Saints Row IV Announced 63
jones_supa writes "The cartoon heroes are back, with even stronger superpowers. Deep Silver Volition has announced Saints Row IV for an August launch. From the press release: 'In the next open-world installment of Saints Row, Deep Silver Volition continues the story of the Third Street Saints by elevating their status to the highest level – the leaders of the free world. In Saints Row IV, the head honcho of the Saints has been elected to the Presidency of the United States. Saints Row IV lets players delve into an arsenal of alien weaponry and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction. The player utilizes out-of-this-world superpowers to fight all the way to the top. With intensified action and enhanced customization, the protagonists can use their newfound superpowers and leap over buildings, outrun the fastest sports cars, or send enemies flying with telekinesis in the most insane installment of Saints Row yet.'"
OnLive (Score:2)
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Yeah, but there will be 4x the number of funny hats in this one--available for purchase!
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Well, I've heard 3 was quite good as a means of delivering absurdity. I never played it because my personal predilection is for more intellectual games that reward planning and forethought than the more action oriented games.
I agree with you, though that corporate games that are big sequels to big games tend to have less cleverness as numbers go up, and don't really necessarily deserve articles. On the other hand, if you try to pick niche things to have articles on, you run into the problem of a lack of n
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What an interesting view. I find the mindless action games that don't require planning and forethought are more like a job, because when I'm doing a job I sometimes have tasks where I don't engage my mind as much as I'd like, and when I'm not doing a job I get to avoid those things.
It's not that my job doesn't have planning and forethought -- it does, a lot, that's why I went for that job -- it's that I can almost never get enough of that. So I guess what we have in common is that we're avoiding the thing
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I try not to judge people holding the GP's position. I have never in my life understood people who wish to "turn their brain off" to enjoy something. It's an utterly baffling premise to me. But it's a common position, and I hold no need to judge people over something so trivial.
However, being judged in turn seems to be normal(probably confirmation bias on my part). Daring to enjoy something mentally intricate seems to really grate on some people. I don't know why.
Re:Is this really news for nerds? (Score:4, Funny)
You just don't understand the joy that comes with beating down crowds of furries with a giant purple dildo.
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top craziness.
A better expression would be "retarded".
All Saints Row games were more or less retarded and full of idiotic bugs. The only thing that I partly appreciated was character customization, and that took me close to 10 minutes of fun, then it became "meh". Sleeping Dogs, on the other hand, was awesome.
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Subjective.
The minute I heard "So you're robbing a bank as yourselves? Ultra-Postmodernism. I love it." I was smiling. Sure, there was stuff that was immature and usually I hate that, but there were so many moments where I was just having pure fun that I don't even care. So many moments of "wait, did that really just happen?" Been thinking of picking up Sleeping Dogs though. I like serious games too.
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Make it GTA, but in the future! Yes yes, I remember that's what GTA2 was, but a modern GTA-type game that takes place in a sci-fi, future city would be *awesome*. Flying cars, robot cops, side missions on a moon base (which would take mere seconds to reach, a-la Futurama), etc. etc.
Hell--this lead to an even better idea: A Futurama GTA game where you play as
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I've always wanted a GTA style Cowboy Beebop game.
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"Press releases for nerds" would be a more accurate tagline as of late.
First one sucked, but... (Score:3)
2 and Third were great. Insurance Fraud is probably the best minigame activity in the series. And nothing beats the gang war against a bunch of furries in Third.
There were times I had to pause the game until my eyes cleared I was laughing so hard.
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Loved each iteration of this game in the series. Even the buggy turd that the first game was, it was still a ton of fun, and each successive game was even better than the last. Odd though it may seem, that insane description in the summary is just the natural progression of this franchise.
The game was already dancing around the edges of superpower fantasy blasting around the skies in VTOL jets, hoverbikes, skydiving, charging through a hail of gunfire, throwing people across the street. Now they're just goi
Re:saints what? (Score:5, Funny)
GTA4 is basically SR3 with all the fun removed.
Out with the old, in with the new (Score:1)
Re:Out with the old, in with the new (Score:4, Insightful)
So they aren't ripping off GTA anymore, and moving on to ripping off Prototype and Infamous instead?
If by ripping off GTA you mean 'Vastly improving upon' then yes. If you mean 'Copying the flaming dirt of a dating your male cousin simulator' that GTA4 was, then no.
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What's wrong with dating your male cousin? It could have been worse, for example dating your female uncle...
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What's wrong with dating your male cousin? It could have been worse, for example dating your female uncle...
Well, nothing if that's what you're into I suppose. :D
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YES (Score:3)
I picked up Saints Row 3 on a whim when it was something like $10 for the game and all its DLC on Steam. Before that I'd known little of the series and the advertising/reviews hadn't really been compelling enough for me to try it out.
As if ripped from the brain of an acid-tripping Mark Millar, SR3's balls to the wall ridiculousness somehow works, and co-op support takes it to a whole other level. I'm hooked. Give me more.
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SR3 is actually not that good compared to SR2 :-)
In SR2 you could pimp out everything you owned, my personal favorite car is the APC, pimped with candy glossed purple military decals. Also, SR3 is frankly too easy, you get all the goodies served; in SR2 you had to earn your way to the penthouse, just felt that much more satisfying.
That being said, SR3 was extremely entertaining and I'll be first in line for the SR4 release.
tl;dr, go pick up SR2.
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While I generally agree that SR3 felt more limited than SR2, the problem with SR2 is that the PC port is buggy as hell and a huge performance hog, which crashes regularly on many machines. It doesn't even run properly if your CPU's clock speed isn't the same as the console it was developed for.
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Yeah, sorry, I should have made it clear it was on the PS3 I endorsed it :-)
Never tried it on the PC, but I've heard some horrible stories.
Same game engine? (Score:2)
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Well, they were originally going to release "Enter the Dominatrix" as DLC - but then they changed their mind and said they were going to release it as a standalone game; it seems likely that it'll be a lightly modified SR3 engine under the hood.
Cash Cow is a Cash Cow (Score:1)
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Who fricken cares? I write Linux device drivers, live with it all day. No fricken way would I recommend any Linux distro to anyone I'd end up supporting. When Linux just fricken works out of the box I'll change my mind, but I'm not holding my breath.
Face it. I'm a Linux expert, started with Yggdrasil in '94, and not only do I still have a Windows gaming box but I'm not looking to get rid of said Windows box. Linux has been The Next Big Desktop for 20 years now, and it will be 20 years from now.
Crackdown? (Score:1)
2 words (Score:2)
2 words. Suh weet. Saints Row is more fun than GTA nowdays, and that's saying a lot.