It angers me that Deep Silver promised Mike Watson when he was fighting cancer that they'll fix Saints Row PC. August 26, 2021 Mike passed away and still no news from Deep Silver. Mike sent a pic of himself with IV connected to him working on Saints Row 2. He had more love and compassion for Saints Row 2, fans and the community. Deep Silver is a disgrace to his legacy and memory they can't even keep a dying's man wish to finish fixing the game he started on.
Not only Deep Silver, but also, there's apparently a big mishap up with one of the guy Mike Watson entrusted, severely hampering the development progress...
if only we could access those work, to see how its done, like for real its a shame that most of PC players will never get the full experience of SR2 without the DLC story. I mean, I guess you could go with xenia but.. yeah.
He spent his final hours working for a soulless corporation that did not have a single care about him. I admire his love for Saints Row 2, but sadly his work has been all for nothing. Fuck Volition, Fuck Deep Silver.
You can technically run it on PC via Xenia but yeah that would be awesome. Especially since now people have found a way to decompile Xbox 360 games easily
@@selfaware7617 haha I don't work on rethawed, I'm very close with the development but I don't directly work on it, just he showed thps3u for about 4 seconds in his rethawed video which is a mod I made lol.
Dude I literally bought it yesterday because I been trying to play it on PC for the longest. Best 2 dollars I’ve ever spent. Then this video drops a day later! Talk about perfect timing
Honestly, JUST with the Juiced Patch and Gentlemen of the Row installed, I've been having a blast playing through SR2 again. If anyone's looking to play Saints Row 2 in modern day, I'd argue that playing with these two mods is almost the definitive way to play this game, only thing missing from the original being the DLC. Still might check out the other mods from this video though!
@@streettomato The GOG version was dirt cheap on a discount so I recently got that version for the patched exe. It does seem like getting the GOG version helps lots, so however you choose to get it, I recommend you do.
7:45 Personal Take. I don't like the modern over-shoulder perspective in games. 3rd person view camera is always the best. It just helps in group combat and exploration a bit better.
Saints row 2 was the first purchased steam game i did back in 2012, it was the censored german one, but on gamebanana was an uncut patch, and damn, even with the bad port i had alot of fun with it, and im glad the fans keep the game alive!
Same here, there's only ever been a couple of other games I've had a lot of fun with despite poor performance. GTA 4 on my old potato PC, Saints Row 1 and Fable 2 on Xenia come to mind
Holy crap thank you! I bought the steam version recently, but thankfully it was barely 2$ so getting the other version is fine! I'm excited to see my favorite open world crime game brought back to life and look MUCH better
I'd long given up on SR2's PC port after pretty much pushing myself to complete it despite the horrible performance and bugs. With all of the tools and mods you provided here though, my game both looks and runs superbly! Thank you! Now I can re-experience SR2 for the dozenth time in all of (what should have been) it's PC glory 🔥🔥
I miss Mike/Idolninja. I only talked to him occasionally but he was always so cool to interact with and he truly was passionate about this franchise and community. Happy that the mods are still thriving and some are carrying on his legacy
Saints Row 2 is my favourite game of all time but I’ve been stuck playing it on 360 since release. I got a PC a few months back and this video has really got me in the mood for trying out these mods
This is so sick.. Ive been looking into replaying all the SR and streaming it. It was my best friends favorite series.. Wed bs about it alot way back.. So Id really like to get it going.. Appreciate the video man it was awesome.
Saints Row 2 is truly one of the best games of all time and it’s a shame how everything turned out with Volition and the PC patch. Thank you for this video. 😪
I gotta say thanks for the video. I'd kinda given up on this game and figured GOTR was the best that we where ever getting (Not dissing that mod Idolninja is a legend rest in peace) but it was never stable enough that I could in any confidence get someone who didn't play it at the time to come back and play it now but I think with your modlist and multiplayer working well. Me and a Friend (who's never played Saints Row) are gonna start a co-op soon hopefully I can share my love for this game with more people thanks for showing me these mods
If only there was a way to get the DLC on the PC version after all this time. It's still locked to the console versions & it would be nice if PC players finally were able to play it too.
i just recently did a sr2 playthrough with juiced +dxvk and no gotr mod. There is a baffling amount of content in the vanilla game. If you install GOTR then you would mentally be thinking all this stuff was from mods but it really isnt the vanilla game is BEAST. You can install gotr at the end of vanilla and still get to enjoy a few more hours of fun. it felt like GOTR doesnt have any "fixes" tho, juiced does the fixing. Then dxvk to smooth it out to flawless
Never played SR2, but looks like it's the only game that can give me a close experience to GTA SA my all time fav. 3:42 look at how crisp it is 😍 Glad i'm subbed to your channel
You should definitely check out Saints Row 2 if you're a fan of San Andreas! There's a lot features in Saints Row 2 that are really interesting compared to GTA. A lot of replayability too
god, so many people will never get to understand how GREAT SR2 is. Best game in the series, no question or debate. It could be funny, ridiculous. Then completely flip the script and have sad, dark, and serious moments that you could feel so well. Miss the 360 days. So many incredible games
I've played this game across 3 PCs. I've only had issues with my newest PC. Its to the point the game is unplayable. I never understood people saying the game doesn't work right until now.
I played with the mod, and I'm speechless. Thank you! Me and my friends played with coop, sadly the multiplayer doesn't worked for us, alsi it crashed 3 times, just like it used to be, but two times it freezed, and I needed to restart my PC. BTW still 10/10. I'm very happy with the modpack.
Thank you so much for reminding me about SR2 i was gonna buy the vanilla version from the ps store through their ps plus subscription but one of my friends downloaded it for me on pc and I've had a blast with it
@@BladeOpotato Just downloaded the Lazy pack, is the Weather mod still present? I wanted to remove it due to this issue but I can't tell which one it is, Thanks!
Congrats on your first gaming PC! Btw Xbox 360 emulation has really taken off on PC, and both Saints Row 1 and 2 are fully playable if your PC's CPU can handle it. Just need the Xenia(Canary build) emulator and copies of those games. Being on PC has opened the floodgates of possibilities for you, my dude. Enjoy it!
another mod i always use is superUI it mods the ui to be look and function like the newew games and also removed button prompts to exit menus and just exits the menu
i just wish the pc version had the dlc as well. my character kinda relies on it in his design lmao other than that, i'll definitely consider doing this. i love this game to absolute bits and seeing it in its full glory and more makes me indescribably happy
Well, I tried some of the fixes like back in 2017 or so and back then it never worked for me. I could only play the beginning of the game, when you are escaping from the prison, but after that game starts to lag again, and that is when I gave up on this game. Other game that I also gave up on was True Crime New York. Another PC game in unplayable state. Wish someone fixed that one too.
@@BladeOpotato Well, all I need is fixes to make this game work properly. As for the remastering.. I prefer vanilla look and experience. Cause I'm one of those guys who loves when it looks and plays the way it was intended.
im genuinely surprised this game is still getting mod support. i remember finishing the game both vanilla and GOTR patched version a year ago and they're pretty fun. now there's another fully fledged mod for it? yeah i think i can reinstall SR2
For someone who heard of the Saints row series but never experienced the games itself. i would be looking forward to try this one on Laptop and of course. install the mods to enjoy a better experience of the game.
This game was my childhood. This video was everything I needed in theory, but the issue is that I can’t even get passed the white launch screen. I have tried internal of settings, file settings, tricks such as repair files and reinstall. I have done everything for about 5 hours tonight. I even used chatGPT and I am telling you, nothing is working.
The reboot felt like a completely different game. I *DID* like the world though. I enjoyed exploring it for the first time. And there were some cars I liked. But, nothing will beat Saints Row II and III for me. Those were my favorite.
My biggest issue with SR2 was the character models, it might just be me, but I by FAR prefer SR1's character models especially the player model. I dont know, the SR2 player character model just looks... Uncanny compared the SR1's.
So I turned off dynamic shadows cause of flickering and it made the game look really bad so I turned it back on and it messed with the fps now everytime I reinstall the game and mod it doesn’t work properly Edit:I fixed it it was a matter of I needed to turn full screen off in the game settings
This reminds me back in 2017 GOG gived away this along with Shadow Warrior 2... Oh yeah, also despite the existence of Proton, GOG also made a native Linux port, don't hope much though.
Idk why saints row 3 story and mechancis was changed, it would have been better because of the dex storyline but they scrapped it altogether. And imo they should have multiple cities like the first is stillwater-steelport and a third one which should have been a tropical world. That would have been a great trilogy.
All I have to say is that the first time I played SR2 was on pc back when I was a kid and never experienced any of the bugs and issues since I played a cracked version of the game. So I'm glad that I had a good experience with the game after all these years I'm now learning that legit version was just not that good of an experience. Ps I did end up getting the game again on ps3 and playing the hell out of it
The story of the Saints Row 2 PC patch is long and depressing. God damn it.
A dead man's wish unfullfilled, it's awful how Deep Shillver execs screwed Mike Watson and Volition over, R.I.P.
R.I.P. Mike Watson, he truly cared about Saints Row
Flippy did a good take on this.
I'm really glad the modders who worked on the fixes (bless them) managed to carry Mike Watson's legacy, when not even Violition could do that
Rip the goat Idol Ninja
It angers me that Deep Silver promised Mike Watson when he was fighting cancer that they'll fix Saints Row PC. August 26, 2021 Mike passed away and still no news from Deep Silver. Mike sent a pic of himself with IV connected to him working on Saints Row 2. He had more love and compassion for Saints Row 2, fans and the community. Deep Silver is a disgrace to his legacy and memory they can't even keep a dying's man wish to finish fixing the game he started on.
Not only Deep Silver, but also, there's apparently a big mishap up with one of the guy Mike Watson entrusted, severely hampering the development progress...
Sad that IdolNinja passed away... He was working on bringing also DLC's to SR2 PC version.
The saddest part of his passing is that probably one of the last things idol saw was the Reboot reveal trailer.
if only we could access those work, to see how its done, like for real its a shame that most of PC players will never get the full experience of SR2 without the DLC story. I mean, I guess you could go with xenia but.. yeah.
He spent his final hours working for a soulless corporation that did not have a single care about him. I admire his love for Saints Row 2, but sadly his work has been all for nothing. Fuck Volition, Fuck Deep Silver.
Once the community finishes fixing SR2, I hope that someone finds a way to help SR1 escape the Xbox.
You can technically run it on PC via Xenia but yeah that would be awesome. Especially since now people have found a way to decompile Xbox 360 games easily
Emulators are going far, the modding community is also adding to it as well, through such.
Give Flippy's video a check on it
It runs very well on Xenia, I played it about two years ago start to finish with very few issues, it's probably better now.
@@ikejacobovitsiso?????
Already did 60fps on Xenia canary
Saints row 2 reloaded's multiplayer is already released with a bit of active players for anyone looking
how do i get this
nut
these guys are all heroes of the row.
🫡
GOG is Chad, dude. They even fixed the Classic Res Evil games on their platform
They are the ultimate DRM Free workshop
Ironic that GOG was made by the same company that fucked up the SR2 PC port
@@Halfpipesaur learn the mistake, redemption from the old sin. but joke aside, at least they tried to make it work as good as possible.
Now 2 projects I'm working on have been featured in your videos haha, hopefully this will bring some players on. thanks for making the vid
Hell yeah! Thank you for all the work you do for the community 🙏
I wanna thank you too though I haven't messed with rethawed yet
@@selfaware7617 haha I don't work on rethawed, I'm very close with the development but I don't directly work on it, just he showed thps3u for about 4 seconds in his rethawed video which is a mod I made lol.
@@BladeOpotato most the credit still goes to uzis, he is a coding mastermind and none of the performance fixes could have been done without him.
Modders deadass carrying the THPS and SR community rn good shit dude
$2.50 on GOG RIGHT NOW. I just got it. Using your video to play it for my first time
Dude I literally bought it yesterday because I been trying to play it on PC for the longest. Best 2 dollars I’ve ever spent. Then this video drops a day later! Talk about perfect timing
Honestly, JUST with the Juiced Patch and Gentlemen of the Row installed, I've been having a blast playing through SR2 again. If anyone's looking to play Saints Row 2 in modern day, I'd argue that playing with these two mods is almost the definitive way to play this game, only thing missing from the original being the DLC. Still might check out the other mods from this video though!
How do you install these two mods??
@@1ofHenrysMen Did you watch the video? 😅
Do you have the steam version or did you get the GOG version?
@@streettomato The GOG version was dirt cheap on a discount so I recently got that version for the patched exe. It does seem like getting the GOG version helps lots, so however you choose to get it, I recommend you do.
@@EwanA5py yes and he doesnt explain how to put the mod into the physical game
Saints Row 2 was incremental in my youth, thanks for the video man!
Incremental lol
7:45 Personal Take. I don't like the modern over-shoulder perspective in games. 3rd person view camera is always the best. It just helps in group combat and exploration a bit better.
Yeah is there a way to turn it off I’m using the lazy plug and play files in his description
@@ChokeITPLZZ If I remember correctly you have to repackaged the files with GOTR again just without the mod files that change that.
@@checkmate5336 yeah I was able to figure that out I also found that adding dxvk to the game made it run alot smoother
@@ChokeITPLZZ Only if you have a graphics card that can support it yes
Yeah, having your character take up 30% of the screen sucks.
There’s hope within the community again! Thank you for your work 🙏
Saints row 2 was the first purchased steam game i did back in 2012, it was the censored german one, but on gamebanana was an uncut patch, and damn, even with the bad port i had alot of fun with it, and im glad the fans keep the game alive!
Same here, there's only ever been a couple of other games I've had a lot of fun with despite poor performance. GTA 4 on my old potato PC, Saints Row 1 and Fable 2 on Xenia come to mind
Thank you so much. I was just thinking I want to replay Saints' Row 2 but didn't want to deal with the bull again. Thank you.
Holy crap thank you! I bought the steam version recently, but thankfully it was barely 2$ so getting the other version is fine! I'm excited to see my favorite open world crime game brought back to life and look MUCH better
I'd long given up on SR2's PC port after pretty much pushing myself to complete it despite the horrible performance and bugs. With all of the tools and mods you provided here though, my game both looks and runs superbly! Thank you! Now I can re-experience SR2 for the dozenth time in all of (what should have been) it's PC glory 🔥🔥
I miss Mike/Idolninja. I only talked to him occasionally but he was always so cool to interact with and he truly was passionate about this franchise and community. Happy that the mods are still thriving and some are carrying on his legacy
it’s so sad that this incredible game never got the fixes it deserved. even on my 360 there’s several glitches which crash the game
Yeah one that always buggered me about was the bug where if you left the game paused for too long, it would crash to the Home Screen.
Saints Row 2 is my favourite game of all time but I’ve been stuck playing it on 360 since release. I got a PC a few months back and this video has really got me in the mood for trying out these mods
Thank you so much for the Lazy pack.... I love you bro
This is so sick.. Ive been looking into replaying all the SR and streaming it. It was my best friends favorite series.. Wed bs about it alot way back.. So Id really like to get it going.. Appreciate the video man it was awesome.
finally the video ive been waiting for
Great video, man your honestly underrated
Saints Row 2 is truly one of the best games of all time and it’s a shame how everything turned out with Volition and the PC patch. Thank you for this video. 😪
5:37 That dead rising 1 mall music 😮💨
Thank you so much for this. Saints Row 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but I don't know anything about modding.
I gotta say thanks for the video. I'd kinda given up on this game and figured GOTR was the best that we where ever getting (Not dissing that mod Idolninja is a legend rest in peace) but it was never stable enough that I could in any confidence get someone who didn't play it at the time to come back and play it now but I think with your modlist and multiplayer working well. Me and a Friend (who's never played Saints Row) are gonna start a co-op soon hopefully I can share my love for this game with more people thanks for showing me these mods
Its great to see sr2 is still getting attention it deserves.great video btw ive never seen a better sr2 modding video
If only there was a way to get the DLC on the PC version after all this time. It's still locked to the console versions & it would be nice if PC players finally were able to play it too.
If you have a decent pc you can emulate the 360 version with all dlc at 60fps
Play the game on Xenia Canary. It is actually the best way to play the game on PC. The performance is super smooth and you get the DLC's.
@@theobell2002 Yeah. it runs surprisingly well and the audio isnt borked like in the pc version.
i just recently did a sr2 playthrough with juiced +dxvk and no gotr mod. There is a baffling amount of content in the vanilla game. If you install GOTR then you would mentally be thinking all this stuff was from mods but it really isnt the vanilla game is BEAST. You can install gotr at the end of vanilla and still get to enjoy a few more hours of fun. it felt like GOTR doesnt have any "fixes" tho, juiced does the fixing. Then dxvk to smooth it out to flawless
did you have alot of crashes
Well spoken and informative, my guy. Will come back to this before I make my playthrough 💯
Never played SR2, but looks like it's the only game that can give me a close experience to GTA SA my all time fav. 3:42 look at how crisp it is 😍 Glad i'm subbed to your channel
You should definitely check out Saints Row 2 if you're a fan of San Andreas! There's a lot features in Saints Row 2 that are really interesting compared to GTA. A lot of replayability too
god, so many people will never get to understand how GREAT SR2 is. Best game in the series, no question or debate. It could be funny, ridiculous. Then completely flip the script and have sad, dark, and serious moments that you could feel so well. Miss the 360 days. So many incredible games
Oh yes! finally a good list of mods for saints row 2, good work on this one man
I've played this game across 3 PCs. I've only had issues with my newest PC. Its to the point the game is unplayable. I never understood people saying the game doesn't work right until now.
I’m more of a console player but seeing all this work to keep Saints Row 2 alive and well, warms my heart.
Finally a decent fixing saints row 2 video
im so glad sr2 lives on regardless it all rip idolninja
Sick video mane, keep it up, congrats on reaching 10k subs, cheers from 10k rising 🤘- Drake9X, i'm on my band's account lmao
I played with the mod, and I'm speechless. Thank you! Me and my friends played with coop, sadly the multiplayer doesn't worked for us, alsi it crashed 3 times, just like it used to be, but two times it freezed, and I needed to restart my PC. BTW still 10/10. I'm very happy with the modpack.
I'm about to replaying saints row 2 and this mod list seems perfect!
Lol I screamed when I saw judge as vehicle deliver for Boss, what mod doing that
That's from Gentlemen of the Row, from the extra homies pack thats included in the options. She actually has voice lines for everything too lol
Thank you so much for reminding me about SR2 i was gonna buy the vanilla version from the ps store through their ps plus subscription but one of my friends downloaded it for me on pc and I've had a blast with it
If anyone gets a softlock at the "Septic Avenger" activity: Remove the SR1 weather xtbl file and it will work as intended.
@@jhj22 thank you for discovering this. I might remove it from the Lazy Pack entirely cause it's caused issues
@@BladeOpotato Any news on this? The lazy pack didn't come with any weather stuff and it still does this bug.
@@BladeOpotato Just downloaded the Lazy pack, is the Weather mod still present? I wanted to remove it due to this issue but I can't tell which one it is, Thanks!
Thanks! Now we can play SR 2 as it should be.
youre an actual legend for creating the lazy pack. a true saint. pun intended
I just bought my first gaming PC, and this will be the first game I install because I miss the OG Saints Row
Congrats on your first gaming PC! Btw Xbox 360 emulation has really taken off on PC, and both Saints Row 1 and 2 are fully playable if your PC's CPU can handle it. Just need the Xenia(Canary build) emulator and copies of those games. Being on PC has opened the floodgates of possibilities for you, my dude. Enjoy it!
Saints Row 2 on sale at GOG right now for less than 3 dollars! Lasts until 10th September
0:46 got me scared.
@@rbrn-94 AW2 jumpscare
G deserves a proper bow down for this one ✨👑✨
You all earned my deepest respect fixing the most broken PC port of all time.
Heroes of the row.
It's surprising to hear music from Command & Conquer in the Saints Row 2 video.
Legend says we've been waiting since then and never saw anything coming.
The amount of coop activities, customization and fun SR2 had 16 years ago makes GTA Online experience feel like a battlefield map with a strip club.
I have never seen this game look so crisp
Great video as always, no matter the videogame.
another mod i always use is superUI it mods the ui to be look and function like the newew games and also removed button prompts to exit menus and just exits the menu
It's sad that the offical PC Patch is now dead thanks to a series of events involving the troubled development and pratical sabotage by Minimaul.
Amazing video!!
i just wish the pc version had the dlc as well. my character kinda relies on it in his design lmao
other than that, i'll definitely consider doing this. i love this game to absolute bits and seeing it in its full glory and more makes me indescribably happy
The game is on sale on GOG right now for $2.49 in the US.
Thanks dawg 😂
Well, I tried some of the fixes like back in 2017 or so and back then it never worked for me. I could only play the beginning of the game, when you are escaping from the prison, but after that game starts to lag again, and that is when I gave up on this game. Other game that I also gave up on was True Crime New York. Another PC game in unplayable state. Wish someone fixed that one too.
Definitely give this list a shot so you can enjoy this classic!
@@BladeOpotato Well, all I need is fixes to make this game work properly. As for the remastering.. I prefer vanilla look and experience. Cause I'm one of those guys who loves when it looks and plays the way it was intended.
Thanks for making this :)
👍 for the Dead Rising and Command & Conquer music
I first played the remaster for the third, and it has a small part of my heart for ever, but SR2 deserved a remaster MUCH more than the third
wow so happy i found this video thank you!!!
got the GOG version on sale, set this up, and havent crashed in nearly 15 hours of play, im flabberghasted. and it's buttery smooth
im genuinely surprised this game is still getting mod support. i remember finishing the game both vanilla and GOTR patched version a year ago and they're pretty fun. now there's another fully fledged mod for it? yeah i think i can reinstall SR2
4:14 AW HAEL NAW GTA VICE CITY OCEANIC IN SAINTS ROW 2
Wanted to jump back in this game, using your plug & play zip, thanks.
We need deepsilver to release the source code. Let the community fix it since they dont gaf
we need a definite edition of saints row 2 bro
Tbf plenty of people wanted a reboot.
Just not THAT reboot.
For someone who heard of the Saints row series but never experienced the games itself. i would be looking forward to try this one on Laptop and of course. install the mods to enjoy a better experience of the game.
This game was my childhood. This video was everything I needed in theory, but the issue is that I can’t even get passed the white launch screen. I have tried internal of settings, file settings, tricks such as repair files and reinstall. I have done everything for about 5 hours tonight. I even used chatGPT and I am telling you, nothing is working.
I’ve tried modding and fixing it, but at the end, I just went to Xenia and emulated it… that was the best way for me
10K Rising Lets Go
everytime i see the sr2 pc port i get sad to know idols ninjas legacy got pissed on
The Saint's Row reboot really wasn't that bad. It's actually my second favorite in the series.
The reboot felt like a completely different game. I *DID* like the world though. I enjoyed exploring it for the first time. And there were some cars I liked. But, nothing will beat Saints Row II and III for me. Those were my favorite.
thanks for this legendary video
Welp time to reinstall SR2
My biggest issue with SR2 was the character models, it might just be me, but I by FAR prefer SR1's character models especially the player model. I dont know, the SR2 player character model just looks... Uncanny compared the SR1's.
Will be cool, if also return removed dlc’s for PC
Great you should make video about first saints row next
Idolninja is the best Guy who Made Gentleman of The Row. RIP 😢
Whoever got the Saints Row IP needs to port this version on all available consoles if they really wants to back the fans !
I litreally have saints row 2 and i wanna go for it like fr, maybe in winter season i bet
I just want the DLCs man... I wish the patch came out somehow
So I turned off dynamic shadows cause of flickering and it made the game look really bad so I turned it back on and it messed with the fps now everytime I reinstall the game and mod it doesn’t work properly
Edit:I fixed it it was a matter of I needed to turn full screen off in the game settings
This reminds me back in 2017 GOG gived away this along with Shadow Warrior 2...
Oh yeah, also despite the existence of Proton, GOG also made a native Linux port, don't hope much though.
Great video loves it
I might be remembering this wrong, but I feel like Saints Row 1 didn't glue the camera to the back of the car like it does in SR2
Idk why saints row 3 story and mechancis was changed, it would have been better because of the dex storyline but they scrapped it altogether. And imo they should have multiple cities like the first is stillwater-steelport and a third one which should have been a tropical world. That would have been a great trilogy.
Totally agree with this
Wearing a SA T-Shirt underneath a Hawaiian in Saints Row 2 is criminal
All I have to say is that the first time I played SR2 was on pc back when I was a kid and never experienced any of the bugs and issues since I played a cracked version of the game. So I'm glad that I had a good experience with the game after all these years I'm now learning that legit version was just not that good of an experience. Ps I did end up getting the game again on ps3 and playing the hell out of it
I just bought the Steam version because the GOG version doesn't work. I keep getting error messages 😭
im really surprised to not see DXVK here.
It’s no longer really needed tbh
14:03 Bro u playin coop with Andrew Tate?