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Saints Row: The Third is Better than GTA IV

You probably looked at the title of this article, raged furiously, and went straight to the comment section before even listening to what I have to say. Or you’re a well-mannered individual that enjoys a good debate.

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dan9584053d ago

This article is based upon the original game, for console users as well. Not everyone can play with mods :)

Hufandpuf4052d ago (Edited 4052d ago )

GTA4 has a good story, likeable characters, expansive world, good music (SR3 has a terrible radio), dialouge is great, clothing options are better, side mini-games/activities are more thought out, etc.

The only thing I think SR3 excels in is the fun factor, the game has great gameplay, and cool toys to mess around with, but the lifeless and uninspired city with lacking customization options don't really pull me in.

Funny how we are talking about this and SR4 was just revealed. Now they've got super powers. Looks cool but I hope it's not dragged down like SR3 was.

ThatEnglishDude4052d ago (Edited 4052d ago )

@Hufandpuf,

"The only thing I think SR3 excels in is the fun factor"

..Call me old fashioned, but this is why I play games.

GTA IV was a good game, I suppose - but it was just so...forgettable for me. I liked the idea of a darker story, but the characters weren't very memorable. They had their moments, but the game lacked any kind of style or sense of humor. At least in comparison to the other games in the series. Saints Row's sense of humor or style may not appeal to everyone, but at least it HAS a style.

BiggCMan4052d ago

Hufandpuf. There's this thing called opinion...that is yours, realize the difference please before you spout your opinions as facts. I'm also confused at "The only thing I think SR3 excels in is the fun factor"....Well isn't fun supposed to be the point of every single video games out there(if not every piece of media out there)? If you have fun in a certain game, what's it matter if all you do is look at 4 walls, YOU still had fun with it.

But as I was saying, all the stuff you listed for GTA IV, I feel the complete opposite. The story was snore worthy, the characters were annoying, the world IS big, but with DICK to do in it. The music I don't even remember, the dialogue was fine, the clothes were GOD awful, that's the first time I ever heard anyone like the clothing options in that game, they were bare bones. The activities were freaking horrible, bowling and darts that don't function half as well as a flash game on my phone is not my idea of good.

So these are MY opinions, doesn't mean either game is better or worse, just my opinion is what matters to me. Saints Row has S#!TT3D on GTA ever since 2 came out in '08.

Hydrolex4052d ago (Edited 4052d ago )

Saints Row is Garbage compared to GTA

Keep in mind, it was Rockstar's first GTA on NEW CONSOLES... while Saints Row already had 3 on Xbox 360 and 2 on PS3... Saints Rows are like Call of Duty, the games looks and feels the same, while every GTA just feels different

Not gonna lie, Saints Row the Third was a fun game, but QUALITY was no where close to GTA IV ! NO Where.. GTA IV was amazing except it got boring after players finished the game, Rockstar noticed that and is going back to make GTA V just like San Andreas, fun and lots of things to do... I know GTA V is gonna be amazing, every single Rockstar games is AMAZING

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badz1494052d ago

it's not really THAT hard to better GTAIV! there are many MANY games that are better than GTAIV this gen!

LOGICWINS4052d ago (Edited 4052d ago )

I played SR3 with a timed trial. Too over the top for me. Maybe I played it with the wrong mindset.

RavageX4052d ago

Nah. Now if you had said SR2 I would have agreed. SR3 is an empty shell of what the series was.

Awful story/characters, weak activities, lifeless city. Even the customization took a step backwards. The sole improvement was graphics.

It does have the plus of having co-op, but that's really it.

Sad to say that SR4 is looking like a disappointment too.

LOGICWINS4052d ago

SR2 was better than GTA1V IMO. It actually had worthwhile indoor environments and story was much more entertaining that GTAIV's.

Gazondaily4052d ago

Agreed. SR2 was great fun and I had one of the funniest moments ever in it courtesy of its brilliant co-op campaign.

Outside_ofthe_Box4052d ago (Edited 4052d ago )

No it's not. Not a single SR game is better than ANY of the GTA games, period.

BigStef714052d ago

And SR2 was way better than the both of them

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Mainline Grand Theft Auto trailers ranked from best to worst

As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.

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purple101135d ago

We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now

Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.

This site supposed to be for news.

roadkillers135d ago

These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Anniversary: The Beginning of the Age of RAGE

Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.

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franwex352d ago

Wasn’t the Table Tennis game the first to use RAGE?

isarai352d ago

Was about to say the same, but they do say first "in the franchise" so 🤷

cammers1995352d ago

The fact it hasnt been remastered is insane.

Abear21352d ago

Rage engine made driving on the sidewalk in cinematic slow motion camera a blast

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Fifteen Years On, 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Is Still the Series’ Best

There’s never a bad time to relive its magic, and with rumours of a potential Grand Theft Auto IV remaster making the rounds, why wouldn’t you?

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Machina355d ago

The series' most overhyped and overrated (especially by critics) more like.

Number1TailzFan355d ago

Not sure tbh.. I'd say 3 was the most overrated. It's pretty rough to go back to, it was quite rough even trying it just after Vice City. Lack of humour and vehicles that had the weight of polystyrene with top speeds to match.

VC & the stories games (even LCS) were all fun. I remember there being a lot of praise for GTA 3 on TV and in game mags, saying it was a Dreamcast killer of a game or words to that effect, and honestly after playing it on PC I didn't think it was that special and kind of dull, had the odd moment of fun but hardly anything. I heard they cut online multiplayer at the last moment for PC, shame because it could've made all the difference.

Would've loved to have seen what kind of cartoony GTA style game they could've done on Dreamcast as a competitor, I bet something along the lines of Simpsons Hit & Run would've worked well.

BlackTar187354d ago

@numberz How can the game that defined a generation and was copied by everyone be overrated? Was a asinine comment

seanpitt23354d ago

For me 4 was better than 5 was more realistic and the physics was on another level! 5 was a major let down in that department!

Number1TailzFan354d ago

@blacktar you have your opinion i have mine. I found the game dull, and it is for the most part. It set the foundation for the much superior SA and VC however.

KwietStorm_BLM354d ago

You say GTA III is overrated because it's rough to go back to and rough to play after Vice City. Your entire opinion is in hindsight. Of course it's rough going back to it today. It came out over 20 years ago. That doesn't take away from the fact that it pioneered a lot and was a paradigm shift for a lot of trends in game development today. Vice City in a lot of ways is just a more refined version of III. It was San Andreas that took the big leap forward from a design perspective. If III doesn't release, who knows if the open world genre would be what it is now. How can that be overrated?

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1nsomniac354d ago (Edited 354d ago )

Not at all. My most played game of all time. Truly stunning accomplishment in gaming and with PC graphics mods it just took it to levels beyond anything that came before and possibly even after.

People who moan about it generally tend to be people who played it on under powered consoles and couldn’t handle the more realistic car physics. It was the slightly more realistic approach that made it stand out more. Absolutely love it. In fact I always said Vice city was my favourite of all time. But after going back to the remaster I realised 4 was actually the best.

Profchaos354d ago (Edited 354d ago )

I'm no critic and I consider it the best games in the franchise after recently replaying every entry it's story when paired in conjunction with it's DLC was and still is amazing.

shinoff2183354d ago

Lol. Fun fact. That dlc cost a certain green colored console 50 million for exclusiveness. Un heard of back then. Just to point out the hypocrisy of the 3rd party exclusive agenda going on.

Anyway how the dlc better then the base game by a mile. Lol imo

DigitallyAfflicted353d ago

I've enjoyed gta4 the most from all the others too.

DarXyde354d ago

San Andreas holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I couldn't get into IV at all. Didn't even finish it. I had some pride in playing it at first because I'm originally a New Yorker, but it just didn't do it for me.

To each their own.

shinoff2183354d ago (Edited 354d ago )

Gta sa for sure. To this day my favorite. My least fav is gta 4 easily. Gta 4 made me feel like the dude in next friday trying to take the cd back talking about i cant get jiggy wit this.

Maybe looking back it would be 3 but 3 did so damn much for gaming in general. . My first gta was of course the top downs so the series has came a long way.

notachance353d ago

Yeah I remembered falling asleep playing the last mission in GTA4.. the most boring protagonist (out of all the voiced protag), and the town is too small.

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-Foxtrot355d ago

Not really

Overrated

Boring

Liberty City despite being a reimagined version for the HD era lacked any variety

Lacked the GTA fun charm overall

Niko was bland compared to past protagonists like Tommy, CJ or Victor

blackblades354d ago (Edited 354d ago )

GTA 2 was the best, lol my only owned GTA game. Vice city was alright when I rented it back then. I cant really say which is the best cause those the only 2 games i played but GTA 2 was fun on PC back in the day. Closes game to it that I enjoyed was SR3 and I dont care what people say. That none serious tone was fun enjoyable.

banger88355d ago

Like hell it is. San Andreas was far better, much more fun and a better game overall.

isarai355d ago

Nah, it's a masterpiece in attention to detail and the amount of immersive systems at play. But it really isn't very fun, ESPECIALLY when compared to the previous games in the series. Like tons of things are just wonky and actively kneecap lots of experimentation, or is just lame. Like why do I take huge damage when falling into water, why can I only stand in very specific large trucks when they are moving but not smaller trucks and vehicles, why is the melee combat such a massive down grade from GTA SA and GTA IV, why is the euphoria nowhere near as reactive, why is being drunk using a rasterized animation of staggering rather than the far more entertaining euphoria GTAIV and RDR used when you were drunk, why do npc vehicles barely react to you popping there tires even at high speed, etc etc.

I've always loved playing around in GTA games world. Like the campaigns are great but the majority of my time was always spent just playing in the open world. Yet GTAV is the only game in the series I never really returned to after beating it, it just lacks that fun factor the others have, I spent more time in GTA SA remastered than GTAV

chicken_in_the_corn354d ago

It's one of my least favourite GTA games. It's clunky, the ai is exploitable, it's far too long and the writing is absolutely awful.

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