Comments on: Getting Serious: Serious Sam HD

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:57:31 +0000

For $20 or less, I’m all over it. I can’t see paying big money for it though. Hopefully they retain the insanely colorful and intentionally nonsensical style of the original. Don’t try to make it “realistic”.

By: Borat

Borat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:21:29 +0000

sounds good to me. i love exact remakes, and why not ?

is it too early to want far cry hd ?? not in this gamer’s opinion.
in fact i believe that far cry should be remade every 4 years verbatim, just to showcase new engines.

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:23:27 +0000

Cheers for that, Dominic! Infinite lives will definitely make the GF happier. It might also kill any hopes I have of convincing her to side-step, but frankly that wasn’t looking like a promising eventuality…

By: flash games

flash games — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:29:38 +0000

Just looking at that screenshot makes me want to pop in my ol’ Serious Sam: Next Encounter. It wasn’t epic, but it was a great time killer. Ugh… so… tempted.

By: Valarauka

Valarauka — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:47:43 +0000

Hahahahah, wow. This is awesome. By some cosmic coincidence, I just brushed off my old copy of Serious Sam and was giving it a two-player coop playthrough with my lil sis.

The surprising thing was, there’s enough people still playing for my game to be joined by four or five random internet peeps every time. :D Amazing fun!

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:19:38 +0000

i loved the first SS, playing with a friend on split screen on a pc, just AWESOME!, more games need to add this option, im looking at you L4D and soon-to-be released Resident evil 5

SSII not so much, it felt boring for me, the improved graphics took some charm away from it and the weapons were meh, but i played years after it was released, maybe i was spoiled by newer games.

i would love to see a third game, and i agree with what Jahkaivah said, they need to take a few points out of L4D, the AI director, the music cues, the damage feedback from monsters, it really sucks when you shoot something and they don’t flinch and no forgetting about the split screen option.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:34:54 +0000

@Shadowcat – if you’re on a LAN, you’ll really want the Insamnity 2 mod.

http://insamnity2.danceswithkleer.com/

It basically lets you customize the game however you want. And if that customization includes semi-random spawns of 5x the enemies, then go wild.

Note: It should ALWAYS include semi-random spawns of 5x the enemies. It turns the game from a decent shootfest into a first-person Smash TV.

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:16:59 +0000

Anyway, yay for SS HD! I never did get TSE, but I’ve wanted it ever since it eventuated that TFE was a co-op hit with my GF, so I’m definitely hoping that this release contains both games.

Prior to that, I had burned myself out a little on TFE by playing it on Hard, which turned out to be a mistake about half-way through (too far for me to want to restart), and then an absolute nightmare at the end, so I didn’t rush out to get TSE at the time. I hope that SS HD allows you to switch difficulty mid-game!

Coincidentally, we’re playing SS2 at the moment, and it’s a whole heap better than I was expecting given the response it got on release. I do seem to be experiencing some nasty movement glitches, though, which is either dodgy code, or a serious problem with our LAN that hasn’t shown itself elsewhere. Still good fun, though (except for the damned maximum 10 life limit, which the GF is chewing through on regular occasion :(

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:00:24 +0000

Gravatar Count Zero: Painkiller was/is great, but “Thematically coherent”? How the hell do you argue that one? Regardless of how great they looked, the settings were probably the most arbitrary and unrelated that I’ve ever encountered in a game.

By: Matosh

Matosh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:44:43 +0000

SS HD! Yay! I haven’t played it in ages! AAAAAAAA!

However.

This looks to me like an excuse to procrastinate on the actual sequel. I live an hour’s drive away from Zagreb. If they don’t release a Serious Sam 3 update soon I’m perfectly capable of driving up to the Croteam offices and slapping Roman Ribaric silly.

By: ChampionHyena

ChampionHyena — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:39:33 +0000

@Cedge: “‘AAAAAAAAGH,’ yourself.

…

Uh-oh.”

By: Cedge

Cedge — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:48:57 +0000

Purchasing on day one, assuming it shows up on Steam.

Very interested in exactly what content is in here, since I see stuff from both First and Second Encounter.

I have not enjoyed any FPS in the past decade more than Serious Sam. The screaming, headless suicide bombers still haunt my nightmares.