"But that wouldn’t be looking at the whole story, would it? After all, Saints Row IV still looks amazing. Given a set number of the right reasons — maybe five? — it might even be the open-world game to go with when it releases in a few short weeks." - Joe Garcia
Remember this year's Saints Row(opens in new tab)? Volition would probably prefer that you didn't, which might go some way to explaining why the studio recently decided to upgrade everyone's copy of Saints Row 4(opens in new tab) to its full-fat Re-elected Edition, containing all the game's story and cosmetic DLC and even introducing cross-play between Steam, Epic, and GOG versions of the game.
Unfortunately, that upgrade seems to have backfired, and players now report a myriad of bugs with their new version of SR4. Both the Saints Row Steam forums(opens in new tab) and subreddit(opens in new tab) are filled with players complaining of broken saves, crashes, and mods failing to function. It's also received a few hundred negative Steam reviews(opens in new tab) since the update. If it's succeeded in washing the taste of Saints Row (2022) out of players' mouths, it's only because it tastes even worse.
I wonder if Volition's getting reorged under Gearbox impacted the quality of their release.
When it comes ranking the Saints Row games, there are a couple of weird ones you have to consider, though this is Saints Row after all.
Juan at SwitchWatchTV got his hands on Saints Row 4 Re-elected for Nintendo Switch. Check out his review here and see what he thinks.
Certainly, I know this thought haven't come through most minds but, why not both?
why not buy, borrow, and/or rent both?
okay, come up with 10000 reasons that not a single Ef will be given to your opinion.
yeh you have to be blind and stupid to pick SR4 over GTA5, stupid isn't a big enough word
SR2 was the best SR game but after that developers maybe ran out of ideas and just thought let's keep making it crazier and that will be enough
SR3 had no gangs
it had no story structure
didn't have as much to do as Sr2
so go ahead buy Sr4 but most if not all will buy GTA5 over SR4, don't get me wrong i want to buy SR4 but not for full $60, its a well known fact SR4 was suppose to be an expansion but because of THQ's money problems they wanted to release it asap as a game to make some money
its a good game if you can find it for $25-30 but not full price,
also some may buy both so its not that i am hating on SR series, its the fact Sr2 was so good and the room for improvement was there but instead the developers took the easy road out
after seeing GTA5 gameplay trailer its crystal clear which game to buy if you can only afford to buy one
I'll just wait fot GOTY edition GTAV.