Saints Row 3, taking ridiculousness to a whole new level, now with even more crazynes

[KaOTiK]

http://www.destructoid.com/this-saints-row-the-third-video-will-cost-you-up-to-60-204513.phtml

Finally an open world game that knows exactly what we want from it

New preorder DLC bonus kicks it up another notch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAA_CgWKpU&feature=player_embedded

 

[JumBie]

Is it coming out for PC at the same time as consoles?

 

[paperfist]

HAHA looks like a winner!

 

[(sic)Klown12]

I was never able to get into the first two Saint Row games, but I'm absolutely going to pick this up.

 

[manimal]

Interesting. Wonder how many store fronts are real store fronts as well. I want to be able to walk into most buildings and at least rob them!

 

[QueBert]

holy crap that looks awesome, will more than likely be buying.

 

[KaOTiK]

Is it coming out for PC at the same time as consoles?

Yes, I believe it is a Steamworks game too (being that THQ is the publisher and all their games are now Steamworks that come out)

 

[Zanovar]

hahahah,this looks awesome.gonna watch again.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Third times a charm!

 

[viivo]

Cool, I'm looking forward to beating up some virtual women. I just hope it's as satisfying as the real thing!

I am sort of looking forward to it. I found the first two unplayable due to the horrendous performance and terrible driving physics, but this looks good, even if just played as sandbox.

 

[Arg Clin]

A game about beating up random people in the street? I don't get it. Must be getting old :\

 

[Genx87]

A game about beating up random people in the street? I don't get it. Must be getting old :\

I dont see the fascination with this game either. Looks like Grand Theft Auto with more options to kill and beat people up.

Even the same stupid A.I. where you kick some chicks ass or pull a gun and everybody just goes about their day like they are zombies.

 

[Barfo]

I hope they code it well like eidos did with Just Cause 2, if they make it like GTA IV I'll be passing.

 

[Dankk]

I hope they code it well like eidos did with Just Cause 2, if they make it like GTA IV I'll be passing.

Agreed. Now if Saints Row 3's game world could be as big as Just Cause 2's... I would pee my pants.

 

[TheVrolok]

Doesn't really do anything for me.

 

[Angelo Cameo]

Oh man, i was laughing through most of the video. I just hope they didn't show all the fun stuff you could do.

 

[Raduque]

Knowing Volition, this is less than a 16th of the awesome things to do in SR3. SR2 was amazing fun. I just hope they do something with the streaming engine, cause it really sucked in SR2.

Also, performance looked pretty bad. Hopefully they do a lot of optimizing between now and November.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

OH GAWDDD YESSS! loved the 2nd one. This one looks even more bad asss!

 

[Mike Gayner]

I don't really get it. I've never played a Saints Row game, so my comments are in that context, but:
- The performance was terrible in that video. Will this be on PC?
- There doesn't seem to be any challenge. You start out as a king pin and no one (even cops) does anything to try and stop you. Won't this get boring immediately?
- The AI seemed pretty terrible.
- I dont like some of their design decisions - cars that drive on rails and require no skill are lame. I don't get how this is a good model for driving.

 

[SpunkyJones]

I did have a blast with SR II, so I'll be keeping an eye out for this.

 

[viivo]

I don't really get it. I've never played a Saints Row game, so my comments are in that context, but:

- The performance was terrible in that video. Will this be on PC?
Judging by the performance of the first two on consoles and the PC port of SR2, yes. It will be awful because they don't care. All the praise their unoptimized crapware gets means they don't have to.

- There doesn't seem to be any challenge. You start out as a king pin and no one (even cops) does anything to try and stop you. Won't this get boring immediately?
The demographic they're targeting doesn't like challenge. Their whole design goal seems to be "blow up sum stuff and beet pplz hell yah!"

- The AI seemed pretty terrible.
Unnecessary in a sandbox game.

- I dont like some of their design decisions - cars that drive on rails and require no skill are lame. I don't get how this is a good model for driving.
This is SR tradition. Driving was a large part of the first two games and it was awful beyond words. It and the sub-20 frame rates were the reason I could never get into them, and was flabbergasted as to why so many people liked them.

Saints Row tried to go the GTA route by having a story in the first game, then tried to differentiate by having a lot of non-essential activities on the side. What they're doing now is throwing away the story and making the activities the whole game.

 

[coldmeat]

- I dont like some of their design decisions - cars that drive on rails and require no skill are lame. I don't get how this is a good model for driving.

The idea isn't to challenge you're driving skills, but to make it easy enough to drive that you can pull off sweet jumps, and make it easy to shoot/kill people without worrying about the pothole in the street.

 

[DeathReborn]

This is the same footage but also an interview at E3.

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

 

[Markbnj]

- The AI seemed pretty terrible.
Unnecessary in a sandbox game.

Totally necessary in a sandbox game.

 

[n7]

Looks rather entertaining.