Comments on: 16 Reasons To Play Serious Sam HD

By: Garry

Garry — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:42:54 +0000

Sam rules… XD

By: Bill is right

Bill is right — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:23:18 +0000

Damn bill you are spot on, painkiller’s level graphic design was awesome. But dammit if I didn’t hate the actual level design, gameplay-wise.

In my opinion as far as this kind of fps genre goes, the best level design (gameplay wise) belongs to id classics

By: bill

bill — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:18:02 +0000

Well…. they could try doing some levels that AREN’T pyramids ;-)

Serious sam (1) was indeed an awesome game… but it would have been even more awesome if it had had the variety of level settings of painkiller. (not the level gameplay designs, but the level graphic designs).

Those bulls must be one of the best FPS enemies ever…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:48:44 +0000

(I don’t like Painkiller either. So there!)

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:47:55 +0000

I don’t like it either. I understand why I am supposed to like it, but I don’t. I’d rather play TF2, UT1-3, Borderlands, HL2, Quake 1 through N, Doom 1 through… 2, Duke Nukem 3D, any Rainbow Six game before Vegas, or even whatever that horribly racist “Who wanta some Wang?” was that had nukes, than Serious Sam.

By: Cedge

Cedge — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:26:45 +0000

Face it, first-person shooters. You’re done. No need to bother anymore. There’s nothing else you can do.

First-person shooters were “done” back in 2001, the first time this game came out. It’s all been in vain, since then.

By: Songbearer

Songbearer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:17:42 +0000

Way to spoil the end boss! Grr! Fume! Never reading this blog again! Etc.

By: Dodo

Dodo — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:31:48 +0000

then buy it to support the developers and get them to release serious sam 3!

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:37:25 +0000

I played a bit up to the first boss and I don’t think the HD upgrade is worth it at all. If you have the original game, stick with that. The extra shine makes some things look really weird if anything. The models in many cases are the same as the old models with a normal map on top, my own character had a blob shadow instead of a proper one, physics feel weird, lighting also… There are many things betraying its old school roots visually and it just looks off. Play the original or if you want better graphics then Serious Sam 2 which in my opinion looks better than this ovrerall despite not having normal maps and shinies everywhere. Its levels are more complex in architecture as is the models’ base polycount (some in Serious Sam HD look REALLY bad, they seem to be all the old models with normal maps on top) making it all look better.

By: Tei

Tei — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:08:19 +0000

On the other hand.
Playing Serius Sam HD alone, on your room, coop or not, sober… is not the same experience.
It seems a game that really needs you in a particular mental state, ready to laught at silly things.

By: MD

MD — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:58:50 +0000

On reflection, “They’re not ‘based on the exact same formula’ at anything more than a really superficial level.” is a rather terribly-worded sentence. But you know what I mean.

By: MD

MD — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:55:52 +0000

I haven’t read the entire thread, but from what I’ve seen most people are just having fun! Each falling at various points on the spectrum from ‘happily taking the piss’ to ‘serious but not particularly worked up’.

PS They’re not ‘based on the exact same formula’ at anything more than a really superficial level.

PPS The RPS guys totally started it! You should be telling them off.