I have played over 40 hours of Saints Row this weekend...

I had a whole list of things I wanted to do this weekend, I was going to do a top 100 video game list, beat Bioshock/Deus Ex, write a few reviews, go out shopping. But I'm afraid one thing got in the way of me achieving all of those things...

So I finished Saints Row The Third last year not long after it came out, I really enjoyed my time with the game and I placed it number 4 on my 2011 GOTY list. I assumed that was the last time I would see Saints Row the Third again, I assumed I would be too busy playing other games to jump back in for the DLC. But I booked this past Friday off work, not knowing that Thursday was the day that the DLC came out, good timing. So I got myself an energy drink ready, got myself the season pass and was ready to jump back in to the world of SteelPort and do some Genki Bowl VII. However after an hour and a bit I finished the DLC and got all of the trophys. Don't get me wrong I really did enjoy the DLC, but I was so amped up from the energy drink that I wanted more.

So I then decided to create a new character, and by new I went start off as a completely new dude, then felt weird not playing as the lady I played as before so went back to her. I barrelled through hella missions up until midnight. In my state of tiredness I went and bought every single thing in the store, the Shark gun the costumes, everything but the cheats. But I still wanted more, I haven't felt like this with a game for a long time, still hungering for more. So the next day I spent pretty much all day playing through the game, and ultimately on Saturday morning I had beaten the game again. So I was ready to throw in the towel and go and play something else?

Nope, you see I have never ever got a Platinum trophy before, and I own over 100 PS3 games with trophies in them. And I looked at the trophy list and they seemed quite easy. So I spent the whole of Saturday playing through the side activities and messing around with some people online. I also found out that the longer you play the game for (In one sitting) the worse everything gets, the frame rate, the lag, freezing and even not being able to sprint or get into cars. At one point I ended up loosing 2 hours of gameplay because of this.

I stayed up until 1AM this morning finishing off the last collectables and missions. Today my time has been spent doing all of the veichle thefts and assassination missions and the more annoying challenges. I spent like 3+ hours on the veichle theft stuff and I have to say that is the worst part of that game easily. I have also been buying everything, I now have no more upgrades to buy in any form, just clothes, which I now have a lot of. All thats left now is about 5 challenges, none of the hard ones really just like the streaking ones and mini game type ones. Oh and also about 10 more assassination missions and the survival missions, about 13 of those.

So I just now looked at my playtime and it sits at 45 hours, that is 45 hours I have spent playing that game since Thursday 5PM. That is a lot of fucking time playing Saints Row The Third, a whole mess of time listing to Kayne Wests Power on repeat, I think I never want to hear that song again. I even am starting to have that map memorised, some of the Assassination Missions are like go to Bridgeport and I'm like yeah so I go round here and make a left there and jump over the ramp past the zombies and hey there I am.

I'm pretty bummed I didn't get it finished this weekend, but I finish work at 1:30 tomorrow so I should get it done then. Oh and incase you don't know, Saints Row is FUCKING AWESOME!

Update - Platinumed!