WingedKagouti on 2/9/2014 at 15:08
Stand-alone expansion for SR4.
Where you play as Johnny Gat.
And you're off to rescue the President/Leader of the Saints from Hell.
[video=youtube;WOgeMmCJqCY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOgeMmCJqCY[/video]
henke on 2/9/2014 at 15:40
Heh, this series is just getting further and further away from it's origins with every installment.
Tony_Tarantula on 2/9/2014 at 18:17
I had a feeling that title was referencing Johnny Gat......
And here I was wondering how they were going to top the insanity of Saint's Row 4.
Slasher on 4/9/2014 at 02:44
Just beat SR4 last week. Looks like they're all still on the spaceship. Well, up until the portal to Doom opens. I guess we'll be waiting for SR5 to see how they handwave the ending of SR4 away.
EvaUnit02 on 4/9/2014 at 22:29
Quote Posted by henke
Heh, this series is just getting further and further away from it's origins with every installment.
The original SR games were mediocre San Andreas clones. Good riddance to all of the B-grade rethreads of tired Hollywood crime drama tropes and big thumbs up for giving the series its own identity.
GodzillaX8 on 4/9/2014 at 23:57
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
The original SR games were mediocre San Andreas clones. Good riddance to all of the B-grade rethreads of tired Hollywood crime drama tropes and big thumbs up for giving the series its own identity.
Concur heartily.
henke on 5/9/2014 at 11:00
For my money, SR3 was the series highpoint. Just the right mix of GTA-aping and "having it's own identity". SR4 was fun, sure, but it was just... too much. The amount of "awesomeness" in it was numbing. A lot of over-the-top movies, like Machette, Speed Racer, and Scott Pilgrim (to name 3 wildly different movies with the same problem), suffer from this same thing. If everything is awesome, nothing is awesome.
Suffice to say, I'm having a hard time getting excited for this new expansion. I hope they find a way to be more grounded with SR5.
GodzillaX8 on 5/9/2014 at 17:06
Quote Posted by henke
For my money, SR3 was the series highpoint. Just the right mix of GTA-aping and "having it's own identity". SR4 was fun, sure, but it was just... too much. The amount of "awesomeness" in it was numbing. A lot of over-the-top movies, like Machette, Speed Racer, and Scott Pilgrim (to name 3 wildly different movies with the same problem), suffer from this same thing. If everything is awesome, nothing is awesome.
Suffice to say, I'm having a hard time getting excited for this new expansion. I hope they find a way to be more grounded with SR5.
SR3 was better, for sure, but I don't really agree on the reasoning. I think the main reason SR3 was better is that the city in SR4 was nearly identical, so it was boring to explore, SR4 had a lot more collectible grinding, worse minigames, and SR4 ruined the way you unlock abilities (getting extremely difficult gold medals rather than just leveling up? No thanks).
I enjoyed the ridiculous over the top story in SR4, but the gameplay was what left me wanting more.
Al_B on 6/9/2014 at 08:19
I hold the opposite opinion - I much preferred SR4 over SR3. I loved SR2 even though had problems on the PC and missed certain elements (the way missions were dealt with via the map in particular) in Saints Row 3.
Saints Row 4 was basically a single player City of Heroes and I loved messing around in the environment, collecting the shards and completing the challenges. It felt like a different experience to the previous games and I enjoyed it for what it was. The biggest disappointment was the lack of use vehicles had. Other than missions that required you to use them there really was no point in taking them since you'd normally be quicker on foot once you had your abilities upgraded.
N'Al on 6/9/2014 at 10:38
Crackdown suffered from a similar 'problem'.*
I guess most sandbox games where the player character pretty much is a superhero will do. How does
Prototype compare, for example?
* Even taking into account that your driving skills (and even (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNsCpdPNE4) your agency car itself) improve the more you use vehicles in the game, so cars become pretty damn maneuverable on their own later on.
