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Serious Sam 3: BFE |OT| No weapon limit, no regenerating health, no cover, all man.
- Thread starter Sciz
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Mine too.
It's time to reach the "nirvana of dodging" again.
Here's the launch trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQGO46QGlbk
Spectacular Dr Dawg
Member
I'm the same situation.
I loved First and Second Encounter and I'd love to support them but I'd rather wait for impressions before buying.
POWERSPHERE
Member
Am I right in reading its $10 MORE for digital?
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
That launch trailer looks awesome. I'm glad there's a ton of enemies on screen unlike earlier footage.\
That's the Digital Serious Edition which comes with previous games, skins and artbooks. The regular edition is $40 and there is no retail version I believe.
stuminus3
Member
By the sweaty testicles of Duke Nukem, this looks AWESOME. Can't wait to get home and play.
nextgeneration
Member
No, that's just the special version that comes with extras.
The recommended requirements are high, can't wait to see what this looks like. Pre-ordered sometime ago thanks to the the 20% discount for owning the other games, speaking of which just finished The Second Encounter which is just fantastic. Even on normal, to quote a reviewer, the game seems sometimes unfair. Seriously!
SS2 kind of missed the point of Serious Sam. Part of it was executive meddling on the part of the publisher, part of it was designing around Xbox limitations, and part of it was Croteam just flubbing everything they could. The levels are too small, the enemy counts are too low, the weapons look and feel cheap, the aesthetics are cartoony in a bad way, the vehicle sections take away from the game, the bosses are too puzzle-based and less "shoot it until it dies", and the writing is just unbearably terrible. The game still has its moments, but you have to suffer through a lot of half-baked content to get there.
Yeah, there's some modicum of a plot in this. I'm pretty sure I've read that the cutscenes are all skippable.
Seth Balmore
Member
Just saw the trailer. I'm weirded out by the attempt at a plotline, but the game itself looks AMAZING. Fantastic job Croteam!
Thanks.
Aside from that terrible movie trailer voice etc, that was fucking awesome. I know what I will be playing this weekend!
Just hoping it doesn't have consoleitis.
Judging from the recent HD remakes, this seems unlikely. They were created using the new Serious Sam 3 engine and had all of the ridiculous console commands and visual customization that was in SS1. Game speed, enemy count and level size were unchanged.
edit: Rock Paper Shotgun had a hands-on a month or two ago. They played through the first few levels and mentioned that the game quickly opens up into the usual massive Robotron-style brawl after an initial corridor-happy fake out.
Realistically I think the plot is going to be something ridiculous:
-egyptian prophecies;
-heterogeneous alien invasion;
-sunglasses, sunglasses everywhere.
What else?
Shooting Mental in the face, of course.
Why would you do that?
Member
Just pre-ordered it. It's going to take me forever to download 
Expecting to fight Mental is just setting yourself up for disappointment.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Really hope this will be good, but what I've seen so far looks.. not all that interesting, sadly.
Neodiablo22
Member
I thought that they said previously that the abbreviation was for "Before First Encounter" seeing as this game is a prequel to serious sam tfe (the first encounter). Maybe I just assumed that was what it meant...
Chiggs
Gold Member
Same here.
does it also happen when you click on the forums and the store page from the game menu in your library... it takes you to the home page of both the store and the forums instead of the actual pages for the game itself... kind of concerning
Chiggs
Gold Member
does it also happen when you click on the forums and the store page from the game menu in your library... it takes you to the home page of both the store and the forums instead of the actual pages for the game itself... kind of concerning
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. I hope this isn't botched.
They've yet to state what it stands for. The obvious answer would be Before First Encounter, but perhaps they've left it ambiguous for a reason. Maybe - just maybe - it means Before First Encounter and Beyond First Encounter.
I guess that sums it up. I forgot that the game made it to the xbox (wasn't there a gamecube version too?), I thought the console version was especially made for consoles and not just a port of SS2.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
You have to restart Steam to get the install button to show.
Chiggs
Gold Member
It finally appeared after 5-7 steam restarts, the evening is saved
Also, only 3.1GB download
Downloading now. Curse my pitiful 3Mb/s line.
Oh good, someone else who read the OP.
Nope. It's a plausible interpretation, but there's been no official comment on it since the game was formally announced in February.
SS1 was ported to Xbox in late 2002, and SS2 was released day-and-date with the PC version on Xbox in late 2005. An outsourced GCN/PS2 game came out somewhere between them.
stuminus3
Member
Sweet. I downloaded Rage (~20GB) and Batman (~17GB) in the past 12 hours, I should have just about enough bandwidth left to squeeze this one through. ^_^
Weird, it said 3.1GB on the install popup and now it says 4.3GB on the download page.
For anyone out there who somehow has spare bandwidth at the moment, Undercode just put up a new music video.
co-op mannnn
it's the one true way to play this game
I've been a Sam fan from day 1 and i've never managed to play co-op
Gonna change that with 3. Not sure how I missed out on the first and second encounter HD since I was there day one for those too.