Zero Punctuation: Saints Row: The Third

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Everything I've seen of it stinks of "trying too hard". Reviews of it were genuinely embarrassing to watch.

A little surprised you didn't care for it, Yahtzee, as I haven't seen anything of the second game and wondered if this was perhaps the tone you would come to expect, and yet I am also not, given that you don't appear to have the taste of a mentally addled twelve year old.

 

[Yopaz]

So let me get this straight:

Extra Punctuation: Skyrim - "Goddammit there are too many options for character customization!"

Zero Punctuation: Saints Row: The Third - "Goddammit there aren't enough options with the clothes!"

It looks a little odd to complain about there being less options when a few days earlier (or later, depending on when the video was made) you went on about how there's "almost too many options" somewhere else.

Did you read the Extra punctuation before commenting on this review? If not I will summarize it for you. In Skyrim he complained that the multiple choices made it hard to know the consequences it would have later in the game. Because of poor choices he ended up at a full stop not being able to go back or forth. What he wanted to see in Saints Row 3 was minor customization that would be entertaining and not change the difficulty one bit.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

So this should really just have been called "Jumping the Shark: The Game"?

 

[Marik Bentusi]

Seems like it went just over the top of the "immature fun" curve. Or maybe it just appears to be that way because the player is building up "wacky fatigue" that was reduced by the more serious bits in the prequel.

The reason why HL2 threw puzzles and vehicle section at you in regular intervals, so you wouldn't build up shooting fatigue.

 

[Galletea]

It takes a while to summon helicopters and by that point, I couldn't be arsed. So I see his point.
I do love it though. It's more fun than anything else out at the mo...I mean until I get around to playing Skyrim, then I might change my mind.
And I really wanted a bowler hat at a jaunty angle too.

 

[cefm]

It's almost as if the designers of the game listened to Yahtzee's review of Saint's Row 2 and didn't understand ANYTHING he said. Stupid gimmicks are fun only in the broader context of a GAME - if it's nothing but a grab-bag of stupid gimmicks then what's the point?

 

[Hyakunin Isshu]

um, this is off topic, but what was the Eva reference he made in review of Catherine??? (sorry, I really wan to know)

 

[Svenparty]

It's just like Dead Risings problem is that it forced me to play as a transvestite who hits people with crazy objects when it should have know I would have seeked it out anyway.

I feel weird.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm kind of surprised that NONE of the reviews for this game have talked about how radically different the control scheme is in this one compared to SR2. I may be overstating but I remember there being a cover system in SR2. I also hate how you have to tap X (360) to look behind your car when it was the bumpers in SR and 2. Also nobody mentioned how fist-fighting turned into QTE's unless you punch people in the back of the head. Final sin: once you find an activity (insurance fraud, mayhem, etc.) it auto-boots you once you finish that round instead of letting you go through levels 1-6 or, stop whenever you're tired of that particular game.

Anyway, good critique Ben, while I watched the video and typed this I've been hanging out in a Friendly Fire waiting for money to build on my smart phone. Time to check the bank...

 

[piclemaniscool]

I was actually very disappointed in SR3. there's nothing "added" only replaced. the "new" activities (which are just variants of older ones) replace some of my favorite ones, like crowd control and fight club. The customization is certainly lacking compared to SR2. There's Planet Saints which you can look like your average teenager attempting to get into a party, then theres maybe one or two other stores and they have almost no items. I ended up going with a simmilar path to Yahtzee in that I had a nicely dressed man in a pin striped suit and a top hat tilted at an absurd angle which contrasted nicely with the maniacal killings I did back in SR2. In Saints Row the Third, I can't choose to make my suit a pinstripe, and I can't get my hat to fit any other place than squarely on my head.

If it wasn't for the streets of Steelport feeling more lively than sr2's did, I would say that this game was a complete downgrade. I mean, after my first playthrough of 2, I had logged 20 hours. after beating the final mission in 3 it was up to 9. You can still get much more out of it, just like 2, but it really ISN'T as much fun. I literally went back saints row 2 and restarted the story another time (by now I have over 100 hours, not including times I didn't save by the end) and I haven't even beaten the Ronin missions yet. (i'm about 1/3 done with the game for those that don't know) Also the headset from the premium pack isn't very special. The autotuning is pretty lame and it isn't the highest end sound for something in it's price range.

BTW, that part about not having any introduction to the activities is false; they just put it in as the missions. For example, Professor Genki's S.E.R.C. is because Pierce put you in the show as a contestant to earn money.

 

[Xman490]

I've been getting into Prototype 2 this past weekend, and it strikes me how similar it is to this game.

No, I don't think the series has lost several missions and such (at least not if you have the Radnet pre-order content). However, the missions themselves are rather repetitive, like in SR3. There's usually a formula, whether it's "find mission for person X, eat him if you haven't already, do the mission" or (in the actual missions) "kill some brutes and/or a juggernaut or two or an evolved person" or "grab the boxes in time".

 

[gamegod25]

Sorry but I have to disagree, in my opinion SR3 is a better game. It's a game that knows what it is (ie silly cathartic fun) and just runs with it. If you want to role play and get that sense of working your way up from nothing then you should play an MMORPG Yahtzee.

 

[Graff]

Wasn't Mafia II in Chicago?