I bought and played through SR2's mediocre DLC just to milk out any details about what Dex was doing before SR3, a game which seemingly forgot all about him. Then there is the fact that they basically abandoned the entire continuing plot from the first two games which I actually cared about. So they have a fraction of the number of actual missions that SR2 had, while making other missions literally just levels of Activities- ultimately having less of those than 2 as well. THQ apparently saw how much people loved the Activities in 2 and thought 'WELL, WE MIGHT AS WELL MAKE MOST OF SR3 INTO ACTIVITIES!'. It had a great campaign and fun as hell activities. Saints Row 2 also had a better mission structure. Even then I thought that he was just playing dead until the game ended and I realized 'wait, Gat never came back.'. I didn't even know Gat died until a while after what was supposed to be his funeral scene. In Saints Row 3, your best friend for two games dies without any real note.

You gave a shit when one of your friends died in it. SR2 had some wacky stuff in it which was great, but at it's core it had great characters and great action, both were serious but both could be funny. The one closest to the top was that it tried TOO hard to be 'lel so randumb XD'. SR3 had better feeling combat, but it had many many issues.

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