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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p22lzEmTXQ Goddamn I love it when Saints Row introduces me to a song I've never heard before, whenever this comes on I gotta rock the gently caress out. I swear the game is coded for it to appear only when you're balls deep in the middle of something awesome, it makes everything turn into a super jaunty sing-a-long smilefest.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:^^^ Jesus Christ how are you people beating this game so fast? Some people have apparently already 100%-ed the game, I've only put 3 hours into it and spent most of that doing wrestling moves on people!
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Yeah, so far, I really have to agree with the sentiment that the writing for characters in this game (as far as I've played) is phenomenal, but the writing for the story smacks of them designing all the setpieces and  scenes first and sort of forgetting to fill in the blanks with a strong, cohesive narrative. The high point scenes are pretty awesome so far aside from Loren's death being wayyyy too understated, even for comedic value but everything in between feels like the game desperately shoving in any sort of padding it can while it comes up with something to top what it just did.The gameplay itself is fun enough to make up for that, though. I was worried how they were going to top SR3 from all the previews, and now I'm pretty sure I know how they could: ratchet themselves in a bit on the story so they can marry the storytelling of 2 with all the gameplay improvements (and any they come up with) of 3. Actually, there is one gameplay aspect I felt stepped back a bit: activities being only one level per location. I kind of liked just tucking into an activity in 2 and being there for a while, having fun with the gameplay slowly getting harder/different until I beat the whole thing, with the option to leave and come back later. Now, if I want to chew through a whole set of activities, I have to get to the point in the story missions that they're introduced in (which is another move that I disliked) and then hop across the whole town to find the spots they're in. Really, though, this is hardly me going  THIS GAME SUCKS 0/10 , it's just me airing gripes about a game I'm still having a good amount of fun with. I can't wait until I get home to my better internet connection so I can dick around in co-op.
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Jerusalem posted:Some people have apparently already 100%-ed the game, I've only put 3 hours into it and spent most of that doing wrestling moves on people! I'm like 9 challenges away from 1000/1000 and already 100%'d the game, but to be fair, I had a head start on everybody. Still, it does feel like SR3 as it is right now has less meat to it than SR2, which makes me both excited for more DLC and disappointed that it's not already in the game. I mean, I got TONS of added playtime in SR2 doing co-op story missions and the like, but since that's not an option here, pretty much all I can do after beating the story is just mindlessly work toward completion. I don't know what it's missing, but there's just something that isn't there.
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The shark-o-matic is the best thing ever, especially since it works indoors. That's right, nothing makes a firefight in a penthouse or on a rooftop better than A loving SHARK crashing through every floor of the building and eating some dude who was shooting at you.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 03:51 |
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Crappy Jack posted:I don't know what it's missing, but there's just something that isn't there.
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Doktor von Blaze posted:The shark-o-matic is the best thing ever, especially since it works indoors. That's right, nothing makes a firefight in a penthouse or on a rooftop better than A loving SHARK crashing through every floor of the building and eating some dude who was shooting at you. It's driving me mad that I can't get the DLC until SR3 is officially released here on Friday, I'd have hours of fun with that shark gun and I'll very likely shell out for the season pass too. It'll be interesting to see how the DLC pans out, hopefully the smaller storylines means they won't have SR3's problem of suffering for its ambition by being all over the place. If they introduce small, detailed story arcs with more care and detail than SR2's poor attempts at DLC then it'll be well worth it.
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Haha holy poo poo. I found a place where construction spawned across the entire roadway both lanes, and traffic didn't know what the gently caress to do so cars just started full speed ramming into it sending barrels and construction workers and cars everywhere. Also my plan to kill the helicopter hitman by crashing a snipes full speed into him worked better than expected.
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I can't believe that just in the first few missions my character has flown through a plane, stolen a high-grade military weapon, put a grenade in a weird 'roided giant's mouth AND (and this is the best of all) sang a motherfucking duet with Pierce. HOLY poo poo I LOVE THIS GAME.
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Combat Pretzel posted:How the gently caress do I play Snatch? Those goddamn whores won't get into my car. And killing their pimps is useless, since they keep spawning like a motherfucker. It tells you the first time to hit a button to recruit, at least on PC.
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Has anybody gotten the female russian boss voice to sing along to anything on the radio OTHER than the duet with Pierce? Am I just listening to the wrong stations, or did they blow their wad on that duet?
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I don't know if this has been noted before, but... Warning: once you beat the game, do not join in coop and beat the game again with someone else until you have replayed the mission yourself, it will gently caress you out of being able to replay the last mission on your own game.
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I beat the game earlier and got the good ending, had like 70% activities done and 50% assassinations. Clocked in at juuust under 15 hours. *Significantly* shorter main game compared to SR2, which is dissapointing, but still compelling enough that I'm going to play it a second and probably third time. I do have two fairly major gripes though. I wish they had done more with the activities, for as many of the activities were straight up pulled from SR1/2, I wish they had brought more variety than basically the heli assault and mayhem/tank mayhem and snatch. I was kind of hoping Fuzz, and Septic Avenger had made it in much to my disappointment. The new activities they had were loving amazing but seemed to be over way too quick. Genki's SERC was goddamned amazing. Cyber blazing was also really cool and a neat twist on standard trailblazing. Eye of the tiger was quite possibly the most fun activity I had in the game and there was just loving one of 'em. Second gripe is that all in all the story feels like it is very rushed. I remember checking my mission progress once I had finished all those activity side missions and the game proper started and I was already past halfway done with the game. Hell, that mission that the Giant Bomb quick look was doing was like the 5th from the last actual mission (Quite a few of them counted for more than one mission, for example what I consider the entirety of the last mission the game counts as 3 missions). The game felt like it was trying to be a non-stop action climax without ever stopping to actually take in what happened. SR2 actually took time to show the consequences of the poo poo that was going on around you, see Aiesha's death/funeral and Carlos' Death, the continuing escalation between the saints and whatever gang they are fighting at the moment, et al. With how the story escalates in this game it feels like you are fighting one and a half of saints row 2's gangs, with the entirety of the syndicate being effectively the one gang and STAG being the half. Honestly, the syndicate is basically one gang that comes in 3 different colors and clothing styles and specialists depending on where you fight them. Each gang shares 2 of the 3 gang car styles and use the same gang icon (that hollow star symbol). If they had taken time to deal with the fallout of Johnny/Lauren's/Kiki's death,or had some high ranking named lieutenants or something in the enemy gang to deal with, or did more with Oleg/the brutes/the cloning facility/the STAG zombies/Daedalus, or any number of similar things I would of been much happier with the main campaign mode in this game.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 04:12 |
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Nothing like suplexing mexican wrestlers to the Tim and Eric "Sports" theme. Oh my god, I am in love.
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Crappy Jack posted:They just do a bad job of explaining this. Good god, I'm not sure how you're supposed to figure that out if you don't blow up the tower. No body, no funeral, just a throw away line from Shaundi? Are we sure there isn't any missing content/cutscenes? So, yeah, I have to agree about the story stuff. The game is fun, but the story does feel weirdly rushed and disjointed. I'm curious how people who didn't play SR2 feel about it. I think I'd be confused not knowing who any of these people are or anything about them.
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Is there a way to buy Money Shot on PC?
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I don't think Money Shot exists, the people talking about it were talking about the Money Shot DLC items they got with the strategy guide.
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Crappy Jack posted:I don't think Money Shot exists, the people talking about it were talking about the Money Shot DLC items they got with the strategy guide. I have a feeling it will come out in like, a month or two, and so will the Funtime pack.
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My first few hours in Steelport were a bit frustrating. First thing I did was to try a carjacking job for some starter cash. Got the car but turns out I had to drive halfway across the loving city with cope chasing after me, helicopter snipers blew up the car and killed me just as I was getting to the drop-off. Other attempts to do stuff kept ending in death. Still once I finally got some upgrades things started working out. What really helped was I met Professor Genki walking near a Insurance Fraud mission (no longer having to hit the trigger to take a dive is a vast improvement.) Taking down Genki was not easy as he had a rocket launcher and drat good aim. Plus Morninglight punks started jumping in to help Genki. I finally managed to take him down (not easy as he had a poo poo ton of health and I had starter weapons and dual-wielding pistols. Worth it though, I was 100k richer for doing it. Bought every upgrade available and maxxed out two guns, pistol and SMG. Explosive and Incendiary bullets really make things much easier.
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How do I do I do nut shots?
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illiniguy01 posted:How do I do I do nut shots? On Xbox (and I assume PS3) you click in the right stick when next to someone. Or shoot them in the crotch. It also counts doing it to women as nutshots.
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So I keep hearing about all these wrestling moves and other fun things, but I'm not figuring out how to... you know... do them. Help?
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The store and crib interiors are amazingly detailed. Just take the time to look around inside some of them. Some poor programmer spend three years on those places.
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sicarius posted:So I keep hearing about all these wrestling moves and other fun things, but I'm not figuring out how to... you know... do them. Hold down the awesome button when doing unarmed attacks.
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Something awesome I just discovered: If you call up multiple homies they'll actually talk to each other.
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After the mission "Stag Party", is it just me or is it incredibly weird that the Saints HQ crib is in fact intact, and not utterly destroyed? I mean, I just watched it get blown to bits, find myself in the lobby five seconds later and when I go up, it's perfectly fine except for a few bulletholes and bloodstains. What the hell?
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sicarius posted:So I keep hearing about all these wrestling moves and other fun things, but I'm not figuring out how to... you know... do them. Running takedowns are done by holding down the awesome button and hitting attack. You can also do QTE melee attacks by pressing the left trigger while unarmed. Anal_Foam posted:After the mission "Stag Party", is it just me or is it incredibly weird that the Saints HQ crib is in fact intact, and not utterly destroyed? I mean, I just watched it get blown to bits, find myself in the lobby five seconds later and when I go up, it's perfectly fine except for a few bulletholes and bloodstains. What the hell? It's totally weird, but I also hate it when sandbox games take away something as a part of the story, because the whole point of sandbox games to me is to accumulate as much poo poo as humanly possible so I was willing to overlook it.
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I spent a good five minutes just running around on the street, doing wrestling moves nonstop (I don't know why the audio is out of sync this is like the first time I uploaded a video). It's a lot more fun than it should be.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 04:58 |
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For anyone that's tried Co-op do you hear the same song as the person you're playing with if you ride in the same car now?
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:For anyone that's tried Co-op do you hear the same song as the person you're playing with if you ride in the same car now? Nope, radios are clientside.
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Crappy Jack posted:Nope, radios are clientside. Aww, it's really minor but I'd love that feature.
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So...I'm only a few missions in and I have to say....I am kind of disappointed right now! The graphics (besides the peds) seem a bit worse, the gameplay is much more arcadey and a little glitchy, and everyone saying that the game is so short and that half of the storyline is actually doing activities is really starting to get on my nerves. This kind of really sucks. But I'll keep playing. Maybe I'll be wrong. Edited for clarification: Getting on my nerves because if that is the case...why would they do that?! VanV fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2011 around 05:05 |
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I'm having a lot of fun with this so far, although it bothers me a little that Shaundi isn't very Shaundi-esque. I know that the voice actress changed, but they also changed like her whole attitude. Girl needs to take some bong hits and chill out a little. Also, they just HAD to change the whole control scheme on PS3. The way it is now is probably better, and more in line with how most of these game types play, but after having just played through SR2 again my muscle memory is all hosed up on what I'm doing sometimes. Like my brakes are where my drift/handbrake should be so instead of dramatically skidding around corners I just politely ease down to a stop before turning. And sprint is in the wrong place, so when I get in trouble and panic I end up hitting every button except sprint and so I like, bunny hop and then toss a grenade 2 feet from myself. Which works half the type, but still, I'm like a special needs Boss right now... Having a good time though. On my way to the second mission I got distracted and stopped to do a gang takeover spot which got way out of control and led to me sprinting helplessly toward the mission marker after every car in the vicinity had already blew up while a helicopter shot at me and I yelled "aaaugh SERPENTINE" as I dodged bullets.
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Remind me again who voices Shaundi? For some reason I keep thinking it's Laura Bailey doing her voice.
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Crappy Jack posted:I don't think Money Shot exists, the people talking about it were talking about the Money Shot DLC items they got with the strategy guide. No, Money Shot definitely exists in some form. There was a leaked video of it a while back. It was some kind of slow-mo bullet-steering sniping game. Unless you just mean that you don't think you can purchase it anywhere, in which case you are correct.
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It feels like it's harder to shake gang notoriety in this game than SR2. It's not long before they start busting out their heavy troops when I go on a gang killing spree and I just try to take down as many as possible until I dropkick myself into a car and drive to a nearby safe house. I definitely feel like I get into more gang fights than I did in SR2. It's fun.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Remind me again who voices Shaundi? For some reason I keep thinking it's Laura Bailey doing her voice. Danielle Nicolet now.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Remind me again who voices Shaundi? For some reason I keep thinking it's Laura Bailey doing her voice. Danielle Nicolet. Laura Bailey does Female Voice 1. And yeah, she's too....I don't want to say sober, but yeah. Shaundi was always just chill. She had your back, but girl loved to get stoned. New Shaundi has your back, but....well, that's about it. There's a passing reference to getting stoned and having an ex, but aside from that, you really could have made her an entirely new character and just said "Yeah, Shaundi's running poo poo back in Stilwater while we're here".
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My buddy Vangelus hosts a show over at the Cape Radio, and apparently he and his friend DJ Enigma were referenced in an SR3 mission. http://vangelus.ca/2011/11/16/saint...haaaaaaaaaaaat/ He's not exactly like, a super internet celebrity but he's really excited this has happened and he wants to know who he can thank for this... How does he go about finding that out?
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Do we have a list of cheat codes yet? I remember a list of what they all were leaked out before the game, but do we know how to actually get them? E: Never mind, found one! E2: But it doesn't look like it has all of them that were in that leak...no zombie pedestrians cheat or anything... TheJoker138 fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2011 around 05:23 |
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