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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ye ye (ye)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i understood that reference

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, it's excellent.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. I love running backwards and shooting. It is the most fun that a hum- that anyone could have.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nani
      did one of of Mental's minions type this post ?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this meme is good for exposing the tards who never made it past the second level

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I beat the whole game on serious difficulty. Shit boring game

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm replaying Siberinan Mayhem on NG+ and having lots of fun. I think with NG+ content it might be my favorite Sam game right now. The Christmas gates are so soulful.
    >first one is a short but fairly brutal arena
    >second one is a comfy bar wit Kleer barman and headless patrons(barskeleton)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It is seriously good.

      Make sure you keep spinning the wheel until you get the buddy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wait... what? The gifts are not pre-determined?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's completely random. One of the rolls even gives you a free skill point, although I'm not sure if you can reroll that one multiple times.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Man, I mostly like nu-Sam but they ruined headless designs. They were so much more funny when they had bloody neck stumps.

        It's completely random. One of the rolls even gives you a free skill point, although I'm not sure if you can reroll that one multiple times.

        Damn. Oh well, something for NG++ if I ever get there.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you like arena combat against waves of dozens of enemies while you run around and try not to get overwhelmed, it's one of the best. If you want story or puzzles or complex levels or anything other than blasting enemies you'll be sad. The maps were impressively big and open for the time, but I don't think that would impress a new player anymore.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >dozens
      I should have said dozens and dozens, it feels like 50+ enemies or maybe even 100+ some of the time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >but I don't think that would impress a new player anymore.
      Yes it would. Even Quake's small maps and lower enemy limit would impress somebody who's used to modern dogshit like nudoom.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        lol you're delusional

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          he's right though.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Eternal has larger enemy counts than vanilla Quake.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              and it's still fricking dogshit that only console kiddies would give a second of their time to

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                filtered by Eternal

                Every fight is solved back holding back and strafing. The game is fricking tash.

                filtered by Sam

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yep, my shit-game filter filtered this game into the trash.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I played Serious Sam for the first time last year and it's by far the best FPS I've ever played. Huge areas, fast enemies, constant action, great guns.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's alright. Pretty fun in VR, but other than that pretty generic.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Is it good?
    - no mouse lag (Most unreal games had this issue)
    - balanced difficult system
    - every weapon is useful
    - run on every OS
    - one of the best Ost in the videogame history

    the only bad thing is the average multiplayer experience

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no mouse lag (Most unreal games had this issue)
      anon...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >average multiplayer experience
      Black person multiplayer co-op in Serious sam is one of my best gaming memories, what are you smoking?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >(Most unreal games had this issue)
      Serious Sam doesn't run on the Unreal engine. It runs on Croteam's propriatary Serious engine

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, and I prefer original over HD - it has better movement, and you can do more silly things like jumping on gnaar's head and killing the entire pack with a knife. HD has better gore tho.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm pretty sure I had no issues knifing down entire Kleer hordes in HD, but I also prefer the original

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        HD/Fusion still hasn't fixed charging enemies (kleer, werebulls, pumpkins) from turning on a dime instead of running past you normally when you side step them. That alone makes the HD versions immensely harder than the classics when they shouldn't be. Also the red demon's fireballs not getting destroyed upon impacting most surfaces really fricks things up because they'll swoop back around and hit you even though you dodged them properly the first time.

        Playing the classic games just makes me miss Kleers braking into a million pieces when you shotgun them.

        Double barrel still breaks them in the classics. They only play the death animation if you kill them with a weak shot.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I remember not being able to jump on top of him from the ground level, and jumps in general being shorter than original. Maybe it was changed later, idk, I played it when it just got released.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Playing the classic games just makes me miss Kleers braking into a million pieces when you shotgun them.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The original has no directional audio which is incredibly annoying when there's enemies spawning all around you

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It does have directional audio, it's just pretty bad compared to everything else. I think it has to do with some sounds being considered louder than they actually are or propagating too far, making it sound like something's closer to you than it really is (werebulls are the biggest example). But it's not absent from the game. With enough practice you can tell when an enemy gets alerted behind you and does an attack. Extremely important to learn when fighting kleers.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, but don't play it on hard your first time. The game really expects you to know where secrets are.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you can get by without secrets even on Serious

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        But you're going to have a real hard time unless you know the encounters.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I love how the game punishes you for exploring.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    WHY THE HELL IS THE MUSIC SO FRICKING FIRE

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because an actual band was working on parts of the soundtrack, same for 3 and 4.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For me, it's fight 3.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For me it's: https://youtu.be/nZAhNzbSF_s
      Leave it up to fans to make an enjoyable vehicle section. Seriously, adding boosters to a tank is the best thing ever.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It made up for the mediocre mech section.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      for me is

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hell yeah

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Which Serious Sam game should I play if I want to do co-op with randos? I'm not sure which games are populated if any as there are so many.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      With randoms? They're probably all dead.
      /vr/ hosts TSE servers every week.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The classics require port forwarding if you want to host. You can use Fusion for the HD versions and 3 because it uses Steam for hosting. They're all not very populated, you would have a better chance of playing with people if you scheduled an event.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        All of the HD games have ~100 people on them currently. At least a couple of those must be playing co-op.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      As a Croat myself, surprised I didn't know about this sooner. Thanks for posting, anon!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      serious sam really is croatia's only contribution to the world

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TFE and TSE are both solid boomer shooters.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Is it good?
    Yes. I had a lot of fun with it.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wish playing the originals online was easier, and that serious violence didnt make randoms disconnect after every other level.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Still havent played 4, is it "fixed" now or still pretty bad?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I only have visual glitches during cutscenes and sometimes poor frame rates. It's entirely playable, so I think it's worth it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Same for me, love 4 and SM.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can still do shit like finish the final level by simply jumping backwards at the start and going around the actual level.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Who gives a shit though

        Not the kind of person that plays serious sam, they wouldn't even give a shit if you could just press a key to instantly win the level, they wouldnt use it as they only wanna blast ayys.

        Overpolish and handholding is turbo-gay, give me fun jank any day

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Overpolish and handholding is turbo-gay, give me fun jank any day
          100% agreed and vidya would be improved if more players were more tolerant of bugs. Not "the game keeps crashing and deleted my save" bugs, but "my character got stuck and I had to reload a checkpoint" bugs.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Before someone jumps on me I'm not saying bugs are good, but sometimes it's the price you pay for being ambitious and experimental and giving the player freedom. If you lock everything down perfectly you can end up removing interesting situations too. An occasional hiccup should be tolerable, emphasis on occasional.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Who gives a shit though
          The Siberian Mayhem devs since they slapped boundaries everywhere and dropped that quarterbaked "open world but not really" bullshit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The performance is FRICKING SHIT but it has the best feeling guns in the series (together with SM), best enemy roster, some truly insane and classic battles. You just gotta live with the jank and occasionally shitty levels because that ain't getting fixed any time soon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I wish it had a mapping scene.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fricking sucks because when the game works it's a goddamn blast, easily better than the games before it. But SS4 is straight up a beta to this day and SM is a five level expansion getting the goodies.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        shame the map design and performance are both the worst in the series, i still havent tried the dlc after beingg pist my 2080rtx would struggle in some areas in 4

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Somehow SM both looks and runs much better.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The map design is VASTLY superior, performance only slightly better, though.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Serious Sam is garbage. Don't waste your time.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    seeing some of the alpha footage is pretty fun

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TSE is way better since it has actual level designs
    TFE just has you moving from one giant box arena to another via linear hallways, and should you kill the final enemy at the wrong end of the arena you'll have to walk all the way to the other side of the now completely empty space

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      TSE has way more giant open fields.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      TFE has a lot of tricks and traps, plus very deadly ambushes. TSE starts to focus more on huge levels with equally huge battles. I'd say they're both equally fun but that TFE shouldn't be judged on the same level as what comes after because it was their first time experimenting with the game's formula.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    It wouldn't exist since what they had for those other planets and space sections was pretty low quality.
    Just focusing on the Egypt parts and polishing them the best they could was the right idea.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Considering how shit 3 and 4 are for not doing that, I have to agree with you

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >MetaDOOM
    >No MetaSerious Sam

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked next encounter on PS2 and gamecube anyone else play that? probably the best console serious sam game besides the og which i think were on xbox

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's the only console Serious Sam game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's such a shame that game never got ported to PC. For me it's one of the original 3 serious Sam games and like the others holds a special part in my heart.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, it was what's wrong with SS2, but as a beta.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's really insufferable if you please on Serious. Even more so on Mental.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >playing custom map on fusion
    >picked up some random rockets that I missed in an arena that I'm backtracking through
    >autosave triggers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Walk out in an open field with a big building in the distance
      >With a line of ammo & heal packs at 30 foot intervals

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So, any opinions about Croteam dropping their Serious Engine for Unreal for Talos 2 and potentially their next games?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just wished that the version used for 4 wasn't so rushed. If they can achieve the same amount of enemies per battle on Unreal as they could in the past games then I won't mind.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For Talos Principle, whatever, but for Serious Sam there is still the problem that it is a horde-focused FPS so most likely they will have to do a lot of improvisation on the engines which will cause more pain and confusion. I don't think they will try to fix Serious Engine 4, however, they will probably wait until the computers are able to run them on a brute force basis.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When everything works, SS is the most satisfying shooter for my personal taste. But things almost never work, so fans of the series are used to constant disappointment and frustration.
    There's no decent way to play the games these days. The modern ports to run the first two versions are not very good, they aren't even that modern anymore and have a lot of problems. Playing through Fusion solves compatibility problems, but you end up changing enemy behavior and original level design to the point where TFE and TSE become unplayable without mods that try to fix the problems.
    Serious Sam 3 BFE, on the other hand, is much better when played through Fusion, in fact it becomes a very competent game, but it is still flawed because of the level and enemy.
    Serious Sam 4 is a complete disaster. It fixes several design flaws from SS3, but the poor engine that doesn't run well on any PC in the world + a total unbalance caused by a plethora of gimmicks that have no place in the game made it a joke that will probably never be fixed.
    Still, SS has "epic" moments, really good music (the composer is genius), and a pretty steep difficulty curve. When everything works, it is the perfect FPS for my personal taste. But 99% of the time almost nothing works,

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3 is honestly best played in VR.
      It's almost the same case as with Doom 3 where it feels like as if the game was actually made with it in mind due to the slower pace and downtime moments and especially the dreaded tombs and underground sections become way more atmospheric and enjoyable.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The classic versions run completely fine and are my preferred way of playing TFE/TSE. You can make them even better with this classics patch that adds better resolution/fov support, hud scaling, and more.
      >https://github.com/SamClassicPatch/SuperProject/wiki
      Also you should really play Siberian Mayhem if you haven't already. It's well worth it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can't play TFE and TSE with either the original versions or with Classic Revolution. I will check this link...
        About Siberian Mayhem, it can't escape the problems added by SS4 that make any balance impossible. I liked the first two levels, playing without gimmicks/skills, the third level is so-so, but the fourth and fifth levels are basically SS4 all over again.
        For me the best modern experience so far was SS3 BFE Enhanced (mod), which makes SS3 much better, but also with its share of problems.But compared to SS4 at least it is something relatively solid and balanced (SS4 is basically a game made by modders with no consideration other than adding "cool shit").
        About SS4, there is a specific modder making good levels where he basically ignores all the gimmicks/skills and concentrates only on the core gameplay. He made Final Solstice and one more new map that is not that good.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I can't play TFE and TSE with either the original versions
          That's surprising to hear because I've never seen anyone else have issues with it. What's wrong when you try it normally?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Actually, I think SS4 has salvation. Someone would just need to create a campaign where they ignore ALL the gimmicks, ALL the skiltree completely, some weapon extensions and some weapons entirely and build interesting battles using only the basic game elements. My favorite SS4 battle is that one from Final Solstice that does more or less that. I even created a guide with a good strategy for it:

            The mouse movements apparently don't keep up with the frame rate, so the game may be running perfectly smooth, but when I move the mouse, it seems to be at a rather low frame rate. Also, in certain parts the frame rate gets horrible such as when you enter that first TSE lava cave.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >The mouse movements apparently don't keep up with the frame rate, so the game may be running perfectly smooth, but when I move the mouse, it seems to be at a rather low frame rate.
              Are you on windows? Sounds like it might be an issue with the DPI settings because I've never encountered that problem before. The mouse runs fine for me nor have I heard others complain about this exact issue.

              remake or original release?

              original release, unless you really just can't stand the graphics

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              SS4 would be fine if the engine wasn't so fricked and otherwise it's a okay game with some minor moronic decisions that make no sense to see in a game being released
              like no one even bothered to play test it
              shame game devs have gotten to this level of carelessness

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Skipped SS4 but had a blast with siberian mayhem

      I heard about the SS3 mod in fusion, does it actually refrickulate some of the levels to make it better?

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, Serious Sam HD will forever be a timeless classic. Especially the 2nd encounter.
    >can install on a bunch of old laptops or computers for fun lan gaming with your friends
    >or just play online like a normalgay

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    remake or original release?

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is good. Get HD version, or play the Xbox ver. on emulator/ orig. hardware for cutscenes etc.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/47wCYrvib7E?feature=share

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick does no one map for this shit
    What little there is is just shitty/borderline esoteric russian gibberish

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      SED1 is beautifully robust, and doesn't have many good tutorial. There are a bunch of good custom maps out there but they are scattered around the place.
      I plan on hosting a community project for it soon over on /vr/ in the Doom thread. I even made a quick start guide for anyone looking to jump into the editor. https://rentry.org/vy4qr

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous


      I am too stupid to make full maps, but doing stuff like this is funni

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >revolutions

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, but on the other hand
          >New levels
          >New enemy types
          >Multiplayer maps/modes
          Kinda cool, if you ask me

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    s+m1

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >t. plays on Normal

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >admitting he sucks at serious sam
          Later levels will rape you from behind.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >is the best enemy in the game

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >FINALLY, a health vial ! 😀
      >Surely, nothing unusual or wacky will happen if I pick it u-AACK
      I hate and love these traps at the same time

      No, frick them :c

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >"Oh cool, a new weapon!"
        >spawns a biomech major in your face

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Clop clop motherfricker. At first I hated them, then I tolerated them, then I realized they're spicy in just the right way. And once you get that cannonball and can go bowling, it's very cathartic. Kleerly the best.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this. They are an essential part to understand how to "dance" in Serious Sam.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Play fusion/HD
      >insta turn insta death
      such bullshit but otherwise fine if you play classic sam
      croteam needs to get their shit together but knowing devs these days they will ignore SS4 and pretend it never existed and claim sbmh as the real SS4

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fricking kleers man

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I need a picture of Bat-Man's parents walking down Kleer alley.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I prefer Kamikazes. Kleers are cool, too, but I hate how much they slide and bounce, at least in HD. I can't remember if the same is true in the original versions of TFE and TSE. Then in 3 and 4, they tend to blend in with their surroundings.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        These are such well fricking designed enemies i'm convinced it was an accident

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most enemies in Sam are well designed.

          Even the ones added in 4 mostly have a niche and freshen up fights.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I really like when they spam a hundred drones.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Drones are basically non-issue and a movement check, but it's so satisfying how they blow up almost instantly from any attack and they make you feel threatened without actually threatening you much.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The drones are fun to fight but they hardly use harpies along with them. It feels like they're kept separate from each other.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Did they fix their sound design?
            IIRC the guys with the hammers didn't even have walking sounds so they could sneak up on you.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Not something I pay attention to, but now that you mention it those dudes do surprise me in Siberian Mayhem in a way enemies with more distinct sounds don't.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Not something I pay attention to
                Enemies having specific and very notable/memorable sounds is like one of the cornerstones of the series' game design.
                The moment you hear some grunting you'll immediately look up and in the distance to see if there are any Reptiloids, when you hear skrreeeee-ing you know Arachnoids are not far away (well, sometimes they are), when you hear clopping then either some fricking brony is in your home or a Kleer coming around the corner, and so on.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's what I said yeah, they should've used some audio clue for them.

                One thing I did notice is that in SS3 Khnums had a VERY distinct casting sound. You heard a loud CRACK and you knew a bunch of instakill fireballs is heading your way. In SS4 they're pretty much silent. There was a mod I played, Howling Mountain. It's really easy until the final battle, when suddenly it's not. Like 90% of my deaths in that battle was because I was running and hand no idea a Khnum was attacking me.

                I really love the weapon roster in 4/SM, but one thing that has always bothered me about it the minigun and lasergun taking up the same exact role when in the past games they didn't. These two are power weapons with relatively same damage but for different roles. The minigun has wind up so it's better used for sustained fire. The lasergun is instant and has consistent damage, so you can use it more freely and tap fire to save ammo. The minigun has spread and doesn't have 100% accuracy like the laser gun, but it's hitscan instead of being a projectile. So they both have pros and cons.
                Then 4 comes along and gives the lasergun a heatup mechanic where the longer you fire the more damage it does, essentially moving it into the same role as the minigun because you're not getting the most out of it if you don't sustain fire. But the lasergun still has its 100% accuracy making it basically an upgrade over the minigun at this point. Don't get me started on the deathray alt fire.
                On TOP of this, SM introduces the burner which while it is an amazing weapon to use just exacerbates the problem of these two weapons. Burner requires windup just like the minigun, but it's 100% accurate and benefits from sustained fire because enemies explode when they die by the burner. To kick the minigun while it's down the burner is still 100% accurate when dual wielding, unlike the minigun. So there's no reason to NOT dual wield it because it doubles your damage with no downsides.
                Game is still fun though and at the end of the day they're both tools to kill hordes of enemies with. I just wish they kept the contrasts between these weapons more apparent.

                Classic Laser is just a worse minigun with larger ammo pool. HD Laser is just a worse minigun. SS3 Laser is a secret. SS4 Laser is a terrifying weapon of mass destruction which deals 1.5 times the DPS minigun does, 2 times more when overheating and can be dual-wielded without accuracy loss. And THEN, on top of that, you get Death Ray which is completely and utterly ludicrous and I love it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That is kleer as day.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Be honest Ganker: did you get past the Kleer Korridor without going back and jumping over the pit? I admit I used that strat the first time I played but in my defense I was playing on Serious difficulty because I (foolishly) thought I was a hardcore enough oldschool FPS guy and was tired of getting wrecked.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TSE > SS2 > TFE > BFE > SS4

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's __really good

      TFE > TSE > SM > SS4 > BFE > 2

      That's what I said yeah, they should've used some audio clue for them.

      One thing I did notice is that in SS3 Khnums had a VERY distinct casting sound. You heard a loud CRACK and you knew a bunch of instakill fireballs is heading your way. In SS4 they're pretty much silent. There was a mod I played, Howling Mountain. It's really easy until the final battle, when suddenly it's not. Like 90% of my deaths in that battle was because I was running and hand no idea a Khnum was attacking me.

      [...]
      Classic Laser is just a worse minigun with larger ammo pool. HD Laser is just a worse minigun. SS3 Laser is a secret. SS4 Laser is a terrifying weapon of mass destruction which deals 1.5 times the DPS minigun does, 2 times more when overheating and can be dual-wielded without accuracy loss. And THEN, on top of that, you get Death Ray which is completely and utterly ludicrous and I love it.

      That final part was a nightmare until I put points into duel wielding, and then beat it on the second try.

      Playing TFE on Hard first felt like a mistake. The doubled ammo on Serious really helped out in a lot of the fights.

      It's weird how it ends up being a better way to start. playing solo nowadays I prefer the originals on hard, I like ammo management. juggling weapons is fun

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's Serious Sam 2

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is Classics Revolution the best way to play the first two games?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not really, just play the classic versions.

      I prefer Kamikazes. Kleers are cool, too, but I hate how much they slide and bounce, at least in HD. I can't remember if the same is true in the original versions of TFE and TSE. Then in 3 and 4, they tend to blend in with their surroundings.

      The slide issue is only present in the HD versions. In the classics you can properly sidestep them.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i really wish 4 didnt run like absolute shit

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TFE and TSE are excellent games. Play TFE first though, the cooler level designs in TSE will be your treat afterwards.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    YES
    Final level is pure kino

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, if you're good at fps

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I really love the weapon roster in 4/SM, but one thing that has always bothered me about it the minigun and lasergun taking up the same exact role when in the past games they didn't. These two are power weapons with relatively same damage but for different roles. The minigun has wind up so it's better used for sustained fire. The lasergun is instant and has consistent damage, so you can use it more freely and tap fire to save ammo. The minigun has spread and doesn't have 100% accuracy like the laser gun, but it's hitscan instead of being a projectile. So they both have pros and cons.
    Then 4 comes along and gives the lasergun a heatup mechanic where the longer you fire the more damage it does, essentially moving it into the same role as the minigun because you're not getting the most out of it if you don't sustain fire. But the lasergun still has its 100% accuracy making it basically an upgrade over the minigun at this point. Don't get me started on the deathray alt fire.
    On TOP of this, SM introduces the burner which while it is an amazing weapon to use just exacerbates the problem of these two weapons. Burner requires windup just like the minigun, but it's 100% accurate and benefits from sustained fire because enemies explode when they die by the burner. To kick the minigun while it's down the burner is still 100% accurate when dual wielding, unlike the minigun. So there's no reason to NOT dual wield it because it doubles your damage with no downsides.
    Game is still fun though and at the end of the day they're both tools to kill hordes of enemies with. I just wish they kept the contrasts between these weapons more apparent.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I feel the same way about the sniper and devastator. The weapon set is almost perfect, they just need to buff away a couple imperfections.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Oh yeah, the sniper and devastator have the same issue. There is no reason to use the sniper once you get the devastator, unless you run out of ammo. They deal the same amount of damage but the devastator has so much more going for it (bigger mag, explosive, piercing). I think what they should have done is left the scope off the devastator and only let the sniper have headshot capabilities.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >There is no reason to use the sniper once you get the devastator, unless you run out of ammo
          Witch-brides. That travel time can occasionally frick you up.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            TRUE, but that isn't enough of a reason to justify the sniper still being worse in every other aspect.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I mean, SS4 has like 20 guns. Some of them are going to get a bit redundant. You don't have Devastator until very late in the campaign and you get Sniper pretty early. I'll admit, out of Sniper/Devastator/Perun, I find Devastator easily the most satisfying. Tearing down big guys with it feels incredible.

              The autoshotgun is weird. Weird because there just isn't much to talk about it. It's definitely fun to use, but I'm not sure I would miss the gun if it doesn't come back in future games. You can deal a ton of burst damage with it dual wielded, but it doesn't bring anything special to the serious sam table. It just exists.

              It should've been a late-game upgrade to Devastator to make it use shotgun ammo. Or maybe not, given how powerful it is, especially with the reload perk.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I wasn't too big a fan of the auto shotgun either.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The autoshotgun is weird. Weird because there just isn't much to talk about it. It's definitely fun to use, but I'm not sure I would miss the gun if it doesn't come back in future games. You can deal a ton of burst damage with it dual wielded, but it doesn't bring anything special to the serious sam table. It just exists.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I think it just takes away from dual wielding regular shotguns.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why was Serious Sam 2 such a fever dream?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >we want the uhh audience

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this game is good and i'm tired of pretending that it isn't

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ive always loved it, never realized people didnt like it until years later on gamefaqs

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          this game is good and i'm tired of pretending that it isn't

          The issues come from the fact that it's horribly rushed and built around the original xbox. When means you have at least 5-6 cut levels, the multiplayer is a mess lacking stability and content and the existing levels being shorter than the usual serious sam length. Oh and the cut levels haven't been brought back to this day.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Its a nitpick but I dislike how easily some weapons gib some enemies. Like autoshotty gibs werebull? Cmon

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The autoshotgun should've had a flak alt fire for damaging flying enemies. The minigun just needs to drop the accuracy loss and the sniper needs a increase to the headshot multiplier and firing speed to SS3's version.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't mind minigun inaccuracy. minigun by design is a weapon against either big hordes of weak enemies or medium hordes of medium enemies. The inaccuracy helps shred weaklings at a distance easier (since you don't need pixel perfect aim), but prevents you from dumping every single bullet in a scrapjack's head across the map (so you might want to switch to Devastator instead).

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This one isn't.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      BFE is good, it just runs bad, like SS4

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What? 3 runs great, that's the most shocking shit about 4. Is some how 3 looks better than 4 and runs 3x as good, but 4 runs like absolute shit while looking worse

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >BFE was good
        What? Frick no. There are so many piss poor design decisions in terms of enemy designs that utterly cripple the game.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder what the total count is for SM.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Hd encounters have less enemies to kill
      What? Why??

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Different rooms due to no gravity shenanigans in HD.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh yeah.... I forgot
          that tunnel in the pit level may be gone, but it's not forgotten 🙁

          Are you blind?

          >Cropping out israeliteel of the nile levels
          Hehe, almost got me

          >less
          "fewer", because the number of enemies is discrete and countable. I felt like being pedantic

          Sorry, my bad. English is not me first language :c

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh yeah.... I forgot
          that tunnel in the pit level may be gone, but it's not forgotten 🙁
          [...]
          >Cropping out israeliteel of the nile levels
          Hehe, almost got me
          [...]
          Sorry, my bad. English is not me first language :c

          Actually, to add on to this because I noticed TFE's levels are also reduced, they probably removed a bunch of broken and unused spawners from the classic levels when making the HD versions. These spawners are still taken into account when calculating the total amount of enemies, and the classics have a bunch of broken ones that don't trigger.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are you blind?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >less
        "fewer", because the number of enemies is discrete and countable. I felt like being pedantic

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Every fight is solved back holding back and strafing. The game is fricking tash.

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I filtered by horde of toads

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just sit in a corner with Tommygun.

      >back strafing shit with zero level design
      Boring Barry is terminally shit.

      >low on HP and Armor so it wasn't an easy battle
      >have to constantly move fast and combine weapons to survive
      Your webm looks like you're having fun, though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A hard game can be shit anon.
        There is no movement mechanics. Movement doesn't require any execution, you're literally back strafing firing into a horde. The level design is fricking terrible.
        Boring Barry is a 2/10 game at MOST.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >There's no movement mechanics
          Found the zoomie

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >NOOOOO WHY CAN'T I LE HECKIN TRIPPLE WALL JUMP GROUND SLIDE QUADRUPLE BACKFLIP ROCKET JUMP THROUGH THE LEGS 720 SPIN FLIP LIKE NYOOM WHEETERNAL!!!
          Probably because it's a horde shooter not a movement shooter.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >There is no movement mechanics. Movement doesn't require any execution, you're literally back strafing firing into a horde.
          but that's the good part. Just like OG Doom except for strafetrun

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >There is no movement mechanics
          Yeah, because as in real life, not everything needs to be an "extreme sport" to be interesting.
          There are FPS built entirely on the execution of movement mechanics, such as Ultrakill. Great, it adds variety, but not everything needs to be about circus juggling.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >save all my Black Holes/Time Warps for the last levels
      >2nd to last level takes them all away
      at least I had used my extra lives already

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Type of person to horde tools and never use them
        >Horde most gadgets in Siberian Mayhem
        >Actually have to use a bunch of them in the last level
        This DLC almost filtered me.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I used the scooter to kill Brand. Just couldn't deal with his second phase otherwise.

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >back strafing shit with zero level design
    Boring Barry is terminally shit.

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i remember over 20 years ago in a cybercafe we had this game, EVERYONE said that it sucked ass, that it was a terrible game, but nobody had actually played it, and every single person that tried it eventually had to eat their own words, thats how good it was

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I went through TFE HD last year and enjoyed it. Started TSE HD recently. Is going back and playing the classic version worth it at all?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Absolutely, the HD version of TSE doesn't have the gravity rooms that the classic version has.
      Also kleers and other monsters will properly dash past you when you sidestep them in the classic version.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Alright, ill give it a go thanks
        (Youre telling me I went through the entire first game with busted enemy physics)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Youre telling me I went through the entire first game with busted enemy physics
          As a matter of fact yes, I am

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Felt really spammy when i played it.
    though it could be me getting filtered, or a case of slaughter maps where there is good design, i just don't want it all the time.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I made it to THAT fight in second encounter hd on hard and started over from the first game, classic, on serious.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Playing TFE on Hard first felt like a mistake. The doubled ammo on Serious really helped out in a lot of the fights.

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that Sam has canonically never actually beaten the bad guys

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The first games had the right balance of tone and humor, but the later games made it apparent that this was only by accident (probably budget limitations). The more Croteam became able to do the more they would just completely jump the shark with the whole vibe of the game becoming in some regards way over the top and in other regards taking itself way too seriously.

    I feel like the fans know what kind of Serious Sam game people want more than Croteam. That is an action game that takes itself and its enemies seriously enough that it still feels satisfying to kill while having a subtle constant sprinkling of humor, mostly in the form of one liners. But this alpha bravo team come in nonsense just doesn't fit, it should mostly just be sam and the aliens and minimal explicit story.

    It would be interesting to see what a different development team would do with it. In my opinion, should focus less on gimmicks, more on managing hoards of enemies (would be awesome to have more giant enemies that you can see coming from a vast distance) while also having interesting indoor and platforming sections like the originals but add various mechanics like dodging, deflecting projectiles, perhaps integrate rocket jumping into the gameplay more (what if you cancel out damage from a rocket jump if you do enough damage while in the air?) that genuinely make the gameplay more deep without sacrificing the pace.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I liked the character interactions in 4.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe it's my loss, but I haven't given 4 a chance after its trailers and reception after. I liked 3 for the gameplay more or less but the cutscene stuff even there kind of just made me feel like "...why?"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The only good one is sam and kenny. Jones dies too early and the others try too hard or are objective givers.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The best SS4 character is Dimitry.

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's fricking terrifying in vr

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Playing it in vr for the first time activated my fight or flight response when I saw a full sized kamikaze running at me.

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