Easily the best open world crime simulator ever made. Completely mogs everything Rockstar has ever made and will ever make.

Why? Never played it.
Which version is the best?

>>715352491
>Why? Never played it.
It's actually fun to play and has way better cinematography and writing than you'd expect from such a lowbrow game.
>Which version is the best?
360 played on Xenia. The PC port is legitimately the worst port of all time unfortunately. The fact it's still sold on Steam is kind of a disgrace.

>>715352341 (OP)
Too bad it looked fucking atrocious. Saints Row 1 looked just fine but this piece of shit? I think it had too little time in the oven.

>>715352747
it does look plasticky and the lighting is awful, I think this was covered up on consoles with tint shaders that just made everything piss yellow or grim dark at nights

>>715352747
You can remove the ugly washout filter, the vignette, the sharpening filter and the HDR with Xenia. Honestly the ugliness is part of the charm.

>>715352641
>The PC port is legitimately the worst port of all time unfortunately.
With fixes it's at least reasonably playable, and definitely worth playing over IV. Somewhat surprisingly for such a god awful port, it also has far better aircraft controls than IV/V.
>The fact it's still sold on Steam is kind of a disgrace.
Rumors float around that IdolNinja's patch was mostly completed, but the only ones who ever got to play it is Volition's Discord cabal and they don't intend to release it, ever.

>>715352341 (OP)
GTA 6 will absolutely MOG this shit game next year

>>715352641
>The PC port is legitimately the worst port of all time unfortunately.
If only the source code had been found and someone started working on a patch but sadly couldn't pursue it anymore due to a terminal illness and was abandoned by his colleagues who swore they'd continue his work.

>>715353432
Can't wait for it to be pozzed to shit and awful.

>>715352341 (OP)
Protagonist is an even bigger monster than the gang leaders he fights. Nothing likeable about him. Just a straight up psychopath.

>>715354815
That's part of what makes the game great. Before the stupid phrase "ludo narrative dissonance" was uttered by some fedora, SR2 already had it covered by writing the protagonist that way.

>>715353432
What if you die before GTA 6 releases?

let's apply /v/’s KCD2 rules to SR2
>can make a tranny character
FAILS THE WOKE TEST 2 MINUTES IN
I shouldn't even have the option to see pozzed shit in a vidya
the gaym is barely middling in all seriousness. it's not even as good as GTA III, let alone SA. Saturday morning cartoon shite for retards that have never touched a woman or grass.

>>715355035
GTA3 already had this

>>715353480
Juiced Patch does a good job at bringing justice to Mike Watson.
https://github.com/kobraworksmodding/Saints-Row-2-Juiced-Patch/releases
Maybe one day we'll see the DLC's ported to PC by Kobraworks as well.

>>715353432
>>The new gta will MOG this 35 year old game.
Truly an impressively low bar you have set anon

>DXVK
>Juiced Patch
>stable 60fps
>rarely crashes
Now is the best time to catch up on this absolute masterpiece. (You) have no excuse.

>>715352491
360 version is the best and iirc the only version with both DLCs
i remember i wanted to play the pc version years ago and i had to do some stupid shit like underclock my CPU to match the 360's or the game would run at double speed, lol

>>715354815
Literally a plot point in the game when Julius realizes what a fucked up monster you (the player character) actually are

>>715357941
>You owe me Playa. If it weren't for me, you would've died on that street corner.
>If it weren't for you I wouldn't have been in a goddamn coma.
>I guess that makes us eve-
>*BANG*
>Not really.
The dogshit PC port really fucked over the chances of more people experiencing the absolute kino that is Saints Row 2.

>Custom Charter - look like the joker
>All weapons unlocked
>Infinite Ammo unlocked
>No reloads unlocked
>Difficulty - easy
its gaming time

Mission design is pretty bad compared to GTA. The problem is that most of the scripts are broken, there's also a lot of reliance on half-baked activities. And unlike in GTA, they don't require skill, just patience on the part of the player. What the game does better are smaller things that GTA doesn't do well. But that's true of all the GTA clones. The only GTA clone that beats GTA at its own turf is Mafia, and even there it's debatable how much of a GTA clone it is, or if it beats GTA at all

>>715354815
That's the point, did you not play the epilouge in 1?

>>715358524
Mafia is a psuedo-open world game.

So does the juice patch actually fix it? I'm willing to give it another go

>>715359007
For the most part, yes. The game runs smoother, much more stable, improves visuals, adds extra features and tweaks, and all it takes is drag, drop, overwrite and play. If you use the Steam copy, it'll automatically patch the EXE for you. As an extra copy and paste 32-bit d3d9.dll from DXVK to wrap it up to Vulkan for better frame pacing and performance.

>>715359007
No, the most stable version is the one for xenia + XONE.

>>715359007
Not on it's own it doesn't. You'd still need dxvk for further stability and I remember there was some fuckery related to borderless window because exclusive fullscreen would give you issues? I don't remember it that well because it's been a while since I last got into it

>>715352491
The PC port has absolute shit performance

>>715359007
I played with juiced patch and still had enough problems that I just stopped playing it

>>715359173
>I remember there was some fuckery related to borderless window because exclusive fullscreen would give you issues?
Sounds like something DXVK+Special K ought to solve. Had no issues personally. DXVK+Juiced+Special K+Overhauled Stilwater. I was still schizosaving but ir crashed extremely rarely so I 100% it pretty easily.

>>715353480
You didn't buy the reboot that they worked so hard on to indoctrinate gamers, so you must be punished.

If only the mods could fix the atrocious vehicle handling, it's like driving an rc car.

>>715359007
nah youd still need a couple of other tweaks, emulate the 360 version if you want to play it relatively hassle free

>>715357664
How do I apply these on ps3

>try out the juiced patch
>makes my cpu run at 60% usage constantly
epic!

>>715359737
you dont need it

WE COUNT HUNDREDS ON THE TABLE, TWENTIES ON THE FLOOR
FRESH OUTTA WORK, AND ON THE WAY WITH SOME MORE

>NOOO DONT PLAY THE PC VERSION IT'S THE WORST PORT OF ALL TIME
>apply all the fan patches
>runs better than console version, been playing nonstop for the past few weeks
can't believe i fell for the meme, screw you dumbfucks that don't know how to use a damn pc i put this off for so many years

>>715362163
Console purists are weird and not always right. That doesn't mean some old games aren't actually better when played on consoles but these guys are so far up their ass sometimes that they just become stubborn and insist on the worse experience just because so.

>>715362163
To be fair, the PC port has no DLC

>>715362461
True, but nothing's stopping you from playing it both on Xenia and patched PC port to get the gist of the DLC's and to play at higher res with better performance with mods like Gentlemen of the Row.

Like, sorry, but Xenia is dogshit when it comes to performance and graphics. 2x scaling works like shit, most of the time you can't even render the games at native 1080p and it will still use 99% of your CPU and GPU, still run like shit and still look like shit. It's awesome that it exists and it works, but it's arguably one of the worst emulator experiences. Midnight Club: LA is fucking riddled with bugs that make it borderline unplayable for example.

>>715352341 (OP)
I loved SR3, I'm not sure why it gets hate.

POV: You are a chainlink fence

>>715352747
I liked all the gameplay additions to SR2 and still find it peak, but damn if I didn't like Saints Row 1's atmosphere and tone more. I liked fighting gangs that actually consisted of gangbangers and introducing rasta/tribal/ninja gangs in SR2 was one of the first signs of where the series would head later on.

>>715363054
On top of my head
>completely nerfed clothing customization option
>no day-night cycle
>Boss's character ruined
>permanent upgrades (once you get the dual-wield upgrade, you cannot use a handgun one-handed anymore)
>side missions used to pad main missions

>>715365934
80% of the staff that worked on SR2 didn't work on SR:TT btw

>>715365241
>that one fucking mission where you're shooting your way through an old park
>then through an apartment complex
>only to get fucking nuked by a random rpg through the window
>only to find out missions don't have checkpoints

>>715364665
Absolutely based. I loved realizing that they count for Mayhem in the marina part

>>715367316
Then you play it on Xenia Mousehook and suddenly What Goes Up becomes trivial to beat.

I will never forgive volition for what they did to mike.

>>715358051
>so what do we do now?
>this is our city
>we do whatever the fuck we wanna do
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsfInnEBYHw

>>715367640
Amen brother. He was a true gentlemen of the Row. Though if we never see a rock stable PC version with DLC's, the least we can do is have fun doing crazy shit in SR2. That's what he would've wanted.

>>715352641
>>715353336
I was wondering what ever happened to idolninja's PC patch and wondered if volition actually put any effort in fulfilling his dying wish. Its tragic if discord troons are the ones actually gatekeeping its release, it would be easier to cope if the volition closure was the true reason it went nowhere

>>715363054
I replayed most of 3 recently and the missions are mostly crap. I like the tone though I get why others hate it

>>715367940
i got in an argument with this nigga on his forums over a decade ago, and one of his mods banned me. mike unbanned me, apologized for rogue mod behavior, and we continued the conversation. after that, we played saints row 2 co-op a few times together. rip to a king.

>>715352491
3 remaster

>>715363054
The story is kind of fun but still considerably worse than sr2 and they butchered most of the characters including the MC. Also once you finish the story the game starts to feel incredibly hollow.

It's pretty audacious to think that Volition took a man's life work -- that they end up hiring in the first place -- to their grave
Fuckers should've been banned from the industry

>>715352341 (OP)
GTA 3 and SA take massive shits and then do small and then large farts afterwards on this overrated game.

>>715369205
The mission design and basic gameplay are dogshit in Rockstar games.

>>715354815
Okay, but tricking a guy into crushing his girlfriend with a monster truck is pretty funny

>>715370308
Right after the said girlfriend suggested to his boyfriend to take the guy that pulled you out of prison, tie him to a pick-up truck and drive recklessly around the town to slowly skin him alive? Fucking bitch deserved it.

DETERMINATION
PERSEVERANCE
RESOLUTION


RESURRECTION

>>715352341 (OP)
I haven't touched xenia in a long time, sorry if this is a dumb ass question but how do I remove that gray box in the top right with the white text?

>>715372931
press alt+f4

>>715372931
top left* ffs
Please help this poor retard out, /v/

>>715373021
Please

>>715372931
Borderless fullscreen
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Windowed#Borderless_fullscreen_windowed

>>715352341 (OP)
nah, it's broken in many ways. the mission design is straight up terrible at times. remove your nostalgia goggles.

>>715352341 (OP)
I did enjoy tossing people off rooftops

>>715354815
Yeah thats what's so great about it! You are the biggest villain in the city, and nobody is ready for you. Your best friend has killed over 200 people and you break him out of court in the second mission, it isn't shy about how awful the you or the Saints are.
The Boss is the closest thing to playing the Joker we will ever get. A criminally insane force of nature overwhelming a corrupt city.

>>715370480
I love that most of the Brotherhood was just one upping eachothers psycho pranks until they realize that they should have mad the Boss a better offer at the start.

>>715352341 (OP)
I still remember coming home with the deluxe edition for 360 on release day like it was last week

The Los Carnales

>>715352747
SR1 still looks shockingly good

>>715365241
1 had the best music imo

>>715375418
Because it was a 360 exclusive and didn't have to get downgraded like the sequel did so that it could on the PoS3.