By Alec Meer on September 30th, 2011 at 2:40 pm.
Betrayal! Oh, the wound! Why, why, why? The eve of shamelessly excessive manshooting with a retro flavour but a hypermodern look was almost upon us, and then they only go and move the release date of Serious Sam 3: BFE back by a month. You’re not going to be playing this on October 18 after all. I BET THEY DON’T EVEN LOVE US AT ALL. I bet they don’t even like us. Wonder what crappy reason they’re going to fob us off with? So they can add more DRM? Because some suit at Microsoft told them to? Because they’re in a dark alliance with an evil retail chain? Or just because they’re cold, mean-hearted bastards?
“The team wants to take a little extra time to make it perfect for Serious Sam fans worldwide,” said Davor Hunski, Chief Creative Guy at Croteam. “The game is playing wonderfully and looks great so we are going through to balance the difficulty and fine tune the code to eliminate any technical issues at launch. And we’ll probably add some more enemies to the hordes to blow your mind.”
Oh, okay then. That sounds pretty reasonable, actually. November 22 and a better-quality game it is, then. Fair enough. Also, if you preorder you get a Fork Parker avatar for multiplayer, which proves that meta-gag has far more legs than anyone might have guessed:
Reminds me of the id staffer models in Quake III. Oh, those times.
30/09/2011 at 14:43 ZIGS says:
Delayed to a post-Battlefield 3/Modern Warfare 3 date. Not a smart move in my book. But hey, polish!
30/09/2011 at 15:44 Seboss says:
No, Croatian! Huh, wait…
03/10/2011 at 09:28 Lamellama says:
Omg, ok. I love shopping!
30/09/2011 at 14:43 Shooop says:
Well SHIT.
September has been dragging its feet, and now there’s nothing worth looking at in October unless Rage makes good on its promise.
This is seriously depressing.
30/09/2011 at 14:59 Fierce says:
Arkham City?
30/09/2011 at 15:03 Demiath says:
PC Arkham City is also November, so…
30/09/2011 at 15:32 Gnoupi says:
Renegade Ops was delayed from September to October, it’s your lucky day!
Ok, it will probably last only a weekend, but still.
30/09/2011 at 15:49 Shooop says:
I was really hoping for a FPS Gnoupi. But thanks.
Here’s hoping Rage doesn’t bomb.
30/09/2011 at 14:52 Christian says:
I think this is great news. No, seriously, think about it..with BF3 coming out in October and Skyrim beginning of November (although it’ll be delayed as well, any bet), this fits perfectly in the middle.
So it’s actually a great move :)
30/09/2011 at 14:53 GallonOfAlan says:
Angry Internet Men – assemble!
30/09/2011 at 15:06 Shooop says:
Already here! You’re late!
30/09/2011 at 15:25 ReV_VAdAUL says:
For some reason I imagined angry internet men assembling like those big transformers made of five smaller ones.
I have transformers on the brain I guess.
30/09/2011 at 15:44 Angryinternetman says:
I dont mind.
30/09/2011 at 16:04 Shooop says:
ReV_VAdAUL, the image you put in my head is now bound to make me burst out laughing at a horribly inappropriate moment. Good job.
30/09/2011 at 19:15 ReV_VAdAUL says:
I aim to please.
30/09/2011 at 14:57 ArtyFishal says:
Awesome, now it’s going to be released on my birthday! I know what I’m getting myself.
30/09/2011 at 14:59 radioactivez0r says:
I was looking forward to Oct 18th – Batman and SS 3. Now neither is available on PC that day. What am I supposed to do? Spend another week salivating over BF3? :\
30/09/2011 at 15:07 Flint says:
Aww, no press release from Fork Parker.
30/09/2011 at 15:17 MidoriChaos says:
He did tweet: “The shift in #SeriousSam3′s release date to Nov. 22nd was really so @Croteam could finish the shading on my junk.” Which I guess it’s a kind of slack press release.
30/09/2011 at 15:48 Temple says:
I prefer an earlier tweet from Fork https://twitter.com/#!/forkparker
“Working on plan to sue @Notch because he is making video games. That’s what we make!”
30/09/2011 at 16:30 MistaJah says:
Press release from Fork Parker: http://yfrog.com/meqp1kj (39 minutes ago) e: oh, somebody posted it here
30/09/2011 at 15:14 Matt says:
Aw this could have been fun – 16 player co-op in time for Multiplay’s i44 LAN in November… it’ll just miss the date now…
30/09/2011 at 15:29 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
To fisticuffs, Sam.
30/09/2011 at 15:32 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
Fork Parker is almost as good a name as Randy Pitchfork.
30/09/2011 at 15:32 dandy-pandy says:
We should employ the endless hordes of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA’s
to bomb their heads off for pulling our leg, the original launch date was “this summer” then it became this autumn, now …NOW ? will it be this winter?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CROTEAM!!
we need mindless mobs around, and we need them fast!!!
30/09/2011 at 15:46 Warlokk says:
Well, this probably would have been a day-1 buy for me in October, since I don’t have anything else to play at the moment other than World of Tanks… but now it’ll be released post-Skyrim, so I will be busy for quite a while and probably won’t pick it up till next year. Bad move, IMHO, although I understand the motives, seems being the only cool game released in October would have been strongly to their benefit. Ah well.
30/09/2011 at 15:51 Breedlove says:
There was an official press release: http://yfrog.com/z/meqp1kj
“Looks like the wife is going to have to wait on pumping up the milk pillows until I’m rolling in
that filthy Serious Sam3: BFE cash money,” said Fork Parker, Devolver Digital CFO. “Nobody
likes a half-assed titjob. Nobody.”
30/09/2011 at 16:14 JackDandy says:
Aw humbug.
Well, I can wait!
30/09/2011 at 22:57 Ridnarhtim says:
Well feck. That’s falling right into Zelda time. And I was really impatiently looking forward to this, too =/
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01/10/2011 at 07:17 SavageD says:
That link is rubbish. I expected “Top sex films”, yet was only presented with the option to purchase various items of apparel! Shame on you!
02/10/2011 at 01:45 Dave L. says:
On the subject of delays (and at the risk of starting the UK Steam argument again): The PC version of Saints Row the Third is not delayed