Saints Done

You know how I was so super into Saints Row: The Third a few weeks ago that Rick had to title the recap to humor my obsession? Well, now that the IGN Entertainment wiki guide is done (which you can find by clicking here, and it’s damn near my best piece of work ever), I’m done with the game… and I’m not going to touch it again for six months.

I’ve mentioned before that the hardest part of guide writing is not the effort it takes to be creative and entertaining while being instructive, but doing all that when you don’t want to. And man, doing Saints Row: The Third has been time-consuming. I’ve been having to play it all day, every day, for the last two weeks. Mostly because, in order to make the guide awesome—and it’s getting heavy traffic on IGN, so I needed to make it awesome—I had to take screenshots… which I neglected to do the first time through. So, operating on orders from IGN, I had to play through the game AGAIN as fast as humanly possible, when basically every brain cell was screaming at me to be doing something else. (Zimos is hilarious since he speaks only in Auto-Tune, but you can only hear the same joke so many times.)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not whining about the job. Hell, playing games and writing about them, for a paycheck? Ain’t no better job in the world, guys. But it’s still a job, and I was still shooting people in Saints Row when I really, really, just wanted to be social with my friends or, you know, go out for tacos. So now I’m resenting the game, and I don’t want to think about it for a long, long time.

But it’s done, and it’s become an awesome guide, especially the part where I start channeling my Online Onslaught writing style on IGN, which was fairly surreal. But the next one will interest you guys too, since it’s for WWE ’12! Custom wrestlers are made, modes have been explored, and now I just need to start playing with Road To WrestleMania and get to writin’!