Just got Saints Row: The Third and I like it. Never played one of the SR games before. I like the comedy, I like it doesn't take itself seriously. And I love how fun it is.

Ironically, my friends who love the Saints Row series thought The Third took things too far. That the humor was just too much by having no grounding, so it wasn't as fun as the first two (They still loved the gameplay, though).

Luckily I've never played the other ones :lol

I played Saints Row 2 and it was down right dreadful. I might try out 3 since it is now free for PS+ members.

Thats how I got it :lol

Fable 3 since its free.Cant wait till July.

I think Saints Row 2 struck a bad balance for open world gaming, there was basically no limits on you from the beginning which means you could basically do everything the moment you popped the disc in. That sounds great...for about half an hour and it isn't like once you've done all the novelty stuff there is a great story to stay around with. Let's just say mine and that games relationship was not a long one.

I personally thought 3 was so much better with the deeper combat, all the different factions and the way they really mixed up the genre. I actually felt like playing that one through to the end.

In a sense of madness, I never found any Saints Row game to be all that fun.
Locke hit the nail on the head. It's great that the game gives me all the toys with few restrictions from the get go, but I had no interest and the novelty wore off.
Yeah, I could smack someone with a dildo bat. I don't see the draw since they've been letting you do that for 3 games straight. I don't care what your cousin may have been telling you, but it's not that funny the hundredth time.

I can see the allure and I'm not going to rain on anyone's parade if they enjoy the SR series as a whole. They just weren't for me.

Almost finished with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Every summer I start over and play each game in anticipation for the newest one released.

MOre power to you. I can't bring myself to replay them, even the second one, which is still the best. I don't even know why I am keeping them. I could trade them into Gamestop and put the credit towards GTAV.

My problems with SR2 was more that I had to earn respect points to do the story missions and because I created my own character, there was no depth to the character. That and a lot were saying it was so much better than GTAIV, which it wasn't even a quarter as good.