All right! Awesome! 
Glad to hear it — was one of my favorite things about Saints Row 2.
Glad to hear it — was one of my favorite things about Saints Row 2.
"Real Fan":
I remember when this was me. When I was unsure about SRTT Remastered, I tried to argue my case about SR & SR2 being way better for a remaster and SRTT was so the wrong choice.
"SRTT Best Seller":
But you can't argue with facts, and I've just been replaying SR, SR2 & SRTT Remastered to prepare for the new Saints Row.
Loved the Campaign for the first two games, but hated the Activities & Diversions. Especially the first game.
Levels 1-4, easy. Levels 5&6, do-able. Levels 7&8... New controller & monitor per every 3 attempts, until I inevitably resort to cheats.
The second game's Activities would have been just as expensive, if not for the infinitely firing rocket launcher courtesy of GOTR, which made most Activities and Campaign missions way too easy... But extremely fun.
But playing through SRTT, it's just... Good. The Campaign is good, the Activities & Diversions are good, the gameplay is... Just good.
No part of the game stresses me out and I can complete everything in the game without it feeling too easy or too difficult.
Thoughts On Steelport:
I stand by my belief that Steelport is just a Lego grid city filled with cardboard box buildings with no actual purpose. But the buildings that are enterable are actually filled with a lot of detail.
If it came to a choice between:
A. Thinning out the overall building count to make most of them enterable/interactable.
Or
B. Cramming the city full of cardboard box buildings with no interactivity at all.
I'd choose A... Every time.
For those who might want clarification on "Cardboard Box" Buildings, I'm referring to "Filler" Buildings that are used to fill a blank space.
Normally I don't have a problem with Filler Buildings, because they still help make the city look and feel like a city. But the difference between Stilwater and Steelport is...
Most of Stilwater's Filler buildings had variety, I never felt like any of Stilwater's locations were too similar.
But I think Steelport was basically just a copy & paste job across the entire city. The houses in Stanfield were exactly the same as the houses in New Colvin. I'm pretty sure Downtown was just made up of 4 slightly different Tower Models. And Poseidon's Palace was just a generic warehouse but with a sign, unlike its Stilwater counterpart which was not only enterable, but also stood out from the surrounding area.
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It may only be words on a screen, but boy did those words give me the vibes I was hoping for.
The latest post on SAINTS ROW.com was just what I needed to know.
Character profiles, layered clothing, player height options, full control of how the Saints come to be, etc... This sounds promising, now I just need to see it in action.
I especially want to see some of these customizable strongholds in action.
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The backdrop on Saints Row.com is really teasing me. It shows the Saints on a road just outside a desert town, but in the background is this huge city that looks just as big as Steelport. If we've got a big city in the centre, and several smaller towns scattered around the outskirts... I can't wait.
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I honestly thought SRTT was the strangest choice for a remaster. I had no interest in it until it was free on Epic.
But after playing it.... I still don't get it. Of all the SR games, the third is the one that holds up the best. 1 has no PC port, so you only get to play if you have an old school xbox. For those that have one that didn't self destruct, that's cool I guess. But a proper, modernized PC version of it would be amazing!
As for SR2, okay, there's a steam port that was poorly done, and it's age was really showing. You almost NEED the gotr mod, it's not as stable as 3 or 4, and trying to drive with the original digital-only controls after playing any modern game really makes you wonder how you did it back in the day.
So, 1 or 2 would have been PERFECT for a remaster.
Graphically, SRTT was the best. SRIV went a bit too far with.... well everything, but here I'm just talking about graphics. They did so much to keep you in that "It's a simulation" frame of mind, that it seems more like a step back than a step forward. And GOH... I just have no love for that game, at all.
I have seen just about everyone on this forum say this at some point, so let me set the record straight.
The first original Saints Row may have only been made for Xbox 360, but it is absolutely backwards compatible for Xbox One and Series X/S.
I just finished my run of Saints Row on the Series X myself. So I don't know why everyone still thinks it's only playable on the 360?
Came back on the forum after 8 years just to post my unsignificant opinion:
I can spend hours just to describe how SR2 was my most favorite open world despite its many flaws.
I don't get the strong reactions after the reboot's trailer came out. I always prefer gameplay over CG trailers but the things revealed looked fine to me. The quirky vibe from the cast isn't that unusual compared to SR2.
Do people remember about how Carlos was a frail, unconfident lieutenant? How Shaundi was a stoner girl who can't fight much? How Pierce like to sing along on "So Sick" by Ne-Yo during a car chase? How Gatt had to clean up blood in his living room and awkwardly dump a corpse in the garbage bin? Saints Row always had some sort of goofyness in its character writing. I feel there's also willingness to go for an underdog dynamic and it makes sense to me.
Anyway, like many have noticed in this thread, it seems like the reboot is somewhere between SR2-SR3 and I'm all for it. SR3's been very disappointing to me mostly because the game lacked content and Steelport's environments had little variety. SR4 got better but became a superhero game with Steelport as backdrop again.
There's also the idea that the Reboot won't be as "edgy" than past installments and it's so easy to make unfavorable assumptions. If "edgy" is synonymous to dick/gimp jokes then I'm fine with getting rid of that. The giant purple dildo was fun for 5 minutes and was glad I had the choice to switch it with the spiked bat for the rest of my SR3 playthrough.
I hope Volition will stick to their guns because changing plans at the final stretch is recipe for disaster and risking to please nobody with a glitchy mess. At this point there's no way (yet) to know if the game is going to be good, I sure hope it will check all the boxes on what made SR2 so great while improving on the rest... it sure been a long time I got (cautiously) excited about a Saints Row release.
I can spend hours just to describe how SR2 was my most favorite open world despite its many flaws.
I don't get the strong reactions after the reboot's trailer came out. I always prefer gameplay over CG trailers but the things revealed looked fine to me. The quirky vibe from the cast isn't that unusual compared to SR2.
Do people remember about how Carlos was a frail, unconfident lieutenant? How Shaundi was a stoner girl who can't fight much? How Pierce like to sing along on "So Sick" by Ne-Yo during a car chase? How Gatt had to clean up blood in his living room and awkwardly dump a corpse in the garbage bin? Saints Row always had some sort of goofyness in its character writing. I feel there's also willingness to go for an underdog dynamic and it makes sense to me.
Anyway, like many have noticed in this thread, it seems like the reboot is somewhere between SR2-SR3 and I'm all for it. SR3's been very disappointing to me mostly because the game lacked content and Steelport's environments had little variety. SR4 got better but became a superhero game with Steelport as backdrop again.
There's also the idea that the Reboot won't be as "edgy" than past installments and it's so easy to make unfavorable assumptions. If "edgy" is synonymous to dick/gimp jokes then I'm fine with getting rid of that. The giant purple dildo was fun for 5 minutes and was glad I had the choice to switch it with the spiked bat for the rest of my SR3 playthrough.
I hope Volition will stick to their guns because changing plans at the final stretch is recipe for disaster and risking to please nobody with a glitchy mess. At this point there's no way (yet) to know if the game is going to be good, I sure hope it will check all the boxes on what made SR2 so great while improving on the rest... it sure been a long time I got (cautiously) excited about a Saints Row release.
I have the entire Saints Row franchise on my Series X/S, including Gat out of Hell and Agents of Mayhem. All are playable. I agree, I don’t know where this is coming from.
Glad I'm not the only one who instantly thought about this upon seeing the new cast.
New Running Gag:
The way Volition are putting a lot of emphasis on Kevin known for being shirtless, makes me think that this is gonna be some kind of running gag throughout the game.
Kind of like Shaundi's obsession with sombreros, and Luz's outdated shoe collection.
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Something tells me Kevin and Eli are gonna be butting heads with strategy.
Kevin: “Let’s be loud and chaotic about it!”
Eli: “Nooo, we gotta plan this out to the nth degree!“
Basically think of it like when Pierce laid out a plan of stealth and assassination in Saints Row 2, but Johnny Gat was all, ‘man, fuck that. Let’s just go in guns blazing.’
I just hope we can choose which strategy we want to follow.
Kevin: “Let’s be loud and chaotic about it!”
Eli: “Nooo, we gotta plan this out to the nth degree!“
Basically think of it like when Pierce laid out a plan of stealth and assassination in Saints Row 2, but Johnny Gat was all, ‘man, fuck that. Let’s just go in guns blazing.’
I just hope we can choose which strategy we want to follow.
Yeah. Going off his file, Kev seems like a hybrid of Gat and 2's Shaundi, being the loud and chaotic one of the group while also being the extroverted people person with connections.Something tells me Kevin and Eli are gonna be butting heads with strategy.
Kevin: “Let’s be loud and chaotic about it!”
Eli: “Nooo, we gotta plan this out to the nth degree!“
Basically think of it like when Pierce laid out a plan of stealth and assassination in Saints Row 2, but Johnny Gat was all, ‘man, fuck that. Let’s just go in guns blazing.’
I just hope we can choose which strategy we want to follow.