"Saints Row: The Third Switch Review - Who Needs Grand Theft Auto?"

I thought Saints Row 3 was the best. Saints 1 and 2 were just knockoff GTAs in my eyes, at least 3 took the one thing it did better than GTA and ran with it.

3 still had a foothold in the realm of reality. 4 said "Screw reality" and raped it in front of it's own mother. Some prefer this, but I'm not among those who do. As I said, I prefer 2 more than anything.

Speaking of, a reimagining or larger version of 2 would be cool, now that I think about it.

>I thought Saints Row 3 was the best.

Then you're a fucking retard

>3 still had a foothold in the realm of reality.

But not a foothold in good gameplay

Eh, it wasn't *extremely* bad. The gunplay was pretty ok. The planes were better. It just wasn't spectacular.

4 didn't have good gameplay, tho.
Yes it gave you powers, but it made going around using modded cars useless, and trivialized the entire setting turning it all in some sort of sci fi marvel move shlock.

In 3 there was a reason to mod your car and use it, there was basic pleasure from customization and engaging in it like a GTA game, 4 is just...prototype but somehow worse.

Why not 2?
2 was the best

The gameplay was good though. 2 and 3 play almost the exact same, so you can't say 2 did better than 3 in that regard. It's a forgettable series but 3 was the least forgettable.

>Jesus fucking christ, what's wrong with the people that own this thing?
Nintenyearsolds. They never had a gta-clone before so they have nothing to compare it to and will think it's good.

May 10th so this Thursday

Because 2 is so jank it barely fucking works as it is.
Doesn't take a genius to realize why they're not even bothering with porting it.

I pirated the NSP on switch like a week ago

The FPS is fucking dogshit.

Why do SR3 fags always try to skimp on the dumbed down co-op? The removal of features (gambling)? The removal of activities? The lack of cutscenes for activities? The lack of multiplayer that was replaced for a piece of shit known as whored mode?

They lost the source and assets and/or the popsicle stick engine would be impossible to port or wouldn't run well on the switch.

You've made this thread every day all this week, how pathetic.

4 was unironically a pretty good superhero game, people were just upset because they wanted a GTA clone instead.

I know
But god damn it I loved it

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But that's not even true

2 was only really jank on the PC. Even then, you can fix it a bit.

Waot did they remove power from the parachute mission at the start .

When was the last Nintendo gta-clone?

The PC port to this day is a fucking mess.

Most GTA styled open world games are full of filler like what you just mentioned that has minimal impact on the main progression of the game. I don't miss them because I never cared for any of that.

these niggas know what's good

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Probably testing the waters and SR4+GooH will most likely release later.
Then probably Agents of Mayhem in an effort to make a few more bucks off that disaster.

dumb tranny

>4 was unironically a pretty good superhero game
I played it and from what i remember i was bored to tears.
It felt like a cheaply made PS2 game.
3 had a least a couple of moments i still remember, like the helicopter jump with Kanye music blasting as you fall down, cass, but somewhat kino.

What did 4 have?
It's all a blur to me when it comes to that game.

I think it made up for it a little with the bigness of the world and better weapons overall. But I can see your points.

I know mah nigga, i didn't dislike saints row 4.. But i want a return to what 2 was. Gone with these superpowers, aliens, what the fuck ever.

I’m not surprised just disappointed

What's it going to take to make volition stop pretending that SR1 and 2 don't exist?

Every time I think about getting rid of my 360 I have to remind myself that it's the only fucking way to play those games.

Also forgot the removal of inventory, meaning removal of stores like Freckle Bitches

Hell yeah, I do.

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This whole series is pure shite

I just want 2 style gameplay back
But they likely fucked it up with a popsicle stick engine.
Fuck this gay earth

The first game fucking sucks. It's a good thing they pretend it never happened

Steelport is small and boring as shit compared to Stilwater.
I think my dislike of SR3 would be less if the city wasn't so goddamn boring and unrewarding to explore.

Eat shit

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>I'm okay with features being removed because I'm a faggot this game got burt reynolds xDDD

SR3 goons are such fucking cancer

>I think it made up for it a little with the bigness of the world
>bigness of the world

Hey, play True Crime Streets of LA if you want to jack off over how "big" a world feels

Also you're wrong because SR2 has a giant map and a giant mall that's bigger than any area in SR3

youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY

It's been a while since I played it, but I remember the game just being pure fun. The movement was insane, being able to sprint insanely fast and over buildings, being able to jump across whole blocks, shit like that. It was just goofy fun.

I remember the intro, the final boss, and Kenzie looking worse.

>Really want to play 2 again
>game runs like complete fucking dogshit no matter what you do
>get a PC they said
>60fps they said

Both 1 and 2 are BC on Xbone. Both play much smoother for it too except for the opening boat escape at the start of SR2 as the game's FPS basically dies for some reason.

>Saints Row The Turd doesn't have a proper day and night system
>Retards still like this clearly unfinished pile of shit

I can't... I can't...

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>The movement was insane, being able to sprint insanely fast and over buildings, being able to jump across whole blocks, shit like that
Prototype did that, and did that better.

>That fucking mall
>The last Sons of Samedi mission
Stop giving me PTSD.

moddb.com/mods/gentlemen-of-the-row/downloads/gentlemen-of-the-row-v192

>prototype but bad
exact way to describe saints row 4

SR2 was that fun sort of crazy with some relation to reality. SR3 was so off the fucking walls randumb I never bothered with the series again

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>they didn't want to bother making a real time effect for shadows so didn't put in in SR3
>or SR4
>or Agents of Mayhem

As much as I would like a SR2 remake they would fucking murder it as whoever is left at Volition now are lazy fucks. Of course they lost the source code so can't even do a remaster either.

That mod doesn't really fix the engine running like shit even on pimps only pcs

It might've, never played Prototype (unless you kind Web of Shadows lmao)

>>That fucking mall
>mfw me and a buddy got trapped in there for like 30 minutes and couldn't find an exit

Good fucking times

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>We will never gonna get a proper SR2 remastered because volition are a bunch of poor hacks

Why live

Doesnt do shit m8.
Ive tried.

Ive tried the powershell thing too.
Its fucking dogshite m8.
Im just gonna get the 360 version and play it on my Xbox One X

>buying western video games in the first place

miss me with that gay shit PS4 owners

*unless you count
Am stupid sorry

It took me about 3 playthroughs until I finally found all the stores in that place. It's weird how it's actually not that complicated an area but it's easy to get lost in.

GTAIV and V fucking suck.
Kill yourself, Rockstar shill.
You fucking wish your shit series were half as fun as SR.
VI is gonna fucking suck but it's still gonna sell cuz all you fucks do is shit on every series and everyone believes it.
Fuck off.

Just fucking get Bluepoint to handle a SR2 port/remaster. Those people were fucking wizards at porting games back when HD collections were a meme.

GTA sucking doesn't make SR any less boring.
SR was always the underdog for a reason, SR games are a novelty at best.
Yes, even SR2.
Mediocrity city.

Didn't this patch fuck with NPC cars or am I thinking of a different patch?

I remember trying a patch at one point to fix the handling but it made all the NPC cars freak the fuck out because the AIs didnt account for the changes.

GTA:SA and SR2 are the top two open world games though

Do you seriously think GTA sells millions because Yea Forums shits on SR?
Are you genuinely braindead?
Do you even read half the shit you type?

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>SR2 was arguably better than GTA IV
>IV still gets more praise due to being an already established series and MUH REALISM
>SR2 ends up a cult classic instead and TH*Q in their retarded wisdom tell them to make SR3 completely stupid in order to attract more people to the franchise
>We didn't even get the real SR4 as their original time traveling plot had to be scrapped as TH*Q needed money from sales ASAP so they just turned a SR3 DLC into a full game

SR4's original plot still sounded stupid (evil Johnny Gat clone and a time travel plotline that brings some of history's infamous leaders into the modern world with their own gang/army), but at least it would have been in a new city.. possibly even Stilwater.

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Honestly, even if the people don't care about story at all, Saints Row 3 is a rushed mess that doesn't have the half of the content and features that 2 offers. Like, Saints Row 2 have

>Better map, filled with most easter eggs, details, variety of zones, NPC behaviours, desing and animations, and more interesting locations. 3 doesn't even have nigth/day cicle
>More customization, like character customization and properties customization
>You can repeat mission and for some retard reason, you can't do this in 3
>You can downgrade dual weapons and for some retarded reason you can't do this in 3
>You can grab objects from the enviroment in 2 and for some reason they removed this feature in 3
>The multiplayer have coop and VS, and 3 just have coop and its shit
>2 somehow managed to have more cheats, more missions, and more vehicles than 3

I know i missing some stuff, but 2 is just a more complete game than 3, and have more to do, and a lot of more stuff, to be more fun. I never knew why 3 and 4 were considered better

>"Saints Row 1 and 2 were just GTA copies"

No, they weren't, and even so, still better games than its sequels and the entire GTA series itself

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This desu

>GTA:SA and SR2 are the top two open world games though
>SR2
>one of the top two open world games
You cannot seriously be this delusional

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SR2 even changed some missions on co-op. Like the Ronin mission with getting Gat out of the hospital. One player plays it normally like in 1P mode by wheeling Johhny out of the hospital, but the other player has to take a different route and secure the getaway vehicle and fight off gang members outside the building.

>Saints Row was never good

Elaborate

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>one of the worst GTA clones
Mellow out you bitter fuck.

Go join the 40% you maggot.

>You cannot seriously be this delusional

Nah, nothing even comes close. Sleeping Dogs is third string tier - then there's games I like, like GTA:VC which are just inferior to GTA:SA and SR2.

Agree with you completely. SR2 was a good memory, and now, the series and what could've been only exists in our minds. And they really could've had a best seller on their hands if they released a saint row following SR2 and ignoring the others, while improving on it came out.

Breath of the Wild

Damn straight
>GTA SA and SR2 on the same device
Come on you fucking niggers I’d pay full price for both

All the saints row games are boring and wear out their welcome way too quickly. Also there is no way in hell SR2 is the first or second best open world game. That being said I never said the quote you are quoting so did you mean to quote someone else?

open world != gta-clone

>there actually are GTA drones this delusional

How much money have you spent on GTA Online? Be honest.

SR2 is the second best open world game ever, with GTA:SA slightly edging it out due to features

I haven't seen an open world game with co-op on par with SR2 since SR2 itself - the game is brilliantly designed from top to bottom

Nigga, I’m a nigga
Never lump me together with those disgusting mutilated subhumans

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>In 3 there was a reason to mod your car and use it,
user stop lying
we all stopped using any cars once the V-Tol was available

For a good example of what I mean

>GTA4
Shitty co-op missions that last like 5 minutes (but they're better than what SR1 had to be sure)
>GTA5
Missions can last 30 minutes to an hour and can be make or break based on your crew. There's an open world you can mess around in, but it's empty and flat and you can't do the games single player story missions like you can in SR2.

Should I start with 1 or 2?

1 lacks polish but it’s still fun
2 Serious but not really the cranked up the goofy hard
3. Goofy overboard less GTA clone and more “Fucking why?” The game
4. “Fucking why the game but with gay super powers in the exact same city but with Ayylmaos instead of gangsters”

Remember when Saints Row was in the same universe as Red Faction?

I tried this out because SR2 on PC is so shit.
Man this game is so smooth on PC, but the game itself is just meh.
I liked SR2 because of the amount of customization and stuff to do, like Fight Club and being a security guard for famous people was fun.
In 3, the missions are fun, but everything else didn't at all feel fun.

Bully was the last game I purchased from rockstar, pleb. And even that blows the ass off your le funny purple gangsta shit.

>SR2 is gud bcuz co-op
Yeah I'm sure you had a lot of fun with your middle school buddies back in the day. How does that prove it is the second best open world game ever?

It's like rockstar did a number on your guys' psyche all those years ago when SR was new and was only ever was compared with GTA by people. Now your whole concept of open world games is limited to GTA and Saints Row and maybe that's why you guys can think saints row is even in the 10 best open world games. Protip: it is not. Neither is any RS game after or including GTAIV.

1 is reaaly janky now but you should try it and see the start of the stoy. Be aware that there are no such things as checkpoints and some missions are fucking ridiculous (enjoy that final Los Carneles mission).

>Dude my favorite open world games are barren, featureless wastelands like GUN and Assassin's Creed lmao xD!

Just give us your list you trolling pussy

>no such thing as checkpoints
Like GTA 4?

Still might be, if Gat Out Of Hell's canon ending is reset.

Eh honestly skip 1 or watch a longplay of it or something.

Only brought it up because all future SRs had them.

>Bully
Come on Rockstar stop updating V and Port Bully and San andres to switch already.
You charge 8$ and 12$ when you could get the cheapest carts and make 40$ a pop.
The fucks the hold up?

In no particular order off the top of my head:

GTA: SA/GTA: VC Tied
Dark Souls
Dead Rising
Morrowind
Bully
Fallout New Vegas
Mountain Blade: Warband
Shenmue I+II
Just Cause 2
Burnout Paradise
Mafia II
Breath of the Wild

>inb4 you choose one you don't like so you can justify your delusion that SR2 is some sort of masterpiece

It's nearly 8 years old and has been cheaper than a fiver.
Don't lower your damn standards like this just because it's your platform of choice.

>GTA: SA/GTA: VC Tied

Literal nonsense and your list is already a failure

GTA:VC lacks so many features GTA:SA has that it's absolutely crazy - I love the setting and story but that's all it has for the most part.

>Dark Souls

Uh... what?

>Dead Rising

Great game

>Morrowind

Now you're just confused

>Bully

Feels very unfinished and not very long - even with the new missions in the 360 version

>Shenmue I+II

Very hit and miss games

>Just Cause 2

Oof, trash, empty gameplay

>Mafia II

Love the story but it's notoriously unfinished

So any reason why Saint's Row 1 and 2 haven't been ported/remastered at all?

SR2 is no joke a "works on my machine" game. You've got people who can only get it running smoothly on either the original windows release, the steam version, or the gog version(for me it's the gog version, and even then I have to tinker with nvidia inspector to get 60fps without the cutscenes desynching), and to top it off you've got the fact that you may or may not need to use powertools to fix the speedup bug. Many people report the speedup bug being gone in windows 10 but that's not the case for me. Even if you get all that smoothed out there's STILL a chance the game will just randomly crash.

>Fallout New Vegas
>Mountain Blade: Warband

Again, not the kind of open world games that GTA popularized with GTA3

>Burnout Paradise

This is a racing game (and yes I know)

So out of your list, GTA:SA, Bully, Mafia 2 and VC are the only ones that fit what we're talking about

And Bully and Mafia 2 are unfinished and Vice City is just an inferior GTA:SA

handling fix is a patch you can manually add in for gotr but it's designed ONLY for keyboard users. Cars handle fine in vanilla or default gotr with a gamepad

Popsicle engines and lost source code

>Uh... what?
It's an open world game.

>Now you're just confused
Also an open world game

>Again, not the kind of open world games that GTA popularized with GTA3
Again open world games

>This is a racing game (and yes I know)
Open world racing game

>So out of your list, GTA:SA, Bully, Mafia 2 and VC are the only ones that fit what we're talking about
No they are not, we are talking about "open world games" which has been the focus of the topic from my very first post. You cannot just arbitrarily choose to limit the term to only be GTA clones just because of some inferiority complex you SR guys have with Rockstar. All those games are open world games. If you wanted to say GTA:SA and SR2 are the top two GTA-clones you should have said that instead of they are the top two open world games because they are not.

open world games != GTA-clones
GTA clones ⊆ (subset of*) open world games
*typed out because I have no clue if the subset symbol gets filtered out

This just comes across as pathetic paid advertising.

Ain't nobody tell me nothiiinnnnnn

Also a side note, I put GTA:SA and VC as tied because I like both about as equally. Having more features does not necessarily make a game superior. For example whenever I play SA I couldn't care less about features like dating, gambling, vigilante/ambulance/cab missions because they are boring and honestly even the novelty of the weight/muscle gain mechanic get's old after you've seen the extremes of it. They are there but them just existing in the code doesn't interest me, they need to be fun enough to make me want to mess around with after the initial exploring the games features phase.

Thought 3 was the best. 2 was GTA with over the action, good game but 3 was great when it introduced more outlandish elements like cloning, zombies and super tech.

4 was a decent game but plagued with issues and had a lot of re-used assets because they company was in serious shit because they made some device or something that ruined them.

After that whoever bought the IP made that multiplayer game no one played that's apparently set in the Saints universe.

2 had zombies you fucking retard lmao

Does SR2 still choke modern hardware?

just like a real mall eh?

>3 was great when it introduced more outlandish elements

True Crime Streets of LA was awesome you faggot

They should port the Mercenaries 2 to switch

2 is unironically the worst port in existence. DMC3 and GTA IV are well optimized gems compared to it. There's nothing you can do about it except buying a 360.
youtu.be/HHshhWersOs

2 was so broken on consoles there was the infamous "Freezer" glitch that would completely brick your copy of the game

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People know damn well Switch owners won't give a shit about this game.

What's even the point of comparing graphics cards in a game that is cpu bound?

That only happens if you're deliberately trying to do the glitch. There have only been like, less than 5 reported cases of copies getting trashed.

I somehow doubt a 9900k would help but I'd love seeing someone trying it.

Can't remember them at all. Most have been some minor thing. SR3 had them as a major part of the story.