Saints Row: The Third, Cockpunches, jetbikes, VR combat and cockpunches. And pink mohawks. Options

[Stahlseele]

Damn it ray, you are making me want to buy this game even more <.<

[CanRay]

...And Carlos?

It's a running joke that Lin is still around and killing. Didn't see anything about Carlos, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything.

Damn it ray, you are making me want to buy this game even more <.<

That sound I'm hearing is your budget screaming in terror.

It will lull me to sleep tonight...

[Stahlseele]

yeah, and i wanted to be more carefull with my budget . . it's down to 6k€ by now <.<

[CanRay]

Yeah, well, I'll put it this way... It's thirty times the awesome that Rage was in 1/3 of the discs! Over ten hours just for the storyline, more than enough to pay for itself on my "Scale of entertainment/cost equation". (Yes, I actually have one. Rage failed on it by 35%. Saints Row: The Third paid for itself with the radio stations and advertizements alone.).

And I get to play it again to entertain family and friends. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Stahlseele]

*sigh*
ok, when i have my next pay check, i'll try and see about aquiring this ._.

[Critias]

I have it and I can't play it.

I always have to leave some awesome stuff -- like Saints Row, Arkham City, Skyrim -- for my wife to get me for Christmas. In the case of SR3, though, THQ had a pretty sweet preorder deal going (some free DLCs), that I knew would save us a couple bucks if we bought it early. So it's bought. It's mailed. It's arrived. It's sitting right. over. there.

And I can't play it.

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[Stahlseele]

why not?

[CanRay]

What Stahl asked? Is it the violence? The over-the-top nature? Computer requirements?

[Critias]

Because she made me promise to wait 'till Christmas to open it, 'cause it's supposed to be a Christmas gift. We only bought it early to get the good deal on the DLC...so there it sits, taunting me. Taunting me.

[CanRay]

Because she made me promise to wait 'till Christmas to open it, 'cause it's supposed to be a Christmas gift. We only bought it early to get the good deal on the DLC...so there it sits, taunting me. Taunting me.

Oh, well, in that case... *Slasher Smile* I beat the storyline.

[Stahlseele]

Because she made me promise to wait 'till Christmas to open it, 'cause it's supposed to be a Christmas gift. We only bought it early to get the good deal on the DLC...so there it sits, taunting me. Taunting me.

Dude . . that's . . kinda not fair O.o
Also: you bought it, torrent a version somewhere and play that when she's not looking.
Nobody will know!

[CanRay]

Nobody but yourself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[hobgoblin]

Seems there is a surprising love for the STAG Condor around the web.

[Critias]

Dude . . that's . . kinda not fair O.o

I know! This is what I get for trying to be nice, and leave her some cool video games to buy me, so she's all "I'm the cool wife, I bought my hubby ______ for Christmas." People wonder why I can be dickish sometimes, and it's because I get punished with frustration and misery when I try to do nice things for my own wife! With these kinds of mixed signals, isn't it no wonder that I can get snippy? I could be shouting dragons off mountainsides right now, bat-a-ranging sociopathic thugs, and pimping out a murdermobile, in an assortment of universes, and instead I've got the worst case of videogame blueballs the world's ever seen, because these are games that I know are in my house -- my house! in my name! -- that I'm not allowed to play.

I'm wearing her down, though. We invariably bust out a sort of pre-money barter system in the weeks leading up to Christmas. If I bust out one of her gifts early, we'll likely trade and I'll get to snag one of my games ahead of time (and if I do, it'll be SR3, because I think it's the least likely to absolutely suck me in and keep me from worrying about real life).

So we'll see. Maybe by this time tomorrow...

[X-Kalibur]

Wow, that takes cock blocking to a whole new level, Critias.

[Stahlseele]

Just good that my girl is a cute little nerd herself and never would do something like that to me . . not because she ain't cruel, because she totally is, but because she would be the first to want to play the games ^^

[hobgoblin]

i really need to find a life partner like that.

[Stahlseele]

Everybody does . . i still don't know what she sees in me that makes her stay with me . .

[Critias]

Woohoo, talked her into lettin' me fire it up!

I forwarded her her email notification about the special 1-year recruitment gig I got her for World of Warcraft (so she gets the swanky new mount, gets Diablo III for free, and gets into the next WoW beta), and then I guilted her into letting me play Saints Row by calling it a trade. Muwahahaha!

So far, I'm diggin' this game. I yoinked a cop car and pimped it out in Saints colors, then thought bigger; snagged a Humvee, instead (turret and all), and pimped it out in Saints colors. Then I just drove around cackling maniacally and menacing the city for, uhh, like three or four hours.

[Stahlseele]

Woohoo, talked her into lettin' me fire it up!

I forwarded her her email notification about the special 1-year recruitment gig I got her for World of Warcraft (so she gets the swanky new mount, gets Diablo III for free, and gets into the next WoW beta), and then I guilted her into letting me play Saints Row by calling it a trade. Muwahahaha!

So far, I'm diggin' this game. I yoinked a cop car and pimped it out in Saints colors, then thought bigger; snagged a Humvee, instead (turret and all), and pimped it out in Saints colors. Then I just drove around cackling maniacally and menacing the city for, uhh, like three or four hours.

Ah, i see somebody is a master of the marital arts *snickers* ^^

[CanRay]

Woohoo, talked her into lettin' me fire it up!

Master the "Bo-Duke-En" yet?

[Critias]

Master the "Bo-Duke-En" yet?

Yup. Just a few hours of casual play last night, only did the first mission or two (got the penthouse suite, then stopped "working"), mostly just romped around murdering people and that sort of thing.

Is there some trick to the "streaking" mini-mission? I've been making progress on several others (driving on two wheels, running over pedestrians, headshots, nutshots, driving the wrong way, etc), but even when I decided to run around butt naked for a while, I didn't receive any time towards that particular goal.

[CanRay]

That's the one thing I haven't done yet.

You're still in the "Tutorial" missions stage, BTW. The next set of missions opens up the "Mini-Games" like Escort and Snatch and the rest of our favorites from the previous games.

[Critias]

That's the one thing I haven't done yet.

You're still in the "Tutorial" missions stage, BTW. The next set of missions opens up the "Mini-Games" like Escort and Snatch and the rest of our favorites from the previous games.

Ah, okay. So just gotta grind away at the main missions a little more, maybe? It's just throwing me off, because other of the mini-game stuff (driving on two wheels, driving the wrong way, power sliding, etc) are tracking progress, but the streaking one just isn't. I don't wanna be running around naked for no reason! It makes me cringe extra every time I wipe out on a motorcycle and go skidding down the road.

And I don't have favorites from previous games, as this is actually my first taste of the series.

[CanRay]

Then you're going to love this. Especially as you don't *HAVE* to do them unlike the previous games. (Respect wasn't a leveling system, you had to earn it to propel the storyline. It made sense in the first game where you were the new guy that people didn't even know the name of and had to put in work to prove yourself, less sense in the second where you were the damned BOSS.).

Honestly, I miss the FUZZ minigame, where you dressed up as a cop and was filmed doing Saints Row version of COPS. "Hippies are sitting around peacefully. Disperse them. With a chainsaw."