Saints Row IV

[Eternal EX]

Hmm. Batshit crazy....well shit? One of the last video games for this generation? Open world? Not GTA?

 

Count me interested. I should really go back and play SR3 because I keep hearing good things about it. Was it really as good as some say it was? Or was it just so crazy that it worked very well?

[FourCartridge]

Hmm. Batshit crazy....well shit? One of the last video games for this generation? Open world? Not GTA?

 

Count me interested. I should really go back and play SR3 because I keep hearing good things about it. Was it really as good as some say it was? Or was it just so crazy that it worked very well?

 

Either way. The series it was coming from had some serious moments channeling stuff like Homicide, like the part when

 

A Saints lieutenant was brutally disfigured and killed by being tied to the back of a monster truck and being dragged along the ground.

 

but it was always put alongside stuff like spraying shit everywhere. SRIII totally booted out those serious moments for more weird stuff so more than a few fans were kind of let down. The game's selling point was to be as silly as possible, so it depends if that kinda stuff makes or breaks a game for you.

 

SR1 was even less silly to the point where it was more or less a GTA carbon copy with really expansive character customization.

[Carbo]

Re: The "It's just Enter The Dominatrix in a fancy wrapper" argument

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/15/saints-row-4-release-date-august-20/

Saints Row 4 has received an August 20 release date, publisher Deep Silver just announced. We are told that Saints Row 4 is not simply the Saints Row 3 "Enter the Dominatrix" standalone expansion in a different wrapper.

"That expansion was canceled and elements of it were rolled into Saints Row 4," a spokesperson for publisher Deep Silver tells Joystiq. "There will be a director's cut of Enter the Dominatrix released as DLC when SR4 comes out."

I really, really hope Deep Silver don't turn SR4 into a DLC trainwreck like THQ did to its previous game. If they take cues from Borderlands 2 on the other hand...

[Blacklightning]

Honestly, the thing that worries me the most so far is that it's setting itself up for the exact same trap Crackdown set for itself when it comes to vehicles - anything short of an attack chopper is less mobile and less well-armed than the player is on foot, to the extent that most people will never even consider setting foot inside one for anything other than achievement grinding. Hell, Crackdown 2 went as far as even making helicopters basically redundnant by the time you learnt to glide infinitely, to say nothing of what happened when you strapped in jet boots on top of that.

 

Parts of this can be fixed with vehicle modding, but you know how I would fix it? As long as we're diving into superpowers, add a technomancy ability that lets the player turn cars into motherfuckin' Transformers.

[FourCartridge]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/15/city-of-anti-heroes-saints-row-iv-is-super-saints-row/

 

Some additional details:

 

*Leader of the Saints(the PC) elected president.

 

*Alien Invasion led by someone called Zinyak.

 

*Saints are trapped in a simulation of Steelport and most of the game will seem to focus on escaping it.

 

*Player will gain super powers including Telekenesis, Super Jumping, Super Speed, and Ice Powers.

 

*Is scrapped Saints Row the Third DLC spun off into a full game with content, so the majority of the work was done before THQ's fall. Deep Silver won't have much input.

[YoshiUnity]

The President unleashed his full presidental powers in the "Meet the President" Trailer

 

 

He fights fer 'MURICA! ... And da whole wurld!

[Swiss]

I can't wait to make Colonel Sanders become president. I seriously hope the Cockney voice is still in!

[Badnik Mechanic]

Trailer was great...

 

But... Does anyone think it's going to get a bit of a 'reaction' mainly from the sequence where they show a woman being smashed into various things over and over again?

 

Just given how the whole potrayal of women in videogames has been high on the agenda lately?

[Stacy]

Just given how the whole potrayal of women in videogames has been high on the agenda lately?

 

Probably but he did beat the shit out of a male and some Aliens as well. 

[Blacklightning]

When you're talking about a franchise in which you can run people over in cars and send them to the moon, bludgeon them to death with giant purple dildos, throw yourself in front of oncoming cars for insurance fraud and engage in QTE sex as the second player in an Escort minigame, I really, really don't think even the most dire of scapegoating individuals are expecting any semblance of tact in the first place.

 

And certaintly not over a series of otherwise random demonstration kills when they could be bitching about the inevitable pimping gametypes instead.

[Badnik Mechanic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz8EDvU7pJc

 

... ... .... ....

 

They have a guitar case... that shoots rockets... ... ... .. And... dat dubstep weapon!

[Swiss]

Hot damn that looks fun! Feeling a lot more hopeful that this will feel like a new game rather than an expansion now.

[Dr. Homem]

I honestly believe they're going overboard with this game. Saints Row The Third was one of my favorite sandbox games and I loved the direction they took the series, even if I found two major problems with its story (one, killing off their strongest character; two, lack of strong antagonists except for Killbane). Saints Row 2 is also lovely as well. But this? It’s too much.

 

Now let’s get something straight: I am a strong defender of how silly SR3 was. The series needed to step up and stop being the GTA clone it was – because staying the same would be commercially and critically unviable to stay the same. And you know what? It was easily the most fun and memorable experience in the whole series. Its zaniness was unique in the sandbox market, something which, coupled with the excellent gameplay, managed to make Saints Row The Third a stellar game – some might even say a masterpiece.

 

Back to Saints Row IV. From the start you notice the game is too self-aware. Look at it: you’re the President of the United States, fighting aliens, with superpowers and giant mechs. It’s like they’re throwing out all semblance of a plot in favor of utter silliness. I can imagine how the board meetings went: “So our last game was ridiculous and people loved it. Let’s make it 800% more ridiculous!”

 

What they didn’t realize is that every design choice has a right balance for it, and overblowing that will dilute the execution. And 3 had just about the right balance – meaning, they had their work paved out for them. All they had to do was to build up from where they left off and improve it: reintroduce advanced customization, create better characters, build more interesting locations in Steelport, bring back the cutscene intros to activities, to name a few examples.

 

They simply had to put more meat in its bones.

 

But instead they throw those bones away in exchange for a far more exaggerated structure. The third game was brilliant with a lot of extremely clever and well-crafted humor; it was over-the-top without being stupid. Saints Row IV thinks it can be funny just by throwing randomness and stupidity around, and while those things can be quite refreshing in proportion, they shouldn’t be the base of your game’s entire humor.

 

I will buy and certainly enjoy this installment, but it's likely it won’t satisfy me as much as any of the previous ones – and it has failed to impress me so far.

[Detective Shadzter]

Volition reveal official box art for Saints Row IV

http://www.thegamingliberty.com/2013/05/volition-reveal-official-box-art-for-saints-row-iv/

[SkyLlama]

The more I look at it the less sense it makes. 0_o

[YoshiUnity]

The ramaging sports drink monster better be in the game. I would like to fight with or beat the shit out of it.

[Silencer226]

The more I look at it the less sense it makes. 0_o

Do not apply logic to this series, you just play it and roll with it.

[Emmett L. Brown]

So I recently downloaded Saints Row 2.

 

Gameplay-wise, it's pretty great, and in many parts it's even better than Saints Row 3. But one thing feels terribly wrong about the game, and that's the way it's playing the gansters seriously. Because playing the gangsters seriously means I'm a mass-murdering sociopath, responsible for not only murdering thousands of criminals, but also hundreds of relatively innocent people just doing their jobs who I can't really root for. Sidekick Johnny Gat, in particular, would be the monstrous villain in a different story and totally brings his miserable fate on himself by being a psychopathic nutjob who doesn't give a shit about the consequences of anything until it bites him in the ass.

 

So while I'm a little hesitant about this move towards full-on silliness, I really seriously prefer the satirical approach over the serious one.

[Badnik Mechanic]

Because it's semi related.

 

For PSN+ users next month in the US... Saints Row 3 is one of the free games. Might be an idea to give it a try before pre-ordering this one

[Silencer226]

Saints Row 2 was more of a transitional phase. Like Saints Row was like the GTA Clone, SR2 was the step to differentiating itself, and SR3 was balls to the walls insanity.

[Carbo]

 

[wubbing intensifies]

[Silencer226]

 

[wubbing intensifies]

August... why... my August is already booked solid... dammit.

[Senator NinjaShark]

New Trailer is up, starring Aliens, President Dongs and introducing Keith David as.....

 

 

 

.....Keith David

Edited June 6, 2013 by Mr. NinjaShark

[Carbo]

Fuck yeah they brought back old Shaundi

[Silencer226]

BENJAMIN MOTHERFUCKING KING! HELL YEAH! BUT WHERE DA FUCK IS MY JOHNNY!?

Edited June 6, 2013 by Noel