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.

 

[Darquenaut]

Honestly, in the last couple of weeks, I got Skyrim, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Saint's Row: The Third. And in a couple of days, my copy of Skyward Sword is going to be arriving. As it is though, as much as I am enjoying all three, soon to be four games (and if we're counting the games I also got in October, SIX), The Third has been easily getting the most playtime from me.

I suppose it's just the immediate payoff that is appealing to me right now. Rather than trying to get outside of Whiterun only to be sacked by bears constantly (granted, because I'm being impatient), or having to re-learn the play mechanics in AC:R (same thing happened when I played Brotherhood), I'm just enjoying being able to jump right into a game that I know exactly the scope of it, and just screwing around.

And for those who still draw the GTA rip-off card: Just. Stop. It's like trying to say how "The Naked Gun" is a rip-off of "Dirty Harry."

 

[RatRace123]

I do, love it, played the crap out of it.
Will continue playing the crap out of it too, I've just been too busy playing it to comment on my playing it.

 

[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.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Nope, I was too busy playing Skyrim to notice. Really, my take on this is that any developer who chose to release their game at this time was taking a big risk. My biases towards Skyrim as not just the best game of the bunch, but one of the best games ever goes without saying. But in my opinion choosing a release date close to Skyrim's was stright up foolishness. The possible exception being for Battlefield and MW, since they have fanbases which don't overlap as much with Skyrim's as I would imagine SR's does.

On a side note, the midnight launch for Saints Row the Third were insanely huge for that game, so apparently a lot of people bought it, just not very many on this site. I did, I enjoy it, I just haven't devoted enough time to talk about it yet because I'm lazy...
So in essence, I doubt Skyrim bothered SR3 sales all that much.

 

[Snotnarok]

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 you're talking about Saints Row 1 it gets better. MUCH better, trust me. Cesspool trucks that shoot poo at people? Insurance Fraud Missions where you're flung over buildings flying past blocks from a car crash?

OT: Are you kidding? Skyrim what? MW3 what? Grand Theft what? Saints Row the Third? Freaking, yes. Saints Row 3 is my game of the year, screw complex story, screw mind blowing visuals, screw realism Saints Row the Third is pure, FUN. (Yes I got Skyrim and that's great too)

Whatever little they took out they jacked it up so much more with the over the top crap. I got it on PC and I'm in love with this game, if I didn't give that away with my game of the year statement.

 

[mau5trap]

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

 

[Dfskelleton]

Because 90% of the gaming forums at this point in time consist of Skyrim threads. If there are any Saints Row threads, they're probably buried of mountains of Skyrim threads.

 

[Vault101]

wasnt interested in skyrim..had SR3 on pre-order

having a blast...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

not saying its a bad game, it's just not something i'm interested in playing (also for other notable examples: starcraft II, half life, bioshock,etc...)

i can't FORCE myself to like something..i'm sure it's amazing for people who like those kinds of games, but it's just...not there for me.

 

[captaincabbage]

I honestly don't know what's wrong with me, but every time I see Saint's Row I think to myself "God, that looks like a shitload of fun.", but when I actually hire it/buy it/borrow it I just don't find it any fun at all. I don't find the humor particularly funny, the gameplay isn't that tight and the overall feel of the game is very shallow and unintersting.

As for Skyrim, MW3 and BF3., they are all games that have been refined over years to a pedigree, refining controls, storytelling and graphical capability to a point that they are now juggernauts of gaming.

Also, having a couple million fanboys/girls each doesn't hurt.

 

[Peteron]

Well, it wasn't smart to release the game in the same time period as Skyrim and MW3. That definietly affected its sales and attention. While people like the series, most will put their money to MW3 and Skyrim first. Honestly, it was a dumb move.

 

[Grottnikk]

I vote for the 'bad timing' thing. SR3 is a very fun game. There is a tonne of things to do and pixels to murder

 

[Char-Nobyl]

On both this site and reddit, i haven't really noticed anyone talk about SR3 at all. I know that battlefield 3, MW3, and Skyrim are eating up the attention pretty well, but Saints row is a ton of fun... anyone else notice this or feel this way?

Beats me. I've been playing it, and at least a few of my friends are, too. I think it probably got overshadowed amidst the other recent releases, but it's the first game to pull me from Skyrim (which several other recent releases failed to do).

So yeah. Plenty of fun.

 

[kouriichi]

I loved it.
Every Moment. Ive never played anything so over the top.
The voice acting was some of the best ive ever heard too.

As far as im concerned, they did absolutely nothing wrong. Every point the game makes is spot on. SR3 and Skyrim are my two GOTYs.

 

[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.

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?

 

[Tsunimo]

I am planning on getting it next time I happen to have the money.
I want it quite bad.
I can understand why the Skyrim threads are burying it though.

 

[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.

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

 

[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.

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?

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Yes.
I've been enjoying the hell out of Saints Row 3 all week. A bit sad that outfit customization is fairly lacking compared to last game, but it's still amazingly fun.