08-21-2018, 10:29 AM
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Yes, Saints Row was a middle ground between being very serious and being wacky and funny, and then threw it all out the window to be wacky and funny for the sake of being wacky and funny.
Take these two missions from Saints Row 2. Spoilers ahead:
Gat, who is one of your closest friends and loyal gang member is attending a funeral for his girlfriend who was killed by one of the gangs around Stilwater. Halfway through the funeral, they crash it and tell Gat to get ready for a fight, Gat refuses telling him to do it any other time but now, since it's a fucking funeral and they don't comply. You and Gat kill all of their members and get the leader of the gang and punish him by burying him alive.
Take this scene
One of the other gangs decide they're going to do a drug trade in Stilwater and give your gang 20%, obviously insulting you because you're worth much more than that, so after a few battles and putting radioactive waste in one of his new tattoo's, you kidnap his wife, trap her in the trunk of a car and park that car in the local monster derby ring and let him crush his own wife without knowing.
The game had it's wacky moments, but it was always trying to be serious when it needed to be. There are mulitple times in Saints Row 2 where it was being a serious game, and SR3 just threw it all out the window to be a wacky alternative to GTA and basically ruined it entirely. Saints Row 4 didn't help it, as it just took that premise added super powers and called it a day which made it even worse.
To put it into perspective, you can search "Saints Row 3 Dildo Bat" just to see how far this series dropped off the radar, or how there are missions where you go inside a virtual reality game and are transported in as a toilet because the character model hasn't loaded into the game.
The biggest crime was killing off Gat 10 minutes into the game for no reason. Literally, no fucking reason. They just kill off the best character, not for any dramatic reason just to kill him.
It's an absolute disgrace.
Although, ranting aside. I think he was asking why is an 8 year old game coming out on the Switch of all things.
Yes, Saints Row was a middle ground between being very serious and being wacky and funny, and then threw it all out the window to be wacky and funny for the sake of being wacky and funny.
Take these two missions from Saints Row 2. Spoilers ahead:
Gat, who is one of your closest friends and loyal gang member is attending a funeral for his girlfriend who was killed by one of the gangs around Stilwater. Halfway through the funeral, they crash it and tell Gat to get ready for a fight, Gat refuses telling him to do it any other time but now, since it's a fucking funeral and they don't comply. You and Gat kill all of their members and get the leader of the gang and punish him by burying him alive.
Take this scene
One of the other gangs decide they're going to do a drug trade in Stilwater and give your gang 20%, obviously insulting you because you're worth much more than that, so after a few battles and putting radioactive waste in one of his new tattoo's, you kidnap his wife, trap her in the trunk of a car and park that car in the local monster derby ring and let him crush his own wife without knowing.
The game had it's wacky moments, but it was always trying to be serious when it needed to be. There are mulitple times in Saints Row 2 where it was being a serious game, and SR3 just threw it all out the window to be a wacky alternative to GTA and basically ruined it entirely. Saints Row 4 didn't help it, as it just took that premise added super powers and called it a day which made it even worse.
To put it into perspective, you can search "Saints Row 3 Dildo Bat" just to see how far this series dropped off the radar, or how there are missions where you go inside a virtual reality game and are transported in as a toilet because the character model hasn't loaded into the game.
The biggest crime was killing off Gat 10 minutes into the game for no reason. Literally, no fucking reason. They just kill off the best character, not for any dramatic reason just to kill him.
It's an absolute disgrace.
Although, ranting aside. I think he was asking why is an 8 year old game coming out on the Switch of all things.