Finished the game and here's some rundown of things:
- superpowers are fun and literally ripped from Prototype, even sounds are similar
- love the music choice, especially all the epic pieces
- main evil dude is fun
- female voice actors for boss are awful, I miss the russian and latino chicks
Also, who the fuck is this Nolan North dude, he sounds to me exactly like Male 1, I want zombie voice, ffs.
- did writers from Saints Row 2 were fired or did they suffered a brain damage? Established setting and characters from Saints Row 2 were of unique quality, balance and attention to detail. It appears as in it wasn't only removed from next games but also mocked as if main writer was discovered to be a pedophile or something.
- total reuse of assets, even from Saints Row 2, but it's not noticeable as most of the time you're too busy dicking around with your superpowers
- awesome amount of references to various games, movies, internet, etc. Especially Keith David's nightmare
- the presidency itself was pretty disappointing(just one stroll trough a corridor? Meh.)
- just like in SRTT, majority of missions consists of forced side-activities but here it gets ridiculous when you do all those activities beforehand and then end up constantly going back and forth between various characters to cash in the rewards of the "quests" you completed day or two before you even got those characters aboard.
- there is some weird moralizing hidden in the game where various characters contemplate theirs and boss past deeds and wonder how thing could have been different, it's fucking weird.
- same goes for some "dramatic" scenes in the main story, they tend to get so ridiculous it's just facepalm inducing(like flip out scene during Gat's rescue mission).
- final boss fight was extremely cheap, I had much more fun taking down superpowered targets in a side activity.
- and for the last, why main character was turned into a total assclown? I know they're riding hard on the while "do crazy shit!" thing, but they didn't had to turn main character into that, he's less badass and more of an power tripping idiot now.
So, to put it simply, I had fun playing the game and doing some of the new side activities, also majority of main quests and loyalty quests were fucking awesome. But there are various and extremely jarring when they become apparent horrible parts or moments in the game but luckily for SR4, it's possible to just ignore them and move on, not like in some other fucked up sequels to much more awesome games.
