tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000141817935838797.post5009154305790960116..comments2022-10-28T04:04:59.082-07:00Comments on What's That From?: #48 -- "Saints Row: The Third" Reviewed | * * * ½Ghost Little and Dobermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07890121947535177690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000141817935838797.post-12625718199039045442011-12-02T07:10:03.538-08:002011-12-02T07:10:03.538-08:00As a sandbox game, it's really quite focused, ...As a sandbox game, it's really quite focused, more so than GTA, more so than The Elder Scrolls, even more so than InFamous. The SR games don't say "Search our world for fun -- cash prizes await, perhaps!" they say "We got rid of all the annoying things. Have a motorcycle."<br /><br />It works as a game and as a parody of its genre, succeeding at both the way Vanquish did and the way No More Heroes did not. It's kind of a gamer's game, despite our hatred for the word "gamer." 9 million people bought MW3. If that's a subculture, then numbers have ceased to have meaning, and the universe has collapsed into itself like some kind of liar's supernova.Ghost Little and Dobermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890121947535177690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000141817935838797.post-23348893210421557932011-12-01T11:12:55.337-08:002011-12-01T11:12:55.337-08:00I think you really nailed it on the head here, I b...I think you really nailed it on the head here, I buy a lot of videogames that I only play once cause I want to see it, but I keep coming back to SR cause I can just do something, anything, anytime and for any reasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com