is it worth buying ?

[Cookie Dealer]

Title .

[Bedelguese]

No

[nclok1405]

No. There's no indication of the free "patch/rerelease" is coming.

[MC Chase]

Don't buy this version, but it on Xbox 360 with all of it's DLC. Because that patch ain't showing up anytime soon.

[Cookie Dealer]

i want to see how saint row games are in general , i have seen some videos and they look not bad , which saint row do you guys recommend to start with ?

[Wozherd$🐧]

if not the second, the third
that is if you don't want to emulate sr1 on xenia for the beginning of it all

[Bedelguese]

Originally posted by Cookie Dealer:

i want to see how saint row games are in general , i have seen some videos and they look not bad , which saint row do you guys recommend to start with ?

First game isn't on PC, you'll have to get a 360 copy.

Second game is by far the best in the series but the PC port is garbage, there was a patch being worked on by the community manager at the time IdolNinja but he passed away and though Deep Silver and Volition claimed they were continuing to work on it it's been multiple years with no updates, it's clear to see they've lied about finishing a dead man's dream. If you want to play SR2 without it being glitchy and terrible you'll need to buy it for the 360.

Third game is okay, it's probably the second best of the easily available games but it lost the tone of the first and second game instead going for nonstop potty humor and streamlined (AKA removed) a lot of things that SR2 had. It isn't terrible just overall mediocre.

Fourth game went off the rails and is basically Crackdown except you play as a criminal with superpowers instead of a cop, potty humor remains but there's really no point in customizing cars or guns like you used to because half the time you can just kill stuff with your super powers now.

Saints Row 2022 was laughably bad and was actually so bad that Volition isn't even allowed to make its own games anymore and they've been consumed into Gearbox.

[Cookie Dealer]

Originally posted by Kolbe Moser:

Originally posted by Cookie Dealer:

i want to see how saint row games are in general , i have seen some videos and they look not bad , which saint row do you guys recommend to start with ?

First game isn't on PC, you'll have to get a 360 copy.

Second game is by far the best in the series but the PC port is garbage, there was a patch being worked on by the community manager at the time IdolNinja but he passed away and though Deep Silver and Volition claimed they were continuing to work on it it's been multiple years with no updates, it's clear to see they've lied about finishing a dead man's dream. If you want to play SR2 without it being glitchy and terrible you'll need to buy it for the 360.

Third game is okay, it's probably the second best of the easily available games but it lost the tone of the first and second game instead going for nonstop potty humor and streamlined (AKA removed) a lot of things that SR2 had. It isn't terrible just overall mediocre.

Fourth game went off the rails and is basically Crackdown except you play as a criminal with superpowers instead of a cop, potty humor remains but there's really no point in customizing cars or guns like you used to because half the time you can just kill stuff with your super powers now.

Saints Row 2022 was laughably bad and was actually so bad that Volition isn't even allowed to make its own games anymore and they've been consumed into Gearbox.

thanks alot for the time you put man , it really helped alot .

[Nada]

yes if you own a xb360 given saints row was only ever on the 360 always felt it was a title made for the xbox franchise like halo use to be or uncharted and last of us for play station or how nintendo will always have mario. despite what people say about saints row 2 it was never ment for PC and 20 years on the company has proved that as why bother patching a game from that era when you just emulate it anyway or remaster it now with upscaled graphics it would be better

[Benadryl Cabbagepatch]

Honestly, this is a weird franchise, past its prime and on life support. The best games can't be played on modern machines, the newest game wouldn't be worth your time even if it was free (which it isn't) and the ones in the middle are -fine- but won't give you a sense of why SR is so popular.

If you really want to play SR and you own an Xbox360 get 2 on there, it's the best one by far but completely broken on PC. If you don't own that console you can get 3 and maybe 4 on Steam, they aren't SR at its best but they're fun enough. Other than that don't bother.

[Beros]

I've had zero problems. You might as well get it and see what happens. If it's not working, just be mindful of the 2-hour/2-week time limit for refunds.

[❌Legend🅰ry Boss❌]

I say give it try, buy it on sale. There's some HD mods and upscale tool for 4k resolutions. I do have game crashes once in a while but nothing bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1TTh3mjAbw&t=252s

[The Dukenator]

Originally posted by Pvt. Parts:

Honestly, this is a weird franchise, past its prime and on life support. The best games can't be played on modern machines, the newest game wouldn't be worth your time even if it was free (which it isn't) and the ones in the middle are -fine- but won't give you a sense of why SR is so popular.

If you really want to play SR and you own an Xbox360 get 2 on there, it's the best one by far but completely broken on PC. If you don't own that console you can get 3 and maybe 4 on Steam, they aren't SR at its best but they're fun enough. Other than that don't bother.

SR2 was not limited to 360 like SR1 was.
SR3 & 4 got remastered.
SR1-4, GAT 360 are all playable on xbox one and later.

[solidap]

Not worth buying. Even with the excellent Gentlemen of the Row mod it's still terrible. And there is no mod that fixes the poor audio.

The best way to play now is an original SR2 disc on an Xbox Series X. It's natively upscaled to 4k and runs amazing.

[$T3V3BR0]

Depends. If you're looking to play the vanilla game + DLC, emulate it via Xenia (you can use fl1ppy's guides on YT for reference). It runs smoothly and is the best experience you'll get of the base game.

If you want to heavily mod it/play with friends on co-op (because I don't believe Xenia supports LAN or anything and buying a console for one game is a bit much), then I'd say buy it and install the Gentlemen Of The Row mod and you can play with your friends with methods like Radmin or Hamachi. It's an amazing game, but the PC port even with mod fixes has a lot of trouble running properly and the way Volition has been recently (with public appearances, company buyouts, and their coding "skills") I doubt we're gonna see that SR2 patch anytime soon, if at all.

I would also like to point out that using an Xbone to play the game can have issues with framerate dips in water sections.

[Virgil]

Frankly, this franchise should just stay dead and buried at this point. It had its heyday with SR1 and particularly 2, and went off the rails starting as early as the Third. I'd say let it serve as a cautionary tale to other videogame companies what happens when you try to market to a vocal minority at the expense of your original customer base - there's some contemporary examples of this going on right now in America with cheap, piss tasting beer. Whatever side of that debate you're on, the message is clear from a business standpoint.

If companies need to keep being ground into dust or hemorrhaging record profits in order to get the point, then so be it. In general, the lesson is clear: keep your messaging out of your product, do not alienate your original fans and if you have a winning formula, don't fix what's not broken. Failure to learn this lesson will simply result in more of the same.

The free market always wins in the end. RIP Volition/Deep Silver/anyone else associated with this travesty, your demise was utterly predictable and wholly deserved.

EDIT: Oh, and in case it wasn't clear from the absolute abundance of forum posts bemoaning the complete lack of basic functionality in this game, do not buy OP. It is a literal scam in its current state.