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The Daily Five: Reasons to Buy GTA V Over Saint’s Row IV

"Today we’re going to tell you about why you need to pick Grand Theft Auto V over Saint’s Row IV if you can only pick up one of these games at launch." - David Wales

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xHeavYx3941d ago (Edited 3941d ago )

They are both different games. I'll be picking up both

DavePSU3941d ago

Try reading the introduction above. That's covered.

Pushagree3941d ago

There is no reason to waste 60 dollars buying what would pretty much be another shamless cloned cash cow that should have been DLC to Saints row 3 to begin with. So far, I've seen no reason to even bat an eye at the saints row series and the gameplay trailer for GTA V only cements that notion even further. The clear amount of effort that has gone into making GTA V outshines Saints Row in every way. Not only is GTA V incredibly polished when it comes to creating an expansive and believable open world, but they also have a compelling story and a lot of fun gameplay mechanics to mess around with. If all Saints Row has to counter that is purple dildo-bats, then it's not going to fare too well.

Bobby Kotex3941d ago

Not everyone is a GTA fanboy.

UnHoly_One3941d ago

See that's the whole point, the games are NOTHING like each other, except they are both open world games.

Comparing them and saying one is way better than the other is like me saying The Last of Us is way better than God of War: Ascension, so I'm only buying TLoU.

It's just ridiculous. If you can only afford to pick up one, then obviously you should get the one that appeals to you more, but otherwise I don't know why anyone is even comparing the two of them anymore.

Pushagree3941d ago (Edited 3941d ago )

(sorry double post. please delete.)

betan213941d ago

saint's row can kiss my ____gta day one.

monkey483941d ago

The reasons are just what we seen in the gameplay footage. Saints Row is cartoony and funny whereas GTA is realistic and beautiful

PSN-JeRzYzFyNeSt3941d ago

the only Saints Row thst caught my attention was the first one... just because it looked like another cool open world game with gangsters but i never got around to it.... then i saw saints row 2 and i started seeing some goofy shit in the game and from that point on i started not liking this game.. and now today saints row has super powers and wtf is going on in this game...

GTA all the way

LonDonE3941d ago

agreed, i loved the first siants row, while all my buddies were still playing on PS2, i was kicking it back on my 360, and saints row was a awesome indicator of how the next hd gta game would be!
I was so disappointed with the sequels, they just became more silly and silly, and at the end of the first, i thought man, with time and iteration, this franchise could maybe rival gta one day!
man how wrong was i? lololol purple dildo's .nuff said!

PSN-JeRzYzFyNeSt3941d ago

@LONE

lmaoo i thought that one day it could rival GTA also then the sequels came out... lmaoo i say the same thing wow a purple dildo to go around killing ppl wow became a joke of a game... im sure SR4 will sell less then the others im sure sales been going south after the first

Galletto33941d ago

That was the intention though. For whatever reason they did not want to, or could not compete with GTA as a "serious/realistic" game.

I think it fills a nice niche. People LOVE to do goofy stuff in GTA (huge explosions, unrealistic mods) that Saints Row picks up on.

Its super fun in its own right, comparing it to GTA is apples and oranges

UnHoly_One3941d ago

Exactly correct.

And it has had online co-op since the second game, something GTA still hasn't done.

In SR3 I spent about an hour one night with a buddy just trying to figure out the right place to jump out of a helicopter at maximum height and divebomb straight into the pool on the roof of my crib and survive... And I was naked. lmao

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

I'm not badmouthing GTA in any way, I love it, and I can't wait for it after that trailer today, but Saint's Row is it's own thing and there is definitely room for both in my game collection.

:)

Hydralysk3941d ago (Edited 3941d ago )

None of these look like things I'd want out of a sandbox game...

Still not sure what people saw in GTA4. In San Andreas I spent most my time doing stuff like flying jets in between buildings, jetpacking into restricted areas, getting into high speed chases in a tank, or dropping 747s onto towns filled with civilians while I bail out with a parachute.

Then came GTA4, and all of a sudden the vehicles handle more realistically (i.e. like shit). There are no fun vehicles like tanks, the gunplay was tedious as all hell, I've got people constantly annoying me to hang out with them, and I get penalized for not paying tolls.

Even with all that, that biggest problem was it's story. It's practically impossible to take Niko's story of him being torn up over his past seriously when the second you get into gameplay you're murdering dozens of goons and running over pedestrians while hurling insults like a sociopath. Cutscene Niko and gameplay Niko are practically two different characters.

Saint's Row is dumb fun, and everything about the gameplay and story embraces that, pretty much like the PS2 GTA's did. GTA 4 wants to tell a serious story with a tortured protagonist, but does nothing to reconcile that with the gameplay that is still focused on facilitating player-driven anarchy.

You can add as many mini games and radio stations as you want, but I played GTA for the fun of creating absurd amounts of mayhem or just to act stupid for laughs. Unless GTA5 can impress me with that I can't see myself ever buying it.

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GTA 5’s cut “James Bond Trevor” DLC was already part-shot, actor says

The GTA 5 Agent Trevor DLC episode could have been a real treat for fans on PlayStation and Xbox, before it was scrubbed sometime before 2017.

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Killer2020UK1d 6h ago

More interested in money than giving fans what they want. Such a shame

CrimsonWing691d 6h ago

With the amount of money they generated, I just don’t understand the scrubbing of this. It would’ve been fantastic for fans.

Profchaos1d 5h ago

I really want to know who drove the decision to focus on multiplayer was it Rockstar or take two.

Because when online started taking off many of the studio leads began having falling outs and leading including a founder

Demetrius17h ago

Ikr mfs that greedy it's ridiculous

andy851d 3h ago

This makes me sad. Trevor was one of my favourite characters in gaming

Demetrius17h ago

One of the reason I believe once gta 6 release, most of us thoroughly play it, enjoy the world they crafted then after that no offline support, no dlc at all

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Grand Theft Auto V PC Optimized: Best Graphics Settings in 2024

Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.

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The Best Open World Adventures In Gaming History

The freedom to explore large areas, approach objectives in multiple ways, and stumble across amusing distractions will always be an excellent format for video games, but some do it better than others. To celebrate the formula and parse the best from the best, have a look at the best open-world games of all time so far.

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