We can only hope that the developers of Grand Theft Auto IV are taking careful notes on Saints Row, the next generation of the "open world"-style games popularized by Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas. At first glance, Saints Row looks like little more than an Xbox 360-fortified version of San Andreas: from the mission design to the basic play mechanics to the tongue-in-cheek spirit, it's abundantly clear that Saints Row is firmly grounded in Rockstar Games' groundbreaking series.
The rebooted Saints Row on PS Plus has seen a huge influx of PS5 and PS4 players — enough to make it the second-biggest PS Plus Essential game debut of 2023.
They are tracking 3.2M PS5 players. They say the Saints Row's PS Plus debut player count fell 23.64% short of the Battlefield 2042 PS Plus debut.
I downloaded it to try but I was never much of a Saint row fan to begin with. If they re released the older ones I'd probably try them to.
its sad we live in an time where people seek out retro software vs playing whats fresh and new
Jeromeface that's funny as shit. I've complained tremendously about ff16 and you know what I get told
If you want turn based go play the older ones.
Anyway I play new shit all the time. Had a blast with star ocean 6, tails of arise, ys newest games. But I can do both. Play retro and new stuff. Sad thing is alot of new stuff I find whack atleast alot of the aaa games , I'm not a huge fan of shooters,online games, online shooters and gatcha games and that's alot of the shit shoveled out.
There's still plenty of dope stuff coming out though
Baldurs gate looks good
Yakuza
Ys
Got a dragon quest some year
As much as I bitch about cyberpunk I'm looking forward to that dlc(hope it ain't broke)
It's refreshing to have a mix.
@jeromeface
Um, that’s because the stuff from the SNES to PS3 era were way better than what we have now.
Publishers/Devs were willing to take risks and it wasn’t all about GaaS or monetization. Games felt like they were made with passion and not afraid to try things. Yea we started the whole DLC trend in 7th gen, but the most a season pass cost back then was $15.
The industry has really shifted and the whole trying to translate the mobile game model to consoles and all this talk about games being too expensive to make like a Baldur’s Gate 3 is depressing.
Crimson looks like it's just me and you on that one. Alot of these most be people under 25 or something
I really liked 3, although part 4 tried to be a superhero game and it was just dumb as shit.
This game is also dumb as shit as the writing is peak poor, there are no jokes that I'm aware of as I never laughed once, and it's glitchy and disorganized AF. The story makes no sense, as it's typical campy "Oh hey we're doing crazy things like killing people etc." but everyone is somehow super chill about the mass murder as if it's nothing. This is common theme amongst today's trash woke writers.
Everyone downloading to see for themselves just how garbage the game actually is, then they'll play a few hours and delete forever lol
Me too lol. Black Friday is the only chance of me renewing. But I have all the games from when ps5 came out. Soooooo many ps4 games and a bunch of ps3 ps+ games. All soon to be gone cause fuck that $80. I'll just buy what games I want.
Replies(7)This is what most people do to even good games, including gamepass. Kind of funny when you think about it.
Replies(1)They're tracking just the ones who downloaded it not kept playing. These are people seeing if it's good.
How about report numbers of people who kept playing.
Saints row reboot was an embarrassment to the franchise and it killed the developer.
I played the entire game of SR & for me the gameplay experience wasn't bad especially for a PS+ game.
Damn that's a real nice review!
I am really curious what GTA4 will do against all this power. It can only get stimulated to go even further. And it's there from day one in 2007 with downloadable content afterwards.
It's great news, if you want the most sleaziest game this time around you'll get Saints Row. In no other GTA game there is so much blood, violence, sex, bad things to do. Mature game, but it needs to be here. Just like Dead Rising. And I hope all moral stupid arguïng -for example in governments- stop. Parents are there to make sure their childeren don't buy it/play it. Just like with violence on TV/street, porn on TV or in videostores and hookers on the street.
Think I'm going to beat up some government members in the Saints Row demo now ;)
Because it was made for the PS2. Power limitations hurt GTA. GTA never had online. They had several chances to include it. SR had to include it to set it self apart. With Saints Row we might be saying GTA needs to step it up.