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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: FancyFeast on February 02, 2008, 04:03:02 AM

Title: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 02, 2008, 04:03:02 AM
Honest question here, the game is in the top tier of true next gen titles.

[youtube=425,350]w8ZXaJx4BtY[/youtube]

Best city layout since Liberty City :bow
Excellent dynamic lighting :bow
Gang territory control :bow
INSANELY perfect missions :bow
GPS driving :bow
Texturezilla :bow
Drop Shadows on everything :bow
Self Shadowing :bow
Excellent AI :bow
Awesome explosion shaders :bow
Excellent animation :bow
Excellent ambient chrachter models :bow
Awesome driving physics :bow
Best destruction physics of any next gen game, PERIOD (sorry floaterstorm) :bow
Awesome as shit variety :bow
Awesome as shit Anti Aliasing :bow


Just played for roughly 3 hours straight.  What a fucking RUSH!!

Knocked down the pins finally, and got thebulldozer up that statue's ass.  Took down 3 strongholds.  Called my homie Will to help with 2 of them.  :bow

(http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0150/feingold.jpg)

:bow :bow :bow
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 02, 2008, 04:07:44 AM
I want you to tell me....

What next gen game offers more next gen WOW?

Thought so.  :-*
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Ichirou on February 02, 2008, 04:18:45 AM
What scene is that photo from? Keith David and Liev Schrieber, right?
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: drew on February 02, 2008, 04:35:55 AM
Answer:  yes

It's called Dead Rising  :D


Edit:  Trailer war!

[youtube=425,350]qyfc7f0Z3wU[/youtube]

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/bowdown.gif)
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 11:03:33 AM
Is there a date for the second one?
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 02, 2008, 12:47:26 PM
saints row :rock
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Sho Nuff on February 02, 2008, 12:48:15 PM
I just completed a second runthrough of Dead Rising today, and that shit still blows my mind. The graphics are fucking awesome (+800 zombies on screen at once) and the play control is dead on. Pity about the utterly distinguished mentally-challenged AI pathing though.

I can't believe DR came so early in the 360's lifespan. It's still one of the best-looking next-gen games from Japan. WTF happened Capcom, DMC4 looks nowhere as good. AND WHERE IS MY GODDAMN SEQUEL

BTW, regarding Saints Row, HECTOR SAYS BUENOS NOCHES
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 02, 2008, 01:04:27 PM
no game captures what i want from gangbangin' sims better than saints row. that's right, i am all about the icy hot stuntaz experience

no game -- not even those tim schafer games you fegs go on about -- has made me lol as hard and as long as saints row has
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Himu on February 02, 2008, 01:45:33 PM
dead rising is the game of the generation as of now sorry
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Mupepe on February 02, 2008, 02:49:07 PM
Answer:  yes

It's called Dead Rising  :D


Edit:  Trailer war!

[youtube=425,350]qyfc7f0Z3wU[/youtube]

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/bowdown.gif)
If I hadn't played Assassin's Creed, this would be my choice.

[youtube=425,350]zUuwFauzM2I[/youtube]
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Himu on February 02, 2008, 02:53:25 PM
in terms of graphics Assassin's Creed is the best looking next gen game by far
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 02, 2008, 03:03:40 PM
in terms of graphics Assassin's Creed is the best looking next gen game by far

No day/night cycle?   :-\
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Mupepe on February 02, 2008, 03:04:16 PM
in terms of graphics Assassin's Creed is the best looking next gen game by far

No day/night cycle?   :-\
I don't think he has seen Uncharted
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Shuri on February 02, 2008, 03:04:46 PM
Saints Row dominates GTA so hard, it's not even funny.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 02, 2008, 03:11:28 PM
in terms of graphics Assassin's Creed is the best looking next gen game by far

No day/night cycle?   :-\
I don't think he has seen Uncharted

There's no day/night cycle in Uncharted either.  That Ass Creed video looks awesome.  I hope the PC version was worth the 4 months wait. 
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 02, 2008, 03:23:41 PM
Saints Row dominates GTA so hard, it's not even funny.

:bow :bow truth bombs nukin' the gta village :bow :bow
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Mupepe on February 02, 2008, 03:23:51 PM
in terms of graphics Assassin's Creed is the best looking next gen game by far

No day/night cycle?   :-\
I don't think he has seen Uncharted

There's no day/night cycle in Uncharted either.  That Ass Creed video looks awesome.  I hope the PC version was worth the 4 months wait. 
yeah, but uncharted looks better
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Powerslave on February 02, 2008, 03:26:03 PM
that music sucked
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: drew on February 02, 2008, 03:31:19 PM
What's up with not being able to create a normal looking white man in this game?  You've got to settle with someone who looks completely out of place in toddler clothes.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: T234 on February 02, 2008, 04:18:31 PM
Saints Row dominates GTA so hard, it's not even funny.

:bow :bow truth bombs nukin' the gta village :bow :bow
Have fun taking your car to Rim Jobs, fellas.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 02, 2008, 04:22:37 PM
have fun takin' yer slangin' and bangin' srsly
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: T234 on February 02, 2008, 04:25:32 PM
The second Saint's Row game is going the srs route too, according to the EGM I have where it is a cover.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 02, 2008, 04:26:04 PM
the first one was srs, too! but it was ICY HOT SRS, which is awesome
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 04:29:09 PM
What's up with not being able to create a normal looking white man in this game?  You've got to settle with someone who looks completely out of place in toddler clothes.


My guy looks normal and awesome, maybe I'll take a pic of him later.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on February 02, 2008, 06:13:20 PM
[youtube=425,350]c0UA-pA3BkM[/youtube]

:rock
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 02, 2008, 06:51:54 PM
ICY HOT SRS is a great new genre designation

also, is T234 serious about that Rim Jobs dig? GTA invented the childish sexual euphemism as store name!
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 06:55:54 PM
Rim Jobs has none of the class of Gruppe Sechs.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: T234 on February 02, 2008, 06:56:50 PM
 :lol :lol @ Patel.

I've been playing Saint's Row most every night for the past couple of weeks. The business names and shit isn't nearly as clever as in GTA, though.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2008, 07:05:11 PM
For some reason Freckle Bitch's still makes me laugh.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Mupepe on February 02, 2008, 07:23:09 PM
[youtube=425,350]c0UA-pA3BkM[/youtube]

:rock
:bow :bow :bow :bow
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Raban on February 03, 2008, 12:30:43 AM
It's impressive that many of the 360s launch window games are still unsurpassed in terms of gameplay or graphics this far into the gen.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: The Sceneman on February 03, 2008, 01:32:23 AM
might have to check Saints Row if its as lol-worthy as you guys are saying
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 01:37:07 AM
i just started saints row right now. GTA4 is in trouble.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 03, 2008, 01:38:28 AM
i just started saints row right now. GTA4 is in trouble.

:bow :bow :bow
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 03, 2008, 01:44:06 AM
i just started saints row right now. GTA4 is in trouble.

Keep going dude.  The side shit is great and the missions are bomb.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 01:45:09 AM
i just got the reclamation achievement.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2008, 02:30:45 AM
Fuck Turok, I'm going to boot up my old save in this game and shoot for some achievements or something.

I loved customziing cars, I had dozens of them.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 04:01:31 AM
can you do activities when you take over all of Stilwater? maybe it will be easier to do these, when i got my saints covering my back.

guess i'll just focus on the main story right now.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2008, 04:02:19 AM
Yes you can. There are no arbitrary obstacles to fun like GTA, everything is streamlined.

If you want tons of $$$ do the mayhem mission in the middle of the north island, in the high class shopping district.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 03, 2008, 04:10:53 AM
I never tried Saints' Row 'cause I heard that it's got some bad framerate problems.  Is that true? 
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2008, 04:12:08 AM
It's better than the PS2 GTAs in frame rate and it actually looks good compared to other games on the console.

There's also an option to turn off vsync and get a better frame rate.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 04:20:56 AM
looks and runs fine. i just blew up some crack labs. woot.

i like how you can carry health packs (fast food) with you. awesome.

i get pwned on Level 8 drug trafficking though. distinguished mentally-challenged driver.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2008, 04:27:37 AM
What took you so long to get this game?
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 03, 2008, 04:34:34 AM
I never tried Saints' Row 'cause I heard that it's got some bad framerate problems.  Is that true? 


Bitch please.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: FancyFeast on February 03, 2008, 04:35:36 AM
Here's a question, with all my territories, that each supposedly bring in $3k a day.. Why don't I see that money?  I go to my safe and it is never that much.....


What am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 03, 2008, 04:40:34 AM
What took you so long to get this game?

I've had it for a while. It's Robby's.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: BlueTsunami on February 03, 2008, 05:02:15 PM
I couldn't get into Dead Rising with all the loading and the save system

I need to pickup Saints Row
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Ichirou on February 04, 2008, 12:08:26 AM
I love that Saints Row song.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 04, 2008, 03:23:34 AM
I love that Saints Row song.

You unlock it when you find all 60 hidden CDs

There's so much in this game that's done better than GTA, it will be LOL if GTA4 does not mimic this just to catch up.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 04, 2008, 05:11:37 AM
:lol

You pour a 40 out to revive one of your homies, thats hilarious
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: The Sceneman on February 04, 2008, 06:18:25 AM
fuck I gotta play this
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 04, 2008, 06:25:01 AM
It's so good. I'm taking over strongholds by myself. It's not cumbersome, it's not hard to control, it's not fighting itself. It feels like a normal action game when you do these missions. It's so natural. I can't go back to regular GTA. It's embarassing.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 04, 2008, 10:35:33 AM
The game is fuckmazing, I will be popping it back in this week.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on February 06, 2008, 01:59:31 AM
I have taken over all of Los Carnales territory. I am now working on the Vice Kings. I'm running through a brothel right now, slaughtering some people while looking for some chickenhead named Tanya.

Game is still awesome. Though some of the activities are really fucking hard. Like Racing. Escort was pretty easy, and Chop Shop is really easy and you can take your time on that.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: tiesto on February 06, 2008, 09:04:17 AM
Does this game celebrate ghetto culture or take an ironic look at it?
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 06, 2008, 10:18:45 AM
It's not clever enough to take an ironic look at it, but it winds up being funny anyway.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Himu on June 09, 2008, 03:36:57 AM
since i can't make new topics or search:

Saints Row > GTAIV

reasons:

1. story that doesn't take itself too seriously
2. garages, and the fact you get to keep the cars you put in your garage
3. customization, and clothes that don't look like shit
4. something to do around every street corner, so no wasted space
5. game is hilarious and a lot funnier than gta4. "freckle bitch's" "on the rag clothing" omg far more compelling than tw@!
6. missions have variety, and even if, at least so far, there aren't multiple ways to do them, at least they're varied. All of them are things you'd find in a GTA game though, and some are missions that have appeared in GTA in some form. It feels like a GTA greatest hits.
7. best side missions in an open world game. so much content, so much variety, and it all has to do with crime.
8. actually recognizable gangs, and emphasis on gangs instead of a main character and his shitty pathos harkens back to my favorite fucking gta ever: gta3.
9. game rewards exploration, unlike gta4. the more you explore the better clothing shops you find, and stuff like that.
10. characters have personality and are awesome. Johnny is better than any character in GTA4. Isn't Johnny asian? He is the best asian character in a game ever. No stupid RELATIONSHIP bullshit.
11. money has actual value. Weapons are expensive and so are clothes and you can choose what you want at the get go, you don't have to wait till you get to such and such mission to use a certain feature, which gives the open ended feeling a boost. and since there's so many clothes and so many clothing stores to visit, you can feel overwhelmed. It's pretty cool. I also like how you can buy liquor or drugs for health boosts.

so that's 11 reasons why Saints Row is a better GTA game than GTAIV. Pathetic. Rockstar didn't even pay attention to the best gta clone out there and now SR2 is going to SMOKE GTAIV. lamo Good job keeping yourself away from your fanbase as far as possible cunts.

I prefer GTAIV's controls though, that's really it. You can't even look behind your shoulder on foot in SR. And in a car, you can't click the right stick in to see behind you, you have to press LB and RB. I don't like the fact you can't customize the controls.

I'm not sure if there's great rewards for the things you do in SR aside from respect or money though. It'd be cool if it pulls a GTAIII, VC, and SA and gives you cool rewards for everything you do like awesome suped up rare cars you can't get anywhere else.

I owe loan sharks 5000 dollars and they've sent a crew of hitmen to kill me. They're not a major threat as they're pretty easy. That's so badass though.

The side missions are the shit. Drug selling is the shit, as is insurance fraud, pimping is great, escort missions rock, mayhem missions are genius and play on the fact that open ended game fans like to cause mayhem.

It's like Saints Row knows exactly what to do with the genre while Rockstar thinks they can get away with the shit they pulled. I hpe the next gta bombs so they'll step their game up.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: demi on June 09, 2008, 03:53:04 AM
Quote
I'm not sure if there's great rewards for the things you do in SR aside from respect or money though. It'd be cool if it pulls a GTAIII, VC, and SA and gives you cool rewards for everything you do like awesome suped up rare cars you can't get anywhere else.

There are rewards for doing the side-missions, you get platinum guns (infinite ammo), new clothes, stamina boosts (do spray tags), new homies, new cars, new music to buy (finding the CDs)
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Himu on June 09, 2008, 03:54:32 AM
:bow

gta4 ownzored

hail to the new king
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: bork on June 09, 2008, 04:18:25 AM
CRACK-A-DOWN is still the best.

BUT I do want to give SR another shot.  Maybe if I can find a cheap copy somewhere.  The J version is in Japanese, so I don't want that.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Reb on June 09, 2008, 10:36:22 AM
I bought this game during lunch today.

€ 10,-  :dur
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 09, 2008, 10:50:51 AM
If you obliterate a gang you get all their cars in your garage too.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Grecco on June 09, 2008, 11:52:00 AM
Cant wait for SR2

Full Story Co Op bitches.
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 10, 2008, 02:09:35 PM
I can't believe it's taken me this long to go to the Scratch That store in SR! These tracks could single-handedly make the game at least twice as awesome as it already is. There's the adrenaline-pumping Ride of the Valkyrie and William Tell Overture from the Classical genre or the hilariously ironic Super Week-End and Week-End Pop from the Easy Listening genre. There's just nothing quite like running people over and shooting cops in the face while listening to upbeat lounge music.  :lol
Title: Re: Is there a better next gen game besides Saints Row?
Post by: Bildi on June 10, 2008, 07:49:26 PM
If I hadn't played Assassin's Creed, this would be my choice.

[youtube=425,350]zUuwFauzM2I[/youtube]

The true next gen game.

:heartbeat