Saints Row thread

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

The gameplay looks decent

It looks identical to saints row 3, which got pretty boring once the novelty of dubstep guns and large breasted gangsta waifus wore off.
The gta clone subgenre hasn't advanced all that much in the last 10 years:
you got bad third person shooters that are also movies (GTA5, RDR2), bad third person shooters with uninteresting gimmicks (watchdogs) and then you got bad third person shooters (mafia 3), I don't really know what you can even do to improve the formula without breaking from the relatively realistic gameplay (besides online stuff, but I doubt this will have enough of a budget to compete with GTA Online)
I'll certainly end up pirating NuSaints because I really, really like gangsta waifus and the chance they'll pull an Outer Worlds and make it impossible to have a feminine character is low, but I seriously doubt it'll contain anything of substance.

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

The gameplay is super underwhelming, I feel like a fucking retard for running any defense for this game in the thread.

 

[The Last Stand]

Insurance Fraud with superpowers in SRIV is OP. It's trivial.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The Twitter account has been tweeting out the main character’s bios.

 

[Cactuar King]

Why the fuck are they trying so hard to give the Boss a set face and characteristics?

 

[Snekposter]

At this point I'm just going to make the Boss Chad out of spite.

 

[Ita Mori]

Insurance Fraud with superpowers in SRIV is OP. It's trivial.

I hated how SRIV made every bail have to be a complete forced spectacle in order to be effective. The "lmaowtflololol" moments need to be scarce.
Seeing yourself hauled hundreds of feet loses all it's laughs in 30 seconds if they're all you see.

 

[The Last Stand]

I wish I knew this when playing Saints Row 1.

To complete its Insurance Fraud diversion, steal a police car, go to the zone and just crash hard enough for a forced ejection from the vehicle. Repeat. Police cars increase your multipler.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

Dom, who was part of the DSCC, got kicked out and decidedly to leak DSCC footage:

knowing this shit'll get taken down, i've downloaded it

Can you embed it here? Vid's long gone on YT, can't find any reuploads. I want to see just how fuck awful it is

 

[Vault Boy]

The Twitter account has been tweeting out the main character’s bios.
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I'm sorry, but I just can't take that Steve Urkel looking motherfucker seriously as a gang member (inb4 "they're not supposed to be gang bangers!"). How can I expect to see him as a ruthless criminal when he looks like he'd remind the teacher about a homework assignment just before class ends?

Really, they'd be far better off if they indefinitely delayed the game to rework (and rewrite) these characters.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I'm sorry, but I just can't take that Steve Urkel looking motherfucker seriously as a gang member (inb4 "they're not supposed to be gang bangers!"). How can I expect to see him as a ruthless criminal when he looks like he'd remind the teacher about a homework assignment just before class ends?

Really, they'd be far better off if they indefinitely delayed the game to rework (and rewrite) these characters.

Steve Urkel would own this wannabe’s ass.

 

[Snekposter]

Steve Urkel would own this wannabe’s ass.

That's because Steve Urkel was a mad scientist who did in fact, do that, and was not at all sorry about doing so.

 

[TVStactic]

The Twitter account has been tweeting out the main character’s bios.
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heh.
that aside i found two things on SR leddit.
Love seeing saints row referenced in other servers lol

(didn't that house hexagon nigger literally proved the sub is being raided by these faggots?)
Jim Rob is a character in the new Saints Row!

still, i'm quite sure Mr.Jim Robs will look like one of the developers and they ruined the fucking joke for that.
someone shoot them or something in CSGO.

 

[Adamska]

The Twitter account has been tweeting out the main character’s bios.
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Right then let me treat this joke semi-seriously and raise some points since why not, these are a good place to do that in:

1. What service, good, or product does this goofball want to start a business over?
2. Why did he think this town was worth moving a good distance over?
3. Was the business itself a scam? Because for all we know he wanted to start a new MLM or ponzi scheme.
4. Why does he want to dress as shittily as possible, and what fucking imbecile at Volition was he based on?

I'm asking these questions mainly because I'm assuming the nematodes at Volition don't have a clue themselves.

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This is the dumbest thing you can ever do, especially since not even a month ago Volition panicked and gurgled about how the Boss is customizable. Was that latter backpedal a lie to try and prevent a mass walk?

I wouldn't be shocked if it was given how they used gang graffiti in the style of the first couple of games to blatantly lie to the fans. After streaming with the old art assets in the background too.

Still a shitty design, mainly because the fade cuts look just looks like a bad toupee.

Why the fuck are they trying so hard to give the Boss a set face and characteristics?

Because Volition are crayon eating retards who want you to play what they want to play. This is why they're very reluctantly recoding Agents of Mayhem 2 into this game.

I'm sorry, but I just can't take that Steve Urkel looking motherfucker seriously as a gang member (inb4 "they're not supposed to be gang bangers!"). How can I expect to see him as a ruthless criminal when he looks like he'd remind the teacher about a homework assignment just before class ends?

Really, they'd be far better off if they indefinitely delayed the game to rework (and rewrite) these characters.

Jaleel White would destroy Eli. He got ripped as hell.

Actually, that'd be a funny gag; Eli used to look like his current art in high school/college, and then reimagines himself and is super sensitive about being an utter dork back in the day. But nahh, that won't happen.

heh.
that aside i found two things on SR leddit.
Love seeing saints row referenced in other servers lol
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(didn't that house hexagon nigger literally proved the sub is being raided by these faggots?)
Jim Rob is a character in the new Saints Row!
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still, i'm quite sure Mr.Jim Robs will look like one of the developers and they ruined the fucking joke for that.
someone shoot them or something in CSGO.

That's a side step to avoid how babybrained current gaming is if I've ever seen it.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

It's all became very quiet after announcement, isn't it? Like they slinked under rock or something

 

[Slimy Time]

I've been playing 2 as of late in mourning of the franchise. It completely passed my head how good the Ronin plot is. Shogo is such a douchebag, but he actually knows what he's doing. Jyunichi is a capable enforcer trusted by Akuji but is too devoted to his master to see Shogo's competence behind his veneer of douche. If the boss never woke up, he'd have a leg up on the other gangs with his Ultor connections. Akuji taking control of the Ronin is what cements their demise. Shogo dies trying to make daddy love him, which makes Wong hook up with the boss in gratitude; Ultor fucks the Ronin over because they won't play ball, and Akuji's feud with Wong leads him to making the mistake of showing up in person to a place the boss knows he's going to be.

The Samedi plot is probably the weakest, but old Shaundi being a semi-competent fuck up through the whole thing was weirdly endearing. The Brotherhood is still the best one in the entire series, all started because someone wasn't willing to give more than 20%. Storming their apartment complex hideout was fantastic.

I noticed Gat is only present for the beginning, Ultor, and Ronin. Which is depressing considering his chemistry with the boss. It'd have been nice to have him help or show up in the other storylines down for shooting up shit. Carlos' death seems like something he wouldn't take laying down either, even if he didn't know him. He was hardcore motherfuckin' gangsta like that.

and now we have college students trying to run criminal gangs as businesses to pay off their student loans

Haven't played Saints Row in a long time, but when I did I went through it in a completely ass backwards way. Started with 3, then moved to 4, then 2. So it's not nostalgia when I say that 2 was the superior game, not just in story but in feel and having nice little customisation options that were completely missing in the later games. You actually felt like a gangster. You could edit your walk cycle, they had melee combat which allowed you to try different styles of fighting based on the three gangs. Then there was story like you mentioned. Sure, graphics weren't great, but it just felt like they put a lot more detail into little things.

This new one looks like a shitshow.

 

[Cactuar King]

Haven't played Saints Row in a long time, but when I did I went through it in a completely ass backwards way. Started with 3, then moved to 4, then 2. So it's not nostalgia when I say that 2 was the superior game, not just in story but in feel and having nice little customisation options that were completely missing in the later games. You actually felt like a gangster. You could edit your walk cycle, they had melee combat which allowed you to try different styles of fighting based on the three gangs. Then there was story like you mentioned. Sure, graphics weren't great, but it just felt like they put a lot more detail into little things.

This new one looks like a shitshow.

First time I played 3, I was so disappointed by how stripped down it felt. A less detailed character customization menu, no layered clothing, no mission replayability, not even a real day and night cycle. It felt so lazy.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Insurance Fraud with superpowers in SRIV is OP. It's trivial.

SR1 had the only challenging Insurance Fraud since the cars actually try to avoid you (and there aren't that many of them), You also have to stick to specific spots instead of rushing off to play on the highway every time.
NuSaints version follows the new design, but look now with EXPLOSION!

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Why the fuck are they trying so hard to give the Boss a set face and characteristics?

"You can totally make your own character, bro!!!"
*main character acts like snarky lesbian whole game*

For the life of me, I swore I saw the character Eli in something but couldn't put my finger on it. Then it hit me. I saw him in a trailer for that shitty Batwoman show that came out a few years ago.

So fucking generic.

 

[Cactuar King]

"You can totally make your own character, bro!!!"
*main character acts like snarky lesbian whole game*

For the life of me, I swore I saw the character Eli in something but couldn't put my finger on it. Then it hit me. I saw him in a trailer for that shitty Batwoman show that came out a few years ago.

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So fucking generic.

Not even that loser Luke is wearing a bow tie though.