The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Kirsten]

hard to see where they could go for 5 though, what do you do now after virtual reality alien invasion and trip to hell?

[Psychosplodge]

Well post the gat out of hell ending they could declare one cannon and have the saints starting again from scratch?
I mean they manage to retell almost the same story every few years on gta.

[Kirsten]

that is true

[Erik Setzer]

I was quite enjoying it once I got used to the wonky controls, I preferred 3 tbh out of them all. But 2 kept crashing to desktop on me so I didn't finish it.
Like every 30-40mins max it was like gaming at the turn of the century again.

IIRC, SR2 was a horribly done port, it was originally done just for consoles. Kind of like recent WB games, where that company got so sick of the bad ports that they're now just flipping off PC customers (if you bought Mortal Kombat X for PC, for example, you won't get the DLC, because it's too much effort).

I originally got the games on XBox, picked up a Saints Row 2-pack with the first two games for $20 because it looked interesting, SR1 was fine but SR2 really drew me in. SR1 had no voice for the player's character, and the controls were probably a bit too close to GTA, which I just can't get used to for some reason. SR2 is when they started really finding their own direction, took off with it in SR3, and then decided to soar in SR4.

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Yep.
As much as I love flying around the map like a bird, it has made it ridiculously easy.

That's a problem with most games that have alternate methods of transport, it's either easier or more fun to use the other. Like in Arkham Knight, it's a lot more fun to swing and glide around the city. I've been playing Just Cause 2 (was on sale), and it's faster to drive a vehicle, but a lot more fun to grapple around everywhere. But in games like Saints Row, the cars offer more than just transport, like customization, and radio (except you could do that outside the car in SR4, too).

Wouldn't mind driving being relevant again. It's fun to drive like a sort-of-maniac and rack up Respect doing close passes and skidding through the turns. (It is NOT fun, EVER, to try to drive legally in these games.)

[Erik Setzer]

This looks intriguing:

[url]http://gamerant.com/endciv-fallout-meets-simcity-game/[/url]

A post-apoc city management game that also mixes in a bit of Civ elements. Could be pretty fun. I'd certainly give it a go.

[Psychosplodge]

Seems a cash in on the settlement building. I'll wait and see what happens with it, if its done right it could still work.

[Erik Setzer]

It's already been greenlit, so that's one step in the right direction.

It's an interesting concept. Not sure if a small studio will be able to realize all that they want to do with it, but I guess we'll see.

[Psychosplodge]

So it looks like reasonably priced gaming laptops might be a thing soon

[Kirsten]

started Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin on Xbox One, ahead of Dark Souls 3 coming in April. so good, but so very tense. all of the time. there is an obelisk in game that tracks the total number of deaths. it is approaching 57 million now.

[Erik Setzer]

The game Party Hard was included in Angry Joe's top 10 games of 2015, and looked fun from watching him playing it. It's only $12.49 normally, pretty small amount, but right now Humble Bundle's weekly bundle has Party Hard and other stuff for $8, so you can say over 33% and get a bunch of other stuff, plus help charity. I snagged it, pretty light download relatively speaking (under a gig), it even runs in a window. But it's fun. Pretty tough, though. As someone with annoying noisy neighbors, it's a nice way to blow off that steam. For those unaware of the game's premise, you're playing a guy sick of noisy party-goers who goes around various parties killing everyone, but you have to be careful not to have witnesses or have people spot bodies just lying around, or the cops will come along. Not so easy when there's often 50+ people and it's hard to get one alone (or catch multiple people where they can't escape). Plenty of environmental stuff to use, and it randomly generates the crowd and environmental stuff, so good replay value.

And it's played up as a bit of a joke, not just playing a murder-suicide simulator like Hatred.