After hearing how fucking amazing this game is for years from both people here and friends I finally had a chance to try it and I'm real fucking disappointed.
Now this would be fine, GTA4 did the same exact thing, however the shooting in Saints Row feels so unresponsive and mediocre. Not to mention the almost complete lack of interesting setting for the vast majority of the missions.
A perfect example of this is the mission where you have to shoot up a chinese casino and you just stand around killing wave after wave of enemies. Just the most boring shit I've ever played.
These feel like they're straight up padding for people not to realise there might not be that much actual content to the game. And you know, some are kind of funny, like the one where you spray shit on buildings, but goddamn even that gets old real quick.
These are my main gripes with it. Smaller things are the map feeling really empty, the cars handling all very similarly. Pretty much anything related to gameplay I have a problem with.
Which is a fucking shame because I love the characters, the production the cutscenes clearly had and just how much fucking attention was put into character customization. Seriously I was not expecting something that extensive from a game that came out in 2008.
I don't know, I'm just kind of disappointed all around. I don't really even want to finish it, I'm just having absolutely no fun with it and it feels like a chore to play though so far. I've actually been playing it with my friends that really love it, however even they were kind of disappointed by it and it didn't seem like it lived up to the memories they had of it.
Has anyone that loves Saints Row 2 replayed it recently and can objectively say it's just as good as they remembered?
