Does anyone care about Saints Row the third?

[Farther than stars]

yeah, i'm actually taking a break from skyrim and playing the fuck out of saints row the 3rd. and it keeps getting better and better. my only gripe with it so far is that when you get your respect to a high enough level you can actually buy abilities that make you immune to all damage except melee...and once you buy them you can't turn them off. its nice to have the option but since you can't turn it off it means the last 3rd of the game will be no challenge what so ever

No, take it from me, you'll be long done with the main story once you get to the level at which you get no more damage. And even then it costs a ton of money to upgrade all of the anti-damage perks. In fact, that's one of the great things about the game. They really balanced the money issue well. You're never really sitting on a big hoard of money like in most sandboxes, but you're constantly getting more income and spending it again to upgrade you character and weapons.

ummmm yeah. i screw around alot in these games so when i got to the point where i could afford the abilites i hadn't even fought killbane the first time around. i've beaten the game and the last 3rd i couldn't be hurt.

It was partialy because i was curious if the perk stayed on during missions and partialy because i thought that there must be a way to turn them off after you'd bought them. in my next play through i defantly won't be buying them...except for the falling one.
That is screwing around a lot. But all I can really say to that is: if it's not what you wanted then why pick those perks?

I actually hadn't given the falling perk much thought. Especially after I'd decided I wasn't going to use the invulnerable ones anyway, for the obvious and aforementioned reasons.
You should make a save before "trying something out" next time though. But it's definately worth doing. The "call the dogs off" perk certainly doesn't work during missions. So I guess at least the studio did a good job there.

 

[NotYetForsaken]

I still love it! \o/ SR3 will always be better than sodding MW3 and GTA

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

yeah, i'm actually taking a break from skyrim and playing the fuck out of saints row the 3rd. and it keeps getting better and better. my only gripe with it so far is that when you get your respect to a high enough level you can actually buy abilities that make you immune to all damage except melee...and once you buy them you can't turn them off. its nice to have the option but since you can't turn it off it means the last 3rd of the game will be no challenge what so ever

No, take it from me, you'll be long done with the main story once you get to the level at which you get no more damage. And even then it costs a ton of money to upgrade all of the anti-damage perks. In fact, that's one of the great things about the game. They really balanced the money issue well. You're never really sitting on a big hoard of money like in most sandboxes, but you're constantly getting more income and spending it again to upgrade you character and weapons.

ummmm yeah. i screw around alot in these games so when i got to the point where i could afford the abilites i hadn't even fought killbane the first time around. i've beaten the game and the last 3rd i couldn't be hurt.

i shouldn't have to worry about saving first. if the devlopers make a game breaking option that destroys the challenge of the game then it would make sense to be able to turn it off. this isn't me making a bad in game choice. this is a design flaw that effects my enjoyment of the game. its like having moon gravity but not being able to turn it off without restarting.


It was partialy because i was curious if the perk stayed on during missions and partialy because i thought that there must be a way to turn them off after you'd bought them. in my next play through i defantly won't be buying them...except for the falling one.
That is screwing around a lot. But all I can really say to that is: if it's not what you wanted then why pick those perks?

I actually hadn't given the falling perk much thought. Especially after I'd decided I wasn't going to use the invulnerable ones anyway, for the obvious and aforementioned reasons.
You should make a save before "trying something out" next time though. But it's definately worth doing. The "call the dogs off" perk certainly doesn't work during missions. So I guess at least the studio did a good job there.

 

[Laxman9292]

Fuck yeah! Easily one of my favorite games of the year, possibly ever.

As much as people knock on it for being juvenile the mechanics are solid, the quality astounding (especially the voice acting, thanks to genius celebrity voices), and honestly the story, while being ridiculous, is incredibly compelling because the characters are genuinely likable.

 

[Naeo]

Skyrim is such a huge name from such a huge-named company that it was naturally going to generate epic hype. Further, it's such a huge game that it's got enough to keep people busy and talking just about to the end of time. So naturally, it'll trump a lot of things.

MW3/BF3 are probably some of the most hyped-up games in the history of anything. So they're obviously going to trump other almost everything in the "talked about" department.

SR3, on the other hand, is goofy insane fun, has been fairly hyped, but was released right on the tail of Skyrim, which will probably go down as the biggest release of the year (that or MW3). So I think it's really a curse of timing. Had SR3 come out, say, two or three months from now, it would be much, much bigger in terms of how much people talk about it.

 

[Xanthious]

I've been splitting my time right now between Saints Row The Third and Skyrim with Arkham City getting some time here and there too. It's been a hellishly dense month or so for game releases. That being said the latest Saints Row game may be my favorite game so far this year. It's just total start to finish stupid over the top fun. It's the kind of game that Grand Theft Auto used to be.

I think if it wasn't up against not one not two not even three but FOUR other massive releases in Arkham City, Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and Modern Warfare 3 it would be getting much more attention than it is currently. I think a year from now it's going to be one of those games most people pick up for 30 bucks or so and wonder how in the hell they took so long to play it.

 

[Zhukov]

Well, of course some people are going to care. This is the internet. Name any game, be it crappy, mediocre or brilliant and someone out there thinks it is God's gift to gamers.

Me? Eh.

SR3 looks a bit too stupid to be worth my day one dollars. People will say, "Ohh, but it's all about the FUN! Do you remember FUN?" But all I hear is, "This game lacks sufficient brains to do anything more interesting than more murder and explosions, just like several thousand other games. Except now you can do it in a animal mascot suit. Whoop-de-bloody-doo."

Quite frankly, I don't know what THQ were thinking releasing their relatively low profile game in the middle of BF3, MW3 and Skyrim.

ok this kind of bothers me

EVERYONE goes on and on and on about hwo "silly" and jurvanille it is

but I dont think it is (ok hear me out here) yes it is over the top and silly...but in a sort of self awre tarantino style...its actually genuinly funny, the charachters are actually genuinly likeable/interesting and I foudn the story geniunly interesting and I always wanted to know what happened next (with SR2 at least..havnt finished SR3)

you know whats more silly? red faction gurrella, because it tries to be serious and FAILS soo miserably, the story is stock and handeled poorly and the charachrts are bland...if RFG took the "starshiptroopers" aproach it could have been gold..instead its just an ok game

hell splatterhouse...or darksiders is more juvanile than SR2/3....

I think SR is actually "good" as much as poeople love the "dildo" as a weopon I think thers more there that peopel overlook

Zhukov if you havnt played SR2 go do so....dont let the "imaturity" put you off..because as I said..its got more going for it than other more serious games

Yeah, I get that. And I completely agree that games like Guerilla, Splatterhouse and Darksiders take themselves way too seriously and come out the worse for it. (Fun fact: Guerilla was made by the same people as SR.)

Saint's Row is a series that says, "Hey, screw being serious and pretentious, let's just revel in the sheer silliness of it all". And I can get behind that... to a point. However, at least in my eyes, it just tries too damn hard. It tries to be "whacky" in the same way that Darksiders tries to be epic.

Humour is better when it has a bit of weight behind it. If you've ever read a Terry Pratchett book then you'll know what I mean. Sadly, judging by the couple of hours I played on my housemate's console, Saint's Row falls closer to the Scary Movie end of the humour spectrum.

Admittedly, it's partly a preference thing. I personally enjoy more serious and grounded material, even in video games. Also, call me jaded, but I've killed a lot of NPCs. Yet another game that revolves around blowing stuff up will always struggle to catch my interest.

I actually have SR2 on my Steam list. I grabbed it ages ago during one of those dastardly sales. Just haven't got around to playing it. My backlog at the moment is... actually getting a bit scary.

 

[Azahul]

I've been looking forward to, and then playing, Saints Row the Third so much I haven't even glanced at Skyrim. To be honest, the hilarious amounts of hype Skyrim's been getting on this and other sites have been rather confusing me, as I play RPGs for, well, the role-playing, and as a general rule Bethesda games lack the interesting characters and settings (excluding Fallout 3, which I loved) that make me love creating and roleplaying a character so much. In my mind, having fun with a creating a character relies on the world in which they live and the options they give you when it comes to character creation, and Bethesda games don't really offer much in the form of the former, and I think the Saints Row games trump the Elder Scrolls games in the case of the latter. All I've seen of Skyrim was more of Oblivion, plus dragons, which really aren't anything of interest to me (don't get me wrong, I love a good dragon, but that just means Skyrim joins the ranks of every fantasy RPG ever in having them).

So yeah, I've been playing Saints Row The Third a crapload since it came out. And, in fact, I'm enjoying it more as an RPG than I've ever enjoyed any of Bethesda's games. It has interesting and over-the-top characters (Oleg and Kinzie are awesome), a world that I can really get into, plenty of stuff for my character to do outside the main story, even "moral" choices occasionally, and usually ones that are better done than ones that were present in, say, Oblivion, since there tend to be no right or wrong answers. Combined with the staggering level of character customisation, letting me continue the exploits of my anorexic middle-aged mexican drug lord from the previous two games, it's honestly everything I want in an RPG, when Skyrim isn't...

So I'm going to take a stand on the point that Saints Row the Third is a better RPG than most RPGs, and then go charging into the midst of a horde of zombies armed with a sword and with only a squad of SWAT at my back, courtesy of my good friend Burt Reynolds. Have I mentioned that I love this game?

 

[Drakmorg]

I've had to put off getting it until Christmas, but I will be all over it when I can.

 

[Dorian6]

well yeah, Saints Row is awesome, but it's just not as big a deal as Skyrim.

 

[otakon17]

When I have some money to spare, it is on my wishlist of games I'd like to have but don't NEED! Skyrim was a NEED, so is Mass Effect 3. I've paid those two off a good year ahead of time, which is a good thing since I'm broke as a joke right now.

 

[Dorian6]

I purchased Saint's Row on a steam sale, checked it out and realized it was GTA with more driving / racing sections (BLEAGH).

The LAST thing GTA needed was more driving

If it was the only one you played, you played the worst of all 3, it was the only one with a serious approach

Yeah, Saints Row 1 was just an underwhelming GTA ripoff, but now the series is better (in my opinion) than GTA was at its best.

Especially with the depressing, broody marathon of gray and brown that was Grand Theft Auto 4, it's nice to see a game that's just light, immature fun (killing luchadors with an exploding octopus gun never gets old)

 

[brunothepig]

I care a hell of a lot. If it weren't for Skyrim, I'd have already bought it but I don't have the money right now... Soon. Soon.

 

[Vault101]

Well, of course some people are going to care. This is the internet. Name any game, be it crappy, mediocre or brilliant and someone out there thinks it is God's gift to gamers.

Me? Eh.

SR3 looks a bit too stupid to be worth my day one dollars. People will say, "Ohh, but it's all about the FUN! Do you remember FUN?" But all I hear is, "This game lacks sufficient brains to do anything more interesting than more murder and explosions, just like several thousand other games. Except now you can do it in a animal mascot suit. Whoop-de-bloody-doo."

Quite frankly, I don't know what THQ were thinking releasing their relatively low profile game in the middle of BF3, MW3 and Skyrim.

ok this kind of bothers me

EVERYONE goes on and on and on about hwo "silly" and jurvanille it is

but I dont think it is (ok hear me out here) yes it is over the top and silly...but in a sort of self awre tarantino style...its actually genuinly funny, the charachters are actually genuinly likeable/interesting and I foudn the story geniunly interesting and I always wanted to know what happened next (with SR2 at least..havnt finished SR3)

you know whats more silly? red faction gurrella, because it tries to be serious and FAILS soo miserably, the story is stock and handeled poorly and the charachrts are bland...if RFG took the "starshiptroopers" aproach it could have been gold..instead its just an ok game

hell splatterhouse...or darksiders is more juvanile than SR2/3....

I think SR is actually "good" as much as poeople love the "dildo" as a weopon I think thers more there that peopel overlook

Zhukov if you havnt played SR2 go do so....dont let the "imaturity" put you off..because as I said..its got more going for it than other more serious games

Yeah, I get that. And I completely agree that games like Guerilla, Splatterhouse and Darksiders take themselves way too seriously and come out the worse for it. (Fun fact: Guerilla was made by the same people as SR.)

Saint's Row is a series that says, "Hey, screw being serious and pretentious, let's just revel in the sheer silliness of it all". And I can get behind that... to a point. However, at least in my eyes, it just tries too damn hard. It tries to be "whacky" in the same way that Darksiders tries to be epic.

Humour is better when it has a bit of weight behind it. If you've ever read a Terry Pratchett book then you'll know what I mean. Sadly, judging by the couple of hours I played on my housemate's console, Saint's Row falls closer to the Scary Movie end of the humour spectrum.

Admittedly, it's partly a preference thing. I personally enjoy more serious and grounded material, even in video games. Also, call me jaded, but I've killed a lot of NPCs. Yet another game that revolves around blowing stuff up will always struggle to catch my interest.

I actually have SR2 on my Steam list. I grabbed it ages ago during one of those dastardly sales. Just haven't got around to playing it. My backlog at the moment is... actually getting a bit scary.

out of interested it was SR3 that you played for a bit?

fair enough...though I still urge you to play SR2, It succeded at making me care about the charachters and such more than other more serious games. and I also get uncomfortable when charachters do morally questionable things that Im suposed to be ok with

SR is an exception (sure some things Im like "man..that was harsh" but in the end its like a tarantino film..its its own little world)

yeah my backlog has been scary for quite some time now

 

[tzimize]

I feel you, OP. I am personally loving every minute of SR3. It feels like a sandbox game where all the sand is replaced by cocaine and powdered sugar...and I can't remember having this much pure FUN with any other videogame

I've played the opening mission, and while I was rofling quite a bit...I'm not sure I like the cartoony style (even if the games have always been silly). And the character generator was nowhere near as awesome as that in SR2. Steps back are a big no-no.... :\

Will play more of it though...as soon as I am done with Skyrim. Which it seems might take a while =o

 

[Zhukov]

out of interested it was SR3 that you played for a bit?

fair enough...though I still urge you to play SR2, It succeded at making me care about the charachters and such more than other more serious games. and I also get uncomfortable when charachters do morally questionable things that Im suposed to be ok with

SR is an exception (sure some things Im like "man..that was harsh" but in the end its like a tarantino film..its its own little world)

yeah my backlog has been scary for quite some time now

Yeah, it was SR3.

Okay, I'll give SR2 a try. Maybe I can make room between, Jade Empire, Planescape: Torment, replaying Human Revolution and Mass... OH GOD, THE LIST! MAKE IT STOP!

 

[TxMxRonin]

The first Saints Row was a godawful game.

SR2 crashed on me more times than I can remember and when it didn't the framerate dropped to shit. Right when I was getting into the game it'd fucking freeze and then I wouldn't play it for two days or so. And by the time I got into the story the game was over.

SR3 looks fun but I hear it's even shorter than the first two. I really don't give a shit about the removal of clothing layers because I never used that feature to begin with and multiplayer has never been fun in sandbox games. It sucked in GTA IV, it was broken in SR1, and it was useless in SR2.

So to answer your question. Not really.

 

[ShockValue]

It kind of has been overshadowed by all these super huge releases recently

I bought it when it came out but I haven't even open it yet. MW3 and Skyrim have been occupying my time >.>

 

[The_Deleted]

I'm swapping between both Skyrim and SRIII.
SRIII is great fun for just tooling around in. A bit near the knuckle in places and aimed at the teen boy market, but still great fun.

Skyrim is a game you can just get lost in. And I do.

 

[Yopaz]

Not a lot of people are talking about because it really is just a good game, it isn't excellent and some people, myself included, are slightly disappointed with the game because it doesn't feel as epic as Saints Row 2. I'm hoping and looking forward to 4 but right now 3 is a yup I spent a solid 15 hours and I'm done, nothing super memorable.

Yeah, I agree with this. It's a good game and it's fun an all, but I don't think there's anything in it that Saints Row 2 didn't already do better. Well the driving feels better in Saints Row The Third and the PC port is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better, but apart from that it's a step down.
However I love the game and I agree with the OP, I am surprised that I haven't seen one thread about it since it was released before this one. However as some stated Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare, Metacritics and complaints about perfect scores have been crowding up this site for a while now.