I would really suggest buying this game, the experimenting with how you want to present yourself isn’t really available to such a degree anywhere else digitally. While it was likely added for humour, it has actually made it probably one of the best inclusive games as far as Gender Binary Breaking goes. Unlike the Fable serious, where dressing in the opposite sex’s clothes will result in you being considered funny, in Saints Row 2 no one bats an eye lid. You can dress your character how you wish, and the brilliant thing is that it has no bearing on how your character is perceived. Again, being male doesn’t prevent you from wearing a female clothes, and vice versa. Once you are in the game you get access to stores with a wide variety of cloths. The Binary Breaking doesn’t just end within the character creation however.
Even picking a voice is totally free an you can choose how your character acts from a wide variety of movement styles, taints and compliments, some being very camp and feminine, others more brutal and macho. Your sex don’t matter, you could be totally androgynous. Everything else is likewise open, so you can make muscle-bound bodies, fat bodies, strong jaws, soft faces, shaved heads, long flowing hair, beards or clean shaven. TY=he next page offers you the body shape controls, which is masculine at one end, with broad shoulders and crotch bulge, and feminine at the other, with wide hips and breasts. Your characters sex does not limit any of the options, the only thing it controls is whether your character has eyelashes (slightly annoys me because I had massive eyelashes even before identifying as a woman). You see, the first section asks you to pick your character’s sex, which limits you to, nothing. Saints Row 2 is the only game I can name, that allows female characters to have beards, males to have breasts and actually create a Transgender character. With the frankly brilliant character creation system, which you can use at any point during the game for $500 in game money, comes a wealth of ways to experiment. Not only is your character and vehicles customisable, but your gang, Tag (spray-painting on walls)and Cribs can all be modified to some degree. Saints Row 2 offers an insane level of customisation. There are never brought to the front, unlike GTA 5’s torture scene, so you could be forgiven for not noticing them as something else far better is going on.Īnyway, back to the main reason I came to right this post. There is so much to do in Stilwater that the issues rarely crop up. However, for all that these problems exist, they are balanced out by not being the major focus of the game. It can be more than a little misogynistic, uses racial stereotypes and basically glorifies crime. I really enjoy the game, and personally think it is the best open world crime-a-thon I have ever played (GTA 4 bored me and I didn’t play GTA 5 for these reasons). Unplugging litterally every USB device during this process does not halt it.If you read this article on Mitch’s Gay Gamer archives you’ll find me briefly taking about Saints’ Row 2. Setting to always run under adminstrator modeĪlt-tabbing out and back in (this actually makes the game spam the top bar menus, moving to the left at a rapid pace.
Setting compatibilty mode to Windows XP/Vista Uninstalling Gentleman of the Row and playing vanilla Tried to use an Xbox 360 controller (didn't do anything. Unplugged every single device except for the keyboard and mouse I thought maybe the g13 was causing isuses with the character creation even though it is essentially a second keyboard with the joystick disabled, so I tried unplugging it completely but no luck) G13 keyboard function worked fine in the menus, just the joystick part needed disabling.
Re-install Saints Row 2 after a clean uninstall using Revo Uninstaller Proĭisabled any HID-Joystick driver (this fixed the menu scrolling issue I had, related to the g13. As I previously said, mouse controls for zooming and rotating do not work.ĭeleting the files located in the app directory and leting Saints Row 2 recreate manually while also disabling Steam Cloud sync. It only moves up and down, it doesn't access the menu's to the right, as seen in the video I linked. WASD doesn't work, nor as I said ctrl or shift. Thank you for trying, but you didn't read what I said or watch the video, obviously.