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Been going back to good ol CSS more and more recently.

Still active af, messing about on jailbreak with a couple dozen peeps is a right laugh.

Duuuuuude

Been playing GTA 5 off the hook recently and then got the urge to replay Saints Row 4. Dude, five minutes in and I'm not too hot on the prologue anymore, then I get to the 50s matrix world and it's ridiculous and amazing again, then I'm in fake Steelport with no powers and the cars don't quite feel right driving them but who cares cause it's Saints Row 4, then I get powers and the old feelings come flooding back. Spent the next two days doing all the side missions to get money and experience and conquer territories and it's doing the same damn things ad nauseum but it's still so ****ing great even if this is like the tenth time I've done all of this.

And my character looks like She-Hulk and is way better than other people's versions I'm seeing on a Google image search. I swear it's almost like nerds don't know how to dress women.

I've tried GTA V a few times but each time, I feel like I'm playing a knocked down version of Saints Row. Especially Saints Row The Third. The 4th one is really ****ing good though especially when you start to get your powers and you feel like an unstoppable badass traveling across rooftop to rooftop.

I'll also feel like Saints Row is what GTA wishes it could be.

I don't think I'll come back to GTA 5 as much as SR4 but it's still amazing. The characters are great (well, the guy in witness protection and the crazy guy are great), the story line is as engaging as people try to get me to believe GTA 4 was supposed to be, the world is so breathtakingly rendered and loaded with sheer cool stuff that comparing the two games is kind of embarrassing, the missions aren't as bat**** but they're still done better, and in general it's just a way better game in a technical sense.

But Saints Row 4 is one of those games like Deadpool which was clearly made for me by people like me and it has my heart. After all these years just moving around the city still hasn't gotten old and I don't know that it ever will. And as well written and voice acted as some of the characters in GTA 5 are they aren't as ****ing lovable as Kinzie, Johnny Gat, Shaundi (both versions), Pierce, and the Boss. And ****ing Keith David playing Keith David as your Vice President.

Both games are 5/5.

Y'know? I can safely agree to that. i've watched a lot of people play through the story of GTA 5 and I admit that it's pretty well told and the characters are super engaging. The world does do a really good job of building upon itself to give you a sense of immersion, and I will admit that the characters in GTA 5 are all fun and memorable. It's always held a 9/10 to a 10/10 rating even though I don't play it myself. I've seen a lot of it to where I could basically retell the story.

Saints Row is just on a completely different level though and it's ability to give you a bunch of crazy **** to do is a humongous plus that I wish GTA would cling onto.

So yeah, I guess we're both in agreement that both games are really great, even though we seem to both prefer the same game.

The one problem I have with GTA 5 is that I think the wanted level system was built around multiplayer as it is unforgiving as **** and legitimately stops me from casually committing crimes when I just want to get from point A to point B. If I just steal a car often some citizen will call the cops and I'll get a wanted star even though there were no cops around, and then all of a sudden I get unlucky and there's a cop coming my way I can't avoid and can't shake and just from running I get a second star and then it snowballs. I know doing one stupid thing is something that can result in getting chased by the army in all of the GTA games but it's so much more prevalent in 5 that it gets irritating. And your health is much lower than in previous games so not only are you getting chased more often but getting killed more often and more quickly as well. I'm pretty sure this was meant to make sure the game would still be challenging in multiplayer and that hurts singleplayer a bit.

I can definitely see that though I've never personally experienced it. I'm probably coincidentally planning to do a full GTA V playthrough once I finish up Shadow of War. I want to give it another shot and since i have a better PC, maybe I'll enjoy it more. It's possible. Plus, I'd love to experience the story for myself. I still remember using the motorcycles in Saints Row The Third and just zipping through highways left and right. I know I'd love the huge map of GTA V for much of the same reason I'm sure.

The car physics in GTA 5 are also kind of unforgiving. Try doing a handbrake slide at max speed even with a maxed out driving stat and you will probably shoot way past your target and do at least a 180. You really have to watch how you're driving in a way that you simply don't in Saints Row. But the bikes are far more maneuverable and damn do you feel good driving one after driving mostly cars.

I don't hate the car physics though. They're a bitch at first but when I switched to Saints Row 4 the physics honestly felt kinda ****, like cars had no actual weight to them. It takes some getting used to and the handbrake will always feel like a slingshot but it's nice when you can actually get a feel for driving when maxing out your driving stat doesn't just make it easy.

I got a pretty good lesson on the driving mechanics in GTA IV, so I can imagine GTA V shouldn't be too much different. Though I imagine it's far easier than GTA IV because man, those car mechanics sucked ass. It was so hard to steer when you get to higher speeds because apparently they want to really give you the impression that you're going fast enough to where your car doesn't control right. But meh. Took some getting used to.