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Saints Row: The Third - Hulkamania runs wild in Steelport, brother!

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  • CrapfestivalCrapfestival Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    There is a level of insanity in that last screenshot which is logical only in the context of this game.

    I am so damned excited for this.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    crazy guy with a octopus bazooka, people with octopusses on their heads, furries being set on fire, strippers dancing, a motorcycle doing a wheelie and a guy being launched out of a car mounted man cannon.

    Yeah, thats Saints Row.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    That sneaky Volition marketing department! :lol:
    http://www.destructoid.com/saints-row-3-google-ad-tells-you-for-forget-uncharted-3--205906.phtml

    EDIT:
    For the people who can't get to the site:
    Saints Row 3 Google ad tells you for 'forget Uncharted 3'

    A series of Google advertisements from THQ are suggesting that you forget about the competition and "strap it on" with Saints Row: The Third. When doing Google searches for high profile games such as Uncharted 3, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Battlefield 3 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the ad had a chance of sneakily appearing.

    "Forget [Whatever game you typed in]. Strap On Saints Row: The Third For The Most Over-The-Top Videogame," read the ad.

    It's pretty rude, but THQ has pulled this stunt before. Earlier in the year, it hijacked Google ads in Battlefield 3 searches in order to promote Homefront and call it "The biggest shooter of 2011."

    THQ, you're a very naughty boy!

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh man. I REALLY hope I can pre-order this now. This stuff is just so crazy awesome.

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    heenato wrote: »
    Oh man. I REALLY hope I can pre-order this now. This stuff is just so crazy awesome.

    The game comes out in 17-ish weeks.

    If you have any kind of employment, that's about 8.5 pay cycles.

    Doing the math, you need to drop less than $10 a check to have the basic game fully paid off between now and release. Should be easy enough.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    yalborap wrote: »

    The game comes out in 17-ish weeks.

    If you have any kind of employment, that's about 8.5 pay cycles.

    Doing the math, you need to drop less than $10 a check to have the basic game fully paid off between now and release. Should be easy enough.
    Cept I've never actually HAD a job, thus cant get unemployment.

    But I dont' want to derail this with anything like that, so I'm not really surprised that THQ is having adds like that for Saints row the third. The did pretty much the same thing with GTA4 when advertising Saint's row 2.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm sure folks have seen this before, but it's not in this thread so...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3TrUPEAKM&feature=fvwrel

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm sure folks have seen this before, but it's not in this thread so...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3TrUPEAKM&feature=fvwrel

    Sure it is. It's part of the Saints Row 2 section of the OP.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm preordering that SO hard, and I am not the type to pre-order PC games.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I love the Volition devs so much:

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Robbing a bank with everyone wearing comically massive Johnny Gat masks

    including Johnny Gat

    Then falling out of a plane

    sounds pretty amazing

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I wonder who the chick on the laptop and wearing an fbi jacket in the cgi trailer is, clearly from her behavior and prominence she must be a new saint.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dox the PI wrote: »
    Robbing a bank with everyone wearing comically massive Johnny Gat masks

    including Johnny Gat

    Then falling out of a plane

    sounds pretty amazing

    Isn't it you are making a deal and then it goes south so you and Gat jump out of the plane? I don't remember a bank robbery in the beginning.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Lets be certain to spoil every last detail for the one person who didn't see the article.

    My favorite part was when the boss stopped his tank to save a box of kittens from the river.


    But man, that opening sold me in text.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Basil wrote: »
    Lets be certain to spoil every last detail for the one person who didn't see the article.

    My favorite part was when the boss stopped his tank to save a box of kittens from the river.


    But man, that opening sold me in text.

    Firing prostitutes into a wall? Funny.

    Running over kittens in a tank?

    Dude, not funny. D:
    Until you do it anyway, you sick bastard. :lol:

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Edit: Doh, already posted. I feel dumb.

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Whoa what the fuck. Worf is Maero? WORF IS MAERO?

    Now I can't unhear it and it's awesome.

    EDIT: I kept thinking "Who the hell is that pimp? Some character I haven't met? Oh, wait, that's some IMPOSTOR. The Boss wears suits. Real suits. Like a man."

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My mind got blown harder finding out that Jin from Lost is Johnny Gat. That's like a Luke Skywalker/The Joker level of character disconnect.

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  • mwoodymwoody Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Wait... Wait what!? But that guy doesn't speak Engl- oh, well done, Hollywood. You got me again.

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  • DietarySupplementDietarySupplement Still not approved by the FDA Dublin, OHRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My mind got blown harder finding out that Jin from Lost is Johnny Gat. That's like a Luke Skywalker/The Joker level of character disconnect.

    This. I watched Lost long before I played SR2; no every time I watch Lost I just think he's going to start murdering people at random on the island.

    Which, the more I think about it, would have been more entertaining than 50% of the episodes!

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  • HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    uhhh
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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    uhhh
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    That "uhhh" better be you feverishly masturbating. That's the only acceptable response to the glory that is this screenshot. :winky:

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dude flying through the air in the background makes it. No wait, the dancing ckicks do! No no, it's the Genki mask...... No the Octopus mind-control masks........ I can't decide!

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My one complaint I hope they fixed is making the mini-gun an ACTUAL impressive weapon. The early screenshots make it seem a lot beefier, which I hope is the case. In Vice City and SR2, the mini-gun is a joke.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    My one complaint I hope they fixed is making the mini-gun an ACTUAL impressive weapon. The early screenshots make it seem a lot beefier, which I hope is the case. In Vice City and SR2, the mini-gun is a joke.

    Both the minigun and flamethrower were fixed in the Gentlemen of the Row mod to be the death dealing super weapons they should have been in the first place. :)

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    uhhh
    89825_saintsrow3wtf_normal.jpg

    That "uhhh" better be you feverishly masturbating. That's the only acceptable response to the glory that is this screenshot. :winky:

    The only thing that screenshot is missing is everyone in it singing 'Take On Me'.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    uhhh
    89825_saintsrow3wtf_normal.jpg

    That "uhhh" better be you feverishly masturbating. That's the only acceptable response to the glory that is this screenshot. :winky:

    The only thing that screenshot is missing is everyone in it singing 'Take On Me'.

    I think that's what the boom box is there for. :D

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    uhhh
    89825_saintsrow3wtf_normal.jpg

    That "uhhh" better be you feverishly masturbating. That's the only acceptable response to the glory that is this screenshot. :winky:

    The only thing that screenshot is missing is everyone in it singing 'Take On Me'.

    I think that's what the boom box is there for. :D

    GLORIOUS

    I want to reiterate my hope that not only will singalongs return in SR3, but when playing coop both Bosses will do a duet.

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The guy in the Genki mask is from a race of giants!

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    uhhh
    89825_saintsrow3wtf_normal.jpg

    That "uhhh" better be you feverishly masturbating. That's the only acceptable response to the glory that is this screenshot. :winky:

    The only thing that screenshot is missing is everyone in it singing 'Take On Me'.

    I think that's what the boom box is there for. :D

    GLORIOUS

    I want to reiterate my hope that not only will singalongs return in SR3, but when playing coop both Bosses will do a duet.

    If, and that's a big if, this feature makes it, Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio is mandatory.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Well. Looks like preorder is up on steam. You can throw money at them now.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • BlainBlain Registered User regular
    Done and done. After the fun I got out of SR2 for what, $5? They deserve it.

  • MorkathMorkath Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I'm trying to give them money, but they won't shut up and take it.

    Something about service unavailable.

  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    Have the PC requirements been released for this yet? The urge to pre-order is strong, but not strong enough for me to be foolish like a child

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    TeeMan wrote:
    Have the PC requirements been released for this yet? The urge to pre-order is strong, but not strong enough for me to be foolish like a child

    You can cancel preorders.

  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    But he can't cancel the gnawing shame in his heart.

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  • SoulGateSoulGate Registered User regular
    The shame of canceling a preorder for Saint's Row the Third? Yeah, that's a pretty heavy shame.

    I've seen shame like that get passed down through generations. His children's children will tell their children about the time great-grand didn't preorder Saint's Row 3, and how it marked their family with shame.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    You know what? My birthday is coming up early next month...I was going to buy Alice: Madness returns, but I might just have to put the money down for this.

    Oh god, I don't even know if I'll be able to run it.

    M A G I K A Z A M
  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Aaaaaand it's vanished from the UK store, too much greatness for Steam to handle the game being available in all the regions at once? I think so.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    heenato wrote:
    You know what? My birthday is coming up early next month...I was going to buy Alice: Madness returns, but I might just have to put the money down for this.

    Oh god, I don't even know if I'll be able to run it.

    I think we all know which insane person would be more fun to play as.

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