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Saints Row 4 Thread: Supervillain Sandbox Shenanigans! Get it August 20/23!

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  • Erin The RedErin The Red The Name's Erin! Woman, Podcaster, Dungeon Master, IT nerd, Parent, Trans. AMA Baton Rouge, LARegistered User regular
  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    I am liking this game, but the city feels pretty lifeless.

    The city has as much life as it did in SR3. It's just that you're spending most of your time jumping over it and barely giving it enough time to load in people before you've super-leaped off to your next adventure. So, you don't really notice the ants that you land on each time.

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    edited August 2013
    There's no incentive to interact with people.
    Also, the city literally IS lifeless. You are trapped flying around in your own personally simulated hell.

    LTM on
  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    I am liking this game, but the city feels pretty lifeless.

    I personally think it still feels far more lively than most RPG environments in which NPCs just stand around in different corners, doing nothing.

  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    no one reacts to my compliments anymore :(

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    LTM wrote: »
    There's no incentive to interact with people.
    Also, the city literally IS lifeless. You are trapped flying around in your own personally simulated hell.

    this isn't an excuse! People keep saying this, but that doesn't effect how fun it is to play in.

    Like, there not being a night/day cycle makes everything look so dull, it just switches between blue night in your neighborhoods and black night in alien neighborhoods.

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    I wasn't meaning that for or against the environment. Just that it isn't GTA, where the ambient AI needs to be engrossing, interesting, and mutable.

  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    LTM wrote: »
    I wasn't meaning that for or against the environment. Just that it isn't GTA, where the ambient AI needs to be engrossing, interesting, and mutable.

    and it don't make you feel bad about sucking them up in your wake

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    Right, lol. I just unlocked that.

    Hilarity.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Yeah. While I had fun with SR4, it also made me respect how important those little touches can be in making an open-world game.

  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the lighting for a regular day-night cycle or if a lot of city textures are tied into it.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Heffling wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    I am liking this game, but the city feels pretty lifeless.

    The city has as much life as it did in SR3. It's just that you're spending most of your time jumping over it and barely giving it enough time to load in people before you've super-leaped off to your next adventure. So, you don't really notice the ants that you land on each time.

    I think Adam Sessler made a good point in his review.

    The fact that the game is a simulation of an simulation(a video game) and not just a sim in itself really goes a way towards how you interact with it.

    Like usually in these kind of games I try to limit my collateral damage as much as possible, not so much in this one.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    mild Mid-game spoiler
    After the plane sim turns out to be Shaundi's hell, rather than Gat's, and rescue Shaundi, something happens and there are tons of old gangs running around your sim raising hell.

    It is a ton of stupid fun, especially if I freeze blast enemies and their vehicles, then do my improvised death from my above, because I don't have the official DFA power, which is done by jumping really high then doing the super-stomp.

    I'm holding off on doing the next mission because I don't want this chaos to end.

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Yeah. While I had fun with SR4, it also made me respect how important those little touches can be in making an open-world game.

    Going from SR2 to SR3 taught me that in a manner similar to slamming into a brick wall at 120 miles an hour.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the lighting for a regular day-night cycle or if a lot of city textures are tied into it.

    You unlock day lighting when you finish the game

    It looks like shit

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    is the game still super broken or has it been patched again?

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I do miss the sun.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    So... has anybody seen anything about this? because I don't see anything on their site or twitter, or even any news sites, ONLY the saints row mods site...

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    about...what

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    about...what

    The Steam patch that supposedly breaks guns

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    So... has anybody seen anything about this? because I don't see anything on their site or twitter, or even any news sites, ONLY the saints row mods site...

    about...what

    The Steam patch that supposedly breaks guns
    JMan711 wrote: »
    Just read this in G&T and want to let everyone here know: the latest patch has broken the guns and has a chance of corrupting your save. So for the time being don't save your game.

    Here is the quote from IdolNinja:
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    The latest Steam patch severely breaks weapons. In the past Saints Row games, this would permanently corrupt a save if later removed/fixed. DO NOT SAVE YOUR GAME UNTIL FIXED.



  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Yeah, again, that's the dude who runs the Saint's Row modding community. But there's noting on the official SR twitter, or Kotaku, or anything anywhere except that as far as I can tell

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Posters in G and T are saying things are messed up in their games.

  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    I've been playing a few hours so far tonight and nothing has been amiss, that I can tell. But just to be safe I'm playing in a different save other than my "main" one

  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    I saw people complaining the steam discussion forums for SR4 too

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    The part that is censored is
    The fact that you gain power-ups from smoking drugs.

    That's why that mission has to not be in Australia.
    "Drug use tied to rewards" is the specific reason, yeah. It's why GTA V's drug use is acceptable because it obviously doesn't provide any in-game benefit. Maybe the mission will altered down the track if Volition are feeling charitable.

  • Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
    So I just powered through the rest of this.

    I expected almost none of that and it was all great.
    Also the reveal of the narrator was great.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    from the G&T thread
    grouch993 wrote: »
    This bug thingy is making me not even want to try to play the game. Has anyone seen any official word on the bug/fix/whatever?

    From their twitter:
    Saints Row ‏@SaintsRow 45m

    If you encountered weirdness after yesterday's Steam patch, we are testing a fix as we speak and hope to have it ready asap.
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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular

    #5 is straight-up wrong

    Saints Row 4 is basically about Saints Row 1, 2, and 3 coming together

    You kinda need to have played at least Saints Row The Third to play this one

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    I have to say, I really hope they're done referencing anything pre-The Third after this, except in broad strokes

    Because who in the living fuck cares

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I have to say, I really hope they're done referencing anything pre-The Third after this, except in broad strokes

    Because who in the living fuck cares

    yo

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I have to say, I really hope they're done referencing anything pre-The Third after this, except in broad strokes

    Because who in the living fuck cares

    hey

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    I actually plan to go back and get a ps3 on the cheap some day for other reasons and when I do that I want to go back and play the first two saints row

  • InvisibleInvisible Registered User regular
    I haven't had time to play past the intro, but best intro ever. When the music kicks in, it's so over-the-top it's fantastic. That was enough for me to consider this money well spent.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I have to say, I really hope they're done referencing anything pre-The Third after this, except in broad strokes

    Because who in the living fuck cares

    sup

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited August 2013

    sounds like the author was determined to hate SRIV

    not his cup of tea, fine, but the brusque style of his writing crumbles any bearing his opinion might otherwise have on mine

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    "will plunder for plunder" is my favorite gag

  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »

    sounds like the author was determined to hate SRIV

    not his cup of tea, fine, but the brusque style of his writing crumbles any bearing his opinion might otherwise have on mine

    wait what? the whole article is praising the game

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the lighting for a regular day-night cycle or if a lot of city textures are tied into it.

    You unlock day lighting when you finish the game

    It looks like shit

    lol if you play on anything other than Noir or ASCII mode after you beat the game

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