Does anyone care about Saints Row the third?

[Robert Ewing]

I got it as a filler for Skyrim, and I must say I'm really disappointed in it. It seems rushed, and incomplete, not to mention the technical hitches.

The gameplay is insubstantial and flawed, the graphics are sub-par, the story is all over the place, and for the best part makes no sense in places as to the scene.

But over all, it is a very fun game. I've already sunk plenty of hours into it's ludicrisy, and I'm sure today won't be an exception. It just just seems like a game that you play, and don't realize how long you've played it for 12 hours later. It's a good time waster.

 

[noble cookie]

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

Saints Row 3 is nothing like the first.

The first wasn't that good, it was a GTA clone, if you will.
Saints Row 2 was where it started to branch out, it started become its own game.
Now Saints Row 3 has just thrown all the rules out of the window and gone batshit insane, it is amazing.

GO BUY IT

 

[Kimarous]

I'm not interested. Granted, I've never played the previous two games, but I look at SR3 and... ugh. Sorry, but it's TOO over the top. I can take a certain level of absurdity and ridiculousness, but SR3 dives so far into the juvenile that I know I wouldn't enjoy it.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not really. I was considering to pre-order it, but after watching some more gameplay videos I didn't feel tempted to anymore. I will get it eventually, though it'll have to wait a year or something.

 

[Marsell]

I fukin loved it!
Speaking of skyrim...
what would happen if

Saints row the third || Skyrim

(who else gets this?)

 

[Ruwrak]

Saint's Row the Third, I got to play it for a while, said to myself "Same as SR1 and SR2. So Ill get it later when I have recovered from the SkyrimDarkSoulsArkhamCity moneydrain combo.

 

[Keava]

I'm actually enjoying it more than Skyrim now. It's a pretty good port to PC, with functional UI. Yay. Plus it's absurdly over the top amazing from the very first sequence (as opposed to Skyrim!) and really using UAV drones to spread mayhem in city is loads of unrestrained fun.

 

[Cazza]

Out of all the Novmber released it's the only game I have got. I have really enjoyed it. I feel it has been over shadowed by Skyrim which seems to be the only thing people talk about of these forums lately. Though it gets the odd thread. It seems like a lot of people were disappointed with SR3. Though others enjoyed it. Someone should do a poll to get the numbers.

 

[JackandTom]

I think the real question is Does Anyone Care About Assassins Creed Revelations? I've not heard it being mentioned anywhere despite it selling pretty well

Anyway, Hell Yes I care about Saints Row 3! It brilliant and is my personal GOTY (F@$K SKYRIM!) I've laughed out loud on more than one occasion and the voice acting is perfect, they even managed to make the British accent even better. I don't think it's juvenile, it's perfectly aware of how ludicrous it is. Anyway, to sum it up, IT'S BLOODY BRILLIANT!

 

[meowchef]

Everyone SHOULD care about Saints Row The Third. The game is awesome and the series is awesome. There is no better game for co-op currently available than Saints Row 2 or 3.

 

[SoranMBane]

I care. It's practically the only game I've played since it was released, and I loved just about every minute of it. I don't think I've laughed this much at a game since playing Portal 2 co-op, and everything was just immature, absurd, and over-the-top enough to counteract the heaviness of all the deeper, more intelligent games I usually prefer to play. I absolutely love games that try to tell good stories and tackle difficult themes, but sometimes I've got to take a break from all that and hit things with a giant purple dildo, ya know? Well, Saints Row The Third is that break, and it's an exceptional one at that.

 

[urahara75]

Yep... it gets (seemingly) overlooked because everyone knows Saints Row's (the franchise as a whole) deal: loads and loads of juvenile, depraved, criminally-inspired mayhem. The End.
Not that it's a bad thing; it's actually quite the opposite with today's myriad of games vying to be socially relevant, innovative &/or "artistically inclined". An intermittent "breath of fresh air", or somesuch... ( ¯3¯)

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

Exactly. I should have mentioned it in my post, but the story -- hell, even quite a few characters themselves, readily do the things they do in a bashing-the-fourth-wall, "get it yet?", tongue-in-cheek kind of manner. It's just that here, where Saints Row shines in all it's psychopathic glory, is where it (sort of) gimps itself in maintaining relevancy/appeal beyond momentary "wow-factor". Basically, "if you've played through once before, you can tell where the next is going". :\

 

[Something Amyss]

Search feature would indicate people do care. Just not as many as care about Skyrim.

 

[GonzoGamer]

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

You should try SR2 & 3. Much less driving, much more theatre of the absurd.

At first I wasn't really getting into 3; the map is much smaller and there are fewer interesting places to explore. However, what they've sliced away from the map content, they seem to have added to the gameplay content. I don't really care that it's not getting too much post-launch hype. I'd rather play the game than talk about it and considering they've adapted the retarded online pass, I wouldn't mind if it wasn't as successful as 2; honestly, I wouldn't have gotten it had I known. A little part of me is of course happy that I didn't find out about it.
Overall I'm not enjoying 3 as much as 2 but it's still a hell of a lot of fun and it will probably keep me occupied until Skyrim gets patched into playable condition.

Have no doubt, if Bethesda weren't notorious for releasing completely broken games, I would be playing Skyrim right now. I know better than to buy one of their games at launch