GotG Round 2: The Walking Dead - Season One vs. Saints Row: The Third

Not a fan of either so poop noises

I think they are both slightly overrated to be honest, well atleast The Third gets praised like it's the holy grail on this site and I don't really agree with that, but I did enjoy them both. TWD is unsurprisingly a little uneven, it topped at episode 2, and Clementine could get a little annoying at times.

In the end I chose TWD.

Saints Row was just so much fun. So much memorable stuff and some of the best random moments since I played GTA III.

Walking Dead was great, but I beat it in two days when I had the flu so I wasn't capable of feeling much at the time.

Also, 6,000th post, woo.

Saints Row was ridiculous fun but aside from the main story and some side activities, the world felt and looked really bland and boring. The Walking Dead, while short, is one of the most impactful and emotional experiences I've had with a video game. It just blew away my expectations.

This was tough. I really loved Saints Row: The Third, a lot, but Walking Dead is more innovative. There's no game that plays quite like it, Saints Row is pretty much your average free roam game in terms of gameplay. I think I'd be more likely to vote for Saints Row IV, it's the best platforming-based open world game I've ever played.

Damn it. I still need to play Saints Row The Third.

Zombies get under my skin so much that I can't get anywhere near a serious story about them. SR3 gets my vote by default.

The Walking Dead changed my life in how I look and play video games.

A good open world game vs the worst game i ever bothered completing.

I feel that The Walking Dead is overrated and fairly predictable. Saints Row: The Third is one of my favorite experiences of this past generation. Easy choice.

Saints Row was hilarious, but so many moments from The Walking Dead rocked me.

The Walking Dead isn't the easy choice, but it's the right choice.

The Walking Dead all the way baby. I loved how that game made me feel and think.

TWD, easily.

Short? With each episode compiled together it was probably around 8-10 hours long, which given the overall asking price, was a lot lengthier than I was expecting.

Saints Row 3 was a lot better than 4, but neither of them made me laugh like The Walking Dead did. That backyard burial scene cracks me up every time.

This is the hardest one to pick out of all the polls so far, I'm not even going to say which I chose.

another f'd up poll though, these should be pull on hold until things get straightened out.

The absurdity of a lot of the situations and a rather excessive list of memorable moments. Its a game that would almost benefit from removal of its open world if not for the fact that some of the mission rewards makes the open world stuff kind of awesome.

But don't mistake any of its praise as praise for anything its open world does. Its purely based on the contents of its missions.

Saints Row is a terrible game outside of the main story missions, but every one of those made me laugh my ass off, even with a type of humor I don't usually go for. The Walking Dead is a pedestal for video game storytelling, even if it falls short of the promise of truly branching decisions.

Tough, but TWD wins. I actually think Saints Row 4 would have more of a chance of winning, but it would still lose out.

So glad Saint's Row is going down.

This is an easy choice. Saints Row 3 was an ok game with a vast majority of its missions that suck and a boring environment. The Walking Dead (while it certainly had a number of gameplay issues and bugs) did a very good job of crafting its story and characters and was overall a much more consistently enjoyable experience.

Ryan already stabbed Saints Row in the back once I can't bare to see It be betrayed yet again. You guys are awful.

Saints Row is fun to play and has a fantastic story, walking dead has a fantastic story and...

I loved The Walking Dead and while I enjoyed Saint's Row: The Third I didn't think it was as great as everyone else thought it was.

Loved Saint's Row The Third but good lord, The Walking Dead has to take this. Saint's Row is just an open-world game done well, TWD introduced an episodic choice-based adventure game format that i'm really excited to see the future of.

It's a philosophical difference for me. The Walking Dead is a pretty great story that retains a bare semblance of interactivity, like a choose your own adventure book. Saints Row: The Third is a video game-ass video game.

I was referring to each episode, not the entire "season". Sorry, should've been more clear.

Sorry Saints Row, I love you so much, but I gotta go with Walking Dead here.

The Walking Dead was a much much better Heavy Rain. Saints Row 3 made me care about a genre I hate. Sorry Kenny.

I cannot believe that this is a website where Deadly Premonition ("one of the greatest games ever made" - Vinny Caravella), Grand Theft Auto Five, and Saints Row the Third can lose. Granted, there's still time for this one to turn around, but I dunno. If it does, then feel free to quote this comment and say something dumb to me.

It's like the most video game vs the least video game.

It was sometimes funny, but got way too much love, so much of it was boring and bland.

Also, I mentioned this in the Batman vs Braid thread, but comparing these games is beyond crazy. They are almost the exact opposite of each other. But i'll shut up now.

@mooseymcman said:

I don't think I've ever seen the poll results turn around once we're like 200+ votes in. It's very unlikely The Walking Dead will lose at this point.

This has been the theme throughout the entire process. I've just learnt to roll with it and only care 'seriously' about the last round.

Yeah I've had my little moan, so I will be quiet now I think.

TWD is a choose your own adventure book, but written even worse. Just like everything else associated with that franchise it's boring, overrated crap with stilted dialogue and idiotic characters who do moronic things only because the plot tells them to. As gaming technology and development ideas improve and developers find more organic ways to incorporate gamer choice into the narrative, TWD will vanish from history and become little more than a curious footnote.

In Saints Row: The Third you team up with Burt Reynolds to smash zombies with a giant purple dildo.

How this is even a competition is beyond me.

This is by far the hardest one so far. These were my two favorite games that I played in 2012/2013. I'll have to think about it a bit more.

SR3 is losing? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I tried to play SR3, it played like a PS2 game with some mediocre jokes thrown in. I was so bored I couldn't continue. Walking dead was on the other game was an incredibly innovative experiment to storytelling in games.

did not finish walking dead because of ep 3 and the horrible gameplay.

SR:TT however, rocked my world

Full disclosure, I am only partway through Ep 4 of Walking Dead, but I'll say this anyway: WD is good, but it just doesn't have the fundamentals down that well. Saints Row is more deft with its comedy than WD is with its drama, and it has a hell of a gameplay component too. If you're looking for the one that will be remembered as a landmark game in 5 years, of course it's WD, but that doesn't mean it's better.

Guys, don't do this to Saints Row The Third. Just don't let it happen like this.

got ago with the TWD, really changed what an Adventure game could be. Few games had me completely in its thrall like TWD did.

But boy is this a tough one. SR3 was tons o fun.

Giant Bomb Users Hate Gameplay, Round 2.

This was a hard choice, but I am glad to see TWD winning.

walking dead yo

Walking Dead, SR3 is a bit overrated

Remember how Heavy Rain lost in the first round?