It's crossed my mind that it may be more reasonable to rent Saints Row: The Third than buy it. It doesn't necessarily seem enormously replayable. Am I mistaken?

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment, fuck around with the weapons and vehicles.

@warxsnake said:

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment.

Or you can take your time and enjoy it. It took me sixty hours beat the game, and I still have some side-activities left over.

You're pretty much exactly right. As long as you're not concerned with maxing your achievements from the game, renting it would probably make more sense. The story can be blasted through in eight hours or so, and the activities aren't as plentiful as they were in the second game. It's a lot of fun, though.

No games are replayable nowadays.

Depends on what your going into it for

I think it is absolutely worth a purchase. Was on sale for $35 at BB last week. Ridiculously fun game.

@gladspooky: a bit of an exaggeration.

thanks, everybody.

@warxsnake said:

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment.

Or you can take your time and enjoy it. It took me sixty hours beat the game, and I still have some side-activities left over.

@Hailinel

@warxsnake said:

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment.

Or you can take your time and enjoy it. It took me sixty hours beat the game, and I still have some side-activities left over.

What? I'm sorry but sixty hours is insane, what have you been doing the whole time that you still have activities left?

@Geo7877 said:

@Hailinel

@warxsnake said:

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment.

Or you can take your time and enjoy it. It took me sixty hours beat the game, and I still have some side-activities left over.

What? I'm sorry but sixty hours is insane, what have you been doing the whole time that you still have activities left?

Probably looking for Professor Genki. I spent fucking four hours looking for him and didn't find shit. Fuck that guy.

@DevWil said:

It's crossed my mind that it may be more reasonable to rent Saints Row: The Third than buy it. It doesn't necessarily seem enormously replayable. Am I mistaken?

If you're in the EU you may want to consider this deal (10 pounds, new, PC version, amazon.co.uk)

You can say that about almost every game out now. 
I prefer to own physical things though, so I buy everything.

I finished a mission and was writing a text message not paying attention when shit started to blow up in the game. Needless to say I dropped that Genki bastard.

@Geo7877 said:

@Hailinel

@warxsnake said:

No, it can be finished rather quickly and once the story is over... well, there's not much else unless you actually like the activities or you can wipe out the remaining gang hideouts and buy every establishment.

Or you can take your time and enjoy it. It took me sixty hours beat the game, and I still have some side-activities left over.

What? I'm sorry but sixty hours is insane, what have you been doing the whole time that you still have activities left?

Just doing whatever. Picking fights with gang members, running from cops, shopping, survival missions, jumping off of high-rises, stealing cars, blowing up Emus...

I mean, hell. It's not like doing the missions is a requirement.

@DevWil: You are not mistaken. I thought that the story was a blast and full of a lot of great moments for the 8-10 hours or so it takes to beat it. Sadly I thought the side missions were terrible with the exception of the Genki and Insurance missions. You get none of that craziness and unique charm that the story provides when doing any of the side missions and activities. and I felt it made everything else in that game feel mundane and generic. Mostly because beneath the cut scenes and great situations is just a serviceable third person shooter. When you remove a lot of that personality you just get repetitive and boring activities.

So yes it is a great rental, everything other than the story you can skip past for the most part without missing anything special. The story missions are fantastic though.

Saints Row is a rental at best. Unless you can find it super cheap on PC or something.

Yeah, it's probably worth a rent! I rented it and decided that I disagreed with pretty much all of the people heaping praise on it, so didn't buy it.

I regret buying it, but I would definitely give it a rent. The crazy shit in the story is done really well and can be alot of fun, but after that is over I was really bored. The gameplay is sub-par and the city isn't very interesting.