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Is the PC port of Saints Row 2 good? Steam has it for $10.

Nah, it's honestly terrible. It crashes waaaaaay to much and the cutscenes are out of sync if you play anything above 30fps. I bought it last year, and honestly it's just better to play it on the xbox.
 

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Nah, it's honestly terrible. It crashes waaaaaay to much and the cutscenes are out of sync if you play anything above 30fps. I bought it last year, and honestly it's just better to play it on the xbox.

I figured the port was bad. I saw some of the steam reviews complain about the crashes.

I hope Saints Row 5 is a reboot and takes place after 2. They need to forget 3 and 4 and expansions for those games ever existed.
 

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I figured the port was bad. I saw some of the steam reviews complain about the crashes.

I hope Saints Row 5 is a reboot and takes place after 2. They need to forget 3 and 4 and expansions for those games ever existed.

Same man. I bought SR3 and I was extremely disappointed. The only reason I even played the 4th game was because it was free.

Like you said, they need to go back to the games roots. Maybe even some type of internal conflict within the gang since you pretty much own Stilwater at the end of the second game.
 

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My first game in the series was 3, which I thought was cool for the pure fukkery going on :manny:. I remember when the 360 was coming out a couple of my boys were :banderas: at Saints Row coming through to crush GTA - I didnt have a console so I was hating hard lol
 

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Same man. I bought SR3 and I was extremely disappointed. The only reason I even played the 4th game was because it was free.

Like you said, they need to go back to the games roots. Maybe even some type of internal conflict within the gang since you pretty much own Stilwater at the end of the second game.

If THQ does an actually reboot then Dex should be the main villain since he gets ran out of Stillwater by the protagonist and the Saints in Saints Row 2.
 

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If this new one is a complete reboot from the ground up then fair enough I’m with it

But if they plan on this being a direct sequel With the same characters & previous story the best thing they can do imo is pretend that everything after The Saints claimed Stillwater at the end of SR2 never happened, and call it Saints Row 3, I think they could easily get away with this since literally everything after is universally seen as awful by fans and when people stopped taking it seriously, along with the 3rd one not even officially being called Saints Row 3 (Saints the 3rd)

They could still build an entire new city and have the plot be you and Gat leaving the lieutenants to run the Saints in Stillwater while you and Gat try to expand the Saints and build business in this new map with a plan to Make the Saints country wide, still nowhere near as far fetched as your character becoming president and going to war with aliens :yeshrug:
 
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I had worlds more fun with this than I did GTA 4. SR2 was the spiritual successor of San Andreas. I played through it at least three or four times and its actually surprising at how much content they hid within the game. Finding the secret ending with Julius(?) was :wow:





I loved SR2, which is why SR3 was such a monumental disappointment. They completely jumped the shark with SR4 in their effort to distance themselves further from the tag of a "GTA Clone" and the series suffered from it. SR2 found a great balance between serious and absurd. It had a distinct charm (Stilwater had charm, the protagonist would sing his/her favorite songs, the supporting cast was strong & charismatic,) and it sort of inexplicably flushed it all away with the third entry when they tried to fix what wasn't broken. Love this game and its easily in my top 5 from the Xbox 360 era.
 

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I had worlds more fun with this than I did GTA 4. SR2 was the spiritual successor of San Andreas. I played through it at least three or four times and its actually surprising at how much content they hid within the game. Finding the secret ending with Julius(?) was :wow:





I loved SR2, which is why SR3 was such a monumental disappointment. They completely jumped the shark with SR4 in their effort to distance themselves further from the tag of a "GTA Clone" and the series suffered from it. SR2 found a great balance between serious and absurd. It had a distinct charm (Stilwater had charm, the protagonist would sing his/her favorite songs, the supporting cast was strong & charismatic,) and it sort of inexplicably flushed it all away with the third entry when they tried to fix what wasn't broken. Love this game and its easily in my top 5 from the Xbox 360 era.

SR3 was so trash its unbelievable, CACs will argue with you its the best SR game

Mucha Lucha ass nikkas, Hackers and a Celebrity gang? Retarded.
 

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I had worlds more fun with this than I did GTA 4. SR2 was the spiritual successor of San Andreas. I played through it at least three or four times and its actually surprising at how much content they hid within the game. Finding the secret ending with Julius(?) was :wow:





I loved SR2, which is why SR3 was such a monumental disappointment. They completely jumped the shark with SR4 in their effort to distance themselves further from the tag of a "GTA Clone" and the series suffered from it. SR2 found a great balance between serious and absurd. It had a distinct charm (Stilwater had charm, the protagonist would sing his/her favorite songs, the supporting cast was strong & charismatic,) and it sort of inexplicably flushed it all away with the third entry when they tried to fix what wasn't broken. Love this game and its easily in my top 5 from the Xbox 360 era.

I always was curious if the development team changed from Saints Row 2 to Saints Row the Third. Or maybe THQ had more influence on the direction of Saints Row the Third.

If this new one is a complete reboot from the ground up then fair enough I’m with it

But if they plan on this being a direct sequel With the same characters & previous story the best thing they can do imo is pretend that everything after The Saints claimed Stillwater at the end of SR2 never happened, and call it Saints Row 3, I think they could easily get away with this since literally everything after is universally seen as awful by fans and when people stopped taking it seriously, along with the 3rd one not even officially being called Saints Row 3 (Saints the 3rd)

They could still build an entire new city and have the plot be you and Gat leaving the lieutenants to run the Saints in Stillwater while you and Gat try to expand the Saints and build business in this new map with a plan to Make the Saints country wide, still nowhere near as far fetched as your character becoming president and going to war with aliens :yeshrug:

The Saints have unfinished business with Dex. Also I think they should have one new city and Stillwater.
 

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Cities expand and change all the time. It can still be done in Stillwater.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. They should have never gone totally off track. I totally agree they should nullify the subsequent sequels and go back to what most of the fans really want - just like what some movie series have done. I never saw it as a GTA clone personally.

Get the old Shaundi back, keep Pierce, keep Johnny Gat obviously, get the black chick's voice option back again, get rid of all the aliens/demons/angels bullshyt, bring some new street gangs, get back to the dangerous, gritty hood shyt of Stillwater - even the same graphics but new and improved. I wish Ayisha didn't get killed though.

All they need to is expand on what was already there and they got another classic on their hands

Make Saints Row Great Again! :blessed:
 
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