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I Can't Decide if This Saints Row 4 Video Is Great or Terrible

The good news is, it'll only take 30 seconds of your life to decide for yourself.

May. 23 2013

Posted by: Alex

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Saints Row IV

190 Comments

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Edited By BlitzKriegJezus

It's clearly obvious that this trailer was 'Great'. Any who says otherwise clearly has no sense of humor.

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Edited By WolfPac

I'll go with terrible.

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No MoCap dogs, no sale.

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did they just dubstep the american anthem?

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@mavs said:

Not even 10% as good as Bioforge.

Poor comparison, seeing as nothing on the face of the Earth fits into that category.

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@iodine said:

@nezza said:

Thankfully that was just a dumb trailer and that kind of thing will be optional in game, because that came perilously close to the series jumping the shark in my eyes.

Am I the only one that doesn't dress my characters like a douche in these games?

I like my guy to look as normal as possible, because I find it way funnier that way

Right? I actually think stuff like the purple dildo bat were the least funny things in The Third because that shit is so obvious and lazy. A dude in a nice trench coat, turtleneck, dress shoes, and gloves giving people the bulldog on the street, now that's hilarious.

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It's got a Wilhelm scream!

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All this trailer tells me is that they have no custom animations for cutscenes, so it's all going to be the regular gameplay stuff like in SR3. Shame, but the story wasn't really the point anyway.

edit I know this isn't an actual cutscene, but that's the point. If they had more to work with, they wouldn't be shy to flaunt it like a batdildo up in your genki mask.

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I dunno, I'm certainly feeling informed.

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Great. As good as gta v looks saints row has always had better vehicle handling, shooting, combat and sidemissions. More importantly its always been the more fun game of the two.

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oh man that dubstep is so bad, this game is going to be amazing.

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From the looks of it will this game have multiplayer with more than 2-4 player slots? Maybe it will be MP focused mayhem...? Could be great

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I liked the flair at the end, but the gameplay was a miss for me.

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This looks so amazingly horribly bad good.

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dude im not sure saints row is ironic in the right ways

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I can't wait for this game.

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Awful. They're trying too hard now.

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Yep, i'm gonna go with great.

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@gunder said:

Awful. They're trying too hard now.

Gotta go with this. I mean i'll hold my judgement till later, but I dunno...

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Guys, they're trying to hard. This is going to be some grating shit. I can feel it in my bones.

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"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."

Okay, maybe not so fine.

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Wilhelm Scream was sorta lame, but otherwise I approve this message.

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@jasonr86 said:

Guys, they're trying to hard. This is going to be some grating shit. I can feel it in my bones.

Actually I'm more worried that it'll be great, and as funny as Saint's Row 3, but people on the internet will hate on it for no reason, because that's how the internet is. "The first one was better hur hur." I hope it doesn't end up that way though.

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@jasonr86 said:

Guys, they're trying to hard. This is going to be some grating shit. I can feel it in my bones.

Actually I'm more worried that it'll be great, and as funny as Saint's Row 3, but people on the internet will hate on it for no reason, because that's how the internet is. "The first one was better hur hur." I hope it doesn't end up that way though.

Maybe. I mean what I liked about Saints Row the Third wasn't the crazy. It was the nonchalance with which everyone reacted to the crazy. This just looks like all out crazy with no nonchalance. Which is just dumb.

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It's like... everything I hate about the series in one trailer.

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It's just depressing. That a (theoretically) grown man would even consider this amusing in anyway, let alone great, is the reason why games are the way they are today.

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Terrible.

SR3 was weird and wacky and it looks like they are doubling down on that for this one. Problem is, we already knew that from all the other trailers they have put out so far. Maybe focus on the non-wierd-and-wacky stuff in the game for a few trailers.

Unless this is all there is.

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Best 30 seconds I've spent today.

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Great. Utterly amazingly great.

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Did I miss something that everyone else saw... this was pretty much a blurb of gameplay, barely a trailer.

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Nope. Loved the last two, but now the series is like that one guy at the party who was told he was hilarious when drunk, and took that to mean necking a bottle of vodka was a good idea.

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Yep, Volition really wants to keep dragging the same old joke around. We get it. I loved SR3 but, if they keep going in this direction ("Look at me, I'm wacky!") I'm not buying.

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Willhem scream, popping and locking celebration, and dubstep Hail to the Chief. I fully support this monolith of stupidity!

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Fuck all y'all. That dubstep Presidential March remix is the dopest shit I've ever heard.

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@jaks said:

Looks exactly as what it started out as - An expansion pack for SR3. Only $60.

I didn't like SR3 as much as most people did. I thought SR2 hit the sweet spot of crazy shit going on and a sandboxy gang banging game. I also hated how linear the missions were structured and the themed gangs were lame. You basically beat the last boss an hour into the game and spend the rest of it fighting mexican wrestlers and cyber dudes.

I agree with you. Enjoyed SR3 but I always thought SR2 had the best mix of craziness and "seriousness".

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This proves that games are art.

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Heh. That was funny.

And now I will never watch it again.

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amazing

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..what

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In my newly created "Top 1 worst trailers of 2013" this takes first place.

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How the hell do you get this video player to go back to the beginning in chrome? I saw it the first time with the sound off.

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@jasonr86 said:

Guys, they're trying to hard. This is going to be some grating shit. I can feel it in my bones.

100%

I have a really bad feeling this is going to be missing the magic of The Third.

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Fucking terrible. I'm in!

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I laughed at the end.

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Remember when Saints Row was about gangs and shit? Volition sure doesn't.

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Their mot mutually exclusive., it was terribly great.

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They had me at SR2

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dub step needs to stop being a thing right now.