Saints Row thread

Does she have Tourette's or something?

PROFANITY = HUMOR!

Who the hell ARE these people? Voice acting sucks, script sucks, premise sucks, everything about that first impression SUCKS.

I'm laughing at this but not for the right reasons.
Now I am a huge fan of dark, sensitive comedy, speaking from the bottom my heart, let me tell you that this is not humor. If anything, this is very, very depressing. I understand that argument about humor being subjective or whatever (even though it's what makes you laugh is more subjective), but having that said it's obvious that the writing and/or dialogue was written by a group of kids of 13 to under that try to pass off obscenity as "humor."

Even more than that is how the voice actors sound noticeably sleepy and foamed in when trying to speak any lines. They can't even emulate the same characters from the original series that calling this flat-out embarrassing or a trainwreck might be underselling it at this rate.
 
Now I am a huge fan of dark, sensitive comedy, speaking from the bottom my heart, let me tell you that this is not humor. If anything, this is very, very depressing. I understand that argument about humor being subjective or whatever (even though it's what makes you laugh is more subjective), but having that said it's obvious that the writing and/or dialogue was written by a group of kids of 13 to under that try to pass off obscenity as "humor."
Comedy is supposed to have a punchline. Random cussing is a cheap form of comedy. There's no long term substance.

What is funny about wanting a $300 wafflemaker but they don't have enough for rent? Hell, what is funny about being part of a commune and wearing a bowtie?

This is Tumblr tier "humor."
 
Comedy is supposed to have a punchline. Random cussing is a cheap form of comedy. There's no long term substance.

What is funny about wanting a $300 wafflemaker but they don't have enough for rent? Hell, what is funny about being part of a commune and wearing a bowtie?

This is Tumblr tier "humor."
It's also the type of "comedy" you'd see off of either modern-day late night talk shows (i.e. Kimmel, Corden, Colbert, etc.) or parody movies (i.e. Seltzerberg, Craig Moss, etc.).
 
Fuck these people now that I'm seriously listening to this shit. They're legit leeches on your character in this scene, with not a one of them pulling their weight other than Fortnite Idol man... at least he fucking cooks for the roomies. God forbid they pick up money. God forbid they buy cheap. I don't have any sympathy for these sociopathic trustfund kids.

Jesus I'd never touch this even if the game wasn't just a worse version of 3. Hell, I was knocked out of the thing when the character kept cursing like that's comedy that makes people laugh.
Idk if 3 deserve to be compared to this, idk 3 despite it's flaws had action and something resembling humor instead of this bland, soulless boring thing

Too bad the story is not about these failures, though pain and experience, ending up being real gangsters. It would not fix everything but that would be at least SOMETHING and they can not even do that! FUCK!
 
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Comedy is supposed to have a punchline. Random cussing is a cheap form of comedy. There's no long term substance.

What is funny about wanting a $300 wafflemaker but they don't have enough for rent? Hell, what is funny about being part of a commune and wearing a bowtie?

This is Tumblr tier "humor."
It's the kind of "humor" tailor made to offend as few of the "wrong targets" as possible, in other words bland gruel.

Maybe not all the jokes landed, but a lot of the edgy stuff in the old games had a point, which was to make people laugh and have fun.
 
It starts about 45 seconds in, but seeing this cutscene in action makes me think of a bad sitcom, the Watch_Dogs 2 group can definitely beat these guys up.
This dialogue is equal parts:
- bitter resentment towards their audience
- reddit-tier eco-political buzzword soup
- "how do you do fellow kids" insanity. The zoomer slang is so. forced.

Who is this for?!? This looks, feels, and sounds like a fanfiction from tumblr with a decent budget. Why even make this a Saints game? There is nothing Saints-like about it. This has more in common with Seinfeld than it does with Saints Row.
 
Spoiler: It is 50 GB.

Enjoy all that uncompressed audio on whatever trash they picked for the radio stations. Hope you like mumble rap and whatever the kiddies are into today.
Oh, it IS. I was guessing. Look at me.

Players will need either an i3-3240 or a Ryzen 3 1200, along with either a GTX 970 or a Radeon RX 480, and 8 GB of RAM and 4 GB of VRAM to play the game. You’ll also need about 50 GB of free storage space.
 
A 970 is from 2014. How outdated is their engine?
The storage requirement isn't that surprising though. PC games from 10 years ago like Max Payne 3 were already 35GB on PC and games like Arkham Knight averaged 50GB too.
This makes me suspect this game has been in production immediately after Agents Of Mayhem flopped like saggy breasts on old women. It's requirements scream 8th gen game.
 
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A 970 is from 2014. How outdated is their engine?
The storage requirement isn't that surprising though. PC games from 10 years ago like Max Payne 3 were already 35GB on PC and games like Arkham Knight averaged 50GB too.
This makes me suspect this game has been in production immediately after Agents Of Mayhem flopped like the saggy breasts on old women. It's requirements scream 8th gen game.
The textures look pretty plain, and that's a lot of the volume in modern games. Also, I think that they're casting a pretty wide net tech-wise so that even if your PC is 5+ years old, you'll be able to play it. This also likely makes it potentially viable on the absolute potato that is the Switch.
 
Does she have Tourette's or something?

PROFANITY = HUMOR!

Who the hell ARE these people? Voice acting sucks, script sucks, premise sucks, everything about that first impression SUCKS.

I'm laughing at this but not for the right reasons.
The more I see of the new game the more I understand its just Saints Row The Third but big. I liked that game the first time around but have no desire to play through a game that seems so simalar to three and four. Gonna be pass for me I think.
 
They didn't even get why people might turn to crime.

It's obvious that nobody who had any part in writing this has ever had to wonder if they should skip the electric or the gas bill this month to pay the other. It's REALLY obvious that they've always had money for Funco Pops to shove in their ass, craft beers, and Door Dash, but consider themselves poor.

Saints Row was the Saints accidentally finding some kind of superhuman killing machine by accident that would never stop killing and just rolling with it.

GTA has always tried to be a little grounded.

But this? This is just what the laptop caste thinks people who are poor are like.
 
I predict this will "flop" insofar it will sell 2-5 million copies, but the publisher will have expected far more and consider it a failure and shelf the series for a few years. Then they'll make another reboot that's better than this one, but still worse than every other previous Saints Row game.
 
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