CaButler said:

I'm still surprised that SO3 gets a lot of love despite it's inane plot twist and nearly completely unlikeable characters.  Except that one guy who was sent to pick up Fayt, he was cool.

In all honesty, I felt that SO4 is a vast improvement over SO3 for a lot of reasons.  Many which people will probably disagree with, but honestly, after SO3, I'm glad that it's different.

My main thing is comparing the leads, Edge and Fayt.  Fayt is, for all intents and purposes, a whiny little bastard who is extremely emotionally unstable.  And it becomes a point with a major event that both characters share.

When the Earth, the character's home planet, gets nuked, Fayt barely has much of an emotional response.  Granted, it's due to the limitations, but everything seems normal after that.

For Edge, even though it's not his actual Earth, he basically broke down, and it showed when he was silent for a good part of the game.  Granted, Edge was indirectly responsible for that Earth's destruction, but unlike Fayt, he felt that weight and it essentally put him on the breaking point.

This is why I think SO4 is a better game than 3.  Of course, that's my opinion.

I also want to point out that Infinite Undiscovery is a better game than those two for exactly that same reason, because the characters actually emote.

Though one major complaint I have about SO4, and it isn't Sarah, is Crowe, a full on Marty Stu who I wish to die a painful death.  Yeah, he's not a main character, but with the way the others talk about him, I wanted to smash his pretty face in.  This is also a narritive no no, but that's self explanitory.