I have 2 Computers that cost, together, about 5000€ . . If those can't run it something is WRONG <.<

Heh, my dumb-ass neighbor laid his hand on a pirated copy. The trick is, it's a DVD image of the retail discs, and the PC version uses Steam. This means, nobody is going to be able to install it, to say nothing about playing, before the release date.
And that's an anti-piracy measure I can live with.

Why am I getting this game? This is why.

Got it.

Yes, it's very Pink Mohawk!

Canray... Just you wait. Youll meat the Mayor. THEN you will think its the greatest game ever made.

Was that intentional, or a typo?



-k

Given the game...I could see it going either way. Guess it just depends on if your Boss is male or female.

Meat = meet. Blame autocorrect.

Well, there is the giant purple floppy sex toy bat thing. That counts as meat right?

Having just finished the main campaign, I found it monumentally fun. The end comes fast, but its awesome. Also... zombies.

Not too fast, I hope. I bought it to get the taste of Rage out of my mouth.

I'm looking forward to this one. Have to say the GTA 5 teaser trailer sucks compared to the SR3 stuff Ive seen.

It's because GTA5 is aiming for a kind of "The Sopranos" mood, while SR3 just wants to headbutt hookers in the ovaries and blow shit up while running naked through the main street.

Looks like GTA for loons

Is it a good idea to pick up the first two games before this one?

You don't have to, but there's a good bit of backstory and references to them, as well as the history of knowing how the Third Street Saints became the giants they are. Such as why So-And-So hates the Saints so much, and quite a few names that are spoken about, and, of course, Benjamin King's movie (Based on the book that came out in Saints Row 2.). It starts out as a GTA Clone, and then just ramps up the Pink Mohawk Attitude. There's even a Magician in Saints Row 2! It's like Stilwater/Steelport are on heavy Mana Spikes and there's lots of Adepts around!

It also makes Johnny Gat and the Protagonist (Playa/Boss) feel that much more bad-ass. They're both available on the X-Box Marketplace, Saints Row 2 is available on the PS3 Store, as downloads. Good luck finding a copy of the first Saints Row for PS3 that's in playable condition. I'm thinking of hitting up EB Games to see if I can find Saints Row 2 used in a good condition, as there's DLC out for it that I didn't play (And I want to enjoy the game again.).

Hold on. A MAGICIAN? You mean, that creepy-ass Sunshine dude? Considering what you need to off him, I'd rather say he was a pissed-off loa or, worse, a shadow spirit. Although I guess that loa ain't the friendliest of the spirit bunch anyway.

Exactly. Possession-Based Magician.

Honestly, Saints Row is "Shadowrun's Past".

I don't do consoles, but it looks like Saints Row 3 at least is available for PC.

Saints Row 2 is available on Steam. Actually, let me double-check. Yep, it's for sale, $14.99.

Saints Row 2 for PC is kind of a mess. But its super cheep on Steam.
Its the poster child for 'Poorly optimized' console ports. But if you have a decent rig, it will run, just don't expect a lag free game.

In my utter stupidity, I got Rage for PC as I finally have a decent rig for gaming. And five hours later...

"THAT'S F***ING IT? AND THAT ENDING??? RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN SKRIM OR SOMETHING!"

So, I screwed around with the budget and got Saints Row: The Third to wash the taste out because I can't handle something like Skrim at the moment.

OK... If that's how Luchadores really train, I'm never saying wrestling is fake ever again!

Of all the songs...

Yep, the car chases are nearly impossible to complete. That is, expect if your able to pin the other car and have stuffed yours with gang members that can pepper it with weapons fire.

Yeah, I'd suggest it more for console then. Used PS3s and 360s go pretty cheap now. Just get from a reputable Fixe... Er, store. Damn, got Shadowrun on the brain at the moment.

Oh, met the Mayor, and he's THE ONE GUY THE PROTAGONIST DOES NOT TALK SMACK TO! Three games of being a complete and total bad-ass and back-talking ruthless killers, and we find the one guy he won't say shit to if his mouth was full of it!

Then I had to cry at the last bonus you get for beating the game. Hopefully him and Lin can go around on murder sprees in the later games. Apparently the fourth has been announced, and they're ramping it up even MORE!

I didn't even know the dial had a 21!

Note the unplayability of car chases was a reference to Saints Row 2, not 3. In 3 they did not hire out for the PC version, but developed it in house alongside the console version. Btw, anyone else see a pattern about sub-contracting version of sections of the game and the results turning up sub-par? The much pissed on boss battles in DEHR was also sub-contracted.

...And Carlos?

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

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

It will lull me to sleep tonight...

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

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.

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

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.

why not?

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

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.

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!

Nobody but yourself.

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

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...

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

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 ^^

i really need to find a life partner like that.

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

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* ^^

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.

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.

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."