Basileus777
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What do you expect when half the crew are millennials. They all need their participation awards/token top 10 game. See Invisible Inc.
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What do you expect when half the crew are millennials. They all need their participation awards/token top 10 game. See Invisible Inc.
Not going to defend SRTT's actual faults. It has those.
It is also tonally, interactively, and textually fucking perfectly timed for when it released. The enemy gangs were S&M weirdos, Tron-esque nerd hackers, and luchador wrestlers. Hulk Hogan was in the game playing a non-Hulk character. Kanye's music was in the game. A man who only spoke in autotune was in there. The climax of the game was set to Holdin' Out for a Hero. You became invincible two-thirds of the way through it because fuck it. There is a button you hold down to make all actions a combo of stupid/wrestling moves.
It was the most Giant Bomb in 2011 game. By far.
CebollaDeAbbott
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I seem to remember Brad and Patrick clashing in 2011 because Brad was defending a game he hadn't actually played and Patrick calling him out.
Then again, that may have happened in multiple years.
Love me some Brad, love me some Patrick!
Basileus777
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Saints Row 3 is like 10x the game any previous SR game was. It's when the series graduated from being a bland GTA clone.
Antiwhippy
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I seem to remember Brad and Patrick clashing in 2011 because Brad was defending a game he hadn't actually played and Patrick calling him out.
Then again, that may have happened in multiple years.
Love me some Brad, love me some Patrick!
That's where the "When you get down to it, how different is Rayman Origins to Bubsy?" comes from.
It literally has a 1/10th of the content
The characters were ruined 10x though I'll give you that
honestly, it might be the most giant bomb game ever made.
saints 4 was so eh by comparison
Brad's a real fucker sometimes.
Yeah, I really appreciate how Matrixy (but not the parts of The Matrix you're used to being appropriated) it is, but it's really just SR3 plus some pseudo-crackdown stuff. It doesn't stick the landing at all.
Basileus777
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Are you just baiting me to reference Ubisoft games? SR side missions are not why anyone should play those games.
BreezyLimbo
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Shit youre right
Gotta have someone taken down this goty
It has to be alex and that inane "night in the woods" it needs to be completely forbidden from the top 10
None of this "I really feel" mambo jumbo.
Customization, side missions, AI behavior, music, city variety, easter eggs
who said it has to just be side missions?
Piston Hyundai
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don't forget the freedom in mission order and weapon variety
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
You guys keep bringing up Night in the Woods as a contender but I don't even remember them talking much about it.
Old man yells at video game "awards".
That's not a good way to praise 3 or 4 considering those games were panned by fans of the original 2 for bringing those characters back and completely forgetting what their personality was
Piston Hyundai
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SR2 also had that hidden mission that dealt with the ending of the prior game in a really satisfying way
Not praising 4; just saying 3 was spared a lot of that by its own stunt casting with Hulk Hogan and Burt Reynolds (and maybe anyone else I forgot).
Basileus777
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Hey, I have like a month before I hit 30 and graduate into old man status.
LurkerPrime
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1/10th the content compared to what? SR2?
They're both filled with repetition. It's just that SR3 has style.
Wow, when you put it that way... it really is.
And man, that Holding Out for a Hero moment, that was when I realised I loved SR3. It was so perfect.
I bought that Bonnie Tyler CD because of SR3.
LurkerPrime
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Oh yeah, I don't mean to discount the song's quality--it's a lovely song. I just hadn't heard it before SR3.
Piston Hyundai
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also it was really nice jumping on top of cars and instantly getting into them in 2
the Third kind of does that with the windshield smash but you still have to wait for the animation to play out
the Third kind of does that with the windshield smash but you still have to wait for the animation to play out
But the character just dropkicks their way into the car, no matter which direction you approach it from. That's got to be worth something.
Piston Hyundai
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Like almost every single thing in that game, it's fun the first time, then the novelty wears off immediately
LurkerPrime
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This post about sums up Saint's Row as a franchise.
Although I guess Agents of Mayhem might buck this trend, if it's not fun the first time.
That sort of sums up the franchise, kinda, but unless SR2 is also only 12 hours long (I genuinely forget) it's less tight overall than SRTT is.
LurkerPrime
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Get hyped, Vinny. A new FigherZ has been revealed.
Get hyped, Vinny. A new FigherZ has been revealed.
Nah, that game looks like garb
FUCKING AMAZING
formated4tv
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Get hyped, Vinny. A new FigherZ has been revealed.
Looks gorgeous!
I'd agree with you entirely if it was trying to hard. However, to me (and apparently Jeff) it managed everything it did effortlessly. No cringe-inducing attempts at jokes, nothing overstaying its welcome. Just prime, clean long-running chess humour.
Edit: The way it lands may entirely be an Anglosphere thing. If you're not from North America or England, I can entirely understand it not working super cleanly.
And now it's actually Trunks.
Remember when Brad called Jeff "petty" during their Mass Effect multiplayer goty argument? You could hear a pin drop for a second.
I'ma need a timestamp for this.
A timestamp maybe later since it'll take some effort, but I can tell you now that it was during their Best Multiplayer segment during their 2012 goty podcasts. Brad was defending ME3's multiplayer when Jeff accused it of being another horde mode.
Patrick wanted it on the list. Said it introduced him to the Souls-like genre etc. Jeff liked the game too but hadn't played a lot. Brad was not amused.
Death Metalist
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Beast in the East: Yakuza 0 - Part 23
My heart hurts, going to miss this series(until they play Kiwami). A 2 hour and 45 minutes JOINT! Can't wait to watch it later.
darkwing-buck
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Tekken 7 is to Bad Dads as Smash Bros is to Fire Emblem characters.
End of an era.
Will watch later but thoroughly enjoyed this series up to this point.
They're going straight for the end huh?
Death Metalist
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TOO good.
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