....What is this I don't even. I can't believe you people haven't told me about this freaking game! First mission is heisting a bank vault. Not a bank robbery, you straight steal the fucking vault, then have a gun fight while dangling from it, which is dangling from a helicopter. Goddamned right.

Second mission you're in a plane, and you actually jump out, and then shoot out the window and skydive back THROUGH the fucking thing.....

It's unrealistic as shit, and I couldn't care less. Will buy it legit as soon as I get my tax refund. Get it. Now.

 

Yeah, it's fuckin' great, though I tend to think of it as a parody of a video game and the entire industry...

It just happens to be more fun than most other games.

 

You think that's weird, wait until you see the animal rights activists who chase you in a car with missile launchers while you beat up a tiger in your car.

Or the Tron world where a chick turns you into a giant toilet for being an ass to her.

Weird shit goes on in this game.

 

I've played this game to hell and back. The penetrator is a hilarious weapon and running around with a hit squad of strippers armed with rocket launchers is amazing. One of the later missions in the game in which you impersonate somebody had me laughing like a maniac for a week.

Unfortunately the game does get quite a bit easier as you reach higher respect levels in particular because of invulnerabilities and unlimited ammo. At the same time though on hardcore I am not so sure some of those later missions can be completed without invulerabilities and unlimited ammo.

Also... MURDER TIME FUN TIME and CASH IN POCKET!

 

To be fair unless you are grinding to an utterly absurd degree you typically won't ever reach those upgrades until well after you finish the game. I beat the entire game a while ago and I only just now got enough respect to unlock those when I was playing through Genkibowl.

 

Really? On normal I definitely got all those upgrades by the time I was 2/3 of the way through the game. On hardcore it was a lot more difficult, but still I think I've got maybe a dozen missions left give or take and I have most of the upgrades.

 

I just bought this, plus all the DLC made for it, plus the preorder bonus, for 31 bucks.

http://store.thq.com/store/thq/en_GB/pd/Saints-Row-The-Third/productID.233244200

Go there, make sure your region selected is the UK. It'll show £19.99 which converts to 31 something. Take the keys they give you and enter them all into Steam for Region free playing. Retarded cheap for all of it. Piracy wouldn't be needed if games were fun, priced with some sort of sanity, and had access to good demos. I played this game for 2 hours and had to get it, but was going to wait awhile. 31 bucks for everything? Yes please, right goddamned now. Digital downloads ftw. That being said, why the hell is it 31 bucks on the UK site and like 50 on the America site, and 50 bucks in the retail box. Annoying.

 

On the Cyber Bike it is boring as fuck and frustrating but I love the motorcycle you get if you beat it all so its entirely worth it to me.

 

It was fun. Really stupid fun. I clocked in about thirty hours over the summer. One of the things I hated was that I couldn't get one of the photo ops in the area after it had been infested with zombies.

Also, it gets really stupid and pointless once you max out stuff weapons and health. I had an endless stream of rockets blasting cops but once I walked down a block my notoriety was gone.

Even though it's open-world and stuff, it doesn't have a lot of replayability past a certain point. There are subtle differences in the story dialogue if you change the personality/voices and it's pretty funny sometimes, but not worth playing through. The different choices during the story didn't change much since I never called in homies or anything.

Still, ridiculous stupid fun.

 

I love that game, it's Grand Theft Auto with all the pretentious bullshit stripped out. Just straight up fun. So many awesome lines and set pieces. Missed it while it was on sale over Christmas though, so I've been looking around for a good deal since then.

It's showing up at £34.99 on THQ's site for me, so I guess Midknight managed to catch a sale that I missed. Cheapest I can find it now is around £18 (Play.com), but that's without any of the DLC. I'll probably hold out for a Steam daily deal or something.

 

Fun. Unlike any other game right now its pure, unbridled, over the top fuuuuuuuuuuun

 

I love the pistols you start out with, the silver ones. Dual wielding fully upgraded pistols with almost instantaneous reload time (not unlocked instant reload yet) and large magazines makes me pretty much unstoppable. That said, the bling shotgun is awesome too, especially at close range.

I really liked the VTOL that you get at your helipad. Flying it is just pure awesome. I only wish the heli homie would deliver any of your flying machines to you, not just some stock helicopter.

I wouldn't say the penthouse is the best house. The Safeword has all the facilities the penthouse has, plus it's filled with strippers. :3

The tiger thing was decent (not something I'd replay but meh) but the cyberbike one really pissed me off. It didn't help that, due to autosave shenanigans and a couple of ill-timed CTDs I had to play through it like thrice. Heli Assault (that's the one where you cover Kinzie as she hacks into the Decker servers, right?) would be decent, but twice the stupid bitch got her car stuck in a telephone tower near the third location, necessitating a restart. REALLY frustrating.

At the end of the day, though, I loved it. I thought Skyrim was awesome while I was playing it, but then I got this and it blows every other game out the window. Leaving aside how incredibly fun it is, pure unadulterated enjoyment, even the combat was designed exceptionally well. For all Skyrim talks about the Civil War and the sons of Skyrim shedding each others' blood, it never really felt all that epic. Every single mission here involving STAG feels like a real war, with you running around shooting down dozens of heavily armoured soldiers and vehicles, requiring strategic use of short and long range weaponry as well as ducking for cover to recover health or stamina.