Serious Sam HD anyone?

[kyrieee]

Is anyone playing this game? I missed the series when it first come out but I picked this up yesterday and have been playing it non-stop. It's just so much fun :D I'm a bit surprised that a game from 2001 holds up this well (it's remade from the ground up but it seems to be more or less the same game)

16-player co-op is just so insane :D

[Dukefrukem]

There's coop?? I had no idea. For $20 ill pick this up.

[kyrieee]

Btw, there's a quicklook on giantbomb:
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-serious-sam-hd/17-1690/

It's the early part of the game. Only gets crazier as it goes. Seems like this game is getting overlooked though

[Doogie2K]

I'm waiting for The Second Encounter to get HD-ized, then buying the package for $30.

Just like I did in 2003.

[kyrieee]

There is a deal going on for it though
http://www.getgamesgo.com/

Gives you a Steam code for it

[nixpayn]

i played the 2 SS games when they came out, and i loved them for how honest they were. They never made a pretense of any kind of story or deeper reason for playing. it was always "heres a whole shit ton of enemies, now kill them all - usually while running backwards"

If I wasnt engrossed in Aion, Dragon Age and MW2 i'd be all over this :P

[Doogie2K]

i played the 2 SS games when they came out, and i loved them for how honest they were. They never made a pretense of any kind of story or deeper reason for playing. it was always "heres a whole shit ton of enemies, now kill them all - usually while running backwards"

If I wasnt engrossed in Aion, Dragon Age and MW2 i'd be all over this :P

That arena with the thousand charging bulls was both my favourite and least favourite moment in that game, because of just how insane and difficult and hilarious it was. The cannonball is your friend.

[Panthera]

I loved the bit where you're coming around a corner and there's like a hundred of those Kleer skeleton things charging around the corner all at once without warning. I can't remember if that or the bull arena took me more tries.

[nixpayn]

there were a lot of secret areas too that were neat. I cant remember if its this one or the other one, but theres that spot in the first level when you swim down and almost drown or something.. i remember a phone booth? i dunno, it was years ago, but i remember Serious Sam being one of the very few FPS games that i never got bored and walked away from.

The screaming exploding guys, when coming at you a hundred at a time.. we're pretty crazy. I'd crank up the sound and my gf at the time would come in and yell at me.

[nixpayn]

If Serious Sam and Duke Nukem got in a fight, i wonder who'd win, cuz i think Sam is more bad ass than Duke honestly.

[Hawkzombie]

I dunno, I grew up on Duke...he's got better one-liners. And from the time both of these heroes of the game were born, one-liners = badassery.

I'm gonna wait for this on XBLA...got a points card a while back that I've been saving JUST for this. However, if anyone can tell me it's gonna be better on the PC (aside from mouse controls) then I may change my mind.

[nixpayn]

i dont remember there being any mods or anything to speak of, but there were custom maps and other community made stuff in the pc version

[kyrieee]

I play this in an extremely twichy way. There are lots of occations where you'll need to turn 180 degrees to kill one guy then 180 back the other way several times in a row. That's part of what's fun about it, having to be accurate in such a frenzied environment

The other ones were on consoles so I'm sure they'll tweak it for it but this is the kind of game I prefer to play with kb/mouse much moreso than CoD4 or something

I know this game is really mindless, but there's something graceful about it. It can get really hard and if you want to succeed at it you'll need to use quite a lot of strategy in how you prioritize enemies and which weapons you use against them. You also need to avoid almost all enemy attacks by strafing / jumping or shooting their projectiles. The actual combat is actually, to me at least, much more engaging than in most shooters, probably because the game is pure gameplay and nothing else. It's a lot like a shump in some ways

[nixpayn]

Agreed

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[Karak]

Beat it already and starting again. I was amazed many times by the graphics.

[ShivaX]

I really want to get this just for the nostalgia factor.

I love me some Serious Sam.

And Sam would kick Duke's ass and I think he actually had better lines in the end.

[Doogie2K]

I play this in an extremely twichy way. There are lots of occations where you'll need to turn 180 degrees to kill one guy then 180 back the other way several times in a row. That's part of what's fun about it, having to be accurate in such a frenzied environment

The other ones were on consoles so I'm sure they'll tweak it for it but this is the kind of game I prefer to play with kb/mouse much moreso than CoD4 or something

I wonder if they'll include an option to click your stick to do a 180. I've seen that in games in the past, and it might solve a few problems. Either that, or you'd need some serious stick acceleration.

I know this game is really mindless, but there's something graceful about it. It can get really hard and if you want to succeed at it you'll need to use quite a lot of strategy in how you prioritize enemies and which weapons you use against them. You also need to avoid almost all enemy attacks by strafing / jumping or shooting their projectiles. The actual combat is actually, to me at least, much more engaging than in most shooters, probably because the game is pure gameplay and nothing else. It's a lot like a shump in some ways

It's mostly in the epic encounters, like the Running of the Bulls, that you really have to be tactical with your weapon selection, I find. A lot of other times, I just used whatever I had a lot of ammo for, saving stuff like the cannonballs and rockets for the big fuckers (unless there were a hundred of those skeleton horses: then it was time to go bowling).

[MagGnome]

I'm definitely picking this up at some point. I loved the first Serious Sam!