Saints Row IV Announced

[piinyouri]

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.

I preferred SR2 over SR3. SR2 can easily be very silly, but it also has a much more serious tone that SR3 lacks. Even in the most serious moments, SR3 felt like one big joke. It just wasn't serious. In SR2, the protag had this air about him that lets you know he does not fuck around. In SR3, he has the intellect and cunning of a full grown adult, but the mentality of one big ass teenager.

Exactly. SR2 had that perfect balance, it didn't take itself seriously, yet at the same time, when it wanted to get something serious across, it could. And this doesn't just apply to the protag, but really the game in it's entirety.

On another note, it s a shame that after the half assed third game, we get a fourth, yet DS dies..

Was I alone when I felt gutpunched after what happened to(Carlos I believe?)

Spoiler

After Maero drags him behind his truck. I was thinking he'd be okay, probably maimed badly but would live. Then my character pulls out his gun and I almost shed a tear.

 

[Xukog]

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.

I preferred SR2 over SR3. SR2 can easily be very silly, but it also has a much more serious tone that SR3 lacks. Even in the most serious moments, SR3 felt like one big joke. It just wasn't serious. In SR2, the protag had this air about him that lets you know he does not fuck around. In SR3, he has the intellect and cunning of a full grown adult, but the mentality of one big ass teenager.

Exactly. SR2 had that perfect balance, it didn't take itself seriously, yet at the same time, when it wanted to get something serious across, it could. And this doesn't just apply to the protag, but really the game in it's entirety.

On another note, it s a shame that after the half assed third game, we get a fourth, yet DS dies..

Was I alone when I felt gutpunched after what happened to(Carlos I believe?)

Spoiler

After Maero drags him behind his truck. I was thinking he'd be okay, probably maimed badly but would live. Then my character pulls out his gun and I almost shed a tear.

No,you definitely were not.I couldn't help but smirk when

Spoiler

You get Maero to run over his girlfriend's car with her in the trunk...despite how disturbed I was later when I thought about it....

As for the trailer,looks like they are taking Saint's Row the Third and leaping even further into absurdity.Looks like a rent once,then forget all about kind of game.

 

[Not Matt]

what else is there to say than "yay", "don't f*** up* and "what's with all the aliens?".

hopefully they will make a city that have a personality. don't get me wrong. the city in SR3 was creative enough but it didn't really speak to me, there where no pleasure in f***ing it up.

all the new weapons look awesome though

 

[piinyouri]

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.

I preferred SR2 over SR3. SR2 can easily be very silly, but it also has a much more serious tone that SR3 lacks. Even in the most serious moments, SR3 felt like one big joke. It just wasn't serious. In SR2, the protag had this air about him that lets you know he does not fuck around. In SR3, he has the intellect and cunning of a full grown adult, but the mentality of one big ass teenager.

Exactly. SR2 had that perfect balance, it didn't take itself seriously, yet at the same time, when it wanted to get something serious across, it could. And this doesn't just apply to the protag, but really the game in it's entirety.

On another note, it s a shame that after the half assed third game, we get a fourth, yet DS dies..

Was I alone when I felt gutpunched after what happened to(Carlos I believe?)

Spoiler

After Maero drags him behind his truck. I was thinking he'd be okay, probably maimed badly but would live. Then my character pulls out his gun and I almost shed a tear.

No,you definitely were not.I couldn't help but smirk when

Spoiler

You get Maero to run over his girlfriend's car with her in the trunk...despite how disturbed I was later when I thought about it....

As for the trailer,looks like they are taking Saint's Row the Third and leaping even further into absurdity.Looks like a rent once,then forget all about kind of game.

Exactly, there just wernt very many moments like that in 3 and it sort of robbed half of the fun from the game.
YES, I did just streak down the middle of a crowded highway and laughed my butt off, but I also enjoyed seeing what situation my character was going to be thrust into next.