Saints Row 2's Anniversary - Why Is This Such A Good Game?
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- / badgergoodger / badgergoodger / badgergoodger Yeah, I'm playing the game as Bob Odenkirk.
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - The GTA connection
3:00 - Player choice in gameplay
5:14 - The story
7:27 - The map
11:01 - The soundtrack
12:14 - Other details
14:00 - The end of Volition
16:18 - Ending - Ігри
This might be one of my favorite songs in the game! ua-cam.com/video/uYXL5VpBD8U/v-deo.html
I love SR more than GTA idk why lol
Also hi badger 🙂
Absolute banger
Yoooo, that's my fav song on Gen X!
Did you make Tony Soprano and Saul Goodman replicas as the boss? Or is it just my mind playing tricks on me
My favorite game of all time. The Gentleman of the Row saved the pc port. RIP Idol Ninja
Idol was the main person behind the official SR2 patch being worked on, too. That was his passion project. I always thought it should have been given much higher priority than making him and just one other guy work on it in their spare time outside of work hours (this is how I recall hearing how it was being worked on anyway). It's really sad how things ended up turning out.
Could i get some context please?@@BadgerGoodger
Google is your answer. @@dutchlinde3574
IdolNinja was the community manager at Volition and worked on mods and fixes in his spare time, sadly he passed away of cancer before the reboot came out. After he passed away Volition promised to finish the pc patch of SR2 and they named one of the reboot gangs after him. But now that Volition has been laid off the patch is pretty much dead now.@@dutchlinde3574
@@dutchlinde3574 IdolNinja was diagnosed with cancer and died about a year before the Saints Row reboot came out. Volition released a statement promising to finish his work (and they left a tribute to him in the new game) but we heard no updates all the way up until they closed their doors. Work was done by Volition, but now nobody knows what's going on. Hate to say but it's likely scrapped at this point.
We really went from this to "how about them student loans amirite my fellow kids"
Only thing that passes are the things you allow...
Hi NathanNS. Please reply.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441i'm still wondering what kind of bubble you gotta be in to think people would relate to that
For real
One of the strongholds was even in a college and they didn't steep that low
For me, one of the best things about SR2 was the way they included all of the building interiors used for missions into the main map. I spent so many hours just exploring Stillwater and finding all the hidden places.
The pimp cave haha
I think SR2 is what spoiled me into wanting more interiors in games lol. You play the rest of em and it's like... no creative cribs, no ...everything SR2 has. 3 and 4 have T&A and the casino... only ones I recall. Then they just flipped the bird at us and made TWO interiors other than the copy-past shops. Their apartment, and the HQ. Gotta love how if you do everything to get the "penthouse", it's really just a staging point on a terrace. ...Seriously?
The most important thing to me for Saints Row 2 was how brutal and dark the story is while having sense of humor at the same time. Won't say anything, you gotta play it to see for yourself.
I think that’s what a lot of people, and Volition themselves in the sequels, missed with SR2: **you** were the villain, and the writing made it so playing as the villain was super-engaging…and incredibly progressive for 2008, what with the gender-slider and all.
@@Ebalosus More like there are NO good guys in Saints Row, even the main character which is perfect for me.
@@Ebalosusyou weren't the villain, you were a villain. Everyone in the game was a villian
This game has the greatest revive animation of all time.
Gotta pour one out for the homies
It ties with the Zombies revival injection. It's just so smooth and the cap flick makes me leak precum.
SR2 is still my all-time favorite video game along with San Andreas and RDR2. The amount of details, the variety of map, so many places to go into, the ability to customize everything, the music, the atmosphere, the humour, the plot... SR2 really showed what video games could do with then-current technology and with enough creativity. Sadly Saints Row became what it is now and we never got another masterpiece. Well, we can still play SR1 and SR2.
man this era of games really made me excited for what gaming could become in the future.
and then the future happened.
@@jimster1111couldn't be more correct.
Don't know ur in the good times til the good times are gone.
@@jimster1111 People during 2000's: **excited for what gaming could become in the future**
People during 2020's **Deeply miss the 2000's**
People born during the 2010's: "lol why you so mad? these games suck, the graphics are so bad" @@automation7295
@@automation7295 Future was 2000's. We just didn't realize that...
It's sad how Volition was shut down the same year one of their most iconic and beloved games turns 15. My best mate and I are currently attempting a 100% hardcore run, I think we are still blessed to have working co-op in a game thats this old as we grew up on it
Felt nothing for them. They turned saints row woke. Expected, deserved, gotten.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441Niko its Roman! Let’s go bowling?
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 Waaa woke!!!! Also it's not Volition's fault, it's Deep Silver's fault for doing executive meddling
@@nathanielbeans3625 another time
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 Come on Niko! It’s been so long Cousin…
Saints Row 2 is up there with San Andreas in my opinion. It's such an amazing game. It's a shame we didn't get anything else like it.
I feel that Saints Row 2 is a spiritual successor to San Andreas l0l
@@ryansmith9784you, me, and a lot of other people I know feel the same way. It hit the right balance of serious vs silly, insofar as although you could do silly things, the world and the characters therein treated said world as a serious one. It’s why the sequels never quite hit for me, since everything was silly in them.
Put simply: playing as a clown in serious world is far more engaging and memorable than playing as a clown in clownworld.
Still mad that the reboot was supposed to be a mix of SR2 and 3, but we were conned into getting this garbage executive meddled heap of trash
@@BardiXOfficial if Idol wouldn't have died we probably would have gotten that. RIP.
The graphics look like a cross of San Andreas and IV
SR2 Came out during the golden age of gaming and it will always have a special place in my heart. The ending of the mission at Aishas funeral will always pop in my head randomly, it was really a great game
just casually spoiling a character death
@@JustSomeAussie1My dude Saints Row 2 has been out since 2008. It's not like it's getting a Remaster of any kind, so you pretty much have only yourself to blame by going onto the internet about an old game.
@@Xxandrew01 By that logic it's perfectly acceptable to spoil anything for anyone as long as it's a certain amount of years old
I genuinely think SR2's Stilwater is the best open world ever made. I'm able to have fun at any time, unlike other open worlds.
To this day nothing tops it in my eyes
Volition made the best game of all time and said "alright let's never do that again"
If only these companies listened to their actual fanbase… RIP Saints Row. SR2 is one of my favorite games, great video.
The thing Saints row 2 got right was this: The player is in charge of the silliness when it comes to the story, it was always was more or less grounded and serious while the player had the choice to make it a bit more whacky with their character customization choices.
I spent so many hours in this amazing game. The whole tunnel system, the caves, the giant mall, the Greek theater, the amazing vehicles, helicopters, planes, finding shorter routes. Throwing people out the windows of high buildings. Fucking amazing
Happy 15th anniversary SR2. What a legendary game.
Man 15 years ago I feel so old…
Saints row 2 and gta 4 are my favourite games of all time it’s a shame they don’t make games like this anymore
Speaking of the pirate radio I loved how ultor ends up buying multiple radio stations as the story progresses,
on another note while 3 was what introduced me to the series when I was a kid watching my brother play it, im glad I chose to buy and play saints row 2 once I was older because it ended up becoming one of my favorite games of all time
Saints Row 1 and 2 felt like spiritual sequels to San Andreas, while GTA4 felt like a Driver game at time
they remind me more of vice city
Way off lol .. San Andreas wasn’t cringe & didn’t come off like a bunch of posers
@@MrAjking808 PLEASE, Carl was a bi'tc'h, doornob and doormat extrordinare that didnt stand up for himself, its why Niko was such a better character, he had limits and stood up for himself
carl never once did that save for the very last mission in the game, and that framework of annoying DJ's and being someones doormat is what the based gta 5 on that made it so toxic
like all that is wrong with gta, came from SA, all that is right, was stolen from Saints Row and the driver series
and also all that is wrong, as they literally stole the oppressor from saints row 3 and straight up some of the songs.
actually they even STOLE the Vtol now that I think about it, that 160 Raugul thing is the airplane from saints row 3, just sans a ray gun.
@@kavinskysmith4094 lol what are you talking? 😂 besdies whole Saints cast were cringe asf , SA showed real gang culture in a lot of ways. Saints felt like a bunch of posers just bunch of white guys showing what they think a gang is lol
@@MrAjking808 do you mean the new row, or the old, also ca'rl was a bitch, everyones door mat as long as you said you were down for the hood, he'd do anything like a dumbass
which he did multiple times with Smoke and Ryder
just completely blind and loyal like an idiot, like he didnt even stand up to his brother and explain why and what happened to the grove after he left when he picked him up after doing all that work to save him
and the game could have been so much better if it was Carl that got picked up and we played as Sweet on the outside trying to save him
and then its him, by extention, the player getting angry at how much of his work got wasted
as that game was just needless padding and a stretched out world map that didnt need to happen
and the humor on the radio, good god almighty, that was the beginning of the end of the good commentary, jokes and humor
and the only good one was radio los santos, like they went from Homage with a slight parody to satire and poor writing
that has been run into the ground and then some, like atleast in woke row, the radio DJ's dont ruin the song and STFU
gta 5, every single time your enjoying the game, something stupid happens, or some asshole blathers in your ear about how horrible the world is
especially lester crest, and that all came and started with the doormat known as carl johnson and GTA SA
and then they ramped it up to 11 after everyone said gta 4's ending sucked
like saints row has had its ups and downs, but atleast it doesnt hate its god damn player base
and fleece them dry every 5 minutes
Saints Row 2 forever in my heart. I still remember how play it first time. My my. What a time. Happy anniversary, one of my favorites game ever.
There so many cool Easter eggs in this game as well, like the Jason mask or the giant bunny in the ocean…so many great memories
Before Volition closed down, deep down I was really hoping for a Remaster of this game (for it's anniversary)
Unfortunately that's never happening now.. which is a bummer. 😔
I know the feel, bro. I’m hoping that some one or group can come along and at least salvage the game to make it playable on modern hardware.
@@Ebalosususe xenia (360 emulator)
It could still technically be remastered but the unfortunate thing is that we won’t know if it will ever happen but given the current trend of remakes/remastered we will see
@@jeffreysolano5717 I want to believe…no really, I do. I was hopeful that Volition was going to after they said they had recovered the source code for the game, but that was the last we heard of it.
I remember 14 year old me playing this masterpiece back in the day i miss those times the first 2 Saints Row games will always be some of my favourites
Saints Row 2 holds a special place in my heart honestly, I got it for free on Steam a couple of years ago with a friend, and I wasn't expecting anything great... until I started toying around with the customization options, and then the story got me thrilled, and then I saw the amount of interactivity and then I started playing the activities on co-op and... ahhh!! I fell in love, and eventually it became one of the very few games I completed 100%
SR2 became the peak in terms of customization options for me, I don't think any game came closer to that, just the fact of being able to see my character untouched in some of the most fun cutscenes (and some really great action cutscenes too) was a bliss.
I wasn't able to persuade friends to play it, mostly because of the PC port or because they just like SR3/SR4, and it's a shame, because they're missing out what I think is the most complete Saints Row game ever.
R.I.P Volition.
I am glad volition died before making more woke trash...phewww close call!
what 💀
I got this for the PS3 in 2011 when saints row 3 was about to be released and I didn't put it down for 2 years. Only briefly when i got 3, beat it then went straight back. It's such an amazing game that I wish I could wipe my memory of it and play it all again.
However I have to say I don't mind AOM. At least they tried something different with with it, if only they could have let go of the saints row branding enough to really let loose with it.
I was the same way after playing and beating SR3 I went directly back to SR2 comparing the two games, they cut corners with SR3
Yes even when I was 12, played Saints row The third and Saints row 2 on ps3 back in 2012 back to back, I definitely noticed a big downgrade in the quality of the details, map, and overall story in The third compared to 2. @ryansmith9784
I like that you can buy songs from the store and rearrange them any you want in your own custom playlist.
It’s a really neat feature that is far superior than GTA IV’s Independence FM and GTA V’s Self Radio that both required mp3 files in your local computer drive.
Here's another Great Lakes region reference in the game: I always felt that 89GenX was an homage to 89X, the radio station I listened to growing outside of Detroit. It absolutely played the exact same kind of music and the logos were very similar. It was broadcast out of Windsor, Ontario, the city on the other side of the Detroit River, but you could pick it up in most of SE Michigan. I have to believe there were a few Michiganders at Volition.
89X switched to a country station shortly after I moved back to Michigan, which was a bummer.
devs on stream said it was inspired by detorit so yea there ya go
Rad! I had no idea. I feel very validated.@@airboruto23
They definitely did the radio music better
The latter sounds like when Ultor replaced 89GenX in game.
SR2 is truly a masterpiece
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It's funny how it was always seen as a GTA IV competitor specifically, because both of them are orobably my two favourite games of all time.
Nice! Love SR2, and love to see you make a video on it. Here's hoping we get something that captures the same essence one day.
There are so many things people never touch on with the first two games, especially two. Like the fact drive thrus work as a drive thru and two door convertibles can have passengers or how every add on light in customizations options, works/turns on and how idle animations for npcs also work with the player character if left alone near a spot. Which adds to the immersion, SR did things GTA wasn't doing and doesn't still do.
SR2 is my favorite game of all time, and I'm happy to revisit again years later.
SR2 had an excellent mix of serious and ridiculous stuff with the story having a lot of great moments to it.
With SR3 it felt like it leaned more into the ridiculous stuff which just ended up making it less interesting.
First time I played SR2, I rented it from the local Blockbuster. It was a weekly hire, so I could play it for 7 days. I had so much fun with it that I re-rented it for six weeks in a row. Fucking astounding game.
Yesss dude
I feel pretty much exactly the same as you.
There is one final tragic part to the story though. The PC Port was very broken and a modder named IdolNinja developed Gentlemen of the Row to try and fix a lot of it. He was eventually hired before the release of the "new" Saints Row, but in that time had managed to get a copy of the PC source code and was working on fixing the game and re-releasing it, it was some way along he estimated 70% but time had to be devoted to finishing off the new game, so it was put away for a time till after release when they could work on it again. In that time IdolNinja got diagnosed with cancer and he passed away. The Steam page keeping track of it was deleted, and then Volition went under. So it will likely never be seen again... again.
That is just my rough quick memory of events.
I was playing this the other day and gta 4 on my x360 slim, something about gems those days had that dream type vibe like am I really playing this dope azz game 🤣😌🔥
A certified hood classic.
Y’all love posting same cringe meme comments
5:38 I can now die in peace that I saw Saul Goodman being the Boss in Saints Row.
This is it, my favorite game of all time. Even though it has its share of flaws, it will always be a perfect game for me. There is something so magic about this game, and it’s hard to put it into words. Pure soul, unironically. Every inch of its world is filled with it, and you can tell the developers poured their hearts into making Stilwater into what it is. It’s sad to think that we will never get something like it again and that the series got defiled under absurd circumstances. However, it will always bring a smile to my face to see people sharing these feelings towards this game and being able to experience it. RIP IdolNinja, you will always live on in the Row through your work.
Saints Row 2 is such a great game. Definitely one of my all-time favorite open-world games along with Bully, GTA: Vice City and Vice City Stories, and both the original Mafia and its remake, and Driver 1 and 2.
Hey badger idk if you will ever see this but I've been watching you for years and I really like your style of videos and wanted to say thank you for the great content, even if I already know all about the stuff you say in your videos or it's brand new to me you always put out great videos!
I didn't realise Saul Goodman was the main character 😂
Saints Row 2 will always my number one game. Had it on the 360 and playing it again on the series s.
Same here just bought a new copy
The cheat codes in this game were legendary especially doing co op
Badger, you are my favorite UA-camr and I look forward to your videos. This dude reports the most factual content without succumbing to the fluff and clickbait garbage so many of the channels I used to love have resorted to. I’ll continue to gas this channel up because despite the current downfall of the gta community, badger makes up for it in every way. Thanks for being here homie
i remember that one mission where one of your homies dies by being dragged by car from a gang :(
carlos
I definitely need the track that you had playing in the background during the End of Volition section lol
it's still a great game to go back to
Yeah the one thing that SR2 did better than most in the genre was the NPCs, I was playing it recently and anyone who has played ek iws about the random streakers that appear, but what I didn't know is that sometimes they go streaking while it's windy out and if you follow them long enough, they'd stop and stand there shivering... The fact that the NPCs all fit each area was also something I loved and even the gang territories fit the style of each gang and the business they were involved in as well as their connections... SR3 was a let down for me, while it was good, what I was expecting was to have something like Pierce turning on The Saints, using his connections to build a splinter faction of The Saints and basically overthrowing The Boss, kinda like Warren for SR1, but way more successful, it could've had a thing where you end up in ICU and you'd wake up and think "not again" also having idle dialogue like "How did this happen twice now?" But the big difference now is that Pierce is the big boss and you'd have to build a crew again, but this time they turn up the customization and you could actually choose what kind of gang you could build like bikers, mafia, racers, etc...
And why would I choose Pierce to turn? Because he's overlooked and stepped on a lot in SR2 and that would make sense to me... But y'know, fantasy creating
I remember my uncle giving me all his games in 2010, SR and SR2 included. Probably a combined 2000+ hours on them. Although replaying SR2 recently I found myself being bored and quit midway.
For me, especially compared to SR1, taking a city that feels very video-gamey and by adding roads and streets and shortcuts, making that same city actually feel like a real place designed by a real person in universe. For example, you need to drive all the way south to the airport if you miss a turn and go through Chinatown instead of Espata in SR1, but in 2, they're so connected they feel almost literally like the same place. It's so cool.
Fingers crossed the patch finally gets released. It's a shame the devs got an untimely demise.
This was my first Xbox 360 game. I love the GTA series but I remember seeing commercials for this game and I wanted to check it out. I put so much hours into this game and had some great memories playing this gem of a game.
I guess we share the same feelings about this game. I saw this in a videogame shop in Guangzhou after I've got GTA IV (which I love with all my soul). I don't even know why did I buy it... but as soon I ran it, I NEVER regretted since. I made the best random purchase ever. Played my ass off, enjoyed everything.
Why was so hard to follow up this formula afterwards? Most Open World game enthusiast knew this was a masterpiece. They just came worse and worse until it caused the demise of Volition. Oh well... I'm only waiting for more patches on the PC version, which seems to be the only way I can play it.
Thanks for amount of content you been puttin out lately!, love your content homie keep up the good work! And Saints Row should of been proud to be compared to GTA it's literally there inspiration they had enough of there own style to actually be different at the same time! I like how you run the gang yourself as well cause you usually don't do that in most crime games.
picking up random things had me playing the game for multiple hours doing random things, most fav was pulling a mailbox an lobbing it at sombody and sayign "delivery" or "mails here"
4:08 That man is a legend
I still vividly remember the first time I saw someone playing Saints Row 2. I came over to one of my friends houses after school and his brother was playing it. He was stark naked, running around the power plant with dual GAL 43s on a shooting spree.
When I was a kid, I got Call of Duty 3 on the Xbox 360 and I begged my mom for Xbox Live so I could play it online only to really not find it all that special. Around the same time, Saints Row 1 was coming out and I was also really hyped for a next-gen GTA like game. And when I got it, let me tell you, it was the biggest treat ever. Such a great open world, excellent controls, awesome customization and modification. But that multiplayer? Oh man, that multiplayer... that is what I truly ended up spending the majority of my time online with. I spent day after day playing Protect Tha Pimp and Blinged Out Ride having the absolute time of my life. For the single player I adored how much detail went into the environments, how there was a ton of places both in and out mission you could explore, how fun it was to just mess around with the physics like drinking booze to give you super strength. Doing the Pimpin' side activity fully to learn you get the pimp cane shotgun that came with its own pimp walk animation was such a treat. That game was chalked full of such goodies.
When Saints Row 2 came out I was hyped - but sorely disappointed in the omission of the competitive online multiplayer. However, the co-op was an amazing substitute. The driving model change from SR1 to SR2 was nightmarish, personally, but everything was so much better. Everything that existed in Saints Row 1 was turned up to 11 in Saints Row 2. Messing with the physics meant I could actually just pick up anything I wanted from the ground, even a stop sign, and throw it or whack people with it. I could just grab people and throw them. The exploration went far beyond what I could have imagined with way more locations to just randomly stumble upon. The story was surprisingly good with insane set pieces, laugh out loud moments, and the game even knew how to get real really quickly. Carlos getting dragged by the truck, and then mercy killed by the boss will forever hurt me. Johnny being stoic, angry, bitter and vengeful to Akuji as he breaks his legs and buries him alive in a casket is a scene that is forever burned into my skull because of just the pure and raw emotional energy it all has. All of the new cast, including your fully voiced boss, were incredibly well written and super memorable. (Side note, if you didn't pick the cockney British voice for the boss you're playing the game wrong. Even an additional side note, did you know the cockney voice was the same guy who played Mr. Sheffield in the TV show The Nanny?) Now there was choppers, choppers, all kinds of watercrafts, it was nuts. The side activities were so much better but above all else the character customization was out of this world. So many clothing and accessory options to choose from, so many ways you could layer clothing items together, so many logos to choose from, tattoos, piercing, crib customization, gang customization, extended vehicle customization, a way better character creator, being able to change your fighting style, crazy melee weapons, oh my god it was amazing. The missions were so, so freaking good too with so much interesting variety. On
I'm really, really sad we will never get another game like Saints Row 2, or even Saints Row 1. It was crazy how such a downward spiral the series became following SR2. But I'm glad we have them in the first place and I'm glad I can go back to them. GTA IV was amazing, and is still my favorite GTA game and one of my favorite games of all time, but the team was right; both games could co-exist together peacefully. The branding of GTA clone really soiled the game's reputation and made Volition pee their pants. But it wasn't a clone. It was special. And we will NEVER get something like that ever again.
yeah.
As someone who loved the gta games growing up, this game was truly a great game back in the day when I played it. I definitely felt that this game could be in competition with gta, but yeah it was a shame the other ones that came afterward just weren't the same. I haven't played this game in years, but seeing this video, has inspired me to play it again!
Amazing video as always, Badger! They should’ve gone for their storyline where we went after the other Rollers in Japan. Oh well..
EDIT: And RIP IdolNinja. Thank you for all that you did for us SR fans.
Saints row 2 is still one of the best co-op gaming experiences ive ever had..was so fun to do a co-op playthrough of. I wish they didn't lose the source code. rip idol ninja
Saints Row 2 is One of My Absolute Favorite Games it rivals with GTA IV for me and it's my Favorite GTA that says alot.
I remember spending hours on this game with my brother just kustomizing kars
Nice video! Saints row is basically the alternative reality where GTA 4 didn't happen and they committed to the gang territories and gang theme from San Andreas. Ultimately GTA is a game about robbing banks and stealing cars whereas Saints Row is about building a gang while tearing down others. Saints Row felt more inspired by stereotypes of real life and the idea that there's crime and corruption around every corner whereas GTA went in a cinematic "fast & furious" direction.
One of the greatest games of all time to never get a proper remaster. When I first played in 2010, I knew it was a gonna be an all timer and time has proven that. I so badly wanted this series to comeback to this since it got release or any other game to replicate the magic that sr2 had but meh it never came to be. SR2 = best Saints Row ever made.
I use to play this and saints row iv all the time when I got to go to my uncles house and play his PS3
Got the platinum from the reboot hours ago, your video is good to forget about it
the pimp slap, low gravity and milk bones on co-op just slapping each other across the map lmfao
or tryna survive with evil cars on and low gravity, you could jump over a car but that car might hit something and fly up in to you lmfao
tremendous game, I wish they remade sr2 instead of the third.
One of the most important games to me and my friends in our formative years
I was always a GTA player cause my older brother was, and so I had never heard of Saints Row until I came across the third one for free (for PS Plus users) on the PS Store one time back in like 2015. I literally fell in love with it. I played the forth one as well but meh, too similar to the third one. Mainly due to the same map. Saints Row 2 I haven't thought much about, but not gonna lie after watching this video I'm lowkey sad I never experienced this game as a child omg. But I'm going to play this soon. Great video!!
The Saul Goodman characters gets me.
You wanna know why SR2 is the best, is because it took what the first game had and improved on it.
i personally have always looked at sr 3 and 4 seperate from 1 and 2 as their own games. for me it has allowed me to fully enjoy them and actually like them quite a bit. but 1 and 2 will always be the best
man volition really was a great studio. between this game and red faction guerilla there were some really fun side missions.
I'd be suprised if the higher ups and writers within volition will ever be employed within the idustry again, they made the worst decisions in the history of gaming... the employees on the ground floor actually making the games, did so with passion.
Very good memories of playing this game Just start going downhill after part two would love a remake or remastered of part 2
I like the use alliteration at the start.
i literally just played it for the first time this week (on PC, with GotR). Finished it in one go. I loved many things, from how the driving feels, to how the gang war mechanic works, how many activities there are, how detailed the world is, especially with all those interiors. I was really into all of the gang storylines but my favorite was by far the Brotherhood's. Everyone was just so petty, cruel and vindictive, from Maero to Vogel and even more so, the Saints themselves. I love how calculating, vengeful and ruthless this Boss is.
Shitty performance aside, this game was such a fun experience. I remember the first time I saw a clip of SR2 of someone blowing up the train with the RPG and i was smitten, yet for all these years, i never bothered until now.
I wonder if you ever played ‘Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction’? one of my fav sandbox/open world games of the mid 2000’s, your bit about environment destruction at 14:43 gave me crazy memories about it
This is one of my favorite games ever and I never knew about the college radio station until now. I have over 100 hours probably and I never noticed it because I was too busy doing missions
Saints Row 1 & 2 were the peak of my adolescence. I spent countless hours on these games!
Fun fact most don't know about SR2,in a magazine from game informer originally you had to find your balls in the tutorial.
107.77 the mix will always have a place in my heart
We actually need more GTA clones. I felt that while GTA 5 and RDR 2 were very cinematic and graphically impressive games, they lacked a lot of what made games like SR2 and GTA San Andreas fun. Rockstar knows that GTA 6 will make a lot of money even if it isn't all that fun and doesn't offer much in the way of player freedom. Competition can be a very healthy thing.
3:48 Thanks for mentioning my hometown! Also where DRIVER was developed.
Quality>> Quantity.. I love this tyoe of channels
Saints Row 2 is one game I remember so well from my childhood and I played almost everything. Its just as close as you can get to perfection for 2008, it's so sad nothing really came from it afterwards. Also RIP Idol Ninja, he was doing god's work 🙏
These were the 2 games that I played back in 2008 non-stop.
I think we all wanted that
Memories with this game, I miss it a lot
Part of me was sad that 3 got a remaster but not this one but then again i doubt they would be able to recapture that magic
I played Saints Row 2 on pc for the first time about 5 years ago and it was a really good experience, wish they made something similar nowadays
Year after year, I fire it up and still find places or stuff I never knew about. I'm not talking the hidden locations, just everyday city stuff. No matter how old it is, no matter how many playthroughs... it's still fresh.
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You nailed it about SR3, it's not a bad game, but coming after 2, it's really a let down
Great video as usual! The background noise is a little distracting though.
Non gta vid but i really appreciate it. Classics SRs need more attention from players
I remember the first time I bought it on PSN I only played about 3 hours before dropping it. After highschool ended I picked it up again and finished the game. Its vibe, story, characters, world and especially soundtrack all just clicked with me and has become one of my favourite games since. That soundtrack especially, certain songs can make me emotional and others can make me bust into a groove. It's a fantastic game.
This video made me finally bite the bullet after a month of indecision and drop $45 on a PS3 controller, saints row 2 and 3. Can't wait to play them and absolutely amazing video
Saints Row 3 went through a shit ton of changes from what I remember with the Story showing the downfall of the Saints like that Cancelled Saints Row Undercover (or Saints Row The Fall) game for the PSP. Saints Row IV not being at all what we ended up getting. As Volition has shown in their 10th Year Anniversary for Saints Row back in 2016. Saints Row IV Prime is what they called it and the reasons as to why we didn't get it was because THQ was facing serious financial ruin as we all know and they wanted Saints Row IV to come out as soon as possible to save them. Of course that didn't work as THQ still went Bankrupt and Volition got sold off to Deep Sliver which was an awful purchase for them.
Like Volition's wasn't even all on Saints Row 3 at that time I believe. Because Volition was working on a Survival Horror game called inSANE that by the sounds of how past Volition employees describe it, was gonna play like Monolith's Condemned. But the cancelled game has been widely forgotten for some reason despite Guillermo Del Toro was working with them on that project. It was announced in 2010 and got cancelled in 2012 when THQ was fighting against Bankruptcy. Agents of Mayhem was planned to have way more content then what it ended up getting because of Deep Sliver's meddling and the game selling very poorly. We were supposed to have like 100 Agents. Moscow and I believe Monaco as explorable locations instead of just Seoul, South Korea. There was also gonna be extensive Modding Support for AOM and the Saints Row Reboot but that got cancelled because of the reasons I listed before. As well as I think only a handful of people were working on those mod tools.
Now the Saints Row Reboot is a whole different can of worms. The very short version is that basically the Reboot is Deep Sliver's game. Not Volition. Volition wanted the reboot to be like Saints Row 2.5 from the very beginning. They actively told big members of the Saints Row Community this. And the Story was originally gonna take place right after Saints Row IV where they hinted that they can possibly Time Travel and rebuild their criminal empire with old characters like Johnny Gat returning. But Volition later decided against this as they wanted to try something new entirely instead of rehashing on old ideas. So they decided to just start from scrath but Deep Sliver was heavily against of making Saints 2022 a game focused on Gang Warfare. Not to mention the many rewrites the game got which was 3 or 4. DURING ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT. As well as Deep Sliver constantly belittling Volition. Comparing their works to Rockstar, Turn 10 and Playground games, and Ubisoft (why Ubisoft?) And asking why can't they reach that quality?
Its sad to see Volition die out in the way they did. They were super talented and they could've brought back their Dormant IPs like Red Faction, Summoner, or even Descent. Glad to see UA-camrs like you talk about how great Saints Row 2 is though.