Serious Sam 3 Ready to Tan in Summer
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I'm curious how they'll design the levels. I played the first Serious Sam on PC, the second I picked up on the PS2 for cheap. The first is obviously considered better than the other, but why?
If people want to take what they've learned from the past two weeks Extra Credit's, how to play like a designer, consider the first Serious Sam. It was fun because it was a throwback to the old school Doom 2 style shooters, walking through narrow corridors and open rooms strafing and blasting enemies with shotgons, miniguns, plasma guns, and rocket launchers. But the most noteworhy feature was the massive open room encounters found as a sort of 'boss encounter' throughout the game. The first memorial experience coming maybe an hour into the game, where you're in a huge columned room and enemies come flying at you from everywhere. For Serious Sam 2 however, the design decision seemed to go something like "those big massive encounters really made the game, lets add way more!" Good idea in theory, but in practice when the game basically became one long sequence of massive encounter to massive encounter... it lost its charm and became rather dull.
So hopefully they learned from that and this next one will be more appropriately paced like the first.
If people want to take what they've learned from the past two weeks Extra Credit's, how to play like a designer, consider the first Serious Sam. It was fun because it was a throwback to the old school Doom 2 style shooters, walking through narrow corridors and open rooms strafing and blasting enemies with shotgons, miniguns, plasma guns, and rocket launchers. But the most noteworhy feature was the massive open room encounters found as a sort of 'boss encounter' throughout the game. The first memorial experience coming maybe an hour into the game, where you're in a huge columned room and enemies come flying at you from everywhere. For Serious Sam 2 however, the design decision seemed to go something like "those big massive encounters really made the game, lets add way more!" Good idea in theory, but in practice when the game basically became one long sequence of massive encounter to massive encounter... it lost its charm and became rather dull.
So hopefully they learned from that and this next one will be more appropriately paced like the first.
I am seriously excited for this. But at the same time I'm kinda pissed. There's no way I can handle 2011 now without at least 1 head explosion. Not counting ones that may happen while playing the game.
Either way, my excited Must remain serious. *Puts on Serious Face*
Either way, my excited Must remain serious. *Puts on Serious Face*
I'm guessing Beyond the Final Encounter, boring as a name but seems likely.
Kinda funny to think that Second Encounter made fun of DNF and now the fourth game comes out in the same year as DNF...
I don't like how Serious Sam spawns more and more monsters in killrooms, I prefer having all of them spawn at the same time so it really feels like I'm reducing their numbers. That's one of the reasons I like Earth Defense Force 2 better.
Kinda funny to think that Second Encounter made fun of DNF and now the fourth game comes out in the same year as DNF...
I don't like how Serious Sam spawns more and more monsters in killrooms, I prefer having all of them spawn at the same time so it really feels like I'm reducing their numbers. That's one of the reasons I like Earth Defense Force 2 better.
So, Serious Sam 3, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and (probably) Guild Wars 2 all coming this year? My three favourite game series ever?
This is going to be a good year.
This is going to be a good year.
I loved Serious Sam The First Encounter and The Second Encounter, if the third one isn't like those it will suck ass completely. They just went to hell when they turned goofy, fucking stupid Croteam....or whoever made the other SS games that weren't the very first two.
BFE could be...
Brains Flying Everywhere
Bullets For Everyone
Battle For Earth
Breast Feeding Elephants
Big Fantastic Elastic
Boobs For Earl
Brains Flying Everywhere
Bullets For Everyone
Battle For Earth
Breast Feeding Elephants
Big Fantastic Elastic
Boobs For Earl
Fix'd.Firetaffer said:Fun fact, UT2k4 is more populated than UT1 and UT3 combined.
On topic: Nice to see the return of the silly shooters.
