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slaughterking said:
Giant Bomb is the reason why I never played SR3. Jeff said a couple of times how I loses interest in things that people obnoxiously try to sell him on; and that's exactly what he and the crew did with SR3. Every time they said "Guys, you should play Saints Row 3" or talked about how CRAY it is I became a little less interested in it and every time they showed the game in a QL or TNT or whatever I couldn't help but think "That's it?".
So in that sense GB did their part in ruining THQ.
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Every time they talked about it on the podcast, it made me want to run out and buy the game. Then every time they put out video of them playing the game, it looked like garbage. It's like they were talking about a different game.
 
Recall said:
I thought Yakuza 4 was the GOTY for 2011. Each to their own, Giantbomb's opinions are always different to my own but its generally why they tend to be a good listen. Shit is boring if people just agree with you all the time.
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The problem is that no one plays the Yakuza game.
Even when Patrick said he enjoyed Of The Dead, I don't think he bothered going back to it.

Also, Saints Row 3 > Skyrim. But let's not go back to December 2011 again. lol
 
I don't think he enjoyed Of the End. He didn't seem to like it and blamed it one the fact that he is not familiar with the series and its characters. Little did he know that Of the End ist just a really bad game!
And that game probably scared off a bunch of potential Yakuza fans and they will never look back. :(
 
slaughterking said:
Giant Bomb is the reason why I never played SR3. Jeff said a couple of times how he loses interest in things that people obnoxiously try to sell him on; and that's exactly what he and the crew did with SR3. Every time they said "Guys, you should play Saints Row 3" or talked about how CRAY it is I became a little less interested in it and every time they showed the game in a QL or TNT or whatever I couldn't help but think "That's it?".
So in that sense GB did their part in ruining THQ.
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Yep. Same here exactly.
 
slaughterking said:
Giant Bomb is the reason why I never played SR3. Jeff said a couple of times how he loses interest in things that people obnoxiously try to sell him on; and that's exactly what he and the crew did with SR3. Every time they said "Guys, you should play Saints Row 3" or talked about how CRAY it is I became a little less interested in it and every time they showed the game in a QL or TNT or whatever I couldn't help but think "That's it?".
So in that sense GB did their part in ruining THQ.
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The tron/matrix level was pure fun. It was random as shit, meta, and is the over the top kind of stuff I loved GTA for on the ps2. Saints Row is a great niche title in a AAA or failure industry.
 
slaughterking said:
I don't think he enjoyed Of the End. He didn't seem to like it and blamed it one the fact that he is not familiar with the series and its characters. Little did he know that Of the End ist just a really bad game!
And that game probably scared off a bunch of potential Yakuza fans and they will never look back. :(
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I got the feeling that he was interested in what it was doing, like the RDR thing, and that he might potentially look into it. Obviously that didn't happen. lol
 
slaughterking said:
Giant Bomb is the reason why I never played SR3. Jeff said a couple of times how he loses interest in things that people obnoxiously try to sell him on
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Well Jeff should get over that and so should you. It's silly to miss out on something good just because you're trying to be counterculture.
 
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I feel like any second now Jeff is going to start talking about how we need to return to the gold standard, and how there are secret Muslims in Washington.
 
StuBurns said:
What about playing a good video game? Is that more up your alley?

The last thing I think playing SR3 was how accurately the GiantBomb staff conveyed it's quality.
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It's not something I have to actively think about. I approach things with certain expectations and if they are not met I will probably not have a great time. It's a pretty simple concept really and GB did their best to mess those expectations up.
 
rudds said:
His exact comment to me was that it's a game even Sean Coonce put 50 hours into, and any other choice would have been completely stupid.
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I feel like I'm the only one who was disappointed by Skyrim. The land, graphics, audio, combat where all better but the the quests felt really dull and I never wanted to do any of them. It was better than SR3 though.
 
Darklord said:
I feel like I'm the only one who was disappointed by Skyrim. The land, graphics, audio, combat where all better but the the quests felt really dull and I never wanted to do any of them. It was better than SR3 though.
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I'm not a big Skyrim fan either. Something about just how wooden and stiff the characters always are in the modern Fallout and Elder Scrolls games never felt right with me. Talking and interacting in those games always felt like a Tomorrowland exhibition rather than an immersive world.
 
Yaboosh said:
Well SR3 certainly would have been.

But hours spent is never a good road to go down.
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Alright, maybe you have to know Coonce to get the subtext -- the point is he rarely plays video games at all, so for him to put that much time into a single game says an awful lot about it.
 
Yaboosh said:
Well SR3 certainly would have been.

But hours spent is never a good road to go down.
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I guess Brad is talking about how this game is enjoyable to a broader audience, it has something for everyone. Now I don't really like Skyrim or any other Bethestda open world game since their approach is not for me, but I respect their choice.
 
slaughterking said:
I'm not trying anything. I'm simply not interested in finding out how overblown their praise was.
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Nothing wrong with that. Saints Row is great if you're into that kind of game, and I can see how hype can build it up too much. There's all kinds of hyped stuff I'll never play because I don't care about certain genres and have certain tastes.
 
I got the feeling that SR3 was just a bit overhyped for you Brad and when you finally played it expectations were just too high. I'm not arguing against Skyrim or for SR3 because despite my disdain for Skyrim I totally get why people like it. It just seems like if a game isn't as "open world" as you've been led to believe (more quests to do or story threads to follow, etc) you're a bit more harsh on it.
 
Brad, did you ever manage to get your Walking Dead saves to work for episode 3?

Took me several hours to finally find a (simple) fix that let me pull mine over.
 
Darklord said:
I feel like I'm the only one who was disappointed by Skyrim. The land, graphics, audio, combat where all better but the the quests felt really dull and I never wanted to do any of them. It was better than SR3 though.
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Skyrim fell apart for me after about 20 hours. The level-scaling was just completely busted if you did certain things, which then turned the combat/loot system into a complete joke (even on higher difficulties). Combine that with the same boring, repeating dungeon patterns and generally questionable quest design and you have a pretty disappointing TES game.
It's nice to look at, though.

bkfount said:
Nothing wrong with that. Saints Row is great if you're into that kind of game. There's all kinds of hyped stuff I'll never play because I don't care about certain genres and have certain tastes.
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Certainly. SR3 is a game someone had to recommend to me for me to consider playing it. GB was just kind of the only one that (extensively) talked about SR3 and their talk turned out to be pretty off-putting.
 
Hunt For Red October. I own that! I'm not proud. But I did enjoy deploying all four of the weapons simultaneously, over and over again.

[EDIT - Now the US flag seems appropriate.]

[2 - Ahahaha Jeff pulled a Brad!

(Sorry Brad). ]

[3 - JACK ON.]
 
Hanzou said:
That bug still exists? What the hell is going on?
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Yeah, no idea what the deal is.
My brother had zero problems with it whatsoever, and I've had just about everything that could possibly go wrong happen.

I tried some of the more complicated fixes that people were naming, but, luckily, it was only a matter of replacing one version of the "prefs.prop" file from one folder into another folder. I had issues with it not wanting to work perfectly when I quit out, but I fixed that by just playing straight through.


Brad, promise me you guys will give Ryan heck if he doesn't keep up with playing. I need discussion on the bombcast at some point!
 
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