Posted on: January 25, 2025

Ruzuchi

Games: 316 Reviews: 6

Decent third person sandbox, GOG botched

It's Saints Row. What am I gonna say. If you know what Saints Row is like, I don't need to say anything, if you don't you should probably not buy this game blindly. What I WILL say though, is that this version seems to be somehow botched. Not to say that the experience I remember was anything stellar, Saints Row on PC was always a secondhand experience, with the ports being... not well ported. My issue lies with the bugs though. I've sank about 3-4 hours into my current playthrough - I'm not far into the game. Meaning, not much savefile/scripting spaghetti to get tangled and cause stuff to bug out "naturally". Hence, obviously, this release is not the best. I've encountered an odd funny glitch here and there in my 4 hours; cars being stuck vertically in roads, enemies despawning or phasing into existence out of nothing... the usual. Just now though, I was driving, exploring, drove through a puddle THAT WAS KNEE DEEP AT MOST, and my car behaved as if I jumped off a pier into the sea, forcing me out, with the car despawning. Okay...? So I run the rest of the way to my intended activity, when a ped starts randomly attacking me. I kill them, and Morningstar suddenly starts hunting me, literally spawning 3 cars of enemies out of nowhere. Running low on ammo anyway, I run rest of the way to my trafficking activity. This progresses okay, I do 3 out of 4 drops, when at the last drop, Pierce just bugs out and stands in place, not moving, not even attacking, just shouting his oneliners, LITERALLY 10 METERS AWAY FROM THE DEALER, who also will not budge. After killing all the Morningstar, they stop arriving as well, so I'm stuck: can't finish the activity, can't fail it, can't do anything. Alt+F4, writing this review. 3 stars because the GOG version seems WAAAAY buggier than what I remember playing. If this continues next time I play, I'm refunding.

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Posted on: November 20, 2016

sixsixfive

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 9

Broken...

Wont start since its missing the Mf.dll - welcome to my list of broken games

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Posted on: August 26, 2024

Curadh

Verified owner

Games: 318 Reviews: 8

Brain candy

I've tried Saints Row 2 multiple times, and it is missing the dedication to absolute silliness that 3 has. It is a product of its time, though, and it's definitely got its problems as a piece of media that is not socially aware at all outside of a goal of being fun. The voice acting is really good, the humor is on point, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. All high recommendations for a relaxing and destructive romp. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a great game to waste some braincells on.

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Posted on: January 16, 2024

Richard LXI

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Games: 142 Reviews: 2

Good, not great

If you’re a completionist do ALL of the Saintsbook activities before you conquer all territories and defeat STAG. When it comes to the story choices just approach them from an RP perspective – the actual in game benefits of each one are marginal. Saints Row 3 was where the rot in the series began but at least the PC port is decent and the gameplay is largely just an improved version of what Saints Row 2 had. The story is the second worst after the reboot while 4 just sits in the middle as okay and 2 remains the best of the bunch in this regard. Get this and not the remaster as the remaster has tons of poorly applied post-processing effects and drastically, unnecessarily done art style shifts.

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Posted on: March 6, 2024

Draugusto

Verified owner

Games: 484 Reviews: 208

Still fun, not much of an improvement

Let's cut to the chase. If you think a sequel should build upon a game, I got some good news and some bad news for you. The good: +Better graphics overall. + Better animations, now with melee takedowns. + Weapon upgrades. +Character upgrades are no longer tied to activities so you don't need to be a completionist to access them all. + boats and flying vehicles are a lot more maneuverable and actually fun to ride. + more enemy variety with specialists and brutes. But if you look closely you'll notice some unwelcome changes: - The story is still ridiculous and cinematic, but the moment I saw my character jump into a moving plane trough the windshield, mid air, and not die, I knew the writers didn't give a f***, SR2 was silly, full of tropes and steoreotypes, but it carried some drama with the detahs of Aisha and Charlie, or the fantastic end to the graveyard mission. Not here, is all explosions, action set pieces and buddy cop comedy, but with gangster. - You'd think the wardrobe would be vastly iimproved, and it is in some ways, but there are no longer Slots for shirts, coats or sock, is all integrated into "upper body" or "lower body", and if you don't like the combinations, well, it sucks to be you. - The audio of the vehicles is absolute garbage, motors are barely audible, you can tell when the audio loops and sometimes it bugs out and keeps playing the wrong clip, like ending a slide, but your car keeps doing the screeching noise afterwards. - You take damage during takedown animatios. There are some minor anoyances that are not really that important: - The "wanted" meters now cannot fall under 1 if an enemy is in your radar, doesn't matter if they have line of sight or if they are stuck on the other side of a building. - The addition of a "sex appeal" slider in the character creation is a welcome addition, but I'd exchange it in a heartbeat for a character height slider. - Escort and snatch activities are as frustrating as before. - no custom weapon colors

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