Poll: GTA IV or Saint's Row 2?

[adderseal]

Saint's Row 2 for everything except the radio stations and commercials. GTA's radio stations are absolutely laugh-out-loud hilarious and I've spent a lot of in-car time listening to whole programs, rather than running people over and performing drive-bys. But for everything else, it's Saints Row 2.

 

[willsham45]

Both are shit on the PC really want to play them got powerful rig but nothing slow crashy heaven both of them

 

[Aisaku]

Saints Row 2 100% because of the character customization options and that it doesn't take itself too seriously. Why aren't there more games like this?

 

[fullbleed]

I preffer GTA4, everyone seems to say that Saints Row is the better game but GTA is a far more polished game I think. Gun play undoubtedly better in GTA4, it's the better looking game and the story and characters are all far better in GTA, I didn't care about anyone in saints row.

Plus I don't find that kind of fucking around fun in sand box games like saints row, I spend all my time doing missions and plot. An area where GTA is superior.

 

[Professor Putricide]

Saints Row 2. My biggest reason for choosing it is that Saints Row actually features color.

However, you could also pick up Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That's actually better then Saints Row 2 in my opinion.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Cannot relate to Niko.
Can relate to fun. =D

 

[busterkeatonrules]

Having been a huge fan of open-world crime sims since GTA III, I purchased both games as soon as they became available.

I quit playing GTA IV as soon as I'd completed the main story, which took me a month or so. I'm STILL playing Saints Row 2. Realism be damned, RockStar - pure, mindless FUN is the way to go!

 

[SoranMBane]

I'm kind of on the fence with these two, actually. Saints Row 2 has better gameplay and more variety, but GTA IV has a better story with more interesting characters. It's like they cancel each other out.

EDIT: Wait a second; a vs. thread and no one's complaining? What the hell is going on? I'm not complaining myself, I just find this very odd...

 

[Snotnarok]

GTA IV had a lot of things going for it but the game simply tried to hard to be a life simulator and hanging out with all my gangster friends and my fucking cousin Roland took away from it. Fleeing from the cops with 4 stars and my car is on fire *RING RING* COZEN LETS GOH BOLINK!! OR SEE SUM GREAT BEEEG AMERIKAN TEETAYS!" No I don't t-*BANG dead -1 friendship*

 

[Fragged_Templar]

Saint's Row 2 all the way

until Saint's Row 3 comes out of course

 

[jpoon]

I would definitely pick GTAIV, I found saints row boring as hell personally and I really hate the whole gangsta theme. SR2 is doing nothing but gathering dust on my game rack as it has done since I first bought it basically.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I haven't played Saints Row 2, but as long as the driving isn't as clunky and unwieldy as GTA 4's (seriously, I've played driving simulators that allowed for more technique) I'd say it automatically wins.

When one of the core parts of your game (driving cars) is a thoroughly boring experience, you have problems.

The PS2 entries' driving might have been comical, but I think that was the point. Not as nuts as Crazy Taxi, but not entirely rooted in reality.

 

[TetsuoKaneda]

Maybe I got a bad Steam download? Idunno. but from my own experience get IV. You won't regret it.

I already have.

I have a little test I like to do, see, called the "Why am I doing this" test. I use it for everything save adventure games, because asking that in an adventure game is a little redundant. (1)

Many games have failed it, and just as many have succeeded. It's very simple...I play the game, and as I do, I occasionally ask "Why am I doing this?"

If the answer is "Because it's fun", or "because screw you", or even "Do I even care why?", then the game passes the test. It also passes the test if I never ask myself the question period. Fallout was a case of one of these. KOTOR II failed the test. It took a while to fail it, but it failed it.

Which brings us to GTA IV. At least two or three missions in, I began to ask myself "Why am I doing this?" Which progressed to "Why the hell am I doing this?" to "Is there any reason why I should continue doing this?" to finally "Goodbye." Now, granted, I only spent ten bucks on the game, but that it even got to "Is there any reason I should continue to do this?" makes me regret even spending ten bucks on a game that failed to hold my interest even in the nonlinear sections.

Meanwhile, with Saints Row 2, I didn't have time to ask. I was too busy shouting "Whee!" like a maniac and blowing up jeeps full of heavily-tattooed gang members as Men At Work's "Land Down Under" blared. And it loaded promptly and without too many bugs.

(1) I love adventure games, but seriously, there are a few problems with asking "why the hell am I doing this?" during a game where one of the things needed for completion is "Use rubber ducky on evil mastermind" or something to that effect.

 

[Lionsfan]

I like Saint's Row 2 a lot better. Both games were equally fun but for me I liked the over-the-top sociopath vulgarity violence of Saint's Row better.

 

[Soviet Steve]

For the PC, I find that GTA IV is better for dicking around. Saints Row 2 also had a major problem in not having proper driving controls, though if it had been ported better to the PC, it would have been the better of the two.

I had fun with both games. Sometimes I want a whacky playground and sometimes I want a less whacky one - GTA just handled better.

As for anyone complaining about helicopters, one of the things I noticed about the game quickly was that helicopters was still quite simplified. Try flying in ArmA 2.

 

[DazBurger]

Asking this question on a forum which people only really post on because they found it via looking for Yahtzee is a little odd. Given the review yahtzee did and how he likes SR2 > GTA4 do you think there's going to be much correlation from the ridiculous sheep that watch his reviews? I think so...

That having been said I'm not defending GTA4, I've never played it. I'm not one for sandboxing. I prefer swinging.

Yeah... Because now Yahtzee is popular.. He is bad! Because everything popular is bad!
I see where you are going thar.

 

[DustyDrB]

GTA IV for me. Saint's Row 2 wasn't bad or anything, it just feels so shallow after playing GTA IV. I guess if you're more for screwing around and causing chaos then you'll like Saint's Row 2 more. I tend to just follow the story and really get into the characters. GTA IV had some characters I loved: the McCreary family and Dwayne Forge to name a few. The Lost and the Damned was even better.

 

[TheTim]

well if you count the awesome dlc of gta IV (the ballad of gay tony specifically) then gta by far. and its multiplayer never ever gets old.

 

[jebara]

im a huge GTA fan and to this day the GTAIII trilogy remains as my top 3 fav games i ever played but right now i pick saints row 2
GTAIV is the most boring and most disappointing piece of shit i ever played!

 

[Your once and future Fanboy]

"hello, Niko?! Its your cousin, Roman. You wanna go bowling tonight?" x9999^9

'Nuff said!