By Quintin Smith on April 21st, 2011 at 5:12 pm.
As seems to be common practice in these cyber-times, Croteam have released a single new Serious Sam 3 screenshot. That’s it up there. Click for bigger, but be sure not to look at it all at once! Quick, look away! Now, look back! Away again! Back again! Away again! Back again! Away again! Back again! Away again! And finally back again*.
* Rock, Paper, Shotgun does not accept responsibility for any personal injuries or crushed household pets incurred during the screenshot elongation procedure.
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Oh, no. Did you topple onto your cat?
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zhengvvm: reply fail!
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Lens flare is so 2003.
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Indeed, and Serious Sam is so 2001.
Doesnt stop me from really looking forward to a new one though :)
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I only see a shielded area. Or maybe a pressure wave? :P
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I think of Serious Sam as so 1993. In a good way.
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I think you’re confusing Lense Flare with God Beams. SO different.
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One of the many names for crepuscular rays! It actually surprises me how many there are, and I wasn’t familiar with that one until just now. I’d heard ‘god rays’ but ‘god beams’ is yet another new one.
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what doesnt surprise me is how they stil can’t figure out that the rays are the only solution to volumetric shadowing of particles because god rays only appear if there is substance in the environment.
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@smi1ey
No, no, no, at the base of the worm-thing, silly!
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I dont know how people can accept lens flare if theyre supposed to be plaing a FPS meatbag.
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Hah! The fools, when it comes time to release my game, I shall trump them with a FRACTION of a screen shot.
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Games Workshop actually do this with pics of forthcoming models. I shit you not.
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Forget fractions. When I start releasing info on my game, the media will be LUCKY if they get more than a couple pixels of a screenshot at a time.
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@ zbeeblebrox,
Love that. I’m going to give each outlet a pixel each everyday and see whether they can piece it together. It’ll be like the ValveARG, only cooler.
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I will create a massive ARG full of puzzles and tricks and impossibly hard challenges, and each will unlock a new pixel (a colour, and 2 coordinates) to a screenshot.
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Now THAT is a screenshot I can root for. So much better than mass effect’s screenshots.
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“* Rock, Paper, Shotgun does not accept responsibility for any personal injuries or crushed household pets incurred during the screenshot elongation procedure.”
… guys, I think you’ve been playing too much Portal lately :)
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Which is totally a good thing.
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Disappointed.
The horrid sand monster doesn’t have tickets to that thing I love.
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HA! Well done.
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The only thing that screenshot did was make me even less interested in a game I already had little interest in (not really a fan of those mindless shooters)
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serious sam is mindless for about the first 10 minutes of the game. after that you have to use ur brain and play skillfull to finish the game. trust me you DO spam enemies with bullets in serious sam but they also spam you back and you have to do some crazy dodging to survive some of the bigger fights.
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…is the picture suddenly diamonds?
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HA! Also well done.
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I’m on a graboid.
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Knowing Serious Sam games, that chopper probably is in the background. Which is a good thing.
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Ha! The chopper is actually huge, just far away and the worm is about 1 inch in front of the camera. The next few Serious Sam screens will be using forced perspective of the same scene in several clever ways, until we get the whole picture.
I know this isn’t what you mean, but I wish it were true.
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The sky is blue. Any qualms about purchasing this game are gone now. Thank you, screenshot.
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Is that volumetric sand I see?
mmmmmmmm
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Considering the beams of light projecting away from the helicopter, it appears to be volumetric *everything*
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So good, it must be fattening!
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Sounds like someone has been playing Portal 2.
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There. Fixed that for ya. :P
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Ha! it’s funny because his name is Postal!
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Sandworms!
I don’t see this game playing like an unofficial Tremors game somehow. But I’m sure they’ll make it work.
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I can just see Fred Ward whipping off his hat and muttering, “Graboids!”
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Now I’ve started wondering if a Tremors game could work. Or would it be too much like that bit in HL2 where you have to stay off the sand? Probably…
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If?
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hehe, nice game link :)
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I got my look away and back agains mixed up, now I’m completely confused!
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Are you doing it while on a horse?
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My God, is that…..colour?
I’ve been replaying the first and second encounter since they announced 3, it’s still bloody good fun. Can’t wait!
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Yes, but what did Fork say about it?
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I wish this was a trick and the sand was the actual monster and that the world was composed of fleshy, toothy hills. And that the helicopter was the sun and the sun was a helicopter.
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Not like Sam to be all coy with us.
Show us the goods damn it!
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A Helicopter ? I have a bad feeling about this.
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I can’t wait to explode all over that thing with my gigantic rocket launcher.
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AND IN THE GAME!
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