THQ's Saint's Row, the GTA clone that hit the Xbox 360 (for those who don't know), was a good move for them. The game sold well and made THQ stockholders very happy. However, the game shipped with some horrendous bugs, many of which completely broke the game. Many gamers never saw them, but others were inundated by them from start to finish. One such gamer decided to make the best of it. A blogger by the name of Cabel decided to film his buggy escapades and put them to a musical. The musical is fairly well done, in a hokey homebrew sort of way, and does have a comical segment where apparently the night sky in Stillwater hangs out somewhere below the surface of the planet during the day (vindicating the Dark Ages Roman Catholic church by proving the world is, indeed, flat). Check the link for the higher quality, not-YouTube version.
Saint's Row the musical
25 Comments by Justin Murray Dec 29th 2006 12:30PM
Filed under: Culture, Machinima
Tags: buggy game, buggy saint's row, buggy saints row, BuggyGame, BuggySaint'sRow, BuggySaintsRow, Saint's Row, Saint'sRow, saints row, SaintsRow, THQ, unfinished game, UnfinishedGame
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I never had any bugs but the game just doesnt have the "magic" that GTA has... something about it just isnt there...
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With that said, I encountered a bug in Saint's Row and couldn't finish the game. I restarted from earlier save points, no luck. GTA was also superior as far as creating atmosphere, better dialog, better music, etc.
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The rest of me wants to dismiss it entirely though.
I've beaten the game forwards and backwards. I've made it to 97% completion. Aside from the early multiplayer oddities, I've not experienced one bug that was memorable. I've seen more than a fair share of them in the GTA games though.
All the same. Bravo. I guess.
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I still beat the game, but didn't get all the side missions. If there weren't bugs in the game I probably wouldn't have traded it in.
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get over yourself
it far surpassed GTA in every aspect.
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Well done as always Cabel, well done.
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I guess, if you consider your PC's speakers Microsoft related (you do use them to listen to stuff on your Windows PC don't you?), then why not a game that's made by THQ? Get over yourself Jeramy- Microsoft is not the devil (they are the leader in the console wars though- Zing!).
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Nicely done. What's funny is that supposedly "edgey" musicals like Rent still end up sounding like this guy's parody. With a little more guitar, and growly vocals. Incredibly ripe for this type of treatment.
I literally laughed my ass off (and I'm a hard chuckle). Someone give him a job doing this stuff!
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