SAINTS ROW 4 (Zero Punctuation)
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I played as an anime girl with the voice of Nolan North. I don't think you can get any better than that.
+Sans the Skeleton
damn, i played as Roddy Piper with the voice of a girl dying of throat cancer.
FirstDragonSlayer Oh shit o_o
I did the exact same thing
i played as the hulk cosplaying as the mysterious stranger with a voice like he smoked up all the cigarettes in the world.
I played as Goku.
To be fair, the entire time you're hiding in a box, your character is saying how stupid it is.
"SHOOT THE LIGHTBULB SO YOU CAN SHOOT THE LONE GUARD"
I’m 4 years late, but I feel it only counts as a parody if the moment you shuffled past a guard they’d say “are you brain dead?” And immediately opened fire on the box
@@taydrew2577 either that or if the guards acted completely and absolutely braindead, I'm talking they don't spot you unless you walk right in front them with your gun out, with your character mentioning this and the radio support character going "it's for balance, we couldn't give them very good line of sight"
@@Axl4325 exactly, go one extreme or the other, don’t just do what Metal Gear Solid did and say that you’re doing it ironically this time
Just because a game admits it's bad doesn't make it good. It just makes the people who made the game dicks.
“At least stand behind it with a derogatory face” Isn't that what they did with dialogue? “That light had a FAMILY, Asha!”
Honestly, I like the antagonist’s intellectual posturing; singing in the car with Pierce, the doofy side missions (especially the cheesy NightBlade references and Matt Miller’s total fanboy freakouts)…
Is it a stupid game? Uhhh. Kinda?
Does it play like a bunch of thirteen year olds were loaded up on Red Bull and told to just start spouting off what would be cool in a video game?
Yes.
Is it still fun as hell and I have wayyyyyy too many hours into playing it?
Definitely!
And then they went to Hell.
@@grabble7605 best part of that game was the ‘Damned Soul’s Orientation Guides’ you find everywhere. And the lounge-chair rocket launcher was kinda fun as well.
That said, kinda hoping the SR5 announcement in February isn’t gonna suck.
@@DrTranofEvil Worst I've seen regarding SR5 is honestly just the horde of shrieking babies imagining PC boogeymen. Most of the actual game planned seems to be just what people wanted, a return to SR2's customization and gang story and everything. 'Course it's still got a lot of SR3 style mixed in 'cause Volition has a segmented fanbase to please here.
3:46 You actually can listen to the radio when you're not in a vehicle, Yahtzee. Simulation and all that.
Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays) He didn't say that you can't, he said there's just no reason to use cars, so the music wouldn't be much use.
Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays) that was his point wasnt it? given you dont need cars you can access the music anywhere....
I may have misunderstood, but he said the whole point of cramming the licensed music during story missions was because they realized nobody's going to use cars (and therefore car radios) when they have super powers.
To which I reply: "But you can use the radio any time, including when you're outside a vehicle."
Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays) I'm actually really happy that you can play music anywhere.
+Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays)
His point was basically it takes out the point of having it. The previous SR's had a valid reason for it. Roleplaying you'll be able to explain away hearing music and switching between it. Now it's basically you hear it outside the fourth wall and your character has nothing to do with it. (I.E. radio)
"So after you fly across the city and sprint up a building, you perform 50 story powerbombs onto dudes dressed as giant hotdogs, as opposed to grandmothers."
"God bless you mister president."
I lost it...
Professor Nebula I read this right when he said it and it made the line x10 more funny.
It took three days to make that potato salad! THREEEEE DAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!!!
I understood that reference.
@@realgamergirl4638 I didnt. care to explain? please
@@joaquinmarichal SpongeBob
I think Volition made a mistake in releasing Saints Row 4 as soon after 3 as they did. Between that and it using the same city, people think its just a lazy rehash, when in actuality the gameplay is the best the series has ever seen, as is the humor arguably. The customization is pretty good as well, still not at SR2 levels, but damn if this isn't a sandbox game done better than any other in recent memory.
Every time I see comments like yours I just facepalm in my mind. I think it was total ass but the game was pretty good.
They should have just made it DLC like they were originally going to. Making enter the dominatrix its own game was a bad idea.
***** THQ Shut down when they were doing and Volition didn't have the funds, I was surprised to see a SR4 but I am very happy I did.
That's the thing though, it WAS just a lazy rehash. It started as a DLC for SR3 that they decided to turn into a full game.
My problem with Saints Row 4, is the lack of realism. Being a game, not having a completely realistic world is fine. In fact, I think they went a bit too realistic with GTA 4 and 5. Saying that though, SR4 has almost none. When I play an open world game in a GTA-style city(pedestrians, cars, cops, etc), I like there to have some realism.
As an example, using something like what Escapist said in a SR2(or 3) video, i think. GTA4 would have you run over an old lady, and she would realistically roll over you car and lie on the ground helplessly in pain. Where as Saints Row would have you run over an old lady, she'd fly in the air, do 4 backflips, and knock a bird out of the air. BUT, even if it was exaggerated in Saints Row, it had the realism to it. She might have did 4 backflips in the air, but she ragdolled, and had some proper physics. Sure, that's still in SR4, but doing it in a weirdly blue and orange tinted Virtual Reality, in a car that's entirely pointless to use when you can basically fly, it just..doesn't feel the same. It doesn't have any resemblance to realism any more.
txfnero There is a bit of realism in the fact that everything is just a simulation. And to be fair, Saints Row 3 did have zombies. So it's not like the series has been known for realism.
"You see, it takes a lot of care to make a game seem carefree"
" Yeah fucking copy that down wikiquotes!"- Yathzee Croshaw
"You see, it takes a lot of care to make a game that looks completely care free. Yeah! fucking whrite that one down wikiquote" 4:57 You got it wrong mate.
I'm not gonna lie. I basically role played this entire game and saints row 3 as Laura Bailey from Funimation. Next I'm gonna be Nolan North. Gotta love casting directors.
I just referred to my character as Nolan the entire time through.
Awesome.=)
I role played Bruce Willis. It was great.
Bruce Willis! Fricken awesome!
That's amazing, I really love the creativity. ^^
What Yhatzee forgets is that you get to choose to cure cancer or end world hunger BEFORE the aliens.
"But that light has a family!"
I think he undercut that Metal Gear mission just a tad.
Players cry when CoD, AC, Fifa, Madden release same shit all the time.
Players also cry when a game starts as a knock-off and then takes their own direction, instead the same shit again.
What?
as you have apparently noticed, there is more than a single group of people who exist, well done.
No matter the choices of the developers, some people will be unhappy. Their goal is to reduce the amount of unhappy people.
JuliusAkavirius Even if it means crapping out games that are nowhere near completion, like say....*coughs* AC Unity *coughs*
COD AC FIFA and Madden are all at atleast 10 games. Saints row is only at 4 and could still have made more gang based games before saying fuck it after two. That's the problem people have.
MRMONKEY232 If it had continued doing that gang-simulation stuff, it wouldn't acquire its own identity, it'd just be imitating Grand Theft Auto....in perhaps a less sensible world. Both series are pretty good though but I think SR made a good move in going with more ridiculous scenarios than simple gangs cause that made it an independent, individual, series.
It's funny how now we live in a world where the Saints Row protagonist would be a better president than the current presidential lineup.
i was thinking the exact same thing.
He/she cured cancer/world hunger. What do any of those candidates have on that?
+stride99
I chose to cure world hunger, because more people die of starvation in the United States alone than people who die of cancer.
Just to add, didn't the protagonist tell Gat that he/she rolled back the national debt?
+Chuksie Abani well to cure world hunger youd create an incredible number of jobs, production and shipping directly, and industry, store workers, ect. indirectly. which would make the goverment pay out less in food stamps, as food would be less expensive and take in more through taxes as more people would be working and spending money.
Zero you forgot they also parodied Chronicles of Riddick after you beat the final boss, "You keep what you kill."
Well said. A mess but a fun mess.
Lewtable You must not have gotten the real ending.
Lewtable Spoiler
Actually if you get the real ending, the leader of the saints, get access to Zyniak time machine
TheArthur1230 Oh. o_= I didn't even know there was two endings (thought the second poster was messing with me), still. I think I prefer ours. It was more random and unpredictable.
Lewtable Its pretty cool, by the way, if the descritpion in voltion site is true, The boss, became god in this game, that's some dope shit
Lewtable Pretty much, you just have to complete all the Loyalty quests for your Homies. Then you get the ending.
only reason i play saints row is so i can drive a pink and purple garbage truck thats so bright it burns your retinas, playing classical music and drive on a side walk.
its so relaxing .
Killian Sebastian Craft Driving on sidewalks is probably my favorite activity in Saint's Row...I prefer using the General's Bulldog in Saint's Row 2 so I can run over people on one sidewalk and minigun the people on the other
I want to see Saints Row 2 remade.
New engine and aesthetics, with the new less-shit-but-still-kinda-shit driving and shooting mechanics and animations of Saints Row 3 & IV, but the old fucking INFINITE clothing options, only massively revamped with the sorta-kinda Clothing physics of SR3 and IV, and the varied world of Saints Row 2.
The first two SR games and the last two SR games almost seem like two different sides of the same coin, only because of a minting error, they're two coins with only one side on each.
Also, the old cockney voice was terrible, I like this new one.
you know what pissed me off the most about SR4? You have all sorts of superpowers and shit, yet half the time you use crappy guns. I just wish they improved melee combat instead.
I guess I'm amongst the few who pre-ordered, because I got the 'merica weapon. You ain't seen overpowered as fuck till you've gotten yourself a bullet hose that fires multiple weapons at once while playing patriotic American tunes.
Matthew Barker That 'merica weapon is so horribly overpowered against bosses it's funny
Matthew Barker
DUBSTEP GUN FTW!
No matter what, my setup always includes the Explosive Blast/Telekinesis.
Saints Row 4 was just gonna be an expansion to Saints Row 3 but THQ was going to get bankrupt so THQ told Volition to make it a stand alone guy so Saints Row 4 was born and THQ went Bankrupt
"Its takes great care to make a game so carefree. Yeah, write that one down wiki quote" - perhaps the best quote I have ever heard in my life
What makes it better is that this quote is on Wikiquote...
Ok I just finished this game, and it's really good, I do like it. I have to say the ultimate highlight is the bit just before you get the final boss. The fact that they not only used that piece of music, but actually had all three lines of the quote, not just the first one. It had me cheering and happy that someone actually went to the effort of putting that in the game.
So, basically what Yahtzee is saying is that this game is more of a Suda 51 game than Suda 51 has been making in the past few years. Am I right?
So. Fucking. Right.
You can fucking reenact lollipop chainsaw in this game as a man in a cheerleader outfit with a baseball bat or to be more over the top, the fucking dildo bat...
Then 2021 comes around.
Just went through Saints Row 4 and LOVED it, especially that ending sequence when The Touch played and they made Transformers banter. That hit home for me.
I was waiting on that moment once I first heard the song on the radio. I KNEW it would come up at the finale, similar to Holding Out for a Hero was at the end of SR the Third.
I guess Saints Row IV plays a lot of Hatfall.
"Its a mess, but its a fun mess, like having ruff sex with a bowl of warmed up potato salad."
That is probably the greatest thing I have ever heard in my life.
"You see, it takes a lot of care to make a game that looks completely care-free. Yeah, fucking write that one down, Wikiquote!"
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zero_Punctuation#Saints_Row_IV
I've gotta say one of my biggest pet peeves is when you guys come into the comments of Zero Punctuation and proceed to make comments that try to sound like the video.
It's hard not to sometimes though. It's a subconscious thing for a lot of people, to talk and act like someone they just saw. It happens a lot if you hear an accent(that's not yours) for a while, you might end up saying a word or two in that accent in a normal conversation, not even meaning to. Similar thing happens just with how people act too. I've caught myself replying to a Zero Punctuation video before, with a bad imitation of Escapist. Completely on accident too.
txfnero I read that in Yahtzee's voice.
Skraith Oh for fucks sake I wasn't noticing that until now... Fuck...
This comment is like walking through a nail factory with two magnets lodged in your bollocks.
(Am I doing it right?)
I did that once. Freakin' nailed it! What a year..
I only have one small gripe with this review: the mission that he is talking about parodying solid snake isn't just a parody of that but also a parody of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. There is an entire section of that mission where all you do is shoot out lights while the protagonist mocks it.
It's the engineering student in me, but the chart bit is still my favorite ZP segment.
Mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad.
I love how your Saints Row 3 review video you talked about the company saying goodbye to seriousness, but then followed it up with not likely.
I think Saint's Row IV scratched my itch for more excitement out of a GTA-esque sandbox, without using a bunch of mods to get the over-the-top insanity that keeps my ADHD from getting all frustrated.
It's like Garry's Mod but someone actually cared to iron out some of the issues and make it look nice
Aah... this game is fucking awesome.
Or be made on a new engine.
+ＶＡＰＯＲ ＷＡＶＥ ＬＯＲＤ You can with the help of a glitch that nearly feels like it was supposed to be in the game first.
Wait, I just realized: I don't give a shit about vehicle customization in this game, because I'm super running everywhere. SR3 is for that.
if they ever make a superman game again, they should serously take a look at SR4
Agreed, the controls are SUPER tightly made, to the point where being faster than a speeding bullet and leaping over buildings is done incredibly well, and despite its super speed, the Sonic franshise can take a page out of their book too. I very rarely ran into a problem on their sandbox where the speed was excessive to the point of causing distress.
ive been waiting for THIS one
Previous Saints Row games had enemies drop food when you died, so the enemies drop health thing has always been there. It was a little contrived to use, though.
Soo..... what exactly happened to all the people who said "SR4 sucks. Go back to Sr2 style because Sr2 was good and SR3/Sr4 is terrible". Did they all die?
Haven't laughed this hard in a long time
This is so funny. I chuckled a bit at the imps getting impaled, and the song from Armageddon "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"! :D And the part when Yahtzee launches into space and sees the cosmos dressed by imps is pretty funny! :D
This video contains possibly his funniest analogy ever. Gold
extra note: australian edition is included as dlc
SR4 is a fun game but I feel like it's a game that lacks its own identity. There were far too many times with this game where I would say "Oh, like that time in Prototype?" or "Oh, like that time in InFamous?" Which for me raised the question why play the game that reminds you of games that did the exact same thing only better? In the end, I would say this game is a good place holder until the next Prototype or InFamous came out. Nothing more really.
Having played this game recently, I love it. Yeah, I know people bitch about how this franchise is ruined, but those are the fans that don't seem to like change in the slightest. The humor is wacky and over the top, which I suppose is pretty niche, but I kinda applaud it for doing its own thing.
Oh, and just in case you don't think my word seems convincing, this game is the FIRST crime sandbox game I played (even though the word crime is now crossed out and filled in with Toybox written in crayons), which means I had no context whatsoever from the previous Saints Row games. But by the end I was deeply bonded with the entire gang, knowing their backstories and everything. It's actually a pleasant feeling.
No, its not that they hate change, it's that they hate change that makes the recent entry of the franchise NOTHING like the games that made them fans in the first place.
You started with SRIV. Great. You didn't go through becoming a fan of the characters, setting and plot of the original two only to see it utterly discarded in the third game and then have the final game not even being a Saints Row game. It's like being a fans of a series that you got into which had a nice mix of serious plot and comedy. Then all of a sudden it's turned into a full blown sitcom, removing almost everything you loved about it in the first place. And then it becomes something that can't even be considered part of the series anymore
I myself started with Saints Row 3 and hated the plot and its in-your-face-humor but enjoyed what little genuinely fun gameplay there was. I greatly enjoyed Saints Row IV though because the plot was structured better, they knew they were going for comedy with a few serious moments, but I understand the fans' frustration with it. Hell, I myself would prefer it if they kept it similar to Saints Row 2.
People liked calling SR1 and 2 GTA knockoffs and that SR 3 and 4 now have their own identity. No. No, they don't. There's nothing about Saints Row IV that's unique to it. It's become nothing more than a collection of game and movie parodies and references and that is not an identity. It's not Saints Row anymore. Its Volition's "Video game and movie parody games, starring characters from Saints Row"
Danthepest1
I guess the criticism of Saints Row 4 being a mishmash of references is a valid one, Yahtzee mentioned it himself. In my personal opinion though, if a reference feels in place even without context, it is all right for it to stick around.
I wouldn't say that it doesn't have its own identity, sometimes what makes a game good isn't necessary how it is original, heck I'd say it is virtually impossible to come up with an idea without somebody somewhere having done it before, but if a game puts a bunch of set pieces together nicely, it deserves a reward of its own.
I can see where fans of the first two Saints Rows are coming from. Saints Row 4 is kinda shit if you judge it as a crime sandbox, but I'd say as a GAME it does its job pretty well.
Of course, I'm not saying that it's perfect. The problems I have are of the technical variety, I'm sure many people are heavily annoyed by the closing doors in "The Real World" chapter.
You say "Yeah, I know people bitch about how this franchise is ruined, but those are the fans that don't seem to like change in the slightest." (Which is false) but then say it is your first "Crime Sandbox" ever. So how can you logically think you can analyze and insult the fans of Saints Row when this is your first? It makes no sense. You make a wide, overly encompassing insult about actual fans of a franchise because you only ever played, and like, the worst game in the series. Good job.
Also, you know nothing about the gang members or Saint Row if you are only going by what Saint Row IV gives you.
Corey Hammond
I have a knack for observation. But fair enough, I guess when you put it that way I sound like a dumbass xD
GTA San Andreas and the Saint Row Series will always be cathartic fun...
I can't be more on your side on this one... A lot of my friends just couldn't comprehend the metric sh*t ton of "WTF'Ness" this game was intended to show...
I Loved It, from the start to the end...
The reason your health regenerates in the final boss fight is because it takes place in reality. The simulation has the “get health back from killing enemies” thing.
Saints row 2 greatly improved Stilwater making it more vibrant than it was in Saints Row 1 with hidden islands, caves, underground malls, university campus where the pedestrians match as college students, etc. Steelport in SR4 isn't very different than SR3 other than the neon alien theme and the high rising alien structures planted in various spots around the city.
The thing about Jonny Gat, I feel like you might be missing the sub text of It a bit, not that their is much to go on from the game more so from historical fact and references. The say in the game that Johnny is the most dangerous man to have ever lived, essentially good at killing and hard to kill, he seems like a messiah to the protagonist and other main characters, because he is, I would assume lots of mythological heroes had groups of people they relied on and who relied on them, the difference being we are watching it from an outsider perspective, in context anything could be seen as someone taking a piss, from inside where they are desperate and down a long lost friend who is the Hercules of gang related crime he probably is quite the sight of sore eyes. That said, I doubt anyone would enjoy playing a game about a mythical hero where you play the hero's best friend with more charisma and better decision making ability, it undermines the core of that hero being cool, the same effect could likely be brought upon other more loosely established heroes.
I really can't say Saints Row 3 and 4 sucks....but Saints Row 2 will forever be the best Saints Row with the most replay value and a city that felt really alive.
It sucks so much that the p.c port is just awful!
***** even with the gentlemen of the row mod, the game never elevates above "playable but with shit loads of bugs".
@@dxBIGBOSSxb, Cool kid very cool.
I can't wait to see his review on Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell. :D
He thought this game had Johnny Gat Jesus imagery?
Scythe Seven Well, Johnny is killed in the game and Shaundi, and your main character, NEVER drop it in short. Pierce kinda does, with his game of chess but a new friend you get suggests cool-down time and your guy is just work work work KILL!
I'm about half way through the story and i have to say this game is about 60% nostalgia and fanservice. If you played the other games of the series you'll find something funny or even mildly touching in almost every main quest, and it even ties up some loose ends that kinda disturbed me in SR3. I enjoy the game very much, but also i can't say Yahtzee isn't right. Sucking away your powers in almost every important quest is cheap (and partially illogical because the superpowers are supposed to not exist in certain simulation worlds you need to visit in order to save the other captured humans, but your enemies can use them unlike you), but it also makes you less overpowered against enemies who usually take one hit of your maxed out fireball before they die, now you have to use a bazooka to one-hit them or shoot them multiple times to kill.
One last point: I think the whackyness isn't on a "madmadmad" level, simply because the whole game is about you being inside a game inside a game, and that legitimates all crazy bullcrap any hacker, game designer or modder can come up with, just because IT'S A GAME (inside a game). Your buddies on the ship literally take data you collect to program whacky shit into the matri- into the simulation, which is basically modding (only without Steam and Bethesda making you pay for the results).
i think i saw a green check mark in there somewhere, totally checking this out!!
I can 't believe this great game was so long ago now lol
Review outlast please :)
Yea, I agree for the most part. Seemed like there were magnets stuck to the end of those bullets, especially with enemies equipped with sniper rifles. Course on the other end of the complaints, you could also take advantage of the minor sight glitch that basically let you shoot anytbody from around a corner without the enemy being able to get a bead on you and thus not even bother to return fire until they're further out in the open.
......They might want to fix that next SR game.
Couple points seemed to go under the radar this time around. You can listen to the radio wherever (it's a computer simulation so this makes sense), and you only get the health pickups for murder in the computer simulation. All the real world missions still have regenerating health, which makes sense in context.
The powers and the overpowered veicles/weapons enhanced the fun, but spoiled the challenge.
I liked it, but it was really too easy.
(but still love it as a game for everything else)
Also, Johnny Gat is ALMOST perfect... he can't dance :]
-BETMARK-
Im over powered in all saints row games considering i put every cheat know to man in them. My main pleasure is running people over in a hot pink and purple garbage truck while listening to classical music on the radio.
BETMARKonTube play on hard mode
Vehicles in SR4 so pointless, enjoyed modding cars in SR3 but why would you bother in SR4, what's even the point in money?
clothing and upgrades
#sweg
I didn't hear the second half of the review due to aerosmiths' 'Don't want to miss a thing' playing in my head.
Theres another reference when your in the big mech suit for the first time in the alien mothership the repair kits were money in Red Faction Armageddon
Don't diss the "Gat!"
I think that the moment you think too much about math is when your first though when seeing that sine wave graph from 2:06 is:
"Hmm, I wonder what the function is?"
If you disregard the first period, it looks as if it is a legit function. But without a scale its useless to even try.
for the metal gear solid parody they did more with the box if you read the sides is says "snake inside"
Yahtzee you can listen to the music on foot though. It was probably one of my favorite features in a sandbox game. Good music and you dont have to be in a car!
I just lost all interest in the series after 3. I LOVED SR2. It was awesome. You could tell it originated from a GTA knockoff, but it has its own character and themes to it. The best part, however, was the humor.
I enjoyed SR3 and loved playing through it; but eventually it all just grew stale. For a while I wondered why I just couldn't bring myself to play it anymore while I'll still go back to play SR2. The answer is that SR3 is too crazy. The joy of SR2 was that it was set in a world that tried to take itself seriously, but you were playing as an over-the-top character. So when crazy things happened, it's because you made them happen. It was out of place and hilariously ridiculous. In SR3, however, the entire world is just insane. Yeah, it'll all be funny the first few times; but after a while it'll just be "Oh, hey, that happened again. How funny."
Not to mention the customization in SR2 compared to SR3 was just through the roof. I appreciate Saints Row's new-found obsession with tigers, but everything else about it just bores me now.
I agree pretty much 100%, but I found SR4 a lot more fun than SR3.
Ishkaga02 As did I
I'll agree SR2 was the best, imo. I loved it the most of the series and easily over the srs and chorish nature that was GTA IV. It took the fun of GTA: San Andreas and removed some of the worse aspects (i.e. Zero missions and the flight school. I realize flying planes or remote control helicopters takes a lot of skill. But this is a mainstream video game, not a flight sim.).
However, in the long run, I think their move into more "popcorn" gaming was probably the right one. GTA V corrected a lot of the wrongs the series had built up (the flight sim from San Andreas, the driving sim crap from GTA IV where you'd fly out a window going 45 and die). GTAV easily trumped their past work and I'd like to think at least a small bit of that was seeing people turned off by IV in favor of SR2.
Also, I'll admit SR4 was easily better than The Third (absolutely loved Saints of Rage). My only real issues with 4 was that it was really short and a bit too easy, even for a popcorn game. I did enjoy playing both, though, which is more than I can say for GTA IV.
Oh and an aside, I sort of hope the next SR is labeled with the five done in the prison wall style of "IIII" with a / through it. They did 2, The Third and IV so they've done a different numerical style everytime.
Mitch Awesomefoot You know why I like this game? After playing through the Mass Effect series, I can fire this game up and bust a gut laughing my ass off as Shepard (male and female) says and does the most off the wall shit in a parody of *The Matrix*.
ive heard that a lot however saints 3 was hilarious I remember I picked up saints 2 on steam and the game would not work like it was in fast forward all the time but saints 4 is very funny also it just really drops the ball with the story
Jews in the Underground Railroad? I think you got those historical periods mixed up
+ECL28E i think he meant to say the germans escaping the potato famine of Ireland in 1845 :D
Nah mate, these aren't normal Nazis. These are time traveling future Nazis.
Adam Poole With mechas. And lazer guns
thatsthejoke.jpg
I spent half the final part of the final boss fight running around the outskirts of the arena, other than that I'm usually riding a bike pointlessly, going on massacres to fight a warden several times over, kicking stuff in the nuts or killing things with for the love of simulations DUBSTEP!
You can turn on the radio while running around through the weapon select screen
are you going to ever close those quotes?
So where will the franchise go next? Maybe we'll see a full-length parody of Mass Effect, that would be fun!
Honestly, I see the franchise going back to SR3 style stuff. I mean, the aliens and whatnot was originally just a DLC idea for SR3. Meaning it's probably just a side thing in the main story of things. My best guess, is SR5 would go back to the real world cities without aliens and things. I'd love to see SR5 redo what SR2 did. Keep the bit of realism, but with it's own style of comedy. (Plus upping the customization would be nice)
txfnero or you'll play in hell
Fairy Forfeit Princess I thought they said Gat out of Hell was an add-on for SRIV? I was talking more along the lines of Saints Row 5. Unless I'm wrong. I've seen very few things about Gat out of Hell, and I've heard both that it's a full game, and that it's just an add-on. I just heard it was an addon more.
txfnero Its a stand alone game, but, not a full one, It's like, far cry 3 blood dragon
txfnero they said saints row 4 was the last one :(
I liked the all of the games but theres just those f uckers saying 2 IS BETTER BLAAAH! where they dont grasp why saints row 2 is better than 3&4...its because after 2, they realized they couldn't compete with GTA and formed a plan to make it a parody-like game instead
SR3 did have the option to get health back by killing people (Grab and quick kill).
I was strangely reminded of his Painkiller review.
'A fun mess' with 'A stylish unsophisticated shooter'
Who the hell warms up the potato salad first?
Classy people
"Having sex with a warmed up bowl of potato salad" ._.
+Neo Politan "twatting people into orbit with giant floppy cocks"
+Neo Politan You haven't seen much of Zero Punctuation have you? In fact I bet you haven't seen much a Saints row ether.
+Sponnick I have! I'm actually a huge fan of both ^_^
Neo Politan I'm sorry, carry on then...
thank you sir
Very true that a mass amount of collectibles can become stale when there are so many but honestly there are many other things that I didn't articulate that made SR2 Stilwater very interesting. What are your suggestions for making an open world interesting? I apologize if you stated them previously and I didn't catch it.
I miss old saints row don't get me wrong saints row 4 is my second favorite SR game but I hate the people that called SR2 a GTA rip off but it wasn't it was special
+Cattywampus They're just idiots who say that.
tell me what the difference was between sr 1 and 2 and gta other than the characters and story?
There alot of differences too many to name, Im sorry if you think there the same because of what you can do in the open world
too many to name? youre funny. they are literally the same. If you say their are too many to mention than that means there are none that are significant enough to mention
yes, sr is a far superior game, but it doesnt make it any less of a clone
WHAT IS LOVE?!
BABY DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME....
+DeadheadYates "This is my JAM!"
Says the president while covered in alien goo ass naked inside an alien ship that is inside an alien mothership while running away from aliens
But how the fuck does this alien ship have a radio that has that exact song
They Haddaway to put that song in, so they did.
DeadheadYates no more
my favourite thing about the final boss was his spine got glitched onto my hand for the final cutscenes, had me cackling
On Point!
I think... I think he liked this o.0
Ahhh yeah is pretty obvious.
What zero punctuation is in Australia?! Awesome! Also zero punctuation I completely agree that Australia is to much of a nanny state with these things. Yes it's good to keep your I on it but don't put 10 million laws on it that make it pretty make impossible to play.
hamza fuldagli I know. Look how long our dumbass government took to give us 'adult' games (18+ games). For so long they treat us like little children who, according to them, weren't mature enough to play adult games like Americans can.
csgrambauer The Australian government is the most paranoid government I've ever seen. And I'm not talking about the Liberals. Don't get me started on them and Abbot.
hamza fuldagli
Lol oh Abbot yeah. xD But I know, it's ridiculous how they've treated us concerning games. I think in their small, feeble minds, videogames were only a thing for kids. I think it blew their minds that adults can play the games too and those same adults want adult games to play sometimes.
csgrambauer Well Abbott did say people only use the internet for cute cat videos and that's why he didn't increase the national internet speed. It tells you something about Australian leaders.
hamza fuldagli
Oh I already know about our leaders and how incompetent they are. Lol.
How to describe all the games
SR1: GTA clone
SR2: Sample lines of cocaine
SR3: Big lines of cocaine
SR4: GIMME THE ENTIRE BUCKET!
SR1: GTA SA clone*
this song hits harder than something that hits with a reasonable amount of force.......
Only reason I never will get this game i even I really enjoyed the 3 one mainly because I love games that let me mess around. but I hated steelport. steelport I found very dull. so when I found out the new guys used the same city I was like god no. and never got it
Yeah, I agree Steelport is crap and it's one of the many reasons why The Third was a disappointment, but in SRIV it just doesn't matter. You could be running around Milton Keynes and still have a blast with your superpowers and the unpredictable turns the plot takes.
I've been watching this for the past hour now and I still haven't subscribed maybe its because of the lack of punctuation or maybe its because I can't focus on what ever the frick I'm actually supposed to be doing again and oh crap I'm freaking emulating this guy (Rock guitar music)
The series definitely jumped the shark on this game, but that doesn't stop me from loving it.
anybody else notice his alien gun at about 2:50 looked curiously like the alien blaster from fallout: new vegas?
you really need to stop predicting things yahtzee it's scary new dlc for saints row 4 gat out of hell. le sigh.
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I hope that was ironic.
Wow, this dude talks almost as fast as the Micro Machines guy. lol I didn't hear a word he said. But his Australian accent is sexy though. ;)
That wasn't an Australian accent, it was an English one. He's English but moved to Australia years ago, and I don't think the Australian accent has started to kick in yet from what I can hear.
He doesn't even sound remotely Australian...
SuperKillerpie Fuck, a typo, I mean't hasn't.
As an American, I can't really pick up on the difference between English, British, and Australian. I didn't mean to insult anyone. I'm sorry.
There is no such accent as British or English. there are many accents in England and even more in the whole of Britain.
Lol that Snake face made me die of laughter for some reason
I didn't notice any plotholes, and I liked the serious yet whacky nature, it was great. SR3 was just crazy enough for me to enjoy it, but they took out the awesome clothing customization I loved about 1 & 2, and then 4 was just a copy and paste of 3 with like 4 or 5 more vehicles, no water texture, and super powers (which made cars obsolete) I play SR for a fun gang open world experience, I play prototype for a power fantasy. They should not be mixed.
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To me, the Saints Row series went downhill. I'm sure there's plenty of people that like 3 and 4, I'm not saying they're bad. I'm saying TO ME, I don't really care for them.
Saints row 1 felt a bit too much like a GTA Clone. The style of humor, the way the game just looked and felt. I felt almost exactly like GTA, if a different company made it. Which wasn't bad, it did a good job at being GTA.
Saints Row 2 came along. It was similar. GTA clone. But with more comedy and sillyness. It's like they saw how GTA4 was coming along, and decided since it was being all serious and grey, Saints Row 2 should be funny and colorful. But it kept enough realism that it was still fun to mess around.
Saints Row 3. They decided to go full on sillyness mode. Upped all the random and "what?" moments. And removed a lot of the realism. And, like he said, made it more arcadey almost.
Saints Row 4 just removed every bit of realism the series had left. Turned into Crackdown with comedy. And just..surprisingly became more boring to me. The lack of realism removes the fun to me. I like my games to have some realism, even if it's exaggerated like in 2 and 3.
GTA4 and 5 went a bit too far on the realism side of things. But Saints Row 3 and 4 went a bit too far in the other direction. Sticking somewhere in between(SR2) would have been better in my opinion.
TXF Plus the lack of FORCED wackiness lets you add your own rules and wackiness. Since your character never acknowledges Carlos after his death, I decided to make one of my characters show his grief........by murdering anyone who says "Carlos"
Please tell what makes Saint Row a GTA Clone
YES PLEASE!!!!
Personally I find the best additions to this sort of game, especially a saints row game, is better for lack of a better word arenas. Some areas of the city are badass to fight in, such as the rooftop on arapice island, or the three count (before it becomes a crib). Making the enemy A.I. better at entering the interiors of buildings and designing exteriors to be fun to fight in should probably be ranked above the more unusual things, though the more the merrier, so both would be godly.
I never liked Gat. He was always completely uninteresting.
Personally i thought this game was wank
+Silimus The fun sort of wank
+darkshard117 wanking is fun after all
i put my cock in a dress
You can just feel how much Yahtzee would like to have hated it, but even he couldn't quite manage.
i liked it but i still got the overpowered feeling when they give you unlimited sprint 4 or 5 missions in and while it makes a good flow i soon realized that i could upgrade my stamina but had no more use for it however the enemies did enough damage that i was glad to have that unlimited sprint so i could run around collecting health and money