Serious Sam 3 Getting Serious Art Style?

[quack35]

I can predict the fan reaction to this...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuinedFOREVER

 

[Digikid]

No cartoon like style means no sale from me and my group of SS fans . Croteam is going to kill the series for good if they do this.

 

[Nutcase]

IMO, Serious Sam is about how it plays (shoot a million weird enemies coming from every direction using weird guns). Of course there are limits to what kind of presentation you can have and still have weird enemies and guns which seem to somehow fit in.

If SS3 goes with the art style in the first picture behind this link, I don't see a big problem with that.
http://www.seriouszone.com/cms/articles/48_1.php

It's more realist than SS and SS2, yes, but it reminds me of the Marshmellow Man in Ghostbusters. Hardly "serious".

If you're going to worry, then worry about them pulling a "Doom 3": using a huge amount of system resources per enemy, so that the vast hordes of enemies which are a core part of SS (and were a core part of Doom) can no longer be done.

 

[Captain Pancake]

going by the screenshot, it still looks pretty cartoonish to me.

I could never get into serious sam, though. maybe because i only played one at a friend's house, before i was even into videogames.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Well, guess this means I won't be playing Serious Sam 3. No disrespect at all to the developers, but the ridiculous over-the-top cartooniness was what set Serious Sam apart for me and made it something special.

Ain't that the truth. I think the fact that the "serious" make-over should be "good news" to fans says alot about the kind of company that's taken over the franchise. When will game developers realise that "realistic" games tend to look shitty and fake like someone pasted a photo of someone's face on a 3D model (okay, not so much these days but I stand by my point).

 

[LordCraigus]

The screenshot Nutcase posted about would look a lot better with a bit more colour, but, you also look at the other pics of what Croteam's been working on and it looks pretty standard drab modern warfare in the middle-east stuff.

 

[Olikunmissile]

Great. Just wonderful. When I heard Serious Sam 3 I was over the moon. "Yes" I thought to myself, jumping about excitedly like a Yorkshire Terrier "Some epic fun, a nice escape from the identical 'realistic' games, just shooty fun".

If it does go down the serious road, count me out, I've got Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Halo 3 and Gears of War to finish in time for november, with CoDMW2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Priyat coming out.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

So long mayhem shooter, hello typical shooter.

 

[Cousin_IT]

why so serious, serious sam?

 

[rohit9891]

Well I don't know about serious sam 3,but I really want to play the HD remake of the original serious sam.

 

[barryween]

I think unless if they make it like, really realistic LOOKING, but with a bunch of off the wall cartoony stuff (but cartoony stuff that LOOKS realistic), it will end up being just another generic shooter. too bad

 

[Flour]

Why is everyone so averse toward this?

Over-the-top cartoony violence will likely be just be replaced by over-the-top violence of a more realistic flavor.

I haven't played the previous games, so maybe I can't really talk much about this, but it seems a lot like the previous arguments about Left 4 Dead 2 and Diablo 3: "I don't like this, because it looks DIFFERENT!"

It doesn't really matter as long as they preserve the general idea behind the series, does it?

The "general idea" of the series is that it isn't serious.
Realistic graphics doesn't fit the game, and yes, they changed it now it sucks. It's like a Simpsons game making anatomically correct actual human-looking characters.

 

[lostclause]

Has no one here played first/second encounter? Those ones weren't cartoony, really, but that doesn't mean they weren't colorful, over-the-top, and fun. I actually preferred them to any of the other Serious Sams. As long as they don't go down the path of gray, brown, and gritty (and judging by the screenshot, I'd say that's not the case) then I don't see what the problem is.

I've only played the first encounter myself but this guy's got the right idea. It's not so cartoony as the screenshot that the op posted but it's far from brown/grey (okay there was a bit of brown but it was set in a desert!). Ditching the cartoony look doesn't mean that they're going the way of gears of war. It'll probably still be bright and over the top and that's part of the charm of the original.

 

[unacomn]

Worst ideea for the series, ever!
The windup rhinos were a blast. The Headless Bombers, Missile T-Rexes with mustaches, the comic hummor, without that, Serious Sam is just another mindless grind shooter. SS2 was the most fun game of the series.

 

[teutonicman]

Sweet they could turn it in to another greyish-brown fps.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I'm not jiggered about the art style. As long as they revert back to the gobsmackingly silly level design of the second episode I'll be happy.

 

[Eric the Orange]

Serious Sam 3 Getting Serious Art Style?

Or another possible article title,

"Serious Sam to look like every other FPS in the past 10 years"

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Why is everyone so averse toward this?

Over-the-top cartoony violence will likely be just be replaced by over-the-top violence of a more realistic flavor.

I haven't played the previous games, so maybe I can't really talk much about this, but it seems a lot like the previous arguments about Left 4 Dead 2 and Diablo 3: "I don't like this, because it looks DIFFERENT!"

It doesn't really matter as long as they preserve the general idea behind the series, does it?

Because a Serious Sam game with realistic art is just Painkiller. Not that that's a bad thing.

I dunno. The cartoon graphics of Serious Sam 2 were nice and all, but the original games had a more consistent design and overall better sense of progression.

 

[kaiser_what]

Why is everyone so averse toward this?

Over-the-top cartoony violence will likely be just be replaced by over-the-top violence of a more realistic flavor.

I haven't played the previous games, so maybe I can't really talk much about this, but it seems a lot like the previous arguments about Left 4 Dead 2 and Diablo 3: "I don't like this, because it looks DIFFERENT!"

It doesn't really matter as long as they preserve the general idea behind the series, does it?

I thought so too, but after I clicked the link posted by Nutcase, my reaction was similar to other posters in this thread.

"War theme After the somewhat relaxed and crazy content [in the Serious Sam series], Croteam decided to go with a realistic approach to the theme of modern warfare in their new project.
Visual authenticity These realistic models of soldiers from the game testify that this is a true next generation FPS.
Urban warfare Judging by the first pictures it is apparent the game will combine war in open spaces like streets and squares with the insides of buildings and facilities.
Croatian technology The base of this kind of hyper-realistic graphical scenes is the highly advanced Serious engine 3.
Weapons A drastic detachment from Croteam's previous work on Serious Sam, the weapons in their new title are based on and constructed to correspond to existing military weapons."

Whoo boy, this is going to suck.

 

[L33tMarvin]

wow thats possibly going to be the biggest mistake they made cause then it will just wouldnt fun or funny no more.to me.Its like how a 2d game that was good then goes to 3d and it sucks.For example sonic