History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

 

Wait Call of Duty is in 39 days? I always forget how fast they print this stuff out...

 

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

 

Wait Call of Duty is in 39 days? I always forget how fast they print this stuff out...

 

The next iteration is only 35 days after that. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVuVtahMBs

Not really sure what to think.

Edited August 29, 201411 yr by Majek

Meat Loaf in it -> instabuy

Nice, very nice.

I wondered what the hell (pardon the pun) they were gonna do next. Awesome

In Saints Row 5, the Leader of the Saints gains the infinite power of Zeus and becomes a physics-defying-immortal-super-saiyan-space-wizard, set on course across galaxies, making **** jokes, banging chicks & dudes, making wrong from rights, selling franchise rights for theme parks on the planets he, or she, conquers. In the end, despite the seemingly bad and inappropriate activities they involve themselves in they are branded as inspirations for coming generations to behold as they make their big fat mark on every galaxy they mess up.

 

It's a fascinating tale of love, loss and the kinship of brotherhood... and firing lasers out of your ass while gliding across space.

Edited August 29, 201411 yr by TheChris92

They'll try to milk out, of course, but the series has run its course.

They'll try to milk out, of course, but the series has run its course.

Hey, time travel, AC spoof, Ted and Billy references, recruiting historical figures the list goes on. I look forward to doing a drive by with Genghis Khan, Methuselah and Winston Churchill.

Oh god, I loved the dinosaurs. Especially the scene where you were riding on a dinosaur while the dinosaur would sing you the song of his people. It. Was. Awesome.

 

Then again, it would have been even more awesome if this would have unlocked a dinosaur you can summon like a car, then you ride the streets with it whenever you wanted to. Damn.

Edited August 29, 201411 yr by Lexx

Geez, the Saint's Row people are brilliant bastards.  I'm hooked.

 

 

I need to continue SR4 actually.

Oh god, I loved the dinosaurs. Especially the scene where you were riding on a dinosaur while the dinosaur would sing you the song of his people. It. Was. Awesome.

The ending to Enter the Dominatrix is pretty much the greatest ending in video game history.  

I don't really mind in what absurd and insane direction they take the story, but I wish they'd go back to basics a bit with the gameplay. I'd like to be able to, y'know, see things happening sometimes instead of being a supersonic dervish of unrecognisable motion blur.

I don't know much about Saint's Row but that trailer was brilliant nonsense.

The good thing is that they can do pretty much everything at this point in the story and it would still somewhat fit the setting.

I don't know much about Saint's Row but that trailer was brilliant nonsense.

"Brilliant nonsense" is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of what Saints Row has become.  I could write several paragraphs and not come up with a more dead on description of the series.

That's why Saints Row 2 is the last good Saints Row game.

That's why Saints Row 2 is the last good Saints Row game.

 

It may be the best, but it would be a shame if they recycled the same formula every time.  SR3 & 4 had plenty of good surprises to make them worth the price of admission.

While this is definitely a divisive subject, personally, I'm glad Saints Row ditched the gang warfare stuff from the first 2 games and went full-on ridiculous.  The more absurd the games have gotten the more I've enjoyed them.  While Saints Row 2 was a great game, had they stuck with that formula the series would never have been viewed as anything more than a cheap GTA knockoff.  While the series is still considered a GTA-clone to some extent, it's no longer trying to straddle the fence between cartoonish and realistic, like GTA does, it's gone all out ridiculous, and I'm glad, because I like ridiculous.

It's now turned into a retarded Prototype clone.

Remember Total Overdose? That game was over-the-top silly fun without ever going full retard.

Edited August 30, 201411 yr by HoonDing

At it's heart, Saint's Row has always been about parody.  SR2 is simply the most subtle of the parodies, which is why it holds a special place.

 

edit:  And not everybody gets parody.  ;-)

Edited August 30, 201411 yr by Hurlshot

As ridiculous as it is, and it is ridiculous, Saints Row 4 is one of the smartest parodies I've ever seen in vidya games.  It pokes fun at absolutely everything, including itself, and it does so without ever being mean about it.  It does it while paying loving tribute to the things it is parodying.  That's a rather difficult razor's edge to walk: making fun of something without trashing it.