Gentlemen of the Row: An Amazing Saints Row 2 Mod

[Raapys]

Ah well, the start of the game really sucked, no idea why I bothered to keep playing. I'm glad I did though; when you got the whole safe-house thing and started buying all sorts of shit, it did get fairly entertaining. Choppers would come to the battlefield with your newly ordered chopper/tank/fighter/car/boat/etc, you could call in airstrikes and whatnot. Basically lots of cool vehicles, countless explosions and stupid QTEs when trying to take enemy vehicles. Just like the GTA/SR games only with far more and cooler firepower at your disposal.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

I actually preferred the first Mercenaries, for some reason. And not just for the ability to lay waste to North Korea.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

After about 10 unsuccessful tries I gave up.

Couldn't you just go to the options screen and check what button it was? Why even torrent it if you aren't even willing to go past the first stage?

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Small article where we get to see one of the gangs, learn a bit about a game mechanic, and see guns that would probably tear your arm off upon firing and are structurally suspect.


http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... third.aspx


Edit: Y'know, I think I'll just turn this into the SR3 info thread until its release. That works.

 

[~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T]

Everything in that article sounded completely awesome. I can't wait for this game.

 

[Xor]

San Andres is my favorite GTA game, so if SR3 is like that I'll seriously consider checking it out.

 

[Turisas]

One more to the game backlog, then. Gotta respect these big modding efforts that actually come out, and I never got that far with SR2 when it first came out (real shit performance).

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

One more to the game backlog, then. Gotta respect these big modding efforts that actually come out, and I never got that far with SR2 when it first came out (real shit performance).

1.2 evened things out quite a bit performance wise, and Gentlemen of the Row may improve it as well.

 

[JarlFrank]

After about 10 unsuccessful tries I gave up.

Couldn't you just go to the options screen and check what button it was? Why even torrent it if you aren't even willing to go past the first stage?

I did check the options screen.

There was nothing there that would've told me what goddamn fucking button this was supposed to be.

 

[Raapys]

True that, remember similar problems myself, though I obviously found out which button it was eventually. Think I just googled it.

 

[Turisas]

I did check the options screen.

There was nothing there that would've told me what goddamn fucking button this was supposed to be.

It just took some trial and error, since iirc they were pictures of the actions rather than gamepad buttons like X or LB. Not really hard until the endgame when you needed to press long chains of them in rapid succession.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

From what i read saint's row 3 is not going to have any competitive multiplayer, but it will still have co-op.

 

[anus_pounder]

I did check the options screen.

There was nothing there that would've told me what goddamn fucking button this was supposed to be.

It just took some trial and error, since iirc they were pictures of the actions rather than gamepad buttons like X or LB. Not really hard until the endgame when you needed to press long chains of them in rapid succession.

Chinese vehicles in particular have worthy QTE chains.

 

[saenz]

Chinese vehicles in particular have worthy QTE chains.

Did you try standing in front of the tank while wearing a white shirt and holding shopping bags?

 

[20 Eyes]

Saints Row 2 was pretty cool, but it was a little to wiggerish for me to really enjoy. The whole atmosphere was just a bit 'off'. It felt like I was playing in a Canadian's vision of street culture, or something. I know it's supposed to be a goofy game, but something about it just rubbed me the wrong way.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

New info's here:


-Thanks to events early on, the leader of the Saints and some of his lieutenants end up in the new city of Steelport. Looks like they smashed together broken down Detroit with New York.

-No more competitive multiplayer. Co-op is still in, though.


Some character bios and underworld background;


http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... -gang.aspx





http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... loren.aspx

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... lbane.aspx

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... iller.aspx


http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... zimos.aspx

 

[CrimsonAngel]

It seems interesting enough.

 

[Fat Dragon]

Seems like they might be going for a bit of a cyberpunk vibe, what with the futuristic-looking city, the hacker gang, and big corporations and syndicates.

 

[whitemithrandir]

* Johnny Gat and Shaundi, two of your major allies from Saints Row 2, will be returning as accomplices.

Say no more, I'm fucking sold.

Seems like they might be going for a bit of a cyberpunk vibe, what with the futuristic-looking city, the hacker gang, and big corporations and syndicates.

Considering it's canonically stated that the Saint's Row series takes place in the same universe as the Red Faction series, I wouldn't be surprised by this change in theme.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

I like that they are going with Euro trash villains. Let's be honest they are some of the best modern adversary's you can get when they are interestingly written.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... third.aspx


A closer look at some of the new activities



http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... power.aspx


Story lead-in, as well as info on some of the ways you'll be gradually taking over the town. Not too sure about their economy comments, though. Developers rarely manage to meaningfully keep up with the skyrocketing amounts of cash a veteran character pulls in.

 

[Trash]

Would be interested if I wouldn't remember what a poorly optimised buggy pos SR2 was and still is. When a dev never ever patches its product you know that they care. Fuck it.

 

[Turisas]

When a dev never ever patches its product you know that they care. Fuck it.

They did patch it tho? The performance now is a lot better from what I remember back when I tried the original release version.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Would be interested if I wouldn't remember what a poorly optimised buggy pos SR2 was and still is. When a dev never ever patches its product you know that they care. Fuck it.

It was actually patched a couple times.



Anyway, most of the problems were due to SR2 being ported by a different company for the PC. Volition noted that this time they would be making all versions in-house to avoid that.

http://news.bigdownload.com/2011/03/17/ ... developed/

 

[JarlFrank]

Yeah, the Red Faction Guerilla PC version was much, much better performance-wise than the horrible SR2 port (I play RF:G on 1920x1080 and on max settings without lag, while SR2 is a bit laggy on 1024x768 with most settings on max) so I'm quite positive that SR3 will be a lot smoother, too.