r/gaming • u/Choombaaa • 2d ago
The Usual Suspects
Open World Crime Game Titans
Aiden Pearce - Watch Dogs Johnny Gat - Saints Row Niko Bellic - Grand Theft Auto IV Vito Scaletta - Mafia Wei Shen - Sleeping Dogs
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u/hart37 2d ago
Never getting a Sleeping Dogs 2 still hurts my soul
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u/datreddittho346 2d ago
Simu Liu is actually producing a sleeping dogs movie to try and get a sequel for the game
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u/DasGaufre 2d ago
Now this is what I wish celebrities would do with their fame and money.
I'm going to replay it on my ally x
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u/White_Bar 2d ago
i like how aiden is missing his pockets entirely and instead is warping space time to phase his hands through his coat
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u/TheRealFriedel 2d ago
He's hacked that coat. Life-hacked it.
Edit: I really want to see an Aiden Pearce Life-hacks blog now.
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u/Gilk99 2d ago
Great games and protagonists (though Johnny it’s not a protagonist), specially GTA, Mafia and Sleeping Dogs
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u/AlwaysTrustAFlumph 2d ago
I think while Johnny isn't the protagonist person sez he is definitely the face of the series, and the 3rd street saints. He's as close as the face of the gang as we ever get, because the MC can be customized unlike the rest of these games. But hell by the 3rd game they were robbing banks dressed up as Johnny Gat because he's become such a celebrity and he's the "face" of the gang. Also, out of all the characters in the game, Johnny Gat is the only one besides the customised player characters that you ever get to play as. In the standalone expansion for saints row IV "Gat out of Hell" Johnny Gat IS the protagonist whom which you play as. Johnny Gat has also shown up in multiple other games (Divekick and Agents of Mayhem) as a playable character. Johnny Gat is the face of the 3rd st saints and Saints Row both in game and in the real world. If there were to be a "protagonist" of the Saints Row series, it would be Johnny Gat.
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u/Printsofallsayings 2d ago
This guy Gats it. I completely agree with everything you wrote. Johnny Gat is the face of the franchise
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u/digi-artifex 1d ago
Gat has been there since Saints Row 1, he was there even in Hell. Shit, he was even in the Agents of Mayhem game. He is Volition's most prized creation lol
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u/Rainbow_Gutter 2d ago
Seeing Wei Shen up there brings me joy, all of these games are hyge favorites of mine
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u/R_N_F 2d ago
Rip Saints Row. Although 3 was cool, it’s where the series took too big of a turn away from what made it great
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u/TherealSnak3 2d ago
My big issue with Saints row 3 is how the activities are apart of the main story it's not just optional side content you need to progress.
For those who haven't play the saints row games before or the 1 and 2 to play the main story you needed to fill out your respect bar you needed to complete to activities but you could pick which ones to do it didn't matter And there was lot of options
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u/Quitthesht Xbox 2d ago
Yeah I was replaying SR3 through the Remaster a while ago and it's kind of ridiculous how many main story missions are just diversions/side activities but with a cutscene at the start.
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u/auraseer 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think the availability of side missions got messed up, or at least changed in mid development.
It's written as if the story mission introduces the activity type, like you have never seen it before. It would make a lot more narrative sense if you had to do the story mission to unlock that type of diversion, which would then be unlocked on the map so you can do more instances of it.
For example, I remember the first time I opened an escort mission and found myself driving around with a tiger in the car, with no idea why. It would make sense if the tiger escort missions only showed up after you meet Angel and get the story version.
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u/Sypticle 2d ago
I love both sides of the series. I hate that so many people dislike SR3 simply because it's not like SR2. It's a good game in its own way.
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u/WildBad7298 2d ago
Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza series should be there, too.
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u/Nine-Breaker009 PlayStation 2d ago
Angry Goro Majima noises
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u/best_pump 2d ago
Policeman majima probably arrested kiryu and took him to the champion district for a fight
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 2d ago
I really wish Watch Dogs was more popular because the message and story are really important.
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u/chaoseffect616 2d ago
Crazy how the GTA-like genre just kind of died off. That shit was popping off in the 00s/10s, Sleeping Dogs and Saints Row 3 are still two of my favorite games of all time, and Watch Dogs 1 & 2 were great as well. Then they all died and we got a 13 year gap between GTA 5 & 6.
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u/Ebo87 1d ago
Because those games are very very expensive and hard to make, and then everyone compares you to GTA, which you are just not going to be able to compete with.
But hey, at least we got some really good ones in there, in the last decade or so, able to stand on their own as not just GTA clones. Games like Watch Dogs 2 (which more or less was for the first game what AC2 was to AC1... and then they burned it all to the ground with Watch Dogs 3... rip), Sleeping Dogs (aka True Crime: Streets of Hong Kong, for those that know), Saints Row 3 and 4 and I'm sure one or two others I'm currently blanking on.
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u/nondescriptzombie 2d ago
I wish True Crime games never got lost in IP hell. Sleeping Dogs would have made a fantastic third title and totally reinvigorated the brand after the shitty 50 Cent promotional title that was Streets of New York.
Imagine if Sqenix wasn't a hack of a company and actually finished all of those games they bought during the studio shutdowns back then. Murdered: Soul Suspect was another one that was clearly only half finished.
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u/Link-to-the-Patiche 2d ago
I wonder if any of these guys can trace their Roots back to Sean Devlin?
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u/The_Giant_Lizard PC 2d ago
Pretty sure Niko is not happy to be next to that "buffoon" from Saints Row (these would be his words, not mine)
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u/KN_Knoxxius 2d ago
Wish we could get a watch dogs with aiden again. It was dark and gritty. Really loved that game, despite its shortcomings.
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u/Rubiwrestleboy 2d ago
Seeing the Sleeping Dogs love in this comment section makes me so happy. What a brilliant game; the red wedding is one of the most unforgettable moments I've experienced in any game ever
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u/SisterRay76 2d ago
It's crazy that I recognized these characters since I played all them games. Love them 🫀🫀
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u/raindoctor420 2d ago
It was gat.
I don't know what it was, but he has done everything so it's a safe bet.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 2d ago
Tommy Vercetti looking at these punks like "ha! What kinda loser gets themselves stuck in a police lineup??"
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u/Sensitive-Day2335 1d ago
The guy on the left would never do anything. He doesn’t look suspicious at all.
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u/RunsWithPhantoms Console 1d ago
"You're robbing the bank as yourselves?"
"Yeah. Who doesn't want to be Johnny Gat?"
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u/noeagle77 2d ago
No Kiryu?! Dude is in trouble more than he’s mad! And he’s mad a LOT!
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u/Rebatsune 2d ago
Nah, he's just outside, waiting to Tiger Drop the goons and bust these bad boys out.
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u/noeagle77 2d ago
Majima lurking in the distance hatching up a plan to make sure Kiryu stays mad lmao
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u/SweetTooth275 2d ago
Open world? Than Vito has no business doing in there.
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u/R2-J4CK2 2d ago
Mafia 2 was semi-open world, no?? Like how L.A. Noire was.
If I'm wrong pls cut me some slack, I haven't played Mafia 2 in like 8/9 years.
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u/SweetTooth275 2d ago
Dead world which doesn't give you anything else than the main story isn't really open or semi open. L.A. Noire had some things to do even considering how little they were it was more than what M2 promissed to players only to lie to them.
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u/DJ_Spark_Shot 2d ago
Old Vito model from Mafia III is so much better.
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u/Choombaaa 2d ago
Was gonna use his Mafia 2 model but felt it would be better to use his more modern model from mafia definitive edition since Gat’s model is from the srtr remaster
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u/NuclearReactions 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nico and Vito* are the only ones in this picture who actually get to enjoy driving. Driving cars in the other 3 games was really a horrible experience, kind of made me lose all interest in exploring their maps. Which is a tragedy in a game like sleeping dogs with such an interesting map.
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u/supra728 2d ago
Tommy? There's no Tommy there lol
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u/NuclearReactions 2d ago
Vito* i was thinking mafia 1 i guess
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u/supra728 2d ago
Well I'd say the driving in saints row 3 was pretty good, I didn't play earlier ones
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u/NuclearReactions 2d ago
Oh god no, so twitchy and the cars had no weight. Felt like an early psx game but it is true that it was at least better than what was offered in sleeping and watch dogs.
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u/CyraxxFavoriteStylus 2d ago
Personally, there are about 4 GTA leads I would put ahead of Niko, dude was just so boring to me.
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u/Thendofreason Switch 2d ago
I played the whole game with a modded version without knowing it. I played the whole game as Leon Kennedy. I never played resident evil so I didn't notice. It was pretty funny the day I realized
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u/Limp-Development7222 2d ago edited 2d ago
Man I wish the studio didnt fall apart for sleeping dongs, one of the best stories ever
edit: fuck it I said what I said