Saint's Row IV

[Lakov_Sanite]

Unlocked and playing it's...so....beautiful.

[rattran]

It's pretty, stupid, and fun.

[Sky]

The Walking Dead has messed with my inverted aim. Feels right while driving but then I'm upside down for shooting. Gah.

Also...looks like Steam friends are indeed integrated into co-op!

The walk when your character wakes up in the [spoiler] is lol.

[satael]

Screw it, I'm waiting for the next sale to get this since they decided to delay the European release to 23rd

[MisterNoisy]

Flying bike pretty much breaks the collectathons.

[Lakov_Sanite]

As I was super running and jumping across rooftops and generally being awesome, "The touch" came on the radio and I lost my shit.

[MisterNoisy]

As I was super running and jumping across rooftops and generally being awesome, "The touch" came on the radio and I lost my shit.

I lost mine during the story scene with the Aerosmith track.  Great sense of humor, tho I still miss the darker tone of 2.

[Segoris]

The whole first 30mins of this has been fucking amazing. Good enough I'm not losing my shit at the UI when switching weapons, though the whole new system for garages helps make up for that a bit too

edit - Fucking Paula Abdul with a female French president voice. just wow.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Listen to the classical station, do it.

I just spent 10 minutes listening to the villain of this game reciting pride and prejudice.

[Sky]

I was clicking through the channels thinking this score was a bit weak...I'm with Lakov, the classical channel is amazing. Not just the prose, but great music selections, Figaro opera? Yes, please.

[Segoris]

This is ME1 2 and 3.....done right.

[Segoris]

And officially lost my shit. Security Deletion activity (kill # of waves of enemies) but all enemies were mascots of all sorts, and they go all Bugs Bunny on me blasting the Barber of Seville

[Trippy]

I lost it on the Fraud mission -- they changed the physics so you can cartwheel indefinitely given a clear path.

[Koyasha]

Hey, I'm trying to find actual confirmation one way or another on this; a friend of mine in Australia thinks that even if she imports the game or has it gifted on Steam, it'll be the Australian version and we won't be able to play together.  I see some spotty posts in my googling about importing the game, but I haven't seen anyone since release say 'yes, I got it gifted/imported it and it works correctly'.  Any of you from Australia gotten it gifted/imported and can confirm it's working in multiplayer with other normal versions of the game?

[Azazel]

I'm waiting for others' confirmations, but I got the US/regular version of L4D2 via Steam Gift, as well as stuff that wasn't available in Oz (at the time) like Max Payne and early GTAs via gift.

[Sky]

I lost it on the Fraud mission -- they changed the physics so you can cartwheel indefinitely given a clear path.

Took me three tries. Fail, fail...hit super sprint by mistake and go cartwheeling down the road bouncing off cars and buildings, silver.

Speaking of co-op, Az....you know what to do if you see me on :)

[rattran]

Cartwheeling into other cars is the big money, hit the hoods, go up into the air (hang time awards) come down on other cars. Even Gold isn't hard in the Frauds.  I'm having fun with the Blazin' runs, but the Platform Jumping minigames can eat a dick.

[Sky]

I forgot to give my imported character from SR3 a shirt during creation so I ran through the whole presidential opening part shirtless...which made it even better.

I try to come down on other cars but my aim sucks.

[CmdrSlack]

Are most of you getting this on PC then? I would have to ditch my old character from SR3, but I might make the move to PC if only to do multiplayer.

[Segoris]

I think most are on PC, I know I am. As for your character, just upload it to the saintsrow.com community site to your account and download it on the PC, problem solved.

For activities, yeah the fraud perma-cartwheeling trivialized it imo. However, while I normally love mayhem activities, fuck mayhem with the blackhole gun. Every other mayhem has been fine so far, just this blackhole mayhem sucks ass.

[Hammond]

I am playing on the PC myself. And serious what the hell is with the blackhole gun mayhem that one is just a pain in the ass. Everything else is pretty easy but something about that one just blows.

[Trippy]

For activities, yeah the fraud perma-cartwheeling trivialized it imo.

It's also easier now cause you can super speed to a better spot. In SR3 if the intersection you were playing in had a "dry spell" (no cars coming through) you were screwed.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I am playing on the PC myself. And serious what the hell is with the blackhole gun mayhem that one is just a pain in the ass. Everything else is pretty easy but something about that one just blows.

Doing a backpeddling run and gun worked for me.  Just go backwards and shoot behind you and you won't have to worry about sucking.

[Segoris]

It's also easier now cause you can super speed to a better spot. In SR3 if the intersection you were playing in had a "dry spell" (no cars coming through) you were screwed.

Super speed while receiving a hangtime bonus

Doing a backpeddling run and gun worked for me.  Just go backwards and shoot behind you and you won't have to worry about sucking.

You're hitting gold like that? I'm able to get about $75k short of gold forwards or backwards. Forwards allows for more targets while backwards allows for less 'oh shit I'm in a black hole' moments though for less time on the ground.

Anyone try the co-op activity yet? I'm looking to do that after getting some studies done tonight, but I have to admit that I'm surprised there hasn't been raging about keeping multiplayer out of singleplayer yet.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I think we may be forgetting we have super powers when we do this. Just thought of jumping on top of a building to blast down from above an entire block then hopping to another building to repeat.

[MisterNoisy]

I forgot to give my imported character from SR3 a shirt during creation so I ran through the whole presidential opening part shirtless...which made it even better.

I try to come down on other cars but my aim sucks.

I made the same mistake, except my toon didn't have pants.   

[Segoris]

I think we may be forgetting we have super powers when we do this. Just thought of jumping on top of a building to blast down from above an entire block then hopping to another building to repeat.

For this activity, with the exception of speed, I'm guilty of this. Damn Third dimension.

[Sky]

I see why they got rid of garages, I hardly even use cars. This game defines over the top.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I used a car once.



Once.

[Trippy]

I used them until I got unlimited sprint, which was a pain to get thanks to bosses in missions that could almost one shot me. Fortunately I have the Commander in Chief edition extra weapon which does massive damage, even though you can't see what you are shooting with it.

[Ingmar]

Game is leaving me a little cold, honestly, at least compared to SR3. Combination of Early Plot Event being pretty de-motivating and the whole not-the-real-world abstraction of the simulation making me not care about the city really, I think.

[kildorn]

I don't really care about the city, especially since most of the new stuff is just reskins of stuff they removed. But I'm really digging the character interactions more this time. It's funnier, and I haven't seen anything really objectionable yet since we've completely dropped the whole "you are a criminal overlord" thing and just gone with.. let's say puckish rogue.

[Ragnoros]

So this was fun. If a bit short, having blown through it in 18 hours (did the majority of the side quests, ~82% completion). For comparison, SR:3 clocked in around 30-35ish.

The gameplay was more fun than 3 thanks to superpowers and the dubstep gun. However I remember 3 having a better story/characterizations, or at least more fleshed out plot about why things were happening. In 4 once you finish the first hour the plot and motivation is basically just killing aliens and superpowers, with the characters just there as window dressing rather than a focus.

That said, they really did crank this one up to 15 or so. Over the top is an understatement.

BiiF: Yes. Buy it if you liked the third installment and want more.

[rattran]

The key with Blackhole Mayhem is to shoot the cars at medium range, sucking a few cop cars and pedestrians into each blackhole gets you to gold pretty fast.

[Trouble]

The reconciliation between SR2 Shaundi and SR3 Shaundi was pretty hilarious to me. Breaking the fourth wall, in an odd way.