Saints Row 4 now has a Game of the Generation Edition - Polidicks

[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;41606602]A lot of games still ARE doing this.[/QUOTE] That's my point. Games have been doing this forever and NOW people decide to bitch for no reason

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;41603187]Its fun for 12 year olds. There really is no humor in this, unless you count fart jokes and cusswords as funny.[/QUOTE] I enjoy lowest common denominator humor. I'll laugh at this just as soon as I'll laugh at Dr. Strangelove. I'll watch the original Justice League cartoons just as soon as I'll read Heart of Darkness. Just because you enjoy humor that could be considered simple doesn't mean you're stupid or need to feel ashamed. Just because you don't enjoy the humor doesn't mean you have a duty to look down on the people that do and have a misplaced sense of intellectual superiority. Of course that's never really been the humor in Saints Row. The humor in Saints Row is about how the game takes everything up to eleven but the characters play it totally straight. Everything is whacky and ludicrous except for the plot and characters themselves. It's a total deconstruction of games of this genre.

[QUOTE=zeromancer;41606634]They ain't ramming jack shit down your throat, it's not exactly like they are forcing you to pay for it.[/QUOTE] Have people just forgotten how to read today? Its actually a perfectly reasonable statement, I guess I just offended the elitists that actually don't mind blowing a wad of cash on them. Soul Reaper's reply is just an edgy irrelevant jab that completely missed the point of what I was trying to say. I think special editions like this one are a crock of shit and I can't understand why anyone would buy them. This is a direct criticism of the product quality itself, not the business.

[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;41607509]Have people just forgotten how to read today? Its actually a perfectly reasonable statement, I guess I just offended the elitists that actually don't mind blowing a wad of cash on them. Soul Reaper's reply is just an edgy irrelevant jab that completely missed the point of what I was trying to say. I think special editions like this one are a crock of shit and I can't understand why anyone would buy them. This is a direct criticism of the product quality itself, not the business.[/QUOTE] So it's okay when literally everything else does it (Music CDs, movies, sports stuff, etc) but not for games? It's something the developers are offering to big fans of the franchise. Literally everything does this nowadays.

I don't generally buy special edition stuff, but this is really tempting That display case is too ridiculously overdone to pass up.

Never played a Saints Row game due to my OCD and not having a 360.

Is it weird that I think this actually looks pretty fucking sweet? I mean, I personally wouldn't drop the money for it but still, the Wub Gun replica, a "Red Button", a Gat figurine etc, that shit looks fly

the game of the generation thing is obviously a joke but I can't help but feel that SaintsRow3 had actually been TRYING to be funny by being whacky and over the top, not in a "who gives a fuck way", then realized it wasn't really funny and so increased the whackyness even more to make it seem like they're parodying themselves literally cringed at the cutscenes that tried too hard

Any pre-orders for it yet? or am I to late :v:

[QUOTE=crazycory65;41608950]Any pre-orders for it yet? or am I to late :v:[/QUOTE] You can preorder it now. It doesn't come out until August 20th.

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;41603187]Its fun for 12 year olds. There really is no humor in this, unless you count fart jokes and cusswords as funny.[/QUOTE] You could literally say the same thing about GTA or any game developer who wants to add some ridiculousness into their game, the whole point of Saints row is for it to be morally wrong and to stir controversy, its pretty much softcore, open world Postal

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41602623]Okay: you are wrong. The game is [I]supposed[/I] to be ridiculously over the top. The series has never tried to hide the fact that it is outstandingly goofy, has it? It's the entire point of it. The ridiculous elements are what keeps it from being just be a Grand Theft Auto Clone. It's fun, it's silly, it's stupid, and it's totally aware of the fact and completely shameless about it. That's basically why I like it.[/QUOTE] Maybe I just got a sick up my ass, but the more I see being "stupid on purpose" and "deliberately over-the-top" used as a excuse, the less I buy it. Maybe at one point I would have bought into the whole "guilty pleasure of laughing at something stupid" thing, but now I all see it as is an attempt at taking easy, low-effort writing and passing it off like look how we don't take ourselves so seriously like all those other games!" Well I saw just because you do it with a wink and a nudge and call it "self-aware," doesn't mean you're still not taking the path of least resistance.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;41610505]Maybe I just got a sick up my ass, but the more I see being "stupid on purpose" and "deliberately over-the-top" used as a excuse, the less I buy it. Maybe at one point I would have bought into the whole "guilty pleasure of laughing at something stupid" thing, but now I all see it as is an attempt at taking easy, low-effort writing and passing it off like look how we don't take ourselves so seriously like all those other games!" Well I saw just because you do it with a wink and a nudge and call it "self-aware," doesn't mean you're still not taking the path of least resistance.[/QUOTE] Saints Row 2 had a wonderful story for a game and was also deliberately over the top. Just because a game is silly doesn't mean that the narrative automatically has to suffer. The premise of the game is silly at face value but I'm willing to bet that the actual characters will play it straight, and it might be as serious as 2 in places.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41610550]Saints Row 2 had a wonderful story for a game and was also deliberately over the top. Just because a game is silly doesn't mean that the narrative automatically has to suffer. The premise of the game is silly at face value but I'm willing to bet that the actual characters will play it straight, and it might be as serious as 2 in places.[/QUOTE] Borderlands 2 made the same claim, and while it did sort of good for the most part, there were definitely places where that dissonance between the two parts made both suffer, and the writer said he wanted it to not be as silly as SR3 specifically.

I understand that there are people who enjoy it but Saints Row 3 was one of my personal biggest disappointments in gaming. 1 & 2 remain a couple of my favorite games because of a near-perfect balance of over-the-top plotlines, raunchy humor, and fun gameplay. Not to mention Saints Row 1's multiplayer modes, I have so many great memories with friends from that. Then SR3 came out and just farted out the most uninteresting game experience possible. I don't know if it's me or what but owning the entire world and flattening hoards of absolutely useless enemies with purple dildos became massively uninteresting immediately. Combined with the complete lack of a plot, complete disregard for any character personalities, and the off-screen death of the only remaining moderately interesting character and I couldn't wait to get the game over with. Thankfully the devs were kind enough to only make the campaign like 7 or 8 hours long.

[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;41612130]I understand that there are people who enjoy it but Saints Row 3 was one of my personal biggest disappointments in gaming. 1 & 2 remain a couple of my favorite games because of a near-perfect balance of over-the-top plotlines, raunchy humor, and fun gameplay. Not to mention Saints Row 1's multiplayer modes, I have so many great memories with friends from that. Then SR3 came out and just farted out the most uninteresting game experience possible. I don't know if it's me or what but owning the entire world and flattening hoards of absolutely useless enemies with purple dildos became massively uninteresting immediately. Combined with the complete lack of a plot, complete disregard for any character personalities, and the off-screen death of the only remaining moderately interesting character and I couldn't wait to get the game over with. Thankfully the devs were kind enough to only make the campaign like 7 or 8 hours long.[/QUOTE] That's mostly thanks to THQ butting in and trying to change things. The reason so many characters from the first 2 games were absent in the third, is because Killbane was originally going to nuke Stilwater, but THQ said it was "too dark" so they took that out. Volition couldn't go through and rewrite the whole thing to have those characters, so they just disappeared. Volition has said that Deep Silver hasn't done anything like that in SR4, and that the writers have taken measures to have a genuinely good story despite the "super-powered president fighting aliens" deal. also gat comes back and so does stoner shaundi

[IMG]http://puu.sh/vS02[/IMG] Can't wait. Not that the game is shit but I just use every moment to post this.

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;41603187]Its fun for 12 year olds. There really is no humor in this, unless you count fart jokes and cusswords as funny.[/QUOTE] Oh silly me I forgot you played the game already. Was it really that bad?

[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;41607509]Have people just forgotten how to read today? Its actually a perfectly reasonable statement, I guess I just offended the elitists that actually don't mind blowing a wad of cash on them. Soul Reaper's reply is just an edgy irrelevant jab that completely missed the point of what I was trying to say. I think special editions like this one are a crock of shit and I can't understand why anyone would buy them. This is a direct criticism of the product quality itself, not the business.[/QUOTE] Maybe people actually enjoy the game that much they want maybe a few extra stuff from it? Or maybe they want to support the developers a bit more?