of the time such as Linkin Park and the like. But as I gotten older, I came to appreciate it and very much enjoy rap with a much more open mind now. And as a Guy born and raised in NYC, I can tell the rap from the 80s to 00s is better than the current shit.

 

[White Devil]

I used to hate shit like this when I was a kid and only listened to Metal bands of the time such as Linkin Park and the like. But as I gotten older, I came to appreciate it and very much enjoy rap with a much more open mind now. And as a Guy born and raised in NYC, I can tell the rap from the 80s to 00s is better than the current shit.

Did you just call Linkin Park metal?

 

[Headshotmaster138]

Did you just call Linkin Park metal?

I used it as an example of bands of the time but I know Linkin Park is Nu-metal.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Those games were created in a much more better time where being offensive was the norm and nobody gave a fuck because everyone could take a damn joke. I don't know how shit fell off this fast in the last 10 to 12 years.

The political correctness became more valuable and lucrative once people realized how easy it is to trick young people into believing in identity politics than actually having fun, entertaining things.

When they managed to get into the gaming industry, you saw things like this happen — making moral superiority complexes important in video games than actually making video games.

Saints Row was just one of a handful of games that unfortunately had to suffer due to this.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

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Prick.

Whenever I hear that Talk Talk tune I instantly see Tommy spiking the phone across the floor in my head.

 

[LazloChalos]

I used to hate shit like this when I was a kid and only listened to Metal bands of the time such as Linkin Park

Bastard!

I used it as an example of bands of the time but I know Linkin Park is Nu-metal.

You double bastard!

 

[Miller]

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Saints Row 3 is worse because there's a huge middle chunk where they force you to do activities that are way worse and more boring as if they're main missions. At least SR2 had fun side content.

I fucking hated the insurance fraud missions.

 

[D.Angus]

I fucking hated the insurance fraud missions.

They were probably the worst. Sometimes I'd have fun with them if the RNG worked out and I could score massive combos.. But I basically speedrun the one IF on Saints Row 2 just so I can have unlimited sprint.

 

[Cactuar King]

I fucking hated the insurance fraud missions.

They were probably the worst. Sometimes I'd have fun with them if the RNG worked out and I could score massive combos.. But I basically speedrun the one IF on Saints Row 2 just so I can have unlimited sprint.

No way, the Escort side missions were the worst, those news trucks would always slam into me. Then they added a second version in 3 just to be extra obnoxious.

 

[Cod of War]

Just head to a highway or one of hte intersections heading in/out of an island for easy insurance fraud gold.

Tiger Escort is worst, not only do you get the normal escort shit of vans breaking the law of physics to ram the shit out of you (which makes no sense since they want the tiger safe) but you got a tiger that mauls you which makes you lose control of the car.

 

[Korpon]

I fucking hated the insurance fraud missions.

Gotta love it when the big ass city all of a sudden turns into a ghost town the second you start the mission.

 

[The Last Stand]

Gotta love it when the big ass city all of a sudden turns into a ghost town the second you start the mission.

They've grown wise to your shenanigans.

Somebody mentioned about the balance between funny and serious pertaining to Saints Row. One open world game struck a consistent balance with the two: GTA IV.




The Ballad of Gay Tony. Well, technically, it's a DLC. You fly a military like chopper, ride an APC tank, blow up a crane, dance and get a gold plated gun WHILE trying to get your boss out of serious debt.

 

[CWCissey]

They've grown wise to your shenanigans.

Somebody mentioned about the balance between funny and serious pertaining to Saints Row. One open world game struck a consistent balance with the two: GTA IV.




The Ballad of Gay Tony. Well, technically, it's a DLC. You fly a military like chopper, ride an APC tank, blow up a crane, dance and get a gold plated gun WHILE trying to get your boss out of serious debt.

Plus it has the only truly great gay character in a video game

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

The Ballad of Gay Tony. Well, technically, it's a DLC. You fly a military like chopper, ride an APC tank, blow up a crane, dance and get a gold plated gun WHILE trying to get your boss out of serious debt.

And you get called to go act like a manwhore at a Guido infested hellhole after fucking a guest you eyeballed as a 9/10

 

[Ita Mori]

Somebody mentioned about the balance between funny and serious pertaining to Saints Row. One open world game struck a consistent balance with the two: GTA IV.

Fuck no. SR2 was a spiritual sequel to the GTA III era while IV decided it wanted to be Scorsese in vidya form. Tone balance is the last thing IV has, thanks to the Housers.

The Ballad of Gay Tony. Well, technically, it's a DLC. You fly a military like chopper, ride an APC tank, blow up a crane, dance and get a gold plated gun WHILE trying to get your boss out of serious debt.

All the things that made GTA fun.
Not to mention it's also the DLC that got rid of the shit/piss filter from IV/TLAD respectively.

Plus it has the only truly great gay character in a video game

Reni was great in VCS and I will fight anyone to defend that fag's honor.

 

[The Last Stand]

Fuck no. SR2 was a spiritual sequel to the GTA III era while IV decided it wanted to be Scorsese in vidya form. Tone balance is the last thing IV has, thanks to the Housers.

I was setting up a bait and switch, which you DID quote. IV was more serious than Saints Row 1+2, correct. That's why I pointed out how The Ballad of Gay Tony managed to avert IV's seriousness with some humor.

I would say SR2's plot tone was inconsistent.