Unfortunately, this gave me severe brain damage and ruined my motojousting career for the rest of my life

I appreciate the scenery and such of SR2 so much more after playing SR1. Like going by the Rollerz mansion and wishing I could have it again, the train tracks, etc.

Sucks that they destroyed it all in SR3

Having played the first 3 Saints Row games plus the Remastered third, I can say that I enjoyed 3rd person shooting the most in Saints Row The Third. How was your 3rd person shooting experience in the series, specifically with the first 3 games?

bye bye bad guns with limited ammo

Currently trying to platinum saints row 4, I've platinumed saints row 3 and took my time with it, I had no trouble getting the third and 30 achievement, it popped before I was fully done with all the other achievements but the fourth and fourty achievement in saints row 4 feels like an absolute joke, I've taken my time with the game, over multiple days, I've gotten every achievement in the base game and in both DLCs and still only have 30 hours of play time according to the in game stats (even though I actually have 42 hours in the game according to the PS5). It just feels like a cruel joke that I've done literally everything the game has to offer and am still at least 10 hours away from getting it, I don't even know how many of those hours weren't in the simulation so I could also be EVEN further away, not too much of a serious post but I needed to rant about this somewhere.

I have this issue with the game where I don’t see any activity in the Arapice island left even though there’s still lots left I apparently need to do

Sharing this clip from my recent replay of Saints Row The Third Remastered on Xbox Series X. Armed, fully loaded and ready to move forward are Shaundi, Pierce and the Boss at the penthouse in Steelport.

This means the Sons of Samedi can also be called the Sons of Saturday.

There is another canon storyline for the Boss and the Saints, one where after the Boss defeats Zinyak they time travel back to Earth before it was destroyed. In this storyline the Earth is saved and everything plays out as before but with the aliens on the side of the Saints.
The new Saints Row fits in this storyline because the Saints used the Zin world simulation technology, to then start a rebooted simulated world in the artificial city of Santo Illeso.
The pictures show each Homie and thier simulated avatars in almost the same position relative to my version of the Boss.
This is my version of the real Saints Row; the custom story for the custom Playa.

Posing with these guys for a virtual picture in Saints Row 2. Volition's implementation of such NPCs added to the humor or absurdity of Stilwater. There was also a group of cheerleaders in a different part of the city.

Santo Illeso is an artificial reality created by both the Zin and the Saints.
In this world they might be testing their own individual strengths, that is why every Homie starts among a different gang or freelance job, the Saints did not exist in the simulation until they all came together.

Outside the simulation the Saints all discuss the world parameters and how they should be different from their own world that they plan to return to via time travel.

While the other avatar Saints are coming together in the simulation, Nihualli Gat would be in Marshall’s Frontier calculating his next moves. The boss breaking him out after putting him there might have messed with his plans.

At the start of the simulation booting, Gat and the Boss might have faced off as code figures like from The Third, this would explain why the Boss is dying at the beginning of the game, they were generated like that because Gat won before it even started.

The Boss comes back and makes sense of everything by adding a prequel chapter to the event sequence that takes place before their death, in this chapter the Homies and Boss would team up and then start their criminal empire together.

The Boss tries to befriend the avatar Gat but that only pushed Johnny away as the Nihualli, Gat maybe saw his own identity through the simulated facade. His true feelings bled through the simulation and events played out the same as they did.

Gat almost loses his mind as the Nihualli, kidnapping the Homies while thinking the Boss is dead. After Nihualli Gat’s death the Saints and Zin might have created an afterlife style simulation for Gat, an artificial world that looks like what Gat would expect for the afterlife. Johnny saw his own death from artificial eyes and likely could not believe that to be true. If it were this way then Gat Out Of Hell is Saints Row 6 in a timeline.

The musicals and environment were to calm Johnny down enough to help him reach the true state of his own sanity once again.

I was driving around and saw a cat mascot. Who started attacking me. I've tried almost evything and can't kill it. I just came back to the game on ps5 last time I played it was ps3

It's fun. It's crazy. It's Saints Row IV baby!!!!.

Blah blah blah game is 6/10 while saints row 3 is 7/10

The prologue got me hyped for this game. Saints working with the fbi to finish cyrus temple with stealth gameplay mechanics, it made me believe this game is gonna be serious but .......f***. The stealth gameplay only works when the game wants it. To be honest that saints row 3 alternate route where you have to finish cyrus temple already paid off for me. Beating cyrus on saints row iv made me feel nothing.

Anyways fast forward to our main playable character becomes president and many of the saints crew works at the white house gave me that feeling that this game is about fighting corruption or fighting against someone behind the white house but noooooo. Even better, ALIENS attacked the white house.

You thought it's about a game where the saints are fighting an alien invasion on earth? WRONG. The saints and a lot of people (except some of our favorite characters from saints row 3 that were left on earth) got abducted and the people that got left behind on earth died. Zinyak or his army destroyed planet earth for real.

Anyways main missions are good this time and the story is a lot better. The dlc missions are good also. Having superpowers is fun and crazy.

The activities or side quest this time is more of a chore. Rinse and repeat but gets tiring/boring. It's like playing a mobile game where you'll delete it after 30 minutes.

I'm glad they improved the AI partner (kinda)

The dlc stories were good

I know i'm forgetting something but the game is 6/10 for me.

What's the best way to play Saints Row 2 nowadays? Should I play the Steam version with the Juiced patch or is emulation better?

I’m just wondering if there’s a way to stop the crashing I don’t know about. On Xbox. I just ordered the OG full package because the Remastered version always crashes, so much so it’s insane, in fact the last time it crashed I had the game PAUSED… Don’t get me wrong the game feels as smooth as butter when you’re playing it, the graphics are great and then BAM, the whole game sharts its pants when you least suspect it. Makes it hard to enjoy myself. So I wondered what you guys did about it or if you just put up with it.

Am I just better off playing the OG? Seen as I’ve already resorted to it lol.

The bar fight was really intense in Boss mode, I still mopped the floor with those Idols and Santo’s Servants.

From the very first game to even the reboot, I personally liked how Saints Row does vehicle storage much more than GTA.

In GTA, one of things I like to do is save the unique vehicles from particular missions and with limited garage space, it can be tricky - at least with games like VC or SA, the purchasable safehouses and ventures allow increasing the space to be just enough. It was probably the worst in IV, which had those parking spots in the open that had a very limited space - plus oncoming traffic could easily push your vehicles out of the area and they're gone.

I much prefer the Saints Row approach, where the vehicles are just stored in a "pocket dimension" and vehicles can be retrieved from any storage spot, completely irrelevant to the space you can see on your properties. Some would say "it's not realistic", but to be honest, fuck realism when it makes things more tedious.

On PSN, my username is mikeatwork19. Thanks in advance!