Saints Row

Saints Row

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Italiano84 Dec 21, 2023 @ 10:49am
bad game?
is this game really that bad?
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ReBoot Dec 21, 2023 @ 1:15pm 
Nope. It's not on the zany level of previous games, still good absolutely speaking.
[FuFo] Da HALOSHOCK Dec 21, 2023 @ 1:25pm 
It killed a studio and got most of its staff fired...
HaskaMoosic Dec 21, 2023 @ 2:06pm 
in my opinion, the gameplay is fine, running around shooting and blowing ♥♥♥♥ up is a good time, but the story/writing is the absolute worst
Briggs Dec 21, 2023 @ 4:02pm 
Yes.
Kuroneko Dec 22, 2023 @ 1:15am 
Originally posted by FuFo Da HALOSHOCK:
It killed a studio and got most of its staff fired...

Volition was shutdown by the Company that owned Volitions IP, & cause a lot of players QQ'ed about little things in Saints Row, the game is fun to play & enjoy but of course that is up to the player to decide if they play it.
Last edited by Kuroneko; Dec 22, 2023 @ 1:16am
Adefice Dec 22, 2023 @ 6:35am 
If you don't have a high-tolerance to legit cringe and a lot of "hey fellow kids" writing, then you are going to want to drive screwdrivers into your ears. It was written by people thinking they were connecting with youth culture but end up parodying it unintentionally. As someone previously said, these are the kind of characters the previous Saints Row protagonists would mercilessly make fun of.
Derah Dec 22, 2023 @ 7:21am 
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What is a VERY loaded question, with no simple answer. But I'll try my best:

Purely speaking from a gameplay perspective and nothing else? The game is alright. It's got what you'd expect of a regular Saints Row game (Excluding the sheer AWESOME insanity that was SR4 and Gat out of Hell, I'm talking about the more "normal" SR games, 1, 2, and 3). This one is more along those lines. No super powers, no zany weapons like the dubstep gun, inflato-ray or black hole gun.

I'd say if you see it on sale, there's worse ways you could spend the few meager dollars it'll cost you.

Where the game fails to deliver is in other areas. Namely, the writing is pure cringe. The new crew is clearly meant to be the "Younger and hipster" version of the people we know and love. Except, Eli is nowhere near as funny as Pierce, Keving is NOWHERE near as badass as Gat, and Neenah is not even remotely close to being as cute and as sassy as Shaundi. So what you're left behind with, are pale imitations of the real thing that feel watered down and very VERY cringe.

The sound design of this game is absolutely horrid too. It's all too normal to drive around without hearing the sound of your vehicles at all, which is just plain wrong. Vehicle handling is floaty and all over the place in the few vehicles I've been able to try. And the soundtrack is nothing to write home about.

The gangs you face are mildly better than the ones from SR3, but still nowhere near as awesome as the ones from SR 1 and 2. One of them REALLY stretches the definition of a "Gang", because seriosuly, Marshall Industries is a PMC. Come on.

But at the end of the day, so long as you go in NOT expecting this to be a worthy successor to the beloved Saints Row series, and also buy it on a sale? It's an okay game to indulge your open world OCD if you want to. The city of Santo Ileso is pretty to explore, jam packed with collectives to collect, side-activities to perform, and a wide variety of enemies to face, and as horrid as the writing is, there's the odd joke here and there that will manage to land.

TL;DR: As long as you pretend this isn't a Saints Row game, let alone a successor to the spectacular Saints Row 4, and you bought it during a sale? it's a perfectly decent game that manages to neither be award-worthy, nor scorn-worthy.

As a stand alone game judged on his own merits and divorced entirely from it's predecessors? This is a solid 6/10 Very Slightly above average.

As a Successor to the franchise however? A 1/10. Gat would bully these so-called saints so hard they'd pack up and leave within an hour.
Yes, I have a Mic. Dec 22, 2023 @ 12:21pm 
Originally posted by Kuroneko:
Originally posted by FuFo Da HALOSHOCK:
It killed a studio and got most of its staff fired...

Volition was shutdown by the Company that owned Volitions IP, & cause a lot of players QQ'ed about little things in Saints Row, the game is fun to play & enjoy but of course that is up to the player to decide if they play it.

Little things being the entire story, all the characters and the majority of the gameplay.
Other than that this game is GREAT.
Griefy Dec 22, 2023 @ 12:39pm 
kind of yes, kind of no
Zvitatzki Dec 22, 2023 @ 5:33pm 
i not see to much differences to call it bad against saints row just the sounds seem so messed up in volume the car almost cant hear while voices blow the ear gun shots over volumed then again the car we can not hear

this game has serios audio problems but the rest i cant say its bad and neither i can say "this is not saints row" it feels still as good as the previos games
RGBPlays Dec 23, 2023 @ 3:23pm 
they went wxke and then went brxke...
Enjoying this game. The saint rows gameplay ive been craving.
Mno Dec 24, 2023 @ 5:04am 
Originally posted by Italiano84:
is this game really that bad?

No, it's worse. Most people won't tell you that here because the game launched on Steam long after it peaked, so the only people who bought it here are the ones who genuinely enjoy garbage like this.
Savager Dec 24, 2023 @ 12:19pm 
Yes.
SalzStange Dec 24, 2023 @ 3:23pm 
Originally posted by Italiano84:
is this game really that bad?

it's good. DO not believe people which do not own the game.
Sadly it's bugged and clitchy but it'S a lot of fun and it's big.
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