this thread is for people who want to voice their opinions about what they think should stay go or be added in saints row 2


my opinions:

what should stay: the enemy gang set up as in the three or more bosses for each of the gangs that you would be able to get to know their personality and face them in a boss fight
the sex jokes should stay cuz their hilarious
the ability to obtain homies
the ability to call every number u see like the ones on bill boards
the ability to custmize your cars


what should go:
most of the side missions were boring and should go
the police escape system


what should be added:

you guys are trying to push the limit of the M rating i read in one of your articals and there are some things that can be done that other games have done but your havent. like the abilty to show tits. c'mom god of war did. having red stars cover them up is just plain mean. and u dont have very much blood/gore. in the last game it was just a tiny bit of red powder that came out. with the announcement of the chainsaws and katanas i hope that will change.
also u need to be able to get a girlfreind in this game like gta4.



now lets hear your opinions

Dude, the side missions were one of my absolute FAVORITE part of Saint's Row. They were, engaging, and had some great mini-storylines associated with all of them. Not only that, but they came with some seriously awesome rewards. Not only should they stay, but I think there should be A LOT MORE of them, so the game has even more depth.

I can't think of anything, off the top of my head that should go, to be honest. Nothing in SR stands out as bad features or poorly implemented. Well one thing that kind of sucked was the writing on the radio stations. MOST of the so called humor on the stations was nothing more than glorified fart jokes and about as witty as "pull my finger". So while I don't think the humor should "go" they should DEFINITELY hire much better writers this time around.

Other things that should stay, and even be taken up a notch:

i didnt mean that all the side missions should be removed i ment the ones that were boring like the destruction one and the one where you had to collect certain cars. the only reason i did them were for the like you said awsome rewards

Hmm, I'm hoping that the weapon aiming system stays. I think that the constant crosshair was an awesome way of working out the firefights. I am hoping that The Confessionals work like they were, but maybe a bit less boring. I really hope that the way you have an inventory of food stays, especially the restaurant Freckle Bitch's. I am hoping more cars are added, and the customization stays, if not is added on to. I'm also hoping that the airplanes are useful. I'd like the Homie's system to stay, but give certain homies special attributes, such as Zombie Linn only used her arm, and the hooker/model girl fought with an AK. Basically, it'd be nice to equip the homies yourself.

Another thing I'm hoping they keep is the drug/alcohol usage, but make them more effective. With 2 Bubbly's I could still see sub-perfectly fine, only a bit of a blur. I'd like it if the Radio stations add some new music, as the music on SR1 was seriously slacking in the rock department, and I found myself playing my own songs or not listening to the radio at all. Classic Rock is ftw.

I'd also like it if there are more than 3 mission strands, and not all will be based after getting revenge and taking over 1 gang. I'd like to be able to take over multiple gangs, and it'd be nice if the missions lasted longer than 5 whole days at most of gameplay. I'd like them to keep the rewards for the Side-Missions, because, without a doubt, they were great rewards, and were worth obtaining.

I'll think of more later, tired atm.

quote sexy pants

i didnt mean that all the side missions should be removed i ment the ones that were boring like the destruction one and the one where you had to collect certain cars. the only reason i did them were for the like you said awsome rewards

Oh, I definitely just thought of another "What should be added".

AS some of you may remember, there were music stores in the original Saint's Row, used to buy MP3's off of the game's soundtrack. Perhaps they should add that so you can stream music off of your computer (I have a Windows Media Extender setup from my laptop to my 360), or that you can stream music off of your Xbox. Perhaps they could also find a way of adding more songs overtime to the MP3 stores, in the form of Downloadable content, useful for adding to the game's in-game radio content. As I've stated before, the radio was lacking in my part, and I think that is one of the major things that needs to be adjusted in Saint's Row 2.

Gregory, I have the feeling that at least the first part of your suggestion may not be doable. The reason is that I think that a videogame developer pays a different rate for licensing and use of the songs than they would if they were available for sale as straight up MP3's. I would bet money that they can't allow the songs to be streamed to other games or used outside of the game, such as burning them to CD, storing them on your PC HD, etc.

I may be wrong, but I think you might have to actually buy the songs seperately from the actual games in order to stream them from it.

Yeah, I figured, but an idea like that would be nice. I know on the Original Xbox you could play songs via a "Custom Radio". I am hoping that they could put this option onto SR2. That...or just give me a freaking decent Classic Rock station...better than 90% of the garbage on GTA IV at least.

Custom Stations are different though. Even GTA III, VC and SA for the PC had that. I would love to see an empty station in SR where you could put your own MP3s in to play as a custom station.

That's sort of what I was talking about in a circumlocutive way Chiro. Just a customizable radio station would be amazing.

Gregory, I believe the word you are looking for is circumlocutory. Your choice isn't actually a word.

Haha, I knew my grammar reign had to end somewhere. I claim unfair advantage, you're out of school xD.

To stay on topic, I'd also love if the rewards for each mission strand is similar to past ones. i.e. Unlocking every gang vehicle, the mansions, etc. I'm also looking forward to the pimp cane shotgun returning...hopefully.

Oh man yeah! That was one of my favoite things about SR's storyline. I loved how ending each gang's mission strand got you the entire fleet of gang vehicles delivered to your garages! Talk about awesome. In SR, unlike any past GTA game, I built up a massive collection of vehicles in my garage. That's another thing about SR that was sick. Tthe HUGE garage that stored HUNDREDS of vehicles. That was definitely one of the things Volitions totally one-upped GTA with!

Man, the more I read this forum, the more I want to plat SR again.

Seriously, I think that was one of the best attributes to the game, on top of the AMAZING car customization. I loved being able to Supe up a car then not have to worry about it getting blown up, due to the fact I could always go back to my garage and buy it back for 500 dollars or whatever. On top of the huge array of vehicles, it was fun to customize certain ones. I really hope that they don't remove the garage and customization. Those were seriously some of the coolest parts of the game. I also hope they keep wacky missions, like knocking over the statue of pins or whatever in the park, and using Bulldozers to plow through the Mayor's Statue...etc.

Didnt saints row 1 have the custom soundtrack option thing in it??