Pick One: Which Of These Is Your Favourite Saints Row Game?

Easily the 3rd.

SR4, I just love that it's basically a superhero game. Props to SR3 though for having Tomonobu Itagaki as a playable character. Dude is a gaming legend.

The third game hands down.

SR2 for me, but all of the games are pretty damn good.

The 2nd just beats the 3rd for me. But have enjoyed them all.

Parts 2 and 4 are my favorites. Best music too.

I loved the first one. Big surprise back then and as a GTA fan, a good experience. After the third I gave up on the series. Became too much over the top for me ...

Preferred 4 mainly because by that point the Saints were full on anti heroes. The powers are crazy though. Plus Keith David is in it. (It was weird hearing Goliath dropping f bombs though.) I’ve always said Saints Row is for people that want a urban sandbox game but hate GTA.

Saints Row 2 is easily my favourite, and I still enjoy it even now.
I never bothered with GTA until number 5 came along.

To be fair, the OG Saints Row (1) was my only reason for buying a 360.

Ryu, you said that Keith David was in SR4, but he was also in the first two.

He is the voice of Julius Little, the founder of the Third Street Saints.

I seem to remember that at some point in Saints Row 2, the Boss (you) actually kills Julius.

For me, Mass Effect was always strange to begin with - seeing Admiral Anderson, yet hearing Julius Little.

Easily the second game. The first was hilariously buggy but pretty good fun anyway. The second really perfected the formula, fixing the bugs and performance issues of the first while adding a whole slew of great new features.

Part three wasn’t bad, but the story was utterly incoherent, half the missions were locked behind DLC and it was much lighter on content compared to SR2. It was like they just took the side missions from SR2 and made them the main missions and didn’t include any of the main missions, making the game much smaller.

It was missing some of the funnier side missions from SR2 as well, like driving a sewerage truck to spray sewage all over buildings to reduce their value for a real estate developer. Or the bodyguard missions where you’d protect the celebrity by throwing obsessed fans into the helicopter blades or off the top of the building.

SR3 was also the start of the SR games being over the top all the time. The more grounded style of SR2 meant the over the top stuff in SR2 was that much funnier thanks to the contrast.

@Matthewnh so three points. If you don’t tag people they usually won’t know you said anything to them.

However I wasn’t talking about Keith David doing voice acting. I meant literally what I said: Keith David is in SR4.

Also I came in on 3 as I hate GTA (or games mimicking it) so while I went back later and youtubed 1&2 (to follow references made in 4), they mean nothing to me.

So again, I prefer SR4 for the reasons I stated.

Number two for me, from the third forward it has become too wacky for my taste. I prefer them with less hero's powers (I am actually looking forward to the reboot)

@Shigurui The creator of DOA is in SR3? Mindblowing as boob physics!

Voted 3. The first was little more than a GTA me-too clone by the newly THQ-acquired volition, and a game that fans of Summoner shall forever abhor the existence of.

2 was a bit more of the same, really, but it started forming its identity. 3 was where it really all came together into something unique. 4 and Gat were fantastic games, and really fun extensions of it, but it still feels like a spiral of crazy from the roots of 3. It can't be a series about space aliens forever, so 3 as a template makes the most sense.

@MattDaSmitdog Yeah, around the time that SR3 launched Itagaki was in talks with THQ/Volition to use their engine for his game Devil's Third. They used his likeness to promote SR3 and put it in the game.