Dex

Big hearted fluffdragon...

...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, ΘΔ.



ticky
@ticky

and uh contrary to the popular narrative it's… a pretty damn good Saints Row game?

to be fair Steam has only had patch versions 1.5 and 1.6 so the reported launch window bugs are probably minimised, but it's stable, I've only had one mission softlock in 22 hours of play

the "cringe" characters? they're pretty fun, interesting, and well written. the voice acting is good. the tongue-in-cheek humour is there in spades, the world is well designed and interesting to navigate, there's a lot to see and do

I spent a good forty minutes in character customisation because there was so much to tweak (a good thing), and it was one of the most expressive character customisers I've seen. Each facial feature can be chosen from some individual presets and tweaked from there, which makes it pretty easy to find features that suit and then adjust, a truly innovative and clever way to avoid slider hell.

Even better, you can adjust any time. Did you pick a weird set of eyelashes in the intro because the lighting was a bit weird? Well, pull out your phone and fix it. Cute, clever, and easy. Image As Designed can stay dead.

Weird how the game which is the locus of a reactionary review bomb campaign turns out to be… good actually?


Dex
@Dex

as someone that effectively 100%-ed it minus the challenges pre-patch on console, i am very curious what they've improved when starting from scratch - near the end a lot of my problems with it ended up being the way certain things were structured

but not curious enough to rebuy it until it gets bundled


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in reply to @ticky's post:

glad to hear you're enjoying it! I wish I could say the same for my time with it, I went into it blind only as a fan of the previous games but felt let down by the end of my time with the game.

That said, I think my favorite thing in the game was the world itself. they did a pretty solid job making that world feel developed and lived-in, and I was really happy to get to explore an entirely new location that didn't look like Stilwater again. XD

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