Want Saints Row 2 on PC? Don't have much money?
Good news. If you buy it today, you can get it for $7.50, which is a pretty impressive $22.49 off of the regular price. If you're interested in the deal, head on over to Steam and pick it up. I didn't really pay much attention to this game when it came up, but for $7.50 I just might pick it up when I get home today. It's for today only though, so if you want it you gotta buy it now.
Anyone planning on picking this up? Is it worth it?
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2:12 PM on 10.15.2009
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On the console version, I got 200+ hours of pure glistening pleasure. PC has mods. Get it.
Give me a game that allows you to ride on a Quad (on fire), set other people on fire, and make anything explode by touch, and Ill show you success.
"Did they ever fix it running like ass even on top of the line hardware?"
FUCK, shoulda read up before purchase... Y_Y
Fun fact: Target's clearance price on this game is about the same or possibly less by now. I picked it up about 2 weeks ago for $7.48. You still need to use Steam to run it, however.
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bought!
For this godawful piece of shit, we had to use the lowest settings (like sub N64 graphics), and even then the game lagged so badly that we eventually just gave up on it altogether. Don't support his utterly broken garbage!
@copilotlindy: That's disappointing news. Looks like I won't be getting it now, then.
Maybe if you have to play it on PC, you can try not downloading it instead.
It runs fine on my roomate's PC:
Core2Quad Q6600, 4GB Ram, Nvidia GTX260
the Frame rate only drops when you are racing down the street, and the CPU is rendering the on-comming models/textures, but that is an issue present in all sand-box games.
Comparing it to a resident evil game is a bad comparison, because the size of the levels involved, and the models being rendered at any given time will be nowhere near what saints row requires.
Really great game, beats the SH*! out of GTA thats for sure :D
This game is amazingly fun, but do yourself a favor and get it on Xbox360.
My issue is with the co-op, which is completely broken. The lag when playing single player is passable at best (still not really acceptable), but co-op is so bad it's unplayable. Has nothing to do with my internet, as like I said, Mercenaries and RE:5 co-op plays fine. Saint's Row 2 just has horrible net code. Top of the line pc or no, playing online with a friend is a fucking nightmare.
If you just want a single player sandbox game for cheap, maybe this would be acceptable, but I still can't recommend a buy because think of all the suckers who paid full price for this assuming they were getting a functioning co-op game. Luckily I bought this clearance at Target, but people who purchased this day one and paid $50 got screwed over.
Sign of an unoptimized game when tweaking everything low does minimal difference in performance. Controls don't seem as tight on a gamepad, especially with performance issues it really cuts into aiming.