VGC: Saints Row 3
During the first week of the Great Road Trip last month, when I was alone at home, I caved and got Saints Row 3 off of Steam. I played SR2 almost entirely during aelfie's time at school, so she didn't see much of the game. When I tried to describe it, she told me flat out that she was disappointed that I would play something so completely without any redeeming value.
This time, she saw me playing the actual game. And even though I was wearing headphones, she was laughing out loud at the ridiculous things going on. I think the element that won her over was when I was tearing around the city in a convertible with a tiger in the passenger seat. The tiger periodically reaches over and waps the driver upside the head, leading to a reasonable loss of control of the vehicle. This makes as much sense as anything else in the game. And it is both howlingly funny and an enormous amount of fun.
I didn't describe my avatar in my SR2 review, because I was frankly embarrassed to admit that I constructed a character so un-PC for my sociopath gang leader. I used the same character design in this game. A few weeks ago, I read an article about a new talk show, which discussed the host's previous career with pictures from some of her films. And that's when I realized what my subconscious had slipped by - my avatar is quite clearly based on Queen Latifah (as in Set It Off, which I've never seen). I'm don't think that makes it any less appalling, but I'm relieved to know I didn't conjure the image out of nowhere.
The enemy gangs in this version are Euro-mafia, Mexican masked wrestlers, and TRON-fashioned hackers. Mutated super-soldiers appear when you really antagonize a faction, and eventually the special forces are sent in to enforce martial law. It is insane.
I fully recommend this game to people 18+.
This time, she saw me playing the actual game. And even though I was wearing headphones, she was laughing out loud at the ridiculous things going on. I think the element that won her over was when I was tearing around the city in a convertible with a tiger in the passenger seat. The tiger periodically reaches over and waps the driver upside the head, leading to a reasonable loss of control of the vehicle. This makes as much sense as anything else in the game. And it is both howlingly funny and an enormous amount of fun.
I didn't describe my avatar in my SR2 review, because I was frankly embarrassed to admit that I constructed a character so un-PC for my sociopath gang leader. I used the same character design in this game. A few weeks ago, I read an article about a new talk show, which discussed the host's previous career with pictures from some of her films. And that's when I realized what my subconscious had slipped by - my avatar is quite clearly based on Queen Latifah (as in Set It Off, which I've never seen). I'm don't think that makes it any less appalling, but I'm relieved to know I didn't conjure the image out of nowhere.
The enemy gangs in this version are Euro-mafia, Mexican masked wrestlers, and TRON-fashioned hackers. Mutated super-soldiers appear when you really antagonize a faction, and eventually the special forces are sent in to enforce martial law. It is insane.
I fully recommend this game to people 18+.