Saints Row thread

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

@Nguyen Van Phuoc I can't quote you but I'm so glad you mentioned that the voice you pick defines the personality of the boss in 2, honestly it was one of the most mindblowing details in a video game I had ever seen, the sort of detail that isn't achieved by overfocusing in the smallest things that only OCD fans will pick up and go "huh, cool" but rather by showing how much passion you truly have for your game by letting each voice actor freely shape how the player will perceive the boss. I have never seen anything before or after that comes close to it in other games (to be fair, in most games you don't get to decide your character's personality at all).

 

[SiccDicc]

Found this on a /v/ thread about Saints Row. There is no way this isn't a Deep Silver or Volition shill, legit who the fuck speaks like this lmao
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Shazam needs a return to quench this thirst.

 

[Pissmaster]

Found this on a /v/ thread about Saints Row. There is no way this isn't a Deep Silver or Volition shill, legit who the fuck speaks like this lmao
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A comeback to the same clearance shelves Agents of Mayhem kept warm for years

 

[The Last Stand]

Can somebody tell me the deal with this Dex character? I've never finished Saints Row 2. I know Gat Out of Hell spoiled the ending with that Ultor guy being in Hell.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Can somebody tell me the deal with this Dex character? I've never finished Saints Row 2. I know Gat Out of Hell spoiled the ending with that Ultor guy being in Hell.

Dex was a high ranking member of the Saints in the first game. Saints Row 2 reveals he was headhunted by Ultor before the boat explosion in Saints Row 1 which made it so Troy couldn't touch him after becoming Chief of Police. You get his phone number in Saints Row 2 while hunting for Julius and he leads both of you into an ambush in an attempt to tie up all his loose ends.

In the Corporate Warfare DLC, you protect Ultors new CEO from assassins sent by Dex and then dismantle some toxic waste operation he has set up. Dex then is transferred to an undisclosed Ultor branch outside of Stilwater. The boss kills Dex's remaining associates in Stilwater and vows to hunt him down.

Then...they just kind of forgot about him when the series took the tonal shit with Saints Row the Third. Canonically he just got blown up with the rest of Earth in Saints Row 4 and then went to hell where Gat can find him randomly and kill him in Gat out of Hell.

(outside of the story, he was an assassination target in the cancelled game Saints Row: Moneyshot, but since you would have played as a rogue Ultor agent in that the Saints still would have pretty much forgotten about him in the story)

 

[The Last Stand]

Then...they just kind of forgot about him when the series took the tonal shit with Saints Row the Third. Canonically he just got blown up with the rest of Earth in Saints Row 4 and then went to hell where Gat can find him randomly and kill him in Gat out of Hell.

That's a cheap cop out. Only thing I don't like about Saints Row IV in context to your point.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Most Saints Row 1 fans were disappointed with how they handled Dex.

 

[Jack Awful]

Found this on a /v/ thread about Saints Row. There is no way this isn't a Deep Silver or Volition shill, legit who the fuck speaks like this lmao
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Every Saints member in the reboot was in one of the rival gangs so IDK why he thinks they'll be any more hardened by joining a new gang.

 

[Point Man]

With the recent customization showoff video that Volition released it made realize that we're never going to get any "hood" games like SR1 (or even like SR2) ever again. GTA hasn't been like that for awhile either and with the shift that SR took with SR3, it just makes me sad that we're never going back to the gang shit in the first two games. However that realization made me go back to SR2 and even give SR1 a shot and both games, even with SR1's weird quirks, still hold up to this day. It may be my nostalgia talking but I seriously think that Saints Row 2 is probably the best free roam crime game ever.

 

[Peasant]

With the recent customization showoff video that Volition released it made realize that we're never going to get any "hood" games like SR1 (or even like SR2) ever again. GTA hasn't been like that for awhile either and with the shift that SR took with SR3, it just makes me sad that we're never going back to the gang shit in the first two games. However that realization made me go back to SR2 and even give SR1 a shot and both games, even with SR1's weird quirks, still hold up to this day. It may be my nostalgia talking but I seriously think that Saints Row 2 is probably the best free roam crime game ever.

At least for me, there's just something about the moment to moment gameplay in SR2 that's gripping in a way that no other open world game is. Ordinarily I play games like a boy scout and hardly ever do any misdeeds, but the game does a great job of coaxing you into its brand of insanity, so I end up driving like a maniac and doing drive-bys just for fun while going from mission to mission. With the tone and mechanics, Stilwater feels like it was designed to be a playground first and foremost.

When I played GTA V, dealing with police responses felt like a chore with how they'd stick to you like glue and were just lethal enough to ruin your day if you tried to brush them off. The result is that I didn't want to do any wacky fun shit outside of the designated fun zones in missions. In Saint's Row 2, the police and gangs are responsive enough to give you a fun time if you decide to piss them off, but not so overbearingly difficult to deal with that you can't easily cut and run if you've had enough. Also I may be remembering wrong, but being pursued doesn't keep you from starting missions or activities, or at least I never had it be an issue due to the aforementioned point.

 

[Point Man]

When I played GTA V, dealing with police responses felt like a chore with how they'd stick to you like glue and were just lethal enough to ruin your day if you tried to brush them off.

This is one of the main issues that I have with GTAO, just replace "police" with "player" and it pretty much applies. Cops in SR2 are actually pretty fucking incompetent if you shot them to death when they tried getting out of their cars, it only got really bad when you reached 5 stars and the Feds start pouring in and running your ass over.

Also I may be remembering wrong, but being pursued doesn't keep you from starting missions or activities, or at least I never had it be an issue due to the aforementioned point.

When you start a mission all of your heat, gang and police, just disappears. It's probably one of the better features (or oversights) of the game, this also includes Forgive and Forget.

Stillwater feels like it was designed to be a playground first and foremost.

 

[ShoFuKan]

@Nguyen Van Phuoc
Thank you for suffering. The stream focused mainly on the whacky things that were added to the game but anything sexual that wasn't gay affirming, I.E. Stripper poles, dildo bat. All that's missing and that's why I'm not gonna play this.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

@Nguyen Van Phuoc
Thank you for suffering. The stream focused mainly on the whacky things that were added to the game but anything sexual that wasn't gay affirming, I.E. Stripper poles, dildo bat. All that's missing and that's why I'm not gonna play this.

if youre lucky, modders mod it back in

 

[CptnSnshn]

The presenter of this stream is this literal who nigress because... of course it has to be one. The stream wouldn't have been any different if they cut her out of the equation, but whatever.

Excuse you? @Nguyen Van Phuoc that literal who's dad was Gordie on star trek, not only that she is the single thing most people can point to as the start of the downfall of Rooster-teeth and has made multiple rants about how oppressed she has been all her life despite living with a hollywood star.

She's not only a queen but a hero and you shoud buy this game 6 gorillian times in penence.

 

[Billy_Sama]

I would like a Reboot where they recon the events after SR II, throwing out III and IV out of cannon, have the tone and story like the first 2.

Third was fun but didn't capture the magic of II and set the stage for how detach the series would become.

 

[The Last Stand]

I would like a Reboot where they recon the events after SR II, throwing out III and IV out of cannon, have the tone and story like the first 2.

Third was fun but didn't capture the magic of II and set the stage for how detach the series would become.

I want the original SR2 draft being a prequel of how Julius and King meet in Sunnyville. I believe that was A draft.

 

[CptnSnshn]

I would like a Reboot where they recon the events after SR II, throwing out III and IV out of cannon, have the tone and story like the first 2.

Third was fun but didn't capture the magic of II and set the stage for how detach the series would become.

And I'd like a blowjob and some freckle bitches but we can't all get what we want.

 

[SiccDicc]

I want the original SR2 draft being a prequel of how Julius and King meet in Sunnyville. I believe that was A draft.

I prefer the mystery, to be honest. Especially since you know how it ends for both of them.

It's why the Star Wars Prequels sucked so hard.

 

[Slav Power]

I only hope that whatever bunch of the OG devs left at Volition will end up finishing what IdolNinja has started and the Saints Row 2 PC port rewrite will see the light of day.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Of course it's not "gangster" anymore, it's sanitized pandering towards fringe groups of radfems/SJWs/Leftist youngsters. I bet you five bucks that if said groups played GTA San Andreas they would go ape-shit over having two black main antagonists (Tennpenny and Smoke).
Not only that, every tiny detail has to fit their fringe world view, just compare San Andreas's plotline to this atrocity's:
CJ grew up in the ghetto with an absent father and a poor family, his younger brother died and he ran away from LS, only returning after his mother is murdered.
And then, nu-Saints Row's motivation and build up is student debt...

The world that we grew up in and that we hold so dearly in our hearts is gone, all of the great films, books and videogames of that time went away with it, memories of a better time forever stored within our minds.
My optimistic side still hangs to a small thread of hope, but my expectations are already on the floor.

The real worse thing is that you COULD make a decent story about student debt leading to crime, without zoomer pandering.

A LOT of normal millennials/Gen Y types were railroaded into going to college and fucked over with a huge amount of debt, an economic crash in 2008 that derailed a huge chunk of that generations' ability to get a career in their actual useful degree's field, and decimated any hope they might have towards getting a job that would let them pay off that debt, so they could buy a house, marry, start a family, and work towards a retirement.

The Boss being a guy in his mid-30s to early 40s who played by the rules but then snaps at the unfair nature of our modern capitalist world and the insanity of political correctness gone wild and who ends up by chance, meeting up with Johnny Gatt or one of the other Saints and decides to go into crime and ends up showing such aptitude that he becomes the boss of the Saints could be a fun game. But not this shit.