With the recent release of Saints Row: The Third, fans of the series couldn’t help but realize a change in the way the game was presented. The sole aspect of Saints Row: The Third is comedy. The once comedic yet hardcore gangster game is now full of jokes, gags, strange weapons, and crazy characters. A series that so well focused on street life has now turned its attention to gimmick groups that call themselves crime rings and a phony playable movie. With what Saints Row: The Third had to offer, I see that the game has turned its back on the series true fans and promoted it the way were they would see the most sells. After all who cares about their true fans when they can makes some extra cash… right?...
Original Saints Row design director Chris Stockman has declared the Saints Row franchise is "dead".
I just started this game last night, just the player creation had me upset. You choose male but they stand like a female. Eyebrows are all effeminate, face, and verything seems to be modeled after a female with a thin male overlay.
I only played the opening and didn’t even complete that before I turned the game off. I will likely go back and try it again, but a very weird first impression.
The franchise has been complete utter garbage for almost 20 years. The first one was the only decent game of the lot of them.
OMG Thank you! Never understood how people raved about Saints Row like it was GOATED.
Honestly Janky Generic feeling titles with Humor that tried to way too hard. People criticize Borderlands for its humor, but holy hell, still leagues better than any SR.
Somehow, Saints Row returned. Well, kind of. In a giddy post on the Saints Row subreddit, a lead on the original game in the Saints Row series announced that someone, somewhere might be interested in firing up Volition's (RIP) open-world crime games once more.
OR ...
remake the first one but 1:1, very minimal changes ~ QoL changes that are necessary or beneficial
Please not made in fortnite graphics by whiny petty developers who argue on twitter this time
It always boggles my mind how developers like these get their hands on well known IPs and completely butcher it into a terrible mess.
My problem is I’ve played all of them but probably collectively an hour a piece for each. Never really got into them and always got them on discount. I wonder if that’s just the general consensus on this game. Because doesn’t feel like any of them are really worth it
To me Saints Row is one of those series that got a foothold in people's minds because the first game was in the right place at the right time (I'd put Dead Rising in the same category). In 2006 when the original came out, people were desperate for new games to play on the 360, and people were not nearly as burnt out on open world games as they are now. So the first one filled a void and served as a showcase for a new console that people were very excited about at the time.
I think the funniest thing to me was the Pecker sword in 3 but overall 3 was a pretty terrible game. I tell myself I want to go back and retry the remake of each version and I just don't feel like taking it to 1080p is going to change a pretty mediocre game at it's core
Get rid of the regenerating health, or only have a certain food type that regenerates health a bit. Regenerating health + food seems a bit much but just IMO.. I always found that a bit stupid.
Drive it like you stole it.
Saints row has left all that is was behind... As a die hard fan its sad to me and i hope for so much more for the next game.
@TheSuperior
No they weren't. Did they do some unique things? Sure, the narrative in terms of gangs and stuff is interesting...but the narrative was always shitty.
The only thing I don't like is the lack of customization options in saints row 3.... The Superior I'm sort of puzzled as to what you miss so much from the previous games? I brushed through the narratives for both games...again the narratives where interesting for one time but that's all. All the times I played Saints Row was purely to roam around and cause mayhem and have fun. Saints Row 3 accomplishes this. I'm good.
Replay them? For the narrative? Seriously? Are you standards that low? Maybe some of the missions were a tad more intersting... I would agree. But let's not fool ourseleves. RDR had a brilliant narrative, that was emotional and heartfelt. Saints Row is a generic gangster tale was horribly written script and narrative.
Well if it has then great as this game is a blast, its over the top and the coop is a right laugh.
saints row the third is a pretty damn good game great time, great fun i had with it, looking forward to gangstars in space DLC but it not as good as it should have been, it left a bitter taste in my mouth, especially the Genki bowl DLC and sometimes it feels pretty silly
comparing it with gta 4, well, saints row the third have much more things to do than gta 4, sr 3 is crazier than gta 4, BUT in terms of game quality, gameplay quality, graphics, art, atmosphere, city design, settings, characters, story, attention to detail, physics, weather effects, car handling, car physics, sound quality, main character, voice acting, radio stations and overall feel/personality, nothing comes close to grand theft auto IV
I give sr3....8.5-8.8
gta 4....9.5-9.6
I disagree. The first two SRs had interesting storylines (and I really enjoyed the semi-twist ending of the first game), but they were already getting pretty nuts with SR2. Volition just went full-out crazy in SR3 and I thought it was a refreshing change from so many other games that try and make themselves incredibly serious at the cost of fun.
I can do without another stereotypical gangster rags-to-riches storyline. Give me something unique like SR3.