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I had trouble stomaching Saints Row The Third when I first started playing it, but I eventually got the platinum trophy for it. I grew to love the game's setpieces, mechanics and characterisation. But Saints Row IV has always been a turd to me.

Like, they just double down on the goofy, irreverent humor again and again, until it's not funny any more. Oh look, a Dubstep gun. Oh look, you're making fun of Mass Effect. Oh look, the game's skybox looks like shit because it's an alien simulation. The aliens look shitty, Zinyak is a piece of shit antagonist and every mission leans so hard into the conceit that it's hard to enjoy it. It's the third game ramped up to 11, and frankly I hate it.

The worst part is when the Earth is destroyed. All the other characters from Saints Row are just dead now. But it's okay, because we have the simulations to play the part! And at least there's the Steelport simulation to play around in! Eat shit.

I hate the simulation. I hate the red fucking towers you have to remove from Zinyak's control, and I hate the butt ugly martians you have to kill. I hate how the game jumps the shark so hard it feels like it can just make fun of the shark-jumping, because that's all Saints Row is now - a bunch of superpowers, aliens and Dubstep. It's almost cynical how much they ramp every single aspect up in this game.

And the worst part is that I want to have a good time, since the gameplay is based on The Third's gameplay and I really like that game. But there's something so unbearable and ugly about this game that I can't get past. Dedicating so much energy to disliking a game like this is ridiculous, but it genuinely puts a pit in my stomach having to deal with the shitshow that this game is. I get that it's popular and people like it, but I can't bring myself to like it.

I felt similarly about Borderlands 2 for a while, but that's because the starting area in the snow sucks and I could only ever play it at my friend's place. I didn't start liking that game until I got my own copy and got to take on the game at my own pace. I can't say the same for Saints Row IV. I've owned it for years now, I've tried to play it multiple times - to the point that I've gotten the superpowers and the spaceship and saved a bunch of my crew - and I can't fucking stomach the humor or the villains. Saints Row can be stupid at times, but this is beyond stupid. It's forced, lame bullshit.

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