Saints Row IV Announced

[TheRussian]

I disagree. Saints Row 2 wasn't just good because of being ridiculous, but it had smart writing, good missions, etc along with the ridiculous elements. Saints Row 3 is just...
Beating people with dildos and that's it.

True, I liked SR2 much more as well. From SR3 I got the feeling like it tried too hard being all wacky and craaazy while offering less content (especially in customisation and side mission department) and less memorable characters (as in none at all) and SR4 will probably go down the same road. I still had a lot of fun with the third installment and will presumably do so with the forth as well but SR2 just offered a superior experience in nearly every way, at least for me.

Since SR2 was not wacky all the time like 3 is, there is an appropriate context for the humor and goofing around that you could do. It's the old idea that something ceases to be special if that's all you are experiencing.
I can't wait for Watch_Dogs and GTAV to show these fools how a real sandbox game is done.

 

[piinyouri]

Yeesh, that looks atrocious.
GTA 5 for me then.

 

[Random berk]

Saint's Row 3 had some moments that were funny for their sheer stupidity, (the chariot race) but it really just jumped the shark overall. I actually thought some of the serious moments in SR2 were very good, but there wasn't a single point in SR3 where you could take it seriously. 3 was still a fun game, but it was nowhere near as good as 2. If 4 is more of the same... I don't know. I only picked up 3 a month ago, and that doesn't bode well for the next one.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I actually really like the idea of this game. I mean, Saints Row the Third was already getting to the batshit crazy level of "WTF is this?" so it only makes sense that they would push it further. I have enough "serious" games where I do serious missions. It's nice to have something wacky every once in a while. GTA took out all it's silly elements to go for the gritty and realistic tone, so it's good that Saints Row went balls out in the other direction. Plus, I absolutely loved the coop in Saints Row the Third.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Buying this on PC at first available opportunity. Well it'll be August 20th, whatever continent I'm on, even if I have to use a US proxy server to buy it.

The superpowers were brilliant fun in SR3 and I was disappointed when the Dominatrix DLC which contained more was cancelled and integrated into 4 instead. Stupid THQ were sitting on a multi million dollar money maker with this game and instead of selling it, went bankrupt and sold it to someone else who'll make the money instead. Bloody fools.

 

[lord.jeff]

If this game manages to keep the wackiness of 3, while going back to the higher amount of content within 2 it'll be a great game, but it's hard to say what it's gonnaa be like from just a teaser.

 

[exobook]

I thought this was a crime game, why does most of this seem to be a sci-fi game.

 

[Brainwreck]

They even got the giant energy drink mascot thing that was supposed to be in the SR 3 DLC "Enter the Dominatrix".
I dunno. Superpowers seem fun, I can't deny that, but this might still turn out to be a stinking pile of shit.
We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[APersonHere]

I almost always like a game/book/movie in a series when it is the first one I watch/play/read.

But even though I played Saints Row 2 after 3, and though it is older and dated, I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more. It had a good mix of realistic crime gameplay and goofiness... Saint's Row 3 just decided to go all out and dilutes its humor by having nothing but silly themes.

 

[hazabaza1]

People have been begging, fucking clamoring for years for an over the top supervillain game. Fucking BEGGING for it. The moment one gets announced... people start having a hissy fit.
Fuck's sake. I mean, I know "bwuuh, it's got the Saints Row title and they're ruining it" thing, but seriously guys. Just take a moment and appreciate the fact that we're getting something like this that'll probably be good and isn't crackdown.

 

[FourCartridge]

I thought this was a crime game, why does most of this seem to be a sci-fi game.

You can only go from hold-ups with broken shanks to drinking from a gang leader skull so many times and since SR keeps it's characters around, it's not a small stretch to "go legit" for one game and have it all from the start.

I for one am cautiously optimistic; at the very least it'll be fun and be a "mirror twin" to GTAV. That said, I don't know how they're gonna top this.

EDIT: Even then, the "crime" part has slowly been going away; The PC in SRIII acted more like a spoiled celebrity, and I don't remember anything the Saints did that wasn't "screw with the Syndicate/STAG"

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I hope they make a better city this time around. It felt so lifeless and boring in SR3.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

so they've decided to make it a satire of Infamous now. I can live with that, especially since SR3 was the technicolor cure to all the boring, bland "serious" games the industry insists on farting out year after year. I fully welcome and endorse this madness

 

[dragongit]

You can have all your Saints Rows, I'm still disappointed that Darksiders may never see another sequel and it's story is more or less incomplete. I've heard Platinum might have it, but it can't say for sure.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'm going to buy it day one, I love Saints Row 3 and the insanity of it. More of the same? Why not?

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Looks horrible. I watched an LP of the third game, and it was abysmal. One of the most boring games I've ever seen. What the earlier games are like, I do not know, but this just looks like trash to me.

 

[major_chaos]

I enjoyed SR3 more than SR2 simply because SR2 crossed lines I didn't know I had. I play videogames with any element of player choice like a total asshole, the things I have done across the Fallout franchise alone have probably put me on some kind of serial killer watch list, but despite all that the Saints in SR2 are so irredeemably evil, so absolutely vile, so dedicated to doing things normally reserved to make us hate a villain more, that it actually managed to make me uncomfortable. Once you have reached that point any attempt at humor is like putting clown make up on a rotting corpse and telling me to laugh. It was even enough to change my opinion of other games: My first SR game was 3, so with the opening I though "gee this Johnny Gat guy seems fun, shame he died" which upon playing SR2 quickly changed to "Wow, a quick death was too good for him".

 

[Something Amyss]

so they've decided to make it a satire of Infamous now.

If you radically expand the definition of "satire," yes.

You can have all your Saints Rows, I'm still disappointed that Darksiders may never see another sequel and it's story is more or less incomplete. I've heard Platinum might have it, but it can't say for sure.

I doubt Darksiders stays dead.

 

[bug_of_war]

I love that they frequently top themselves in insanity. This game looks awesome, but the fact that it's coming out just over 1 year after the last game makes me a little nervous that it may not have full polish. But, from initial looks at the trailer, I'm psyched, I'm ready, and I can't wait to get back into the shoes of the bat shit insane killer that is...British punk rocker boss man.