I for the life of me did not get the top thing you listed lol idk it just went over my head.
I finished all the side missions listed and the only things left to do are primary quests. :/ I dont want it to end, man. lol. Imo, it was smart to package the side missions in the way they did. I never got tired of them because it was a good variety of task you could quickly knock out and get a nice reward.
I finally beat it, all loyalty and side missions done. It definitely felt shorter than the other games--I'm at just over 20 hours and have completed all the activities; I still need to go collect a hundred or so data clusters, then decide if I want to grind out achievements/challenges for the different weapon kills, time spent with homies, etc, but I have no idea how I'd get my playtime anywhere near 40 hours, since it seems like there's not much left I haven't done.
Played it on 360; had three hard lockups, one soft lockup during gameplay, and ultimately couldn't use Death from Above because about half the time if I jumped from really high it would bug out and get stuck in this mode where I could move, shoot, and use powers, but couldn't interact with anything, switch weapons, advance missions, etc. Thankfully no data was lost.
Overall I really liked it and wouldn't mind the next game following along this storyline--
either SAINTS IN SPAAAAAACE or having you travel back in time and get 'stuck', having to take over Stilwater circa 1970 or something
. The whole plot, as reference-heavy as it was, really worked for me, although it did ultimately confirm that
SR2 Shaundi is superior Shaundi. She's just more fun! And SR3-era Shaundi was much livelier interacting with her SR2-self, so she improved the quality of all Shaundis.
Story overall flowed MUCH better than SR3, although there were a few spots where it felt like part of a cutscene or transition was missing.
I'm sticking with my earlier view of the game as Saints Row 3-2; it's not a bad thing, but the game is very much reflective of SR3 and despite the story frequently calling back to previous titles it still feels more SR3-era than SR2-era (or original Saints Row era, but I don't think anybody's clamoring for a retreat to that game.) In any case, there's not really any other game out there as willing to make fun of itself and games in general as Saints Row, so I'm happy for whatever I can get.
I finally beat it, all loyalty and side missions done. It definitely felt shorter than the other games--I'm at just over 20 hours and have completed all the activities; I still need to go collect a hundred or so data clusters, then decide if I want to grind out achievements/challenges for the different weapon kills, time spent with homies, etc, but I have no idea how I'd get my playtime anywhere near 40 hours, since it seems like there's not much left I haven't done.
It took me 35 hours to do absolutely everything in the game, that includes that stupid challenge of traveling 2500000 miles in a alien vehicle. I just had to let the game run on its own for that, and the last 5 hours to get the trophy for Fourth and Forty.
Please Volition, do not make a Fifth and Fifty trophy for Saints Row 5!
Just beat the game with 30hrs clocked. Wow that whole finale was crazy and I did not expect that lol. I was smiling half the time. Man, just when you thought the Saints have done it all. It did feel a bit shorter than the last game but I can't recall how long it took me to beat SR3. And I can admit I ran into my share of glitches and things of that nature but it was still a joy to play. I can say this game had a lot more memorable moments than 3 and I loved SR3. Shit, I might have to get the dlc day 1 when it comes out now lol. I'm looking forward to starting a 2nd play through after I finishing messing around in this profile.
I for the life of me did not get the top thing you listed lol idk it just went over my head.
I finished all the side missions listed and the only things left to do are primary quests. :/ I dont want it to end, man. lol. Imo, it was smart to package the side missions in the way they did. I never got tired of them because it was a good variety of task you could quickly knock out and get a nice reward.
Having alot of fun with the game, it's hilarious and puts a smile on my face at all times
But, I'm getting tired of these disguised tedious activities as 'Side Quests', they seem more necessary than activities in past games by locking rewards behind them. Like Dubstep gun, infinite sprint, etc
Having alot of fun with the game, it's hilarious and puts a smile on my face at all times
But, I'm getting tired of these disguised tedious activities as 'Side Quests', they seem more necessary than activities in past games by locking rewards behind them. Like Dubstep gun, infinite sprint, etc
They aren't necessary to finish the story.
Besides, unlocking things when you do side activities is a bad thing? Would you prefer collecting 1000 flags to have an achievement? Cause i can point you in Ubisoft's direction.
I mean to a certain extent you should want to do said activities, because they're fun to play, but if they give you some extra reward, all the better.
That was my point, they aren't necessary it's just padding to keep cool stuff locked away from me. I've always disliked the Activities in the Saints Row franchise (but love the rest) so it gets old fast
I also feel like there is enough 'collect-a-thon' going on with orbs, and cache for 'Abilities' that it doesnt need another barrier
Damn my word selection :3 lol I meant that I did not understand the reference when I reached that mission. It was crazy random to me and I watched my share of wrestling when as a kid. heh
After I beat the game and entered the simulation again, all that was left of my character was her underwear and hair, she was invisible lol Must have been a glitch hopefully.
I really am enjoying this game, but am experiencing constant, hard lock-ups (360). I've read that the game is a bit breakable, and could write it off as just that, except the same thing happened with Tomb Raider.
It's an original 20GB 360, and I'm sure that is a big factor. I just wish I didn't have to consider a new 360 just to play these games.
Sorry to vent in the thread - on topic, I was loving my Hulk jumping up walls and melee-ing the hell out of everyone. Insanely fun.
Notice how these three are listed first, and are already available. July 26 was their submission date, so they could be released in August, as they were.
GAT V
Has a submission date of Aug 13, so will likely be out in September. Based on the name, my guess would be somewhere near September 17th
Contents of pack were leaked:
Enter the Dominatrix
Part of season pass, due '45 days' after the games release.
Sub date is September 23rd, so it'll be out in October as announced
Super Powers
Most likely another small piece of DLC separate from the pass
Probably available late October - Early November
Saints Save XMAS
Sounds like a story pack, so probably the 2nd season pass content
Probably available late November - early December
Sports
Most likely another small piece of DLC separate from the pass
My guess would be sports costumes, and some sort of sports themed weapon. Like a gun that fires footballs etc.
Damn my word selection :3 lol I meant that I did not understand the reference when I reached that mission. It was crazy random to me and I watched my share of wrestling when as a kid. heh
Started playing this the other day. Loved the first 20 minutes or so but then thought ... you know what? I haven't really played Saints Row 3 yet and it's sitting on my backlog, I'm gonna go play that. Then I thought, that's kinda true about Saints Row 2 too...
TL;DR playing Saints Row 1, brb
EDIT: I met Keith David in SR4, and that was nice. But the guy I met within the first 5 minutes of SR1 was voiced by Keith David! I hope that this logical inconsistency is addressed ASAP or I'm just not going to be able to take this universe seriously.
Cobra Kai uniform/suit something like that. Hat for the goku hair, I don't know where the hat is found as well. Try let's pretend for both. Color Cobra Kai uniform to goku's gi.
EDIT: I met Keith David in SR4, and that was nice. But the guy I met within the first 5 minutes of SR1 was voiced by Keith David! I hope that this logical inconsistency is addressed ASAP or I'm just not going to be able to take this universe seriously.
Damn my word selection :3 lol I meant that I did not understand the reference when I reached that mission. It was crazy random to me and I watched my share of wrestling when as a kid. heh
more than wrestling itself, it was a parody of They Live, the Carpenter movie.
Also loved the "i hope this doesn't end with me doing ass to ass" call back to Requiem for a Dream infamous scene.
Another pearl was "You sound just like Julius", the character Keith David voiced in Saint's Row 1.
Also i had an action figure/toy of Roddy Roddy Piper!
I think one of my favourite parts of the Keith David inclusion is at one point, during one scene down the road, there is a crowd of people and one of them has a "We *Heart* Goliath" sign. Amazing!
That link didn't work for me but I found a working one and also watched a few more clips of it. Oh shit, that was really something and it all makes more sense now. lmao. Thanks.
Having alot of fun with the game, it's hilarious and puts a smile on my face at all times
But, I'm getting tired of these disguised tedious activities as 'Side Quests', they seem more necessary than activities in past games by locking rewards behind them. Like Dubstep gun, infinite sprint, etc
Im pretty sure you can get the dubstep gun in a lategame mission without having to do the sidequest chain. At least thats how it seemed like, I did the sidequest and I cant imagine my playthough without it. Too damn stronk
Go to the Fight Club event in Loren Square
Reach round 2
Kill Zin without taking the hill
Exit after time is up - retries will set your total back down
There is a virus mission in the northwest part of the map that spawns Genkis, they count as alien so just use your weapons there to farm them, kill around 50 run out of the area and then start it again. There is also another virus where you fight 100 of them but I forget where it is at.
reference at some point, but hadn't seen it and finished the story a few days ago. Well, the movie was on HBO Go, so I watched it last night. I knew there was a reference, but replicating so much of it was so awesome I had to go back and replay the mission after finishing the movie. Really appreciate that kind of detail and homage in the game.
Having alot of fun with the game, it's hilarious and puts a smile on my face at all times
But, I'm getting tired of these disguised tedious activities as 'Side Quests', they seem more necessary than activities in past games by locking rewards behind them. Like Dubstep gun, infinite sprint, etc
An hour into this game and this game has yet to stop me from smiling. I think my brightest point of this gameso far is that they brought back the fucking Reggae station.
Shame this game only supports DX11...yet the specs for it and SRTT are eerily similar?
An hour into this game and this game has yet to stop me from smiling. I think my brightest point of this gameso far is that they brought back the fucking Reggae station.
At the cost of the Metal station as it seems. That was my favorite station to wreck things up with.
Oh well, K12 has Nero on it. And GenX has In Flames. The music selection is disappointingly scarce compared to the previous game, felt incredibly phoned in. But it at least made me a bit more open minded what to listen to.
You give me freedom to do what I want. Spot on parody, satire, and pop culture references. Super powers that allow me to do what has never been possible in a SR game at this magnitude before, yet the only thing I want to do is find ways to break your game because of one simple motto...(nsfw - profanity)
Walking under water = check
Floating under the world = check
Getting stuck in 'float/falling' animation = check
Losing ability to control my character, but gaining invincibility = check
Having all the alpha channels removed from light/blood/effect textures = check (I REALLY hope that one isn't a bug, but a feature of the world being 'matrix' or whatever, cause it looks HILARIOUS to see cars driving around with headlights that are giant black squares with a light texture stamped in the middle of it)
(xbox360 version btw, no cheats/mods/dlc/whatever)
It was fun while it lasted, but much like 'the third' - the end game is just devoid of things to do. SR2 will always be king, but I've come to accept that this is where the franchise is headed and I'm okay with it.
IMO SR2 remains king only because Stilwater was such a great city. Probably the best open world city I've ever been in. Hopefully SR5 will be next-gen and given a lot more dev time than SR3 and 4 were to throw in a ton of features and a much more worthwhile city.
Not only due to the city design, but the world feeling alive. You could just stand on a corner and watch shit HAPPEN in SR2, it was ridiculous. The story also was a better balance of serious moments mixed with black humor, and let's not get started on all the diversions and customization differences that just dwarf anything 3 or 4 has. It was a far more complete package (and better "game"), but with 3 and 4 getting such a positive financial and critical response I can't blame them for going this route. They've distanced themselves far enough away from being a "gta clone" that it's found it's own identity and it works, but at the same time it's very much the 'pop culture' that it seems to reference on a whole...
Immensely enjoyable while you're in the moment, but vapid and forgetful the second you put the controller down.
There's a reason why I've logged well over 300hrs in SR2 as compared to what I've done with it's successors (barely over 100 between the two) - but I'm still a sucker for the world and will be coming back for each iteration. I just fully know what to expect when I do, as there's no illusion about what this franchise has become (and I'll enjoy it for what it is, every step of the way).
Not only due to the city design, but the world feeling alive. You could just stand on a corner and watch shit HAPPEN in SR2, it was ridiculous. The story also was a better balance of serious moments mixed with black humor, and let's not get started on all the diversions and customization differences that just dwarf anything 3 or 4 has. It was a far more complete package (and better "game"), but with 3 and 4 getting such a positive financial and critical response I can't blame them for going this route. They've distanced themselves far enough away from being a "gta clone" that it's found it's own identity and it works, but at the same time it's very much the 'pop culture' that it seems to reference on a whole...
Immensely enjoyable while you're in the moment, but vapid and forgetful the second you put the controller down.
There's a reason why I've logged well over 300hrs in SR2 as compared to what I've done with it's successors (barely over 100 between the two) - but I'm still a sucker for the world and will be coming back for each iteration. I just fully know what to expect when I do, as there's no illusion about what this franchise has become (and I'll enjoy it for what it is, every step of the way).
SR2 is what happens when you have enough time and resources dedicated to flesh out a mostly existing world. SR1 was also Stilwater, yet doesn't even compare. SR4 could have turned out a lot more interesting world if they had followed suit in terms of building from what they had created in SR3, but as we all know it was originally just a DLC pack that they decided to expand to a full game.
I do believe they're capable of doing both what they did in terms of world building in SR2 as well as the wacky antics of 3/4 if they had enough budget and were able to focus (SR3's design was essentially restarted partway through development, and SR4 had less time than the standard 2 year cycle since it was just being built as a DLC pack at first).
IMO SR2 remains king only because Stilwater was such a great city. Probably the best open world city I've ever been in. Hopefully SR5 will be next-gen and given a lot more dev time than SR3 and 4 were to throw in a ton of features and a much more worthwhile city.
While SR4 is pretty good and tons of fun, SR2 is still the king of open world games and not just because the city but also the open nature of the missions, it's story, the gangs, the the balance between the serious stuff and crazy stuff, strong cast (super duper villains), all the activities, what can you do outside of missions or activities(you can enjoy it just by doing random stuff) how NPC in streets react to you..ect. SR2 is really something else.
I'm losing the connection in coop while playing with a friend. There was never a problem with Saints 3, 2 or any other game actually. No problems with the router either. Anybody experiencing the same issues?
