Thankyou!

[SizroSpunkmire]

Downvote this all you want but I just 100%'ed this game. Was it amazing? No. Was it GOTY? No. Did it look and play like something from 2012? Absolutely.

The LARP quests and DLC where exactly what I needed. If anyone from Volition ever reads this, rest assured at least one person out there appreciated the effort.

Thankyou! I enjoyed my time in-game and have no regret.

[Faster With Feeling]

The same for the most part and that is why I wrote a positive review of the game.

No it wasn't perfect not by miles and had its faults but it was fun and after the first couple of intro missions I started having a lot of fun with it.

I did lose my original save though though what I think now was a bit of carelessness and tons and tons of in game money but I started fresh and want to give the whole game one more run before I delete it.

If I had to give it a rating it would be a 6.5 / 10

[VanGarrett]

Honestly, if you enjoyed Saints Row the Third for the gameplay, this game lands really close to that. It's very much as though we got the PG-13 version of the story, where we were used to getting the R version. This game doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

[thefuryofmeerkats]

I think the problem is that's the game is trying to be the more grounded earlier games, while also edging on the SR3 on wards games but never following through with it. The opening mission has you soloing an enemy force that killed dozens of your coworkers, leaning into the SR3 stuff, then deciding that's too hard and going back to the gang building of SR2. That and the weird self censoring, they just never let themselves go as far as SR2 did, let alone the SR3 they kept trying to emulate.

Second half of the main quest line was so good I got to the end and had to stop and ask "is that it?", after the gangs are just knocked out in as many missions after barely doing anything to them. No dismantling them, that's all hidden in the side stuff, but can be entirely skipped and just take out each gang after trashing one or two of their places and killing their leader.

I think the main issue is that there's some good bits, all the LARP missions/DLC, loved that, highlight of the game. Wing suit was good fun, empire building was interesting. Otherwise it felt like a padded, yet watered down version of the older games, which seems to be what annoys people. I put 40 hours into it because I wanted to finish as much as possible, it's not that it's a bad game, it just doesn't live up to the peak of SR2/3.

[Faster With Feeling]

Originally posted by thefuryofmeerkats:

I think the problem is that's the game is trying to be the more grounded earlier games, while also edging on the SR3 on wards games but never following through with it. The opening mission has you soloing an enemy force that killed dozens of your coworkers, leaning into the SR3 stuff, then deciding that's too hard and going back to the gang building of SR2. That and the weird self censoring, they just never let themselves go as far as SR2 did, let alone the SR3 they kept trying to emulate.

Second half of the main quest line was so good I got to the end and had to stop and ask "is that it?", after the gangs are just knocked out in as many missions after barely doing anything to them. No dismantling them, that's all hidden in the side stuff, but can be entirely skipped and just take out each gang after trashing one or two of their places and killing their leader.

I think the main issue is that there's some good bits, all the LARP missions/DLC, loved that, highlight of the game. Wing suit was good fun, empire building was interesting. Otherwise it felt like a padded, yet watered down version of the older games, which seems to be what annoys people. I put 40 hours into it because I wanted to finish as much as possible, it's not that it's a bad game, it just doesn't live up to the peak of SR2/3.

Well said, I agree.

also agree on your comments regarding self censoring. It really tried to want to please everyone by not going too far and that spoilt parts of it for me. Gone is the real "Leather and lace" store and instead crap clothing options and not the stuff we had in the old games which was far superior. Rim Jobs becomes Jimrobs, seriously, that's what they wanted to do and they took that side of it a bit too far into being too safe. Other than that I had fun with the game and am on my second playthrough right now, and having fun.

[DreyStone]

Same here. I enjoyed it a lot, for me it felt more like Saints Row 2. The game does not deserve the hatred.

[Anindya]

Originally posted by SizroSpunkmire:

The LARP quests and DLC...

I did not like the LARP quests. They were incorrect in the beginning anyway since in "real life" LARPERs use better costumes. Or so I have been led to believe by various TV shows and movies. Like in a Supernatural episode a store owner thought Sam and Dean Winchester were LARPing when they showed up claiming to be FBI. He thought they were LARPers because of their "cheap suits" apparently. And they were wearing suits and not cardboard cutouts after all. But I suppose it is not possible to LARP as FBI agents with cardboard cutouts.

Edit: Must be this episode. I don't see any cardboard. Do you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRm0HA_HyIA

Edit 2: Not the episode I was thinking of after all. But yes, it is an episode focused exclusively on LARPing. Kinda like the episode that was focused exclusively on Scooby Doo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4plYWgWGIjE

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit 3: The title of the LARP episode is referring to the "Lars and the Real Girl" movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/). I thought it was referring to some fantasy movie like "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" after seeing the title and finding it familiar. I have seen the "Lars and the Real Girl" movie (featuring a "Real Doll") but not the Chronicles one, by the way.

Anyway, I doubt I remembered by myself and was most likely remotely reminded by "tin foil hat techies". The name of the movie just came to me when I was doing other things and only then I remembered/realized/whatever. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

[Acierocolotl]

I finally finished the game off, and, on the whole, it was great. I don't regret the purchase one bit.

The LARP was highly memorable, A+, great fun. (Anindya, check out the Wedding DLC with regards to costumes, supposing you have it.)

The only thing I didn't care for was the karaoke bit. But ah, friends. I get what the point of it was, and there's always a unpleasant-to-listen-to sing-along in every Saints Row.

[Faster With Feeling]

LOL at the people that gave my review of the game a Jester .... People meh.

[Anindya]

Originally posted by Acierocolotl:

(Anindya, check out the Wedding DLC with regards to costumes, supposing you have it.)

Yes, I did notice that they added non cardboard costumes with that DLC. But you know, it's a DLC. And as the Supernatural video shows, LARPing doesn't have to mean "Dungeons and Dragons" only. As in, you can LARP as FBI, CIA or whatever agents too. And posting on the internets cannot be considered "LARPing" either from what I understand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Melody]

If you guys are playing on Windows and claim that the game is fun, you're lying to yourselves. The game is unplayable on Windows, literally.

If you're playing on Linux, which then would make more sense, then the game runs fine without stutters and problems.

[SizroSpunkmire]

Originally posted by Melody:

If you guys are playing on Windows and claim that the game is fun, you're lying to yourselves. The game is unplayable on Windows, literally.

If you're playing on Linux, which then would make more sense, then the game runs fine without stutters and problems.

It plays perfectly fine on my Windows system. RTX 3080, i9 10850K, 32GB RAM. Have had zero problems with performance. It's also been a year+ since launch and they've released a number of patches that may have fixed whatever issues others have. Again, zero issues for me. Runs fine.

[Melody]

I won't answer private profiles.

[ApplesSupreme]

Originally posted by SizroSpunkmire:

Downvote this all you want but I just 100%'ed this game. Was it amazing? No. Was it GOTY? No. Did it look and play like something from 2012? Absolutely.

The LARP quests and DLC where exactly what I needed. If anyone from Volition ever reads this, rest assured at least one person out there appreciated the effort.

Thankyou! I enjoyed my time in-game and have no regret.

so you enjoy trash games...k got it

[SizroSpunkmire]

Originally posted by ^1o^2r^4a^6n^3g^7e^1'^8s:

Originally posted by SizroSpunkmire:

Downvote this all you want but I just 100%'ed this game. Was it amazing? No. Was it GOTY? No. Did it look and play like something from 2012? Absolutely.

The LARP quests and DLC where exactly what I needed. If anyone from Volition ever reads this, rest assured at least one person out there appreciated the effort.

Thankyou! I enjoyed my time in-game and have no regret.

so you enjoy trash games...k got it

I do! Lots of fun to be had. Nothing wrong with admitting that.

[lost-in-emotions]

honestly, i don't understand your excitement either.... ok, no idea what volition has been up to in the social media channels - i've only noticed it to a limited extent, ergo i'm kind of virgin to the game. And because I already had a lot of fun with SRTT, of course I wanted to play the sequel...

and yes, sorry folks... i was NOT disappointed. the humor is as i remembered it positively and had some really amusing laughs (SPOILER: meep meep horn or the "did you know" announcer in rojas desert north with blablablablabla - because i REALLY ran away).

the graphics are decent and the detail in the charactertuning is great. i would have liked to have a "self music radio station", but you can't have everything. i got the game + DLC in the offer here and i don't regret it. <3