One of the best FPS by one of the best devs is currently 3.99.
Explain to me why you haven't bought it yet.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41070/
>>318312869
Cause I bought every SS game for 10 bucks two months ago.
>>318312869
I pre-ordered it already back in 2011, and was positively surprised by it. Also got the DLC right away.
Definitely my 2011's GOTY.
Thanks for the heads up, family
I just did
>>318312869
I've owned it for years, anon
serious sam is fucking garbage, just because it's old doesn't mean it's good you fucking memehound
I liked the game but I didn't have the patience to finish it until I played co-op.
>>318316324
BFE came out in 2011 you faggot
What's it like?
>>318312869
Cuz I own all the Serious Sam games.
I also own the Talos Principle + the DLC.
Croteam is pretty based
>>318316864
shooting the same 5 enemies over and over in huge empty arenas with the same 5 guns
>>318316864
You shoot things until they die, then move onto the next area where you shoot things until they die.
Sometimes you will NOT be shooting things but that's pretty rare.
>>318317005
Am I missing something or is this literally it? I see the appeal of taking shooters back to their roots, but I just don't see SS as doing it very well.
>>318317403
that's literally it, it's garbage
I already own it.
Also every game is "one of the best" as long as it isn't the worst.
I already own them.
>>318317492
>that's what cover based health regenerating fags actually believe
they wouldn't be able to make a Serious Sam game anymore. SJW would find it too problematic. I mean, those headless guys who just charge while shouting LOOK AT MY COOL CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK, in Egypt? That's islamophobic.
>>318317403
There's a lot of thought that goes into weapon use and enemy types making the gameplay really interesting as it changes radically depending on the guns and ammo you're given.
>>318312869
Because I already have it, because I already played it with my friends.
Someone tell me why the FUCK did SS3 never get any additional content?
Its a short campaign than the repetitive as fuck endless mode
>>318318056
>implying Croteam gives a shit about SJWs
Unlike burgerland, Croatia is actually free countryy
Also AFAIK Serious Sam 4 is on it's way.
>>318318439
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41074/
>>318318658
3 missions I guess I'm proven wrong, thats like an hour of gameplay
>>318317005
That'd be 4 more enemies than modern shooters. Nevermind that it's actually more like 20 different enemy types
>>318316864
>>318317403
There's actually closer to dozen different enemies, and as many guns, and the "thing" is that you fight hordes of HUNDREDS of enemies, usually at once, all alone.
It's simple yet nicely challenging, brutal fun.
What comes to the SS3, it's a damn brilliant example of PC exclusive done right. It looks and runs great, has HUGE options menus, Versus and co-op (16p online, 4p splitscreen), mod support ... AKA, pure perfection.
And obviously the game really does not take itself seriously at any point, no matter how gritty and gory things get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqHkvDCQgg
>>318318836
it actually took me 1-2 h per MISSION to in the DLC. And it's damn good DLC too.
>>318312869
1. Already own it
2. It's dog shit compared to TFE and TSE
>>318321981
>it actually took me 1-2 h per MISSION to in the DLC. And it's damn good DLC too.
Bought it now for me and my friends, should be fine for a LAN
I'm still disappointed, when the game came out I thought I'd be drowning in the content
>>318321981
>HUGE options menus
>notSERIOUS
One job anon.
>>318322258
nah. TSE > BFE > TFE > > > SS2
>>318322791
>BFEgypt better than TFEgypt
>>318323301
Egypt is pure fucking aesthetic.
>>318312869
Already bought it a couple years back for $5. Great game.
>>318323447
>spend a substantial amount of time in tunnels fighting cave coons
>can barely map glitch any levels because the sandwormMAY HIS PASSING CLEANSE THE WORLDwill get ya
>no Croatian skybox with buildings and powerplants in the background
Funny how a 2011 DirectX 9 game looks better than most next gen console games.
>>318322791
>BFE > TFE
When did you come to this conclusion, was it about around the fifth time you fought devil monkeys in a dark cave or the trillionth time you aimed down sights for better accuracy in a Serious Sam game?
>>318322791
TSE > BFE + mods to fix the bad changes (iron sight/fall damage/hit scan all over the place) > TSE > BFE >>> SS2
croteam marketers on overdrive holy shit
>>318324741
it was when I replayed TFE and TSE after BFE, and found the design to feel very flat in comparison to the later games.
>>318325550
>mods to fix the bad changes (iron sight/fall damage/hit scan all over the place)
No. Fuck you. Plus there's no fall damage.
>>318326281
Croteam cannot affort marketers, sonny.
>>318325550
>mods to fix the bad changes
Where do I find these mods? I'd love to get rid of the stupid shit
I have it but I don't think my shittop can run it. Been replaying FE and SE though, gonna play NENEXT
There is absolutely nothing wrong with iron sights
>>318327135
Steam community, son.
Though you people are just whiny fags for getting buttblasted for such minor stuff.
>>318327163
Like already said, the game has HUGE / SERIOUS Options menus, that would allow you to adjust every single imaginable visual option there is.
My i3 + GT 540M laptop from 2012 gets a nice 35-40fps at 720p, customized low-med combo settings.
>>318327938
This. Plus there's like what, two guns with them? And they don't even help you at all.
Played it, didn't like it.
It's boring. Like playing a screensaver.
I'll never understand it.
>>318328391
>Like playing a screensaver.
huh... screensavers have come a long way since the 3D maze times.
SS4 fucking when
>>318312869
Serious Sam 2 is actually a pretty alright game, i understand its no TF/SE but it offers a slightly less serious break from running though the classics.
>>318328853
q1 2017
>threads still alive
p.cool
Glad to see all the SS love here.
>>318329050
that's more than a fucking year, what if I die before that?
fug
>>318329169
why should I care?
>>318329285
because you can die too idiot
WWIII soonnot really
>>318312869
I loved every SS game, but after playing BFE I even liked the cartoony SS2 more. The reason is without being ironic, it's too serious and it has the same problem as the very first encounter, it's only set in egypt and makes it super boring. Maybe it's because I haven't played any FPS past HL2, but I'm really not into it, feels like a military shooter with a lot of gore. To me, the appeal of completing levels were the cut scenes and finding secrets and I am kind of missing it in BFE. Sam is just not the Duke, but it feels like he tries to, if that makes any sense
>>318329343
>not really
you just jinxed it.
Anyway, I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
>>318329576
>have not played any FPS past HL2
then your opinion is not valid in any kind of way.
Jesus christ you cannot imagine how fucked up the genre became after 2005. Video very related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqHkvDCQgg
Plus, SS3 was a FAR superior Doom3 & DNF than the actual games themselves.
>>318329576
What are you even trying to say?
Sam was always a parody of Duke which were both parodies of SUPER SERIOUS FPS anyway.
>>318329861
I don't see how my opinions is any less valid of it not being as fun as the prior games, just because I haven't played every game of the genre since. We are talking Serious Sam and running to an enemy and pressing E to instakill it in an event feels dumb
>>318329861
Hard reset was pretty playable. Same with new shadow warrior, the same game in china town.
Major negatives are comic book plot and single player only.
>>318330318
Instakill-length is about the only legitimate complaint.
But it doesn't matter anyway because most of the time you'll constantly be swarmed by hordes and trying to prioritize what to kill first.
>>318330318
The instakill move is literally unusable later on when you got 300 enemies swarming you from all sides. Which is a good thing; many other modern shooters and games make you INVINCIBLE during those "take down moves", just so you can watch the fancy animations in peace.
The SS3's melee system is pretty much the Doom's fists, beefed up to that comic's "RIP & TEAR" levels.
>>318330356
those are just small exceptions in the rule. And not too surprisingly, all three of these were also published by Devolver Digital.
Though I found the new SW to be just boring and quite badly designed in general. Doesn't help that the devs were also SJW fags preaching about "muh racism & sexism!" in the original SW3D, boasting how they'd gotten rid of that for us.
>>318326874
This is the image that made me buy all the Sam games. This nigga looks fly senpai
>>318330915
>The instakill move is literally unusable later on
It's very efficient vs. grey scorps.
>>318330915
>muh rassist
New Lo Wang spots a ton of shit and terrible one liners, exactly the same as the first game.
They even have geisha girls from the old game as an easter egg.
>tfw Neo-/v/ doesn't like Serious Sam.
Great.
We've come full circle.
MP is far worse than quake or UT.
why would you even play this crap?
>>318330356
not him, but my problem with Hard Reset is that the game insists on locking you into arenas with "Do not leave" invisible walls surrounding it everywhere.
Which was very disappointing for someone who bought it expecting the doom and Duke Nukem experience.
>>318331253
>why would you even play this crap?
It's fast-paced and fun.
It's great if you can get the stick out of your ass and realize that not all games have to be Quake or UT.
>>318331167
again, an exception to the rule,
and not too smart to use if you're surrounded by a pack of them and/or Kleers.
>>318331183
exactly, and that's why they're idiotic hypocrites as well.
Then again they apparently didn't understand that the original SW3D parodied the old asian Kung Fu and monster films, just like DN3D did to western action and alien flicks, and BLOOD to horror classics.
>>318331253
when people say they play SS's MP, they usually mean the co-op. Which is total blast.
We used to have /v/'s own servers at one point.
>>318318836
Are you new to Serious Sam or something? Thats more like three hours, each is an hour long. Not to mention the sale price is literally a dollar
>>318331253
You don't play SS for VS, and even so it's still p.fun if you have a group of people.
>>318331389
>game insists on locking you into arenas with "Do not leave" invisible walls surrounding it
Which is unfortunately what the new Shadow Warrior does as well. Instead of semi-open maps with multiple routes and plenty of vertical movement, you instead move in a linear pipe, only to get stopped by an arena fight.
because i hated serious sam 2 and never bothered to play the others
>>318321981
I agree but I feel whenever you suck this game off you should mention how deep the gameplay is, how each gun has huge variety, and combat changes depending on what you use.
>>318331623
you literally played the black sheep of the series. Only those who were underaged and owned it for their Xbox Fat as a kid tend to even "like" it.
>>318331694
True that. It's just damn hard to demonstrate or prove it to people who've not even played the game.
One of the clear improvements BFE did compared to TFE/TSE was to make the "Machinegun" and "Minigun" separated weapons, using their own ammo. The MG, now the M4-lookalike, obviously replaces the Tommygun and packs decent punch + accuracy, but the slower ROF and need to reload after every 40 rounds make it a much more tactical weapon. Minigun obviously packs more punch, but eats through its (more rare) ammo faster. In the original SS games, there was very little reason to go back to Tommygun after you get minigun.
>>318331623
Each of the 3 Serious Sams is very different in style, you can't judge the whole series by one game. The first one even has HD remakes.
Man I fucking LOVE Serious Sam 3. Its the first one I played so I went back and got the HD remasters of the first game and I cant believe how awful it is. The level design is just so boring and 90% of the time you're doing something extremely mundane. When the action ramps up its great but SS3 is such an improvement even if it too still has boring moments and awful first missions. The series as a whole would be so much better if they didn't make every level an hour long. Its like they're padding it out with boring shit when all people recognize the series for is the high points.
>>318332817
Honestly I got bored a lot playing TFE, but since I don't play many pure FPS I thought maybe that's what was boring me.
I've never given any of the other games in the series a try, maybe I'll try SS3 now.
>>318333363
Thats the thing, for literally each game in the series the first missions are boring as shit. Especially in 3. It takes like four missions for it to get fun as hell.
>>318312869
Isn't this the shit one that opens with a turret section and turns into CoD about 30 minutes in?
Fuck off.
I very much appreciate the fact that it runs natively under Linux.
The environments should've been more varied, like in TSE, not just Egypt again.
Tearing apart hordes of the enemies I blasted away in TFE many years ago, rendered with good-looking modern models, that really makes for some nice nostalgia.
>>318333532
Not just the first missions, I think I made it all the way to the second-to-last mission. It got to the point where I would boot up the game, play a single mission, and then quit because I was getting tired of it. Then a couple weeks would pass before I wanted to play again.
I still don't think I've beat the final mission.
>>318333702
No it opens with your helicopter getting shot down, finding the sledge-hammer and fucking up a Gnaar for the first time.
>>318333879
yeah well not everyone likes everything, just keep in mind the second encounter is considered far superior, first encounter isn't the best.
>>318333817
Really don't understand the sameness complaint.
It mixes things up fine.
>>318332817
BFE is terrible compared to the rest.
>>318331513
There's a /v/ group for Sam.Just make sure you join the right one.
>>318334157
Obviously I disagree
>>318334157
>compared to the rest
SS2 exists.
>>318333702
nope.
>>318334157
>muh ads
Kill yourself, BFE is great like all the other not-2's.
>>318332059
Tommy gun was best for killing Pepe waves, while the Minigun is best for Kleers/general crowd control.
>>318334343
>not popping frogs with your pistols
Casuals pls go
>>318333702
I think you are thinking of Spec Ops: The Line.
>>318334482
>losing health and armour because muh unlimited ammo
good one pal.
>>318321981
Buts its not a PC exclusive
>>318334330
Not just the ADS, the shitty level design, the rehashed setting, weapons like the lasergun and sniper rifle being reduced to secrets, lazy secrets in general, and sprinting. It's a major step down from the previous games. People only pretend it's good because it looks okay compared to the average fps nowadays.
>>318334692
>implying I let them touch me
If you can't l2dodge in SS, then you might as well stop.
>>318334750
Yea im just pretending to like it. Deep down I know its bad. Fuck off.
>>318334750
>the shitty level design
>throwing you right into a dark tunnel at the beginning with gnaars and clones
>The entirety of the technopolip section with the turret maze
Two great sections pretty much back to back already.
And the setting isn't rehashes since it's central to the lore
>sprinting is bad
It's fine, fuck off with your purity bullshit.
>>318335134
Pretend to like a better game at least.
>>318334797
>wasting time dodging, reloading and slow ROF when you can kill them EZPZ with tommy
>>318335280
I like to have fun instead of just mowing everything down as soon as I can.
Just like herding a shit ton of kleers into a clusterfuck tornado.
You faggots don't know how great a game that can be if you just experiment a little.
>>318335232
Sprinting is bad in Serious Sam. It casualizes the game even more and makes it easier for people to run away from enemies instead of getting punished for letting enemies get close in the first place. BFE is a pile of shit. It's the DaS2 of the SS series.
>>318335232
>sprinting
There was nothing wrong with having a fast movement speed in the earlier games. Sprinting is just an extra button to press. The only thing it's really useful for is gaining some distance between a kamikaze as to not get hurt by the explosion.
>>318335450
>he doesn't try to get the best possible score
>experimenting with pepe's of all things
cmon.
>>318335647
Enemies run faster than your sprint, otherwise I would agree
>>318335647
It doesn't casualize shit.
Sam is an impossibly tough hero, theres no reason why he should not have the agility to match.
And running away hurts you a lot of the time and it's nothing like COD because you'll still get hunted down and also cluster more of them together while losing ground.
>>318335672
>score whores
Only with muh shmups.
>>318336112
>And running away hurts you a lot of the time
He's right in that it makes kamikazes much easier to deal with, probably easier than they should be.
>>318334213
>serious saturday is dead
>>318336278
But they're rarely just by themselves, and when they are, it's an absurd amount that can fuck you really easily if you're not careful.
Or they'll come from all directions a lot of the time which will pressure you to sprint not realizing they're faster and then once you realize they're all too close, that's it.
Sprint is fine.
>>318334157
Nope. It's better than 2, and even TFE IMO.
>>318334695
it WAS when it was released, and for the first 6 months or so. It was designed for the PC exclusively, and only later ported to consoles (very poorly).
>>318336565
give up captain
I'm near the end boss of SS1 HD but I can't bring myself to finish it.
I'm not a big fan of these huge, long arena fights. I liked when the fights were more dispersed through the levels.
This is a big reason I'm kinda bummed out by Shadow Warrior 2.
>>318338298
The actual fight is pretty shit, especially phase 2.
But the trip getting there is pretty fucking hype.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is fucking shit, it's not even fun with a friend. It's just a terrible, unfun game. No idea why anyone likes this hot, steaming turd.
What does BFE mean?
Where I come from its slang for but fuck egypt.
>>318338872
Behind few enemies
>>318338872
Before First Encounter
>>318338872
Biggest Faggot Edition
perfect for you, anon
REMINDER THAT SERIOUS SAM HD: SECOND ENCOUNTER IS FREE-TO-PLAY
WHEN YOU INSTALL IT YOU GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL VERSUS AND SURVIVAL MODES FOR FREE, AS WELL AS A SHORT DEMO CAMPAIGN
IN OTHER WORDS:
Why the FUCK aren't we playing some Serious Sam Deathmatch RIGHT NOW?
>>318339448
>Serious Sam
>Deathmatch
Deathmatch is Quake territory, Sam is for 16 player co-op vs thousands of enemies, as long as the host sets some rules that makes it challenging, that is.
Should I get GOLD, or ALL THE GAMES
Croteam Owns.
>>318336641
>Or they'll come from all directions a lot of the time
Unfortunately, "enemies coming from all directions" is a rare thing in BFE. Lot of the time you can abuse the shit out of sprint, especially since the arenas very rarely close the doors.
>>318312869
>One of the best FPS by one of the best devs
That's actually Croteam's worst. Foer their best see every other Serious Sam game.
3 is okay, but it needs to be more Serious with a capital S and less serious with a lower case s, you know what I mean?
>>318341693
>$5 for 10 extra games
You'd be stupid not to get them all, even if you only end up playing the 3 main encounters.
>>318341693
Gold is dumb, you dont need Gold
but you do need all the games
>>318339448
I really wish Sam multiplayer was popular
not deathmatch though, i like CTF
>used to dislike SS2 but the different levels have like the second encounter a huge diversity and was fun
>was hyped for BFE and turns out to be just as boring as the first encounter set in sandnigger cities and caves all game
>>318341693
If you don't already have the older games, you'll want them. They're the best. So all the games, bruv.
>>318342521
>just as boring as the first encounter
Garbage taste. First Encounter is the best one. Fuck Second Encounter and all of its SUPER BOUNCY FUN TIME novelty levels. Save the novelty shit for secret levels. Don't make them take up the entire campaign.
>>318342774
>First Encounter is the best one.
Had the best last level, too.
>>318342153
CTF and instagib are best modes.
>>318327163
>Implying
You can run BFE on a smartphone and get a stable 30fps going while still looking decent, your laptop will be fine
>>318312869
just bought it and I love it any other shooters like it?
>>318343813
Doom slaughterwads.
Painkiller, except not really.
Will Rock, except nobody liked it but me.
Flying Wild Hog games, except they're not very good.
>>318343934
I enjoyed these opinions.
>>318340000
Any deathmatch is fun, fuck off.
>>318312869
Any way to get it to not run like total shit in splitscreen?
It has some of the most awesome music. Perfectly fits the games.
>>318312869
Well it's made in my CUNTry the least I could do is buy it on release date.
>>318326281
You must be new. /v/ loves Serious Sam, the old games are much better than 3, though.
>>318323914
I do wonder what happened to all the Biomechanical gore...
I mean look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwyjWpP4XA
Where is my good old gore in games today?
>>318346949
I disagree with the first encounter. 3's first 4 levels sucks though but once you get to the sandy area with the houses shit gets good.
